Chapter 16 Final Reasoning
Before this final reasoning, after they had just seen the mysterious masked man chop down the sharp sickle, the group trembled in this weird and fantastic crime scene. Conan and Mouri Kogoro gathered in front of the headless corpse.
"Are you sure it's Usuke Nagakawa?"
Conan squatted in front of the head in the pool: "It is indeed his face."
Kogoro Mori conducted a basic test. Pei Zhen walked closer and looked at the miserable corpse in silence. Now that he had drawn the card that did not distinguish his stance, he naturally knew that this person was the one he wanted to kill. However, [he] is different from Shinji Inada. If he wants to take care of someone, he won’t do it himself.
[He] could have countless methods, and taking advantage of the situation is the most silent one among them. If he really wants to take action, there will be many people who will serve as the knives in his hands. The only difference is whether they know it themselves. Shinji Inada undoubtedly came to him on his own initiative.
[He] is just as the card says, talented and intelligent, and can easily go far no matter which path he chooses.
Pei Zhen stared at his ball of light liquid. After receiving the second wave of light that night, he received other rewards intermittently. Although they were only small numbers, they were not small when accumulated, about 30+. He calculated them carefully in his mind, 101.5+105.9+36.7, the total was 244.1.
You won't really give him 300, will you?
What he didn't know was that after passing [his] message to his superior, the person on the other end of the phone issued an order for a thorough search, saying, "No one can live peacefully in this world after provoking the organization!"
He held a cigar between his sharp white teeth, and the curling smoke gently obscured his face.
His strong driver asked worriedly: "Such a large-scale operation will alert the rats in the organization, right? The things that Yasuhiko Taniyama brought with him..."
"That escaped dog," the man who had found out something said with a scornful smile, "After escaping, he actually became someone else's dog. With his ability and intelligence, if we don't kill him, we're simply stomping on the face of the organization."
"As for the rats," he took a deep puff of cigarette, his eyes blurred, "I will solve everything before they take action. If they jump out on their own initiative later, then-"
"That's great!" He grinned, murderous intent overflowing.
+31, +21, +13.4, +1.9, +0.8.
Pei Zhen was stunned. He really didn't expect that after more than a day, the light liquid could still give him two big numbers. Where did these come from? He hasn’t really acted as [his] self yet, he just equipped it, and he’s gained so much… Is this the joy of a new card?
But there are also many troubles. The winery in the original drama is powerful, spanning the political and business circles. It is a global black organization. Making enemies with it is a very dangerous move. Moreover, the winery is not just a winery. The forces inside it are complicated and mixed with a lot of hidden players from the official circles of various countries. Maybe the numbers behind them come from a hidden undercover agent.
Before Pei Zhen could think of what to do next, the conversation on the other side attracted his attention. "Without a rope," Conan said to himself, "could one man have completely subdued the dead man?"
"Maybe he was knocked unconscious?" Kogoro Mori didn't care.
"No, we all saw it," Conan answered. "When the knife was cut, the dead man was still struggling. The murderer must have been a very strong man."
"The murder weapon was taken away, and there were no traces left at the scene." Maori Kogoro fell into thought: "It would be great if there were hair, so that DNA verification can be performed."
"This is..." Conan picked up something from the sink. It was a small white fragment. He pondered for a moment and carefully picked it up with a towel.
This case is not difficult, but it requires some understanding of the hostess's death by falling more than ten years ago in order to have a clue to solve it. Later, when Conan had a vague idea of the case, the existence of another person became crucial. The testimony of the maid Airi confirmed the connection between the two events that spanned time. It made everything clear and the murderer's motive became clear.
The murder weapon is not the key point. The sickle was not brought by the murderer. It was chosen by Nagagawa Usuke himself. In order to make it weird and beautiful, he deliberately created such a special scene.
And time is something the murderer cannot get around. He probably didn't expect that the lurker would take everyone there. He was not a performing criminal, he was an avenger, and all he wanted was the fear and regret of those he hated.
"You wanted to kill more than just Tian Shouren and Nagakawa Usuke," Conan said coldly, "You didn't want to be exposed so early. This was not in your plan, but since it has already happened, you have to make amends. So, the first thing you did after returning was not to go to the room, but to puncture the tires of all the cars to prevent us from escaping."
