Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 729 The Riddler who battles wits with the air

There was a military green pickup truck parked in the underground garage. Belmod glanced at it and quickly connected it with the bulletproof pickup truck Gin had mentioned, which was quite funny.

Whether it was Bourbon or Kumel, their social status was not suitable for driving this kind of vehicle. She guessed at the time that they wanted this car just to drink gin. Now looking at this car... The car that was thrown here casually was really what she said.

The nature of bourbon as whiskey is becoming more and more obvious, and Kumail also hints at his dissatisfaction in his words. Although the conflict between the boss and his subordinates is sharp, they are surprisingly in harmony... Gin, maybe he really looks at people. allow.

Looking away in confusion, Belmode walked through the garage, ignored the small maintenance room that seemed to contain thermal weapons, and walked into the villa.

The structure of this building is similar to Kudo's house, except that it does not have the exaggerated giant library obstruction structure of Kudo Yusaku. The whole building is in the shape of a zigzag, with corridors on all sides connecting each room. In the center of the building is an exquisite small atrium.

Now entering it, the interior of the house is decorated in a typical French style. The previous owner obviously preferred the design of European architecture. Judging from the slightly old furniture, the new owner who bought it did not make any modifications. The light dust in the air was like The musty smell is a constant hint that someone is coming, and the place is still vacant.

These are all illusions used by Kumel to confuse snoopers, and Belmod will never believe them to be true.

She put on the shoe covers she had prepared in advance, double-checked the shielding clothing she was wearing, and then quickly walked around upstairs and downstairs.

As she expected, she found nothing.

But anyway, she didn't go around to find anything, she just wanted to compare it with the blueprint of the house to find a possible hiding place.

Kumail, of course, couldn't put the secret in such an obvious place, but if the safe house was set up upstairs, there would definitely be flaws in the internal structure.

After looking around, Belmode turned his attention to the first floor again.

Since the structure here is similar to the Kudo house next door, there must be a basement here.

She looked around but couldn't find the entrance, it must have been hidden by Kumail.

The highlight of today is probably right there.

After determining the direction of travel, Belmod took out the equipment for scanning signals and circuits from his arms, preparing to investigate possible locations on the first floor.

A hidden room that consumes so much water and electricity and is tightly protected must have circuits.

Noah's surveillance room.

"Is she looking for something?" Zhu Fu Jingguang watched this old colleague he had never met before wandering around the room, turning his head and looking at his teammates beside him in confusion.

Belmode walked in slowly, looked for something again, and battled wits with the air for a long enough time. Now not only the others, but also Xingchuan Hui, who had gone out for a walk, came back and was sitting close to him. The location of the door, waiting to appear at the right time.

"They are mystics like this." Xingchuan Hui, a semi-distillery employee, was not surprised. "Regarding this issue, the leader and we have a long-term bet project. If you are interested, you can also participate."

"What's the bet?" Zhu Fu Jingguang, who had vague guesses after hearing the mystic, asked cautiously.

I feel like I'm going to hear some weird discussions next.

"About the question of who will spend the longest search time when Bermod, Officer Furitani, Detective Conan and others break into the space arranged by Noah." Miyano Akemi chuckled, obviously one of the participants.

Zhu Fu Jingguang thought about her question for a while, and was really confused for a moment.

He looked at Belmode again, who had started to search for circuits along the wall, and couldn't help but ask: "So, is there really no mechanism set up in this house?"

"No." Noah, who was standing in front of the table, turned around and answered from the perspective of a designer, "I asked the leader if I wanted to add some decorations when I was making it, but he said no."

"'Anyway, there are no puzzles. They can have fun with themselves. Why waste that computing power?'" Hoshikawa Teru repeated Tang Ze's original words, raised his chin and gestured to the screen. Belmode.

Belmode, who acted cautiously and was always in a tense mood, was still immersed in the tense atmosphere of solving puzzles.

The first thing to be eliminated were the rooms in the outer circle. The structure of the dining room and the reception room was very simple and easy to see, and it didn't look like there were hidden doors.

In the inner circle of rooms, she suspected that the atrium, vegetation and small courtyard buildings were good disguises for the mechanism, but considering the effort required to do so, she ruled out this conjecture.

Just ten days after Kumail acquired the identity of Goro Akechi, Akai Shuichi was exposed and defected during a mission to cooperate with Gin.

Bourbon left Tokyo the next day, and it was at this time that Kumail received the task of replacing Karasawa and interrogating the whereabouts of the information.

This is an unexpected situation. Unless Akai Shuichi has communicated with Kumel in advance, the reaction time left for him will definitely be very short. His actions will be very hasty, and it is impossible to set up a passage that takes time to build.

The only possibility is to slightly change the original structure...

With this thought in mind, Belmod carefully checked the circuits in the two rooms, and finally stopped in front of the wardrobe in the cloakroom.

