Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

Speaking of this, Belmode also reacted: "The clothes that the hammer-headed man is wearing are the one-piece windbreakers that you and Gin often wear, with a hood."

"Yes. The police also have this information, but they have not made it public. So the general characteristics of the murderer are that he is a man who comes out late at night, wearing a one-piece windbreaker, a hood and a baseball cap and walking with his head down. "

Lu Ren paused for a moment and continued, "And he would put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker. Just like Gin often does. Gin is used to putting pistols, mobile phones, and cigarettes in his left pocket. This will cause the hems on both sides of his windbreaker to have different weights."

"If he didn't put his hands in his pockets and actively control it, then if he walked a little longer, the swing range of the two sides of the windbreaker would be significantly different, thus attracting others' attention. The murderer put it in his pocket, but it was longer than the pistol A heavier hammer.”

"The Hammerhead Man has committed many crimes in a short period of time, and has become a strange story in Tokyo. He is very famous. At this juncture, if a person dressed in similar clothes suddenly appears on the street, will others be alert?"

"Tokyo is so prosperous, even late at night, the major izakayas and custom shops are still full. Therefore, the risk of the murderer being discovered is still high. The murderer himself knows this."

"He cannot take any public transportation, nor can he take a taxi, because he will be recognized by others. If the murderer is really a person from other parts of the Tokyo metropolitan area who went to Yoneka Town to commit crimes, then his only option is to drive here by himself. After committing the crime, drive away."

"From here, the police can have two directions of investigation. First, the murderer is from Yoneka Town and neighboring areas, such as Aipado Town. He walked over on foot to commit the crime. Second, the murderer drove to Yoneka Town and committed the crime. Then drive away.”

"Let's talk about the second possibility first. The time and place where the murderer committed the crime are both certain. The location was Mihua Town, and the time was late at night. There were definitely not as many vehicles during that time period as there were during the day."

"There are only a few main roads in and out of Miwa Town. The police only need to call up the surveillance of these places. See if the same car went back and forth to Miwa Town three times during the time when the murderer committed the crime."

"After three consecutive screenings, even if the target vehicle still cannot be directly identified, the scope of suspect vehicles will definitely be greatly reduced. They can just investigate one by one."

"It can only be said that the workload is a bit larger, but if it is actually implemented, is it difficult?"

"It's not difficult..."

"I don't know if the police have thought of this direction of investigation. Since Bourbon said that the Metropolitan Police Department is not all rubbish, I will assume that they thought of this and took action, but in the end they found nothing."

"In this case, excluding the second possibility, doesn't it still indicate that the murderer is a resident of Mika Town or Aido Town? Does the total population of these two towns add up to 100,000 people?"

"In a week, we will focus on setting up ambushes and investigations in two places in Mikka Town and Cupido Town. Although it is still difficult to catch the murderer, it is not completely impossible as you said, right?"

"Um……"

"Belmore said just now that none of the victims in these three cases died. She believed that the murderer held back. But in fact, there is another possibility, that is, the murderer was not strong enough to support the murder."

"If he is really worried about being arrested, then he should not contact the police three times in a short period of time. This is undoubtedly an extreme provocation to the police. He can completely reduce the frequency to once a week, once every half month, or once a month."

"So rather than the murderer deliberately holding back his hand, I am more inclined to believe that the murderer himself is weak."

Tohru Amuro asked: "Didn't you say that the murderer is 1.8 meters tall? This height doesn't seem like he doesn't have enough strength, right?"

"Urban ghost stories are always spread by rumors. If the police can't catch him, the next version of him will probably be two meters tall."

"The lack of strength may be because the murderer is thin and weak, or the murderer is a minor."

"If it's the former, then the murderer probably suddenly found out that he was suffering from a terminal illness, such as cancer. Knowing that there was no cure and his time was running out, he chose to take revenge on society."

"So he started wandering around late at night, specifically picking out long-haired women who were alone. This characteristic of long-haired women was probably because his ex-girlfriend had long hair. That person chose to leave after learning that he was terminally ill. He even took away all his property before leaving."

"But if it was really that bad, even if he wasn't strong enough, he couldn't kill the victim with one blow. He would probably choose to hit the victim afterwards. So I still prefer that the murderer is a minor. The motive for the crime may be that he was bullied by a long-haired woman at school. , and then vented this resentment on others."

