Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

"He was brought into the organization by a friend, but regretted it when he found out it was a criminal organization. So when he was recruited by the rich man, he immediately jumped out."

"A year and a half ago, the FBI and local police were unable to capture all the members when they raided the organization's headquarters. Some were abroad at the time, and some escaped, including that friend, who was rescued by another killer with a code name."

It took Kogoro Maori several seconds to digest everything that Aoyagi Akimitsu said.

"…So, the friend who escaped discovered that the assassin he was following was coming to Japan, so he notified the bodyguard, and the bodyguard notified you?"

He touched his chin and said, "This doesn't make sense. Why would that friend inform the bodyguard? Isn't the bodyguard a traitor to him? Is he tired of being wanted and wants to come and seek refuge?"

Qing Liu Bingguang shook his head: "I don't know about this. That person can no longer be contacted."

Furiya Rei's thoughts were faster, and he had already sorted out the relationships between the characters and the causes and consequences: "That killer is Shi Kaobing?"

"No, Scoobing is 'Scorpion'. He was not at the headquarters at the time. The killer who escaped from the siege was codenamed 'Spider'. Most people in this organization use animals as their codenames and have corresponding animal tattoos on their bodies."

Aoyagi Hiromitsu paused for a moment before continuing, "Spider fled from the United States and went to England. I heard that the son of your country's superintendent had some dealings with him. Not long ago, he left England and came to Japan, intending to meet up with Scott."

"I see……"

Maori Kogoro nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly realized: "Wait a minute, why did you appear at the scene of the kidnapping?"

"..."

Furukaya Rei shifted his gaze away from the slow-reacting senior in the police academy and looked silently at Aoyagi Akimitsu.

"Because I was in that organization collecting evidence of their crimes." Qing Liu Bingguang said calmly, "The kidnapping was a temporary idea of ​​some people. It would not involve me, so I was able to release them in advance."

An indescribable silence permeated the room.

Maori Kogoro stared at him blankly, and when he saw the faint pattern on his shoulder, his expression became stiff. It took him a long time to find his voice.

"You...then you should know what Scoob and Spider look like, right?"

"I've only seen spiders."

As Aoyagi Binkou spoke, he picked up the paper and pencil on the table and quickly drew on them with his left hand.

A face quickly emerged, with medium-length hair, sharp raised eyebrows, a handsome yet mean look, and four spider-leg tattoos above and below his left eye.

He simply sketched the other person's appearance, and when he finished drawing the last stroke, his hand seemed to be controlled by something, and he signed his name below in a strange posture.

——A.A

Furuya Rei looked at the unclear but clear facial features. Seeing that Maori Kogoro still had doubts, he explained, "Some criminal organizations are very secretive. Some members may not know each other's identities even if they stand face to face."

Aoyagi Akimitsu agreed: "That's true."

Maori Kogoro scratched his hair in embarrassment, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "Since he has a tattoo, why not just take off his clothes and search him?"

"They have been on the run for so long, they have plenty of time to wash off their tattoos, or even have plastic surgery to look different. A body search will only alert the enemy. Among them, Spider is a master of disguise. His original identity was a magician who was proficient in disguise and hypnosis." Aoyagi Akimitsu once again denied his proposal.

Hypnosis?

Furiya Rei, who had been calm since entering the room, was also stunned this time.

He wanted to reach out for his cell phone, but at that moment, there was a knock on the door.

Another public security officer hurried in. When he saw Furuya Rei, he was about to speak, but when he saw Aoyagi Akimitsu sitting next to him, his expression became hesitant.

Fūya Rei noticed his embarrassment and stood up and took him aside.

Qingliu Binguang didn't pay attention to their actions. He fiddled with his hair that fell on his chest, pulled the emerald out from his hair, and played with it in his hand.

His light brown eyes, which looked gray at first glance, were reflected in the emerald.

……

"what happened?"

After making sure that his volume couldn't be heard over there, Furuya Rei asked in a low voice.

"The folder in the computer has been successfully decrypted. It contains several videos that the deceased copied yesterday, and also..."

The public security officer glanced to the side again.

He looked at Qing Liu Bingguang's back and said, "...There are some more photos, but I can't tell you about them. Please go and see them yourself."

……

At the same time, outside the room.

After the Public Security Bureau, several Osaka Prefectural Police also came in. Edogawa Conan watched them stand in front of someone he didn't expect.

"Ms. Mizunashi Reina."

Amid the surprised gazes of the people around him, the leading policeman looked seriously at the female host of the Japanese TV station who was standing there in a daze.

"We found the deceased's lost ring in your room. Please cooperate with us in further investigation."

Chapter 283 A soft-hearted undercover

For a moment, everyone in the room looked at them.

Mao Lilan covered her mouth in disbelief: "No way, how could it be... Miss Mizuno?"

The person involved, Rena Mizunashi, was bathed in all kinds of gazes, but she quickly regained her composure and spoke calmly, "What ring? Where exactly was it found?"

The leading police officer held up the evidence bag, and a ring on a necklace caught everyone's eye. Edogawa Conan quickly recognized it as the ring of Princess Maria that Ryu Kamikawa showed to the three people at the same table last night.

There was a small red mark on a certain spot on the outside of the ring, with faint fine lines on it.

