Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 159 You're in luck, Inspector Takagi
"Director, Counselor Uno, the media has received the news and started reporting on Tsumura's case, and... it is related to Takegami Sadajiro's case." At this time, Abikawa came over and whispered to Shiraishi and Uno.

As for Jingqi...

He is responsible for organizing the investigation. Matters like this that face pressure from public opinion should naturally be the responsibility of Counselor Uno, otherwise what is the point of having him here?
"These reporters... run really fast! I get it." Yuno said helplessly.

Immediately, Uno looked at Shiraishi and said, "Director Shiraishi, let me see... I will ask the Publicity Department to arrange a press conference at 7 o'clock in the evening. You can come with me then."

"Yeah, no problem." Bai Shi nodded - this kind of "together" just means sitting aside.

Normally, when the [Special Investigation Headquarters] holds a press conference, the head of the local police station will also appear on camera, so Shiraishi does not need to do anything real.

Yuno said this, and stood up and left to communicate with the publicity department and arrange the press conference.

At the same time, Jing Qi was also getting anxious. He didn't need to worry about the reporter's affairs, and Yuno didn't put pressure on him to speed up the case. The key was...

"Megure, how's the situation over there?" Jingqi asked hurriedly.

The server location that Megure of the Third Series is locking onto in the "Forum of Bamboo God Worshipers" is in Beihua Port. It has now been basically confirmed that the warehouse in front of them is where those perverts usually gather.

In addition to the detectives from the third department, there was also the beautiful head of the fifth department, Amamiya, and her men.

There were more than 20 mobile team members around, which were a small team of the Beika Police Station, and they were commanded by Megure on the scene.

“Nothing has been found yet…”

Megure was about to say that there was nothing unusual, but Amemiya, who was looking at his phone, quickly grabbed the camera and said, "No! The forum server has crashed, the administrators, they might run away!"

Among the department heads in Souichi, Amemiya is considered to be quite young, and naturally, he is also more radical.

(The prototype of Amemiya comes from the police officer Amemiya in "The Forbidden Reasoning of Kamo no Bridge".)
Although Jingqi was unwilling, he still said: "Megure, prepare to lead the charge..."

Judging from previous surveillance, not many people go to this gathering place. If we wait a little longer, there may be a big fish.

But now that the news has started reporting, it must have alerted the enemy, so we must act quickly...

But at this moment...

"Wait, are there any trucks coming in?" Jing Qi saw from the video communication that there were trucks entering and leaving this area - after all, it was a warehouse!

"Manager Jingqi, we can't miss this opportunity! If we delay any longer, all the people will run away!" Yu Gong said, almost unable to contain himself.

"No, we can't drag ordinary people into the mobile team's operations. Wait a little longer." Jing Qi said maturely.

"Manager! That driver may also be their accomplice!" Amemiya said anxiously.

Jing Qi knew it, but he still said, "Stand by!"

"This case did not happen in a conference room..."

"shut up!"

"Ahem, yes..."

Just as Amemiya was about to recite his famous lines, he was interrupted by Jingqi with a sullen face.

The main target now is the truck driver outside the warehouse. Jing Qi is not sure whether he is an ordinary citizen or an accomplice of the perverts. If he rushes in rashly and causes injuries to others, it will be difficult to explain.

Seeing this, Shiraishi said directly: "Inspector Megure, let Takagi go over and pull the driver away... If the driver follows, break in immediately after the driver is safe. If the driver does not leave... break in immediately too!"

"Eh? Me?" Takagi pointed at himself in panic.

"Well, well... Director Shiraishi, if that driver is really the other party's accomplice, what should I do?" Takagi asked hurriedly into the communication.

"Don't worry. Most of these perverted admirers are very cowardly. If they don't leave, just take out your police ID!" Bai Shi encouraged him.

"What if... they are braver?" Takagi was still worried.

"You are the inspection minister now, right?" Bai Shi suddenly asked.

"That's right..."

"After that, you might become a police inspector." Shiraishi said sincerely.

Takagi:……

Oh my god, I’m going to die in the line of duty, right?

"Such nagging... Isshiki! You go." Seeing Megure's men dithering, Amemiya immediately called his subordinates without any pity.

"Eh? Inspector Amemiya... this..." Isshiki was also as scared as Takagi at this time.

"Director Shiraishi! Don't give orders randomly... Megure, we will contact the owner of the truck based on the license plate number, and as soon as the truck drives away, you rush in!" Jingqi interrupted helplessly - after calling a halt just now, he was not idle either, but went to contact the Ministry of Transport.

From the license plate number, we can find the owner of the car. From the owner, we can find the driver's phone number. Then...

Seeing the truck suddenly drive away, Megure ordered a sudden attack and arrested seven fanatical followers of the Bamboo God on the spot!

He was immediately escorted back to the Mihua Police Station for interrogation.

