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

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Of course, after this incident, another legendary story about Conan as the assassin suddenly appeared online: Yotsuba Reika hired someone to kill Conan, and Conan eventually killed both the target, Nikaido Yuuji, and the employer, Yotsuba Reika, and then made Ichigo Takashi take the blame.

During this time, through Professor Agasa's introduction, Jiang Chengbei also met someone.

In the past, Jiang Chengbei often complained that Conan and his friends were too soft-hearted. As long as the murderer knelt down, cried, and repented, they would easily forgive the criminal and let him go.

Now Jiang Chengbei is in the same situation, and after Dr. Agasa pleads for him, he softens and agrees.

Here's what happened: Last time Jiang Chengbei went to Shikishima, didn't he film the video of the village chief Mikami Takeo and his assistant Kinoshita Goro trying to kill him for gold, and the attempted murder failed?

Just as the court was about to hold their trial, Takeo Mikami, through various efforts, learned that Professor Agasa knew Kosei Kita, and that his cousin Daisuke Mikami, who was two years older than him, knew Professor Agasa. So, in order to obtain a letter of forgiveness from Kosei Kita, he went through these roundabout connections to find Kosei Kita.

After talking with Mikami Daisuke and learning that he was the director of the tokusatsu film Gomera, Jiang Chengbei readily issued a letter of understanding to Mikami Takeo, hoping that the court would give him a lenient sentence.

After getting to know Daisuke Mikami, Jiang Chengbei happily took the five members of the Junior Detective Club to visit the Gomera recording studio that weekend.

Originally, Professor Agasa was supposed to take them, but now that Daisuke Mikami owes him a favor, he doesn't need Professor Agasa anymore. This time, he only needs to bring Conan to take back the lives that Daisuke Mikami owes him.

In the world of Detective Conan, owing favors and repaying with lives is a very normal thing.

They never imagined they would encounter a fatality on set. The Teitan trio, who really love Gomera, are quite happy now, constantly recommending it to Conan and Ai Haibara, these two fake kids.

Upon arriving at the indoor film studio where Gomera was being filmed, the Teitan trio were overjoyed to see the sets, props, and the costumed actors playing Gomera. They also became incredibly curious, asking questions incessantly.

While the Teitan trio were happily touring the film set, Jiang Chengbei also witnessed the conflicts within the crew, which were the trigger and motive for the impending murder.

The person about to be stabbed was clearly the film producer Osamu Kamei, who was about to stop making the Gomera series of films.

Because he wanted to switch careers and make urban romance movies, and the Gomera movie he was currently filming was the last one, and there would be no more, the people present were dissatisfied with him and harbored resentment.

It's perfectly normal for the producer to switch to making other films when Gomera's movies don't make money, can't find investors, and can't secure funding. Moreover, he will continue to hire the original crew and actors. Apart from a few flaws such as foul mouth, arrogance, contempt for others, and a strong stench of money, they are not bad. In reality, they wouldn't be in a situation where they would be killed, but in Detective Conan, they have already found a way to get themselves killed.

Whether Kamei Osamu lives or dies is none of Jiang Chengbei's concern. Jiang Chengbei's only concern is that there are so many people here, and even if he witnesses the murderer killing someone, will the murderer kill him to cover it up?

So, Jiang Chengbei had something on his mind about what was to come, thinking about his next plan. The only thing that made him happy was that, by looking at the common characteristics of the victims in Detective Conan, he roughly figured out that today's victim was Kamei Osamu.

Jiang Chengbei quickly came up with an idea. He told Mikami Daisuke, who still owed him a favor, to help take care of the five children in the Junior Detective League. He then said he had to leave for a while and would be back soon.

Whether Jiang Chengbei leaves or not, leaving the five children here is no big deal for the two fake children and the three free-range children. They were all alive and well at the crime scene, let alone Jiang Chengbei who is only leaving for a short while.

After leaving Jiang Chengbei, Conan and his five friends received a warm welcome from the film crew, who took them on a tour.

Especially the male lead who plays Gomera. Although he appears in the movie wearing the Gomera suit and doesn't even show his face, he still actively leads Conan and the others on a tour of their studio and treats them to good food and drinks.

When the actor playing Gomera, Hidehiko Matsui, showed Conan and the others Gomera's claws, he accidentally startled Ayumi, splashing a large amount of orange juice on her t-shirt.

It was just orange juice that got splashed on him, nothing serious, especially since it was such a cute little kid like Ayumi who splashed him. Matsui Hidego didn't take it to heart at all. He even cheerfully said that he would bring some interesting gadgets to show Conan and the others so that they could broaden their horizons.

