Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

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"Hey kid, aren't you a member of the Mori family? I saw you when you came to school with Mr. Mori before. Why are you all alone now? Where are your parents?"

"Get in the car, little one, I'll take you home. Don't be afraid, I'm your teacher. We met at Beihu Elementary School before, remember?"

To avoid making Sugiyama Ryota anxious, Jiang Chengbei considerately thought of him and happily got into the car as soon as he finished speaking, without treating himself as an outsider at all.

Seeing that Jiang Chengbei got into his car so easily, Sugiyama Ryota was overjoyed.

Seeing how easily Sugiyama Ryota invited him to get in the car, Jiang Chengbei was equally delighted.

Everyone is happy; it's a win-win situation.

Chapter 18 I, Jiang Chengbei, never initiate a killing unless you strike first.

"What? You and Mr. Mori aren't biological father and son. He's just a tool you used to help you find a school?"

"What? You're an orphan with a large inheritance, and you have no relatives or guardians, all alone?"

Facing the innocent and naive elementary school students, Sugiyama Ryota easily found out the true situation in Jiangchengbei.

Of course, Jiang Chengbei was not lying. He really was an orphan, but he had a large amount of cash. He was not a rich second-generation, but he was richer than a rich second-generation.

Although he doesn't have much money right now, if he were to exchange the 130 million in cash in the system for goods, even if it were a legal transaction, thanks to the great Japanese Agricultural Cooperative, selling watermelons, rice, or other agricultural products, his assets could increase dozens or even hundreds of times.

After all, the prices in ordinary stores are the lowest in the Conan world, so it's normal that most agricultural products, such as vegetables and fruits, are dozens of times cheaper in other developing countries than in Japan.

The reason Jiang Chengbei is thinking about how reselling items from the system's ordinary stores can increase his assets dozens of times is because, after explaining that he has no parents and no one will protect or care for him, he deliberately closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep in order to facilitate Sugiyama Ryota's actions.

And what about Sugiyama Ryota?

While Jiang Chengbei was asleep, he checked the money in the schoolbag and found that it was real. He also learned that all of Jiang Chengbei's money was in the schoolbag and that he had no other assets. He had already made up his mind.

This is the best gift God has given me.

Ryota Sugiyama could not hide his excitement. With these thoughts in mind, he drove the car to the suburbs as fast as he could.

……

When the car stopped at the deserted, abandoned factory, Sugiyama Ryota, who had experience in killing, immediately revealed his vicious face.

Just when he thought he had victory in his grasp, bundles of Fukuzawa Yukichi were flying towards him. He picked up a rope, preparing to strangle the helpless 7-year-old child before him, just as he had strangled Minako three years ago.

Having obtained 2 kill coins, Jiang Chengbei jumped to the side and, as if by magic, pulled out a 660mm long MP5.

Without any further ado, a burst of fire took down the MP5 with 30 bullets, while Sugiyama Ryota only lost his two legs. In terms of numbers, Sugiyama Ryota came out on top.

Jiang Chengbei was very satisfied with his performance; what he wanted was a counterattack.

What a great system! Although he used a gun against the murderer who only had cold weapons, every time the murderer tried to kill him, Jiang Chengbei was forced to fight back out of desperation. He was only acting in self-defense, and he was only killing back.

"Stop squealing like a pig, or I'll break your hand. Tell me, who else was with you in killing Minako three years ago?"

As Jiang Chengbei changed the empty magazine, he asked Sugiyama Ryota, who was lying on the ground groaning.

After Jiang Chengbei changed the magazine and pulled the bolt, Sugiyama Ryota, who was wailing in pain, quickly confessed to his accomplice in the murder three years ago in order to avoid having his hands riddled with bullet holes.

"Besides Kohei Shimoda, who else has killed someone?"

In Jiangcheng North, those who have killed people are always the best candidates.

After all, everything is difficult at the beginning. Once you get past the first hurdle and start, it's always easier to develop the desire to kill again and put it into action than to have never killed anyone before.

Unfortunately, among all the people Sugiyama Ryota knew, he had only killed someone with Shimoda; he didn't know any of the other murderers.

"Since there are only two of you who committed murder, then you should honestly confess who else was involved in the illegal sale of school places with you, or who else committed crimes or illegal acts."

Next, Jiang Chengbei obtained a lot of information from Sugiyama Ryota. He explained the situation in Shimoda clearly, and he also confessed to several other people who had violated the rules.

After listening to Sugiyama Ryota's account, Jiang Chengbei realized that the other people's violations were not very serious. Even if they had broken the law, it wasn't that serious. They probably wouldn't kill someone to cover it up for such a small matter, right?

Forget it, there's no point in thinking about it anymore. After draining Sugiyama Ryota's mind of all the information, Jiang Chengbei gave him a quick death, saving him from agonizing wails and continuing to live a life worse than death.

After dealing with Sugiyama Ryota, Jiang Chengbei poured gasoline he had bought from the system onto Sugiyama's body and his car, and set them all on fire.

