Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 277 Everything happened on the back today, Kudo Shinichi is looking for death!
The game ended and the audience left.

But they did not scatter like birds and animals returning to the forest. Instead, they sniffed the smell of blood in the air and gathered outside the gymnasium again like koi fish fighting for food.

"Someone's dead! Charge!"

"Go grab a good spot!"

The citizens of Tokyo are simple and honest.

Yingsheng and Sonoko waited for Xiaolan to leave. When they went to the crime scene, it was already surrounded by people. Fortunately, Xiaolan and Sonoko both had rich experience in visiting crime scenes, and they twisted and turned and brought Yingsheng to the front row, the best viewing seat.

The police finally arrived, and it was still everyone's old friend Megure Jusan. He was listening to what his younger brother Kudo was saying with a serious expression, and the more he listened, the gloomier his expression became.

"So, what Kudo-kun means is that a remote-controlled bomb has been installed in the back of his head?"

Megure Jusan asked.

Kudo Shinichi shook his head: "I just think this is the most likely possibility. It still needs forensic confirmation."

Megure Jusan glanced around. On the cement floor, blood mixed with brain matter and broken bones formed a strange abstract painting. The sunlight penetrated the azure sky and shone on it without reservation, drying up all the moisture and leaving only a faint smell of blood in the air.

This might be difficult, he thought.

At most, see if there is any smoke reaction.

Megure Juzo looked around again and saw mostly passers-by with faces showing a mixture of anxiety and excitement. They loved the crime scene as much as they loved eating stinky tofu.

Seeing a few familiar figures, Megure Jusan nodded slightly to them, but in the end he did not find the target he was most looking forward to. He turned back and walked closer to his brother, lowering his voice and whispering:

"Brother Kudo, you just said that this person is related to Xuesong Qingzi, right? Where is she?"

Kudo Shinichi also looked around, but naturally found nothing. He shook his head and said, "This person died in front of me. He attracted all my attention. When I came back to look at Kiyoko, she was gone."

Kudo Shinichi took out his cell phone and dialed Kiyoko's saved number, but the voice prompt said the phone was turned off.

"It was the same just now. I couldn't contact her."

"That's it..."

Megure Jusan pondered for a while and said, "Brother Kudo, the case in front of you is not an independent one, and he died suddenly in broad daylight. There is no modus operandi for you to deduce. I'm afraid we need to investigate from other aspects."

He pointed outside the crowd and said, "This matter is a little complicated. Let's talk in the police car."

Kudo Shinichi nodded and followed Megure Jusan away. The puzzled crowd made way for them to pass through and leave, just like Moses parting the sea.

The police car was a little hot under the sun, but it was quite cool inside with the air conditioner on.

Megure Juzo closed the car door, turned off his headset, handed a recorder to Kudo Shinichi, and asked him to open it and listen to it himself.

"In principle, this kind of thing cannot be leaked, but Kudo-kun is not an outsider."

Kudo Shinichi thanked him and turned on the recorder. The first sentence was a familiar and cold voice.

——"Inspector Megure, my name is Yukiko Yukimura, and I want to report a criminal."

Kudo Shinichi's eyes were slightly stern as he listened to it one by one. When Toru Amuro began to recount the sins he had committed in the recording, Kudo Shinichi could not help but grit his teeth and looked at Megure Juzo who was tapping the steering wheel with his fingertips in the driver's seat.

Megure Jusan knew what he meant and nodded, "The police have verified it, and everything matches what he said. With this recording, we have solved many unsolved cases at once, and I'm afraid we will even receive a commendation from our superiors."

His last sentence was just to ease the tense atmosphere, but he himself didn't find it funny. It was a complete joke from hell.

The police actually have to rely on this method to solve the case. They are simply a bunch of hopeless idiots.

Kudo Shinichi was silent for a few breaths. He had met Amuro Toru several times and solved cases with him. He had a good impression of him. But who could have thought that one could only judge a person by his appearance but not his heart, and that he was actually such a vicious and cruel person in secret.

"From the way he speaks, it seems like he's been taking drugs?" asked Kudo Shinichi.

"It should be something like a hallucinogen or truth serum, brother Kudo. This is what I want to tell you. Xue Songqingzi's identity is not simple."

Megure Jusan said in a serious tone: "Around 1pm today, we verified the authenticity of the report and began to investigate Amuro Toru's location. Finally, we found his traces in Shuangbao Town, so we rushed over to arrest him.

It turned out that this person was very sharp and had a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness. Before we set up the encirclement, he had already realized that something was wrong and fled decisively.

Sato chased him for two blocks but still couldn't catch up.

We were very upset at that time and thought that the operation had failed. The police officer who went to the Amuro Detective Agency to investigate reported that Amuro Toru went to Soho Town to complete the commission of Mizuki Hotaru and find a man named Hara Yoshiaki to make software. We..."

