Chapters 3550 & 3562 [Job Opportunities] Requesting Monthly Tickets ()

"Ran got lost in the underground parking lot?" Conan paused, his sharp mind quickly connecting the dots. He asked Sonoko, "These pieces of jewelry..."

Since it concerned a friend, Sonoko Suzuki surprisingly followed along, her face turning pale: "Ran got one too!"

"Oh no!" Conan, temporarily ignoring Gin who had already left, turned around and rushed towards the underground parking lot.

However, before that, a muffled scream rang out. Immediately afterward, amidst the puzzled and shocked gazes of the crowd, a familiar figure dashed out of the underground parking lot like a 100-meter sprinter, glanced around for a moment, then his eyes lit up and he rushed straight towards them.

"Xiao Lan?" Jiang Xia stopped the classmate who was about to rush into the street. "What happened?"

Ran Mouri pointed tremblingly at the parking lot: "When I was looking for the elevator, I saw... a woman covered in blood, slumped against the wall behind two cars. She... she didn't seem to be breathing..."

Three policemen: "?!"

...

A group of people rushed into the underground parking lot.

In another building.

Vermouth composed herself and, dragging her weary body and mind, slowly walked out.

She certainly didn't walk down the street in her true form; she was still dressed as a waitress. However…

Vermouth touched her face, thinking to herself, "I just politely declined Uzo's request to come along. Now, to show up in front of him like this, isn't it a bit like a provocation?"

It would be better to change into a different outfit, but what should it be?

"My disguise equipment is all in the car, and there's not much stuff actually in it, because I need to be prepared for the car to explode, fall into the river, or be impounded. Right now, I can only make minor modifications... Hmm?"

As she was conceiving her new look, Vermouth suddenly stopped in her tracks.

—Across the street, for some reason, there was a wig hanging down.

It was a head of long, golden hair, smooth and incredibly realistic. Although it looked a bit messy on the ground, anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that it had been meticulously styled and had a very fashionable look.

The moment Vermouth saw it, the perfect makeup look immediately came to mind.

"Just when I was wondering what to disguise myself with, a wig fell from the sky and appeared right in front of me. It was simply a gift from God..."

Vermouth walked toward it... and then passed right by without giving it a second glance.

"Yeah, right." She scoffed inwardly. "It must be the devil's temptation—if this wasn't Uzo's arrangement, I would have jumped upside down all the way to Beika Town."

"but……"

After taking a few steps, Vermouth hesitated again: "Isn't this too obvious? — A wig like this lying on the street looks unusual, even a bit out of place. Would Uzo really throw out such a clumsy bait?"

"If that's the case, then perhaps picking up that wig and using it as a disguise is the right answer?"

“But what if Uzo guessed that I would think this way, and then did something like this…”

On a bustling street, a waiter stroked his chin, briefly lost in thought.

...

While Vermouth was busy thinking.

The police were also busy in the underground parking lot.

After some effort, they finally found the place Ran Mouri had mentioned in the parking lot and quickly began their investigation.

Along the way, Ran Mouri had already understood what had happened. At this moment, she shrank behind Jiang Xia and Kogoro Mouri, tiptoed over them and peeked at the wall. Then she hissed and hurriedly covered her eyes: "It really is a black gyaru outfit!"

The dead man lying in the corner was dressed in gorgeous and fashionable clothes, with beautiful blonde hair and bronze skin.

Kogoro Mouri glanced at her, then at Jiang Xia, and finally couldn't help but whisper to the neighbor's child:

“Look at that hair color, and look at that skin tone. It looks so much like your boss. If you ask me, why don’t we just hire him to impersonate someone? He doesn’t even need makeup—otherwise, it would be a lot of trouble to blacken such a large area of ​​skin. Look at Sato, he even wore a wig, but I’m afraid it’s because he didn’t blacken his skin that the killer wasn’t drawn out.”

Jiang Xia nodded, looking expectant. "You're going to call him?"

"Never mind, just kidding." Kogoro Mouri scratched his head. "Your boss looks kind of scary. I don't know why, but I always get the feeling that he's more like my boss than Inspector Megure."

Jiang Xia put his phone away in disappointment.

Officer Takagi ran around busily, finally figuring out what needed to be done.

"The deceased's name is Aizawa Tae, and she was 20 years old." Officer Takagi said to Jiang Xia as he flipped through the files in his hand, "She used to be a clerk at this department store, but she resigned a year ago and is currently unemployed."

Inspector Megure looked at the pitiful victim and sighed deeply: "The fourth attack has ultimately resulted in this irreparable tragedy..."

Officer Takagi, holding a pen, asked, "Was it done by the same person?"

"It should be." Miwako Sato frowned.

"We have not released the victim's physical characteristics to the public. Even if there are copycats, it would be difficult to hit a woman with black sexy makeup exactly."

"Moreover, this underground parking lot happens to belong to the department store that is having a promotional event giving away jewelry—no matter how you look at it, it seems more like an escalation of the same person's crime than someone else's doing it."

Kogoro Mouri glanced at the reporters and onlookers kept behind the police cordon in the distance and thought for a moment: "Could the murderer have a grudge against the owner of this department store? — Being attacked while shopping here, if this gets out, the customer traffic will definitely be greatly affected."

As they were talking, suddenly, a series of sorrowful cries came from outside the crowd: "Tae! Tae!!"

Jiang Xia turned around and saw a young man in his early twenties rushing towards her with tears in his eyes. He seemed to want to rush to the deceased's side, but was ultimately stopped by the dedicated young police officer outside the police line.

Upon noticing Jiang Xia looking in that direction, Officer Takagi quickly introduced, "This is the deceased's boyfriend, Shirakawa Noriyuki. I heard he arranged to meet the deceased at the shopping mall, but he hasn't shown up yet."

"By the way, Mr. Shirakawa's father happens to be the owner of this department store. The purpose of their meeting today is to introduce the deceased to work at his restaurant."

As they were talking, a young woman with a worried expression walked over from the side, took Shirakawa Noriyuki's arm, and whispered words of comfort to the weeping man.

"Huh?" Sonoko Suzuki started gossiping, "And who is this woman?"