After finishing all this and confirming that nothing important was left at the scene, Jiang Chengbei bought the smallest scooter from an ordinary store, stood on it, and barely managed to ride away.

Even though he resold college admission slots, Sugiyama Ryota didn't make a fortune. This extra income didn't make him rich. His meager assets were mostly spent on houses and cars, or deposited in banks. He didn't have much cash on hand, and his family didn't keep much money either.

Since the assets weren't cash, Jiang Chengbei couldn't collect them into the system even if he sold them. So, he didn't gain much from the ordinary store's funds. However, he did gain two Kill Coins from the Ke Xue store, bringing his total savings to 5 Kill Coins.

As for the skills in the Conan Shop, there is now an additional music skill from Sugiyama Ryota. As for life skills that are not very useful at the moment, Jiang Chengbei does not plan to buy them now. He can buy them later when he is really rich and has nowhere to spend his kill coins.

With 5 kill coins, Jiang Chengbei immediately spent 4 kill coins to upgrade his Wall-Running skill, raising it from level 2 to level 3.

Jiang Chengbei has already tried the level 3 wall-climbing technique. Jumping 3 meters high on flat ground and using the wall as leverage, he can now easily jump onto a 7 or 8-meter-high wall.

Besides jumping higher and farther, Jiang Chengbei's agility has also improved a lot, and his reaction speed has surpassed that of ordinary people. Now, even without Ke Xue's props, he should be able to fight an unarmed adult with just a wooden stick.

After upgrading to the Flying Wall skill, I now only have 1 Kill Coin left in Jiangcheng North, so I have to go back to work hard to earn resources.

After leaving the abandoned factory where the murder occurred, Jiang Chengbei changed his clothes and used several different modes of transportation. Sometimes he rode a bicycle, sometimes he skateboarded, sometimes he used roller skates, and sometimes he walked. Since there were ordinary stores that provided supplies, and the items he used could be stored in the system's warehouse, Jiang Chengbei kept changing his methods to hide his whereabouts.

The system warehouse can store items produced by the system, but it cannot store items from outside the system. Therefore, the system warehouse has another use: it can be used as a washing machine or cleaning machine for system items.

Since it's not possible to collect things from the outside world, after collecting system items, the collected items are essentially cleaned up, and the outside items fall directly to the ground.

For example, the fingerprints on Jiang Chengbei's gun disappeared after he put the gun into the system, but the smell of gunpowder remained because the bullets were also produced by the system.

After a long journey, Jiang Chengbei finally returned to downtown Tokyo from the abandoned factory in the suburbs. He checked into a hotel and shopped on the sofa while waiting for nightfall.

I purchased some Chinese delicacies from the system. At this point in time, it's like being able to sample food from all over the country at rock-bottom prices. It's truly high quality at a low price, and I don't even have to go anywhere or open the door to pick up the package. It's even more convenient than online shopping.

Even if you want to change things up, you can buy food from all over the world at the lowest prices in the real market, with great discounts.

Before he even shrunk in Chapter 19, a serial killer came to challenge the high school detective.

It was late at night, and Shimoda Kohei, the homeroom teacher of Class A in the fourth grade at Beihu Elementary School, was about to wash up and go to bed when the phone suddenly rang.

After answering the phone and listening to what "Sugiyama Ryota" was saying breathlessly on the other end, Shimoda Kohei was no longer sleepy and even became very excited.

After hanging up the phone, Kohei Shimoda immediately put on his coat, mask, and hat, grabbed a fruit knife, hurriedly closed the door, and ran towards Beika Park, which was not far from his home.

Kohei Shimoda did this because Sugiyama, who was panting heavily on the phone, told him:

He spotted a fat sheep, but he couldn't handle the sheep's bodyguards by himself. Now he could only distract the sheep's bodyguards and take them for a walk, while he needed to go to Tian Gengping to deal with the lone sheep.

Kohei Shimoda was, after all, a teacher, and he wouldn't do robbery. But when he heard that the fat sheep was just a seven-year-old child with no parents and no one to rely on, and that the child was carrying tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of cash in his schoolbag, he immediately changed his mind.

Screw elementary school teacher!

In order to achieve financial freedom, Kohei Shimoda doesn't mind playing the role of a robber.

After all, they killed even a primary school student in his teens three years ago. Are they going to be afraid of a six or seven-year-old child today?

As for whether this was true or not, and whether Sugiyama might be lying to him, Shimoda hadn't considered that at all.

Based on their friendship—their involvement in murder three years ago, their involvement in reselling college admissions, and their shared criminal past—how could they possibly lack even this much trust?

Shimoda never doubted Sugiyama's character, but in the end he was still deceived by Sugiyama's voice.

It's not that Shimoda is ignorant; it's just that the Conan-themed gadgets are too overpowered.

The voice changer created by Dr. Agasa can not only change your voice, but also allow you to imitate whoever you want. It can even absorb and cover up the original voice, so there is no interference between the two voices when using it.

Jiang Chengbei could understand voice changing, but the fact that the original voice he spoke disappeared and was directly replaced by the target's voice was beyond Jiang Chengbei's understanding of physics.

