Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Chapter 3829 Carefully Planned Kidnapping

Chi Feichi leaned over and put Huihara Ai back on the ground, "It looks like Ogikubo Ryuji."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu thought of the thrilling incident just now and frowned, "What does that guy want to do? To take revenge on us?"

The gunshot also alarmed Kogoro Mori, Miwako Sato and others in the hotel.

Maori Kogoro's voice came from the second floor of the hotel, "Fei Chi, what happened?"

Soon, Conan called Chi Feichi's cell phone.

As soon as the call was connected, Conan's voice came out, "Brother Chi, what happened outside? We just heard sounds like gunshots, and the sound of a motorcycle leaving..."

"Just now someone passed by on a motorcycle and suddenly fired a shot at us," Chi Feichi said, walking out of the pine tree where he was hiding and looking at the direction where the motorcycle went away. "Now that person has left. Although he was wearing a safety helmet and covering his face, his figure looked very much like Ogikubo Ryuji who we saw last night."

On the other end of the phone, Conan's breathing quickened, and he seemed to be running outside. "How are you doing? Is anyone injured?"

"Don't worry, we hid behind the pine trees in time and no one was hurt." Chi Feichi said.

Conan, Kogoro Mori, Miwako Sato, Wataru Takagi, and Shinji Takeyoshi quickly arrived outside the hotel. Looking at the bullet holes on the pine tree, everyone's face looked a little ugly.

Without waiting for the group of people to check the bullet marks and discuss how to investigate next, Mao Lilan hurried out of the hotel, "Oh no, Dad! Miss Manami is missing!"

Things changed and the group rushed back to the hotel again.

When Nanatsuki Koshimizu went upstairs, she told Ike Feichi what she knew: after Ike Feichi went out to smoke, Kogoro Mori took the others to the room on the second floor and prepared to tell Hidetora Nakadai about Ogikubo Ryuji targeting Manami Nakadai. Manami Nakadai said she wanted to change clothes and pack her luggage, and then went back to her room.

Mao Lilan added, "After hearing the gunshot, everyone ran out of the hotel. I ran to the door of the hotel and suddenly found that Miss Manami was not in the team. I was a little worried about her, so I went to check, but found that there was no one in the room..."

A group of people arrived at the room where Manami Nakadai had previously lived.

The room was empty, the coffee table was overturned, and daily necessities such as clothes, travel magazines, water cups and empty shoe boxes were scattered cluttered on the floor.

Immediately afterwards, Takagi discovered that the emergency exit behind the hotel was opened, and also found fresh car tire marks in the backyard of the hotel.

"It seems that someone took advantage of the commotion that Ogikubo Ryuji was creating at the front door and took Miss Manami away from the back door," Maori Kogoro checked the tire marks and analyzed seriously, "and this person is very likely Ogikubo Ryuji's accomplice! In other words, this was a kidnapping planned by Ogikubo Ryuji and his accomplices. Ogikubo Ryuji first shot someone at the front door to create commotion and attract our attention. When we arrived outside the front door of the hotel, his accomplices kidnapped Miss Manami..."

Conan agreed with the reasoning of "accomplices" in his heart, but he felt that there were some unclear points in the details, so he reminded him, "But how did Ogikubo Ryuji and his accomplices know that Miss Manami was alone in her room? If all of us stayed together, and after Ogikubo Ryuji appeared outside the hotel and fired a gun, we all ran out of the hotel together. Wouldn't Ogikubo Ryuji's accomplices have been unable to take Miss Manami away? When they planned this operation, they should have been sure that they could kidnap Miss Manami before they carried it out, right?"

"Well..." Maori Kogoro thought for a moment, "Are you saying that there were accomplices of theirs who tipped off the hotel at the time?"

"Could it be that the kidnappers first sneaked into the hotel and subdued Miss Manami," Sato Miwako guessed, "but because the kidnappers wanted to take Miss Manami away, they had to pass through the room where we were. The kidnappers were worried that we would find them, so they notified Ogikubo Ryuji who was nearby and asked him to create a commotion at the front door to lure us away and make it easier for the kidnappers to take Miss Manami away?"

Conan frowned and thought.

Judging from the time, it took no more than ten minutes for them to hear the gunshots and run to the front door of the hotel to meet Brother Chi.

The time it took Xiaolan to discover that Miss Manami was not in the crowd and return to the second floor to look for her would be less than ten minutes, probably only about five or six minutes.

If someone took advantage of this time to sneak into the hotel, subdue Miss Manami and take her away successfully, this time would definitely not be enough. Therefore, he also felt that the kidnappers should have subdued Miss Manami long ago. Because he was unable to take Miss Manami away, he asked Ogikubo Ryuji to go to the front door to create chaos and lead them away.

However, there is a suspicious point in Miss Manami's room that cannot be ignored...

"Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!"

When Nakadai Hidetora heard his cell phone ringing, he quickly answered the call.

