Conan: The Mechanic

"Ah, Qianyu is indeed still there." A different voice came from the door again. When Qianyu looked back again, he found that a thin police officer was whispering something on the phone installed at the door of the dossier room. If Chiba remembers correctly, he should be a subordinate of the Meguro Police Department, and his name is Takagi Shibu.

"Huh?" Qianyu closed the file and walked to the thin police officer. "Are you Officer Takagi?"

"Ah? Ah, no, it's fine, just Chiyu came to find me, please wait a moment," Takagi said to the phone, and then put the phone down. "Qianyu, is something wrong?"

"Who's on the other end of the phone?" Qian Yu said lightly.

"Ah? Oh, it's Conan, do you want to talk to him?"

"Okay," Qianyu reached out to answer the phone. "Conan?"

"Qianyu, are you still reading the file?" Conan's voice came from the phone.

"Still, what's wrong?"

"Did you find anything?"

"After connecting the disappearance point, ransom payment point and body dumping point of the first three kidnapping cases, a graph of XI is formed, and the autopsy report of the third person comes out. After reading the report, I suspect that the murderer brought the girl to the The corpse was shredded on the spot at the place where the body was thrown.”

"XI?" Conan's focus was not beyond Chiba's expectations.

"Yeah, XI, I don't feel like it's a Roman sound, and I can't find any reasonable English words."

"What about the Greek alphabet?" Conan asked. "There is an xi in the Greek letter." (The fourteenth letter in Greek, Ξ (uppercase) ξ (lowercase) is pronounced xi (xi))

"Greek letters? If the purpose of the kidnappers is to provoke, the effect of using Greek will be very poor, because it is too biased and too tricky. And too long vocabulary will indeed allow the police to find patterns and reduce security."

"Oh right, if you put the location where Ayumi was kidnapped on the map, will you find anything?" Conan suddenly thought of something and ordered. "Then put it on the notebook and show it to me if you have time."

"Where are you?" Qianyu asked.

"I'm at Bumei's house."

"Ayumi's family?" Qianyu was surprised. "Why are you there?"

"Appease Ayumi's parents," Conan spoke quickly. "They were about to cry."

"I see. We still have plenty of time for now. I'll find you after I've drawn the map. Do you have anything else to tell Officer Takagi?"

"No, hang up."

Chiba hung up the phone, walked quickly back to the map, and marked the location of Ayumi's disappearance on the map.

The place of Ayumi's disappearance is in a straight line with that of the other three. It seems that the kidnappers plan to write the third letter with Ayumi. The second, third, and fourth kidnapping locations are equidistant, so if the letter was written by Ayumi alone, it would be one of the DIJLVs, and if Ayumi and subsequent victims were written together, it would be one of them.

Chiba opened the dictionary and looked it up one by one.

XID, can't get the words

XII, Roman numeral 12

XIJ, I can't catch a word

XIL, I can't get a word

XIB, isobornyl xylenol, Xibe

XIE, I can't catch a word

XIF, no words

XIH, I can't catch a word

XIK, can't catch the word

XIM, X-ray Pyranometer, Ebony

XIN, I can't get a word

XIP, execute-in-place, sword-like

XIR, I can't get words

XIT, plus input terminal

XIU, I can't catch a word

XIW, I can't catch a word

XIX, Roman numeral 19, Western Xia

XIY, I can't speak

XIZ, I can't catch a word

There are four most likely words in it - Roman numeral 12, Roman numeral 19, local execution, sword-like. These four words represent XII, XIX and XIP respectively. No matter which of them is written, the end of Ayumi's stroke is the same, that is, the place where Ayumi was kidnapped as the place where the top three dead bodies were thrown. The foot of the vertical line that connects the line is where Ayumi will be killed!

Qianyu glanced at the clock and found that it was 9:50, so she marked the location on the map, wrote a "key-", and handed the map to the dossier room administrator. "I will hand it over to him when the Mumu Police Department arrives."

The little figure in black clothes left from the dossier room.

. . .

Outside Yoshida's house.

"Dong dong dong—" Qian Yu knocked on the door, and a few seconds later, the door was opened.

