Hui Yuan Ai put his hand into his pocket and glanced at the shining dagger. After confirming that there was no blood on it, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked:
"Where's Masao? Why didn't you see him..."
Here, the two of them have already taken off their disguises, and naturally they will no longer pretend to be a kind couple.
"You're talking about that kid. Ha... of course I tied him and his mother in the bathroom together. Don't worry, you will all go in and reunite soon."
The female kidnapper lowered her voice and threw a roll of black duct tape into the middle of the children.
This is a kind of tape composed of fiber fabric and adhesive. It has strong adhesion and pull resistance. To some extent, it is easier to use than rope.
"Hey! Little girl with a hairband on your head, be obedient. If you don't want to get hurt, use this roll of tape to tie up all your friends."
Next to him, the male kidnapper raised the dagger in his hand and threatened: "If you are not willing, then I will have to use other methods to prevent you from moving."
Unexpectedly, they had already taken precautions...
Haiyuan Ai judged and prepared to find the right moment to knock out the male kidnapper first.
However, there is only one anesthesia needle. If you want to ensure the safety of the children, you must lure the two people into the living room. Otherwise, if you use smoke bombs from this position, as long as the other party reacts faster, they can not only guard the only exit to the corridor. , you can even use door panels to isolate the smoke...
She stopped in front of Ayumi sideways, stared at the two of them and asked:
"What are you going to do after tying us up?"
For these two kidnappers, their opponents were only four children at best. They were just stalling for time and slowly consuming their patience. As long as one person can't help himself and walks in to pick up the tape and do it himself, this is his chance to fight back!
"Don't worry, we will leave here immediately after we finish our work... If you are lucky, you can wait for 3 or 5 days and the real man who is on a business trip will come back and you will be rescued."
The male kidnapper had just finished explaining his 'gogue' spirit when he suddenly noticed that the expressions of horror and fear on the faces of the children in front of him were gone. He just thought it was his kindness that made the other children feel lucky, and he suddenly frowned with a stern face. road:
"Hey! I don't mind if you dare to look down on me..."
"What don't you mind?"
Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta asked in unison.
The corners of Haiyuan Ai's mouth were also slightly raised, and he took out the hand holding the anesthetic gun and smoke bomb tightly in his pocket:
"You came."
who? Who...
The two kidnappers were startled at the same time.
The next moment, their hair was grabbed by a strong hand, and their two heads collided together without any room.
Ye Gengyi, who appeared quietly behind the two of them, looked at the children with calm eyes as if he had done something insignificant:
"Who brings the tape?"
"Let me do it."
Haibara Ai said, then looked at Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta: "There are scissors over there in the cabinet. You three go to the bathroom to help Masao and his mother loosen their ties."
"Okay~"
The three children's nerves were far more tenacious than others. After the crisis was over, they immediately changed their moods, picked up the scissors and trotted to the bathroom in the corridor.
Here, a roll of duct tape was in the hands of Ye Gengyi and Hui Yuan Ai, returned to its original owner in the form of use, and tied up the two kidnappers who were staring at stars.
Hui Yuan Ai took the time to look at the wall clock on the wall and discovered that Ye Gengyi arrived here in less than 15 minutes after he sent the email...
15 minutes……
It's almost the same time it takes to get the email, go directly from the doctor's house to this high-end apartment, and then take the elevator to the 28th floor.
Thinking of this, Hui Yuan Ai couldn't help but sigh:
"Sure enough... for a code like that, you only need to look at it to decipher it."
"It's not that exaggerated, it's just that I have the habit of reading the full text so as not to ignore key information."
Ye Gengyi was actually referring to the lie that the child named Zhengnan suffered from claustrophobia.
As for たすけて's 'Help' code hidden in the four flower cards, this kind of grammatical problem between the subject and the particle, even if he did not notice it, when Ye Xiaobai presented the content of the email on his retina, he had already transferred that part of the original text Highlighted with auxiliary annotations beside it.
"Oh, but it took me so long."
Haiyuan Ai sighed... If he were half as powerful as Brother Geng, he would never ignore the mobile phone on the table.
After all, I was careless.
“Things like that can be done, don’t put them first.”
Ye Gengyi looked at Haiyuan Ai: "The key to the problem is to control dangerous things. Before being forced to a dead end, the first thing to consider is whether you are sure to solve the problem without external help."
...Of course, that naughty kid who likes to lie is also one of the distractions. But this kind of thing is out of his scope of consideration.
"Well, it's not that I wasn't prepared at all, it was just a little unexpected."
Haiyuan Ai retorted weakly, but she also knew that even if she was worried about calling the police indiscriminately and causing trouble to Bumi, taking the risk of bringing a few children to investigate for clues was not a wise decision.
In the final analysis, it was actually the props invented by Dr. Ali in his pocket, and he underestimated the two kidnappers.
If Brother Geng doesn't show up, he will certainly have the means to fight back, but there will still be risks after all...
"By the way, there's one more thing I haven't thought about yet."
Haihara Ai looked at Ye Gengyi, "Do you know how Edogawa could tell that Masao and the two kidnappers are not the same family?"
"It's a dominant genetic trait."
A familiar voice came from the corridor.
Conan appeared in front of the living room sweating profusely, accompanied by Takagi Wataru dressed as a postal worker.
Noticed the gazes of the two people looking over.
Conan regained his temper and skipped the previous topic, shrugged his shoulders and said:
"When I saw the door here open, I thought something had happened, but I didn't expect Brother Gengichi to arrive in advance. By the way, the reason why Officer Takagi dressed up like this is..."
"Because you saw the email I sent and deduced that the purpose of the two kidnappers was the registered letter that was about to be returned by the post office, right?"
Haiyuan Ai half-mooned and said, "I also sent a copy of the same email to Brother Gengyi. Are you sure you want to say it again?"
"Uh, h-it's better not to use it... Since it's Brother Geng, I must have known about it a long time ago." Conan looked helpless.
Because as long as you read the content of the email, you can guess that the purpose of the two kidnappers staying at Uemura's house was to take away the tax evasion evidence collected by the former residents.
About two weeks ago, the former owner, Mr. Uemura, sent the letter to the producer of Nippon TV Station, Hinata, and planned to move out and find a place to hide. Unexpectedly, the producer was hospitalized due to a car accident. , failed to receive registered mail.
The post office keeps the letter for about ten days. The two kidnappers concluded that the letter should be returned soon, so they broke into the house and kidnapped the newly moved Ufune mother and son. If they only took away the registered letter, even if the police launched an investigation afterwards, they would not be able to It will be ignored because there is no lost property.
This is also the reason why the two kidnappers have refrained from killing anyone.
Of course, since Officer Takagi needed to disguise himself as a postal officer, he had already informed the other party of all these reasonings on the way here.
Um? I do not know……
Here, Ye Gengyi looked at the two drug A 'big guys' talking to themselves and muttered silently to himself.
Based on this incident alone, is the evidence important whether the robbers’ purpose was to demand ransom or to evade taxes? Anyway, he doesn’t plan to give it...
After seeing the situation in the living room clearly, Takagi Wataru asked at the right time: "Mr. Ye, these two people are the criminals Conan mentioned."
(End of chapter)
