Chapter 132: Plenty of Strength and Means
With the Kuroba family joining the fray, both sides no longer had to worry about using cover. The intelligence gathering process, previously located at the Kudo residence, was naturally relocated to the Kuroba residence, giving the Phantom Thieves, who were witnessing the soul-searching scene for the first time, a small detective thrill.
The Kudo family and the ghost were chatting and laughing amid the wailing screams of the souls and the clanging sounds of metal.
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Cheng Xiaoyu: "Ah, living souls are better. No matter how much you shake or knock them, they won't break apart. If dead souls could do the same, we wouldn't have to go through so much trouble before."
Yukiko: "Yeah, by the way, Ghost, why don't you consider learning necromancy later? The information that dead souls know can sometimes be more valuable than that of living souls."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "I thought so too. The skill points for Necromancy are really tricky and not that easy to learn. It will probably also clear all the skill points in other spells I learned before. So I chose to settle for Soul Magic as the next best option."
Kudo Shinichi: "...And then you learned a physical soul spell that involved hitting your head with a stainless steel basin?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "What do you know? Practicing both magic and martial arts is not tiring."
"Come to think of it...don't we have local demons in this world?" Kudo Yusaku said. "You said local demons fit the stereotypes of our legends better. So, why don't you go ask them if you can exchange some soul magic for them?"
"I've changed before when I was on a mission in your parallel world. Anyway, I'll never go to your world's demonic hell again. The environment and infrastructure are just too bad." Cheng Xiaoyu raised her hand and fanned the air in front of her nose with a look of disgust. "Not only does it smell like sulfur, but if you step in, you might get splashed by magma rising from the ground and get your shoes dirty. It's like the hellish version of an open-air brick assassin after rain. Avoid lightning! Avoid lightning! Don't go!"
"There's no need to avoid thunder for this one. Who wants to go to hell if they have a choice?"
.......
Even though he'd already known in the chat group that the Kudo family and the ghost had collaborated to establish an intelligence collection pipeline at the Kudo residence, and even though Kuroba Kaito knew that the ghost had the ability to extract human souls and directly search for intelligence, he'd deduced the general principles of the intelligence collection pipeline...
But after seeing with their own eyes this assembly line that only required a stainless steel basin, an iron biscuit jar and an electric fan, and most importantly, the mental state of this group of people, the people of the Heiyu family could not help but be shocked.
Who are the members of this extremely vicious and illegal organization?
Who came up with this interrogation method that neither hurts nor kills people but is disgusting and torturous? Is this the devil's talent?
But what's with the Kudo family members who chat and laugh while hitting people on the head with stainless steel basins and interrogating them? Is it because they have been dealing with ghosts for so long that their thinking has become demonic?
We, a family of thieves, can't even be so decisive when hitting people on the head with a stainless steel basin, so how come you, your righteous companions, can not only hit it loud and powerfully but also create a rhythm, and chat in between beats?
This is not right!
"......Although I shouldn't be the one saying this," Kuroba Kaito said, "but Kudo Shinichi, do you still remember that you're a detective who fights evil?"
How come his torture techniques are so proficient now? He uses provocation, intimidation, threats and other rhetoric, and sounds even more lawless than him!
Kudo Shinichi didn't stop smashing the stainless steel basin. "Yeah, so I'm fighting evil, right?"
In a physical way.
Although Kudo Shinichi was also struggling at the beginning about whether this method was too violent, Cheng Xiaoyu killed the game with just a few words.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "They didn't even get a scratch on their skin. How could that be considered violent? We didn't even starve or thirst them (because I was stuck in the mirror). Our methods were much gentler than what they'd done to others. At most, they'd leave some psychological scars—but here's the thing, who doesn't leave psychological scars after an interrogation?"
"Besides, you usually use physical means to subdue prisoners, okay? The difference is that you used footballs before, and now you use stainless steel basins. If you really feel uncomfortable or uncomfortable, you can kick the stainless steel basins or these guys' heads like footballs. There are plenty of stainless steel basins anyway, and the magic crystal balls are hard enough."
"...You detectives are truly terrifying."
Kuroba Kaito thought of Conan Edogawa's killing soccer and the sword-wielding skills of another young detective, Hattori Heiji, and suddenly felt that Hakuba Tsuchiya, who was also a detective, was so amiable.
At least as a detective, Hakuba doesn't have any deadly means of attack. Is this the elegance of a British gentleman?
"Hey, what's so scary about this?" After someone shared the work, Cheng Xiaoyu felt like teasing a child again. "This is just the beginning. If Kudo Shinichi had taken on my book earlier, his interrogation... no, his detective skills would definitely have improved greatly."
Kudo Shinichi thought of the two torture manuals Cheng Xiaoyu had taken out. He had only glanced through them at the time, but the extrajudicial techniques recorded in them were still vivid in his mind. "No, no, thank you for your kindness, but I don't think the content in the books matches my server."
He could still remain ostrich-like in the face of soul-searching, after all, the law did not say that this was a crime, but what was recorded in those two books was actual intentional injury.
