Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 696 The end of the journey

  “…”

  Toru Amuro closed the device and took it off, thinking a lot in an instant.

If the peripheral members were suddenly attacked after they installed the equipment, the matter would be relatively simple—probably just a strange person passing by, torturing everyone hidden on the mountain, and then waving his sleeves away .

   But what if... the recording equipment is not installed by the peripheral members.

   Is Mian Guan Chensan's enemy? The people involved in that murder five years ago? Or...is there someone else doing things for the organization?

  A figure suddenly appeared in Amuro's mind.

   A police academy uniform, fluffy black natural curls - Matsuda Jinping's face.

After    paused for a moment, the face in his mind changed slightly, and slowly corrected into the mysterious man who called himself "Kurozawa".

  ...I suddenly remembered this because Toru Amuro remembered that a similar incident seemed to have happened in the Toushen Forest—the murderer who killed the fake "Jiang Xia" was beaten by Matsuda for no reason. If Feng Jianyu hadn't arrived in time, he would probably have been beaten twice in a row.

And now, someone around was beaten for no reason... The victim was a member of the organization's periphery, and Mian Guan Chensan's younger brother, no matter which side they were, they could be regarded as extrajudicial fanatics, and those in the forest of the head gods. The murderer is of the same nature.

   Amuro Toru: "..." Could it be that Matsuda has followed him until now?

   Also, and more importantly, what about the recording equipment mounted on the tree? Is Matsuda really connected to the organization?

  …No, we can’t draw conclusions yet.

  To figure this out, the first thing to determine is whether the equipment is installed by the peripheral members or by Matsuda. Otherwise, everything is just a pointless conjecture.

   Amuro Toru took the dismantled recording equipment and jumped off the tree, wanting to wake up the people on the ground immediately and ask about the situation.

   But although his "Amuro Toru" identity is fake, but during the undercover period, this identity is his "ontology", so it is not easy to expose "Amuro Toru = Bourbon" to others.

   In the end, Toru Amuro could only press his temper first, preparing to send an email to ask in a while.

   Jiang Xia also scouted around, and walked back on the dead leaves.

   A crisp sound interrupted Toru Amuro's thoughts.

   He looked at Jiang Xia, and Jiang Xia glanced at the recording equipment in his hand. It seems that he still remembered the matter of "trying to cover the vest for the boss", so Jiang Xia asked like a simple working detective: "Call the police?"

   "It's alright, it's stopped." Amuro lowered his voice and waved the recording device in Jiang Xia's hand, indicating that this thing is not working at the moment, and they don't need to continue playing, "Leave here first."

  …

   On the way down the mountain, Toru Amuro took out his mobile phone and sent an email to the members of the organization who stayed near the hotel, asking them to come up and clean up the scene as soon as possible.

   He himself and Jiang Xia chose a road that would not meet those people and returned to the hotel.

   The only people who saw him and Jiang Xia just now were Mian Guanchensan and his two younger brothers. After the three people fainted, they didn't know the time, so they could make up their minds on their own. When they lost consciousness, the two detectives had no power on their mobile phones, so they had to go down the mountain to find a place to call the police. During this period, members of the organization went up the mountain to pick up a leak— Anyway, Mian Guan Chensan and the others didn't know that the members of the organization also fell to the ground around, and it took a lot of time to deal with the aftermath. Moreover, the two sides will not communicate with each other. Mian Guanchen and the others will only stay in the hands of the peripheral members for a short time, and will soon be transferred to other places. At that time, compared to the 5 billion yen lost due to Tatsuzo Mianguang's leak, the detectives who entered in disorder will naturally no longer be the focus of the problem.

  …

  Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru wandered around at the foot of the mountain, and they returned to the hotel when the surrounding members hum hum hum removed all the people on the mountain and packed their bones away.

   Then Amuro returned to the room, checked and processed the recording, packaged it and sent it to the person in charge of the docking.

   Jiang Xia sat across from the coffee table and watched quietly.

   When he saw Amuro closed the computer, stretched out, and looked like he was "finishing the job", he couldn't help but say, "Is this done?"

"Yeah. More professional people are in charge of the interrogation and the aftermath. Our job is only intelligence and supervision." Amuro responded, walked to the small refrigerator in the corner of the room, took out a can of cold beer, and threw a can to Jiang Xia by the way. Chilled orange juice.

   Then he opened the can with a "bang", raised his head and took a sip, which was a small celebration.

   It is not difficult to accomplish this organizational task whose form is greater than its actuality. What Amuro wants to celebrate is actually the end of another thing...

   He looked out the window at night, drank beer, and briefly enjoyed the leisurely adult time. Then he turned around, planning to let Jiang Xia go back to his own room to rest.

   But just looking at Jiang Xia, An Shitou suddenly found that Jiang Xia was looking down at the can of iced orange juice, feeling the water mist condensed on the can, looking a little lost.

  “…?”

  Amuro was puzzled for a moment, then suddenly remembered something.

  Speaking of which, he had only been out with Jiang Xia for a few days, and he was already a little haggard from this rhythm of life. But Jiang Xia has lived a similar life for a long time, often encountering cases, and being disrupted by various murderers, but he never refuses to solve the case.

  … Is it because only in this way did Jiang Xia find his worth and sense of existence as a detective? Because only then can he fully immerse himself in the role of a detective and briefly detach from his identity as a peripheral member of the organization?

  Thinking of this, Amuro Toru carefully reviewed it. It was found that when they were away this time, the cases they encountered seemed to be a little more than what Jiang Xia usually encountered.

   Jiang Xia may not have thought too much, but subconsciously, he combined this journey with the "case", so now that he heard that the journey was about to end, he felt lost reflexively.

  "..." Thinking of this, Amuro felt a little emotional.

  If he has a lot of free time, he wouldn't mind accompany Jiang Xia to encounter a few cases.

   But... But he's really busy and has a lot to do, he has to try his best to stay mentally healthy...

   Recalling his own situation a few days ago, Amuro Toru's invitation "It's okay, we'll go out together when you're free next time" was already on his lips, but he couldn't say it anyway.

  In the end, he just guiltily changed the subject and took Jiang Xia back to his room.

   All journeys should have an end, and this one is of course the same. It's a pity, but it's time to end...

   (end of this chapter)