Not too many out of four

As soon as Dr. Ali's beetle car entered the area of ​​Yokohama, it was so powerful that it didn't even need to look at the map. It was unaffected by the fog and turned straight from the urban area to the Yokohama pier.

When I met a police patrol car on the road, I didn’t stop at all. It turned and rushed into the alley. In the foggy weather, the patrol car got rid of behind. The people in the car were bumped and staggered.

Edogawa Conan unbuckled his seat belt with one hand, turned his head and asked in haste, "Huihara, where is the location?"

The rough way of driving hit the computer and threw it out. Fortunately, the glasses were tightly protected and did not receive the impact. She shook her head vigorously and said, "It is close to the pier, 370 meters northwest."

In other words, it is not far from where they are!

The Zhongya cats in the car couldn't wait to jump out of the car window, and were instantly engulfed in thick fog when they landed silently. Their reactions were so fast that they couldn't be caught.

Edogawa Conan picked up the skateboard and got out of the car, slammed the car door shut, and said, "Miss Masami, Haibara, please wait for us in the car with the doctor."

"Wait, Kudo-kun..." Haibara couldn't stop shouting at him, and said with a headache: "All the cats ran out, can they be found later?"

And the tracking glasses were still in her hand. Even if the detective badge could be used to contact each other, it would be too dangerous for him to go out alone in such low-visibility weather.

"Now all we can do is trust them." Just as Shinichi doesn't want them to get out of the car and find someone together in the foggy weather, once encountering robbers, Hui Yuan Ai and Hui Yuan Ya are also vulnerable to robbers without weapons. Threats of guns.

Dr. A Li restarted the stalled Beetle, and carefully transferred to a safe and hidden location to stop.

……

The location that Haibara Ai mentioned is not far away. He just checked the real scene map in the car at the Yokohama pier, and he will be able to drive there soon after knowing the exact location.

However, things were not as simple as he thought. The Zhongye cats who arrived one step earlier than him lowered their heads and sniffed around the necklace on the ground, trying to find Li Jia's location through the smell.

It's a pity that the smell near the pier is too mixed, Lijia only stays here for a short moment, the sea breeze blows away the smell before the fog, and now they can't find Lijia by smelling the smell or following the footsteps as usual.

"Lijia's necklace fell here..." Edogawa Conan picked up the necklace with a solemn expression: "They should have got off the car near here, and then entered a certain warehouse."

He stood up and looked around the warehouses lined up all around him. The doors of each warehouse were tightly closed, and there was nothing unusual about it. If he tried one by one, it might be too late.

"No way, we can only act separately now," Edogawa Conan clenched his necklace tightly, "In addition to looking for the warehouse where Li Jia is, we also need someone to go to the pier to watch, so as to prevent the robbers from bypassing our search and sneaking onto the ship. "

There must be more than one ship berthed at the huge pier, but there is one ship that will sail abroad today. For the sake of safety on the way, the ship must wait for the fog to clear before setting sail. As long as the ship leaves the port, the robbers no longer need to be afraid of the police. hunt.

For the sake of safety and security, the robbers will most likely wait until the last moment before boarding the ship. The hostages held by them may be dealt with before boarding the ship, or they may be brought on board to deal with them on the high seas.

"Chuya, can I believe that you can guard the ship?" Edogawa Conan looked deeply at the orange kitten. He didn't need any disguise or concealment in front of the cats of Kudo's family. His identity had been known to them for a long time. Clearly.

"Before we find Lijia, try to delay the departure time of the ship." He cannot guarantee that "Zhongye" will be able to recognize the robbers and find Lijia's location among the hundreds of passengers on board, but as long as the ship does not set sail, Lijia's life safety will be more guaranteed.

The delayed sailing time of the ship due to foggy weather will change the way the robbers deal with the hostages. Although we cannot be 100% sure what the robbers think, but if it is him, he will not kill the hostages at will if his safety cannot be completely guaranteed.

He suppressed his voice, revealing a maturity that did not match his appearance age, and said: "Of course, I will also contact the Mumu Police Department, please find a way to delay the departure time of the ship, but it may not be delayed for long, no The legitimate reason is that it is difficult for the people of the Metropolitan Police Department to stop the ship for a long time."

Ordinarily, Yokohama is actually under the jurisdiction of the Kanagawa Metropolitan Police Department, but Kudo Shinichi is not familiar with the Yokomizo Police Department, and what he said will most likely not be trusted by the Yokomizo Police Department.

Although the method was a bit complicated, they could only contact the Kanagawa Metropolitan Police Department through the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate with the operation.

It may be absurd to entrust such an important task to a cat, but Edogawa Conan can only hand this matter over to "Chuya" and the Kanagawa Metropolitan Police Department. It is impossible for him to give up searching for Li Jia in the warehouse. Directly pin all hopes on the robber's kindness, and deal with Li Jia after the ship sets sail.

