At night, after early morning, the date suddenly jumped from November to the end of December, and the temperature dropped suddenly.
At nine o'clock in the morning, outside the Maori Detective Agency, a red Lexus SC was parked on the street.
On the street not far away, Shuichi Akai was sitting in a car, lighting a cigarette with his head down, and then looking up at the rearview mirror.
One look at the car and he knew who was coming.
Sure enough, the door on the driver's side opened, and a tall, thin young man with short black hair got out of the car. He was wearing a light brown windbreaker and black trousers...
Finally no longer wearing black clothes.
If he hadn't known that the Chi family's father and son had always been "black formal attire collectors," he would have suspected that Chi Feichi was connected to some organization.
Akai Shuichi was smoking silently. He was about to look away in order to avoid being noticed by a sharp and troublesome person, but his eyes suddenly stopped.
The little girl who got off the passenger seat of the red car was wearing a dark blue long cotton coat, with her hands in her pockets, and followed Chi Feichi to the stairs.
He was too far away to see the specific appearance, but the short wavy hair looked...
At the top of the stairs, Hui Yuan Ai's heart suddenly stopped, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the row of cars on the roadside.
Akai Shuichi immediately turned his head and stopped staring.
Haiyuan Ai only saw the back of an off-road vehicle in front of him, and quickly looked away, following Chi Feichi's footsteps.
Someone was definitely staring at her just now.
Could it be the guy in the SUV?
He looks like a man. He is wearing a black knitted hat. There is a wisp of smoke floating to the side of his head. He must be smoking...
"Brother Fei Chi, Xiao Ai, you are here!" Upstairs, Mao Lilan opened the door, greeted with a smile, and stepped aside, "Please come in~! Breakfast is ready."
I could vaguely hear Mouri Kogoro's sigh in the room, "If this happens every day, the family's finances will soon be in deficit!"
Mao Lilan turned to look at Maori Kogoro, "Brother Fei Chi often invites us to dinner. It's just a breakfast and I invite Brother Fei Chi and Xiao Ai to play in Shizuoka. Dad, what do you have to complain about? Besides, as long as Dad If you don’t play pinball or bet on horses, even if you keep doing this, your finances will definitely, absolutely not be a problem!”
"I was just joking," Mouri Kogoro sweated after being told that. He put down the newspaper in his hand, walked to the dining table and sat down, and said hello, "Fei Chi, take your little girl and sit wherever you want."
Conan walked to the dining table and pulled out a chair, "And doesn't uncle have work today?"
Mao Lilan looked at Chi Feichi with a smile, "A program team invited my father to be a guest in Shizuoka. It seemed to be a mystery drama and he needed to speak the opening remarks, so I called you to ask if you would like to take Xiao Ai with you. …”
Chi Feichi helped Haiyuan Ai pull up the chair.
Mao Lilan seemed to be in a good mood. After sitting down, she said to Haiyuan Ai, "Xiao Ai has never seen the filming site of the show, right?"
Hui Yuan Ai nodded and started eating breakfast.
Conan laughed inwardly at these two autistic children.
Mao Lilan was also used to it. It was probably that the brothers and sisters didn't want to talk because it was cold in the morning. They didn't feel embarrassed. When he saw Feichi poked his little head out of Chi Feichi's collar, he smiled and said hello, "Feichi, good morning." ah!"
Fei Chi slowly said Snake Xinzi, "Xiaolan, it's cold!"
Chi Feichi: "..."
Fei Chi is sick and cannot be saved.
Mao Lilan didn't know what Fei Chi said. Seeing Fei Chi spitting snake letters at her, she thought it was Fei Chi and responded with a smile. She asked Chi Fei Chi with a smile, "Brother Fei Chi, do you want to help Fei Chi prepare some food?"
Chi Feichi finally said, "No, it ate yesterday."
Across the table, Mouri Kogoro looked up at Feichi and asked doubtfully, "It doesn't need to hibernate?"
"It has no intention of hibernating." Chi Feichi said.
