Ke Xue World: The Confrontation between Black and Red

As Patrick finished speaking, Mrs. Hesse, who had been shivering, immediately answered:

"Question: What time did Philippe the Magician...actually die...that night?"

There was a vibrato in Mrs. Kuromori's words, but Minami Yuro Takemura, who was robbed of the opportunity to ask questions, was so angry that he wanted to eat this hypocritical woman alive.

"you……"

A flying knife with cold light slashed across Takemura Minami Yuro's shoulder. The sharp blade cut through the suit fabric on his shoulder and the white shirt underneath. The bright red blood quickly moistened the surrounding fabric.

Patrick interrupted his angry rant

"Please focus on the game and don't waste time. Answer Mrs. Kuromori's question as soon as possible, Mr. Takemura."

With that said, he took out another throwing knife and pointed it at Minami Yuro Takemura. The pain caused by the wound made Minami Yuro Takemura swallow his roar.

"I only know that Mr. Philippe left the performance backstage at 10:40 that night. Later, I heard the cleaner's scream and found out that he was dead. The time of death announced by the police was between 11 and 11 Between o’clock and thirty.”

The fat young man nodded tremblingly as well.

"Yes."

"Question, Kikuji Shinya. Your mother, Kikuji Nami, was the first witness to the death of Mr. Philippe. Is his death directly related to your mother?"

At the end of the first round, Minami Yuro Takemura couldn't wait to ask questions to the fat young man Kikuji Shinya. His heavy breathing made the original elegant gentleman's aura disappear completely.

The rain was falling continuously. Now, except for Patrick and Mao Lilan, who were holding umbrellas, everyone in the entire venue was soaked by the rain.

Is this a game show? This is a trial, a trial between the relatives of the deceased and the guilty. That man wanted the truth of the case to be disclosed to everyone. What is important is the judgment of the guilty.

Hiding under the rags of the tent and lying on the ground, Conan listened to the rounds of the game, and the contents of a murder case in which the murderer was never caught were told and pieced together.

Twelve years ago, Filib, the legendary magician of the country, was killed in an empty utility room during an invited performance. A beautifully shaped dagger pierced his heart.

In the end, the Tokyo police who were responsible for investigating the case at the time believed that this was a typical robbery and murder case. Judging from the means of committing the crime and the traces left at the scene, the murderer was obviously the famous Bright Robbery Group who traveled around the country to kill people and steal treasures. .

The Bright Robbery Group is a group of internationally wanted criminals whose purpose is to kill people and steal treasures. They often travel around the world to commit crimes, and their targets are all kinds of rare treasures.

Because of their cruel methods of committing crimes, they often silence or even exterminate the owners when robbing items. In just twenty years since the first crime was committed, thousands of cases have been committed continuously. The magician Philip is just one of the many murders they have committed.

But the way he looks now, it's obvious that there's something else going on.

But the biggest problem in this game is how to confirm whether the third person's judgment is correct. If all the words answered by the second person are judged by the third person to be true, and the three of them join forces, then the prisoner will only get A false truth.

Right now, things are already moving in this direction. In order to survive without being punished, the three of them have begun to join forces. The game has gone on round by round, and now no one is punished. No matter who responded, it was judged to be yes.

Conan watched as the three of them started to make up answers. He noticed the unmoved look in Patrick's eyes, which even had a hint of watching a show.

Doesn't he know? No, this man knew very well that those three people were just making it up. By now, the game had been made up without any logic. The murderer in their mouths became an audience member who disliked Philip. The reason was He felt that his magic had ruined his family, taken away his wife's heart, and caused his wife to be separated, so he held a grudge.

After discovering a poster showing the other party's upcoming performance at the Tokyo Coliseum, he became murderous and followed him until he finally got the chance to kill him in a deserted utility room.

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, and the policemen in the outer circle also felt that something was wrong.

24: Tokyo time

Patrick watched the hour and minute hands overlap and threw the umbrella on his left hand and the coat on his hand to the ground. The rain wet his short brown hair, but he didn't care. He raised his hand to throw away the throwing knife. In the direction of the three people who had calmed down.

