Turning on the phone, Yusaku Kudo looked at the text message he received earlier.

[A year ago, a man who looked like Kosuke Mizutani came to the Vega Hotel to inquire about the situation at that time. ——Heiji Hattori

"Sure enough," the corners of Kudo's mouth curled slightly. "Has Kosuke Mizutani come to inquire about this?"

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After identifying the different patterns of body language between Kazuki Moto's sincere saying "yes" and lying "yes", Yusaku Kudo asked a few more questions that didn't arouse Kazuki's suspicions and sounded quite ordinary.

And Ben Kazuki also answered his question quite cooperatively, and told him such a thing.

"Kosuke Mizutani also came to offer flowers once today, and then said this during the worship." Mogami and Tree calmly narrated. "'There were eight of them, and now there's the last one left.'" ”

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In that case, Kosuke Mizutani is not only "constantly detaining all kinds of black cauldrons by Motogami and Shu, who are likely to be criminals", but must be involved in this case - of course, if nothing else, Motogami Kazuki is probably also one of the criminals, and intends to dump these pots on Kosuke Mizutani and kill him afterwards.

At this moment, Yusaku Kudo's afterglow suddenly swept to the situation he cared about.

Kazuki Motogami, who had changed into casual clothes, walked out of the house and walked in the direction of Yusaku Kudo after taking a look at his surroundings. When passing by Yusaku Kudo, he obviously didn't find anything abnormal, but just walked past Yusaku Kudo, who was pretending to look at his phone, in a state of thought that seemed to be thinking about something.

After waiting for a moment, Yusaku Kudo put away his phone and quietly followed behind Motojo and Shu.

If he had only suspected that Kazuki Motogami might be involved in this case, now Yusaku Kudo has basically determined that this guy must be the core culprit in this case - the worst is also the helmsman who predicts Kosuke Mizutani's action mode from the strategic height of the entire case.

Continuing to send his reasoning to Conan, Yusaku Kudo quietly followed behind Benjo and Tree.

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At Chiba Station, Yusaku Kudo quietly walked out with Kazuki Honjo from another carriage of the train that Kazuki Motogami was riding.

Motogami and Shu's house were very close to the tram stop, so as Kudo Yusaku deduced, he chose to walk to the tram stop instead of choosing expensive transportation such as taxis.

Kazuki Motogami then continued along the route Kudo had guessed – taking Chiba City Monorail Line 2 from the train station to Chiba Station, which leads to Tokyo.

The next question, if this part of the trip between Mogami and Shu is easy to guess, the next step is not very safe - how will Motogami and Shuki get from Chiba Station to the Shiba Park area?

Not to mention that there are two types of the Sobu Line itself, there are two options: regular and rapid, and if you want to go to Shiba Park, there are at least two options: get off at Tokyo Station and get off at Shimbashi Station at the back. The two options for getting to Shiba-Koen are even more varied – it's almost impossible to predict, so you have to buy all the types of tickets you can buy at the relevant stations in advance (the Sobu Line belongs to JR East, while Tokyo's subway system belongs to the Tokyo Metro and Tokyo Metropolitan Transportation Bureau, which are not interconnected, so you can't buy tickets for each other), and then you can improvise.

If you know where this guy's destination is, you can just wait for the rabbit, instead of just following this guy helplessly like this......

Sighing for the lack of information in his hand, Yusaku Kudo contacted Conan and asked him if there was any progress on his side.

Conan told him that he wasn't focused on it right now.

[We've found something that is likely to be related to this case.] —Conan Edogawa

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Conan walked in the rice forest, putting away his phone and looking at the road ahead.

Previously, a classmate claimed that they had caught a beetle with a sticker on its back in the Rice Flower Forest, and after Chiba couldn't find a match in the organization's database, he gave the fingerprints that had been extended from it to Dr. Asasa, who claimed to be better at handling the matter.

And in the moments of confusion when Conan didn't get anything out of Sawamura's house, he received a text message from Dr. Asasa - and it was quite chilling.

After using crawl to retrieve a large number of databases that could be retrieved from his IP address (the physically isolated fingerprint database is not possible), Dr. Asasa found that there was a database with data that could be matched to these fingerprints.

But there's a piece of news that doesn't sound good – it's the police database under the name of the Metropolitan Police Department.

In Rice Flower Park, there are police officers who put stickers on the back of the Beetle? They do nothing every day, doing this kind of?

Then, Dr. Asasa mentioned one possibility that came to mind. However, while this statement is indeed self-justifying, Conan's first reaction was that it was quite.

[The Beetle is a beetle, alluding to the Beatles (The Beatles), and the V is posted as the Beatles' fifth (5 is V in Roman numerals) album "HELP", which is to express a distress signal!] 】

Conan's first reaction was this-first, his age determined that he had not experienced the Beatles at all, and he was not interested in the band, let alone knew if the Beatles' fifth album was really "HELP". The Beatles were active nearly 30 years ago, and there are almost only a handful of people in Japan who like such established bands, so it is not surprising to call for help in this way.

Moreover, there is still a difference between beetle and Beatles, so it is too far-fetched to attach such an association?

However, Conan later discovers that this is still possible.

First of all, if we take into account that the person who was organized to pretend to be Matsumoto Kiyocho, and Matsumoto Kiyocho himself was 54 years old, he was indeed in the youth stage when the Beatles were popular, and he was indeed at the stage when he was most able to absorb new knowledge, and it was indeed easy to accept the influence of Beatles culture.

Secondly, if Matsumoto Kiyonaga is imprisoned, or in a remote place like Rice Flower Park, his methods of calling for help are quite limited, and such a way of calling for help may not be the way he wants most, but the only way he can think of and put it into action.

Thirdly, after asking if the association between beetle and Beatles was too far-fetched, Conan received a very firm answer from Dr. Agasa.

[In the summer of 1960, the Beatles had not changed their name to the Beatles, which would later become known around the world, but from the Quarrymen to the Silver Beetles.] The Beatles was renamed in August. 】

Just as he was thinking about these things, a light suddenly appeared in Conan's field of vision.