Chapter 560 Invitation Letter to the Dusk Pavilion

Chapter 560 Invitation Letter to the Dusk Pavilion

Mao Lilan calmed down for a while, and finally plucked up the courage to challenge the challenge of catching live maggots.

Okiya Subaru looked normal, saying that he could return to his job at any time.

As soon as Lin Xin saw that these two students had overcome their psychological barriers and could become qualified scientific research migrant workers, he safely handed over the experiment to them and prepared to leave.

And just then.

A police officer from the forensics department hurried to the laboratory and handed Lin Xinyi a letter:

"Forest Manager."

"I have your letter."

"Believe it?" Everyone looked over curiously.

Lin Xinyi also frowned slightly:

Although he is in the public eye and is not willing to compare himself to a famous detective, because he bought too many hot searches, his reputation in the world is no less than that of Kudo Shinichi.

So many people sent him letters to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Most of them were explicit love letters that Haihara Ai felt uncomfortable reading.

A small number are detective commission letters sent by private clients, as well as commission letters and challenge letters sent by detective "peers" - although Lin Xinyi does not consider himself a detective at all.

He has always ignored these useless letters.

The Metropolitan Police Department is already busy enough with its work, so how can it still have time to take on private commissions and communicate with colleagues like those private detectives?

"My acquaintances all have my phone number and won't send me a letter."

"There is no need to show me these letters sent to the Metropolitan Police in the future. You can just handle them yourself."

Lin Xinyi had no intention of taking the letter, but just gave these instructions to the young police officer who delivered the letter.

But the young police officer said to Lin Xinyi meaningfully:

"Mr. Lin, this letter is different."

"In addition to you, the recipient above also mentioned Miss Maori."

As he spoke, he glanced at Mao Lilan with a strange expression.

"Hiss" Lin Xinyi couldn't help but take a breath:

"You also mentioned Miss Mori?"

Mao Lilan still stood there innocently, blinking her big innocent eyes.

She didn't realize how famous she was in the Metropolitan Police Department.

Because of the scientific laws summarized by the Mumu Police Department and verified by experiments time and time again - especially the armed helicopter attack that almost brought down the top management of the Metropolitan Police Department, it left a deep impression on everyone.

Bad things always happen around Mao Lilan.

So now even the young police officer who sent the letter knows the gang name of "Miss Fortune" in Maolilan.

If Mao Lilan's name is written on the letter, something is definitely going to happen.

"Okay, let me take a look."

Lin Xinyi and the young police officer looked at each other tacitly.

One delivered the letter and the other received it, carefully avoiding Mao Lilan's innocent and ignorant eyes.

Finally, Lin Xinyi opened the letter and read:

There are two such pieces of stationery inside, with roughly similar contents.

But one is addressed to "Mr. Lin" and the other is addressed to "Miss Maori":

"Mr. (Miss) Suwen is wise."

"I hope I can take the time to come and have dinner."

"——Forsaken by God·Phantom Boy, House of Twilight."

In addition, the agreed time for the banquet was also written at the back of the letter.

Attached to the letter was a bearer check filled with 2 million yen, making the invitation look sincere.

But

"Why is this letter written without beginning or end?" Lin Xinyi frowned slightly: "Where is the Twilight Hall?"

"And the signature of the sender"

"'Forsaken by God·Phantom Child'?"

This signature that was full of aura gave Lin Xinyi goosebumps.

And the check of 2 million yen was completely unable to attract him, who was already "supported" by a rich woman.

If this matter hadn't involved Mao Lilan, Mao Lilan involved Conan, and Conan had involved human lives, Lin Xinyi wouldn't have wanted to read more of this letter that refused to speak human words.

"What does this signature mean?"

Lin Xinyi held the invitation letter that seemed to be sent by the Riddler and was confused.

There was no way, he didn't take any extra classes in Hawaii, so his knowledge was relatively narrow.

Faced with this kind of word puzzle surrounded by clouds and mountains, he can only be confused.

Conan on the side frowned, as if he had thought of something quickly.

But before Conan could find a chance to speak, Subaru Okiya solved the puzzle at a speed that was not inferior to him:

"Forsaken by God·Phantom Child."

"A phantom is a phantom."

"Zai means young animal."

"The child abandoned by God refers to the goat that has not been blessed by God in the New Testament. In other words, the invitation refers to the 'little goat'."

"In English a goat is called goat, and a baby goat is called ."

Okiya Subaru showed off his detective-level puzzle-solving abilities with a calm expression:

"Kid."

After saying this word, Subaru Okiya couldn't help but have a hint of surprise on his plain expression:

"That is, Kaitou Kidd."

"Kidd?" Lin Xinyi was a little surprised:

Is this letter from Kaito Kidd?

