Conan Rick's Investigator

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The next day, morning.

After Qin Zhibo finished washing up and packed some luggage for going to the United States, he sat in front of the TV on time to watch the morning news.

She was still the familiar Rena Mizunoshi, but the smile on her face today was a little sweeter than usual.

It's obvious that his mood is different.

As usual, we will first report on the major events that happened in Tokyo yesterday. The assassination of Yasuteru Domon is naturally ranked first.

"Yesterday at 13:00 PM, candidate for parliament, Mr. Yasuteru Domon, was assassinated while being interviewed by our reporter at Haido Park. He was 47 years old."

"Mr. Yasuteru Domon was a former captain of the Self-Defense Forces. His father was a high-ranking official in the Defense Agency. When he ran in the House of Representatives election, he already received over half the public support and was hailed as the 'best candidate for future prime minister'..."

"With the death of Mr. Yasuteru Domon, Mr. Eisaku Tokiwa, the second-ranked professor of pharmacy at Touto University, will have a high probability of winning the parliamentary election."

As the real mastermind behind the entire assassination plan, Qin Zhibo knew that Domon Yasuteru was still alive, not as reported in the news.

It was probably for the purpose of protection by the Japanese public security, and with the consent of Yasuteru Domon himself, that he took advantage of the situation and became a "dead man".

In fact, even if Yasuki Domon insisted on "resurrection", Rena Mizunashi also said that the organization had evidence of Domon's father's extramarital affair 20 years ago, which was enough to create a political scandal that would make Domon give up this election.

However, Qin Zhibo began to waver at this moment about the organization's original motive of targeting Yasuteru Domon.

On the surface, Domon Yasuteru's tough stance on crime might make him detrimental to the organization if he were to take power.

This is also what the organization boss said to Vermouth himself.

But judging from the final outcome of the incident, the death of Yasuteru Domon or his withdrawal from the election would have facilitated the successful election of Eisaku Tokiwa, who ranked second in support rates, and he would have been one of the actual beneficiaries.

And this Tokiwa Eisaku happens to be an expert in medicine, which is closely related to the biomedicine field that the organization attaches great importance to developing.

Does this person have a vested interest in the organization?

After losing Ai Haibara, the main research and development force, the organization will definitely recruit other researchers to continue the development of APTX-4869.

This Eisaku Tokiwa obviously has good qualifications, and the organization may use the position of councilor to lure Eisaku Tokiwa to join them.

Although the boss of the organization did not tell Vermouth about this, with the boss's shrewdness, although he seemed not to be in charge of many specific things, he always controlled the direction of events behind the scenes.

For example, in this assassination plan, he placed a sniper unknown to everyone in order to monitor himself when he was carrying out his first assassination mission.

There is also the Haido Hotel. It was under his order that Vermouth let Gin execute Pisco.

The reason for the execution was that the reporter's photo showed Pisco shooting, something that even Gin didn't know at the time.

This shows that while the boss of an organization may seem to be indifferent and leave things to the people below him, he is actually secretly paying attention to the development of every matter, and his observations are more in-depth and detailed than those of the organization cadres.

After all, he is an old hand who has lived for over a hundred years. If his physical condition allows, his level of meticulousness must be different from that of these young people.

If that's the case, then the Parnest fragments he told me about might also be...

Rena Mizunashi on TV continued to report the next piece of news, which was also a major event happening in Tokyo.

"At 1 a.m. today, a major fire broke out at a sanitary product processing factory in southeastern Ota Ward, Tokyo..."

"Most of the factory was burned down. The fire was not completely extinguished until 4:20 in the morning..."

"Officially, the fire did not cause any casualties. The cause of the fire is currently unknown. The Fire Department is fully investigating, but the possibility of arson cannot be ruled out..."

When Qin Zhibo saw this news, he realized that this was the organization news that Mizunashi Rena told him to pay attention to.