After he closed the door and left, Conan and the others soon heard a scream from Hidehiro Matsui.

No matter when, as long as he hears screams, Conan is always the most enthusiastic one.

Conan, with his four little followers, disregarded his own safety and the safety of the four children behind him, and rushed to the room from which the sound came. Then they saw Matsui Hidego sitting miserably on the ground with a red mark on his leg.

Conan: "What's wrong?"

Hidehiro Matsui: "A man dressed in Gomera stabbed me with a knife, and now he's running towards the projection room!"

After receiving firsthand information from Hidehiro Matsui, Conan quickly led his friends and rushed to the screening room.

They ran to the screening room and, through the live monitor footage, saw film producer Osamu Kamei, dressed in a suit and tie, standing there casually in the prop city of the studio, looking all cocky.

There must be rain in the sky, and woe to the madness.

Sure enough, after Conan sensed something was wrong, he saw a Gomera wielding a knife suddenly appear on the screen, positioned right behind Kamei Osamu, charging towards him with the knife.

When Conan shouted "Watch out!" into the microphone, Kamei Osamu, who was on the scene, turned around after being alerted and also saw Gomera behind him. Just as the dagger was about to stab his stomach, the agile Kamei Osamu managed to grab Gomera's wrist.

Gomera: ?

Kamei Osamu: Mission accomplished, buddy, I'm outta here.

Then, to Conan and Gomera's astonishment, Kamei Osamu kicked away the person wearing the Gomera suit and ran away.

Conan: What's wrong with the script? With me, the Grim Reaper, around, haven't they always been killed outright? How come no victim has ever escaped the murderer's clutches?

While Conan was still in a daze, Gomera, who had failed to kill Kamei Osamu with his attack, chased after him in the direction he had fled.

Since Kamei Osamu and Gomera had both run out of the frame, Conan, along with his friends, disregarded their own and their friends' safety and, in the bodies of five children, chased after the murderer holding the knife.

At the crime scene, the huge studio was almost empty. But after Conan opened several other doors leading to the outside and searched around, he finally found Kamei Osamu lying dead on the ground in one of the rooms, with a dagger stuck in his chest.

Then, Conan saw a plume of smoke rising outside the window. He ran over and peeked out the window. He saw that what looked like Gomera's suit was burning. Thick smoke was billowing from it, and the fire was huge. Only an outline could be seen, which looked like Gomera's suit.

"Ah! Gomera has been burned to death! No!"

Hearing the unwilling screams of the Teitan trio beside him, Conan felt that what had just happened was very strange.

Despite the agility and skill shown in the surveillance footage, why did we suddenly see his body and discover that he had died here?

There were many suspicious points, but now was not the time for deduction. So Conan hurriedly ran out the door and headed for the stairs. He wanted to go outside and see for himself where Gomera's suit had been burned.

Chapter 226 The Arrival of Gomera

As soon as Conan arrived, a murder occurred at the Gomera movie set, a major case with one dead and one injured. This made Inspector Gure, who arrived at the scene after receiving the report, frown.

"Conan, why are you out again? You know you'll cause trouble for everyone, can't you just stay home peacefully?"

He had explained it many times before, but Inspector Megure didn't believe him, so Conan had no choice but to give up and focus on investigating the case.

While Conan was diligently investigating the case, Jiang Chengbei, who had gone out for a while, also returned, pretending to be surprised, and listened to Ai Haibara and the Teitan trio's description of what had just happened.

In the past, Jiang Chengbei appeared as a witness in order to get the murderer to kill him, but recently he felt that this was not safe. What if he encountered a kind-hearted murderer who could not bear to kill him to silence him? Wouldn't that mean he had witnessed the murderer committing murder for nothing?

So in these two recent cases, Jiang Chengbei first found the target the murderer wanted to kill, and then used the Chakra Disguise Technique developed from Kaito Kid's disguise technique to transform himself in a second, disguising himself as the target to test the sharpness of the murderer's knife for the victim.

So this time, Jiang Chengbei first drugged Kamei Osamu, then disguised himself as him and went to meet the murderer Matsui Hidehiko in his place, and was the first to suffer his assassination attempt on him.

After getting what he wanted from Hidehiko Matsui, he ran out and took him to the room where Osamu Kamei was drugged.

Of course, in order not to arouse Matsui Hidego's suspicion, Kamei Osamu's body, which had been drugged and lying on the ground, was not visible from Matsui Hidego's perspective as he was chasing after him.

All he could see was "Kame-Ii Osamu" running away in a panic, turning back to look at him, accidentally bumping into the wall, staggering, and finally falling down, disappearing from sight.

