The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Well, everything has been investigated."

"The people from the Mori Detective Agency and those children will take the Suzuki Express on their day off this week..."

Amuro Toru on the other end of the phone changed the subject, "But why are you asking about this?"

Vermouth sat on the bench, gently swaying the goblet with her fingers. The translucent liquid in the goblet emitted a gem-like clear light under the neon light outside the window.

"Because Shirley..."

"Shirley?"

Amuro Toru narrowed his eyes slightly, "You mean Shirley, the traitor of that organization, is among these people?"

"That's not what you need to know..."

Vermouth took a sip of the vermouth in the cup, "You just need to know that Shirley will appear on that train at that time."

"Don't you think that's the best hunting ground?"

"In that Mercedes cage, we just need to exert a little fear like hunting deer, and she will stand in front of the gun obediently."

Amuro Toru: "..."

Vermouth continued: "This hunt still needs your power, Bourbon."

"I will get the train pass, and I will inform you of the detailed plan later..."

After hanging up the phone, Vermouth gently stroked the broken hair hanging in front of her forehead.

She slowly walked to the French window, staring at the steel forest in front of her, and recalled the phone message she left for Conan after being captured by Michael.

She said that she would not attack him and Haibara Ai again, and the person who would attack later was Michael.

However, now that the situation has changed, Michael is likely to be an undercover agent planted by MI6, so there is no question of killing Ai Huibara.

So the "promise" is naturally invalid.

"But the one who wants to kill her is not me, but Bourbon..."

"I am not breaking my promise, right? Silver Bullet brother."

That woman must not be allowed to survive.

If you want to hate, hate the Shirley who created you...

...

Kudo's house.

Amuro Toru sat at the desk, staring at the information collected on the computer with a serious face.

Since the Mysterious Train has been held for several sessions, there is a lot of information about this train, and it is basically not "mysterious".

Every year, the Suzuki train will choose a certain route as the travel route of the Mysterious Train, such as Kyoto the year before last and Fukuoka last year.

In theory, passengers do not know where the destination is before boarding the train.

But in fact, as long as you find which normal train route was temporarily cancelled during that time period, you can know which route was replaced by the Mysterious Train.

This year, the destination of the mysterious train is Nagoya.

Is Vermouth planning to kill Shirley on the train?

Since exchanging information with Qin Zhibo, Amuro Toru also knows that Huiyuan Ai is actually Shirley, the traitor of the organization, whose real name is Miyano Shiho.

Although APTX-4869 will shrink people, this matter shocked him.

But the fact in front of him is like this. Even Akai Shuichi can be resurrected from the dead. What else in this world can't be believed?

And Vermouth asked him to investigate the whereabouts of Maori Kogoro and others, and was ready to start "hunting" on the mysterious train, indicating that she may have known that Shirley's current identity is that girl.

How did she know?

Amuro Toru was concentrating on thinking, and suddenly there was a doorbell at the door.

Ding...

The doorbell broke the silence in the room, and also made Amuro Toru suddenly raise his head and react.

It's so late, who could it be?

He stood up from the chair, walked along the corridor to the entrance, and looked out of the window on the side of the entrance.

I saw a brown figure standing outside the big iron gate of Kudo's house.

Is it Qin Zhibo?

What a coincidence.

Originally, Amuro Toru wanted to discuss this matter with Qin Zhibo, but Qin Zhibo came over on his own initiative.

Amuro Toru pressed the button next to the entrance, and the big iron gate unlocked automatically.

"Mr. Qin, is there anything you need at this late hour?"

"Well, there are some things, let's go in first."

...

The two came to the living room and sat down, but in order not to be so ostentatious, they did not light up the crystal chandelier in the living room, but only lit up the table lamp on the low table next to the sofa.

"What's wrong? You seem to be very anxious..."

Amuro Toru brought a cup of tea from the kitchen, and was not in a hurry to tell his side of the matter.

Qin Zhibo picked up the teacup and drank it all, "There is indeed an urgent matter, and it has something to do with you."

"It has something to do with me?"

Amuro Toru refilled the teacup in front of Qin Zhibo, "I'm all ears..."

