Monday, January 4th, afternoon, Kakudo-cho shopping street.

Conan ran away from Yuan Tai and his party, turned a corner, and immediately turned on the tracking function of the tracking glasses, looked at the moving light spots on it, and thought with some excitement, that man left with a thousand yen bill with a transmitter sticker attached, and then I just need to use this tracking glasses to follow, maybe this guy can lead me to the lair of those men in black.

After about ten minutes, the signal stopped moving, and a few minutes later Conan arrived there and found that it was a grocery store outside the station, and immediately had a bad premonition, so he asked the boss if anyone had come to buy something with a thousand yen just now.

The grocery store owner said, "Yes, the man has a very cold attitude, and he has a strange sticker attached to the 1,000 yen bill, so it's a strange man." ”

Conan asked, "So, do you know where that man went?"

"Well," said the grocery store owner, after a moment's thought, "he bought a can of coffee and went over there to make a public call, and he piled all the change on the telephone, and talked about it for a long time, until it ran out, I think it would be about ten minutes." ”

Conan asked, "Did he ask you to exchange all the money for coffee for 100 yen and 10 yen coins?"

The grocery store owner said, "But I ran out of 100 yen coins, so I used a 500 yen coin to find him 890 yen." ”

I remember that the change that the man found at the convenience store was 770 yen, that is, one 500 yen coin, two 100 yen coins, 15 yen coins, 2 10 yuan coins, plus the 890 yuan found at the commissary, the one that could be used to make a phone call was five 100 yen coins and 11 10 yen coins, a total of 610 yen. However, if he only made a phone call for about ten minutes at 610 yen, it should be a long-distance call, so could it be said that he took the train to a distant place and met the person he was talking to? No, if he used a public phone to call a mobile phone, the local call would cost 10 yen for nine seconds, Conan sighed, there were not enough clues.

At this time, a cleaner handed Conan a fifty yen coin, saying that the man dropped it, "Do you know that man, he was in a hurry just now, and the ticket machine found him to take one less change, it is this fifty yen coin." ”

Conan asked, "Where's the ticket machine?"

The cleaner said, "It's from the Dongdu Line over there." ”

Conan asked, "Do you know which key he pressed?"

"Well, I saw him throw in a 500 yen coin and a handful of change fell out with a clang, but I didn't pay attention to which key. The cleaner said, "That's it, please give this back to him." ”

"I'll go. Conan said, and then ran to the ticket machine and thought that since it was a jingle drop, there should be more than three pieces of change, and he chose to put in a 500 yen coin, and there might be more than three pieces of change that would have fallen out, and it included a 50 yen coin.

Conan looked at the ticket prices at each station, calculated that it was Otoma Station, and then bought a ticket to get on the train. ……

Outside Odoma Station.

Conan inquired about the man in the black hat, but no one said he had seen it, and then he found a real estate company, and thinking that the purpose of those people was to make fake money, he went to the manager and asked if anyone rented a place in the middle of nowhere that would not attract attention.

"Please, this is Tokyo, one of the most densely populated places in the world, and there will be no one anywhere except for the place to be demolished and built. The manager said, "Alright, kids, let's go somewhere else with your friends, and don't disturb our work here." ”

"Friend?" Conan asked, confused, and then noticed that Yuan Tai and his party had walked in.

"Hey, hey. Yuan Tai smiled, "We won't fall for the same trick every time." ”

Mitsuhiko smiled: "Sneaking can be said to be your specialty." ”

Conan asked, confused, "Why are you here?"

"It was Ashbara-san who reminded me," Ayumi smiled, "She said Conan, you got rid of us because you wanted to solve the incident by yourself." ”

Conan looked at the expressionless Gray Yuan Wai, and couldn't tell that this guy was a little clever.

At this time, Shunya Okano asked the manager, "Excuse me, is there any novelist living in this neighborhood?"

"Novelist?" asked Conan, "what's going on?"

