20 minutes later, Kudo Yusaku finally seized the opportunity, escaped from the enthusiastic fans, came to the corner of the corridor, and met Yukiko.
"It finally came out..."
"Yukiko, please get out of here quickly. Those students seem to be calling more people over."
Kudo Yusaku wiped the sweat from his forehead and talked with Yukiko.
And Yukiko slowly took off her sunglasses, her eyes under the lenses were a little sullen, and she said angrily: "Isn't that what you asked for?"
"Obviously you had a chance to come out 10 minutes ago, but because those female college students asked you to take photos, you wasted more time, right?"
Kudo Yusaku looked at Yukiko's angry face and chuckled, "Ah~ are you jealous?"
"No!"
Yukiko scolded, put on her sunglasses again, turned and walked towards the exit.
As the best-selling mystery writer in the world, Kudo Yusaku often faces such situations, and Yukiko understands it.
But one time, Kudo Yusaku attended a cocktail party held by a publisher and went home with other women's lip marks on his face openly.
Yukiko couldn't bear it anymore and ran back to Japan directly to find her own son for comfort.
Of course, the misunderstanding was solved afterwards. It was Kudo Yusaku who got drunk by the publisher, and those slutty women took advantage of him to kiss him without permission.
After that incident, Yukiko also made a three-part agreement with Kudo Yu that it was okay to socialize and drink outside, but she must not get drunk and must "keep herself as pure as a jade".
"Really..."
"I thought you were quite an honest person at first, but I quit the industry at such a young age. If I had known I wouldn't quit, it would have given you a sense of crisis..."
Yukiko muttered aggrievedly as she walked forward.
Kudo Yusaku looked at his wife's back, and his eyes under the lenses were somewhat loving.
Yukiko's influence declined rapidly after she retired from acting at the age of 20. In addition, it only took more than a year from her popularity to her withdrawal from the industry. She has not many works left behind, and she is not well-known abroad.
Therefore, Yukiko used various methods to enhance her presence in front of the media, such as pretending that she could reason, so that she could be worthy of being a world-class mystery novelist.
The title of "Baroness of the Dark Night" was also proposed to declare her "sovereignty".
If Yukiko had not chosen to retire back then, with her acting talent, she might have had the opportunity to become an Oscar-winning actress now.
But if that were the case, Shinichi probably wouldn’t have been born...
Kudo Yusaku understood that Yukiko had made a great sacrifice.
Although he is now a world-renowned writer and has achieved more achievements than before, he can never let down the woman in front of him.
Kudo Yusaku thought to himself, and was about to step forward and say a few gentle words to comfort him, when he saw a note taped on the back of Yukiko's right elbow.
"Wait a minute, Yukiko..."
"Ah? Didn't you say you wanted to leave here quickly? But you couldn't bear to leave?"
Yukiko said angrily, but Kudo Yusaku did not respond, but directly pulled the note from the back of her elbow.
"Look, someone put this thing on you."
Seeing the note in Kudo Yusaku's hand, Yukiko was stunned.
The next second, she thought that when she came out of the venue, she bumped into a woman. It was probably at that time...
"What's written on it?" Yukiko asked.
"Let me see..." Kudo Yusaku looked at the small words on it and read: "Calm down London's anger and let's drink Arrack together."
"This is gone?"
Yukiko was a little surprised that the content on the note was so short, and it didn't sound like it had any specific meaning.
Kudo Yusaku frowned slightly and said calmly: "This is a code..."
"signal?"
"Yes..." Kudo Yusaku raised his head and looked towards the end of the corridor, "But it's too late to explain now. Let's leave here first, and then I'll tell you."
Yukiko followed Kudo Yusaku's line of sight and saw another large group of students approaching the battlefield.
The two hurriedly left through the side door and came outside the school. Kudo Yusaku put on a Western cowboy hat and then explained the content of the code.
"The location on the code refers to the Port of London, India and Millvale District, and the Liquor Warehouse."
Yukiko looked a little confused, obviously not following Kudo Yusaku's train of thought, "Wait a minute, how come you are so sure that this means London Port? It couldn't be... somewhere else?"
Kudo Yusaku smiled slightly, "Of course I will conclude, because this code is almost the same as the one 10 years ago."
