Chapter 2616-2628 [Case Closed]
Beside him, Inspector Megure was in doubt, his eyes switching between his subordinates and Vodka. After thinking for a while, he asked Officer Takagi: "Are they really robbers? Did the gentleman who marked them leave any message?"
Officer Takagi shook his head, wanting to say that he had just arrived. At this moment, Sekiguchi Yoshio rushed out excitedly.
This office worker who was afraid of causing trouble changed his initial cowardly appearance and pointed at Officer Kamikawa and said angrily:
"Don't listen to his excuses, this man is the robber! - I ran into you in the restroom before and wanted to ask you for help, but this policeman interrupted me and threatened me that they were watching me all the time and asked me not to have any bad thoughts and just help them kill the target.
"I never thought that there were people from their group among the police. I felt I was at a dead end. If it weren't for... if it weren't for this kid and the man in black helping me, I would have been a murderer who was brutally silenced!"
His daughter seemed to understand what was going on and hugged her father's legs tightly in fear.
Inspector Megure looked at the emotional victim and felt guilty: he had some impression of the encounter with Mr. Sekiguchi. Thinking about it carefully, Officer Kamikawa was indeed abnormal at that time - usually he just honestly mixed with his colleagues, but just now in the bathroom he was particularly active and his expression was very strange. It was a pity that they didn't think much about it at the time.
With Sekiguchi Yoshio's testimony, the scale in Inspector Megure's heart finally tilted. He sighed in pain, looked away from his subordinate who was trying to argue, and turned his head to look at Vodka.
"What about Brother Yamada?" Inspector Megure asked Sekiguchi Yoshio, "Is he the robber?"
Vodka looked at Sekiguchi Yoshio warily: "!" You must answer truthfully, and don't talk nonsense based on the suggestions of some guys!
Guan Guliang lowered his head and looked at him, hesitantly: "I don't know."
This should be what "no" means, and Vodka secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could relax, he saw Sekiguchi Ryofu frowning: "But...but he is suspicious!"
Vodka: “?!”
Yoshio Sekiguchi: "I have elderly parents and young children to take care of, and I don't want to help the robbers to kill their accomplices. So before the final deadline, I still had a glimmer of hope in my heart and kept wandering around the hospital, hoping to find a chance to get out of their sight.
"But no matter where I went, I could see at least one abnormal figure - including this Mr. Yamada, who was acting suspiciously and was following me!"
Vodka: "..." You are slandering me! Don't be so confident, I am not following you, I am following that kid with glasses!
Yoshio Sekiguchi had just experienced two ups and downs in his life, and he encountered a terrible thing: "the policeman he wanted to ask for help turned out to be the robber himself." He was in a state of doubting everything.
Suddenly feeling safe, he couldn't help but express his suspicions. "Besides, there were so many people around, but the robbers didn't take anyone else as hostage, but him. He's big and heavy, and doesn't look like a suitable hostage at all. But the robbers picked him out. Don't you think this is strange?"
After thinking for a while, Sekiguchi Yoshio added: "And that powerful gentleman specially marked him with a paint gun - you were not at the scene, so you don't know how accurate and terrifying his shooting skills are. This is definitely not an ordinary mistake, but has other intentions!"
The police looked at each other in doubt.
Conan, who was listening, agreed with this statement deeply.
"Of course Mr. Kurosawa made the right mark - strictly speaking, compared to those small-time robbers, Vodka, the Black Organization cadre, is the one who should be marked the most."
Conan muttered to himself: "There are no bad people who like Sherlock Holmes... Of course, this is not the point. The point is that I don't know why, I always feel that Vodka seems to be a little afraid of him, and his attitude is unusually cautious when facing him.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Although the curly-haired gentleman is an enemy of the Black Organization, his shooting movements are too skillful... Who is he? Is he some government agency that has targeted the Black Organization?"
"Anyway, since Mr. Kurosawa left me this advantage, I must make good use of it..."
…
Everyone was considering what Sekiguchi Yoshio said, when a child's voice sounded from beside their feet.
"Speaking of hostages, the public security has been very bad recently." Conan shook his head and sighed, "When I was riding a bus a while ago, the robbers on the bus also took a lot of hostages. It was really scary."
"!" The clever police officer Gao Mu suddenly had an association, "I remember the time when the bus exploded. The robber picked out his accomplice from among the hostages in the bus, pretending to kidnap her but actually escaping with her. Could it be..."
Vodka's eyelids were twitching. He never expected that the hateful bus that had long been a thing of the past could actually turn into a trap today.
He gritted his teeth and made a note of each of his two minions, Takagi and Conan, and then planned to refute them.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Conan said: "But, Uncle Yamada doesn't look like a robber at all."
Vodka: “?”
Conan looked sympathetic: "Brother Gao Mu, you'd better not doubt Uncle Yamada. He is really very pitiful. He always encountered cases at Shikigawa Hospital before. He was finally transferred here today, but he happened to encounter robbers again..."
"!" An idea suddenly flashed through Sekiguchi Yoshio's mind, as if a flash of lightning passed through his mind, "Yes, this is too coincidental! I heard from the nurse before that Mr. Yamada, who was just transferred to the hospital, is a psychiatric patient, but he happens to live with two trauma patients.
"Mental illness is hard to diagnose, maybe he is faking it! This way he can stay in my father's ward and monitor my actions. If I regret it at the last minute, he might immediately come forward and shoot me again, and kill me at the same time, pretending that he wants to stop me and accidentally kill me!"
Conan smiled with relief in a corner where no one noticed, and a reflection flashed across his lenses.
Vodka: “…”
Inspector Megure: “This…” It sounds like it makes sense.
Under normal circumstances, Inspector Megure would never want to doubt his backup detective brother.
But now, even his favored subordinates... Alas, you can't judge a person by his appearance. Putting aside the first impression, looking at it with a skeptical eye, Mr. Yamada's transfer to another hospital is indeed a coincidence that makes people suspicious.
"How about you come back to the Metropolitan Police Department with us first?" Inspector Megure turned to Vodka, "Once we find out the whereabouts of these robbers and search their communication tools, we can prove your innocence..." Of course, if the result of the search is unfortunately the opposite... they will just catch the person on the spot.
(End of this chapter)
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