Miwa Town, 2-chome.
After Subaru Okiya, who was staying at Dr. Agasa's house, received a call from Conan, he immediately went out with Dr. Agasa and drove to the 4-chome park.
After Conan informed Subaru Okiya, he rushed into the alley on his skateboard, planning to take a shortcut to get there.
Worried that the sound would reveal the location of people in danger, Conan never called or used detective armbands to contact the other four members of the Young Detective Team.
After Conan entered the Yoneka Town area, the detective armband in his pocket rang.
"Didi, didi..."
When Conan heard the voice, he felt happy. He immediately took out his detective armband, adjusted the communication switch, and tried to say, "Hello?"
"Edogawa, it's me," Haihara Ai's voice was very soft, and her tone was calm with a hint of stiffness, revealing the fear and panic deep in her heart, "Listen to me, something happened on our way to the cake shop. In fact, when we came out of the store, I felt that someone was following us, but at that time I was not sure who the two men following us were, so I kept silent. Unexpectedly, the other party had many accomplices, and I also notified the accomplices to come and surround us. us……"
"Are they a group of men in black suits?" Conan asked in a low voice.
"Yes...yes, but how did you know?" Hui Yuarai asked in a low voice, confused.
"When Brother Chi passed by a suspended construction site, he saw that Yuantai had been arrested. He called me more than ten minutes ago and told me about it," Conan said truthfully, "When he called , has already sneaked into the construction site, but he said there are many people, and he still needs to find an opportunity to get close to the building. I am already on my way there now... How is the situation over there? Is everyone okay? "
"The situation is very bad, they have all been caught," Haiyuan Ai said in a serious tone, "At first I thought they were coming for me, so I discussed with Bumi and the others to run away separately. Originally, I wanted to take them out alone. To divert us away, we didn’t expect that the other party arranged more manpower than we thought. All intersections and alley entrances were blocked by their people, forcing us to run into the construction site. We didn’t expect that they would also be guarding us after we entered. Ayumi was caught immediately. When we were about to run into the building, Mitsuhiko rushed up and bumped into someone who was about to catch us, buying time for Genta and I. After that, Genta and I entered alone. They entered the building and ran to the backyard alone, but from what you said, Yuanta was also caught by them, and now I am the only one who has not been caught."
"Are you safe now?" Conan asked quickly.
"Some people were searching around just now. I climbed up to the other side's cement pipe to hide for a while. When those people weren't paying attention, I climbed into a cement pipe below without being discovered by them," Hui Yuan Ai said softly, "In The people searching here have just left, and I don’t think they will search here again for the time being, so I used the detective armband to try to contact you.”
"The one who captured them..." Conan paused and asked the question in his mind with some anxiety, "Are they from that organization?"
"I'm not sure either. It can be seen that those guys were directed by others. They seemed like criminal veterans. No one felt embarrassed about arresting children, and they even had guns on them." Yuan Ai added worriedly, "When I ran into the construction site before, I vaguely saw a woman and two men in black clothes standing in front of the window on the second floor. However, because of the emergency, I didn't see the woman's face clearly. , As for the men who are chasing us, I have not seen them in the organization before, maybe they are newly recruited peripheral members of the organization."
"Didn't you feel the breath of those guys from them?" Conan asked.
On the construction site that has stopped, there are still a lot of construction materials piled behind the building.
Haiyuan Ai was hiding in a cement pipe, holding the detective armband tightly in her right hand. When she heard Conan's question, she was silent for a moment with a complex expression, "I don't have that feeling, but my sense of smell doesn't seem to work every time. It’s effective, hasn’t it failed before?”
"You mean Mr. Amuro...bourbon, right?" Conan thought that Haibara Ai had no special reaction when he saw Toru Amuro before, and comforted him uncertainly, "Maybe that guy is good at disguise, and when he saw your At that time, he had no ill intentions toward you, and you had played games with him before, so you thought he was a friend, so you probably didn’t feel the aura of the organization from him..."
"Crack."
A slight noise came from not far away, causing the nervous Haiyuan Ai to quickly turn her head and look out. She was startled when she saw the approaching figure outside the cement pipe. She quickly covered the detective armband with her hand and looked at the pair of steps outside. Stepping closer to his legs, he held his breath.
In the quiet environment, Haihara Ai's hand on the detective's armband didn't seem to have a good effect. She could still hear Conan's voice clearly.
"...You just need to be safe now...wait for me...by the way, their number..."
The legs stopped in front of the cement pipe.
Haiyuan Ai wanted to move her body further away, but she was worried that the sound of her clothes rubbing against the cement pipe would attract the other person's attention, so she could only lean back as much as possible and tightly cover the detective's armband with both hands.
I don't know if it was her imagination, but when she was extremely nervous, the sound coming from the detective's armband seemed to become smaller, and then...
Hui Yuan Ai looked up and saw the people outside squatting down without hesitation. He was so frightened that his back went cold. When he saw Chi Feichi's face, he was still a little unable to calm down.
