rpbooks Chapter 723 (4k) Case 1 and a half
Chapter 723 (4k) Case 1 and a half
Chapter 723 (4k) Case One and a Half
"Don't go too far, kid. Don't make people think that I, Kogoro Mori, am such a person who likes to take advantage of others." Kogoro Mori looked unhappy.
"How could that be possible, uncle? In my heart, you are the epitome of noble character, righteousness, and the Hefei Jade Unicorn. How could you be someone who takes advantage of others?" Martin said sternly, "I didn't say anything when there was a free tasting of Daiginjo (premium sake) on the road just now."
"What! Free tasting of Daiginjo!" Kogoro Mori was so excited that the steering wheel caused the car body to sway left and right.
Higashioho Village is a tourist attraction famous for its hot springs. The biggest pain for Kogoro Mori was that he didn't have time to soak in the hot spring and drink a glass of sake on this trip.
"Dad! You're driving!"
"That's right...you're teasing me again!" Giving up the idea of drifting 180 degrees on the spot to find Daiginjo, his clever IQ finally took the high ground. Realizing that even if there was a free Daiginjo tasting, such a good thing would not happen on the side of the road in the suburbs, Kogoro Maori stared at Martin with resentment.
I've already said I would take him on a trip, but you're still making fun of him. How could there be such an evil kid!
Martin shrugged: "After all, I was just joking before. Of course, my cousin should pay for his own travel. I will pay for the expenses of Dr. Ai and Mingmei."
Maori Kogoro's expression became serious: "I forgot that you are also a rich man who regards money as dirt. You can throw away a mountain of gold without hesitation..."
Kogoro Mouri took another look at Martin's current appearance, a bald man with shifty eyes, wearing a slightly worn fur vest. He didn't look like a rich man at all.
Martin continued, "After all, I'm afraid my uncle doesn't have that much face to ask others to reimburse the travel expenses for eight people."
"Humph! You look down on me again! This time I must let you see how useful my face is! All of you come! I will be responsible for the negotiations!"
Maori Kogoro snorted, then glanced at the rearview mirror: "Let alone eight people, even if it's nine people, they will give me this face!"
Nine people? Ran Mao's eyes lit up in the back row: "Is Dad going to ask Mom to come?"
"Why call her? To spoil the fun?" However, Maori Kogoro looked unhappy: "Anyway, if I call her, she will just say she is busy with work or something like that, and she might even scold me."
Mao Lilan began to reflect on whether she had been too nice to this old man during this period.
"The ninth person I'm talking about is the guy at the back." Maori Kogoro looked at Kudo Shinichi, who was wearing a mask and remained silent in the rearview mirror. "You seem excited when we talk about London, don't you? You're usually hard to find, but since you're back recently, I might as well take you with me."
After all, this kid has been talking about Sherlock Holmes and Baker Street since he was a child. London is his Jerusalem.
Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment, probably about 70% flattered, but then said regretfully: "Well, I have something else to do, I'm afraid... eh!"
"After all, I'm going to go with you in another identity, 'Conan'... Hey! "
Seeing Kudo Shinichi refuse, he wanted to be very upset with this kid Maori Kogoro: "Tsk, go if you want."
However, Kudo Shinichi suddenly remembered a problem and panicked - Conan didn't have a passport!
Before, he went to Vespania through the channels of the Vespania royal family, and concealed his identity all the way back and forth, which was equivalent to smuggling. This time he wanted to take a plane to London... Conan's identity was not suitable!
"Well, uncle, I suddenly remembered that I seem to have a lot of free time recently, and I really want to go to England..."
"late!"
Just when Kudo Shinichi was about to say something soft to Mouri Kogoro, his hand was touched by Xiaolan, and then a cell phone was handed to him.
The phone opened the email writing interface, and the draft content was: {Shinichi wants to go to England with his current body? Can the antidote last that long? And is your body okay?}
In fact, Kudo Shinichi's body was stacked with the triple debuffs of "severe cold without taking medicine", "falling into the water aggravated the cold", and "becoming bigger". If nothing unexpected happens, he will be lying dead after turning back into Conan.
Really...Kudo Shinichi broke out in a cold sweat.
After turning back into Conan, he had to take the antidote again two days later while enduring the debuff. Without Haibara Ai saying anything, he knew that he would be in danger of death.
The youth potion brought back from the main god space can be used as a temporary antidote and it is in full condition, but it is only effective for ten minutes after each use. The flight from Tokyo to London takes at least sixteen hours including check-in and boarding, which can directly use up all of one's stock.
