Solving cases with Detective Conan's science? No, I'm a cultivator!

Ai Haibara has figured it out. Connecting the strange elevator alarm from earlier, if the body is in the library, then it must be there!

Afterwards, Ai Haibara sent a message to Akemi Miyano on her phone, saying that she would be home late that night.

After Ai Haibara finished sending the message, she paused for a moment and then sent another message to Taki Kitagawa.

"Ai, you have a cell phone!" Ayumi exclaimed in surprise.

Genta and Mitsuhiko also looked on with envy.

Conan pursed his lips. What's so special about cell phones? He already has two, one for Conan and one for Shinichi Kudo.

"Let's find a place to hide and wait for the library to close!" Conan suggested.

So, the group slipped away to an empty library on the third floor and hid there until it was almost dark and the library was deserted.

Conan turned the doorknob and peeked out. "Okay, nobody's here!"

Yuan Tai asked excitedly, "Where do we go to look now?"

At that moment, Conan suddenly noticed that the elevator's indicator light was flashing.

"Someone's coming up! Everyone, hide!" Conan whispered.

The group quickly hid at the corner of the stairs.

Tap tap tap~

The sound of leather shoes hitting the ground was quite noticeable in the quiet library.

Conan peeked out and saw that the person who came was Director Tsugawa, who was carrying a briefcase.

Director Tsugawa walked straight to the reading area, and the others followed him stealthily.

Director Tsugawa opened the cabinet from the daytime, took out the original books, and muttered to himself:

"That idiot Yutian, if he hadn't seen what was in here, he wouldn't have been killed. The police are useless too, they just quit so easily. They would never have guessed that Yutian was in the library!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Clearly, Director Tsugawa was smugly pleased with himself for fooling the police.

After his excitement subsided, Director Tsugawa tore open the original book's packaging and took out the contents.

Because they were quite far apart and it was nighttime, the group couldn't see anything clearly.

Yuan Tai pushed forward with all his might, trying to get a better view, but accidentally pushed the glass door open, making a creaking sound.

Who is it? Who's still in the library?

Director Tsugawa suddenly turned around and shouted loudly.

The group was so frightened that they quickly backed away.

Ai Haibara calmly pointed to the restroom, and the others followed her and hid behind the door of the toilet stall.

The sound of Director Tsugawa's footsteps grew closer.

Clang!

The sound of the door opening came intermittently.

Everyone's hearts were in their throats.

However, because the group was hiding behind the door, Director Tsugawa did not notice them.

Only after Director Tsugawa left in the elevator did the group dare to come out.

Upon arriving at the reading room, Conan began examining the empty boxes left behind by Curator Tsugawa after he had dismantled them.

Mitsuhiko asked, "What could these be?"

Just as Conan was about to voice his guess, he heard Ai Haibara's voice.

"A handgun or firearm part, or something like white powder."

Chapter 49 Looks like I need a hug!

Conan looked at Ai Haibara in surprise, and what Ai Haibara said was pretty much what he had thought.

Could a child really think of something like this?

"Ai, you're amazing!" Ayumi exclaimed with admiration.

Mitsuhiko immediately understood, "So that's how it is! Mr. Tamada must have discovered that Director Tsugawa was secretly smuggling, so he was silenced!"

"Director Tsugawa must have taken those things with him in his briefcase!"

Ai Haibara shook her head and said, "No, a whole box of stuff, his briefcase can't hold it all."

Conan swallowed back the words that were about to come out.

"Anyway, let's look around this room first!" Conan quickly said.

Ayumi was overjoyed, "Finally, it's our turn, the Junior Detectives!"

The group split into two groups and started by looking on the bookshelf.

Ayumi and Ai Haibara were paired up. Ayumi was about to turn on the light while sitting on a stool when Ai Haibara stopped her.

"Don't turn on the lights. The curator might not be far away, and we'll be exposed."

Ayumi nodded blankly.

The group began their search by the moonlight streaming through the window, completely unaware that a pair of eyes were observing them in the darkness.

It was Director Tsugawa who had returned. He had clearly sensed someone was there, but when he came out he couldn't find them, so he was cautious and decided to turn back.

At this moment, Director Tsugawa's gaze turned cold. If he couldn't find these kids, that would be fine, but if he did, he would have no choice but to take drastic measures.

