Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 289 The simplest solution to a murder case—resurrection of the dead!
"Just say I'm a friend's child. They have to go abroad for something, and I ask Officer Megure to take care of me for a while." Conan said.

"No problem, but Brother Kudo, you have to change the way you address me when you are in front of others." Megure Jusan said.

Conan rolled his eyes: "Yes, Uncle Megure."

"Haha, good night, Conan."

After temporarily cutting off communication, Megure Jusan inexplicably felt a sense of relief.

But the hospital corridor was empty at night, and the gloomy atmosphere suppressed the relief on his face.

At the end of the corridor, the night was pitch black and heavy rain was pouring down.

Megure Juzo took a look and called Chiba Kazunobu again, and the call was picked up immediately.

"Has Sato not been found yet?"

Megure Jusan's voice was low and deep, no less than the dark clouds covering the night sky.

Chiba and Shin said in the same tone: "Not yet, Inspector. According to Marubo, there are Yakuza figures over there. They are also looking for someone. I suspect..."

"Just like that time at the izakaya, Xuesong Kiyoko's revenge?!"

Anger rose in Megure Jusan's eyes: "What are you still worrying about? Tokyo's public security is so bad, it's time for a big cleanup. Chiba, go and file a report now. I'll call Superintendent Matsumoto right away. We must make a big move tonight!"

"understand!"

Chiba and Shin responded in a deep voice. Their police force had suffered a great deal of humiliation these days, and the debt of blood could only be repaid with blood!
Nothing must happen to the flower of their Metropolitan Police Department!
Boom——! ! !
The God was furious. The night sky suddenly turned white and heavy rain poured down as if to cleanse the world of all sins.

"Yes, shrink. The police will help us handle everything tonight."

Ebina City, deep in the mountains, road at night.

Yingsheng used one cell phone as a flashlight to light the way ahead, and used another cell phone connected to headphones to chat with Chiyoko with a smile.

"The police encountered a lot of things today. Whether it was to vent their anger or to restore their prestige, they were eager to show their strength to the dark world. With the stimulation of the incident in Shuangbao Town, I think they will take action soon.

By the way, have you found Officer Sato?"

"No."

In the quiet courtyard in Tokyo, Chiyoko Kanhara knelt behind the rain curtain, quietly watching the changing situation in the outside world.

"I'm sorry, Hotaru. We didn't search too deep to avoid being targeted by the police."

"Nothing, this was my plan in the first place. The most important thing is to use the power of the police to help us clear the obstacles. Chiyoko, once those stubborn old men are in jail, no one will be able to hold you back. You can completely decide the future of the Sumiyoshi-kai."

Yingsheng paused, and his tone became a little more serious: "But power hates a vacuum the most. If you don't occupy some things, corruption and maggots will breed on their own, which will be detrimental to our plan."

Chiyoko sighed softly: "I know, Ying, I have asked them to prepare, I am just a little worried, won't this cause more resistance in the future?"

"You can guide them in an orderly direction now, why wait until later?" Yingsheng asked back.

Chiyoko was silent for a moment: "I see, thank you, Hotaru."

"Your business is my business. Good night, Chiyoko."

"Good night."

After hanging up the phone, Yingsheng deliberately waited for two seconds, but when he didn't receive any prompt, he shook his head in self-mockery.

He actually knew that what Chiyoko was worried about was not the internal resistance to reforming the Sumiyoshi-kai, but him.

Looking at Hotaru's current performance, especially the expansion plans yesterday and today, it does not look like he is going to lead the Sumiyoshi-kai to a clean slate.

On the contrary, it seems more like he wants to unify the Yakuza.

But what Yingsheng pursues is only [love] and [murderous intent], and he actually has no interest in unifying the Jida.

Doing these things now is just following his own and the Sumiyoshi-kai's instincts.

As an organic whole composed of people, the Tokyo branch of the Sumiyoshi-kai certainly has the instinct to eat and expand, just like living things in nature.