How is this possible?

Kidd obviously.

He quietly looked at Conan and asked the famous detective for advice.

Conan could only nod silently to confirm:

"Yes, this guy is right."

"This" Lin Xinyi's expression became even weirder:

Kidd has long been recruited by the Metropolitan Police Department and is now busy cooperating with the Japanese Public Security Bureau to deal with another organization.

In his spare time, he also spends his time dating his girlfriend, Miss Nakamori.

Where did he find the time to act mysterious?

And if Kidd wants to find him for dinner, does he still need to send a letter of entrustment?

Can't we just call directly?

"Mr. Lin"

"Since this is an invitation from Kidd, do we want to accept it?"

Mao Lilan asked with a strange expression.

Both she and Conan knew Kidd's current real situation, and naturally knew that the person who sent this invitation letter would definitely not be some kind of Kaito Kidd.

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster, and it's best not to go.

but

Lin Xinyi looked at Mao Lilan and Conan:

This is obviously a posture that will kill people.

"Better go."

Lin Xinyi thought for a while:

Although he knew there must be something strange behind this invitation, he also expected that people might die on this trip.

But just like the last time on the American Island. If he had gone in time, he might have been able to prevent the real tragedy from happening.

"However, this matter involves 'Phantom Thief Kidd' after all."

"I'll call Minister Odagiri first to report the situation."

Lin Xinyi temporarily suspended the discussion, then avoided Subaru Okiya, an outsider who was still estranged, and walked aside to call Minister Odagiri.

After receiving the call and understanding the situation, Minister Odagiri’s reply was also surprising:

He already knew this.

Because the invitation letter was not only sent to Lin Xinyi, but also directly to the home of the police director.

It was sent to the hands of the famous detective White Horse Detective, the son of the White Horse Police Chief.

He was once Kaitou Kidd's old enemy.

But Detective White Horse now knows the true identity of Kaitou Kidd.

Moreover, he has become an inseparable good friend with his old enemy, rival, and classmate.

Therefore, Mr. Charming was not interested at all in this invitation letter that pretended to be a gay friend, and he had no intention of accepting the invitation to the banquet.

Kidd himself was too busy fighting with the mysterious organization to deal with these crooks.

The Metropolitan Police Department and the Japanese Public Security Bureau had no intention of getting involved in this incident after learning about it from Detective White Horse.

Because for law enforcement agencies like them, don't see too many such things.

There are even swindlers in society who pretend to be Qin Shihuang to get money from people.

There are even more boring people who use Kid's name to make jokes and pranks.

If we have to take care of this kind of thing every time we see it, how can the already stretched police force be enough?

And this invitation letter was sent to a famous detective, and there was a detective novel-style puzzle written in the letter——

From this look, it seems that those private detective enthusiasts are inviting their colleagues to a door-to-door gathering again, and they are doing some kind of "Detective Koshien" in private.

In this era of popular detective worship, similar things are also common.

As law enforcement and intelligence agencies with many affairs, the Metropolitan Police Department and the Japanese Public Security Bureau are unwilling and have no need to intervene in this kind of private detective gathering.

"Lin, there is no need for you to pay attention to this invitation from a private person."

"Compared to those rich people who are so bored that they pretend to be clever and invite famous detectives to go home for a party, the Metropolitan Police needs your wisdom more."

This is the opinion of Minister Odagiri.

"But Miss Mori also received the letter."

"." There was silence for a while.

Minister Odagiri quickly understood the real intention of his call:

"Okay. I'll give you two more days off."

"Go back quickly."

Lin Xinyi's holiday schedule once again kept pace with that of Didan Primary School.

After completing a rare three-day long shift, he was granted another two days of leave from his leader.

"OK, thank you, Minister."

Lin Xinyi hung up the phone with satisfaction.

After he had a premonition that another person might die on this trip, he had already planned to accept the invitation and go to the banquet.

Now that the fake has been approved, the next thing to figure out is the address of this mysterious dinner.

"The House of Twilight."

Lin Xinyi took out his mobile phone and entered the text message, asking Noah's Ark to help him check the address online.

The query results show:

"Twilight House, located in Tottori Prefecture."

The address was quickly found.

But Lin Xinyi saw this sentence immediately:

"The museum was built between the Meiji and Taisho years and was the ancestral home of the legendary rich man Karasuma Renya."

"Karasumaren?!" These four characters shocked Lin Xinyi.

He didn't expect that this mysterious invitation could be related to the organization's boss.

Fortunately, if you continue reading, you will soon be able to read words like this from the information:

"Forty years ago, after the death of the legendary billionaire Renya Karasuma, the business empire Karasuma Group founded by his mother and son quickly fell apart with the death of the helmsman and declared bankruptcy and reorganization."