Mouri Kogoro's eyes changed a bit, staring.
As far as he knew, snakes hibernated because the temperature of the external environment dropped, and the snake's body temperature also dropped and entered hibernation. His apprentice carried Fei Chi on his body every day. Can Fei Chi still hibernate?
In other words, does a pet snake have a choice?
The gaze from Haihara Ai.
Is Brother Fei Chi too dependent on Fei Chi?
Conan's gaze.
Although as long as the temperature is right, it doesn't matter if the snake doesn't hibernate, but Chi Feichi eats and sleeps with Fei Chi every day, and Fei Chi is not allowed to hibernate. This is a pathological dependence...
The gaze from Mao Lilan.
There are problems, big problems.
Does she want some advice? But if you want to persuade, what should you say?
Chi Feichi faced the gazes of the four people and lowered his head to eat without changing his expression.
Probably the big event that happened after Fei Chi hibernated last time was that he joined the organization. Fei Chi would rather endure it, not daring to poke his head in the air every day, debating whether to hibernate or not, rather than hibernate obediently.
But in the eyes of others, he might have put Fei Chi on his body to forcefully maintain the temperature around Fei Chi and prevent Fei Chi from hibernating...
You can't explain to the four people, 'I can hear it, it's Feichi saying he doesn't want to hibernate', right?
Then I guess other people would look at him in a more complicated way.
Forget it, he takes the blame.
Mao Lilan, Haibara Ai, and Conan exchanged glances, and then looked at Maori Kogoro.
They only have Maori Kogoro as Chi Feichi's elder, so it would be more appropriate for Maori Kogoro to come and understand the situation.
Mouri Kogoro looked at Chi Feichi bravely, "Feichi..."
Chi Feichi raised his eyes to look at Maori Kogoro, waiting for Maori Kogoro to start his speech.
"This..." Mouri Kogoro looked serious, "It is a very happy thing to have people or other creatures that you can rely on, but over-reliance is a sign of very insecurity. Moreover, we are all here, if you If you feel too bored to be alone, you can come to the detective agency at any time..."
Mao Lilan nodded repeatedly, her father said it well.
Chi Feichi continued to look at Mouri Kogoro quietly.
Please continue, since he has decided to take the blame, he will listen no matter what others say.
Maori Kogoro:"……"
What does his apprentice's cold, cool, emotionless look mean?
"Ahem," Mouri Kogoro choked and smiled, "Of course, it doesn't matter if Chi doesn't hibernate once or twice, right? Hahahaha..."
Chi Feichi nodded and looked away, "Teacher Maoli is right."
Mao Lilan, Haibara Ai, and Conan couldn't help but lower their heads.
…
Downstairs, Hide Akai got out of the car and walked towards the stairs of the detective office. He threw a small object behind the potted plant outside the Poirot Café. Without stopping for too long, he lowered his head and hid his face under the pulled up scarf. keep going forward.
Although they were not of the same age, her hair and general facial features were very similar to the Shirley that Bellmode was looking for.
Coupled with the fact that the woman Belmode was constantly in contact with the group of people at the Maori Detective Agency and Chi Feichi, he had a vague feeling——
This is Shirley!
Did you come here late with Chi Fei this time? In other words, maybe Belmode’s choice of contacting Chi Feichi at the beginning and then contacting the group of people from the Maori Detective Agency was not wrong? Then should they change the surveillance target?
When he thought about having to monitor Chi Feichi, he thought of the two companions who were sent to the Metropolitan Police Department and got a headache...
But now it seems that it is not necessary.
They had monitored Chi Feichi's residence. The little girl who was the suspected target was definitely not hiding there. Of course, she was not hiding in the Maori Detective Agency. She just interacted with these people and had a good relationship with them.
Since I chose the Maori Detective Agency, I have gained something now, which means that it is not wrong to stay at the Maori Detective Agency. As for Chi Feichi, it is suitable to come in the open.
Let Judy try to make contact again?
