Chapter 1071 1079 [Really just a peripheral member? ]
"Then, you guys wait here with me for the next elevator, and the rest of you follow Mr. Kazama through the safety passage down to the 60th floor, and then go to Building B from the communication bridge!"
A group of people obeyed the command and quickly ran away.
Inspector Megure just breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked up, he saw Kisaragi Minemizu, the white-haired master of Chinese painting, had actually followed Kazama Hidehiko and wanted to join the climbing group.
"Um..." Inspector Megure wanted to remind him to take the elevator as there were just the right number of people.
However, just as he opened his mouth, Ruyue Fengshui seemed to have read his mind and said angrily: "I am not a weak old man!"
"..." Inspector Megure looked at the white-haired old man with a cane tightly grasped in one hand and said awkwardly, "...Okay, then you take the stairs."
At the same time, he signaled to Gao Mushi to keep an eye on the road. The situation was urgent, and this was not the time to compete with the stubborn old man.
…
The first elevator to depart descended rapidly.
But it didn't make it all the way to the first floor, and suddenly stopped on the way.
——Someone pressed the boarding button from outside.
Conan and a few other children were startled and suddenly looked up.
As the elevator door opened, a woman holding a baby walked in. But the moment she stepped into the elevator, the elevator suddenly sounded an overload alarm.
The woman was startled and retracted her foot.
Conan looked up at the child in her arms and sighed inwardly. Although he didn't know why a person suddenly appeared here, he quickly walked out of the elevator:
"Come on in. I know the way. I'll take the connecting bridge to Building B later."
——Each floor had an escape route map posted as required. Conan was bored before, so he glanced at it and wrote it down. He didn't expect that he could use it right now.
When the other children saw Conan walk out, they subconsciously followed him, and the elevator was suddenly empty.
The woman hesitated for a moment, then walked into the elevator holding the child: "Thank you."
…
The elevator door closed and went down again.
The children smiled and watched the elevator leave. The moment the iron door closed, the light disappeared, and the corridor in the building without power was in deep darkness.
The smiles of several genuine children slowly became stiff:
“…Why is it so dark?!”
"Is this an illusion? I feel like my feet are getting hot..."
"Calm down, how could your feet be burned? This place is still far away from the 40th floor where the fire is."
While comforting several classmates, Conan fumbled for his watch.
Just as I was about to turn on the flashlight function on it, a beam of bright light suddenly shone from the side.
——A little girl dressed cutely appeared out of nowhere and shone a flashlight at them.
After a moment, she spoke in the voice of Huibara Ai:
"What on earth is going on?"
"...Xiao Ai?!" Several children were surprised, and then a little confused, "Didn't you say you were not feeling well today and wanted to rest at home?"
…
Haibara Ai secretly came to the building long before the party started, preparing to carry out the escape mission that Anonymous had asked her to "play in the building."
Having said that, Huiyuan Ai actually didn't know what the Anonymous people needed her to do. So just now, she had to wear her disguise and wander around the building carefully.
As I was walking around, I discovered something unusual about the elevator - the hidden freight elevator suddenly went down and then stopped on the 50th floor, as if someone had sneaked in there.
At that time, Huiyuan Ai stared at the electronic screen and hesitated for a moment, remembering Miss Anonymous's words "see you tomorrow" last night, and couldn't help but sneak closer cautiously to see who went to the 50th floor. Although this move was a bit dangerous, she always felt that this building was actually under the control of Anonymous, and if she was cautious, there shouldn't be any problems.
However, after visiting the fifty floors, although no accidents occurred, Haibara Ai did not find anyone who had taken the elevator.
She slowly realized that the people who took the elevator up might not be on this floor anymore. In addition, it is possible that those people randomly pressed buttons near the target floor to avoid being tracked, and then walked up the last few steps in person without coming in at all.
So next, between "going upstairs to look" and "going downstairs to look", Haibara Ai hesitated for a moment and chose to go upstairs.
She still couldn't find the person she was looking for, but she discovered that the building suddenly exploded, and there seemed to be human voices in the distance in the emergency passage.
Haibara Ai didn't dare to stay in the passage for long and hid in a nearby aisle.
After hiding for a while, she saw the elevator opening and closing, and several familiar classmates walking down from the elevator.
…
Not long after the elementary school students gathered together, Conan also found the flashlight button.
He clicked the light, and the two sides looked at each other. Ayumi looked at Huihara Ai's head in surprise: "Xiao Ai, your hair...how did it become like this?"
Huiyuan Ai curled the ends of her hair with her fingers and coaxed the child gently: "I think black looks good today."
After a pause, she looked a little more serious: "What happened just now?"
"The building was rigged with a bomb."
Conan summarized what happened above in a few words, and then thought of the important matter: "Let's rush to the communication bridge as soon as possible!"
Ayumi nodded, but she looked at the dark passage and heard the faint sound of the ambulance bell outside. She was a little scared and grabbed the corner of Huiyuan Ai's clothes:
"But the 60th floor is still a long way from here. Why don't we wait for the next elevator?"
"No - according to what you said, the next shift will definitely be full, unless we wait until the next shift, but by then, if the fire on the 40th floor spreads horizontally to the observation elevator, the road will be blocked. It's better to go directly to the communication bridge on the 60th floor."
Huihara Ai decisively grabbed her and walked towards the safe passage near the communication bridge.
Halfway through the walk, she remembered something: "By the way, is Jiang Xia okay?"
——I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but when Haibara Ai was fleeing in the safety passage before, I always felt that I vaguely heard Jiang Xia’s voice.
"It should be fine!" Ayumi just discovered another wonderful use of Jiang Xia today, and paid more attention to this handsome but cruel older brother. "Just now I heard that foreign brother talking on the phone with Jiang Xia brother."
“…”Foreigner brother?
She was confused for a moment, and slowly realized that Ayumi was talking about Amuro Toru.
Haibara Ai: “…” If I remember correctly, the boss of that detective agency always exudes a strong organizational aura - is this another confrontation between the organization and Anonymous tonight?
...How did Jiang Xia get involved again?
Is it that Anonymous pays too much attention to him, or is it that Jiang Xia is in the organization...
Countless thoughts suddenly flooded into Haibara Ai's mind, but she quickly suppressed the messy thoughts.
There was no point in getting anxious now. She thought about the strangely friendly attitude that Anonymous had towards the high school student detective, gritted her teeth, and felt that it was not a big problem: "Let's leave here first."
(End of this chapter)
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