Chapter 38 Chapter 38
Suspect
Mu'an Jiaxi carried the little kid along the passage and finally found them when the road was almost at the end.
A group of people gathered in the corner and a tense atmosphere spread in the air. Everyone held their breath, not daring to breathe, staring at Amuro Toru's movements without blinking.
Mu'an Jiaxi walked over and stood behind them. Xiaolan felt a shadow looming over her head. She turned around and saw her and said, "Sister Jiaxi, you're here. Ah, what is this?"
Seeing Xiaolan's panic, Muan Jiaxi was obviously much calmer. She placed the bomb next to Amuro Toru and said, "It's a bomb."
Then he continued, "I found this at the corner when I came here. The designer, Takeda Tai, was trying to defuse the bomb with scissors. If I hadn't spotted him and stopped him in time, the consequences would have been disastrous. But now that I've tied him up, he's behaved much better."
Conan picked up the bomb and examined it. "It's the same model. Five minutes left."
At this moment, Amuro Toru cut a thread, and the time on the screen stopped ticking and froze at 5:02. Hearing Conan's words, he stretched out his hand and said to him, "Give it to me."
Conan handed the object in his hand to him. After taking it, Amuro Toru started a new round of bomb disposal work. Within a minute, the bomb was safely dismantled.
Muan Jiaxi took the garbage bag nearby and counted it. Including the ones they had found, there were nine in total, one missing. He looked at Amuro Toru and said, "One missing."
Amuro Toru took one out from behind his back and said, "No, there's still one here."
She took it and looked at it. "That's all."
Xiaolan heard her words and asked, "Does this mean that all the bombs have been found?"
Mu'an Jiaxi said, "According to the information we have found so far, there were ten. Now that all ten have been found, there shouldn't be any more."
Sonoko said happily, "Then it's safe."
Hearing this, she chuckled and said, "Have you forgotten where we are now? We are safe. You are so naive, little sister."
Yuanzi's face immediately turned red, embarrassed and awkward, "Haha, I forgot for a moment."
Muan Jiaxi smiled and walked over to her, ruffling her hair to ease her embarrassment. He then looked at Amuro Toru and asked, "Shall we go find that designer now?"
He walked over, took the little kid from her arms, and said, "Well, let's go see what's going on."
Afterwards, everyone followed Mu'an Jiaxi to find the designer. On the way, she thought of the group of elementary school students. Normally, given their personalities, they would have followed long ago. Why were they so quiet now, with no one around? Curious, "Oh, where are those kids?"
Xiaolan said, "They are on the other side with my father, not with us."
She had an expression that said, "No wonder."
Sera Masumi, who was walking ahead, also joined in the conversation, turning back and complaining, "If they were here, we wouldn't have any peace right now. Even if we didn't take them with us, they would still sneak up on us, and that would be even more troublesome."
Mu'an Jiaxi shrugged and thought: Indeed it does.
Soon the group arrived at the place, and the designer named Takeda Tai was still there, not only in his position but also in his posture.
Mu'an Jiaxi stepped forward and patted his cheek, "Hey, wake up."
There was no movement.
She turned around and said, "Look at him. Judging from what happened just now, I feel like he's hypnotized. No matter what I ask, he always says, 'Save me.'"
When Toru Amuro walked to her side, she consciously picked up the little kid and moved aside so as not to block him.
He squatted down, lifted Takeda Tai's head, flipped his eyelids with one hand, then stood up and said, "I can't tell if he's hypnotized. Let's find a way to wake him up first."
She raised her eyebrows and woke him up, which was not easy to deal with.
Just then, when no one else could come up with a solution, Mu'an Jiaxi suddenly volunteered, "I'll do it. I have a solution."
Everyone instantly turned their attention to her, and Conan asked, "What's the solution?"
Others were also curious and wanted to know the answer.
Mu'an Jiaxi smiled mysteriously, then cleared his throat and walked up to Takeda Tai. He put one hand on his waist, leaned back, and then pulled it back, shouting, "Takeda Tai, your design has been stolen."
Suddenly, Takeda Tai, who had been lying motionless on the ground, raised his head, staring at her with wide eyes, and said, "My design, I..."
Halfway through his words, he finally saw his surroundings clearly and subconsciously tried to stand up, but was stopped by something and fell back down. Looking down in front of him, he found that he was stuck in the middle of the pipe by a stick.
After seeing the situation, he became furious and yelled at the people standing in front of him, "Who are you? Do you know that kidnapping is illegal? Let me go!"
Xiaolan and Sonoko thought it was magical that the person woke up just because of Muan Jiaxi's words, and even looked at her with a hint of admiration in their eyes.
Mu An Jiaxi's vanity was well satisfied by the fangirl glances they cast at her. She raised a strand of hair with her hand in a pretentious manner, blinked her eyes greasyly, and then blew a kiss to them, saying, "Don't be obsessed with me. I'm just acting normally. It's nothing. Just a little sprinkle of water."
