[Conan] Waiting for the dawn

The scene has been surveyed almost, Yingying roughly glanced at the report, and then observed around the room by himself.

There are almost no furnishings, only a safe in the center.

Plainclothes police are everywhere inside and outside the building. How did the thief get in?The action is so quick to insert the key into the four keyholes to steal the money, and then leave through the window... It is said to be the top floor, but in fact it is only the sixth floor.

Yingying looked at the window thoughtfully, and suddenly said to the people who came to him: "Police Department Nakamori, are you sure you haven't received the warning letter from Kaitou Kidd before?" A world-class criminal who often acts against science should be able to do it.

As soon as Kaitou Kidd is mentioned, the Nakamori Police Department will explode: "No! Absolutely not! Damn, if it is Kaitou Kidd, how could I let him steal things!..."

"..." Yingying gave up asking, turned around and took two steps, looking at the managers and bodyguards who were being questioned by Toru Amuro—the person holding the key.

If it is too unrealistic to invade from the outside, is it possible that the criminal is at the scene?They were in the house at the time, familiar with the environment, and could find the location of the safe and unlock it instantly after tripping... But the point is, where is the stolen money hidden?Judging by the size of the safe, it is impossible to hide the amount of cash inside.

Amuro Toru is a keen person, he quickly noticed the gaze cast on him, and walked over without any trace after asking: "What do you think?"

In fact, she wanted to ask him why he got involved, but it was obviously not the time.

With a sigh of relief: "very smart criminal, the first two crimes were just smoke bombs, the first time was to make people preconceived that it would be a violent robbery, the second time was a lie, and made President Shenmu no longer fully trust the police. The third time he handed it over to the four people he trusted the most, but he didn't expect to 'steal' it."

Amuro nodded, looked towards the four people, and said in an unclear tone, "Well, I just don't know if those four people are really worthy of his trust."

Yingying laughed, "Why, do you also think it might be self-inflicted robbery?"

The other party shrugged, a little helpless: "I have some doubts, but from the current point of view, it is unlikely, unless he stole the money and threw it from the window to his companions. But the four of them all said that each other went around the safe Didn't run at all after that."

After collecting the evidence at the scene and not receiving the next letter, the police prepared to seal off the scene and evacuate.

After being humiliated by the head of Shenmu, Yingying repeatedly promised that the prisoner would be caught, and her face was ugly when she came out.

After the detectives left, they cordoned off the scene, Yingying walked downstairs and stood at the door of the building, preparing to ask Ono to leave in a police car together.Suddenly, his arm was grabbed by a small hand from behind——

"Zui Mitsui Police Department!" The clear and crisp voice of a child.

It's Conan.

Because Toru Amuro reminded her that this child is not simple, she was not too surprised, and squatted down: "What's wrong?"

He leaned over and whispered: "Uncle told me that there is something suspicious in the scene, and he wants me to help you go up and have a look..."

???

She raised her head and looked in the direction of the room. The scene was sealed off, and the door should have been locked.If he enters the scene again, the police may stop him.That's why I came to find her.

Yingying hesitated.

"What's the matter, let's go up and take a look." Amuro walked over from an unknown corner, with his hands in his trouser pockets, smiling beyond expression, "It just so happens that I have a place I want to take another look at."

"Help me, Ori Mitsui Police Department!" Conan begged.

Yingying stood up and looked at Toru Amuro for two seconds.She didn't know what he was thinking, and she didn't know how smart his so-called "this kid is very smart".Is he an idiot?Knowing that he is smart and still interacting with him too much, aren't you afraid of falling off the horse?

"Okay, I'll go up with you and take another look." She turned to look at the other person, "But does this foreign lady also want to come together? Is she also a detective?"

"She is Judy Sterling, the investigator of the FBI. She is currently on vacation in Japan. She happened to be the person who picked up the dropped banknotes downstairs in this case." Conan explained.

FBI?

Her eyes moved slowly, looking her up and down.

Professional suits, silk scarves, short hair.

Not really a good first impression.