"Qianyu, you're finally here," Conan said with a hopeless look on his face. "I'll go crazy if you don't come again."

"What's wrong?" Qian Yu walked in and frowned because he heard the cry from across the door. "them?"

"The kidnapper called just now and told Ayumi's parents that Ayumi was kidnapped. Now she's crying with Yuanta and the others."

"Take me to meet them, and I'll report on the information I got this night." Qian Yu said with a twitch on the corner of her mouth.

"What information? Don't make them emotionally broken." Conan glanced at a door next to him and asked.

"Number one, their daughter is absolutely safe for two days. Number two, their daughter is absolutely safe until she's taken to a location. Number three, I think I've found this so-called 'some location.'"

"What?" Conan was overjoyed. "Tell me about it in detail first!"

"I just think I found this location," Qianyu shook her head. "Whether it is correct or not will have to wait a day and a half. At that time, the kidnappers will tell Ayumi's parents where to pay the ransom. Only when the delivery location is not what I expected can I confirm that my inference is correct."

"That's fine, just go in and talk to them, pay attention to appease Ayumi's parents." Conan pointed to the door he had glanced at earlier. "It's all there."

Qianyu walked over and knocked on the door.

"Conan?" Mitsuhiko's voice came from the door, and then the door was opened. "Hey? Qianyu?"

"Well, I'm here." Qian Yu said and walked into the room.

This room is dominated by pink, and there are wallpapers or stickers of Masked Superman everywhere. It is self-evident who the owner of the room is. A man and a woman were sitting on the pink bed sobbing, while Yuanta sat on the ground without saying a word, her head bowed.

"Who are you?" The woman opened her eyes, which were already red from crying, and asked sobbing.

"I'm Tachibana Chiha, Ayumi's classmate. I just came back from the Metropolitan Police Department after reading the dossier. I want to tell you something."

"Dossier? You..." The woman was interrupted by the man halfway through. "You let him speak."

"First of all, based on the patterns of the first three victims, we can guarantee that Ayumi still has at least 40 hours of absolute safety time and about 10 hours of theoretical safety time."

"Theoretical security?" the man asked. "What does it mean?"

"According to the previous model, Ayumi is safe, but we can't prove it." Chiba replied. "In the first three cases, the presumed killing time of the hostages was from 5 am to 6 am on the fourth day after being kidnapped. Do you understand now?"

"Woo-" Hearing these words, the woman began to cry again, while the man hugged the woman and let Qianyu continue speaking in a low voice.

"Similarly, based on the other party's pattern, I speculate that the kidnappers will kill the kidnapped girl after taking the kidnapped girl to the place where the corpse is thrown." Chiyu slowed down when she heard the sobbing that became heavier again. Tone, speak as softly as possible. "Fortunately, I think I've figured out the pattern of the kidnappers choosing where the body is thrown, so we can ask the police to deploy around the place and rescue Ayumi."

"Is the success rate high?" the man continued to ask.

"I don't know. If a sniper is used as I imagined, it should be very high. After all, according to the situation at the scene, the kidnapper's weapon cannot be held in his hand." (Things that shred the body without causing too much noise There are not many, but they are basically sharp knives with a base like a guillotine. The guillotine series that can cut off a girl’s limbs are basically not able to hold a comatose girl in one hand with the other. of.)

"Understood." The man patted the woman's back. "Did you hear? Ayumi is still very safe, take it easy, or you will be so tired that you won't even have the strength to make breakfast for Ayumi who has returned safely, darling~ darling~"

Under the man's soothing words, the woman gradually stopped sobbing.

"Okay," Qianyu said with a smile. "Let's calm down, do our part, and don't fall off the chain when we need our strength."

Seeing that the woman's mood gradually stabilized, Qianyu walked to the window next to her, her expression turning cold.

Qianyu was betting on the kidnapper's idea of ​​kidnapping, but he couldn't actually afford to gamble. As long as there is a slight mishap, then a fresh life that just appeared in Qianyu's new life will sing in the most cruel way in front of Qianyu, and leave in the most creepy way.

However, Qianyu could only bite the bullet and gamble with the kidnappers, because not gambling will only make it worse.

Come on, Mr. Kidnapper, let's showdown!