Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 525 Unbelievable

"I suddenly remembered something. If according to what Kazuha said, the killer wanted to make the Inufushi family extinct, then why did he wait until now to do it? Weren't they adopted by that lady five years ago?"

There is no Dragon King in this world, saying that the three-year period has come. If the murderer wanted to cut off his descendants and confiscate his family, why wait five years? Lu Ren couldn't think of a reason for the murderer to do this.

Facing Lu Ren's doubts, Hattori slapped his forehead and said, "There is something I forgot to say. In fact, more than a month ago, the old lady of the Inufushi family suddenly became seriously ill and fell into a coma. Now she is said to be unconscious."

"..." After a brief silence, Lu Ren said unhappily, "Speak about this kind of thing in advance next time."

It's okay to leave out key information when introducing the background.

If this premise is added, the murderer's motive becomes questionable.

Without waiting for Lu Ren to speak, Conan said first: "The murderer probably killed people for the inheritance."

If eight people share a cake, some people will think it's too little. What if five people share it, three people share it, or even one person eats it all?
Indeed, according to Hattori, even if the Inufushi family's property was divided equally among eight people, it would be enough for them to live the rest of their lives without worries about food and clothing.

It’s just…human nature can’t stand the test.

Especially for those illegitimate children who regard money as their own family, their humanity cannot stand the test.

Even compared to ordinary people, their moral bottom line and code of conduct are obviously lower.

First of all, the lack of family education is inevitable.

It doesn’t mean that children from broken families will definitely go down the path of crime, but the possibility of them growing up astray is indeed much higher than that of ordinary people.

Coupled with Japan's distorted educational environment, where school bullying is common, these "wild children" who don't even have a father are obviously at the bottom of the contempt chain, and being bullied is almost inevitable.

Unless one of these illegitimate children is really hardworking and can survive this devastating start and eventually become successful through study.

But the question is, if they are really capable enough and strong enough, then why would he come back to recognize his relatives and ask for the inheritance?

With this inference, the situation becomes very clear. The murderer killed people in order to satisfy his greed and fight for the inheritance.

This motive for murder is obviously more sufficient than what He Ye said before.

But if this is true, then it brings up a new problem.

"Assuming the murderer killed other heirs in order to fight for the inheritance, why did he kill Kudo Shinichi as well? Didn't he give up his inheritance rights and move back to Tokyo?"

When Conan heard the deceased's name that sounded the same as his own, his expression became a little unnatural and he subconsciously adjusted his collar.

This is human nature and understandable. No one wants to hear their name associated with the word death, even if the names are just pronounced the same.

Hattori Heiji, who was sitting opposite Conan, noticed this. He could understand, but that didn't mean he would let Conan go.

Not only did he mention it, he also repeated it many times, and mentioned the four words "Shinichi Kudo" in every sentence.

"It seems that it is because Kudo Shinichi knows the true identity of the murderer."

"he knows?"

"Yes. At least we have some guesses, so we wanted to ask Kazuha's father to investigate this matter. Speaking of which, when we were solving the case this morning, Kudo Shinichi also provided us with information about a death that has not yet been solved."

At this point, Hattori paused for a moment, making sure everyone's attention was on him, before continuing, "He had a pearl in his mouth. It seemed like he bit it off from his tie before he died."

Pearl? What kind of death message is this? Is it a hint that the murderer is a fat chubby guy?
Lu Ren thought about it for a moment and then put it out of his mind.

He is not Conan, who can extract key clues from those death messages that are comparable to performance art.

Even if we give the information about the riddle man to Xiaoyou to solve, this technological creation from Blue Star will still sigh after seeing the answer - you Earthlings are still too abstract.

Compared with the abstract death message, it is clearer to analyze from the perspective of behavioral trajectory.

——Kudo Shinichi died in Tokyo. If we just check which of the adopted sons of the Inufushi family has been to Tokyo in recent period, then he is the murderer.

First lock on the target, then look for the flaws he left behind. This is much easier.

As for the rest, they would have to wait until they got to the Inufushi family. This was all the information available at the moment, and even Hattori Heiji, the proposer, only had a vague understanding of the Inufushi family, so they couldn't figure it out no matter how much they studied.

