Chapter 438 Conan: Could the joker be a summoned beast?
“Uh——”
“Mr. Hirata, Mr. Hirata!”
Mouri Kogoro, who paid special attention to Hirata and Akira’s condition because of Mourilan’s reminder, walked quickly. He rushed up and supported Hirata Kazuaki, who was having difficulty breathing and his face turned red.
The scene of Kuroiwa Tatsuji and Kawashima Hideo clutching their throats in pain as if they were suffocating, and then falling down with black mud flowing from their seven orifices, replayed in his mind.
Damn it, are we going to make the same mistake again?
“Hey, Miss Lingzi!”
Outside, the panicked shouts of Memu Shisan and several other policemen came.
Kuroiwa Lingzi covered her mouth, her face also turned red, and she fell to the ground weakly. Her fiancé Murasawa looked intact on Monday. He was hugging his girlfriend at a loss, calling her name and patting her back.
Mouri Kogoro and Megure Thirteen, who poked their heads out, looked at each other and both felt that something was wrong.
"Go out and take a look at the situation outside!" He helped Kuroiwa Lingzi, who was gasping for air and looking very painful, and Mumu Shisan shouted, "Look at the situation of other people on the island. Have any accidents happened?"
At the same time, just as the two of them fell to their knees in pain, wailing and crying were repeated over and over again in the residences of the entire island. At least half of the islanders were following them. Similar symptoms also appeared in the two moments when they showed signs of pain.
At this dawn when the sun is rising, only the mournful cries can be heard from all over Yueying Island.
The flames of the community activity center soared into the sky amidst the continuous wailing. The billowing smoke and bright fire almost merged with the rising sun.
"Mr. Chengshi..." I don't understand why he opened his arms like a sacrifice in a sea of fire, as if to welcome the engulfment of the flames, Mao Lilan still shouted his forcefully Name, trying to regain his sanity.
Oblivious to the fact that his eyes had been dyed golden, Asai Narumi just glanced at the two people outside the window who were covered in mud smoke, and smiled.
What a warm feeling... was his father calling him?
Although he was not sure whether it was working, Asai Narumi, who was vaguely aware that he was slowly grasping some power, slowly closed his eyes.
Let this fire be the baptism of the island's rebirth. This is the last thing he can do for it as a child of Moon Shadow Island.
When Conan lowered his hands feebly and Mao Lilan, who was hugging him, also fell to the ground, a black figure flew past them like lightning, heading towards them without looking back. Conan fell out of the room and rushed through the breach in the window.
Conan quickly turned his eyes, which were hurt by the fire, and saw a line that was redder and brighter than the flames. Surrounded by the flames, it drew a bright, bright red mark like the rising sun.
"It's the Phantom Thief Joker..." Although they had already known that the Phantom Thief of Hearts was nearby because of the emblem on the music score, Mao Lilan was still extremely surprised when they saw Joker appear and rush towards the fire. .
Didn’t she remember that the old policeman told them that no one else had landed on the island recently?
Joker!
Conan opened his eyes wide, and Asai Narumi's quite familiar line just now suddenly crossed his ears.
Could this be some code-like content? The joker who heard these words came in response to the call?
Thinking back to what happened at the holographic game conference not long ago, he seemed to really understand something.
Yes, Noah's Ark said something similar at the beginning of everything, after all the children entered the play cabin...and then, hiss...
I don't know about thinking. The well-developed detective classmate was arranging something for him outside. Karasawa, who was driving the fire escape, quickly passed through the hole made by Conan and jumped into the piano room where Asai Narumi was.
“Do you want to kill all those people as a reward for us?” Seeing with his own eyes the way Narumi Asai, the shadow, knew that the world was about to go on a killing spree, Karasawa said with certainty Asked this question.
"Isn't this the reason why you came to me?" Looking at Karasawa with a pair of golden eyes, Asai Narumi spread his hands, "I also have abilities similar to yours, don't I? As early as two years ago, I killed the previous village chief out of unconscious rage. You wanted to eradicate those things, and I was the right person..."