This place was the organization's base that he had visited before. It seemed that they were worried about being investigated, so they destroyed it first.

But in fact, Toru Amuro had known about this place for a long time, but there was definitely no organization boss in such a place, so Toru Amuro had never touched it.

Qin Zhibo continued to listen to the news, but until all the local news in Tokyo ended, he did not hear any news about Gin.

It seems that the news of Gin's death has been covered up by the police, as they don't want to break off relations with the organization.

After reading the news, Qin Zhibo prepared to set out to find Mizunashi Rena's brother.

Her younger brother's real name is Hondou Eisuke. He is a student at Teitan High School and a classmate of Mouri Ran.

Since they were acquaintances, Qin Zhibo didn't plan to wait for him at the school gate after school. He just asked Mao Lilan to help contact him.

Qin Zhibo called Mao Li Ran and told her that he wanted to meet Hondou Eisuke. Mao Li Ran was immediately surprised.

"Isn't this a coincidence?"

"We're planning to go on an outing to Sonoko's friend's villa today! Do you want to join us?"

Maoriland + villa?

Qin Zhibo felt a little excited when he heard this combination that he hadn't seen for a long time.

"So, Conan is going too?"

"Conan?" Mao Lilan was puzzled. Wasn't she going to ask Hondou Eisuke? Why was she suddenly asking about Conan?

"Yeah, Conan will go with us too..."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo was delighted.

"That's really... hot Thai pants!"

"I'll be there soon!"

Chapter 965 I gave you a chance, but you are useless

After hanging up the phone, Qin Zhibo simply packed up his things, fed Jerry some cooked melon seeds, and went to the Maori Detective Agency.

……

When they arrived at the Mouri Detective Agency, Mouri Ran and Conan had already packed their backpacks containing their luggage and were sitting on the sofa waiting.

Today Conan is not wearing the classic blue battle suit, but a casual green plaid jacket with white shorts. It seems that he really thinks he is going on an outing.

And Mao Lilan's fashion sense is as good as ever. The blue casual shirt paired with white slim trousers reveals a girlish temperament.

"Mr. Qin! You're here!"

"Please take a seat...Eiyou should be here soon. When he arrives, we'll all get in Mariko's car and leave."

For some reason, Mao Lilan was much more enthusiastic than usual when she saw Qin Zhibo today.

Conan next to him had a helpless look on his face, his crescent eyes had already seen through the truth.

It turned out that the place where Sonoko invited everyone to go on an outing today was a wooden villa not far from the villa where the bandaged monster incident happened last time.

Not only was the Bandage Monster incident cruel, but the murderer also attacked Ran Mouri at night, leaving her with a lot of psychological trauma.

Originally, when she heard that the place Sonoko invited her to was nearby, Mao Lilan wanted to decline.

But he could not resist Sonoko's invitation, especially since Sonoko had already invited a boy from the same class, Hondou Eiu, to accompany him.

In order to prevent Hondou Eiu from misunderstanding that she refused to go on the outing because she hated him, Mao Li Ran had no choice but to agree.

Of course, in order to get some psychological comfort, Ran Mouri brought Conan along again like last time.

As for Qin Zhibo, Mao Lilan didn't want to use this reason to affect Qin Zhibo's work.

But now that he has caught up, he is also an important person who can improve psychological security.

"By the way, Uncle Qin, what are you looking for Sister Xiaolan's classmates for?"

While waiting, Conan couldn't suppress his detective curiosity and began to inquire.

Conan's words also reminded Mao Lilan next to him, "Oh, right, does Mr. Qin know Yingyou?"

When Conan heard Ran Mouri say "Eiu-san" again, he glanced at Ran Mouri's smiling face again.

This name shows that the two people are quite familiar with each other.

Before Qin Zhibo came, Conan had already asked Mao Lilan for information about Hondou Eisuke. Obviously, when he was still Kudo Shinichi, this person did not exist in Class 2B.