"Wait a moment!"

Hearing the name he was concerned about, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but interrupt: "What did Shuiyue entrust him to do?"

Shuiyue's parents work in a research institute, and he himself has been threatened by people sent by the institute. His identity might not be so clean, so he must find it out.

"I have received quite a lot of commissions, and they are all recorded."

Megure Jusan said one by one: "Suizuki asked Amuro Toru to help investigate Yukino Nami to see if she would continue to cause trouble for Mori-san. After learning that she went to Kyoto, the investigation was terminated. Then there were Mori-san's hallucinations, lawyer Hime's financial situation, and Okino Yoko's home address.

The reason why Shuiyuejun found Yuan Jiaming was that he wanted a martial arts software. The requirement was that the computer could calculate the best way to counterattack based on the input actions, which could be used as a reference for Xiaolan's karate practice.

By the way, did Xiaolan win the championship? "

"........."

It was obviously a very important matter, but Kudo Shinichi was still speechless for a few seconds. Mizuki was really leisurely.

However, when he thought about it for a while, he found that these things seemed to revolve around the Mori family, which made him feel an extremely complicated emotion inexplicably.

Shuiyue treats Xiaolan much better than he does. What was the most intimate contact he had with Xiaolan in daily life?
It seems...

Ask her to clean your house every once in a while?

Kudo Shinichi shook his head. Whatever happened, it was over. Why bother thinking so much about it?

"Ran has won, Officer Megure, please continue."

Although the moment when Xiaolan won the championship was indeed dazzling, the case was still the most important. If the police had not arrived yet and the stadium was too noisy for him to ignore, Kudo Shinichi would not have gone in to take a look.

"Xiaolan has really grown up."

Megure Jusan sighed and returned to the topic: "We failed to capture him, so we planned to go and investigate with Hara Yoshiaki, the last person Toru Amuro had contact with. But he turned out to be on the run as well. We couldn't figure out the situation, but naturally we chased him.

Hara Jiaming is not as experienced as Amuro Toru, and we will soon catch up with him, but in the end..."

Megure Juzo gripped the steering wheel tightly, his knuckles turned white, and Kudo Shinichi noticed that there were tears in his eyes, but more importantly, there was a burning anger.

"Just like what happened to you, Kudo brother, right in front of me, Yamazaki's head exploded." Megure Jusan's voice was trembling, but he just endured it, "But it wasn't explosives, it was a sniper. The next second, there was a roar of gunfire, just like it was hitting me!"

Kudo Shinichi wanted to say something, but he remained silent for a while and just asked, "Is the sniper Toru Amuro?"

In Toru Amuro's previous criminal confession, he mentioned that he had once sniped and killed an innocent girl.

Megure Jusan sighed and said, "No, it was a gray-haired, thin man. We called the local police to intercept Amuro Toru, and they accidentally ran into that man, but... Alas, this is the last information they sent."

Kudo Shinichi's heart became heavier and heavier, and he asked, "Did Yuan Jiaming escape?"

Megure Jusan said: "At that time, we certainly would not let him escape. Several of us fired at the sniper position to suppress him, and Sato chased him. But they also had support on the ground, and there were a lot of people, so in the end it turned into a large-scale firefight with us.

Some time later, an anonymous person called the police and said that another sniper was coming from the direction of Beika Town. He was wearing a black leather jacket, a brown mushroom head, and was driving a blue Dodge Viper.

We immediately asked the traffic police for assistance, investigated the road surveillance, and intercepted the man. It turned out that they had an undercover agent in the traffic police team who spread the news!
The traffic police failed to intercept us, and we were in Shuangbao Town...

Alas, nothing was gained.”

"what?!"

Kudo Shinichi was quite shocked, with an indescribable look in his eyes. It wasn't that he had any complaints against the police, but after such a high-profile operation and finding nothing, wasn't this... a bit too light-hearted?

"Is there not even a single survivor?" he demanded.

Megure Jusan's eyes were filled with sorrow. "The enemy was extremely cold-blooded and brutal. After confirming that Yuan Jiaming had escaped, the sniper killed all the people who were blocking us on the ground. His sniping skills were very high and we couldn't stop him at all."

The air in the police car was heavy for a moment.

The other party's brutal behavior undoubtedly dealt a huge blow to Kudo Shinichi's heart, which had not yet completely gotten rid of its naivety.

Is the danger that Qingzi mentioned really this serious?

What on earth is that medicine, and what does Yuan Jiaming have to do with it that it is worth paying such a huge price for it.

"Fortunately, we are not completely clueless. The traffic police team found some things from the traitor."

Megure Jusan said: "The traffic police violated their duties and beat up the traitor. They tortured him and found out that he was ordered to investigate the whereabouts of a black BMW. Before he could find out the result, he accidentally learned about the sniper and spread the news."

