Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Chapter 347 Shinkansen Crisis: Alliance Captures Criminals

Hattori Heiji placed the USB drive in front of the phone screen and hinted with a smile: "I heard the juice is good."

An anxious voice came from the headset: "Pick one at random and send him away as soon as possible. Don't delay any further."

Butler Iori Muga calmly responded: "Then this is it."

Hattori Heiji quickly typed, showing Conan's question:

If so, could you answer my next question?

"Okay, that one."

"Is this really all you want? Choose carefully." Hattori Heiji continued pretending.

"Then let me see what other kinds there are."

The message from Conan appeared on the phone screen again:

Mr. Iori, you are being threatened by someone and are looking for this USB flash drive, right?

"Yeah, this one is good too."

Conan then sent the message:

The person threatening you is the one sitting in the seat behind Heiji-nii, the one holding a bloody knife, right?

"Yeah, this looks delicious too."

Conan continued to send messages:

There is also someone who is looking at Mr. Iori and giving you instructions through the headphones, right?

"Yes, there is such juice." Butler Iori Muga's palms were already slightly sweaty.

Conan sent the message again:

Are there only two prisoners?

"No, I haven't drunk juice like this, so I don't know."

Conan's message:

Anyway, we want to catch these two guys first. Can you act according to our plan?

"Okay, then this one."

Conan thought for a moment and sent a message:

Then when we are ready, Heiji-san will raise his hand to give you a signal. Before that, you should follow the prisoner's instructions to put the USB drive away... After Heiji-san gives the signal, you should slowly lower your voice when talking to the prisoner, okay?

The voice coming from the headset was very impatient: "Hey, what are you dithering about? Pick one quickly and get rid of that little devil, otherwise, your precious young lady's head will cry and leave her body."

Butler Iori Muga took the USB drive and replied, "Here, no problem. I have found the USB drive."

"Really?! Please follow my instructions and place it on the sink at the connection between Carriage 13 and Carriage 14."

As the train moves, people come and go.

A female retail clerk wearing glasses hurried past with a cart. When she passed by Kudo Yuki, her eyes unconsciously wandered quickly, and her pace subconsciously quickened as she hurried towards carriage No. 13.

Kudo Yuki had been paying attention to the movements in the carriage. She had noticed the train crew's shift schedule before. The time of appearance and behavior of this female retail attendant did not conform to the normal process. The abnormal behavior made Kudo Yuki feel alarmed and she felt that something was fishy.

At this moment, Hattori Heiji raised his hand to give the order for action.

Butler Iori Muga deliberately raised his voice into the headset: "Speaking of which, there seems to be something wrong with that USB drive."

"question?"

"It's the inner contact of the USB port..." Butler Iori Muga's voice became lower and lower. As he spoke, he secretly observed the situation around him.

Hattori Heiji pretended to pace casually and glanced quickly around the carriage.

Suddenly, the criminals shouted impatiently not far away: "Hey, what did you say? I can't hear you, speak louder!"

This voice instantly broke the silence in the car and pointed the direction for Hattori Heiji. He raised the corners of his mouth, lowered his voice and uttered a few words to the phone: "He Ye, do it!"

Kudo Yuki's gaze turned to Toyama Kazuha who stood up.

She picked up the suitcase with one hand and hit the knife-wielding gangster sitting in the back seat directly. The knife in the gangster's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and he was knocked unconscious before he could react.

Kudo Yuki was worried that the gangster would wake up in the middle of the night, so she immediately stood up and made a gesture to silence Toyama Kazuha and Ooka Momiji. Then she chopped down with her knife, causing the gangster to fall into a deep sleep.

After doing all this, Kudo Yuki pretended nothing had happened. She sat back in her seat as if nothing had happened and closed her eyes and dozed off.

Hattori Heiji smiled and borrowed the cane from the old man beside him, saying loudly: "Uncle, lend it to me."

The other gangster saw this and immediately shouted, "Who are you?"

Hattori Heiji grinned and responded loudly: "My name is Hattori Heiji, and I'm a detective."

"Detective? Stop pretending!" The gangster became angry and rushed towards Hattori Heiji with a knife.