After hearing Kikuji Shinya's scream, Patrick pulled out the gun behind him and fired one shot each at Mrs. Kuromori and Mr. Takemura, and then clapped his hands regretfully:

"The time has come. I only thought your performance was funny, but not exciting at all. You didn't give me the correct conclusion to the game.

I promised Miss Cinderella to give her a wonderful performance. Since your performance is not wonderful enough, let me draw a perfect ending. "

The bomb countdown displays on the hostages lit up, and Patrick regretfully pressed the bomb controller:

"Let's go to hell together and ask Mr. Philippe personally, everyone."

"Mr. Philippe? No, you should call him father, right? Mr. Patrick Roman?"

Mouri Kogoro's voice sounded from behind Patrick. Hattori Heiji saw the sleeping Moori Kogoro reappearing, and looked around secretly.

Conan, who secretly knocked down Kogoro Mouri with an anesthetic needle, used a transformer to disguise Kogoro Mouri's voice.

"Your father, Mr. Patrick Roman, was indeed targeted by the Bright Robbery Group. But apart from them, there were three other people who caused your father's death, namely Mr. Takemura, Mrs. Kuromori, and Mr. Kikuji's mother."

As Conan narrated, the truth of a murder case that was a combination of premeditation and accident was slowly revealed.

Twelve years ago, the Senluo Circus was not as famous as it is today. In order to increase its reputation, the circus director Albert at the time specially invited Philip, the famous magician from the country, as a special guest performer.

Senluo Circus's idea of ​​bringing the joy of laughter to children around the world resonated with the other party, and the other party agreed.

A grand and perfect performance not only opened up the name of Senluo Circus, but also raised Philippe's reputation to a higher level.

The title of the chief magician of the Ying Kingdom was given to Phillip, who was only 30 years old. Even the Queen of the Ying Kingdom specially invited him to perform in her palace. And after the performance, he gave him a rare ruby ​​called the Gift of Destiny.

Philippe was handsome, with a cool and noble temperament, and his brilliant magic skills attracted the enthusiastic pursuit of a mixed-race lady. And this lady is Mrs. Kuromori, whose real name is Kuromori Aoi, who is present at this moment. Yes, President Kuromori is his wife.

But Philip had been married for many years at that time. He loved his wife and children very much, so he naturally refused.

But Kuromori Aoi always persisted and did not give up. When he learned that the other party had once again accepted the invitation of Senluo Circus to perform in Tokyo, he also appeared there on the day of the performance.

Just before the performance was about to start, Philippe received a message. The other party claimed to be the Light Robbery Group and was eyeing the ruby ​​​​called the Gift of Destiny in his hand. He hoped that he would voluntarily give the ruby ​​​​to them, otherwise he would Detonate a bomb in the Tokyo Stadium, killing everyone inside.

So, Philip appeared in an empty utility room, and was stabbed through the heart by Albert, the leader of the Senro Circus, with a dagger, and took away the gorgeous brooch and pocket he put on his chest. communication equipment.

No one knew that Philip's heart was naturally a little crooked, so he did not die directly at that time. During this period, three people came to this room one after another. They all found Philip who was not dead, but no one rescued Philip.

The last cleaner to appear, Nami Kikuji, even took away the inconspicuous decorative jewelry from Philip's body, hid it in the ceiling in the corner, and watched helplessly as he died.

The three of them were not the direct murderers of Philip's death, but they were all the driving forces behind his death.

Patrick did not look at the three people who were lying limply on the ground because the countdown to bomb detonation was on. After hearing Kogoro Mori's inference, he laughed happily:

"As expected of Neon's famous detective, the sleeping Mr. Kogoro Mori deduced the truth just by relying on the lies of the three people's questions and answers."

After the news of Philip's death came, ten-year-old Patrick initially believed the police's explanation.

But when he received his father's relics from the police station, he found a small note in the button of his father's coat, which said "Sen Luo" and had a beautiful mosaic flower on the side. The stamen in the middle was specially designed. Painted red.

