Stay away from Conan

Chapter 994 Where is Xiaolan?

As Gao Yuan mentioned more and more clues on the phone, Kudo Shinichi, who was present, could not help but have a general outline of the causes and consequences of this incident——

First of all, as a continuous incident, the three targets that the murderer first attacked were Officer Megure, Xiaolan’s mother-in-law, and Mr. Akechi. At the scene of their attacks, the murderer left playing cards corresponding to their names. The items in the cards and in the hands of the characters are very important clues. It can be seen that the murderer who attacked the three of them must be the same person.

Therefore, if you want to find out the identity of the murderer, the most critical clue lies in the attack that Aunt Fei Yingli suffered.

Since the chocolate the murderer sent to Lawyer Fei happens to be the brand of chocolate that Lawyer Fei likes most, the murderer must be someone who knows about it.

Therefore, according to Mr. Mingzhi’s investigation, since Uncle Maori and Aunt Fei Yingli have basically stopped mentioning this matter since they separated recently, then if you want to find someone who knows about this matter, you can continue to search forward, and thus you can find the earliest Maori When my uncle was dating Aunt Eiri, Mr. Sawaki, who met Uncle Mori and the others at that time, actually knew about this.

Therefore, Mr. Sawaki was suspected of committing the crime.

And then, when the murderer counted down from "K, Q, J" on the playing cards to the digital cards, because there was no longer an image of the character on the card, the murderer stayed at the scene every time he committed the crime. The item becomes the playing card itself.

But after the first three attacks, there was a problem with the murderer's target.

It turned out that my identity as "Conan" was also attacked after Mr. Akechi, and later a "10 of Spades" playing card was found in Mr. Akechi's car, so everyone thought that they were the victims representing "Ten". Then it’s Asahi Hiroki’s turn as “Nine”.

But later it was discovered that another murderer attacked Dr. Ari again after Asahi Hiroki pretended to be attacked, and left the "10 of Spades" playing card, and then Asahi Hiroki himself was also killed.

Because the crossbow and arrows used by the later murderer were the same as those used by Officer Megure and Mr. Akechi when they were attacked. From this, it seems that the murderer who committed the murder later was the murderer of the previous three incidents. , and according to his own guess, his identity as "Conan" would be attacked, maybe because he kicked the window of the truck with a football, which made him angry, so he temporarily chose to hit someone in his driving path with a car. Because of myself, the fact that people thought "Conan" was the target representing "Ten" was most likely not the fault of the murderer who caused the first three incidents.

Therefore, I analyzed the possibility of copycat crimes at that time.

But now that I think about it, combined with the clues about the attack on the concubine’s lawyer, it is possible to find out the suspicion of Mr. Sawaki. In this way, if this misleading "Ten" attack did not occur, and Mr. Sawaki was later protected by the police, The two attacks that occurred next only ended when Asahi Hiroki was replaced with eye drops. In fact, the order of all attacks was self-consistent——

But in this case, Sawaki's suspicion of fairness cannot be cleared.

And it is precisely because of the murders of Dr. Agasa and Asahi Hiroki that people thought that the person who caused these two incidents was the murderer who caused the first three incidents in the first place. In this case, there should have been The suspected Sawaki is fair. Since there is no crime in the subsequent two incidents, he can be easily excluded from the suspicion...

So in the end, there are still two murderers. With what happened just now, Mr. Sawaki attacked Nana Koyamauchi, he must be one of the murderers. However, due to the attack on Dr. Agasa and the murder of Asahi Hiroki, Sawaki The husband has an alibi, so the help of another murderer is necessary to cause these two incidents.

Thinking about this, Kudo Shinichi felt that Gao Yuan was so sure that Mr. Sawaki was suspicious. If the incident that happened at this underwater restaurant had not happened today, there would actually be many possibilities for the whole thing. Inference based on clues, Gao Yuan's deployment today is as if he already knew the answer, and he is checking the clues...

Therefore, when Kudo Shinichi was thinking a little doubtfully, he heard Gao Yuan on the phone saying that Mr. Sawaki should not take action at this time. Suddenly, Kudo Shinichi seemed to remember something, He turned around and looked around at everyone present——

Of course, Officer Megure, Officer Shiratori, Officer Sato, and Officer Takagi, as well as Uncle Mouri and Xiaolan, are no problem either.