The previous owner died of homicide, and his personal belongings had been emptied by the police and family members after the case was concluded. There were only many sundries packed in cardboard boxes left in the cloakroom, and the dust raised made the room with only one light gray. .

Judging from the surface situation, no one had set foot here for a long time, but Belmod looked at the gray carpet laying on the ground and strode in.

Unlike the floored room, the footprints here will be less obvious. There is no professional survey equipment to assist in judgment. At a glance, it looks very consistent with the state of being still unused.

So the possibility here is very high.

Belmod opened all the closet doors in the cloakroom one by one.

The friction sound caused by the slide rails kept ringing. The uneasy feeling that she could not see behind the door clearly and that she might be exposed to some surveillance at any time made her feel even more nervous.

In this atmosphere, Belmod finally found what he wanted to see behind a closet.

The built-in safe, just like the ones found in many hotels, appeared here without any surprise, but it made Belmode more careful when he stretched out his hand.

Password, password...what will the password be...

She only had one chance with the five-digit password.

Staring at the number nine key in front of him, Belmode thought for a moment and pressed it tentatively.

If, she means, if Kumel did not kill Tang Zezhao for some unknown reason after completing his mission, what changed his mind?
Akira Karasawa, and the name Karasawa Ikawa gave to his core invention...

The words this child said in a weak voice at the last moment when he was shot were words that only Kumail heard in the world...

With various thoughts swirling in his mind, Belmod pressed it carefully.

Akira——25472——

"drop--"

A weak electronic sound sounded, and the green indicator light on the keyhole lit up.

Belmode pursed his lips and slowly opened the small safe door.

There was also nothing in the cabinet, but a lever that was obviously a switch was quietly embedded in the back of the safe.

"She really guessed it right?" Shimabukuro Kimie covered her mouth in surprise, "This password seems easy to say, but she can guess it..."

When she said this, she looked at Xingchuan Hui.

If Kumail is really Hoshikawa Teru himself, this password setting is quite reasonable.

Karasawa's name was given by his parents, and Hoshikawa Teru's name was given to him by himself, but by coincidence, although their names have different Chinese characters, they are both akira when written down.

Did Belmode really discover something wrong, and also said that this was also part of Karasawa's temptation?

Faced with the curious looks of several people, Noah shrugged: "Actually, it makes no difference. Even if she presses five 1s or five 0s, the door will still open."

This is what Karasawa meant. He said that only the Riddler can figure out what the Riddler is thinking. Instead of trying to predict Belmod, it is better to be direct. So in fact, this password box does not have an exact pass code set at all. If anyone presses any five numbers, the door will open.

Several people in the room rolled their eyelids and covered their foreheads, but they couldn't help but feel at the same time that this approach was indeed very Tang Ze.

"If you think about it carefully, it's not surprising." After being speechless for a moment, Asai Narumi laughed again, "After all, his purpose was not to stop Belmode."

As the lever moved, a crack slowly opened in the wall behind the wardrobe.

"He has made so many preparations for this day, tinkering around and trying to hint, just for this moment." Shimabukuro Kimie, who has been studying trauma and medical content for a long time because of Karasawa's request, nodded in agreement.

A staircase leading down appeared behind the door. The not-so-bright light in the cloakroom stretched Belmod's shadow very long, extending all the way to the door below.

"I even dragged Zero to act out this weird script with him, constantly improving the character's logic..." Zhufu Jingguang shook his head, "I don't know what Karasawa's plan is, but Belmod must have played a role in it. Very important role.”

Belmode walked down the stairs slowly.

The shoe covers and processed soles made no sound. She walked down silently and stood in front of the smooth metal door.

There are no exposed mechanisms or password disks on this door, and as the entrance door behind you closes automatically, this door opens slowly and automatically.

"We'll see." Miyano Akemi turned her chair and approached the screen set up by Noah.

Everyone in the Phantom Thieves gathered in front of the screen.

Tang Ze, who had his back to the door, seemed to be aware of it and turned his head to look in the direction of the person.

Belmode stood in front of the door in a daze, looking at the young man sitting in the wheelchair, dumbfounded.

Although she had expected this, even though she had some subtle suspicions in her mind from the moment she saw the photo...

But watching this scene happen before her eyes, and seeing Tang Zezhao, who should have been dead long ago, appear in front of her in an image that she had not expected, Bermod was still shocked.

Kumail, Kumail is really...

Is he crazy? What good does this do to himself? !

Tang Zezhao is actually not dead!
How did he hide it from the truth, how did he do all this, the video sent to the organization, and the flash card he handed in that indeed detected Karasawa Akira's DNA...

Mixed emotions were roaring in Belmode's mind, but her actions as she took off her hat, revealing her full head of blond hair, were calm and calm.

Now that we have reached this point, it is impossible to avoid being discovered by Kumel. There is no need to continue to hide our lies.

She walked into the spacious basement.

"Who are you?" The young man sitting in the middle of the room turned the handle on the side of the wheelchair, quickly adjusted the angle of the wheelchair, and faced the strange visitor.

