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

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Even if the case is solved, it's just to create news for the big spenders, namely those reporters. Jiang Chengbei patiently captured the murderer alive to give the reporters an interview opportunity in order to boost their performance. Otherwise, wouldn't it have been easier to just shoot him?

Regarding the Metropolitan Police Department's delay in paying the reward, I've had several experiences trying to collect it. So far, I've only successfully recovered the money in two out of four cases; the other two are still in a state of indefinite procrastination and stalling. The reason for this situation is all the fault of those famous detectives with side jobs.

They are the ones who fostered the Metropolitan Police Department's habit of taking things for granted, making them think that helping solve cases is their duty. This is why Jiang Chengbei was able to get the 150 million bounty. And the reason he was able to get this money was because of the wanted poster, which clearly stated the price, plus the help of his journalist friends.

Otherwise, like the other two current cases, if we try to collect the debt, it will always be "the report is being written, the application is being submitted, and the approval from above has not yet been given. You have to wait a little longer. Our Metropolitan Police Department is also short of funds. We don't have any spare money this year. How about we wait for next year's budget?"

Wait until next year's fiscal year?

Jiang Chengbei, who knows that Conan's one-year term is indefinite and thirty years is a long term, how could he not know that this means he'll never get it?

The police haven't shown any intention of paying money in those two cases, so Jiang Chengbei doesn't have much time left.

Rather than letting the Metropolitan Police Department benefit for nothing, he thought it better to give the money to his underlings who were completely infatuated with him.

The 150 million yen that has already been obtained should be borne by his successor, the real Conan. No, that's not right. He has already given 1 yen, so the real Conan will only have to bear 149 million yen in the future... Still no, this is the Junior Detective League's public fund, and he can spend a quarter of it himself... And when another fund is added later, he can spend one-fifth of it, so he only needs to pay four-fifths of the 149 million yen, which is nearly 120 million yen.

Moreover, if the Teitan trio can go to the Metropolitan Police Department and make a scene to get back the rewards for the other two cases, their successor, the real Conan, might not only not have to pay out of his own pocket, but he could also make a fortune.

These are some of the thoughts that Jiang Chengbei had after he was about to say goodbye to his identity as Conan.

Now, he explained what he had thought of to the Teitan trio, clarifying the intricacies of the situation, and teaching them how to cause trouble at the Metropolitan Police Department and how to collect debts.

"A good life is right in front of us. Money you earn yourself tastes better when you spend it. This is the crime-solving fee that the Metropolitan Police Department owes our Junior Detective Club. Whether we can get it back depends on the three of you who are the pillars of the Junior Detective Club."

"Alright! Conan, don't worry, leave the debt collection to us. We won't let you down!"

Seeing the three boys full of fighting spirit and passion, Jiangcheng Peking University felt gratified.

They showed such strength that I can leave in peace.

Chapter 32 Murderer, you must pull yourself together! Hang in there!

After brainwashing the Teitan trio, Jiang Chengbei gave them ten thousand yen in pocket money to play around in the amusement park, and then he had to get back to his own business.

After the Teitan Three Idiots walked away happily, Jiang Chengbei climbed into the ventilation shaft that Ayumi, one of the Teitan Three Idiots, had found.

Once inside, in complete darkness, Jiang Chengbei took out night vision goggles he had bought from a regular store from the system's inventory, put them on, and then witnessed firsthand the murderer's agility, which was even more impressive than his own.

After all, Jiang Chengbei can only climb walls and jump around on skyscrapers right now. He can only jump from flat ground, and his average height is only about 4 meters.

He still felt inferior to this Superman who performed difficult stunts in the dark on a speeding roller coaster.

Envious of the extraordinary ability to maintain such an elegant posture on a fast-moving object, Jiang Chengbei took out the evidence bag after the roller coaster drove out of the tunnel, put on gloves, picked up the piano wire and iron hook hanging on the track, and carefully put them into the evidence bag to put away.

Next, he took out a flashlight and picked up the scattered pearls one by one. This was crucial to whether he could obtain the murderer's extraordinary abilities, so he picked them up with exceptional care, trying not to miss a single one.

In order to acquire this skill, Jiang Chengbei prepared two plans.

Plan A: Use the same old method. Use this evidence to threaten and blackmail her. Under her insatiable coercion, she will eventually have no choice but to kill him to silence him.

If Plan A fails, Jiang Chengbei will have to come up with Plan B, which will take time.

I have to wait until I return to my original form before I can take action, because a child's body can't handle complex emotional entanglements right now.

Then have a passionate, intense love affair with her, and finally be a scumbag, ruthlessly dump her, making her repeat the same trick, just like she killed her ex-boyfriend today, and then kill herself.

