I’m the Pay Thief at the Winery

In the vault where the "Fist of Cyan Blue" is stored. Mori Kogoro, Kudo Shinichi and the local reserve police officer Rishi stood together, lying in front of an already stiff corpse.

"The victim was Teacher Leon's secretary, Zhang Ruiqiu."

Rishi said. He is a dark-skinned, squint-eyed male who is the apprentice of former criminal psychologist Liu Lyon. After learning the news that the famous detective Kudo Shinichi and the former detective Mori Kogoro came to Singapore, he invited them to protect the gem together.

Now that the deceased was found, he immediately notified the two detectives.

Kudo Shinichi carefully looked at the female corpse lying on the ground. The place where they found the body was in the space under the cabinet where the "Fist of Cyan Blue" was kept. The cause of death was a knife stuck in the back.

The victim Zhang Ruiqiu had a double-sided relationship with Kudo Shinichi and the others. The first time was in Liu Lyon's mansion, but the second meeting was a bit weird—Rachel somehow found Kudo Shinichi and seemed to want to talk to him, but for some reason she dismissed the idea.

It was during that meeting that Rachel invited Shinichi Kudo to meet at the gymnasium at three o'clock this afternoon - exactly when the body was found.

Therefore, her appearance here is quite a strange thing. Obviously, he had made an appointment to meet Kudo Shinichi elsewhere, but he was somehow murdered in the vault.

"Did the surveillance capture anything?"

Rishi shook his head, "The camera has been hacked, and the scene of no one is being played repeatedly."

Kudo Shinichi frowned, and continued to ask, "Where is the prisoner's clue?"

"Of course." Rishi's answer did not exceed Kudo Shinichi's expectations, "We are hunting with all our strength—the murderer must be Kaitou Kidd!"

According to the testimony of the police officers guarding the vault door, they watched Rachel walk into the vault by herself. Less than a minute later, Kaitou Kidd ran out from inside.

Kudo Shinichi guessed that what the guarding officer saw should be Kidd pretending to be Rachel, not Rachel herself—she should have been killed before then and transferred to the vault. The purpose is probably to frame Kidd.

No matter what, he didn't believe that Kidd would kill someone.

Kudo Shinichi approached Rachel's body, keenly noticing the blood from her fingertips. Following the direction of her finger, she found the blood written by Rachel.

"She (she)." He murmured this clue while thinking about the choice of the murderer.

That's right, although Kidd was witnessed fleeing from the crime scene, Kudo Shinichi cooperated with Kidd both as Conan and himself. Of course he had confidence in Kidd in the murder case.

However…

Rachel who was witnessed running into the vault was not herself, but someone else disguised herself. In Singapore now, Kidd is not the only one who can change his face.

If it was really the person he thought... As far as Kudo Shinichi knew, that person would not have any principle of not killing.

He squatted down with a dignified expression, put on his gloves and carefully looked at the murder weapon stuck in Rachel's back - it was just a very ordinary dagger, pierced into the heart from the back, and the knife was fatal.

Not the scalpel he was familiar with, and Rachel didn't die of poison. Kudo Shinichi breathed a sigh of relief.

He stood up in silence, and couldn't help recalling the scene he saw last night. Nan Ling stood on the roof of the skyscraper, and there was no trace of being burned on his body. The damp evening wind brushed past them, blowing the stray hair on his forehead. Those silver eyes were full of smiles, and the chaotic lights of Singapore night were reflected in his eyes like a kaleidoscope, shining brightly.

Nan Ling should be dead already.

Kudo Shinichi carefully recalled that early morning a year ago. The fire ignited by Nanling burned throughout the day, and they only had a chance to enter the organization's base in the evening to find out.

Indeed, they did not find Nan Ling's body. In other words, they had no way to confirm which one was Nanling among the dozens of corpses. But it is impossible for anyone to survive in a fire of this level, let alone Nan Ling voluntarily walked in. So they still announced Nanling's death.

The doubt is why Nanling committed suicide.

Just to avoid legal responsibility? Is it worth paying your life for?