She could have refused, but after thinking about it carefully, it didn't hurt too much, so she took the three of them back to the building.With many people together, Yingying had no choice but to choose the elevator.

It only took less than ten seconds to reach the sixth floor, but during these ten seconds, the elevator suddenly stopped in midair and all the lights went out.

Yingying closed her eyes in pain.

I haven't taken the elevator for ten thousand years, but accidents happen as soon as I sit!I have long said that I can't believe this kind of thing!

"What's going on! Power outage?"

An arm went around her back almost at the same time, firmly on her shoulder.In the darkness, no one could see the movement clearly. She knew who the person standing beside her was, and she could also tell it was him only through the contact of her arms and back.

"It's okay, don't panic, keep calm." There was a vibration from the body close to him, and he habitually gave orders to the other two.

Fortunately, these people were all stable, and none of them shouted in panic.

"Damn it, there is no signal at all in this elevator!" Conan's voice said.The faint light of the mobile phone did not point at the two of them.

Yingying didn't say a word.All her attention was on the hand on the shoulder.

……

When she was a freshman, there was a senior from the same department who had a very good relationship with her.That was the first time that Yingying had a feeling of "predestined fate".But that kind of relationship is not love. The senior took care of her like a father, and led her from a novice to college life by hand.

She also kept calling him papa.

They were playing a game in the club that day, and the senior was carrying her on his back, tearing up the name tags with another pair of partners.

It was only after the end that a tall boy with darker skin was waiting for them for a long time.That was the first time she saw Jiang Gu Ling.

The senior said: "Yeah, you're all here, I'm sorry, I had so much fun."

Jiang Gu Ling shrugged helplessly: "I came a little early. But it's okay, I finally saw...your daughter." His eyes were very meaningful, as if he didn't trust the relationship between "father and daughter".

Yingying is not a shy person, even though it is the first time we meet her, she is very enthusiastic: "Hello, I am Ori Mitsui Yingying! Big bear-senpai is my papa!"

At that time, her accent was still a strong Osaka accent.

The other party was obviously surprised by her familiarity: "Ah, I am... Jiang Guling.... But why did she call you Big Bear Senior?" The last sentence was addressed to the senior.

The senior scratched his head and laughed.

Yingying: "Because he is very good at protecting me, like my teddy bear, he gives people a sense of security."

……

At that time, the senior held her in his arms like this, with one hand on her shoulder.

Yingying took a deep breath, closed her eyes, slowly attached the hand on her shoulder, and took it down gently.

She said silently in her heart: No matter what, I am very happy to see you again.

……

Almost in the next second, the lights flickered on.

The voice of the security guard came from the communicator: "I'm very sorry! The power has been a little unstable after the incident in the early hours of this morning. This building is relatively old..."

The elevator stopped on the sixth floor.

The furnishings in the house are still the same as when they left.

Amuro and Conan both walked towards the safe.

Yingying wandered around the room, and finally came over to see what they were studying.

The safe is fixed on the ground and cannot be moved.

Conan studied the safe for a long time, while Toru Amuro and the foreigner just watched him from the sidelines.

...Is it possible that these three people are going to come up just because Conan didn't come to the scene during the day, so they must come and see now.It's not that there is any doubt about what Maori said.She was actually raped by these three people.

The foreign woman named Judy frowned: "Could it be that Kaitou Kidd really committed the crime? It's no problem for him to fly out from the sixth floor. Xiu also said..."

"Xiu?" Yingying's ears were sharp, "Is it also the FBI?"

Judy was a little stunned: "...Well, yes, his name is Akai Shuichi, and he is a very good investigator."

Lingering pursed the corners of his mouth.

"... already sacrificed."

"...Really?" Yingying raised her head, took a deep breath, and sneered when she lowered her head, "Is it already dead? I don't even know... This is really, really good..."

"Eh?"

Conan and Judy were stunned by the sudden sentence.

Amuro clenched his fists.

"I said you, do you know Xiu? You..." After recovering from her senses, Judy rolled up her sleeves and was about to rush over.

