Chapter 499: Invitation From ‘Cocoon’

"It's really not simple..."

After James was rescued, he was left alone. He stared at the members of the Young Detective Team, his eyes fixed on Conan, thoughtfully.

After thinking for a moment, James withdrew his gaze, and then planned to leave the scene quietly.

After all, he is also a senior officer of the FBI. It would be bad if he was caught by the Metropolitan Police Department...

"Mr. James?"

Fujino had been paying attention to James near the scene. Seeing that he wanted to leave, he walked forward and grabbed him with a smile: "Where are you going?"

"Forehead……"

James looked back and was silent for a moment.

When did this guy show up?

"Are you Mr. James Blake?"

Sato Miwako also rushed over at this time: "Please wait a moment and come back with us to take notes."

"But..."

James glanced at the black Chevrolet pickup truck not far away and said anxiously, "I have something very urgent to do now. My friends are still waiting for me."

"friend?"

Fujino glanced in the direction he pointed and happened to see a man wearing a knitted hat.

Obviously, it's Shuichi Akai.

"Oh...this friend of yours looks familiar."

Fujino smiled, as if he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, he didn't seem to have taken notes on the bus robber case last time."

"Is he the one who was left behind on the bus last time?"

Miwako Sato was surprised and continued: "Mr. James, please bring your friends to take notes together."

Akai Shuichi: "..."

Lao Deng, you talk too much!

James: "..."

How did I know that even though you have big eyebrows and big eyes, you don’t take notes!

…………

After finishing the transcript, I came out of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Fujino went to the parking lot to pick up the car, and several little ones were waiting at the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"The foreigner seemed to want to leave before taking notes, but Fujino caught him."

Hui Yuarai thought for a moment and said to Conan: "If you think about it, it feels a bit suspicious. Don't you feel something is wrong?"

"What's weird? I think he's quite nice."

Conan felt that those who liked Sherlock Holmes would not be bad people, and continued: "To be strange, it's just that the name is a bit strange."

"name?"

Haiyuan Ai thought for a while: "James Bond, James Dean, I think this name is pretty good."

"James Moriarty."

Conan said: "This is the name of Sherlock Holmes's old enemy, but if you think about it, if you weren't a Sherlock Holmes detective fan, you probably wouldn't know this, and the name James is quite common in the UK."

"It's really something you can think of."

Haiyuan Ai complained speechlessly: "Besides that, there is actually another point, that is, he is still a companion with the man who was on the bus last time... and he did not take any notes."

"You mean that guy named Akai Shuichi?"

Conan didn't pay too much attention: "I think it's a coincidence. After all, they are both Americans. Maybe they don't like the feeling of being interrogated by the police."

"You are too loose..."

Haihara Ai glanced at Conan and felt that this guy really didn't take the organization seriously.

Although she didn't feel anything was wrong with the old man, she definitely felt the aura of the organization from Akai Shuichi!

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A Chevrolet pickup truck drives on a highway in Tokyo.

"How about it? There's nothing extraneous, right?"

James wiped his glasses and asked Akai Shuichi.

"No."

Akai Shuichi drove the car: "After all, we are just here for a trip."

"But those kids were really not easy, they cracked the code immediately."

James leaned on the passenger seat: "But speaking of it...it was pretty good that the policeman noticed that I was planning to sneak away. He dragged us both away and made a record, but that way of breaking into the car was really bad." It’s so barbaric, just like the Russians.”

"He's not a police officer."

Akai Shuichi said in a deep voice: "He is just a high school student detective. He recently became a consultant to the Metropolitan Police Department, but it seems that he is not just a high school student detective..."

"oh?"

James was curious: "Is it Russian?"

"..."

Akai Shuichi was silent for a moment, wondering if his boss was colluding with Russia. Then he lit a cigarette and explained in a deep voice: "I mean the eyes, that kind of eyes are unmistakable."

"I don't see anything, but since you said so, he must not be simple... But since it has nothing to do with us, don't bother us too much."

James was no longer surprised by this nagging look. Then he put on his glasses and continued: "But it really shocked me. You actually cut off all your long hair."

"As the saying goes, correct your image and start over..."

Akai Shuichi took a deep breath from his cigarette: "After all, my old lover dumped me."

"You still can't let go, so what?"

James continued: "Did you come here specifically to get back together?"

"Ah...I will definitely make him regret it."

Akai Shuichi said solemnly: "He dumped me back then. This time, he must pay the price..."

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the other side.

Fujino sent the children home from the Metropolitan Police Department, and then took Conan Haibara Ai back to the 5th-chome of Yoneka Town.

"Fujino, the postman just delivered some mail, including your letter!"

As soon as Fujino returned home with Ai Haihara, Miyano Akemi took a letter and handed it to Fujino.

"My letter?"

Fujino looked at the envelope.

But nothing was found to prove the other party's information.

"Well, I feel weird too."

Miyano Akemi nodded: "There is only the receiving address on it, and the sender's name is still HS."

"Well, I understand, it should be the client's."

Fujino took the mail and then returned to his room.

"HS..."

Fujino looked at the sender's name and frowned.

Opening the mail, there was a stack of 10,000 yen bills, a disk, and several medals inside.

The top of the medal is white with blue stripes, and the bottom is a medal with a gray device.

"The medal...and the disk."

Fujino looked at it curiously, then picked up the disk: "So what do you mean...the information is on the disk?"

Fujino walked slowly to his big computer, unplugged the network cable, and then inserted the disk into the computer.

Accompanied by bursts of electric current sound, a red mosaic suddenly appeared on the screen, and then a recording was played:

[Detective Fujino, I have long admired you. I am HS. You should have received the gift in the letter. This is an invitation to the new era video game 'Cocoon' that will be released in half a month. The money is given by me personally. Your reward, as for the purpose of my invitation... you may know this after you arrive. 】

"biu——"

The buzzer sounded again with the sound of electricity, the mosaic interface disappeared, and then returned to the normal computer desktop.