frightfiction Chapter 1017 Tang Ze: Thank you Director Ke for the rocket
Chapter 1017 Tang Ze: Thank you Director Ke for the rocket
Chapter 1017 Tang Ze: Thank you Director Ke for the rocket reward
"Oikawa Takeyori? Yes, indeed, you are right, he is also the target of the Phantom Thieves."
"So, the red paint in Kitagawa-kun's hand at that time..."
"Yes, it's what you think."
Tang Ze, who hurried over from the store, nodded to confirm Conan's guess and gave a positive answer to his misunderstanding.
The reason I thought of wearing gloves is because I know that Conan has been very concerned about other people's hands recently. Although Kuroba Kaito's hands don't have any particularly obvious features - after all, Kaito Kid also wears gloves - there will still be a big difference between his hands and Tang Ze's own hands.
Naturally, he used the situation of Takeyori Iikawa as an excuse to mislead Conan into associating the change in hand color with the actions of the Phantom Thieves.
The secret treasure of Takeyori Iikawa's palace is naturally also a painting, which depicts the inner demon that has been tormenting him for a long time, that is, the murderous intention towards his father-in-law.
If you reach out and touch it directly, not only will your hands be covered with bright red paint, but it will also alert and mark the shadow Kawatakeyori, who will stab you from behind.
Only if Takeyori Iikawa himself felt remorse before picking up the painting, he could avoid his own murderous intent at that moment and leave peacefully with the secret treasure.
This is also the reason why they pulled Takeyori Iikawa and Haruhito Kanhara into Noah's game to complete a wave of reform before sending them to the palace.
Allowing a hall master who is resentful and depressed to think things over on his own will be much more effective than forcing the Phantom Thieves to change their minds by force.
"It seems like this..." Conan nodded thoughtfully, but his eyes involuntarily drifted to Tang Ze's hands.
As a joker, Tang Ze usually wears gloves, and this moment is no exception.
He completely ignored Conan's inquiring look, handed him a cup of coffee, and sat down opposite him.
"You probably didn't come here just to ask about Kitagawa. What's wrong? What insights and discoveries have you made that require you to meet with me?"
Tang Ze, who had some guesses, asked knowingly, with his hands on his knees, posing a gesture of listening attentively.
While Conan was organizing his thoughts, he turned around and looked around the living room.
It has been a while since the Phantom Thieves moved here, and Conan has been here many times. The changes here are actually quite big.
Not only are there significant changes in the interior soft furnishings, but there are also many more traces of various kinds of life.
Whether it's the extra ashtray on the coffee table, or the extra speakers and cameras in the living room that were supposedly added for Noah's convenience, the number of sofas has also increased, and there are many more decorations on the walls. Some of them look familiar and seem to be related to certain cases, while others make people imagine...
It is obvious that the number of members of the Phantom Thieves has been increasing.
Which means...
"For someone like you who possesses special abilities, can you increase them through some means?" Conan confirmed carefully.
When it comes to theoretical matters, you are more likely to get the answer by asking Haibara or Karasawa, but when it comes to practical issues such as actual application, there is probably no one who can explain it more clearly than Joker.
"...Of course, yes." Tang Ze laughed, "Of course, I don't deny that this ability also has differences in talent. Some people are born with this potential, but it can indeed be 'possessed' through some means."
"Is it possible that the same thing that happened to you might happen to other people?" Conan tightened his hands on his knees after receiving a very definite answer.
"I don't deny this possibility, but so far, I haven't found any signs of this in people outside the Phantom Thieves."
Means? Of course there are. But so far, this means is only in the hands of the Phantom Thieves.
The prerequisite for the mask to awaken is to first enter the cognitive world.
The navigation to another world in Tang Ze's hand is a starting point. Even someone with potential like Asai Narumi had no idea how to use this ability before being dragged into the cognitive world by Tang Ze. He just thought that he had stimulated others due to his emotional excitement.
Currently, there are no wild mask users like Goro Akechi in the original work in this world, which means that the "authority" to grant abilities is always in the hands of the Phantom Thieves.