But Mao Lilan only said that this person was a transfer student and acted like a "child".

This aroused Conan's vigilance, because the maternal Ran Mouri loves children very much.

Qin Zhibo naturally couldn't answer their questions directly. He pretended to be mysterious and said seriously, "This involves my client's privacy. I can't comment."

Mao Lilan heard that since it was a commission, there was no way to ask. Anyway, she didn't believe that Qin Zhibo would harm that child-like classmate.

Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting behind his desk pretending to read a newspaper, turned his eyes slightly, but didn't care too much.

I need to find a high school student for a commission, but it's probably not an important one...

Only Conan frowned slightly, feeling that there was something strange about it.

He just met with an unknown person near Haido Park yesterday to talk about the "organization", and today he immediately came to find Xiaolan's classmate Hondou Eiu. This is really strange.

If the commission was received before investigating the doorbell prank at Rena Mizunashi's house, Qin Zhibo should have asked Mao Lilan to meet with Hondou Eimi at that time, instead of waiting until today.

To sum up, Qin Zhibo came into contact with Hondou Eiu under the instructions of the contact person!

Sensing a clue that might be the "organization", Conan's mouth curled up slightly, and he was already ready to take action.

In order to get a glimpse of Hondou Eiu, the high school student related to the "organization", as soon as possible, Conan walked to the entrance and waited for someone to come.

Just then, there were three knocks on the office door.

Tuk, Tuk, Tuk...

"Ah, it looks like Yingyou is here, please come in!"

As Mao Lilan called out, a human figure outside the frosted glass pushed the door open and walked in.

But before Conan could see the other person's face clearly, the man was tripped by the door frame and fell towards him with a "thump".

The other person's arm was tightly wrapped around Conan's neck, and with the weight of his body being too much for the elementary school student to bear, the two fell to the ground together.

“Ouch~ It hurts…”

Conan covered his butt, cried out in pain, and propped himself up from the ground.

The other person's glasses also fell off. After getting up, he knelt on the ground and scratched his head in surprise.

"Eh? Doesn't it hurt?"

"You're crushing me!"

Conan protested beside him, which attracted the other person's attention.

The other party quickly adjusted the direction of the ground seat and apologized to Conan repeatedly, "I'm so sorry, Detective Maori! It's an honor to meet you!"

Mao Lilan, who was standing by, quickly explained, "Well... actually, this is Conan who is staying at my house."

"Eh?"

The man became suspicious and touched Conan's face again, rubbing it like playing with plasticine to confirm.

This scene surprised Qin Zhibo who was sitting on the sofa.

Is Conan's face so malleable?

Looking at the young man who was rubbing Conan's face, the name above his head was Eiu Hondou, the younger brother mentioned by Rena Mizunashi.

Judging from her appearance, she does have some similarities with Rena Mizunashi, especially her eyes.

But in terms of personality, they are so different...

"I see, I recognized the wrong person. I'm sorry!"

It was not until Conan's face turned red from being pinched that Hondou Eiu let go of his hand and apologized to Conan.

He took the glasses handed to him by Mao Lilan, and his severely myopic eyes could finally see everything clearly.

In the modern office, besides Conan and Ran Mouri, he immediately saw a man in a brown windbreaker sitting on the sofa. The mature man's appearance clearly revealed his identity.

"Detective Maori, nice to meet you, please take care of me!"

Everyone exclaimed in surprise: "Huh?"

Qin Zhibo was also shocked. How could he admit his mistake? What was he referring to as Qin?

Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting behind his desk pretending to read a newspaper, became nervous. He immediately put down the newspaper and stood up.

"Hey! Boy, I'm Maori Kogoro!"

"Ah?!" Hondou Eiu was surprised. He compared the faces of Qin Zhibo and Maori Kogoro several times, and then he discovered the difference between the two.

"I was wondering why the real person is different from what we see on TV! So this is it!"