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"Of course I know. They caught me." Chu Ming pointed to a group of people who were thrown together in a mess far away from the fire. "That night when I watched Kidd's performance, I came back from a meeting at the company. When I took a taxi in the middle of the night, I was kidnapped by the taxi driver. I wanted to knock him out and call the police."
Chu Ming paused and continued, "But when he threatened me, he inadvertently said that he had several accomplices. I was afraid of alerting them, so I planned to pretend to be kidnapped to see who his accomplices were and whether there were other victims like me. Then I could catch them all and call the police."
"As a result, I was brought here and locked in a cage with a dozen other victims. These drug dealers were so numerous and powerful, and they had guns with them, so I didn't act rashly."
"Later, someone took me out for a blood test. I kept asking questions along the way and found out that this was actually a drug manufacturing den. They kept arresting people here just to be their experimental subjects for drug testing. They also developed a new business, which is selling human organs."
So after I was sent back after the physical examination, I was thinking about whether I could escape and rescue those poor test subjects at the same time. But I didn't expect their leader to be so desperate that he would set fire to the factory without caring about the lives of his subordinates. "
Chu Ming's brows were filled with self-blame and guilt: "As soon as the drugs started burning, poisonous mist began to drift away. I was in a hurry to go back and save people, so I failed to catch the culprit. Moreover, most of the victims who were caught had their brains corroded by drugs..."
Maori Kogoro comforted him: "You have done a good job. If it weren't for you, who knows how many people this group of people would have killed! And they can't run away. Once the police draw a portrait based on your description, they will be caught soon."
At this time, nearby firefighters have arrived and are preparing to put out the fire. Because the toxic smoke is too thick, this place will be blocked until the smoke dissipates.
Maori Kogoro nodded and patted Chu Ming's shoulder: "You have worked hard these past few days. Come with us to the hotel, eat something and take a rest. When the police arrive, they will probably question you."
Chu Ming nodded. He originally wanted to hang out with them, and now that Kogoro Mori had invited him, it would be even more convenient.
Following Kogoro Mori and others to the hotel, several people sat down around Chu Ming. Hattori's eyes were shining. He wanted to say something but stopped himself several times. It was obvious that he had many questions to ask, but seeing Chu Ming's tired face, he held it back.
The police arrived quite quickly. Since the case involved drug dealers, explosions, and experimental subjects, which were major cases that would spark heated discussions in society if news got out, Officer Megure arrived at the scene almost as quickly as possible.
After learning that the only witness had gone to the hotel to rest, he brought Takagi and Sato to the hotel to record their statements, and ended up meeting several of his old friends whom he had not seen for a long time.
Anyway, no matter how old you are, everyone calls you brother, and the seniority is messed up.
Chu Ming repeated to Inspector Megure what he had said to Kogoro Mori and the others, and at the same time took out a few memory cards from his pocket and handed them over.
"This is the memory card I pulled out from behind several cameras after I escaped. I originally wanted to keep evidence after catching the people, but they ran away. However, there may be clues about them in these surveillance videos."
Hattori's eyes lit up, and he almost took it himself: "Hurry and take a look."
Officer Megure said sternly: "We police officers will take a look. This case has nothing to do with you. You can travel with peace of mind."
Seeing that the clue was about to fly away from his lips, how could Hattori be willing to accept it? He grabbed Kogoro Mori and Makoto Yada and tried to put pressure on Inspector Megure.
"Why is it okay? We have Uncle Maori, Kudo and I here, and with the cooperation of your police, we will surely be able to investigate the case quickly. And Officer Megure, you must be under a lot of social pressure for such a big case, right? If you delay any longer, by the time you return to the police station to investigate, the person might have already run away. I happen to have a card reader here, Officer Megure, look—"
Inspector Megure's mouth twitched, and he could only take the card reader handed over by Hattori and insert it into the laptop that Kogoro Mouri handed over to him.
Makoto Yada pursed his lips and stood on the edge of the crowd with a somewhat panicked look in his eyes. He was attracted by the sound of gunfire at that time. Was the scene after he met that group of people also captured in the film?
Now even the police are here, if they are discovered...
But in the end, his hatred for Kudo Shinichi prevailed. He clenched his sweaty palms and forced himself to calm down.
Chu Ming sat calmly in the back, letting the front be crowded with people. He had already tampered with all the surveillance footage. Not only had he deleted the parts involving the organization members, he had also changed all the parts that were inconsistent with his description.
After watching the surveillance video, everyone's faces changed.
What they just watched was a video of the warehouse where the experimental subjects were imprisoned. Some of the experimental subjects were tortured to death by the over-concentrated semi-finished drugs, some had their legs broken for trying to escape, and some were dragged out to have their organs removed, and were thrown back into the cage without their wounds being sutured, and then they fainted and died in wailing and despair...
