klisemfg Chapter 1032 Eliminate 1 correct answer first
Chapter 1032 Eliminate 1 correct answer first
Chapter 1032: Eliminate a Correct Answer First
"So, you came to me just to ask this?"
After listening to Conan's question, Tangze scooped the last bit of ice cream left at the bottom of the cup.
"About what the organization did with my parents' research, and what happened to the victims of the experiments?"
"Yes. You said before that the organization is using the medical equipment your parents researched to implant psychological suggestions. In other words, there is a program similar to 'brainwashing', right? What else?" Conan nodded solemnly.
Tang Ze is the closest person he can find to the truth of the organization's experiments.
It is possible that Huibara knows something about the situation, but asking her would be the same as asking Tang Ze directly. She will definitely not hide it from Tang Ze.
But what Conan is really curious about is what happened to Goro Akechi.
Tang Ze used a silver spoon to cover the corners of his mouth that he couldn't help but curl up, and he held it tight for a while.
It's not surprising that Conan would ask this question.
For Conan, the source of the mask user's power is probably closely related to the organization.
Joker has never directly admitted where his power comes from, but only vaguely explained it as a product of cognitive science research. Gin once mocked Joker in front of him, saying that he was useless without an organization.
Obviously, in Gin's understanding, Joker's sudden cognitive power must be a derivative of the research of the Karasawa couple, and it revolves around special alloys and research experiments.
A person who is out of the control of the organization and possesses the power to influence personality and mind without hindrance as expected. In Gin's eyes, this kind of existence is probably the same as Joker's identity, a "thief" who stole things that should have belonged to them from the organization.
Well, since Joker is most likely a victim of the organization or related research, the possibility of replicating this situation on Goro Akechi is very high.
Conan was worried that Goro Akechi might possess the same power as those thieves. If so, their confrontation would not be able to be resolved by ordinary means.
Tang Ze understood the truth, but seeing Conan asking him so seriously, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
"Your guesses and ideas are very close to the correct answer." Tang Ze nodded and casually took out the experiment used to perfunctorily deal with Gin. "He has undergone more than one human experiment and has taken a lot of drugs. Of course, you also know that my understanding is not very comprehensive. After all, I have no contact with the organization. However, since you want to ask, 'Is it possible that he has some brainwashing power', just like my, um, difference, I can only say that the organization once had an idea in this regard."
"'Suppose'?" Conan frowned when he asked the question.
He knew that organizations like this would not treat ordinary people as human beings, especially after having come into contact with Kiichiro Numabuchi, a clear former victim, but when he heard Tang Ze give such a certain answer, he still felt resistance instinctively.
This way of treating people as materials and consumables is really uncomfortable.
"Just like grafting plants, if you want to get a good harvest as quickly as possible and increase the 'yield', of course you should graft the branches that have already grown successfully onto more suitable plants. They have tried to use cognitive science to transfer certain specialties of others to the subjects in the past."
As Tang Ze said this, he placed the newly ordered juice for Conan in front of him.
The glass hit the table, making a crisp sound, which startled Conan who was immersed in the description.
"Graft?" Conan repeated the word strangely, "How do you graft this?"
Maybe it was because of what Tang Ze described, the first thing that came to his mind was opening someone's head and digging out a piece of their brain...
But their purpose is just to transfer abilities and knowledge, it shouldn’t be so simple and crude... right?
"It's similar to what you understand as brainwashing. It's like implanting some memories or something like that." Tang Ze glossed over the details of the experiment and simply described it, "For example, some experience memories are directly implanted into another person's brain. I'm not very clear about the specific situation. I myself am just a patient used for research and observation."
"So you mean to say that he is the one who successfully underwent the experiment?" Gradually understanding what Tang Ze meant, Conan was so shocked that he could hardly hold the straw in his mouth. "Does he have 'grafted abilities'?"
"I'm not in a position to ask him about this. You know, our identities are awkward anyway. But I have reason to believe that this has something to do with the 'abnormality' you saw."
Tang Ze looked into Conan's eyes and said meaningfully.
"After all, we all know it, don't we? He can't be a Japanese who grew up in the United States. Considering my identity, I can't ask him some questions directly, but you should know clearly..."
"…To be a good detective, you need many abilities."
Conan relayed Karasawa's words to Hattori Heiji, and his expression was no more relaxed than before he went to see Karasawa.
Tang Ze's explanation can explain a lot of things.
A genius detective who suddenly appeared, with excellent physical skills and marksmanship, and excellent criminal investigation ability...
And the seemingly incomprehensible, precise control over people's hearts.
"Kudo. I think you may be thinking about the same thing as me." Hattori Heiji's slightly tense voice came from the other end of the phone.
"...Yes. I was thinking that, too." Conan couldn't help but lower his voice, "Could it be that his special ability was 'spliced' in from somewhere?"
"We can't deny this possibility, right? First of all, we already know his true origin and background. At present, the person who is most likely to be Kumail is Goro Akechi." Hattori Heiji frowned and counted one by one, "This can explain the situation of Kiichiro Numabuchi at that time."
"Yes. He mistakenly believed that he was being hunted by the organization, so he fled and wandered for many years. His mental state was not normal." Recalling that thrilling scene, Conan couldn't help but raise his hand and press his chest, the place where the knife might have pierced. "With just a little stimulation, it doesn't seem difficult to make Kiichiro Numabuchi fall into complete madness."
"That's why he did it." Hattori Heiji agreed. "We were still thinking, Numabuchi Kiichiro has been on the run for three years, and during this time he committed a murder. As long as he is imprisoned, he will be punished for multiple crimes and arrested for escaping from prison. The death penalty is almost foreseeable. Why did he go to so much trouble to use Sakata's murderous intention to find Numabuchi Kiichiro and make him lose his mind?"