When Matsui Hidego caught up with Jiang Chengbei to where he had been, there was only a drugged Kamei Osamu lying on the ground, while Jiang Chengbei, now a chubby little bird, was watching Matsui Hidego's actions from a corner not far away.

Matsui Hidego had already made a move once before, but he failed to kill anyone. Moreover, the current situation is quite different from what was originally expected, and continuing like this might leave many loopholes.

A perfectionist might have stopped, but with Jiang Chengbei watching and Conan nearby, Matsui Hidehiro didn't stop at all. Without hesitation, he stabbed Kamei Osamu, who was lying on the ground, to death.

Next, he escaped downstairs, took off the Gomera suit, poured gasoline on the open ground outside the first floor, and set the suit on fire.

Then he returned to the place where he met Conan and the others, and changed into clean clothes. After all, he had run such a long distance in his Gomera suit that his clothes were all wet.

Finally, Hidehiro Matsui cut himself in the leg and sat there obediently waiting for Conan and the others to arrive with the police.

Since Matsui Hidego killed someone again after failing the first time, Jiang Chengbei pretended to ask Conan about the clues and evidence he had found, then stepped forward to arrest Matsui Hidego and proved that he was the murderer.

Seeing Jiang Chengbei hurriedly solve the case, Conan still couldn't answer some questions, so he continued to investigate and ponder.

One of the mysteries that Conan can't figure out is: Kamei Osamu looks very capable in the surveillance footage, easily dodging Matsui Hidego's sneak attack, but why was he killed so easily in the end?

Also, when running from the corridor to the stairwell, why is there a string of Gomera's green painted footprints on the stairs going up?

And the prop master got angry. He was so irritable that he yelled at someone for putting a bucket of green paint in the studio, saying it was so unprofessional.

The green paint was placed in the same spot where Gomera had previously attacked Kamei Osamu. Anyone who wasn't careful could step on the open can of green paint.

These are seemingly unrelated to the case, but Conan always felt something was off. However, Jiang Chengbei pointed out that the shape of the wound looked like self-inflicted rather than someone else's stab, and a sweat-soaked vest with an orange watermark was found in Matsui Hidehiko's backpack, and the dagger that stabbed Matsui Hidehiko was found in the sword prop box next to Matsui Hidehiko. With this evidence, Matsui Hidehiko finally confessed that he was the murderer.

The Gomera murder case was solved smoothly, but that very night an extremely terrifying monster descended.

In the dead of night, at air force bases such as Baili Base, Xintianyuan Base, and Chitose Base, a giant monster appeared one after another. It was over 100 meters tall, weighed about 10 tons, could crush an F-15 that was the size of a toy with one stomp, could destroy a whole row of military aircraft with one tail, could topple skyscrapers with a slight push, and could turn the earth into a sea of ​​fire with a single breath.

This creature was extremely destructive, destroying several air force bases hundreds of miles apart in one night. It caused the annihilation of pilots and ground crew living in the air force bases, which was the biggest loss. After all, planes can be rebuilt and houses can be repaired, but people who die are really dead and cannot be brought back to life.

Several air force bases were suddenly attacked by a monster that looked very much like Gomera from the movie. The monster overturned the entire air force base and detonated the ammunition depot and oil depot, causing a large number of deaths and injuries. After almost everyone was wiped out, not only the Japanese government but the whole world was shocked. People who heard the news exclaimed that aliens had invaded and that humanity was facing a life-or-death moment!

The only thing that brought some relief was that after the air force base was destroyed in a single day, almost all countries went on high alert, preparing to fight a desperate battle against this super monster that suddenly appeared, destroyed everything, and then suddenly disappeared. For the next few days, the whole world was very quiet, and such a monster never appeared again.

If these air force bases hadn't actually been destroyed, and almost all the active-duty pilots trained over decades hadn't been wiped out, no one would believe that such monsters really existed in this world.

Because this monster looks almost exactly like the Gomera from the movie, they also have a name that everyone used to like: Gomera.

The movie mirrors reality, but we don't know whether this Gomera, which suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared and became quiet, is an unknown creature hiding on Earth that just didn't come out to cause trouble before, or a real alien creature from outer space.

Anyway, having experienced their instantaneous appearance like a space jump, their sudden disappearance like a space teleportation, their over 100-meter length, their tens of thousands of tons, their thick skin and armor that even artillery shells couldn't penetrate, they are absolutely terrifying close-combat machines. What's most terrifying is that no one knows their true nature. Therefore, everyone in the world who knows about these things is filled with fear and anxiety.

