Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Tachibana Xingping and the rest of the group changed their shoes and set off to lead the way into the room next to them.

The spacious room is covered with tatami mats, an ancient painting hangs on the wall opposite the door, and a multi-layered knife holder is placed on the cabinet below. In addition, the furniture in the room is only two wooden tables.

The large wooden table in the middle is enough for more than a dozen people to sit around. There are laptops and some random things on the table. The tea cups placed in different positions mark the positions of the previous people in the room.

There is a small table in the corner of the entrance, and a landline phone is placed on the table. A line comes out of the phone line interface and connects to a black box-like device.

When Conan entered, he slowed down and looked at the black box curiously.

"This is the recording equipment brought by Master Mo and Mr. Kuroki," Hattori Heiji stopped beside Conan, looked at the black box and introduced, "It is the same as the equipment used by the police. As long as the kidnapper calls, this equipment can record The voice of the call is recorded, and the recording can be played repeatedly later, so that there may be clues in the phone call from the kidnapper.”

Tachibana Xingping walked to the big table and knelt down at the main seat, "I always thought that the village was the safest. The villagers and those working nearby were all my own people. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. Prepare this kind of equipment at home...""

Tachibana Yukihei's wife, Non-summer Shota and Hattori Heiji were in the room before, and now they have returned to their previous seats.

Tachibana Yukihei's wife sat next to Tachibana Yukihei, Fei Mo sat down facing the door, next to Tachibana Yukihei, and to the right was Hattori Heiji's position.

Conan saw the photo albums and photos in front of Hattori Heiji, so he sat next to Hattori Heiji, and found that Chi Feichi was sitting in the seat facing the ten-year-old Masa, and laughed inwardly.

He thought that Chi Feichi would be curious about the information about the kidnapping case, so he would sit next to them, but he almost forgot that as Tachibana Xingping's main guest, Chi Feichi needed to sit next to Tachibana Xingping...

Opposite Conan, Hui Yuanai sat next to Chi Feichi, followed by Dr. A Li. The three children moved to Conan's side and sat next to Conan.

Soon, only Kuroki Yasuji and the middle-aged maid did not sit down in the room.

The middle-aged maid held a tray and placed the hot tea prepared in advance in front of everyone one by one.

Yasuji Kuroki stood beside Feimo Zhengtai, leaned over and pushed the laptop on the table farther away, put the packed things on the table, and helped Chi Feichi pick up the one that Chi Feichi packed back. The same portion is placed on the table.

"Little Mo, thank you for being busy for so long, I couldn't treat you well for lunch, and I couldn't prepare snacks for you at home. You should try our special food here," Ju Xingping said to Feimo in a gentle tone, He looked at Chi Feichi and the others again, "It's the same for everyone, Master Feichi is here, it would be rude if I didn't entertain him for a while, and I heard that Master Feichi studied under the famous detective Mori Kogoro, Nanase Yu When it comes to such a thing, I only hope that there will be more and more capable people, and I don't care if it will cause trouble to Master Feichi. In addition, Xiao Mo and Detective Hattori also suggested that I tell you the matter. If you come over there, maybe you will find suspicious people, so I invite you to come here, if you don’t mind, I hope you can help provide clues or provide suggestions when tasting special delicacies, I thank you in advance!”

After finishing speaking, Tachibana Xingping put his hands on his knees and bowed his head deeply.

"You don't have to be polite," Chi Feichi replied politely, "We can't sit idly by when this happens, and we will definitely do our best to help find Miss Nanase."

Neither Dr. Ari nor the Detective Boys expected Tachibana Kohei to salute so solemnly. After regaining consciousness, Dr. Ali and the three children also expressed their views quickly.

"Yes, yes, where there is a need, we will definitely try our best to help!" "The same goes for our Boys Detective Team!"

Hattori Heiji didn't want the atmosphere to be too depressing, so he tidied up the letter papers in the evidence bag in front of him, and said in a relaxed tone, "Then, while tasting the special delicacies, I will share the clues I have so far with Brother Feichi and Ke... ..cough, let me tell you, although it is a bit inappropriate to eat now, but I heard that the special food here is rich

Contains protein, the kidnappers haven’t called yet, if it’s later, we won’t delay, we probably need to find other ways to search, and now we also need to eat something to replenish energy...”

Conan looked at Hattori Heiji with complicated eyes.

Hattori is so relaxed, is it because he likes to eat insects, or is it because he still doesn't know what the special food here is?

Feimo looked at the food boxes laid out by Yasuji Kuroki on the table, and asked Heiji Hattori next to him, "There are skewers here, should Detective Hattori try this first?"

"This..."

Hattori Heiji turned his head to see the contents of the food box, and his relaxed expression froze on his face.

One of the food boxes contained a bunch of fried skewers, yes, but three large spiders were strung on each skewer, each of which was almost the size of a baby's fist, and the spider legs were curled up in front of the abdomen due to baking. , The spider's legs are densely covered with small thorns, it looks fluffy, and there are a few grains of unmelted, translucent salt on it... This is definitely not the fried skewers he imagined.

"Master Mo, I suggest eating live hornet larvae first," Yasuji Kuroki suggested to his master in a gentle voice while distributing wooden chopsticks, "Although the store asked me to bring back the larvae in a bamboo box, they didn't put them in a sealed box. In the food box, but after a long time, the larvae are easy to die, which may affect the overall taste.”