The so-called guesses are only deduced according to the prisoner's psychology, and they cannot be completely accurate.

"Me! Meow———" The pupils in the cat's eyes narrowed into narrow slits, and soon enlarged to allow more light to enter the eyes. The orange kitten made a low-pitched sound like an engine's purring, turned around and ran towards the cat with a flick of its tail. The direction of the pier.

"Brother Chuya and Mr. Chuya followed me in the warehouses," Edogawa Conan took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and said, "As for Mr. Chuya..."

He closed his eyes forcefully, and said with difficulty: "I'll leave it to you on the ship, pay attention to those large suitcases and packages."

This is the worst situation where things have developed, and it is also his preset last line of defense.

If Li Jia could not be found before the robbers boarded the ship, they would either kill her near the pier, or put her in a large suitcase or package and wait until they entered the open sea before throwing her down.

Such a decision is very risky. If you are not careful, "Mr. Nakaya" may be carried all the way abroad by the ship, and you will never come back, but there must be someone on the ship. The robbers don't have to stick to it if they want to find hostages after boarding the ship. A girl brought over from Tokyo.

Even if the people from the Metropolitan Police Department chased them by armed helicopters, they could grab new hostages from the crowd at will.

A new hostage who is younger and easier to take.

At that time, Li Jia is likely to become the target of the robbers to make an example of others, and was shot dead on the spot in front of the police officers of the first search section, as a bloody example of threatening the police that they will really do it.

There are too many possible actions that the robbers will make, even if Edogawa Conan exhausts his mind, something unexpected may happen to him.

He is not a god, and it is impossible for him to know the actions and thoughts of the robbers. It is not an easy task to force them to go in the direction he planned when they can't even find them.

"If I find Lijia, I will use the necklace to contact you," Edogawa Conan clicked on the communication channel of the necklace, and whispered: "Since I found out your identities, I asked the doctor to change Lijia's necklace and your collars into tracking glasses and Like the detective badge, it can track and talk to each other."

The tracking necklace can open full-channel calls in one direction, and its battery life should be stronger than his tracking glasses. After all, Li Jia usually only uses this to find cats, and most of the time it is hung on the body as an ordinary accessory. The battery consumption Naturally, he will be much younger than him.

There is a link between the necklace and the collar. Naturally, there is no need to worry that someone or a cat finds Li Jia and cannot notify others, especially "Mr. Nakaya" who needs to board the ship. If no one notifies him if he finds Li Jia, he may have to follow unconsciously. The ship went abroad.

Tangerine Cat Tuanzi stretched his body, with his tail hanging halfway behind him, he yelled, "Meow, ow."

Cat's Claw lifted up and knocked on the collar, making sure that the sound of good operation could be transmitted to the necklace and other collars, then turned and ran briskly to the same direction where "Zhongye" had just disappeared.

Although they are going in the same direction, their purposes are different, one is in the cabin of the ship, and the other is at the berth of the ship at the pier.

"Let's go too." Edogawa Conan stepped on the skateboard, and a turbine-like air swirl erupted from under the skateboard, clearing the thick fog around him to clear a clean space.

The little orange cat and the little cat also chose their own directions, erected their ears to catch the strange sound nearby, and rushed into the fog with their paws.

The skateboard engine made a slight sound and drove the slide. Edogawa Conan glanced at his watch and there were still 10 minutes before the normal sailing time of the ship. Now the sky has darkened with heavy fog, and the visibility in the vicinity is quite low, forcing him to use The flashlight on the watch shines on the road ahead.

Using a flashlight in this weather and environment will undoubtedly be quite conspicuous, and there is a high probability of being spotted by robbers.

But what he wants is to be discovered by the robbers. If the robbers find him in turn, whether they ignore him, a kid who skateboards near the Yokohama pier at night, or take advantage of the situation and kidnap him along with him, it will be easier to find Li Jia. many.

Edogawa Conan was most afraid of the robbers who would stay in the warehouse until the ship was about to set sail, which made it hard to find.

In fact, if you were just looking for the whereabouts of Li Jia and the robbers in the warehouses of Yokohama Wharf, the doctor and Haibara could also help, but when the beetle car rushed into the wharf, he saw...

Saw the car of the black organization.

Kagawa Keiki, whom I met at the Kuwano Hotel last time, does have a man code-named Scotch Whiskey in the organization.

Although he did not save the companion named Pisk in the hotel fire, he rushed out of the fire with him, and was going to accompany him back to the fire to rescue Li Jia.

But this person is a member of the Black Organization after all, and it is impossible for him to trust someone who is in a different position.

Hui Yuanai once said that there are people in the organization who have seen her and Hui Yuanya when they were young, and their information is kept in the organization. After all, their parents are both researchers in the organization, and she even came back from studying abroad. After taking over the research experiment of the parents.

Whether it is the information about her sister Miyano Akemi who restrained her, or the information about her real identity Miyano Shiho, they are all recorded in the organization's internal materials.

