Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 421 What kind of wine is this?

  Thinking of this, Amuro was silent for a moment, and gently suggested: "If you like it, you might as well raise one yourself." Then don't take this kind of entrustment and harm other people's cats...

  Amuro Toru remembered that a few days ago, he also took back a familiar cat that was paralyzed on the street in the office. The cat may have looked familiar to him, and didn't bother to run away when he approached... If things go on like this, these cats may gradually get used to the stray life, changing from house cats to street cats, and then to town cats, city cats, county cats, and county cats. Cats and even national cats... are not good for cats, nor are they good for the firm's reputation.

   However, Jiang Xia shook his head regretfully: "There is no time and no manpower - you are rarely in the office, and I often travel on business."

   Amuro Toru: "...Who said you were raised in the office? You are raised at home."

   "No." Jiang Xia still shook his head.

   He thought about the raw materials of ghost mint at home, and made a gesture of the shape of the flowerpot: "I have a lot of potted plants in my house."

Next to   , the mermaid stuck his head out from behind Jiang Xia, and nodded in agreement - those potted plants are all raw materials for making ghost mint, and they must not be scratched by cats.

And she doesn't like cats, she always feels that in front of cats, the tail will be very dangerous... Thinking of this, the mermaid turned around and looked at the cats in the cage, then silently climbed up to Jiang Xia, covering the cats with Jiang Xia's body possible gaze. Then he cherished his beautiful fish tail.

   Amuro Toru is thoughtful, is it inconvenient to keep a cat at home?

  ... Could it be true that your conjecture that "Jiang Xia accepted the commission is to rub the client's cat"?

Although it sounds a bit absurd, think about it carefully - these cats have a full range of breeds, and they are usually taken care of. In turn, it will scratch people... It seems very reasonable for Jiang Xia to maintain the cat-hunting business when he does not have to worry about catching cats and someone does it for him.

  ... just a little sorry for the customer.

but……

  Amuro turned his head and looked at the Chocolate Hills on the other side of the living room with a small voice.

  ... Even the owner of the cat doesn't mind, he'd better stay out of his business.

   Moreover, Jiang Xia is not a cat abuser. The cats like him quite a bit. Except for a few lively people who love freedom, they are all familiar with Jiang Xia.

   Amuro Toru temporarily stopped thinking about these trivial matters.

   He remembered the purpose of coming to the office today, and asked Jiang Xia casually:

   "I remember a few days ago, you received a letter of entrustment from Moon Shadow Island, and you said that the wording of the letter looked like a murder notice-why didn't you see your report on the island?"

   Amuro Toru will be interested in this matter, and I will start this morning.

   Early morning.

When he handed over the information about the Inoue real estate with Gin, who had come back from nowhere, he habitually glanced at the Gin bag—for an intelligence officer, paying attention to all the sights passing by in front of him is the most basic thing. operation. This little gesture might be annoying, but it's not too suspicious.

   In the past, it was difficult for Amuro Toru to get information from Gin in this way.

   But today, I don’t know why, Gin’s mental state doesn’t seem to be very good, and there is a faint tiredness after being tense for a long time.

   So this time, Amuro Toru succeeded in finding an unfinished mission report in his bag.

   Then saw an eye-catching word on it - Ouzo.

   As an undercover agent of the organization, Amuro thoroughly memorized the names of various liquors.

   He searched his memory for a while, and quickly remembered that it was a Greek spirit—it would appear on the organization's mission report, and it was undoubtedly the codename of an official member.

   But strangely, Amuro Toru discovered that he had never heard of the person "Uzo" before.

   This made him quite concerned.

——In Amuro Toru's impression, the people who can go on missions with Jinjiu, except for some cannon fodder scheduled to be paid off within the organization and employees who are in urgent need of retirement, the rest are mostly old people who have been with the organization for many years, loyalty have been confirmed.

During the years when   Amuro was undercover, he had been in contact with many organizational cadres with code names, and he was familiar with a large number of wine names.

   Especially here in Tokyo.

Even if he hasn't met, he still has a general list in his heart, and he can even vaguely guess the fields that everyone is good at... But this "Uzo" who suddenly appeared is completely unknown and has never been on his list. appeared.

  ...But Uzo can go on missions with Gin. Moreover, judging from the position of the name on the mission report, "Ouzo" was indeed the participant in the mission, not the target being executed.

   That is to say, he cannot be an incompetent cannon fodder.

  ... Could it be a new face just transferred from another branch?

   Or, Uzo has always been a resident member of other branches, and is only responsible for cooperating with Jinjiu during business trips abroad?

  … Both are possible.

  The former——The organization has a lot of affairs in the Tokyo area, and the loss rate of members is also high. It takes a lot of time to cultivate good cadres, and it is difficult to replenish manpower. The operation of transferring people is quite common.

   And the latter speculation is not without reason - in Amuro Toru's impression, gin does not have procrastination. But this time, after getting the relevant news about Inoue Real Estate, Jin Jiu came to him for a long time to hand over the relevant information... This shows that Jin Jiu is likely to be unable to escape from something.

  Tokyo has been surprisingly calm these days, and I haven't heard of any important people dying.

   Therefore, Amuro is more inclined to cause Gin to be "inseparable", and it happens in other places - that is to say, Uzo is a cadre of other branches.

  …

   After having doubts about the new wine on the file, Amuro thought about it, and it's not a secret that he likes to observe other people's data anyway.

   So he simply asked Jinjiu generously: "A new face is here? Why haven't I heard of it before?"

   Gin's reaction at that time left a deep impression on Amuro.

  ——The deep organization cadre's movement of gathering the information paused for a while, and glanced at him with a tilted head. There was an indescribable strange pleasure in his eyes, and an indescribable sense of superiority.

   And after this positive emotion, I don't know what Gin remembered, but there was a little more subtle complexity and subtle fear in his expression.

  ...Maybe because there are too many elements, or a strong sense of confidentiality.

In short, after Amuro asked about the information in the Jinjiu bag, Jinjiu didn't mention anything about "Uzo", but just usually took out a gun and pointed it at Amuro, leaving a sentence "Take care of your eyes and be patient. Keep looking around and I'll dig it up for you" and then strode away with the materials and vodka.

   Amuro Toru also slowly put down the gun he just took out in sync with Gin and pointed at the opponent.

   He looked at Gin's back, his eyes moved to Vodka next to him, his expression gradually became solemn.

   (end of this chapter)