Stay away from Conan

Chapter 220 Cake and Secret Room

"Mr. Akechi, Gui'an. I saw the Shinkansen explosion on the news. I didn't expect that such a terrible thing happened on the train after I got off the train. I wonder if you are okay? Are you injured? Such a terrible thing happened. It’s a scary thing. Let’s put the investigation aside for now. I’ll go to my mother’s hometown with you, Mr. Akechi, after a while.”

Looking at the email sent by Hanada Emi, Gao Yuan frowned slightly. He didn't understand why Hanada Emi had asked him to go and investigate first, but now he suddenly changed his mind and said she would put it on hold for now.

Moreover, as a member of the organization with a code name, she got off the bus just before Gin and the others got on. Is there any connection between this? Does she know what Gin and the others are planning to do on the Shinkansen? If she knew, then the fact that she took the opportunity to get out of the car and let herself stay in the car - intriguing!

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan thought for a moment and did not choose to take the shuttle bus back to Tokyo. Instead, he continued to take the Tokaido Shinkansen. After arriving at Shin-Osaka Station at the end of the line, he transferred to the Sanyo Shinkansen. In the afternoon of the next day, he arrived Hanada Kochi’s hometown - Hiroshima!

However, after arriving at the address of Hanada Xiaozhi's hometown based on the information he originally investigated, Gao Yuan discovered that because the elders of the Hanada family had passed away long ago, the Hanada family no longer existed here.

At the same time, through interviews with nearby residents and investigations at the school where Hanada Kochi once attended, no trace of Asami Taro was found in the environment where Hanada Kochi grew up.

In other words, Asami Taro is not a figure that Hanada Kochi has been familiar with since childhood.

However, when I think about the fact that Hanada Kochi would go to Asami Taro to discuss it in that situation, that means Asami Taro should be someone Hanada Kochi trusts very much. So, how did they meet?

An actor who graduated from high school and a medical student, how did they get involved?

The investigation made no progress. Feeling a little helpless, Gao Yuan could only temporarily give up continuing the investigation in Hiroshima and go home. On the evening of the fourth day, he returned to Tokyo, then took the subway and got off at Mihua Station. After getting off, he took a taxi at the station. After staying in front of the safe for a while and making sure that there was no suspicious person, Gao Yuan calmly walked to the location of the safe that he had agreed with Hirota Masami.

"Hey! Isn't this Mr. Akechi!"

However, just when Gao Yuan was about to walk towards the safe, someone came out of the subway and stopped him - this voice?

Turning his head, he saw two girls walking together from the tram station, wearing the uniforms of Tedan High School, waving to him. Gao Yuan felt a little helpless - they were Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko.

Therefore, Gao Yuan could only temporarily give up on getting the items in the safe and greeted them:

"Moori-san, Suzuki-san, hello."

"What a coincidence, Mr. Akechi."

Mao Lilan stepped forward and greeted.

"Yes, what a coincidence. I meet you here."

Gao Yuan said, "Do you have any activities after school?"

Hearing this, Mao Lilan waved his hand.

"No. We just went to the cake shop in front of the station to pick up the cakes we ordered yesterday."

"The cake has been ordered."

Gao Yuan said, "What kind of special day is today?"

Gao Yuan asked somewhat curiously.

"No, Mr. Akechi."

Suzuki Sonoko said, "It's just that the new popcorn cake of that private cake shop has been very popular recently, so we wanted to try it... By the way! Mr. Akechi, why don't you come with us to have a look!"

"Popcorn...cake?"

Hearing this name, Gao Yuan felt a little strange and couldn't imagine that popcorn could be paired with cake, so he agreed to Suzuki Sonoko's suggestion and followed the two of them to a private cake shop not far away.

This is a small store with two Chinese characters in its name, namely "Mihua".

Walking into the store, the aroma of cakes hit your face. There were many various cakes on display in the small store. However, after looking around, Gao Yuan did not see the so-called "popcorn cakes".

"Strange, is there no one there?"

Seeing that the store was empty and no one else was there, Mao Lilan said with some surprise, "You obviously agreed with the store manager to pick up the cake at this time?"

"Maybe something is wrong for the time being."

Gao Yuan said, "After all, the store is still open, let's wait for a while."

In this regard, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko also agreed with this statement, so the three of them waited in the store for a while, while Gao Yuan wandered around the store. Then, the sharp-eyed Gao Yuan saw what should be the baking room behind the counter. On the window, there were several cakes with popcorn on them.

So, Gao Yuan curiously walked behind the counter and walked to the window, ready to see what the so-called popcorn cake looked like.

However, just when Gao Yuan walked to the window and looked inside, he could see through the window that in the baking room, a young woman was sitting on the ground, with her back leaning on the edge of a table. At every turn, there was blood flowing down the woman's head!

"Moori-san! Suzuki-san! Call the police immediately!"

Seeing this situation, Gao Yuan immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time walked to the door of the baking room, preparing to open the door and go in to take a look.

"Oh well!"

Although she didn't know what happened, Mao Lilan immediately took out her mobile phone and called the police.

"What's wrong! What happened!"

Suzuki Sonoko asked with a surprised look on her face, and planned to go to the window to see the situation in the baking room. Then, after seeing the woman with bleeding head in the baking room, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but widen her eyes, covered her mouth with both hands, backed up and exclaimed——

"It's... the store manager!"

Not having time to pay attention to Suzuki Sonoko, Gao Yuan tried hard to turn the door handle of the baking room, but it couldn't be turned at all - it was locked!

Therefore, Gao Yuan could only walk to the window, looked at the double glass windows that were pushed inward, and found that the window was not locked. When he was about to open the window and enter, he suddenly noticed something——

The cakes I saw in front of the window were placed on the windowsill in the baking room, and the height of these cakes was obviously higher than the lower edge of the window. In any case, as long as you push the window inward, the cakes on the windowsill will naturally be pushed off the window sill!

The door is locked, and opening the window will destroy the cake on the windowsill... This situation - is it a secret room?

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan continued to look into the room from the window and saw another door on the back wall of the baking room.

"Suzuki-san! Mori-san! You stay here and don't move!"

Gao Yuan told the two of them, and he immediately ran out of the store, walked around the alley to the back of the store, found the back door seen in the baking room, and tried to open it.

But obviously, this door is also locked!

The two doors of the baking room are locked, and the window cannot be opened in principle because of the cake - it is a real secret room!