Conan's New Police Story

Chapter 44 NEXT
Tokyo, Mihuacho 9-23.

The bustling streets where people used to come and go in the past are now a scene of doomsday—the shocking flames accompanied by the explosion almost swallowed the entire building in an instant; the broken bricks and walls collapsed, and the All those who had no time to run away were buried!
A cordon was slowly raised under the hands of the police officers who arrived in time, instantly separating the two worlds——

People outside are weeping and wailing;
The people inside were full of helplessness and despair.

Under the ruins, the victims are incalculable!
"My child is still inside! My child is still inside, please save her! Please!"

"My wife is inside! Don't stop me!"

"Dad! Mom! Dad!!! Mom!!!"

There are people who have lost their loved ones roaring and wanting to attack the cordon, and there are dusty young children crying helplessly at the side - the bustling commercial buildings in the past have now been reduced to ruins, and the past is full of devastation.

It has been a long time since a tragedy of this scale has happened in Tokyo.

When Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato arrived at the scene of the explosion, they saw such a scene.

The heavy hearted two people looked at each other, each took a deep breath to calm down the anger surging in their hearts, calmly showed their IDs to the police officers who were protecting the scene, and put on their gloves.

"Search Division [-], Violent Crime Department, Criminal Department, Metropolitan Police Department, Department [-], Department of Police, Uehara Katsumi."

"The Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Division Investigates Division [-], Violent Crime Division [-], Police Division Supplement, Miwako Sato."

The old inspector, who had been struggling to support the scene, finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the people from the Police Department, and signaled his colleagues to quickly let the two officers from the Police Department go in. They cannot intervene in such a big case. .

"Sato, Uehara, are you in charge of this case?"

The chief of the fire brigade, who had completed the fire extinguishing work and started the rescue, was directing his subordinates aside, and immediately rushed over when he saw two faces he had seen in the Metropolitan Police Department appear.

"Ida, how is the situation at the scene?" Miwako Sato, who was leading the team by an acquaintance, also omitted her self-introduction and asked straight to the point.

"It's not good. Although the fire is extinguished, those places where the walls have collapsed are high-risk areas."

"What about casualties?"

"So far we have rescued 57 people from the rubble and 13 died."

"..."

The cruel and cold data made Miwako Sato unconsciously glance over the emotional crowd outside the cordon, and she suddenly felt a little dry in her throat.

On the side, Katsumi Uehara, who had lost the usual smile on his face, squatted down, frowned, reached out and pulled out a menu from the pile of rubble—no, it should be said to be a third of the menu.Shaking the stones and dust that fell on it, and taking a breath, the first thing that caught my eye was the huge "New Store Opening" font just below the menu.

"Asahiju?" Katsumi Uehara raised his head, muttering the name of the store, and his eyes fell on the ruins in front of him where firefighters came in and out, carefully sizing up every inch of the scorched earth.

After finishing the conversation, Miwako Sato paced back and forth and stood still, with her hands on her hips and her tongue licking her dry lips, she turned her head and looked at more and more people outside the cordon behind her, and said with a frown: "How is it? What's the matter?" Did you find it?"

"Obviously this is a new store that has just opened less than a month ago. The main specialties are bullfrog meat and snake meat." Raising the third of the menu in his hand, Katsumi Uehara stood up and handed it to Sato In front of Mei Hezi, his eyes also turned to the group of media reporters outside the warning line who had already carried long guns and short guns: "There is the boss's work phone number on the menu."

Miwako Sato, who took the menu, immediately took out her mobile phone from her suit pocket: "I'll contact him."

The woman's slender thumb quickly pressed the key on the keyboard, but what followed was a notification sound to shut down the phone.

"Have the firefighters confirmed the cause of the explosion? An explosion in a gas pipeline? Or a bomb we suspect?"

"It's not confirmed yet, but judging from the situation at the scene, it's hard to say."

Miwako Sato, who failed to get through the phone after trying five times before and after, put the phone back in her pocket, looked around at the scene where the firefighters and the police relayed the injured to the ambulance, and said in a low tone: "We just Let's hope it's just an accident caused by a gas pipeline explosion, otherwise..."

A criminal who dares to use bombs and can take human life recklessly—once the previous conjectures of the two of them are confirmed, the police will face a lunatic who does things without regard to the consequences.

What's even more frightening is that the quality of the traded bombs has reached the military level.

"Generally speaking, it is difficult for a natural gas pipeline explosion to blow up a building like this." After looking away from the cordon, Uehara Katsumi continued to look at the ruins under his feet.

After the firefighters, the police officers who were responsible for cleaning up the ruins were busy running back and forth, with the soles of their shoes rubbing against the gravel.

Maybe it was because there were a lot of people going back and forth, some gravels and bricks that were meant to be covered were moved away, and a sudden reflection was clearly captured by Uehara Katsumi, who subconsciously made him walk over.

"I'll take a look at the wounded side, this place is handed over to Uehara."

"Wait a minute, Sato."

Katsumi Uehara stretched out his hand lying on the ground, and took out the thing that caught his attention from the gap. Katsumi Uehara looked down, his pupils shrank, and he called his partner without looking back.

"Ok?"

"We...seem to have a big deal."

A card with a metallic luster under the sun was held in the hands of the man who stood up slowly, and displayed in front of the woman.

The entire silver card surface is densely covered with extremely mixed scratches, it seems that it has experienced a lot of beating in the collapsed restaurant; and in the center of one side of the card surface, there are four letters engraved brightly - NEXT.

——? !

Miwako Sato suddenly widened her eyes, horrified: "This is?!"

"Shiratori found out about the serial murder case, the criminal mark left on the body by the murderer." Flipping over the metal card in his hand without any decoration except the letters, Uehara Katsumi's eyes were serious: "The murderer committed another crime. "

"..."

Miwako Sato, who reached out to take the card, rubbed the surface of the card repeatedly, subconsciously bit her lower lip with her teeth: "I'll call Shiratori to come over."

After saying that, he reached out and took out his mobile phone to find out Shiratori Rensaburo's number, and pressed the call button——

"Ring bell bell!"

About three to five seconds later, the two people who did not wait for someone to answer the phone suddenly heard the ringing of the phone from under the ruins.

It's not loud, but it's still noticeable.

Miwako Sato, who was holding the phone tightly, looked up at Katsumi Uehara, and then cast her unbelievably horrified eyes on the area where the ringing sound came from the ruins——

"White bird?!"

　ps: there is another chapter estimated at around 1:[-]~
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