Chapter 183 Thirty-nine Vigilantes

To be honest, the situation here on Conan's side is not that dangerous, but it is not very safe either.

The distances between the two addresses they found and the Tokyo suburbs where Akae Manor was located were different. The abandoned factory that Wuming was going to was closer, while the one where ordinary people were located was the Suzuki Tower in the city center.

Even though Conan was riding his skateboard at full speed, he was delayed for a long time by various events along the way. By the time he reached the bottom of the Suzuki Tower, Wuming had already started to sneak in.

In order to prevent the young detective here from worrying too much, Furuya Rei, who was in charge of serving as a transit station, did not tell Conan about his disconnection with Wuming and the live broadcast. This was also thanks to the fact that Conan took shortcuts along the way and was lucky enough not to encounter the big screen where Asa invaded the live broadcast.

"The hostages are concentrated on the 340th floor, and Asa is not seen nearby." While Furiya Ling was speaking, Conan, relying on his petite figure, easily dodged the staff at the entrances and exits who were finishing the evacuation work and therefore relatively relaxed, and successfully slipped into the emergency passage, "There are two people guarding the elevator entrance, and one at the emergency exit, both of them holding guns..."

Furiya Rei paused subtly and said, "Ah, I see. There is another person pretending to be a hostage near the hostages. You want to deceive people without hiding your gun properly? Isn't that a bit too much of a disrespect for us?"

The young detective in a handsome uniform was still in the novelty phase. He jumped twice in the stairwell to warm up. "Which floor was the most recently cleared?"

"Climb two more floors. There's no one on the fifth floor. I'll replace the surveillance for you. OK, done." Furiya Rei took a sip of coffee and continued to work energetically. "D, be careful."

Assisting an obedient child is such a worry-free thing, so worry-free that Furuya Rei was almost moved to tears.

He didn't want to be just a supporting role, but Chijiang Nayue would dutifully switch to nameless mode every time he went on night patrol, not caring about his injuries at all. He relied entirely on experience and beastly intuition when dealing with criminals, and only used his brain, which was smarter than most people in the world, when he was investigating a case.

Every time, Rei Furuya has to spend a lot of energy to ensure that Wuming will not get out of control due to excessive workaholic - if one of them loses contact, and he doesn't use threats to arrest the vigilante who doesn't take care of his body and take him home, Wuming can work for 72 hours in a row and plow the entire land of Tokyo!

Sparing him also spares his own body. Criminals also need to be refreshed at a certain time, right? If Wuming follows the aggressive night patrol method in the first few days, Tokyo will be empty soon. Why? Where will the others go? They will probably be in prison by then. Haha, I don't know if there will be enough space.

Furiya Rei was just distracted for a moment, and the scene on the screen switched to the elevator. His eyes inadvertently passed across the control panel, and he almost sprayed his coffee onto the screen.

"Ahem, wait, you're not planning on going straight to the 340th floor and confronting them head-on?" The blond-haired policeman gritted his teeth and began to reflect on why he thought the young detective was an obedient child. If he thought about it carefully, no matter which world this kid is in, his level of unbridledness is just as good as Chijiang Nayue's!

He knew that Conan couldn't be so reckless, and that such a thing could only be done by the extremely confident Wuming. Conan's current situation required him to be doubly cautious and act calmly. However, Furuya Rei gradually began to distrust his friend's ability to take care of children.

Look at what the children who have been taken care of by Akae Nazuki look like. A detective who dares to follow Gin alone, a child who eats a poison with a 0.01% survival rate in order to gain a glimmer of hope and escape from the organization, and a child who almost "resurrected" Akae Nazuki in the data world after faking his death...

Furuya Rei thinks from the bottom of his heart: Aka's ability to take care of children may be many levels better than that of Mr. Dazai Osamu, but it is not normal at all! Don't use Dazai Osamu's ability to take care of children as a standard, you Yokohama people!

Conan was scolded, and obviously thought of his mentor: "No... Can you help me see which floors are cleared near the 340th floor? It doesn't matter if it's above or below, please, Mr. Zero!"

In Conan's eyes, Nameless has always been labeled as cautious, taciturn, controlling, and unrivaled in strength. It was only after he began to participate in the one-hour night patrols every night that he realized how powerful the unbridled Nameless's destructive power was.

This made Conan even more convinced that Wuming needed a partner who could serve as a safety rope.

Not an 'assistant' following behind you, but a 'partner' walking beside you.

The first training item that Wuming gave to the young detective was to read and recite the [Night Patrol Manual], and the first item was "During the night patrol, you must use code names, and real names are prohibited." As a person who assists in the base, Furuya Zero naturally needs a code name. For the sake of convenience and to distinguish himself from the identity of "Amuro Toru", he finally chose to let them call him Zero.

If it's just a nickname, then if it causes suspicion because the two are too similar, then there will be more room for excuses, right?

