Conan Rick's Investigator

Gin: Rage +1

Gin suppressed his anger. If he hadn't considered that the other party might be the person the boss was talking about, he might have pulled out his gun.

beep—

Suddenly, the other car honked its horn for no apparent reason, as if it was afraid that others didn't know something was happening.

Gin: Rage +1

A loud horn blared across Laiye Mountain, and then the high beams were turned off.

At this time, 10 seconds had passed since Gin and Vodka's faces were exposed.

Being late, driving at a snail's pace, using high beams, blindly honking the horn...all kinds of unpleasant buffs are piled up.

Gin: Rage +1, +1, +1, +1...

Chapter 915 The case 17 years ago

Gin and Vodka did not get out of the car immediately, but sat in the car and observed the situation carefully.

The car opposite turned off its high beams and then, after a few seconds, shut off the engine.

Beep, beep.

There were two more short honks, and the other party seemed to be urging us to get off the car first.

Gin gritted his teeth slightly, and the skin on his temples twitched. Being a rebellious person by nature, one of the things he hated most was people honking their horns at him.

Another thing is that someone pointed a gun at his head.

However, considering that the other party might be someone sent by the boss, he suppressed his anger and pushed open the car door.

Vodka also pushed the door and got out of the car, while Michael stayed in the car.

At the seventh bend of Raihayama, two cars, one black and one white, were parked on the side of the road, facing each other strangely.

To show their sincerity, Gin and Vodka got out of the car first. The cool breeze blew their clothes. Gin's waist-length blonde hair and Vodka's dark hair and sunglasses made them look like performance art.

The two men stood on either side of the front of the Porsche, waiting for someone to get out of the other car.

A few seconds later, the other car's door opened with a "click".

A somewhat bloated man got out of the car. He was wearing a dark brown windbreaker and a dark brown cowboy hat on his head.

As for the face under the brim of the hat, although it was covered by a black mask, just by looking at the exposed part, one could guess that there was an unprepossessing middle-aged man underneath.

His hands hung naturally at both sides of his body, with his palms not even touching his trouser line. He looked a bit silly overall, like a fat penguin with limited mobility.

Seeing that this man was actually the one the boss said rescued Vermouth from the FBI, Gin and Vodka frowned slightly, feeling a little unbelievable.

This figure is different from Vodka's burly figure. Although it is not fat, it is definitely a sign of lack of exercise.

And his driving skills are also terrible.

The only thing worth mentioning is his height, which is comparable to Gin's.

"Big brother..."

Vodka glanced at Gin. He was a little bit unconvinced that the person in front of him was the one that the higher-ups suddenly arranged for him to meet in the middle of the night.

This guy doesn't look that awesome, and it's impossible for him to do something as awesome as communicating with the FBI alone.

Faced with his younger brother's doubts, Gin had the same doubts in his heart.

If this person was not the contact person, he would not hesitate to pull out the pistol from his pocket and shoot this person in the head.

Anyway, this is the wilderness. If I kill someone and leave, no one will be able to track me down.

"Where is that woman?"

Gin asked first, his cold voice breaking the silence.

The middle-aged man opposite paused for a moment and suddenly reached into his pocket.

This sensitive action caused Gin and Vodka to react with stress, and they quickly reached out for their guns and pointed them at the other party.

But when the other party took out the thing, it was just a black notebook the size of a palm.

The middle-aged man wrote a few words on the notepad and showed it to Gin and Vodka.

Taking advantage of the faint moonlight, Gin and Vodka squinted their eyes and saw the crooked words on it.

[People in the trunk]

Seeing this, Gin turned around and gestured to Vodka.

Vodka quickly put away the gun and ran to the trunk behind the white car. When he opened it, he saw a woman curled up inside. Her delicate face was easy to recognize.

"Brother! It's Vermouth!"

When Gin heard this, he put away his gun and went to the trunk to check. After confirming that it was Vermouth, he opened his big hands and carried the person out.

Vodka looked at Gin who picked up Vermouth himself, swallowed his saliva, and followed behind.

Gin opened the rear door of the Porsche 356A, stuffed Vermouth in, and sat in the front passenger seat himself.

"Vodka, drive quickly."

Vodka was very obedient. He started the car, reversed and turned smoothly, and fled the scene at the speed of light.

By the time the middle-aged man finished writing "Where's that thing?" on his notepad and displayed it, the Porsche 356A had already driven away.

Looking at the bare road surface, the naive middle-aged man was disheveled in the wind.

……

In the Porsche 356A, Qin Zhibo looked at Vermouth who was still unconscious beside him and felt extremely angry.

Gin, the eldest grandson, didn't mention anything about the "fragments" at all!

He just took Vermouth and ran away, showing that he didn't take Minase Harumi seriously at all!

The middle-aged man who traded with Gin was none other than Minase Harumu, who was driving the "Qin Jibo". With some small decorations, he became that silly guy.

But I didn't expect that Gin actually treated him as a fool.

But from the conversation between Gin and Vodka in the car before, Qin Zhibo had some guess that the boss might not have told them about the "Panester Fragments".

