Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

When they arrived at the entrance of Poirot Cafe, Officer Takagi asked again with a puzzled look on his face: "Is the store Officer Ida wrote in the notebook really here?"

Conan nodded, "Yeah."

Kudo Yuki walked into the store first and greeted Enomoto Azusa: "Enomoto, help me organize the ingredients."

Immediately, Officer Takagi, Sato Miwako, and Ogino Ayami placed the food on the ground.

After hearing the voice, Azusa Enomoto quickly walked to the door with a look of surprise on her face. "Oh, it's Conan and you guys. Welcome, Officer Takagi and you guys are here too."

Officer Takagi scratched his head, "Yeah, yeah."

Azusa Enomoto counted the number of people. "Seven guests are here."

Toru Amuro made 7 iced drinks for the guests at the bar. The ice cubes collided in the transparent cups, emitting a slight coolness.

Azusa Enomoto also quickly began to help carry the ingredients. She bent down, grabbed the bags with both hands, and moved the ingredients to the storage area of ​​the kitchen.

Seeing Azusa Enomoto busy at work, everyone came forward to help, and the ingredients were arranged in order.

Kudo Yuki specially found two long tables and put them together to seat seven people.

Yuan Tai held the menu and asked Kudo Yuki with sparkling eyes: "Sister Yuki, can we really order anything we want to eat?"

Kudo Yuki smiled and replied, "Okay, just consider it as a reward for your help."

The three little ones cheered: "Great!"

Ogino Ayami frowned slightly, looking puzzled: "Why does the number of Officer Date in the notebook refer to this store?"

Conan sat opposite and explained: "The answer is very simple. First, use a dual-tone multi-frequency dialing phone to call the telephone company's text message service center. After the call is connected, you will hear a voice menu, and then follow the voice instructions to enter the recipient's phone number.

Enter *2 *2 at the beginning, and then follow this table to use two numbers to represent one word, and enter the text message you want to send. Finally, use two numbers as the end to complete it. "

After Conan finished speaking, he looked up at Azusa Enomoto who was waiting for her order beside Genta. "Sister Azusa."

Azusa Enomoto turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Could you please use the phone in the store to send the numbers in the book to my cell phone as I just told you?"

"No problem." She picked up her phone and entered the numbers on the notebook. After a while, she said, "It's been sent."

Conan showed the received message to a few people. The phone screen reflected slightly in the sun, and the text message content was clearly displayed on it. "Look, I received the text message in this way."

Miwako Sato exclaimed: "I really received it."

Officer Takagi read out, "Sunday at 12 noon, Beihua-cho 5-cho-mao 6-bandi, by the window of the Poirot Cafe, put on your red bow tie and wait."

Conan smiled and said, "It seems that the pager-related services are still available now."

Officer Takagi stroked his chin and thought: "But what does this message have to do with the phrase 'make you a real man'?"

Amuro Toru came over with 7 cups of cold drinks and placed them in front of everyone. He smiled and analyzed: "Is it possible that he wants you to make a great contribution and become a capable criminal policeman?

Judging from that message, maybe he noticed that someone might be doing some suspicious transactions here, but I don’t know the Mr. Ida you mentioned. So, this is just my guess. ”

Ogino Ayami frowned slightly, her eyes showing a thoughtful look, and her expression was slightly solemn. She swept her eyes across everyone's faces, as if looking for an answer.

Sato Miwako's eyes flickered, the corners of her mouth slightly drooped, and after exchanging glances with Ogino Ayami, she regained her composure.

Seeing the expressions of the two, Kudo Yuki broke the silence: "Officer Date brought Officer Takagi here, most likely to let Officer Takagi participate in the arrest of suspects who are engaged in suspicious transactions."

Officer Takagi looked out the window, seeing people coming and going on the street. "Maybe, that's all in the past. Plus, Officer Date hasn't been seen since he was transferred by Officer Kuroda. Now, I can't confirm the truth of the matter."

Huihara Ai was confused: "But why is he wearing a red bow tie by the window?"