"It was found in the last drawer of your bedside table, hidden under the bottom board."

The policeman spoke in a cold and hard tone, as if he had already regarded the famous female host in front of him as a vicious criminal who shot and killed others.

"In addition, we found the deceased's diary in his mobile phone, which recorded that you and he had made an appointment to meet privately."

Conan Edogawa glanced at another evidence bag in the policeman's hand, which contained the mobile phone he found in the corner under the sofa.

He couldn't see clearly when he was lying down just now, but now after putting the things in the bag, he found that the case of this phone was a little dirty, especially the screen, as if there was some stain that was not wiped off and dried on it.

"He still writes a diary?!" a male voice suddenly interrupted.

The person who spoke was the art dealer Qian Jiangyi. He had a very low presence before, and these words came out of his mouth.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the older art dealer froze, "I'm just asking, maybe he has written about other suspicious people in his diary?"

Edogawa Conan looked at him suspiciously.

“We are investigating this.”

The rash interruption was only a short interlude, and most people's attention returned to Mizunashi Rena. The police continued:

"The marks on the ring are fingerprints. We have compared them and confirmed that they are not from the deceased."

Mizuno Rena remained silent since she heard the location of the ring. She raised her hand and pressed her temple. She looked dazed again. After a few seconds, she spoke again, her tone still calm: "...I understand. I'll go with you to do a fingerprint comparison."

She followed the police.

Until her back disappeared at the door of the conference room, a suffocating silence remained in the room.

At this time, the door of the small room next to it opened and several people walked out.

They seemed to know what happened outside the room and were not surprised that Mizunashi Rena was taken away. Maori Kogoro turned to the others and said, "Well, now that the suspects have been arrested, can we go? I want to go back and catch up on some sleep."

His words were like a stone thrown into a pond, and the silent atmosphere was quickly broken.

Pu Siqinglan, who had been standing quietly by the side throughout the whole process, also looked at the other police officers present, her gray eyes full of embarrassment.

"Excuse me, can we leave now? I haven't eaten anything since I was suddenly called up this morning..."

Seeing the second person speak, Qian Jiangyi also joined in: "Yeah, I wanted to watch the opening ceremony, but now it's almost over."

The few policemen who were left behind looked at each other. One of the most experienced policemen subconsciously looked at Furuya Rei, but when he saw that he had no intention of coming forward, he had to speak up himself:

"Sorry, you can move around in the hotel and go out for dinner... but please don't leave here for now. Please leave your contact information."

……

The people in the conference room quickly dispersed.

Some people went back to their rooms to get their luggage and wanted to discuss with the front desk to move to other rooms in the hotel. It was always scary to be too close to a murder scene; some planned to go out for dinner first, or call relatives and friends.

Pu Siqinglan is the latter.

Seeing that the people around her had dispersed and there were no police following her, she turned around and entered the safe passage.

She carefully paid attention to the movements around her and slowly walked down the stairs. She didn't know which floor she was on until a familiar figure appeared and she stopped.

It was eerily quiet all around, with only the two of them standing face to face in the dim corridor.

Pu Siqinglan stood in a higher position, looking down at the other person. The man in front of her had an ordinary appearance. At first glance, he was the type that you would miss if you threw him on the street in the blink of an eye. But she seemed to see the animal tattoos on his eyes through his face.

"……spider."

Scoobing gritted his teeth and whispered the other party's code name.

"——You'd better explain to me what's going on."

……

Pu Siqinglan does not have deep feelings for the organization that gave her the code name "Shi Kaobing".

It can even be said that she joined the organization purely for convenience - someone directly provided information about cultural relics, saving her the trouble of collecting them herself.

She was not sad at all about her organization being taken down by the FBI. It happened that she was abroad at the time. The FBI knew of her existence but could not even send out a wanted warrant photo. She did not take it to heart and simply returned to her previous solo status.

Unexpectedly, a week ago, when she was planning to find an opportunity to attack the Eastern European exhibition hall of the Suzuki Museum of Art, a "former colleague" suddenly came to her.

The "former colleague" seemed to be completely unaware of the disgust in her tone, and even had the time to correct her address.

"You can call me Namikawa," he said. "That's my current identity. And we'd better hurry up. I just managed to get away from those annoying guys."

Pu Siqinglan looked at the cameraman of the Japanese TV station in front of her, ignored his words, and repeated the question just now: "Why do you want to hand over Princess Maria's ring?"

Thinking of the ring that fell into the hands of the police and was seized as evidence, the heart of this avid collector of dynasty artifacts felt like it was on fire, burning her whole body.

Realizing that she was really angry, Spider's tone finally became serious: "The more precious the item, the greater the motive and suspicion - if I hadn't pushed that woman to take the blame in time, I'm afraid you would still be being questioned by the police now."

Pu Siqinglan gritted her teeth and threw out another question: "What about the corpse?"

They acted together last night. In the past, she always killed people, took things and ran away, rarely staying to clean up. So after Hanchuan Long died, she left first, leaving only Spider at the scene to clean up.

As a result, this morning, when she arrived at the door, she saw the body that had fallen to the ground sitting by the window. She was shocked at the time, thinking that someone else had broken in after them.