"I don't deny you. "Ignoring the flames surrounding him, Karasawa walked slowly across the burning floor and walked to Asai Narumi, "But like I said... Do you want to try our method? "< br>
“Isn’t that exactly what your method is?” Asai Narumi tilted her head in confusion.
Using the cognitive world to efficiently detect intelligence and kill targets efficiently, the members of the Phantom Thieves have demonstrated this to him one by one. It was only after understanding all of this that he deeply understood that he could To what extent.
At least on this island, all those with evil intentions will turn into flames with him as he burns his own will...
"That's just one of the choices...Aso Minoru, aren't you curious why we found you and locked on you so quickly?" He once again used the tone of "Have you heard of Amway?" , Karasawa lowered his voice a little, not only to prevent Conan from hearing the whole content, but also to make the atmosphere a little more persuasive, "Want to see with your own eyes, the 'dark side of Moon Shadow Island'? And, 'Mr. Gravekeeper of Moon Shadow Island'..."
Having slightly heard the implication in Karasawa's tone, Asai Narumi's eyes slowly widened a little.
Soon, he let out a self-deprecating laugh.
"What I said is indeed true...I, with my hands stained with blood, am just like them, a hopeless bastard."
"It's more complicated than you think. Some." Tang Ze stretched out his hand towards him again, "The human heart is not static, and the human self is not always firm. Good people may not have inner demons, and bad people may not have inner struggles... That is a world of cognition. It contains the evil of human nature, and it also contains the good of human nature.”
Asai Narumi, who had followed him to the cognitive world several times, naturally understood the meaning of this action, and her eyes couldn't help but fall on his gloved palm.
"Joker!" Against the thick smoke blown by the wind to his face, Conan tried his best to see everything in the room clearly, and shouted the other person's name with all his strength, "Come out quickly, the house is going to collapse... "
"'Narumi Asai' has passed away in the flames of self-destruction. Are you interested in seeing your own world, the dead person?" This sentence has been foreshadowing for a long time. The words were thrown out, and Tang Ze ignored the gradually rolling down building structure, which was slowly burying the entire room, and still stood in the distance, waiting for his answer.
"Dead people." Asai Narumi repeated the word, "Dead people...what you said is correct."
They are no longer afraid of death. , what kind of truth is he unable to accept?
Once again, Asai Narumi held his hand.
Narimi Asai, whose clothes had been ignited by the flames, disappeared into the center of the fire together with the figure of the joker.
The next second, the community activity center that had been built for more than ten years collapsed completely with a roar, and fell with great force under the light of the fire.
"Mr. Cheng Shi! joker!" Witnessing this scene, Mao Lilan couldn't help but let out a cry of grief.
Conan, whose heart was also in his throat, swallowed. However, thinking of Joker's glorious deeds in the past, he didn't think that this guy would really die in a fire.
The box C4 that almost destroyed the Shinkansen train theoretically caused much more damage than the flames and building debris...
Looking at Mao Lilan's heartbroken look, Conan scratched his head. He scratched his cheek, and the pain decreased a little.
As for how to deal with Asai Narumi and how to characterize it... He also has a headache.
On the one hand, reasoning from the perspective of motivation, the real murderer must be Asai Narumi.
But on the other hand, the methods he used were left to the forensics department to deal with, which can only be said to be helpless...not to mention that among the three deceased, there was Ken Nishimoto who committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.
Even if Asai Narumi frankly told him that he was the murderer, could the law really confirm this and make him pay the price? Conan wasn't so sure.
So, half out of genuine concern for his friends, half out of a vague suspicion, Conan wiped away the broken glass on his body and the black ash on his face, and rubbed it on his clothes Clean, he secretly took out his mobile phone and pressed it.
【Are you okay? Did you rescue Asai Narumi?
