Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

In a flash, another man rushed out from the side like a wolf pouncing on its prey, his steps hurried and disorderly, and the stun gun in his hand was pointing directly at Kuroda Heibei's neck, trying to knock him down with one blow.

Kuroda Heibei's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he grabbed the sturdy arm of his men who were attacking him from behind with his backhand, and suddenly exerted force from his waist and twisted it violently.

"Bang!" In an instant, the stun gun lost control and turned, hitting the chest of the man in front of him. The man's whole body shook violently, and he groaned in pain. His legs went limp, and he fell straight to the ground, his body twitching uncontrollably.

Kuroda Bei took advantage of the situation, and with his elbows clenched and a whistling sound, he raised them with force and smashed them hard into the face of the man behind him.

With a loud thud, the man's head hit the wall heavily, making a dull thud. The whole person fainted like a puppet with its strings cut. The hat on his head was blown away by the great force, and after rolling several times in the air, he spun on the ground.

Kuroda Bei let out a long sigh, slowly stood up, looked at the two men who had fainted, frowned slightly, and said to himself: "I really need to be given a lot of leave this time."

After saying that, he turned around and walked quickly to the side, bent down to find a rope from the pile of debris, tied up the two men, and tied the knot tightly to ensure that they could not cause any more trouble for the time being.

The picture paused again. When Kudo Yuki was watching the system screen, Conan and Kuroda Heibei saw that she was listening carefully to what Kuroda Heibei said.

Conan looked up, confusion in his eyes, and asked, "So 17 years ago, Manager Kuroda didn't take a vacation to the United States specifically to watch the chess tournament?"

"That's right. My boss at the time gave me a secret order to meet someone. That was the purpose of my going there."

"Could that person be Amanda Hughes?"

"Yes. The scheduled meeting was for us, but we only met briefly before the formal meeting. She was supposed to call me but she never came, and coupled with the violence I just mentioned, I went to the hotel reception."

The flickering image on the system screen reappeared.

Kuroda Beibei ran to the hotel front desk with an anxious look on his face, quickly took out his police ID and asked the male staff.

"Believe me, I'm an island police officer. Amanda Hughes made an appointment to meet me tonight. This is very important, but she hasn't contacted me. I'm worried that she might be in danger. Please, please tell me her room number!"

The male staff at the front desk looked embarrassed and just kept shaking his head and waving his hands to stop him: "No, sir, we have a rule that we can't tell others the guest's room number casually. This is to protect the guest's privacy and safety. Please understand."

Kuroda Bei had no choice but to leave the front desk.

As he walked, he frowned and thought to himself, "This is an expected response. But the two people tied up in the bathroom seem to know Amanda's room number, but looking at their expressions, they don't look like the kind of people who would easily speak up. There is no other way, so I can only use that trick."

Kuroda Bei's attempts to negotiate at the hotel front desk were fruitless and the clues were lost.

At the same time, in Amanda's room, a conversation about life, death and secrets is quietly taking place. The picture slowly switches, and Rum's perspective appears before our eyes.

In the picture, Amanda folded her arms calmly, still sitting on the chair, her eyes showing a calmness of having experienced the vicissitudes of life, looking at Rum and slowly speaking: "The island tycoon I mentioned just now is Karasuma Renya.

If you are his man, how about we talk in Japanese? That way, you don't have to bluff in front of your subordinates and can speak the truth. How about that? "

"Sure." Rum responded readily and walked towards Amanda.

Amanda looked at him directly, her eyes probing. "Can I ask you a question first? I have deployed more than a dozen excellent and trustworthy bodyguards in this hotel. How did you avoid their eyes?"

Rum walked forward steadily, a smile on his face, and he muttered unconsciously: "It is precisely because they are regarded as trustworthy that I have the opportunity to take advantage of them."

He stood in front of Amanda, raised his hand and suddenly covered his right eye, leaving only his left eye emitting a strange light. He stared at Amanda and said coldly: "I have a photographic memory of everything I have seen with my left eye.

