Chapter 25
In the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, Date Ko is following up on a poisoning case that occurred in a tower apartment.
He flipped through the case files in his hand and asked Takagi Shigeru, who was in charge of collecting evidence:
"You still haven't found out the information about the person who instigated Yuko Kobayashi to poison you?"
"Brother Date, Nishimoto and I visited all the shrines and temples that Kobayashi Yuko might have visited, but we couldn't find the person who was said to have given him the talisman. I'm really sorry."
Takagi Shigeru held the back of his head in embarrassment.
Ida Kou sighed and said:
"The technical department also failed to find any useful clues from the notice. The other party did it so cleanly that if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't even believe that anyone could do it to this extent."
Takagi Shigeru asked curiously:
"The other party is a hacker. I heard that the Metropolitan Police Department is going to set up a cyber security countermeasures department. Once it is established, will the part about the advance notice be handed over to professionals?"
"It's just an intention, but I don't know when it will be realized. Wait a minute."
Yi Dahang took out his cell phone, walked to a secluded corner, and made a call.
The call was quickly connected, and he lowered his voice, but his tone was quite blunt:
"Hello? I remember you have an assistant who is good with computers. Can you ask him to help me check something?"
The person on the other side was not shy either, and his tone was frivolous and familiar:
"Calculator? Did the monitor encounter a case? Unfortunately, I can't get in touch with that kid recently. I heard that he's going to attend some closed-door training."
Date Ko sighed silently and said:
"Forget it then. I'll contact you later."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Date Kou walked out from the corner and saw that Takagi Wataru was still waiting for news from him, so he shook his head helplessly.
Takagi Wataru's face fell: "Then we are completely clueless?"
"That's not necessarily the case."
Date Kou looked at Takagi Wataru, his eyes sharp again, and said in a serious tone:
"We still have one last direction to investigate - find out who this person named 'Xiaozhi' is from Xingchuan and Ming's social circle!"
Hoshikawa Kazuaki, who was at the center of the incident, was moving a small chair to sit in the warehouse in the back kitchen of the coffee shop. While preparing the ingredients, he was reading forum comics.
As he expected, when he was seen taking the initiative to participate in solving the case and his reasoning speed in the poisoning case was slightly faster than that of Conan Edogawa, the forum gave him the highest praise.
However, the entire process of the task that the comic book asked him to help with was not drawn at all. Instead, it jumped directly to the scene of me and Date Kou going to work together this morning.
[The one waiting downstairs is actually the class monitor! I’m so jealous of Xiao Xingxing, I also want to be picked up and dropped off by the gentle class monitor when I go to and from get off work.]
[The monitor is really gentle. He guessed that Xingchuan and Ming would think too much about the identity of the person who planned the poisoning, so he specifically told him that the police would not suspect him because of this.]
[But Xingchuan and Ming are really unlucky. They are friends from the past, but now they are planning to poison him. Even their "friendship" relationship may be a false illusion.]
[No way, this Xingchuan and Ming may be smart, but his eyesight is too bad.]
[In fact, his brain is not very good. Haven't you noticed that his memory is extremely poor. From the beginning, he couldn't recognize the person who bullied him when he was a child, and later he couldn't recognize his good friend. Now he can't recognize the fan representative he has met before, and he doesn't even know that the two friends are actually the same person. With such a brain, is it really a waste of time for him to become a cartoonist? 】
[The above comment is really serious. I said it myself, it's just that my memory is not very good. Of course, I probably have to remove the "too", but a bad memory doesn't mean I have no talent! In addition to my memory, my brain is still very powerful, right? ]
…
Xingchuan and Ming also felt a little helpless. They took over this ID card as a vest, but after all, they were not the original ID card owner.
Many memories can only be triggered by contact with related things, rather than recalling them all at once like reading a USB drive. If that were the case, my brain would be strained to the point of freezing.
But...
Xingchuan Heming thought about his own situation and suddenly began to frown.
The so-called "friends" were just a random excuse I made up, and it didn't count at all. But why didn't my memory be triggered when it came to the matter of the bully and the fan representative?
This matter is indeed a bit strange.
Xingchuan Heming suddenly felt a little unsure. Could there really be something wrong with the memory of his ID card?
On the contrary, the forum readers were filled with righteous indignation and stood up to express their indignation at being backstabbed and deceived by their so-called "friends". This surprised Xingchuan and Ming.
The person that Hoshikawa Kazuaki originally wanted to mislead was Date Kou, but now Date Kou does not believe that he has a personal relationship with the criminal in the dark, but the forum readers believe his lies.
But it's okay, at least my character image in the comics has become more and more vivid, and public opinion is completely developing in my favor. This is also good for completing my comic assignment.