"And he should still be living alone, otherwise his parents who live together will definitely find something unusual. For middle and high school students who live alone, are thin, and are taciturn in school, the scope of the search can be narrowed a lot."

"Not necessarily." Belmore looked out the window. "The murderer may also be a woman. Gender limits her power."

"female?"

"Well, although the murderer is called Hammerhead Man, the true gender of the murderer was not revealed in the report. Compared to Glen, the murderer you mentioned was because his girlfriend left the society to seek revenge. But it is also possible that the boyfriend dumped the murderer, his ex-girlfriend. I chose my current girlfriend with long hair instead.”

Belmore remembered something, and his smile was very intriguing, "As a woman, I know best what a jealous woman can do."

"Um……"

ps1: Yoneka Town is fictional. There are a total of five towns in Tokyo, Japan, three of which have a population of more than . The most populous town is Mizuho, ​​with a population of . The population of Yoneka Town here is based on it.

ps2: All the towns that appear in this chapter are fictitious by Qi San.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 492: Easy to Understand

Top-notch target marksmanship. (He once used a pistol to accurately detonate cars and bombs in a very short period of time.)

He has strong fighting ability and excellent physical fitness. (One person provoked the Tokyo branch where Gin was not present, and after massacring nearly a hundred people, he still had the energy to fight Gin who came over, and he did not lose at all in a short period of time.)

Cruel, cruel and murderous. (accepted)

His writing style is world-class, but his intentions are evil. He enjoys manipulating public opinion and fooling the masses. (accepted)

Excellent reasoning ability and strong sense of tracking and anti-tracking. (It is speculated that it should be related to the target’s rich criminal experience.)

Suspected to have strong intelligence gathering capabilities. (Doubtful, further investigation is needed.)

Arrogant, extremely egotistical, and likes to control everything. (Rejected his request to drive and didn’t ask for their opinion when ordering.)

Strong appetite and excellent appetite. (The side reflects his extremely strong personal desires.)

There is some unknown dangerous property. (Kiel calls it a monster, and Belmore is also very afraid of it.)

Target Personal Competency Rating: 9 out of 10

Target threat rating: 9.5 out of 10

Comprehensive risk index assessment: S level (tentative).

Toru Amuro put down his pen and looked at the information he had just written. After studying for a while, he took out a lighter and burned the information to ashes.

The information currently obtained is still too little and further observation and research is needed.

Half a month later, Toru Amuro set a final time limit for himself.

Within half a month, if no evidence of Shuichi Akai's survival could be found, the plan must be temporarily shelved and the focus of the investigation shifted to Glenfiddich.

……

The next day, Belmode found the apartment he rented.

Lu Ren sat back on the sofa and flipped through the fashion magazines on the coffee table.

Not far in front of him, Toru Amuro was leaning on his chair. Belmore stood next to him and leaned over to do his makeup.

Toru Amuro's plan was to pretend to be Shuichi Akai, and it had to be something that even the FBI, who was familiar with Shuichi Akai, couldn't see the flaw in.

To achieve this, it is actually a bit out of the scope of makeup. It is more appropriate to call it disguise.

At this time, Belmore had a bunch of bottles and cans at hand, and from time to time he would pick up one or more kinds and apply them on his face.

Lu Ren had also considered learning this kind of disguise before. But then he thought about it, he didn't even know how to put on makeup, so he just started to learn a higher level of disguise.

I'm afraid it's a little too ambitious.

And even if he was determined to learn, why would Belmode teach him?

If remuneration is required, what kind of remuneration would satisfy Belmore?

After much thought, I finally gave up.

If you really want to change your face, you might as well call Koizumi Anko and ask her to give you a magic buff to change the perception of people around you.

It's easy and effortless.

Instead of being as time-consuming and labor-intensive as it is now. It's laborious to make and uncomfortable to wear.

This kind of "human skin mask" is particularly enjoyable every time Belmore takes it off.

It’s really time-consuming to do.

Lu Ren has been here for an hour, and their head replacement project is less than halfway through. It will take at least three hours to completely complete it.

