After escaping into the forest, Takaharu Hirai did not leave directly, but ran towards the cliff.
He couldn't just sit there and watch. From the moment Yukio Hirai wanted to kill his eldest brother, his mentality subtly changed.
"Ah Qing is right...Ah Qing is right..."
He kept repeating the same words in his mouth, feeling extremely regretful and trying his best to correct the mistakes he had made.
This can't go on any longer.
The cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against his temple.
The forward leaning figure suddenly stopped, and Hirai Takaharu was shocked. He was so busy regretting that he forgot that this was in the mountains. Apart from the black bears, his former companions might also become enemies!
Fortunately...
The owner of the gun didn't seem to have any killing intent:
"Ryuji Hirai?"
Sakaki Makoto asked tentatively. The other person was wearing a raincoat, so he didn't recognize him at first.
"It's you?!"
Hirai Takashi was extremely surprised to hear this strange yet familiar voice:
"Great! I was looking for you guys!"
Looking back at Hirai Takami who was being pointed at by Kid with a double-barreled shotgun, Sakaki Makoto asked:
"You knew we were entering the forest?"
"I just found out, something big has happened!"
Hirai Takashi obviously had no intention of exchanging pleasantries, and said directly:
"Xiaofu wants to kill you to silence you, run now!"
"Longzhi! What nonsense are you talking about!"
Hirai Takao shouted:
"What on earth is going on?"
Not only him, but even Sakaki Makoto and the others were confused and didn't know what was going on.
Hirai Yukio wanted to kill them to silence them, and Hirai Takaharu came over to remind him?
This is totally against common sense!
"They are all crazy..."
In desperation, Hirai Takaharu told what had just happened.
After hearing this, Sakaki Makoto and the others didn't react. After all, as a detective, encountering danger is commonplace, but for Hirai Takami...
It was like a bolt from the blue.
He stood there in a daze, his eyes dull, as if he couldn't believe that his third brother wanted to kill him to silence him.
The previous beliefs and affections seemed to collapse in an instant.
"Humph, it's no wonder that a madman would do anything!"
Conan folded his hands and said disapprovingly:
"Since you can force Ah Qing to jump off a cliff for the sake of profit, they can also kill you to silence you for the sake of profit!"
"Now you should tell the truth!"
Hirai Takao hesitated for a while with a complicated expression, as if he was still struggling with whether he should say it or not.
But Hirai Takaharu no longer hesitated.
He thought a lot on the way here and understood a truth.
Kindness is important to everyone. Its real power lies not only in helping others, but also in helping oneself. Correct order and moral bottom line are important tools for maintaining social stability.
"well...."
Hirai Ryuji sighed:
"Since the timber business went out of business, Pingjing Village has lost its source of income. You all know this."
Sakaki Makoto and the others nodded and listened attentively.
"Later, I dropped out of school and went home, preparing to help the village find a way out. I happened to remember that there were many wild animals in the mountains, such as wild boars, rabbits, black bears and so on."
Hirai Takashi said slowly:
"These wild animals can be sold for money, and they are not protected animals. No one cares about them. They belong to the grey area, especially black bears, which have invaded the village time and time again. The government even supports villagers to hunt them. I came up with a good idea."
"When I was in college, I met a classmate whose father was involved in the underworld. He had connections and could transport live or dead wild animals across the border to other countries. The market price of a live black bear ranged from hundreds of thousands to millions of yen. A dead one was not that valuable, but you could still sell two."
"At first, after listening to my proposal, the village formed a hunting team to go into the mountains to catch black bears. However, wild black bears are relatively rare and solitary animals. Sometimes it takes several days to see one. They run very fast, so if you finally catch one, it will die soon. You can't sell it for a high price, so you can only sustain the life of the village..."
"Until three years ago, in order to boost the economy, the town approved our village to build a hunting ground to attract tourists who like hunting. I had a crooked idea and proposed raising bears in the hunting ground..."
"Keeping bears in the hunting grounds?"
Hattori Heiji couldn't help but complain:
"You guys are so brave, aren't you afraid of problems?"
"....It won't matter as long as we calculate the number of black bears. The hunting ground is half the size of a mountain, and we don't raise large black bears. Generally speaking, when the female bears give birth to cubs, we will select the male bears and sell them, leaving only the female bears with cubs, controlling the total number of bears and ensuring that the ratio of male bears to female bears is around 1:10, so that they won't fight over territory. And every day we release wild boars, rabbits, and steamed cakes made of bean cakes and corn to ensure that there is no shortage of food, and we will definitely be able to develop. My university major is management."
Scratching his head, Hirai Takashi said something that shocked everyone:
"Everything went smoothly. The 3-meter-tall black bear we encountered tonight was a special case. The average black bear is about 1.5 meters long. The hunting rifle we used can handle it."
"Then if you take the little bear away, won't the mother bear be angry?"
"Anesthetics. We put anesthetics in the food. The mother bear will pass out after eating. We take the opportunity to capture the bear cubs and put them in the factory behind the mountain for artificial breeding to ensure their survival rate. Then we hand them over to the people who come to the village regularly to collect bears and let them sell them. A healthy bear cub costs at least 500,000 yen. Adult bears are more expensive. We raise more than 50 bears in the hunting ground. On average, we can sell three or four cubs every month. In addition, we often go hunting in the mountains and ask the town for subsidies in the name of a poor village..."
Hirai Takashi knows everything. As the only person in the village who has been to university, he has demonstrated amazing professionalism:
"Just like that, the life in the village is getting better and better. We are preparing to apply to build a second hunting ground next year."
The corners of their mouths twitched, and Sakaki Makoto and the others were speechless.
This is an incredibly profitable industry, raising bears and selling live bears, truly living off the land, but...
Smuggling wildlife is illegal.
"Where's Qing?"
Conan asked:
"Why did you force Ah Qing to jump off the cliff?"
“.......”
Hirai Takashi was silent for a while and said:
"Ah Qing disagrees with us using the hunting grounds to raise bears. He is the game ground manager and strongly opposed this after learning about it. He has always loved animals. He raised the 3-meter-tall black bear you saw from a young age. He can tolerate us hunting wild black bears in the mountains for a living, but he can't stand us keeping them in captivity."
"So for the sake of money, you took advantage of the opportunity to go into the mountains last year and forced him to death."
Sakaki Makoto looked into Hirai Ryuji's evasive eyes and asked:
"Does the village chief know about this?"
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