Although it's hard to understand, in any case, by using Sugiyama Ryota's voice to lure out the greedy murderer Shimoda Kohei.

Panting, Shimoda ran to the northeast corner of Beika Park, and just as Sugiyama had said, he saw a little boy carrying a schoolbag and wearing a blue suit.

Shimoda saw Jiang Chengbei, who was waiting there. Jiang Chengbei also saw Shimoda. There was no system message yet, so it seemed that Shimoda's murderous intent had not been aroused. So Jiang Chengbei grabbed his schoolbag and ran.

Upon seeing him, Shimoda became even more certain that this was the fat sheep that "Sugiyama" had mentioned, so he chased after him without a second thought.

After running a few steps, Jiang Chengbei seemed to trip and rolled on the ground before getting up. Although he was unharmed, the cash in his backpack was scattered all over the ground.

Upon seeing so much cash on the ground, Shimoda's eyes immediately turned red. Then, disregarding priorities, he abandoned Jiang Chengbei and pounced on the cash, intending to collect the money first before considering the child, Jiang Chengbei.

drop by drop...

Just as Shimoda was dazzled by the cash in front of him, the ticking of his phone's buttons snapped him out of his dream of money.

Jiang Chengbei now has only two tricks up his sleeve: either act as an eyewitness in front of the criminals and lure them to kill him to silence him, or offer a large sum of cash to entice the criminals to rob him. If they still don't make a move, then he can only pretend to call the police in front of them, holding up his phone.

Faced with the prospect of losing bundles of 10,000 yen bills on the ground, and the prospect of being arrested and imprisoned, would he rather go all the way and kill the witnesses to keep the money for himself? With his experience in murder, Shimoda Kohei didn't hesitate and immediately chose the latter.

Jiang Chengbei rolled on the ground again, dodging the fruit knife that Shimoda swung at him. After seeing two messages in the system and confirming that he had obtained 2 kill coins, Jiang Chengbei finally showed the sinister smile that Conan often had, along with his glasses that reflected white light.

With a single click, Jiang Chengbei donned a transparent raincoat, completely covering himself up. Suddenly, he had an MP5K with a silencer in his hand, the butt of the gun against his shoulder, leaving Shimoda Kohei, who was charging at him with a fruit knife, completely stunned.

"It was all a misunderstanding. I'm actually a primary school teacher, I'm not..."

Upon seeing the raincoat and gun that appeared out of nowhere, Shimoda Kohei immediately chickened out. At the same time, he reacted quickly, raising his hand as he spoke.

Puff puff……

If there's truth, who the hell would waste time talking to you? Jiang Chengbei pulled the trigger directly, wasting a little time, and then emptied the magazine and sent Tian Gengping down to meet up with Sugiyama Ryota.

After emptying his magazine and firing a few more shots into Shimoda's head, Jiang Chengbei collected the cash and schoolbag on the ground into his system and disappeared into the darkness.

……

A few hours later, after Jiang Chengbei returned to the hotel, took a shower, and fell into a comfortable sleep, on the other side, Shinichi Kudo, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a phone call and then asked to do volunteer work at Beika Park.

Asking a minor for help in the middle of the night is unethical, but the Metropolitan Police Department was cornered and had no choice but to ask for help.

Based on the situation at the scene and all the case information, it can be seen that the shooting murder case in Beika Park and the murder case in Beika Library are not exactly the same, but they are definitely the work of the same murderer.

More than 30 bullet heads and more than 30 bullet casings were found at the scene. Whether considering the horrific state of the victims, the brutality of the perpetrator, or the terrifying firepower of the murder weapon, this is a major case, far exceeding the traditional crafts of Mikaku.

I had hoped it was just an isolated incident, but the worst thing happened. One person was killed last night, and another died tonight. This is no longer an isolated incident, but a serial killing case.

Moreover, the murderer was a heavy-firepower gunman with at least an MP5K submachine gun and a pistol, making him far more dangerous than those old-timers who use knives, ropes, cyanide, or other fancy tricks.

The agreement was that everyone should earn their living through their own skills, but now a rebellious murderer with a submachine gun and no sense of martial ethics has appeared, which is giving Inspector Megure a headache. He has even lost interest in finding his godson Conan, who has been living in exile.

"Brother Kudo, I'm going to have to trouble you with this case again."

Upon seeing Shinichi Kudo arrive, Inspector Megure, with his dark circles under his eyes, sighed several times.

With Kudo's help, Inspector Megure could have gotten rid of the Beika Library case, but with another case tonight, it seems impossible to escape these two cases.

The reason we were able to get rid of the Beika Library case wasn't because Shinichi Kudo helped solve the case or provided clues about the culprit.

It was because, after a whole day of investigation and deduction, Shinichi Kudo finally discovered that the deceased, Tsugawa, was a drug dealer, and a high-ranking one at that, with his own supply and distribution channels. Even if he wasn't at the top of the drug trafficking network, he was at least in the middle.