"Ms. Judy!" Conan raised his voice and pulled her from behind, shaking his head slowly, looking at Toru Amuro, a little surprised, the lens flashed.

Such an episode happened, and the atmosphere was a little unpleasant.You don't need to look at their faces anyway, it's already showing face if you don't blow them down.He simply stopped looking at them, and stood alone by the window and looked down. A patrol car was parked at the door, with the overhead lights flickering, and it was waiting for her.

A small figure walked up to her, putting his hands in his trouser pockets very maturely.

He said, "Miss Ori Mitsui, you and Mr. Amuro...have known each other before?"

Thoughts were called back by this sound.

She calculated the reaction time required by a normal person before she said, "What do you mean? It was the first time I met him at Kubado Central Hospital."

Conan lowered his head, and the reflection of his glasses made it hard to see his expression clearly. He murmured: "Really..." Then he raised his head and said in a childlike tone: "I believe that the Japanese police must be just, right?"

"Of course." With this answer, Yingying watched Conan trot away from her side, and she kept wondering what his words meant.

The last foursome didn't find anything useful either.

Yingying watched Conan get into Mouri's car and found that he was still watching them through the car window.

After Judy also left, Yingying asked Ono to wait for her in the patrol car, leaving Amuro and her alone.

She said, "You didn't tell me that Shuichi Akai was dead."

"I'm not lying to you, I think he's not dead yet." Toru Amuro didn't talk nonsense, his voice was a little deeper than usual, "I'll give you an accurate answer after confirmation."

Yingying rubbed her fingers, no longer obsessed with this question.Then suddenly said: "That Conan... how much does he know about you?"

"'I'm Bourbon', this matter." Toru Amuro briefly said, "You were too out of control when you mentioned Shuichi Akai just now, he should have discovered something."

gaffe?Obviously he didn't give up too much.

Yingying rubbed his shoulders in a relaxed way: "Well, I think he probably thinks too much. He probably thinks... I'm your companion—a member of that organization."

"Huh?" Amuro opened his eyes wide, a little surprised.

"He asked me if you and I knew each other before. I don't know how he noticed it, and I didn't admit it. He asked me a question like 'the Japanese police are all just, right'." Ying Ying smiled, "Maybe he thinks that I am an undercover agent sent by that organization to the Metropolitan Police Department."

Amuro rubbed his hair helplessly, and said "No way" in a breathy voice.

"With his sensitivity, he may have discovered that you are a police officer." Yingying patted the dust on his hands that did not exist, and was about to get in the car, "You should think about whether a small detail has been exposed, and how to deal with him ...Ah, by the way, I will be in trouble if he reports me, I just want to search the second class now, I don't want to cause trouble, remember to help me out."

"Then, goodbye, Mr. Amuro."

Early the next morning, Yingying received the news that in a small shop in Toriya Town, she found that she had received a banknote that was stolen yesterday, which happened to be the serial number of the stolen banknotes provided by President Shenmu.

The money that was stolen yesterday dares to be spent today. Should this suspect be too confident or too stupid?

After Yingying went to the scene and asked the store manager, he felt very powerless. There was no surveillance in the store. He was sleepy when he just opened the store in the early morning and couldn't remember the faces of people.

Just as she got into the patrol car and was about to go back to the police station, her cell phone rang suddenly.

It was Nakamori who should be on the scene.

"Hey, what's the matter, Police Department Nakamori?"

"Ah... this is Amuro." The other party said a little embarrassedly, "Well, I went back yesterday and thought about it for a long time, and I really wanted to go to the scene to check the safe again, but the scene didn't let me in, and I don't have your number , I can only ask the police department to call you."

Yingying held the phone in silence for two seconds.

"Hello? Are you listening? Mitsui Police Department?... Strange, is the signal bad?" The last sentence was a soliloquy, as if walking around and changing positions.

Yingying said: "Why did you participate in this case?"