Conan frowned slightly and began to analyze: "This is because if you are by the window, you can confirm from the outside whether the transaction partner has come even without entering the store."

"So, what should we do after confirming that the transaction partner has arrived at the store?"

"Well...if it were me, it would probably be under this table." As he said this, Conan bent down and observed that there was tape under the table.

He sat up straight and said, "Sister Xiaozi, do you remember any guest who sat in this position ever taking out something covered with tape from under the table?

In addition, did any guest express his insistence on sitting at this seat and ask others to give it up to him? But it has been so long, it is normal that I don’t remember what happened around 12 noon on a certain day. "

"Although I haven't seen the guest you mentioned, I remember there was a game console with tape on it. It seemed to have fallen under this window seat."

"Did it fall here?"

"Ah."

“Is that game console still available?”

"It's still in the store. I'll go get it." After saying that, Azusa Enomoto turned around to get the thing.

Sato Miwako put down her cup. "But it's very strange. Logically, the person who sent the code should contact the other party through the communication function of the game console after confirming that the transaction partner has arrived."

Ogino Ayami stroked her chin and thought: "But he left the game console he used for communication at the transaction location."

Conan pondered: "Even if he deleted their contact information, why would he leave the tools here? It would be understandable if he found a place to throw them away."

Officer Takagi speculated: "Maybe he was too panicked at the time and accidentally left the game console here."

Sato Miwako frowned, "If that's the case, he will definitely come to get it. After all, it looks like just a game console."

"Or maybe..." Huiyuan Ai chose her words carefully, "Because the criminal never waited for the person he wanted to trade with to show up. So after a while, the game console fell down by itself."

Kudo Yuki walked over to Amuro Toru, who was listening to the conversation at the bar, and whispered, "Toru, do you think I should contact Squad Leader Date to ask Officer Takagi to solve my doubts?"

Amuro Toru lowered his head slightly, looking at Kudo Yuki beside him, and said softly: "Let's see what the situation is first, maybe they can solve the doubts themselves. If it doesn't work, it won't be too late to contact Squad Leader Date."

Kudo Yuki nodded and looked back at the group of people who were discussing. At this time, Enomoto Azusa came back with a game console.

"This is it." Azusa Enomoto placed the game console on the table. Conan immediately picked it up and examined it carefully.

The three little ones turned their heads and looked over.

"Isn't this Yugi 7?"

“I have this game console, too.”

"Me too."

Conan pressed the button, but the game console did not respond. "It's been so long, the battery must be dead."

Azusa Enomoto said, "When I picked it up, it was still in standby mode for a certain game."

Officer Gao Mu asked, "Did you see anyone suspicious? Looking into the store from the window?"

"A suspicious person looking around?" Enomoto Azusa stretched out her index finger and tangled it with her hair, lost in memory. "I just remember seeing a kid who clenched his fists frequently."

Conan was puzzled: "Who is the kid with the fist?"

"Every Sunday at noon, a car would stop in front of the store for about 5 minutes. There was a boy sitting in the back seat with blond hair, who must be a foreigner.

He would bend his thumb in, wrap his other four fingers around it and make a fist, then open his hand. He would repeat this over and over again, and it was really cute.”

"That action is a distress signal, a gesture for seeking help that originated in Canada. I guess the child that Sister Xiaozi saw should be related to this transaction." Conan frowned and expressed his inference.

Hearing this, the people sitting next to Conan all looked surprised.

Ogino Ayami fell into deep thought: "But if this happened in the past, I'm afraid it would be too late now."

Azusa Enomoto then murmured, "But that was in the past. I saw him here last week."

Everyone was shocked again by Enomoto Azusa's words.

Conan came back to his senses immediately: "Are you telling the truth? Sister Xiaozi, did that boy really come to the door of this store last week?"

"Yes." Enomoto Azusa turned his head and looked out the window, pointing to a location. "The car is parked right where I can see it from here.

He looked through the back-seat window and, as I said, wrapped his thumb tightly around his four fingers to make a fist and then opened it.

