Conan's Helping People

Chapter 356 12-Year-Old Tape
The day of the funeral was three days later.

Hyuga Ryo finished a cleanup task before standing on the side of the road and giving Miyano Akimi the 'go' command.

He took a taxi to the funeral.

The sky finally stopped the scattered little snowflakes, and it began to rain heavily. The taxi's radio was on, and the driver was listening to a funny variety show.

The host and guests of the variety show were talking about the "Tokyo Fireworks" a few days ago in a very exaggerated tone. A male voice said seriously that he was in the shower when the explosion happened. He thought it was an earthquake, and his head was full of foam. He rushed out. If his wife hadn't grabbed him urgently, he might still be in the police station today.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a burst of laughter on the radio.

The taxi driver couldn't help laughing too.

Hinata, who was looking out the window, glanced at the driver, then continued to look out the window, observing the rain hitting the glass window and the street outside.

The driver seemed to take this look as a signal, and immediately spoke tentatively, "It's funny, isn't it?"

"I heard that many people didn't take it seriously when the news was introduced, and a lot of funny things happened, hahaha," he laughed a few times, and seemed to feel that the atmosphere in the car had eased up a bit, and tentatively He asked eagerly, "You are going to the villa area, why, it is..."

He lowered his voice, and carefully asked in a cautiously inquiring tone, "Is there a murder case?"

Hinata rationally turned to look at the driver.

Here comes the question, why did the taxi driver ask him mysteriously, "Is there a murder at the destination?" '.

Answer [-]: The taxi driver is a psychopath, and he will suddenly ask every customer, "Yo, how do I get to xx, is there a murder case there?" '.

Answer two: The taxi driver thinks he is a detective, and naturally thinks that a detective travels in dress to solve crimes.

Since the taxi driver's face is very clean, without any signs of being beaten by customers for many years, it is most likely to be the second answer.

...How did you recognize this? !
Ryo Hinata looked at himself in the rearview mirror, unable to understand why someone would recognize him when he went to New York for half a year and returned to Tokyo again.

And it's not a police officer, it's a taxi driver.

He has never taken a taxi, so it can be ruled out that he did something unusual while taking a taxi, so that the driver was so impressed with him that he can recognize him at a glance now'.

After a brief silence, Hinata rationally replied perfunctorily, "It's not a murder case, it's going to a funeral."

"Oh, funeral!" Upon receiving the response, the taxi driver immediately became excited. He looked at Hinata's reasonable expression and tried to inquire without any trace, "It was the poor guy who solved the murder case a few days ago, so the family of the deceased invited you to attend A funeral?"

He exclaimed, "You are such a great detective!"

What is this guy talking about?
Hinata responded reasonably and simply, "No."

He raised his mobile phone tactically and called Miyano Akemi?

The other party quickly connected, and Miyano Akemi's soft voice came through the microphone, "Hello, Lily?"

Unknowingly, she changed "Rui-kun" to "Lily" logically. Hinata had no requirements for address, and he responded, "Well, I'm here."

Then silence fell.

From the microphone came the sound of the other party's quiet breathing, the sound of vehicles driving, the sound of rain hitting the windows, and the sound of wipers sweeping back and forth.

The silence lasted about two or three seconds, and Miyano Akemi tentatively asked: "Is there something wrong, Lily?"

She guessed, "Has the mission changed?"

"No," Hinata made an expression of listening to the phone carefully, and cut off the taxi driver who was looking at him frequently, "There is no change."

"Huh?" Miyano Akemi listened to his radio variety show, thought for a while, and then asked, "Are you in a taxi? Where are you now?"

"Yes, I'm in a taxi now." Ryo Hinata looked out of the window again. He judged the current location, and then judged the location of the destination. "There are about 10 minutes to arrive at the destination."

The other side was quiet for a few seconds, probably counting the distance.

Miyano Akemi said: "I will need about half an hour, maybe you need to wait for me at the destination first."

She added, "It's still raining now, so you don't have to wait for me on the road, just get off at the door, and someone will recognize you."

'Someone will recognize you'.

Hinata is reasonable: "."

"Since it's not a mission change," Miyano Akemi thought for a while, then slowed down her voice, "It's the driver talking to you, you don't want to talk to him?"

"Or there are other passengers in the car talking to you, and you don't want to talk to them?"

very sharp.

If Miyano Akemi went to be a detective one day, Hinata would not feel too surprised, and the only surprise would not be 'she can be a detective? ', but 'She actually went to be a detective? ! '.

He admitted, "Yes, the former."

"That's it..." Miyano Akemi listened to the radio again, and guessed again, "It's about the live broadcast of 'Tokyo Fireworks'. The driver recognized you, and felt that 'Tokyo Fireworks' was unusual, so I asked you." The truth of the matter'?"

When she said 'the driver recognizes you', she used declarative sentences, and when she said the next few sentences, she used interrogative sentences, indicating that she was guessing.

Hinata rationally admitted again, "Yes."

"So I called you," he thought for a while, and then said, "You're driving, forget it, I..."

"It's okay," Miyano Akemi said, she also paused, and said again, "By the way, I was still thinking about what to give you just now."

"I found another tape."

She deliberately explained, "After I learned that I was going to attend the funeral, I went to search through the sundries to see if there were any clues about the funeral owner, but accidentally found a tape."

"Do you want to hear it?"

Akemi Miyano added, "Since I don't want to talk to the taxi driver, I can just listen to it, and I don't have to worry about whether I'm being disturbed while driving."

Hinata is reasonable again: "."

He moved his eyes, sighed calmly and said directly, "Actually, you can just say that you took another tape left by Miyano Elena", hesitated for a moment, and said: "Okay."

Immediately there was a slight rummaging on the phone, followed by a click, and then a slight click as the tape was being read.

Then, a female voice came, "Hi."

This sound obviously carried the sound of electricity, and there was also the sound of a very light magnetic tape running like gurgling water.

With a smile on his face, the other party greeted Hinata reasonably, "Lily."

Hinata didn't move, he ignored the taxi driver's high-frequency glances, lowered his eyes to look at the wet ground outside the car window, and at the same time responded in a low voice, "Yes."

"Huh? It's great," the other party's smile became more obvious, "I really kept my promise and didn't ignore my mother. Even though I knew it was a tape, I still responded to my mother seriously."

This sentence is too responsive, Hinata sat upright subconsciously, and immediately realized that the sound of the tape running was still there, and the tone of the other party was too familiar, it was [True Miyano Elena], not someone Wearing a voice changer disguised as Miyano Elena.

The reason why the tape can say such a strong sense of response is that when recording, the other party predicted his response and made a response to him on the basis of predicting his response.

He moved his eyes again.

The other party smiled again: "Okay, I'm really sorry, um, let me think about the business, this time the tape should be..."

She paused, "12 years old."

"But if there is no accident, when you hear this tape, you must not be 12 years old, maybe 22 years old, 32 years old, 42 years old, huh?" Miyano Elena suddenly paused, she was silent After a few seconds, he smiled and said, "Sorry, sorry, I was wrong, it must be before the age of 22."

She said lightly: "Before you are 22, 'that gentleman' will definitely die."

"if you are willing to."

(End of this chapter)