Conan Rick’s Investigator
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And there is another piece of evidence, that is, I felt a terrifying mental fluctuation at that time.
That spiritual fluctuation came from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and it might even be the underwater city of R’lyeh.
Qin Zhibo expressed his thoughts again.
Upon hearing this, everyone’s eyes became serious as if they were facing a great enemy.
Because if Qin Zhibo’s guess is correct, it means that the organization has even completed the stage of making Ksira pregnant.
At this moment, Yukiko asked, “But there was no ‘Ksira’ on the sea at that time, right?”
“If conception is achieved, shouldn’t the sound be very loud?”
“Many people will probably notice it, right?”
“Didn’t anything else happen on the sea at that time except the sinking of the Aphrodite?”
Yukiko is trying to use anthropomorphism to understand how the Old Ones reproduce.
But Kudo Yusaku shook his head and denied his wife’s statement.
“Do not.”
“Maybe the process of Ksira’s conception is not what you imagined…”
“Besides, Ksira doesn’t have to stay in the ocean.”
As soon as Kudo Yusaku finished speaking, the expressions of Qin Zhibo, Kuroba Toichi, and Luc Villiers who were present suddenly changed.
But Yukiko still looked puzzled and asked, “Yusaku, what do you mean by not having to stay in the ocean?”
“Isn’t He a sea creature?”
Qin Zhibo took a deep breath and said, “The ship of the organization is very large, so there is another possibility…”
“That means Ksira is on the ship of the organization.”
After these words were spoken, except for Yukiko and Kuroba Chikage who looked a little dazed, the expressions of everyone else became more solemn.
This is the most troublesome possibility, but also the greatest possibility.
More than a decade ago, Ksira was not expelled from that sea area, but was captured.
As Yukiko said, as the daughter of Cthulhu, although she is an Old One, the power she possesses should still be infinitely close to that of a marine creature.
The organization used weapons to weaken Ksira and the Deep Ones, then captured Ksira and imprisoned him on the ship.
Over the years, the ship has been drifting in the oceans of the world, with its whereabouts unknown.
The purpose should be to wait for the most important time node.
That’s when the stars come together.
When the stars return to their positions, Cthulhu will be reborn from the womb of Csira.
For a moment, everyone fell into silence.
Because if this is the organization’s plan, then the organization is infinitely close to success.
Once Ksira has successfully conceived, the organization will just need to use the ship to carry Ksira around the world to delay time.
Although Kudo Yusaku had developed a method to search for the whereabouts of the ship in a previous video conference with the FBI, it would take some time before the global cross-age recognition system was officially put into use.
Moreover, even if that system is put into use, it is unlikely to find the location of the ship in a short time.
After all, the whereabouts of organization members are very secretive, and it is unlikely that they would allow their faces to be photographed by others or recorded by surveillance cameras.
At this moment, Luc Villiers, who had been silent, broke the silence.
“There is one more thing I need to tell you.”
Everyone looked at him.
Luc Villiers looked very serious, with his slightly wrinkled brows, seeming to be a little confused.
But two seconds later, he made up his mind and spoke.
“The current boss of the organization was once a member of the Nine Angels.”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present showed an expression of surprise on their faces.
Luc Villiers seemed to have guessed that these people would have such a reaction, so he didn’t pay much attention and continued talking.
“Strictly speaking, Karasuma Renye’s father, Mr. John Spencer, is the founder of the Nine Angels Organization and a member of the ‘Nine-Man Choir’.”
“In 1877, after Mr. Spencer’s death, Karasuma Renye inherited his father’s position among the Nine Angels and became one of the leaders of the Nine Angels.”
“However, in the seventh year after he inherited the position of the Nine Angels, he created an incident and took the opportunity to kill the other eight leaders. He also took away an important item from the organization and has been missing since then.”
“After that, the nine angels called this person the ‘fallen angel’.”
“It was only after I learned about the identity and background of the organization’s boss from Mr. Qin that I investigated this person’s past experiences from the historical records of the Nine Angels Organization.”
After listening to Luc Villiers’ statement, everyone’s expressions gradually turned from shock at the beginning to calm.
Such a resume is just a brief mention in Karasuma Renya’s long life.
Qin Zhibo crossed his fingers, looked up at Luc Villiers and asked, “What important item did he take away from the Nine Angels back then?”
“It’s a disk called the Panester disk.”
Hearing this familiar term, Qin Zhibo’s expression suddenly changed.
That way, everything fits in.
After joining forces with the Shagai Zerg and murdering his biological father, Karasuma Renye inherited the title, fiefdom, and position in the Nine Angels Organization.
Using the vast network of the Nine Angels, he collected the Paneste Discs, the only token that could allow him to reach the Abyss Enkai and safely meet the Toad God Tsathoggua.
Here in Tsathoggua, he most likely obtained the formula for the elixir of immortality, which would allow him to live a long life.
At this moment, Yusaku Kudo turned to Luc Villiers and asked.
“So Amanda Hughes is…”
Luc Villiers said solemnly: “Ms. Amanda is the heir of the Hughes family. Her father was one of the leaders of the Nine Angels who was killed by Karasuma Renye.”
“Ms. Amanda is an honorable person whose lifelong wish is to avenge her father.”
“It’s a pity that 17 years ago, Ms. Amanda also died at the hands of the organization…”
Chapter 1453 The Secret of the Eyes
“Are you talking about the case of Hiroshi Haneda 17 years ago?”
Kudo Yusaku looked serious and asked Luc Villiers.