And to put it bluntly, if you want others to follow you all the time, you have to give them some benefits.

No relationship will last forever; only interests will last forever.

Chiyoko, your idea is somewhat naive.

Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. If she continues according to her original idea, she might be forced to abdicate one day. She is lucky to have an intact body.

There is light ahead.

He was on the phone and didn't look at the map, but in the end he didn't take the wrong road. Yingsheng was quite satisfied with this and quickened his pace.

The dark silhouette of the villa gradually emerged. Although it was dark at night, the lights inside gave it a light white edge, making it quite conspicuous.

It’s strange. Wasn’t it supposed to be a bonfire party? Why is it so quiet outside?

Yingsheng noticed something was wrong, stopped at the edge of the forest, and took out the map to check.

"what--!!!"

Before he could see the path clearly, a woman's scream came from the villa in front of him, which made his eyes frightened.

The familiar voice is Suzuki Ayako!
Without much thought, Yingsheng immediately put away the map on his phone and ran towards the villa.

It's not that he has not forgotten the old friendship. After all, he and the Suzuki Group are now in business partnership. It doesn't matter if they haven't met, but if they do meet, it is only natural to take care of them.

I really hope it's a murder case, then if the murderer is found, it should be able to reveal some murderous intent.

It would be even better if the murderer escaped. He just happened to have some new ideas about the application of [Enlightenment], but he was lacking experimental subjects.

My nostrils flared and there was a smell of blood in the air.

With murderous intent enhancing his eyesight, Yingsheng looked at the ground and found a severed hand in the dark grass.

Wow, dismemberment again, could it be that pervert Vermouth who did it?
Several people with flashlights ran towards the villa, shouting "Chikako".

Yingsheng felt confused. The man had already been dismembered, but why was he still shouting? At first glance, it sounded like he had just been kidnapped.

In order to avoid misunderstanding, Yingsheng jumped and hid in the tree canopy.

Soon, several people on the ground ran into the forest, shouting "Chikako" and searching everywhere.

Hotaru looked at them secretly from the treetops. They were all men, but there was no sign of Ayako.

It is indeed a good thing to let her stay in the villa to avoid being hurt.

But before this search team, Yingsheng clearly did not see any other suspicious people coming from the direction of the villa, so they might have made a mistake.

Did the murderer use a sleight of hand?

Well, no matter what methods he used, his target was the woman named "Chikako", not Ayako.

What does that have to do with me?

Yingsheng raised his eyes and looked around, trying to find the correct target among the heavy shadows of the trees. He actually found something in the south direction. The sky over there was slightly brighter, and the dim yellow color in the darkness was the leaping of flames.

"what!!!"

Another scream came from below. Yingsheng covered his ears in disgust. You are a grown man, but you...

What, a human head was found?
My apologies to you, that stuff is indeed very scary, and only a pervert like Kudo could watch it without batting an eyelid.

The people below murmured for a while, gathered Chikako's body together, covered it with clothes, gathered together, and carefully returned to the villa.

Yingsheng shook his head. This destroyed the scene right from the start and made the police investigation more difficult. What was he thinking?

Could the real murderer be in there?
Who was the first person to suggest collecting the bodies and destroying the scene?

Well, I didn't notice.

Yingsheng jumped down from the tree canopy lightly, looked carefully at the ground, and after making sure that he had left no footprints, he walked towards the collected corpse not far away.

Boom——! ! !
A flash of thunder passed by the horizon, and the roar shook the eardrums.

Yingsheng shook his head helplessly. After all, the dark clouds in Tokyo had spread here. Was his bonfire party going to end before it even started?

The rain will probably take a while to come, so let's try out the new idea and rush over, maybe we can catch the tail end of it.

Boom——! ! !
The thunder roared again, and Yingsheng pulled open the clothes covering the corpse. With the momentary light from the sky, he could clearly see the frozen fear on the dead man's face.

