Conan Rick's Investigator

Chapter 303 Conan: This is completely different from what we agreed on!

The woman said a few incoherent words and cancelled her reservation on the dining car.

Conan felt a vague sense of familiarity as he looked at the woman's slim back, so he quickly took two bites of the food on his plate, which was obviously inferior to the one cooked by Matsumoto Ryohei.

"Sister Xiaolan, I'm full!"

"I'm going to go play somewhere else first!"

Without waiting for Mouri Ran's answer, Conan jumped off his seat and rushed in the direction the woman left.

"Conan! Seriously..."

Mao Lilan put down her knife and fork and was about to chase after him, but Mao Li Kogoro on the opposite side said nonchalantly: "The train is so small anyway, let that brat do whatever he wants..."

Mao Lilan thought about it carefully and realized that this was true.

Besides, Conan's personality is not that of a naughty kid, which makes her feel at ease.

……

Conan quickly caught up with the woman and said with a childish face, "Auntie?"

Conan's first greeting triggered the woman's taboo keywords.

The woman squatted down, raised a finger and said to Conan solemnly: "A woman like me should be called sister, not aunt..."

"Get it, Conan?"

The woman raised her hand and pinched Conan's face, not treating herself as an outsider at all.

And she is indeed not an outsider.

Just now, when Conan was following someone in the corridor and carefully observing their walking posture, he had a vague idea of who this person was.

"Ha ha……"

"It's really you..."

Conan laughed awkwardly, his hands in his pockets, looking unsurprised. "If it were someone else, it would be a different story, but don't think you can fool your son by changing your lipstick and hairstyle."

"Ah?" Kudo Yukiko stood up, holding up her playful bangs with her fingers, "But it took me a lot of effort just to do this hair~"

Conan showed his half-moon eyes and asked helplessly: "Tell me, what is your purpose in going to such great lengths to sneak onto this train?"

Yukiko Kudo glanced at the corridor of the carriage vigilantly, brought Conan into her own compartment, and then slowly explained the reason why she was there.

"Because I saw a news report about Japan in Los Angeles. The report said that the robbers in the jewelry store left a strange message and fled without stealing anything."

"Yusaku thought this was very strange. It was exactly the same plot as his unpublished mystery novel that was robbed by bank robbers 10 years ago. The only difference was that in that novel, the one that was robbed was an ancient art museum."

Conan frowned and continued to ask: "What happened next? What else did Dad say?"

Kudo Yukiko said seriously, "Of course, I'd call the jewelry store right away and ask the owner if he has any plans to take a long tunnel journey by train in the near future."

"Because the director of the art museum in the novel was shot and killed by gangsters on the train later..."

"I didn't expect that the owner of this jewelry store actually planned to take the Beidouxing train in six days."

Conan paced back and forth in the box with his chin in his hand, thinking about the ins and outs of all this.

No wonder I felt that the sentence "This is completely different from what we agreed on" sounded familiar. It turns out I had seen it in my father's novel.

"So the author who wrote this article specifically to cause trouble is the man in the corridor hiding his face with a newspaper, right?"

Kudo Yukiko waved her hand, "What are you talking about? Yusaku isn't on this train at all."

"Ah?" Conan looked surprised. Then what about the man who had been secretly monitoring the corridor?

"We didn't know which train the jewelry store owner was going to take, so Yusaku and I took two separate trains."

Conan showed some disgust in his half-moon eyes, as if he had been matched with a "stupid teammate" during the random match in the dungeon.

"And that novel? Did you bring it with you?"

Kudo Yukiko shook her head, "No."

"What about the methods and the murderer? Do you still remember?"

Kudo Yukiko shook her head again, "I don't remember..."

Conan suffered a series of setbacks, as if he finally got a reference answer to the case, but it only said [Answer: Omitted].

This is the reality of the world!

No! It's just human dregs!

There was no other way, Conan could only rely on his memory to recall it again, and finally he remembered some details.

"I remember there was a description in the novel about the incident. It happened when the train was passing through a tunnel, right?"

"Considering the time and the length of the tunnel, the most likely time for the murderer to strike was 4 a.m. when the train was passing through the Seikan Tunnel."

"There are still about nine hours until four in the morning. Let's first investigate and see if there are any enemies of the jewelry store owner on the train..."

……

In the following time, Conan transformed into the little prince of questions, asking the jewelry store owner all kinds of questions.

Thanks to the "Ask and Answer" buff, Conan was able to identify some suspicious candidates.

The first is the mayor of Stone Hammer City who had a tit-for-tat confrontation with the jewelry store owner in the dining car. Because of the mayoral election, he and the jewelry store owner are real rivals.

Secondly, Jia Yueli, an employee of the jewelry store owner, also had motives. After all, the boss always spoke to him in an arrogant tone, so it was inevitable that there was some greater friction behind it.

Finally, there’s the jewelry store robber who was stopped from robbing by the jewelry store owner.

If the robber was also on this train, then he would be the most likely potential murderer.

As for the choice of the robber, Conan felt that the man who had been holding a newspaper covering his head in the train corridor was the most suspicious.

But when Conan was about to check on the man, he could no longer find him in the train corridor.

……

Time passed minute by minute, and by four o'clock in the morning when they were about to enter the Seikan Tunnel, Conan still had not determined who the murderer was who wanted to kill the jewelry store owner.

