"He..." Chi Feichi was thinking about whether to cover for Kuroba Kaito when he saw Conan's expression change slightly from the corner of his eye. He looked up and sold out Kuroba Kaito first. "He is Kaitou Kid. The name Doi Takatsuki, when rearranged in Katakana, spells Kaitou Kid."
Conan, who was about to mention this: "..."
Kuroba Kaito, who was listening to the deduction on the side and sighing, was also stunned upon hearing this.
Damn, just to distance yourself from me, did you have to personally sell me out?
Even if you want to sell me out, you should give me a mental preparation first!
However, Kuroba Kaito's reaction speed was at a first-class level. While his brain was confused, the smoke bomb in his hand was thrown at his feet, completing a quick disguise change from the round fat man to the familiar Kaitou Kid dressed in white. He put on a polite posture and said, "I also think Mr. Harui Fuden was a very cute old man, but this gathering is not very cute. Since the matter has been resolved, I will leave first. Goodbye, everyone!"
Conan ran over, but the smoke around Kuroba Kaito not only didn't dissipate, but became thicker, quickly filling the entire living room.
Chi Feichi yawned on the sofa. Kuroba Kaito, this guy, is not afraid that the murderer will take the opportunity to run away...
However, the only suspension bridge to go down the mountain had been burned down. Even if Tanaka Kikue still had the heart to run and ran out of the house, she couldn't run out of this snowy mountaintop.
Pity that Tanaka Kikue hasn't been wanted yet, so there is no bounty. Catching her won't make any money.
He trained too late last night and woke up early this morning. Now he is really a bit sleepy in the middle of the night...
On the second-floor balcony, Conan had already caught up with Kuroba Kaito. "Wait!"
"What's the matter, little detective?" Kuroba Kaito stood on the window ledge, his cloak flapping in the wind, and teased, "Do you still want to catch me?"
"No, I just want to ask you one question this time," Conan said seriously. "Do you know who that guy is? That man called Chi Feichi..."
Kuroba Kaito almost thought that his disguise with Chi Feichi had been seen through by Conan, but his expression remained calm. "Isn't he a member of your detective team? That deduction was really wonderful. I still wanted to ask you where this guy came from."
"Don't you know either?" Conan pondered with concentration. "'Red Herring' and 'Scarecrow' are both famous logical fallacies. 'Red Herring' refers to distracting attention, while 'Scarecrow' refers to twisting into a mistake. The two are very similar, and many people can't distinguish the difference between them. I thought you would know him..."
"Who knows what that 'Scarecrow' refers to? That guy joined the chat room not long ago, and I've only chatted with him briefly," Kuroba Kaito felt a bit fortunate for Chi Feichi's caution before.
Conan, this creature, is too keen.
However, the chat codename is Chi Feichi's fault for being lazy. Chi Feichi has to take the blame for this.
Conan nodded thoughtfully. 'Scarecrow' indeed had many meanings, not necessarily referring to the logical fallacy.
Kuroba Kaito was also a bit curious about Chi Feichi's affairs. Apart from knowing that Chi Feichi came out of a mental hospital, he really didn't know anything else. He actively gossiped, "Why are you so concerned about him? Could it be that there's some secret about him?"
Conan believed 80-90% that the two didn't know each other, and said seriously, "I don't know either. I only met him today..."
"Is it just because you are unwilling to lose to others as a fellow detective? You detectives are really strange..." Kuroba Kaito instantly lost interest and opened his hang glider to fly away.
"Hey!" Conan stepped forward, but could only watch a white back figure fly away leaving a sentence.
"We will meet again when the bell announcing the end of the century rings!"
"What..."
Conan had half-moon eyes. What do you mean their detectives are strange?
He was a bit unwilling, but he admired that guy's reasoning ability.
He had also thought about it—Chi Feichi solved the case quickly, perhaps because he was in that chat room himself and mastered some clues that he didn't know, and also had an understanding of the people in the chat room.
But Chi Feichi's speed in discovering the crime method, the insight to find that the washroom and the second-floor window were connected, the carefulness to find Tanaka Kikue's disappearance halfway, plus investigation ability and reasoning ability...
These are enough to prove that that guy's reasoning ability cannot be underestimated.
Although he doesn't seem like a dangerous person who will take action, he will definitely not take it lightly!
Not everyone in that organization is necessarily a bad person. Conversely, not so bad people are not necessarily not from the organization. Maybe it's the other party's disguise and lurking...
The group couldn't contact the outside world. Without Conan leaving and running back midway, Mouri Kogoro didn't discover the crisis here. He drove home and slept soundly, only to find that the suspension bridge was burned down when he came to pick up his daughter.
Fortunately, Kuroba Kaito helped call the police when he returned.
When Mouri Kogoro arrived, Inspector Megure had already led a team to the mountain by helicopter and was planning to try whether the crime method was feasible.
Conan also acted cute and spoiled, "Sister Ran, let's stay and see too! I'm curious how Mr. Hamano's body was placed over there."
"Ah?" Mouri Ran hesitated. "But you've caught a cold, it's better to go back early..."
"It's okay, I feel much better!" Conan busily said.
