Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 744 Good Days

"Why did you drag me away so quickly? This way, it will be harder for the police to hear about their new findings."

After entering the gymnasium, Conan, who was finally put down by Tang Ze, complained softly.

Although the police's next move can be guessed with a little thinking, without the front-line work information from the police, it becomes much more difficult to synchronize the criminals' next blackmail message.

There is a low-cost solution to this problem.

Tang Ze lowered his eyes, looked at the guy who was blatantly going to become a lawbreaker, raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

Yes, it’s easy to hear. Eavesdropping devices are so convenient.

If he remembered correctly, the way Conan synchronized the police intelligence in this case was to secretly stick a bug on the other person's walkie-talkie.

It's really hard to believe how Inspector Megure kept his expression when he saw the elementary school students who appeared just in time.

"I can guess it without listening to their news. They won't be able to find the real suspect." After criticizing the detective's reckless investigation method, Tang Ze continued to lead the children through the long corridor of the entrance while speaking confidently.

The young detectives who were following him quickly were stunned for a moment, looking at each other in confusion.

"Hey, why, Brother Tangze, you didn't object to the police's actions just now." Yoshida Ayumi asked.

"Their actions are in line with the standards and they naturally have their own considerations. I'm just an ordinary student and they have to listen to my suggestions." Tang Ze looked back even more innocently.

Holding the hat on her head, she jogged along the way. At the end, Haibara Ai almost failed to brake and bumped into Tang Ze's heels.

An ordinary student?

"Really? But when Conan explained the problem to Inspector Megure before, Inspector Megure clearly accepted it..." Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya crossed his arms, not looking very convinced.

"Ah, he's a detective, but I'm not." Tang Ze attributed this naturally, and then changed the topic to what he had just said. "According to the current investigation direction of the police, they will need to find two special viewers with characteristics that can correspond to the criminals. In other words, they will need to find someone who was on the phone when they received new information from the kidnappers, and someone who used the equipment at hand, such as a telescope, to continuously observe the situation at the scene."

"Is there any problem with this?" Several members of the Junior Detective Team asked in confusion.

The above characteristics have been recognized by both the police and Conan, and are the external characteristics that are most likely to point to the criminal. If Karasawa had not taken them away directly, then what they would have done next would probably be similar.

"Of course we have. If the scope of the investigation is wrong, we won't find it no matter how hard we try." Tang Ze stopped in the passageway before entering the stands, squatted down, and leveled his eyes with Conan and others. "Anyway, it's hard to do better than the police if we follow the police's direction. We have neither manpower nor first-hand information. Now is the time to play the role of detectives, isn't it?"

"You mean, we should avoid the current direction of the police's investigation?" Conan touched his chin thoughtfully.

"Yes. You all want to be detectives, so why don't we study a new topic: what are the shortcomings of the police's standards?" Tang Ze threw out this clue.

The children looked at each other, and except for Haibara Ai who followed closely and moved behind Tang Ze, she did not participate in the discussion and quickly started thinking.

"Well, if you think about it carefully, it seems that something is not right." Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya spoke first. "The gunman who fired the shot, if we follow the current line of thought, he threatened the TV station by shooting the football, which is actually very dangerous."

"Yes, you are right." With her companion's introduction, Yoshida Ayumi quickly understood the other party's thoughts, "When we watch football games on TV, we also see the TV station's filming. Their cameras are not only facing the stadium, but also facing the stands."

Kojima Genta also nodded and said, "Yes, the game is boring or the team is resting or something, so the TV station will broadcast a lot of shots of the coaching seats and the audience in the stands."

"Yes, so in this environment, any audience member in the venue is actually in a position where they may be exposed to the TV station's field of vision at any time, and they are not so hidden enough." Tang Ze confirmed their thinking, "Based on this condition, what do you think is the real characteristic of the criminal?"

"Yes. Even if the TV station doesn't call the police now, the police will investigate after he finishes the extortion. By then, they will check the TV station's videotapes and the shooter will most likely be exposed."

"So in order to avoid being seen easily, he must have covered his face tightly."

"Yes, he is a criminal, he must feel guilty and he definitely cannot let his face be seen by the camera..."