After his missing mother committed suicide, Patrick secretly disposed of all his property, changed his name and surname and went to the Berry Country slums on a smuggling ship, where he lost all his previous habits and changed his accent.

It took three years to become a complete mixed-race boy from the slums.

Later, through some means, he hooked up with a kind-hearted female doctor from Berry Country. With her support, he obtained an identity certificate and went to school. After graduating early at the age of eighteen, he successfully applied for a job by virtue of his graduation from a prestigious school and his ability to be proficient in multiple languages. Senluo Circus is urgently looking for a translator position.

Four years later, at the age of 22, he successfully became the exclusive translator for the director of Senluo Circus, and also found out the inside story of Senluo Circus. The Senluo Circus, which is touring the world, is actually one of the branches of the Light Robbery Group.

After learning that there was a performance in Neon Osaka, Patrick made himself seriously ill, and then secretly went to the Tokyo Stadium overnight while being hospitalized. In the stadium, he found the A pinhole camera in the glass mosaic decoration in the corner of the corridor.

Prying open the yellow glass beads in the middle of the mosaic decoration, Patrick took out the memory card inside, installed the glass back the same way, and rushed back to the hospital overnight.

After being discharged from the hospital, he returned to the hotel and used his computer to open the memory card video.

The closed utility room door was pushed and closed several times, and the people who entered and exited it in order were:

The circus leader Albert, whose clothes were stained with blood and held a ruby ​​brooch, looked happy; the arrogant Kuromori Aoi, who looked angry and jealous; the somewhat cowardly Minami Yuro Takemura; and finally the circus leader who calmly exited and screamed. Kikuji Nami has a frightened face.

Everyone in this video is the murderer who caused his father's death.

After learning the truth, Patrick began to plan this revenge. He wanted to destroy the Senluo Circus and let all the murderers go to hell.

Give Turan an idea and ask him to trick Toru Amuro into taking a shortcut from the domestication area to the toilet, where he happens to bump into Catherine who is training a radish sauce substitute, thus discovering the smuggled animals inside.

Of course, he was also the one who put laxatives in Radish Sauce’s food, causing Radish Sauce to have diarrhea and be hospitalized and unable to participate in the show.

Arrange for Zhongxin's subordinates to place a bomb in the auditorium, and install a replica of the glass ball on the top of the tent that is exactly the same in appearance but hollow inside.

Use a game console to bribe Yu Kobayashi to let him arrange the performance ticket numbers of Aoi Kuromori and the others to a predetermined location. When the explosion occurs, people will block the smooth escape of the three.

In the end, the three people were left as hostages, watched them perform a clumsy show, and finally asked them to use their lives as atonement.

As for Albert and Vincent, who were captured by the police, he had already leaked the whereabouts of the arms to a woman who came from a darker place than the Light Robbery Group. The other party promised that he would make those two people die painfully. Incomparable.

It would make those two people understand what it means to watch oneself die but not be able to do anything.

As Mouri Kogoro's reasoning came to an end, the three people who had been exposed were lying on the ground crying and wailing. Patrick wiped the rain off his face and smiled happily when he looked at the three people lying on the ground in a state of embarrassment and wailing like dogs. made a sound

"It's really embarrassing, you three. Isn't it a good feeling to just watch and wait for death?"

When Patrick was in a state of high excitement and relaxation, all the lights that originally illuminated the Universe Square suddenly went out.

Then, the sound of several bullets piercing the air came, and the five people who were standing there were hit and killed by the bullets. Among them, Patrick, who subconsciously turned his head to avoid the blow, was kicked out by the football that hit him. He was hit hard. He fell to the ground and the controller in his hand was thrown aside.

The lights were quickly restored after 5 seconds. Looking at the prisoners who were completely lying on the ground and unable to move, the Osaka police who had been waiting for a long time gathered around and quickly cut open the iron cage with electric saws. Dozens of police officers appeared like The tiger roared down the mountain and charged forward.

The cameras of the Osaka media "clicked" and worked very dedicatedly to capture this wonderful scene of the police rescuing the hostages and catching the criminals.

In the distance, the police snipers who were urgently deployed looked at Conan who appeared in the middle of the iron cage. One of them exclaimed:

"Captain, the kids these days are really amazing!"