No matter how you disguise yourself, you can't hide from me. With this 'photographic memory', I can easily identify your bodyguards who are regarded as confidants and hired many times. Then, I can sneak up on them and knock them down with a stun gun. "

"I see. That's how you used the intelligence you collected to threaten the bigwigs in the financial world to strengthen yourselves. But I didn't expect that the person behind you was actually Karasuma Renya."

Rum smiled sinisterly: "How can it be called a threat? The organization only informed them out of kindness, using a friendly phrase like 'We discovered such a secret, please be careful!'"

"This is really a convenient eye. When I was young, both of my eyes had this ability." Amanda subconsciously glanced at the time on the watch on her wrist and frowned slightly: "I was planning to discuss with the island country's police tonight how to teach you a lesson. It seems that he has let you succeed."

"You keep looking at your watch. Do you have an appointment with someone?"

"It's the one from the island country."

"If it's the special police, they won't come."

Amanda was shocked when she heard this, but she tried to remain calm and didn't say anything.

Rum laughed and narrated: "The young woman who joined the organization specializes in cross-dressing and voice imitation. She called the FBI chief again in your voice and said, 'The previous report was a mistake.' The bodyguard beside you, Rachel Asaka, is the daughter of the bodyguard who died for standing up for you, right?"

Amanda was a little surprised. She didn't expect Rum to know all these things.

Rum fumbled in his pockets and said, "If you raise her as your own daughter, she will definitely regard you as her mother."

He then took out the medicine box containing APTX-4869 and opened the lid. "Although we don't know where she is hiding right now, as long as you threaten to kill you with this poison developed by the organization, she will definitely show up immediately."

Rum waved the pill back and forth in front of Amanda's eyes. "As long as she falls into our hands, you will become a member of the organization."

After saying this, he burst into laughter.

Rum's original intention was just to use Asaka to threaten Amanda and make her agree to cooperate with the winery organization, so he slowly stuffed APTX-4869 into Amanda's mouth. He concluded that Amanda would cherish her life and would definitely comply.

In his opinion, this was just a psychological game and he was sure he could control the situation.

Amanda took the opportunity to take a big bite of rum.

Rum felt the pain and pulled back his thumb with a frown, a trace of anger flashing across his face: "Damn it."

Amanda lay on the ground and swallowed the medicine with a gulp.

One of the men noticed Amanda swallowing and rushed forward to investigate: "What should we do? She can't be saved."

Rum frowned, and although he was a little surprised, he quickly calmed down: "Don't worry about Amanda, go find Asaka. Amanda may have told Asaka the information of the organization."

The effect of Amanda's medicine began to take effect at this time. Her body trembled slightly and a painful expression appeared on her face.

Rum looked at her and said coldly, "Amanda, I'm sorry to say goodbye to you here. Let me correct one last mistake of yours. Rum is not a nickname, but the organization code name inherited from my father who served that gentleman for many years."

The screen paused, and Kudo Yuki thought to herself: [Vermouth is also involved in this, but she is just following orders. I should find time to ask her.]

The scene switched quietly and focused on Wakasa Rumi's perspective again.

Asaka has already arrived at the room where Hiroji Haneda lives. As soon as she entered the room, she began to search for chess pieces, but after a lot of trouble, she found nothing.

She couldn't help but frown and said with a puzzled look on her face: "Ah? Amanda said she forgot the knight chess piece in your room. Was it a blatant lie?"

Haneda Hiroshi seemed calmer. He frowned slightly and thought for a moment before responding, "Because that's impossible. In the chess box, each chess piece has a special concave shape. If you forget to put a chess piece in, you'll find it right away."

"Then why did she lie like this?" Asaka's eyes were full of confusion. She really couldn't understand Amanda's intention.

A trace of thought flashed across Haneda Hiroshi's eyes, and he exhaled lightly, then said slowly: "Maybe he wants you to escape from here?"

"Huh? If we can't get in touch with the bodyguards, it means that the person who caused this situation should have already gone for Amanda. Then we have to save her quickly." An anxious look instantly appeared on Asaka's face, and she turned around and prepared to rush out the door.

Upon seeing this, Haneda Hiroshi hurriedly grabbed Asaka's shoulders and pulled her back, "No! She didn't let you protect her but asked you to escape first because she realized why she had to do this. And even if we don't care, they will come looking for us."

