The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Takagi Wataru, who was unaware of the movement above his head, was still looking up to observe the state of Conan who climbed up, while dutifully explaining the situation to Sato Miwako on the other end of the phone.

"All the elevator suspension cables are broken, and now the elevator has activated the emergency stop device. We are somewhere between the observation deck on the middle road and the first floor. Wait a minute, I will go up to confirm the situation. If there is no suitable escape If there is a passage, then we still have to ask the search and rescue team..."

Conan pushed open the ceiling exit of the elevator and turned the flashlight on his hand, and immediately saw something eye-catching among the piles of cables scattered around.

"No, don't move, Officer Takagi!" Conan said decisively, stopping Takagi Wataru from trying to climb up. "The mercury rod is already in operation!"

"Water, mercury rod? What is it?" Takagi Wataru moved some mobile phones away slightly and looked at the dark hole above his head in astonishment.

"A switch that can be triggered by a slight tilt... is also part of the detonation device." Conan carefully took two steps forward and got closer to the glowing numbers in the dark. "Simply speaking, there is a Not only the elevator, but also the large bomb that can blow up the Dongdu Iron Tower! The countdown has started, there are still one hour and forty minutes."

"Wha, what!" Takagi Wataru trembled, almost losing his grip on the phone in his hand.

Seeing Conan's feet with only the tips of his shoes exposed, Takagi Wataru frowned, feeling slightly regretful for his actions just now.

Children shouldn't be allowed to go up first.

"It's definitely true, it's similar to the kind of bomb I saw in the movie." Conan, who could tell the type of bomb at a glance, opened his eyes and said nonsense, "I've seen the introduction in the movie, and it said that although the liquid on one side is It’s very stable, but when the two sides are mixed together, it becomes super powerful.”

"Has the switch been activated?" Takagi Wataru pursed his lips, realizing what Conan meant.

"Yes, it has been started." Conan looked at the complex circuits and devices in the device with the light of his watch, "Whether you climb up to the ceiling now, or the search and rescue team climbs down with a rope, if you step on the top of the elevator, If it causes any vibration, there will be a big explosion!"

It should be said that fortunately he is a very light child now. If he were an adult, the action of climbing up and observing just now might have triggered the switch.

"Even climbing out directly using a sling is impossible." After quickly checking the surrounding situation, Conan looked down at the device next to the bomb, "There is a bug here. Now, the prisoner must be hiding somewhere to eavesdrop here. If his purpose is to let people stay here to dismantle the bomb, then he will directly detonate the bomb as soon as we try to leave."

Takagi Wataru took a breath, and his expression became completely serious.

Compared with the killing spree against Matsuda Jinpei three years ago, the criminals this time have become more cunning and vicious.

This is a trap that completely blocks all avenues of survival, with no hope for the trapped people to survive.

"Isn't there nothing we can do..." Takagi Wataru muttered to himself, moved the phone away from his ear, and looked down at the battery level of the phone.

There is still 30% battery left, which may last until the countdown is over, but if you keep talking on the phone, whether it can last until noon is a question.

It seems that he has to consider hanging up the phone directly, and like the police officer who died three years ago, consider conserving as much power as possible and using it on the key blade position...

"Don't say that, Takagi!" Sato Miwako's voice was a little tight, "Support is on the way. We still have time to come up with a perfect solution! Don't..."

Don't follow in Matsuda's footsteps.

Mercury rod, countdown timer, listening device...

A bad premonition hit her, and she already anticipated what might happen next.

The situation she tried so hard to avoid still happened. Was she going to watch a person step into the trap of death again?

"Also, just now we saw someone approaching the direction where you were trapped from a higher position. The children said that it might be the Phantom Thieves of the Heart. You haven't reached the end of your rope yet..."

So, please, don’t die...

Her voice was very nervous, with an obvious tremor in it, almost pleading.

"Sato..." Listening to her voice that sounded like she was about to cry, Takagi Wataru closed his eyes in discomfort.

He knew that the reason why Sato Miwako was not in love until now was not really completely emotionless, and it wasn't even entirely due to Matsuda Jinpei.

He heard her self-deprecating description from Yumi Miyamoto and Miwako Sato, who was drunk that day.

The people close to her, the people she loved, all became very unfortunate. She thought that she was a cursed guy, so she felt the pain of loss again and again.

