Conan: I am really a good person

Chapter 354 Calvados

The 'Blond Killer' often committed crimes in Berlin, Paris, London and other places.

Because it involved more than one region and country, the police had set up a special task force to handle the case. They profiled the murderer:
He is about 30 years old, over 1.80 meters tall, thin, has sufficient knowledge of guns and ammunition, and is good at using rifles and other pistols.

Many serial killers have childhood trauma, but for this criminal, experts believe that the blonde who left a deep impression on him and caused him to want to kill other blondes was not the murderer's childhood trauma, not his parents, relatives, neighbors, etc. who he might have had close contact with in childhood, but his lover as an adult.

Moreover, the obsession was formed in a very short period of time, only about five years.

Five years ago was a delicate time, when the first case occurred.

Experts speculate that the murderer had just broken up with his lover at that time, and perhaps he accidentally ran into the first victim and was reminded of his lover, so he decided to kill.

The reason why it is called "lover" is because the murderer is quite strange. He seems to hate the person the deceased reminded him of, and his attack is very violent. Almost every victim was shot at least ten times.

But after the death of the deceased, the murderer will spend a longer or shorter time cleaning the body, clearing the blood, messy hair and clothes on the body. Sometimes he will even help change the body into clean clothes and move the body away from the first crime scene to a cleaner place.

Many murderers will move the bodies after killing someone, creating many secondary scenes and body dumping scenes. Those places are either places where they can frame others or appropriately disguise the cause of death, or they are places such as bathrooms that are easy to cut, pack and clean, or they are places such as wilderness or trash cans that are not easily discovered and will contaminate evidence.

The 'Blond Killer' was different. When he rarely moved a body, he would move it to a nearby location and place it in a position that looked like it was just resting with its eyes closed.

This is definitely not an attempt to dump the body, frame someone else or disguise the cause of death. If you have to say it, it's more like a provocation to the police.

But there is more than one way to provoke the police. There are many more cruel ways, more suitable for the murderer, and more able to provoke human instinctive anger. The murderer placed the body so close, which made him seem somewhat morbid and strangely gentle.

Therefore, experts speculate that the dead bodies that were deliberately placed were very similar to the deceased's blonde lover, which made him feel sympathy afterwards.

Without exception, these individual victims were all young women with long golden hair.

In addition to blonde hair, the deceased had a second thing in common: they had done evil things.

They are men and women, young and old, some live in Paris, some live in London, they do not know each other, some are well-known blatant robbers, some have killed people, some are professional teams targeting the rich, and there are even police officers who have done evil things in private.

In this regard, experts speculate that from the murderer's perspective, the 'blonde lover' seems to be a cunning and cruel person.

Also, although many of the victims had committed open crimes, there were also many who seemed clean on the surface. They suspected that the murderer had special and well-informed information channels and had investigated the information of the victims in advance, which allowed him to kill so accurately.

Also, because this was the first case and the murderer's modus operandi was very sophisticated, the police speculated that he was definitely not a first-time offender and that in addition to the serial crimes, he must have been responsible for other murders.

A future flipped through the files page by page, his eyes sweeping over the printed English handwriting. He said nothing, nor did he frown in thought. He just flipped through the files one by one like drinking water, and stopped only at the last few pages.

The last few pages are about New York.

Some serial killers who intend to provoke the police will leave their distinctive marks after committing crimes or send out warning letters before committing crimes.

The 'Blond Killer' is the latter. Every time he commits a crime, he will send a warning letter to the target three days in advance, and will also send a glass of mellow red wine.

This time, the preview letter and the red wine appeared in New York.

The 'Blond Killer' has been rampant for so long, but this is the first time he has come to New York. The FBI in New York has taken it very seriously. Not only has a special team been set up to handle the case, but the case information has also been synchronized to a future with the mentality of 'every profession has its own expertise, and you're a criminal and you understand it best', which is equivalent to using two methods to solve the case.

After reading the last line, Yitiao Weilai turned the file back and uttered a few syllables to indicate that he had finished reading, "Hmm..."