As for the transformation... not to mention the women's clothing that can't be taken off, just that deadly passive skill, huh, what an aerial catastrophe.
Speaking of his own passivity, Kudo Shinichi blinked, suddenly put the issue of leaving the country aside, picked up Xiaolan's mobile phone, and started typing on a new line.
{Xiaolan, did you notice that no one died in this incident? It must be that my terrible superpower was suppressed after I recovered my body!}
Martin had long ago complained that Conan had the superpower to kill people wherever he went, and Xiaolan believed this earlier than Conan.
Maori Kogoro was driving while secretly glancing at the rearview mirror, thinking, "Doesn't this kid know how to beg me a few more times? Why is he silent again?"
Mao Lilan took back the phone and typed: {That's just that Mr. Yada didn't want to kill her, right? His target was just you, and there was no conflict between him and that lady.}
Kudo Shinichi: {As long as I change back and there is no murder within 24 hours, it can be proved that as long as I can restore my body normally, that ability will subside.}
Mao Lilan: {Before Shinichi became a small child, he encountered quite a few cases, not counting those where he helped Inspector Megure. The sudden cases he encountered happened once every two or three months, right?}
Kudo Shinichi: {Much stronger than now!}
That's true. Mao Lilan sighed. After she changed her smartphone recently, she carefully wiped the keypad phone that Kudo Shinichi gave her and put it away. When she wiped it, she noticed that the wear degree of '1' and '0' was much higher than that of other buttons.
The cell phone in her hand suddenly rang, startling both of them, and Mao Lilan almost dropped the phone.
I received an email from Martin who was sitting in the front row: {What cyber message?}
Mao Lilan casually replied with a "sticking out tongue" emoji as a reply, but she was too quick with her hand and after sending it, she realized that the draft email she had just used to chat with Kudo Shinichi was automatically used as a reply draft by the system when she was writing her reply.
Martin read the conversation between Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi directly, then turned around and gave Kudo Shinichi a meaningful expression.
Before Martin and Kudo Shinichi could even say anything, Maori Kogoro suddenly exclaimed.
The car in front of him suddenly lost control and leaned against the roadside guardrail. Sparks flew from the friction between the car door and the guardrail, but the driver continued to drive forward as if he didn't notice.
At first, everyone thought that the driver of the car in front had suddenly fallen ill and fainted, so Kogoro Maori had to drive his rented car to the front, slowly slowing down until the car behind hit the rear of his car, then he stepped on the brakes to force the car behind to slow down and then turned off the engine and stop.
"This is a rented car..." After stopping, Kogoro Mouri sighed.
When he went to rent a car, the people in the dealership were whispering to each other: Maori Kogoro rents a car - he borrows it but never returns it.
"It's okay, uncle. The car behind us is fully responsible." Martin consoled him. "When the insurance company came, they said we were in front from the beginning, and the other car lost control and accelerated and hit us."
However, the car behind was not fully responsible.
It was originally thought that the driver of the car in front had fainted due to a sudden heart attack, but after the car was forced to stop, the driver was found dead through the lowered window, and the cause of death was strangulation. Of course, the driver was the only one in the car, and the murder weapon could not be found, so it was another real murder case.
Martin gave Kudo Shinichi a meaningful look: "You thought you could only trigger half of the case after you recovered? Actually, it's one and a half!"
Kudo Shinichi was certainly not in the mood to argue with Martin. He turned around and looked at Hattori Heiji who got out of the taxi behind him - and started working again.
There is nothing much to say about what happened afterwards. The police were notified to block the road ahead and stop all vehicles. Then Kudo Shinichi and Hattori Heiji directed the police clearly and found three suspects who were on the highway at the same toll booth as the victim from the stopped vehicles. Martin watched the fun with his arms folded and complained about several suspects. Then Maori Kogoro came on the stage with a heroic spirit to eliminate a wrong answer. Finally, Kudo Shinichi and Hattori Heiji found the murderer who was the ex-girlfriend of the deceased.
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After finally returning to Beika, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, who didn't get to soak in the hot spring and had to buy two sets of clothes, went to the station to take the bus back to Osaka. Mouri Kogoro went to return the bus with a depressed look on his face, Kudo Shinichi pretended to go home, and Mouri Ran used the excuse of visiting Conan who was recuperating at Professor Agasa's house.
When he arrived at Dr. Agasa's house, Kudo Shinichi quickly sneaked into the yard like a thief, then rushed into the house in one breath, attracting the vigilant gaze of the Watermelon Pitcher.
