Conan: Starting out by living with a divorced older sister

"I'm not going either. I'm not feeling well. I'll just rest in the hotel and wait for you to come back. I'm not that interested in stage plays," said Miyano Shiho.

"Mom, I actually want to go with Dad to meet his police friend. Can I not go too?"

"Shiho can! You can't! Your godmother asked to see you, it would be rude if you didn't go, that won't do." Shinichi's thoughts were directly shattered by Yukiko.

Everyone came to the hotel and each got a room. Kudo Yusaku gave the reason that he was busy with a manuscript and didn't want to disturb Yukiko's rest.

Murong Zhen sent Miyano Shiho back to her room and gave her a massage treatment. The same result was achieved. This time, Miyano Shiho was not as ashamed as before, because it was not the first time after all. She had no choice but to drag Murong Zhen into the water. The result is predictable. For her behavior of adding fuel to the fire but not putting it out, Murong Zhen could only leave the room with a helpless look on his face.

======Time and space dividing line======

At 6:30 in the evening, Yukiko suddenly said, "Oh, I forgot. Sharon told me that if I go there an hour earlier, she can take us backstage to meet the actors. It takes about 40 minutes to drive from here. It seems that I am too late. Oh..."

Seeing Yukiko looking a little disappointed, Murong Zhen naturally didn't want to see it, so he said, "It should still be in time, everyone get in the car."

Seeing Murong Zhen's confident tone, Yukiko and the others did not doubt anything and followed him into the car. The car started, and Murong Zhen sped along the way, using his advanced driving skills to the fullest, accelerating and overtaking all the way, even attracting the attention of the traffic police. Although it might be a bit troublesome, Yukiko also experienced the feeling of speeding along the way. If it were her, she might do the same. In this regard, the two of them were very compatible. But the problem also had to be solved, so Yukiko quietly explained the situation to Sharon, and Sharon told her not to worry.

Chapter 116: First Meeting with Sharon

At 6:50 in the evening, a business car stopped at the gate of the Broadway Ghost Theater. A man in a windbreaker was waiting there on the roadside. As soon as Yukiko saw the man's appearance, she knew what was going on and he was waiting to watch her performance.

Along with their business car came a police car. The people who got out of the police car were about to step forward to carry out the operation when they saw a man in a windbreaker next to the car. This man was their chief. The chief said, "They are my friends. They are here for some special circumstances. You guys go, I'll handle it." The policeman said yes and left the scene.

When everyone got off the car, Yukiko smiled and said, "Your disguise skills are really getting better and better, Sharon!"

"You saw through me. You've become so beautiful all of a sudden. You weren't like this the last time we met. We were on par before, but you've completely surpassed me this time." The man's voice just now was a man's, but it immediately became a very pleasant female voice. Although it was a little cold, it was also very charming. Then he took off the mask on his face.

"No way! It's a secret, I'll tell you later! It's not that I saw through your disguise, but Director Radishou Raywood should be discussing the case with Yusaku right now." Yukiko said.

Murong Zhen was amazed when he saw Sharon taking off her windbreaker and returning to her original appearance. A short black cheongsam perfectly outlined her figure. Her short golden hair and round metal-rimmed glasses showed her sexiness and intelligence. Her contradictory temperament was perfectly integrated and reflected in her. The visual presentation of 1+1 being greater than 2 was achieved.

"Are you Sharon? I'm Mao Lilan, I'm your loyal fan, it's an honor to meet you, can you sign an autograph for me?"

Looking at the girl in front of her, Sharon paused for a moment, not knowing whether she was thinking of her own youth or her daughter. Then she took out a handkerchief from her pocket. On one corner of the handkerchief was embroidered her signature. She handed it to Xiaolan: "Thank you for your love. This handkerchief is for you. It has my signature on it!"

"Thank you, I will treasure it!" Xiaolan happily held the handkerchief to her chest.

"Yukiko, who are these two?"

"Okay, let me introduce you again. This is the godson you've always thought of, and my son, Kudo Shinichi."

"Hello... hello!" Shinichi really couldn't call his godmother, and after hesitating, he could only say hello.

"It's okay, just call me that when you're familiar with me!" Sharon thought Shinichi was very interesting.

"This person, whom I just introduced, is called Mao Lilan. She is the daughter of my best friend. She is here on a graduation trip. She and Shinichi are childhood sweethearts. She may be my daughter in the future." The last sentence was whispered in Sharon's ear.

"Yes, a very cute and beautiful girl, especially her eyes, so clear and holy like an angel. I like her very much!" Xiaolan was so happy that she felt a little embarrassed after hearing Sharon's praise.

