Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 379 Aniset's Provocation

The entire detective agency fell into silence.

When Kogoro Mori heard the word "Public Security", he frowned and stood up and looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu.

Morobushi Keimitsu seemed to be completely unaware of the strange atmosphere at the scene. He first looked at the Mori father and daughter, and then his eyes fell on Edogawa Conan sitting on the sofa.

When he saw that face, his eyes paused slightly.

……

Time goes back to one hour ago.

In the morning, at eight thirty.

The Metropolitan Police Department entered a busy working state early. After packing up his things, Zhu Fu Jingguang left the Ministry of Public Security and went to the parking lot with his colleagues.

My colleague opened the car door and sat directly in the passenger seat. While buckling his seat belt, he looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang and said, "Shall we go directly to our destination?"

"Senior Ishigami will contact the informant first, so the two of us will go there and take a look first." Zhufu Jingguang replied.

The Different Investigation Division has a lot of work to do every day and needs to work overtime for a long time. The Public Security Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department does not have as many tasks as them, but each task is troublesome.

Just like this time, the Public Security Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department had not yet finished dealing with the follow-up of the congressman, and new work came up.

A few days ago, an informant sent a message saying that he recently went to a bar to drink and met two former members of the Mudslayer Society. The two sides happened to know each other, so they sat down and had a drink together.

The two men did not tell the informant about any major events recently, they just complained about one thing after drinking too much.

——A certain abandoned crematorium located at the junction of Shinjuku and Nakano was one of the properties owned by the Nizankai in the past, and there are signs that it has been secretly used.

"...They heard some noise, but when they went to check, there was no one there. They reported it to their supervisor, who just told them to go back and rest and not run around anymore."

My colleague reviewed the news he heard and scratched his hair speechlessly.

"Either those two got drunk and made a mistake, or the criminals are secretly dealing with people, but they didn't use cement this time... Is it necessary to send several police officers to investigate?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang felt helpless when he heard the complaint hidden in his tone.

The man in front of him was from the same generation as Eto, but in terms of professionalism, he was far inferior to Eto Daizo, who had the halo of the second generation. If it was Eto sitting here now, he would only ask what he needed to pay attention to in this case...

Silently suppressing his helplessness in his heart, Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was more tolerant of his colleagues, especially the younger juniors, was about to explain.

As a result, at this moment, a black shadow suddenly passed in front of his car!
"?!!"

Zhu Fu Jingguang slammed on the brakes. He heard something - something much lighter than a person - hit the hood of the car and then flew out.

My colleague fell forward due to the sudden brake and subconsciously grabbed the seat belt tightly. After being stunned for a second, he finally reacted.

"What did you just bump into?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked slightly solemn. They had just gotten into the car not long ago and hadn't even driven out of the Metropolitan Police Department parking lot yet. What could they crash into?
Out of caution and a bit of doubt, Zhu Fu Jingguang got off the car with his colleagues.

Then they saw a dog lying on the ground.

"...?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang was even more confused. He stood there without moving, looking at the animal lying motionless on the ground and the blood oozing from the ground.

His colleagues didn't think too much about it and made a more reasonable guess: "...Is it a trained police dog? How did it sneak in here?"

Although the dog was lying on the ground, preventing them from seeing its appearance clearly, its shape and fur color were very similar to those large dogs trained as police dogs.

The colleague muttered to himself whether he should go find a trainer for first aid and walked towards the dog, but halfway through, the dog suddenly stood up on its own.

It got on all fours and shook its body silently, with some blood splattering out.

At this time, Zhu Fu Jingguang noticed that this dog was different from the common German Shepherd and Labrador Retriever. Its fur was thicker, its eyes were tilted upward, and its eyes looked particularly sharp. These details combined made him vaguely feel that something was wrong.

In addition, there was a small package tied under its neck.

"what is this?"

My colleague also saw the package and reached out to take it curiously.

"Wait--"

Before Zhu Fu Jingguang could stop him, the colleague had already bent down, unpacked the package, spread it on the ground and unwrapped it.

In the center of the package is a tablet.

There was also a piece of white paper with a few lines of words written on it, lightly pressed on top.

At this time, my colleague finally realized that something was wrong. The thing in front of him didn't seem to be a police dog. An ordinary police dog would not carry this thing on its back to ram a police car. He reached out to grab the dog.

