Command center, tent.

After a night of fierce fighting, "Conan" lay on the camp bed and fell asleep.

Outside the camp, the noisy shouts of soldiers were heard, awakening "Conan" from his deep sleep.

He slowly sat up from the bed, habitually reached for the black-rimmed glasses beside the pillow, put them on his face, and then walked out of bed.

When he opened the curtain of the camp tent, he found that the soldiers outside were carrying various supplies in the camp, and they looked a little anxious.

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

"Conan" casually stopped a passing soldier, and the soldier answered his question calmly.

"The mission is over, we have to return to our respective teams..."

After the soldiers completed their mission, out of instinctive fear in their hearts, they could not wait to leave this ghostly place where alien monsters once roamed, and did not want to stay for a moment longer.

At this time, a soldier standing nearby counting supplies, holding a list in his hand, asked the two soldiers who had just moved a diesel generator.

"No, according to the list, there are still two diesel generators missing."

A soldier did not hesitate and replied directly: "The commander just asked people to move two generators to the mining area."

"……Okay, I get it now."

The soldier who was counting the supplies didn't say anything more and just checked something off on the list.

"Conan" listened to the interactions between the soldiers and realized that his father was over there in the mining area.

After the battle, Lupine and his gang, Kogoro Mori, and Koichi Zenagata returned to the capital first, informing Ran Mori and Fujiko Mine that they could not change their bodies yet.

"Conan" acted cute and said that he wanted to stay here and go back with Kudo Yusaku after everything was sorted out.

In fact, this was his intuition telling him that the matter was not over yet.

When the last surviving Mi-Go was shot, the masked man from the FBI said that there might be another way to get his body back.

This method makes "Conan" have to pay attention.

He had been waiting here because he wanted to know from his father what method the masked man named "Qin" had said as soon as possible.

But while waiting in the tent, my tired body made my brain more and more drowsy, and I gradually fell asleep.

Could it be that the two generators shipped there are related to the method of replacing the body?

Thinking of this, "Conan" quickly raised his legs and ran towards the mining area.

…

A pair of short legs ran wildly on the forest path that had been trampled in just one night, and the weeds on the roadside repeatedly scratched the exposed calves under the shorts.

But "Conan" didn't care about these harassments. He ran along the path while reviewing the whole incident in his mind.

Thinking about it carefully, he actually felt something was wrong when he was in Japan.

At a reception for the Uyghur mission at the Sakura Hotel in Tokyo, a kid wearing a brown paper bag, about the same size as him and wearing the same clothes once attacked him from behind.

At that time, Kogoro Mouri caught the assassin who wanted to kill Princess Mira. The scene was chaotic, and not many people paid attention to the fight between the two children.

But in the chaotic scene, he vaguely heard an adult coming over and taking away the child who attacked him from behind.

And while holding the child, he also explained to the people around him that it was his child.

Looking back now, that voice is very similar to the FBI masked man named "Qin".

Also, when he was fighting Mi·Ge in the mine passage just now, "Qin"'s mask accidentally fell off. At that moment, "Conan" saw "Qin's" mixed-race face hidden under the mask.

"Conan" also has some impressions of this face.

It wasn't too long ago. Just a few days ago, the "Queen" and "Prince" suddenly resurrected and captured everyone. They escaped in the middle of the night and met up with the Changata Police Department who also escaped.

When the two of them returned to the center of the capital the next morning to collect intelligence and purchase supplies, they were waiting alone in an alley on the street for the Zenigata Police Department to come back. This man took the initiative to talk to them.

The impression on "Conan" was very deep, firstly because this man's mixed-race face was not common, and secondly because this man seemed to have recognized the wrong person and thought he was a certain person and wanted to take him back.

Looking back now, if this man is "Qin", then the person he admits to wrong can only be the "son" he has always carried with him.

But why did he confuse me with his son at that time?

Suddenly, "Conan"'s pupils froze, and a very scary, but completely logical reasoning came into his mind.

That's his face, very similar to his son's face!

very alike!

It's so like that even the people closest to you can't recognize it!

As soon as this reasoning appeared, "Conan"'s body shuddered, and a layer of goosebumps appeared from his shoulders to his back.

His running speed gradually slowed down, he silently took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed a phone number.

beep--

beep--

"Hello~cool kid, what's the matter?"

Teacher Judy's enthusiastic and energetic voice came from the other side of the phone, as if she had emerged from the shadow of Shuichi Akai's "sacrifice".

"Teacher Judy..."

"Um?"

"Can you give me back the mobile phone I lent you last time in the hospital?"

"Oh~ I remember didn't I return it to you before?"

"No, I mean my original mobile phone..."

"..."

Teacher Judy on the other side of the phone was silent for a while. She certainly knew what Conan's words meant.

She bought a new mobile phone of the same model and returned it to Conan, and Conan's original mobile phone had been submitted to the Japanese police as evidence of Shuichi Akai's death.

"...Cool kid, do you know something?"

Teacher Judy's tone suddenly became heavier, and the rise and fall of her chest gradually accelerated.

"Conan" stood in silence for a few seconds, then changed the topic and his tone suddenly became relaxed.

"No~ nothing happened..."

"I misremembered. Sorry to bother you, Teacher Judy."

After hanging up the phone, "Conan" kicked up the phone, but slowed down his pace towards the ore area.

At this time, he only had a wise saying from his idol Sherlock Holmes in his mind -

When you eliminate all impossibilities, no matter how unbelievable what remains, it must be the truth!

…

When "Conan" came to the mining area, Mi Go's body on the plastic sheet had almost melted.

He glanced at the turbid solution and walked straight to the mine.

Several soldiers are guarding the entrance of the mine.

Seeing "Conan" approaching, the soldier strictly followed Kudo Yusaku's orders and immediately stopped him.

"Kid, you can't go in."

"I have to go in."

The tone of "Conan" was not very strong, but it revealed unwavering determination.

The soldier quickly stepped forward, held down "Conan"'s shoulders, and reiterated, "This is the commander's order, no one is allowed to enter!"

"I don't care who orders it! I just want to go in!"

"Conan" suddenly started to rush into the cave entrance hysterically. Just as the soldiers were about to use more force to stop him, a steady voice came from inside the cave entrance.

"Let the boy go."

A tall adult man walked out of the mine, wearing a pair of elegant glasses on his cheeks. It was Kudo Yusaku.

He walked out of the dim mine, his body covered with light again, and ordered to the soldiers.

"The body is almost tanned. You go back to the base camp and call other people to move all the solution here."

"yes!"

The soldier was a little confused as to why the radio was on and not in use, but he still carried out the order firmly.

But in fact, it was Kudo Yusaku who deliberately lured these soldiers away.

When the soldiers left in a hurry, "Conan" looked up at his biological father and questioned him in a deep voice.

"They left?"

The eyes under the glasses were slightly startled, and Kudo Yusaku paused for a moment.

"Um."
To be continued...