Among the rest, Mr. Sawaki was being subdued on the spot, while Nana Koyamauchi was still a little shocked and looked frightened. As for Nishina Minoru, he also came here to observe because of the movement just now, but...

"Where's Peter Ford!"

Immediately, he realized that among the invited people, Peter Ford was not present after hearing Nana Koyamauchi's shout just now. This situation made Kudo Shinichi feel puzzled, and then after thinking for a while, he became surprised:

"Didn't Mr. Peter Ford hear the noise and come over?"

"Why?"

Immediately, after hearing what Kudo Shinichi said, everyone else present couldn't help but look around, and then they realized that Peter Ford was really not here——

"Really, where is Mr. Peter?"

Officer Shiratori also said unexpectedly.

"Isn't he lost?"

Mouri Kogoro couldn't help but guess this at this time.

"Something's wrong..."

In this regard, Kudo Shinichi couldn’t help but said:

"According to Mr. Akechi's guess, in order to facilitate the operation, the two murderers are likely to be at the scene. Since in this underwater restaurant, Officer Sato and Officer Takagi have already been ambushing here, and the situation that occurred was arranged by them in advance. , then the possibility of another murderer hiding here is very small, the most likely situation is..."

As he said that, Kudo Shinichi looked at Sawaki Koei, who was being subdued at the moment, and said solemnly:

"Just like Mr. Sawaki, pretend to be one of the targets that should be attacked, and follow everyone..."

Speaking of this, everyone present was shocked——

"Is it possible that the accomplice is..."

At this moment, Officer Megure realized the problem and hurriedly said in shock.

"possible."

In this regard, after Gao Yuan on the other end of the phone heard that there was one missing person, he could only guess like this because there was no direct evidence.

"Anyway, find Mr. Peter quickly!"

Kudo Shinichi hurriedly said, and everyone who realized the problem immediately set off to find Peter Ford——

However, at this moment, as an explosion sounded, a strong vibration suddenly caused the entire underwater restaurant to shake violently, and immediately, with the vibration, the lights that were originally on were It also went out again!

"What? What's wrong?"

When darkness fell again, everyone was a little unsteady due to the shaking of the whole building. They could only lean on the wall as much as possible to prevent themselves from falling. At the same time, Officer Memu said in surprise:

"What was that sound just now?"

"It looks like something exploded!"

In this regard, Officer Shiratori, who was also leaning against the wall to steady his body, could not help but say as he judged the cause of the noise just now.

"How could that happen? Could it be that there's a bomb hidden here?"

Regarding this situation, Sato Miwako also said with some seriousness and surprise.

"Isn't it possible? We have checked everywhere, right?"

Takagi She couldn't help but reply, and then he was stunned for a moment, as if he thought of something, and couldn't help but say:

"Could it be Mr. Peter?"

Just as he was talking, because of the chaos just now, Sawaki Fairy, who should have been controlled by Takagi Wataru, suddenly took the opportunity to escape from Takagi Wataru's control. So after stabilizing his body a little, Takagi Wataru wanted to catch Sawaki. Fair, but—

"Huh? No! Mr. Sawaki ran away!"

The catch was empty, and then there was the sound of rapid running. In this dark situation, Takagi Wataru suddenly realized that although Sawaki's hands were handcuffed, he could still run and he would take the opportunity to escape, so he couldn't help but be shocked.

However, he couldn't see anything. For a while, except for judging the general direction of the other party's departure based on the sound, he couldn't grasp the specific position of Sawaki Fair.

"Quick! Stop him!"

For a moment, after hearing Takagi Wataru's words, Officer Megure quickly realized what happened and hurriedly ordered.

However, the current situation is too chaotic. Almost everyone is in the corridor now. Due to the turmoil just now, some of them stood firm against the wall, while others fell to the ground without the assistance of light. , Officer Megure and others present were really powerless even if they wanted to catch Sawaki Eiroji who was escaping.

Just like that, after the shock caused by the explosion calmed down, it seemed that the backup emergency lighting device in the building was finally activated, and some faint light finally lit up in the corridor, so that everyone present could finally see Now I understand the current situation——

"Great, emergency lights!"

