Ming Ke: When the villain accidentally mixes into the protagonist group

It was not until Kogoro Mouri walked up the stairs to the seventh floor that the murderous gaze slowly disappeared.

Kogoro Mouri was alert to the movement behind him. He slowly turned his head and glanced behind him. Apart from those gamblers who were looking for something, he did not see the man wearing the gray mask.

Is he the host of the sixth floor? Maori Kogoro breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, and recalled the hosts he had met before. They all seemed to be wearing gray masks with special symbols on their foreheads. As for the man he just met, he seemed to have one on his forehead as well. The people of the Kirima family wore gray masks with dark gold patterns, and those wearing blank masks were probably just ordinary employees.

What exactly did this gem tycoon want to do? Why did he gather all these people on this cruise ship? Maori Kogoro frowned and walked slowly on the corridor on the seventh floor. Unknowingly, he came to the door of his room.

Thinking of what the man on the sixth floor said, Kogoro Mouri swiped the door open with his bracelet, pushed it open quietly, stuck his head in, and looked around the room. The places that were damaged by the fight had already been repaired, and there was no trace of it, as if nothing had happened.

In the room, Rose had taken off her ill-fitting light blue female work uniform and put on her original tight leather jacket. She also had a table knife from the restaurant tucked around her waist. The blade seemed to have been polished, reflecting a captivating cold light.

"You!" Maori Kogoro was startled, and quickly closed the door. He walked to Ross and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do?"

Ross glanced at Maori Kogoro, whose eyes were wide open, and sneered, "What? Of course, we need to find a way to get the Kashmir Star. Since you can't get the lettered nameplate, you can only use my method to achieve your goal."

"This cruise ship has only been out of port for two days, and according to the plan, it still has twelve days to go. It might not be a good idea to take action now. Those burly men wearing blank masks are not easy to deal with." Maori Kogoro persuaded Ross, trying to delay the other party's action time. "And even if you get the Star of Kashmir, we can't leave this cruise ship on the high seas."

"Are you worried?" Ross stopped what he was doing and raised his eyebrows. "Or are you scared?"

Maori Kogoro slowed down his voice, "I'm worried about you. You will definitely be recognized by the Kirima family if you dress like this. We are now in the same boat. I can't possibly harm you."

Ross chuckled. "Of course you can't harm me, but do you have a good plan? Our goal has always been the Kashmir Star."

"Of course I know this." Kogoro Mouri frowned and asked tentatively, "Have you contacted him? He's the burly man wearing black clothes, a wide-brimmed hat, and a beard. He must be your companion, right?" Kogoro Mouri sketched out the image of the man in his mind.

Ross knew that Maori Kogoro was asking about Snake. He quickly turned his eyes and asked, "Why? Do you want to contact him? Or do you want to contact your daughter or wife?"

Kogoro Mori appeared calm on the surface, but his heart was beating wildly.

"You can go to the captain's room on the third floor and try to call your daughter's cell phone to see if the call can be connected." Ross said with a smile.

"What do you mean by this?!" Kogoro Mouri's heart was beating like a drum and beads of sweat were oozing out of his back.

Ross sat on the sofa, looking at the pile of chips in front of him, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, this is just an agreement between him and me. As long as you can get the Kashmir Star, I will tell you his other mobile phone number, and then you will be able to hear the voice of your beloved daughter again."

Maori Kogoro clenched his teeth and after a long while, he said in a hoarse voice: "I will find a way to get the Kashmir Star."

Ross sneered, "What's your idea? Buy it? Or do you expect the other party to give you the expensive Cornflower Sapphire, just like the 100 million yen? I advise you not to dream. You also know that we kidnapped Kirima Daqi and wanted to exchange his life for the Star of Kashmir, but what happened? The old man Kirima Soichi didn't agree at all."

"Do you think he would hand over the sapphire to you when he doesn't even care about his own son's life?" Ross walked up to Maori Kogoro and whispered in his ear, "Don't daydream. Merchants are all profit-oriented and regard money as more important than anything else. What are you in their eyes? If we hadn't been unable to get the boat tickets, you wouldn't have been saved until now."