The organization may not be unaware of this, but they are certainly powerless to do anything about it.
This is probably the situation and power they most want to find out from the Phantom Thieves.
"What's wrong? Have you discovered someone with a similar situation? Do you have any suspicions?" Tang Ze asked.
Conan opened his mouth and hesitated slightly before speaking.
No matter which side Akechi Goro stands on, he is indeed related to the organization and his identity is not clean.
Telling Joker that he might have special abilities is no different from naming and killing him.
"It seems like you still have doubts." Tang Ze was not surprised by his hesitation, and sympathetically provided him with another option, "No matter where you get this feeling from, there is one thing I can tell you for sure. You can achieve a similar effect without entering the world over there and without having to clearly understand the source of your own abilities like we do."
"...Similar effect?" Conan sat up straight after feeling a hint of inspiration.
"Haven't you seen it? The effect is almost the same as ours." Tang Ze said in a persuasive manner.
Conan raised his head and looked at his meaningful smiling face. He was stunned for only a few seconds and then he reacted quickly.
"You mean, the person who died of 'bleeding from all seven orifices' on Moon Shadow Island..." Conan took a breath and jumped up suddenly, "That wasn't done by you?"
In the case of Tsukikage Island, since Conan knew clearly about the existence of Joker and others from the beginning to the end, and finally watched Joker take Asai Narimi away from the crumbling fire scene, and finally announced his existence in a high-profile manner with a rain of magnificent score, so he always assumed that the effect was caused by the Phantom Thief of Hearts.
Since then, the Phantom Thief of Hearts has more or less demonstrated similar abilities in other places, falling to the ground and spitting black mud to target more and more targets. Naturally, everyone would assume that this is a method used by the Phantom Thieves.
Even Conan, due to his preconceived notions about their actions, believed that the Phantom Thieves at the time were proactively helping Asai Narimi out of sympathy for his situation.
But if those weren't done by the Phantom Thieves, then...
"It's not entirely true to say that we didn't do it." Tang Ze supported his chin and took the initiative to explain some of the underlying settings. "You have also seen with your own eyes how we 'completed the task'. We use our abilities to enter another world, a space that symbolizes the target's past and self, and reflects the soul..."
"Then just steal their desires." Conan couldn't help but curl his lips when he mentioned this question.
Who would have thought that the reason the Phantom Thieves are called the Phantom Thieves is because they really go out to steal things?
Although no matter how he looked at it, he felt that it should be called robbery.
Who, if they want to steal something, would just walk into the house with such brazenness and hack and kill their way through?
There are many speculations about their methods, as well as some metaphysical discussions, but no one has ever speculated in such an outrageous direction. It is truly a word game with the top-level answer written on the puzzle itself.
"You understand correctly. But if we don't choose to steal, but choose to directly wipe out the other party's desire..." Tang Ze raised his hand and made a motion of slowly clenching it into a fist, "Greed is desire, lust is desire, but eating is also desire, drinking water is also desire... Survival is a common desire, it is a biological instinct."
Conan understood exactly what he was trying to say.
Since these are all desires, as long as all desires are eliminated, a person will naturally die.
The state of spitting out black mud is probably a sign that a person's desires are being wiped out...
"We call this treatment method 'disablement'. Even if people who go through this process don't die on the spot, they will probably be as good as brain dead if they survive."
After throwing out this setting, Tang Ze couldn't help but feel secretly happy for a while.
Finally, finally, I have brought this joke here completely.
In this world, the Phantom Thieves do not completely stop killing people. On the contrary, since Karasawa himself is a good person who will do anything to achieve his goals, he never sticks to the means to achieve his goals.
But Tang Ze is here to join the Phantom Thieves, not to be Light Yagami. He doesn't know how to use any signature killing methods. Wouldn't that give people something to talk about?
Most of the time, cripplementation is used by them as a means of threat.
Watching yourself vomit completely incomprehensible body fluids and feeling an instinctive fear and the pain of dying can have a huge impact on a person. It can destroy the defenses of many vicious people and is extremely useful.
