The local criminals are incredibly rude.

Are you saying I can't handle this? Are you saying I can't handle this?

Ran Mouri continued, "In the past, when Shinichi was kidnapped, he always managed to escape danger thanks to his excellent intelligence and outstanding skills."

"But this time, the new clothes have been missing for three whole days."

"In these three days, Xin Yilian hasn't sent a single message."

"So I suspect that the person who kidnapped Shinichi this time is no ordinary person, and he may have gotten himself into big trouble."

Upon hearing this, Luo Wei asked, "When and where did Shinichi Kudo disappear?"

Ran Mouri said, "Three days ago, after school, Shinichi said he would wait for me to finish my karate club activity so we could go back together. But halfway through, he received a phone call and left in a hurry."

"After that, Shinichi never appeared again."

If he didn't disappear from that park, then it means Shinichi Kudo hasn't become Conan yet.

Luo Wei said, "Have you ever thought about what might have happened that Shinichi Kudo wasn't kidnapped, but rather that he was delayed by something else?"

Ran Mouri nodded and said, "Actually, that's what I thought at first too, but..."

She paused for a moment, then took a slip of paper from her pocket and handed it to Luo Wei.

Luo Wei took the note, on which a sentence was clearly written.

"Shinichi Kudo is in our hands. If you want him to live, make Yusaku Kudo pay a ransom of one hundred million US dollars."

Luo Wei clicked his tongue in disapproval; no wonder it wasn't a disappearance but a kidnapping.

They've already sent a ransom note; what else could it be but kidnapping?

Luo Wei said, "It seems that this time, Kudo Yusaku has dragged his son into this mess."

Ran Mouri could only manage a wry smile.

In fact, that's what she thought too.

Yusaku Kudo is not only Shinichi Kudo's father, but also a world-renowned mystery novelist, whose representative work is the "Dark Baron" series.

His reasoning ability is even superior to Shinichi Kudo's.

This guy currently resides in the United States and, before going there, frequently helped the Japanese police solve cases.

After settling in the United States, she continued to write novels and often shared her deductions about cases while reading newspapers, thus making Kudo Shinichi's mother, Kudo Yukiko, a household name in the United States as the female detective known as the Baroness of the Night.

Besides, Yusaku Kudo seems to have connections within the FBI.

It is estimated that it helped the FBI solve many cases.

It's perfectly normal to be retaliated against.

However, no one expected that this time the target of revenge would be Yusaku Kudo himself, but his son Shinichi Kudo.

Does Yusaku Kudo know about this?

"Love asked."

Ran Mouri said, "I told Uncle Kudo the moment I received the extortion letter, and Uncle Kudo returned to Beika Town immediately."

"But there are too few clues at the moment. Even Uncle Kudo can't pinpoint Shinichi's location."

Lo Wei also agreed with this point.

With just a blackmail letter that was completely incomplete, without even specifying the time and place of the transaction, Yusaku Kudo would have no way of pinpointing Shinichi Kudo's location unless he possessed magic.

Even in deduction, sufficient clues are required.

Sonoko Suzuki said, "Ran has been so worried about this that she hasn't been sleeping well, so I brought her here for a massage. When Nanami heard about it, she told us, 'God, you can help.'"

Luo Wei turned to look at Aoyama Nanami and said with a wry smile, "You came to me for something like this?"

Aoyama Nanami clasped his hands together and pleaded, "Please, God, calm your anger. It was my presumptuousness that disturbed you, but Sonoko and Ran are truly my good friends."

"Please, Your Majesty, have mercy and help them."

Luo Wei shook his head and said, "I'm not angry with you because of this. I'm glad that you think of me, a deity, when you encounter difficulties. It shows that my followers rely on me."

"But at the same time, I'm very unhappy. Do you know why?"

Ran Mouri (Zhao Ma Zhao) and Sonoko Suzuki remained silent, too terrified to speak.

Aoyama Nanami shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.

Luo Wei said, "What makes me angry is that you could have handled this yourself, but you wanted to bother me. Although I'm glad you think of me when you need something, I don't think of you in every single thing like you do."

Aoyama Nanami seemed to understand. "What the deity means is that he hopes I will rely on you when I encounter problems I can't solve, rather than relying on you for everything, right?"

Luo Wei nodded with delight, "You're a promising young man."

Aoyama Nanami said with some hesitation, "But can I really solve this kind of problem?"

Luo Wei complained, "I've placed a lot of magic in the believer platform, including a tracking spell. If you learn this spell, you can track Shinichi Kudo's whereabouts based on his daily necessities."

"Then, finding Shinichi Kudo will be a piece of cake."

100. The Strange Things in Urban Legends

Tracking magic?

I don't know if this magic exists in the Believers' Platform.

Aoyama Nanami was completely bewildered, unable to recall whether this magic existed within the Believer Platform.

There was no way around it; Rowe had stuffed far too much magic into the believer platform.

While it's not as exaggerated as 103,000 books, there are still over a thousand completely different kinds of magic, both big and small.

There's no way to see all these spells in a short time.

Aoyama Nanami only chose a few spells that suited her; she didn't touch or even look at the others.

Now that Luo Wei has pointed it out, she suddenly blushed a little.