Hattori Heiji looked at the opened bamboo box on the table, his expression became more rigid, "Live, eat alive...""

The bamboo box was small and exquisite, but it was full of hornet larvae, and those larvae were still alive, huddling together and arching.

After reading this box, he suddenly felt that spider skewers were not unacceptable.

The three children Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi huddled beside Conan, looking at the box with their heads, feeling that the psychological shadow caused by the visit to the specialty food store just now has returned.

Tachibana Xinghei was still worried, but he still explained aloud, "Eating live can ensure that nutrition will not be lost. These are farmed larvae with guaranteed health. You can eat them with confidence."

Yasuji Kuroki saw that Tachibana Kohei was not in the mood to talk, so he helped to speak with a smile, "When Mr. Kohei was a child, chasing bees and eating insects was the children's greatest holiday fun. Until now, children still like to catch insects very much. Every year in Kyoto, there is an activity of chasing bees and eating insects, and many middle-aged people will bring their children to participate.”

Hattori Heiji's face softened.

When it comes to the tradition of chasing bees and eating worms, he feels that these foods are not bad, it's not that he can't eat them...

While Jingji Kuroki was speaking, Feimo had already packed five or six hornet larvae out of small plates, squeezed tomato sauce with his hands, and took a still moving larva into his mouth with chopsticks.

Hattori Heiji:"...."

He still really can't accept eating alive, especially dipping in tomato sauce.

Chi Feichi also opened the bamboo box that he packed back, took out the attached small dish and tomato sauce, looked at Dr. A Li, "Doctor, you..."

Dr. Ali quickly smiled and waved his hands, "I'd better try fried crickets!"

Hui Yuanai felt that he could overcome the psychological barrier of eating live larvae, but considering the feelings of the three children, he decided not to try. Looking at the larvae in the bamboo box, he said, "They still look very alive, and they will die soon. No, it’s better to let everyone try other foods first, and get used to the atmosphere of eating insects.”

Chi Feichi felt that it made sense, so he pushed fried crickets, grilled spider skewers and other food to the middle of the table, and took a skewer of grilled spiders.

Feichi showed his head on Chi Feichi's collar, looked at Feimo who was eating bugs happily, looked down at the skewers in Chi Feichi's hand, "Master, I want to try everything..."

Chi Feichi took down a roasted spider with his hands and put it in front of Feichi's body. He waited for Feichi to swallow the roasted spider before taking down the second one to taste.

The lady opposite him was still a crow after all.

As an omnivorous animal, crows have a wide range of diets. Cereals, berries, insects, carrion, and eggs of other animals are frequent visitors to crows’ diets. Feimo would like to eat insects a little

It's not surprising, and it's even less surprising that they like to eat insect larvae alive.

What bird doesn't love a little fresh worm?

He's not a bird and has no pleasure in eating insects, but he doesn't mind trying as long as the food is healthy and nutritious.

Dr. Ali and Hattori Heiji took the children to share the fried crickets. Because the taste was decent, their faces looked much better.

The important thing is that the young master next to him and Chi Feichi ate live hornet larvae, and the other ate spider skewers. Both of them ate without changing their expressions, as if they were just eating a common food worth savoring carefully. Food, let them feel more and more that eating insects alive is not something to be fussed about.

"That..." Ayumi ate two fried crickets, looked at Fei Mozhenta with her head, and asked hesitantly, "Please, are you Mizuno-senpai from Class A of the fourth year?"

Conan looked at Ayumi with some surprise. Could it be that Class A of the fourth year is...

Fei Mo was sure that he had never formally contacted the Boy Detective Team before, turned his head to look at Ayumi, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded, "Yes, I forgot to introduce myself just now, I'm really rude, I'm Mizuno Mo, indeed You are studying in Class A of the 4th year of Teidan Elementary School in Tokyo, you are..."

Hearing Feimo himself say "Study in Didan Elementary School", Mitsuhiko and Yuanta widened their eyes and quickly became excited. "So you are also a student of Didan Primary School? We are also studying at Didan Primary School, a first-year class B student!" "We are also Xiaoshu's friends, and we used to take Xiaoshu out to play together!"

Feimo looked at the excited two people, and nodded again, "I think I heard Xiaoshu and Brother Feichi say about you, that is, when you took Xiaoshu to the abandoned warehouse to play, you saw someone kill someone, and then ran to where the murderer was about to throw away the man. On the truck of the dead body, I personally witnessed the whole process of the murderer throwing the dead body in the wild..."

Genta, Mitsuhiko, Ayumi: "...." "Then what...

There is no need to mention this kind of thing that seems to bring a child to give away the head, right?

Conan and Haibara Ai: "...."

Although this matter has nothing to do with them, but... Dr. Ali: "..."

Still feel guilty.

Tachibana Xingping was stunned for a moment, looked at the children who had calmed down instantly, and then confirmed to Fei Mo Zhengtai, "I remember your grandpa said before when he was enjoying the cherry blossoms, Xiaoshu is not yet two years old this year, right?"

"Yes," Feimo replied, "but Xiaoshu is very courageous, and he didn't seem to be scared last time." Tachibana Xingping: "...."

Do children over one year old really know what they have experienced? It's normal not to be scared, right?

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