Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 310 304. Cruel and ruthless
A group of people waited for him for about an hour, but not only did the Isshinkai core member who went to look for the travel agency employee not come back, even the core member who went to look for Kinoshita Goro did not come back.

"What's going on? Something happened?" Mikami Takeo didn't understand his subordinates, but Lin Ryoma was different.

Shikishima is just a small village, so it is very easy to find or capture someone.

There's no reason why you haven't come back for so long.

The only thing Lin Longma could think of at this moment was that the core members of the two teams who were capturing and searching for people might have encountered some accident.

But did something unexpected happen to both the travel agency employee and Goro Kinoshita?

Just when Hayashi Ryoma was considering whether to go back to Mikami Takeo's home with him first, the core members of the Isshin-kai sent by Hayashi Ryoma gathered together and came back.

Also brought back was a middle-aged man who was tied up. He looked to be about 50 years old, and although his hair was a little gray, he still met the World Health Organization's definition of middle-aged (45-59 years old).

What's going on? They went to two teams to capture two people, but when they came back together, they only brought back one? Isn't this right?

Hayashi Ryoma didn't recognize the tied-up middle-aged man, but Mikami Takeo did: "Kinoshita Goro?!"

Our village chief Mikami's expression was somewhat distorted at this moment. When he first saw Goro Kinoshita, his eyes were wide open and spitting fire.

But when he saw Goro Kinoshita's situation, he couldn't help but feel a little happy - Damn, you old guy plotted against me, you deserve it!
Mikami Takeo's expression, which seemed neither angry nor smiling, opened everyone's eyes.

Lin Longma subconsciously looked at Goro Kinoshita who was tied up.

"Well, what's going on? Mr. Kinoshita is the assistant to the village chief at the village office, how can he be so rude!

Hurry up and untie Mr. Kinoshita."

Although Lin Longma's words sounded like he was trying to make amends for his men, his tone was flat and even his expression didn't change.

There is no sincerity in this attempt to make up for it.

It's just a token of my appreciation. No one will take it seriously, right?
No one in the Yixin Society took it seriously, because he was their big brother. How could they not know what kind of personality Longma Big Brother had?

A key member stepped forward and said to Lin Longma, "Brother, I'm afraid it's not easy to let Mr. Kinoshita go."

"How to say?"

"When we found Mr. Kinoshita, he was setting up a murder scene. When we caught him, he even wanted to pull out a gun and shoot us.

Fortunately, the brothers were quick to act and held him down. Otherwise, we would have been the ones to be shot."

"So arrogant?" Lin Longma looked "surprised": "Mr. Kinoshita is really a man who never shows his true colors.

To be honest, there aren’t many murderers in Beika Town who are as decisive as you.”

What Lin Longma said was absolutely true. He knew all the murderers in Beika Town very well. They were all indecisive and stayed near the scene after the crime.

The detective had clearly deduced that he was the murderer, but they just kept insisting on their words and forced the detective to produce evidence.

What we mean is that which detective who can reason at a murder scene doesn't have some skills? How can he reason in front of so many people if he doesn't have any evidence?
Even if you have no experience with this kind of thing, you can still figure it out with a little analysis.

Instead of questioning the detective, you might as well run away. You might even succeed.

Anyway, the island country’s household registration management is extremely chaotic - as long as I can escape this time, I can just buy some identity and hide my identity for a while and then return to live in the big city.

What a simple thing.

This group of rice flower murderers can be regarded as highlighting the decisiveness of Kinoshita Goro. As expected, if you want to find a real ruthless person, you have to go to a rural place like Shikishima. The four backbones who brought Kinoshita Goro back, one is the main lecturer and the other three are responsible for supplementing.

Lin Longma finally figured out what had just happened.

The first two key members to leave asked Takeo Mikami's secretary about the whereabouts of the travel agency employee.

Then they followed the address and found that the employee was not in the room at all.

The two key members were not in a hurry because Takeo Mikami said that the travel agency employee often wandered around the village, seemingly looking for something.

The backbone members asked the surrounding villagers and looked for the travel agency staff along the way.

Near the grove on the edge of the village, someone said that they saw the employee going into the woods.

Another team of core members went to the village office, but heard that Goro Kinoshita only showed up at the village office today and then ran away.

The two backbone members also inquired and searched along the way, and finally met up with two other backbone members outside the grove.

The four of them entered the grove and at first they just walked along the tree-lined path, but after walking for a while, the path suddenly opened up.

This is a small piece of cleared land created by human intervention - the land that was supposed to be empty now has a corpse and Goro Kinoshita who is busy with the corpse.

The body had been shot in the head and it looked like it couldn't be deader.

When Goro Kinoshita discovered someone entering the woods, he immediately raised the pistol that he was about to put into the corpse's hand.

Unfortunately, Goro Kinoshita is only in his fifties and his skills are not as agile as those of young people.

The two backbones pounced and pinned Goro Kinoshita under them - his pistol was disarmed immediately. The weight of the two men plus two bulletproof vests with ceramic plates almost suffocated Goro Kinoshita.

In the end, Goro Kinoshita was forced to be tied up, and the four core members of the Isshin-kai ignored his "old age and frailty" and forced him to return to the lighthouse as soon as possible.

We were originally going to bring back two people, but now one is dead and the other is the murderer. So it's the same if we catch one.
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"Mr. Kinoshita, you're really ruthless," Lin Longma said in amazement. "But I'm a little curious. That man was obviously an employee of a travel agency. Why did you kill him for no reason?"

"Because he knows the whereabouts of the gold on the Dragon God." Goro Kinoshita simply gave up struggling.

He was caught red-handed while setting up a murder scene, and when he was arresting him, he felt the equipment on the core members of the Isshinkai.

Goro Kinoshita knew very well that the best outcome for him would be to fall into the hands of the police.

Just like Lin Longma said, the police follow rules when investigating cases, but the president of a big company like Lin Longma does not follow such rules.

Now that Lin Longma has questions, he naturally has to give a perfect answer and try not to suffer.

This is the "wisdom" of the old man.

"Are you in the same group? Is that your accomplice?"

"No, that person was the same as Hamada Koji, a crew member on the Ryujin seven years ago. We just reached a cooperation agreement."

"Wow," Lin Longma sighed, "I was right, you were really ruthless.

You just became a partner and you killed him right away. Does that mean you already know the whereabouts of the Dragon God's gold?"

"Of course, if you want to know I can tell you."

(End of this chapter)