Chapter 2612 2624 [Enthusiastic Uzo]
"Even if I have my reasons, if I kill someone, will the police really let me go afterwards?"
Yoshio Sekiguchi slumped down on a bench in the hospital lobby, his eyes full of despair. "Let's take a step back and assume that the police don't hold me responsible... but what will my relatives and friends think of me if they know that I have blood on my hands?"
"And my daughter..."
In his dilemma, Sekiguchi looked at his watch and was shocked: it was already 3:20 in the afternoon. There were less than ten minutes left until the 3:30 that the robbers asked him to take action.
"How come time flies so fast?" Sekiguchi's fingers began to tremble. He turned his head to look at the building outside the window, and his thoughts changed rapidly:
“If I don’t do anything in 10 minutes, according to what those guys said, my daughter will be pushed down from the roof of the opposite building… No, there is no time to hesitate!
"If you think about it, it's just a few pulls of the trigger. It's over in a blink of an eye. And the guy in the ward is not an innocent patient. He is one of the robbers. Even if I kill him, there is nothing to feel guilty about."
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and grabbed the puff box on his lap.
At this moment, a child's voice came from the side: "Uncle, don't do anything stupid."
"?!" Yoshio Sekiguchi was startled. He suddenly turned his head to the right and found that a little boy with glasses had appeared on the bench - he seemed to be one of the children who had just visited Mr. Yamada.
"Don't look at me. Keep looking at the box in your hand." The kid with glasses pushed his glasses up and said calmly, "Let me guess - someone is forcing you to kill the patient named Akabane in your father's ward, right?"
Sekiguchi Yoshio was stunned.
Conan laughed: "The puff box in your hand does not contain puffs, but a tool for killing people - such as a pistol."
Finally, Guan Guchi Ryofu could not help but asked in a trembling voice: "How did you know?"
"Shh, keep your voice down. You don't want those guys who are monitoring you to discover our conversation, do you?" Conan said as he looked around curiously in the identity of a child.
Originally this was just to observe the robbers, but suddenly, he paused.
Conan: “……?”
Just now, when he suddenly turned his head to look behind him, a shadow in a hospital gown instinctively shrank back behind the potted plants in the corridor.
"He looks so familiar... I can't be wrong, Vodka is also monitoring Mr. Sekiguchi!"
This discovery made Conan more alert: "Could it be that the worst thing has happened? That well-planned robbery gang is also related to the Black Organization... and Vodka is here because he is also the supervisor responsible for silencing people?"
As this thought flashed through his mind, the already cautious fake elementary school student suddenly became even more alert.
He thought about it and continued speaking as if nothing had happened, intending to gain Sekiguchi Yoshio's full trust first so that the other party would cooperate.
And the quickest way to gain an adult's trust...
"You know Jiang Xia, the famous detective."
Conan skillfully put on the appearance of a famous detective: "Children are not likely to alert the bad guys, so after he learned about the situation at the scene, he specially sent me to contact you. Judging from the medicines your father placed on the bedside, Grandpa Guankou suffers from diabetes and cannot eat sweets, but you are walking around the hospital holding a puff box, which is really strange.
"In addition, there are always a few specific people around you who do nothing. They don't look like patients or family members, but they are operating around you and that ward, and it seems like they are monitoring you.
"And you always looked up at the roof of the building opposite, and kept muttering a certain name. I remember there was an open-air children's playground in the building opposite. Just now, when you mentioned your daughter in the ward, your expression was very strange. So if I'm not mistaken, your daughter didn't want to come and visit her grandfather, but she couldn't come because she was taken away and held hostage."
Every word of this series of reasoning struck Guankou Liangfu's heart.
The unfortunate man's determination was shattered in an instant, and he blurted out: "Someone called me not long ago and said that my father's condition had relapsed and asked me to take my daughter to the hospital.
"I thought the person who was looking for me was a doctor, so I hurried over with Xiaogong. But I was stopped by a few vicious guys near the hospital. They found an excuse to take my daughter away, and then threatened me to help them kill Akabane who was in the same ward with my father."
At this point, Sekiguchi Ryofu looked at his watch in pain: "There are less than 10 minutes left... I can't just watch Xiao Gong die. You, since you know Mr. Jiang Xia, can you ask him to help me plead with the police? - Tell them that I was forced, it was those people who forced me!"
Conan saw him clenching the puff box and said quickly: "Do you think that killing Akabane can save your daughter? - That's not the case at all. You and your daughter have seen their faces. I'm afraid they have already been on their list of people to be killed."
“So even if you really help them silence their accomplices, they won’t let you and your daughter go.
"Don't forget, this group of bank robbers robbed the bank you are in not long ago. They acted in an orderly manner and were extremely efficient. Many case programs and variety shows have speculated about this, saying that there must be an insider in this robbery, so the robbers were able to pull it off so easily."
"An insider..." Yoshio Sekiguchi thought of the scary policeman and trembled, "I know who it is! It's that honest-looking policeman! He must have abused his power and found a loophole in the bank's security system, so..."
"It's not important." Conan looked at the little time left and interrupted him: "Besides, compared to a policeman, you, a bank clerk, are more likely to be seen as a spy by others.
"I guess they plan to ask you to go to a remote place to hand over their daughter after you succeed. Once you arrive, they will kill you and disguise the scene as suicide out of fear of crime, so that the police will believe that you are the mastermind of the bank robbery."
When Sekiguchi Ryofu recalled the horrific scene, his scalp went numb: "How could they do this..."
Desperate people will instinctively grasp at straws. Halfway through his words, Sekiguchi Yoshio suddenly remembered a name. He turned to look at Conan with hope in his eyes: "Jiang Xia, what did Mr. Jiang Xia say? - Since he asked you to come and contact me, does he already have a perfect way to break the deadlock?"
Conan: "This..." There is no such thing as a perfect solution. At this point, we can only take a gamble.
He was just trying to express this in a tactful way, but at this moment, someone on the bench on the other side of Sekiguchi Yoshio suddenly laughed and said casually, "Of course."
Conan: “???”
Sekiguchi Yoshio: "!"
(End of this chapter)
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