The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Tropical Paradise..."

"Could it be!"

Sato looked at Takagi next to him, was stunned for a moment and asked: "Takagi, did you think of anything?"

I saw Takagi running to pick up the information on the table, flipping it through and saying, "If I guessed correctly, maybe all the victims once lined up in the same queue, right?"

Manager Matsumoto, who was deploying the arrest operation, immediately raised his head and said, "What? Can you explain it in more detail?"

Takagi walked to the whiteboard, drew the "seven tubes" of mahjong tiles on it, and analyzed: "There are two types of mahjong tiles left with the victim, one from Jinno, and seven tubes from the other five victims. "

"If you put everyone in the red circle position on the mahjong tiles, maybe the victims have been lined up in this order?"

As he spoke, Takagi used magnets to stick the photos of several victims into the seven tubes of dots.

Since the first victim is a cylinder, it is placed in the upper left corner of the seven cylinders.

Everyone just formed a somewhat crooked team.

"That makes sense..."

Memu stared at the content on the whiteboard and gave an affirmative answer.

Sato stared at the content on the whiteboard, and then thought of the reasoning Qin Zhibo told her yesterday, knowing that Takagi's reasoning was wrong.

Because the mahjong tiles actually represent the Big Dipper and the North Star.

However, regarding the mahjong tiles, everyone has different dot marks. Qin Zhibo did not say the reason for this.

Although the idea proposed by Takagi at this time sounded reasonable, it did not really help in handling the case.

Therefore, everyone continued to capture Fukase Minoru according to the original plan.

Sato followed everyone to the parking lot. Just as he was about to open the door and get in the car, he touched his pocket and said in surprise: "Oops, I forgot to bring handcuffs!"

"Handcuffs?" Takagi, his partner, was stunned.

"Yes, that is my father's relic. I take it with me every time I go on a mission. I remember putting it in the drawer of my desk..."

When Takagi heard this, he immediately became excited and volunteered: "Officer Sato, I'll go get the handcuffs for you!"

"Then please, Officer Takagi, I'll wait for you in the car."

"yes!"

Looking at Takagi's running back, Sato got into the car and called Qin Zhibo.

…

On the other side, Zhibo Detective Agency.

Qin Zhibo, who was reading the newspaper, suddenly received a call from Sato and immediately rushed to the rice flower mall.

Sato not only revealed the police arrest operation to Qin Zhibo, but also Takagi Wataru's reasoning about the queue.

And Qin Zhibo felt a little interesting after hearing this.

In fact, even the "Secret Word Investigation" did not explain why the murderer drew red circles on the dots of the mahjong tiles, and the positions were different for each person.

But it seems a bit far-fetched to just queue up.

Even if there is a quarrel in an ordinary queue, there should be no situation where everyone in the queue has to be killed.

Moreover, the pattern combining seven tubes and one tube does not look like a normal queue.

Therefore, what the murderer wanted to express should be more likely to involve extreme situations...

15 minutes later, Qin Zhibo arrived at the square in front of Mihua Shopping Mall.

Since several previous cases had occurred in Mihua Shopping Mall, the owner of Mihua Shopping Mall thought there was something wrong with Feng Shui, so he renovated the entire mall.

The current Mihua Mall has changed from the original department store style to a more modern comprehensive shopping mall.

Qin Zhibo parked the car and walked quickly to the shopping mall hall on the first floor.

In order to avoid being discovered by the police and arousing suspicion in Ireland, he put on a human skin mask.

There was no trace of instability among the bustling crowd.

Qin Zhibo raised his head and looked up, using his telescope to scan around, and soon found Mu Mu and others standing by the guardrail of the glass building.

Megure, Shiratori, Takagi, Sato, Yamato Gansuke, Uehara Yui and other police officers were all quietly watching the woman standing at the escalator entrance.

The woman was dressed very fashionably. She leaned on the guardrail with her elbows and stared at the shopping plaza below with a melancholy look on her face.

Name: Risa Yoshii, age 21 years old...

Qin Zhibo confirmed through his vision that this person was the target of police surveillance.

Therefore, Qin Zhibo also found a place where it was convenient to observe the overall situation and stood there, quietly observing the situation.

