The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1260 A Million Dollar Power, Kid!
Narumi Fuwa was skeptical of Fujino's suggestion.

If it was Redbeard Santa Claus, or someone pretending to be Redbeard Santa Claus, who said it, she would definitely believe it.

All I can say is that the opponent's move of immediately opening the box was truly memorable.

She didn't know that Fujino = Kuro.

Therefore, in her view, this detective was just a Russian tough guy whose fighting ability seemed slightly off the charts, who could wrestle in the icy lake water for half a day in winter and then take off his clothes to show off his muscles.

Why would such a ruthless person go and do deduction?

She felt it was somewhat of a waste of her talent.

But after some consideration, they ultimately brought in some police dogs from the Hokkaido headquarters and began a large-scale search inside the hotel.

After all, this matter had absolutely no bearing on her interests.

There's absolutely no need to worry about what might happen if they find out that the alcohol is bad or something...

That would be the best outcome if they actually found out something!

…………

Back at the hotel, after listening to Fujino's reasoning, the hotel owner largely agreed with Fujino's ideas.

In his memory, the hotel had many hidden mechanisms before he took over, and some of them were removed after the renovation.

As for the house's blueprints, they were lost during World War II.

Drug warehouses really do need police dogs to find them.

Then, police dogs jumped off the police cars and began sniffing around the hotel.

Conan, who had just woken up after being electrocuted, looked completely bewildered at the large group of dogs.

No, I was just taking a nap, how come everyone in the world suddenly turned into dogs and is having a dog meeting here?
He only understood what had happened after he asked Xiaolan out of curiosity.

"That wretched little black guy!"

"They actually used a stun gun on me!"

"This time, I missed another opportunity that I had been waiting for..."

"Little Black, you really deserve to die!"

Conan jumped up and began to mingle among a group of police dogs, searching for the drug warehouse.

After searching for a long time, all those police dogs couldn't find anything.

Narumi Fuwa frowned upon seeing this: "Could it be that there's nothing here at all?"

She looked at Fujino with suspicion, her tone full of reproach for the wasted effort and resources: "It seems that this reasoning was wrong."

"It can't be wrong."

Fujino narrowed his eyes. "After all, it's a storage warehouse, so it's probably hidden in a relatively deep place. If it were too shallow, it would be easily discovered."

Fuwa Narumi's brows remained furrowed as she said with dissatisfaction, "Now we can't even find the police dogs. Are we going to have to completely demolish the hotel?"

"Hey, I think it's a good idea."

After thinking about it carefully, Hongye suggested, "Let's just demolish the whole hotel!"

"I believe in Fujino-kun..."

"Of course, we still need to buy this hotel."

Koyo absolutely trusted Fujino, and seeing Fujino being treated like this, she almost lost her temper.

I didn't even inform your Hokkaido headquarters this time, and this is how you treat my man?

Men can tolerate it, but I can't!
So she turned her head and looked at the hotel owner, asking casually:

"Excuse me, sir, how much do you want for your hotel?"

"I can write the check right now."

As she spoke, Hongye rummaged in her small pocket and pulled out a phone and a wad of bills: "Is one million US dollars enough?"

"If that's not enough, two million dollars will do. If that's still not enough, then name your price!"

"I'll go ask my grandpa for some money."

"what?"

"..."

Fujino watched as the rich woman, who was about to spend a fortune to buy a hotel at the slightest provocation, once again felt the power of a rich woman's money. Then, looking at the sulking Komi, he felt that the other woman was strangely cute.

At the same time, he couldn't help but feel deeply moved: "Two million dollars just like that..."

"That must be several hundred million yen, right?"

"Our boss really gives people a... well, a reliable sense of security!"

"..." At this point, Sonoko was also getting a little angry.

Feeling resentful at being humiliated, her face puffed up with anger. She felt like this woman was deliberately slapping her in the face, and thought to herself, "How could I, the mere second young lady of the Suzuki family, possibly lose face in front of you?"

but……

After thinking it over carefully, Sonoko realized that she couldn't think of any way to throw it back today.

She is the second young lady, but she is a minor.

My family won't give me that much money to waste...

Forget a million dollars, ten thousand dollars would be more like it.

Damn it, why is she so generous?
Yuanzi gritted her teeth, feeling a pang of envy.

