Conan: I'm really not a model worker at a winery

Chapter 724 The Past - Lianzhu - 08 Five Stars
Year after year.

Before the coldest season of winter, here is still a world of ice and snow.

Three years have passed, and the restricted area has gradually been lifted.

It's just that the nearby business is still relatively backward compared to the outside... But at least it has improved compared to the beginning, and there are also many places for entertainment.

Like... a bar.

Two men in dark coats were sitting on the edge of the innermost bar, their dark eyes were constantly roving, as if they were looking for their prey.

The newly appointed bartender in the hotel was intimidated by the two of them, and when serving drinks, his movements were a little unsteady...

Fortunately, the two didn't bother with his faux pas.

Afterwards, the bartender returned to work at the bar.

The two gloomy men began to communicate in a low voice when there was no one around:
"Zhiping, will the informant you mentioned really come? It's not that I can't trust you, it's really unbelievable that people in this kind of place have news about that big man..."

"Trust me old man, I can't lie to you.

I was also surprised by the identity of the informant. It can be said that those who work in our business around here must rely on their information. "

"I hope so... You may not know that I have been tricked too many times before, and I am really afraid of being tricked."

The expressions of the two big men were gloomy, but the content of their speech was indeed becoming more and more simple, and they even poured out bitterness with the expression of wanting to kill someone.

Those who don’t know may think that they are discussing how to slice the human body...

"Ding, bell ~ ding..."

The bell on the door frame of the bar rang.

The sound was slightly different from the normal sound of pushing the door open. It was a bit like someone scraping the bell slowly with a board and then back again. The sound rang three times very clearly.

Hearing the ringing of the bell, the two men who sat on the table and complained sullenly froze for a moment, then turned their heads in a tacit understanding, and looked towards the door.

A child about seven or eight years old just came in, wearing loose and worn-out short-sleeves and trousers, holding a rag bag in his hand, and he didn't even wear shoes.

There are still some snowflakes on his body, and his silver hair is a little eye-catching.

The bright turquoise eyes reveal a maturity that does not belong to his age.

After entering the door, he only took a few glances, then locked his eyes on the table of the two men, and walked over there - and during this period, the new bartender saw a child coming in, and just about to go forward to chase him away, I was dragged away by my boss and said a few words, and then I could only pretend I didn't see it...

"Hi sir, may I ask... do you two need a newspaper?"

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Kurosawa stared at the two customers in front of him with burning eyes.

An old client, a new client...

Both of these men were bounty hunters who specialized in some kind of dirty work, and Jin Kurosawa liked dealing with them the most.

——Not for anything else, just because most of the bounty hunters respect the contract.

As long as a deal can be reached and interests are aligned, they are the best partners.

Although there are many bounty hunters with extremely low credibility who often do some inconsequential acts, Kurosawa feels that he is lucky... At least he has not encountered such an unreasonable hunter.

But this time, two of his clients were after a big guy.

...These two people were going to assassinate a well-known local chaebol leader. In order to obtain the information of that big man, Kurosawa Jin spent a lot of manpower, energy and material resources.

But just this round of intelligence transactions is enough to pay back the cost and exceed the resources they consumed by several times.

Therefore, Kurosawa is more vigilant now: he is afraid that these two people will escape the order.

"...Oh! Newspaper? Give me a copy." After a few seconds of stunned, the bounty hunter named 'Zhiping' came to his senses, with a smile on his gloomy face, he folded a folded envelope without a trace Handed it to him, "But I don't want these few days, I just want the newspaper on the night of December [-]rd last year."

"Ok, no problem."

Kurosawa grinned, put the envelope into the ragged bag calmly, then took out a slightly old newspaper and put it on the table.

Then, like an ordinary newspaper boy, he sold his newspaper to everyone at every table, and then left with brisk steps.

He, now has to find a place to nest up and count the money.

According to the touch just now, the reward given by the other party should be the same, but it still needs to be confirmed.

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The bar in the back of the bar.

Another man with a gloomy face didn't recover for a long time, until his 'Zhiping' friend let out a smirk while reading the newspaper.

"The informant you mentioned...is a child??"

"Hey! It's totally unexpected, isn't it?" Zhiping smiled smugly, "This is what I think is the cleverness of this organization...Who would have thought of using children in this kind of place to inquire about intelligence and pass on information?"

"Indeed... But such a small child, is it all right?"

"The child just now was handed over to me last time. Do you think he looks like an ordinary child? He must have been specially trained by them.

And children at this age are better controlled. "

"Makes sense..."

Friends seem to agree with this statement.

After the two worked together to unlock the code words in the newspaper and got the information they were thinking of, the friend made a decision, "Thank you Zhiping, without you, this bounty would have been in vain... By the way, that one Can you tell me the contact information of the organization?"

'Zhiping' nodded, "Of course, this organization calls itself 'Five Stars', as long as you see the logo of five five-pointed stars on the newsstand or store decoration where children gather, it is the temporary contact point of that organization.

If the clerk asks what you need, you can say 'I need an old newspaper'; the other party will continue to ask what kind of old newspaper you want, and you have to answer, 'I want an old newspaper that can find old people'. "

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Dilapidated residential area.

Originally, this was the core area of ​​the 'Forbidden Zone'.

But now with the lifting of the blockade, the population here has begun to become a little bit stronger.

And the most obvious change is:

The number of children here has increased significantly.

However, judging from their clothes, most of them came from other regions. Most of the children who were really born and raised in this place are still disheveled and outstanding.

In an inconspicuous corner.

Beside a snow-covered hut, a white-haired boy made a fire with a pile of sticks on the ground.

But he tried hard for a long time, but he didn't light the fire.

Beside him was a younger boy, probably only four or five years old in height, watching the white-haired boy's actions very intently, as if he wanted to record everything with his eyes...

Then I watched and watched, and my head started to light up one after another.

"A Lin, Ah Zhe, what are you doing?"

Kurosawa hurried back with a small broken bag, and was about to share the joy of making a lot of money, when he saw the two children he brought with him doing some confusing behavior outside.

　Continuing from the previous episode, the time is within ten years after the protagonist traveled to Conan.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)