If Ireland also knew about the police's actions, they would definitely send someone to find a way to contact the person named "Minor Fukase" in advance.

But in this place that is strictly controlled by the police, how could he come into contact with this person alone? This is a question worth thinking about.

You can't plant a bomb and let the bomb attract the attention of the police, right?

...it seems impossible to tell...

Qin Zhibo sat at the round table near the guardrail, ordered a cup of coffee, and took a look at the situation on the field.

Ten minutes later, Qin Zhibo suddenly noticed a woman standing not far from Yoshii Risa.

The woman is wearing a small dark green suit, has a straight figure, short hair, and wears glasses. She looks a bit like Hondo Yingyu.

But what was a bit strange was that he could neither see her identity information nor see that she had any plans to move.

Although she frequently checked the watch on the inside of her wrist, as if she was waiting for someone, her eyes were looking at various places from time to time.

Generally, no identity information can be seen, which most likely means that the person has no identity information that can be disclosed.

Of course, from a practical point of view, it is more likely that this person is a completely fake identity, and even the name is not made up.

It is someone from the organization!

Qin Zhibo adjusted the telescope view and further observed the woman's body. As expected, he saw that her calf was bulging.

There should be a pocket pistol hidden in it...

This person should be Vermouth.

Because only Vermouth can come out alone to cause trouble when Ireland has to maintain her police identity.

As for why she also followed the police and wandered around the suspect's girlfriend, it is probably because she wanted to wait until the suspect showed up.

At that time, the police will definitely come out to arrest. If the suspect refuses to be arrested, he will subconsciously grab the people around him as hostages.

And the suspect is likely to resist arrest because this person has been a fugitive because of stabbing someone before, and has been on the run for a year.

As long as the suspect takes her to a place where no one is, she can easily kill the suspect and find the organization's memory card.

Of course, the premise is that this "Fukase Minoru" is really the murderer of the serial murder case.

Qin Zhibo is not optimistic about this.

Because the person who committed this serial crime is a very meticulous person.

At this critical moment, he must know that he cannot contact anyone at will at this time to increase the probability of his arrest.

However, since it is for the purpose of fighting for the memory card, any opportunity must be seized, no matter how slim it is.

At this moment, the expression of the surveillance target Yoshii Risa suddenly changed, and she excitedly raised her hand to the bottom.

"Amin!"

The police immediately became alert and looked at the mall entrance below, only to see a man in a white jacket and blue jeans waving in response.

The man had a blue cloth bag on his left shoulder.

"Fakase has appeared, all units pay attention."

"Stay at your respective locations and wait, don't be discovered..."

Megure conveyed the command through the wireless headset, and everyone looked serious.

At the same time, Qin Zhibo saw the disguised Vermouth and glanced down without leaving a trace.

Minoru Fukase in the mall hall did not notice the ambush of the police around him at this time, and still took the escalator to go upstairs.

Originally, it was the best time to arrest the suspect by blocking him on the escalator.

But two children happened to get on the escalator first and stood in front of Fukase Minoru.

In order to prevent him from holding hostages, he had to be let upstairs first.

It was not until the corner of the 6th floor that the children finally ran away, and Fukase Minoru officially met his girlfriend.

"Now, arrest him..."

As soon as Megure finished speaking, Yamamura So from Gunma Prefecture immediately dropped his collar and ran towards the suspect.

That exaggerated pace would alert not only the bad guys, but also the good guys.

Chiba wanted to reach out to stop him, but it was too late.

Yamamura So did not even wait to run to the suspect, and was about to show his police officer ID a few meters away.

As a result, he fell flat on his face at the critical moment and threw the ID in his hand directly in front of the suspect.

Minoru Fukase, who was chatting and laughing with his girlfriend, took a look at the police officer's ID card that suddenly flew to his feet, and then saw the fallen Yamamura So, and immediately understood what was going on.

And Yamato Gansuke, who was about to sneak up from behind, saw this scene and could only grit his teeth and cursed "that idiot".

But at this point, he could only show his police officer's ID card.

"Fakase, don't move!"

Chiba, who followed behind Yamamura So, also showed his ID card, "You can't escape!"

Minoru Fukase glanced at the police on both sides, gritted his teeth and cursed "damn it".

