This time, through Akai Shuichi's unintentional revelation, we finally got some clues.

17 years ago, investigating the case.

These two points reveal two pieces of information respectively.

The first is to investigate the case. If Akai Mutake can investigate the case, it means that this person's job should also be related to detectives.

It may be an official detective or an unofficial detective.

In addition, Qin Zhibo felt a little familiar at this time point 17 years ago, as if he had heard it somewhere.

Qin Zhibo opened the browser's search history, browsed through it one by one, and searched.

Until such a piece of information came into view - Amanda Hughes' biography.

Qin Zhibo once investigated this person's information. She appeared in Mrs. Mamiya's Antarctic expedition notes and was the main sponsor of the Miskatonic University Antarctic expedition in 1931.

After that Antarctic expedition, the Amanda Foundation founded by her took away the important biological samples of the expedition, namely the few dead ancients.

Since one of Qin Zhibo's main tasks is to see the Ancient One with his own eyes, he must first find Amanda Hughes.

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However, Amanda was killed 17 years ago at the age of 83.

This clue was originally cut off, but Qin Zhibo learned another important clue in a conversation with Randy Hawke of the Randy Hawke Circus not long ago.

Amanda Hughes is an American capitalist on the surface, but secretly she is the daughter of one of the nine founders of Nine Angels.

Was Amanda Hughes 17 years ago the case that Akai Takeshi wanted to investigate?

Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of another key name, which is "Haneda Koji".

Koji Haneda was a Japanese shogi player who died at the same time as Amanda Hughes, but Qin Zhibo did not pay attention to this person before.

But if you think of Akai Taketake, you have to think of another person in the photo of the three in Hawaii, Haneda Yasharu.

Koji Haneda and Yasuharu Haneda have the same surname, plus this special time 17 years ago...

It seems a bit coincidental.

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

Qin Zhibo entered "Koji Haneda" in the browser box again, searched, and several related web pages popped up.

Koji Haneda, a four-time shogi champion and the closest to a seven-time genius shogi player, went to the United States 17 years ago to participate in a chess competition out of interest and died in his hotel room the night before the competition.

This is information that Qin Zhibo searched for before, and the content is nothing special.

However, this search revealed some additional content that I had not seen before.

[The hotel where Haneda Koji was staying at that time was called "JUKE", and his room was quite messy. When he was killed, it seemed that Haneda had resisted, but the direct cause of death is unknown]

Underneath this message, the web page creator seemed to have a purpose and posted Amanda's information below.

[On the same day, American capitalist Amanda Hughes was killed in another room in the same hotel, and the cause of death remains a mystery]

[Amanda is a loyal fan of Haneda, and the two have communicated before. After that day, the personal bodyguard Amanda brought there disappeared from sight]

[Therefore, the police regarded Amanda's bodyguard called "Asaka" as the most important suspect and traced his whereabouts, but there is still no news yet]

The above is the entire content of the webpage, which is information that Qin Zhibo has searched for before but has not seen.

If we assume that the case Akai Mutake investigated 17 years ago is this, Haneda Koji should be Haneda Yasharu's son.

It is possible that Haneda Yasuharu asked Akai Mutake to investigate this case. After all, this case is still a headless case to this day.

As for why I didn't ask "myself", the original owner of the body 17 years ago was probably still in college and did not meet this condition.

This logic seems to make sense.

But what Qin Zhibo doesn't understand about this incident is that this web page seems to have been created by someone recently.

It is very strange that a shogi celebrity from 17 years ago had his own web page.

After all, this is an incident that happened 17 years ago, and it didn’t happen in Japan. How could anyone still pay attention to it now?

Moreover, this person published the information of this case online in batches within a short period of time, which is also very suspicious.

There are two possibilities. One is that this person is still investigating this case and publishes what he investigates online every time.

The other is that this person has known all the secrets for a long time, but chose to slowly release the contents of the file online.

Who is this guy?

If this person is found, the case may make great progress.

Qin Zhibo thought for a while, if he used the power of "Noah's Ark", he should be able to trace the initiator of publishing this information.

However, "Noah's Ark" is still in the hands of "Green Signal". Qin Zhibo commissioned Suzuki Sonoko to use the software obtained from Taku Itakura to restart the "Cocoon" game console, but no news has been received yet.

Even though Suzuki Sonoko now informs her that she is ready, she has not yet bought the [Oath Keeper Sword] and does not dare to easily enter the game world controlled by the "green signal".

The price of the Oathkeeper Sword is 12,000 general proficiency, which allows the Oathkeeper to gain the ability to slay evil heretics.

But during this period, I have been busy jumping between the organization and the FBI, and I have no time to follow the "Death Group". As a result, my proficiency level is currently only 2873.

It seems it's time to follow the "group"...

Just when Qin Zhibo was thinking about when he would have a "accidental" encounter with Conan, the sounds in his ears finally changed.

The car engine was turned off and the door was opened.

Going up the steps, the footsteps of other people followed.

After more than a minute of footsteps, Belmod's voice sounded in a somewhat empty place.

"I'm back, Boss."

After two seconds, an old-sounding voice slowly sounded.

"...You're back, Sharon..."
Chapter completed!