Qin Zhibo looked around the dim living room and asked first: "Is there any news about Akai Shuichi recently?"

Amuro Toru shook his head and said frankly: "No, my men are also looking for him secretly, but there is no trace of that man."

"If he wants to hide his whereabouts in this city, I don't think anyone in this world can find him."

Amuro Toru's words implied that Akai Shuichi was not lost, but left with a premeditated plan.

"Maybe he has recovered his memory and has returned to the FBI..."

Amuro Toru's words gave Qin Zhibo a direction to think about.

I should indeed ask the FBI.

Akai Shuichi disappeared before. Because he was worried that the FBI would suspect that he was related to this matter, he had intentionally or unintentionally avoided the FBI.

So the two parties haven't contacted each other for some time.

"I will ask when I have time..."

"But what I want to say this time is another thing... Have you seen the TV program in the evening called "Cold Case Revealed"?"

"The big secret of the cold case?"

Toru Amuro thought for a moment, "Isn't that a midnight show? When did it get changed to the evening?"

It seems that Toru Amuro is aware of this show.

"It's just a temporary adjustment, and it's just that this program is moved to the evening..."

"It seems that you haven't watched this program, so I'll give you a rough outline of the content."

Next, Qin Zhibo introduced the program content in the most concise language.

The main one is the part about soul detective Hota Keito.

"I have heard of this soul detective. He once became famous because he found the bodies of many missing people through his 'psychic'."

"But later, because of the perjury incident, his reputation plummeted and he disappeared for a while."

Toru Amuro is truly an encyclopedia of Tokyo. He knows more or less everything that happens in Tokyo.

"It's indeed him..."

Qin Zhibo's tone was solemn, "But just after he participated in this program, he was murdered in the hotel where he stayed. I also just came back from the scene of the murder."

"Oh? Really?"

Amuro Toru's eyes were a little surprised, but she didn't have much emotion. "Did you find anything related to me?"

"Yes."

"I now suspect that the murderer who killed Detective Soul was probably Scotch Whiskey."

Hearing this, Toru Amuro's pupils suddenly dilated, and his scalp felt numb.

Qin Zhibo paused for two seconds and continued: "At the moment, I just suspect it is him. There was an elderly cleaning lady at the scene who had seen the murderer, but he couldn't remember his appearance."

"If there are old photos of Zhu Fu Jingguang, maybe they can help her recall them."

At this time, Amuro Toru came to his senses.

"I understand what you mean, I will let Feng Jian handle this matter immediately."

Feng Jian Yu is also a direct subordinate of Zhu Fu Jingguang. He was injured and stayed in the hospital for a while, and now he has officially returned to work.

Just hearing that his childhood friend might have killed another person made Toru Amuro feel even heavier.

If it is inevitable to take the lives of some targets during the undercover process, it is allowed within the rules of the public security.

But if not...

"It's getting late, I'll go back first."

Qin Zhibo stood up and was about to leave when Toru Amuro stopped him.

"Wait a minute, I also have something to tell you."

"It's about Shirley."

Shirley?

Qin Zhibo knew that he was actually talking about Hui Yuan Ai, but because he was an undercover agent in the organization, he was more accustomed to calling her by his code name.

Toru Amuro took the laptop and showed the contents to Qin Zhibo.

"Belmode contacted me a few days ago and asked me to investigate the whereabouts of everyone in the Mori Firm, including Dr. Agasa and the group of children called the 'Young Detective Team'."

"At first I didn't know Belmod's purpose, so I could only take it one step at a time, and first tell her the information about their plans to take the mysterious train on their day off this week."

"I just had a phone call with her, and I found out that she wanted to 'hunt' Shirley on this mysterious train."

What is displayed on the computer screen is the official website event page of Mystery Train.

The main body of the entire web page is dark red, with a photo of an era-sounding steam locomotive at the top.

"I'm wondering if Belmode already knows Shirley's true identity?"

Qin Zhibo looked at the introduction page of the mysterious train, and of course he knew why Conan and others participated in this event.

Because of the sinking of the "Aphrodite" last time, Yuanzi, as the host, chose this event in order to compensate a few people.

