Conan: About the fact that I have a black brother

Lin Xiaochen walked towards the depths of the residential area and saw that in the depths of the village, the weeds of a house were taller than the fence.

Lin Xiaochen looked inside through the gap in the fence of the courtyard gate and saw that the wild grass in the courtyard had long been withered and yellowed and was covered with snow. The courtyard was dead silent. The locked sliding door was gray, as if covered with a thick layer of dust. The paper-pasted windows were leaking air, and the rotten furniture in the house could be vaguely seen.

"Young man, are you looking for someone?" An old lady came out from the opposite door of this house. "This family moved away a long time ago, about ten years ago. Before, a brother and sister would occasionally come back to visit, but they haven't been here since then."

Lin Xiaochen subconsciously looked at the surname written on the doorplate - Nagasawa.

"Young man, are you related to their family?" Seeing that Lin Xiaochen did not answer, the old lady called out a few more times.

Lin Xiaochen turned around and asked: "Do you know where they moved to?"

The old lady shook her head and sighed, "I don't know. This family is also pitiful. The couple died in a car accident, and the two children were sent to an orphanage when they were just a little kid. Fortunately, the development here was not good at that time, and the house was not auctioned off..."

"Orphanage?" Lin Xiaochen repeated.

The old lady looked towards the entrance of the village and said, "There was only one orphanage in Nagano at that time, and it's still there. At that time, the orphanage was very popular, and people often came to adopt children. But now it's no longer the case..."

Lin Xiaochen seemed to be thinking about something. The old lady sighed again: "There are more and more children. No one is willing to adopt them. I am afraid it will be difficult to continue. Poor children, I don't know what to do in the future... If you want to know, you can ask the director of the orphanage. He has been managing it for more than ten years."

After that, she walked into the house tremblingly on her crutches.

Often? Lin Xiaochen's mind moved, as if something flashed through his mind.

"Thank you." Lin Xiaochen thanked the old lady from behind.

It seems that I have to go to the orphanage again.

Lin Xiaochen turned and left. Behind him, the iron sheet with the word "Nagazawa" written on it was shaking in the wind.

There is something wrong with the director of the orphanage. Although Lin Xiaochen wants to get to the bottom of the case as soon as possible, going there multiple times in one day will arouse the other party's vigilance, so he chooses to go back to the police station first.

...

Yamato Gansuke is worthy of being a veteran police officer in Nagano Prefecture. He is much more efficient than Lin Xiaochen in negotiating with other departments.

Lin Xiaochen had to talk for a long time before he got a short section of surveillance, but Yamato Gansuke took all the surveillance.

However, compared to Yamato Gansuke's complacency, Zhufu Takaaki and Uehara Yui had indescribable strange expressions on their faces, as if they had seen some extraordinary scene.

Lin Xiaochen walked in, and Yamato Ganzhu looked up and waved to him, "Lin, come over and take a look, okay?"

Lin Xiaochen stepped forward upon hearing this. The time displayed on the video was December 1st. He asked curiously, "Didn't they say that the surveillance was damaged?"

"Look carefully at which street it is. There is more than one surveillance camera in Nagano." Yamato Gansuke said, "The people from the Ministry of Transportation are dilly-dallying. I really don't know why they can't just hand over the video."

The video shows an intersection before the street where Kumi Ueno disappeared. In the video, the second victim can be seen passing by with a brown paper bag in her hand.

Not long after, the victim was standing on the side of the road, and a group of children appeared in the lower right corner of the surveillance camera. They surrounded the victim with laughter, took out hot baked sweet potatoes from a brown paper bag, and started eating them while chatting and laughing.

——They are...children from an orphanage?

I was like, who can be stopped by a wall like that? Even the kids slipped out!

Lin Xiaochen's face was gloomy: "The security of the orphanage is worse than I thought."

Zhu Fu Gaoming came over without knowing when: "I just spoke to my father, and he said that the orphanage was like this seventeen years ago, and it hasn't changed at all now."

Yui Uehara frowned: "The government doesn't care? After all, this is the only orphanage in Nagano... and there are more and more children..."

child?!

Lin Xiaochen was suddenly startled and looked at Zhu Fu Gaoming hurriedly: "Senior Zhu Fu, are there always only children under the age of seven or eight in the orphanage?"

Zhu Fu Gaoming heard this, rubbed his chin with his index finger and began to recall. Finally, he shook his head: "...very few, it seems that all children over ten years old are adopted... For details, please wait for me to go back and confirm with my father."

That would be even more unreasonable. Who would abandon a child who is still young and whose personality has not yet been formed, and adopt an older child who is likely to be "untrained"?

"It seems that the dean embezzled more than just the grant money." Yamato Gansuke sneered, "But judging from the looks of you two, you probably haven't got any concrete evidence."

"I'll go apply for a search warrant." Zhu Fu Gaoming took out his cell phone.

Uehara Yui was not very optimistic: "It's just a guess. I'm afraid it will be difficult to get a search warrant quickly. Moreover, if we go to the orphanage frequently, it may attract the attention of the director and transfer the evidence."

indeed so.

The four of them sighed in unison.

Lin Xiaochen suddenly had an idea: "We can use a ready-made excuse."

He looked at the surveillance screen.

"Yes, we can go again under the pretext of safety education, but I'm afraid it will be limited to outdoors and it will still be difficult to search the dean's office." Uehara Yui clapped her hands, but felt something was wrong after she finished speaking.

"Uehara, do you think that an orphanage that can't even take good security measures has complete fire protection measures?" Yamato Gansuke sneered, "Just use the excuse of checking for potential safety hazards to ask the fire department to go with you. When the time comes, you can dig three feet into the ground--"

"Ganzhu, I'm glad you learned to use Chinese idioms, but have you ever considered that joint duty also requires approval?" Zhu Fu Gaoming did not pour cold water on him, "This matter requires the consent of the directors of both parties."

Lin Xiaochen sighed. If he wasn't on the Red Team, he could go there late at night to look for evidence. Maybe he could even swap one out, or start a small fire and let the police and fire department intervene in a legitimate way...

Yes, just set a fire!

[No, host, your identity card is absolutely red, please do not do anything that violates your role position. ]

[You violated your role last time by not helping an ordinary person threatened by a bomb. Please don't do it again.]

System, you really ruin the fun!

Lin Xiaochen gritted his teeth: "I understand. But my red is not the normal one, right?"

The system's screen flashed a few times: [That's right, but no matter what kind of red it is, it won't attack children. ]

Lin Xiaochen chuckled: "Who said that? I was going to set fire to the orphanage."