From your conversation, he is the murderer you came into contact with from the beginning... So you failed to stop him, is it really because you wanted to use him to get rid of these drug dealers? The method he used...really has nothing to do with you? 】
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“Quite sharp.” After hearing the news relayed by Noah, Karasawa dragged Asai Narumi, who had briefly lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen, and flew forward with a relaxed expression. He commented, "As expected, let me tell you, since he has roughly understood through me that there is a kind of power that makes all wishes come true in the world, he will definitely connect these unexplained supernatural deaths with us. "It's related."
"Is this okay, leader?" He kicked a zombie-like cognitive doll away, and took advantage of it to fly into the air and float again. Get up, "This is indeed something we did wrong, right?"
"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't do it." Walking through the Yueying Island with a very subdued atmosphere, Karasawa jumped Climbing to the roof, he continued his galloping movements, with a series of dirty words coming out of his mouth, "Ask yourself, Cheng Shi, who did this? He made his own decisions and moved his own hands. We He's just a toll collector. He stabbed people to death with a kitchen knife. It doesn't make sense for you to catch someone selling kitchen knives."
Noah glanced at Tang Ze with a strange look.
Are you sure? Although Asai Naomi had originally made a killing plan, it was temporarily changed into what it is today, and killing everyone so efficiently in one night would be inappropriate to say that you had no contribution, right?
"Okay, no kidding." After finishing this paragraph, Tang Ze became a little more serious, "Chengshi's own power can indeed achieve this effect...the reason why he treated the three of them before It didn't work for me personally, not because Cheng Shi didn't want to, but because the three of them have a palace..."
"Oh, that's it..." Noah suddenly realized.
As the palace master linked to the Impression Space, Kameyama Village Chief who died of a heart attack two years ago was actually killed by the power awakened by Asai Narumi.
However, the impression space and the palace are independent spaces from each other. There is probably only one case like Asai Narumi's integration with the public palace in the process of awakening.
It is easy for him to kill other shadows, but for these three leaders who have slipped into his palace, from the perspective of understanding the world, Shadow Asai is really helpless.
Wanting to understand this logic, Noah completely understood Tang Ze’s sophistry and rolled his eyes.
It's really white, the kind where the data flow in the eyes has disappeared.
"So, as long as he reads other people's and Asai's self-reports, he will immediately be convinced that these are all done by the 'awakened Asai'?" Noah clicked his tongue twice, " While assisting others to avenge their blood relatives, while sifting the blame so cleanly... You are worthy of being the leader. After all, the leader is the leader, and even his skills are so outstanding.
"Just think I'm being sophistical." Tang Ze laughed twice, and his voice was full of confidence. "Whether you kill people or not, superheroes are all superheroes. However, I won't completely put these things into perspective. Get rid of it."
Because...this is indeed the same effect that his power can achieve.
Tangze thinks that he is a good person for the time being, and he also thinks that he cannot commit acts of wanton killing out of a moment of righteous indignation... But, who knows?
People will change, and people's cognition will change little by little.
Holding too much information will make him often use a condescending perspective to judge and appraise the status and nature of others. In the final analysis, it is still based on personal subjective opinions and the perspective of judging others.
Who can guarantee that his subjectivity will maintain such a simple concept of justice and a universal sense of morality throughout his life?
His declaration of war against Conan was not a joke.
Absolute freedom will lead to slippage, and absolute self will lead to blindness.
He needs a Sword of Damocles hanging above his head. When he really deviates from the bottom line and endangers what he is supposed to protect, it will fall heavily.
So...
"Reply him for me." After picking up Asai Narumi and crossing the passage of the Fox Window, Karasawa said to Noah, "Just say, 'You can think so. I can only tell you that this is all due to his own ego. Will, I have never induced him to make any choice. On the contrary, I am the referee waiting for him to make a decision...'"
[...Don't you always think that if my power is out of control, it will bring consequences? Irreversible consequences?
Now you see what the consequences are.