I didn't expect that this would be targeted...

"Belmod probably knows Haihara Ai's true identity."

"But has she said how she plans to start?"

Faced with Qin Zhibo's question, Amuro Toru shook her head, "She hasn't said the specific plan yet, but I also want to participate in it, so she will tell me tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo thought silently.

Hunting on a moving train is quite Belmod's style.

But conversely, this is also a good opportunity to arrest Belmode...

no.

Qin Zhibo thought for a moment and felt that something was wrong.

After all, this plan requires Bourbon to participate. Once something unexpected happens to Belmode, Bourbon will be the first to be suspected by the organization.

Although Belmode knew the secret of the boss, he was also very loyal to the boss and it was difficult to get information from him easily.

For this piece of information that was uncertain whether it could be obtained, it was still a bit uneconomical to compromise Bourbon, the most important undercover agent in the organization.

"Originally, I thought Belmode had given up on hunting Huiyuan, but it seems that he hasn't..."

"The only way to deal with it now is to implement her plan without letting her plan succeed."

Qin Zhibo groaned, "When Bellmode's plan is conveyed to you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we will then counterattack her plan."

"When does the mysterious train depart?"

When he heard this question, Toru Amuro was obviously stunned.

What kind of kindergarten question is this?

"It's the morning of the day after tomorrow..."

"I see, I know."

Through Toru Amuro's mouth, Qin Zhibo confirmed the departure time of the train.

"Then let me know after Vermouth gives you an accurate plan."

"Also, I'll leave the soul detective to you to investigate..."

...

The next day, Nichimi Hotel.

A cleaning lady was pushing a cleaning cart in the corridor, cleaning each room, and a tall and thin man wearing glasses walked up to her.

"Hello, my name is Yuya Kazami, and I'm a policeman from the Metropolitan Police Department."

Yuya Kazami showed his ID, then put it back in his arms and took out a stack of photos.

"Regarding the case of the murder of Kaito Horita yesterday, I have a few photos that you need to identify."

"Please point out who the suspicious man you saw yesterday is most likely to be..."

Yuya Kazami placed the photos one by one on the cleaning cart next to him.

There were 7 half-length photos of men in total, and each of them met at least one of the following criteria: black medium-length hair, delicate appearance, and black clothes.

The cleaning lady narrowed her eyes and scanned the photos back and forth. Suddenly, her eyes fixed on one of the photos, and her eyes lit up slightly.

"It seems to be this person..." The cleaning lady pointed to the man in the photo.

"Are you sure he is the most similar to the suspicious man among them?"

The cleaning lady nodded affirmatively.

"Thank you for assisting us in the investigation..."

Yuya Kazami put away all the photos neatly and said again.

"I am a secret department affiliated with the Metropolitan Police Department. This matter is related to our important mission, so please do not tell the ordinary police yesterday about your identification of the photos."

"Otherwise, if it affects our mission, we have the right to pursue legal responsibility against you."

Upon hearing this, the cleaning lady immediately nodded obediently.

Yuya Kazami saw this, nodded with satisfaction, turned around and left from the exit of the corridor.

When he got back to the car, he immediately called Toru Amuro.

"It has been investigated, Mr. Furuya."

"The photo that the cleaner identified is Mr. Moruobushi's, and he is very sure."

Hearing this, Amuro Toru on the other side of the phone felt depressed. After hesitating for a few seconds, his eyelids drooped slightly.

"I know..."

"Thank you, Kazami."

After hanging up the phone, Amuro Toru, who was serving dishes in the restaurant, stood there, with a melancholy look in his eyes.

Jingguang, where are you now?

...

On the rooftop of a skyscraper.

A figure in a black windbreaker stood on the edge of the rooftop, leaning on the railing with both hands, staring into the distance.

The stubble made the originally handsome face look a little vicissitudes, and the slightly confused eyes were not as sharp as they were in the past.

Suddenly, a vibrating buzz came from the phone in his arms.

He took out the phone and opened the text message.

[Get rid of that woman for me, and do it cleanly! Scotch whiskey]

When the man put away his phone, the confused eyes were full of murderous intent again.