Ran Mouri came in later and before entering the door she stealthily looked at the yard of the Kudo family next door.
There is no other reason, just to prevent Subaru Okiya from seeing Kudo Shinichi's return. Conan has tried his best to hide his identity from Akai Shuichi, even though Akai Shuichi has already seen the clues from many places.
Martin swaggered to the front of Kudo's house and called out, "Cousin, are you there? Are you there? Are you there?..."
No one responded. It seemed that Subaru Okiya had gone out for something, otherwise he would have come out to hunt down Martin.
"Cousin, get ready to go to London in two days. Don't say I didn't come to inform you!" After shouting at the empty house again, Martin staggered back to Dr. Agasa's house.
"I'm back alive!" Every time Martin goes out with Conan, he would shout this when he comes back.
"If you do that, you're dead." No one paid any attention to him. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Haibara Ai warning Kudo Shinichi. Obviously, with Kudo Shinichi's current physical condition, he could not recover in a short period of time and go to London as Kudo Shinichi.
Ran Mouri and Akemi Miyano were chatting nearby, but they looked at Shinichi Kudo with worry from time to time.
"If I keep taking the antidote and make sure I don't shrink, it won't be that dangerous, right?" Kudo Shinichi was determined: "The most dangerous thing is that every time I grow bigger or smaller, it takes half my life."
"It will take at least a week from now until you return from England, right?" Huihara Ai squinted at him. "If you plan to take the medicine continuously for a week, then I don't need to do follow-up research on the antidote. Your drug resistance will be so severe that the antidote will not work on you in the end."
Kudo Shinichi took out the youth potion exchanged in the main god space from his luggage: "This can turn me back to my healthy self, but only for ten minutes."
Kudo Shinichi took out the bottle of antidote that Haibara Ai gave him after she came back from her trip to the other world: "This can turn me back for one day, but if I take it now, I will only become a dead person."
"So if this is combined with this, can we transform back to a healthy state for a whole day?"
"It can turn you into a healthy dead person." Huibara Ai said mercilessly.
In fact, "dead people" are also fine. Conan also exchanged a few rebirth crosses from the main god space. Dying and resurrecting can just wash away the debuff, but he is reluctant to use the resurrection props that can give him more lives at the critical moment for traveling abroad.
Dejected, Kudo Shinichi fell down, looking up at Martin who was approaching. His last hope was, "My dear brother Martin, please help me."
Martin can either use his superpowers to turn him into the healthy Kudo Shinichi, or use Moss to hack into the government database to turn Edogawa Conan into a legal identity, just like Haibara Ai and Haibara Akiha are now legal identities.
But this guy just won't help, look how distressed he is.
"Want to transform?"
Kudo Shinichi nodded.
"Want to leave the country?"
Kudo Shinichi nodded vigorously.
"Want to take a plane?"
Kudo Shinichi nodded desperately.
"Then go ahead if you want to." After saying that, Martin took out his cell phone and sat on the sofa to play with it.
"Brother, dear brother, please." Ran Mouri couldn't bear to watch Kudo Shinichi's flattering look.
After finding the answers he needed on Google on his phone, Martin nodded. Under Kudo Shinichi's expectant gaze, Martin took out the watch that Ma Wu had left for him, put it on, used the points to increase his superpowers, and then snapped his fingers.
Kudo Shinichi lowered his head and looked at his hands: "I feel... no change?"
I still feel like I have a bad cold and am feeling groggy.
"Just now I refreshed the doctor's status and removed his...unspeakable secret." Martin gestured to Dr. Agasa who was holding his butt with a look of joy, and then snapped his fingers at Kudo Shinichi: "Now it's your turn, change."
He was in a trance for a moment, and in addition to discovering that the drowsy feeling caused by the cold had disappeared, 'Kudo Shinichi' immediately found that his perspective had changed and he was much shorter than before.
Did this turn me back into Conan? Conan is fine too, as long as I am healthy and take a temporary antidote before entering or leaving the country, I can complete this trip.
No! This angle is too low. I am only ten centimeters higher than the sofa cushion when I sit on the sofa! ? But this angle is familiar, so familiar that Kudo Shinichi has a bad feeling.
'Kudo Shinichi' lowered his head and found a pair of furry dog paws that looked somewhat familiar in front of him.
"Woof!? (What!?)" The little Corgi let out a scream that was so horrific that it could sting the life out of a dog.
(End of this chapter)