"..." As if she finally heard her question and felt that it was true, Toru Amuro saw that there was no one around, so he lowered his volume helplessly, "I'm investigating something, about a person named Ludao Kusuda, He was a member of the organization, and then disappeared, and the ward where he lived before the disappearance was the father of the president of the case."

He was going to use this case to get close to the old man.

After listening to his answer, Yingying raised her head and looked at the sky, thinking for a moment.

"I'll go now, you wait."

As expected, Conan was also present with Toru Amuro.Yingying didn't ask much, just greeted them and took them up.

The Nakamori Police Department at the scene said: "Really, this is really the first case other than Kaitou Kidd that has given me such a headache! It's fine if the criminal can't be caught, and the victim is so uncooperative, and he can't tell how much was stolen." money!"

Toru Amuro: "I think it's because President Kamiki's father has been storing banknotes all the time, but he can't remember the amount."

In his mind, he kept thinking, why did the prisoner deliberately spend a piece of money that was obviously stolen, as if he wanted the police to find out on purpose.

Seeing Yingying's expression, Conan ran over and asked, "Hey, Mitsui Police Department, did something new happen this morning?"

Thinking was interrupted, Yingying was a little helpless.Since this child is so smart, let's think about it together, and she expressed her doubts.

"According to the intelligent criminals I have captured, usually speaking, if he does something that confuses me, it proves that he wants to guide my thinking in one direction... In other words, Said, we are already in his trap." Yingying stroked her chin, her brain running rapidly.

Integrating all the details of the scene, she felt that something was about to surface, but she couldn't grasp it.

"Is the power outage last night really a coincidence?" Conan's tone was so calm that he didn't look like a child. "The elevator lines are generally different. When the incident happened, the lights in this room went out, so it shouldn't be the same thing as the elevator." Right? How could it cause the elevator to be blacked out at night?"

Amuro also came over and added reasoning: "The most intuitive consequence of the elevator's power failure is to trap us in it, is it to prevent us from going upstairs? ... No, if that's the case, why did it recover in less than a minute? ?...So, it was to hold us back so that we could not arrive at the scene at that time."

"At that time, someone entered the scene and did something." Yingying said in a low voice, and the three of them looked at the safe in unison, "We are too easily controlled by inertial thinking."

It was the only thing in the house.

What made him come back to the scene after the successful theft?

Yingying looked at the special staff hanging out of the window to check whether there were traces of organs outside the wall bit by bit, and spoke slowly: "If we still can't figure out how the prisoner escaped from the sixth floor, our thinking is limited to looking for various ways to escape. As for the method... it is better to assume that it is an impossible event. The prisoner did not escape at all, he was in this room from the beginning to the end."

She went to the safe.

The prisoner didn't escape, and all four of them said they didn't run to the window after getting together in the safe, but the money disappeared...then there was only one place left to hide.

She stretched out her gloved hands, from top to bottom, groping little by little.

——Who would have thought that there would be a problem with the safe that President Shenmu sent his cronies to customize, which is supposed to be absolutely safe?

Touching and touching, Yingying suddenly paused.He looked up at the other two.

She lowered her head, almost kneeling on the ground.

Originally thought it was just a decorative gully, but upon closer inspection, one could find a gap in it.

She estimated the direction and size of the gap, straightened her upper body, and knelt on the ground.Holding the safe with both hands, turning it vigorously——

The bottom of the safe was opened downwards like a cabinet door.

Stacks of banknotes were revealed.

At the same time, the key on Conan's body actually moved - a magnetic field was generated.

……

The three of them smiled at the same time.

Yingying: "So, everything we see is just what the prisoner guided us to see, far away from the truth."

Amuro rested one hand on his waist, rested his other hand on his forehead and sighed, with a hint of a smile in his tone: "You really deserve to be the policewoman of the second search section... Or Mitsui Police Department."

The author has something to say:

??None of you wants to communicate with me about the plot. Wow, when I wrote it, I racked my brains and hoped that there would be no big loopholes orz. Everything is an idealized situation. After all, Conan is a non-scientific product...