Chapter 58 The Inexplicable Letter
When I returned to Mikachou Gokuen, I had just driven downstairs when I happened to see Xiaoran walking out of the stairs of Maori Office.
Noting the summer car, Xiaolan waved her hand to Xiari and smiled happily.
"Brother Xia Ri, I'm going to find you!"
"Look for me? Is there anything wrong?" Xia Ri parked the car into his garage, got out of the car and looked at Xiaolan in confusion, "You might not have asked me to go to your house for dinner again, right?"
"If you come to have a meal, of course I will welcome you at any time." Xiaolan smiled and walked across the streets that were not too wide, and came to Xia Ri. "But you guessed wrong this time, I was not here to have dinner with you."
"That's good..." Xia Ri breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm already having a psychological shadow when I go to your house for dinner."
"Really..." Xiaolan gave Xia Ri a angri a look: "Brother Xia Ri, how can you say that..."
"Haha, it's just a joke!" Xia Ri rubbed Xiaolan's hair, "Tell me, what's the matter with me?"
Xiaolan naturally understood that Xia Ri was just playing a little joke with her, so she was not really angry. After hearing Xia Ri's inquiry, she became smiling again in a blink of an eye.
"Tomorrow, my dad and Conan and I are going to Yueying Island. Are you going to go together?"
"Yueshadow Island?" This was the first time that summer heard this place name. He asked curiously, "Is it an island near Tokyo? What are you doing there? Are you traveling?"
"Of course it's not traveling! Someone entrusted me to investigate the case!!"
Kogoro Maori's voice suddenly sounded above Suri's head. Suri looked up and saw Kogoro's upper body slowly poking out from a window on the second floor of the Maori Detective Office.
"Oh?" Xia Ri joked, "Is uncle's name already so loud in Japan? Someone outside Tokyo will come to investigate the case!"
"Hmph!" Kogoro smiled proudly, "Don't underestimate me, I am now a famous detective - Kogoro Mori! Haha...haha..."
"Yes, yes, yes...famous detective..." Xia Ri echoed perfunctorily, then asked in confusion, "But what kind of case is it? Do you need to go there with you specifically?"
However, what surprised Xia Ri was that his problem only brought Kogoro's helpless shrugging.
"To be honest, I don't know what kind of case it is."
"What? You don't know either?" Xia Ri was surprised.
"Well..." Kogoro scratched his cheek with his fingers and recalled, "Actually, I received an inexplicable letter last week, and the content of the letter was to ask me to go to Yueying Island."
"Inexplicable letter?" Xia Ri frowned.
"Here, that's the letter!"
As he said that, Kogoro raised his hand and threw down a letter from the second floor. The letter fluttered in the wind and fell on the ground. Xia Ri looked around and confirmed that there were no cars passing by on both sides of the street. He ran to the other side of the street and bent down to pick up the letter.
The envelope was the common type of envelope, but it had been torn apart. Xia Ri looked at it repeatedly and confirmed that there was nothing special. He took the letter out of the envelope.
There was only one piece of letter paper, and after seeing the content on the letter, Xia Ri finally understood what the "inexplicable" in Kogoro's mouth meant.
"The shadow on Moon Shadow Island will disappear again in the next full moon. I hope you investigate."
In just one sentence, it is all made of stickers with words. This type of font is like the colorful text that junior high school girls often play with. It seems that the person who writes letters must not want others to know their handwriting.
Let’s look at the signature again. The signature is Keiji Aso, and he also uses this sticker.
Will the shadow disappear again? What does it mean?
"This is not a prank, is it?" Xia Ri asked cautiously.
"I also suspected that this would be a prank. I had already thrown this letter into the trash can, but the day before yesterday I suddenly received a call from a stranger." Kogoro lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. "The person on the phone called himself Keiji Aso, and he had already transferred the cost of this investigation to my bank account first."
"I went to the bank to check it, hey... it's 500,000 yen..."
Five hundred thousand yen?
Xia Ri quickly converted it in her mind. The 500,000 yen was converted into RMB, which was more than 30,000, which was already a huge fee, and it was actually directly transferred to Kogoro's account. It seemed that the other party was full of sincerity, so there should be something that Kogoro really needed to solve.
At this time, Xiaolan walked to Xia Ri.
"How is it? Brother Xia, are you going? Because the opportunity is rare, I decided to go with Conan with my father, so I could take a good walk on the island."
Is it tomorrow...
Xia Ri touched her chin and thought about it.
Tomorrow is Saturday, Xiaolan and Conan have a break because of the school holiday. And he himself, the review of the art gallery these days has really made his nerves too tense, and it is time to go out for a walk and relax.
Moreover, the exhibition in the art gallery will not officially begin on Monday. I have already sent my works to the art gallery. When it is publicly displayed, whether to go or not, it will not affect the normal exhibition of the works.
Thinking of this, Xia Ri nodded.
"Okay, I have nothing to do anyway, so let's set off together tomorrow."
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The next day, when the weather was just shining, I drove the car in Summer, carrying Kogoro, Koran and Conan to Tokyo Pier.
Before going to bed last night, Xia Ri specially checked it online and found that Yueying Island is a not-so-famous island. The entire island is not only small in size, but also has no characteristics. In addition, it only has one boat back and forth on its pier every day, so few tourists choose to go there to visit.
Fortunately, Yueying Island is not very far from Tokyo, and it only takes five or six hours to get there by boat. And it is precisely because few outsiders go there that the island's natural ecology is kept very complete.
The ships heading to Yueying Island are common double-decker small passenger ships, and they are only 7:45 in the morning. Therefore, if you want to set out, you need to arrive at the dock early.
In summer, several people bought tickets to board the boat, but unfortunately they encountered thick fog before they even left the port. The visibility on the sea was very low, and the white surroundings made many passengers full of worry about the journey.
Although it is not seasick, there are more or less sea phobia in summer. He sighed in his heart and prayed in his heart, hoping that everything will go smoothly this time of the sea and never make any mistakes!
Chapter completed!