Noticing that the emergency lights were on, Officer Megure couldn't help but calm down a little, and then immediately ordered to Officer Shiratori and others present:

"Go quickly, Zemu, and catch me back!"

"yes!"

In this way, Miwako Sato reacted first and was about to take action.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, there was another explosion that was more violent than before, and everyone immediately felt that the entire underwater building was shaken more violently by this explosion——

what happened? Why were there two explosions...

"No, run away!"

At this moment, just when Kudo Shinichi was feeling strange about the two explosions, he suddenly thought that he and others were in a building on the seabed, and the sound of the second explosion just now might have caused the surrounding buildings to The structure simply cannot hold up.

From this, realizing what was about to happen, Kudo Shinichi hurriedly urged:

"The water is coming! Everyone, run toward the hall!"

Now everyone is located in the corridor of the back kitchen, and the location is already inside the building. Once the sea water from outside pours in, it will be difficult to get out from here, so Kudo Shinichi made a prompt decision and hurriedly suggested.

At this time, it was too late to care about the escaping Sawaki Fair, save his life first, and judging from the situation just now, it seemed that Sawaki Fair had foreseen that such a thing would happen, so he took advantage of the first explosion to escape.

So, after hearing what Kudo Shinichi said, they also realized the urgency of the matter, and everyone hurriedly ran towards the entrance hall——

"Huh? But..."

However, when he heard the words that the water was about to flood in, Nishina suddenly froze:

"I can't swim..."

Saying this, thinking that if he ran outside, he might be facing the sea water that was about to flood in, Nishina's legs became weak and he didn't dare to move.

However, faced with this situation, Mouri Kogoro stepped forward and pulled him and ran out——

"Run away quickly. Do you want to wait here to die?"

Speaking forcefully, Mouri Kogoro learned the fact that Nishina was afraid of water on the cable car when he came over, but even if he was afraid of water, he couldn't wait to die here, so Moori Kogoro pulled him and ran.

At the same time, everyone else also ran outside...

…

At the same time, on the other end of the phone that Sato Miwako had not hung up, Gao Yuan heard the explosion coming from the underwater restaurant. From this, Gao Yuan also knew that although things had gone awry, the place was indeed called "Water Crystal" The underwater restaurant was still bombed.

In this regard, although no bomb was found when Gao Yuan went to check the undersea restaurant in advance yesterday, Gao Yuan did not choose to accompany everyone when they gathered at the undersea restaurant today due to various considerations -

After all, I can't swim. If something happens to the underwater restaurant like in the original, I will be a liability.

Secondly, I was also worried about whether being present at the same time as Kudo Shinichi would further affect the deviation of the case, so to be on the safe side, since Kudo Shinichi was going to the scene, I would not go.

However, it seems that what happened in the underwater restaurant this time is somewhat related to the original work, but the deviation in the case itself is too large to be ignored...

Thinking like this, Gao Yuan outside the field began to contact the water security rescue...

…

On the other side, in the undersea restaurant, when everyone quickly ran out of the corridor of the back kitchen and was about to run into the hall, the glass on the outer wall of the hall had shattered with the explosion, and the seawater outside the building had quickly poured into the hall.

As a result, everyone who was about to run out was hit by the oncoming water. They were knocked down by the water for a moment, and their whole people were submerged by the water and drifted with the current.

But fortunately, everyone finally came to the hall at this moment. Since the glass in the hall was almost completely broken, they only needed to find a way to leave the undersea restaurant through the crack in the hall window, and then find a way to float to the surface to escape.

From this, when the water flowing into the hall was basically stable, and there was still a slight gap of air above the water surface in the hall, everyone temporarily floated to the surface and took a breath—

"Ah, I'm saved for now..."

Taking a big mouthful of air above the water, Takagi Wataru couldn't help but say.

"However, I still haven't seen Mr. Peter and Mr. Sawaki."

Miwako Sato looked around at the people who surfaced and couldn't help but say.

"Perhaps they had already escaped through the blown exit."

Mouri Kogoro thought while holding Nishina Minoru, who couldn't swim.

In response, Kudo Shin nodded, feeling that this might be the murderer's last resort to escape, and it made sense to say so.

But at this moment, when Kudo Shinichi looked around at the people who had surfaced, he suddenly looked stunned——

Where is Xiaolan?