The nearby roads were blocked by cordons. Jiang Lai parked his car outside, got out and mixed in with the crowd going out, deftly driving in the opposite direction.
"Go this way." Matsuda Jinpei, who was quite experienced, could certainly see the place where the guards were relatively weak. He led Jiang Lai forward.
Jiang Laizhen was behind: "Wait a minute, Matsuda." He lowered his head and operated his mobile phone, and still used his special mobile phone to send an anonymous message to the Metropolitan Police Department.
To the police officers:
I suggest you search Teitan High School secretly. You may find something. Be careful not to attract the attention of the bomber. 】
After hesitating for a second, Jiang Lai added another suffix.
【——Good Man HLJ】
HLJ, Red Scarf, do good deeds without leaving a name. Jiang Lai used this abbreviation as a fixed anonymous identity.
I may use it again in the future.
Jiang Lai smiled in his heart. Just looking at these three letters, the Metropolitan Police Department probably couldn't guess the Chinese spelling, and would probably guess it was English or Japanese Romanization.
Then he continued to call up the surveillance video he had selected, and while browsing it at a very fast speed, he whispered to Matsuda Jinpei: "Please pay attention to your surroundings and see if there is any suspicious man observing the outdoor elevator."
"Do you want to... find that person?" Matsuda Jinpei immediately understood what Jiang Lai meant.
"Yes, otherwise even if we reached Hagiwara, we would not be able to prevent the final sacrifice." Jiang Lai breathed a sigh of relief.
"..." That's right. Matsuda Jinpei calmed down at this moment. His mind started to work again after he calmed down.
As an excellent policeman, Matsuda Jinpei's observation ability is naturally very strong. At this moment, the convenience of the soul body is perfectly demonstrated. He can move freely among the crowd and observe the expressions and belongings of suspicious people at a close distance.
Jiang Lai quickly scrolled through the pages on his phone without being noticed. He had already filtered and excluded many locations, but as time passed, he couldn't help but feel anxious.
A figure standing there passed by the corner of his eye, and Jiang Lai quickly focused on this side. The man in the video was standing next to a shop diagonally below the tourist elevator, and seemed somewhat out of place with the crowd that was retreating around him.
The man was wearing a grey duckbill cap, and his face could not be seen in the video. But I had a vague feeling... this guy was probably——
"Jiang Lai!" Just at this moment, Matsuda Jinpei also floated back, his black eyes were serious and earnest, "I have locked on a suspicious person."
——It was the man wearing a duckbill cap next to the store, the same person Jiang Lai had investigated and guessed.
Jiang Lai made up his mind and put away his phone: "Let's go."
With the sound of sirens in his ears, Jiang Lai looked up from afar at the transparent tourist elevator as he walked forward. It was very high up and he could hardly see clearly, but he could vaguely see a tall black figure inside, probably Kenji Hagiwara.
But there seems to be a small one...?
Jiang Lai narrowed his eyes again and looked carefully.
...It can't be Conan, right?
But Jiang Lai was only distracted for a moment, and soon turned his attention to the approaching man.
In fact, Matsuda Jinpei's original intention was to let Jiang Lai notify the nearby police and let them arrest the suspicious persons.
However, Jiang Lai complained that by the time he persuaded them to leave their current duty posts to catch the suspicious persons, he didn't know if it would be too late. Besides... the police uniforms were too conspicuous and would be noticed by the bomber.
So, only people like me who look like passers-by can approach.
Matsuda Jinpei whispered, "He has his right hand in his pocket. If it's him, there should be a bomb controller in it. We need to defeat him in one move - just pass by him from the side and grab his right hand first."
"I understand." Jiang Lai responded in a low voice.
Jinpei Matsuda still looked worried, but he couldn't do anything to help. He could only remind, narrate and add details from time to time.
"Matsuda...when did you become such a motherly person?"
"Hey, hey!" Matsuda Jinpei twitched his lips, "I'm just reminding you out of concern for you! Hurry up, this is a very dangerous situation!"
"I've already told you that I'm not an ordinary person in the full sense of the word..." Jiang Lai narrowed his eyes slightly.
At least in another scientific world, I had been a counterfeit wine maker and received training in a winery.
Looking back now, it feels like a very eventful life... I just didn't expect to break through the dimensional wall again and end up in a parallel scientific world.
The current tense situation allowed him to regain his original feeling to some extent.
"We're getting closer to our goal, let's stop talking." Jiang Lai withdrew his attention.
He looked like an ordinary passerby, muttering something like "Where's my phone?" and acted as if he was going against the flow of people just to look for something he had lost.
The man in the peaked cap's gaze stayed on him for only a second before moving away and continuing to cast his hidden gaze on the tourist elevator high above.
