Chapter 2799 2811 [Dead Tequila]
Mediterranean flipped through his schedule and sighed, "It's the same this time. We need that software urgently, but he hid so well that we couldn't even find him."
Another younger person complained to Jiang Xia: "In fact, we have tried to ask the police for help before, but the police said that this kind of thing is not their responsibility and told us not to waste police resources - now only you can help us."
Conan: "..." It turned out that the missing person ran away on his own, which was not what he expected. He had just heard that the missing person was a programmer, and he had imagined that it was just a coincidence that the organization had kidnapped that person. In his impression, the Black Organization did have intersections with many programmers.
But now...
Alas, it seems he was overthinking it.
But since I'm free anyway, it's better to follow Jiang Xia and solve some boring cases than to stay at home doing nothing.
Thinking of this, Conan did not leave. He sat nearby and began to think about how to find someone who had disappeared on his own initiative.
Seeing that Jiang Xia did not refuse, Hai Di immediately assumed that the young detective had accepted the commission. He hurriedly took out a business card and said to Jiang Xia, "If you find him, please contact me as soon as possible."
"What do you mean by contact you as soon as possible?" The mushroom-haired man next to him was shocked and held his hand. "Our company invested the most money, so they should tell me first when they find someone!"
The young man on the other side also became anxious: "We were the first to find that guy. First come first served, I should be the first to know!"
Jiang Xia drank juice and waited slowly for them to quarrel.
After waiting for a while and finding that the three of them had stopped arguing, he began to ask more questions: "Aren't you from the same company?"
"Of course not. Who would want to work in the same company with these two guys who rely on their age to bully others?" The stylishly dressed man sighed and said to Jiang Xia:
"I am a member of a Go game development company. This time I am looking for this programmer to customize a Go software."
Mediterranean squeezed him aside and showed his presence in front of the detective: "I asked him to design the software for chess."
Mushroom Head also took the opportunity to hand over his business card: "Our company wants shogi software."
Jiang Xia took the three business cards handed to him, and then took out three of his own business cards and put them in their hands.
Conan couldn't help but ask: "He's only one person, but you customized three software at the same time... Can he really complete such a large amount of work?"
"Of course not!" the young man said excitedly, "That's why we have to find him and ask him clearly! Taking so many jobs at the same time is a complete violation of the contract - you don't know, this guy usually complains about being tired after taking only one job, but this time he took three at the same time... If I hadn't worked with him before, I really suspected that he wanted to run away with the money."
"No doubt, that guy is definitely trying to run away." The mushroom-head sighed, "What a shameless bastard. When I signed the contract with him, he actually said nonchalantly, 'I haven't signed a contract with any other company yet, don't worry, I will definitely complete it on time this time'."
"That's what he told me too." Mediterranean shook his head. "This scoundrel is simply ruining the reputation of programmers."
Jiang Xia: "Then when did you know that he was having three affairs at the same time?"
"Uh..." The detective's choice of words was a little strange, but very appropriate.
Mediterranean scratched his head and glanced at the notebook he carried with him: "Because of this - three days ago, the three of us received this video from him at the same time."
He clicked the mouse and turned the notebook towards Jiang Xia.
A video began playing on the screen - the video showed a thin man with a high hairline, who was the programmer in the photo.
The rogue programmer was sitting on a swivel chair at the moment. He crossed his legs and spread his hands towards the screen: "It's too tiring to work on three softwares at the same time. I can't stand it. As you know, my heart has always been not very good. So I decided to put down all the work temporarily and find a place to have a good vacation."
Conan was watching the video and was suddenly startled: "It turned out to be this person, no wonder I felt familiar with him - he was wearing glasses in the photo just now, I didn't recognize him."
Jiang Xia glanced at him and asked, "Have you seen it?"
Conan nodded: "I remember his name is Itakura Taku, he is very good at CG production, and his name is on the production list of many well-known movies."
"Yes, that's him." The fashionable young man said, "Although he looks like a scoundrel in the video, he actually cares a lot about his image. Every time he goes out, he wears contact lenses - no wonder the little brother didn't recognize him just now."
The mushroom-headed guy sighed, "But three years ago, he had problems with his eyes, and since then he has stopped touching anything CG-related and has only focused on tinkering with those softwares. Little brother, you were only three or four years old three years ago, and you're so surprised you know all this."
Conan's heart skipped a beat: Don't talk nonsense! This is the Amuro Detective Agency, which is full of surveillance and bugs!
He was sweating profusely, laughing foolishly, and put the blame on an innocent female high school student: "My sister is his fan and sometimes watches his interviews, so I know him."
As he was talking, he thought of an idea and changed the subject: "Could it be that this kind of celebrity was really kidnapped by someone, and the kidnapper forced him to shoot that video to make others give up looking for him?"
Mediterranean laughed and said, "Little boy, you must have watched too many kidnapping dramas - who would have the time to kidnap a programmer?"
Conan: "..." Who said there wasn't? The Black Organization must have secretly kidnapped countless people.
Mushroom Head rubbed his chin and actually agreed with Conan's random guess: "It's not impossible - I remember two years ago, when I went to Itakura Taku's office to urge him, I saw a burly man with a beard and a Kansai accent."
He looked at the other two brothers in need of confirmation: "You have seen it too, right? I remember that the big guy from Guanxi also went to the Mantiantang software conference, and he seems to be dead."
“?!”
When these words came out, Conan almost jumped up in shock - if the adjective "a burly man with a beard and speaking in a Kansai accent" didn't explain anything, then "someone who died at the Mantiantang software launch conference" would leave him with an extremely deep impression.
Conan: "..." If I remember correctly, it was a man in black who was sneaking around, carrying a briefcase, and was about to make a deal with someone.
He wanted to follow and take a peek, but halfway through, he was stabbed by an anonymous person who suddenly appeared.
When I woke up again, I heard that there was an explosion at the Mantiantang venue - the deceased was the guy who was highly suspected to be from the Black Organization.
(End of this chapter)
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