"I think you should know a secret path that allows you to return to your room from the back without going through the living room where Lan and the others are gathered. This is not known by Inada Shinji, but only by the missing child in the past. The bloody shoes you used to kill people have been lost, so you can only walk back barefoot, and they must be covered with mud. You have too many things to do, and you must get out before Lan and the others get suspicious. I think your feet in the shoes are not good now, right?"
Shinji Inada lowered his head and was silent for a moment. He finally laughed, "Hahaha, there was really no way. It fell on a pair of socks. I wanted to throw it away, but I was worried that it would leave dandruff on my underwear. It was not good to keep it in the room, so I thought about wearing it out and burying it in the garden when I had the chance, or washing it with water. But who knew that the girl over there stared at me all night and wouldn't let me leave. Did you specifically order me to do that before?"
Seeing that he finally admitted it, there was an uproar in the living room, and the old housekeeper became more and more excited: "You really are the young master..."
A ferocious look appeared on Shinji Inada's face, and he pulled back mercilessly, grabbed his throat with his arm, and pressed it in front of him.
"Didn't you say that I still had someone to kill? Yes, it's him." He turned to look at the old butler and said in a vicious voice, "This hypocritical accomplice!"
Conan held his breath. The butler was too far away from them to stop him for the time being.
"Put away your tears! I've wanted to say this for a long time. What young master? It sounds really disgusting," he said mercilessly, "When I was locked up in the basement for five years, I never saw you expose his evil deeds. You just watched helplessly, then pretended to be compassionate and threw down some food."
As soon as these words came out, several people in the field exclaimed in surprise.
"You mean he imprisoned you," Xiaolan said in disbelief, "and what about Mrs. Renshi? Didn't she save you?"
"Madam..." The old butler had difficulty breathing, but still looked bitter.
"Don't mention that woman to me," Shinji Inada yelled in pain, "Who the hell is she? She's just a puppet, a statue, but she's better than a person!"
Everyone looked at the old butler. He looked pale, but still spoke: "The master once said, 'Kamikawasaki Hasumi? You don't have to worry about her. This woman was so happy when she found out that she could help my career.'"
Xiaolan's face darkened.
"Then how did you escape?" Luo Zhi Xingzi suddenly asked.
Shinji Inada showed a hint of cunning on his face: "Didn't you say it? This is a script. When the plot develops to this point, he naturally needs me as a prop. He lets me run away and he chases me from behind. No matter what, in the end, I can't escape his clutches."
"He once said in the book that he was very satisfied with that woman, but there was only one thing that made him very unhappy," Inada Shinji said in a faint tone, "That was me. Why did women have children? It was full of unexpected events and a lot of trouble, and he never considered it."
Pei Zhen looked into the distance, and he thought, apart from that point, this was probably one of the reasons why he did not take any action. This world has been hell to him since a long time ago.
"So you came back again," Strangely, both times it was Luo Zhixing who asked: "Is it worth it?"
"Of course it's worth it!" Inada Shinji gritted his teeth, his face flushed with excitement: "You don't know, how many nights I banged my head against the wall again and again, just to drive these out of my brain." He stared with horror in his eyes: "But it doesn't work. They are churning like magma in here, and roaring like wild beasts. They are all shouting at me, either bite that man to death..."
"Or, I'll bite you to death." He said the last sentence in a very calm tone. Everyone who heard it felt as if there was something blocking their chest, their mouth was dry and they were unable to speak.
Luo Zhi Xingzi stopped talking. She seemed to recall something, and finally let out a sigh.
This is a desperate man. He is in so much pain that his peace is just a disguise. He is already dead inside.
"So you planned all this?" Conan asked. No, that's not right, there was something here that he couldn't do.
"Yes," Inada Shinji admitted bluntly, "From beginning to end, it was all my work."
Conan's mind suddenly lit up: "No, that fugitive! The one who escaped, you can't control him at all. He is a scapegoat, but he is not someone that anyone can use!"
Shinji Inada remained calm: "This is easy to do. He needs a hidden place, and this place is very hidden."
"It's still not right." Conan was turning around in circles anxiously. There were things wrong with this case from beginning to end, especially that man whose identity was still unknown. He was extremely vicious, as if he had suddenly broken in.
Before Shinji Inada could say anything else, he heard a laugh coming from above.
Pei Zhen secretly covered his face.
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