I'm in Conan, I'm not a gangster

Chapter 514 A Crude Bomb (2nd Update)
When Akemi went into the restroom, Shiraishi E was already waiting for her by the corner.

“Something’s not right.” Akemi quickly pulled off “Shiraishi E”’s face, lowered her voice and said quickly, “Kudo Yusaku said that Judy is missing, and he also gave me a cell phone and asked me to help look for her.”

As she spoke, she handed her phone to Shiraishi E.

Shiraishi E took the phone and her eyes darkened: "As expected... I knew today wouldn't be peaceful."

He sighed, his tone resolute: "You should leave first, don't get involved."

Mingmei asked with concern, "And what about you?"

"I'll go see what's going on." Shiraishi E smiled faintly. "Don't worry, I won't get into trouble so easily."

Mingmei gave him a deep look, and finally nodded: "Be careful."

After saying that, she turned and walked quickly toward the elevator, her figure soon disappearing at the end of the corridor.

When Shiraishi returned to the banquet hall, the once bustling venue had become much quieter.

The guests left in twos and threes to go back to their rooms to rest, clearly still shaken by the explosion.

He quickly found Xiaolan and Yuanzi.

"Ms. Judy has gone missing." Shiraishi E didn't hide anything; she needed to let the two know the seriousness of the situation.

He said directly, "Mr. Yusaku suspects she may be in danger and has asked us to help find her."

"What?!" Xiaolan's expression changed, and she immediately took out her phone to dial Judy's number, but no one answered.

Sonoko stamped her feet anxiously, "Could something have happened?!"

Shiraishi E waved the tracking device in her hand: "Don't worry, Mr. Yusaku gave me a cell phone with her location on it. We'll follow the signal to find her."

Following the cell phone signal, the three asked hotel staff for directions and eventually arrived at an unused guest room.

"This is it!" Sonoko nervously pushed open the door and went inside to search.

Finally, the group found Judy tied up inside the closet.

"Ms. Judy!" Ran and Sonoko exclaimed and quickly stepped forward to untie the ropes.

Shiraishi E looked around and her gaze quickly settled on the black backpack in the corner.

He walked over, carefully unzipped the zipper, and a familiar object appeared before his eyes—a bomb.

The bomb was very rudimentary, poorly made, with intricate wiring and a flashing red timer clearly visible inside.
"The bomb... thirty minutes left," Shiraishi E said calmly.

After playing with bombs so many times, I don't really feel anything about them anymore.

"Huh?! There's a bomb too!" Xiaolan's beautiful eyes widened in surprise.

Sonoko gasped, "We're doomed! We have to tell everyone to evacuate right away!"

"Don't be nervous... I can defuse this bomb." Shiraishi E smiled confidently.

He's had a lot of experience with bombs!
He gently parted the tangled wires with his fingertips, his gaze quickly sweeping across the entire device—

Main control circuit board: Connects the timer and detonator.

Backup power supply: Redundant design to prevent power outages.

Pressure sensor: If the bomb is moved, it may be detonated directly.

Anti-tamper device: Two wires of the same color; cutting the wrong one will trigger an explosion.

"Tsk, amateur." He scoffed.

Shiraishi E doesn't have professional bomb disposal equipment, but he doesn't need it.

He simply ripped open the plastic cover of the battery compartment, hooked his finger, and forcefully pulled the battery out.

"drop--"

The timer's red light flashed once, but... it didn't stop.

"Why isn't it stopping?" Xiao Lanyuanzi, who was standing nearby, exclaimed anxiously.

“The backup power is still working.” He squinted, his gaze fixed on a button battery in the corner of the circuit board.

He pulled a coin from his pocket, unhesitatingly wedged it into the gap in the circuit board, and pried it open forcefully—

"Crack!"

One corner of the circuit board was snapped off, and the timer's readings suddenly stopped.

"Phew... The timer stopped, we're safe." Sonoko-chan breathed a sigh of relief, a look of relief on her face.

"You're getting ahead of yourself... There's still the mechanical trigger." Shiraishi E said, grabbing the detonator's fuse and yanking it sharply—

"Snapped!"

The power lines snapped, but the bomb remained silent.

He stared at the last two red and blue wires.

Ran took out nail clippers from her bag and handed them to Shiraishi E, saying anxiously, "Which one should I...which one should I cut?"

"It's fine, you can cut them all off."