That's right, Plan B. Jiang Chengbei was just copying homework, and he copied it right under his own feet. Now he's missing his body and all he has left is a bald guy.

Senior, if things don't go well today, I will carry on your legacy. You can leave in peace and stop worrying about revenge.

Time flew by. After Jiang Chengbei finished cleaning up the scene, he put the evidence he found into his backpack, then carried it out of the tunnel. After finding the murderer, Xiaotong, he pulled her aside and whispered to her.

Just as Jiang Chengbei was fantasizing about how he would win her over and then triumphantly show her the evidence in his bag and offer her a price to buy it, she broke down without the slightest hesitation!

Can you imagine?

This murderer, who had just killed someone with her extraordinary abilities and whose hands were still warm, actually broke down when faced with a seven-year-old child who was the only one who knew the truth.

Having already made a good start, she had extensive experience in killing. Not only did she not think about killing Jiang Chengbei, this little kid, to silence him, but she also didn't think about stabilizing him first and then considering what to do. She completely broke down, crying and shouting that she wanted to turn herself in!

Fortunately, just as she was about to break down, Jiang Chengbei reacted quickly and immediately pulled out a megaphone and started playing square dancing music:

"the vast horizon is my love……"

At the same time, a large poster of Yoko Okino was pulled out and placed in front of Hitomi, which prevented everyone from noticing Hitomi kneeling in the corner, crying and shouting that she wanted to turn herself in.

We're all murderers, but I never expected this murderer to be so cowardly. Faced with a child's accusation, he didn't even try to delay or think of a solution. He's really a disgrace to the murderer community.

Since Plan A failed, we have no choice but to implement Plan B.

Plan B involves waiting until he returns to his original self before becoming a scumbag. Visiting her in prison every day is too troublesome for the sake of future relationships, so for now, he can only destroy the evidence for her and save her life.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chengbei put on gloves, took out the iron hook, piano wire, and pearl from his schoolbag, and wiped them clean in front of Xiaotong.

"Alright, stop crying. I'm really fed up with you. Fine, I've been defeated by you. I'll be a good guy this time. Now that I've destroyed the evidence, as long as you grit your teeth and deny it to the death, the police won't be able to do anything to you."

After saying that, Jiang Chengbei took out a pearl necklace from his pocket, similar in style to the scattered pearls, and tossed it to Xiaotong, saying helplessly:

"Put it on, but remember to pay me back for this necklace later."

Also, Shinichi Kudo is my mortal enemy. If he identifies you as the murderer, you must never admit it, no matter what.

If I'm helping you get off the hook, and you betray me and confess to your crimes, wouldn't that mean my sworn enemy, Shinichi Kudo, would solve the case and defeat me?

So even for my sake, as a kind passerby, you can't confess. Besides, there's no evidence now, so he can't do anything to you. Absolutely do not confess, understand?

"Huh?" After seeing what Jiang Chengbei had done and hearing what he said, Xiaotong was completely bewildered: Where am I? Who am I? What did I do?

Oh, right, I just killed someone... I guess I'll turn myself in...

"Little...little friend, I can't do it. I'll turn myself in instead. I won't implicate you, and I won't tell you what happened earlier..."

Jiang Chengbei: "..."

It seemed his words had been wasted. Jiang Chengbei sighed helplessly, feeling utterly exhausted.

"You bastard! Did you put a knife in the deceased's current girlfriend's bag?"

You're capable of framing innocent people—such a heinous act—and now you're stubbornly insisting you're not the murderer, refusing to admit it to the death. Why can't you do the same?

"Furthermore, your ex-boyfriend only broke up with you, and after the breakup he went to see your best friend, and you killed him. You could do something so brutal, and now you can't even plead guilty?"

"Wake up! If you turn yourself in, wouldn't your ex-boyfriend have been killed for nothing? Do you want to sacrifice your entire life's happiness to pay for the death of your unfaithful ex-boyfriend?"

Life is unpredictable, and things can happen unexpectedly. Jiang Chengbei, the witness, ended up having to do everything he could to encourage and motivate her, even resorting to reverse psychology, all in order to make the murderer pull himself together and never confess in front of the police.

Jiang Chengbei tries to persuade the murderer to pull himself together, while Kudo Shinichi is lost in confusion in the tunnel: Where's the murder weapon? Where did it go?

Of course, this time, because Xiaolan is here, the situation won't happen again, where the case is solved, the reporters finish their interviews, and the reporters take photos faster and more comprehensively than the forensic team does.

Not long after Xiaolan called the police, Megure, with dark circles under his eyes, arrived at the scene with his men, who also had dark circles under their eyes.

Ever since he announced his intention to adopt Conan, Inspector Megure has suffered greatly. He can't see his newly adopted son every day, and even when he does, it's always a scene of him climbing over the Metropolitan Police Department to get ahead and crushing the department into the mud.