Toshiya Okano said, "After my brother disappeared, I called home once. ”

"What!" cried Conan, "why didn't you say this earlier." ”

"Because it happened to be my grandmother who answered the phone, she had a bad ear, and my brother spoke quickly, so I couldn't hear what was being said. "Shunya Okano said, "She said that she was listening to her brother saying that he was doing something with a person who looked like Natsume Soseki. ”

"With someone who looks like Natsume Soseki?" Conan asked, "Did you tell the police about this?"

Shunya Okano said, "Yes, but I haven't found anyone like this until now." ”

"Alright," Mitsuhiko said, "doesn't your brother like that Soseki, so don't worry." ”

"But," said Shun Okano, too, with some fear, "but Grandma said that my brother's voice trembled, and the phone was cut off in the middle of the conversation. ”

I see, Conan thought to himself, it seems that he made a phone call secretly behind the back of those guys, and the phone was cut off when he was discovered.

"If you're looking for someone who looks like Natsume Soseki, there's one around here," the manager laughs, "and it's the manager of the bookstore around the corner, nicknamed 'Thousand Yen Bills.'" ”

Mrs. Yuan was overjoyed, "It's him, please, please take us there." Then he dragged the manager away.

Standing Wood Bookstore.

After the manager led the way, he stood at the door, and the three of them and Jun Okano also went to find the store manager, and Conan slipped to the back of the bookstore while the store manager was not paying attention, and Gray Yuan Ai walked around and took the book and read it.

The three of them and Shun Okano also asked the store manager, but as soon as they mentioned the thousand-dollar bill, they were yelled, "What are you kidding, what are the thousand-dollar bills, don't joke with adults, get out of here." Then he was coaxed out.

"It's scary. Ayumi patted her chest and said.

Yuan Tai complained: "What is that old man doing?" ”

"It's suspicious. Mitsuhiko said.

"No, I guess it shouldn't have anything to do with this bookstore, I've checked the warehouse in the back, and there is no printing press. Conan stepped out.

"As for the printing press, the newspaper office in front of the station has recently introduced a new one, which is the newspaper office on the third floor of the building next to the police station, which we also rented out two years ago. The manager said.

Conan asked, "Do you know what kind of people are there?"

The manager said, "There's a female president who always wears a black wide-brimmed hat, and it's a small newspaper that helps the locals print some advertisements or something. Then he looked at his watch, "Okay, I have something to do, so you should go home early." With that, he left.

Yuan Tai asked, "Could it be this newspaper?"

Mitsuhiko said, "But this has nothing to do with Soseki, right?"

"Soseki pillow flow is a famous story, and it is also the origin of the name 'Soseki', which means 'weird'. Aren't ordinary people rinsing their mouths next to the stream of water and using stones as pillows? Conan touched his chin and said, "Ordinary people want to make fake money, they will be in the suburbs to avoid people's eyes, but those guys have set up the location in front of the bustling station, and next to the police station, although it seems very strange at first glance, there is no other place to make better use of the blind spot of the police than here." I think that's what Shunya's brother wants to convey. ”

Jun Okano also asked with some expectation, "Then ...... brother?"

Conan said, "If my reasoning is correct, your brother is probably in that newspaper." ”

"Then let's go to the police. Ayumi said, and ran to the police station first.

Motota and his entourage abducted Koya Okano, who could draw Natsume Soseki, and told the two police officers on duty about the fake 1,000 yen, but the police didn't believe them and thought they had watched too much TV.

So, Conan took the group out of the police station, then told them to wait and went to the phone booth to make a call.

Telephone booth.

Using a voice changer, Conan called the Twilight Police Department in his own voice, saying that he had happened to see someone on the street using a fake 1,000 yen, so he followed him and found that they were printing counterfeit money at the newspaper office in front of Otoma Station, led by a woman dressed in black and possibly holding hostages.

Conan returned to the door of the police station after making a phone call, and found that Motota and the others were gone, and asked the police with a bad premonition, and when he learned that they had indeed entered the newspaper office, he immediately rushed in.

At this time, several voices shouting "help" came from the newspaper office, and the two policemen blinked, looked at each other, and hurriedly ran into the newspaper office. ……

On the other side, push a little forward in time, at the entrance of the police station.