Vermouth lowered her eyes and looked at the pale man.

"Are you Tang Zezhao...?" The answer was already obvious, but she still asked as if to confirm.

Even if you ignore this familiar face, his physical condition is the best indication of who he is.

When he saw him for the first time, since he could only see his profile clearly, Belmode had no other thoughts except that he was shocked by his identity.

However, now that he could see the other person's whole body clearly, Belmod's shock became even more meaningful.

Scars, large and small, covered all of his skin exposed outside his clothes.

His face was criss-crossed, with four or five scars of about ten centimeters completely ruining his handsome face. The most conspicuous one diagonally crossed the bridge of his nose from the peak of his eyebrows, and stretched all the way to the side of his cheeks. Anyone who saw this would Every face can't help but take half a step back because of the slightly horrifying visual effects.

But his face was the least injured part of him.

The wounds on his neck and collarbone were large and small, of varying depths, and the hideous spiderweb-like scars were all the way into his clothes.

The forearms and wrists exposed by the cuffs were completely deformed due to the loss of skin and muscles, especially the back of the hand. Two penetrating wounds that once showed deep bones completely changed the appearance of the smooth back of the hand.

The hand is an important moving part that can perform many fine operations. Such a serious injury cannot have no impact. It is not difficult to see his difficulty and clumsiness from his movements in moving the wheelchair.

Because of the presence of his pants, Belmode couldn't see clearly the condition of his legs, but just looking at the legs and feet hanging down weakly under the pants, it was not difficult to imagine how miserable it would be.

That's right, if there was no problem with his legs, how could he be in a wheelchair?
Belmod asked this just to confirm that the person in front of him was still the "complete" Tang Zezhao.

She has not forgotten the shot that hit the temple directly in the video. Even if he survived, it was already a miracle among miracles that he could still remain conscious.

"...I am. Do you recognize me?" Facing this strange intruder, Tang Ze narrowed his eyes, "Or do you know my father?"

Karasawa's appearance combines many characteristics of Karasawa Ikawa and Karasawa Leona. However, because of his very distinctive eyes and fluffy hair, anyone who knows Karasawa Ichikawa will quickly realize the blood relationship between them. .

"You are actually alive." After receiving confirmation from himself, Belmod murmured in surprise.

This surprise was not only surprising at Tang Zezhao's almost medical miracle of survival, but also surprised at the other party's still complete cognition and memory, as well as the fact that he was still awake and did not seem to have an excessive mental state.

Tang Ze tilted his head and looked her up and down with a cold and scrutinizing look.

That kind of gaze that seemed to be checking and scanning inch by inch once again made Belmod feel familiar.

"You are very doubtful about my survival. It seems that you are one of them." Tang Ze quickly came to a conclusion, his already wary face became even tighter, and the corners of his mouth turned down completely.

As expected of Karasawa Ikawa's son, even though he didn't grow up beside him, he still developed a sensitivity and aura similar to his.

Is this why Karasawa can survive to this day in Kumail's hands?
"I do come from the same place as Kumail." Belmod nodded under his gaze.

"Kumel...?" Tang Zezhao frowned and thought for a moment, "You guys, is this what you call Xingchuan Hui?"

"...Xingchuan Hui?" After repeating this unfamiliar name, Belmod couldn't help but be stunned.

Is this the name Kumail told Karasawa?

It’s not surprising that Karasawa didn’t know Kumail’s code name.

After all, the two of them had not known each other for long. Kumail, who had acquired the identity of Goro Akechi, had just acquired the reputation of a detective, and quickly approached according to the requirements of the mission. Not long after, when Rye Whiskey defected, , I don’t know how to trick Karasawa into opening the door, and killed him in the loft of Bourbon’s cafe.

It was by virtue of killing Akira Karasawa and successfully retrieving the important research information leaked by the Karasawa couple that Kumail was recognized by the organization and officially obtained the code name.

If Tang Zezhao never saw the sun again after that abuse and was always locked up in this basement, it would be normal for him not to know Kumail's true state. Presumably Kumail would not be able to treat this victim like this. Five-one-ten explains his situation.

"It seems that this is not his name." Tang Ze didn't seem surprised. He just readjusted his wheelchair and moved towards the other side of the room. "I don't know why you came here, but no matter what What's the purpose? I'm sorry, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. I can't help you."

"Sneeze——" Xingchuan Hui, who was sitting in front of the screen, shuddered and sneezed heavily.

Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't say anything, but silently patted the other party's shoulder, fully conveying his sympathy.

After all, you can’t escape the fate of being written into the script by Karasawa, Hoshikawa.

Thinking about Jiang Guling who might have the same itchy nose at this moment, Zhu Fu Jingguang once again felt deep sympathy.

This guy Karasawa, when he created the necessary scripts and characters and started acting, he really didn't care about the life or death of everyone, including himself.

(End of this chapter)