The thunder disappeared, and the sky and earth returned to darkness. Only the face of the corpse was pale, as if it was glowing.

Yingsheng inexplicably felt that this person looked familiar.

After recalling for a few seconds, he remembered that among the people who had dragged Suzuki Ayako to Kabukicho to find him, there was one who looked like her.

"Time is also fate."

Yingsheng sighed softly, squatted down, held the corpse's severed right arm with his left hand, pressed the shoulder of the corpse's torso with his right hand, and forced them together.

[Killing Intent -1, activate skills, enlightenment! ]

This is the first time that Yingsheng has used his skills on someone other than himself, but whether the dead people can still be considered human beings is indeed a question.

In his imagination, the [Frenzy] skill can activate the potential of the human body and allow things like grenades and engines to perform at super high efficiency.

So, it shouldn't be a problem to single out one item and use it to enhance the body's recovery ability.

A mere corpse can at most be classified as "no thought" and naturally belongs to the category of living beings.

As if inspired by his thought, dense flesh and blood tentacles sprouted from both sides of the broken right arm of Zhijiazi, like the edge of a bloody sea anemone, constantly pulling and entangling the nerves, blood vessels, and muscles, recovering and reconnecting at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Unfortunately, before the reconnection touched the skin, the flesh and blood tentacles that continued to entangle slowly stopped.

Yingsheng guessed that the murderous intent was not strong enough, but there was no need for him to restore the body to its original state. It was enough to verify the guess to this point.

"The recovery ability looks good, but corpses don't cry out in pain, and I don't know what it would do if used on a living person."

Yingsheng was thoughtful and planned to find someone to try it when he returned to Tokyo.

By the way, people have to undergo a physical examination before trying.

The cells are proliferating wildly, giving me an inexplicable sense of déjà vu of HeLa cells, and I don't know whether this will increase the target's chance of developing cancer.

Of course, the corpse wouldn't care about any of this.

Yingsheng picked up the other three limbs of Chikako's body and did the same thing. Everything went smoothly. When he wanted to connect the head, he found something strange.

There were some very thin fibers in the coagulated blood on the broken neck of Chikako.

Yingsheng thought it was hair at first, but after taking it off and looking at it carefully for a few seconds, he realized it was cotton.

Strange, how could there be cotton?

Could it be that the murderer used cotton thread to behead the person?
hiss--

Who is this martial arts master?

After taking another look at the coagulated blood, Yingsheng had a vague guess in his mind.

Chikako had been dead for at least half an hour, and the three men had just rushed out. It was obviously a time trick played by the real murderer.

The three people called out Chikako's name, so maybe they actually saw her.

Her hands were already in the forest at that time, so could it be that those people saw only her head?
After her head passed by the villa, it unexpectedly appeared here without any other suspicious people coming to the forest. Well, it seems that the real culprit is among those three people, and someone secretly brought the head here.

Recall what we have seen before...

Huh?
All three of them seemed to have nothing in their hands.

Well, thinking about the cotton fibers on the severed end of the corpse's head, someone probably hid the head inside his clothes.

The bodies of those people seemed normal, without any bulging or head-hiding parts.

Except for one.

That fat man's belly.

If his beer belly was disguised with cotton padding, then everything would make sense.

Tsk, sticking a human head on his belly, this guy is too perverted.

Even more perverted than Vermouth.

Yingsheng shook his head, pressed Chikako's head tightly against his neck, and repeated the same trick.

"If I were a detective, I would probably be able to go over and solve the case. Unfortunately, I'm just a passerby. Your life or death has nothing to do with me. However, I have an interesting idea that needs to be verified, so I'll let you have an intact body."

The connection of the head is much more complicated than that of the limbs. This time, Yingsheng spent three points of killing intent before letting go.

But even so, the flesh on both sides of the broken neck of Chikako was turned outward, and she still looked quite hideous.