When Conan left, Yuan Tai raised his triangular eyes, "I don't know why, the more Conan told me not to go, the more I wanted to go." ”

"Me too. Mitsuhiko and Ayumi echoed.

So, the three of them took Shunya Okano and pulled Gray Yuan Ai to break into the newspaper office, and randomly chose a room to enter, and found that it was a printing room.

Gray Yuan Ai walked around and looked around, then glanced at the surveillance on the ceiling, and went to open the window.

The three of them and Jun Okano also searched and found a piece of paper with dozens of coins printed on them, but there were no avatars on those coins, and they looked fake.

At this moment, a woman in black wearing a wide-brimmed hat came with three men and "arrested them all." ”

"How, what should I do?" asked Yuantai in fear.

"Call for help, be louder. Gray Yuan said with a wail, so Motota, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Toshiya Okano screamed loudly.

Glancing at the open glass, the woman in black said angrily, "Damn little ghost, go." Then he turned and walked away, and the others followed.

"What's going on?" Ayumi asked.

"Why did they just leave?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Because the police are coming. Gray Yuan said.

At this time, Conan and the two policemen ran in, and the three of them immediately showed up the fake coins printed, and then followed them with Shunya Okano to see how the police caught the bad guys.

"Late, one of the most important things in the manufacture of counterfeit money is the special ink used for coinage, which can be destroyed in a matter of moments, and these coins that look fake at first glance do not constitute a criminal offense. Gray Yuan muttered to himself, then looked at the window and snorted softly, "Doing illegal things next to the police station, I can't even afford to install a one-piece tempered glass wall with sound insulation and bulletproof functions, at best, it's just a little clever little fish and shrimp." With that, he walked out of the printing room.

Outside, the two policemen had already controlled the situation, or the five people, the woman in black and the three men just now, the man in the black hat, and an old man with an injured arm, did not resist, and Shunya Okano also saw his brother Koya Okano, but the woman in black did not admit that she was doing illegal things here, and she and Hiroya Okano also had an employment relationship.

"Stop quibbling," said Conan, "the man with his arms is the real artist, and the work in the printing room is his, but he was injured when he was about to finish, so you went and kidnapped Shunya's brother, whom you had seen at the exhibition, and asked him to help you paint." The paint paint in the printing room and the containers of magnetic iron powder, you have prepared these things, do you want to fool the machine? As long as you pass through the banknote identification machine, you can exchange the counterfeit money that is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake in the bank, the racecourse, and the small steel ball shop for a large amount of cash, and by the time the matter is revealed, you will have already fled far away. ”

"Ha......" The woman in black laughed, "Children, you have watched too much TV, if you can make banknotes casually like this, the world will already be full of fake banknotes." ”

"Others may not be able to, but you," the Twilight Police Department led the team in, "and it looks like you're back to your old job." ”

"It turned out to be a lesson in the Twilight Police Department, I don't know what I have done, but I can actually help you?" asked the woman in black with a smile.

"Fake money, abduction. The Dusk Police Department said.

"I don't remember doing that. The woman in black said.

"So, how can all those counterfeit coins on the market have your fingerprints on them?" asked the Dusk Police Department.

"It's his business, you just have to take him away. The woman in black said.

"Big, big sister!" exclaimed the black-hatted man.

"Shut up, you idiot did it yourself, go and turn yourself in. The woman in black said.

"Surrender?" the man in the black hat reacted, "yes, yes, Lord Police, I turned myself in, I did it, but I just printed some random banknotes, and I didn't expect those people to accept them without even looking at them." As he spoke, he stepped forward and stretched out his hands.

Having the man in the black hat handcuffed, the Dusk Police Department asked the woman in black, "So, what about abduction?"

"If it's Koya," the woman in black pulled out a piece of paper, "This is Koya Okano's employment contract, and it's completely based on the salary standard of the secret job." ”

"No, it's not like that. Hiroya Okano hurriedly said, "They forced me to sign, and they didn't let me call or go home." ”

"What's going on?" asked the Dusk Police Department.

