Chapter 492 The Hidden Man Behind the Scenes Asking for Monthly Tickets ()

After locking in the suspect, Conan's mind cleared up and he remembered one thing:

“No wonder I always felt like something was wrong – it was the skin colour!

“The administrator stays in the mountains all year round and is exposed to the sun. His skin should be as dark as that of the college student, but the administrator we met did not have many signs of sunburn on his skin.

"The light in the rest stop was dim, and with his white beard and hair, his abnormal skin color was not very obvious. I thought it was because I had been looking at Amuro-nii for a long time, so I suddenly looked at others with a pale complexion... From this point of view, the administrator was probably not a real staff member, but an imposter."

Toru Amuro: "...?"

Although what this kid said was true, but as I listened, my fists hardened...

He snapped his fingers and decided not to bother with the child.

At the same time, he thought to himself: In addition to the administrator who was responsible for preparing dinner and tea, other people actually had the opportunity to put sleeping pills in Jiang Xia's water - such as this strange child who sat next to Jiang Xia during dinner...

And there is another question here. If it was the administrator who put the drug, why didn't he just put the drug in the tea, knock everyone down, and then easily kill the client?

Looking at it this way, the administrator's suspicion becomes less, while the suspicion of others increases - yes, like the strange kid next to him.

Toru Amuro thought of another little boy he had met.

The child who loves to wear a scarf seems to like using anesthetics. If that's the case, then it's reasonable that another child who likes to throw sleeping pills around would appear.

Toru Amuro briefly engaged in conspiracy theories.

Then put aside this suspicious issue that was mixed with personal opinions for the time being.

Putting aside prejudice and thinking rationally, the attacker only targeted Jiang Xia, probably because he didn't want to reveal his identity immediately - if he drugged everyone, unless he killed everyone present, the administrator in charge of water supply would immediately arouse suspicion the next day. But if he only targeted Jiang Xia, if the previous attack was successful, then once Jiang Xia died, no one would know that he had drunk sleeping pills before the autopsy, and the identity of the administrator, who was convenient for drugging, would not easily arouse suspicion immediately, so his actions were much calmer.

And in another matter, the administrator is more suspicious than Conan:

"If the administrator was an imposter, the motive for the male college student being attacked would make sense - the student often came to climb the mountain and probably knew the real administrator. So after the fake administrator received a call from the student asking about the weather, he realized that this might expose his identity, so he took action in advance..."

In short, no matter whether the fake administrator is the Silver Fox or the "home invasion and murder robber" played on the radio, he seems to have serious problems.

Fortunately, since the assassination attempt failed, their identities were not exposed, and there were other tourists around, Silver Fox and the robber should not act rashly.

Toru Amuro looked at the dark forest outside the cave.

Just now they followed the voice of Etsuko Torakura all the way here, and they were not sure about the direction. If they went out in the dark now, they would easily get lost. Besides, there were women and children who needed to be taken care of here.

——Etsuko Torakura doesn't look like she can take action immediately. If they carry her on their backs, what if Silver Fox or the burglar is not at the rest stop but is wandering in the mountains? They may easily suffer an accident because they cannot free their hands when they are suddenly attacked.

If everything goes well in Jiangxia, the problem of shortage of manpower can be easily solved.

But Jiang Xia was being drugged by an unknown mastermind. Although sleeping pills would not make a person unable to move like anesthetics, it was inevitable that he would be in a trance and move slower than usual during the drug effect. It was really dangerous to go out like this.

"Let's wait here for a while." Amuro Toru looked at his watch. "It will be dawn in less than half an hour. We can find a way back then."

This might actually save more time than going out directly.

Jiang Xia nodded.

Conan had no objection to this.

Torakura Etsuko hugged Jiang Xia and enjoyed the mountain breeze for a while. The fear triggered by the dark rest stop gradually disappeared.

There is no signal, no novels, and no progress in reasoning.

Conan looked at Torakura Etsuko with boredom, remembering that she was a writer very high on his list of admirers, and took the initiative to talk to her: "No wonder you like to use the plot of 'a narrow and secret room where it is difficult to turn over' when describing some horror scenes. It turns out that you are afraid yourself."

Toru Amuro has also read novels by Etsuko Torakura.

Hearing this, he looked at Conan and said, "There are a lot of Chinese characters in Ms. Torakura's novel, and most of them are not marked with phonetic symbols. Can you understand it?"

“…”

Conan came back to his senses and laughed awkwardly, reflexively pulling out a shield: "My Chinese grades are very good, and when I don't understand something, I can always ask Brother Jiang Xia to read it to me, hahahaha."

"Oh." Amuro Toru seemed to be thinking about something, "Jiang Xia is so free?"

Conan froze slightly.

I almost forgot, this seems to be the boss of the office where Jiang Xia is working. It seems not very good to say this to his face...

So he hurriedly patched it up: "Most of the time I look for Sister Xiaolan..."

Toru Amuro nodded and didn't ask the question again.

After discovering Conan's suspicious behavior, he actually asked his subordinates to investigate this strange child.

Then he discovered that there was no household registration of "Edogawa Conan" in Tokyo, and he and his parents had no trace of such a person.

At present, all places are not fully connected to the Internet, and the situation in other prefectures and counties needs to be investigated slowly.

If we check and find that there is no Edogawa family anywhere else, then this elementary school student in front of us is an illegal resident with unknown origins...

In addition, according to investigations within Tokyo, the people who claim to be Conan's parents seem to be currently abroad and their names and identities are unknown.

The Maori family who adopted Conan has a good family background. One of the husband and wife is a detective and the other is a lawyer. Their daughter is an excellent student with good conduct. There is no problem.

Dr. Agasa, who first came into contact with Conan, is also a scholar with a clear life experience.

Although from these aspects, even if Conan has a problem, it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but his origins are still a huge mystery that needs to be investigated.

Toru Amuro even suspected that if he continued investigating in this way, he might not only find problems with Conan, but also other abnormal children - such as the kid in the scarf who had tried to scam him.

Thinking in a more conspiracy-theoretic direction, there might be a dark organization in the dark corners of society that gathers genius children for some unspeakable purpose...

He frowned in thought and subconsciously looked at Conan.

(End of this chapter)