Compared to Xiaolan and the others, the three detectives are different.
Faced with the way she woke people up, their hearts did not fluctuate at all. Faced with her set of actions, they were immediately broken down. In their hearts, they all said in unison: Where did this monster come from?
For a moment, no one paid any attention to Takeda Tai, until he started shouting madly, and then everyone came to their senses.
Amuro Toru asked first: "Do you still remember what you were doing just now?"
Takeda looked at him in confusion, "I just woke up and saw you, what else can I do?"
Mu'an Jiaxi stepped forward and pointed at his face. "Me, do you remember me? We met five or six minutes ago."
Pointing to the ground, he added, "It's right here. You were holding onto my thighs and crying for help. Do you remember?"
Takeda looked at her as if she were a fool. "Are you kidding me? I'm holding your thigh and shouting for help. Haha, are you kidding me?"
Conan and Sera Masumi also came over.
Sera Masumi asked, "Do you remember what you were doing and who you were with before you passed out?"
Takeda Tai realized that something was wrong and recalled carefully, "The purchasing manager, I remember being with him at the end, talking about the collapse, but I don't remember anything after that.
Several detectives frowned, and Amuro Toru said, "Do you still remember your experience of defusing a bomb?"
As soon as the words came out, Takeda Tai refuted, "How can I dismantle a bomb? I haven't even touched it, how can I dismantle it?"
Mu'an Jiaxi said, "I saw it with my own eyes. You were squatting over there, defusing the bomb with scissors in your hand. If I hadn't just happened to show up and stopped you, you wouldn't be here talking to us now."
Takeda Tai still couldn't believe it. He wanted to say something but didn't know what to say. "I..."
Seeing that he had calmed down, the men let him go and pulled the sticks out from the side. Takeda Taiya was finally free.
Afterwards, they decided that since the bomb had been found, they should return the same way and avoid the disaster site. After all, the situation outside was really bad and was changing every second.
Although they didn't know when the rescuers would arrive, it would be really bad if they missed the chance when the rescuers came. Moreover, this passage seemed solid, but what if something unexpected happened? So they should go back and deal with other things after they got out.
They left the secret passage. Fortunately, the passage outside did not collapse as they had come in. Mu An Jia Xi also breathed a sigh of relief and said in his heart: Fortunately, fortunately.
On the way, Conan asked Amuro Toru for the lists of materials, and he and Sera Masumi held them in their hands and looked at them over and over again.
After arriving at the shelter, they unexpectedly saw the purchasing manager Akira Takano, and next to him Kenichi Kumamoto.
They were sitting against the wall and when they noticed someone coming in, they all looked over.
Seeing that the others had no expression, but after they came in, Takeda Tai, who was blocked behind them, was revealed. Suddenly, Takano Lang stood up excitedly and walked in front of him, half surprised and half reproaching, "Where have you been? It really made me look for you so hard."
Seeing that he didn't show much emotion, Takeda Tai asked, "You really don't know where I've been."
"What do you mean? How would I know where you went? The moment I turned around, you disappeared. I was so worried that something had happened to you that I searched for you all the way here for ages, and now you're questioning me."
"You don't know where I am, right? I was defusing a bomb in a secret passage and I almost died."
As soon as these words were spoken, panic instantly broke out at the scene, and chaos immediately broke out. Amuro Toru quickly stood up and took control of the situation. "Don't panic, everyone. The bomb has been defused. It's okay, it's okay."
The crowd finally calmed down. Amidst this drama, while everyone panicked at the bombing, one person smiled, only to turn to anger upon hearing the bombs had been defused. Though subtle, it was noticed by the detectives observing everyone and Mu An Jiaxi, who had been keeping an eye on the individual.
This farce was not a play, nor was it pre-planned. While they were arguing, several detectives realized that this was a good opportunity to observe everyone's reactions, so they did not stop Takeda Tai from talking about the bomb.
Just as the two people at the door were arguing, Kenichi Kumamoto stood up, walked over to them, pulled them apart and tried to persuade them.
Eventually, the two of them calmed down, but they were still at odds, and neither of them paid any attention to the other. They sat in separate corners, far apart.
The room also became quiet. Apart from the occasional sound of talking, there was nothing else. Everyone was conserving their energy and waiting for rescue.
They didn't want to stay here either. If they had the chance, they would try their best to climb out. But after the third collapse outside, the exit was completely blocked.
Yes, the third collapse. Just as Mu An and Jia Xi were searching for the bomb in the passage, another collapse occurred outside. This collapse completely isolated the shelter and the passage behind it from the shopping mall outside, truly isolating it from the outside world.
The detectives exchanged silent glances. Although none of them spoke, they both understood what the other meant.
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