I'm in Conan, I'm not a gangster

Chapter 406 Assassination at the Hotel (1st Update)
The torrential rain outside the window pounded against the glass, making a crackling sound.

Inside the hotel lobby, Shiraishi E and her group sat around the fireplace, chatting idly.

"Seriously? Is this place really that backward?" Sonoko irritably fiddled with her phone, saying speechlessly, "The signal is awful, it takes ten minutes to send a single message!"

Xiaolan leaned over to take a look: "Mine is the same, I can't even get through on the phone."

Heiji leaned back on the sofa, his hands behind his head: "That's just how it is on these remote islands. It'll be fine once the storm passes."

Just as everyone was chatting, the hotel owner came over.

"Everyone, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting." He came out of the inner room carrying a tea tray, his kind face full of smiles. "Have some tea to warm yourselves up, and there's also some freshly fried sea bream. Please enjoy."

The aroma of tea mixed with the fragrance of fish filled the room.

As the owner poured tea for everyone, he looked out the window and sighed, "Judging by this rain, it probably won't stop until the afternoon."

"It's not until the afternoon? We'll be waiting a while," Conan said absentmindedly.

"Thank goodness, a nap will make it to the afternoon." Shiraishi E said, picking up a cup of tea, but just as she was about to drink it, a serious crisis suddenly struck!
His lazy expression instantly turned serious.

At that moment, Kazuha felt his mouth was dry and reached for a teacup, just about to drink.

"Don't drink!" Shiraishi suddenly grabbed her wrist.

Everyone was startled by this sudden action.

Shiraishi E stared sharply at the innkeeper, her gaze gradually turning hostile: "The tea is poisoned."

Upon hearing this, everyone was instantly shocked, and their gazes instinctively fell on the hotel owner.

Conan and Heiji immediately picked up the tea and smelled it, but they didn't smell any almond flavor.

However, they did not doubt Shiraishi E's judgment.

Because not all poisons taste like almonds!
"Huh?" The hotel owner's smile froze instantly, and he stopped what he was doing.

He looked bewildered and said, "Guest, what are you talking about? This is just ordinary tea."

“Ordinary tea? Then drink it.” Shiraishi E sneered, grabbing the inn’s clothes with one hand and pulling the other person in front of her, saying, “Since it’s not poisoned, you drink it first.”

The boss's face turned deathly pale, and he struggled to back away: "No, no need. I suddenly remembered there's something cooking in the kitchen."

"Don't rush, finish your drink before you leave!" Seeing that the other party was so stubborn, Shiraishi E decided to take action directly.

He gripped the boss's chin with his left hand like an iron clamp, while his right hand shoved the teacup directly to his lips: "Drink it!"

"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" The boss struggled desperately, spilling tea all over himself.

To everyone's astonishment, Shiraishi E forced half a cup of tea into the boss's mouth.

"Cough cough... You... You're a madman!" The innkeeper collapsed to the ground, frantically trying to vomit up the tea.

His behavior convinced everyone else present that the tea was poisoned!
Otherwise, why would he be so terrified?
"It's not too late for you to speak now." Shiraishi E placed the teacup on the table and said calmly, "Before your stomach absorbs the poison, you still have a chance to save your life!"

Just as Conan was about to say something, he noticed that Shiraishi E glared at him, so he immediately stopped and remained silent.

Seeing that he still had a chance to live, the hotel owner blurted out everything: "It was...it was Vodka who told me to take care of you! He said you know too much and can't be allowed to leave alive!!"

After saying that, he quickly scrambled up from the tatami mat and pleaded, "I already told you, just kick me in the stomach and make me throw up!!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the hotel owner's face turned purplish-blue at a visible speed, and his eyes began to swell with blood.

"Help me!" he cried, clutching his throat, his pupils dilating, and his breathing becoming difficult.

He then collapsed to the ground, convulsing violently, and stretched out his trembling hand, looking at the crowd with despair.

Within ten seconds, his body convulsed violently a few times, then collapsed completely to the ground, motionless, with foamy blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Xiao Lan and the others watched this scene with horror on their faces, and the three girls almost instinctively huddled together.

"Dead or dead?" Sonoko's voice trembled as she gripped Ran's arm tightly.

