Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

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"No, no, there's no bomb inside, it's just information from a deal... uh..."

Under pressure from Jiang Chengbei, Vodka got nervous and accidentally blurted out the truth. After realizing he had let something slip, he quickly covered his mouth, looking like he couldn't say it.

“Vodka, judging from your scared look, whether there’s a bomb in this box or the transaction documents you’re talking about, based on my decades of experience as a police officer, I’m sure you’re not doing anything lawful. There’s definitely something illegal or criminal in this box.”

"Vodka, since you won't let me join your organization as an undercover agent, then you're arrested today."

After saying that, Jiang Chengbei snatched the box from Vodka's hand and had a pair of handcuffs thrown at him: "Wrap yourself up obediently. If you wait for me to do it, this day next year will be your death anniversary."

He had been repeatedly humiliated by Shinichi Kudo before, and last time he was humiliated by Jiang Chengbei. Almost all the people he brought were wiped out by Jiang Chengbei. The four of them were able to survive thanks to Jiang Chengbei letting them go. In particular, the other three were seriously injured, and only he, who had a good relationship with Jiang Chengbei, escaped unscathed.

Having survived so many near-death experiences, Vodka had developed a sense of awe towards Jiang Chengbei, a man of unfathomable depth. So even though Jiang Chengbei had taken the box, he didn't dare to resist. He looked at Jiang Chengbei with pleading eyes, hoping that after checking the contents of the box and finding no bombs inside, Jiang Chengbei would let him go.

"There are too many people here, so it's inconvenient to open the boxes for inspection."

"Vodka, come with me. I'll let you go after I've checked your suitcase and made sure there are no illegal items inside."

At Jiang Chengbei's insistence, Vodka reluctantly followed him forward. Fortunately, the box only contained a list of computer engineers and no other contraband, so Vodka felt quite at ease.

As Jiang Chengbei led Vodka toward the restroom, Conan, who had been secretly eavesdropping on their conversation, immediately followed.

Upon arriving at the restroom entrance, Jiang Chengbei casually instructed Vodka, "Stay at the door and don't let anyone in."

"Okay, Officer Jiangcheng."

Upon learning that he no longer needed to go in and could escape the sight of this murderous tyrant, Vodka breathed a sigh of relief and obediently stood guard at the toilet door.

After Jiang Chengbei went inside with his suitcase, Vodka immediately took out his phone and dialed Gin's number.

"Big brother, help! I ran into Jiang Chengbei at the trading place!"

"..." As soon as the call connected, he heard Vodka yelling and shouting. Gin was immediately speechless. He took a deep drag of his cigarette and said, "Then run!"

"Brother, I want to run too, but I don't think I can outrun Jiang Chengbei, and he stole the box we got from the Zhongdao trade!"

"You loser!"

boom! ! !

Just as Vodka was anxiously reporting the situation to Gin, and Conan, standing next to him, was happily eavesdropping on their conversation, a deafening explosion occurred in the toilet behind them. At the same time, a ball of orange-red flame shot out from the doorway, followed by a leather shoe emitting black smoke.

"Vodka! Vodka! What happened where you are?"

Just as Vodka and Conan were stunned by the explosion in the toilet behind them, Gin's shout came from the phone, which snapped the two stunned guys out of their daze.

"Big...Big Brother, it's exploded, it's exploded..."

"I heard an explosion! Tell me right now where it happened and who was killed!"

"Oh, the toilet exploded, killing Jiang Chengbei..."

The explosion was very powerful; the outer walls cracked. Based on Vodka's experience, anyone left in the toilet after such an explosion would be dead. If someone was right at the center of the blast, they might not even be left with a body.

Vodka is very familiar with explosions and has a lot of experience, so he immediately judged the power and anticipated the consequences, arriving at the conclusion that best fits Detective Conan's theory, just like Tequila in the original series where the body was completely destroyed.

As Vodka sullenly reported his deduced conclusions, Conan, who had been woken up, immediately dashed inside with his short legs, shouting, "Jiangcheng! Jiangcheng North!"

