The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Did you see anyone else coming in or out of this office?"

Sato Miwako, who rushed upstairs immediately, grabbed the lady sitting in front of the door and asked eagerly.

The information provided by Tamada Kazuo is sufficient. In any case, Director Moriwaki must be inseparable from the illegal transaction.

But as they had speculated before, if he did not act independently, but had some chain of interests behind him, then this method of lynching in front of the police was probably caused by Moriwaki Bunta's former accomplices or other colleagues. After doing this, the nature of this scene became completely different again.

"Are you talking about the director's office? No, what happened?" The two ladies sitting at the door who were talking softly raised their heads, pushed up the glasses on their faces, and stood up, "Because we were in the office before. We were discussing some cooperation activities with the curator, and there was some commotion downstairs. We saw that the curator had left, so we went upstairs to reconfirm the details of the activities with him, but we have waited until now..."

Matsuda Jinpei, who was walking loosely behind Sato Miwako, glanced at Shimabukuro Kimie, who was dressed in a gentle and demure manner, very much in line with the temperament of a housewife. He turned away and said nothing.

When he saw these two teammates, he didn't need to guess. He already had a rough outline of what happened upstairs just now.

Of course, the two of them would not attack the curator directly, but if the leader himself came and did not throw the curator directly from the stairs after noticing something, it would be considered that Tangze's condition was stable.

"Has no one been coming in or out of here?" Sato Miwako looked at the other police officers on both sides and frowned when she received shakes of their heads that meant they had found nothing.

After discovering that the curator was hanging from the window, the police immediately blocked all entrances and exits upstairs and downstairs.

The door of the office is now locked, because they are worried that some malicious design has been made in the room, which may cause the curator to fall to death after opening the door. After the police have confirmed the life safety of the curator, they are arranging emergency manpower below. Arrange nets and mats that can catch people.

In other words, from the time the police entered the library to now, this office has been completely in a secret room state...

While frowning and thinking, Sato Miwako did not take it lightly. She adjusted her standing position and saw that neither woman had any intention of avoiding the police. Instead, she kept trying to ask what happened, and she felt relieved a little.

"Sato..." Takagi Wataru, who had returned from checking the surveillance cameras, met her gaze and nodded.

This means that these two ladies did not lie. During the surveillance, the two of them did come after the curator entered the door and sat at the door waiting. There was no suspicious movement.

"Okay. Please leave this floor first." After confirming that they were not involved in the case, Miwako Sato motioned for someone to take them away.

If it is really an uninvolved citizen, although the possibility of violent conflict is unlikely, the area must be cleared and evacuation completed before breaking in.

"You guys go get busy, I'll be here." Matsuda Jinpei, who was a few steps away from them, raised his hand proactively, "Anyway, I don't have a gun for a long time, so I won't cause any trouble for you."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Miwako Sato did not object.

Toru Adachi is just a consultant to the police station, and is not considered a formal employee. His formal work has nothing to do with emotions or reasons.

Watching Toru Adachi leading the two ladies up the stairs and leaving the corner, Sato Miwako drew her pistol and pressed it against the side of the door, ready to charge.

Half a minute later, the assault team burst open the office door.

A group of people immediately broke into the office according to the tactical formation and entered the office with guns raised.

Naturally, the room was empty.

A strong nylon rope passed through the heavy object on the ground and was thrown from the window. It should be the one hanging the curator.

After Moriwaki Bunta, who was covered in scars, was pulled up by the police, Sato Miwako cautiously approached the pile of heavy objects covered with cloth and carefully pushed aside the things on top.

Three large cardboard boxes were stacked there. Only one was opened, and Sato Miwako glanced at something familiar.

It was the same thing as what Tamada Kazuo saw in the children's reading area, a pile of plastic-sealed fake books without book backs.

This is a prop used by Moriwaki Bunta to hide drugs. He sandwiched these things with the contents of the original books on the covers in the middle of the movable bookshelf, so that no matter which side he pulled out the book, he would only think that the pages were facing him. It's the book on the opposite side, and children are rarely interested in the seemingly obscure Western content behind the reading area. Except for Tamada Kazuo, the employee responsible for sorting and warehousing, no one else has really noticed it.

After briefly confirming the contents, other members of the Search Section 1 began to take photos and resealed the three cartons to collect them as evidence and illegal contents to prevent the blood from the collected Moriwaki Bunta from staining the scene.