The knife that Kiichiro Numabuchi used on Conan had no purpose.
Whether it was that Kiichiro Numabuchi came into contact with a sharp weapon when he was arrested by the police, or that the police officer who handcuffed him happened to not anticipate his athletic ability, allowing him to escape, these were all unforeseen low-probability events.
So first they ruled out the option that Kumail did this to Kiichiro Numabuchi in order to target their detectives.
Among the later possibilities, their speculation at the time mainly revolved around Kumail's experience or identity.
It is impossible for Kiichiro Numabuchi to have ever come into contact with the core layer of the organization. He was an unlucky guy who was not successfully trained as a killer and was thrown into the laboratory as a consumable.
He had been on the run for three years and no one cared about it. But when he was about to fall into the hands of the police, he was driven crazy. This shows that something has changed during this period of time. Kumail's identity must be very special.
"If it's Goro Akechi, then this is a very good reason." Conan thought, and found the most likely conclusion for their guess at the time, "His situation is completely opposite to Kiichiro Numabuchi's. He was treated as a consumable in the laboratory, and was accidentally revealed to be able to do something, so he was trained as a killer. So Numabuchi is likely to know him."
"At least he has seen him." Hattori Heiji had the same idea as him, "This also explains where Sakata found the evidence against the congressman."
Let’s go back to the case in Osaka. Although the method of the whole case was a bit complicated, the context was very clear.
Sakata Yusuke's father used to be an instructor at a closed driving school. He was strict and upright but responsible. However, six years ago, he was killed by a group of students who were dissatisfied with him and wanted to play a prank on him.
Sakata couldn't believe that his father, who had always been strict and responsible, would die in drunk driving. He insisted on investigating the case and finally locked down all the people who caused the accident and killed them one by one.
Only Kiichiro Numabuchi and Goji, who had been promoted to a member of parliament at the time, survived, but this was mainly because Yusuke Sakata was stopped by the police in time on his way to see Kiichiro Numabuchi.
Later, Yusuke Sakata confessed to the murders he committed, but at the same time, he took out a USB flash drive that recorded many serious criminal evidences of Councillor Xiang Goji, and finally brought down the culprit Xiang Goji.
As for Kiichiro Numabuchi, although he did not become the scapegoat of the case, he was already responsible for a murder, and he would not have much time to live after being arrested.
Yusuke Sakata's revenge was a great success. The process of this case was easy to understand, but the ending was beyond their expectations.
One question is, where did this USB flash drive come from?
If Sakata Yusuke already had such evidence, he would not have had to plan like this. Without Goji's protection, his several targets would have been easier to deal with.
But if he didn't master it from the beginning, where did he get it from?
"If he found Kiichiro Numabuchi and imprisoned him, it was not his own idea from the beginning, but a condition of exchange. Everything makes sense." Thinking back to Sakata Yusuke's face, Hattori Heiji sighed softly, and then continued to analyze, "He didn't go to find Kiichiro Numabuchi to kill him or frame him. He went to see Kumail."
Go meet the trading partner who promised him the ability to destroy the object he hated the most, and get the USB flash drive.
"We didn't hide our plan to go to Osaka from Goro Akechi. Now that I think about it, he might have stayed at the Nagato family on purpose." Conan fell into deep thought. "If he was 'busy dealing with the affairs of the Nagato family' at the time, he naturally wouldn't have appeared in Osaka. He went all the way to Kansai, and it is very likely that he saw the news about Kiichiro Numabuchi's escape from prison."
"Then he has a good reason to get involved in the search for Shirley."
"Yes, Huibara was one of the people in charge of the experiment. Even if Huibara may not remember him, it must be a past that he is very resistant to."
At this point, the detectives on both sides of the phone were silent.
These connected clues confirmed their previous guesses one by one, but the two people who got the answers did not feel the joy of having caught the evidence as they had imagined.
Goro Akechi was truly a victim of the organization's experiments, and the past he tried so hard to cover up was a dark and painful memory.
"…What the hell." Hattori Heiji couldn't help but twitch his lips. "If this continues, that guy will become a tragic figure."
Goro Akechi's inconsistent and disgusting hypocritical character, in the end, turned out to be a kind of protective color he used to face the world.
Well, although this does not change his unreal nature, it is a 180-degree turn from a dark villain to an alternative victim...
"Even if he is a tragic character, he is an annoying tragic character." Conan rolled his eyes, "Besides, he is not tragic at all."
Well, if Goro Akechi is really Kumail, it is true that he was saved by the other party - maybe more than one life - but it is also true that this guy is arrogant and annoying.
And, if he is really a code name member, then his crimes may have been too numerous to list, which is a fact.
"Rather than sympathizing with him, let's think about our current situation first." Conan brought the topic back to the topic, "We must consider the worst-case scenario."
"Well. If the experiment was successful, how successful was it? And from whom did he learn what?" Hattori Heiji's mind returned to reasoning. "Kangze used the term 'inculcation of memory', which is also worth pondering."
The capabilities that can be selected as templates are at least capabilities that the organization believes are valuable to be "grafted".
Does this mean that Goro Akechi "saw" the memories of many targets? This statement becomes a little interesting.
"And... where does that power come from?" Conan pursed his lips, "I don't want to consider this possibility, but..."
However, since his ability is so similar to that of the Phantom Thief of Hearts, an inevitable guess will naturally come to mind.
If Akechi Goro is a genius created by an organization, then this special power could be...
"Joker?"
The people on both sides of the phone said in unison.