Haibara Ai, who was holding her hat tightly, and Conan, who was wearing a baseball cap, both froze and looked at each other instinctively. After looking at each other's appearance, they were immediately speechless.

This is really the truth.

"He was definitely carrying a 7.62-caliber Tokarev rifle, and he needed to respond to his companions' requests and shoot at the corresponding area, so he must have tried to avoid being noticed by the audience. Therefore, this person could not have worn thin, close-fitting clothes, and must have wrapped himself tightly from head to toe." Tang Ze concluded, "Since he needed to be ready to shoot at random locations in the audience seats at any time, he could not have stood in the middle of the stands, and he had to keep a distance from the target he was shooting at."

"The shooter is a person who wraps himself up tightly, moves stealthily, and keeps wandering back and forth in the first row of the audience." Huiyuan Ai adjusted her hat and continued, "This is indeed more reliable than looking for the person who made the phone call."

"...and, he must have an insider at the TV station." Conan, who had been listening to their discussion in silence, came to a definite conclusion, "That observer is none other than one of the cameramen from Nichimi TV!"

According to what Conan knew, in order to achieve the best live broadcast effect, the broadcaster would often prepare at least ten different camera positions for a football match, making it convenient for the director to switch camera positions as needed.

Unless it is the cameraman himself or someone in the broadcasting team, no one can ensure that a specific audience member will not appear in any shot.

What's more, today is the final, a final that may directly determine the finalists for the World Cup. The TV station will have arranged a lot of camera crews around the venue, maybe twenty or thirty. Without relying on stable channels, who would dare to be so reckless as to shoot in such an occasion?
Although there were 56,000 people at the scene, and the probability of capturing every single person was very low, these 56,000 spectators, like students in a classroom, were clearly visible to the teacher on the podium.

"Yes, that's what I mean. So I think it may be difficult for the police to find this blackmail team accurately." Tang Ze nodded and stood up again. "There are six of us now, so each of us will be responsible for a direction. Conan, Xiao Ai and I will be responsible for watching the live broadcast screen and find a way to check the situation of all the cameras in their broadcast car. Ayumu Yuta and Mitsuhiko, how about you go to the field to look for people who might be the gunman?"

"Okay!" The three real elementary school students, who had no idea that they were being sent away, responded happily.

Conan frowned and raised his hand to stop him.

This was a case involving firearms. There was an active gunman roaming the scene. It was very dangerous to send three elementary school students who had no physical skills and would have found it difficult to subdue the gangster to look for the gunman.

Huiyuan Ai, who was standing at the side, pressed down his raised hand. Tang Ze did not choose this corner to hold a discussion with them casually. As Tang Ze walked in, she caught a few shadows approaching quietly from other directions of the passage.

The other members of the Phantom Thieves should be behind a corner of the corridor at this moment, also listening silently to Tang Ze's thoughts.

With them around, there was no way they would allow the criminals to hurt several children.

"You must be careful." Tang Ze touched Conan's head twice, "This is a gunman. If you find anything, please keep in touch with us. Okay, go."

After saying that, Tang Ze opened the door leading to the stands, watched the three energetic elementary school students run out like the wind, and turned to look at the two fake children behind him.

"I'm watching the live broadcast of the game." Huiyuan Ai raised her phone, "We need to rule out the camera positions that cannot be observers, right?"

"Since our initial guess is that one of the criminals is now a cameraman for the TV station, that is actually a good thing for the previous conclusion." Tang Ze shrugged.

"Because observers holding binoculars or filming equipment can roam around the stadium, but if it's a photographer with heavy equipment fixed to a camera..." Conan narrowed his eyes, "Then it must be a camera in the East Stand that can capture the audience seats, right?"

"Yeah, I think so too. But please note that the person shooting the football must be armed. It doesn't mean that the cameraman is unarmed." Tang Ze pointed to the passage behind him, "I'll find a way to sneak into the TV station's broadcast vehicle, and you two go over there and check each camera one by one. How about that?"

Haibara Ai raised her head, her eyes met Tang Ze's, and she immediately understood what Tang Ze meant.

