Conan Moslin

You may not have any impression of the name Wanghai.

Because this name appears for the first time.

But if I mention another name, maybe it would sound more familiar?

Officer Ishida.

In other words, it was the fake "Officer Ishida" who took off his mask and got off the train early in the Shinkansen bombing case.

Li An opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.

The rearview mirror reflected a rather teasing smile on her profile.

"Poor student?"

Wang Hai paused while trying to move the mirror: "What?"

Li An repeated: "I said, Mr. Katagiri Nanami, the director said that you guys are all poor students and don’t have a car——"

The director said it very clearly, otherwise he would not have asked Suzuki Sonoko to lend him a car to pick people up.

"I haven't even met the director, so he's definitely not talking about me," Wang Hai defended.

He was originally a substitute, isn't it normal that the director doesn't know him?

"Actually, you don't need to come." As the car window rolled up, the smile on Li An's face dimmed and blurred, "You don't have any mission today."

He turned the key and the car started rumbling. "I finally came across a case, and you don't want me to participate?"

From the moment he saw Kogoro Mouri and the man holding the briefcase, his intuition as a former detective made him feel that he had encountered a case.

So I eavesdropped at the alley for a while, and after confirming the location, I immediately went to look for the car that had been parked nearby.

Although this was not the reason why he drove the car here earlier... Katagiri Nanami's eyes wandered.

Li An expressed helplessness about this.

Nanami Katagiri, codenamed Mochi, is from Kyoto, graduated from Kyoto High School, and is 20 years old.

It is the fresh blood of [Ming].

He used to be a high school detective. Although he solved a few cases, he was not famous.

After all, not all places are as dangerous as Mika and Haihu, and not all "high school detectives" are surrounded by a bunch of cases.

Not everyone has the physique to get into trouble wherever they go.

Really.

Therefore, he gave up his identity as a detective and wanted to become an actor.

Although he has abandoned his identity as a detective, it does not mean that he has no desire to solve cases. Therefore, Katagiri Nanami still pays close attention to cases occurring in various places. Coupled with the huge flow of information brought by [Ming], he can pay attention to more things.

Nanami Katagiri put down her role as the "kidnapper" in the stage play today and sneaked out because this child kidnapping case was the fuse of the three interrelated incidents he was investigating.

This does not mean that the kidnapper of this kidnapping case is the murderer of the other three cases, but that it was this kidnapping that triggered the three cases.

Because this was a task issued by the person in charge himself, he and the members in Kyoto took it very seriously.

However, he has not yet compiled the report on these things, so he has not explained this matter to her in detail.

And, it’s not just him… Didn’t the protagonist of the stage play also run out?

Suddenly he thought of the child he had just heard calling "Miss Li An" to the badge, and he suddenly felt a little strange.

The child doesn't look very old, why don't you call me "sister"?

Katagiri Nanami hadn't started the car yet, so she turned her head to look at Kuria who was sitting next to her.

Not feeling his gaze, Li An looked forward, not knowing what he was thinking.

The sunlight shone obliquely into the car through the curved glass, and half of her face was bathed in the sunlight.

Perhaps it was because the sunlight was too dazzling, she couldn't help but squint her eyes, and her curled eyelashes appeared slightly transparent because of the sunlight.

Raising his hand to cover it, Li An lowered the sun visor with his other hand.

"Hey - don't -"

"What did you say?" Li An turned his head.

A neat white edge with some patterns on the edge appears in the sun visor pocket.

That's a piece of paper.

Li An saw that half a word seemed to be revealed in the corner, the ink was clear and the handwriting was elegant.

That is half of the character "安".

She had seen that piece of paper before. There were three people's signatures on it, namely Yoko Okino, Osamu Kenzaki and her own Kuroba Kuriyasu.

It was the previous director who asked her to help sign it.

Li An turned his head to look at him, his eyes revealing something strange: "You? Don't you know the director?"

Who are you lying to?

Wang Hai coughed lightly in embarrassment.

"I asked him for Ms. Okino's autograph...but he got all three of yours."

……

On the other side, Maori Kogoro stood at the zebra crossing holding a briefcase in one hand and holding the phone to his ear with the other hand, looking around with some concern, appearing very alert. If you didn't know, you would think he was the kidnapper.

There were cars and people coming and going in front of me, but the taxi with the special license plate was very conspicuous.

He put the phone to his ear and communicated with the kidnappers as Aso's butler.

"Is the ransom ready?"

"Okay... okay..." His voice trembled.

The kidnapper had determined that the girl's grandfather was not at home based on the number the girl gave, so his instructions were addressed to the housekeeper on the other end of the phone.

According to the kidnappers' instructions, the butler gave him the phone number, so they completely cut off contact with the old police officer of Tsukikage Island and instead communicated directly with the butler (Kogoro Mori).

However, as a police officer, Inspector Megure still has a way to get the movements over there.

So also listening at the same time were the chairman of the Gu family and the butler Aso and his group.

The kidnappers were very cunning. They even asked them to prepare banknotes with random numbers printed on them, making it difficult for the police to track their movements through the use of banknotes.

Because of this, they failed to catch the two kidnappers many times.

The kidnapper on the other end lowered his voice and reported a license plate number.

"There is a taxi in front of Teitan University... the license plate is..."

Shinjuku 55-8462.

"Put the ransom money through the window in the back seat of the car."

"Don't try to play tricks."

"When my companion gets the money, you will know where your little lady is."

Following the kidnapper's instructions, Kogoro Mouri walked behind the taxi from which a girl had just gotten out, and threw the briefcase on the back seat through the open window.

The back seat is a very ordinary taxi back seat. The khaki seat looks very soft. The central armrest in the middle that can be used to hold water cups is lowered. A black mesh bag is tied between the driver's seat and the co-pilot seat.

Because he deliberately came around from the side, he also saw the driver's face wearing a mask.

The driver of Shinjuku 55-8462 is a middle-aged man in his forties, but he is not thin.

He was wearing a uniform and a mask. He was neither fat nor thin, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and deep wrinkles on his face.

One thing worth noting is that the last name marked on the white rectangular logo on his chest is Hirota.

With the consciousness of a detective, Maori Kogoro quickly memorized the features of the man in front of him and the name tag, and then said to the person on the other end of the phone: "I have put the ransom up."

There was a happy smile over there.

"very good."