[Next stop: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. Passengers getting off please take your belongings with you. Next stop...]
At 6 o'clock in the evening, the train stopped in front of the platform, the door opened, and a pair of leather boots stepped on the hard soil of Gunma Prefecture. After stretching, Makoto Sakaki took out his mobile phone and called his girlfriend.
beep...
beep...
[Hello, the number you dialed is out of service area, Saorui....]
With a frown on his face, Sakaki Makoto put down his busy phone. This was the 13th call he made, but no one answered it every time. Or...
Miss Miyano and the others are in a place where there is no radio signal.
Snowstorm Villa mode again?
Sakaki Makoto shook his head, feeling a little worried, but not to the point of panic.
The lineup going to Gunma Prefecture this time is quite luxurious. In addition to Conan and his companions, there are also Mary Akai and Masumi Sera, plus Yasuki Domon and his bodyguards. The outsiders are no match for them at all and there is nothing to be afraid of.
"Hey, what are you still standing there for?"
Not far ahead, a teenager with a backpack on his shoulder turned around and said to Sakaki Makoto:
"Hurry up! I'm starving!"
"Hongshu, we're not here to play this time."
"Oh, I know, I know. You've been nagging all the way!"
Because he couldn't contact Miss Miyano, Makoto Sakaki had to go to Dr. Agasa's house first and take Sawada Hiroki away.
One reason is that Sawada Hiroki has been bored to death at home and has repeatedly asked me to take him out to play. The other reason is that if I want to investigate clues, it will be more convenient to have Hiroki around. It is like carrying an artificial intelligence that can hack into the surveillance system with you at all times. It is so convenient.
When Hongshu is alone, Sakaki Makoto can take care of him completely, so there is no need to worry about any accidents.
The evening sun sprinkled on the platform of the station, gilding the passengers with a layer of golden light. In the cafe next to the station, Hongshu connected his computer to the Internet cable and took a bite of the steak. Suddenly, his eyebrows raised, and his little hands stopped typing on the keyboard and complained:
"It's a rare opportunity for me to travel, and you treat me to this? Synthetic steak?"
"A cafe isn't a place for eating. We're here mainly to use the internet and satisfy our hunger."
Sakaki Makoto slurped up a mouthful of creamy mushroom pasta and said calmly:
"If you don't like it, then don't eat it. When I find some clues, I'll take you to eat authentic 5A Wagyu beef."
"You're talking bullshit!"
Sawada Hiroki rolled his eyes:
"Don't I know you? If I found any clues, you would rush out without saying a word. How can you still have the leisure to take me to eat Wagyu?"
"...I didn't say the time. Stop talking nonsense and eat quickly. Don't waste food. What does Thomas Sindorah feed you every day to make you so picky?"
"How can you be in the mood to work if you don't eat well?"
If he had to complain, Hiroki Sawada didn't ask for much. When he was in the United States, Thomas Sindora gave him whatever he wanted. But he had no freedom. What was the point of eating well?
Pig farming is just like this...
Although the food is a little worse now, I am in a good mood!
Just synthesize steak, it’s the same when you eat it.
While eating steak, Hiroki Sawada stared at the computer screen and typed on the keyboard with one hand. He quickly hacked into the surveillance system of the Traffic Department of the Gunma Prefectural Police Department and retrieved the city's surveillance video from yesterday afternoon.
According to the information provided by Makoto Sakaki, Miss Miyano and others took the North Kanto Expressway, so the search area is not large, and we only need to focus on the time between 2pm and 5pm yesterday.
Countless surveillance videos were played at the same time, and the appropriate clips were selected without any lag on Sawada Hiroki's computer. This was not because of the high configuration of the computer, but because Noah's Ark had mobilized the system computing power of the Ministry of Transport, which was equivalent to adding an extra huge server.
A few dozen seconds later...
“Found it!”
A video appeared on the screen. Sawada Hiroki swallowed the steak whole, pounded his chest, pushed the computer in front of Sakaki Makoto, and clicked to play.
The screen showed the Kita-Kanto Expressway. Not long after the video started playing, a convoy of Mercedes-Benz cars appeared at the end of the road. At the critical moment, Hongshu pressed the pause button and enlarged the frozen image.
The resolution continued to increase, and the originally blurry picture gradually became clear. Sakaki Makoto saw Yasukiri Domon and Conan sitting in the middle car.
The situation in the back row is not very clear, but it is not difficult to guess that Miss Miyano must be in these cars.
After locking the license plate number and car model, the next task became much simpler. Hongshu asked Noah's Ark to calculate the direction of the convoy, and finally formed a complete video by cutting the clips.
In this way, it was clear what the convoy that Miss Miyano was riding in did in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture.
According to the time on the video, Miss Miyano and her group officially entered the city at 5:12 pm, and went to a restaurant specializing in peony pot to have dinner at 5:45 pm...
Seeing this, Hong Shu swallowed his saliva, glanced at the synthetic steak on the plate that was about to go cold, and his eyes became resentful:
"Look at Domon Yasuki, how generous he is, he provides the best food and accommodation, and then look at you..."
"Well... it's just a hot pot, what's there to be envious of? I'll buy you a whole wagyu hind leg and let you chew it, okay?"
"Can that thing be eaten raw?!"
"Why not? If we put it in the sun, it will be 0.1% ripe, right?"
“.......”
At 6:55 in the evening, after dinner, Miss Miyano and her friends were satisfied and set off again.
At 7:12 in the evening, the convoy suddenly stopped in front of a park, and Kidd rushed into the toilet with a crab walk.
At 7:22 in the evening, the convoy stopped in front of an izakaya. Conan covered his crotch with his hands and ran into the store in a hurry.
"......"
"......"
Why don't they go to the bathroom together?
Why didn’t you eat in advance at the restaurant where you just had dinner?
Sakaki Makoto and Hongshu never asked these two questions, because every time they went out, there would always be similar strange people around them.
The convoy never stopped after that. It seemed that except Conan and Kidd, everyone else was more reliable.
At 8:03 p.m., the convoy crossed the city and drove into a country road, and the video ended.
The Ministry of Transport’s cameras obviously failed to cover the mountains, the intelligence was limited, and Noah’s Ark did its best.
"The road they disappeared on seems to be leading to Fujimi Village..."
Comparing the map, Sawada Hiroki made an inference and asked Noah's Ark to retrieve the information about Fujimi Village:
"Fujimi Village has a population of 5,000, which is considered a fairly large village. It specializes in tourism business... This shouldn't be the case. Fujimi Village is not in the mountains or forests, and it's not too far from the city. The infrastructure is very complete, so it should be able to receive radio signals!"
"Just go and take a look and you'll know."
Guessing alone is useless. Sakaki Makoto prefers on-site investigation. No matter what monsters are hiding in Fujimi Village, he will go and see them!
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