This memory card only has records from the past week, but in just these seven days, the number of deaths has exceeded thirty.
This continued until Chu Ming shook the cage and attracted the guard's attention. He knocked the man unconscious and escaped from the cage. He tried to wake up the other test subjects one by one, and after failing, he searched everywhere and finally found a camera in the corner. Then the screen went black.
Inspector Megure slammed the table hard: "These drug dealers are simply crazy!"
Hattori's face was not looking good either. He changed a memory card and continued playing. This time it was the surveillance footage from the drug factory...
After all the surveillance videos were played, Officer Megure patted Chu Ming on the shoulder and said, "Brother Chu Ming, thanks to you this time, otherwise this drug trafficking organization would have hidden here and harmed countless innocent people!"
Chu Ming raised his head. Under the light, his clean face was a little pale, and his eye circles were slightly dark. It can be seen that he was indeed very tired in the past few days, but there was light in his eyes: "This is what I should do."
Inspector Megure was filled with relief and patted his shoulder vigorously again. Chu Ming could feel that if he could check the favorability level, his favorability level in Inspector Megure's heart would probably be on par with Kudo Shinichi and Mori Kogoro.
At this time, in another room, Conan was wearing headphones and looked a little depressed.
He could only hear the sounds, and was now anxiously listening to Inspector Megure and the others watching the surveillance footage while angrily denouncing the drug dealers.
Ahhh, what is in the surveillance video? He really wants to know!
Chapter 652 Poor Acting
Everyone in the room didn't know that Conan was itching to find these people in another room not far away. After seeing the scene in the surveillance camera, Inspector Megure urgently mobilized people to draw portraits of these people and issue a wanted order.
At the same time, people were sent to the hospital to wait, and after the drug dealers rescued by Chu Ming woke up, they would immediately begin interrogating them.
After Chu Ming finished taking the statement, he no longer paid attention to the matter. The culprits had already been killed by them, and the group of minions left behind were either stupid or crazy. Even if there were some lucky ones who escaped the net and were not destroyed by the poison gas, they had already been brainwashed and would not expose the existence of the organization.
After Gin patiently cooperated with Chu Ming in completing the last wave of hasty escape, he left with Vodka.
Cohen and Chianti followed them. He could only watch them kill people while he could only act as a long-range telescope. This made Chianti, who had secretly brought a sniper rifle with him for a purpose, feel particularly aggrieved. When he heard that they could retreat, he took Cohen and ran away immediately.
Bourbon and Lafitte stayed, and they were particularly interested in the play Chu Ming was going to perform next.
*
Because all the drug dealer cases had been taken over by the police, and there was really no room for detectives to play, Hattori took Chu Ming and Yada Makoto to re-investigate the case of the village chief's murder.
But at the end of the investigation, it was discovered that there was nothing wrong with Kudo Shinichi's judgment at the time. He announced to the public that the village chief committed suicide because of his illness just to help the village chief keep the secret that he was cuckolded.
The moment the truth was revealed, Makoto Yada was exposed because he was too absent-minded. Of course, his identity was not revealed because of this incident, as many details before that showed something wrong.
After all, Makoto Yada is not the real Shinichi Kudo. Although Chu Ming has given him special training, it is really too much to ask him to disguise himself in front of Hattori Heiji and Xiaolan, just a half-baked person who was trained in just a few days of emergency training.
The fact that he managed to hold out for several days before being discovered was already a sign of his extra efforts to save his own life.
Looking at Makoto Yada who was standing there in a daze, Hattori stared at him closely: "You are not the real Kudo, where did you take him?"
Makoto Yada looked at Xiaolan and the others who surrounded him, and it was as if he had traveled back to a few days ago, when he was also surrounded by five people...
With a snap, he knelt on the ground and cried sadly using Kudo Shinichi's face.
"At first, I thought Mr. Kudo's reasoning was wrong, and the real murderer who killed my adoptive father was at large for many years. So I hated him very much, so I had plastic surgery to look like him, intending to use his appearance to discredit his reputation. As for Mr. Shinichi, I didn't hurt him, I just locked him up in that cabin in the forest..."
Seeing Xiaolan's fists clenching tighter and tighter, Makoto Yada suddenly panicked and spoke faster, "I had been hiding in the forest before. Suddenly I heard gunshots in the forest that day. When I followed the sound, I was kidnapped."
"They mistook me for Kudo Shinichi and were originally planning to kill me, but when they found out I was a fake, they asked me to stay with you as Kudo Shinichi."
Makoto Yada's voice became lower and lower. In fact, when he knew that there were several detectives around him who were almost as famous as Kudo Shinichi, he wanted to ask them for help and tell them the whole truth of what he had seen before.
However, that group of people implanted a micro-bomb in his body. If he did not tell Xiaolan and the others as agreed, the bomb would explode immediately, and then that group of people would kill everyone in the village.