"This one is Murong Zhen, who came to the United States to study and is staying in my house." Yukiko did not introduce Murong Zhen in detail.

"Oh? But staring at a lady is not very polite, right?" Sharon said meaningfully.

Murong Zhen knew she was talking about him, so he said calmly, "Everyone loves beauty. You are so beautiful. If I don't appreciate you, wouldn't it be a waste of your stunning beauty?"

"This is the first time someone has talked about impoliteness so clearly."

Murong Zhen did not continue her words, "However, even a perfect jade has its flaws. Ms. Sharon's outfit is missing something."

"Oh? Then tell me, what's missing?" Sharon wanted to see what tricks this boy was trying to play.

Murong Zhen reached into his pocket and took out a pure white pearl necklace. Each pearl was full and round, and of exactly the same size. He handed it to Sharon.

Sharon stood there in a daze, not only because the pearl necklace was beautiful, but also because she was actually wearing a similar pearl necklace today, but it broke inexplicably. This incident made her, who respected materialism, a little uneasy.

Yukiko thought Sharon was embarrassed, so she took the necklace from Murong Zhen's hand and put it on Sharon's neck herself. Sure enough, with the necklace as a backdrop, her overall temperament was enhanced again.

Sharon reacted and said thank you to Murong Zhen, then led everyone to the backstage of the theater, and handed the car to the parking attendant.

======Scene dividing line======

At this time, in the police station, Yusaku Kudo was discussing the case of the highway devil with the chief, Radishou Raywood, whom Sharon had just pretended to be. There was also a middle-aged man in a suit next to them.

"Mr. Kudo, I have no other choice but to ask you to come and help me. If I can't solve the case, I may lose my position. This is the head of the FBI investigation team, James Blake, and he is also here for Highway Demon."

"Chief Radixiu, you're welcome. Hello, Team Leader James!"

"Hello, Mr. Kudo. You are a friend of Radishu, so I naturally trust you very much. We are not hiding anything from you. Our people have sent us inside information that the Black Organization is coming to New York to contact this Highway Devil and recruit him into the organization. We naturally don't want to see this, so we want to arrest the Highway Devil as soon as possible. But apart from knowing this nickname, we don't know anything else, and now we are also confused."

"Okay, I see. Let's look at the details of the case first."

Kudo Yusaku began to check the information of each victim, including basic information, location of victimization, work situation, financial situation, family situation, usual preferences, etc., trying to find some common points.

After watching for a long time, Kudo Yusaku said, "I found that these victims actually have a common hobby, which is to watch stage plays. So please check which theaters these victims went to and which stage plays they watched within a month."

"Okay, I'll give the order right away."

"Also, the places where these victims died seem to be random, but if you look closely, they are indeed all around this group of unfinished buildings not far from the New York City Hotel. So I guess this may be a base of the highway demon."

"Okay, then I'll send someone to lurk over there and monitor the situation there," said James.

"Wait a minute, Captain James, I've actually come into contact with the black organization you just mentioned in a previous case. They are very rigorous and ruthless in their work, so they must have someone monitoring and directing them from behind. I hope you can consider this when you take action!"

"Mr. Kudo is indeed worthy of his reputation! I will pass on the order."

Chapter 117 Backstage Accident

Broadway Ghost Theatre

Sharon led everyone to the backstage. Many people were busy making preparations before the show started. In the leading actor's dressing room, important staff and main actors of the stage play gathered here. Looking at the threatening letter written in the red notebook and the broken apple that were mailed, everyone's face was filled with worry.

Many people naturally wanted to give face to the big star Sharon, so the director told everyone about the terrorist threats they had received. Everyone was panicked. Then he introduced the main actors to everyone: "This is Iberis Hamilton who plays Eris, this is Rose Hewett who plays Venus, this is Lila Sanchez who plays Hera, and the last one is Sith Flockhart who plays the Trojan prince, the archangel Michael in the back. After a while, he will sign a contract with an agency and move into the film industry."

Everyone introduced themselves one by one and greeted each other politely.

"Ms. Yukiko, nice to meet you. It's no exaggeration to say that you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, like an angel fallen to the earth!" The male protagonist Sis praised Yukiko loudly, and walked forward to hold Yukiko's hand and perform the hand-to-hand gift.

With a "snap", just as he was about to hold Yukiko's hand, Murong Zhen next to him slapped it away. Murong Zhen said unhappily: "It's okay to compliment you, but why do you have to use violence? We don't have such etiquette over there. Your behavior can be considered as hooliganism in our place, do you understand?" Yukiko was blocked behind Murong Zhen and smiled secretly.