Thinking of this, Lu Ren stood up and said, "It's getting late. You should go to bed early. I'll pick you up tomorrow morning. By the way, where is the Inufushi family? Osaka?"

Hattori shook his head, "No. It's in Gunma Prefecture. I have a detailed map in my bag."

“Gunma…”

Isn’t that the area under the jurisdiction of Shancuncao, the “human robber”?

No wonder both murders that were clearly suspicious were hastily ruled as accidents.

If it was Shancuncao, then it wouldn't be surprising at all.

The Kappa murder case happened in Gunma Prefecture not long ago, and the current demon dog murder case also happened there. Is there something wrong with the feng shui there, otherwise why would there be so many demons and monsters?
"Brother Ren, what's wrong? Is there any problem with that place?" Seeing Lu Ren suddenly silent, He Ye asked repeatedly.

"Nothing, I just remembered a murder case that happened there not long ago, the Kappa murder case. Xiaolan knows the details, so let her tell you, I'm leaving first."

After leaving the office and walking downstairs, Lu Ren took out his cell phone and called Amuro Toru.

He has to get the car back first.

In the previous operation against Akai Shuichi, in order to facilitate travel, Lu Ren directly threw the Lexus to them and did not ask for it back after the operation. Anyway, he had no shortage of means of transportation, and it would seem a bit petty to ask for it back specifically.

But now they are driving to Gunma, and his Porsche certainly can't accommodate so many people, so a seven-seater Lexus seems necessary.

The call was quickly connected, and Lu Ren got straight to the point: "Who has the Lexus car key? I need it tomorrow morning."

"It's at my place. I'll send it to you. But I'm still at work, so you'll have to wait a moment."

work?

Organization? Public Security? Or just a worker?
Lu Ren didn't intend to ask any more questions. "Okay, then send the stuff to my house after you get off work."

"OK. Oh, and thank you for the chocolate you gave me two days ago. It tastes pretty good."

"As a convenience, I gave one copy to each of my colleagues."

"Well, I'll hang up first. I'll contact you later."

After hanging up the phone, Amuro stared at his phone for a long time. The day after receiving the chocolate, he tried to find out about it indirectly. The fact is just as Glenfiddich said, he gave a spy chocolate to almost every colleague.

The only problem is that most of his colleagues received black spy chocolates, and it seems that only he and Kiel received white spy chocolates?

Is this a message? If so, what is it?
Was it intentional, or was it just "something that came to his mind" as he just said? Then why didn't he send them in previous years, but started to do so this year after he was transferred to this position?
All kinds of doubts kept coming up, but it was difficult to get answers for a while. They were tangled into a messy ball of thread in Amuro Toru's mind, but he was not a cat and had no interest in playing with the ball of thread.

"The time is not right yet." Amuro Toru secretly warned himself, forcing himself to focus back on his work.

……

The next morning, Lu Ren drove a group of people to the Inufushi family in Gunma Prefecture.

Tokyo and Gunma are not far apart, and it takes at most two or three hours to drive there except on holidays.

This time was no exception. However, after Lu Ren and his team arrived at the location marked on the map, they found that the actual situation was far more complicated than they had expected.

According to the local villagers, this is Quanfu City, and most of the locals use Quanfu as their surname. However, the Quanfu family that Lu Ren and his team are looking for is not here, and their mansion is still located in the deep mountains far away.

Although the enthusiastic villagers provided Lu Ren and his team with a rough location, it was still very difficult to find this mansion located deep in the mountains and forests.

When Lu Ren tentatively asked to lead the way, the originally enthusiastic villagers all changed their expressions and refused. Some villagers even advised Lu Ren and his friends not to go.

——That is a castle cursed by a vicious dog. If you break in just for fun, you will end up getting burned all over.

Having said that, Lu Ren naturally did not force it. They said goodbye to the enthusiastic villagers and drove slowly up the winding mountain road.

Inside the car, Mao Lilan couldn't help but ask, "Is there really a curse on the Inufushi family? Even the locals don't want to come to this mountain."

He Ye nodded repeatedly, and it was obvious that the two good sisters had the same idea.

"Those are all fake." Hattori replied carelessly. He never believed in such supernatural things. Rather than curses, he believed that there were villains behind the scenes.