Rushing into the toilet, I saw a scene of devastation. The cubicles, originally made of solid wood and other materials, were gone, blown to pieces, and their surfaces were charred.

The ceiling above, the floor underfoot, and the surrounding walls are now riddled with holes from the explosion, and even those that aren't broken are covered in cracks.

The toilet was completely empty, without a soul in sight, except for a piece of metal with the "Heavenly Man" symbol on it, bent from the explosion, which Conan picked up.

Conan recognizes this thing, especially when Jiang Chengbei was talking to Vodka, he mentioned that this box contained things from Paradise because it had this thing on it.

Seeing that the toilet was empty, Conan and Vodka subconsciously thought that the bomb was probably in the box. When Jiang Chengbei opened it, the bomb inside exploded, blowing Jiang Chengbei to pieces. In the end, only one of Jiang Chengbei's leather shoes flew out.

After guessing that Jiang Chengbei had been blown up, Vodka stood outside the toilet and saw that Conan had not found Jiang Chengbei's body. He was filled with fear and quickly left.

After Vodka ran away, Conan realized that he should have caught Vodka and made a deal with him, giving him the box.

Unfortunately, Vodka had already run away. After Conan ran out of the toilet, he couldn't find Vodka anymore. Instead, he soon saw a corpse lying in a pool of blood.

An explosion occurred at the Mihana Grand Hotel, the venue for the Manga Paradise event. After the explosion, people were shot and killed in the dense crowd, but the killer escaped.

After such a terrible incident, Inspector Megure and his team from the Metropolitan Police Department quickly arrived at the scene and took charge of investigating the two cases.

Why the explosion occurred in the toilet was still unclear to Megure and the others, but the identity of the young man who was shot and killed was quickly confirmed: he was Hideaki Nakajima, the game developer of Mantendo.

Upon learning that the man's surname was Nakajima, and that he was likely the person Vodka had mentioned who was making the deal with him, Conan immediately guessed that the box containing the bomb was given to Vodka by this man.

As for the fact that he was shot and killed immediately after the explosion with a silenced pistol, Conan knew without guessing that the culprit must have just escaped and was the vodka he had been looking for.

Unfortunately, his search skills were too low. He often lost track of Vodka and his group in the past. This time, he was too shocked by Jiang Chengbei's death by bomb and reacted too slowly, failing to capture Vodka immediately. As a result, Vodka killed him in revenge and escaped.

The reason Conan reacted so slowly and made such an unforgivable oversight was because he felt something was wrong, that he had overlooked something important, and he was so focused on thinking about it that Vodka took advantage of the situation and was able to escape after killing him.

Although I've been trying to figure out what I'm overlooking, I can't seem to come up with anything. I always feel stuck, like I'm just one step away from success, which is really frustrating.

When the police searched the belongings of the deceased Hideaki Nakajima, his colleague and close friend exclaimed in surprise when they saw the police pull a numbered tag from his body:

"No, this isn't his number plate!"

I remember when we went to put our things in the lockers, the three of us received number tags 98, 99, and 100, not this number 147.

"Officer, look, the number I have is exactly 98."

The deceased Hideaki Nakajima's colleague, a young man named Koji Ueda, took out his number 98 and told Megure and the others what he knew.

Seeing everyone looking over, the police officers' attention was drawn to Ueda Koji beside them, and Takeshita Hironobu, looking unwell, also pulled out his number tag from his pocket and guiltily echoed:

“That’s right, mine is number 99. The three of us came together, so we’re grouped together.”

The deceased's colleagues confessed what they knew, and then the police took out the boxes corresponding to the three number plates.

Seeing that Ueda and Takeshita's boxes were exactly the same as the boxes that Ejou Kita took into the toilet and then exploded, with metal pieces covered in the Heaven symbol on them, only the box belonging to the deceased Nakajima was different, Conan, who knew the most about the case, told Megure what he knew.

When it was learned that the explosion in the toilet killed an innocent police officer who was inspecting a box, allowing the originally selected target to escape, and that the explosion came from a box covered with symbols of heaven, which belonged to the murdered Nakajima, the case seemed to become simple, yet complicated.