"Hey... who are you?... what?!"

After hearing what was said on the other end of the phone, Nakadai Hidetora's expression quickly changed. Seeing Maori Kogoro, Sato Miwako and others looking at him, he put down his phone and turned on the speakerphone.

The voice coming out of the phone was strange, and it was obviously changed by a voice changer: "If you want her to return to you safely, prepare 100 million yen in cash."

"One hundred million yen in cash?" Nakadai Hidetora's face was serious.

"That's right. While you're preparing the cash, ask the police in the hotel to leave and don't let them disrupt our transaction," the person on the other end of the phone threatened. "If the police don't leave the hotel in an hour, I can't guarantee the safety of your daughter's life!"

"I understand!" Nakadai Hidetora quickly agreed, "I will do as you say. Please let my daughter come back safely!"

"I'll contact you in an hour."

After leaving a message, the person on the other end of the phone hung up.

Nakadai Hidetora looked at Sato Miwako, Takagi Wataru, and Takeyoshi Shinji with a pleading look on his face, "Everyone..."

"I understand. We'll leave now." Sato Miwako thought that the criminal did not let Maori Kogoro, Ike Hichi and others leave, so she was not very worried that the police would not get the latest information on the kidnapping case. In order not to anger the criminal, she decided to leave the hotel and hand it over to the detective team.

After the three policemen left the hotel, Nakadai Hidetora began to raise the ransom. He prepared 100 million in cash within an hour and waited for the kidnappers to contact him.

Kogoro Mori suspected that Ryuji Ogikubo's accomplice was Manami Nakashiro's ex-boyfriend Hiroyuki, and analyzed the possibility of Hiroyuki committing the crime with Hidetora Nakashiro, Yozo Hosobe, and Kenichiro Ehara in the room.

The kidnappers' demands disrupted Kogoro Mori's original plan.

Kogoro Mori originally planned to deliver the ransom and deal with the kidnappers himself, and let the police ambush nearby to see if the kidnappers were nearby and whether it was possible to find Manami Nakadai by tracking the kidnappers' whereabouts.

Now the kidnappers ask Kenichiro Ehara to deliver the ransom. Kenichiro Ehara may not cooperate well with the police, and rescuing Manami Nakadai will become more difficult.

More importantly, when Kogoro Mori speculated that the kidnapper might be Manami Nakashiro's ex-boyfriend, Kenichiro Ehara suspected that the kidnapper asked him to deliver the ransom out of jealousy and wanted to harm him, Manami Nakashiro's fiancé. He became panicked before he even set off.

"Don't worry, I'll follow you quietly from behind," Maori Kogoro saw that Jiang Yuanjian was nervous and comforted him, "and..."

"Teacher," Chi Feichi interrupted Maori Kogoro and stopped him from saying something like 'the police will also be lying in ambush nearby'. He looked at the cash on the table and said, "The kidnappers only gave us half an hour. We don't have much time to waste."

Maori Kogoro didn't know why his apprentice interrupted him, but after hearing Chi Feichi's reminder, he felt that he couldn't delay any longer, so he said to Nakadai Hidetora, "President Nakadai, let's send the ransom over right away. Mr. Jiang Yuan can drive my car over!"

Nakadai Hidetora could see that Ehara Kenichiro was worried, but at this moment he could only do what the kidnapper asked. He looked at Ehara Kenichiro earnestly, "Ehara, this matter concerns Manami's life. You must follow the kidnapper's instructions..."

Jiang Yuanjianchilang gritted his teeth and agreed, "Okay!"

"Then I'll leave it to you!" Nakadai Hidetora didn't dare to waste time. He immediately turned back to the table and put the cash on the table into the yellow travel bag.

"Let President Nakadai do this alone!" Conan saw that Ehara Kenichiro and Hosobe Yozo wanted to help, and was worried that the two would wipe off all the fluorescent pen marks on the banknotes, so he hurriedly spoke out to stop them, and quickly found a suitable reason, "If the kidnappers touched the banknotes and then escaped, the police may have to investigate the fingerprints on the banknotes. If many people touched the banknotes, the fingerprints might be stained on the banknotes, and it would be very troublesome to investigate at that time!"

Nakadai Hidetora was frightened and told Ehara Kenichiro and Hosobe Yozo not to help him. He put the banknotes into the yellow travel bag by himself. Although he was curious why there were traces of fluorescent pen on the banknotes, after Conan repeatedly stopped him and asked him, he finally realized what was going on. He didn't mention the traces of fluorescent pen again and put the cash in silently.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu stood beside the table. Before Nakadai Hidetora closed his travel bag, she quickly stuffed a transmitter into the corner of the bag. She winked at Nakadai Hidetora who was looking at her in surprise, suggesting that Nakadai Hidetora should not make a fuss. "Since the cash is already packed, let Mr. Jiangyuan leave early."