"As a property owned by the Karasuma Group, the Twilight Pavilion was confiscated by the bank to pay off debts and resold at auction."

After reading this, Lin Xinyi breathed a sigh of relief:

He knew that Renye Karasuma was still alive, and even used white gloves similar to Kenzo Masayama to secretly control the new Karasuma Group after bankruptcy and reorganization, as well as the group's huge properties distributed around the world.

But regulatory authorities are not blind.

No matter how arrogant the Ziben family is, they can't play tricks without restraint to fool the supervision and transfer property.

No matter how smart Renye Karasuma is, he cannot secretly move real estate properties such as houses, shops, and office buildings that are directly in his name.

Therefore, after he faked his death to escape and went underground, Karasuma Renye completely gave up all the real estate in his name.

In the past 40 years, these residences, shops, and office buildings have changed hands and owners countless times.

Although checking the history can still find Karasuma Renye's head.

But these real estate properties have long had nothing to do with the Karasuma family and the organization.

Therefore, even if the Twilight Mansion written on the invitation is the ancestral home of the Karasuma family, this invitation most likely has nothing to do with the organization.

"Ask Belmod again when you go back."

"She should know better."

Lin Xinyi thought so, then put away his mobile phone and returned to Mao Lilan and others.

"How's it going, Mr. Lin?"

Mao Lilan asked impatiently:

"Are we still going?"

"Yes." Lin Xinyi was a little hesitant, but he still didn't change his original idea: "I have asked Minister Odagiri for leave."

"You go do the experiment first, and I have to study this invitation letter."

"Okay." Mao Lilan nodded honestly.

Although she knew there was something fishy about this invitation, she still recognized Lin Xinyi's decision.

After all, which of her trips has been uneventful?

Even if you stay at home and don't go out, people may die near your home.

"That." Seeing Lin Xinyi and Mao Lilan, master and apprentice forming a tour group with ease, Okiya Subaru, who had been silent for a long time, couldn't help but say:

"Mr. Lin, Miss Maori, may I ask?"

"Can I travel with you?"

"Huh?" Lin Xinyi was slightly stunned:

Subaru Okiya wants to come along?

Of course not!

This Twilight Pavilion has something to do with Karasuma Renye. He is still hesitant to take the risk of even old acquaintances such as Mao Lilan and Conan.

How could I let Subaru Okiya, a stranger I had just met for two days, follow me?

What if this invitation really has something to do with the organization?

Lin Xinyi instinctively refused to agree.

When Subaru Okiya saw the conflict in his eyes, he secretly thought that he had acted too hastily:

In just two days, he first moved next door to Lin Xinyi, then took the initiative to become his disciple, and now he insisted on going on a trip with him and Mao Lilan.

This was somewhat fanatical and excessive enthusiasm, which obviously caused the forest management officer to instinctively resist.

But if you don't insist on traveling in the past, it will be difficult to closely monitor the target, which always makes people worried that important clues will be missed.

"Mr. Lin, Miss Maori, blame me for being a little abrupt."

"I may still be a stranger in your eyes."

"But you two have long been very familiar to me in my heart."

Okiya Subaru gathered his emotions for a moment and asked sincerely:

"I have no other intention, I just want to become friends with everyone as soon as possible."

He put on the fan character he had created.

For an adult man with extraordinary IQ to pester another man so enthusiastically, it may seem strange to outsiders.

When forced, Lin Xinyi might even wonder why he wanted to get close to him so urgently.

But if you add in the persona he just set for himself of "admiring Miss Maori", this eager and deliberate approach seems to be reasonable.

after all

Who doesn’t like traveling with a beautiful senior?

"This" Lin Xinyi did not doubt Okiya Subaru's intentions, and under the subtle hint of the other party's micro-expression, he explained to him in his heart:

"Is this guy really attracted to Miss Maori?"

"That's why you have to pester me to travel with you?"

Lin Xinyi cursed in his heart, and his expression became weird.

If this is the reason, there is no need to be too guarded against him.

As long as Mao Lilan agrees, it is not a problem to travel with Okiya Subaru.

But not this time.

This trip has something to do with Karasuma Renya after all.

Lin Xinyi himself has not yet made up his mind to go to the banquet, and now he dare not make the decision to bring an outsider like Subaru Okiya.

"Mr. Subaru, I understand what you mean."

"It's not that I don't want to take you with me."

"But the research in the laboratory has already begun. There must be someone knowledgeable to take care of it."

"If Miss Maori follows me and you follow me, no one will do the experiments here."

Lin Xinyi found a high-sounding excuse:

"So I'll leave it to you this time, Subaru."

"But..." Subaru Okiya looked embarrassed, as if he wanted to say something more.

