Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 488: Nothing Found
"Well~ is this the organization?"

Suddenly, Rei's expression returned to normal again, and he straightened his body. "After all, this organization is quite famous in the criminal world... Hey~? Conan~ why are you sweating so much?"

Lie curiously poked Conan, who looked dazed and sweating.

Conan was like a soulless puppet now. He was poked several times before he came back to his senses. He opened his mouth tremblingly and half fell on the sofa in exhaustion: "Mr. Lin... Can you not be so scary next time?"

It will scare people to death...

"Ah~ Why are you so scared?" Lie always looked innocent, but there was a bit of evil in his face. There was a sly flash in his eyes, "Xiao Xin, you don't think... I'm also a member of that organization, do you~"

"…No! I definitely didn't think so!"

Conan laughed awkwardly and wiped away the cold sweat.

Even if he thought it was true, he didn't dare to say it out loud! Although he still felt that Mr. Lin had nothing to do with that organization, Mr. Lin occasionally gave him the feeling that Gin appeared in front of him. For example, just now, he thought it was Gin who appeared in front of him...

Thinking of this, Conan felt something in his heart.

"Speaking of gin..."
He recalled the time when he met Gin in Osaka. At that time, they were on the train and both he and Mr. Lin passed by that carriage.

Also, at the beginning in Dorobiga Park, Mr. Lin said he was waiting for his friends, and Gin also showed up...

If Mr. Lin really has nothing to do with that organization, then would it be a coincidence that he appeared with Gin twice?

Conan fell into deep thought again in an instant.

"Shin-chan? Shin-chan! Conan?"

Lie shouted twice, but found that Conan didn't respond. He felt bored and poked Conan's forehead with his finger: "Hey~ Conan, what are you thinking about? At least pay attention to me, hey~"

It was not until he poked Conan's forehead until it turned red that the latter came to his senses belatedly, "Mr. Lin, do you know that black organization?"

Lie blinked: "Yeah~ yes~"

"Mr. Lin, do you remember the time in Dorobiga Park?" After a hasty consideration, Conan decided to speak frankly, "Mr. Lin, where did you go and why? That organization?"

He realized that most of what Lie said at that time was probably nonsense.

"Wow, you figured this out! Shin-chan is so awesome!"

Lie was surprised and began to clap his hands slightly.

Conan: "..."

Could you be more perfunctory?

Suddenly, Lie stopped talking, put away his innocent expression, and said solemnly: "But, Shin-chan~ why are you so interested in that criminal organization? They are very dangerous..."

"This..." Conan hesitated, not knowing whether to tell others that he was drugged and became smaller.

However, while he was still hesitating, Lie continued, "Could it be that Shin-chan was made smaller by them? That's no wonder. After all, they always come up with weird things. Those guys from 'Black Night'..."

Conan's heart skipped a beat at first, but then his curiosity was aroused. "Mr. Lin, do you know that there are strange things? The night?"

"'Night' is the code name we gave to that organization~ Because we don't know the specific name of the organization." Rei looked at Conan with a smile, "'Night' has conducted many experiments, and we are all very curious about it, so we collected a lot of information~"

"Really?! Mr. Lin, how much do you know about that organization? Can you——"

"No~"

"...Mr. Lin! I..."

"Xiao Xin~ Children shouldn't meddle in adult matters." Lie raised his index finger in front of Conan again, with a strange expression, "Regarding that organization~ I have no more information to share."

Looking at Conan's slightly dazed expression, Lie shrugged helplessly.

After a long while, Conan said unwillingly: "Then Mr. Lin, your masked gang..."

"Ah~ What masked gang? What are you talking about!?"

Conan: "..."

Damn it, after rounding off like this, he didn’t get anything out of the question this time!

When the distraught Ke was dragged out of the house by Lie, he realized that Lie seemed to have tricked him again, and in the end, he didn't get any key information, but only confirmed his guess... But before leaving, Lie told him earnestly not to care about the organization anymore.

But Conan naturally said that he would continue to follow the clues.

In this regard, Lie can only say:
Rat tail juice.

...Okay, that's not what I meant.

"If you get lost in the night, don't forget to look up at the stars in the sky." This was the last sentence Lie said before Conan left. "Also, the sun is warm... but if you get too close, it will burn you to ashes."

……

Lie stood on the windowsill on the second floor and watched Conan's figure disappear at the intersection before he looked away.

On the bed behind him, Hongshu was boredly flipping through a mystery novel that he had read seven or eight times: "Uncle Lie, you're still telling him nothing."

"What can we do? Brother Jing and Brother Ren have said that we should try not to let them get involved in our struggle." Lie closed the curtains and turned back with a smile, "Well, but I feel that Conan will not give up so obediently."

"That's for sure, right? After all, the drug developed by 'Dark Night' is the culprit that made him smaller. He will definitely not be able to rest assured until this organization is wiped out."

Hiroki can understand Conan's inner thoughts very well.

Lie can naturally understand, but...

"Xiao Xin is still too trusting of others~ This is not a good habit." Lie nodded in distress, "I was hoping that the FBI could persuade Conan to quit, but it had the opposite effect."

Hiroki glanced at Rei and said, "Should we tell Uncle Yusaku?"

Lie thought about it for a while, then nodded in agreement, "Yeah, that's fine!"

If the son doesn't listen to advice, then you can only call on your father to come out and take care of it.

As for the communication task, Rei naturally handed it over to Hiroki and Noah. As for himself, he began to plan the criminal activities for the next few days - in addition to continuing to install safety fuses on bombs with Matsuda Jinpei, he also had to find something else to do to promote the reputation of the Five Star Group.

"...A candidate for parliament? Let's pick him!"

Lie wrote a name on the plan with a red pen and smiled kindly.

Like... burglary or something.

-

Conan lowered his head and strode down the street.

Although today was another fruitless day, he at least understood Mr. Lin's position...

'Mr. Lin's masked gang is likely to be at odds with those black organizations.'
Conan can make a bold guess.

The masked man who saved Huiyuan before was definitely Mr. Lin's "big brother", and that Cang Fengqian had no chance to escape...

But Mr. Lin was unwilling to tell him anything, which made Conan helpless.

Conan sighed and continued walking forward.

Suddenly, he heard a noise coming from the road in front of him, as if something had fallen to the ground...

Conan's face became serious, and his curiosity drove him to run over immediately.

As soon as he turned the corner, he saw a man lying on the ground, with another black figure beside him searching for something on his body...

"who are you?!"

Conan's shout startled the figure.

The other party was stunned for a moment, then his hands moved faster and he took something from the pocket of the person on the ground, then he quickly ran into an alley and escaped.

Conan didn't even have time to score a goal.

But then he didn't think about it anymore, and hurried to the fallen man. He saw the blood flowing from his chest, and checked his pulse and breathing. After finding that the man was beyond saving, he stamped his feet in anger, then took out his cell phone and dialed:
"Hello? Officer Megure... There's a murder at 39, Beika -chome Yokodachi..."

(End of this chapter)