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

Chapter 470: The cunning Lie
Beika-cho 3-chome.

In the fierce villa.

Lie is happily conducting remote surveillance and protection of Conan.

—Through Noah, of course.

After the last round of plans came to an end, the task of protecting Conan was not that important... because the Black Organization's attention was not focused here at all.

In addition, Lie had just frightened Conan. Although Noah was not monitoring Conan all the time, they could basically predict Conan's psychological activities, and he was definitely panicking.

After simply listening to Noah's real-time report on Conan's return, without waiting for Lie to speak, Noah consciously turned off the text broadcast on TV and started playing the news normally.

But not long after the broadcast, the news anchor's voice suddenly stopped and Noah's voice became:

"Master Lie, you have a call from Mr. Matsuda."

“…Ah~?”

He paused in eating snacks, reached out to search around his body, but did not touch his phone.

He didn't hear the ringtone either. After thinking for a while, he remembered that his phone was on silent mode and was charging on the bedside table...

But it's not a big problem.

Lie waved at the camera, "Noah~ just turn it around for me, I don't want to go up to that phone."

"No problem, Master Lie." Noah answered very respectfully and turned around to answer the phone.

Hiroki, who was typing code on the computer next to him, chuckled.

Lie: “……=^=?”

Why is he so lazy and gluttonous?
Noah's personal speaker rang with Matsuda Jinpei's voice: "Mr. Retsu? Are you...free?"

Lie tilted his head, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "Ah~ I'm very busy today. Now I have some time. How——"

"You're busy? What's going on? Aren't you idle every day with nothing to do?" Jinpei Matsuda's voice sounded surprised.

Hiroki chuckled beside me*2.

Lie: “…qwq~”

It broke my heart.

In order to hide his embarrassment, Lie coughed twice, "Ahem! Um~ don't worry about the details! Xiaopingzi, what do you want from me?"

"…about the bomb."

Lie's eyes lit up: "Bomb? Where is the bomb?"

"...No, I want to ask, Mr. Lie, do you have any way to 'safe' the bombs you installed last time?" Matsuda Jinpei hesitated, "What if yesterday's explosion happens again..."

"Ohhhh~ You're talking about this! Of course there is a way~"

Lie blinked, a smile on his face.

But after saying this briefly, he stopped talking and waited quietly for Matsuda Jinpei's next words.

In the small loudspeaker, Matsuda Jinpei also fell silent.

Perhaps because he felt that wasting time was not a solution, the voice continued: "Then... Mr. Lie, when are you free to teach me how to set up 'insurance'?"

The arc of Lie's mouth widened, "Ah~ I'm free now, where are you? I'll go find you."

"...I'll come find you later. Is Mr. Lie home?"

"Oh, yeah~ I've been at home the whole time, don't worry, Xiao Zhenping, I have nothing to do tonight~"

"...Didn't you say you were busy?"

"...Ahem! Well~ don't worry about the details! That's it~"

Lie coughed awkwardly a few times, but did not let Noah hang up the call, and Matsuda was slow to hang up either.

Waited for a while.

Matsuda Jinpei suddenly said in a low voice: "Mr. Lie... did you do this on purpose?"

Lie held his cheek and smiled brightly: "Ah? What do you mean by intentional?"

"…It's okay, then."

As if he had made up his mind, Matsuda Jinpei didn't delay any longer, and after he finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Rei's expression remained unchanged, and he seemed to be in a very good mood. He took another bottle of Coke and started to sip it.

The sound of the small speaker disappeared and the voice of the announcer on TV returned.

No one in the room spoke for a moment.

After a long time.

Hiroki finished his editing work, turned his head and looked at Rei who was leisurely eating snacks, and said helplessly:

"Uncle Lie, isn't it not nice for you to treat Officer Matsuda like this?"

"Oh~ What's wrong with me?"

Lie blinked his innocent eyes, full of innocence.

But Hiroki rolled his eyes and revealed his thoughts: "Uncle Lie, when you and Officer Matsuda installed the bomb, you deliberately didn't install the safety, right? You wanted Officer Matsuda to speak for himself."

Although Hiroki is young, he can see the essence of a problem at a glance.

Lie shrugged and took a sip of happy water. "Ah~ I just didn't expect that my bomb would be so easily dismantled and used by the people of 'Black Night'. It's worthy of being the organization that Brother Ren is in~"

He had indeed deliberately not 'secured' the bombs.

Once the so-called safety is set, only the switch can detonate it. Even if you put a fire on the bomb, it may not explode.

He didn't set it up before because he wanted to wait for some unexpected event to happen so that Jinpei Matsuda would take the initiative to find him to learn bomb skills.

Otherwise, this promising youngster that he was optimistic about would always be too passive...

Lie felt that it was not feasible to continue like this.

Hiroki, who was standing by, could probably see some of Lie's thoughts, and sighed helplessly, "Uncle Lie, Officer Matsuda is already very averse to bombs, so you will irritate him, right?"

Judging from the fact that Jinpei Matsuda had only been involved in bombing cases before, he certainly had no good feelings towards bombs.

And normal people would definitely think so...

But Lie is not a normal person.

He grinned and said, "How could that be? Xiao Zhenping obviously likes bombs. Look, he always runs to the explosion site..."

Hiroki: “…”

Uncle Lie’s train of thought is quite unique, isn’t it?
How can we tell that Officer Matsuda likes bombs?

"Besides."

Lie's smile suddenly became strange, "I discovered it when I first met him..."

Hiroki looked at him: "What?"

"Xiao Zhenping, he has a very strong fire element." Lie's eyes sparkled, "Fire is the strongest of the five elements, so he has a connection with fire~"

"As long as the fire burns more vigorously, he will slowly discover what he really belongs to."

"I'm very optimistic about him~"

Rei's slightly fanatical words made Hiroki Sawada not know what to say.

After a while, he sighed and opened...a computer game.

It's really miserable for Officer Matsuda to have a boss like Uncle Lie.

I hope Mr. Matsuda can stick to it and not give up halfway...

……

Central District.

Ryohei Kamikawa drove a taxi and parked it in an old garage.

He had a small wireless headset in his ear and was tapping the steering wheel with one hand while listening to the movements in the headset.

After listening for a while, he smiled with relief, took out his cell phone, and called a number:
"It's me... Well, you two did a good job, but it's a pity that guy didn't live up to expectations..."

"Oh, there won't be any special actions for now, so you can do whatever you want... But, try to choose those with greater reputations."

(End of this chapter)