At this moment, Inspector Megure couldn't help but start to doubt himself. Was he just too unlucky to be able to handle the tough-as-nails Conan?

A child who has no parents, no relatives, no friends, and hasn't even been adopted by an orphanage, yet manages to survive to the age of 7 through his own efforts—if you say he's not lucky, Inspector Megure would never believe it.

As for Conan's background information, although Inspector Megure was busy, he still asked the police officers in the Regional Division to help investigate. Just as Conan himself said, he was an unregistered person, and no information was found about him. It was as if he suddenly appeared out of the ground.

If we can't find anything, then we can only believe what he says for now and try to get more information out of him as we get to know him better.

Children who have been through the ups and downs of society are too wary; they don't tell the truth and are unwilling to honestly disclose anything.

It's so nice to be a recent college graduate. They're hardworking, honest, and easy to fool. I'm really looking forward to the rookie police officers recruited next year.

Chapter 33 Gin and Vodka: Watching from the sidelines, a pot falls from the sky.

After a while, Jiang Chengbei, with his silver tongue, finally persuaded the murderer to cheer up and give up his ridiculous idea of ​​turning himself in.

Having completed the most arduous task, Jiang Chengbei put on gloves and began buying one women's item after another from ordinary stores, such as the most common cosmetics and sparkly crystal ornaments.

Then open it, collect some of the cosmetics and other items inside into the system warehouse, and pretend that they have been used up and are old items.

"Take these, leave your fingerprints on them, and then put them in your bag."

Oh, and these things also need to be kept in the books. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, even if you end up in jail, you'll still have to pay.

As Jiang Chengbei spoke, he handed things to Xiaotong, only stopping when she had filled her bag.

After thinking it over, apart from the fact that the deceased's current girlfriend had an extra knife in her bag, there seemed to be no other clues.

So Jiang Chengbei, carrying the murder weapon, walked from the edge of the corner to the center of the crowd, found a prime spot, and prepared to carry out Plan C.

Before Plan C is implemented, the Jiangcheng North earthquake field will be tested first.

Seeing that Inspector Megure and his team had found a fruit knife at the body of the deceased Kishida's current girlfriend, and that the police were now framing the poor woman, Jiang Chengbei shouted:

"Inspector Megure, is this how you police officers handle cases?"

What makes you think that this weak woman, who can't even kill a chicken, can cut off the neck of an adult man with this little broken knife?

A person's neck is not just a piece of skin; it has a hard spine as big as a sandbag. How could a small, broken knife cut it in one stroke and make such a smooth cut?

Inspector Megure, you may have seen pigs run, but you must have chopped ribs before, right?

"You think you can chop those tiny ribs in mid-air with a fruit knife?"

Jiang Chengbei's words caused an uproar. At the same time, everyone suddenly realized that it was true. When chopping bones at home, a thick-bladed kitchen knife is used. A thinner fruit knife might break the knife first, regardless of whether the bone breaks.

After realizing this, the surrounding onlookers immediately started discussing it animatedly, and their words made the police officers present very embarrassed.

In particular, it was Megure, who was the leader, who first suggested that Ms. Aiko, who had a fruit knife in her handbag, was the murderer, and he even became so smug that he loudly announced it.

The more proud you were then, the more you regret it now.

Looking at the elementary school student pointing out his mistake, Inspector Megure couldn't help but miss Shinichi Kudo, who was currently investigating in the tunnel. If Shinichi were here, he would definitely give him face and tell him privately, instead of shouting it out loud like this ignorant elementary school student.

Sigh, elementary school students are just too young and impetuous; they don't know how to save face for the elderly.

Then Inspector Megure recalled how, back at the Metropolitan Police Department, Jiang Chengbei kept asking them for the reward money for solving the case, which almost drove them crazy.

Finally, having no other choice, they had to give him the 150 million yuan reward for two old cases that had already been issued.

As for the other two cases that just happened, they've already been solved, so how could the Metropolitan Police Department, which is short on funds, possibly prepare rewards?

So for now, all we can do is stall by saying we're writing a report, getting approval, or communicating with our superiors.

This elementary school student is annoying to the Metropolitan Police Department because he keeps collecting debts. But once he leaves the Metropolitan Police Department, he's annoyed because he solves cases all the time, even those old and unsolved cases that make the Metropolitan Police Department lose face.

What's especially annoying is that even after solving the case, he didn't notify the police immediately. He only wanted to get the limelight from reporters. By the time the reporters finished their interviews, took photos, and went back to write their reports, the police only found out about it from the onlookers. It's so annoying.

The kid is immature and doesn't understand that helping others is helping yourself. He'll suffer the consequences of his actions against the police one day and shed tears of regret.