Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Seeing the destroyed flower garden, Ayumi's face changed, and she ran to the flower garden quickly, looking anxiously at the pulled out flowers in the flower garden.

Mitsuhiko followed and ran to the side, frowning, "Did that scoundrel come again last night? It's really disgusting!"

"It does look serious," Hui Yuan Ai followed Chi Feichi to the front of the flower garden, saying 'serious', but the expression on his face didn't change much. Seeing Ayumi looking at the flowers in the flower garden, he asked aloud , "Has the flower you planted been pulled out again?"

Ayumi shook her head and pointed to a cluster of flowers in the corner, "My flowers have been pulled out once, and Miss Xiaosaki who works here said that it can be planted in a place where the wind is not easy to blow and has good lighting." Place, so that it can refuel and restore its vitality, so when I replanted, I planted the flowers there, but the flowers here were planted by many children in Mihua Town. I remember this cluster of yellow flowers that were pulled out, It is the daylilies that Xiaohui transplanted from home. It is Itohui, who is from class C of the first grade in our school. Her brother is the head of the traveling theater troupe. These daylilies are when she accompanied her brother to perform in Hyogo during the holidays. The ones brought back from there have already been planted alive, and the white flowered plants over there were transplanted from home by a sister who just went to junior high school, and they grew very well before..."

"Everyone planted these happily, and everyone came to take care of them and water them when they had time. It took so much effort to arrange this flower garden so beautifully," Guangyan raised his head and complained to Chi Feichi, "But we came here these two days. When I saw it, the flower gardens were all damaged, and we came here once when we came home from school last night, and the damaged flower gardens were just cleaned up by the staff working here last night, but I didn’t expect it to become a mess again this morning.”

"And it's very strange..." Yuan Tai stood in a corner of the flower garden, looking at the bricks beside the flower garden in confusion, "The brick I made by myself is missing, it was placed here a few days ago!"

"Could it be that someone who destroyed the flower garden accidentally stepped on it and broke the brick?" Conan walked towards Yuantai, his eyes were also observing the different patterns on the bricks, "Is this also made by everyone? Each brick has a different pattern on it."

"Yeah, these bricks were fired by everyone. Of course, mine was designed and fired by myself," Yuantai looked around again, but she still didn't find the bricks she made. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became. "Damn guy! We must catch him!"

"You said earlier that the flower gardens were destroyed at night." Hui Yuan Ai looked at the traces near the flower garden, but she didn't see any suspicious footprints, so she looked away, "Are you planning to come here to guard it tonight? "

"Of course I'm coming," Mitsuhiko affirmed, "I won't go back until I catch that scoundrel!"

At the side door of the building next door, two women went out with things and walked into the yard.

The older woman was about forty years old, with short black shoulder-length hair, a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and a gray-purple long-sleeved shirt and suit skirt. Not pretentious, holding a half-meter-high solid wood shelf firmly in his hand, and wearing a pair of lace-up flat shoes on his feet for the convenience of moving things.

The younger woman next to her looks like she is in her early twenties, holding a shovel in her hand, wearing a loose T-shirt, jeans, flat shoes, and an apron, with light brown long hair tied behind her head With a high ponytail, a few strands of broken hair draped over the forehead, a sweet and lovely face that resembled Yoko Okino with a smile on her face, and greeted the children from a distance, "Everyone, you are here!"

The three children turned around and saw the two approaching, and greeted them in unison.

"Good morning, Miss Yamazaki! Miss Kosaki!

The older woman nodded to the children, looked at the messy flower garden, and sighed helplessly, "It's really annoying to be messed up every morning."

"This is Ms. Toshiko Yamazaki, she is an employee of this district center," Mitsuhiko stood beside Chi Feichi, introducing the two of them, "The younger one next to her is Ms. Okamura Saki, who is also here. It was the two of them who took us to make bricks and plant flowers before."

"That..." Saki Okamura noticed Chi Feichi and heard Mitsuhiko's introduction, and cast a curious look at Chi Feichi, "You haven't been here before, have you? I don't think I've seen you here before, may I ask?" You are here for..."

"We asked Brother Chi to investigate the destruction of the flower garden," Ayumi took the initiative to take two steps forward, then looked back at Chi Feichi, and introduced to Saki Okamura seriously, "Brother Chi is a disciple of the famous detective Mori Kogoro, He's also a very good detective..."

"He has helped the police catch many criminals!" Motota said confidently to Saki Okamura, "As long as he helps investigate, we will soon be able to catch the criminal who destroyed the flower garden!"

"Hi, I'm Chi Feichi," Chi Feichi introduced himself to Saki Okamura and Toshiko Yamazaki calmly, then looked down at the children standing in front of him, and said politely, "The children and I told you about the destruction of the flower garden, and asked me to come over to help with the investigation, and please bear with me if I cause you any trouble."