Otherwise, how can we explain the death of Kudo Shinichi? We can't say that the demon dog of the Inufushi family has such magical powers that it can cross boundaries and kill people, right?

This is a road of several hundred kilometers, and it takes them several hours to drive here. If the demon dog really ran all the way to Tokyo, it would have caused big news long ago.

"Look, who said no one comes to this mountain? Isn't there one right in front of us?"

While a few people were chatting, the sharp-eyed Hattori suddenly noticed a motorcycle speeding up the mountain road not far ahead.

Lu Ren slightly increased his speed and began to drive side by side with the motorcycle. Hattori took this opportunity to roll down the window and asked loudly: "Hello, do you know how to get to Inufushi's house?"

Before he finished speaking, the motorcycle braked suddenly. When the motorcycle came to a steady stop on the roadside, the rider took off his helmet neatly, and a beautiful face was immediately reflected in the morning light.

She looked at the people in the car with a puzzled look on her face, "I am from the Inufushi family, who are you?"

After some communication, Inufushi Yukihime understood the purpose of their visit - to restart the investigation of the two previous cases.

It's just that their combination is a bit strange, the big one is big, the small one is small. If they didn't say they were here to investigate a case, Inufushi Yukihime would have thought they were here for sightseeing.

Thinking of this, Inufushi Yukihime smiled. Who would want to visit a cursed place? Especially when two people died here one after another?

"Let's go, I'll take you up. By the way, there is a cliff not far ahead, so be careful when you drive." Inubushi Yukihime instructed carefully.

"cliff?"

Lu Ren remembered that one of the adopted sons of the Inufu family fell off a cliff and died.

“Is that place…?”

"Yes. That's it. Brother Yingci fell from there." Perhaps because of the death of her family, Inubushi Yukihime was a little depressed. "If you want to go to the crime scene, I can take you there now."

"No hurry, let's go to your house first."

It was almost noon, so I had to have a meal at Inufu's house first. I couldn't work on an empty stomach.

"Okay, then follow me closely." Inubushi Yukihime nodded. She put on her helmet and rode her motorcycle up again.

Half an hour later, Lu Ren and his friends followed Inubushi Yukihime and officially arrived at the Inubushi family.

It was a typical Japanese courtyard, simple yet grand and elegant. Looking up, it looked like a towering castle, just as the villagers said.

Just as they were exclaiming in admiration, a yellow Akita dog with a collar around its neck suddenly jumped out. It pounced on Lu Ren, sniffed his scent, and wagged its fluffy tail rapidly.

"It's an Akita."

"Kawaii."

"Hachi..." Looking at Akita who was showing his affection to Lu Ren, Inufushi Yukihime was stunned for a moment. This was the first time she saw Hachi like someone so much.

"Mr. Lu Ren, Xiao Ba seems to like you very much."

"Yeah." Lu Ren rubbed the dog's head twice. As a man with a thousand precepts, he was not surprised at this situation. It would be strange if a small animal didn't come forward when seeing him.

After everyone gathered together to pet the dog for a while, Inubushi Yukihime opened the door and welcomed them in.

In the courtyard, a middle-aged woman put down the kettle she was using to water the flowers and looked at the group of people who suddenly poured in with a puzzled look on her face. "Xingji, who are these people?"

"Sister Kaozi, these are the detectives who are here to investigate the previous case."

"The previous case? Wasn't that closed?"

Without waiting for Mao Li to deny it, Hattori took over the conversation and admitted his identity as a detective, "Because there has been another murder case disguised as an accident recently, we are here to investigate."

"Murder case? Are you referring to the murder of Mr. Shinichi?"

Kouzi also recalled: "Speaking of which, before Shinichi left, he did say that someone wanted to use the cursed demon dog to make the Inufu family extinct. But this was just an alarmist rumor. There is no such thing as a curse. If such words were heard by my mother, she would be very sad."

"Mrs. Inubushi, is she home now? I thought she was receiving treatment in the hospital."

"She lives here too, but she's always comatose and can hardly talk."

When she got sick, they didn't take her to the hospital, but just let her lie at home. It seems that these "filial sons" really can't wait any longer.

"If it's convenient, can you let us meet the lady?"

The examiner nodded, "Please follow me."