Conan Moslin

April 4st morning.

The sunlight penetrated through the huge long table, making the people in front of him seem to be shrouded in shadow.

The man took a photo from the person next to him and pushed it across the table.

The photo shows a young man's face with firm eyes and a handsome expression.

"Have you seen this man?"

Across the long table sat a young woman who stared at the photo for a long while and nodded affirmatively: "I've seen him."

The uncle-looking man sitting next to the young woman asked for her consent before pulling the photo over. He stroked his chin and began to examine it carefully. However, he didn't look at it for long before a shadow covered his eyes.

The uncle clenched his fists to preserve his image, but he couldn't hold back in the end.

boom!

So the shadow cast on the table reluctantly retracted, and two round balls bulged on the seat next to the uncle.

The man looked at the farce in front of him with a speechless expression. It was not until he finally remembered the business and motioned for everyone to look over.

The people around him received his instructions and pushed a huge whiteboard over to block out the glaring light from the window, revealing the face of a slightly plump man wearing an orange-brown hat.

Inspector Megure raised his marker and cleared his throat solemnly.

"Mr. Maori, Ms. Li An. I asked you to come here for no other reason." He raised his hand and wrote a list of names and some other information on the whiteboard, and continued, "A police officer suddenly disappeared while on vacation with his girlfriend."

"It's the man in the photo." Officer Megure pointed at the photo in the middle of the table and confirmed with Li An again: "Are you sure that the man who was shooting three days ago was him?"

"I'm sure I'm not seeing things." Li An didn't continue looking at the photo, but just nodded seriously.

"I remember him too! This uncle!" Conan, who was sitting one seat away, agreed frantically, but was then severely suppressed by Kogoro Mouri, who looked impatient.

Officer Megure said he understood, and then continued, "To be cautious, we took the fingerprints on the calculator and compared them with the fingerprints left in the database, and confirmed that this person was him."

"Yamabe Koichi, a former Olympic rifle shooter."

"As Ms. Kuriyasu speculated before, Yamabe Koichi's girlfriend disappeared with him and is very likely to be the target of threats."

Inspector Megure took another photo from Inspector Takagi and pasted it on the whiteboard.

"Takao Eri, female, 26 years old, from Hokkaido. She is Yamabe Koichi's girlfriend."

"I'm afraid those criminals kidnapped Yamabe and his girlfriend, Ms. Eri, and used Ms. Eri as a hostage, threatening and forcing Yamabe to use a rifle to snipe someone."

Looks like it's time to talk about codes?

Li An remembered the note with the code solution that Conan handed her at the door, and waited silently for Inspector Megure's next words.

"What Conan and the others saw was just practice for sniping." Inspector Megure was a little distressed, "But the point is, if we don't know when and where they will act, we don't know where to start."

Kogoro Mori had a proud look on his face, full of satisfaction.

"If you mean the location of the sniper attack."

Conan replied: "We know."

Inspector Megure's eyes widened.

……

After confirming that the location on a high-rise building and the code 162 matched the previous river channel completely, Inspector Megure patted Kogoro Mouri's shoulder in praise and praised Conan for discovering this.

Li An stood on the roof, looking at the busy street.

The river-like streets are lined with small buildings. Nearby, a large flat and square piece of undeveloped land is clearly divided. In the distance, the blue lake is calm and waveless.

The terrain is indeed similar, but this is not the group's destination.

Before, when Conan and the Junior Detective League spent a lot of time dragging Kogoro Mouri, Ran Mouri and others around looking for their destination, Kuriasu had already stood in front of the girlfriend of the kidnapped person, Koichi Yamabe...

Of course, it is unlikely that he would use the identity of Kuroba Kuriyasu.

So, near another abandoned warehouse, the kidnapped Ms. Takao was surprised and horrified to see a young and dangerous woman with a smile on her face, knocking down the kidnapper who had been guarding her.

The kidnapper twitched twice, then quickly closed his eyes and stopped moving, with only his chest still rising and falling slightly.

Castagna stepped lightly over the fallen figure, drew his dagger, and cut the ropes that bound her.

Eri tore the cloth from her mouth, loosened her stiff mouth, and asked curiously, "You are..."

But before she could finish, Castagna interrupted her: "Are you Natalie's friend?"

"Ah... yes." Eri took a while to react before nodding.

Hearing this, Castagna smiled brightly.

"What a coincidence, so am I."

……

"You mean, we were discovered while we were testing?" The man wearing sunglasses slammed the table hard. The ashtray full of cigarette butts on the table shook three times, and grayish-white powder floated onto the small square table.

The two men standing in front of him shrank their necks.

In the corner, Yamabe Koichi, who was resting with his eyes closed, had his eyelids trembled slightly.

"She also said...if we didn't follow through with the plan, she would take the contents of the box."

There was a large amount of banknotes in the box. The man randomly pulled out a stack of banknotes and showed it to him. The banknotes were very scattered and could be used directly outside.

Hearing this, the man in sunglasses sneered disdainfully: "Now that it's in our hands, can she still steal it back?"

Thinking of the brown suitcase he got in exchange for the deal, greed filled his mind.

"But...but, she said that the box cannot be opened without the correct combination."

The man in sunglasses was so angry that he laughed.

"You idiots, it's just an ordinary suitcase, can't you just open it?"

“Yes… yes.”

"So, shall we continue with this plan?"

Although that person also exchanged many other things, the only constant requirement was that they must complete the plan no matter what happened.

This plan was what they originally wanted to do, and there was no need for her to emphasize it.

The man in sunglasses glanced at the man in the corner, but in his mind he recalled the glorious days of Ghost Tiger and the hateful figure of the man who destroyed it all.

After hesitating for a moment, he still nodded affirmatively.

"of course."