What a joke!
In disbelief, the two of them ran towards the area where the bell rang almost at the same time——
"White Bird?!"
Katsuki Uehara, who glanced left and right, immediately began to stretch out his hands to pull away the broken bricks and tiles piled above the ringing area. Miwako Sato, who did not hang up the phone but stuffed the phone back into her suit pocket, followed closely behind, keeping her voice. The ringing continued uninterrupted, and at the same time, Katsuki Uehara worked together to move away the piled up ruins.
More than ten minutes later, when they were exhausted and out of breath, the two finally saw Shiratori Rensaburo lying motionless among the ruins——
It was probably due to the favor of the goddess of luck that several large rocks were attacking and defending the white bird, which happened to be a protective umbrella for it after it fell into coma.
The constantly ringing cell phone was vibrating in his trousers pocket. From Uehara Katsumi's perspective, Shiratori Rensaburo felt pressure from the collapsed wall down to his thighs.
"Ida! We need rescue here! Here!"
Seeing that the wall could not be moved with bare hands, Katsuki Uehara, who was disgraced from moving bricks, turned his head and shouted hello in the direction of the fire rescue team.
Firefighters with professional equipment rushed over immediately, accompanied by two medical staff carrying a stretcher.
"Well done, the rest of the rescue work is left to us, you two, stay away."
Professional work must be done by professionals.
Uehara Katsuki, who was driven aside, took off the worn-out gloves on his hands and casually took the tissue handed to him to wipe his sweat.
"This is not right, Uehara, why did the white bird appear here? This is not right."
After crumpling the tissues and worn gloves into a ball and holding them tightly in her hands, Miwako Sato tried to calm her rapid breathing after giving half of the remaining tissues to her partner.
"I don't know. Maybe he wanted to come here for dinner at noon, or maybe he found something else - wait a minute Sato, I remember you just couldn't get through the boss's phone call?" Uehara Katsumi said while breathing heavily. His tone paused, and then he quickly remembered the phone call Miwako Sato made before to remind her to shut down her phone.
"Just ask Takagi Chiba. They investigated this serial murder case with Shiratori. There is no reason for Shiratori to appear here——"
Speaking of this, Sato Miwako's tone suddenly stopped, and a terrible thought immediately appeared in her mind: "Uehara, you call Takagi, I'll call Chiba, hurry!"
"Hello? Uehara Criminal? Do you have a problem with me?"
"Sato? What's wrong, you called me suddenly?"
It wasn't until the voices of Takagi and Chiba came out from the mobile phone one after another that the call was connected, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Something happened to Shiratori. He's at 9-chome 23, Yoneka Town. You two should come over."
"What did you say?!"
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"White Bird was sent to the operating room for emergency treatment?!"
The Metropolitan Police Department searched the office area of the third department.
Megure Thirteen, who had just finished taking notes for Mouri Kogoro and his group, immediately lost his composure in front of them after answering the phone: "Which hospital?! How is the situation now?!"
"Mihua Central Hospital, currently undergoing surgery, police department."
"I'll be there soon!"
Memu Shisan immediately hung up the phone with an extremely heavy expression on his face. He was worried about the safety of his subordinates and could not care about the doubtful looks in the eyes of Kogoro Mori and others: "Brother Maori, I won't send you away if something happens to one of my subordinates." .”
"I understand the police department, please go quickly."
As a former criminal police officer, Mouri Kogoro knew how dangerous this profession was. Even Megure Thirteen himself suffered extremely serious injuries when he was young.
"Let's go, go home quickly, there are customers waiting for me in the office."
After watching Megure Thirteen leave, he glanced at his daughter and the little kid who always felt dissatisfied for some reason. Mouri Kogoro, with his hands in his pockets, took the lead towards the door of the office area.
Hearing this, Mao Lilan was a little confused: "Guest? What kind of guest?"
"Of course the client entrusted me as a detective to investigate the case, and it is still a big case! The reputation of my famous detective Mouri Kogoro has finally been established, hahaha!!!"
"..."
"..."
Mao Lilan blinked and wanted to say something, but he still had a good nature and swallowed the words when they reached his lips. In the end, he just held Conan's hand and followed closely behind his father.
Although his body has become smaller, his mind is still that of Kudo Shinichi. Looking at this uncle who was so proud that his tongue almost flew out of his mouth, the corners of his eyes twitched a few times: Haha, someone is actually looking for you. Investigate a major case? I'm afraid I didn't entrust you to investigate the affair.
well……
When will I be able to change back to Kudo Shinichi...
Conan, who started to worry again when he thought of this, sighed helplessly and followed his childhood sweetheart and his father back to the Maori Detective Agency.
"Um?"
As soon as he entered the door, the first thing that caught Conan's eyes was a stranger, a strange woman.
"Mrs. Miyazawa, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. I solved a case and delayed a little time. This is my daughter Mao Lilan. This kid is a child who lives in my house. His name is Edogawa Conan."
Under Conan's curious gaze, Mouri Kogoro took the lead to step forward and chat with the woman called Mrs. Miyazawa.
Takasugi Foundation? Suzuki Consortium?
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"Shiratori Consortium?"
Mihua Central Hospital, 8F, outside the operating room.
Megure Thirteen, who was pacing back and forth in the corridor, hung up the phone, turned to look at his subordinate Sato Miwako, and nodded: "Yes, it's a call from the Shiratori Consortium. After all, Shiratori is the helmsman of the consortium. Son, if something happens to him, they will definitely be worried."
"But why did White Bird appear in that restaurant at noon? And that metal card. Is White Bird the target of the murderer?"
Takagi Wataru and Chiba Kazunobu, who were investigating the same case with Shiratori Rensaburo, looked at each other and guessed this possibility.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out. If this is the case, either Shiratiao found some clues about the murderer, which led to the discovery, so he wanted to kill and silence him; or, the murderer was preparing to attack the police who were tracking him." He has a front-line background in handling cases. The experienced Megure Thirteen's eyes fell on Takagi and Chiba's two subordinates.
If it is the latter, then Takagi and Chiba are also in danger now.
"I remember that when the deceased were found before, their bodies were soaked in fish tanks."
Miwako Sato frowned and thought: "But Shiratori exploded, which means that the deceased did not kill Shiratori according to the previous killing pattern. Or, in other words, the murderer changed his killing pattern? Uehara, what do you think?"
"I can't make a final conclusion about the pattern of killings yet, but there is one thing that I am more concerned about now."
Katsuki Uehara, who had been looking at his phone, turned the screen around with a solemn expression: "The prisoner we captured in the Shinkansen bombing case once confessed that he sold a batch of bombs of the same specification to others. Note, it was a batch.
"And now, according to the news from the forensics department, the fragments found at today's explosion site are consistent with the material of the Shinkansen bomb fragments.
"In other words, the prisoner in the serial murder case is the mysterious man who bought the bomb."