The man who was called the captain quickly disassembled the sniper rifle in his hand after confirming that all the prisoners were incapacitated, and snorted coldly:

"Don't think about it. This kid has been targeted by the Public Security Zero Team for a long time. With the food-protecting style of the leader of the Public Security Zero Team, there is no way he could be poached into our hands. Hurry up and retreat."

The person who sighed before couldn't help but sigh with regret again.

Inside the iron cage, the police officers from the Osaka Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squad cautiously approached the hostages. Among them, the police officers facing Xiaolan and the four others first untied the ropes binding their limbs, and then began to defuse the bombs.

On the other side, the policeman facing the three people in Zhucun started to defuse the bomb directly, without paying any attention to the ropes that tied the three people.

"Why did you only untie them but not us? Do you police treat the hostages differently? I'm going to file a complaint against you!"

Mrs. Hesse's sharp voice made the policeman who was dismantling the bomb in front of her frown and said impatiently:

"It's so noisy. Your bomb looks different from the one on the other side. The countdown is still on. It's okay to not be in a hurry to save lives. You actually care about these things."

The policeman who was dismantling the bomb next to Takemura coughed twice, and Matsuda Jinpei grinded his teeth and closed his mouth that continued to complain.

Matsuda Jinpei has always disliked fancy things like circus performances, but he couldn't resist the fact that he had a young boy who was interested in all kinds of exciting performances, so on a rare day off, he was dragged here by Hagiwara Kenji, who actively grabbed tickets. , I had to put down my beloved model.

After Patrick exchanged hostages, the released two young men found Otaki Goro and revealed their identities as bomb disposal policemen. Otaki Goro, who had heard about Tokyo Bomb Disposal Ace Twins, confirmed their identities and asked Hattori Hei. After hiding, he arranged people to join the explosive ordnance disposal team in Osaka.

Opening the shell, Matsuda Jinpei looked at the dense red threads inside that could make people suffer from trypophobia. He noticed that the bombs on the remaining two people were exactly the same as this one. Matsuda Jinpei felt speechless in his heart.

How much do you want these three people to die? The power supply, detonator, and receiving antenna are all the same color. It’s obvious that they don’t want to be dismantled.

Seeing all the red lines, Mrs. Hessen's eyelids rolled up and she fainted.

Seeing this, Patrick laughed happily:

"Hahaha... I deliberately replaced all the threads in the bomb with threads of the same color. They have to be like my father and experience the feeling of watching themselves die but being unable to do anything."

Matsuda Jinpei snorted coldly:

"There is no bomb in this world that I can't defuse."

Patrick fell silent, waiting silently for the countdown to end.

The bomb on Xiaolan's side was an ordinary type, and the Osaka police were very skilled in defusing it. While Matsuda Jinpei and others were still struggling against the exact same line, they had been helped up by the police, put on clean towels, and brought them with them. Walk outside the cage.

Mao Lilan hugged Conan tightly in her arms and sneaked in to find Sister Xiaolan in the middle of the performance. When the fire came over after the explosion, she was knocked unconscious by the falling debris and had just woken up. Goro, Toyama and Ye, Conan couldn't help shaking his legs and wanted to get down, but Xiaolan hugged him harder and didn't show any signs of letting him down.

"Conan, be good. It's raining and the road is slippery. There are a lot of debris ahead. You can easily fall if you walk alone."

Toyama and Ye from behind looked at Conan struggling to get off the ground and comforted him softly.

After getting into the ambulance, Xiaolan watched the doctor bandage Conan's wounds. There were friction wounds and scratches all over her face, hands and legs. Her small hands were covered with blisters from burns, and some of them had even been burned. It was squeezed, a lot of hair on the head was burnt, and a leg was broken due to glasses.

However, Conan's eyes were always looking at her. It was obvious that the doctor grimaced in pain when treating the wound, but his eyes never left her body.

Shinichi, are you ready to tell me?

Conan understood the emotional expression in Xiaolan's eyes. He did not change the topic or look away, but nodded solemnly.