Seeing that he had made a fool of himself in public, Xisi was somewhat angry and punched Murong Zhen, but Murong Zhen grabbed his wrist. Murong Zhen looked relaxed, but Xisi had a ferocious expression. No matter how hard he tried, Murong Zhen remained motionless. Murong Zhen looked at him with some amusement, thinking, you are a TM incompetent person, and you are still praising this pretty person and that pretty person. You are good looking but not useful. Aren't you uncomfortable?

Finally, the dispute was resolved after the director's persuasion. But Murong Zhen felt the malice of two of the four actresses. It was not the kind of malice that wanted to kill them, but the kind of malice that was very angry and said, "How can you be so hateful?"

Murong Zhen ignored this. Through his observation just now, he found that none of the five actresses were normal. First of all, the male protagonist Sis was at the best age for a man and was surrounded by beautiful women all day long, but he was impotent. However, he could maintain such an optimistic and cheerful state and even flirt with other women. It was very abnormal.

Secondly, except for the lady named Lila, who did not have a photo of Sith on her makeup mirror, the other three ladies had photos of Sith on their makeup mirrors. The difference was that Rose's photo was a still of Sith's angel image, while the other two were group photos with Sith. Their poses and expressions were somewhat intimate, so it was no wonder that they would have malice towards Murong Zhen, because they were both Sith's bootlickers.

Finally, the director suggested taking everyone on a tour. He explained as he toured until they came to a clothing warehouse. In addition to the many clothes hanging on the wardrobes on the ground, there were also many large armor-like props hanging from the ceiling with ropes. The director explained that this would save space better.

Xiaolan asked curiously: "Such a heavy armor, hanging from such a high place, if the rope loosens and falls down, wouldn't it be very dangerous?"

The director assured her, "No, we will arrange for regular inspections. We will also lower the armor to check for damage after a period of time and re-tie the ropes. We have never had an accidental fall so far."

However, sometimes you get slapped in the face so quickly!

"Ah!" In the crowd, Rose, who had already changed into complicated stage costumes, looked up at the sky and screamed loudly.

Everyone followed her gaze and saw a suit of armor swaying and falling from the sky above the crowd. Everyone moved in unison and ran to safe places in panic. However, Murong Zhen saw that Sith behind Rose ran away with a smug smile on his face.

Soon Murong Zhen knew why he had to smile, because Rose's skirt was caught by a sign on the wall next to her, leaving her no way to escape. At this critical moment, the kind-hearted Xiaolan wanted to save her with a determined look in her eyes, but was stopped by Murong Zhen, who completed the action of saving people for her. Murong Zhen flew over and threw Rose to the ground.

"Bang!" The heavy armor fell heavily on the place where Rose was standing, making a big hole in the floor. It is conceivable what the consequences would be if it hit Rose's head. Everyone shuddered.

When Murong Zhen pounced on Rose, he picked up a pistol with a silencer, which must have fallen from Rose's body. He put it into the space without having time to take a closer look. However, even in that moment, Murong Zhen noticed that there was something wrong with the gun. It was lighter than a normal gun full of bullets.

Soon, Rose finally came to her senses and bowed deeply to Murong Zhen to express her gratitude. Although Sith had a trace of regret, it flashed away very quickly, and he was still confident, as if everything had been arranged and everything was under control.

After such an accident, people lost interest in watching any further and instead gave time to the actors to calm down and prepare to perform on stage, because the tickets had already been sold and it was advertised as the last performance because the leading actor had decided to leave. In fact, they had considered replacing the leading actor, but Sith's angelic image had been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and in order not to ruin the play, they had to reluctantly let it disappear rather than have it trampled on at will.

Sharon said she had to leave first because she had something to do and could not watch the play with them. She said goodbye to Yukiko and the others one by one.

"Ms. Sharon, I have a performance soon, and the follow-up matters will probably last until 11 o'clock in the evening. I'm sorry I can't take you there. On your way back, you will pass by an unfinished building. I heard that there is a road demon who is very arrogant recently, so please be careful. I will be moving to the film and television industry soon, and hope to have the opportunity to work with you in the future." Sis said to Sharon who was about to leave.

Sharon said, "Okay, thank you for your concern!", then turned and left.

The words may seem normal to others, but to Murong Zhen, they seem a bit strange. After removing some redundant words, the remaining information seems to be conveying something, such as 11 o'clock in the evening, unfinished building, road demon, and cooperation!

Especially not to mention the highway demon. Murong Zhen is not a saint, but he hates this kind of perverted killer. Moreover, he can get the system reward of [Punish evil and promote good]. You know, there is no one around him who can punch in to complete daily tasks, so he is very interested in the highway demon.

