The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 130 There are things that reasoning cannot solve

He narrowed his eyes when Hattori Heiji and Sato Shoji were invited into the VIP room after they explained to the two waiters at the door the solution to the puzzle of the notice letter.

Hattori Heiji has already begun to analyze the possible target of Kidd——

Suzuki Jirokichi, from the information he got, if Kidd disguised himself as him, then he and Sato would not be invited to the scene at all.

Besides, it is not easy to kidnap a rich man, a rich man who appears in the newspapers all the time, so let's rule that out first.

Could that drunken man passed out on the table be Kidd?
Kogoro Mouri is a new star in the detective world who is dubbed the "Sleeping Detective". However, judging from the awkward posture he has on the table, if he is still awake, he would definitely not make an action as if he has fallen to the ground.

This person is really drunk. If the thief wants to take action, he will not touch drinks such as alcohol that will affect his actions.

Two high school girls fit the number "two" that I saw, but it's still wrong.

Height can be increased through disguise, but it is difficult to become shorter in a short period of time. Secondly, judging from the pressure marks left by their steps on the carpet, their weight does not match.

"So, Kaito Kidd is most likely one of the three waiters?"

But Hattori Heiji quickly overturned his judgment in his heart.

No, it’s still a weight issue.

No matter who these three waiters were, the marks they left on the carpet when they walked on it did not match the weight characteristics of the two people I noticed in the rest car at that time.

Hattori Heiji was a little shaken. No matter how he looked at it, there was no Kid in the carriage at all.

In other words, Kidd may not have appeared yet, or he may be hiding in the control room, or is my understanding of the time on the notice letter wrong?
Just as Heiji began to wonder if his reasoning had reached a dead end due to the lack of certain information, Suzuki Jirokichi's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"Hahaha! As expected of the Hattori from Kansai!"

Suzuki Jirokichi had no idea that the high school detective standing in front of him had cleared everyone of the suspicion of being Kid with just a glance.

Now, Suzuki Jirokichi was immersed in the joy of defeating the two famous detectives with his own reasoning.

He coughed to clear his mind of the fantasy that the next day's front-page headline would be "Suzuki Jirokichi's Deductions Defeat Two Famous Detectives!"

Then he spoke in a more serious tone and patted Heiji's shoulder with obvious excitement.

"Hahaha, but you and Mr. Maori have both fallen into the trap of Kaito Kidd, because the gem Kidd wants to steal is my Dusk Wedge!"

"..."

Suzuki Jirokichi's attempt to convince Kid that the object he was trying to steal was the "Twilight Wedge" only made Hattori Heiji feel a little moved.

He was also not easily persuaded by the overconfident Suzuki Jirokichi.

"In other words, will Kidd's goal now be to choose one of these three options?"

Even because of the three inferences made by Suzuki Jirokichi, he looked again at Mouri Kogoro who was still leaning against the table motionless.

This so-called "sleeping detective" can reason faster and think more than I can.

This aroused a slight desire to compete in Hattori Heiji's heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Then the key now lies in deducing which gem Kidd really wants to find."

Suzuki Jirokichi was a little excited that his reasoning was once again questioned by the detective. He was so angry that his brows were trembling.

"Damn it! I'm going to prove it to you! Masahiko! Set up the cameras I prepared and connect them to the control room's communications system as planned." "I'm going to let everyone in the car see it, and open the curtains at the same time. I want everyone to witness this gem at dusk predicting Kidd's demise after I catch him!"

Conan was completely unaware of the dispute between the detective and the rich man in the VIP car. He didn't even know that Hattori Heiji, the policeman he had met at the crime scene before, had arrived in car number one.

At this moment, he was running around the control room as Ran Mouri apologized to the train conductor.

For Conan, he is trying to find clues about the bomb from these hundreds or even thousands of indicator lights or dashboards.

Time was slipping away every second, especially the flashing indicator lights, which now seemed particularly dazzling in Conan's eyes.

They emitted a bloody red light or a ghostly green light, just like the people's terrified howls and desperate cries after the train exploded shortly afterwards.

There was also the data flashing on the screen, and the sunset that was getting dimmer and dimmer as seen through the windshield.

Conan even felt that the train was running in a tunnel now——

A tunnel made of darkness, the clouds in the sky dyed red by the setting sun seemed to be the safety lights above the tunnel becoming dimmer and dimmer.

"Damn... what's the problem?" Conan muttered to himself. He tried to figure out which system the bomb was in from the densely packed indicator lights and the data displayed on the screen.

What is certain now is that the bomb must be in one of the acceleration, braking and timing systems.

For Kudo Shinichi, this was the first time he was certain in his mind that the bomb was hidden in the train's speed system but he still couldn't come to a conclusion.

This is true even after I have made my own guess.

If what those two guys from the Black Organization said was true.

Then the bomb may be related to the train's acceleration system. The bomb is likely to be activated after the third acceleration and explode when the speed reaches a certain value.

His eyes suddenly paused for a moment. Wait, what if all the electrical impulses came from the front of the car!

He looked down at the watch on his wrist, and when the second hand pointed to zero, Conan also looked at the electronic speedometer at the top.

“…60, 61, 62, 63…”

As expected! Conan recalled what the conductor had said before.

"According to the train conductor, the electrical acceleration or deceleration system is related to the train's electrical system, and the electronic speedometer should be updated once a minute."

"But in fact, it was about three seconds slow each time, which means that the electrical pulse of the timer was delayed by a certain device, and this delay was not random but very accurate."

"But what exactly is this peak velocity change calculated based on? An accelerometer? A timer?"

Now his target has been narrowed down to a very short range, but when Conan set his eyes on the dashboard related to the acceleration system——

It’s still too complicated!

Even though there is only one dial left in front of me, after eliminating three options and leaving only one, there are still more than a dozen switches!
Which one is the key to sending the electrical signal that determines the explosion of the bomb?

Sometimes, finding the truth is not the same as finding a solution.

There will always be things that reasoning cannot resolve.

(End of this chapter)