Conan lied that he was going to the restroom and quietly slipped back to the dining car, just in time to see the jewelry store owner sitting alone at the table with a cigar in his mouth.

Behind him, a masked man in a dark gray windbreaker approached quietly and pulled out a pistol from his pocket without saying a word.

Conan, who happened to see this scene, and Kudo Yukiko on the other side of the dining car immediately spoke up to remind them.

"careful!"

However, the sound is not as fast as the bullet, and a living life disappeared in front of Conan in an instant.

—The gunshots and screams were drowned out by the rumbling noise in the tunnel—

——The man ran towards the dark train corridor like a hungry beast——

——But, after a few minutes, the man disappeared——

——Only the sound of the wind and the train played a noisy melody at this time——

His father's voice echoed in his ears, and Conan began to predict the murderer's next move through his memory of the novel.

He wants to escape into the dark train corridor!

At this time, Conan happened to be standing in the direction where the murderer was going to escape, so Conan opened the cover of the watch-shaped anesthetic needle without saying a word and began to aim.

Then, just as Conan was waiting for the murderer to get closer so that he could aim more accurately, something unexpected happened.

The several passengers surrounding the dining car did not panic or scream at all, but all rushed towards the murderer without hesitation.

The murderer looked around in surprise, and before he could react, he was subdued by the passengers in the dining car by stacking them up.

At this moment, a voice sounded from another section of the carriage.

"Kaito Kidd is shooting!"

"Catch Kaito Kidd! Don't let him get away!"

Conan looked at the person who appeared in the opposite car in surprise. It was Officer Nakamori!

Conan: This is completely different from what we agreed on!

Chapter 304: Arrest of "Kaito Kidd"

Conan looked at Officer Nakamori who appeared out of nowhere in surprise, and then he realized that Officer Nakamori's clothes were very similar to the man who was reading a newspaper in the corridor of the carriage today.

It turns out that person is Officer Nakamori!

Behind Officer Nakamori, more plainclothes police officers rushed out and attacked "Kaito Kid".

……

In fact, ever since he obtained the identity information of Kaito Kid at the Hakuba Research Institute, Officer Nakamori has been watching Kagoshi Toshinori like a hawk.

But Officer Nakamori was not in a hurry to arrest him.

On the one hand, he has not yet obtained any solid evidence of Jiayueli's crime.

On the other hand, as Kaito Kidd, Gayoli would surely be able to easily escape ordinary ground capture.

So Officer Nakamori finally decided to arrest Kagetsu Rinari when he boarded the Hokutosei train and entered the Seikan Tunnel.

The speeding train is like an iron cage moving at high speed, and the Seikan Tunnel outside the train ensures that even if Kidd jumps out of the window to escape, he cannot take off using a paraglider.

Moreover, jumping off a speeding train is an act of seeking death. Officer Nakamori believes that even Kidd would not do that.

In order to capture Kidd, Officer Nakamori made arrangements six days in advance and requisitioned nearly half of the carriages of the Hokutosei train in the name of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Kaito Kidd is a cunning and intelligent criminal.

In order to prevent his men from being discovered by Kidd, Officer Nakamori not only had everyone on duty in plain clothes, but also arranged a separate script for each officer.

Some went to Hokkaido to visit relatives, some went to Sapporo to ski, some went to Kukomaki to ride horses...

In short, if you look at each person separately, they are all ordinary passengers, but in fact they are all deployed by Officer Nakamori.

As soon as these people got on the bus, they began to monitor Jiayuelize's every move, and they knew that Jiayuelize was the masked man in the dining car who had changed his clothes.

However, even Officer Nakamori, who was in charge of this plan, never expected that this "Kaito Kidd" would actually open fire...

……

Officer Nakamori walked up to the jewelry store owner who was shot in the eyebrow and was sure that the man was dead without checking his pulse.

"Kaitou Kidd!"

"I arrest you for murder, theft, and vandalism!"

Conan looked at the masked man who was being suppressed by the human wave tactics, looked at Kudo Yukiko next to him, and asked: "Did Dad's novel say that the arrested murderer was actually Kaito Kid?"

Kudo Yukiko shook her head blankly, "No..."

At this time, Kogoro Mouri, who heard the gunshots and noise, also ran to the dining car and saw a bunch of "passengers" stacked on top of each other, with Officer Nakamori standing next to them and giving orders.

"What's going on?" Kogoro Mouri asked in surprise.

Officer Nakamori glanced at Maori Kogoro and waved his hand in disdain and impatience, "This is none of your business, go away..."

In fact, when he just got on the train, Officer Nakamori already knew that the Mori family was also on the train.

His subordinates also asked whether they needed to inform Detective Mori about the situation and ask him to cooperate with the police, but Officer Nakamori flatly refused.

"How can we let a scumbag detective interfere with our police's covert operations?"

Officer Nakamori did not have much good feelings towards the Mori family who stole his and his daughter's faces, so he naturally did not tell Kogoro Mori about the situation.

With the cooperation of many police officers, Jiayueli, who was thrown to the ground, was controlled and stood up. Officer Zhongshan personally stepped forward and took off the mask used for camouflage.

Wow!

When the mask was taken off, a slightly thin face was revealed, with traces of glasses on both sides of the temples caused by wearing glasses for a long time.

The Maori family had seen this face before on the dining car. It was the employee of the jewelry store owner.

"Mr. Jiayue!"

At this time, Jia Yueli looked unwilling, because he never expected that he would be ambushed by so many policemen.