“Yes.”
“Ms. Amanda has been committed to uncovering the ‘fallen angels’ of the Nine Angels Organization. After many years of investigation, she finally locked onto an extremely secret underground organization.”
“However, the organization is very powerful. The FBI agents who were previously sent to investigate the organization were killed one after another, causing the investigation to be interrupted for a time.”
“However, during this period, Ms. Amanda discovered that the organization’s apparent identity was actually the Japanese Karasuma Group.”
“So, Ms. Amanda reached a cooperation agreement with the former Japanese Prime Minister and secretly invited Japanese police to the United States to discuss cooperation matters.”
“That was 17 years ago when Hiroshi Haneda visited the United States…”
“In order to cover up the fact that Nine Angels was cooperating with the Japanese police, Ms. Amanda stayed at that hotel as a fan of Hiroshi Haneda.”
“The police sent by Japan checked into the hotel under the pretext of vacation, and invited Hiroshi Haneda as a cover for the meeting, and went to the United States together.”
“But despite this, the cooperation between the two parties still leaked out.”
“The organization’s killers surrounded the hotel, eliminated the bodyguards around Ms. Amanda, and killed Ms. Amanda and Hiroshi Haneda one after another.”
“This is the truth of the case 17 years ago…”
With Luc Villiers’ statement, the truth of the case that had been hidden for many years was finally revealed.
After hearing this, everyone looked heavy-hearted.
Qin Zhibo recalled what Kuroda Bei said last time, which was basically the same as what Luc Villiers said.
The only difference was that Qin Zhibo did not expect that the first person to cooperate with the Nine Angels Organization would be the former Prime Minister of Japan.
The person who served as Prime Minister of Japan 17 years ago…I think his last name was Ooka.
“You seem to be very familiar with Ms. Amanda?” Qin Zhibo asked at this time.
Luc Villiers turned his head and nodded, “Yes.”
“Then I would like to ask, 17 years ago, did Ms. Amanda have a bodyguard named ‘Asaka’?”
“Asaka?”
Luc Villiers looked thoughtful for a moment, then said seriously, “You are asking about Rachel Asaka, right?”
“She is Ms. Amanda’s adopted daughter. I heard that her father was also Ms. Amanda’s bodyguard. After he died in an incident, she was adopted by Ms. Amanda.”
“Adopted daughter?”
Yusaku Kudo, who was sitting on the sofa nearby, rested his chin on his head and murmured, “Although there is no investigation result on the incident back then, the outside world is saying that Asaka was the murderer who killed Ms. Amanda 17 years ago.”
“Since she is innocent, why didn’t she contact your organization?”
Luc Villiers replied: “We are also confused about this, but since that incident, Rachel Asaka has indeed disappeared…”
“No, she may not have disappeared.”
Hearing this, Luc Villiers and others turned their heads and looked at Qin Zhibo in surprise.
Qin Zhibo said solemnly: “Some time ago, I found her in Japan. She is now a teacher in a Japanese elementary school…”
“It all started when I found someone posting details about the Haneda Hiroshi case online, and I looked up that person’s IP address and identity.”
“This person’s appearance is almost identical to the ‘Asaka’ that the Japanese police remembered when they came to the United States 17 years ago to discuss cooperation with Amanda.”
“It can be basically concluded that this person is ‘Rachel Asaka’.”
When Yukiko, who was sitting on the other side, heard the word “elementary school teacher”, she immediately thought of her beloved son who was still in elementary school.
Moreover, this investigation task was also the task that Qin Zhibo had given to Conan at the London meeting.
This made Yukiko worried, and she quickly asked, “Mr. Qin, the class this person teaches is not…”
Qin Zhibo nodded, confirming Yukiko’s guess.
“Yes, she is Conan’s teacher now.”
Hearing the affirmative answer, Yukiko’s eyes suddenly showed a hint of worry.
Seeing this, Kudo Yusaku comforted her, “Yukiko, Shinichi will be fine, and judging from what Mr. Villiers said, this man should not be a bad person.”
Kudo Yusaku was very relieved about his son. After all, he was a person with an unusual identity lurking in the open, so he would definitely be wary of him in normal times.
Qin Zhibo recalled the coded photo that Kuroda Bei asked him to explain during their conversation in Nagano Prefecture.
That was the photo that Kuroda Bei took at the scene of Amanda’s death. It was a chess knight piece with a watch on the outside.
There were red lipstick marks on the watch and the chess pieces.
Based on that photo, Qin Zhibo deduced the code “Be careful of Asaka”.
Does this code mean that Amanda is actually being wary of Asaka?
Or is it to remind Asaka to be careful?
Qin Zhibo expressed his thoughts.
Luc Villiers immediately replied: “I know the code, and I have deduced it.”
“It’s just that my reasoning is slightly different from yours. The conclusion I reached is ‘the murderer is the person wearing the monocle’…”
“Afterwards, we found the man who carried out the assassination plan and captured him. Unfortunately, he escaped in the end…”
Luc Villiers’ left eye blinked slightly. The pupil in his left eye was somewhat similar to a snake’s pupil, which was very different from his right eye.
At this time, Kudo Yusaku, an expert in reasoning, held Qin Zhibo’s mobile phone and looked at the photos on it. He pondered for a long time and finally spoke.
“I still tend to lean towards Mr. Qin’s reasoning…”
“If Amanda’s message before her death was directed to someone wearing a monocle, it would have been more accurate to put a lipstick print on only one side of the knight chess piece.”