Chapter 229 My Wife Mari is Back

After taking down Nakajima, who dared to plant a bomb to kill him, Vodka ran back to the cocktail bar on the top floor of the Daikoku Building and reported the failed deal to Gin with a look of lingering fear.

Nakajima dared to put a bomb in the box during the transaction to kill Vodka. This transaction must have been a trap set in advance. If it weren't for the unlucky scapegoat Jiang Chengbei, Vodka would definitely have been the one to die.

Hmm, no, if Agave hadn't been killed by Jiang Chengbei when they went to retrieve the Dark Night Duke virus last time, Agave, who had always been in charge of computer networks, would have been the one in charge of this transaction. So even if someone were to be blown up, it would be Agave who gets blown up.

Unfortunately, Jiang Chengbei killed Agave last time, so the Agave that was originally going to be blown up is now being replaced by Jiang Chengbei.

Looking at it this way, it's clear that you shouldn't do bad things, or you'll face retribution. If Jiang Chengbei hadn't killed Tequila, he wouldn't have been Tequila's scapegoat and blown up this time.

Just as Vodka had figured out this logic and decided to be a good person from now on to avoid retribution, a familiar person suddenly appeared in the bar, which served as the organization's secret base.

It's true, you really shouldn't do bad things!

Ever since he nearly killed Shinichi Kudo in Dorobiga and allowed Shinichi to escape by sheer luck, this guy has been haunting them, almost taking their lives several times.

If Jiang Chengbei's death in the explosion was retribution for killing Tequila, then their seeing Shinichi Kudo in the bar is retribution for their failure to kill him.

Fortunately, the previous times they were almost killed by Shinichi Kudo, it was because Shinichi Kudo came in a tank or an armed helicopter and crushed them with weapons, unlike Jiang Chengbei before, who was armed with a small broken gun and relied solely on his strong physical ability to dodge bullets and his mysterious power to suddenly appear and disappear to defeat them.

So when they saw that Shinichi Kudo had come alone this time, without any external high-tech weapons, airplanes, or tanks, Gin and Vodka suddenly felt like they were invincible again.

The enmity between them and Shinichi Kudo had reached a point where they could not coexist and one of them had to disappear forever. So, as soon as they saw Shinichi Kudo appear, without any discussion or waste of words, Gin and Vodka immediately drew their pistols, pulled the triggers, and started shooting in Shinichi Kudo's direction.

After obtaining 1 kill coin from Gin and Vodka respectively, Jiang Chengbei didn't waste any more words. He took out his HK416 and started firing wildly at Gin and Vodka.

Everyone was skilled and capable of dodging bullets, so while firing their guns, Jiang Chengbei kept throwing grenades at Gin and Vodka, or switching to grenade launchers to increase firepower.

Seeing that "Shinichi Kudo" was starting to explode, he realized that his own firepower was no match for the opponent's gin and vodka, so he could only fight and retreat. After leaving the bar area, he pressed a remote control to detonate the explosives that had been planted in the bar.

The bar exploded, and Gin and Vodka didn't even go back to check if Shinichi Kudo was dead. They put away their small pistols and ran... then went inside.

The bar exploded, and the gin and vodka ran away. Jiang Chengbei flapped his wings and flew back to the Mihua Hotel, which had been the site of the previous explosion.

When Jiang Chengbei returned to the crime scene, Conan also happened to use Takagi Wataru's voice to successfully solve the case of Takeshita Hironobu planting a bomb to kill Nakajima Hideaki by making Takagi Wataru appear as a sleeping police officer. However, he unexpectedly encountered Nakajima Hideaki's deal with Vodka, which resulted in Jiang Chengbei being killed by the bomb by mistake, and Nakajima Hideaki being killed by Vodka in revenge.

Because the murderer in this case didn't kill anyone, and the main villain, Vodka, was still there to exploit people in the long run, Jiang Chengbei was too lazy to bother with the reward for solving the case and catching the murderer. He received 1 kill coin from Takeshita Yushin and added Takeshita Yushin's game programming skill to the store. These were Jiang Chengbei's gains from detonating the bomb.