Furuya Rei also almost understood what Conan meant. He quickly called up the surveillance footage from other floors and reported the numbers Conan wanted to know. After about five seconds, the young detective called a stop and selected the corresponding floor.

"That's a good idea." Furuya Rei sighed, "It's just that my workload has increased again... Never mind, I should have known that you're not as obedient as your teacher."

Conan's eyes wandered, looking up and down but he didn't dare look at the surveillance camera, for fear that the poor housekeeper who stayed behind at the base would see the embarrassed and guilty expression on his face.

The several elevators in Suzuki Tower all have each floor they stop at displayed on the top outside for passengers waiting for the elevator to choose. Different elevators need to be changed between different floors. Conan changed elevators twice in secret before he was finally done.

The end did not mean that he could go directly to the 340th floor, because if he did that, he would be noticed by the guards immediately. So he could only use this roundabout way to confuse the opposite side's sight, then slip out of the elevator from the equally cleared place and climb the last few floors.

In fact, for the sake of conserving energy, the best floors to leave are the 339th and 341st floors. After all, Conan is only 7 years old now, and no matter how much he trains, he can't escape the physical fitness of a 7-year-old - a super-powered elementary school student is still an elementary school student. Just climbing too high will consume most of Conan's energy.

Conan touched the sticker on his face and complained inwardly: He originally relied mainly on his brain and skills to attack, and without physical strength... Could it be that in Mr. Amuro's mind, he is the type who will just rush forward and give himself up?

He was very excited that he got the uniform made by Wuming himself, was recognized as a partner, and even had his own vigilante title. Yes, but! I emphasize it again!

He is already seventeen years old. He is not a childish kid who would be blinded by excitement!

Conan wasted a lot of time pretending that he wasn't too excited to fight crime on the way here.

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The guard standing outside the staircase door was leaning lazily against the wall, yawning while browsing his phone.

The staircase entrance and the elevator entrance are basically in opposite locations. He couldn't see the hostages from here, so he could only rely on this method to prevent himself from being bored to death.

To be honest, the guard didn't think Wuming would come here first, and he also watched the live broadcast released by his boss, Wuming is now on the other side. So there is no need to guard carefully, after all, based on experience, the people from the Metropolitan Police Department are unlikely to rush to rescue the hostages here.

He yawned again and vaguely heard some noise coming from behind the door he was guarding. It didn't sound like footsteps, but more like... the sound of metal hitting each other? Strange, did something fall down?

Since he had nothing to do, the guard found a good excuse to do his duty. He put away his phone, lazily opened the iron door behind him, and shone the flashlight into the stairwell a few times.

Nothing.

"Ha, I told you..." He muttered and tried to retract his head, but suddenly his vision went dark and something jumped down from the fire window on the side and rode on his neck in the blink of an eye.

Before the guard could make any sound, a pair of hands covered his mouth tightly. He felt something stabbed his neck and immediately lost consciousness.

The agile young vigilante quickly jumped to the ground, nimbly supported the guards and the flashlights in the other party's hands before they fell to the ground, and finally handcuffed the men and piled them in the stairwell, then slipped out himself without making any extra sound.

"Well done, D." Furutani Rei, the only one who could see the whole process, praised on behalf of his friend, "The elevator has also come up. The two guards are in different positions. You can go around from the left first and deal with the one behind the screen."

This was their first time to cooperate, but it must be said that Conan and Rei Furuya cooperated very well, so much so that when Wuming's communication was connected, Conan had already successfully defeated four of Asa's subordinates and sent the hostages downstairs by elevator. As for what to do after going downstairs, that was something the Metropolitan Police Department had to deal with.

Conan did not leave with them. He trusted Furiya Rei's analysis, so he stayed on this floor for the time being, preparing to search the guards he had knocked down to see if there was anything special on them, or something that could help him contact Asa.

...Yes, and then he flipped over.

Conan felt the pain at the back of his head, and when he regained consciousness, he felt that his heart was hurting more than the back of his head.

This is the second time. Can you criminals who sneak up on him from behind stop hitting him on the head every time? Kudo Shinichi's body is fine, but now he is just a primary school student. What if he gets dented by accident?

While complaining inwardly, Conan was also trying his best to calm his breathing and make himself appear as if he was still asleep.

He didn't know whether Rei Furuya couldn't contact him or didn't say anything because he was afraid of making a fuss. Anyway, there was no sound in the earphone for the time being - strange, if Asa had captured him, why didn't he take away the small props on him? Wasn't Asa afraid of being found by Wuming?

However, his disguise did not fool Asa at all. The next second when Conan woke up, he heard Asa's interesting voice nearby.

"Now that you're awake, why don't you pretend to be asleep?" the criminal said in distress, "Otherwise I'll have a boring time playing with you - please, please?"

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the tone and speed of "please please" that Asa said at the end were exactly the same as the one Conan used when he was "acting coquettishly" to Rei Furuya before.

Conan suddenly got goosebumps all over his body.

Asa...could this guy be watching him all the time?