Kazuha covered her mouth and took a few steps back, her stomach churning.

Heiji and Conan quickly went forward to check and confirmed that the boss had indeed died.

The two shook their heads, indicating that there was no hope.

"Huh? How could he die so quickly?" Shiraishi E said, feigning surprise. "I was just about to help him spit out the tea!"

Conan looked up at Shiraishi E with a complicated expression and said, "The absorption and fatal timing of highly toxic substances and tea are completely different from the normal digestion process."

"They often enter the venous system directly through the sublingual mucosa, bypassing the digestive tract." "Once poison is ingested, death will likely occur within one or two minutes."

"I see!" Shiraishi E looked enlightened, then shook his head and sighed, "It seems I haven't read enough books... otherwise this wouldn't have happened."

Conan and Heiji didn't really believe what Shiraishi E said.

You can even tell if there's poison in your tea, and you're telling us you didn't know that?
Who are you trying to fool? You might as well be fooling those three girls!
What the two didn't know was that Shiraishi E was just trying to fool those three girls.

He knew he couldn't fool Conan and Heiji, detectives with a vast amount of knowledge that far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Shiraishi E kicked the boss's corpse and sneered, "However, he only has himself to blame... He even thought of poisoning us?"

He was reminding Conan and Heiji—don't forget, I saved your lives!! And the lives of three other people were saved in the same way!
Conan and Heiji certainly knew this.

Although they disagreed with Shiraishi E's actions, they did not criticize her.

Especially after experiencing the harsh realities of society, these two are no longer the idealists they once were.

"Damn it! Why are they doing this? Didn't they say that if I joined them, this matter would end there?" Heiji angrily slammed his fist on the tatami mat.

Conan pushed up his glasses and looked out at the storm.

Always quick-witted, he soon guessed the reason: "It seems that this storm has changed their minds."

"..." Heiji wasn't stupid either. He turned to look out the window and understood why the other person had changed their mind.

He blamed his own death on the storm, so what could his father do about it?

"Damn it! I'll make preparations now!" Heiji said angrily. "I will never let their plot succeed!"

As he spoke, he was about to take out his phone to record a video and save the evidence.

However, Shiraishi grabbed his hand and said irritably, "What you're doing will only provoke them. What if, to keep it a secret, they kill everyone on the island and blame it on the tsunami?"

This sudden turn of events instantly extinguished Heiji's anger with a chilling aura. He shivered involuntarily and said, "They...they...dare to do this?"

"They've already done human experiments, what else wouldn't they dare to do?" Shiraishi asked rhetorically before releasing her grip.

This made Heiji feel so small and powerless for a moment. His detective identity, which he used to be so proud of, was now completely useless.

Conan, barely containing his anxiety, asked, "Brother Shiraishi, what should we do now?"

"Don't worry, someone will come looking for us," Shiraishi E said, then went over to comfort the three girls who were trembling with fear.

"At this point, who would come looking for us?" Heiji said, somewhat irritated.

Conan didn't say anything, but just kept staring at Shiraishi E, carefully pondering the meaning behind her words.

Finally, his gaze settled on Sonoko, and then he remembered what had happened on the Suzuki luxury cruise ship.

In an instant, a flash of light streaked across the sky of inspiration!
He understood!
When the Suzuki cruise ship was involved in such a horrific incident last time, it was completely suppressed, and the Suzuki Group, as the victim, did not speak out.

It is quite clear that the Suzuki Group has most likely reached some kind of cooperation with the Black Organization.

The Black Organization won't let Sonoko die here!!

As for the hotel owner... he probably didn't poison the teapot, but rather hid the poison under his fingernail, so as not to accidentally harm Sonoko.

After thinking about this, Conan went to check the hotel owner's fingernails again.

Sure enough, they found the poison hidden under the other person's fingernails.

Just as he expected.

However, Conan was not happy at all.

The Black Organization is after Heiji. As long as Heiji and Kazuha are abandoned, the others can ensure their safety through Sonoko's connections.

But he can't do that!

Just as Conan was frowning and thinking of a solution, the sound of the hotel door opening rang out.

Immediately following was the sound of hurried footsteps approaching.

coming!

Conan's heart sank. He hadn't come up with a solution yet and didn't know what to do for a moment.

(End of this chapter)