"......devil......"
The soul of the zoo's second-in-command [Hyena], who was barely breathing, turned pale. After enduring several rounds of violent beatings from stainless steel basins, jumping from a tin can bungee machine, and even a memory recovery technique using the fan's highest-end pendulum, the eyes of the originally ferocious and arrogant [Hyena] finally became clear.
But even so, even though he has no voice in the physical sense now, he still wants to shout out those words: "You are all devils in human skin!"
These people were actually inflicting such horrific torture on him while chatting at the same time. How could they be the righteous detectives and thieves who intended to become chivalrous thieves and expose the darkness as described in the intelligence? The way these people tortured people was even more skillful than him, who had killed several people!
Kuroba Kaito checked his watch and saw that half an hour had already passed, and Hyena hadn't revealed any important information he hadn't shared before. "We don't want to either, so why don't you cooperate and hand over the information about your organization?"
Couldn't the information from the people around him be squeezed out? ... Impossible. The information he had previously confessed in the interrogation materials given by Ghost Shadow doesn't even add up to the amount of information he should know in his position.
"Don't...even think about it!" Hyena not only refused to surrender, but glared at everyone, "You'd better kill me now! Otherwise, if I have the chance to return to the organization, the Kuroba family, the Kudo family, and you, this witch who hides your head and tail...you and your family will all die!"
"Tsk." Cheng Xiaoyu grinned impatiently. She was too lazy to explain to the guy whose memory was refreshed every hour. "Your bones are pretty hard. You'd better stay this hard."
Hell, he hadn't been this hard before.
Could it be that because she had tortured him too many times before, this guy's soul had developed the ability to withstand dizziness and shock?
"It's really weird, why is he so stubborn?"
After the one-hour deadline was up, Cheng Xiaoyu cleared the hyena's memory of the past hour and stuffed his soul into the body of the Shadow Eater, whose shadow had been eaten and fell into a deep sleep. Then Kudo Shinichi spoke.
"It wasn't this difficult when we interrogated Rum before. This guy is too stubborn."
Kudo Yusaku analyzed: "It's probably because Rum's memory wasn't cleared. An hour of memory reset prevented him from reaching the critical point. Plus, Rum's situation is different from his. Didn't we find out that Rum actually has a different opinion of the organization?"
But Rum is not fake wine. Rum just simply wants to seize power from the boss in the organization.
If you hadn't checked the winery that time, you would have been shocked. It turned out that there were not only undercover agents from the pro-party faction in the winery, but also factional struggles among the real winemakers. The real winemakers could plot against each other, frame each other, and even kill their colleagues for the purpose of factional struggles.
In a sense, for real liquors, undercover fake liquors are actually safer than their real liquor colleagues.
The Black Organization is also a breeding ground for black humor.
According to the investigation, Gin is the most staunch and loyal supporter of the boss, which explains why he was so decisive in killing Rum's two confidants.
Qianying: "Party struggle... Since there are some inside the winery, there may also be some inside the zoo. Perhaps we can seize this opportunity?"
Yukiko: "Perhaps we can put [the hyena] aside for now. Just because one bone is hard doesn't mean the others are hard too."
Such a large illegal organization cannot be a monolithic entity, and the winery is the best example.
Kuroba Daoyi: "That's perfect. Didn't Ghost Shadow say he found a few other members of the zoo? We can start with the others. Once we get enough information, we can send them all to the police station. We can let the professionals handle the interrogation and conviction."
The "VIPs" on the intelligence gathering assembly line just now were not only hyenas, but the Kudo family and the ghost were responsible for dealing with the hyenas, while the other members of the zoo organization who were pulled out by Cheng Xiaoyu were responsible for performing the rocking music by the Heiyu family.
Unlike hyenas whose mouths are tighter than a vault, these people are willing to squeeze out some information like squeezing toothpaste. In addition, this group of people are not as busy as hyenas, so Cheng Xiaoyu did not put them back into his body. Instead, he erased their memories for an hour and let everyone swipe for drops again.
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"bump!"
The hyena was suddenly awakened by the dull sound of a machine and the sharp pain in his left cheek. What he noticed even faster than the soreness in his gums was that he found himself tied to a wooden chair in the middle of an empty room. The chair was fixed to the floor, and he was only wearing a pair of shorts.
In front of him was a young woman with long black hair. Her right hand, which had just been lowered, was holding a book as thick as a brick. It was obviously the object that the hyena had just kissed on the cheek.
As the second-in-command of a zoo organization with operations all over the world, Hyena was a learned man, so even without the magic of translation, he recognized the title written in Arabic on the cover of the book...
Universal Questions for Humankind on Earth
"It doesn't matter if you're not good at speaking. The author of this book has plenty of strength and means, and I also know a little bit of fighting."
The woman opened the book and smiled brightly, but in this environment it only made people's spines cold.
"It's not enough to just talk about it on paper. Only practice can bring true knowledge, right?"
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