Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 149: Crimson Star, Rei and Matsuda Jinpei

Matsuda Jinpei's words soon came true -

At noon that day, small fires broke out in two places... Fortunately, there were no casualties, only half of the building was burned down.

Looking at the fire scene, the laziness on Matsuda Jinpei's face quickly turned into solemnity.

"Forensic personnel, check if there are any traces of bombs here."

"Yes!"

After calling the people from the inspection department, he continued to investigate around the villa.

Inspector Megure and another Detective Shiratori went to another scene. Because Jinpei Matsuda had handled more fire and explosion cases than ordinary people, they both felt relieved, so they specially sent a small team to be responsible for this place.

The series of bombings during this period made Jinpei Matsuda very vigilant.

His intuition told him that there must be some unknown connection between these events...

"We must find the murderer as soon as possible!"

Jinpei Matsuda took off his sunglasses and looked coldly at the half-intact villa.

The bomber who killed his friend has not been caught yet, and the person who helped him defuse the bomb last time is also missing...

But because these two people are related to "bombs", Jinpei Matsuda almost always goes to the scene whenever there is a fire case - who knows if the fire was caused by explosives?

Jinpei Matsuda tried to find some clues of the criminal near the villa.

"Judging from the footprints on the lawn, someone must have fallen down from the fence..."

"Shoe size 47, probably a strong middle-aged man, about meters tall."

The footprints left in the garden next to Kurokawa Villa allowed Jinpei Matsuda to infer some information.

But it was of no real use - because there were no suspects, no witnesses.

Jinpei Matsuda scratched his hair, with a hint of annoyance in his eyes.

Just when he was at his wit's end, a lump of earth on the side of the villa caught his attention:
"This is……"

Jinpei Matsuda leaned over, picked up the "clod of earth", and sniffed it gently.

The pungent smell made his pupils shrink: "Is this gunpowder?!"

But why is he here?

Matsuda Jinpei narrowed his eyes and looked around quickly, only to find that these "soil pieces" were scattered all the way from the side of the villa to the backyard!
"Could it be that the gunpowder..."

Matsuda followed the scattered gunpowder to the backyard and found that a window at the back of the villa was open.

"..."

Didn’t the people who inspected just now walk around the villa?

Jinpei Matsuda has deep doubts about the professional level of his teammates.

"Crack~"

He originally wanted to go in through the back door to see what was going on inside the room, but the noise coming from the window stopped him in his tracks. He didn't hesitate and quickly climbed in through the window.

"Click~"

"Next door!"

Jinpei Matsuda quickly opened the door to the next room.

I thought I would see a bomb counting down or something, but...

He just made eye contact with a white-haired man who was sitting on the bed with sunglasses on his head.

And what the white-haired man was fiddling with was a broken bomb.

Matsuda Jinpei really didn't expect that there was someone else in the room, and he opened his mouth:

"…Who are you?"

……

"I?"

Lie pointed at himself, blinked, looked at the familiar police officer and smiled: "My name is Chi Yanlin, an enthusiastic... modern Tokyo citizen?" "...Huh?" Matsuda Jinpei's eyelids twitched twice, "Do you know what this is in your hand?"

"I know, it's a bomb~"

Lie smiled and played with the tools in his hand, his tone frivolous.

However, it was this upturned ending that stimulated Matsuda Jinpei. The scene from many years ago instantly appeared in his mind. He looked at Lie in disbelief:
"You, you are the one from three years ago, the one..."

Matsuda Jinpei took a long time to come up with an adjective: "The man in the helmet who rushed to defuse the bomb with me?"

'Click! '

Lie used a little force to completely dismantle the explosive bag filled with gunpowder into parts, scratching his hair in annoyance, "Well~ It's me, Officer... But why did you come here so quickly? Can't you wait for me to dismantle this thing?"

Matsuda Jinpei was stunned for a moment, looking at the unformed bomb, the corner of his mouth twitched:
"You, you're not going to follow the bomber and defuse all the bombs he set, are you?"

Last time, this guy followed behind someone and defused the biggest bomb first.

Lie put the tools back into his small sack, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "One of them exploded when I just started to dismantle it... The other party set up a lot of them, and I didn't have time to dismantle them."

"A lot?! How much is it approximately?" Jinpei Matsuda was shocked and asked hurriedly.

He didn't treat Lie as an outsider at all.

Lie blinked and propped his chin with his hands: "It's just as much as a gunpowder magazine..."

Matsuda Jinpei: "..."

It turned out to be the thief who stole the gunpowder depot!

That being said...

Matsuda Jinpei looked at Rei in silence: "You just watched the criminals empty the gunpowder magazine? Couldn't you stop them?"

Lie sighed heavily and answered irrelevantly: "I also want to move, but when I went there, it was empty..."

Matsuda Jinpei rolled his eyes and said, "...No, I asked you to stop it, not to move it."

Can we communicate well?

"Yes, yes~" Lie looked at him with a smile, "Mr. Officer, you are very special...Aren't you afraid that I am a criminal?"

"How could a criminal stay at the scene to defuse the bomb after placing it?" Matsuda Jinpei originally wanted to go over and take away the broken bomb, but seeing Rei's protective expression, he didn't do it. "I just didn't expect to meet you in this situation."

Jinpei Matsuda had a complicated expression.

He has been looking for this guy for 3 years...and he turns out to be in Tokyo!
And it happened right under his nose!
"I never thought that you were the detective that Inspector Megure talked about every day who helped him solve cases."

When Rei announced the name, Jinpei Matsuda realized something.

Lie put the intact plastic material into a sack and corrected him, "I'm not a detective, I'm a mystery enthusiast. Mr. Maori is the detective."

"It does not matter."

Matsuda Jinpei looked at him seriously, "Tell me, where are the remaining bombs? We must defuse them before they explode!"

"Okay~"

Lie stood up with the sackcloth bag, walked up to Matsuda Jinpei, and smiled and stretched out a finger: "But since you have found me, you must agree to one condition of mine, otherwise..."

"I'll kill you~"

Looking at Lieyang's bright smile, Matsuda Jinpei was certain that if he refused, the other party would strangle him to death without mercy with the hand on his neck.

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Let’s go back to May 5rd.

Hiroki Sawada looked at Rei who hurried out, not knowing what expression to put on...

Noah must know something, but he just hesitated and refused to say it.

After hesitating for a long time, Hiroki decided to go out and take a look, otherwise he was really worried about Conan... even though he knew that the other party was actually a high school student.

"Doctor Chengshi, I'm going to Green Park to check on the family, please!"

"Hey?! Hiroki, be careful!"

(End of this chapter)