As I said, being able to be destroyed after turning into a monster is also a kind of heroic romance.
When you feel that you have really reached that point, there is no need to hesitate, Detective. Trust your own judgment. 】
After reading the end of the email, Conan closed his eyes and wrapped himself in the blanket.
The exhaustion of not being able to sleep well all night, together with the powerlessness of watching people fall into the sea of fire in front of him, and the news conveyed by this email, weighed heavily on his heart, making him feel even heavier. .
Narimi Asai is also a person with similar powers to Joker... This is the reason why the Phantom Thieves are trying to contact him.
Through the mouths of Maori Kogoro and other horrified island residents, he learned that many people, especially the daughters of Hirata and Kuroiwa village chiefs, had almost followed in the footsteps of the deceased. He quickly realized that at that time What did Asai Narimi want to do with her hands open?
He wants to kill all the people he thinks are guilty. He wants to use an extreme cleaning method to make the island clean.
No wonder, Joker wanted to use that reason to persuade Asai Narumi, telling him that human nature is complicated and cannot be generalized to everyone... It's just a short step away from turning this island into a Shura ghostland.
Seeing Narumi Asai in the sea of fire, as if he had stepped into an altar, waiting for death, he seemed to have seen the ending of the joker after he came to the end and fell into the abyss...
That's right What to do, how to prevent him from going to such a dead end? And am I really qualified to be the judge who wields a knife against monsters?
If joker reaches this point, there will be no rescuers to rescue him from self-destruction and prevent him from using his power to destroy everything to the extreme.
"Conan, are you feeling better?" Mao Lilan looked at the clear sky outside the window with a particularly gloomy mood, turned her head, looked at Conan who was in a daze, and said aloud, "I told them that we saw the Phantom Thief Joker , but the islanders are convinced that we are the only three tourists who have visited the island recently. They don’t really trust our statement.”
With the exposure of Asai Narumi's identity, his self-immolation in the fire has been recognized by everyone.
However, the other adults did not want to accept the idea of the thief Joker, who might have saved people, or who might have hooked him up if he failed to save people.
After all, appearing abruptly and disappearing into the fire sounds too magical...
"How is it, is there any result?" Seeing the work done, The forensic doctors walked out of the room where the remains were placed. Mouri Kogoro at the other end of the corridor immediately turned his head, "Is it some new compound poison? I have never seen anything with similar symptoms."
Already learned As a member of the drug trade chain on the island, he is not afraid to speculate on the situation on the island with the greatest malice.
He saw the poppy production area under Conan's guidance. With this model of taking care of everything from the production side, no one would believe that there was no part related to chemical synthesis on the island. The police have already taken people to search several workshops on the island, and I believe the results will be available soon.
A place that is proficient in chemical engineering, who knows if it will come up with any new poisons?
"Our judgment is that there are no signs of poisoning, Mr. Maori." Without taking off his mask, the male forensic doctor who came with the team said dullly, "Many signs appeared on the two deceased people. It can be proven that they died of acute heart failure and other organ failure due to ischemia, and neither of them had a history of heart disease... Although it is indeed very bizarre, we cannot characterize it as poisoning and have not detected any similar signs. "
"What!" Mouri Kogoro shouted in a high voice.
The next second, a cry louder than his voice came from outside the door.
"I want to surrender, I want to surrender!" A man, still wearing home clothes, came in crying with the support of his wife, "I'm sorry, I'm guilty, gentlemen police, I'm guilty...I, I assisted Hirata and the others have transported drugs before, and because they knew the contents, I charged a very high extra fee..."
At this point, the rhythm entered a familiar state.
Conan, who is still thinking about a hundred ways for the Phantom Thief of Black Heart to die and destroy the world before his death: "..."
Back, the familiar smell is back ……
Go to bed early, I have a splitting headache!
I will write an extra update during the day tomorrow
I thought I could write about Asai Narumi’s awakening today... I’ll definitely do it tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)