[What did I see? Tooru! It was Toru! Has he already started working at the cafe?]
[What's going on now? The monitor actually met Tohko like this? Judging from the monitor's reaction, he didn't even know Tohko was working here before.]
[Once the best in the police academy, now he has fallen to the point of serving dishes in a cafe. The squad leader must be feeling very complicated at this moment.]
[Toru's reaction and acting skills at that time were textbook-level, right? Not only did his expression not break, but even his eyes did not waver! What level of actor is this? ]
[He is a professional undercover agent. If he didn’t have this ability, he would have been killed by the winery long ago.]
[Wait, the monitor just patted Hoshikawa and Akira on the shoulder and made a gesture to Amuro Toru, right? ]
[The person above is right, I also saw his gesture, so, is it h? ]
Hoshikawa Kazuaki was also nervous when he saw this. He hadn't noticed just now that Date Kou had had such a conversation with Amuro Toru in a place where he couldn't see.
When Date Kou was making gestures to Amuro Toru, he was probably discussing with himself the incident of being rescued from the car accident.
But, the one being gestured was actually h?
Considering the content of the conversation at that time, could it be referring to the mysterious man who finally saved them both with a sniper?
Xingchuan and Ming stared at the familiar letters, and immediately thought of a person in their mind:
One of the unsung heroes in the police academy group, Morobu Kagemitsu, a public security policeman who died in the line of duty after his identity was exposed while undercover in the black organization.
However, if he was the one who sniped the tire, then doesn't that mean there is no need for me to open the dungeon to rescue him? Because he is still alive.
Or is it that my understanding is wrong and the gesture has another meaning?
He quickly went to the forum to see if other readers had the same idea as him.
[H, are you talking about Hiro? It's Keimitsu, right? So, Keimitsu is not dead at all?]
[He must have been rescued by someone. Maybe it was the squad leader who rescued him, so they had contact later, and Jingguang rescued the squad leader a year ago. Is this also considered mutual redemption? ]
[But how did Hiro know that he should carry a sniper rifle to rescue the squad leader at that time? ]
[Shouldn't the person above be asking, who is so brave that he can save Scotland from the pursuit of the winery? ]
…
There were many different opinions on the forum, but Xingchuan and Ming figured it out. They must have obtained another vest in a certain copy, which was how they saved Morobushi Kagemitsu, who was still in Scotland at the time.
So, my future self has found a way to open the dungeon, right?
But how was it that Morobushi Kagemitsu was able to save both Date Kou and himself from the car accident a year ago so accurately?
What is he doing now?
While I was thinking, the warehouse door was opened and Enomoto Azusa's voice came from outside.
"Hiroshikawa, have you prepared all the ingredients? The meal will be at its peak soon. Mr. Amuro asked me to get some ingredients that will be used later."
"No problem, Miss Xiaozi, I have already finished it."
Xingchuan Heming picked up the processed ingredients with a gentle smile, which always makes people feel good about him.
Since Hoshikawa and Akiya came to work, he took the initiative to take over the preparation work. After all, his expertise is in mixing drinks, and Amuro Toru is better at preparing meals and desserts.
If the food is processed by one person, then it will only be enough, and the location can be chosen in the warehouse, which will make it convenient for Xingchuan and Ming to study the comic forum during work, and think about their next plans.
Following Azusa Enomoto out of the warehouse, Hoshikawa and Ming turned off the lights.
However, before I could close the door, I heard Toru Amuro outside calling out warmly:
"Hello, Conan-kun, what would you like to eat today?"
The veins on Xingchuan and Ming's foreheads suddenly popped up.
You are such a good little student of the Death God. You cheated me and ran away without a trace, right? Today I finally caught you!
You cheated me the first time we met, just wait and see how I'm going to deal with you this time!
However, revenge is necessary, but the method must be carefully considered.
After all, Toru Amuro was watching. If I acted too aggressively and ruined the gentle image I had worked so hard to create, it would be a loss.
This justice policeman would never allow himself to do anything out of line in front of him.
After all, Edogawa Conan looks like just a first-grade elementary school student now. If I take him too seriously, I might be considered as bullying a child by relying on my age.
However, this bad guy Edogawa Conan must be given a good beating.
So, how can I retaliate in a way that will satisfy me and at the same time keep the level of revenge within the range that Toru Amuro can accept?
Considering the method he just figured out to get along with Toru Amuro, or, could he consider winning Conan's heart as the best approach?
Of course, it would be even better if Toru Amuro was willing to stand on my side.
Xingchuan and Ming's eyes rolled and they immediately came up with an idea.
The author has something to say:
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