Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

"Ding dong!"

On the third floor of the office, Gao Chengcai carried the little girl to the sofa in the living room, when the doorbell rang downstairs.

With the help of the aunt in the bakery, the girl put on his shirt and slept quite peacefully after taking the antipyretic medicine, so there is no need to worry for the time being.

Gao Cheng exited the room, looked at the downstairs office, and found a young brunette beauty standing at the entrance of the corridor: "Hi, this is Kido Detective Agency, what's the matter?"

"Sorry to bother you so late," the woman said with a tired face, "but I have something to talk to Detective Kido no matter what."

"I'm Kido Takasei."

Gao Cheng opened the office: "Please come inside."

On the reception sofa of the office, Gao Cheng made a cup of tea for the woman: "Come, please use."

"Thank you," the woman's complexion improved, she nodded with a light smile, and took out a business card from her bag, "Detective Kido, my name is Shinna Kahori, and I'm here mainly because of my parents."

"New name Xiangbaoli?" Gao Cheng took the business card and thought hard, "Why does it feel like I heard it somewhere?"

"My father is a new name, Ren Taro," explained Xiang Baoli, "The Detective Left Character series is my father's work."

"So it's the author of Zuo Wenwen!" Gao Cheng remembered, and said enthusiastically, "I've also read the Detective Zuo Wenwen series, and I've always wanted to visit your father, but unfortunately I don't have the time."

"My father also often said that he wanted to meet your real Zuowen, saying that you are the revived Zuowen."

"That's all the media talking nonsense."

Gao Cheng laughed, and said seriously: "I don't know what Miss Xiangbaoli wants to see me for? Is your father wanting to see me?"

"No," said Xinming Xiangbaoli with a dark expression, "to be honest, my father has been missing for almost two months..."

"Missing?" Gao Cheng was stunned, "But I remember that Detective Zuo Wenwen started serializing again recently?"

"What I said is true," Shinna Kayori said anxiously, "My father and mother disappeared a week before the serialization started, leaving only a note saying 'go out for a while', I asked everyone There are relatives and friends, but no one knows their whereabouts! Only at midnight every Saturday, manuscripts will be faxed to the editorial department regularly."

Gao Cheng became serious: "Is there no information about the destination on the fax?"

"Nothing," Xinming Xiangbaori said with a heavy heart, tightening his fingers, "They haven't contacted me for nearly two months. This kind of thing has never happened before. I was worried that something happened to them, so I called the police. But because there were no threatening phone calls, and the manuscript was also faxed regularly, they told me not to worry...

"I have also asked other detective agencies, but their answers are all the same. I can only ask you, Detective Kido, whom my father mentioned."

The new name, Xiang Baoli, choked up and shed tears: "If even you can't do it..."

"No?" Gao Cheng raised his eyebrows, slapped the table and stood up, and said with a stern look, "There is nothing that I, Gao Cheng from a household name, can't do. Since your father delivers manuscripts regularly, let's go to the editorial department to have a look." Bar!"

"what?"

The new name Xiang Baoli looked at Gao Cheng in a daze, and wiped the corners of his eyes happily after realizing it.

"Thank you, Detective Kido."

"Don't worry, I will definitely find your parents!" Gao Cheng went downstairs with the new name Xiang Baoli and stopped a taxi, then suddenly paused, "By the way, the fare should be reimbursed, right?"

...

University Pavilion Press, editorial department.

Under the leadership of Xinming Xiangbaoli, Gao Cheng finds the editor of the Zuowen series, a fat and honest young man.

"Yes, the manuscript of the new teacher will be sent every week."

The young man was very excited when he saw Gao Cheng: "Are you a Chenghu detective? I read the report on the serial murder case a few days ago, and I heard that you were also involved, and you saw through the murderer just by looking at it."

"It's not that exaggerated. I actually didn't do anything, but it's true that I got into a lot of trouble."

Gao Cheng smiled awkwardly, and continued to ask: "Mr. Editor,

Are those manuscripts really written by the new teacher? "

"Yes," the young man affirmed, "Although the words were typed with a word processor, the fonts are exactly the same as those used by the teacher in the past, and every time there is his autograph next to the title, do you want me to show you the manuscript? Look?"

"Can I? Then I will trouble you."

The serialization of the Detective Zuowen series stopped ten years ago. The title of this new work is called "The Vertex of One-half".

"I confirmed it when I came last time," Xinming Xiangbaoli sat next to Gao Cheng, "it is indeed my father's signature."

"I see," editor Asaka Hori said with a smile, "Your father must have just been engrossed in writing and forgot to contact you. Don't worry."