Click————

Both wires were snapped simultaneously. The bomb went completely silent.

Shiraishi E stood up, dusted off her hands, looked down at the defunct bomb, and shook her head: "The bomb's manufacturing level is very low."

"Yay! Yay ...

She happily went over and kissed him on the cheek.

"Don't be too happy yet," Shiraishi E warned. "There might be more than one bomb."

"Huh? More than one?" Xiaolan was taken aback. "Why do you say that?"

Shiraishi E picked up the makeshift bomb and said, "Placing the bomb in an empty room means it's not meant to kill anyone, but to blow up this twin-tower skyscraper!"

"I guess the reason the maker made the bomb so simple is because he needed to make a lot of bombs and simply didn't have time to encrypt the internal structure of the bomb."

"So we just let it be exposed like this."

"Even if one or two are removed, it won't have much impact on the overall situation!"

After hearing this analysis, Xiaolan Yuanzi's expression was not very pleasant.

Xiaolan hurriedly took out her phone and said, "Then...then let's quickly notify Mom and Dad and tell them to evacuate."

"Okay, I'll tell my friends too." Sonoko quickly took out her phone.

Shiraishi E rubbed her temples and said helplessly, "It's too late to notify them one by one."

He looked at Ran and Sonoko: "You two take Ms. Judy away first. I'll come back later to detonate the bomb and make a commotion so the others can run away on their own."

Ran and Sonoko hesitated for a moment, but time was of the essence, so they finally nodded: "Okay! Emi, you must be careful!"

…………

After watching Ran and Sonoko help Jodie into the elevator and leave, Emi Shiraishi immediately dialed Kogoro Mouri's number.

He said, "Hey? Detective Mouri, let's get out of here right now, there's a bomb inside the Twin Towers."

"What?!" Kogoro Mouri's voice suddenly rose on the other end of the phone: "You're not kidding, are you?!"

“There’s no time to explain. If Attorney Fei is nearby, let her know as well,” Shiraishi E said.

"Oh, I saw her... I'll go tell her now." After hanging up the phone, Kogoro Mouri immediately found Eri Kisaki, who was still talking to guests.

He disregarded social etiquette and simply pulled Eri away.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Eri Kisaki found the other person somewhat unreasonable!
"Get downstairs right now!" Kogoro Mori said curtly, "There's a bomb here!"

Eri Kisaki frowned: "How could there be a bomb?"

Kogoro Mouri scratched his head and said, "I don't know either... It was that kid Shiraishi who said there might be a bomb!"

When Eri heard that it was Emi Shiraishi who said it, she immediately stopped asking any further questions.

She nodded calmly: "Okay, what about Xiaolan then—"

"Don't worry, they've already taken the elevator down," Kogoro Mouri said.

Eri Kisaki stopped talking nonsense and walked towards the elevator, only to find Kogoro Mouri turning around and running in the opposite direction.

"Where are you going?!" she exclaimed.

"I have to go and inform Mio!" Kogoro Mori shouted without turning his head.

"..." Eri Kisaki looked at the other person's back speechlessly, then shook her head and said nothing more.

After getting into the elevator, she pressed the button for the first floor and quickly left.

The elevator began its rapid descent from the 75th floor. Eri looked out the window, still harboring some doubts.

I don't understand how someone could bring a bomb in here with such tight security.

Just then, a man's voice with a distinct accent came over the elevator's loudspeaker: "Attention everyone! A bomb has been planted in this skyscraper!"

"But don't worry, there are still more than 20 minutes before the explosion, so you have plenty of time to leave!"

"Please do not panic, leave in an orderly manner!!"

Upon hearing this, Eri Kisaki's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly had a bad feeling.

The elevator, which had been rapidly descending, slowly came to a stop in the next second.

Because someone on the 61st floor pressed the elevator button.

But not long after they boarded, the train stopped at the 60th floor, and it stopped at almost every floor, including the 59th, 58th, 57th, and so on.

When the elevator reached the 55th floor, it stopped and four or five people got in.

However, the elevator was immediately overloaded and could not operate, and no one was willing to leave.

Eri's heart sank; she knew she couldn't stay in the elevator any longer.

"I'm getting out!" she shouted, then quickly pushed through the crowd and left the elevator.

However, the elevator doors did not close, and someone still needed to get off.

But Eri Kisaki had no time to pay attention to any of that; she quickly walked toward the emergency exit.

(End of this chapter)