Jiang Lai muttered to himself while secretly observing the man's posture - he seemed a little nervous, but 80% of his attention was on the elevator above, and his body was not tense as if he was alert to his surroundings.
...Very good. Jiang Lai thought to himself, he was already prepared for the surprise attack later.
Jinpei Matsuda beside him seemed even more nervous than Jiang Lai himself, but he didn't say much at this moment. He just stood around silently to show his support.
Just before they were about to pass each other, Jiang Lai suddenly kicked sideways, causing the man in the duckbill cap to lose his balance. He half-raised his hand to grab the man's right wrist - there was indeed something grasped in his hand - and then suddenly broke it!
"Ah!" The pain made the man in the duckbill cap unconsciously let go of his hand, and the small controller fell to the ground.
Perfect!
But the next scene was not quite the same as what they had imagined. The rectangular, flat controller slid diagonally forward, and in front of the astonished eyes of Matsuda Jinpei and Jiang Lai, they had no time to stop it, and it fell straight into the sewer with vertical wide railings!
"!"
How could it be such a coincidence...!
Sewer: Controller, give it to me!
Although his pupils were shaking, Jiang Lai still did not forget to control the man in front of him. He held him tightly to prevent him from escaping. The police not far away also noticed the movement here and moved over.
Matsuda Jinpei walked around where the controller fell, then came back and shook his head, saying, "There's a hidden river below. Even if we open the sewer cover, we can't get the controller."
"And it will probably break down pretty quickly if it gets water in it."
"It's okay. In order to see the decision of the police, bigger fireworks must be detonated by pressing the controller themselves, rather than by timing. So it shouldn't matter if the controller is gone for now." Jiang Lai said thoughtfully.
"Damn police!" The controlled bomber was not honest. He sneered while struggling, "It's too early to be happy with yourself! I won't let you bastards go!"
The other party couldn't see Matsuda Jinpei, so naturally he thought Jiang Lai was talking to himself.
What?
The other party's words made Matsuda Jinpei frown immediately.
The police who arrived took over the bomber. Jiang Lai simply explained that he saw the guy acting sneaky and thought he had stolen his phone, but he didn't expect that he had something like a controller in his hand, so he guessed that he was the bomber and arrested him.
There is a camera next to this store. When the time comes, you can zoom in and see whether it is the controller that was thrown out.
The bomber now seemed to have no intention of making excuses. He struggled in the handcuffs of the policeman: "You damn policemen! You deceived my friend and caused his death... You will pay the price too!"
"It's true that the big fireworks are gone... but I'd better have a policeman to accompany me on the road to the underworld!" He smiled wickedly, and even when he was being pressed down by the police, he couldn't stop his crazy smile.
Jiang Lai: “…” Is this already abnormal?
The police officer in charge of communication just finished a phone call: "Headquarters sent a message that a large bomb was defused at Teitan High School."
Jiang Lai blinked gently.
It seems that although his message from HLJ was a bit abrupt and mystical, the Metropolitan Police Department still sent people to look for it under such circumstances.
——Surprisingly, the bigger fireworks are still there.
Now it's double insurance to ensure that bigger fireworks won't explode.
Another police officer immediately responded, "Okay, I'll notify Officer Hagiwara right now and let him remove the bomb from the elevator without any worries."
"Is there another child inside?" the first police officer asked again.
"It seems so. That's why Hagiwara called and not only told us that the bomb had a warning message one minute before the explosion, but also told us to send someone to cut a hole in the top and take the child out... But this is a bit difficult. The Metropolitan Police Department is still trying to figure it out."
"Well, now you can safely dismantle the bomb. The child can come out with Officer Hagiwara later."
Jiang Lai: I guessed that the kid is Conan's classmate. :-D
Classmate Conan, you are always the kind of person who can handle such big occasions!
Matsuda Jinpei, who had been lost in thought, raised his head again and said, "...There are three pairs of buttons on the controller that just slipped off." His tone was a little serious.
Jiang Lai was slightly stunned. He and Matsuda Jinpei looked at each other and suddenly realized that everything was far from over!
If there are only two bombs, then each bomb has a corresponding termination and a detonator, so only two pairs are needed.
What are those extra buttons?!
——There's a hidden bomb!
The last bomb was most likely located near the tourist elevator, and there was a high chance that it was timed, just slightly later than the one in the elevator.
Jiang Lai's brain was working at full speed. In this case, no matter what the police choose, even if the police above figure out the address at the last minute and dismantle the bomb in the tourist elevator, there will be another unknown explosion to take the police's life!
Jiang Lai: This bomber is too difficult to deal with!
What a huge hatred this is.
The nesting dolls are much more difficult to make than the one in the original Conan!
——How could this happen…!