For his own life and the lives of his fellow villagers, he had no choice.
Hattori immediately asked: "Who kidnapped you? Who are those people?"
"It's those people in the surveillance video." Makoto Yada bowed his head deeply, "I'm sorry, I was bewildered for a moment."
Xiaolan didn't bother to respond to Makoto Yada's apology. Her mind was now full of Shinichi who was trapped in the small dark room. After learning of Shinichi's whereabouts, she turned around without hesitation and ran into the depths of the forest.
He Ye thought about it and felt a little worried about Xiaolan going alone, so he said something to Hattori and followed Xiaolan.
Hattori was horrified. After Conan was locked up, he would definitely grow bigger because he took the antidote. If he grew bigger, his clothes would be torn into pieces...
The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He gradually imagined Shinichi shivering and crouching in a corner with his arms around him, barely covered with a few rags. At this moment, Xiaolan and Kazuha kicked the door open aggressively...
Oh my god! His brother's fame!
Thinking of this, Hattori decided to go over and take a look. In case something went wrong, his presence might be able to help Kudo resolve the situation.
Just as he was about to leave, Makoto Yada spoke softly: "Mr. Hattori, Mr. Chu Ming, actually that group of people asked me to bring you some news, but only you can know it, so I didn't tell you just now..."
"What news?" Hearing that there were clues, Hattori could not stop even though his brother might be killed. He quickly turned back and approached Yada Makoto with shining eyes. "By the way, I wanted to ask you, after those people kidnapped you, did they just let you lurk around us? Was there any other mission? What did they say after kidnapping you? Tell me every word... uh, us."
Makoto Yada took out a small envelope from his pocket: "This was given to me by one of the people in the group. He said that you will understand after reading this..."
Hattori took the envelope, tore open the seal and threw it on the ground, then poured out a letter and a key from the envelope.
"Why so mysterious?" Hattori muttered, unfolded the letter and glanced at it, his face suddenly became serious.
"What's written?" Chu Ming leaned over, and Hattori cooperated by tilting the letter in his hand and looking down with Chu Ming.
"Dear Detective:
You are sincerely invited to join this carnival feast. Please unlock the code below and come to me.
【rot mef nry noc yos rcw eon kve hbh lli rbp dxe yoz yng a】
Glenburgie ”
Looking at the disorderly English letters and the flamboyant English signature at the end, Hattori frowned: "I seem to have heard of this name from Kudo."
Chu Ming nodded and said seriously: "Yes, Conan also told me. By the way, Xiaolan has been here just now and I can't say anything. I met Conan before. He has grown bigger and is dressed strangely. I asked him to go to the hotel and get a room. Let's go back to him and solve the mystery together?"
Hattori's eyes widened: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Chu Ming chose to put all the blame on Conan: "It's not that I don't say it, it's Conan who said he wanted to see what Mr. Yada was going to do. If he wanted to do something irreversible, he could stop him in secret."
Makoto Yada also blushed: "You always knew I was fake?"
"Yes, it's not just me. I feel like Uncle Maori should have seen through you a long time ago, but he just didn't want to expose you." Chu Ming glanced at him, "After all, your acting skills are really bad."
Chu Ming was almost done with stuffing Conan's habits into Makoto Yada's head, but he was still timid and seemed particularly introverted sometimes.
God knows how much drama he had when he saw Shinichi, who followed Xiaolan silently and even had admiration in his eyes when facing Hattori who was talking eloquently!
Could this be Kudo Shinichi?
Chu Ming suspected that Hattori might have known for a long time that this was not the real Kudo, but because of the admiring looks directed at him by this man with Kudo Shinichi's face, he pretended to be deaf and dumb for several days!
Chapter 653 Password
Hattori did not bring Makoto Yada with him this time. He just told him to get his face back to its normal appearance as soon as possible. After all, Shinichi was already wanted by the organization. If he saw Makoto Yada wandering around outside, it would be embarrassing to catch the wrong person.
After realizing that Kudo Shinichi had many enemies, Makoto Yada retreated back to the hotel obediently.
Chu Ming brought Hattori to Shinichi's room and knocked on the door, and the door opened quickly.
Shinichi had already changed his clothes and no longer looked like the savage he had before. He had already heard the code that Chu Ming and Hattori said through the eavesdropping device and was now itching to try it out.
"Quick, what's the password? Let me see it."
Hattori handed the paper to Conan, and then the three of them sat around the table, took out paper and pen to write down the code, discussing it as they wrote.
"Every three letters form a group. Could it be the abbreviation of some English letter?"
"Rot means decay."
"No, if you interpret it this way, the following words have no direct meaning. They may be the abbreviation of three English words."
"But these letters can't form a word... This idea is wrong."