Conan Rick's Investigator

"No problem, it's decided happily!"

……

The next day.

Qin Zhibo left Chengshi Hospital early in the morning and drove to Nagano Prefecture.

Just last night, he successfully contacted the mysterious Kuroda Heibei through the contact information given by Yasuharu Haneda.

In the text message, the two parties agreed to meet this morning at the ruins of the ancient battlefield of Kawanakajima in Nagano Prefecture for detailed discussions.

Qin Zhibo doesn't know much about Japan's history.

I searched this place name on the Internet and it probably refers to the two villages in the past, whose chiefs were named Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen.

The two villages had some disputes due to territorial issues.

Later, led by the village chiefs of both sides, a fight broke out in the area of ​​present-day Nagano Prefecture, and many people died.

The place where they fought became the ancient battlefield today.

……

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Qin Zhibo arrived at the agreed location.

The ruins of the ancient battlefield of Kawanakajima cover a large area, and Kuroda Heibei did not tell us the exact location, but only said that he would contact us after arriving at the place.

So, Qin Zhibo took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Kuroda Beiwei telling him that he had arrived, and then began to stroll around the area alone.

This ancient battlefield, where blood once flowed like a river, has now been developed into a park with tourist attractions.

A river divides the park into two parts.

Half of it is an ordinary park, and the other side is the site of an ancient battlefield.

Since today is a weekday, there are not many tourists in the park.

Sculptures of Japanese military commanders from the Warring States period can be seen everywhere in the park, as well as tablets introducing the lives of related figures and historical events.

However, Qin Zhibo had no interest in these things. He just took a quick look at them to kill time.

Just as Qin Zhibo was standing in a daze in front of the sculptures of the two protagonists of "Village Fight" - Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, the voices of other people came from behind him.

"But speaking of which, Yamato, have you really never been here?"

"Um."

“But this place is so famous, it’s a place that no one in Nagano Prefecture can miss…”

"Maybe... but I've never been here except for the bridge in the park when I'm doing morning exercises."

The voices speaking were a man and a woman.

The woman's voice was relatively normal, with a hint of the informal tone of coquettishness between lovers.

The man's voice was quite gloomy. Just by listening to the voice, Qin Zhibo could roughly guess what kind of person he looked like.

But when Qin Zhibo turned around and looked, he couldn't help but be shocked by the man's appearance.

The man who made the gloomy voice looked somewhat ferocious at first glance. He had dark skin, a large "x"-shaped scar covering his left eye, stubble on his chin, and a short ponytail tied behind his head.

Although he has a sturdy body, the crutch in his left hand reduces his sturdiness.

Next to and behind the vicious man were a gentle woman with her hair tied up, and an elegant man with a mustache.

they are……

Qin Zhibo glanced above the heads of the trio and saw their basic information.

Yamato Gansuke, Uehara Yui, and Zhufu Gaoming.

All three of them are police officers.

Since this was Qin Zhibo's first visit to Nagano Prefecture, he was very unfamiliar with the faces of these three people.

But what are the police doing here?

Did a case happen here?

Qin Zhibo quickly glanced around and found no clues about the case.

While Qin Zhibo was thinking, Zhu Fu Gaoming, who was standing behind the trio, was also looking at the man in the brown windbreaker who was standing silently in front of the statue.

that person……

Zhu Fu Gao Ming saw the moment when the man in the windbreaker turned around, and remembered his appearance. He felt that he was very similar to a famous detective who had appeared frequently in newspapers recently.

Just when he wanted to go up to say hello and verify whether his guess was correct, a voice came from the entrance behind him.

"Yamato!"

"What are you doing in this place?"

Yamato and the other two looked back and saw the same trio.

The three men were of different heights, weights and bodies. The only thing they had in common was that they were all dressed formally, wearing suits and ties.

Qin Zhibo, who heard the voice, looked back and saw at a glance that the three newcomers were also police officers.

So many policemen?

Could it be that Kuroda Heibei called him over?

Yamato Gansuke looked at his three colleagues without any good expression on his face, and still looked at them coldly.

One of the other three, a fat police officer with curly hair, didn't seem to care. He smiled and teased, "Could it be that he's secretly meeting his childhood sweetheart, Mahara, while he's on duty?"

Upon hearing this, the policewoman named Uehara Yui blushed and quickly waved her hand to deny it.

“No, that’s not the case…”

"It's just that Officer Yamato said he's never been here before, so I stopped by..."

At this moment, Zhufu Gaoming interrupted Uehara Yui and asked, "Mr. Sanzhi, how did you get here?

Here?"

The fat policeman put his hands in his pockets and said, "We were assigned to go to the hideout of a wanted robber next, so we thought we'd come here to pay our respects to Shingen-kun before setting off."

