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

Chapter 427 Bomb Deal
Rei was in charge of contacting the black market dealers who bought the bombs, so even though it was an assessment project for Matsuda, Rei still went along. However, when picking up the goods, he left it to Matsuda Jinpei to negotiate, and Rei was mainly responsible for being a 'judge' on the side, and at the same time preventing his capable subordinates from being cheated by these black market smugglers.

“This is it~ What a nostalgic place.”

After getting out of Jinpei Matsuda's car, Rei looked around near the pier and breathed in the salty air at the seaside.

Jinpei Matsuda locked the car and said ruthlessly: "I think this place may not miss you."

"How could it be!" Lie opened his eyes wide and looked at the cloudless sky. "Look, the weather is so good today. Even the heavens must be..."

"Woo woo woo~"
When he was halfway through his words, a cold wind suddenly blew by, and then a thick layer of clouds floated in from somewhere, completely blocking the sun.

The fierce smile froze on his face.

Matsuda Jinpei looked at him with his half-moon eyes:
Look, look, what else is there to say?

"...Hmm~ I think it must be too welcoming to me, so it's shy~"

Lie suddenly had an idea and came up with something to make amends.

But the next moment, a flash of lightning struck directly in front of the two people, and at the same time a loud rumbling sound came from the sky.

Lie was silent.

Silence is Jinpei Matsuda's Porsche 911.

"...Oh! I see. He is welcoming us and wants to cheer us up. So..."

"Rumble--"

The endless thunder roared through the sky, and the sky became dark in the blink of an eye. It didn't seem like one o'clock in the afternoon at all, but more like one o'clock in the morning...

He opened his eyes wide and glared at the dark clouds in the sky.

It’s strange. Why is the heaven always against him today?

“Ah, I think this is~”

Lie was still trying to save face, but Matsuda Jinpei, who felt the temperature drop, immediately went over and covered Lie's mouth: "Okay, stop talking."

He felt that if Lie continued talking, a typhoon might come today...

Dan Lie felt that the weather was unpredictable and had nothing to do with him. However, seeing Matsuda Jinpei's expression that said "if you say that again I will blow you up", he had to make an OK gesture in grievance.

Only then did Jinpei Matsuda let him go.

“Where is the person who made the deal?”

"It's right in front~" Lie pointed forward, "In that warehouse, I took everything away when I came last time. After such a long time, there should be a lot of goods again."

Matsuda Jinpei took a few steps and immediately stopped. He looked at Lie with an inexplicable expression: "What do you mean by should? Didn't you say you've contacted someone?"

"Yeah, I asked Noah to contact them." Lie Xiaoji nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice. "The other party said that he wants to stay out of the spotlight recently and will trade with us again after a while, so there must be something good."

Matsuda Jinpei: "..."

So, Lie actually didn’t contact anyone at all, right?
If they just showed up at the door like this, would the smuggler think they were looking for trouble? And it was even unclear whether the smuggler was there or not.

"Haha~ Don't worry, the coordinates that Noah used to reverse locate the other party are still here~ That vendor must be secretly placing an order with someone to sell my bombs again."

Lie seemed like a detective possessed at this moment, with a deep tone. If he added a hat and a cigarette holder, he would be more like "God Bullet Fulmosi".

Matsuda Jinpei: "..."

But in fact, people smuggle bombs to sell them, right? Why does Lie sound like...

Before he could even come to a conclusion in his mind, Lie had already pulled him to the side entrance of the warehouse and patted his shoulder encouragingly: "Come on, Xiaopingzi~ The test begins! The time limit is half an hour, and one point will be deducted for every minute overdue!"

Matsuda Jinpei: "..."

Then wouldn't he still be able to pass even if he took half an hour longer?

...No, why is he still entangled in the assessment? This has nothing to do with the assessment!

Jinpei Matsuda continued to complain in his mind. Finally, he glanced at Rei who was hiding far away, sighed, and tentatively knocked on the locked warehouse door.

I thought there would be no response, but within a few seconds, I heard a long and short knocking sound from inside.

"..."

Smugglers used Morse code to communicate? It's really not easy for these people.

Silently converting these knocks of varying lengths into code words in his mind, Matsuda Jinpei thought for a moment and responded with knocks of varying lengths.

After waiting for a while, there was another knocking sound from inside.

'The side cargo box is removed.'

That's probably what it means.

Matsuda Jinpei walked around to the side of the warehouse, glanced at the pile of cargo boxes, picked out one of the boxes that was placed alone on the ground, and pushed it gently, and an underground secret door appeared before his eyes.

"…You're quite good at hiding it."

He silently wondered whether he should call someone to take down this den after getting the bomb...

After opening the secret passage, Jinpei Matsuda walked down and considerately closed the secret door for him - the box in front was just a decoration, only slightly heavier than an empty box, and a child could push it open with a little effort.

Walking down the dark passage, the dim space gradually became brighter.

"Welcome! Dear guest, what can I do for you?"

A man wearing a mask and dressed fairly decently appeared from the corner and looked at Jinpei Matsuda with a smile.

Not surprisingly, this person is the target of this transaction...or in other words, the plagiarism bomb.

Matsuda Jinpei mourned for him silently, "I need a bomb, aren't you curious about how I found it?"

"Bombs? Oh! Now is a high-risk time. Bombs are easy to be targeted by the police... But I do have a lot of good stuff here." The smuggler rubbed his hands, smiling. "As for how you came to me, I believe you must have made a lot of friends. Maybe they are also my friends. Don't worry, we will not ask about our customers' personal privacy."

"...In that case, let's take a look at the goods first."

Jinpei Matsuda glanced at this seemingly principled smuggler and took out a lollipop.

The arms smuggler originally wanted to remind Matsuda that smoking was prohibited here, but when he saw that he was holding candy, he immediately swallowed his words and looked at Matsuda with a slightly weird look.

After all, in most people's impressions, lollipops are toys for children, and few adults would chew on them.

However, when the smuggler thought that the other party was a "criminal", he felt relieved - people will do many strange things to relieve stress, and compared to self-harm, jumping off a building, drinking alcohol, etc., eating a lollipop is really too mild.

The smuggler took Jinpei Matsuda to a row of shelves filled with huge boxes and solemnly introduced his product:

"Please look! This is our freshest batch of goods..."

(End of this chapter)