It is not clear what Kagawa Keiki's purpose is for coming to the Yokohama pier, but he cannot give up on rescuing his younger sister Li Jia, nor can he put the Haibara sisters who have finally changed their names and surnames into danger.

He didn't even need to think about the decision for a second to give up not exploring the operation of the Black Organization.

There will be opportunities to investigate the news of the Black Organization in the future, but Li Jia has only one life, so how could he not know the seriousness and give up his sister to inquire about the Black Organization.

Even Nakahara Chuya and they will help find Li Jia, but Li Jia is his sister, and he has no reason to ask others to save his sister.

……

When the mist spread, the jewelry robbers didn't notice it. They closed the heavy iron door of the warehouse tightly, so they naturally didn't feel obvious changes in the outside world.

Li Jia leaned against the corner of the wall, breathing slowly and weakly, only feeling shivering slightly from the cold.

After nightfall in winter, the temperature is already a few degrees colder than when there is sunshine during the day, not to mention that it is snowing in a large area in the Kanto region today, and the temperature drops quite significantly.

The temperature in the warehouse was so cold that the robbers needed to set up firewood to keep warm. Li Jia, who was single and thin, and didn't think about wearing too many clothes when going out, was naturally terribly cold.

She didn't dare to meet the eyes of the robbers, and leaned over to get some warmth from the firewood. The soreness from her hands and feet being bound behind the back for a long time made her miserable.

"It's almost time, we're ready to go." The robber looked down at the time on his watch, patted his trouser legs, got up and walked slowly towards Li Jia, showing a cruel smile: "It's time to send the little girl on her way."

He walked over slowly, putting pressure on her little by little, enjoying the girl's fear, eyes wide open and trembling body looking at him silently.

The sound of the bullet being loaded was particularly obvious in the quiet warehouse. Li Jia resisted the pain of her arms being twisted behind her back, her feet rubbed against the ground and kept rubbing back, tears filled her eyes, but she didn't even dare to blink.

There was a small sobbing sound in her mouth, but there was no place for her to retreat behind her, her back leaned against the cold iron wall, she shrank her body and tried her best to squeeze herself into a corner, but she couldn't escape the robber's approaching slowly.

As the god of death approached her eyes step by step, she deeply realized that she might really die under the gun of the robber this time.

No one can save her...

The elder brother couldn't catch up with the robber's car, and Officer Sato and the others were robbed of the car, so they could only ask the main office for support.

Driving all the way from Tokyo to Yokohama, there was no police car to catch up. She entered the pier and waited for the boat to arrive. The robbers did not need her as a hostage. She clearly realized that her life might only have a few hours left.

During the long waiting time, she couldn't stop thinking about her cat, her brother, Aunt Yukiko and her friends at school.

She died miserably at the hands of the robbers, and she might not even be able to leave her whole body, and would be thrown directly into Yokohama Bay to become fish food.

Even the coffin where she was buried will not contain her body, only the clothes she wore as a simple tomb.

A person's death is quiet and silent. At her funeral, relatives and friends may cry for her, but death will be forgotten after all. One year, two years, three years... ten years...

Sooner or later, she will be put down by everyone and forgotten by everyone.

Just like her dead mother, she will no longer be mentioned by people around her, and her voice and smile will gradually fade away in the photos and memories.

Li Jia was so frightened that she closed her eyes tightly, not daring to look at the muzzle of the gun aimed at her and the terrifying grin of the robber.

Mingming, Mingming, she has thought about how to celebrate the first birthday of the cats. She has made a lot of preparations and prepared birthday gifts for each of the cats in Zhongye.

But she never thought that she would not be able to accompany the cats on their first birthday, and would die in this strange and unknown place.

Tears wet her eyelashes and wet her face, but she didn't dare to resist at all. She was afraid of a death that was more painful than a shot in the heart.

The pistol was raised and aimed at her forehead, the robber grinned grinningly and said, "Bye bye, little girl..."

"No, it's not good!" The robber's companion suddenly shouted: "Brother is not good!"

"Why are you shouting so loudly?" the robber scolded him severely, "Are you afraid that those scumbags won't find us?"

The robber companion shook his head vigorously and lowered his voice: "Brother, it's foggy outside."

He opened the door a little bit to reveal the thick fog that made it difficult to see the road outside. The fog slipped in quietly through the gap, and he said anxiously and anxiously, "Boss, what should we do? The fog will definitely delay the departure time of the ship."

Pointing the gun at her for a long time, the robber clicked his tongue heavily and said, "Close the door, and the ship will be dispatched naturally when the fog clears."

The warehouse door was closed again, and the lock was carefully released from the inside, and the loud noise of the ship docked at the dock outside would also cover the slight sound of the warehouse door opening and closing.

"You're lucky." The robber put away his gun and patted her on the head heavily: "Uncle won't kill you yet, but when we get on the boat..."

"I don't know if your luck will be so good."