But his outstretched hand hit nothing. The dog that was hit by the car and should have been seriously injured actually dodged very flexibly. It jumped lightly a few steps away and looked at them with a pair of sharp light brown eyes. "Awoo--"

It raised its head and let out a howl, the loud sound echoing in the parking lot and spreading far away.

Zhu Fu Jingguang finally understood where that sense of disharmony came from.

That's not a dog.

That's a wolf.

…But why are there wolves here? Wild wolves in Japan became extinct at the end of the last century. Could they have escaped from a nearby zoo?
More questions flashed through Zhu Fu Jingguang's mind, but reality did not allow him to think any further. The wolf had already turned around and ran away, disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye, leaving only its belongings.

He turned around and looked at the strange tablet, frowning slightly: "Don't move, wait for me to call someone to check it out."

The colleague withdrew his gaze from the direction where the wolf disappeared and replied blankly: "Okay."

After a second, he hesitated and said, "Senior Zhu Fu, was that a wolf just now?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang did not answer.

At this moment, the screen suddenly lit up. Amid the colleague's surprised voice of "I didn't touch it!", the two of them saw the picture on it clearly at the same time, and their faces changed instantly.

On the screen was a person who looked very familiar to them. At this moment, he was tied to a bench with his eyes closed, and the person next to him was unpacking the towel bag.

"Eto?!"

……

Nine in the morning.

Due to an emergency, Zhu Fujingguang and his team, who were supposed to carry out the mission, canceled the mission and gathered at the Ministry of Public Security.

Everyone was shocked when a colleague was kidnapped, and the seriousness of the incident increased again when they learned that the person was the only son of their manager.

"Can't we notify the Investigation Division for help?"

The colleague asked Zhufu Jingguang in a low voice.

Zhu Fujingguang shook his head grimly and answered in the same voice: "This is an internal matter of the public security department and is not suitable for others to know."

This is the style of the public security. They are used to swooping down and snatching away the case after the criminal police have been working hard on the case for a long time, but they rarely take the initiative to ask the other party for help.

The colleague seemed to want to say something, but when he saw the expression on Manager Eto's face, he finally stopped talking.

This man, who is over 60 years old and has worked in the senior public security positions for 20 years, now looks like an ordinary old man that can be seen everywhere, with the wrinkles on his face deeper than before.

He reluctantly looked away and raised his head to look at the words on the projection screen. These words were taken from the white paper that was picked up along with the tablet.

The windmill sways and sways, pointing to ninety-two;
The white pagoda depicts the snow-capped mountains, and the swing swings in the clouds.

The cicadas chirped, the pendulum swung across the old axle;
The lotus leaves are green and their reflection in the pool is reflected in the eyes.

Fourteen years of life for life, eighty days of reincarnation;
The cicada sheds its empty shell without a trace, and the person never returns from the end of the pendulum.

Come and find it! I have given all the clues. Whether it is life for life or reincarnation, it all depends on the choice you make (laughs).

——Anisette
When he saw that name, Zhu Fu Jingguang clenched his fists tightly and endless anger burned in the depths of his eyes.

Manager Eto looked at the text, then looked at the tablet beside him. When he saw the two faces on the screen, a complex expression flashed across his face.

"The suspect has been identified."

He spoke calmly, his eyes scanning all the police officers present.

The text on the screen disappeared, replaced by several pictures. Since the video on the tablet was clear, they easily determined the suspect's appearance.

Next to several screenshots of his appearance is a photo with Teitan Elementary School in the background. The young suspect is standing at the school gate and greeting a boy and girl who are leaving the campus together. They look about the same age.

"Kadokaya Nobuyuki, male, currently 17 years old, attended Teitan Elementary School but dropped out in the third grade."

"The father is unknown, the mother is dead, and he is raised by his uncle. There is no house registered under his name. We need to start investigating with the people who are familiar to him..."

……

After finishing his reminiscences, Zhufu Jingguang calmed himself down.

He couldn't be impatient. Even though his colleague had just told him that the bastard Aniseit had actually had the TV station broadcast a live broadcast so that the whole of Japan would know about it... he still had to stay calm and investigate step by step.

He looked at Mao Lilan, the girl who greeted him in the few photos of the suspect, but as he looked, his eyes swept to Edogawa Conan who was sitting on the sofa.

I don't know if it was his imagination.

He always felt that this boy with glasses looked very similar to the other boy who greeted the suspect in the photo... ?
(End of this chapter)