Chapter 181 Thirty-seven Vigilantes
"Stay alert. The Parliament must have a back-up plan. They can't just delay the police action to allow Wuming to meet Asa."
The headset rang with the calm analysis of Rei Furutani who was at the base. They had just learned that the Metropolitan Police Department was unable to support them simultaneously, but it didn't matter. Now that they had two vigilantes, they could split into two teams and act separately.
Conan hummed, and the speed of the disguised skateboard under his feet increased again. He was rushing towards the hostages on one side.
Afterwards, he subconsciously wanted to push his glasses away, but he quickly realized that he had already taken them off and withdrew his hand in disappointment.
On the other side, Furuya Rei seemed to have seen his situation and couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, your stickers are specially processed by Wuming. They are similar to the material of his mask. They can interfere with facial recognition. I guarantee that no one can recognize who you are from the surveillance. Even if they meet face to face, your features will be subconsciously blurred. You won't be exposed."
Conan had never heard of such a thing before, but the result of knowing a great scientific research doctor is that Conan would not express any doubts about inventions that he did not know about. He knew how great the so-called geniuses were, so it was normal for them to be able to make something that looked so sci-fi, right?
What Furukaya Rei didn't say is that this isn't science fiction, because the sticker was actually created by Akae Nazuki using her special abilities.
The question is, what is the superpower that can do everything? Ha, he is used to it.
On the skateboard, Conan, whose worries were exposed, coughed twice embarrassedly, and followed the instructions of Furiya Rei in the communication channel to avoid another wave of gunfights in front of him.
He was eager to treat those people as witnesses to his first appearance as a vigilante, but the two adults were determined not to allow Conan, who was still in the body of a child, to fight with a group of people with guns. In fact, if it weren't for the need to rescue two groups of hostages at the same time and it was best for Furiya Rei to stay at the base to provide support, Conan felt that Wuming would not allow him to participate in the night patrol so quickly.
Conan had no choice but to do so with regret, then temporarily leaned the skateboard against the wall, slipped into the alley, and used his body full of small props and agility to beat down a criminal who wanted to rob a passerby.
"Well done, D." In the communication channel, Furuya Rei praised with a smile, and Conan could even hear the sound of keyboards typing, "You can continue to go, I will notify the Metropolitan Police Department to come over to collect, ahem, clean up."
"Pay attention." This time it was Wuming who spoke behind the voice changer. His tone was helpless. "The communication might be disconnected later...D, be careful."
Conan cleared his throat, and his voice, which was also disguised by the voice changer, was full of the confidence of a detective: "Don't worry, Wuming, I will."
"Come on, I'm not really only seven years old..." he muttered.
He had been looking forward to the night patrol for more than two months! After all, Wuming finally agreed to join the patrol. Of course, he had to perform well and try to get Wuming to allow him to join the patrol next time.
Chi Jiang Na Yue switched channels and asked her friend in a cheerful tone, "Did you record it?"
Furuya Rei also skillfully switched to the channel with only the two of them, and the three computer screens in front of him showed different images, from left to right were Asa's live broadcast, the deciphering of Asa's address, and recordings from various perspectives. There was only one protagonist in the video, and that was Conan who was excitedly patrolling at night.
Fūya Rei showed sympathy, but his actions were not ambiguous at all: "Well, we recorded everything. The ones on the uniforms can be exported when D comes back later. If we connect now, he will probably find it right away."
"I leave it to you, Zero." Chi Jiang Na Yue was satisfied, "I'm going to take it back for Xiao Tian to check."
The little detective here is of course referring to the eldest disciple of Akae Nazuki in the main world, the 18-year-old reserve member of the detective agency, Kudo Shinichi.
"D would never have thought that his 'mentor' actually hid eavesdropping surveillance and positioning devices on his uniform, or the number is probably too many to be counted with two hands." Fōtani Rei's mouth twitched, and he touched his conscience and complained.
Chi Jiang Na Yue didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and asked back confidently, "Then how many did you install?"
“…Yes, two.”
The public security elite who were exposed looked away and silently dropped the topic.
They were all worried about the kid, and it was normal to put some things on the uniforms and props, yes, it was normal.
He also has many little devil locators on him. For work needs, Furuya Rei will only return the eavesdropping devices to his friends regularly, but at the same time, in order to appease the other party, he will still stay to locate him.
"Are you sure he can handle the situation over there alone?" The casual conversation came to an end, and Furuya Rei secretly hid his thoughts, "D's skills are indeed many times better than before, but it's okay for him to deal with two or three adults alone. Even if he has props, he can't deal with so many criminals alone, right?"