Chi Feichi saw Hui Yuan Ai huddled up in the cement pipe, her face turned pale. Although he didn't think that his behavior of approaching and squatting down just now was a bit scary, he also admired the look of fear on Hai Yuan Ai's face. Then he stretched out his hand to Hui Yuan Ai and lowered his voice, "Come out and I'll take you to another place."
Hui Yuan Ai was worried that she would implicate Chi Fei Chi, but she was also worried that Chi Fei Chi would be seen waiting outside. After hesitating, she climbed out of the cement pipe.
Chi Feichi saw the detective armband held by Haiyuan Ai in his right hand and asked aloud, "Is it Conan?"
Conan just said something but couldn't get a response from Haiyuan Ai. Realizing that the situation had changed, he had calmed down and paid attention to the movement in the detective's armband. Hearing Chi Feichi's voice, he breathed a long sigh of relief, "Brother Chi , it’s me, you found Huiyuan.”
When Hui Yuan Ai climbed to the mouth of the cement pipe, Chi Feichi reached out and grabbed Hui Yuan Ai's hand. When he stood up, he also took the detective armband from Hai Yuan Ai's hand and hugged Hai Yuan Ai with one hand. Ai walked to the unfinished building nearby and whispered to the detective armband, "I'll take Xiao Ai to another place. There are children's fingerprints on the top of the pile of cement pipes. You can see them when you stand upstairs. Those people can't take care of them." It won’t take long to find him.”
Hui Yuan Ai remembered that she had indeed crawled through the cement pipe before and lay down on the top of the cement pipe for a while. Her face, which had just regained its color, became a little pale again.
She was worried about being seen before, so she was only busy climbing down and didn't notice that she left fingerprints. If those guys who were searching upstairs noticed it, she might be surrounded and arrested soon.
Fortunately, those people would not be as sharp as Brother Fei Chi, who could immediately find a child's handprint on the cement pipe while standing upstairs. They still have time to move to other places...
Conan also shed a cold sweat for Haiyuan Ai, "Then can you find a safer place to hide?"
"Those people have already searched the unfinished building I stayed in before, and they shouldn't be able to search it in a short time." Chi Feichi held Hui Yuan Ai in his arms, climbed directly into the building from the window on the first floor, and listened intently outside. After seeing the movement, he carried Haiyuan Ai and walked towards the stairs, "I just sneaked into the building next door and took a look. Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko were all tied up and thrown on the second floor. There was a young woman with two people. Guard, there were still two people at the stairs on the second floor, and all five of them were armed with pistols. I used the mirror on the stairs on the third floor to check the situation, and the children were still alive..."
Conan, Haihara Ai: "..."
Just 'alive'?
Chi Feichi knew that what he said would be misunderstood. As he carried Hui Yuan Ai upstairs, he took the initiative to explain, "The distance is a bit far. Even if they are injured, I can't see them. But their condition He should be fine, he was just huddled together in fear, but he seems to be in good spirits."
The boulder weighing on Conan and Haihara Ai's hearts was slightly moved away.
He seems to be in good spirits, so even if he is injured, it won't be too serious and he can still wait for rescue.
Chi Feichi carried Hui Yuan Ai to the third floor, bent down and put Hui Yuan Ai down, "Besides, I know that woman..."
Haibara Ai:"!"
That woman is indeed from the organization!
"W-What?" Conan was so surprised that he stumbled over his words, and the figure of Belmod had already appeared in his mind.
"Although she probably doesn't know me, I happened to have read reports about her before. She is the leader of a violent society in Japan, and her name is Igawa Lina." Chi Feichi straightened up after Haibara Ai stood firm, and then She put a hand into her pocket and searched for it, then took out a hypnotic smoke bomb and handed it to Haibara Ai, "Igawa Lina brought people to Mihua Town today, probably to make a deal with a certain illegal drug smuggler and kidnap the children. It was an accident. Maybe the children accidentally saw or got something important..."
Conan's mind was spinning rapidly, and he quickly accepted the fact that the enemy had changed from an 'organization member' to a 'yakuza leader'. At the same time, a guess came into his mind, "Could the person who had a deal with her be the one not long ago?" Sergey Tekh who entered Japan secretly, right?”
Chi Feichi thought of the two policemen who were monitoring Sergei Tekh, and was not surprised that Conan knew about Sergei Tekh's entry into the country. "Yes, you are very well-informed."
"Officer Megure went to the Mori Detective Agency this morning. The purpose was to ask Uncle Kogoro to help him decipher the code. He said that it was information about Sergei Teh and a violent group trading illegal drugs." Conan was speechless. Said, "But compared to me, July is the most well-informed, right? My uncle and I just saw the code, and before we could decipher it, Officer Megu received a call saying that July had already captured Sergei Tekh. He was caught together with ten of his men, packed in a delivery box and loaded into a car.”
"Bounty hunters are more concerned about the whereabouts of criminals. That's normal," Chi Feichi said casually, putting the detective armband into Haiyuan Ai's hand. "Anyway, Xiao Ai is waiting for me here. I'll go and follow up." If someone comes here, find a place to hide. If you can't hide, throw out the hypnotic smoke bomb I gave you to delay time."
