Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 96 The real goal is...

"——Can't do this."

At night, in the Metropolitan Police Department and the office of the task force, many policemen focused their attention on the two men in the front.

They were standing in front of the desk where Police Inspector Uno Tadayoshi stood, confronting each other.

Matsuda Jinpei looked at Shirojito, one of his contemporaries in the police academy, with indifference for several months.

The black suit he was wearing looked rumpled. The members of the task force all lived in the Metropolitan Police Department these days. When they were tired, they put a few chairs together as beds to rest. Everyone was in a mess.

Bai Jiu, the only one who looked better, was holding his mobile phone. On it was an email his girlfriend sent him ten minutes ago——

[Jiyuejun, I can help you. I volunteer to act as a bait for the police to lure out the red-haired murderer...]

Baijiu was stunned when he saw the email and realized that this was a good method.

He praised his girlfriend, and then immediately approached the person in charge, Uno Tadayoshi, police officer, and proposed the bait plan.

As a result, Matsuda, who happened to be reporting nearby, heard him and opened his mouth to stop him.

Baijiu asked angrily: "The reason?"

...Does Matsuda want to take the credit?After all, Qina is his girlfriend, and if she succeeds, she will get the credit!
Matsuda Jinpei stared at Baijiu closely, with no smile on his usually wanton face.

Normally, even when encountering the most troublesome bomb, he never put on such a serious expression.

"Your girlfriend is just an ordinary citizen. She has no training and no ability to protect herself. Let her be used as bait and let her die."

"If you really want to find a bait, it should be the police responsible for the case. Ordinary people should not be involved!"

Matsuda Jinpei's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. He was angry.

Baijiu almost rolled his eyes when he heard these high-sounding remarks.But there were so many people around that it was embarrassing to do so. He always cherished his image and tried his best to restrain himself.

But he was still more disgusted with Matsuda, with a hint of contempt in his tone: "We have tried everything you said, does it work?"

The identities of the victims in this serial murder case are very troublesome, including international students, gangster illegitimate children, diplomats, and call girls who have received many officials.The pressure is mounting on them.

In order to solve the case, they did consider finding bait, and the police would wear red wigs or dye their hair and go to different bars - except for the first one, all the other deceased people had been there before their death.

Miwako Sato from the Criminal Division and several female police officers from the Traffic Division heard about the plan and offered to help, saying that prisoners might be more relaxed about women.

But all failed, the prisoner was cunning and observant.He seems to be able to tell whether the red hair is real or fake. He only targets people with natural red hair due to foreign ancestry.

Matsuda Jinpei stopped talking.

Baijiu noticed that Matsuda clenched his teeth, but did not say anything to refute.This made him feel like he had won, and he felt happy for several seconds.

There was silence in the entire office. Inspector Tadayoshi Uno was pressing his head and frowning, and the voices of other people around him entered Baijiu's mind.

[Hurry up and agree, what is Matsuda doing? Does he still want to live like this... He wants to continue, I've had enough...]

[Is it finally over? 】

[It’s too much to let your girlfriend do this kind of thing...]

Baijiu heard that most people supported him.

——It’s just that they all supported it from their hearts, and no one really stood up and said a word.

He was a little dissatisfied, which he probably understood.After all, if the police let ordinary people be used as bait, if it were revealed, it would cause controversy among the people and attacks from the media.

"...You can't do this."

Matsuda Jinpei spoke again, insisting and repeating what he said before.

"The police should not let ordinary people take risks."

Baijiu sneered: "I said, what does this have to do with anything? My girlfriend naturally listens to me, what does it have to do with you what she wants to do?"

This anxious look is so ugly. What does Yuan Xiang like about him?Face?
"The relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend is not the reason why you can let her die!"

Matsuda Jinpei, who had always been calm before, or who had to remain calm at all times as a bomb disposal policeman, finally became completely angry. He stepped forward and grabbed Shirojiu by the collar.

Baijiu was stunned, and the next second he was furious. He tried to break free, but failed.He saw Matsuda Jinpei's eyes staring at him behind his sunglasses.

"Matsuda!!"

Inspector Tadayoshi Uno quickly got up and stopped Matsuda Jinpei.