Jiang Chengbei didn't bother arresting Takeshita Hironobu, the culprit who failed to kill anyone after the bomb went off, since it wouldn't benefit him. Thus, Conan finally got his chance to shine. After solving the case, he created a sleeping police officer named Takagi Wataru to solve it.

Having solved the case, before Conan could even reveal Vodka's true identity, he was shocked to see Jiang Chengbei, whom he had previously thought had been killed in an explosion, reappear alive in front of everyone.

The moment Conan saw Jiang Chengbei appear, he slapped his big head hard. Things he hadn't understood before, he now understood completely.

I always felt something was off. I thought something was wrong with the situation where the body was blown to pieces and only a leather shoe remained. But it turns out that Jiang Chengbei was still alive and hadn't been killed in the explosion, which explains everything.

Especially after the explosion, a smoking leather shoe flew out of the toilet. If the body was completely destroyed, how could there be only a shoe left?

If a shoe was truly left behind, how could it have flown out after the explosion, instead of during the explosion?

So all these illogical things are because Jiang Chengbei didn't die. It was all Jiang Chengbei's doing. He faked his death to confuse the public.

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Just two days after the explosion at the Full Paradise video game expo, Conan and Ai Haibara had just returned to the fruit shop after school and greeted the shop owner, Akemi Miyano, when a beautiful woman wearing sunglasses entered the shop.

Upon seeing the beautiful woman's face, Conan's eyes widened in disbelief. Meanwhile, Ai Haibara, standing beside him, was trembling with fear before Conan even realized who she was, her head bowed as if she wished the floor would crack open and she could fall in.

Seeing her younger sister acting so strangely, Miyano Akemi immediately became alert. She picked up Haibara Ai and placed her behind her, then looked at the familiar-looking beauty with a wary expression.

"Hello, are you Abei's current girlfriend? You're really beautiful. No wonder you can make him so infatuated that he abandoned his wife and children to become a scumbag."

Seeing this unfamiliar beautiful woman speak, Miyano Akemi asked warily, "You are...?"

"I am Jiangcheng Zhenli, Jiangcheng Bei's fiancée. Conan is our son. Come on, Conan, call me Mom."

Seeing Azuma Mari reach out and tug at Conan's cheek with a mischievous grin, Miyano Akemi immediately understood why the man looked familiar.

It turns out she was Azuma Mari, who ran away before, Jiang Chengbei's ex-girlfriend. Miyano Akemi had seen her photo before, so she felt that she looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her before.

Previously, Miyano Akemi hadn't paid much attention to Jiang Chengbei's past relationships, but now, seeing her sister's reaction, she immediately realized that the woman in front of her was very likely someone from the distillery.

Considering that Jiang Chengbei is a police officer and there is the precedent of counterfeit liquor from the Jianggu Zero distillery, this woman may also be an undercover police officer in the distillery, and there is a possibility that she is involved in counterfeit liquor production.

Thinking of this, Miyano Akemi wasn't so scared anymore. She reached out and patted her younger sister's big head, who was clinging to her leg, trying to comfort her.

If comforting her doesn't work, then we can only copy her homework. Just like last time when we beat up Amuro Tooru, let Jiang Chengbei beat up this woman again. Seeing the winery staff not resisting Jiang Chengbei, Shiho probably won't be afraid anymore, right?

While Miyano Akemi was thinking about having Jiang Chengbei beat up the woman in front of her, the woman seemed to really like Conan. One hand wasn't enough, so she used both hands to pull and tug at Conan's little face, playing with him while smiling and saying:

"Conan, why aren't you at all enthusiastic when you see me?"

We used to be best friends. If it weren't for your help and all the efforts you made to bring Ah Bei and me together, we wouldn't have ended up together.

I didn't understand before why you were in such a hurry to match me up with Abei, but after being away from him for a while, I realized it. You must want to be my son, want to call me "Mom," and want me to move in, which is why you're in such a rush to match us up, right?