Conan Moslin

When it comes to the girl named Gu Jingzi, perhaps not many people remember her.

If we go back in time, the girl was once "kidnapped".

Just one or two days after Kudo Shinichi turned into a child.

At that time, Conan stayed at Dr. Agasa's house, while Kogoro Mouri opened his business and successfully solved a kidnapping case.

Afterwards, Kogoro Mouri, who believed that Conan brought him luck, let him stay.

At this moment, unlike the lively atmosphere of the upcoming campus festival, the atmosphere in the Gu family is now very solemn.

The family's large dog, Big Mac, was infected by the solemn atmosphere. He rested his head on his two stacked front paws and drooped his ears.

The chairman of the Gu family said in a deep voice: "Aso, I am really disappointed."

"Master, it really wasn't me this time." The gray-haired butler Aso lowered his head, and a few drops of cold sweat fell on his thin face.

"Why didn't any calls come in? Why didn't I receive any blackmail calls?!" Chairman Gu's voice was filled with anger. "Aso, I'll give you one more chance! Where is my daughter now?"

It would have been fine if it was just a fake kidnapping, but it happened a second time!

The reason this time was that Aso’s acquaintance called and said that his daughter had been kidnapped!

It’s simply unreasonable!

Butler Aso raised his phone silently, and an old voice came from the speaker.

"You are Mr. Gu, right? I am the only policeman in Moon Shadow Island. If I lie to you, I am lying to myself."

"Ms. Tani Akiko was indeed kidnapped. I spoke to Aso on the phone before, and she was there at the time, so she told me about the kidnapping."

"Don't you trust the police? Do you want me to take a picture of my police ID number and send it to you?" As he said this, the sound of shuffling documents was heard from the other end of the line.

"My police ID... my police ID..."

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

Chairman Gu really wanted to say that he didn’t believe it.

But he did know that Aso had a police officer friend who was now working, or rather retiring, on Yueying Island.

But he didn't expect that Jingzi would actually call him by chance.

Chairman Gu looked at Butler Aso who hung his head and dared not raise it, listened to the voice on the phone that seemed to be searching for something and the low voice of "Where did I put my police officer ID?", and finally confirmed one thing.

His only daughter, Tani Akiko, was actually kidnapped by someone unknown.

"Did the kidnapper say anything?"

The churning noise stopped.

"Oh... He said... As long as you put 300 million yen on a car with a designated license plate passing by Teitan High School at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, he will release the child."

"He also said, don't notify the police."

At this point, the voice on the other end sounded a little strange.

"He called me and told me not to notify the police?"

Chairman Gu felt that this police officer seemed somewhat unreliable.

For some reason, Chairman Gu's originally tense mood relaxed a little, and he seemed to be able to think about the problem more calmly.

Thinking of the recent series of child kidnapping and murder cases, Chairman Gu took a deep breath and asked the butler Aso beside him in a deep voice.

"Have you contacted Mr. Maori?"

"Yes...Mr. Maori is on his way here."

"Mori...Mouri Kogoro? I know him too..." The police officer held the police station's phone between his shoulders and kept muttering, while his hands did not stop moving.

The rustling sound of shuffling documents continued, and there seemed to be a faint sound of keyboard typing, but because the noise of the documents was too loud, it was covered up.

The chairman of the Gu family, unable to bear it any longer, moved his finger to the hang-up button.

But I didn't dare to press it.

……

The tall and short buildings outside the window flew rapidly backwards, and the road ahead seemed still very long.

Kogoro Mouri waved goodbye to Ran Mouri reluctantly, letting her have fun with Sonoko at the school festival.

I was so reluctant to leave, and I didn’t know if it was because I couldn’t go to the campus festival with my daughter, or because I couldn’t see the beautiful college girls, or because I couldn’t see Yoko Okino.

These reasons are probably all true.

Sitting in the taxi on the way to the Tani family, Kogoro Mouri quickly adjusted his expression.

Although he was very reluctant to leave Miss Okino Yoko, after all——

Kidnapping is no small matter.

And this time is different from last time.

Kogoro Mori knew that if the last kidnapping was just a minor incident, this time it was real.

After all, even if you trick him, a famous detective, you can't trick him twice, right?

After closing the back door of the taxi, Kogoro Maori straightened his collar, and under the guidance of his butler Aso, he once again stepped into the backyard of the chairman's house of the Tani family.

……

When Conan and the children found that they couldn't find Ayumi no matter how hard they looked, they didn't know how much time had passed.

It didn't seem to take long.

In the originally quiet darkness, there was a crackling white noise.

The sound continued to grow larger and clearer, and finally converged into an anxious shout.

"Ayumi!"

In the darkness, Ayumi opened her eyes blearily.

It's Conan...

She raised her head happily, and then bumped into something.

The severe pain immediately made her eyes burst into tears: "It hurts so much..."

"Ayumi, where are you now?" Conan's asking voice came from the badge.

Ayumi shook her head in the pitch-black darkness, her mind still a little confused after just waking up.

After picking up the badge that fell beside her by groping, Ayumi said, "I don't know... It seems to be a dark and narrow place. Why am I here?"

Conan asked Ayumi to turn up the volume and then put the badge close to his ear.

Is this sound a car?

Soon, Ayumi's voice suddenly realized: "Oh, right, I hid in the trunk of the car in front of the park!" Then I felt sleepy..."

Conan thought of the somewhat luxurious car that had been parked outside the park.

Could it be that he got on that car?

Ayumi was hiding in the car. She moved around casually and found something.

A lot of coins spilled out of the paper bag, and a saw was wrapped in a plastic bag.

Also, there was something wrapped in a round cloth, which felt slippery to the touch.

As she rummaged through the items, she spoke them out to the detective badge.

When she mentioned that there was a round object, Conan's expression on the other side of the badge suddenly changed.

"Ayumi! Don't open it!"

"Conan? What did you say?" Ayumi, who didn't realize anything, secretly raised the round thing, and then her expression became horrified.

"It's a head...it's a girl's head!"