Matsuda Jinpei was still glaring at Shirojiu.

But he had calmed down. He let go of his hand, stood a few steps away, and said coldly: "Even as a couple, you are not qualified. No one can decide to send another innocent person to die." "She won't die. She is actually safe. All she needs to do is catch the criminal before he takes action."

Baijiu straightened his collar. His behavior of grabbing his clothes and embarrassing him on the spot made him almost explode with hatred. He gave Matsuda a sinister side glance.

"What, Matsuda, do you think the people here are useless? There are so many people, and they can't protect her? - Then I am different from you. I believe in the abilities of all my colleagues here."

He deliberately labeled him, hoping that everyone would support him and stand on the opposite side of Matsuda.

Matsuda Jinpei was not offended by these words.Maybe he could do it when he was in the police academy, but he doesn't know how to do it now.

The atmosphere was completely deadlocked until a criminal police officer broke in.

"Uno police officer!"

He reported to the top person in charge here, "I just received a report that another red-haired victim was found near Ginza Station in Chuo Ward!"

"The identity of the deceased has been found out. Many people have seen him on TV... The youngest son of the current president of the Bank of Japan, a mixed-race boy of European descent, only entered middle school this year..."

Matsuda frowned when he heard the age of the deceased.

Baijiu was secretly happy, and he almost laughed out loud.

Look, God is helping him!Another heavyweight died. Now, no matter how reluctant Matsuda was, he had to accept his plan honestly.

At the same time, if the plan is successful, the greater your contribution will be!
Sure enough, under Baijiu's expectation, Uno Tadayoshi looked at him with vigilance.

"Matsuda, you and others go to the scene, and you will be responsible for the on-site search. Baijiu, please...please contact your girlfriend and tell the police that they need her help."

Matsuda Jinpei didn't move.

He looked at Shirojiu and then at Uno Tadayoshi, police officer: "...where are you going to carry out the bait plan?"

"Didn't you find out?"

Baijiu was in such a good mood, the depression caused by Matsuda's obstruction was gone, and there was a trace of uncontrollable pride in his voice.

"The first four cases were in Shibuya Ward, Shinjuku Ward, Bunkyo Ward and Chiyoda Ward, and now the fifth case is in Chuo Ward - all in the central area of ​​Tokyo, and in a clockwise direction."

"Then it's easy to guess where the sixth case will occur. It's -"

"Dock area."

Matsuda Jinpei interrupted him and said the name of the place.

If you want to send bait, the most suitable place is in the port area where the next case is most likely to occur.

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port area.

The night wind blew on Toru Amuro, who had just walked out of the bar, and he felt an inexplicable chill crawling up his spine, making his whole body tremble.

He looked around and saw no suspicious people for the time being, so he took out his cell phone that kept vibrating.

[Catch the woman related to Goldwasser as soon as possible!high speed! ——Rum]

The word grumpy came into view.Toru Amuro can completely imagine the mood of the impatient boss who sent this urging email.

Tohru Amuro has been looking for the red-haired mistress of the third-in-command Goldwasser for so many days and visited so many bars, but there is no clue.

He even began to wonder if Rum had made a mistake, the wrong place, or the wrong features.

——In other words, this person does not exist at all. It is entirely Goldwasser who is deliberately trying to manipulate Rum, who is always targeting him.

Toru Amuro also sent an email to Zhufu Jingguang, asking him if he had met Anicet recently.The red-haired woman was her father's mistress, and she might know a little bit about it.

Zhu Fu Jingguang replied that Anicet said that her father's mistress had more hair than the hair on her arms and she was too lazy to get to know her.

While drinking, she complimented his appearance, especially his eyes, saying that he was handsome. A female writer who appreciates male beauty would spend hundreds of words describing him in detail so that people could distinguish him at a glance. .

Such teasing remarks are completely meaningless and contain no useful information.

While thinking about how to reply, Toru Amuro glanced in a certain direction.

He saw Binga again, this was the second time he encountered him.After Binga came out of the bar, he also looked down at his mobile phone.

...It seems that he also gained nothing.

Toru Amuro looked back, feeling both helpless and grateful. He sent an email to Rum, and then headed to the next bar.

(End of this chapter)