At the beginning, these guys were shouting, "Lord Bamboo God" has returned and will kill all the police officers, but... after they were handcuffed and restrained and entered the interrogation room, they immediately behaved themselves.

Bai Shi specially found some fierce police officers from the group to interrogate the suspects. Once the suspicion of murder was confirmed, they all began to defend themselves.

Just as Shiraishi just said, among these perverted fanatics, although there are some "perverted murderers", other than that, they are basically more cowardly than ordinary people. They only dare to gather together or hide behind the Internet to speak nonsense.

Jing Qi was outside the No. 1 interrogation room at this time, looking at the forum founder who was being interrogated inside, his face turned grim.

Although this guy has been honest and explained the situation of the forum, but...

But it is of no help to the current case!
Fingerprints were also collected from these people, but of course there was no one with "the same fingerprints as Zhushen". The one who was about 1.75 meters tall was interrogated particularly strictly, but nothing was gained.

These people had no idea about the "fake fingerprints of the Bamboo God". They just heard about the "return of the Bamboo God" from the grapevine and gathered here to celebrate...

"It seems that this case has nothing to do with them." Bai Shi said from the side.

"At least we have the user data, so we can conduct targeted investigations." Jingqi also had a headache. This was the easiest line to find, but it didn't seem to yield much.

Shiraishi looked at his watch and said, "It's almost time. I'm going to prepare for the press conference."

at the same time……

In Nishi Musashino City, near an underground pedestrian tunnel, two people holding strange instruments were wandering around, causing passers-by to call the police!
After all, a murder happened in this pedestrian passage three years ago. After get off work, Goto Hideki was going to celebrate his fiancée's birthday, but unfortunately he met the murderer Takegami Sadajiro and was brutally killed...

At that time, no one was willing to leave here for a long time. It was not until the hype gradually passed that it began to be used normally, but the number of people decreased significantly.

Especially after today's news came out, this place has become deserted again at night.

At around seven o'clock in the evening, people living nearby called the police because they spotted a "suspicious person".

The patrol officers nearby at the Nishi Musashino Police Station rushed over to check, fearing that someone was using Takegami Sadajiro's information to cause trouble.

The two patrolmen were a little nervous at first, after all, the news that "Zhu Shen's fingerprints appeared at the crime scene" had already spread.

"Who, who is there!" After Patrolman Nomura shone his flashlight on the other person, he became a little nervous.

"It's me, it's me, we're one!" the man holding the mysterious device shouted hurriedly.

The two patrolmen calmed down a little, and soon found out...

There were two strange men, one with a ramen head and the other with a buzz cut.

However, the things in their hands were not unfamiliar. They also saw clearly that the so-called "unknown equipment" was actually a searchlight for observing the luminol phenomenon and a toolbox for collecting fingerprints...

In addition, after seeing the two patrolmen, the other party also showed his "police ID."

"Huh? Are you police officers from the Rice Flower Police Department? What are you doing here?" another young patrolman frowned.

If it was a "Search One" detective, they wouldn't have any objection, but...

Why would someone from the Mihua Agency come to us?

"Don't say that! Everyone knows that our director has a very good relationship with your director!" Yuan immediately stepped forward and tried to get close to him.

That’s right, the ones who came here to investigate were none other than Minamoto and Yamada!

“That’s…that’s right.”

The patrol officers at Nishi Musashino Police Station were also frightened.

Although he didn't know whether his director and the director of the Mihua Department really had a good relationship, but since the other party said so...

"Um... is this the Takegami case? Is there anything we can help with?" the older patrolman Nomura said.

"We have basically found what we want. It would be even better if you knew something about what happened three years ago..." Yuan asked meaningfully.

"Well... I was on duty here three years ago." Patrolman Nomura was infected by Yuan's friendliness and spoke without any guard.

……

At the same time, the young patrolman also used the intercom to report the results of the police call to the police center: "We have checked this tunnel. It's the criminal police from the Mihua Police Station who are here to investigate something."

Mao Li, who was on duty at the Criminal Division of the police station, was shocked when he heard that it was a "detective from the Beihua Police Station" and said, "Got it. Since it's the Beihua Police Station, you should cooperate with the work at the scene."

After hearing what Inspector Maori said, they completely believed what Yuan Gang had said.

From Nomura, Yuan learned more about the situation back then, which was much more realistic than the cold records in the case files...

Three years ago, around this time, patrol officers from the Nishi Musashino Police Station discovered bloodstains at the entrance of this tunnel, but no bodies were found, so they only made a record of it at the time.

The next day, a criminal police officer from the "Search One" came to collect evidence and confirmed that this was the first scene of the fourth murder...

"You're looking in the wrong place... The case is not here, it's outside at the tunnel entrance." Nomura noticed that the place where the two of them were collecting evidence was not right, so he reminded them.

(End of this chapter)