The Corpse Collector In Conan: One thousand two hundred and twelve【Arrears of detective wages】
Outside the villa, in the beautiful banquet hall.
After Jiang Xia got the doctors' business cards and memorized the addresses, phone numbers and names on them, she stopped hanging out with this group of aloof party guests.
He went to pick up a glass of Coke with a goblet, and then continued to stop at the corner of the venue, carrying out his commission.
——President Ichikawa's attitude is a little weird, this riddleman seems to prefer to let the detective stay in the corner of the party. Jiang Xia tried to sneak into the villa, but was stopped by the housekeeper.
So Jiang Xia followed suit, took out the notebook, recalled the conversation between the two Miss Ichikawa just now, recorded it one by one, and handed it to the client after preparation.
…
Not long after, the servants set up the outdoor stage.
President Ichikawa quickly stepped onto the stage and picked up the microphone:
"Thank you for taking the time to come to my birthday party. This time, there is mainly one thing to inform you - I plan to step down as president in the near future, that is to say, I will retire.
"Next, I will resell all the stocks under my name and the right to operate the company to Asahi Industrial."
“…”
There was a dead silence in the venue.
A moment later, whispers exploded, and amidst the noisy voices, someone couldn't help but ask loudly: "Then what should we do?"
——A large part of the people who came to the party today are relatives of President Ichikawa. Originally, some of them could also get a share of the inheritance.
"What are you going to do?" President Ichikawa repeated what they said, and laughed mockingly, "Well, it's hard to say the details, but one thing is certain—I won't let everyone present , get a penny from me."
“…”
Among the silent crowd, Jiang Xia couldn't help being infected with a bit of the detective's savage attributes: "..." You said just now that you would give me another million when things are done...
Mao Lilan felt the restlessness of the crowd, and suddenly remembered something.
She looked around and whispered worriedly to Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko: "Have you seen Conan?"
"No." Suzuki Sonoko is used to the loss of this brat, "I must have found something interesting again, let's slip away and play secretly."
…
Conan did find something interesting.
But I couldn't play it secretly, but was played by someone else.
——By the time he broke free from the anesthesia, a long time had passed.
Conan sat up abruptly, pressed his forehead, looked around, and found himself locked in the basement.
He was stunned for a while, and suddenly remembered what happened before he fainted, and hurried to the door, trying to open it, but the door was locked firmly, it was impossible for him to open it.
Conan always feels that something will happen tonight.
He took out his mobile phone and wanted to contact a few classmates outside, but after a closer look, there was no signal here.
"Oops, that bottle of poisoned wine..."
…
In the banquet hall.
After Kotaro Ichikawa announced that he was resigning from office, he returned to the villa with everyone looking at him differently.
Ichikawa Kotaro couldn't help being very happy when he thought about the faces of those guys who ate a fly when they heard that they could not get an inheritance. Just take it away?
With his departure, the atmosphere in the banquet hall completely calmed down.
Jiang Xia thought of something and looked at the butler: "I remember when Mr. Ichikawa gave the commission, he said to observe his two daughters at the banquet tonight. If this is the case, is the commission over?"
"Of course." The butler nodded, "Please follow me."
He led several people to the villa.
This time, instead of going to the study, I went to the living room.
When he arrived at the door, Jiang Xia glanced around and saw several familiar people standing in the room—Ichikawa Kotaro, his two daughters, and the personal doctor.
He was about to go in, but was stopped by Kotaro Ichikawa:
"It's time for our family to talk, just give me the results of your investigation. You wait next door, and the steward will give you the remaining one million."
Jiang Xia didn't have any objection to this, so he agreed, and put the notebook that didn't record much in his hand.
After that, the old butler also entered the waiting room, and the door was closed from the inside.
"Strange." Sonoko Suzuki pouted dissatisfiedly, trying to peek through the crack of the door, but unfortunately failed.
"Okay, let's go find Conan." After all, Mao Lilan lives in a detective agency, and his resistance to Riddler is much higher than that of Suzuki Sonoko.
Compared with other people's personal matters, she still cares more about the whereabouts of the missing Conan: "Conan will not be captured by someone with a dark mind to vent his anger, such as being a humanoid sandbag or something... the guests at the banquet, the expressions on their faces It's all terrible."
"Maybe I went to the bathroom." Jiang Xia looked around and pointed in a direction, "Go over there and look for it."
…
At the same time, stay in the living room.
Different from the terrifying atmosphere at the banquet just now, the people in the room are enjoying themselves together—at least on the surface.
Second daughter Mizue Ichikawa sat on the sofa, looked at the father who was in the lead, and squeezed out a little smile:
"Honestly speaking, I don't object to Dad's decision. Wealth is the sweetest thing if you get it through your own hard work."—Hmph, old man, when you die, you'll be considered If I don’t want to, I can also get a reserved inheritance, which is enough for me to live happily for decades.
And...
Ichikawa Mizue stroked her hair, gloating in her heart: there must be someone more anxious than her.
Just thinking about it, the eldest daughter Ichikawa also smiled and said, "Me too."
Holding a red wine box in her hand.
While speaking, Ichikawa opened it gracefully, took out the red wine, opened it and dumped it:
"In order to celebrate my father's birthday, I brought this bottle of famous wine from 1957. I kept this wine for a long time and was reluctant to open it. Now it seems that only in the hands of a tasteful person like my father, Only then will it not disgrace its value."
She poured out a glass of wine calmly, put it in a clear goblet ~IndoMTL.com~ and handed it to Kotaro Ichikawa.
Ichikawa Kotaro took it casually, without commenting on what they said, just picked up the wine, looked at it, and sniffed it like a usual wine tasting.
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The other side.
Jiang Xia walked around the villa with two classmates, and stopped at the door of a basement not long after.
"There seems to be movement in here."
After Jiang Xia finished speaking, she was about to stretch out her hand and twist the locked doorknob before giving way to Mao Lilan.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
Jiang Xia suddenly raised her hand and pushed Suzuki Yuanzi aside, almost at the same time, Mao Lilan also took half a step back.
There was a loud bang. A tin can smashed through the basement door, and, covered in debris, passed between them and slammed hard against the opposite wall.