Therefore, the police would not have as many samples to count as in the original work, so naturally they could not come up with such a professional term.
"In the case of Tsukikage Island, there were indeed traces of our involvement in the deaths of several people directly related to Asai Narimi." Tang Ze answered seriously after having a good time, "But the last time... you were at the scene, you knew it. There are only a few of us in total, how could we directly threaten half of the residents of the island?"
"So, that's Asai Narimi, himself..." Conan slapped his forehead in sudden realization.
"Yes." Tang Ze nodded calmly, "I don't deny that we deliberately made a big noise and took him away for this reason. If his abilities were discovered by others, especially by an organization like him, his fate would be miserable."
That was Asai Narimi who had discovered his own abilities and was preparing to use a wave of self-destruction as his deathrattle, which created a very amazing visual effect.
The only possibility was Asai Narimi, and that was only Asai Narimi at that time.
Because he was still a mask user closely connected with the entire Moon Shadow Island at that time, and the barriers of Moon Shadow Island itself were weak, the use of abilities was much simpler than in other places. Asai Narimi could easily touch the shadows of the entire island at that time, so he achieved the special effect of 1V several hundred.
If it were the current Asai Narimi, it would be difficult to replicate this operation.
The shadows in the subway are treated very well, and they are all independent small rooms. It is not realistic to want to pull a train to A in one go.
At that time, Karasawa designed such a grand ending for the Phantom Thieves, which was not without the intention of covering up Asai Narimi's ability.
If special specimens such as Asai Narimi and Shimabukuro Kimie were discovered by the organization, the organization would use any means necessary to try to control them.
If that happens, life would be worse than death.
"I see..." Conan pressed his temple, feeling complicated and heavy.
On the one hand, it was for Asai Narimi and the thrilling and turbulent experience on Tsukikage Island. On the other hand, it was the problem of Akechi Goro.
From this perspective, it can be basically confirmed that Goro Akechi should be a similar individual.
There is no way, the case of Shijing Lihua is really too special.
Conan knew that the person with the greatest murderous intent against her and the most likely murderer was Goro Akechi himself, but he could not find any evidence to prove it.
Sijing Lihua escaped in front of them. The servants in charge of cleaning and tidying up the villa had already gone to bed. Everyone in the villa except her was in the reception room. No one forced her to leave.
Nikaidou who disappeared during the search phase could still be traced back to the past, but similarly, Goro Akechi was acting with others throughout the entire process and was hardly ever out of anyone's sight.
Well, let's assume that Ichieda Takashi and Mifune Takuya who went with him were brainwashed by his rhetoric and are giving false testimony for him. That can't explain the weird on-site video...
Not to mention, the Sijing Group probably realized something, and not only did it not investigate the death of its beloved only daughter, it even took the initiative to cover up the matter, and instead praised the search and rescue team's efforts and professionalism in front of the media in order to boost its stock price.
The case ended so quietly, leaving Conan, who had guessed a little bit of the truth, tossing and turning over in confusion.
He guessed that there must be some key factor that was hidden and no one noticed.
Now, the missing piece of the puzzle seemed to have finally been delivered to him by Joker.
Goro Akechi is also a person with abilities similar to the Phantom Thief of Hearts.
He might have some abilities like mind control and emotional control, which could easily provoke Yotsuki Reika's state, causing her to flee into the dangerous forest in fear, and causing her and Nikaidou's emotions to lose control, leading to the final tragedy in an extremely irrational state...
Such guys are the guns in the hands of the organization...
"So, you did meet someone similar? Who? Tell me about it. You know, our number is not constant. As long as they are reliable, we will absorb some new people." Tang Ze smiled and looked at the tangled Conan with a teasing expression. "Tell me about it? I will consider contacting them."
I never expected that the opportunity for me to become a traitor might be given by Conan.
This world is so wonderful, but I still want to thank Director Ke for the rocket reward.
He clearly knew the situation of Goro Akechi, but he felt that it was inappropriate to sell him directly. But if Joker really asked him whether he should be careful of the Phantom Thief, it would be even more inappropriate. Conan was so confused that he was speechless: "..."