Stay away from Conan

Chapter 114 Challenge Letter

"What's the meaning?"

Miwako Sato was a little puzzled by what Takato said, "Are you saying there is something wrong with Kudo's reasoning?"

"No."

Gao Yuan shook his head, "There is nothing wrong with Kudo-kun's reasoning. It can even be said to be perfect."

"Why?"

Regarding Gao Yuan's inconsistent words, Sato Miwako and Mao Lilan were a little at a loss and had no idea what Gao Yuan meant. Kudo Shinichi seemed to be aware of the hidden meaning in Gao Yuan's words and frowned slightly.

"But, it's limited to what happened today."

Gao Yuan added.

"What do you mean? Didn't this incident happen today?"

Mao Lilan was puzzled.

"Mr. Akechi, you mean the incident half a year ago, right?"

Kudo Shinichi already understood what Gao Yuan meant and said.

"That's right. To be precise, the incident half a year ago was the beginning of today's incident. It was because of the first short circuit half a year ago that Ms. Yukari came up with this plan."

Gao Yuan explained.

"But that time half a year ago was just an accident, right?"

Miyano Yukari said on the side.

"That's right, the surveillance camera outside the house was exposed to the rain and caused a short circuit. It's an accident no matter how you look at it."

Miwako Sato echoed.

"Is it really?"

Gao Yuan said, "You know, for the incident half a year ago and today's incident, there is a key prerequisite for stopping the ventilator after a short circuit and power outage!"

"Emergency battery failure!"

Kudo Shinichi suddenly realized, "Even if the power is cut off due to a short circuit, as long as the emergency battery is still there, the ventilator can still operate. But there was a problem with the emergency battery half a year ago and this time today!"

"To be precise, it's not that everything went wrong, but that the emergency battery problem has not been solved since the incident half a year ago."

Takato said, looked at Miyano Yukari, and asked: "Ms. Yukari, I would like to ask why this is?"

"We have already placed an order, but it has not arrived."

Miyano Yukari said.

"But that's weird."

Takato said, looking at Kudo Shinichi and Sato Miwako.

"Kudo-san, Officer Sato, do you still remember what he said when we first entered Katsushiro Miyano's house to check the emergency power supply of the ventilator and asked the caregiver Makoto Yamashita?"

Speaking of this, Kudo Shinichi also recalled the scene at that time. At that time, he, Takato, and Yamashita Makoto followed Officer Sato to Katsuyo Miyano's house. When Officer Sato explained what happened, he specifically asked Xiashan Xiacheng: Why are there no emergency batteries on the artificial respirator?

At that time, Yamashita Makoto replied: "The battery is broken, take it for repair."

Thinking of this, Kudo Shinichi was suddenly stunned - at that time, he was totally focused on checking the tripping problem, and didn't pay much attention to this, so when he was talking to Miyano Yukari just now, he didn't realize the subtleties of it. difference.

"That's right, Yamashita Makoto said 'the battery is broken, take it to be repaired', but Ms. Yukari said 'the order has been placed, but it has not arrived yet'."

Gao Yuan explained.

"Considering that Officer Sato forced Mr. Yamashita Makoto to stay at that time, his mood may not be calm, so that what he said at that time may be just casual. Therefore, in order to determine this issue, I specially asked Officer Takagi to investigate Yukari The ventilator purchase channel at the lady’s home. After all, Ms. Miyano Katsushiro is not using an ordinary household ventilator, but a model commonly found in hospitals, which is not easy to buy. "

"Yes, I purchased the ventilator my mother uses after asking the hospital for help."

Miyano Yukari said.

"To be more specific, it is the channel of Mihua General Hospital."

Gao Yuan said, "Due to the particularity of ventilator purchase channels, it is obviously not easy to replace or repair the emergency battery. The easiest way is to contact the manufacturer through the original channel, so I asked acquaintances in the hospital to investigate Check to see if there is any record of repairing or ordering emergency batteries.”

After a pause, Gao Yuan looked at Miyano Yukari.

"But the result of the investigation was that there was no relevant record."

"How could it be! Didn't Mr. Yamashita say that he had entrusted the hospital to book it at that time?"

Miyano Yukari said in surprise.

"Wait a minute! Do you mean to say it's Mr. Yamashita..."

