Chapter 2524 2536 [Fatal Vehicle] Ask for monthly ticket ()
The call from his former boss made Kogoro Mouri feel confused: as far as he was concerned, Inspector Megure had never really recognized his detective abilities. Even if something happened and he needed help from an off-site detective, the inspector should have given priority to his brother Jiang Xia. Why did he find him now?
Thinking of this, Kogoro Mouri instinctively looked around, but did not see Jiang Xia.
"Who are you looking for?" Mao Lilan also looked around, "As for Jiang Xia and Conan, they just went to the bus station with the doctor. I heard they were going skiing."
"Oh, I see." Kogoro Mouri responded casually and answered the phone.
"Brother Maori!"
As soon as he put the phone to his ear, he was startled by the serious voice of Inspector Megure. He asked in a deep voice: "Where are you now?"
"Ah?" Kogoro Mouri was stunned. He heard the chaos in the police office across the phone, which made him even more confused.
However, Inspector Megure's voice was too scary, so while he was confused, Maori Kogoro still answered: "Yumaka Town, what's wrong?"
Inspector Megure took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry about anything else. Keep driving your car. Then calm down and listen to me. What I'm going to say next is very important. It concerns your life. You must listen carefully."
"???" Maori Kogoro was puzzled. He looked down at the ground below him in confusion, "Driving? My life?... What the hell is going on - I wasn't driving at all."
This time it was Inspector Megure who was stunned: "Huh?"
Maori Kogoro glanced at Attorney Sakaguchi's house from a distance and said, "We just separated not long ago. I just encountered a case on foot. How can I find a car to drive in such a short time?"
Inspector Megure suddenly became clear-headed: "..." After hearing that, it seems to be true...
Maori Kogoro finally came to his senses and asked, "So what happened? What you said just now was so confusing."
Inspector Megure also began to scratch his head. In confusion, he instinctively discussed with his brother Mori: "It's like this. Our Investigation Division just received a call. The caller claimed to be Yuda - the guy who was arrested by you before, but recently escaped from prison and declared that he would take revenge on you severely."
Maori Kogoro barely had some impression: "What did that kid say?"
Inspector Megure: "He said that the vehicle you are riding in now has an explosive device installed by him, and it is a very sophisticated mechanism - the vehicle will be activated when the cumulative travel exceeds one kilometer, and once the speed drops below 30 kilometers per hour, the bomb will detonate and blow the people in the car to ashes."
"Is there really such a troublesome organization? This guy is making up a story to scare people." Maori Kogoro laughed, "You actually believed it. I guess even the identity of Yuda was made up by him. Maybe some bored bastard saw the news about Yuda's prison break and wanted to make fun of the police. Don't we police officers encounter too many people like this?"
"That's what he said, but I always feel that the guy is not lying." Inspector Megure sighed and looked at his watch. "The man claimed that he would detonate the abandoned water tower in Takaoka Town one minute after hanging up the phone to show that he was not joking. But now one minute has passed and there is still no movement - haha, maybe you guessed it right, this is just an ordinary evil..."
boom--!!
A vague voice came faintly.
Maori Kogoro was startled. Before he could see anything, he saw Maori Ran next to him exclaiming in surprise. The perceptive female high school student pointed at the Takaoka Town next door and said, "Why did that tower suddenly explode?"
"?!" Kogoro Mouri looked in the direction she pointed and happened to see an upright tower top and black smoke rising from the tip of the tower.
Mouri Kogoro: "..."
Inspector Megure, who also saw the explosion: "..."
Inspector Megure was anxious: "You really weren't driving?!"
"No!" Maori Kogoro was also anxious. "Xiaolan and I were planning to walk home. There was not a single car hair within a few meters. I...ah!"
He suddenly remembered something and his expression froze. “Come to think of it, if I hadn’t encountered any cases today and my schedule hadn’t changed, I would be renting a car and heading to my client’s house right now—and that route happens to pass through Takaoka Town.”
Concerning the safety of himself and his daughter, Maori Kogoro's brain, which was paralyzed by cigarettes and alcohol, began to click and work with difficulty: "Let me calculate, from the car rental company to the customer's house... According to the original schedule, I am now right next to the exploded tower!"
He paced anxiously. "That man must have made very precise calculations. He planned to blow up the tower when I passed by it as a deterrent. This is really not a prank or a joke, but a carefully planned revenge!"
Inspector Megure, who had just thought it was a false alarm, was actually shocked this time. He had already fallen back into the recliner, but was forced to bounce back up.
"Inspector!" Just at this moment, Sato Miwako came running over with a few pages of information. This alert policewoman had already independently investigated a lot of important situations:
"I contacted the prison guards and the relevant personnel who handled the Yuda case at the time, and played them the recording of the phone call just now. According to their feedback, the voice on the other end of the phone was indeed Yuda's. The person who made the threatening call just now was Yuda himself who escaped from prison!"
Memu Police Department: "!!"
He took a deep breath and comforted himself: "Don't panic. Didn't Brother Maori say that he changed his schedule at the last minute and didn't get on the car? That means the car with the bomb should still be at the rental company. We can send someone to seal off the place and dispose of the bomb."
Maori Kogoro felt that the matter was not that simple: "No, I just received a call from the car rental company - they said that a customer was in a hurry to help his boss get a wedding car, but the original car was broken, so they needed to temporarily rent the car I reserved.
"I just happened to be planning to stand up a client... uh, cough, I mean, I just happened to have other important things to do, so I gave the car to him.
"Also, since Tang Tian dared to make the threatening call, it means that he probably saw the car leave with his own eyes. At least he is very sure that his mechanism has been activated. In other words..."
“…”
Bad news came one after another, and Inspector Megure could no longer keep calm.
He waved his hands at his subordinates tiredly and weakly: "Go, contact the car rental company and ask who rented this fatal car. The car rental company should register the phone number - we must contact the unlucky customer as soon as possible, otherwise if he suddenly stepped on the brakes..."
(End of this chapter)
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