Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 2514 2518 [Generous Detective]

"!" The two high school girls came to their senses and found that they were so busy playing with the music box that they almost forgot the main point. They quickly stopped talking and listened to the client's description again as if nothing had happened.

Yuuki Haruna thought of the past and sighed silently. She touched the music box and looked at Jiang Xia: "Actually, I want you to help me find someone."

"Oh, looking for someone." Suzuki Sonoko nodded and took notes: It seems that this is a mysterious missing case!
Yuuki Haruna: "The person I'm looking for is called 'Akigo'. I met him through a pager three years ago. At that time, I moved from the countryside to Tokyo to study at an art university. I couldn't find any common topics with my classmates, so I never made any friends.

"I was far away from my family and felt lonely, so one day I suddenly had an idea and made up a random number and sent a message to it using my pager."

At this point, Yuuki Haruna smiled: "I remember what I sent was 'Hello, my name is Haruna, would you like to be my friend?'.

"I thought that maybe no one was using that number, and that the other party might be bored and just throw the message aside... But to my surprise, not long after, I actually received a reply.

“That person said his first love was also named Haruna, and that he was glad to meet me and honored to be my friend.

"We started to correspond and share our feelings with each other. Sometimes when I encountered difficulties, I would talk to him. He provided me with a lot of useful advice. Although I had never met him, I could feel that he must be a very kind old man."

Suzuki Sonoko listened to the client's words, and a complete pink picture slowly unfolded in her mind. However, before she could start writing down the details, the three words "old gentleman" hit her in the face, and the image of the mysterious handsome man in her mind was instantly shattered.

"So it's my elder..." The imaginative high school girl sighed, and her interest in finding someone to entrust her with something waned. At the same time, her IQ also returned, "In this case, if you send him a message to ask him to meet, can't you see him anytime?"

Yuuki Haruna shook her head: "I would like to contact him, but..." She reached into her bag and took out a blue pager, "but his pager is with me now."

"?!" Suzuki Sonoko, who had just wilted, stood up again after hearing this, "Could it be that he was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent this thing to you as a threat?"

"No." Yuuki Haruna stroked the small communication tool in her hand, her expression becoming somewhat confused and worried:

"That happened last Christmas. After I came to Tokyo, I worked part-time to earn tuition fees in order to realize my dream of becoming an artist. However, art schools are expensive and the courses are not easy. I couldn't hold on any longer, so I had to apply for withdrawal from the school and planned to return to my hometown.

"Tokyo is a bustling city, but it left me with mostly bad memories. The only thing I missed was the electronic pen pal I had never met. So I decided to meet him before returning home."

"After I sent him a message to ask, he readily agreed and asked me to meet him in front of the loyal dog statue in Shibuya.

“On Christmas Day, I arrived there in a light snow, but after waiting for a long time, I didn’t see anyone like that around.

"I was wondering if something had happened, when suddenly a pager rang beside me.

"I looked over and found that a paper bag had appeared under the statue. The music box was in the bag, and the pager was on top of the music box.

"Originally I wasn't sure if this was something Qiu Wu left behind, but when I looked closer, a message suddenly came from the pager - he said it was a very valuable music box, and asked me to sell it to continue my studies and not give up my dream.

“But how could I just accept someone else’s things? So I took the music box to an antique shop. Since it was a very valuable music box, maybe the people in the shop could know where it came from and then find its owner and return it to him.

“But the people in the antique shop said that this music box is just an ordinary, slightly old music box that can be found everywhere and is not a valuable item.

"I took the music box home as a souvenir. I thought the matter was over, but who knew that from that day on..."

Yuuki Haruna's expression gradually turned into fear: "From that day on, I started receiving some inexplicable messages on my pager."

"For example, 'I have something to talk to you about. You must come to such and such place immediately. Remember, come alone' - and it was sent in the name of Mr. Qiu Wu."

Jiang Xia: "..."

Suzuki Sonoko: "...This trap is too obvious, you didn't go."

"Of course not." Yuuki Haruna is not stupid. She shook her head repeatedly. "Since Qiu Wu gave me the pager, it means he doesn't plan to contact me anymore. Even if he changed his mind, he wouldn't say such a thing. He is a kind and gentle person. This is not his usual tone of voice."

“I didn’t know who sent the message and I was scared to death, so I didn’t reply.

"Who knew that this seemed to have angered the other party. That very night, I received more than a dozen messages in succession. Those messages were very dirty, saying that I was a thief and a vixen...

"This time, I felt there might be some misunderstanding, so I carefully sent a message to ask, but the other party never responded."

At this point, Yuuki Haruna glanced at Jiang Xia quietly: "At first I thought someone might have sent the wrong message, but then I thought the timing was too coincidental, maybe the guy who sent the message was related to Mr. Qiu Wu's disappearance. The more I thought about it, the more worried I became about the safety of that pen pal, so I wanted to try to find a detective for help..."

But the powerful detective charged too much, and the unknown detective had no clue after hearing her description. Later, she heard that Jiangxia had not raised the price all year round, and often gave customers free meals when they were happy, so she came here every now and then to try her luck, and unexpectedly she really met him.

The expert detective really didn't care about the fees. As if he had heard that she was in a tight financial situation, the detective casually scanned the letter of authorization and generously filled in a zero for the fees.

Then he asked, in front of Yuuki Haruna's extremely surprised eyes: "Do you still receive those weird messages now?"

Yuuki Haruna quickly shook her head: "The news only lasted for a few days, but then it disappeared."

Jiang Xia looked like he was thinking. After a few seconds, he took the music box on the table, opened the guard and looked at the internal structure.

(End of this chapter)