"But……"

"Even if Mr. Xinming forgets, Mrs. Xinming won't forget too, right?"

Gao Cheng checked the manuscript carefully, and asked in a deep voice, "When was the last time you and Mr. Xinming met?"

"Here, I met him a few times before the serialization started, but we did not meet each other a week before the serialization..."

"Is there anything unusual about Mr. Xinming at that time?"

"An unusual place? I don't think there's anything wrong with it," the editor recalled. "If I really have to say it, it's a bit strange to re-serialize "Detective Zuo Wenwen". We asked the teacher to serialize it four years ago, but the teacher every time It is said that Zuo Wenwen is dead and cannot be resurrected...

"We almost gave up. Unexpectedly, the teacher suddenly called about two months ago and said that he would re-serialize," the editor said with a smile. "I think he must have heard about Detective Kido. Our editor-in-chief still wants to Do you want to interact with you in the weekly magazine?"

Gao Cheng is not in the mood to talk about other business now, so he asked: "Is there anything else strange?"

"Uh, this... The teacher who is obviously very gentle has added a very provocative declaration to the preface, which is rare this time. I don't know if it is unusual." The young editor pointed to the beginning of the original manuscript, "Look, this is it,' admonish the whole country The famous detective who thinks his mind is above mine, let's find out the truth of this matter!'”

"The truth of the incident? Could it be because of this that Mr. Xinming disappeared on purpose?" Gao Cheng asked suspiciously.

"No, I think the teacher wants to make the new work more attractive, because recently there have been a lot of phone calls or letters guessing the prisoners in the work."

The young editor said happily: "One more thing, the new teacher also appeared in the novel this time. He appeared in the novel as an old friend of Zuo Wenwen, and set himself as a slow-selling novel living in France. Home, the entire series has nearly forty books, and this is the first time this has happened!"

"That's it."

Gao Cheng was a little disappointed, he couldn't find anything very useful from the editorial department.

"Can you help me make a photocopy of these manuscripts?"

The editor was stunned: "Huh? Of course."

While the editor left to photocopy the manuscripts, Gao Cheng turned to his new name, Xiang Baoli: "Did those manuscripts really be written by your father? Or was someone forcing him to write them?"

The new name Xiang Baoli shook his head: "It is indeed my father's style. If there is anything different, it is that when my father appeared in the novel, the dialogue was weird."

"dialogue?"

"Well, it's different from other dialogues, it looks a bit messy," Xiang Baoli nodded, "At first I thought it was my father's typo..."

"It's not a clerical error," the young editor came back with a stack of manuscripts in his arms. "We originally planned to revise it, but the teacher told us not to make unauthorized revisions before the serialization. He also said that if we don't publish it like this, we will stop writing immediately."

Gao Cheng took over a thick bundle of manuscripts in surprise: "Is it photocopied so soon?"

"Because there happened to be a copy of the manuscript, so I brought it to Detective Kido first."

"Thank you very much, this fee..."

"It's nothing, it's just some photocopied manuscripts," the young editor said expectantly, "If possible, can I talk to you about cooperation next time?"

"Then let's wait until we find Mr. Xinming."

Gao Cheng and the young editor left each other's contact information before leaving with all the manuscripts.

On the way back, he didn't continue to stay with Shinna Kabori, but only contacted him after an agreement. He felt that Shinna Rentaro might have left some messages in the manuscript, and he needed to think about it.

"Miss Xiangbaoli, once I find any clues, I will contact you immediately."

"Thank you." Xiang Baoli was moved to tears again. If even Gao Cheng couldn't do anything, I'm afraid that even if she went to find another equally famous detective, Kogoro Mori, the result would be the same. Gao Cheng was her last hope.

...

The next morning, Kido Detective Agency.

The girl on the sofa in the living room on the third floor moved her eyelashes, gradually opened her eyes, and looked around suspiciously and vigilantly.

It's not a laboratory, nor is it a place of imprisonment. It's just an ordinary residential house. Judging from the messy furnishings and some items, it's probably a room for single men.

The girl thought back to last night.

It seems that she fainted from fever and fell down in front of a young man who looked like Kudo Shinichi, and vaguely heard that she was going to be sent to the police station...

"No, absolutely not to the police station."

The girl stood up weakly and put on her big slippers, only to find that her clothes had already been washed, and she was wearing a loose shirt.

Thinking of something, the girl's face turned red, and she quickly let out another breath, with a trace of bitterness flashing across her face.