Her father, her elementary school PE teacher, even her former classmates, and of course, Matsuda Jinpei.

If she can't go out safely today, then Sato...

Takagi Wataru below was caught in tangled emotions, while Conan was intently checking the situation.

Conan carefully touched the cable and made sure that his actions would not touch the sensitive mercury switch. He then checked the battery level of the watch and slowly exhaled.

Takagi Wataru couldn't get up, and neither could the search and rescue team or the explosive ordnance disposal team that arrived.

For the current plan, we can only let him, who still has access to the bomb, be responsible for dismantling the bomb...

"We have another way..." After regaining his composure, Conan was about to say this when a piece of soft cloth touched the top of his head.

Dazed for a moment, Conan controlled the range of his movements and raised his head blankly.

He met a pair of blood-red eyes shining in the darkness.

"Hey, isn't this our great detective?" Tangze, who was hanging upside down in the air, raised his hand and waved to Conan easily, "Are you in trouble again? Do you need a helping hand?"

"...Eh? You..." Conan, who never expected to see joker here, was stunned for two seconds, and then immediately looked at the bug at hand.

The prisoner is now eavesdropping on the situation here in real time, and suddenly another person says...

"Eavesdropping device, right?" Tang Ze raised his chin and hinted tactfully, "Have you seen others using this thing? No matter what function the eavesdropping device is, it needs to be used with earphones for monitoring. In other words, you Now I am holding a one-way condenser microphone in my hand..."

Before he could continue, Conan, who reacted very quickly, had a look of realization on his face. He immediately grabbed the bug in his hand, and regardless of where the resonator was, he pressed it against his clothes and rubbed it wildly.

He himself often uses this type of equipment, so he naturally knows that an eavesdropper can basically be regarded as a radio equipment composed of a condenser microphone and a radio frequency device, and he also knows very well how to drive an eavesdropper crazy.

Karasawa raised his hand, predicatively pressed the volume reduction button on the earphones, and heard Yoji Motohashi's scream again as expected.

If you like listening to it, then listen to it more.

After confirming that the eavesdropper could not hear what was going on here, Conan confirmed again: "Why are you here? Are you following the signal?"

Concerned about Takagi Wataru below and Sato Miwako on the other end of the phone, he was careful not to reveal any titles.

His watch, which he was now using as a flashlight, contained the Phantom Thieves' locator.

While accepting it, Conan was actually very clear that he had changed his direction and accepted the assistance agreement from the Phantom Thieves. That is, as long as he was willing to share his location information, when something happened to him here, the Phantom Thieves would be able to accurately Find him and help.

Having said that, it was unexpected that they arrived so quickly.

"What's going on?" Takagi Wataru below heard the unexpected movement above his head and asked in shock.

When a strange voice suddenly appears in this environment, the first feeling it brings to people, rather than being rescued, is naturally one of horror.

"Of course, here to save people, by the way..." Tang Ze looked up.

The red chain transformed from his scarf hung down from above. His other two teammates did not have the ability to control the rope as freely as he did, so they had no choice but to climb down on their own.

Conan followed the direction of his gaze and looked toward the dark top of his head.

In the darkness, a man dressed in black slowly approached from the darkness, grabbed the joker's outstretched hand, and landed towards where he lay.

It wasn't until the other person's face came closer that Conan saw those crow-green eyes.

"Let's solve some remaining problems." Looking at the familiar bomb below, Matsuda Jinpei waved to the surprised child with black and gray motor oil on his face.

The dazed Takagi Wataru had no reaction, but Miwako Sato on the other end of the phone caught the male voice and her eyes suddenly widened.

That's, that's...!

"Next is confidential time. Noah." Karasawa wanted to snap his fingers pretentiously, but he was holding the rope with one hand and Matsuda Jinpei with the other, so he could only call out directly.

"receive."

"H-Hello?! Takagi, Conan!" Noisy interference came from the receiver, and Sato Miwako shouted twice towards the other end of the phone.

In response, there was a flat busy tone on the other end of the phone.

It's hung up.

"Damn, let me go, I want to go in and take a look-"

"Sato, Sato, calm down! The explosive ordnance disposal team is on the way!"

"You don't understand, let me in -"

Matsuda Jinpei turned his head and glanced sideways at Karasawa who was smiling, and rolled his eyelids when he heard the confused voice of the new member of the Investigation Class 1 in the car who was completely confused about the situation.

