Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 3789-3803 [Bourbon's Repentance] Requesting monthly votes ヽ(〃〃)~
"Hmm? Let me see."

Officer Shiratori, interrupting his reverie, had no choice but to turn his attention to the other side.

He held his tablet, glanced at the video sent by his subordinate, and suddenly recognized it: "Isn't that the kidnapper?"

The subordinates exclaimed in surprise: "Kidnappers?!"

His words echoed in the corridor, reaching the ears of the three people in front of him.

At the same time, the other officers from the First Investigation Division were also touched by this familiar word and instinctively gathered around it.

The three public security informants who were tracking Hashimoto Maya: "!!"

Oh no, we've fallen into their trap! The enemy is indeed cunning!
Before they could react, they took off running before the defenses could be formed, knocking aside the police officers blocking their way and rushing out of the performance hall.

As soon as they ran, several criminal police officers instinctively took off after them.

Officer Shiratori noticed the screen was shaking violently and asked in confusion, "Where are you going?"

The officers who rushed out shouted, "Of course, we're here to catch the kidnappers!"

Officer Shiratori said speechlessly, "I'm not talking about ordinary kidnappers, I'm talking about those guys who were messing around with Jiang Xia—come back before you alert anyone!"

……

in the night.

An octopus doll hid behind a pillar, watching as three police informants were chased by a group of officers.

Then the police listened to a few words through their earpieces, gradually stopped, and returned to the performance hall. The three informants, however, were completely unaware and continued running frantically, looking as if they were afraid of being caught.

"These idiots..."

The aura of idiots wafted in all directions as the three ran. Amuro Tooru, inside the octopus doll, sighed silently: Where did Kazami find these guys? What can they do besides making things worse?
"Speaking of which, we found the box containing Jiangxia, but we still don't know where the guy who stole it went."

The thought that an undercover agent had infiltrated this group of informants made Amuro Tooru's brow twitch. But more urgent than that, was getting the Jiangxia box and releasing the person inside.

—Earlier at the dessert museum's luggage storage area, he successfully stole the suitcase, but was tragically exposed the next moment. Strictly speaking, it was more like he robbed the suitcase than stole it.

Therefore, four or five staff members kept chasing after him. In addition, other staff members in the amusement park saw this situation and stepped forward to stop him, not knowing why.

Amuro Tooru, dressed in a sandwich-shaped mascot costume, started to struggle after running for a while.

So he plunged into a complex facility, shook off the staff, slipped out through a side door, and hid the box by the lake.

Then, without even having time to unpack it, they quickly found a nearby venue, threw away the cumbersome sandwich costume, and changed into a more ergonomic costume.

"It's finally over..."

As the clueless staff rushed past him, Amuro Tooru, who had transformed into an octopus spirit, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He walked through the corridor, intending to go to the lakeside to open the box, when a hand reached out from the side, and the supervisor said quietly, "The performance rehearsal is about to begin, where are you going?"

Toru Amuro: "..."

……

The commotion dragged on until dark. The supervisor, for some unknown reason, began to keep a close watch on him after realizing he intended to leave, giving him no chance to slip away.

Amuro Tooru was forced to work and reluctantly participated in rehearsals. After the rehearsals, he even helped move boxes for half a day. Only after the opening show was over did he find an opportunity to slip out of the backstage area of ​​the Waterworld show, like a serf who had finally seized an opportunity.

Now, looking at the dark sky and the stars, even someone as physically fit as him couldn't help but show a hint of fatigue.

How exactly did things turn out this way?
Looking back, it seems that the turning point was that box containing Jiang Xia.

“His constitution is really strange.” Some painful memories flooded his mind, and Amuro Tooru felt a headache coming on. “Me too. It would have been so much better to let Jiang Xia sleep peacefully in the shop. Why did he have to…”

After a brief moment of regret, Amuro Tooru did not allow himself to immerse himself in this emotion.

No matter how strange Jiang Xia's constitution is, the detective is actually very innocent. If he hadn't had the idea to pack Jiang Xia up and take him away from the stage to disrupt Wu Zuo's plans, then this whole mess probably wouldn't have happened.

You have to clean up the mess you made.

In short, let's set a small goal first: get Jiangxia out of the box!

Looking at the shimmering lake under the moonlight in the distance, Amuro Tooru took a deep breath and patiently waited for the police and those few idiot informants to leave.

……

Inside the performance hall.

Officer Sato was completely unaware of the chaos outside.

At this moment, she was sitting next to Jiang Xia, pretending to be just an ordinary spectator who came for a date, while secretly observing the coachman.

Since the transaction was chosen to take place in this location, the groom and the buyer would likely be seated next to each other. Otherwise, if the two were seated in different places and strode over to meet, they would inevitably block the view of some spectators and attract attention.

With that in mind, Officer Sato focused his observations on the coachman's surroundings.

When her gaze fell on the coachman's right, looking at the obese middle-aged man wearing a gray frilly hat and with two protruding front teeth like a hamster, Sato Miwako's pupils dilated slightly, and she whispered, "It's Yagura Masaki!"

Sonoko Suzuki didn't hear clearly and, with a keen curiosity, pressed on, "Who?"

Ran Mouri was more sensitive to names and quickly remembered the person, whispering, "It's the drug dealer that Officer Sato mentioned before."

"I see!" Sonoko Suzuki suddenly realized, feeling as if she were in a game, unraveling the mystery step by step, and about to reach the final chase, fight, and reward stage.

She said enthusiastically, "Now that they're here, shall we get started?"

Officer Sato nodded and stretched slightly. "It's time to get ready."

……

Separated by an aisle, the coachman was unaware of the secret surveillance.

Yagura Maki felt like someone was watching him, but when he glanced in that direction, he only saw a group of women and children, and a handsome blind man wearing sunglasses in the dimly lit venue. So he ignored him and looked away.

Beside him, the coachman had already put the backpack off his shoulder onto his lap.

He patted the backpack that he hadn't opened all day, a little curious: "What's in here? The commission is so high."

Yagura Maki snapped out of his daze and gave a mysterious, cold laugh: "That's none of your business."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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