Yingsheng thought about it and simply pulled out a strand of her black hair, rubbed it into thread, and then took out her earrings to use as needles to mend the skin around her neck.

After a while, a circle of black lines appeared on her snow-white neck, pulling the flesh on both sides together, and she was no longer as hideous as before.

Gently smoothed her frozen expression of fear, allowing her facial features to gradually soften.

At first glance, she looked like she was just sleeping peacefully.

But if you look closely, there is a hint of eeriness.

Not much, just a little.

Yingsheng stood up straight, stepped back to look at his work, and nodded with satisfaction.

He picked up the brown long-sleeved jacket left by the kind-hearted person before and put it on Chikako. Now, the abnormality above her shoulder was also covered up.

"Yes, the next step is the most critical step."

Yingsheng took out a red and white capsule from his pocket. It was undoubtedly APTX-4869.

“Akechi and Ai both said that this thing is only useful for the bloodline of the Miyano family. If anyone else eats it, they will die in agony, and they can’t find out the cause.

I tried it twice and it seems to be true.

But this can't help but make me wonder, why?
Mingzhi explained to me a lot of scientific principles, and I only half understood them, but the general idea seemed to be that the drug was too strong and the human body's fragile genetic chain could not support it.

Then the problem is coming.

Can the blessing of [Frenzy] help people maintain the effect of the medicine?"

Yingsheng flipped his wrist and a thin blade appeared in his hand. At this time, the moon in the sky was dim and the edge of the blade was deep and colorless, almost blending with the surrounding air.

He swung his arm, and suddenly, a hole appeared on Zhi Jiazi's lower abdomen.

Hotaru threw APTX-4869 in, pressed Chikako's lower abdomen with one hand and her forehead with the other.

Enlightenment starts!

This is to save all sentient beings!
The murderous intent poured out crazily, and suddenly, Chikako's body began to tremble slightly.

Yingsheng's mouth curled slightly: "I failed the experiment on the living, how can I succeed on the dead? Miss Chikako, you are lucky today."

Boom——!
Boom boom boom——!!!
The thunder dragon in the sky kept rolling, and the dark clouds quickly swept towards the west, with a blazing white edge, as if the sky had opened its eyes and would not allow the yin and yang of this world to be reversed!

"Ah."

The strong wind in the forest ruffled Yingsheng's black hair. He looked up at the magnificent scenery that looked like a pool of thunder and smiled gently.

"The weather forecast for tonight is really bad."

Boom——!
What benefit does the thunder and lightning from heaven bring to human beings?

Chikako slowly opened her eyes, and inside, there was a blazing white mass of thunder!

"Hahahahahaha!!!"

Under this tremendous thunder, Yingsheng laughed out loud.

"Okay, okay! Ai, Miyano couple, I'm almost falling in love with you."

Hotaru stood up and held out his hand to Chikako.

Chikako slowly raised her right hand and placed it on Hotaru's hand, and Hotaru gently pulled it.

Boom——! ! !
For her resurrection, Lei Ting, give a tribute to her!

Chikako stood up.

Standing right in front of Yingsheng.

Yingsheng looked around at her, his eyes shining brightly. APTX-4869, this is undoubtedly the miracle drug of this world.

I really don’t know what’s wrong with those scientists’ brains. How can they be so smart to develop something like this?

I don’t know whether the Miyano couple is dead or not. If they have been developing something in the dark over the past decade or so, it must be something extraordinary.

Moreover, there are definitely more geniuses in this world than just the Miyano family. If we gather them all together...

It feels like I can run into the future!

If it is possible to establish Huating in this world, then it is definitely possible to guide Xuantian's glory to come!
Thinking of this, a hint of excitement flashed in Yingsheng's usually calm eyes, but he quickly calmed down.

Keep calm and take it slow.

Not only that, he also discovered something wrong.

