Conan Rick's Investigator

"Um……"

"But they know that Ayumi and the others are elementary school students. If they don't go home, their parents will definitely call the police."

"In order to prevent this place from being exposed, they will definitely move them somewhere else soon."

Conan's expression was serious. "Even if the police come, they can take Ayumi and the others as hostages, and things will get out of hand."

"What do you mean?" Although Haibara Ai asked, she had already guessed what Conan was thinking.

"I'm the only one who can rescue them..."

……

Teitan Elementary School, abandoned warehouse.

In the dark basement, the three little ones were tied together with ropes and shivering.

Opposite the three boys stood three adults with ferocious expressions.

"Hey, what are we going to do with these brats?"

"They already know about the money. We absolutely cannot let them go!"

"Damn it! Everything was going smoothly, but something like this happened!"

The three were also very angry about being seen.

Originally they came to take the stolen money and didn't want to cause any trouble, but unexpectedly they were seen by three money-grubbing little devils.

After thinking for a while, the square-jawed man said, "There's nothing else we can do. It seems we can only silence him..."

"Silence them?" the fat-faced man was stunned. "Do you mean kill all three of these brats?"

"Hmm," the square-jawed man explained, "These kids are all elementary school students who go to school here. If their parents found their children missing, they would definitely call the police."

"Those nasty cops will definitely be searching the school and the roads tonight, and that's going to affect our ability to get that money."

"Especially the boss is a very cautious person. Seeing so many cops roaming around, he definitely won't show up."

"The only way now is to kill these three brats and dump their bodies somewhere else to draw the cops' attention away."

The square-chinned man's analysis was very accurate and was immediately recognized by the fat-faced man and the thin-faced man.

"Looks like this is the only way..."

The chubby-faced man turned and shone the flashlight on the three little ones, muttering, "You can only blame your bad luck. In your next life, don't dwell on money that doesn't belong to you..."

"Okay, keep an eye on them while I look up there to see if there's a bag to put the body in."

After saying that, the square-jawed man left the basement via the stairs.

The remaining fat-faced man and thin-faced man are on guard here.

Although the three little ones didn't understand what was going on at this time, they also realized that they had met a real bad guy.

Looking for treasure and then encountering bad guys who also covet the treasure is a regular feature of the Young Detective Team.

But the three kids just couldn’t understand why they were always the ones tied up by the bad guys?

If it were in the past, the three little ones could still hope that Conan could make a comeback.

But this time, Conan left behind the clues to the treasure and went home, and he will definitely not come back.

Although there is only Haibara Ai who knows that the three of them are secretly following Conan and can call the police, according to the bad guys' plan, they will dispose of them to other places once they find the bag containing the bodies.

By the time the police arrived, they had all turned into cold, hard corpses.

When they thought of this, a feeling of despair enveloped the three little ones.

Since the three little ones' mouths were blocked, they could only sob quietly with tears in their eyes.

Seeing the three little ones start to cry, the fat-faced man, who was already a little annoyed, shouted, "Little devils! Stop crying!"

But the thin-faced man next to him stopped him and said with a sinister grin, "Haha, it's okay, just let them cry..."

"They don't have much time left anyway."

"By the way...crying also counts as time~"

As he spoke, the man with the thin face shone the flashlight from his chin to his face, making his already skull-thin face even more horrifying.

Hearing these threatening words and faces, the three little ones became even more frightened.

The fat-faced man sitting on the steps watched the thin-faced man's actions and said with a smile, "It's been 10 years, and you still have such a bad taste..."

The thin-faced man replied, "If I hadn't been so good at intimidating people, that capitalist wouldn't have revealed the combination to the gold safe so easily."

"makes sense……"

whoosh-

A barely perceptible sound of breaking air was heard in the air.

Immediately afterwards, the fat-faced man who was originally sitting on the steps to rest suddenly lost consciousness and fell to the side.

Bang.

The thin-faced man heard the sound and looked back, only to find the fat-faced man lying on the ground in a dog-eating shit posture.

"Hey! What's wrong?"

The thin-faced man quickly ran over to check and pushed the fat-faced man twice, but there was no response.

At this moment, he heard the crackling sound of electric discharge coming from above the stairs again.

"Um?"

The thin-faced man looked up and saw a primary school student stepping on colorful electric lights and a football gradually expanding on his waist and abdomen.

Just as he was stunned, the football completed its expansion and popped out automatically.