She rubbed her hungry belly, walked into the kitchen with her slippers on, and frowned when she saw the almost unused tableware, then turned to the refrigerator to the side, and was a little dazed when she saw that the refrigerator was empty.

Then I looked for the cabinet next to it, and when I found several boxes full of instant noodles, the girl's whole face couldn't help but wrinkle together.

In the office on the second floor, Gao Cheng was lying on the table like a chicken coop, sleeping soundly. The manuscript of the novel "A Vertex of Half" was scattered in front of him, and a notebook for analyzing codes fell on the floor. There are some crumpled papers.

The little girl turned the handle outside the door and found that the door was unlocked. When she opened the door, she saw an office that was even messier than upstairs.

"Kirodo Detective Agency..."

Looking at Gao Cheng who was sleeping in surprise, the corner of the girl's mouth was slightly raised, and then she noticed the paper balls scattered on the ground, and a big dog that was also sleeping still had a paper ball in its mouth.

The big dog was very vigilant, his ears moved and he got up immediately, only to sit back quietly after seeing that it was the little girl from last night.

The girl couldn't help touching the well-behaved big dog, and picked up the ball of paper on the ground.

It can be seen that Gao Cheng is studying the text code, but he seems to be in trouble.

Picking up a manuscript on tiptoe, the girl looked at it with relish.

"One-half of the vertex? It seems that a special code has been added." The girl closed the manuscript and chuckled.

"It's already dawn..."

Gao Cheng yawned and rubbed his eyes in a daze.

Stretching for a while, he suddenly saw the girl sitting on the sofa reading the manuscript of the novel, and was slightly taken aback.

"You're awake, little sister."

Gao Cheng walked up to the girl and took the manuscript from the girl's hands: "Can you understand these manuscripts? My brother still has to work, so I'll show you when my brother finishes his work?"

The girl was very quiet, which made Gao Cheng heave a sigh of relief. He sat back and continued to study the manuscript with a headache.

Such things as codes are too troublesome for him, and he didn't see anything all night, or there may be no codes at all.

Grabbing his hair and sighing, he put his fingers on the phone receiver hesitantly.

He intends to ask Conan, anyway, Conan will definitely be interested in this kind of thing, but it feels so embarrassing because he was laughed at by Uncle Maori last time...

"One-half of the apex." The girl suddenly said mysteriously.

"What?" Gao Cheng looked at the girl who was quietly flipping through a mystery novel, and realized, "I'll take you back later, by the way, I don't know you yet..."

"One of the keys to the code is the 'half of the apex'," the girl said plainly as she looked at the novel, "The words on the top of each column of those dialogues are only one-half, that is to say, the combination of the two words can To form a word, Mr. Xinming is in France every time he appears, according to the rules of French silent h, and then remove similar words in the compound word..."

Gao Cheng stared blankly at the little girl, followed the girl's reasoning and read the manuscript again: "This is?"

"Yes," the girl turned her gaze to Gao Cheng, "Mr. Xinming's dialogue for the first time, read together as 'Come and save me', the second time is 'My current location', and the third time is 'Cuihu City Hotel', the fourth 'Room 2407'..."

The manuscript in Gao Cheng's hand fell with a snap, and he looked closely at the girl while his eyes trembled. Under the big wavy curly hair, there was an aura like that of a child, and he seemed to be facing an adult.

this brat...

"Who the hell are you?" Gao Cheng's voice seemed to be stuck, as if only a little girl was left in the whole world, "You...what's your name?"

The girl paused in her movements, stroked her hair around her ears, and glanced at all kinds of reasoning books on the bookshelf beside her: "Hui... Hui Yuan mourns."

"Huiyuan?"

Gao Cheng was in a daze, as if he had returned to the time when he was chasing and watching Conan TV.

He is not a fan of Ai, but the role of Aihara Ai left an indelible impression in his heart at that time. After coming to the world of Conan, he also thought about when he would see Xiao Ai, but he did not expect this day to come so soon Suddenly, so plain again.

Casual and clear ice blue eyes with a hint of alienation and coldness, paired with a head of tea brown hair, a combination of cuteness and maturity...

In addition to the adult clothes at the beginning, such a strange child should indeed be Xiao Ai.

It's just that the name "Huihara Ai" was not taken together with Dr. Ali?

"What's the matter?" The girl's clear eyes flashed doubts, "Aren't you going? Maybe it's too late now."

"what!"

Gao Cheng came back to his senses, and without thinking too much, he hurriedly took his mobile phone and went out: "There are still some biscuits in the office. If you are hungry, you can press your stomach. There are also instant noodles upstairs."