But Lin Xinyi was ahead of him and patted his shoulder enthusiastically:

"I know you will definitely have objections if I leave you here alone to conduct experiments."

"But we are not going on vacation this time, but to investigate the whereabouts of 'Phantom Thief Kidd'."

"Everyone is serving the people, but the content of their work is different."

After being a leader for a long time, he always talks in the same way:

"You must know that a machine becomes a solid whole because it is connected and fixed by many screws."

"Although a screw is small, its effect is immeasurable."

"So, Mr. Subaru"

"We all have to do our part well and carry forward the screw spirit of Dove Life."

Okiya Subaru: "???"

The FBI investigator's eyes suddenly became sharp.

"Ahem." Fortunately, Lin Xinyi also reacted.

His expression instantly brightened.

The voice also has spirit:

"The screws are small and light but very strong."

"It is these small screws that support Japan!"

"This is the secret of the rise of our Japanese brothers - the craftsmanship of the great nation!"

The apprentice of the sushi god has to wring towels for a year before he is qualified to learn to fry eggs, and it takes ten years to fry eggs before he is qualified to learn nigiri sushi.

You will be my apprentice, and raising maggots for a few days is not too much, right?

"There is also a way out of ordinary work."

"Young people who have just entered the industry should not be too impetuous. They still need to work down-to-earth for a while first!"

Master Lin consoled him sanctimoniously.

Okiya Subaru: "."

Okay, he got the idea.

After all, we just have to let him stay here as a scientific research worker?

Okiya Subaru thought about it carefully and finally nodded in agreement:

"Mr. Lin, I understand."

"I'm going to stay and get the job done this time."

"but."

Hearing Lin Xinyi's chicken soup for the soul just now, he already had some bad premonitions in his heart.

It's not that he can't do this job.

But he went through all the trouble to come undercover, not just to help the Metropolitan Police raise maggots.

This time I rejected him with such a high-sounding reason, but what about next time?

You won't let him stay here to raise maggots next time, right?

"Mr. Lin"

Okiya Subaru thought for a moment and asked cleverly:

"How long will it take for this experiment to end?"

If he can't finish the experiment, will he have to stay here to raise maggots in the future?

"How long?" Lin Xinyi replied casually: "About twenty days."

"This" Okiya Subaru frowned slightly:

Twenty days is a bit long.

But if this is regarded as a long-term undercover mission, then raising maggots here for twenty days to gain trust is barely acceptable.

He was convincing himself in his mind.

Just listen to Lin Xinyi slowly add:

"Once you are familiar with the experimental procedures in these twenty days, the experiment can officially begin."

"Officially starting?" Okiya Subaru's mouth twitched:

Co-author: The experiment hasn’t officially started yet?

"Then what we are doing now is..."

"Preparatory experiment, you can also call it 'practical training'." Lin Xinyi looked at him with a strange expression: "You are also a graduate student with scientific research experience. You haven't noticed until now. What we are doing now is basically Isn’t this a formal experiment?”

Okiya Subaru: "."

His mind was not on the experiment at all, so he didn't think too much about it.

At this time, I only heard Lin Xinyi explain:

"You need to control variables when doing experiments. You should know this, right?"

"What we are doing now is an 'indoor' experiment. It is just an indoor experiment. How can we study the natural succession rules of the necrophilic insect community in the entire Tokyo area?"

"Indoor and outdoor environmental conditions are completely different. If we only study the succession patterns of insect communities in indoor environments, what should we do if we encounter cases that occur outdoors?"

"Well" Subaru Okiya struggled to keep his expression calm: "What do you mean?"

"After the indoor experiment, do we have to do another outdoor experiment?"

"No, no, no." Lin Xinyi didn't notice Okiya Subaru's increasingly ugly expression at all.

He just explained very patiently:

“The variables are not just ‘indoor’ and ‘outdoor’.”

“The indoor and outdoor environments are different, the environment in high-rise buildings is different from that in low-rise buildings, the environment in the city center is different from that in the suburbs, and the environment in the suburbs is different from that in mountainous areas such as Mount Takao and Mount Untori.”

“In the same way, ‘adult pig carcasses’ are different from ‘young pig carcasses’, and ‘obese pig carcasses’ are different from ‘lean pig carcasses’.”

"And for the next period of time, the season in most parts of Tokyo will be spring."

"After spring is over, as long as the weather can remain constant for a period of time and in a certain area in summer, autumn, and winter, experiments under these different seasonal variables will have to be made up."

"So, if you take all these variables into account"

Lin Xinyi gently rubbed his chin and estimated an answer:

"Conservatively, this experiment will take a year, right?"

Okiya Subaru: "."

He just wants to ask one question now:

Is it too late to run away with the bucket now?