The boss's original words should have been just to ask Gin to go to the agreed place and bring Vermouth back.

As for the method used, whether it is a normal transaction or robbery, it is up to you.

So when Gin answered Vodka's question about whether he wanted to kill him, Gin replied, "It depends."

The so-called "it depends on the situation" means whether the other party cooperates.

I have to say that the boss's calculation was indeed very good. No wonder he agreed so decisively at the beginning. It turned out that this was a business that was sure to lose money for him.

A thief!

Fortunately, Qin Zhibo did not completely expect the boss of an evil organization to abide by the agreement. His original plan was to use Michael's identity to make a deal with Vermouth.

"Brother, where are we going now?"

"Send this woman to see 'that master'."

As he said this, Gin glanced at Michael, the boss's confidant, who was sitting in the back seat.

Seeing that Michael didn't express his willingness to go with him, he didn't take him with him.

After all, it is quite stupid to expose the Jinyiwei around him in front of the emperor.

When the Porsche 356A drove into the city, Gin asked Vodka to find a roadside and dropped Qin Zhibo off.

But before getting off the car, Qin Zhibo had already attached a [famous detective's eavesdropping device] to Vermouth's body.

……

After a busy day, Qin Zhibo was exhausted when he returned to the detective agency. He quickly took a shower and prepared to go to bed.

At this time, Minase Harumu was driving Matsumoto Ryohei's car and slowly drove back home.

Since it is a tulpa formed by the knowledge of many believers, Minase Harumu can drive, but he has never actually operated it, which is why he seems not so skilled.

"That long-haired man was so malicious! He almost scared me to death!"

Yang Meng complained about Gin to Qin Zhibo, but she didn't know that Gin really wanted to kill her at that time.

But even if she was killed, there was no such thing as death for a ghost, and "Qin Jibo" was a bait puppet, born to die.

"No! Uncle! You must compensate me!"

"You are a ghost, why are you afraid of a human?"

"I don't care, I want compensation!"

The girl's ghost kept spinning in the air, similar to a human child throwing a tantrum.

Qin Zhibo comforted her with a few words and increased her free time to two and a half hours a day, which made up for Shuise Yangmeng's emotional trauma.

Only after dealing with these things could Qin Zhibo sleep peacefully.

……

It was not until noon that Qin Zhibo woke up from his warm big bed.

The first thing I did when I woke up was to listen to what was happening from Vermouth's side.

However, there was silence.

Listening carefully, there seems to be a low hum of an engine, which should be someone riding in a car.

In order to keep track of when Vermouth would meet the boss, Qin Zhibo forced himself to wake up several times while sleeping to listen to the noises over there.

But several times it was the sound of cars.

Qin Zhibo came downstairs, fed Jerry some melon seeds, then took out rice balls from the refrigerator, sat at his desk and turned on the computer.

Yesterday, although he played the role of "Akai Mumu" and deceived Akai Shuichi, there was one thing that made Qin Zhibo a little concerned.

Last night, Akai Shuichi said, "Is this related to the case you left home to investigate 17 years ago?"

Qin Zhibo only knew that Akai Wuwu disappeared a long time ago, but he didn't know the specific time and reason.

This time, thanks to Shuichi Akai's unintentional revelation, I finally got some clues.

17 years ago, investigating the case.

These two points reveal two pieces of information respectively.

The first thing is to investigate the case. If Akai Tsutomu can investigate the case, it means that this person’s job should also be related to detective work.

There are two possibilities: official detectives and unofficial detectives.

In addition, Qin Zhibo felt somewhat familiar with this time point 17 years ago, as if he had heard it somewhere.

Qin Zhibo opened the browser's search history and browsed and searched through it one by one.

Until this piece of information caught my eye - the biography of Amanda Hughes.

Qin Zhibo had once investigated this person's information. She had appeared in Mr. Mamiya's Antarctic expedition notes and was the main sponsor of the Miskatonic University Antarctic expedition in 1931.

After the Antarctic expedition ended, the Amanda Foundation she founded took away the important biological samples of the expedition, namely the dead ancients.

Since one of Qin Zhibo's main tasks is to see the Ancient One in person, he must first find Amanda Hughes.

However, Amanda was murdered 17 years ago at the age of 83.

This clue had originally been cut off there, but not long ago, Qin Zhibo learned another important clue in a conversation with Randy Hawke of the Randy Hawke Circus.

Amanda Hughes is an American capitalist on the surface, but secretly she is the daughter of one of the nine founders of Nine Angels.

Is the Amanda Hughes case 17 years ago the case that Akai Tsutomu wants to investigate?

Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of another key name, "Hanoida Hiroshi".

Hiroshi Haneda was a Japanese shogi player who died at the same time as Amanda Hughes, but Qin Zhibo had not paid much attention to this person before.

But if we think of Akai Tsutomu, we have to think of another person in the photo of the three people in Hawaii, Yasuharu Haneda.

Haneda Hiroshi and Haneda Yasuharu share the same last name, and this special moment 17 years ago...

It seems a bit coincidental.