I don’t know what the people who tortured him prepared. The wounds on his body seemed to have been smeared with anticoagulants similar to heparin. They had been dried for a while. The blood on the ground had dried, but his scars were. The blood was still gurgling, and coupled with his already poor image, he looked as hideous as a ghost.

After pulling at Moriwaki Bunta's face and confirming that he had lost consciousness, Sato Miwako nodded: "... Find a stretcher. There should be a medical room or first aid supplies in the library. Send the person to the hospital first."

Seeing that he has lost consciousness, nothing can be found during the interrogation.

"Are there other secret passages in the room?" Rensaburo Shiratori looked around the office and guessed.

Before they came, the curator was fine. Because of Toru Adachi's intervention, the curator avoided the crowd and returned to the office. Surveillance video proved that until the police came to the door of the office, no one else came in or out except the curator himself. Pass.

If there weren't other secret passages in the room, I really don't know how to explain the formation of this secret room.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Miwako Sato replied rigorously, "This is a drug dealer's office."

The Mihua Library was built a long time ago and has undergone several renovations, with many changes in its internal structure.

After being selected as a transit place for certain transactions, whether there will be hidden building structures inside will still have to wait for subsequent police investigations using professional instruments.

The simple investigation yielded no results. The following investigation and anti-narcotics personnel stayed in the office and continued working. The few people who had temporarily finished their break-in work brought the unconscious Moriwaki Bunta's stretcher and prepared to accompany him. An ambulance took the suspect to the hospital.

"There is no need to say more about Moriwaki Bunta's problem. If Conan-kun hadn't discovered it in time today, Mr. Tamada might have been killed by him soon. But this time Adachi said that he came to the library to check out old newspapers. It was purely a coincidence that we received the call and came here. They couldn't possibly have time to pass on the information. "Who did it?" Shiratori Rensaburo pinched his chin and thought hard.

Although the victim was also a heinous criminal and did not deserve sympathy, the lynching was completed unnoticed with dozens of police officers in the building. The provocation was so strong that the police could not help but angry.

"Even if there is a secret area in the office, I don't think it will be connected to other places." Miwako Sato agreed, "Otherwise, Bunta Moriwaki would not sit there and wait for death, and he would definitely use this method to escape... huh?"

While talking, several of them walked into the elevator.

Except for Sato Miwako, Takagi Wataru and Shiratori Rensaburo who were carrying the stretcher, the young detective team in the elevator were eagerly waiting for the results but were not allowed to follow them immediately.

Almost as soon as Miwako Sato stepped in, the elevator sounded an overload beep.

"Ah, the number of people has been exceeded." Sato Miwako was stunned, and when she saw the words "7 people allowed" on the wall of the elevator, she took a step back.

The four children of the Young Detective Team, plus Takagi, Shiratori, and Moriwaki Bunta who was unconscious on the stretcher, there were indeed seven people.

This time, the elevator did not sound the alarm and successfully closed the door.

The faint light came out from the gap in the elevator door, slowly sank, and disappeared in the direction of the ground.

Sato Miwako, who felt something was wrong, couldn't help but frowned.

At the same time, Conan, who was standing in the elevator, also counted the number of people and frowned as well.

No, when calculating the number of passengers in a normal elevator, adults of normal size must be considered.

Even Genta, the fattest member of the boy detective team, is far from the height and weight of an adult.

Moriwaki Bunta was carried on a simple stretcher that was not very heavy, and it was not likely to put much burden on the elevator.

Well, just because Miwako Sato, a slender figure, was added to the equation, the elevator started reporting overweight...

Conan's eyes widened when he had an idea.

At this moment, the elevator arrived in the lobby on the first floor, and the doors slowly slid open to both sides.

"Wait a minute, don't go out!"

Conan was about to raise his hand to stop the two policemen who were raising their legs to leave. Outside the door, the panting Miwako Sato shouted out first.

She stepped forward and took a photo of the elevator's emergency stop button without hesitation.

What if, she meant what if, what if the secret passage in Moriwaki Bunta's office does not lead to an exposed passage, but to a place that exists in this building but will not be seen by outsiders?

Like, an elevator shaft?

"Now, go to the second floor immediately! There is someone on top of the elevator!"

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The unconscious Moriwaki Bunta was taken over by police officers on the first floor. Several police officers, together with the young detective team who followed him secretly, stood silently in front of the closed elevator door on the second floor.

