Stay away from Conan

Chapter 991 Who is the accomplice?

According to Kudo Shinichi’s previous analysis, there should be two murderers.

However, it is also because of this analysis that it can be basically confirmed that there should be no connection between the two murderers. The second murderer is simply another murderer who imitated the first murderer's murderous methods and carried out killings along the way.

So looking at it this way, where does the term “mastermind” come from?

In addition, if it is really said that the murderer who planned the whole countdown murder with playing cards is the mastermind, then it is obvious that this mastermind first attacked Officer Megure, Lawyer Fei, Mr. Akechi, and Dr. Agasa, and finally killed them. The murderer who killed Asahi Hiroki, because he started the whole plan, so this first murderer can be regarded as the mastermind.

However, now it is said that Sawaki Hiroshi is the mastermind, then there is a major contradiction with the previous analysis!

Because when he killed Asahi Hiroki, Sawaki Fairy was under the protection of the police. He would not have had the opportunity to kill Asahi Hiroki. So looking at it this way, he could not be the first murderer— —

In other words, no matter which way you look at it, there is obviously a problem with saying that Sawaki Fair is the "mastermind".

So, based on this idea, Kudo Shinichi gave a rough explanation of the situation, and then asked Sato Miwako who said Sawaki Fairy was the mastermind.

Regarding this, Sato Miwako thought about it and felt that it was difficult for her to explain in detail, so she took out her mobile phone and faced Kudo Shinichi:

"Well, you'd better ask Mr. Akechi directly!"

As he said that, Miwako Sato dialed Gao Yuan's number and dialed out——

"Huh? So there is a signal?"

Immediately, seeing that Sato Miwako's call was successfully dialed, Officer Megure and the others quickly took out their mobile phones to check. After all, when they wanted to contact the outside just now, there was no mobile phone signal at all.

However, when they saw Sato Miwako's phone call being dialed, Officer Megure and the others saw that their phones still showed "outside the circle". This made them even more confused. Officer Megure and others looked puzzled, so they waited until After Miwako Sato's call was dialed, and after hearing that Takato had answered the phone, Officer Megure couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Akechi! What's going on! Why does our mobile phone have no signal, but Sato can call you! Where are you now?"

"Ah, Officer Megure."

In this regard, after hearing Officer Megu's inquiry, Gao Yuan's voice came from the other end of the phone. Then in response to Officer Memu's inquiry, Gao Yuan first answered:

"You should be at the bottom of the ocean entertainment facility 'Water Crystal' now, right? Here, there is only one mobile phone signal base station that can connect to the outside, so you only need to set up the signal base station so that only the signal of a specific number can be transmitted. , such a situation can be achieved!”

"Ah? Why do you do this?"

Listening to Gao Yuan's explanation, Officer Megure asked in confusion.

"Of course it's to make the murderer think that the time has come for him to take action!"

Gao Yuan explained calmly, and then asked everyone present:

"By the way, since you will contact me now, what is the situation at the scene? Has the murderer been caught?"

"Yes, Officer Sato and I followed your plan to create an opportunity for the murderer to attack. As you expected, Mr. Sawaki attacked Miss Nana Koyamauchi!"

In this regard, faced with Gao Yuan's inquiry, Gao Mushe responded.

"Huh? It's fair to catch Sawaki..."

However, upon hearing this result, Gao Yuan seemed to sigh with disappointment, as if this result did not satisfy him——

After all, it was originally a plan to fish out another accomplice, but Sawaki chose to do it himself, which was a bit unsatisfactory.

However, since the murderer was indeed caught, and it was Sawaki Taichi who took action against Koyamauchi Nana, then it is even more obvious that Sawaki Taikoo was the mastermind of the whole incident, just like in the original work.

So, Gao Yuan on the other end of the phone thought so.

But then, after listening to Gao Yuan briefly ask about the situation at the scene, Kudo Shinichi curiously asked his doubts——

After all, according to the original inference, even if Zekihei was the murderer, he could only be the second imitator at best, not the first murderer.

In this regard, Gao Yuan immediately made the most critical explanation:

"Kudo-kun, the reason why one of the two murderers is a copycat is because the murderer had a difference in choosing the target represented by 'ten'.

"We initially thought that the copycat counted down to 'nine' before Asahi Hiroki flew the helicopter. So in order to achieve this goal, the copycat targeted me and Conan who was acting with me. He thought that attacking both of us at the same time would achieve his goal at once, so he put two playing cards in my car in advance.

"But unexpectedly, before the imitator had time to take action, the real murderer took action before him and attacked Conan and I. So the imitator thought that his goal had been achieved, and the real murderer also counted down the order to 'nine', which made He could immediately carry out the attack on Asahi Hiroki, so he replaced his usual eye drops.

"But the surprise is that Conan does not seem to be the original target of the first murderer. In the eyes of the first murderer, the attack on Conan should be an accident, and the real 'Ten' is Dr. Ali.

"Thus, based on the above facts, we analyzed that there were two murderers. Because there were differences in the identification of the target 'Ten', the existence of the second copycat was exposed, right?"

"Yes, what's the problem?"

Kudo Shinichi asked, after all, what Gao Yuan just said was his own guess after Dr. Agasa was also attacked.

"has a problem."

In response, Gao Yuan began to say seriously:

"The above inference is that we believe that the murderers are two unrelated people, and the second murderer does not know the true intention of the first murderer, so there is a deviation in the identification of the 'ten' target. Condition.

"But the question is, what if this was intentional by the murderer? The murderer did this deliberately to make us think that there are two murderers, and there is no connection between the two, so what should we do?"

Immediately, after hearing this, Kudo Shinichi suddenly became serious, and then he began to think solemnly——

"The order doesn't matter..."

After a while, after thinking about it, Kudo Shinichi suddenly said what Miwako Sato said before after controlling Sawaki Fair. It seemed that he had figured out the key to the problem -

"Yeah, the order doesn't matter."

In this regard, Gao Yuan could not help but affirm:

"Just like "The ABC Murders", the murderer in the novel creates serial killings with the purpose of hiding the target he really wants to kill. Similarly, the murderer this time also uses playing cards to carry out countdown attacks. But in fact, what he really wanted to kill was only a few of them. In other words, the purpose of finding thirteen targets was to mislead us about the identity of the murderer. In other words, as long as it can mislead us about his identity, the order is actually the same. It’s not important at all!”

"I see!"

Nodding, Kudo Shinichi seemed to fully understand what Gao Yuan meant, then he looked around at everyone present and said with a solemn expression:

"Then who is that accomplice..."