Chapter 500 The hidden mastermind asks for monthly votes ()

 After locking in the suspect, Conan's mind cleared and he remembered one thing:

“No wonder I always feel like something is wrong—it’s my skin color!

“The administrator stays in the mountains all year round and is exposed to the sun. His skin should be as dark as that of the college student, but the administrator we met did not have much traces of sun exposure on his skin.

"The light in the rest stop was dim before, and his white beard and hair set off his abnormal skin color. I thought it was because I had been looking at Brother Amuro for a long time, and suddenly I felt whiter when I looked at other people... Look like this Come on, that administrator is probably not a real staff member, but a fake."

Toru Amuro: “…?”

Although what this kid said was true, his fist became hardened as he listened...

 He clicked his fingers. Decided not to argue with the child.

At the same time, I thought to myself: In addition to the administrator who is responsible for preparing dinner and tea, other people may also have the opportunity to throw sleeping pills into Jiang Xia's drinking water - such as this strange child sitting next to Jiang Xia during dinner...

And there is another question here. If the administrator put the medicine, why didn't he just put the medicine in the tea, knock everyone down, and then easily kill the client?

Looking at it this way, the administrator’s suspicion has become smaller, while the suspicion of others has increased—well, that’s right, such as the strange kid next to him.

Toru Amuro thought of another little boy he had met.

The child who loves to wear scarves seems to like to use anesthetics. In this case, wouldn't it be very reasonable to have a child who likes to throw sleeping pills around now?

Toru Amuro briefly speculated about conspiracy.

Then put aside this suspicion of private goods for the time being.

Putting aside the prejudice, I thought rationally that the attacker only targeted Jiang Xia, probably because he did not want to reveal his identity immediately - if everyone was drugged, unless all the people present were silenced, the person in charge of drinking water would be killed the next day. Administrators immediately attract suspicion. But if we only deal with Jiang Xia, if the attack just now is successful, then once Jiang Xia dies, no one will know that he drank sleeping pills before the autopsy. The administrator's identity as a convenient drug addict will not easily arouse suspicion immediately. His actions became much more calm.

  And on another matter, the administrator is indeed more suspected than Conan:

"If the administrator is a fake, the motive of the male college student being attacked makes sense - the student often comes to climb mountains and probably knows the real administrator, so the fake administrator received a call from the student asking about the weather. Later, I realized that my identity might be exposed, so I took action in advance..."

 In short, whether the fake administrator is a silver fox or the "home invasion murderer and robber" that was played on the radio, his problems seem to be quite big.

 Fortunately, when the assassination attempt failed, the identities were not exposed, and there were other tourists around, the silver fox and the robbers should not act rashly.

Toru Amuro looked at the dark mountain forest outside the cave.

They had just followed Etsuko Tokura's voice all the way here, and they didn't know the direction. Now they went out in the dark and could easily get lost. Besides, there are women and children who need to be taken care of here.

- Etsuko Tokura doesn't seem to be able to act immediately. If she is carried on her back, if the silver fox or the home invasion murderer is not at the rest stop but wandering in the mountains, they will easily be unable to take action when they are attacked. Suffer an accident.

If everything goes normally in Jiangxia, the problem of manpower shortage can be easily solved.

But Jiang Xia is now being plotted by an unknown mastermind. Although sleeping pills are not as incapacitating as anesthetics, they will inevitably be in a trance during the drug's effect, and their movements will be slower than usual. It's really dangerous to go out like this.

"Let's wait here for a moment." Toru Amuro looked at his watch, "It will be dawn in less than half an hour. Then we will find a way back."

 This might save more time than going out directly.

Jiang Xia nodded.

Conan has no problem with this either. Etsuko Tokura hugged Jiang Xia and blew the mountain breeze for a while. The fear triggered by the dark rest stop gradually disappeared.

There is no signal, no novel, and little progress in reasoning.

Conan looked at Etsuko Tokura boredly, remembering that this was a writer who was very high on his appreciation list, and took the initiative to chat: "No wonder you like to use the term 'narrow secret room that is difficult to escape' when describing some horror scenes. The plot, it turns out you are afraid."

Toru Amuro has also read the novels of Etsuko Tokura.

Hearing this sentence, he looked at Conan: "There are many Chinese characters in Ms. Tokura's novels, and most of them are not phonetic. Can you understand them?"

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Conan came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly, and reflexively pulled up a shield: "My Chinese scores are very good, and when I can't understand, I can ask Brother Jiang Xia to read to me, hahaha."

"Oh." Toru Amuro thought thoughtfully, "Is Jiangxia so free?"

Conan froze slightly.

I almost forgot, this seems to be the boss of the office where Jiang Xia is working. It doesn’t seem right to say this in person...

So he hurriedly patched it up again: "Most of the time, I look for Sister Xiaolan..."

Toru Amuro nodded and did not continue to ask this question.

 After discovering something suspicious about Conan, he actually asked his subordinates to check out this strange child.

Then he discovered that there was no household registration for "Edogawa Conan" in Tokyo, and he and his parents could not find this person.

 At present, all regions are not fully connected to the Internet, and the situation in other prefectures and counties needs to be investigated slowly.

If after checking, it is found that there is no Edogawa family anywhere else, then the elementary school student in front of me is a gangster with unknown origin...

 In addition, according to investigations within Tokyo, the people claiming to be Conan's parents seem to be abroad, and their names and identities are unknown.

The Maori family who adopted Conan are quite good. One of the couple is a detective, the other is a lawyer, and their daughter is a top student with good conduct and no problems.

Dr. Ali, who was the first to come into contact with Conan, was also a scholar with a clear life experience.

From these aspects, even if there is a problem with Conan, it does not seem to be a big problem, but his origin is still a huge mystery that needs to be investigated.

Toru Amuro even suspected that if he continued the investigation, he might not only find the problems with Conan, but also other abnormal children - such as the kid wearing a scarf who had plotted against him.

Thinking in a more conspiracy theory direction, there may be a dark organization hiding in the darkness of society that gathers genius children and uses them for some unspeakable purpose...

 While he frowned in thought, he subconsciously looked at Conan.

 (End of this chapter)