Kudo Shinichi's eyes flickered slightly: "Does that faction know that the traitor has been caught?"

"I don't know, who knows if there are other traitors in the police system." Megure Jusan honked the horn, waited for Sato Miwako and Chiba Kazunobu to get in the car, and then slowly started the car, "But we have to give it a try to see if we can lure the snake out of its hole.

Brother Kudo, you have a keen sense of observation, and we hope you can help us." Kudo Shinichi nodded without fear: "Please take me with you!"

Megure Jusan laughed, "I knew you had justice in your heart, Kudo. Don't worry, we are mainly observing from the outside this time, there will be no danger. But just to be on the safe side," he looked at the rearview mirror, "Sato, give Kanegawa's gun to Kudo, he is also a good shooter."

Kudo Shinichi turned his head and saw Sato Miwako took out a police revolver from her waist and handed it to him with an expressionless face.

Megure Jusan glanced at Revolver and sighed, "After this incident, we have applied for more convenient police equipment, but it will not be available for a while. In addition, we have applied for support from our superiors. From now on, the special police will be responsible for the charge, and we will just stay in the rear."

Kudo Shinichi nodded and put away the gun. After his experience in Kabukicho, he didn't feel any strange emotions about this, as if he was just used to it.

Seeing that Sato Miwako looked unhappy, he couldn't help but ask, "How are Officer Takagi and Officer Shiratori?"

"that's it."

Sato Miwako replied casually. She had no interest in talking and simply closed her eyes and rested in the back seat.

"They are much better now, but it may take some time before they can be discharged from the hospital."

Megure Jusan followed up with a serious tone, "Brother Kudo, let me tell you what happened next. We have found the black BMW, but it is in the suburbs. There are traces of vehicle transfers nearby, but it is extremely difficult to track.

There was blood inside the vehicle, which is still under testing, but nothing else was found.

However, the traffic police traced back the past surveillance and found that it had traveled with two other vehicles for a long time last night. The two vehicles have now been found by the police at another major crime scene, in an abandoned warehouse area east of Beika Town.

A large-scale conflict broke out there in the early morning. Finally, a woman called the police anonymously, saying that terrorists were releasing poison gas there and that armed police had to be sent there, and they had to wear gas masks.

I also went to see the scene. There were many dead bodies, but only one survivor. The doctor said it might be because he had rhinitis.

But he hasn’t woken up yet, and the woman who called the police couldn’t be contacted afterwards, so we still don’t know what happened there last night.”

Kudo Shinichi groaned for a few breaths. "That woman drove a black BMW and fled. In order to avoid being caught up by the people who used poison gas, she used the police?"

Megure Jusan sighed: "That should be the case."

The night before yesterday, after a woman claiming to be the leader of a criminal gang used her to divert the police's attention, several unclear explosions occurred at Aoyama Pharmaceutical Company, and a gunfight even broke out on the Mitsui Street overpass.

And this was not just an ordinary gunfight. Submachine guns, sniper rifles, and grenades all appeared.

My goodness, is this still Tokyo?

Last night, she was used by unknown persons to help her escape from pursuit; this morning, she was used by Yuzuki Kiyoko to step on the landmine of Amuro Toru for her.

Alas, the police are really a useless background board, being used at will by all kinds of people with ulterior motives.

Kudo Shinichi had no idea how complicated the feelings in Megure Jusan's heart were. He was just lost in thought. The force that helped Hara Yoshiaki escape was looking for that woman. This morning, Kiyoko used the police to contact Amuro Toru and Hara Yoshiaki. Could it be that Kiyoko and that woman were in cahoots?

Kiyoko is at war with the research institute, and the previous recording of the interrogation of Toru Amuro also includes the voice of Shiho Miyano.

So Miyano Shiho betrayed the research institute and became a companion of Kiyoko?
The night before last, was Mr. Uozuka, who was wearing sunglasses all the time, lying to him?
No, that person said that Kiyoko colluded with outsiders and caused a big commotion in the research institute. It seems that she took the opportunity to rescue Miyano Shiho!
In this way, the logic is clear, Toru Amuro is also from the research institute!

It seemed like this kind of news would be meaningless even if he knew it, but Kudo Shinichi just thought about it and called Hotaru, and as soon as the call was connected, he asked:

"Suiyue, before Amuro Toru asked Hara Jiaming to make software for you, did he ask anyone else?"

Since Toru Amuro asked Hara Jiaming, who is most likely also a member of the research institute, to develop the software, he might have also looked for other companions before.

"Ah? How do you know this?"

Yingsheng's voice was very loud, and it sounded quite noisy over there, with some people shouting "Long live the association".

"Don't worry about it for now, this matter is very important."