Hattori Heiji was not in a hurry. He skillfully hooked the criminal's upper arm with his crutch and pulled it hard, and the knife slipped out of his hand. While the criminal was screaming in pain, he swung the crutch and hit the criminal's chin. The criminal lost his balance and hit the wall of the car hard.

Toyama Kazuha rode on the criminal, twisted his arm, and shouted into the phone: "Heiji, this is solved!"

"I have solved the problem here. It seems there are only two criminals." Hattori Heiji responded.

Abdomen Heiji called into the phone, "How is it, Mr. Butler? I'm talking to you on the prisoner's phone. Is there anything wrong with the USB drive?"

Butler Iori Muga came to the sink, but found that the USB flash drive he had just placed on the sink was gone. He couldn't help but frown, and a bad premonition surged in his heart: "No, the USB flash drive I placed on the sink just now is gone."

"How is that possible! After you returned to your seat, no passenger left this carriage. And Kazuha also said that no passenger left her carriage."

Butler Iori Muga immediately thought of the female retail waitress and thought to himself: "So, the retail waitress just now should have bowed to the passengers when entering and leaving each car. But she didn't, could it be...?"

As he was thinking, he suddenly heard a "wailing" cry for help coming from the bathroom. He hurried over, opened the door and saw a female flight attendant tied up inside with a piece of tape stuffed in her mouth.

Butler Iori Muga quickly helped to tear off the ropes and tapes wrapped around the female flight attendant.

At the same time, in carriage No. 13, the fake female retail attendant slowly walked over pushing a cart, with a hint of ferocity in her eyes.

She first looked at Kudo Yuki who was sleeping not far away. Seeing that Kudo Yuki did not react, she walked straight towards Yuanshan Heye and murmured viciously: "Let him go and get up from my companion."

After saying that, the female gangster raised the knife in her hand and was about to stab Yuanshan Heye.

Seeing this, Ooka Momiji screamed in horror. She hugged Toyama Kazuha and the two little girls closed their eyes in fear.

When Kudo Yuki heard the noise, she immediately opened her eyes. Just as she was about to help, she saw butler Iori Muga rushing quickly to Ooka Momiji and blocking the knife with her body.

The knife pierced deeply into the chest of Butler Iori Muga, and he felt a sharp pain immediately, but he gritted his teeth and persevered.

When the female criminal saw Iori Muga butler stabbing the knife, a smile of success flashed across her face.

At the critical moment, Hattori Heiji quietly appeared behind her and swung his stick to hit the back of the female criminal's head, and the female criminal instantly fainted. "There's another one!"

Unexpectedly, after a while, the female criminal stood up shakily, with hatred in her eyes, and she was about to kill again.

Kudo Xueliu frowned, a cold light flashed in her eyes, she stepped forward quickly, raised her hand and slapped down. With a "crack", the female criminal fell to the ground and fainted.

The corner of Kudo Yuki's mouth curled up into a sneer: "Humph, you're really troublesome."

Ooka Hongye looked nervously at the butler Iori Muga who was lying on the ground enduring the pain, tears welling up in her eyes: "Iori, please don't die."

Butler Iori Muga paused for a moment and squeezed out three words: "I'm fine."

Ooka Hongye didn't believe it and cried, "But the thorn is so deep."

Butler Iori Muga frowned helplessly and slowly pulled out the knife with one hand. With a "puff" sound, the knife was pulled out. Surprisingly, there was no blood stain on the blade.

Ooka Momiji and Toyama Kazuha were both very surprised.

"There's no blood."

"why?"

Iori Muga endured the pain in his chest, reached into his jacket pocket with trembling hands, took out a deck of karuta, and studied it with a slight frown: "I guess it's because I always keep this deck of karuta close to me on weekdays, and it turned out to be a lifesaver at the critical moment."

"So it was the karuta that was stabbed." Toyama Kazuha echoed.

Ooka Hongye took the karuta, looked at the scratches on it, and said with emotion: "As expected, small materials can also be used in a big way. Thin and small karuta can be stacked together to become a thick and hard shield. Maybe you have forgotten that I told you this before."

The two stood up, and Ooka Momiji returned the karuta to butler Iori Muga.

Iori Muga, the housekeeper, thought to himself: "How could I forget? It was because of this sentence that I resigned from the Public Security Bureau and became your housekeeper."