"Um, this young lady..." the hotel owner began helplessly, but the words wouldn't come out.

This was the first time he had ever seen such a scene.

We were supposed to be investigating drugs, but how did it all turn into buying drugs at a hotel?

Spending millions of dollars right off the bat, this...

The hotel owner was a little confused, but then he thought that after this incident, the hotel probably wouldn't be able to survive.

He then thought that selling the hotel might be a good idea.

At least it can provide me with a considerable amount of money for retirement.

"Ahem!"

Fujino stopped Momiji from buying a hotel, saying, "Buying a hotel is unnecessary. It's just finding some drugs; it's no big deal."

"Don't buy it?"

"This hotel comes with a spirit ring, we can't even stay here after buying it, it's such a waste, let's save some money for our family."

As Fujino said this, he felt a little heartache thinking about spending so much money to buy a shabby hotel.

To be honest, he was somewhat reluctant to have come this far.

It's a pity the dogs weren't up to par!

"...?"

Hearing this, Hongye realized something was amiss and blushed. However, in order to maintain her aloof and domineering demeanor to intimidate everyone present, she finally said with a stern look, "Then I'll listen to you."

"..." The hotel owner was stunned for a moment, feeling a pricking sensation in his heart, and wished he could slap himself twice.

He could already see the mountains of US dollars floating away before his eyes.

Talking Tom, why am I hesitating about this?

Compared to the regretful hotel owner, Narumi Fuwa initially thought it was nothing, just a rich person.

But after witnessing the blonde girl's abilities, she couldn't help but ponder: "If I don't treat that detective well, this woman will probably strip me of my police rank, right?"

Having money is fine, but what's scary is that you can use hundreds of millions of yen to buy a useless building with just a word.

That's more than just ordinary wealth.

You have to have some connection with high-level officials.

Therefore, Narumi Fuwa was quite shocked and became much more polite in her speech: "Then, Detective Fujino, what are your thoughts?"

Fujino: "..."

A million dollars—that's terrifying!
He sighed inwardly, then turned his head, sniffed, and slowly walked to the living room. Turning around, he looked at the stairs leading upstairs behind him and said in a deep voice, "I think the strongest smell of drugs is here."

"here?"

Fujino glanced down at the steps of the stairs, then stepped on one: "To be precise, it's here."

"..."

Narumi narrowed her eyes, then released the dog to sniff around.

The dog drooped its nose and ears helplessly, indicating that it hadn't found anything.

Narumi Fuwa thought this was a bit impossible. "Your nose is more sensitive than a police dog's?"

Are you kidding?

The police officers present all looked at Fujino in bewilderment.

Hakuba Saguru and Conan both genuinely believed it.

No matter how outrageous Fujino's actions were, they were all standard practice in their eyes.

So the two of them began to think carefully about what kind of mechanism it might be.

"The headquarters... it can't be somewhere else, can it?"

"It does feel like there's a cavity here..."

"Those two statues seem a bit strange?"

"But how do these two statues trigger the mechanism..."

Hakuba Saguru and Conan tapped on the floor, looked at the statue, and pondered how to open the mechanism here.

Ai Haibara stood to the side, looking at the two statues in front of her, and touched her chin.

She was clever and quick-witted, and then she thought of something.

But look at Fujino with his hands behind his back...

Well, Fujino probably wants to take action directly.

It doesn't matter whether you say it or not.

Under her silent gaze, Fujino reached into the back of his suit jacket and pulled out two knives.

"...?"

Seeing Fujino pull out a knife without warning, everyone present backed away.

Even though there's nothing wrong, is this guy planning to kill us to silence us?

But any normal person would be scared seeing this...

Moreover, the murderous intent on the face of the person in front of him was so dark that it was clearly visible to the naked eye.

Fujino, on the other hand, didn't want to argue any further.

I feel incredibly awkward right now...

So, money is hard to earn, and drugs are hard to catch!
He took a deep breath, gripped two swords, drew them from their sheaths, and unleashed a cross-shaped slash at the ground.

The path the knife traced transformed into a beam of light.

Immediately afterwards, the floor in front of Fujino was cut into four pieces and fell down, revealing a deep, dark corridor.

"Boss, you probably don't mind, do you?"