Walking into the alley, Akai Shuichi made a quick decision and called Judy.
"Hello……"
"It's you, what's the matter?" Judy spoke in suppressed Japanese.
Upon hearing this, Akai Shuichi knew that there was someone else on Judy's side, "If it's inconvenient, I'll call you later."
"Oh, ok!" Judy smiled and explained in unpronounceable Japanese, "Yesterday, the Tedan High School where I worked was planted by bombers, and the national unified test for students was delayed as a result. Ms. Isogai saw She is very interested in the news and wants me to tell her the specific situation. Later we will have dinner at a delicious restaurant near her doll shop~"
When you wake up early in the morning, a neighbor from downstairs will come to your door. He will tell you about the situation enthusiastically and gossipily. He also says that it is rare that Didan High School is on winter vacation and she, as a teacher, should have a good rest. He invites her to sit in the doll shop and talk to her by the way. Sharing a super delicious restaurant, what else could she say?
She wanted to say 'Thank you, I have to do other work and don't want to take a break', but she couldn't say anything.
This Miss Isogai knows all those people. Although she doesn't seem to know anything, she can do more research. What if she discovers something?
Akai Shuichi heard the helplessness in Judy's smiling voice and was silent for a moment, "Thank you for your hard work. I'll call you later tonight."
It seemed like Judy was being held back.
But stabilizing the relationship there would be beneficial to contact Chi Feichi.
…
Half an hour later, Chi Feichi and the other five had breakfast, went out and went downstairs.
While waiting for Mao Lilan to check the door lock downstairs, Haihara Ai looked at the place where the off-road vehicle was parked.
The car was still there, but the people inside were gone.
Did she think too much before? The other party is not monitoring or following, but just passing the time in the car while waiting for someone?
Chi Fei belatedly noticed that Haiyuan Ai was observing the car in the distance, and also looked over, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Hui Yuan Ai looked away, debating whether or not to tell Chi Feichi to be more careful. He hesitated for a moment and then said, "When we came, the person in the off-road vehicle looked very fierce. I want to confirm. Is he a bad person?"
"It seems that the person is no longer in the car," Conan looked at it, turned back to Haiyuan Ai and smiled, "I think you may have thought too much, and you are not a bad person!"
Behind a potted plant at Café Poirot, a small listening device relays the sound to someone’s ear in a nearby alley.
Akai Shuichi: "..."
Fortunately, he was more thoughtful and didn't stay in the car anymore.
But he looks particularly fierce...does he have one?
In front of Poirot Cafe, after Conan finished speaking with a smile, he approached Haiyuan Ai and asked in a low voice, "Hey, Haiyuan, what you saw is not..."
Could it be that man?
Recently, a mysterious man wearing a black knitted hat has been monitoring the Maori Detective Agency. He can only pretend not to know, stop quietly, and observe the situation secretly.
Because if it was someone from that organization and it had been confirmed that he was Kudo Shinichi, he would have taken action long ago, without the need to waste time and effort on surveillance.
Haibara Ai waited for Conan to say what he wanted to say next.
Conan paused, not wanting Haihara Ai to be frightened and suspicious all day long, "Uh, no, I just wanted to ask if you saw a wanted criminal."
Akai Shuichi: "..."
"I don't know, I didn't see clearly..." Haiyuan Ai suddenly noticed that Chi Fei was walking towards the car, "Huh?"
Conan was also startled by Chi Feichi's actions, "Brother Chi!"
If that man has something to do with that organization and approaches him so rashly...
Chi Feichi just walked closer and took a look, then turned back and took out a notepad to record, "I'll write down the license plate. If it's a bad guy, maybe I can provide some clues to the police in the future."
Conan and Haihara Ai quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
It would be a good thing to memorize the license plate so that Chi Feichi could be more alert when seeing this car in the future.
Akai Shuichi in the alley touched his nose. Well, he might want to consider changing cars with his colleagues. A certain veterinarian is really a good example of a policeman's family...