Soon, Miyano Yukari realized what Gao Yuan meant.

"Because the incident half a year ago was very strange in itself."

Gao Yuan said, "The outdoor surveillance cameras short-circuited due to rain, and coincidentally, the emergency battery of the ventilator had a problem. Two seemingly coincidental conditions caused the incident half a year ago."

"Because after that incident, I thought of using..."

"But you should entrust Mr. Yamashita to order batteries."

Miyano Yukari was about to explain, but was interrupted by Takato and asked, "Moreover, Ms. Yukari, don't you find something strange? In your plan, a mechanism has been arranged, waiting for Sawada Osamu to turn on the switch. But then there is a problem. Once your mechanism is set up, it cannot be moved. In other words, your set of black underwear is always hanging on the balcony of your house. So, as a regular visitor! Mr. Makoto Yamashita of our house will eventually notice something is wrong if things go on like this!”

"A set of black underwear is always hung on the balcony and never put away. Anyone who discovers this will find it strange."

Miwako Sato imagined it for a moment, nodded and said.

"This kind of thing lasted for half a year. If Yamashita Makoto feels strange and goes to check it out, or kindly reminds Ms. Yukari, the whole plan will be seen through."

Gao Yuan said.

"But in fact, this plan lasted perfectly for half a year, without any accidents. It was not until Sawadaji stole underwear today that the agency was triggered."

Kudo Shinichi said, "This is unreasonable. Either he really came to Ms. Miyano's house and did nothing but care for her; or he actually found out but chose to remain silent!"

"That's right. Combining these clues, doesn't Mr. Yamashita seem suspicious?"

Gao Yuan said, "So, I had some ideas and launched some investigations on Mr. Yamashita Makoto. As a result, I discovered an interesting thing - seven years ago, when Yamashita Makoto was still a student, he caused a traffic accident."

"Seven years ago! The traffic accident that Ms. Katsushiro Miyano encountered seems to have happened seven years ago!"

Kudo Shinichi still remembered what Yukari Miyano said before, and immediately connected the two.

"Please wait a minute, you don't want to say that the person who knocked down my mother was Mr. Yamashita!"

Yukari Miyano said in surprise, "This is impossible. I understand that Mr. Yamashita's accident was not the same as my mother's accident! The person who ran away after knocking down my mother has not been caught yet! "

"About this, after Mr. Akechi told me, I asked Yumi from the Ministry of Transportation to retrieve the case files of the two accidents."

At this time, Takagi Wataru walked in and said, "After reading the case file, Mr. Akechi discovered..."

"No, no need to say it!"

Suddenly, Yamashita Makoto walked in from outside the door and stopped Takagi Wataru from speaking, "I did everything."

Yamashita Makoto admitted.

"At that time, after I knocked down Ms. Katsushiro Miyano, I drove a long distance in a panic. As a result, I hit another car, causing a second accident. And because of the second accident, I lost my previous car. The impact marks were completely destroyed and no casualties were caused. In order to reduce the punishment, I only admitted the second accident.”

"Then you became Ms. Katsushiro Miyano's caretaker because of your atonement."

Gao Yuan said without much surprise.

"Yes. Although I was not punished by law, I always lived with guilt for knocking down Ms. Katsushiro. So after asking around, I found out that the person I knocked down at that time was Ms. Miyano Katsushiro. And It happened that Ms. Yukari needed someone to look after Ms. Katsushiro, so in order to atone for my sins, I became Ms. Katsushiro’s caregiver.”

Yamashita Makoto said.

"In that case, why did you..."

Mao Lilan asked very puzzledly after hearing these words.

"Biological daughters will have the idea that 'if their mother dies, they will be free' because of such long-term care, let alone outsiders."

Gao Yuan said helplessly.

In this regard, Makoto Yamashita could not deny it and admitted everything he had done - whether it was deliberately destroying the waterproof function of the surveillance camera or destroying the emergency battery, in order to cause an accident and kill Ms. Katsushiro Miyano. After the failure of this operation, I discovered that Miyano Yukari had the same idea, and was just silent, waiting for an accident to happen.

So far, this incident has finally been completely resolved, and the settlement panel has also appeared in front of Gao Yuan.