Maori Kogoro felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, "You are the ones who broke into the detective agency?!"

"You didn't just find out now, did you?" Ross chuckled. "You nosy, stupid detective. The address is clearly written on your business card. In fact, your place is quite popular. Not only have I been there, but others have been there too. I was the one who closed your shabby door for you."

Maori Kogoro clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms. The pain forced him to calm down, "Why don't you just take the ticket?"

Ross shrugged. "I can't help it. Snake is too big to successfully disguise himself as you. But fortunately, I can pretend to be your wife and accompany you on the cruise. Honey, are you very happy now?"

Every word Ross said touched Maori Kogoro's tense nerves, but the more this happened, the calmer Maori Kogoro became. "Aren't you afraid that I will tell Kirima and the others about your identity?"

"Oh, I'm so scared when you say that." Ross smiled brightly, "You can try, but what will be the result? You may never see your beloved daughter again, and whether the Kiriyama family will help you is another matter. But if I tell other people about your identity as a detective, do you think you can still leave this room?"

Kogoro Mori clenched his teeth and stood there without saying a word.

Ross rolled his eyes and felt that he had knocked enough, so he sighed and finally stated his purpose, "Dear, you can only cooperate with me now. Help me see which of these looks more like the Star of Kashmir?"

Maori Kogoro looked down at the direction of Ross's finger. There were a few things that looked like blue glass. They were nothing like the velvety-textured cornflower sapphire. "You don't want to replace the Star of Kashmir in the display case with this, do you?"

"Is it not possible? Gray Rabbit fooled everyone with the lettered nameplate made of cans, so I can't replace the Kashmir Star with glass?"

"How can such a fake thing that looks fake at first glance fool people?" Kogoro Mouri looked incredulous.

Ross fiddled with the blue glass fragments in his hand carefully. "We just need to make others think this is the Star of Kashmir. When everyone comes to grab it, we can take advantage of the chaos to hide the real Star of Kashmir. Then even if the Kirigen family looks for it hard, they may not be able to find it."

Kogoro Mori looked at Ross, who was spitting all over the place, and thought about how to respond.

Ross generously revealed her plan, and the first key to completing this plan was to make a fake that was 80% similar to the Star of Kashmir.

This task naturally fell on Kogoro Mori.

Kogoro Maori fell into deep thought as he looked at the pieces of blue glass of various shapes in front of him, and his mind kept recalling the cornflower sapphire.

Ross placed the makeup bag in front of Maori Kogoro, unzipped it, pointed at the items in the bag and said, "Here are some paints, use them as you see fit, as long as you can fool those people outside."

The pitch-black night sky seemed like a bottomless abyss without a trace of light, or like a cage that had been closed for a long time, with a ferocious beast imprisoned inside.

The light in Kudo's study was still on.

Tuk-tuk-tuk...

There was a knock on the study door.

Yusaku Kudo looked at the door and saw Shinichi Kudo, who was wearing pajamas, standing at the door.

"Dad, I can't sleep." Kudo Shinichi walked up to Yusaku and looked at the newspapers and materials on the table. "If Mingyue was here, she would definitely put herself in the criminal's shoes and discuss with me some things, such as why they kidnapped Xiaolan instead of kidnapping other people, and how the criminal would carry out the kidnapping..."

Kudo Yusaku looked out the window towards the direction of Monae's house. It was pitch black over there. "So what conclusion do you think Mingyue will come to?"

"I don't know." Kudo Shinichi grabbed his hair irritably, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, "Lan is looking forward to this cruise trip. She also said that she would ask the staff on the ship to take pictures of the aurora for me. I used to envy her for being able to go to London, and wondered if she would go to Baker Street to take a look."

"aurora?"

"It's said that the cruise ship is sailing from Tokyo to London, England, taking the Arctic route. The journey takes fourteen days."

Kudo Yusaku frowned, "Even if there are icebreakers in winter, cruise ships cannot travel on the Arctic route."

"Dad, what do you mean?!" Kudo Shinichi thought of a possibility, "That cruise ship is not heading to London!"