"Calming down London's anger refers to the ship sinking its anchor into the water, indicating that there is a ship."
"In addition, London is mentioned, and that means the Port of London."
"The latter sentence was not found in the previous one, but it is also easier to interpret..."
Kudo Yusaku's lenses glowed with wisdom, and he elegantly explained: "Arrack is a kind of wine mainly produced in Southeast Asia. There are three districts in the Port of London, and only 'India and Millvale' contain the names of Southeast Asian countries.
.”
"Coupled with the reminder of 'drinking', it means it is a liquor storage warehouse in this area."
Yukiko nodded thoughtfully, then asked: "Then you mean, someone wants to invite us to meet at that place?"
"I'm afraid so."
"Who is he?"
"Um……"
Kudo Yusaku groaned, a trace of memory flashing in his eyes.
"The ghost of a magician..."
…
Bleechester Town.
University of Brightchester, Drawing Room, 5:40 pm.
Regarding the murder case of Ingalls, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy, since the suspect Elena Sera cannot be summoned for the time being, the investigation of the case can only be put on hold temporarily.
Neither the British police nor the Japanese side have access to Sera Elena's current information.
In the end, Kaito Kuroba and Conan could only dictate and draw a portrait of the criminal. The police later planned to issue a wanted notice based on the portrait.
In addition to this case, Conan and Detective White Horse are more concerned about the Hades incident in London.
While waiting for the latest clues about the code investigation from Xiaolan, Detective Baima had already called Scotland Yard.
In order to respond to this crisis, London has dispatched all police forces to conduct security deployments in large public places in central London and surrounding areas.
But even so, Hades's appearance has changed many times during the police pursuit, and the old method of catching people by relying on criminal portraits is difficult to work.
Moreover, there are many places where events are held at the same time, and many large public places cannot arrange temporary security checks due to many objective factors.
Detective White Horse learned about the situation and did not keep it secret. He simultaneously gave the information to Conan and Kuroba Kaito.
Kuroba Kaito didn't take this situation seriously. Anyway, the police had nothing to do with criminals, not just once or twice, including him, Kaitou Kidd.
He is just thinking about when he can get rid of Conan so that he can report the situation here to Qin Zhibo on the phone.
I don’t know how the uncle’s progress has been during this afternoon.
Just when the living room was silent, the phone in Kuroba Kaito's pocket suddenly vibrated.
Buzz——
Conan quickly cast his gaze, and Hakuba Detective also slowed down a little, turning to look at Kuroba Kaito.
Kuroba Kaito could only take out his phone and answer it.
"Hello? Xiaolan..."
"What? You've found the last two clues?"
As soon as these words came out, Conan and White Horse Detective immediately cheered up.
Kuroba Kaito also knew how to turn on the hands-free mode so that the other two could hear the content on the phone.
"It's like this. Zhenzhun, Dad, and the doctor and I went to the Elephant and Castle Station again in the afternoon and found a man holding a briefcase."
"This man said that someone hired him to walk around in front of the station, and his box had 'Identity' on it, so we suspected that the person who hired him was Hades."
"Masumi found the letter 'U' from the inside of the knee of the man's pants..."
Conan and Detective White Horse, who were listening on the phone, heard about Identity and the box case, and they thought of A Case of Identity, the "Identity Case" in Sherlock Holmes, also called the Missing Groom Case.
In this article, Holmes formally puts forward the idea of observing a man's knees when they first meet him.
But it’s really not easy for this person named “Sera Zhenjun” to actually think of this...
"Later, we found an ornament with several bells with letters written on it near the Mason porcelain store on the boutique Flea Street."
"It's still pure. According to the above "A study in scarlet", I guess the prompt is a red line, so it is the letter R..."
Conan and Baima frowned slightly, raised their chins in synchrony, and drew mind maps in their minds.
All the letters currently prompted in the password are T, N, A, A, S, U, R, which correspond to exactly 7 sentences of the password.
Can these seven letters form any place?
Besides Satan, what else can be formed by adding u and r?
Suddenly, Detective Baima and Conan looked shocked at the same time, thinking of another possibility.
"SATURN..."
"That's Saturn."
Detective White Horse was the first to speak, and Conan could only hold his ground and wait to see what this guy had to say.