Of course, since they only appear at night in air force bases that ordinary people cannot enter, not many ordinary people see them. After the incident, the news was immediately censored, and they did not appear in the following days. Therefore, the story of the Gomera monster destroying the air force base was ultimately kept secret from the general public. They did not have enough status and did not have the right to know.

As for the destroyed air force bases, a simple explanation like "mismanagement led to ammunition explosions, oil depot explosions" or "terrorist attacks led to ammunition depot explosions, oil depot explosions" would suffice. In any case, the appearance of an unidentified creature like Gomera means that we have encountered an external enemy. Now, governments around the world are united, working together, helping each other, and discussing how to deal with this unidentified creature.

Anyway, they scared themselves, everyone was very nervous, and they were very united when they encountered an enemy. But they still didn't know how many Gomeras there were. Was it one Gomera that jumped through space and attacked multiple space bases in Japan in turn, or were there many Gomeras that attacked these air force bases separately? In any case, although they were worried, the Gomeras never appeared again after that.

As for why Gomera didn't appear, it's because Jiang Chengbei spent 10 kill coins to buy the Gomera transformation skill from the Conan Shop. It's the same as the Conan/Shinichi transformation; each transformation only lasts for 24 hours. Also, if you die while transforming into Gomera, the remaining time for that transformation is reset to zero.

The number of times you can transform into Gomera is the same as transforming into Conan/Shinichi Kudo. You need to catch a murderer, and the murderer must be a character in the story. Each time you catch one and bring him to the police station, you are rewarded with one transformation opportunity.

After catching the murderer, Hidehiro Matsui, and sending him to the police station, Jiang Chengbei had one more chance to transform into Conan/Shinichi Kudo or Gomera.

Jiang Chengbei had accumulated 15 transformations as Conan/Shinichi Kudo, so he didn't hesitate to choose to transform into Gomera, ultimately gaining one chance to transform into Gomera.

Having the chance to transform into Gomera, Jiang Chengbei was itching to try it out that very night. After leaving a chakra substitute doll at home, he sneaked out to experience the Gomera transformation skill.

Standing over 100 meters tall and weighing over 10 tons, and with no monsters to fight here, Jiang Chengbei couldn't experience the joy of Ultraman, so he had to go to the air force base to shoot down planes.

After using up his transformation opportunity in 24 hours, Jiang Chengbei's chances of transforming into Gomera were reduced to zero. So, while governments around the world anxiously awaited Gomera's reappearance, Jiang Chengbei could only apologize to them. He currently had no more transformations left and needed to wait until he rid the world of a menace and helped the police catch a murderer before Gomera could emerge again.

The unidentified super-creature Gomera has caused a great stir in governments and militaries around the world, but because the upper echelons have adopted a policy of secrecy from ordinary citizens, this thing is at most an online rumor, and everyone should just treat it like watching a movie.

Especially since the Gomera that appeared is almost identical to the Gomera in the movie, and the last movie is currently being filmed, this rumor is at most considered to be a fabrication by the film production company for the purpose of hype, generating more traffic, and then profiting from everyone later.

Having transformed into Gomera 0 times, Jiang Chengbei once again set his sights on Conan, this inexhaustible treasure.

Finally, Conan's vacation arrived, and Jiang Chengbei immediately started copying his homework, imitating Professor Agasa from the original series, taking his sister-in-law Ai Haibara, Conan, and the Teitan trio of idiots to the countryside for outings, picnics, and camping on the weekend.

Professor Agasa is taking these kids to a remote place, where they're bound to encounter a case. Jiang Chengbei, who's copying Professor Agasa's actions, is also hoping to run into a few clueless murderers.

As if on cue, while aimlessly driving a minivan through the scenic countryside north of Jiangcheng, the car finally broke down not far from a mountain villa.

The car broke down, and there was only one large manor villa nearby. There wasn't even a neighbor to help call the police after the incident. This was definitely a prime location for crime.

Although the system store has cars and helicopters, and the broken-down van is no problem for Jiang Chengbei, he still happily got out of the car and, with the five little ones looking cheerful, went to the only house ahead to seek help.

Perhaps because the villa was too big, or perhaps because the doorbell was old and in disrepair, or perhaps because no one was inside, Jiang Chengbei rang the doorbell several times and called out to him many times, but in the end no one came to open the door.

However, such a prime location cannot be missed. Regardless of whether there is anyone inside, once you arrive at the entrance, you absolutely cannot walk past the entrance without going in, lest you miss the opportunity. So, with Jiang Chengbei's help, Conan, the guy who often steals chickens and dogs, led the Teitan trio of idiots over the iron fence and went inside.