Akai Shuichi was also rereading the case. He was looking for clues, so he was very serious. Compared to Ichijo Mirai's super-fast speed of turning the page after a few glances, his reading speed was much slower. He had only read less than a third of the way and looked up when he heard the voice. "Have you finished?"

Before Yitiao Weili could speak, he continued, "This case is difficult."

"The FBI handed it over to us, in large part because you once guided us in solving the case, but..."

When Tiaotiao plays the FBI in the future, he is very comfortable with it. It is obvious that this is not his first time playing a human. He is very familiar with it and even more familiar with solving cases. He can even get a lot of information from the newspaper and directly send letters to the FBI to reveal the characteristics of the murderer.

After checking the letters and later confirming from the criminals that Tiao Yi Wei had captured the important information without much effort, the FBI was incredulous and couldn't understand it. Their impression of Tiao Yi Wei was like a painting of a plum tree with ink drops, which created a proud and arrogant demon-like look based on the human-shaped ink drops.

Akai Shuichi could understand.

After repeatedly reading the confessions of criminals who mentioned "master" in almost every sentence, he discovered one thing: when "making friends in a friendly way", Yitiao would happily chat with his "friend" about some "intimate topics", such as who the victim had a bad relationship with, whether he was tired at work yesterday, whether he would like his body to be dumped in a valley or in an underground garage, what interesting things happened recently, and so on.

Ignoring the obvious intimidation part, a general summary of a future question would be: collect information.

Asking locals has always been the most efficient way to collect information.

A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Compared with knowing nothing and acting like a crab without thinking, it is of course better to know the local area clearly before acting like a tyrant and abusing others, not targeting individuals but sweeping everyone indiscriminately.

At least for the latter, there won't be any fish that can be played with, to be the fish that slips through his net...

Compared with ordinary locals, criminals have one more advantage: they know a lot about local police situations and illegal crimes.

Among the large amount of intelligence provided by a criminal, perhaps only one or two sentences are useful. But among the large amount of intelligence provided by a group of criminals, there are more than one or two pieces of useful intelligence. These pieces of intelligence are enough for Yi Tiao to quickly understand the local situation in New York, and enable him to use the database to investigate and lock in when he encounters a case.

This is probably one of the reasons why the case was solved so quickly in the future.

But the Blonde serial killer case is different. The murderer is not a local criminal in New York. He has just arrived in New York and committed a crime in New York for the first time. The role of the New York database is greatly reduced.

"Um……"

Ichijo Mirai pondered again, looking at the 'blonde lover' summarized from the previous cases.

After thinking for a long time, he looked at the task prompt, then looked at the file, and couldn't help but ponder: This case...what does it have to do with Rum?
To be frank, he felt that it was unlikely that Rum could have fabricated so many cases so easily, and that he could not have been extremely rigorous in each case, without scattering clues like a shower.

A piece of trash who can't even speak human language...

Also, does Rum have a "blonde lover"? Gin and Vermouth never mentioned it.

The task prompt is also very subtle. It is definitely not directed at the lover, but at the object of hatred.

If the perspective of the task details is Rum, then ignoring the description of "blonde hair", Yi Tiao Future could adjust his bow tie, clear his throat, and seriously say "Yes, it's me".

But with 'blonde hair', it seems like it's referring to Vermouth.

Moreover: The first case happened five years ago. This is a delicate time point. The delicate point is that five years ago, Ichijo Mirai joined the organization and carried out a two-person operation with Rum.

Then Rum ran away...

Akai Shuichi was still looking over, and the future could only express a few thoughts that could be expressed, "I agree with the police's views on this murderer. Killing people cruelly but then tidying up the bodies is a typical contradictory behavior. It seems that the murderer hates and loves someone at the same time."

Instead of killing the person he truly hates and loves, he goes on to kill other people. He seems incompetent, furious, cowardly, and a complete waste. I agree with Rum on this point.

The delivery of wine along with the notice letter seemed to be a hint at the organization.

But the murderer was definitely not Rum.

After thinking for a moment, Yitiao Future confirmed his judgment: Rum could never be so capable.