Hearing the laughter coming from the other end of the phone and comparing it with the silence in his car, Kudo Shinichi inexplicably felt that he and Mizuki, Xiaolan and the others seemed to be not in the same world.

"Well, there was indeed another one before, his name was Itakura Taku. It was said that he developed software very quickly and could finish it in one night. Unfortunately, Mr. Amuro told me yesterday morning that there was a natural gas leak and explosion there, and Itakura Taku disappeared, so he replaced him with Yuan Jiaming.

Kudo, I called Mr. Amuro and Mr. Hara this afternoon to ask about the software, but they didn't answer and their phones were turned off. Did something happen?"

Yingsheng said casually.

"Nothing." Kudo Shinichi hesitated for a few seconds, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Suiyue, have those people from the research institute come to see you since last Saturday? Do you have any contact with them?"

After asking this question, Kudo Shinichi felt that he had lost three-tenths of his strength.

After all, Megure Jusan was there.

When he asked this question, he not only revealed that he knew more, but also labeled Shuiyue a suspicious person.

What's more, Xiaolan and Qingzi will be implicated...

Although the latter had revealed himself to the police in the morning, the shame of being an "informer" still made Kudo Shinichi feel a little uneasy.

Normally, he would prefer to investigate such matters privately and would not tell the police immediately.

However, this time, Toru Amuro's crimes, the casualties among the police, and the brutality of the research institute deeply touched him. Even he had to temporarily put aside his personal heroism to prevent things from getting worse.

Hearing his question, Megure Juzo and the two people in the back row looked over. Kudo Shinichi was in a heavy mood. He thought that this question would be difficult for Hotaru to answer, because Hotaru could not have failed to realize that there were police listening to this call.

But contrary to his expectations, Yingsheng answered very quickly.

"He contacted me several times, but he hasn't contacted me since the day before yesterday. Didn't you say something happened at the institute? Maybe that's why he's not available.

What, the police are going to deal with them? I have their contact information, how about I give them a call? "

Kudo Shinichi was silent for a few breaths: "Will this delay your participation in the social gathering?"

Yingsheng chuckled: "Business is more important. Where are you now? I'll come find you."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Megure Jusan.

Megure Jusan pondered for a few breaths, then said in a deep voice: "Tokyo Police Hospital, Mizuki-kun, are you still near the gymnasium? I'll ask Kanakawa who's staying over there to take you over, is that ok?"

Kudo Shinichi's heart sank. As expected, Inspector Megure had already regarded Mizuki as a suspect.

"Of course, I'm at the edge of the square, in the yellow bus. Ask him to come over and I'll tell Xiaolan." Yingsheng said.

"Can you please not hang up the phone?" Megure Jusan asked.

"OK."

It's completely considered a state that needs to be monitored.

Yingsheng sighed lightly and walked towards the bus with his phone in hand. It seemed that the development of the situation to this point was entirely due to his original indifference to the winery. He casually said it out after Shirley met Kudo.

Now Kudo has completed the information exchange with the police, and he has probably inexplicably connected some other things to link Toru Amuro and the winery together.

Tsk, what bad luck.

When they arrived at the door of the bus, Yingsheng did not get on the bus. Xiaolan, who had already turned around, looked at him in confusion. Yingsheng showed her his cell phone and shrugged helplessly.

"Kudo, no, the police asked me to come over. It seems to be about the research institute and Mr. Amuro."

Xiaolan's eyes suddenly froze. After noticing the call on Yingsheng's phone, her tone remained the same, even with a hint of complaint: "Really, why are you here at this time? Can you come over tonight? Do you want me to accompany you?"

This sentence is undoubtedly asking: Is the problem serious and does it require the use of force?
Yingsheng chuckled: "That should be fine. I'll just tell them whatever they ask."

Well, I feel like Xiaolan has been turned into a bad girl by him.

What are you thinking about by taking action with the police?

Behind Yingsheng, Officer Jinchuan, who was guarding the crime scene, ran over here quickly. Xiaolan looked up at him, then looked at Yingsheng again: "You must come."

"Don't say such weird things. Is there any other possibility?"

Yingsheng took a step forward and gently hugged Xiaolan: "Yuanzi prepared a barbecue tonight, and I want to try your cooking skills. Wait for me."

The hug lasted for two seconds, and then Yingsheng left. Xiaolan smiled and nodded at him: "What you said is also very strange. Let's go. See you tonight."

"See you tonight."

Yingsheng turned around and left with Officer Jinchuan.

Xiaolan, standing at the car door, looked at Yingsheng's departing back and put her hands in her pockets.

She felt two things that were not in her pocket just now.

A pistol.

a cell phone.

She took out the phone and took a look, and an email pop-up window appeared on the screen.

——OK.

(End of this chapter)