Chapter 2769 2781 [Officer, Amuro Toru is the kidnapper]
Jiang Xia: “…”
Fortunately, there was someone in the audience who was smart enough. Conan looked at the oval dining table, then at the chairs next to the dining table, and a flash of lightning flashed through his mind.
"Now they look like ordinary tables and chairs." Conan said excitedly, "But if you look down from above, every four round chairs surround an oval table in the middle, combined with the unique backrests of the chairs... they look like white crabs neatly lying across the bottom of the building!"
"Really?" Dr. Agasa stood on tiptoe, trying to find the so-called "crab" from a high place. He sighed, "That child is really good at abstracting objects - that is to say, when the kidnappers called Dr. Endo this morning, they were having dinner here with the child?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "Whether you want to see the 'whale spout' or the 'crab', this height is far from enough. The height of the floor must be close to where the 'whale' is floating. The kidnappers and the hostages should be in a room upstairs, and that room can see the whale in the distance, the smoking chimney, and the 'crab' downstairs at the same time."
There are quite a few rooms that meet the requirements, but not too many.
Jiang Xia led a few people to the elevator, preparing to go to a higher floor. Just as he was about to go in, his phone vibrated and he received an email.
There were only a few short numbers on the email, "2409".
Jiang Xia glanced at the familiar sender, walked into the elevator, and pressed the button for the 24th floor - the boss would indeed not sit idly by and watch this kidnapping case. Whether it was "Toru Amuro" who valued the safety of citizens' lives, or "Bourbon" who was annoyed by them and wanted him to get rid of the kidnappers quickly, they would both conscientiously help them to gather information downstairs.
Next to him, Conan, who was still trying to calculate the approximate floor number in his head, was stunned when he saw Jiang Xia directly press the "24" on the elevator, and felt mixed emotions.
…At the same time, he couldn't help but start missing his detective classmate who was far away in Osaka.
Hattori Heiji was sneezing one after another in the distance.
In the Starlight Hotel, the elevator rose rapidly.
"As expected, as the elevator rises, the tables and chairs below look more and more like crabs." Huiyuan Ai stood on the sightseeing elevator and looked down through the transparent wall. "What an imaginative child. I hope he is okay now."
As they were talking, the elevator finally went up and reached the 24th floor.
Conan looked around, trying to determine the room where the kidnapper was most likely to hide. He saw Jiang Xia walk straight to Room 2409 without hesitation.
Conan: "..." How could this be! Is the gap between him and Jiang Xia really that big? This shouldn't be the case. Is there something he hasn't discovered...
The fake elementary school student looked towards the room in doubt, and was surprised to find a cleaning truck parked at the door.
Jiang Xia walked over, looked down at the cart, and asked the cleaner who was selecting tools: "Has the guest in this room checked out?"
The cleaner came back to his senses and nodded: "What do you want to see them for? - The family of three just left. If we go down now, we should be able to catch up with them at the front desk to complete the formalities."
Jiang Xia turned around and said simply, "Go downstairs."
Haibara Ai, who was walking at the end, immediately turned around, trotted back to the elevator, and pressed the button.
The elevator was still parked on this floor, and she pressed the button, and the door reopened. At the same time, Huihara Ai looked to the side and found that the elevator next door was parked on the first floor.
"It seems that when we went upstairs, the two kidnappers were just coming down the stairs next door." She sighed silently, "It was just a little bit...it would have been better if it was a little later or earlier."
Jiang Xia walked into the elevator and touched her furry head: "It's not too late now."
When Huibara Ai heard his calm tone, she felt relieved and quickly followed him into the elevator.
Soon, the elevator went down again and headed to the first floor.
…
Meanwhile, in the hotel lobby.
Two kidnappers, a man and a woman, were dragging suitcases and carrying a child, disguising themselves as a family of three and were checking out at the front desk.
The receptionist was a young girl who seemed not very experienced in the business. She moved slowly and glanced at them suspiciously every once in a while.
This look was indeed a bit strange, but the two kidnappers were guilty and kept their heads down, so they didn't notice anything unusual about her.
At this time, the two were talking in a low voice. The female kidnapper looked at Keita who was playing with toys obediently, and whispered to the man: "Do you really want to kill him? This child is different from other children. He is very obedient and easy to coax. In fact, I think..."
"Shut up! You're too soft-hearted." The man interrupted her with a curse. "The more you say that, the more you deserve to be killed. He's so sensible at his age. He must be very smart. Maybe he's just pretending that he hasn't realized the situation. In fact, he already knew that we were kidnappers and remembered our characteristics very well!"
The girl at the front desk pricked up her ears and vaguely caught words like "killer" and "kidnapper". She froze: "..." You, you don't talk about this in front of people! It's too scary!
But then again, this shows that what the young man said just now was true - there were indeed kidnappers who sneaked into his hotel, and the two kidnappers seemed to be trying to escape with the hostages!
While screaming in her heart, the receptionist continued with her slow movements, pretending that checking out was a very troublesome thing.
"Although the blond-haired, dark-skinned mixed-race security guard repeatedly told me not to call the police, saying that it would easily alert the kidnappers and cause something bad to happen... But to be fair, he himself is very suspicious!"
The girl at the front desk broke out in sweat, and her mind instantly recalled all the mystery novels and TV dramas she had read in her life:
"With so many hotels to choose from, why did the kidnappers choose to stay at ours? It's probably because they have an insider in our hotel!
"Speaking of the insider, the only one who was recently hired was the security guy. He's good-looking, can do everything, and is very good at dealing with people. Our mean and stingy manager actually agreed to hire him as a security guard when there was no shortage of people... He can do anything, so why would he be a security guard? So there is only one truth - he must have other intentions!"
The vigilant receptionist was not fooled by the beauty trap in the end. Just now, while Amuro Toru went to the elevator, she gritted her teeth and quietly pressed the alarm button.
At the same time, she felt annoyed and regretted that she had quickly told the security guy about the kidnappers in the hotel - if you think about it carefully, the two kidnappers were living well just now, but now they suddenly wanted to go downstairs and leave. Isn't it because the security guard was tipping them off?
(End of this chapter)
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