Of course, Furuya Rei believed in Akae Nayue's decision unconditionally. The reason he asked this question was simply because his hands were itching.
Conan can go fight the enemy, but he can only stay in the base as a logistics officer... Although he used to be an intelligence officer in the organization and often got the location of the rear, he still had many opportunities to take action.
Now, Rei Furiya is really eager to beat up Asa.
"Give up, I won't let you go in his place." Chi Jiang Na Yue slowly blocked her friend's thoughts, "I believe D can handle the situation over there, this is just a test."
In the base, Rei Furutani responded casually and then switched the channel back to Conan, but his expression was strange, as if he had discovered something.
Before leaving the base, Wuming handed over the rescue operation on the ordinary people's side to Conan, and took the initiative to go to the other side.
"He wants me to make a choice among the hostages myself. No matter which side of the seesaw I save, the other side will be destroyed." Wuming explained to the young detective, "As a vigilante, the citizens with a larger base will want me to save ordinary people, and the people in the upper echelons will continue to put pressure on me to save the other side first..."
"If we destroy ordinary people, it would be equivalent to destroying the trust that the vigilante has spent several months building in the eyes of Tokyo citizens...!" Conan took a breath and felt the deep malice in Asa's action.
"On the other hand, if we save the ordinary people first, we won't be able to rescue the other side in time. If they are destroyed, the Metropolitan Police Department, the upper echelons who put pressure on us, and the [Parliament] will all turn around and target us, and they might even do something even more shameless!"
In this case, isn't it true that the danger level on the ordinary people's side is higher? Conan is very interested in starting the night patrol. He is now confident that he can handle it no matter how difficult it is, but he doesn't think Wuming will leave Asa to him.
Wuming's attitude towards Asa seems unclear. What Conan can be sure of is that Wuming is reluctant to let Asa come into contact with him.
"But Asa thinks so too." Wuming sighed and said calmly.
"W-what?"
"Asa knows me very well, and he also knows that I know him very well. He knows that I will find out that he would rather destroy ordinary people in front of me." Wuming pressed his brows with a headache, "In short, Asa will anticipate my actions and change his original trajectory."
It looks a lot like Russian nesting dolls, and in fact it is Russian nesting dolls.
"Don't use any of your ordinary thoughts and your experience dealing with common criminals to speculate on Asa's thoughts, D."
The black-haired vigilante solemnly instructed: "Asa is a genius, but also a madman. He doesn't care about any universal values. He just thinks other criminals are boring, so he wants to find pleasure through these actions."
Asa just wanted to pull Wuming to his side and see Wuming completely fall into darkness.
Then conversely, since Asa wanted Wuming to think that he wanted to attack ordinary people and misled Wuming to go there first, it means that Asa would actually do more to the criminals... What do you mean I predicted it and you will predict my prediction?
Bad taste, drama and neurosis.
Conan silently added these three labels to Asa in his heart.
In short, after Wuming's analysis, Conan also agreed with Wuming's statement, and went to the ordinary people who seemed to be easier to rescue at the moment without complaint.
To be honest, judging from the final result of Asa's high-profile live broadcast of a crime last time, Conan even felt that if ordinary people had bombs, they would most likely be fireworks like last time.
Furukaya Rei knew more, so he naturally discovered the contradictions in this analysis. After all, they had discussed this topic not long ago, and it was Akae Nazuki who took the initiative to point out to him that Asa's next move would be directed against Conan.
Then Akae and Nayue should not be unable to see that no matter where they choose to go, Asa can obviously move to another location at any time to play a trick on Conan, because Conan is the real target of Asa's action this time, and they clearly know this.
If Fūya Rei asked this question, Akae Nazuki would gladly give a superficial answer.
Asa cares about Conan because Conan may become Wuming's new hope. Ultimately, Asa cares about Wuming the most, and of course the one he wants to target is still Wuming.
Well, but this time, Furiya Rei's hunch was right, Akae Nazuki did it on purpose.
Under the moonlight, the young vigilante squatted on the roof like a cat, staring at the abandoned factory below without blinking.
According to the address in the ciphertext, that was where Asa was holding the criminal hostages. Now it was surrounded by Asa's men and there were gun-wielding guys everywhere, making it almost impossible to sneak in successfully.
——If the person who came was Conan who had just started training for a few months.
Wuming blinked quickly, his figure flashed on the spot, and when he looked again, he had silently melted into the shadows around the abandoned factory.