Conan's I'm really not a model worker in a winery

Chapter 724 Past Chapter-Lianzhu-08 Five Stars

Year after year.

Even before the coldest season of winter, this place is still a world of ice and snow.

Three years have passed and the boundaries of the restricted area have gradually been lifted.

However, the nearby businesses are still relatively backward compared to those outside... But at least they have improved somewhat compared to the beginning, and there are also many places for entertainment and recreation.

For example...a bar.

Two men in dark coats sat at the edge of the innermost bar, their sinister eyes constantly wandering around, as if looking for their prey.

Due to the intimidation of the two men, the new bartender in the hotel moved a little unsteadily when serving the drinks...

Fortunately, these two people did not care about his rude behavior.

After that, the bartender returned to work at the bar.

When no one was around, the two gloomy men began to communicate in low voices:

"Zhiping, will the informant you mentioned really come? It's not that I can't believe you, but it's really unbelievable that someone in a place like this would have news about that big shot..."

"Believe me old man, I can't lie to you.

I was actually surprised by the identity of that informant. It can be said that those working in our field around here must rely on their intelligence."

"I hope so... You may not know that I have been tricked so many times before that I am really afraid of being tricked."

The expressions of the two grown men were gloomy, but the content of their words was indeed getting more and more plain, and they even expressed their bitterness as if they wanted to kill someone.

People who don't know may think they are discussing how to slice the human body...

"Ding, bell~ding..."

The bell on the doorframe of the bar rang.

It was slightly different from the normal sound of someone pushing the door in. It was a bit like someone slowly scraping the bell with a board and then scraping it back again. The sound was very distinct and it rang three times.

Hearing the ringtone, the two men sitting at the table complaining with sullen faces were stunned for a moment, then turned their heads and looked at the door with a clear conscience.

A child of about seven or eight years old just came in, wearing loose and worn short-sleeves and trousers, holding a rag bag in his hand, and not even wearing shoes.

There were still some snowflakes falling on his body, and his silver hair was a little eye-catching.

His bright turquoise eyes revealed a maturity that was beyond his age.

After entering the door, he just glanced a few times, then locked his eyes on the table where the two men were sitting, and walked towards it. During this period, the new bartender saw a child coming in, and just as he was about to step forward to chase him away, he

I was dragged away by my boss and said a few words, and then I could only pretend not to see...

"Hello sir, may I ask... do you two need a newspaper?"

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Kurosawa stared intensely at the two customers in front of him.

An old customer, a new customer...

Both of these people are bounty hunters who specialize in some kind of dirty work. Kurosawa prefers to deal with such people.

——For no other reason than because most bounty hunters respect contracts.

As long as they can reach a deal and have the same interests, they are the best partners.

Although there are many bounty hunters with extremely low credibility who often do things that go back on their word, Kurosawa feels he is lucky... at least he has never encountered such an unreasonable hunter.

But this time, two of his clients targeted a big guy.

...These two people were going to assassinate a local well-known chaebol leader. In order to obtain information about that big shot, the Kurosawa Formation spent a lot of manpower, energy and material resources.

But just this intelligence transaction was enough to recoup the cost and exceed the resources they expended several times.

Therefore, Kurosawa is even more vigilant now: he is afraid that these two people will escape the bill.

"...Oh! Newspaper? Give me one." After being stunned for a few seconds, the bounty hunter named 'Zhiping' came to his senses, a smile appeared on his gloomy face, and he folded a folded envelope without leaving a trace.

She handed it to him, "But I don't want the newspaper from these days. I just want the newspaper from the evening of December 3rd last year."

"Okay, no problem."

Kurosawa grinned widely, quietly put the envelope into a torn bag, then took out a slightly old newspaper and placed it on the table.

Then, like an ordinary newspaper seller, he sold his newspaper to everyone at each table, and then left with brisk steps.

He now needs to find a place to hide and count money.

Based on what I just felt, there should be no difference in the reward given by the other party, but it still needs to be confirmed.

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The bar at the back of the bar.

The other man with a gloomy face didn't come back to his senses for a long time, until his friend Zhiping looked at the newspaper and let out a silly laugh.

"The informant you mentioned...is a child??"

"Hey! It's completely unexpected, isn't it?" Zhiping smiled proudly, "This is what I think is so clever about this organization... Who would have thought of using children to gather intelligence and pass on information in a place like this?"

"Indeed...but is it okay for such a young child?"

"The child just now was the one I handed over last time. Do you think he looks like an ordinary child? He must have been specially trained by them.

And children at this age are easier to control."

"That makes sense..."

Friends seem to accept this statement.

After the two of them worked together to decipher the secret code in the newspaper, they got the information they were longing for. Their friend made a decision, "Thank you Zhiping. Without you, this bounty would have been wasted... By the way, that

Can you tell me the contact information of the organization?"

'Zhiping' nodded, "Of course, this organization calls itself 'Five Stars'. As long as you see the five-pointed star logo on the decoration of a newsstand or store where children gather, it is the temporary contact point of that organization."

If the clerk asks you what you need, just say, 'I need an old newspaper'; the other person will continue to ask you what kind of old newspaper you want, and you have to answer, 'I want an old newspaper that can help me find old friends.'"

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A dilapidated residential area.

Originally, this place was the core area of ​​the 'forbidden zone'.

But now that the blockade has been lifted, the population here has begun to become a little more prosperous.

And the most obvious change is:

The number of children here has obviously increased a lot.

However, judging from their clothes, most of them came from other areas. Most of the children who were truly born and raised in this place are still disheveled and stand out.

In an inconspicuous corner.

Beside a snow-covered hut, a white-haired boy fiddled with a pile of branches and placed them on the ground to light a fire.

But even after trying hard for a long time, he couldn't light the fire.

Next to him was a younger boy, maybe only four or five years old. He was watching the white-haired boy's actions very attentively, as if he wanted to record everything with his eyes...

Then as I looked at it, my head started to light up.

"A Lin, A Zhe, what are you doing?"

Kurosawa hurriedly came back with a small torn bag, and was about to share the joy of making a lot of money when he saw the two children he brought with him performing some confusing behaviors outside.

Continuing from the previous extra content, the time is ten years after the protagonist has just traveled to Conan.

(End of chapter)