Kudo Yuki looked at the unconscious female criminal on the ground and squatted down to examine her carefully. Apart from the knife in her hand and the conductor uniform on her body, there were no other obvious clues.

Kudo Yuki stood up and told Hattori Heiji: "Tie them all up first, and hand them over to the police after the train arrives."

Hattori Heiji found a rope, while butler Iori Muga and Kudo Yuki were responsible for holding down the criminals who were still unconscious to prevent them from suddenly waking up and struggling.

The three men quickly tied up the criminals tightly.

Hattori Heiji received a text message from Conan on his phone. After taking a look at the text message, he said to everyone: "Conan said he has called the police, and the police will be waiting at the terminal to arrest the three criminals."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Butler Iori Muga took out a USB drive and said, "Now that the criminals have been caught, let's see what's in this USB drive."

Except for Hattori Heiji, everyone else gathered around.

Butler Iori Muga inserted the USB drive into his mobile phone and opened the video file.

In the video, a strong wind swept across the roof of the building, and three criminals with fierce faces pushed the secretary who was responsible for investigating the suspected bribery of Congressman Tsurugi to the edge of the roof.

Just as the secretary was shouting in despair, the prisoner pushed hard and the secretary's body fell like a kite with a broken string.

This scene was accidentally recorded by a resident of the opposite building who was taking pictures of the sunset. In the picture, Councillor Tsurugi was wearing his signature suit and his demeanor of pretending to be calm was clearly visible.

The train slowly arrived at the terminal of the Shinkansen. The three criminals were handcuffed by Officer Megure, who was called by Conan. Officer Megure looked at them seriously and said, "Your crimes have been recorded. Don't think about escaping again."

Butler Iori Muga took out a USB drive and handed it to Officer Megure. "This is the key evidence. The video clearly records the connection between Councillor Tsurugi and this case."

Officer Megure took the USB drive and nodded solemnly: "Mr. Iori, thanks to your help and everyone else's help this time, we will further investigate Councillor Tsurugi based on this evidence."

Iori Muga, the butler, looked at the prisoner being taken away, and secretly felt lucky that this incident did not lead to more serious consequences. He turned to Kudo Yuki and said, "Ms. Kudo, this time it is thanks to your help, otherwise I really don't know what to do."

Kudo Yuki smiled and responded: "Mr. Iori, if you hadn't blocked that knife in time, Ooka Hongye and Toyama Kazuha might have been in danger."

A flight attendant passed by and found a mobile phone in the garbage bag. He took the phone out of the black garbage bag and asked, "Whose phone is this? How did it end up in there?"

When Butler Iori Muga saw the phone, he was shocked. It was his phone. He quickly walked over and said, "Sorry, this is my phone. I accidentally dropped it just now."

The flight attendant handed the phone to Butler Iori Muga, who took the phone and secretly thanked his luck that the phone was not damaged.

Several people walked out of the train and Conan waited nearby.

Butler Iori Muga looked at Heiji and Conan and asked, "But how did you know I was threatened?"

Hattori Heiji put his hands in his pockets and explained with a smile: "You didn't come back for so long, Hongye called your cell phone but you didn't answer, so I went to look for you. Then I saw you wearing a strange headset, searching for something on an unknown uncle.

So after you left, I searched and found that the man had been killed, with strange writing on his thigh. I took a photo and sent it to Conan, and I figured out that the dead man hid the USB drive in his socks. Then I plugged the USB drive into the tablet and looked at the contents and I knew what happened. "

After hearing this, Butler Iori Muga placed his hands on the shoulders of Abdomen Heiji and praised, "How amazing! He is indeed worthy of Miss Momiji!"

Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha showed the same expression and said in unison: "Huh?"

Conan took the opportunity to interrupt, pointed at himself, and said proudly: "Ah, that... shorthand text, I was the one who deciphered it."

Kudo Yuki stroked Conan's head with a smile and said gently: "Little detective, you are amazing! Do you want me to give you a hug?"

Conan scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "Hey, thank you Sister Xue for the compliment."

Everyone paused for a moment at the elevator entrance, the noisy voices and footsteps intertwined.

Kudo Yuki caught a slight "Hmm?" and she subconsciously turned her head to look, her eyes fixed on Kazami Yuya and Amuro Toru not far away.

To be continued...