"The reasoning is over, let's start closing the case."

"Comprehensive evaluation of case closure: S"

"Knowledge: S"

"Logic: S"

"Observation: S"

"Settlement is completed, the overall score reaches S, the reward is 50, additional rewards will be issued, please choose:"

"Reward One: Professional Knowledge"

"Reward 2: Disposable props"

"Reward 3: Special props II"

"Detective Rating: Assistant Detective"

"Bounty: 570"

As a result, due to a series of incidents caused by a bus idiot, Gao Yuan, Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan completely missed the opportunity to eat at the restaurant they went to in the first place. By the time everything was over, it was already late at night. Got it!

The three people who walked out of the hospital remembered that they had not eaten since noon and were almost starving to death. So the three of them found a restaurant and ate happily.

"It's all because of that underwear thief. If he hadn't done that and made things so complicated and sad, maybe Ms. Yukari wouldn't have done such a thing!"

Mao Lilan said angrily while eating.

"However, the ending is good. Although I don't know what happened, Ms. Katsushiro Miyano was still rescued, and even her spontaneous breathing recovered. If this continues, Ms. Katsushiro should gradually get better."

Kudo Shinichi said.

"But this time, it's all thanks to Mr. Akechi."

Mao Lilan said and glanced at Kudo Shinichi, "It's not like someone who left others to investigate, but the incident was not fully investigated!"

"Okay, stop bickering."

Seeing that the two of them seemed to be bringing the topic to themselves, Gao Yuan immediately interrupted, "Don't you happen to be going on a school trip tomorrow? Be happy!"

"I don't want to go."

Kudo Shinichi said, "It's a waste of time. Compared with this, today's incident made me understand that I need to learn more from actual cases and understand human nature and the world!"

Really? I hope you can say something like this so forcefully during your school trip next year - Takato thought as he looked at Kudo Shinichi helplessly.

Soon, after dinner, the three of them went home. Mao Lilan was in high spirits and had to prepare for tomorrow's school trip, while Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi went back to their respective homes.

After returning home, Gao Yuan began to choose this reward, because he had received both "one-time props" and "special props", and this time he wanted to see what the "professional knowledge" that he had not chosen would be, so Gao Yuan chose "professional knowledge" this time.

Soon, new text appeared.

"Name: Magician"

"Special effect: You have mastered some kind of magic knowledge that you know. At the same time, you also learned the corresponding knowledge of using "stars (the detective's monocle)" to perform magic."

Seeing this, Gao Yuan suddenly felt a large amount of knowledge pouring into his mind - about the knowledge related to "disguise", he originally only understood it briefly, but now he has a deeper understanding. It was originally incomprehensible. I seem to be able to understand most of the parts I don't understand.

But more importantly -

Gao Yuan took out the monocle named "Star" from his pocket - this was a reward for the challenge mission, or an item given directly without choice.

Gao Yuan had never used it before, but now that he had relevant knowledge, Gao Yuan suddenly discovered that this thing is a bit powerful!

Thinking like this, Gao Yuan pinched the lens of his glasses, and then thinking about the knowledge he had just learned, he flicked it. The metal chain on the outside of the glasses suddenly grew longer and became a chain of about two meters. A long metal chain, but the star-shaped ornament at the end of the chain remains unchanged.

Pulling it back again, the chain shortened back to its original length.

Looking at the monocle in his hand, Gao Yuan suddenly tossed it up like a coin toss, caught it when it fell back to his eyes, and put it on his right eye——

Sure enough, I underestimated the special reward for this challenge mission!

On the other side, Kudo Shinichi, who returned home, walked into the iron gate and just opened the door of the house. Suddenly he saw a white envelope falling in front of his eyes. He picked it up and saw that there was only one line printed on the envelope. : A challenge letter to Kudo Shinichi.

Leaning against the door wall, Kudo Shinichi opened the envelope and looked at the letter paper inside, which also had printed words:

"During the school trip, someone among your classmates will be kidnapped. If you can protect him well, you will win. If you don't, I will win. At that time, please give up your reputation as a high school detective. This is It’s a one-on-one confrontation between me and you, but I can give you a hint: the kidnapping location will be on the ship.”

Signed below: "KIDNAPPER".

After reading this letter, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but smile - "Interesting!"