This evil-minded guy could find a way to block the communication before approaching, but he had to hang up the policeman's phone only after he opened his mouth to speak. This was obviously intentional.

I just don’t know which old friend from the Investigation Section 1 is on the other end of the phone...

Matsuda Jinpei, who had a complicated expression, didn't say anything, but cooperated with Karasawa's extremely slow falling movement and slowly stepped on the messy iron roof.

The broken steel cables of the elevator were coiled randomly on the ground. It was not easy to find a suitable foothold, which made his standing movements a bit awkward.

Not to mention, there was a little child lying there looking at him blankly.

"Give way, kid, let me meet an old acquaintance." Matsuda Jinping, who was dressed in black robes, raised his chin and motioned to Conan to make room for him.

The countdown on the fluorescent screen, the mercury rod, the imminent explosion... the ghosts he was all too familiar with.

Conan looked at the visitor's face, then looked at joker's, looking back and forth for a long time, and showed a strange expression.

Thinking of the information analysis related to the serial bombings that Joker had asked him to help organize before, he had a bold guess...

"Professional matters should be handled by professionals." From Conan's expression of confusion, horror and disbelief, Tang Ze saw that he probably understood a little about Matsuda Jinpei's identity, and answered suggestively.

"He, he is——" Conan trembled and pointed at the man squatting in front of the bomb after understanding the other party's answer from Joker's half-smile.

"Hush." ​​Tang Ze raised a finger, pointed at the elevator below, and then pointed at the bug in Conan's hand.

Conan looked down at the small device in his hand, and then at the open elevator ceiling, so he had to lower his head and continue to rub the bug on his clothes desperately.

The sudden appearance of the thieves obviously trusted him, so they did not intend to hide their appearance. Conan himself was of course very trustworthy, and Takagi Shigeru, who was left alone, was also a trustworthy good man.

But it was precisely this group of trustworthy people, plus the eavesdropping device in his hand, that formed a strange and secretive situation.

Damn it, what's wrong with this feeling of frustration...

Tang Ze shook the rope and swung to the wall on the side of the elevator shaft.

Xingchuan Hui, lurking in the shadows, accurately grabbed his arm and placed him on the horizontal concrete pillar on the side.

Tang Ze, who finally didn't have to play Spider-Man, relaxed and continued to talk about riddles: "Don't you think it's romantic? The evil ghost who personally avenges the murderer. You know, I always like this kind of drama."

Conan looked at the man in the black cloak and understood what Joker was referring to.

After years of forbearance, he finally succeeded in killing Asai Narimi, the enemy who killed his father. In order to avenge his mother, he killed three old friends, Shimabukuro Kimie, and even wanted to seek justice for Sawada Hiroki, so he simply kidnapped Noah's Ark...

Joker is a guy who advocates justice by result, so he supports blood revenge. Conan knew this very well when he first met him.

It is of course a good thing to be able to stop the tragedy from happening, but it is so exaggerated that he can do such a thing. If this continues, will this guy really fall into another level of paranoia...

While Conan mechanically rubbed the bug, he once again fell into the philosophical mystery of how to pull his friend who stood in the gray area back from extremes. Matsuda Jinpei, who had removed the lid, was holding a flashlight in his mouth to observe the structure. Hearing this, his eyebrows twitched twice.

Without looking back, he protested vaguely: "Hey, what is an evil ghost?"

"Okay, okay, I'll change the metaphor." Tang Ze raised his hand and changed the metaphor readily. "Didn't that guy say that the 'extra game' has begun? A good description, so I decided to fulfill his wish."

The contest three years ago entered round 2, and the real "extra game" had indeed begun.

"'The Phantom Thieves of the Heart'?" Thinking of what Sato Miwako said when she was grabbing at straws, Takagi Shigeru suddenly realized who the person who appeared above might be.

Joker, like other mysterious Phantom Thieves, has been popular in the media because of the topic and the events he participated in, but very few people have really come into close contact with him.

Conan is one of them.

So the one who could communicate with him so familiarly must be the phantom thief Joker, that, that other relatively mature male voice...

Takagi Shigeru thought of the strange and fantastic experiences of the past two days, swallowed his saliva, and tentatively called out: "Matsuda... uh, senior...?"

In response, he was answered with two low chuckles.