"Open it?"

"Open it. What are you hesitating about? Are you afraid of opening the door and revealing a body? Come on."

"oh oh……"

Several people worked together, and soon, the closed elevator door was violently pried open, and the top of the elevator car was slowly exposed to everyone's view.

What did exist there was not the murderer who disappeared from the office as Sato Miwako expected, but several heavy black bags.

"Are these...?"

Takagi Wataru wanted to go up to confirm, but was stopped by Sato Miwako alertly.

While she held the other person, she didn't forget to glare at him.

Takagi has obviously encountered an incident where a bomb was hidden on the roof of an elevator and he was forced to be trapped in the elevator. Why was he still so careless when he saw an unknown object?

After observing the situation for a while, Miwako Sato carefully pulled away the black cloth covering her head with her toes.

Bags of plastic-sealed crystals were exposed to everyone's sight, causing several people's breathing to stop instinctively.

It was this powdery item that Tamada Kazuo found in the fake book. It is self-evident what these are.

The drugs that were transported into the library through books were hidden by the librarian in this place where people come and go every day, but no one would notice, waiting quietly to move to the next link.

This is not a simple elevator shaft, but the source of some black blood, desperate to be pumped throughout the body.

"What is that?" The sharp-eyed Miwako Sato spotted a non-reflective object in the plastic bag at a glance, put on gloves and pulled it out from the gap.

It was a broken piece of cloth, as if it had been cut from some kind of fabric. It seems that Moriwaki Fumita's missing clothes have been found somewhere.

On the top of the cloth, there are some brown fonts that look like dried blood, indicating that the guy who did this is the same person who hung Moriwaki Bunta there.

"'Gift'." Before Conan, who was eager to see the scene clearly, jumped up, Shiratori Rensaburo read out the words above, "Those two words should come from the same weapon."

What he didn't say was that judging from the condition of the piece of cloth, it was likely that the piece of cloth was still wearing Moriwaki Bunta's body when the word was carved.

This can explain the origin of many irregular-looking wounds on Moriwaki Bunta's body, except for the most obvious carving mark.

In other words, the executioner first took off Moriwaki Bunta's coat, and then slowly and slowly wrote something in blood on him through a layer of shirt. Then he removed the obstruction of this layer of cloth and directly wrote something on the victim. On the already scarred skin...

"Cruel guy." Takagi Wataru, who also imagined that scene, sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Karasawa, who had been thinking about classic reproductions all day long and was highly praised by the police, glanced in the direction of the library, turned back, and continued to play with the butterfly knife in his hand.

This is Kumail’s most convenient cold weapon. Karasawa, who has faithfully fulfilled his acting mission, will naturally not forget the character at this time.

If the Metropolitan Police Department has a strong enough forensic doctor who can identify the shape of the sharp weapon that caused the wounds on Moriwaki Bunta, they might be able to gain something from some past cases.

He was thinking wildly in his mind until the sound of the car door opening interrupted his wandering.

"You're here just like that? What if someone from the first class searches for you later?" Karasawa raised his eyebrows as he watched Matsuda Jinpei lead the other two teammates into the car.

"I'm not a member of the First Search Division now. I'm just an innocent reporter." Matsuda Jinpei said confidently, "Is it okay to make such a big noise? In this case, the people behind Moriwaki Bunta will be alerted."

"If you remember to ask me before contacting them, I will think that you are really worried." Tang Ze rolled his eyelids angrily, but still explained his question, "I have almost investigated it clearly, and the information is all Sent back to Mr. Amuro."

So if his teammates and Conan, whose radar is too sensitive, had not detonated today, maybe Tamada Kazuo would not have been killed, and the matter would have been resolved...

Thinking this, Tang Ze looked far away in the direction of the library door.

There, a woman who had been waiting anxiously for a long time was excitedly walking through the police blockade and hugging Tamada Kazuo as he walked out.

Although it was difficult to see clearly the expressions and movements of the two of them from such a distance, judging from the way they hugged each other tightly, they were both very frightened and excited.

This is Mrs. Tamada. Kazuo Tamada calls his wife every day before getting off work to tell her when he will return home...

It was also because of this that the wife discovered her husband’s disappearance immediately and chose to call the police...

"...Forget it, this is not bad." Looking back, Tang Ze whispered.