When Ai Haibara called Tani Mizuto, the latter was sitting at the coffee table under the dim light, drinking tea, and transcribing the next novel.

Although there is already a computer, Japanese publishing houses still have a strong preference for writing articles.

Of course, Gu Shuiquan didn't care what the editors of the publisher or the judges of those awards thought. The more important reason was that he had experienced unprecedented peace recently.

So, for him, sitting alone at the table and writing on a quiet night, there is a different kind of fun.

Such peace from the heart is not the expressionless silence on his face.

The latter is a pool of stagnant water, bottomless and lifeless.

The former is more like the cool summer lake water, with slight ripples, occasionally roaring insects, breeze blows by, and leaves shake slightly.

The sudden sound of the phone call came from the darkness, interrupting the thoughts of Gu Shuiquan, who was in the only light in this cafe.

He put down his pen, moved his wrists, got up and went to the bar, and picked up the microphone.

"Moses Moses, Brother Water?"

"Yeah, I'm here."

"Soonko has been involved in the case, and now she is being taken by Conan and Xiaolan to investigate the case. Do you know about this?"

"Hmm?" Gu Shuiquan frowned and his expression tightened. "What's the specific situation?"

Ai Haibara told him truthfully about the incident on the phone, without adding any subjective views.

"I understand, um... peace of mind, I understand, with that armor here, her safety is fine. Well, I'll hang it up first." Tani Mizuin responded to Ai Haibara's consolation as peacefully as possible.

He hung up the phone, stood in his heart for half a minute, and searched for the case in his memory.

The missing elderly man...bus...disks...accounts...rice construction...bus station...yuanzi was kidnapped...

Ho... Very good... Very good...

Gu Shuiquan rushed into the bedroom, roughly opened the cabinet door, grabbed the luggage bag that was always available, and turned around and left.

Behind him, the door of Poirot Café is open in the night. In the corner of the store, the faint light on the coffee table looks fragile in the night that is pouring in.

...

Gu Shuiquan rushed to the street and stopped a taxi directly. He ignored the driver's yelling and scolding, opened the car door and sat in, and reported the address.

"I said, you guys..."

Gu Shuiquan stared at the driver coldly, and the latter gradually turned from anger to panic.

Is this...going to rob?

"Start it now, hurry up." Gu Shuiquan ordered concisely.

"Ah, hey." The driver started the car in a hurry, and the speed gradually increased.

"At the fastest speed."

"Uh...but...this is already very fast... I will be caught by the traffic police soon..." The driver held the steering wheel tightly with both hands, and carefully used his light to pay attention to the face of the man in black in the passenger seat.

"Money is not a problem."

"I mean no matter how fast I say... it will violate traffic regulations..."

"Money is not a problem, do you understand?"

"Ah, hey! I understand."

The car roared and galloped away in the night.

Tani Shuizumi took out the recently purchased satellite phone from her luggage bag and dialed the number of Conan's portable phone.

Busy...

The expression on his face became colder and colder.

The index finger was frequently touching on his thigh. After a few minutes, he pressed Conan's phone number again.

Busy...

The driver who was concentrating on driving began to shivering.

...

Bus station.

On the bus that Ran Mori took during the day, Conan looked at the two names Mori and Shira appearing on the outdated window, and began to think.

This is what Xiaolan said, the names of the two people she and the old man wrote when the car window fogs. So what happened to the mysterious missing old man?

Beep, beep, beep.

The portable phone in Conan's pocket rang, and he quickly took out his headphones and put them in his ears.

“Moses Moses.”

Conan answered the phone and then he said in surprise:

"The password is unlocked?"

"Yes, the disk password has been cracked by me. Do you know Mihua Construction? The files saved here are two accounts of Mihua Construction." Dr. Agasa on the other side of the phone said while drinking coffee.

"One is an account for public announcement, and the other is a symbolic secret account for internal symbolicity."

"The secret book of the right holds detailed records of their bribes to politicians and underground transactions colluding with shareholder meetings, all shareholders are on the list."

Conan hung up the phone and murmured:

"So that's it. That old man was followed all the way because he brought out this disk with two internal and external accounts from Mihua Construction."

Then he raised his head and said to Ran Mori: "The man wearing sunglasses is not tracking you, Sister Xiaolan, but is chasing the old man with a disk. It was precisely because the old man noticed this, so he took the opportunity to stuff it into your newly bought leather bag on the bus."

"Yes, he had known for a long time that I was Kogoro Mouri's daughter, so he kept hinting at me and told me that I was poked by my umbrella handle and almost thought I was being plotted against..."

Ran Maori nodded, then said with a firm look on his face: "We must find that old man."

"Ah? How do you find this? Who knows where he went?" Suzuki Yuanko looked confused.

"It's a newspaper." Ran Mori looked at Suzuki Yuanko with a very affirmative tone, "After that old man handed me the disk, he should have gone to the newspaper. There is also a newspaper in addition to the hospital at Muromachi Hospital Station."

"Yes." Suzuki Yuanko clapped her hands and remembered the newspaper she saw when she was pulled to Muromachi Hospital Station during the day.

"No." Conan shook his head, "Think about it, the bus driver said at the time that the man wearing sunglasses was inquiring about Sister Xiaolan."

"If you say this, he already knows that the disk is not on the old man's body?" Suzuki Yuanko reacted, "That's why he asked the driver about Xiaolan, who was sitting next to the old man..."

"In other words... that old man has been caught by the man wearing sunglasses?" Ran Maori said with a worried look on his face.

Conan frowned and pondered for a moment, then ran to the car door, and said without forgetting to explain.

"Sister Xiaolan, go and call Uncle Maori and Officer Meguri."

"Conan, where are you going?" asked Ran Mori.

"I'll go to the stop sign at the Muromachi Hospital Station where my grandfather got off to see if I could find any clues."

"Then I'll go together..."

Before Ran Maori finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by Conan.

"No." Conan refused with a serious expression.

"The man with sunglasses is looking for you everywhere, so you can stay at the bus stop and wait for news."

"Oh... well, I understand." Ran Mori responded blankly.

Conan got off the bus and ran to the door without looking back, and got on the taxi that had been waiting there before and left.
Chapter completed!