But at this moment, a short-haired woman in green clothes passed by and just entered the range of Minoru Fukase's reach.

So he immediately took out a switchblade, hugged the woman over, and hooked his arm around the woman's neck.

"Don't move!"

"Don't come over!"

"If you dare to move, I will stab you immediately!"

As he said, Minoru Fukase raised the knife and pretended to stab.

Yamato Gansuke stopped in his tracks and shouted, "You can't escape even if you do this! Just surrender!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Don't follow me!"

Minoru Fukase had no intention of giving up resistance, and he was very emotional and might hurt the hostages at any time.

Seeing this, Yamato Gansuke could only watch him retreat to the escalator and slowly get off the elevator.

At the landing point of the elevator, Takagi and Sato were already waiting here.

However, due to the hostages in Minoru Fukase's hands, the two of them did not dare to move forward rashly and could only keep retreating.

In this way, Minoru Fukase held the hostages while keeping a safe distance from the police and retreated to the underground garage.

During this period, the police wanted to follow him several times, but they were all driven back with knives.

So, Megure instructed everyone in the headset to change their thinking and not to continue to appear in Minoru Fukase's field of vision, so as to let him relax his vigilance first and then arrest him outside.

All the police officers who received the order immediately turned around and ran towards the exit of the parking lot.

When he entered the underground garage, Fukase Minoru saw that the police were no longer following him, and he thought that his intimidation had worked.

But he also knew that if he wanted to completely get rid of the police, he still needed the hostages in his hands.

"Risa, my car is parked over there, go and drive it over!"

During the confrontation with the police just now, Minoru Fukase's girlfriend never left him and followed him all the way.

The girlfriend took the car keys thrown to her and ran towards the depths of the parking lot with a twisted step.

Minoru Fukase glanced at the short-haired woman in his arms and said coldly: "Before I get rid of those cops, I can only ask you to act with us..."

In his eyes, the woman in front of him was a weak woman who was powerless.

He just waved the knife twice, and the woman moved along with him without any resistance.

"Also, I'm sorry for accidentally scratching your face."

The woman's face was scratched, which was made by Minoru Fukase's random gestures to intimidate the police just now.

But at this time, the scar on the woman's face did not ooze a trace of blood, and the delicate skin was still white under it.

"Huh?"

Minoru Fukase was stunned, wondering what was going on.

At this moment, the woman suddenly raised her left foot and kicked Fukase Minoru in the head with a 180-degree high kick.

This sudden force caught Fukase Minoru off guard, and he fell to the ground and fainted.

The woman turned around and looked at Fukase Minoru who was lying on the ground. Just as she was about to bend down to touch the shoulder bag that Fukase Minoru had been carrying, footsteps suddenly came from behind the load-bearing column next to her.

The woman's ears trembled, and she immediately looked in the direction of the sound with vigilance.

I saw a figure standing in the darkness, and it seemed that he was holding a pistol in his hand.

Belmode's face suddenly became stern, and he subconsciously rolled tactically and hid in the corner of the stairs of the underground garage.

However, the man did not shoot.

He just quietly walked out from behind the pillar and picked up the shoulder bag that Fukase Minoru had dropped.

At this time, Belmode also took out the small pistol inserted in the ankle holster, ready to deal with this stranger with a gun.

Is it a policeman?

Or...

Suddenly, Vermouth noticed something was wrong, and quickly took out a makeup mirror from her bosom, and used the reflected view to check the situation outside.

I saw that Minoru Fukase was still lying on the ground unconscious, but the shoulder bag beside him was gone.

Not good!

Vermouth realized at this time that the other party was here to rob the shoulder bag, so she quickly stood up and scanned the entire environment with a gun.

But there was no one in the silent garage.

Vermouth scanned the entire environment, wanting to find the figure, but she also knew that the police must be squatting at the exit of the parking lot, and she couldn't stay here for long.

Fortunately, she had just felt that Minoru Fukase's right shoulder was injured and he couldn't use his strength when she was held hostage by Minoru Fukase.

Because of this, he apologized and said that he didn't scratch his face on purpose.

The internal police information provided by Ireland said that the murderer should be right-handed, and he stabbed people with a knife in his right hand many times.

In other words, Minoru Fukase is most likely not the murderer.