Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

The middle-aged woman continued with sadness in her eyes, "Being a murderer is also the price for my cowardice and hesitation in killing my daughter, but when I think of our daughter comforting me before she dies, I can't muster up the courage To surrender, she reached out to me in the pool of blood that day, and said, "Mom, I don't hurt, don't cry, it doesn't matter if I die, just take care of Dudu for me, it doesn't matter if Dudu dies, you have to take good care of me." Live and raise lots and lots of doots, if only I could be like doots...'."

Dudu is a prickly pear that her daughter has raised for a year. The child doesn't know why, but when she sees a prickly pear when passing by, she can't move her feet, so she wants to keep one.

What my daughter didn't finish saying that day was probably... If she could be covered with thorns like Dudu, no one would hit her casually.

In the past three years, in addition to training herself, she also raised a lot of prickly pears and placed them around Dudu's flower pots, like guards with knives and swords, protecting her daughter's favorite Dudu well. .

When she decided to escape from Tokyo and the police investigation, she only took Dudu with her, and sent out the other prickly pears that she had taken care of for three years, so she could just protect Dudu in the future.

She kept a lot of prickly pears, and she couldn't give them away to acquaintances. With so many 'dudus', she didn't want them to be taken by people who didn't care, so she gave them away for free on the street.

It was last winter, and she set up a free stall near her home. Occasionally, a little girl who likes prickly pears like her daughter would stop by. Occasionally, two or three children who came together would carefully call her auntie, Asked if she could give them a pot, she smiled and agreed, just like teaching her daughter? Teach them how to take care of prickly pears.

One of the kids pointed out a mistake to her? She laughed and admitted she was wrong too.

It was really nice to have those kids taking care of the cacti.

In the evening of that day, she still had five pots of prickly pears that she hadn’t sent out. Two elderly people were asking if she could get a pot of prickly pears. One was wearing a black wide-brimmed hat, a dark gray scarf covering his face, and a dull brown That's when the woman in the black dress came to her.

After the two old men took the prickly pear and left? The woman was still standing in front of the stall.

"Don't you like anything?" she asked.

"I want the pot you left more, isn't that what your daughter left behind? You are such a good mother..." The woman's face was blocked by a scarf and a hat? But what she said hit her sore spot, "No? You weren't? Otherwise, you wouldn't have let your child die."

She didn't know what expression she had at the time, but thinking about it now, she must have been stunned and stupid.

"I know your daughter, she is a good girl," the woman stretched out her black leather gloved hand to pick up a pot of prickly pear, and seemed to be admiring it carefully. "She was watering her own prickly pear in the park. Ever? If only she could be like Doo Doo, so she can protect her mom? Can give her spikes like a prickly pear? But she has to work for us?."

Her mind went blank, and the little hand that her daughter stretched out towards her before she died seemed to appear before her eyes again. She always thought that her daughter wanted to be like a prickly pear to avoid being beaten, but she never thought that her daughter was trying to protect herself.

"She promised me that as long as I can give her a sharp thorn, she is willing to do according to our arrangement and work for us. No matter what she is asked to do, her eyes are extremely firm. How sad it is to have an incompetent and cowardly mother "The woman continued to speak, her tone remained the same, calm and calm, "It's a pity that she passed away. I also deeply regret the accident that year."

"Who the hell are you?" She felt unbelievable, lowered her voice, and asked one after another, "How did you know my daughter? What do you want her to do?"

What could her daughter be doing when she was six years old when she died? Since they couldn't get anything from a six-year-old girl, the other party negotiated terms with her daughter, only possibly for her daughter's future.

"No matter what you ask her to do, it's better than death," the woman continued, "and now is not the time for you to be surprised. Your original alibi was excellent, and you were calm enough to deal with the corpse afterwards. Although you met a powerful detective , your little calculations are also vulnerable, but it is no problem to hide it from the police and most people. Are there two men? They are watching you. If you leave quietly, you may be able to escape if the police are not on guard, but after you send out the cactus that you have cared for for many years, they will suspect you. If you want to abscond, if you want to leave, go to the public toilet on the roadside in ten minutes, go out through the back window, and get into the black car parked there with the rear door open. The police will not chase you, of course, There are also conditions for helping you escape the investigation, from now on, you have to give up the light, be a pot of prickly pear living in the dark, and do things for us..."

She was in a daze at the time, trying her best to calm down and let herself think about it.

Before the woman left, she suddenly paused and left a sentence:

"If you don't want to, don't go there. When we haven't met, the police will never know what we said."

...