"Where..." Toshiko Yamazaki calmed down his originally resentful expression, and said kindly to Chi Feichi, "This is a place for everyone to have activities. As long as you don't come here to make trouble, we are very welcome."

"When you get here, you can just be casual." Okamura Saki smiled at Chi Feichi, looking at the messed up flower garden, "We need to restore the flower garden as soon as possible, if those flowers are not replanted, they may die It's lost, so we can't receive you for the time being, I hope you can forgive me!"

Chi Feichi moved aside, "You guys are busy, I'll just take a look."

"Yes, then wait until we're done, and then I'll hear you say something about detectives!" Saki Okamura responded with a smile.

When Okamura Saki was talking to Chi Feichi, Yamazaki Toshiko had already moved the wooden frame in his hand to the flowerbed, and placed the wooden frame in front of a small tree.

Okamura Saki finished communicating with Chi Feichi, and walked to the side with a shovel to help erect the wooden frame.

The sound of the car's engine and brakes came from outside the courtyard, which attracted the children's attention.

A man with gray hair and a strong figure got out of the car, wearing a simple gray T-shirt, holding a bag of flower fertilizer and a box of small flowerpots in his hands, entered the yard, said hello loudly, walked to the edge of the flowerbed, and looked at the Toshiko Yamazaki and Saki Okamura set up the wooden frame, showing a trace of distaste on their faces, "The method of erecting the pillars is all wrong. Let laymen take care of it, but it will make the flower garden more and more messy!"

Toshiko Yamazaki stopped what she was doing, and said to the man with a straight face, "Although I asked you to deliver the goods, I hope you don't say anything unnecessary!"

"The restoration work should be left to a professional like me," the man knelt down, put the things in his hand on the ground, took out a calculator from his trousers pocket, and calculated by numbers, "I will It’s cheaper for you... saplings and fertilizers and restoration works, if you count everything..."

Chi Feichi couldn't remember the truth of this incident for a while, and watched the man earnestly calculate the income with the calculator, but remembered how difficult it was for him to calculate the bounty.

He has calculated bounties many times in his past and present lives, but he is still not professional enough compared to someone who carries a calculator with him...

"I've already said it, I don't intend to entrust you to repair it!" Toshiko Yamazaki scolded the man impatiently, "Whether it's you or anyone else, they are all guys who want to take advantage of it!"

Conan was puzzled.

'Whether it's you or someone else'?

Chi Feichi also noticed Toshiko Yamazaki's words.

Who is this 'other person'? Will it be related to this incident?

"Otherwise, I'll give you a little discount, how about it?" The man stood up with a calculator, and actively showed the calculated figures to Toshiko Yamazaki.

Toshiko Yamazaki gritted her teeth angrily and glared at the man.

Okamura Saki stepped forward, stood between the two of them, and said helplessly to the man, "I'm sorry, Ms. Yamazaki has rejected you just now..."

"Get out of the way!" The man roughly pushed Okamura Saki away.

Okamura Saki was pushed violently, unable to stand firmly on her feet, and fell to the edge of the flowerbed.

Chi Feichi saw Saki Okamura falling in front of him, and weighed the two options of "dodge away" and "reach out for a hand", and saw the edge of the flowerbed protruding from the place where Saki Okamura fell. Brick still stretched out his hand to support Saki Okamura, let go after Saki Okamura stood firmly, and moved his eyes to the soil where Saki Okamura was standing just now.

The angle at which Saki Okamura turned upside down just now seemed a bit strange.

The soil can record many traces, including detailed traces of shifting the center of gravity of the human body and torsion of footsteps.

Looking at the footprints on the soil, it is true that Saki Okamura was pushed out of balance just now, but looking at the narrow 'curve' on the footprints, when Saki Okamura fell down, she really controlled the angle on purpose and tried to move towards them as much as possible. this way...

Okamura Saki was supported by Chi Feichi in time, she stood upright, her face was still a little pale, "Thank you, thank you..."

"You're welcome." Chi Feichi responded, and once again observed the bricks surrounding the garden in front of him.

Just now, Saki Okamura deliberately fell in front of them. Did she subconsciously choose to fall where there were people in a critical moment, hoping that someone could support her? Or did they suddenly find any suspicious traces on their side, and wanted to take the opportunity to clean up the traces?

He still couldn't remember how the incident had come about, and now it was necessary to suspect that anyone was the villain who destroyed the flower garden.

Seeing that Saki Okamura did not fall to the ground, Toshiko Yamazaki breathed a sigh of relief, and soon asked the man angrily, "How could you do this?"

"Stop talking!" The man glared at Toshiko Yamazaki without giving in. "The land here was originally my property. What I want to do here is my freedom!"

"Then you can't do it rudely, right?" Mitsuhiko stepped forward, and when the man looked at him, he fearlessly met the man's gaze, "let alone pushing a girl so hard, almost knocking her to the ground, it's too much No manners anymore!"

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