Conan Rick's Investigator

Chapter 717: Countryside roads are slippery, and people’s hearts are even more complicated

Shancuncao kept chattering about learning ventriloquism, and Conan could only tell him to watch the road and make him shut up temporarily.

Conan felt a little helpless about this rookie policeman, but he also gained something.

It’s rare to find such a good policeman. If you don’t have Kogoro Mouri around you in the future, you can use him as a “loudspeaker”.

……

Yamamura Cao drove the car to the fallen Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and successfully dug out the treasure according to the location mentioned by Maori Kogoro.

This is a jar filled with cash, which after counting is as much as 1 million yen.

Conan, through Kogoro Mouri, asked Yamamura So to inquire with the headquarters about the unsolved case involving 1 million yen five years ago, and the result was soon revealed.

In a kidnapping and ransom case five years ago, the amount involved was exactly 1 million yuan, and there were two kidnappers at the time.

Now the case became much clearer. The man in red with long hair and the murderer were the two kidnappers in the kidnapping case that year. The man in red was responsible for hiding the money, but was robbed by the murderer.

However, the man in red also had a backup plan. He left a secret code for hiding the money in the suitcase, so that the murderer would never get the money.

However, what Conan couldn't understand was that since he was afraid that he would be killed by his accomplices, why didn't he just say that he had memorized the location where the money was hidden?

In this way, the murderer will not dare to rob the criminals, and the man in red can save his life.

In fact, this is not the only confusing operation used by the kidnappers.

In the case at the hotel just now, the murderer took the trouble to get hair from the women's bathhouse and put it in the suitcase, trying to create the illusion of a curse and murder.

This approach is simply unnecessary. It is obvious that the police cannot close the case by using curse to kill someone.

Instead, the fake Qin Zhibo and Conan himself used this as a clue and grasped the key information that the murderer was an insider of the hotel.

It is really unimaginable that such a pair of stupid kidnappers could kidnap and extort 1 million yuan, and the case has not been solved for 5 years.

It is conceivable that there are many outrageous cases that have not been solved before.

At this moment, Conan suddenly felt that the burden on his small shoulders was very heavy.

……

Following the instructions of "Mouri Kogoro", Yamamura Cao took out the stolen money and put it in the trunk of his car, put soil in the jar, and buried it again.

Park the car in a secluded bush, and all that's left is to wait patiently in the car for the murderer to come to you.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the murderer still hadn't arrived. Conan became a little anxious.

It’s not that he was afraid that his hints were not obvious enough and the murderer could not be found, but he was afraid that Kogoro Mouri would wake up in the middle of it.

Dr. Agasa said that the duration of the anesthetic injection's effect is generally between 1 and 2 hours, but individual physical differences and drug resistance cannot be ruled out.

Based on Conan's experience of singing double yellow for so long, he concluded that the effect of the anesthetic injection on Kogoro Mouri usually lasts less than 30 minutes, and sometimes even earlier.

Previously, Kogoro Mouri woke up in the middle of an anesthetic injection.

Conan asked Dr. Agasa to enhance the efficacy of the medicine. Although Dr. Agasa agreed, the improved version of the anesthetic had not yet been released, and Dr. Agasa flew to the United States.

Now that Kogoro Mouri has been anesthetized for more than half an hour, Conan began to worry that the drug's effect would expire.

As the saying goes, what you worry about will come true. Just as Conan was muttering about the effects of the medicine, Kogoro Mouri woke up sleepily in the front passenger seat.

"……Um?"

"Why am I here?"

Kogoro Mouri rubbed his eyes and yawned loudly, looking like he had just woken up.

Yamamura Cao turned around, a puzzled look on his face. "Huh? Didn't Mr. Maori tell us to lie in ambush here and wait for the murderer to fall into his trap?"

"Ah? It's me..."

Kogoro Mouri was stunned for a moment, and pointed at himself in disbelief, just like when he was thanked by the local police every time he solved a case.

Shancun Cao nodded, "Yes, it's you."

Kogoro Mouri changed his mind and realized that it must be his other "personality" that came out to solve the case.

"Yes, it's me!"

"Ha ha--"

Yamamura Cao then suggested, "By the way, Mr. Maori, when we meet the murderer later, can you let me show my face?"

"OK, no problem!"

Kogoro Mori, who was confused about the situation, was more than happy to do so.

Seeing that Kogoro Mouri accepted the situation calmly and Yamamura Sou didn't become suspicious, Conan in the back seat breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there were two little guys in the car, otherwise the truth would have been revealed.

But at this moment, Kogoro Mouri, who had just woken up, looked down at his watch and suddenly found that it was already 11:30 in the evening.

"Hmm? Time to open the envelope the imposter left behind, right?"

After Mouri Kogoro's reminder, Yamamura Sou and Conan also remembered this and looked at the watches on their wrists.

"Yes, it's time..."

"Hurry up and open the envelope and see what that imposter has to say."

At the urging of Kogoro Mori, Yamamura Cao quickly took out the envelope left by the fake Qin Zhibo from his arms, opened the envelope, and found a piece of letter paper inside.