"This also explains why the police have not been able to find the cruise ship." Kudo Yusaku held his chin in thought for a long time, and then looked at Shinichi, "What kind of situation do you think Xiaolan's father was in when he made that call?"

Kudo Shinichi lowered his eyes and thought, "There must be other people around Uncle Maori, and the process of making a phone call must be monitored by the criminal. But one thing is very strange, why is Uncle Maori sure that it must be Xiaolan who answered the phone?"

Yusaku nodded in agreement, awaiting the rest of his son's analysis.

"This call was supposed to be made to Xiaolan, but it was made to the Poirot Cafe. This must be Uncle Maori's calculation..." Shinichi suddenly looked at his father, "Dad! Do you think the criminal who kidnapped Xiaolan is still waiting for Uncle Maori's call!"

Kudo Yusaku nodded, "I have already thought of this matter. I have already informed Officer Megure. He will come over with the equipment in a while."

Shinichi shook off his previous depression and became very excited, saying excitedly: "Are we going to search for Mingyue's cell phone signal the same way as before? What about the doctor?"

"The doctor will also come to help." Yusaku looked at Shinichi, "Maybe finding Xiaolan depends on this phone call. To prevent others from pretending to be Xiaolan's voice to answer the phone, Officer Megure and I have discussed that you will make this call."

The winter air was cold and dry, but a thin layer of sweat appeared on Shinichi's palms.

The bitterly cold wind howled through the bare branches, through the cracks in the rocks, and created thousands of waves.

On the fifth deck of the Augus cruise ship, three bottles of whiskey were gathered together again.

"Where have you searched? Are there any places you haven't searched yet?" Lei took a puff of cigarette and exhaled the gray smoke. He guessed that Mingyue was hiding from everyone, but it seemed a little strange that she was hiding from them. Lei glanced at Scotland beside him. In his opinion, Mingyue would not hide from Scotland, but Scotland didn't seem to find Mingyue either.

Scotland glanced at Bourbon. "I've searched all the places that passengers are allowed to enter. There are only three places left. The cargo hold, the lifeboat hanging outside this floor, and the control room on the twelfth floor that is not allowed to enter."

Ley glanced at the dark night sky outside the window. "There's no one in the twenty lifeboats. I checked."

"It's impossible to hide people in places where goods are stored. Most of those places are guarded and the doors can only be opened from the outside. Most of them are cold storages for storing food. As for the control room, I'll find a way to get in." Bourbon glanced at the burly man who just hurried past him, wondering if he could knock him out and then put on his clothes and mask to sneak into the control room.

The other two bottles of whiskey guessed Bourbon's plan and were ready to lend a hand. They believed that Mingyue was most likely hiding in the control room. As for the reward offered by the Kiriyama family, it was most likely a case of the thief crying "stop thief".

Just as three bottles of whiskey were about to knock down a burly man and sneak into the control room on the twelfth floor, Rose appeared in the exhibition hall holding a gem made by Kogoro Mori. She looked around and saw that no one around her was paying attention to her, so she prepared to take action.

Inserting the thin blade into the gap in the glass did not trigger any alarm device.

The sharp tip of the knife cut through the glass glue, and Rose took the glass off lightly. She quickly looked around and finally stopped at the nearby Star of Kashmir. As long as she reached out and took it, the sapphire would be hers.

But at this moment, all the lights on the fifth floor went out, darkness fell instantly, and fear enveloped everyone.

"What's wrong?!"

"what happens?"

"Is it going to hit a reef?"

"Idiot, if we hit a reef, won't the ship shake?"

People around were talking a lot.

Rose's instinct as a killer told her that it was very dangerous. Everything in front of her eyes went dark. She quickly reached into the display case and felt around, but she couldn't find the sapphire. She felt something was wrong and quickly got down and left.

And just as she left, a beam of light shone on the display case displaying the Star of Kashmir.

Ross turned his head and saw a man wearing a monocle, wrapped in a black cloak and a black top hat, standing on the glass of the display case, like a light big bird.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, It's show time!"

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Preview of the next chapter: Dazzling flash bombs and magic that disappears out of thin air.

[Red herring hint: Important information is hidden in a half-truth.]