As he finished speaking, the crisp sound of two doorbell ringings suddenly rang out in the quiet room.

Asaka's eyes suddenly widened, her face filled with shock.

Hiroshi Haneda took a deep breath and said, "It's well known that Amanda is my fan. You should hide first." As he said that, he quickly glanced around the room and pointed to the corner.

Qianxiang didn't dare to delay and hurriedly hid in the corner, pressing her body tightly against the wall, not daring to breathe. Her heart was beating violently in her chest, as if it would burst out of her throat in the next second.

Haneda Hiroshi quickly straightened his clothes, then deliberately messed up his hair, rubbed his eyes vigorously, yawned, and pretended to be lazy and impatient as if he had just been woken up. Then he slowly walked to the door, opened it, and muttered in a bad tone: "What are you doing? It's so noisy so late."

A group of men stood at the door, all with stern expressions.

The leading female subordinate took a step forward, looked Haneda Hiroshi up and down, and asked, "Has there ever been an Oriental woman here?"

Haneda Hiroshi looked confused and pretended not to understand, scratching his head: "I can only understand Japanese."

Suddenly, Rum slowly walked out from a group of his men. He raised his head and asked in Japanese: "Then I will ask in Japanese, has a woman from the island country ever come to your place?"

"No, what the hell is going on!" Haneda Hiroshi pretended to be angry and angrily closed the door, then leaned against the door and listened to the noise outside with his ears perked up.

He waited until there were no more footsteps at the door before he quickly came to Asaka. "They shouldn't be here for a while, so you can hide here first."

"But if they can't find me anywhere else, they'll definitely come back."

"Are you familiar with them?"

"Yes, this group of people should be threatening the people around Amanda recently. These guys threatened to kill their families and forced them to resign! In fact, some people have already been killed."

"But they and I have never had any contact before. Will they kill me too?"

"Yes, because you hid me here, so they will definitely not let you go."

"Then... I can't let you leave this room." After saying that, Hiroshi Haneda took out the stun gun he had prepared from behind and knocked Asaka unconscious.

Looking at the unconscious Asaka, Haneda Hiroshi murmured to himself: "Those people will not let you live."

He turned and walked quickly to the bookshelf in the room and began to move the books on the middle shelf, passing the heavy books one by one in his hands.

At this moment, Asaka quietly opened one eye. There was surprise, emotion, and a hint of helplessness in her eyes, but she didn't dare to make any big movements for fear of being discovered by Hiroshi Haneda.

Hiroji Haneda moved the last pile of books and just as he turned around, he looked at Asaka. The moment their eyes met, Asaka quickly closed her eyes again, pretending to be still unconscious.

Haneda Hiroshi seemed not to notice anything unusual, and whispered softly: "I didn't expect that the stun gun used for self-defense would have this kind of use."

He slowly squatted down and picked up Asaka, who was still unable to move.

Asaka moved her lips: "Why are you helping me?"

The smile on Haneda Hiroshi's face became even wider. "The reason for saving you? Because I wanted to do this, so I can fulfill my original intention."

He carried Asaka to the bookshelf, put her in the interlayer, and then put the books on it one by one, covering the interlayer tightly.

After doing all this, Haneda Hiroshi said to Asaka in the mezzanine: "Please hide here for a while."

Asaka tried to keep her eyelids open and murmured weakly, "No! If you are discovered, you will be killed too."

"It's okay, because I will give you my most important amulet." Hiroshi Haneda took out the square chess piece from his sleeve.

He stared at the corner chess piece in his hand and whispered softly: "'Stand high and see far, then you can find the good chess pieces!' With this, it will be difficult for the enemy to find you. As long as you always keep a little attention, one day, you can achieve a counterattack."

Hiroshi Haneda handed his amulet to Asaka. Asaka wanted to struggle to refuse, but she was too weak and could not resist the sleepiness, and fainted again.

Kudo Yuki thought to herself: [Amanda's death turned out to be the key turning point for Rum's failure.]

She was immersed in her thoughts when the sound coming from the system screen instantly attracted Kudo Yuki's attention.

To be continued...