Why is Chikako just standing there motionless and not saying a word? Has she become an idiot?
Hotaru frowned slightly, walked up to Chikako and looked into her eyes.

There, it was still blazing white.

Yingsheng's heart skipped a beat and he quickly reached out to feel her heartbeat.

Fast, super fast!
It looks like it's about to jump out of my chest at any moment!
broken.

Yingsheng quickly reached out his hand to feel the elasticity of her skin, and couldn't help wondering, could it be that the murderous intent was too strong, and although it helped her to withstand the effects of the drug, it also turned her into an idiot?

But [Frenzy] is a buff skill, it shouldn’t be that serious.

It's probably still a problem with drug A. This thing can save people who are dying or have just died, but if the target has been dead for a long time and their brain cells start to die, then there is no way to save them.

Xiao Ai seemed to have said that.

In order to avoid turning people into idiots after being resurrected, Drug A will not affect the brain too much.

"Tsk..."

Thinking of this, Yingsheng was quite disappointed. If this was true, then the miraculous effect of Medicine A would be much less.

He originally wanted to resurrect a few historical figures.

Of course, it is still super awesome. Yingsheng decided that after returning to Tokyo tomorrow, he must buy a big luxury gift package for Haibara Ai.

As for Miyano Akemi, let's try to reunite the sisters as soon as possible.

The experiment could barely be considered a complete success. Yingsheng looked at the heavy rain curtain getting closer and closer to the horizon and turned around to leave.

If you arrive any later you will miss the end of the bonfire party.

However, it would not be a good idea to leave her here like this, and her body is now of great research value. Yingsheng also wants to bring her back to Tokyo and hand her over to Junerick so that he can study her carefully.

"Hey, can you understand me?"

Yingsheng raised his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, but thinking it would have no effect, he put it down again.

It was all white there, without a pupil, so even if she was looking at his hand, Yingsheng wouldn't be able to notice.

Chikako didn't respond at all, so Yingsheng said, "Nod your head for YES and shake your head for NO."

Chikako nodded.

"!!!!!!"

This scared Yingsheng, he thought it was impossible to get a response.

However, since the person on the other side was still conscious, things would be much easier. Yingsheng immediately took a step back and extended his right hand to her.

"My name is Tianshu. I saved you purely on a whim. You can do whatever you need to do from now on. Just pretend I was never here. After returning to Tokyo, I will come to see you after a while. It's not a big deal. I just want to give you a physical examination. Is that okay?"

Chikako remained indifferent.

"Nod your head for YES and shake your head for NO." Yingsheng said again.

Chikako still didn't move.

Yingsheng was puzzled: "Shake hands?" He waved his outstretched right hand, "Don't embarrass me like this, have you become mentally impaired now?"

Chikako stretched out her right hand and shook hands with Hotaru.

Yingsheng glanced at the handshake and didn't feel any force at all, it was just there, and he couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"In this situation, you are not a blank slate now, right? You still have semantic memory, but your episodic memory is completely gone? And you act completely on instinct?"

Chikako naturally did not respond.

This made Yingsheng slightly confirm his guess, and he asked again: "Do you understand what I just said? If you fully understand it, hold up ten fingers. If you only understand 10%, hold up one finger."

Chikako raised her hands and stretched out seven fingers.

Yingsheng nodded: "It's okay, not too stupid. Why can't you speak? If your trachea is damaged, stretch out your left hand. If you forgot how to say it, stretch out your right hand."

Chikako stretched out her right hand.

"Then this should only be temporary. You can always speak up and rely on your instinct."

Chikako thought for a moment, and then let out a low, beast-like roar from her throat. The black lines on her neck were chilling to the eyes.

Yingsheng laughed.

"That's right, do you understand the concept of 'killing'? Chikako, you have to avenge yourself."

Chikako's eyes lit up brightly, and she uttered a complete word for the first time.

"kill!"

(End of this chapter)