"We're not here to slack off. After all, not everyone is Aburukawa..."

As he spoke, the fat policeman turned around and glanced at his companion with a pouty mouth behind him.

However, the policeman who was implied to be lazy, retorted that his surname was no longer Yukawa, but Akiyama, his mother's surname.

At this time, the thin policeman who had been silent among the trio glanced around and asked Yamato and others.

"By the way, have you seen our team leader?"

"Team leader? You mean Mr. Takeda?" asked Uehara Yui.

The thin, bespectacled policeman responded and explained, "We all agreed to meet here, but now he's nowhere to be found, and even his phone isn't working..."

Yamato Ganzhu took a step forward with his crutches. "Could it be that we got the time wrong? After all, that old man is quite old."

"That's true..." the pouting policeman agreed.

"Then let's look somewhere else."

After the fat policeman finished speaking, he turned around and left with the other two.

But just as they were about to leave, Yamato Gansuke called them again.

"By the way, if you find Father Takeda, please tell him for me..."

"Even if there's an order from above, I'd never agree to return to your team!"

"Okay, I'll pass your message on to Takeda."

"But I think you'd be a good fit in our group. What a shame..."

The fat policeman and the thin policeman looked at Yamato Gansuke's tough attitude, responded with a few words, and left angrily.

Zhu Fu Gaoming watched the three people leaving and thought of the famous detective he had just seen.

But when he looked back, the man in the brown windbreaker who had been standing in front of the sculpture had disappeared.

……

Before the two groups of police finished their conversation, Qin Zhibo left first.

Because Kuroda Heibei had sent a text message saying that he had arrived at the place where Yamamoto Kansuke died in the final battle.

When Qin Zhibo arrived at the location, he saw a tall and burly figure standing in front of a gray-black stone tablet.

Chapter 1344 Kuroda Heibei

In front of the stone tablet engraved with "Tomb of Yamamoto Doki", a burly man with his hands in his pockets was staring at the tombstone in front of him in a daze.

The man was wearing a neat brown suit. Looking from the side and back, one could see his gray hair and beard.

He should be Kuroda Bei, right?

Qin Zhibo adjusted his facial expression and walked forward.

"Hello……"

Hearing the voice behind him, the man turned around.

When Qin Zhibo saw the man's face, he immediately confirmed that the person in front of him was the Kuroda Heibei with whom he had agreed to meet.

Kuroda Beibei, male, 50 years old, police officer, social credit...

Qin Zhibo quickly glanced at Kuroda Heibei's basic information, and then looked at the other person's appearance.

It's a little different from what I imagined.

Kuroda Bei's face has a tough guy style, with a slightly darker skin color, and a sense of indifference and fortitude of T800.

It's just a battle damaged version.

Under the one-eyed sunglasses he wore, you could see large scars exposed outside the lenses.

Unlike the battle-damaged Nagano prefectural policeman we saw earlier, his scar was a burn-like scar, running from his cheekbone through his right eye to his forehead.

Seeing Qin Zhibo, Kuroda Beiwei spoke in his deep and hoarse voice.

"We finally meet, Detective..."

"Our conversation will have to wait a bit. Someone else will be coming over later."

Anyone else?

Qin Zhibo was surprised. Could it be the policemen he had just met?

But after all, I am a famous detective with a social credit of 12900. If those policemen were also the people I met this time, they should have recognized me just now.

who can that be?

Qin Zhibo did not ask his doubts, but walked calmly to the side of Kuroda Heiwei.

The two were silent.

During the silence, Kuroda Bei continued to stare at the stone tablet in front of him, his eyes filled with thought.

Qin Zhibo glanced at the profile of Kuroda Heibei and found that in addition to the scar on his eye, he also had deep nasolabial folds on both sides of his nose.

Looking at the basic information floating above Kuroda Heibei's head, Qin Zhibo's eyes flashed with a hint of thought.

Kurodabei's last name is Kuroda...

The results of Hakuba's previous investigation in London showed that the organization's boss Karasuma Renya was once a member of the British aristocratic Spencer family, and his mother's surname was Sera.

After his father's death, Karasuma Renya traveled across the ocean to Japan during the Meiji Restoration and established his own family here.

The family established by Karasuma Renya has a patriarch whose surname is Karasuma, that is, Karasuma Renya himself.

The surname of other members of the family was Kuroba, and later surnames such as Kurosawa and Kuroiwa were derived.

If we follow this surname pattern, the surname "Kuroda" might also be a descendant of the Karasuma family...

Qin Zhibo thought about it for a moment and dispelled this doubt.

First of all, the surname Kuroda is a fairly common surname among Japanese people, and it is not uncommon to meet a descendant of Karasuma Renya.