When the car stopped here, I saw him repeating this gesture towards the store. However, I really didn't realize that it was actually a gesture for help.

He shows up every week, and I thought he remembered my face and was using that gesture to greet me."

"Every week means... that boy comes every week?"

"Yeah, I noticed this a few months ago."

"Brother Amuro, have you never seen that car?"

Toru Amuro came out from his seat at the bar and shook his head slightly. "Yes, I just happened to be scheduled for the morning shift today. I usually start work at 1pm on Sundays."

Miwako Sato was confused: "But what's going on? Officer Date asked Officer Takagi to come to this store. Is this something that happened in the past?"

Officer Takagi nodded, "Yes, that's right."

Ogino Ayami folded her hands in front of her, "What's written in the notebook? Wait by the window of the Poirot Café, put on your red bow tie and wait.

The deal he was talking about should have been concluded a long time ago. Could that boy have something to do with the deal?"

Kudo Yuki reminded: "Officer Takagi, do you remember any other clues? For example, the case involving Officer Ida and the boy."

Officer Takagi stroked his chin in thought, his brows furrowed slightly, his eyes narrowed as he recalled.

"Yes, there was indeed such a kidnapping case. Pierre Cassel, the vice president of the Japanese branch of a French automobile manufacturer, had two sons. The one who was kidnapped was his second son, Alain Cassel, who was 7 years old at the time.

Witness testimony indicated that Alan was kidnapped by two men while playing with his friends in the park. The next day, the criminals called a public phone and demanded a ransom of 2 million yen from Vice President Kassel.

We used reverse positioning to find the location where the criminal made the call and rushed to the scene immediately. But when we were about to catch up with the criminal, he escaped.

Since then, there has been no news of the criminal. The case has become an unsolved case.”

Ogino Ayami frowned: "I remember that at that time, Officer Date was always under the same jurisdiction as us, and was also responsible for murder and robbery cases. And the kidnapping case was under the jurisdiction of the Special Criminal Investigation Department. Why did Officer Date get involved in that case?"

"That's because Officer Ida's home is near Vice President Cassel's home. The investigation headquarters considered that he was familiar with the area, so they called him over to assist in the investigation. My home is not far from there, so I was also called over."

Miwako Sato suddenly said, "Oh, I remember now. The suspect had a dispute with the people from the car company over land rights. It seemed to be someone from the Mud Society."

Officer Takagi said: "Yes, the investigation headquarters is also investigating along this line. After investigation, Officer Ida found that Kidō Nafu lived nearby. He was the former leader of the Gray Group.

Because he had a huge debt from gambling, Officer Ida and I started monitoring the apartment where Gui Tongna lived all night starting from the day after we received the call demanding a ransom.

Then on the third night, Gui Tong was seriously injured and fell into a coma after being smashed in the room by a drunk with a beer bottle. The drunk confessed that he complained to Gui Tong that the phone call took too long, but Gui Tong angrily pushed him away.

So in a fit of anger, he picked up a bottle of wine that was thrown nearby and hit the ghost boy. Later, Officer Ida found a note on the side of the phone booth, and he asked me to call the forensic examiner over.

When I came back, Officer Ida handed the note to the forensic officer, and he said to me, 'Wait until Sunday and come with me to a place. I will make you a real man.' That was it."

"How is the man called Gui Tong now?"

"He was unconscious for a while, and then his condition worsened and he died about a week after the incident."

Ogino Ayami looked at the code on the notebook and said slowly, "The string of numbers written by Officer Ida in the notebook was copied from the slip while he was waiting for the forensic examiner."

Miwako Sato agreed: "Since the kidnapper never contacted us again, then the man who kidnapped Alan Cassel in the case a year ago was the man called Gui Tong."

"Yes." Officer Takagi nodded.

Huiyuan Ai got to the point, "The problem is, it's been so long since that transaction took place, and it's still going on."

"Yes." Conan continued: "From this point of view, Gui Tong Na Fang should have another subordinate."

To be continued...