The mysterious Sharon gave Murong Zhen an unusual feeling, so he did not dare to follow her rashly for fear of alerting the enemy, so he used a [Thousand Mile Tracking Talisman] on her.

Chapter 118: Ambush (revised)

After everyone dispersed, Murong Zhen found an opportunity to replace the bullets in the pistol he picked up, cleaned up the fingerprints on it, and put it back on Rose's body without anyone noticing. Then he followed Yukiko and others to the audience seats.

The seats were Yukiko and Ran in the middle, Murong Zhen next to Yukiko, and Shinichi next to Ran. The stage play began, and the lights in the auditorium became dim, so dim that even if the people next to them made some small movements, they would not be able to notice unless they looked carefully.

Shinichi next to him was telling Xiaolan the story before the stage play adaptation, and Xiaolan was listening with great interest. While listening to Shinichi, she was watching the stage play performance on the stage. She didn't notice Yukiko's restless body and her pretty face as red as an apple, or Murong Zhen's coat covering her legs.

It turned out that Murong Zhen's hand started to make little movements since the lights dimmed. He first tried to touch Yukiko's hand. At first, Yukiko was angry and resisted a little, but slowly she let Murong Zhen hold her hand. After getting the signal from Yukiko that she was no longer angry, Murong Zhen's hand began to become bolder.

Since Yukiko was wearing a skirt tonight, it was more convenient for Murong Zhen to have ulterior motives. He even covered Yukiko's legs with a coat to cover his appearance. The coat also reduced Yukiko's determination to resist. In the dim audience, she slowly got into Murong Zhen's rhythm and couldn't help herself. As for the content of the stage play, it was no longer within her perception.

======I am the scene dividing line======

Sharon parked the car in a secret garage and did not come out for a long time. Only a middle-aged man with silver hair, fierce eyes and wearing a brown jacket came out on a motorcycle, and the direction was exactly the unfinished building that Sis mentioned.

After arriving at the destination, I hid the motorcycle in the corner and slowly walked towards the dim unfinished building. Although the building was unfinished, there were still street lights on the surrounding roads, and the neon lights on the surrounding buildings also provided some light sources.

"Don't move!" A serious female voice came. The silver-haired man was slightly startled when he heard it. He took out his pistol and turned around quickly. He saw a woman with exquisite short blond hair and thin-rimmed glasses pointing a gun at him. His eyes shrank and he did not shoot immediately. In the moment of hesitation, he was shot by the short-haired blond woman. The man who took the initiative also fired a shot, but he had lost his aim and did not hit the woman. The man made a prompt decision and quickly rolled into the alley and disappeared into the night.

A long-haired man came over and said, "What's wrong? Judy, did you find anything?"

"Yeah, a middle-aged man with silver hair and wearing a brown jacket was hit by me and ran deep into the alley. Kamal, report the situation immediately to the higher-ups and request backup."

======I am the scene dividing line======

Gin and Vodka were sitting in a car parked on the street somewhere in New York.

"Brother, that woman sent a message saying that she has made an appointment with the road demon at 12 o'clock in the evening at a group of unfinished buildings. What should we do?"

"12 o'clock? We may not be able to see anything if we go there at this time. Based on my understanding of that woman, she should have made an appointment at 11 o'clock. If she wants to make some preparations, she may be there at 10 o'clock. Now the time is almost up, let's hurry over and see what kind of show she is going to put on!"

"Brother is awesome!"

When their car arrived at the destination, they heard two gunshots. Gin realized something and made a quick decision. He reversed and ran away, but was still hit in the right shoulder by a sniper rifle on a tall building. Knowing sniper skills well, he could see that the opponent did not hit the vital points directly and wanted to capture him alive. There was no fear on Gin's face, but a crazy smile. It seemed that the more critical the situation, the more excited he was, and he didn't know what fear was at all.

While driving away, he instructed the confused Vodka, "It seems that the undercover in our organization is quite powerful. Investigate carefully to see who has been acting abnormally recently, who is not in Japan, and who has come to the United States. Also, don't answer the call from that stupid woman. Let her suffer for her own stubbornness first."

"Brother, will that stupid woman not make it? We won't be able to explain to the boss if this happens."

"Humph! If she can't survive this, then let her die!" Although he said this, he continued to give the follow-up orders, "Let the people of New York launch attacks in several crowded places to cause riots."

"Okay, big brother! So where are we going now?"

"I see there's a New York City hotel nearby. Go there and use a fake identity to get a room. Tell someone to prepare some tools. And you drive farther away and find a place to destroy the car."

"Understood! Big Brother!"