And the actual experience of using this thing is not much better.

Masks have a shelf life, which does not mean that once you make one, you can use it forever.

Since there is basically no breathability, if the user is prone to sweating, it will easily hurt the facial skin if worn for a long time. It's almost like wearing plaster for a long time.

For a woman like Belmode who cares very much about her skin quality, if she were to wear it herself, she would only wear it on her face for a day at most.

You put it on in the morning and you have to take it off at night before going to bed.

If you want to use it tomorrow, make a new one.

Toru Amuro didn't care about this, but even so, he had to come over and change a new mask every three days.

Because previous masks would deform and lose shape during use.

From this point of view, the personal relationship between the two is indeed good.

If it were just an ordinary colleague, who would be willing to squeeze in their own rest time to help out?

Once every three days, three hours at a time.

If Shuichi Akai couldn't be found within a month, Bellmore would have to make ten masks for him, which would take a total of more than thirty hours.

Especially one month may not be enough.

If it were him, Lu Ren consciously couldn't do this.

Don't say it ten times, he felt bored this time today and felt that his time was wasting his time pointlessly.

After helping this time, Lu Ren does not plan to continue to get involved in the future.

He had indeed underestimated these two before, especially Belmode.

Lu Ren always thought that these two were the ultimate fishermen in the winery, the kind who spent all their time eating and drinking on public funds but not doing anything practical.

I never thought that they would secretly devote their time and energy to do what the organization ordered.

Compared with these two, he is the one who really fishes.

He never works. Even if there is a large-scale operation, such as the red-black showdown some time ago, it is just a matter of words.

Thinking of this, the guilty Lu Ren couldn't help but adjust his sitting posture and cross his legs.

Guilt?

nonexistent.

How can any worker feel sorry for his boss? I'm afraid I'm not crazy.

"Akai Shuichi ended up lying in the car that exploded and caught fire that day. So if he was still alive by chance, it would be more appropriate to have a few burn scars on his face."

After more than an hour, Belmore finished the rough outline of the mask and began to add more details.

She added while explaining to Toru Amuro. It's like a painter presenting his creative ideas to the audience.

"Ah."

Since the glue used to make the mask has not been completely set, Toru Amuro cannot move his mouth now and can only grunt in response.

As for Lu Ren, he would not interrupt rashly. He knows nothing about makeup, and casual opinions in areas he is unfamiliar with will only lead to disgust and contempt.

Since Belmore is a professional, let her make the final decision.

It's not his business anyway, and the mask is not on his face.

Even if Bellmore had to paint the disfigured Akai Shuichi into an ugly monster in the end, he would only have one line and the painting would be good.

"Since there are burns on his face, his hair will definitely not be spared. Many places will be burned and bald. But..." Belmore had to use his free hand to stroke Amuro Toru's hair.

"Your hair is of such good quality, it would be a pity to shave it off. So I'd better use a bald headband instead. However, if you look closely at this kind of headgear, you can easily detect something wrong, so you have to wear a hat when you go out. .”

"Ah."

"Not to mention cosmetic contact lenses. You can choose dark green contact lenses and wear them every day recently. Also, your skin color is dark, so you usually have to wear high-collar clothes to cover your neck. Your hands are also It’s best to keep it in your pocket and never take it out.”

"Ah."

An hour later, a scalded and disfigured version of Shuichi Akai appeared.

He first walked to the mirror and looked at himself, then walked in front of Lu Ren and Belmode and asked in a deep voice, "How is it?"

"The voice doesn't sound right. It's best not to talk normally." Lu Ren put down the magazine and commented casually.

"Ah."

"There's nothing else, just pack up and let's go." Lu Ren put the fashion magazine he was holding on the coffee table again.

Toru Amuro's plan is actually very simple, that is, to use the organization's intelligence gathering capabilities to find areas where the FBI often operates, and then pretend to inadvertently create encounters to observe the FBI's reaction.

As for the "white mice" to be used in this observation experiment, they had been finalized and selected long ago.

FBI investigator, Judy Stelling. Her status in the FBI is not low, and she is also Shuichi Akai’s ex-girlfriend.

If Shuichi Akai is really not dead, then the FBI who is most likely to know the truth is undoubtedly her.