"I didn't force him, he signed it himself, and the contract clearly stated that it should be kept confidential during the work. "And I don't remember calling Toshiya's house to blackmail his family, so why kidnap him." Then he said to his subordinates, "Any of you have secretly done such illegal things behind my back, so stand up for yourself now." ”

"No, we haven't done it. The men of the woman in black denied it.

"That's it, Dusk Police Department, you have to find out, don't wronged the good guys. The woman in black smiled, then glanced at Yuan Tai and his party, and said, "As for these children, I would like to hold them accountable for their illegal trespassing, and quietly enter my club to rummage through things, thieves? ”

"And what about the money they have?" asked the Dusk Police Department.

"Does that count as money?" said the woman in black scoffing, "I'm afraid only idiots will take it." ”

"Then what are you printing this for?" asked the Twilight Police Department.

"It's just fun. The woman in black said.

The Twilight Police Department asked Hiroya Okano, "What kind of job did they let you do?"

"Drawing, of course. The woman in black said.

"Didn't ask you. The Dusk Police Department said.

"They asked me to draw," said Hiroya Okano, "over and over again Natsume Soseki for 1,000 yen and Yukichi Fukuzawa for 10,000 yen." ”

The Dusk Police Department asked, "Did they say they were here for something?"

"Not really," said Hiroya Okano, "I've always been alone in a room, and I only see them when they come to deliver food." ”

"Look, Dusk Police, I didn't abuse him. The woman in black laughed.

"And what did you do with those paintings?" asked the Dusk Police Department.

"The paintings were so bad that they were ruined. The woman in black said, "I used Hiroya Jean to draw people as if I wanted to put them in the newspaper, but I actually came up with a column that taught people how to distinguish banknotes." ”

"Ha, I want to laugh when I hear you say that. The Twilight Police Department said they wanted to laugh, but there was no smile on their faces.

"Alright, Dusk Police, if there's nothing going on, we're going to dinner, and we have work to do in the evening. The woman in black said.

"So, you don't mind if we search this place, do you?" said the Dusk Police Department, "and yours. ”

"Please. The woman in black raised her hand and asked a female forensic officer to search it, and her subordinates also asked the police to search it, but they found nothing and had to let them leave.

Motota complained, "Just let them go? They kidnapped Shunya's brother." ”

"No way, it's legal to hire high school students, and there is no blackmail calls, no people are abused, plus this employment contract, unless it expires and does not let people go, or there is evidence that this contract was signed under duress, no matter what the dispute is, it is not my responsibility. The Dusk Police Department said helplessly.

"Brother?" said Shunya Okano.

"There is no evidence. Hiroshi Okano sighed.

Conan asked, "Now, police department, who is she?"

"A criminal who specializes in how to make counterfeit money is very cunning. "Except for the first time, everything else is the same as now, and one of her subordinates has come forward to take the blame." ”

Conan asked, "Is she organized?"

"She herself was the leader of their little gang. "I haven't heard of her joining any other organization." ”

"I see. Conan said.

"Alright, I'll send you back. The Twilight Police Department said, then admonished, "Don't run around next time." ”

"Yes!" Motota, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko replied in a loud voice.

It's going to run around, Conan sighed inwardly.

The Twilight Police Department said to Hiroya Okano, "You go back and meet your family first, and then come to the Metropolitan Police Department tomorrow." ”

"Thank you, Police. Hiroshi Okano also smiled.

After that, the two police cars carried the brothers Koya Okano and Shunya Okano respectively, the four of the Junior Detective Group and Ai Shibara, Motota sat in the passenger seat, Mitsuhiko, Conan, Ayumi, and Ai Shibara sat in the back seat, and sent them to Koya Okano's house in Kakuto Town.

On the way, Conan heard Ayumi say that the window of the newspaper was opened by Gray Plains, and he couldn't help but look at Gray Plains Wai again and looked out the car window, yes, it doesn't seem to be a simple girl. ……