It is impossible for Rum's subordinates to solve problems for their boss and it is not Rum!

Ichijo planned to wait and ask Vermouth in the future. He closed the file and asked about a point that was not in the file: "Did the task force only play the role of post-event summary?"

The task force was set up early, and every deceased person received a notice letter in advance, so why are there still so many deaths?
There wasn't even a single victim in the file who needed the murderer to kill twice, as he was successful in every attempt.

So the question is, what is the task force doing?
"The police speculated," Akai Shuichi was silent for a moment, then repeated a piece of information from the file, "that the murderer had a very special source of information."

A future translation: The murderer knows the movements of the task force, and the task force is completely leaky.

...Okay, the murderer can't possibly be that loser Rum!
*

"Rum?"

Vermouth repeated, "Serial murder case?"

When she repeated the first sentence, her tone was quite complicated. In addition to confusion, there was also the melancholy of "Oh no, I'm the unlucky one today", the joy of "Wait, it seems that I'm not the unlucky one!", and the gloating of "What did that idiot Rum do again? Forget it, bye, and have a good journey."

But when she repeated the second sentence, she obviously realized it, and her tone was smiling, "Oh, could it be that the 'Blond Killer' has come to New York?"

This is the informed attitude.

A future query: "Are you going to keep it a secret?"

“Of course not.” In order to avoid being teased by the lively and active Milk Cat who jumps around every day, Vermouth immediately gave up the idea of ​​keeping it a secret and defended herself seriously, “I just took a sip of wine to moisten my throat. I didn’t mean to keep it a secret. I’ll tell you now.”

She pondered, and began at the beginning, "Five years ago, you and Rum were on a two-man mission together, right?"

"After the mission was over, he was probably very self-aware and realized that he had offended you because he could breathe that day, so he immediately left for another place and never returned to Tokyo. He has since disappeared from your sight."

To this point, Yitiao Future knows and can add: Well, with your help.

"He was very sensible in leaving immediately," Vermouth said, "but he has always been loved by that gentleman and has almost the final say in the organization. He is the highest-ranking member of the organization after that gentleman."

"When he was running away, the fear of going against you still occupied his mind, but perhaps because he thought he had run far enough, he began to feel some resentment and resentment."

Huh?
Ichijo Future was in awe and immediately praised, "Wow, you are so courageous."

After praising him, he continued, "Since it's been so long, can you tell me where he hid at first? Don't worry, he definitely won't be there now, right? Even if I know his previous escape route, I can't kill him."

The tone is lively and sunny and cheerful.

However, Vermouth retreated tactically: Yes, is that so?
Logically speaking, yes, but it is obviously wrong to emphasize one thing about the future.

She coughed a few times as if nothing had happened, pretending that she just coughed because her throat was itchy so she didn't hear the banging sound of the milk cat running around, and continued, "But that gentleman attaches great importance to you and treats you as his own child. He is afraid that the gentleman is dissatisfied, but he dare not target you."

I'm even more afraid that someone in the future will come to my door with a sniper rifle.

"So, the 'Blond Killer' appeared."

and many more.

I tried to figure out the future, but couldn't figure out the logic. "?"

"You don't understand, do you?" Vermouth said calmly, "I don't understand either."

"Perhaps he still doesn't understand why you suddenly want to kill him. He thought about it for a long time and became angry and decided that I must have instigated you behind your back, so he instructed his men to commit murder to vent his anger."

As stupid as a pig.

As smart as Vermouth is, she figured out in one second how Rum had offended the future: either he had to enter the goal with his left foot first, or he could breathe.

She said casually, the smile in her voice deepened, and she said meaningfully: "That 'Blond Killer' is also a member of the code name. I happened to have dealt with him several times and I know him a little bit."

"His code name is Kalva,"

Calvados.

But wait.

Vermouth paused: In the future, the code name 'Calvados' seems to refer to the black-haired celebrity lady she is in disguise.

Ah Zhe.

"What did you say?" the future asked. "'Kalva'?"

"Did you mean 'Calvados'?"

"This code name seems familiar, do you have any clues?"

(End of this chapter)