It's not that Kudo Shinichi didn't have doubts. However, he knew too little—why he resisted the organization, what exactly was the brainwashing, how did he do it, and what was his physical condition—Nan Ling didn't tell him anything.

He is a detective, not a magician, and cannot deduce answers from empty evidence.

He tried to find clues. He asked Zhu Fu Jingguang, collected information inch by inch at the scene of the fire caused by Nanling, read all the information in the organization that mentioned Chater, and even personally met people in the organization who had crossed paths with Chater.

Zhu Fu Jingguang told him something, and Kudo Shinichi was surprised to find that the other party probably didn't know more than him. The scene of the fire was destroyed beyond recognition, and the most severely burned room could only be vaguely seen as a ward, which proved nothing. He tried to piece together Nan Ling's unknown past from those cold and rigid intelligence records, but he only saw blood, death and crime. He couldn't match those records with the 'Nanling' he knew.

Strangely, after he had seen vodka and maraschino, he found a sense of familiarity in their descriptions. In their narration, 'Charter' is eccentric, cold and cunning in missions, but usually very lazy, likes to make nasty jokes, has an overactive mind and is keen to give others nicknames. Ling is highly similar.

——Kudo Shinichi didn't want to recall the name 'Qinqin', no, he didn't want to burst out laughing out of nowhere at all.

But all the clues are still too far away, and he can't find the motive here, and he can't find the method. "Nanling" is like a detective book, but the last few pages were torn out, and the truth and Nanling were completely burned in the fire.

The detective can't resist his desire to find the truth, but when the truth no longer exists, then he has no choice but to convince himself to give up. It's like driving on a broken road. People who can't learn to brake can only let themselves plunge into the darkness where they can't see the road ahead.

Now Nanling has reappeared, and there is a light in the darkness. Kudo Shinichi seemed to see another ray of hope.

But is that really him? Or is it just another false joke?

The man said his name was 'Lamb' - Shinichi Kudo remembered the name. Lamb is Kidd's assistant. The problem was that the Lamb he knew was Kidd's assistant. female.

Could it be that Lamb appeared in front of him disguised as the dead Nanling? He remembered that Lamb also knew Disguise.

Shin Kudo subconsciously paced around, quickly thinking about the possibility of this conjecture in his precise brain - Lamb obviously didn't realize where he would appear last night, so there was no need to change clothes in advance. Even if he wanted to pretend to be someone else, he didn't necessarily choose Nan Ling, who was dead. Besides, Nan Ling's identity was complicated, so it was unnecessary for Lamb to choose his identity. More importantly, not everyone can know Nanling's face.

So it wasn't that Lamb pretended to be Nan Ling, but that Nan Ling was Lamb.

But how could he be Lamb Kidd's assistant? Kudo Shinichi doesn't remember any intersection between the two of them at all...etc.

Kudo Shinichi recalled the "magician lover murder case". The 'Nanling' of that incident was transformed by Lamb. At that time, he didn't think there was anything wrong, but in retrospect, there were indeed many doubts.

Let's not mention how Lamb managed to get Nan Ling out of force - let's just pretend that Nan Ling didn't know about it at all. Then how did Lamb know Nanling's character so well that he didn't see anything wrong at all?

It’s okay if you don’t know Nan Ling’s identity, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com, but Nan Ling is actually a member of the dark organization. Such a person, even Kidd’s assistant, should be difficult to understand.

Therefore, the only explanation is that Lamb is either a close friend of Nan Ling, or Nan Ling himself.

Kudo Shinichi's eyes quickly flashed a complex expression of surprise and speechlessness.

That is to say, he either accepts that Nan Ling has a very close female friend who happens to be Kidd's assistant, which is extremely unlikely; or he has to accept that Nan Ling is not only dead but also killed by Kidd The fact that I am infected with women's clothing is the truth.

With very complicated thoughts in mind, Kudo Shinichi walked out of the vault that was the scene of the crime, and looked up at the blue sky.

Then he sighed languidly.

How should I put it... This is really full of Nanling's style, and it is completely impossible to mention a serious reunion.

(end of this chapter)