Conan: The Mechanic

Fifteen minutes later, outside the gate at the bottom of the castle.

"This phone is in the factory state," Kudo Shinichi checked. "Only the secretary's number is left on it."

Just now, the client asked the secretary to hand over this mobile phone to them - the client will make an anonymous call to this mobile phone according to their investigation progress and give them instructions on the next step. When they complete the reasoning of the case and want to report to the client, they also need to use this phone to dial the pre-stored mobile phone number belonging to the secretary.

"In other words, there may be no way to find the other party's clues, so we can only solve the case honestly according to the other party's requirements?" Kogoro Mouri sighed. "Really, taka3-8, what the heck is this."

"What I'm more curious about is what happened to that client." At this moment, Qianyu's words caught their attention.

"Hello..." Kudo Shin glanced at his bracelet.

"Don't worry, I can't put down the eavesdropping device, it's the limit to be able to install a GPS positioning part," Qianyu pointed to a small bump on Conan's bracelet. "Look, this is the GPS, nothing else."

This bracelet... is very simple and crude in every sense - except for a chip attached to the outside, the inside is almost completely stuffed with explosives.

But even so, this charge is actually not a big deal - of course, it is inevitable to blow up a hand, but if you are hiding behind a large enough steel plate, there may be a full chance of being in the explosion. Save your life.

"Okay, then, what did you notice about the client?" Kogoro Mouri asked as he walked towards the parking lot. "It should be valuable information, right?"

"It's very simple," Chiba followed behind Kogoro Mori. "This trustee...

"He's a blind man." Chiyu's words were very clear and neat, but both Kudo Shinichi and Mouri Kogoro were stunned.

"What does this mean?" Kudo Shinichi asked in surprise.

"Just now, before he made the entrustment with us, he asked the secretary to close the curtains, and he didn't turn on the lights." Qian Yu reminded. "At that time, our indoor environment was very dark, and the way he looked at us was probably similar to that of Detective Long, using surveillance probes and the like-but I felt that the picture quality of those probes... in such a dim light Here, he can't see us clearly. If he can see, he must need to see us clearly, so...he doesn't actually need light.

"In addition, you should have noticed that, does his gaze really seem to be facing us? Rather than looking at us, it is better to say that he is sitting there by himself, according to what we said. answer?"

"..." Kogoro Mori briefly recalled. "Boy, do you still have any impressions?"

"I felt like this, but I didn't think in this direction at all." Kudo Shinichi finally nodded reluctantly. "However, these things don't matter for the time being—what exactly did that client give us?"

"As for TAKA, I actually have some ideas," Chiba said here, and took another look at Kogoro Mouri. "But I think, uncle already has eyes, right?"

"Let's not talk about the next 3-8, I think TAKA should be referring to Takashima Town, right?" Kogoro Mori got into the driver's seat. "After all, this is Yokohama. If you want to consider it, it must be considered that the place name here is more reliable."

"3-8, Takashima-machi, lacks a first-level house number, but I think this level is generally enough for the time being?" Chiba didn't care much about the lack of a single digit. "As long as you ask the people nearby, I guess there should be at most one place where something happened."

Their hunch was wrong in a sense—because none of the nearby residents knew that any cases had happened here.

But at the same time, their hunch was right, because there was a place where things could easily go wrong no matter how you looked at it.

……

"3-8-5, Takashima-machi," got off the car, Chiba looked at the building in front of her. "This place...however you look at it, it is the most likely place to match the client's description, right?"

In front of them, at 3-8-5, Takashima-cho, surrounded by walls, a large building that had apparently been abandoned for a long time stood in front of them.

"But isn't this name really a performance art?" Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly. "HOTELHAIKYO..."

This is a sign engraved on the door of the building, and the sign has been damaged to the point that several of the gilded letters have even disappeared. Of course, what Kudo Shinichi cares about is the meaning of the word.

HAIKYO, in Japanese - ruins.

When a place that looks completely like a ruin is called the Ruin Hotel, it is indeed easy to make people feel particularly concerned about it.

"If we really want to discuss this, maybe this is a hotel now," Mouri Kogoro pouted. "Maybe this is a five-star luxury hotel for those homeless homeless people."

"It might be a hotel," Chiba looked at the land inside the wall. "Look at this ground, there are still footprints, which is enough to determine that someone lives here."

On the ground next to them, a series of footprints leaving the hotel were clearly visible.

"This footprint seems to have been formed by walking on it after the rain stopped, right?" Kudo Shinichi walked over and observed it carefully. "Well, it looks like sneakers, maybe they just happened to pass by, but were forced to hide in because of the rain, and left after the rain stopped?"

"I took a look at the weather for a few days before I came here~www.NovelMTL.com~ The last rain in Yokohama was on November 23 at 2 am," Chiba glanced at Kudo Shinichi, and then headed towards the door go. "Are you sure that normal people are walking around on the street at this time, and then running in to hide because of the sudden rain? If I had to say, it's more likely that the homeless got up in the morning and walked over the mud before leaving. Such traces, otherwise—"

Chiba motioned for Kudo Shinichi to follow him, and at the same time pointed to the entrance of the hotel, a step that was hidden by the building itself and could be seen from here.

"If they were really sheltering from the rain, they must have run in in the rain, and then left after the rain stopped. In this case, their shoes should be stained with mud from the ground, and stepping on the steps will definitely Leaving unique three-dimensional mud marks - but now, have you seen this kind of thing?"

"It makes sense," Kogoro Mouri made a guarded gesture. "Then, we'd better be careful when we go in - if the client has gone to great lengths to ask us to investigate any incident in this kind of place, it may mean that our investigation will inevitably lead to unpleasantness with the occupants of the place. conflict of interest.”

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The name of Takashima-cho 3-chome in the original book was changed to correspond to the plot of Minato Mirai 5-chome on October 31, 2005, half a year before the release of drama 10. So naturally there was no such thing in 1994.

The weather thing is true. Since November 26, 1994, the last rain in Yokohama was three days ago, and it was only ten minutes of heavy rain with half an hour of light rain. As for the source of the data... the U.S. Air Force.