Chapter 540 Saint Emilion
Chapter 540 Saint Emilion
Conan told Mouri Kogoro and others his guess in an innocent tone.
Number One Maori Kogoro temporarily ignored this question and continued to ask about the follow-up of Tatsuo Sendao.
Sendaf couldn't tell the name of the person who hired him, but he recognized him when he met him.
According to the agreement between him and Sendao, after Sendao obtained the suitcase of "wanting to entrust Kogoro Mori to solve the mystery" from the hotel owner, he had to wait for the other party to come to his room and open the suitcase together to check the contents.
But for No. 3 Sendaf, he waited in the room for a long time but the other party didn't come. When he became impatient, he went out to look for the other party. After returning to the room after failing to find her, he saw a girl, a rabbit, and a hanged corpse that looked exactly like his own.
He went back to the 'wrong' room. Conan immediately understood that, like them, Sendaf and the room were doubled, and the person who hired him went to meet in one of them. The murderer was probably the employer, and after searching around and not finding anyone, Sendaf No. 3 returned to Sendaf No. 2's room.
At this time, the hotel owner and several staff members came in and wanted to tell Officer Shancuncao that he had already notified all the guests not to walk around at will, and that there seemed to be a fight on the roof of the hotel.
But after coming in, the boss's thoughts stopped for a moment when he saw two "Echigo Koemon" interrogating a "Mouri Kogoro" with another "Mouri Kogoro" hanging on the roof and two "Yamamura Cao" squatting in the corner.
At this time, No. 3 Sendao saw the hotel employees coming in, stood up and pointed at one of them: "That's him! He hired me to impersonate Maori Kogoro!"
The hotel staff, or the employer, were even more horrified when they saw Tatsuo Sendao's 'resurrection from the dead'. They thought that the famous detective Kogoro Mori could summon the soul to let the evil spirit claim his life.
After some questioning, the murderer confessed.
Five years ago, he and his accomplice, the man in red clothes and long hair, obtained a sum of money through intimidation and extortion, and decided to hide the money and take it back after the storm had passed.
The man in red clothes and long hair had a premonition that the man wanted to take all the wealth and kill him to silence him, so he entrusted the suitcase to the hotel owner for safekeeping as a way of dealing with the matter, but he was still killed.
Four years ago, the murderer came to the boss to pick up the suitcase, but only got a letter with a curse on it. So he changed his clothes and became an employee of the hotel. He worked diligently for four years to find the whereabouts of the suitcase and the stolen money.
Unexpectedly, the boss kept his mouth shut. He only learned about this on the eve of the incident when the boss decided to invite Kogoro Mori to crack the secret in the suitcase. So he hired Tatsuo Sendai to disguise himself as Kogoro Mori and take the suitcase away.
As a result, he and No. 2 Sendaf opened the suitcase together and found that it was not the stolen money, but a pile of old newspapers. At the same time, No. 2 Sendaf threatened his secret and demanded more money. In a rage, he strangled Sendaf and set up the scene.
After the 'dead' could speak, the case was solved without any reasoning.
However, Conan still did not give up and used his reasoning brain. He found the secret code of the man in red clothes and long hair from the old newspapers and found the place where the stolen money was buried five years ago.
By the way, during this period, Shancuncao No. 1 and Shancuncao No. 2 started chatting, and they got along better and better, because they were surprised to find that their interests and hobbies were surprisingly similar. They liked the same movies, hated the same people, and were afraid of the same things. Now they have become very good friends.
In response to this, Xiaolan, who was watching, expressed that she had mixed feelings and found it difficult to complain.
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On the other hand, after escaping the police pursuit, Gin and Vodka continued to flee cautiously, and finally hid in a secret base of the organization, which is a safe house.
After hiding here and there for a whole night, both of them felt exhausted, even though they had been greatly strengthened after the transformation. Now they had lifted the transformation and were resting.
Gin took out his phone, turned it on and waited for a few minutes. Seeing that no one had contacted him, he took the initiative to dial a number, waited for twenty-one seconds, hung up, dialed again, waited seventeen seconds, hung up, and then dialed a third time.
This repeated dialing behavior is a code to prove that he has escaped the pursuit.
The third call was answered immediately.
"BOSS, I'm Gin." Gin said proactively.
"Hmm." A strange voice came from the other end of the phone, using a voice changer, and it was a short nasal sound.
"Vodka and I have gotten rid of the police..." With such a big commotion, and the organized spies in the Metropolitan Police Department, Gin knew that most of what happened last night had already been reported to the boss. What he wanted to say was the part that the boss probably didn't know yet: "We met that impostor again. He teamed up with Akai Shuichi, and he has many companions."
The imposter has companions, which we actually know from the Haido Hotel incident. In addition to Shirley, there are at least three others (Altria, Holmes and Rabbit, Conan's existence was concealed by Vermouth). But this time the number is doubled, and they all died at Gin's hands or committed suicide.
Gin described these enemies to the BOSS, but for Gin who had not broken through his cognitive distortion, some memories that violated his common sense had been modified. For example, the snow leopard, in Gin's memory, was a martial arts master with a strange face, a fierce expression, and a burly body.
"【Every time, new enemies will appear after you kill the enemy, right?】" The BOSS finally spoke and confirmed with Gin.
"Yes……"
Even so, Gin didn't think that the enemy was just a fake person from beginning to end? The young man thought, could it be that Gin was given some kind of psychological suggestion?
Moreover, none of the people described by Gin were animals. Could it be that, like last time, psychological suggestion was used to make Gin believe that anthropomorphic animals existed in this world?
The BOSS looked at the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the corner of the room. At some point last night, an anthropomorphic white-feathered peacock dressed in gorgeous Chinese clothing had appeared in the mirror.
In the end, the boss of the Black Organization did not reveal the key to the matter to Gin, but just asked another question after listening to Gin's report in full.
"[You guys have transformed, is there anything different this time?]"
"No, but I'm still injured even in my transformed state."
"[Did you successfully cancel the transformation?]"
"Yes."
"[Still need the complete formula?]"
"I think so."
"[Did anyone see you transform or untransform?]"
"Akai Shuichi, and an unknown but very powerful woman."
"[Very good, you have done a good job. Take a rest. If you think of more things, report immediately.]"
"Yes."
The phone hangs up.
Just as Kogoro Mouri has basically become Martin's observation object, Gin is also the BOSS's observation object, waiting to see under what conditions he can retain his complete memory.
"What do you think?" The BOSS turned around and looked at the figure who had been standing waiting beside the door of the room, and asked in a very gentle tone.
The man was just a waiter here before, but on the night when Gin met 'DIO', it was he who brought the comic and various information about 'DIO'.
Afterwards, he was 'appreciated' by the boss and kept by his side as a secretary, and now he even has a code name.
"'Saint Emilion'?"
The man standing by the door, codenamed Saint Emilion, bowed slightly: "The inmates of the prison, the primitive people... Only the yellow-skinned kid playing skateboard sounds like Bart from The Simpsons."
In his opinion, the boss kept him around because he needed his knowledge at any time to recognize the characters cosplayed by the organization's enemies.
He was a little nervous at this time. He could only recognize one of the eight characters described by Gin.
"Well, that's it..." The boss' tone was calm, and he didn't seem dissatisfied.
Suddenly, the boss asked out of the blue, "The peacock is pretty good-looking, what do you think?"
(End of this chapter)