Chapter 1299 1307 [The missing periphery of the organization]

"......?" Hattori Heiji was stunned for a second before he caught up with Jiang Xia's topic. He immediately felt that he was being ridiculed. He jumped up from beside the corpse and said, "You actually made a personal attack!"

...The last time someone said he was evil, it was probably the unscrupulous boss in Jiangxia. Damn Tokyo people, they all love to make a fuss about this. What's wrong with being a little evil?

Besides, his skin is not black, but a healthy bronze color. Although... although it is indeed a little darker than normal bronze.

Conan turned his back and laughed twice, then suddenly noticed that Hattori Heiji was staring at him.

The observation ability of his colleagues really should not be underestimated... He immediately straightened his face and cleared his throat: "No matter whether we can see clearly or not, let's ask those three people first - they are very suspicious. Maybe after asking them, the case can be solved."

"Those three people?"

A voice suddenly came from behind.

Three men walked over side by side, their tone not so friendly: "Are you talking about us? We were just doing our own thing, don't throw dirty water at us!"

There were five people in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tour group, and two of them are dead.

The three people in front of him were the remaining three.

The quantity is standard.

"We just said that we would come back after dinner to cooperate with the investigation. I thought that after a while, there would be fewer people watching, but why are there still so many?"

The bald old man "Tokugawa Ieyasu" was a little impatient: "Osaka people really love to join in the fun."

The good-tempered "lord" did discover something: "It seems something has happened again."

He asked several policemen, "What's going on here?"

Inspector Otaki was about to answer subconsciously, but Hattori Heiji asked first: "What did you do after leaving the castle tower just now?"

The "Lord" touched the back of his head in confusion: "Of course I'm going to eat. Didn't I tell you that before I left?"

The bald old man nodded: "Me too, but our tastes are different, so we are not in the same store."

Next to them, the tall and thin "Akechi Mitsuhide" also came to his senses and said hurriedly: "I went back to the hotel to change clothes. I was shocked when I saw the corpse before, and forgot to bring an umbrella, so my clothes were soaked. Oh, 'Ningning'... Miss Katagiri, she also went to change clothes. I saw her in the corridor when I returned to the hotel."

The detectives looked at each other silently.

"Ningning" was the woman who had just set herself on fire and jumped into the river.

Just as he was thinking, a police officer behind him discovered something and yelled "Oops!" and hurried over to Inspector Otaki: "Inspector, there is also a fragment on Miss Katagiri's body that is the same as the previous case!"

"What?!" Inspector Otaki was startled and turned to look. He saw that the young police officer was holding a piece of broken pottery in his hand. Although the color had darkened slightly due to being soaked in water, the material and style were exactly the same as the other pieces.

"She also has fragments?" The three girls recalled the scenario they had thought about when they were crossing the bridge just now: "People with fragments will be cursed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ghost." They felt that the night wind around them was becoming colder and colder.

The three of them huddled together and whispered, "Could it be that there really is an undead hiding behind the scenes controlling all of this?"

Jiang Xia made a joke as if he wanted to comfort them: "It's probably difficult for the undead to control the living, but when it comes to 'control', there are people who can do it - maybe they were sentenced to death by the 'lord'."

"Hmm? Hmm! I see!" Suzuki Sonoko suddenly understood everything after hearing his words. "I remember that the person who plays 'Oda Nobunaga' in this tour group has the power to order others to do things! If the lord 'Oda Nobunaga' makes the deceased commit suicide in a strange way, then the logic behind it all makes sense!"

The bald old man was startled, then he laughed sinisterly and added fuel to the fire:

"What the little girl said is correct. I want to add one more thing. In addition to the 'lord', the 'Akechi Mitsuhide' next to me has the power of the world for three days. He has three minutes every day to give orders to others. And if the two people do not communicate with each other, he can give orders twice - anyway, no matter what the situation is, it has nothing to do with me, 'Tokugawa Ieyasu'."

"Brother Ieyasu! Don't make trouble at a time like this."

The "Lord" shook his head helplessly, then turned to the detective and the police and explained seriously:

"Every day, the roles are random. I was chosen as the lord by chance. Although I can order others today, it can only be something like 'helping to run errands' - we are not fools. Let alone 'committing suicide', even asking 'Toyotomi Hideyoshi' to go to the eaves of the castle tower is impossible, because it violates the regulations of the scenic area.

"To put it another way, even if everyone really follows the rules of the game rigidly, we can't order Ningning around. According to the rules, she doesn't have to follow anyone's instructions."

Inspector Otaki laughed: "If it's just a little girl joking, don't take it so seriously. Don't worry, we won't suspect you just because of this."

The "lord" and "Akechi Mitsuhide" breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the successive deaths of their companions had dealt them a heavy blow, and both of them looked very tense.

At this time, the young police officer who was in charge of handling the body found something in the body's pocket.

He took it and said, "Inspector, here is another photo."

A group of people came over to take a look and were suddenly stunned.

——This is a group photo of five people.

In the middle of the photo is a kind old man.

He was holding an unfolded scroll in his hand. Judging from the contents of the scroll, it was exactly the "Dragon Scroll" that was burnt on the body of the deceased in the previous case.

In the photo, four young people are sitting in a circle next to the old man.

Jiang Xia looked around and pointed at the people on the right: "These two people over here seem to be the victims of the two cases just now."

Another life-threatening photo.

"They knew each other before?" Inspector Otaki finally sensed something strange. "Who are the other three people?"

"Akechi Mitsuhide" came over curiously and actually recognized one of them.

He pointed at the second man on the left in the photo in surprise and asked his companions, "Is this Mr. Murano?"

He was a middle-aged man with a broad chin.

The other two took a closer look and nodded, "It's really him. He looks so young in the photo."

This seemed to be an important clue. Hattori Heiji looked at him: "Mr. Murano?"

Akechi Mitsuhide nodded. "He is a friend we met online. He was the one who first proposed this treasure hunt... uh, this historical journey. But before we set off, he suddenly said that he had something urgent to do and couldn't come."

"..." He organized this treasure hunt where so many people died one after another, but he himself did not show up...

Suspicious, very suspicious!

(End of this chapter)