Tang Ze's obvious action of sending everyone away meant that he was going to act as a phantom thief.

Nodding slightly to him, Haibara Ai grabbed Conan's arm and pulled the mysterious detective out of the passage without saying anything.

Tang Ze stood there without moving, watching the two children's figures disappear at the end of the passage, then turned around and looked at the passage behind him.

Xingchuan Hui, who had already disguised himself, walked out from the shadows, fixed his hair, and pointed in the direction of the exit: "Then I'll go to the TV station's broadcast vehicle."

Miyano Akemi, Asai Narumi and Shimabukuro Kimie had already done their disguises. The three of them, wearing high heels, simply nodded to Karasawa and then walked past Karasawa towards the direction of the court.

They went there to protect the three naughty kids who were having fun in the field according to the arrangement just made.

The four people went to work in different directions, leaving only Tang Ze and Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was holding his hood and standing there without coming back to his senses, staring blankly at the back in front of him.

He pointed at Asai Narimi, who was wearing a dress and had her hair tied up in a high bun, and looked at Karasawa with shock.

"He, he is..."

Since Tang Ze himself started from the cafe, the members of the Phantom Thieves did not act completely together this time. They arrived at the gymnasium separately after agreeing on a time.

Therefore, Morobushi Kagemitsu missed the scene where Asai Narimi used his cross-dressing skills and put on yellow flowers in front of the mirror.

Asai Narimi, when it comes to his style of doing things and speaking, has always been calm and steady, and also quite decisive.

So even though his appearance is indeed gentle and of a more neutral type, people who have only seen him in men's clothing would find it hard to imagine that he could dress like a woman so seamlessly and without revealing anything.

Not to mention, this guy is completely gloomy and even a little crazy in combat, with a middle school syndrome style. His skill set is full of debuffs that can cause instant death, and there is even background music during the fight, making the scene very bloody and violent.

Tang Ze patted Zhu Fu Jingguang sympathetically, his expression was slightly cracked, and it was obvious that his world view was also a little cracked.

Do you understand the value of a cross-dresser who can deceive two detectives?

Zhu Fu Jingguang tried hard to retract his gaze from the venue and followed Tang Ze, whose hair color suddenly changed and he began to change his coat: "So what are we two going to do? You seem very confident in leaving this place to a few kids."

In the past, when encountering similar situations, according to Tang Ze's style of doing things, rather than arranging people to secretly look after a few children, he would definitely prefer to go straight to the point of finding the murderer himself and give him some physical persuasion in the real or cognitive world.

Tang Ze silently glanced at Zhu Fu Jingguang, then took out his sunglasses and put them on his nose without saying a word.

Of course, it was because of the two criminals this time, especially the cameraman. Although he was really a lunatic, Tang Ze didn't know his name...

He only knew that the criminal was called Hiruda at the TV station, which was why Karasawa accompanied Conan to deliver the bullet to Inspector Megure.

He had no idea what Conan was going to do, but he was going to check the staff roster anyway.

It's a pity that this was a bank robber who died before he could accomplish his mission. He still had some basic criminal qualities and was not stupid enough to use his real name to work at the TV station he was planning to take revenge on. He had just tried it and found that Jiro Hiruda was a pseudonym.

What a pity. Looking at the degree of his brain circuit disorder, if he can be taken down, he will most likely be a high-quality idiot who can grow into a temple...

After feeling regretful for a moment, Tang Ze just took out his mobile phone and showed Zhu Fujingguang the picture sent by Noah.

Zhu Fu Jingguang took a closer look and his expression suddenly became serious.

It was an egg covered with cracks, and seemed to be about to hatch.

Just as Tang Ze had expected, as if sensing everything that was about to happen today, the progress bar of the big white egg belonging to Matsuda Jinpei skyrocketed after he entered the stadium, especially after he learned that someone had used the live broadcast of the event to hold more than 50,000 spectators hostage. It seemed that he really couldn't sit still anymore.

"I guess today is a good day for me." Tang Ze, who had completely switched to joker mode, put his hands into his coat pockets and said, "Let's go pick up your old friend."

(End of this chapter)