She immediately said, "I'll go see it now."

After saying that, Aoyama Nanami's consciousness entered the believer platform to learn tracking magic.

Sonoko Suzuki asked, looking completely bewildered, "Is it really okay to learn magic now?"

Although she had never studied magic, she knew that a completely new form of magic was not so easy to master.

Just as Ran Mouri was about to say something, Nanami Aoyama suddenly spoke up, "I'm back, God."

"How's your study going?" Luo Wei asked.

747 "I've got it." Aoyama Nanami patted his chest, indicating that there were no problems.

Ran Mouri looked completely bewildered.

Sonoko Suzuki remarked, "Learning magic this fast?"

Aoyama Nanami subconsciously said, "Of course it's not fast. It took me about a month to learn this magic."

A month?

Sonoko Suzuki was even more confused; no matter how she looked at it, only a second had passed.

"I've enchanted the platform I built for my followers with time-constant magic, so no matter where they stay for a month or a year, the real world won't change much," said Lovi.

“You feel like only a second has passed, but in reality, Nanami has been in that place for at least a month.”

Wow, there are actually such wonderful places in the world.

Doesn't that mean that if one is willing, one can stay in that place for decades?

Wouldn't that indirectly prolong one's lifespan?

Nanami Aoyama turned to Ran Mouri and asked, "Ran, do you have any stationery or clothes that Shinichi Kudo used?"

Ran Mouri nodded quickly and said, "Yes, but I'm at school right now."

Aoyama Nanami said, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go to school now."

Ran Mouri did not refuse; she also wanted to find Shinichi Kudo, who had been kidnapped, as soon as possible, and immediately took action.

The group left the massage parlor through the back door and headed towards Teitan High School. They soon arrived at Teitan High School in Beika Town.

At this moment, Teitan High School was completely dark, with its gates tightly shut and no one inside except for the patrolling security guards.

The group sneaked past the gates of Teitan High School and successfully infiltrated the school's teaching building.

Bright moonlight streamed in through the corridor windows, adding a touch of coolness and mystery to the quiet school.

Sonoko Suzuki suddenly said, "Hey, Ran, do you know about the Seven Mysteries of Teitan High School?"

Ran Mouri hummed in agreement. "At a time like this, you're telling me a ghost story?"

Luo Wei couldn't help but complain, "The Seven Wonders story is a bit too cliché, isn't it? Doesn't every school have one?"

Sonoko Suzuki said, "Is that so?"

Aoyama Nanami nodded in agreement. "Actually, my school also has similar legends, such as the doll that runs at midnight, the piano that plays automatically, the thirteen steps that disappeared, and Hanako in the toilet, etc."

Sonoko Suzuki couldn't help but sigh and complain, "What? So everyone's school ghost stories are the same?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Wei couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"You mean, these are also the Seven Mysteries of Teitan High School?"

Sonoko Suzuki nodded and said, "That's right, there are indeed strange tales such as Hanako with a toilet, the thirteen steps that disappeared, and the piano that plays on its own."

"I think I understand now," said Luo Wei. "These ghost stories are being deliberately spread."

Sonoko Suzuki was puzzled. "It can spread, why?"

Lo Wei explained, "Because many monsters are born from human fears, if certain ghost stories spread widely enough, the monsters in these stories will appear in the real world."

"If you go to the toilet now, you might actually run into Hanako."

Sonoko Suzuki couldn't help but shudder, her face turning pale. "Is this really possible?"

Luo Wei said, "Of course you can, and there's another advantage to doing this: even if you destroy the monster, it will be resurrected from the ghost story as long as there's no news about it."

"Therefore, urban legends such as the Eight-Foot Lady and the Slit-Mouthed Woman, which have already spread widely, are basically impossible to completely eradicate."

"Even if you encounter the Slit-Mouthed Woman today and destroy her, she will still be resurrected from people's fear in a few days."

"unless……"

Sonoko Suzuki listened intently and couldn't help but ask, "Unless what?"

"Unless you can erase the legend of the Slit-Mouthed Woman from people's minds, she will probably disappear if no one remembers the legend," Lovi said.

Aoyama Nanami said, "The Slit-Mouthed Woman is already a well-known legend. To erase this legend, we would have to modify the memories of at least hundreds of millions of people, which is basically impossible."

Sonoko Suzuki nodded in agreement. This project was too massive; the memories of hundreds of millions of people were not so easy to modify.

In any case, Sonoko Suzuki couldn't imagine who could do that.

"You are still too young."

Lo Wei stated that there are many people in the world who are capable of doing this.

However, these kinds of people are basically high-ranking demons and gods.

This kind of person is from a completely different world than beings like the Eight-Foot Lady or the Slit-Mouthed Woman.

No demon would target a mere urban legend.

It's like a president who's high above wouldn't target an ordinary person.

More importantly, if they really want to target beings like the Slit-Mouthed Woman.

There are far too many methods.

Erasing human memories of the Slit-Mouthed Woman is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive method.

They could have chosen to teach the Slit-Mouthed Woman the Sealing Technique.

In this way, even if the Slit-Mouthed Woman spreads widely, it won't make a difference.

"Here we are."

Just then, Ran Mouri, who hadn't spoken a word, suddenly stopped.

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