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Upon inspection, it was discovered that the mud ginseng association had already located the vehicle.

The car was on the embankment of the Jin River, and there was no one in the car.

Ai Haibara asked, "How is it?"

Kitagawa Taki shook his head. "They must have changed cars."

Inspector Megure put everything back into his bag. "Time is running out. We have no choice but to do as the robbers demand."

"Conan, and you guys, if you think there's any danger, run immediately!" Inspector Megure instructed the children.

Kitagawa Taki suggested, "Inspector Megure, how about this, I'll protect their safety, and we won't send any police."

This can make the robbers lower their guard.

Inspector Megure pondered for a moment and said, "No, we have to go too. Kitagawa, you can come along."

He was still worried about the safety of his children.

……

Conan and his friends then headed to the designated location.

Kitagawa Taki, Inspector Megure, and Takagi Wataru watched the children from a short distance away.

Conan answered the phone.

The kidnapper instructed, "Good, now go take the Toei Shinjuku Line train to the phone station on platform 13 of the Yamanote Line."

Conan wanted to test the waters, so he deliberately said, "I just accidentally dropped my bag into a puddle."

Another voice came from the other end of the phone, "Is there anything wrong with that tape?"

"Idiot, wouldn't it be better if the tape was broken!"

The kidnapper seemed to realize he had let something slip, "Ahem, anyway, I'll give you fifteen minutes."

Conan hung up the phone; he was now 100% certain that the kidnappers' goal was the tape.

The group then boarded the designated train.

Kitagawa Taki and the other two sat not far away.

“The kidnappers are definitely going to take a long, roundabout approach with us,” Kitagawa Taki said.

The kidnappers must have known that the police would be following them and wouldn't easily show themselves.

Inspector Megure sighed, "Now we can only rely on them."

Then his phone rang.

It turned out to be Sato Miwako, who had gone to check the car. The car had been found and was on the riverbank.

"The lead on the car has also gone cold."

Next, under the constant instructions of the kidnappers, the group wandered around the Yamanote Line.

Another phone booth.

The kidnappers finally gave different instructions: "Have that little brown-haired girl bring the bag over by herself. You do this and that... get out of the police's sight, understand?"

Conan said in a deep voice, "I understand."

After Conan hung up the phone, he said to Ai Haibara, "Haibara, they want you to deliver the bag by yourself."

Ayumi said worriedly, "Eh? Wouldn't it be dangerous for Ai to be alone?"

Conan's mind raced, and he said, "Haibara, let's both change our clothes, I'll go in your place!"

Ai Haibara said calmly, "No need, I'll take it."

Finally, Ai Haibara added, "Someone will protect me."

Conan turned to look at Kitagawa Taki and said, "Okay."

Afterwards, Conan and the three little ones boarded the train with their bags.

Inspector Megure and Wataru Takagi followed closely behind.

Ai Haibara pretended to trip and fall while boarding the train, and thus did not get on.

Kitagawa Taki helped Haibara Ai up and asked, "Did you have the tape with you?"

Ai Haibara said, "Yes, the kidnappers asked me to deliver it."

"You don't need to follow us too closely; the kidnappers might be watching us from somewhere."

Kitagawa Taki glanced around and said, "It's alright, there's no suspicious person around here."

Ai Haibara said nothing more and immediately headed to the location indicated by the kidnappers.

On the way, Kitagawa Taki suddenly asked, "By the way, what was the meaning of that song you sang last night?"

Ai Haibara froze. "What? What do you mean? It's just singing."

"Oh? Really?"

Ai Haibara changed the subject, "I saw a phone booth."

She then ran toward the phone booth.

Streetside.

Ai Haibara received another call from the kidnappers, instructing her to proceed to the next location.

It's different from being in a train station.

Because there were almost no pedestrians on the street, Kitagawa Taki could only follow from a distance.

He wasn't too worried about Ai Haibara's safety.

After all, she had both a gun and a golden talisman on her.

Those kidnappers are probably the unlucky ones.

Chapter 217 Arrest on the Spot

"Little sister, did you come alone as we agreed?"

"Ah."

"Okay, there's a storage room over there. Take the tapes up to the second floor. Two-Mix is ​​waiting for you here!"

"I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Ai Haibara looked up at the second floor of the warehouse, then looked back at the direction of Taki Kitagawa.

Kitagawa Taki understood; the kidnappers were on the second floor of the building right in front of him.

Subsequently, at the kidnappers' request, Ai Haibara climbed to the second floor of the warehouse next to the phone booth.

Kitagawa Taki walked along the wall, making sure the kidnappers couldn't see him through the second-floor window.

Ai Haibara stopped in front of the door, while he hid beside her.

"I've brought the tape!" Ai Haibara knocked on the door.

The kidnappers opened the door without any suspicion.

But instead of the little girl with the cassette tape, Kitagawa Taki was facing her with a gun.

"How is this possible?" The kidnapper seemed frozen in place, unable to move.

He clearly observed from the second floor that there was only that little girl.

"Where's the other tall guy?"

The big guy in front of him was not the tall guy Kitagawa Taki had seen at the restaurant; he could only be one of his accomplices.

"He...went out, he should be back soon..."

This big guy was quite honest; he immediately betrayed his companion.

No sooner had he finished speaking than the phone on the big guy's body rang.

The burly man stammered, "He must have hit me!"

"Go ahead and take it. I don't need to teach you how to say it, do I?" Kitagawa Taki pressed the gun against the big guy's head.

Ai Haibara then enters the room to untie the two members of Two-Mix.

The big guy answered the phone, trying to make his voice sound normal. "Hello, um, I've got the tape."

Then the call ended.

"He'll be back soon," the big guy said.

Kitagawa Taki taped his mouth shut and tied him up with rope.

"Mr. Kitagawa, and little sister, thank you so much for saving us!" Minami Takayama said excitedly.

Kitagawa Taki waved his hand, "Let's talk about gratitude later! They don't have anyone else, right?"

Minami Takayama replied, "No, there were only two of them."

Within two minutes, footsteps could be heard outside.

The tall kidnapper opened the door and met the eyes of the bound man.

Realizing something was wrong, he immediately reached into his clothes.

But the next second, he felt as if he had been hit by a truck. A sharp pain shot through his chest, and his body flew out and crashed into the railing of the passageway outside the door.

Kitagawa Taki took the tall man's gun and easily subdued him.

Then, they did the same to tie up the tall guy as well.

Kitagawa Taki said, "Ai, you should call the police."

"Amazing!" Minami Takayama witnessed the entire scene of Kitagawa Taki subduing the kidnappers.

"But Mr. Kitagawa, how come you have... a gun?" Minami Takayama looked at the gun in Taki Kitagawa's hand again.

"Oh, it's just a toy gun." Kitagawa Taki smiled and handed the gun to Takayama Minami.

Considering there were still two hostages, he didn't use the real weapon.