I unfolded the letter and saw only one name on it.

"Masao Jimbo..."

"Who is this person?" Kogoro Mouri asked in confusion.

Shancuncao quickly checked the contents recorded in his police manual and found the situation.

"Masao Jinpo is an employee of the Aoiya Hotel. His main job is to park the cars for guests."

Conan's face darkened as he recalled the scene in the afternoon.

The first person you will meet when you come to Aoiya Hotel is the fake Qin Zhibo, who thinks he is the murderer.

why?

Conan was thinking, when Yamamura Cao in the front seat suddenly looked out the front window alertly and whispered, "Someone is coming outside."

Conan stood up by stepping on the back seat, and sure enough, he saw a "Little Black" walking towards the fallen Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with a flashlight and a shovel on his shoulder in the front window.

First use the compass to find the correct position, then "Xiao Hei" waves the shovel and starts digging.

As he was digging, the shovel hit the jar below, making a crisp sound.

"hey-hey……"

"Xiao Hei" let out two muffled laughs, with a mouthful of big white teeth, smiling with strength and confidence.

Just as "Xiao Hei" put down the shovel and was about to dig the jar containing the money out of the soil with his hands, he suddenly heard a rustling sound in the grass behind him.

"that……"

"Excuse me, can you help us?"

"Xiao Hei" was so frightened that his body trembled. He immediately turned around and saw two thinly dressed young women standing behind him, supporting each other, looking pitiful.

Seeing two grown men standing behind him, "Xiao Hei" was stunned.

Oops, we’ve been discovered!

Although they didn't look like they were from the hotel or the police, as long as he brought these two people to the Aoi Hotel, the other hotel staff would definitely know from them that he had gone out into the wild to dig for things in the middle of the night.

If the police and famous detectives knew about this, I would definitely be suspected!

Moreover, the pit next to it has been dug up, so it’s too late to bury it now!

hateful!

The only option is to silence him!

……

Two young women had just escaped from the clutches of fanatical believers and lost their way while fleeing, but happened to come across a figure in the forest.

The two went forward to ask for help without thinking, but when they turned their eyes, they saw the shovel on the ground and the dug pit next to it.

Their intuition told them that this was not a good person.

But it was too late, I had already said hello.

The man in front of him bent down, slowly picked up the shovel on the ground, and held it in his hand as a weapon.

"No problem, ladies..."

A cruel smile appeared on the man's face, and his tall figure slowly approached the two petite bodies.

After running from the center of Toushen Forest to the edge of the forest in sandals, the two women's feet were worn out and they had no strength to continue running.

Faced with the approaching bad guys, they could only hug each other in resignation and make a wish in their hearts that if they could survive, they would never travel to the countryside again.

I originally thought that the city was full of tricks and wanted to experience the customs and culture of the countryside.

But the roads in the countryside are also slippery, and people’s hearts are even more complicated!

"I can help you, but not by going anywhere else..."

"But dig two more holes here!"

The man raised the shovel high and was about to swing it at the two men's heads when the headlights of a car suddenly lit up behind him, and the dim forest was instantly as bright as day.

The man stopped in shock, gasped, and looked back.

I saw two faint figures, one tall and one short, standing between the two headlights.

"Mr. Jinbo, please don't let your sins become even heavier..."

"It's all over. Just surrender."

Due to the backlight, Masao Kampo couldn't see who it was, but he knew that he was caught red-handed and had no room for explanation.

"Damn it!"

"I'll fight with you!"

Masao Kamiya was ready to give up, so he picked up the shovel in his hand and ran towards the headlights.

Kogoro Mori rushed forward to meet the enemy, easily caught the shovel handle with both hands, swung it to the side, and turned around to throw it over his shoulder.

With a series of moves completed in one go, Masao Kamiyasu was defeated instantly and fell to the ground, questioning his life.

Shancuncao hurried over to pick up the merit and put the silver bracelet on the prisoner.

Kogoro Mouri handsomely adjusted the collar of his suit and walked towards the two pitiful women in a heroic manner.

"Ladies, it's safe now."

Kogoro Mouri stretched out his hand and tried to pull the man up from the ground.

But after experiencing this series of events, the two women's trust in people has dropped to the lowest level.

"Don't touch us!"

"what--"

The two of them scratched around randomly, making it impossible for anyone to get close.

In the end, it was Conan who ran over and gained the trust of the two young ladies with his innocent and young face.

……

After a period of explanation, the identities of Kogoro Mori and So Yamamura finally made the two young women let down their guard and feel sure that they were safe.

Under Shancuncao's questioning, the two of them told everything about their experiences.

It turned out that the two men were travelers who had booked rooms at the Aoiya Hotel, but they got lost on the way and were abducted into the forest by a group of people.

These people were holding some kind of ceremony in the swamp of the forest and wanted to use them as living sacrifices.

"What era is this? How can people still be so superstitious?"

Shancun Cao, who was the last person to say this, complained like this.