Hakuba looked at "Kudo Shinichi" who was not trying to reason, and continued: "If only one letter A is used, it is the English word for Saturn."
"unless……"
Detective White Horse did not continue, because the place where Hadas committed the crime obviously could not be on Saturn.
At this time, Kuroba Kaito looked startled, and suddenly thought of what Qin Zhibo said this morning.
Ingels is using the influence of unknown planets on the orbits of Pluto, Neptune and Uranus to calculate when humans can directly observe this planet.
However, the influence of unknown planets on the orbits of the nine planets is reciprocal, starting from the outermost Pluto, one by one, until it affects all the planets.
Only then will the stars truly align.
After Uranus, the next one affected is Saturn...
At this time, Sera's voice came from the hands-free phone.
She said: "Unless this Saturn expresses not the place where the crime was committed, but the time when the crime was committed."
“The word SATURN comes from SATURNUS, the god of farming in Roman mythology, and the day of SATURNUS is Saturday.”
"That is, tomorrow..."
As soon as these words came out, the people on the other side of the phone were all shocked.
"Ming, tomorrow?"
"But now there are only 6 hours left until tomorrow, and the code doesn't say where it is or what's going on..."
Kogoro Mori and Dr. Agasa summed up the current serious situation one sentence at a time.
It's not like Conan and Detective White Horse didn't know the seriousness of the matter, but now the content of the code does seem to have been cracked, and these may be the only hints left by Hades.
"In that case, Conan and I will go back now to see if there are any missing clues..."
Kuroba Kaito picked up the phone and answered, giving a shot in the arm to the somewhat disappointed Mao Lilan on the other side.
The white horse detective also took advantage of the situation and said: "Then I will go back tonight..."
Before he finished speaking, the phone in his trouser pocket rang.
Detective Bai Ma picked up the phone and said one sentence, which made his expression change suddenly.
"What? Found it!"
"Where?"
"……I see."
Detective Baima hung up the phone with a solemn expression, and after a few seconds of silence, he said with a look of struggle in his eyes.
"I won't go back to London yet..."
Kuroba Kaito asked curiously: "What's wrong?"
The white horse detective's expression was frozen, his eyes were slightly dazed, and after a moment he shook his head dully.
"It's just some things that I have to investigate clearly in my name of being a detective..."
…
After coming out of Brightchester University, Conan and Kuroba Kaito got on the last bus back to London.
Although Detective Hakuba decided not to return to London, he still told the two of them, especially Kuroba Kaito, that he must tell him the latest clues about the Hades case.
On the surface, Kuroba Kaito agreed, but in fact he was saying in his heart, "Who cares about you?"
The two of them were sitting in an empty bus, with Conan sitting on the outside and Kuroba Kaito sitting on the inside by the window.
Neither of them spoke a word along the way, both thinking about the problems they would face next.
Conan had many things on his mind, including clues about the Hades case and tips on why Michael appeared in the restaurant and sent a code to Mao Lilan and the others.
Has he been following Xiaolan and the others since they came out of the airport yesterday?
Damn it~
Now that you know that I went to Blychester Town with this guy named Kuroba Kaito, why didn't you come over to find us?
Conan's current idea is to seek opportunities for dialogue with Michael.
Although last time I learned from "Conan" in the parallel world that Haibara Ai's brother-in-law is someone else, not Michael.
But he still felt that since the other party saved him and Huihara Ai twice, he definitely had no ill intentions.
"Hey, you know..."
Conan was just about to try to talk to Kuroba Kaito in the seat next to him to see if he could get some information.
But when he turned around to look, he found that Kuroba Kaito had opened the window of the bus at some point and quietly slipped half of his body out of the bus.
"Hello!"
"What are you doing?!"
As soon as Conan finished speaking, Kuroba Kaito jumped up and flew out of the window of the moving bus.
His body in the air just hit the street lamp pole next to the street. He hugged it hard with both hands to try to reduce the impact, but he still couldn't help but groan in his chest.
Fortunately, we landed safely.
And by the window of the moving bus, Conan poked his head out, watching Kuroba Kaito getting further and further away from him.
But this was a moving bus, and if his small body jumped out of the bus rashly, he would definitely be injured.
He had no choice but to look at Kuroba Kaito, who was smiling and waving at him from behind, and roared angrily and helplessly.
