Chapter 3294 3306 [Replay]
"Hmm?" Inspector Megure first followed Conan's words and wondered where Sato Miwako had gone.
After a moment, he remembered sadly: "Oh, Sato said that when she went to the Dongdu Phenomenon Institute to pick up the suspect, she saw fresh traces of gunfire in the alley, and she also transferred a few people from the Forensic Department. Just now, there was news from there, confirming that someone was indeed shot in the alley."
——That is to say, the work is not over yet, and there is probably still overtime to be done in the alley over there.
What's worse is that Sato said that there were only bullet holes in the alley, no blood, bullets or shell casings, and no corpse... He had no clues to feed to his detective brother, so it seemed that he would have to handle this inexplicable shooting case himself.
Next to them, Conan's eyes widened when he heard this, and he suddenly thought of something: a shooting in a nearby alley... Speaking of "nearby", it seems someone has been following them today! Could it be that the person who fired the gun...
"That..." Conan's legs suddenly became unable to move. He said righteously, "How could such a scary thing happen? It's too dangerous! We must find the gunman as soon as possible! - Inspector Megure, let me help you too."
"What are you asking for help?" A voice came from the parking lot of the Dongdu Phenomenon Research Institute, interrupting him. "It's already early in the morning, it's time for a little brat like you to go to bed!"
Hearing that Conan wanted to stay, Jiang Xia, who was also struggling over whether to stay and see, turned around and looked in the direction where the voice came from.
Then, Kogoro Mouri yawned and walked towards me with a resentful look on his face: As a temporary guardian, he actually remembered that there was a child at home who did not come home at night and needed to be picked up.
Before Conan could object, he picked up the dishonest elementary school student and looked at the other children: "Yukiko is too unreliable. She only picks you up but not sends you back - forget it, I'll take you back for her. Where are your homes?"
Conan: “…”
At this time, shouldn't you be lying drunk at home, hugging Miss Yoko's pillow and going crazy? ...Why don't you play by the rules?
The fake elementary school student looked at Jiang Xia for help.
Jiang Xia looked at this quiet and sparsely populated neighborhood and did not stay. He just sighed and said to Inspector Megure: "If you find any new clues, such as suspicious persons carrying guns, or bodies that have been shot, remember to contact me at any time."
"Haha, then I won't be polite." Inspector Megure was worrying about what to do if the famous detective fell asleep in the middle of the night. When he heard Jiang Xia's words, he quickly agreed happily.
After a moment, he felt something was wrong and quickly changed his words: "I hope Sato and the others just made a mistake. I hope nothing will happen here."
Jiang Xia: “…”
He waved goodbye to Inspector Megure, got into Kogoro Mori's car with boredom, and drove towards Beika Town together.
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The other side.
The FBI did not try to return to the scene - the terrible experience of avoiding the police's sight and maintaining a difficult hiding posture in the alley for a long time had made them lose all interest in this job.
In addition, even if he persisted, it would be difficult to find any trace of Usa, so Shuichi Akai did not make blind efforts. He ended this failed operation and ordered a return.
After a while, the vehicles used for tracking or blocking returned to their base.
——Ever since James encountered a series of things and became suspicious, this base is no longer a permanent base for everyone. The FBI has their own residences, and private communication has become less frequent than usual.
However, today, having just finished a collective action, a group of people habitually returned here to summarize and discuss today's work.
"Another wasted effort."
Judy fell into the soft sofa. Although her work tonight was relatively easy, she couldn't help but feel exhausted after hearing the whole process. "Every time I meet 'that person' or get news about him, it always ends like this..."
The most frightening thing is not the hard work, but nothing gained after all the hard work.
——In the pursuit of the Thousand-Faced Witch, every time they set up a plan, they were able to achieve the corresponding results. But with Uzo...
This kind of work with almost no sense of reward is bound to make people lose motivation and even want to avoid it.
Akai Shuichi glanced at his team mates who looked listless, took his new pistol back from Judy, replaced the tranquilizer gun on his waist with it, then lowered his head and lit a cigarette: "You said it the wrong way around, this time, we gained a lot."
The others were stunned, looked over, and began to think along the lines of the core ace's words: "You mean... the magic oil painting that Wu Zo left behind? He wanted to convey some kind of message through that painting?"
Another witness expanded on this point and thought of more: "Speaking of which, that magic trick was really amazing. Such a large painting disappeared in the blink of an eye without leaving anything. He himself disappeared as well. So it seems that our previous investigation along the line of 99 Yuankang's apprentice was correct! This doesn't look like an amateur magician, it looks more like a professionally trained one!"
The FBI agent who was responsible for collecting this information twitched his eyes and suddenly felt a headache: "But last time, we almost exhausted all the relevant magic information, and it seems that there is no result..."
He, he didn't want to fiddle with that mountain of information anymore.
If he could find out Wu Zo's real identity in the real world by looking through the information, and then catch Wu Zo himself through these social relationships, then he would be willing to look through 10 times the information - but the problem is, there is no trace of "that person" in those materials!
Seeing that the topic was getting more and more off-topic, suddenly, there were two "knock" sounds, and someone knocked on the table.
The FBI who were about to debate whether the magic line was useful were stunned when they heard this, stopped talking, and looked at the ace who was barely reliable except for the matter involving Uzo.
Akai Shuichi exhaled a puff of smoke: "Do you remember why we took action today?"
Everyone was stunned.
After a moment, they thought about it seriously: Mr. Akai discovered Wu Zuo's trace, under Mr. Akai's command, they formed a fine encirclement net to surround Wu Zuo, Wu Zuo suddenly met them and then disappeared like magic, they checked the traces left by Wu Zuo, suddenly the police broke in, and used all kinds of strange ways to avoid the police...
etc!
Finally, it was Judy who stood up: "Before we found Uzo, we were tracking the elementary school students in the photos taken by Vermouth!"
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