"I don't know if she is warning or implying something, I chose to accept her or their help, and came here in that car," the middle-aged woman leaned against the closet, just like the woman she mentioned, with a calm attitude, "Then receive more rigorous and standard training, like training a killer."

"Where are the others here?" Pusheng Caixiang asked.

"If you want to hear stories from other people, it's better to avoid it. Some of them kill people just because they think it's fun." The middle-aged woman stared at her tightly knit fingers. "As for training, others follow I am the same, only you are an exception, you have not been to the training ground, of course, it may be because the training ground was closed a few days ago."

Pusheng Caixiang felt that women spoke with thorns, and judging from the woman's description, women should not have been like this before. That is probably the change after coming to this place. She didn't lose her temper and asked softly, "Training ground ? Is it in this building?"

"The 10th floor here is our residence. Our guards are on the 11th floor, and a group of men who are also trained live on the 16th floor. Their guards are on the 17th floor. The 12th to 15th floors in the middle are training places. When we are here, we will occasionally meet those people, and we will occasionally receive training together, but you don’t have to worry about those people running off, the supervision here is very strict,” the woman said quietly, “It’s just that the day before you come here, the training All of them are terminated, and they have been asked to stay on the original residential floor for the past few days and not to run around."

"So, what about the downstairs?" Pusheng Caixiang recalled, "The place where the physical fitness is tested is the floor that connects the 8th and 9th floors. The first floor is the lobby. What are the 2nd to 7th floors in the middle?"

"I don't know. When I came here, I was told that you can't go below the 8th floor," the middle-aged woman's eyes flickered, "You don't want to escape, do you? Stop dreaming."

"Why?" Pusheng Caixiang said unwillingly, "There is no guard on the first floor. As long as you can take the elevator and reach the first floor, you can leave this building and hide in a dark corner of the factory..."

"Up from the 18th floor, there are people monitoring the movement of the entire factory area. Even if you can escape from this building, you can't leave the factory area. People who run down without permission will either be caught or disappear, maybe Died, or was sent to a laboratory."

"Laboratory?" Pusheng Caixiang was puzzled.

"There seem to be some mad scientists in the organization, and those who are sent there will be treated as test subjects for drug testing," the woman explained, "People who fail the test every time will also be sent to the laboratory. The woman who died that day just understands I can't pass the next test, and I want to try my best to escape here, of course, it may be that she thinks death is easier to accept."

Pusheng Caixiang was frightened and frowned, "Then... what is going on with the organization?"

"I don't know." The woman's clasped fingers were also rubbing each other, and she was not so calm on the surface, "I haven't seen that woman since I got here, and the guards just keep watch and won't answer any of our questions. "

"I haven't seen the person who sent me here," Pusheng Caixiang saw that the woman's expression didn't seem to be lying, sighed, and cheered up again, "Why did you tell me this? Or, do you want What can I do for you?"

"I originally planned to go home and take Dudu with me after delivering the prickly pear balls, but I arrived here halfway, and I couldn't go home, and I didn't take Dudu with me," the middle-aged woman frowned, looking a little anxious, and was silent for a while , "Actually... I have a way to leave here. I have observed the watchman's inspection pattern, which can allow you to leave here and avoid the surveillance of those people on the roof. I just hope that after you leave, you can go to my I found Dudu at home, help me take good care of it."

"Why don't you leave by yourself?" Pusheng Caixiang was still a little wary.

"If you want to leave here, you must be covered by someone," the middle-aged woman lowered her head, her voice was weak, "and I am a murderer, even if I leave here, where can I go, I will not force you to leave, after all... If If you get caught, the end will not be good..."

At the foot of the bed between the two of them, there was a hollow part, inside which a bug was flashing a red indicator light, and the conversation between the two was completely transmitted to the monitoring room on the fifth floor.

Chi Feichi sat behind a desk full of monitors, listening to the silence from the loudspeaker, without being in a hurry, he closed a document he had just finished flipping through, and turned to ask the gin and vodka sitting on the sofa beside him, " Do you want to see it?"

After Gin took the document, he threw it to Vodka, "No, I've read that woman's profile."

Vodka took the folder and opened it at the same time, not forgetting the man in black who stood quietly beside him, with a playful tone, "I said, if a woman who has been trained for less than half a year finds a loophole, is your level of supervision too high?" Strengthened?"

The man in black is also the person in charge here, sweating a bit, "But that woman from Sakata...she...she..."

"Hmph!" Qin Jiu snorted coldly, took out a cigarette and lit it, "That woman is not simple in the first place!"