The group searched for a long time but couldn't find the problematic book.

When we found the middle bookshelf, we discovered that one shelf of books had never been touched. At first, we thought it was another set that hadn't been checked.

It wasn't until Conan and his friends finished checking one side of the bookshelf and went to check on Ai Haibara and the other person that they discovered the problem.

Conan picked up a book to examine it and found that it had no back cover. He pried it open and found a bag of white powder inside.

Mitsuhiko exclaimed, "It really is heroin!"

Conan smiled. The smuggled goods had been found; all that was left was to find the body.

"Let's find the body quickly!" Genta said excitedly.

Ai Haibara said calmly, "No need to look anymore. The body is in the elevator. The overweight condition is because of the extra body."

Conan's eyes widened instantly, and he slapped his forehead in frustration—

Damn it! He forgot he's a child now! The weight of five children is at most equivalent to two adults, and with the four people already in the elevator, there are only six people, so it's impossible for it to be overweight!

Seeing Conan's dejected expression, Ai Haibara smiled and walked outside first.

The so-called high school detective skills seem a bit lacking! Could it be that her brainpower has deteriorated because she shrunk? Ai Haibara is starting to worry that she might become like that too.

Of the three kids, Mitsuhiko was the first to react, "I understand, we're just kids, we can't be counted as adults!"

Mitsuhiko was somewhat impressed by Ai Haibara. He thought Conan was already amazing enough, but then someone even more amazing appeared.

The group followed Ai Haibara to the elevator, while Conan climbed the stairs to the upper floor.

A few minutes later, Conan came downstairs.

"Conan, where have you been?" Ayumi asked.

"I went to the machine room and switched the elevator doors to manual operation."

With that, Conan forcefully opened the elevator door and then pressed the elevator up button.

The three little ones crouched down at the elevator entrance to look.

"You guys, don't stand so close, be careful not to fall."

Upon hearing Ai Haibara's words, the three children quickly stepped back.

As the elevator slowly ascended, a corpse appeared before everyone.

It was none other than the missing Kazuo Tamada. His face was cyanotic and swollen, his eyes were bulging out, and his tongue was sticking out, which startled the three children.

After Conan looked at it, he turned to face everyone and explained, "He was strangled to death, and then Director Tsugawa threw his body into the elevator."

At that moment, a head slowly rose from Conan's feet. When Ai Haibara and the others saw its face clearly, the three little ones were so frightened that they couldn't speak. They were no longer the ones who had shouted "I'm not afraid" earlier.

The person who arrived was none other than Director Tsugawa. At this moment, Director Tsugawa was no longer the kind and amiable person he was during the day. His face was gloomy, and the pale light in the elevator shone on his face, making him look like a demon that had crawled up from hell.

"Director Tsugawa!" Ai Haibara reminded Conan.

Conan turned around abruptly, startled.

"Kids, why aren't you home yet, it's so late?" Director Tsugawa hid one hand behind his back, squinted his eyes, and gave a "kind" smile.

The group slowly retreated towards the stairwell.

Conan decisively activated his tranquilizer watch and fired it at Director Tsugawa's neck.

Director Tsugawa flinched slightly and asked fiercely, "Kid, what did you just do?"

When Conan realized he had missed, he thought to himself, "I'm doomed."

What he didn't know was that the shot actually hit, but it only struck the collar of Director Tsugawa's suit, not piercing through.

He looked around frantically, but found nothing in the corridor to kick.

If he had a soccer ball, he would definitely kick Director Tsugawa down with one kick.

Director Tsugawa stopped pretending and revealed the baseball bat hidden behind his back. Anyway, he had already locked the door, and these kids had no way to escape.

"Run!" Conan shouted.

Just as the group turned around, they saw Kitagawa Taki leap up the stairs and kick Director Tsugawa away.

Ai Haibara and the others watched this scene in astonishment.

Not only were they surprised, but Kitagawa Taki was also puzzled as to how Ai Haibara had ended up hanging out with the Detective Boys.

The curator, Tsugawa, who had been kicked away, felt a burning pain in his chest and reached into his suit pocket.

Seeing this, Kitagawa Taki kicked his hand away and then kicked him hard in the head.