"Let's watch together, it would be regrettable to just leave like this!" Suzuki Sonoko said, leaning close to Mouri Ran. "Also, I think Mr. Chi is very good, maybe even more powerful than your reasoning maniac..."
Mouri Ran was speechless. "Didn't you say you came to see Mr. Doi Takatsuki this time?"
"He already left," Suzuki Sonoko wasn't knocked out by Conan's anesthesia needle. Seeing Kaitou Kid was satisfactory enough, she said happily. "But I really didn't expect him to be Kaitou Kid. Able to see my Prince Charming and also see a handsome guy with super strong reasoning ability, coming this time was really right!"
Mouri Ran could only laugh dryly. Who was the one disappointed when seeing Doi Takatsuki's chubby look before...
"Alas... It's really hard to choose," Suzuki Sonoko was intoxicated by herself, then stared at Chi Feichi for a while, her gaze suddenly becoming doubtful, recalling. "Hmm? Why do I suddenly feel like I've seen Mr. Chi somewhere..."
Mouri Ran only thought Suzuki Sonoko was thinking too much, sweating again and again.
"Where was it?!" Conan busily asked sternly.
"Co-Conan?" Mouri Ran was startled by Conan's serious expression.
On the other side, Megure Juzo, who was communicating with the group in the chat room, turned his head in doubt.
Chi Feichi also looked over, seeing Conan put on a innocent smile again. Instinct told him that there was something else to record. He took out his phone, tuned out the video recording function, put it into his pocket, exposed the camera, and aimed it at Conan.
"Speaking of where, I know!" Conan forcefully explained, and then sang a children's song in a cute child's voice. "Red dragonfly in the sunset, where are you, met you in childhood, which day was that, carrying a small basket to the mountains, mulberry green as shade, picking mulberries into the small basket..."
Seeing Conan suddenly singing children's songs, Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran were messy in the wind.
They really couldn't understand a child's thinking!
Chi Feichi, who had been expressionless all the time, couldn't help but twitch his lips. After the famous detective turned into a child, this day passed really happily...
However...
Listening to a tone-deaf person singing, even a simple children's song, but the out-of-tune notes, accompanied by the wind in the vast snowfield, made people feel that the temperature was a lot colder.
Inspector Megure shivered, made a fist and put it to his mouth to cough dryly. "Ahem!"
Mouri Ran came back to her senses and hurriedly covered Conan's mouth. "Okay, Conan, don't disturb the police officers in handling the case!"
Conan looked unlovable again, and became more determined to never let Ran know that he was Kudo Shinichi.
Moreover, he saw it again...
Chi Feichi just pulled the phone out of his pocket a little, and the camera was always aimed at him.
This guy is indeed investigating him!
But the direction of the investigation seems to be a bit problematic...
Chi Feichi ignored Conan's thoughts, took out the phone to check, confirmed that it was recorded, and put it back in his pocket.
"Inspector! We have brought the ropes!" A policeman ran over carrying a bag.
"Very good," Megure Juzo nodded with a serious expression, looking at Chi Feichi. Previously, he heard others talking about Chi Feichi's process of solving the case. No matter how he looked at it, it was the level of a famous detective no less than Kudo Shinichi. "Mr. Chi, you will personally demonstrate Ms. Tanaka's crime method!"
"This is the step-by-step diagram." Chi Feichi handed the diagram prepared last night to Megure Juzo.
Megure Juzo subconsciously took it, looking down at the diagram, feeling something wrong.
Generally speaking, shouldn't Chi Feichi take the rope brought by the police and start explaining and demonstrating? What is it about giving him a diagram like this?
However, don't mention it, this diagram is really detailed. Every step of how the rope is threaded, where the arrow is shot afterwards, are all clearly marked.
It made him feel like reading a furniture assembly instruction manual...
"Let the police officers do the demonstration," Chi Feichi added.
Megure Juzo thought that Chi Feichi felt a bit restrained, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Such a reserved detective is rare. In the past, at the crime scene, which time did Kudo Shinichi not run around and do whatever he wanted?
"It doesn't matter, you can also demonstrate it. We just want to confirm whether the method is feasible, to facilitate closing the case..."
"Demonstration is very troublesome, I want to go back first," Chi Feichi said.
Megure Juzo looked at Chi Feichi's face which was calm and didn't feel embarrassed at all, with black lines on his head: "..."
He was too naive. Detectives are indeed a bunch of guys who do whatever they want!
No way, Chi Feichi didn't demonstrate, and Megure Juzo couldn't force him to demonstrate. Let a policeman look at the diagram, left Chi Feichi's contact information at the same time, and arranged for Chi Feichi to take a helicopter down the mountain first.
Conan was secretly anxious in his heart. He intended to contact Chi Feichi more to see if he could find anything. "That... Sister Ran..."
"What's wrong, Conan?" Mouri Ran was confused.
Conan acted cute and suggested, "I suddenly feel a bit cold, how about we also go down the mountain first~"
"Brat, you are very troublesome recently!" Suzuki Sonoko complained.
Conan: "..."
What could he do? Who let that guy not play by the rules and even came up with the method of drawing step-by-step diagrams...
But the other party was eager to leave, there must be some important reason!