Conan aimed in the right direction and kicked the ball straight out.

The football, wrapped in colorful electric light, flew straight to the wall at the same height as Conan, smashed a small hole in the wall, then bounced back and hit the back of the thin-faced man right below.

The man with the thin face had his internal organs smashed into pieces and he fainted immediately.

Seeing Conan, who looked like he had won, subdued the two bad guys in an instant, the three little ones' eyes immediately lit up.

Conan ran over and took out the cloth stuffed in the three people's mouths.

"Conan! Why are you back?" Mitsuhiko asked excitedly.

But Conan knew that now was not the time to answer this, so he untied the ropes that bound the three people and asked, "Where is the other person?"

"There's another person..." Mitsuhiko was stunned for a moment, "Isn't he in the warehouse upstairs?"

"In the warehouse?"

Conan was stunned and immediately realized that something was wrong.

When I came in, I was attracted by the sound coming from the basement and did not check the warehouse carefully.

At this time, the three little ones who were originally excited about escaping death saw Conan

Behind him, an expression of fear instantly appeared.

Conan turned around immediately, but it was too late.

The square-chinned man grabbed Conan's neck and lifted him up like a chick.

Seeing Conan's face, Tomano was also a little shocked.

"Aren't you the kid with glasses at dusk?"

"Why are you..."

The square-chinned man was stunned, recalling what he had seen before, and immediately guessed that the kid had returned because he was reluctant to give up the so-called treasure.

"Haha, why do kids these days only care about money and not their lives?"

"Since you're all here, why don't you all come together..."

Conan's hands and feet were struggling as hard as they could, but they were still not enough in the face of the strength of an adult.

The square-jawed man grabbed Conan and glanced at his accomplices behind him, shouting, "Hey! Hurry up and help me deal with these little brats!"

The thin-faced man behind him also regained consciousness and slowly got up from the ground.

Conan's pupils trembled, and he remembered that he had kicked the thin-faced man on the back at the bottom of the stairs using the reflection of the wall, so the force was not as great as before.

Soon, Conan was also tied up.

After tying up Conan, the square-chinned man and the thin-faced man went to figure out why the fat-faced man couldn't be woken up no matter how hard they called him.

Conan stared at the two of them with a stern expression. Even if he couldn't save the three little ones, the delay time was enough.

Haibara Ai has already called the police.

All we have to do now is wait for the police to arrive...

Just then, other people's voices were heard again in the warehouse.

"Excuse me...Excuse me, is anyone inside?"

"Is there anyone there?"

It was a female voice, and somewhat familiar.

Conan's face was shocked, and he immediately thought that the hesitant voice belonged to Wakasa Rumi.

Why did she come back?

At this time, the square-chinned man and the thin-faced man who were standing at the bottom of the stairs looked up, also a little confused. Why did people come one after another today?

However, when they heard that the other party was a woman, they decided not to hold back and just tie her up together.

They looked at each other, a ferocious smile appeared on their faces, and they walked up the stairs one after another.

Conan and the three little ones looked up the stairs nervously, wanting to speak out to warn Wakasa Rumi there, but their mouths were blocked and they couldn't make any sound.

The next second, Wakasa Rumi's surprised voice was heard from above.

“W-Who are you?!”

"What are you doing?"

"ah--!"

"Don't come over here!"

“Don’t! Don’t!”

"..."

The screaming lasted for a minute before the noisy warehouse above gradually calmed down, leaving only the sound of a person's footsteps approaching.

When the footsteps reached the stairs, Wakasa Rumi poked her head into the basement.

Chapter 1337: Disappearance of Akai Shuichi

"Wakasa-sensei!"

When the three little ones saw that it was Wakasa Rumi who appeared from the stairs, their faces instantly became filled with joy.

Conan looked surprised for a moment.

Because he heard the noise coming from above, he thought the two robbers were going to do something indecent to her, the female teacher.

After the ropes on the three little ones and Conan were untied, they went to the warehouse upstairs and saw the two robbers lying on the ground with their arms and legs spread out, unconscious.

There was a slightly wider red mark on their faces, as if they had just been beaten.

This is……

Conan squatted next to the robber to check and found that this slightly wider mark did not look like it was left by a fist, but more like something hitting the face.

He glanced around and felt that the flat sand rake placed next to the storage rack was the most suspicious.

Could it be that this thing can be used to knock down all the robbers?

Just then, a loud sirens sounded outside the warehouse.

The police finally arrived.