Fujino turned around, looked at the hotel owner behind him, and asked, "After all, I had no choice but to do these things in order to find the drugs. You shouldn't ask me for compensation, right?"

"No, no! Definitely not!"

"That's good. Boss, you're such a kind person. I suggest Hokkaido send this boss a letter of thanks!"

"..."

The hotel owner stared at the two gleaming silver samurai swords, swallowed hard, and thought to himself, "Couldn't you put your swords away first?!"

"This is a threat! You're blatantly threatening me in front of the police!"

"You're holding two such long samurai swords, and you turn around and say that to me!"

"Do you think I'd dare ask you for compensation?"

"Are you going to chop me up with a knife the moment I disagree?"

Compared to the sad and regretful hotel owner, the surrounding police officers looked shocked:
"There really is a secret passage here..."

"Could it really be a warehouse down there?"

"But the drug-sniffing dogs didn't smell anything..."

How exactly did he smell it?

Hakuba Saguru and Conan were not surprised. Apart from the fact that they had discovered something unusual, they remembered that Fujino had smelled cyanide on the plane earlier.

What's wrong with smelling a faint odor of drugs?
If you can't smell it, then you're doing a disservice to that dog-like sense of smell!

…………

Fujino took out his magic wand and illuminated the dark staircase. As he walked down, he found himself in a basement built with bricks. A wooden frame supported the space in the center to prevent it from collapsing, while several rows of shelves lined both sides of the space.

On the shelf, there were also bottles and jars.

Those jars contained white powder.

Fujino had a strange feeling that the walls were covered in ashes, which was a bit creepy.

Bai Ma Tan was completely dumbfounded: "So many, all of them are drugs?"

Conan sniffed the air, then smacked his lips: "This smell, it's definitely drugs!"

"However, the purity isn't very high; it might be something like morphine..."

Hakuba Saguru: "..."

So how exactly do you know what drugs taste like?
You actually started appreciating...

Why is it so professional?
Compared to Fujino, you're more like a drug-sniffing dog, aren't you?

Fujino said: These are all basic operations.

What's wrong with Conan trying drugs?
Anyway, I learned it from Hawaii.

When in doubt, Hawaii is the place to go.

Narumi Fuwa then looked at the hotel owner with a somewhat cold gaze: "What's going on here?"

"I do not know!"

The hotel owner, who was following behind, was completely stunned when he saw the huge pile of drugs.

Clearly, he couldn't imagine how someone could so brazenly smuggle so many drugs into his hotel. Of course, he also knew that Narumi Fuwa couldn't imagine it either.

This is what life is all about – its ups and downs.

Not only did they miss out on a million dollars, they were also threatened.

He was also suspected of harboring drug dealers.

The hotel owner must be devastated.

"These are probably drugs left over from about a hundred years ago."

"A hundred years ago?!"

"Yes, it's probably been passed down from that time."

Looking at the bottles and jars in front of him, Fujino also felt that the drugs from a hundred years ago were starting to falter.

All I can say is that this jar is sealed really well!

It hasn't gotten damp after all these years, and I can still sell it.

As for whether the era in which this thing appeared is reasonable...

Fujino thought it made a lot of sense.

Heroin was synthesized as early as 1874.

Morphine-like drugs were extracted from opium as early as 1806.

A hundred years ago, it wouldn't have been a problem at all.

It's not surprising that Narumi Fuwa was able to successfully overcome her drug addiction.

After all, compared to drugs that have undergone countless iterations, even the earliest forms of morphine and heroin are not potent enough.

Plus, after so many years of sedimentation, it's already a miracle it hasn't expired.

Hakuba Saguru said thoughtfully, "If that's the case, then it really is just as Fujino said. These bottles and jars are all sealed very well; they were probably all shipped over by that foreign trader..."

"As expected of you."

Fujino smiled helplessly: "It just suddenly came to mind; it's all just wild guesses."

Conan watched as Hakuma flattered Fujino, and Fujino, standing to the side with his arms crossed, pulled a long face.

Although he looked unconvinced, he was actually convinced in his heart.

Could Fujino be guessing randomly?
He definitely didn't just guess randomly; he had planned this all along!

If he's just guessing randomly, then what am I?

Am I no longer a good-for-nothing?
(End of this chapter)