Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

On the sea, the empty "ghost ship" began to shake violently.

Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara staggered a few steps, leaned over the railing and looked down, but they only saw layers of rolling waves blooming like flowers, stirring up the entire sea surface into turmoil.

—There was a severe collision under the sea.

At the same time, an armed ship slowly approached here, and a group of people wearing black combat uniforms, who looked obviously mercenaries, built a temporary bridge and came to the ship.

Their movements were agile and their steps were steady, and it was obvious that they were a well-trained team.

Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara looked at each other, turned around and quickly hid to the other side of the boat.

This group of mercenaries had a clear goal. After getting on board, they did not wander around, but went straight to the cabin hall on the first floor. Then they took out the electronic instruments and devices in their hands and fiddled with something in the cabin.

About five minutes later, Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara, who were on the other side of the boat, felt the boat shaking violently at the same time.

"boom--"

A sound came from inside the ship, stirring up huge waves.

The secret elevator that originally led to the underwater fortress suddenly appeared in front of everyone after a burst of smoke, revealing a dark elevator shaft, like a gate to hell.

The mercenaries tied the ropes, picked up the bombs they had prepared, jumped out of the black hole, and headed towards the bottom of the abyss.

They moved quickly, jumping down in groups and disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

In the end, only a five-man team was left on the boat, holding guns and monitoring the situation at the scene with extremely serious expressions.

Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara discussed it and decided to split up temporarily and investigate the situation at both ends.

Kenji Hagiwara was walking along the corridor outside the deck. There were many pillars blocking the view, which easily provided him with shelter. However, as he was walking, he suddenly saw a cigarette stuffed into the gap of the railing on this side.

The cigarette had already burned to the butt and there was no spark left. It must have been left by the people from the organization just now.

Why don't you just throw your cigarette butts into the ocean? Why are they left in such an obvious place?

Kenji Hagiwara thought of the undercover agent Rei Furuya, had a guess in his mind, and reached out to pull out the cigarette butt.

The cigarette butt was surprisingly firm, as if there was glue stuck to the bottom. Hagiwara Kenji bent down to study it carefully, and then found that there was a piece of chewing gum underneath.

Kenji Hagiwara didn't care whether the gum had been used by someone else and just took it out directly.

Sure enough, there was a small locator and a miniature headset wrapped in the chewing gum.

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On the other side, Matsuda Jinpei noticed that several mercenaries over there turned around and moved towards the armed ship they came from. It seemed that something had happened below and they needed to notify the people on the ship.

Taking advantage of this gap, Jinpei Matsuda slipped into the cabin at an extremely fast speed.

The mercenaries opened a hole in the middle of the cabin. Matsuda Jinpei looked down and gave up the idea of ​​going down directly.

Although there is still a rope here for those guys to go down, if they happen to collide with the people below, it will be a waste of time.

Thinking of this, Matsuda Jinpei prepared to turn around and leave.

But before he could take a few steps, the doors and windows of the cabin were suddenly closed and locked.

Jinpei Matsuda was startled and drew his gun for defense, observing his surroundings nervously.

But the next moment, he felt his body lighten, and then he fell down along with the cabin!

Matsuda Jinpei: !!!

Damn, this is an elevator?

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"Hello? Is anyone there?"

Zhu Fushi Jingguang was stunned when he heard the voice in the headset, and then said in surprise: "Hagiwara? How could you-"

"Ahem, that's not the point. Let's talk about it when we get back. I'm on that organization's ship right now."

Hagiwara Kenji coughed lightly and forced himself to change the subject.

Zhu Fushiguri was just stunned for a moment, and did not continue to ask about how Hagiwara Kenji came here, but asked: "What is the situation on the ship now?"

Kenji Hagiwara told Morofushi Kagemitsu what he knew in detail.

There was silence for a moment, as if he was giving instructions to the people around him. After a while, Zhu Fujingguang said, "We'll be there soon. You and Matsuda wait a moment. We'll go in together. The situation in there is very dangerous. Don't act alone!"

"Okay." Hagiwara Kenji agreed decisively.

But when he looked everywhere for Matsuda Jinpei, he found that Matsuda Jinpei was missing!

Hagihara Kenji:?

How could he be so big as Zhen Pingjiang?

Kenji Hagiwara had a bad feeling. He crouched down and sneaked into the cabin where the mercenaries were. Sure enough, he saw that the cabin furnishings were brand new, and there was no big hole caused by the mercenaries when they came.

There is a new mechanism covering this place!

The five mercenaries who had left temporarily just now also came back, but they also looked confused.

"That's weird! I clearly activated the mechanism!" one of the mercenaries said, "Why did the elevator just go down?"

"No wonder there were other people just now?" A vigilant mercenary began to check the surroundings.

"That shouldn't be the case. Apart from us, where else could we be found in this vast ocean?" another mercenary shrugged. "It's likely the explosion damaged the mechanism, forcing the elevator to be manually operated. We need someone to operate it."

"Hiss, that's also possible."

The mercenaries thought about it carefully and agreed with this statement.

"Then start it again, and you two can go down with the stuff."

The leading mercenary pointed at the two men.

"Yes!"

So the mercenaries put their previous doubts behind them and restarted the mechanism, completely unaware that their previous actions had inadvertently pitted another guy.

And under the sea, there is also a melee among multiple parties at this moment.

Conan wanted to leave alone to investigate, so when Vermouth and Rum started fighting, he quietly left.

Vermouth looked back at Conan with a complicated expression, but still took the initiative to lead people away in another direction.

Following the same path back to the laboratory, Conan first quickly identified the composition of the recent experimental materials, picked up a few reagent tubes and carried them with him as a guarantee, and then continued to walk towards the pure white space.

After just a few steps, Conan held his breath and lowered his pace.

Two figures flashed before him into the pure white space.

Conan recognized them as Gin and his little brother Vodka.

Why are these two people here?

An idea flashed through Conan's mind.

Are they here to protect that gentleman?

No, it shouldn't be—

Conan leaned against the wall and slowly moved closer...

In the pure white space, Shirakawa Qiu lowered his head to examine the pure white wall that Conan had previously suspected, then turned to look at Gin: "In the entire fortress, this is probably the place most likely to have an external space."

They had just roughly inspected the fortress and found that the overall layout was close to symmetrical.

The mercenaries basically stayed on the upper and lower floors on both sides, while the important laboratories were distributed on the left and right parts in the middle, and in the center were the elevators leading to the outside world.

But that gentleman's residence is not distributed in this entire area - it is very likely that the gentleman's location is different from the symmetrical external space.

Such an external space, like the "ghost ship" directly above them, is attached to the fortress and does not rely entirely on the fortress for its existence. Even if it is accidentally detached, it can survive alone on the sea.

——I think this is also Karasuma Renya’s last trump card.

Once something appears in the fortress, he can immediately break away from the fortress and escape.

This is in line with Karasuma Renya's style.

If nothing unexpected happens, the other party should be here.