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

Sixth floor staircase.

Hearing the footsteps, Gin threw away his cigarette and looked at the person in front of him impatiently: "You are too slow."

"I ran into some minor trouble and had to take a detour." Baichuan Qiu rubbed his brows lightly.

He always had a bad feeling.

"Let's go." Gin turned and walked downstairs.

Baichuan Qiu followed for a few steps, but suddenly hesitated.

"What?" Gin turned his head to look at him, "Do you want to be buried with this place?"

"You go first." Bai Chuanqiu took a step back, "I need to wait a little longer."

Gin narrowed his eyes, unable to understand Shirakawa Akane's decision at this moment.

"boom--"

The building beneath my feet was still exploding, and more and more water was spreading inside. The entire fortress was gradually filled with the sound of water and explosions, and almost no other sound could be heard.

If he stayed any longer, Gin couldn't guarantee that he could escape unscathed.

He didn't understand where Baichuanqiu got his confidence from.

However, Gin is not the kind of person who meddles in other people's affairs. Since the other party wanted to die, he just turned around and left.

Only Baichuan Qiu with a solemn expression was left there.

"Has my fate changed?" Bai Chuanqiu murmured softly, "Why do I always feel uneasy..."

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The elevator slowly descended.

The elevator here is not the size of a normal elevator. It is a cabin with an area of ​​30 square meters. Its transportation capacity is quite strong. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the police to evacuate this place so quickly with a group of prisoners.

And perhaps because it is the only way to leave the fortress, the interior and exterior materials of this elevator are harder and stronger than anywhere else and are not easily deformed.

This is also the reason why it can still operate despite the explosion and the tilt of the fortress.

But despite this, it is now shaky and on the verge of falling apart at any time.

Hagiwara Kenji stepped inside the elevator cabin, worried: "Is this thing still working?"

"We have no choice."

Zhu Fujingguang replied, "The only way to leave the entire fortress is to take this elevator. We should be thankful that it is still functioning, otherwise we would have to climb up the elevator shaft before the sea flooded here."

"Shh, shh, it's the last minute now, don't say such scary things." Hagiwara Kenji covered Morifushi Kagemitsu's mouth in horror.

Zhu Fu Jingguang:...

"Let's go, time is running out."

Said Rei Furuya.

"Kazami, please help me activate the mechanism." Zhu Fujingguang said into the headset.

This elevator is mainly controlled by two places, one is the main control system inside the fortress, and the other is the control mechanism on the ship.

Now they are moved up and down by people on board who are manually controlling them.

Yuya Kazami quickly received the message and started the elevator under their feet.

The elevator cabin slowly closed, and the doors and windows of this cabin disguised as an ordinary ship cabin were instantly sealed. Darkness swallowed up everything inside, and the entire cabin began to move slowly upwards.

The explosions outside grew louder and louder, and even the elevator they were riding in was shaking. Everyone could even clearly hear the sharp sound of the elevator's outer surface rubbing against the elevator shaft wall, as if some evil spirit was wandering and roaring in the darkness.

Everyone stood at the elevator door, quietly waiting for the elevator to arrive, but the atmosphere was particularly solemn and silent.

One second, two seconds...

It’s getting closer, closer, it’s almost here...

Must, must...

This moment seemed so long, as if they were waiting for fate's final judgment on them.

Suddenly, accompanied by the sound of an explosion close at hand, everyone covered their ears, and then felt the elevator under their feet suddenly stop.

In the dark elevator, everyone's heartbeat was so obvious.

"what happened?"

Zhu Fujingguang looked down at his watch and was shocked: "The elevator is probably stuck! We are at least 200 meters away from the sea!"

These two hundred meters are neither long nor short, but they may very well cost them their lives.

"Oh no—" Kenji Hagiwara frowned.

Zhu Fujingguang took out a knife, inserted the blade into the crack of the hatch, and forced it open a small gap. Then he stuck his head out and looked up from the gap. His expression became extremely ugly: "There's a piece of building debris that has fallen down and it's completely blocked up. We can't get up!"

Not only could they not get into the elevator, they couldn't even get through the elevator shaft!

Kudo Shinichi observed his surroundings and suggested, "How about we just open the ceiling and climb up from the other side?"

Fūya Rei gave a wry smile, raised his hand and fired several shots at the ceiling.

But when everyone looked up, they found that the ceiling was not moved at all, and the bullet did not even leave much of a mark.

"The materials used in this elevator are even more outrageous than we imagined," said Rei Furuya. "If it can withstand the explosion and still function, how could it be opened so easily?"

Kenji Hagiwara began pacing back and forth thinking about countermeasures. Suddenly, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something in his peripheral vision. His eyes lit up, and he strode over and dragged out a box.

"This is--"

Everyone followed Hagiwara Kenji's movements and looked over. Then Furuya Rei remembered, "This is the bomb left by those pirates!"

Conan also remembered: "Officer Matsuda used this to blow through Mr.'s hidden room! I think he must have left it for us! If we use this to blow it up-"

"Not very good. If used inside, we would be killed. If used outside, the elevator might fall."

Hagiwara Kenji shook his head.

He was an expert and understood this type of bomb better than anyone else present.

Even with bombs as weapons of destruction, they have no other way out.

"I have another idea."

Hagiwara Kenji thought for a moment and said, "I just checked the condition of the elevator column, and I found that there is actually not much water in the elevator shaft."

Compared with the large areas of water accumulation in other places in the fortress, although water also entered the elevator shaft, in comparison, a water pressure difference had been formed between the inside and the outside.

"If we drop a bomb and blow through the bottom of the elevator shaft all at once, allowing the seawater outside to rush in and form a high-pressure water column, can we directly flush the elevator cabin we are in out?"

Just like a clogged water pipe, under the high-pressure impact of the flood, the clogged objects in the pipe will be quickly flushed out.

What they rely on now is this very sturdy elevator cabin.

Kudo Shinichi opened his eyes wide: "This..."

What a crazy idea!

Fūya Rei was already considering the feasibility of this. "The elevator cabin is so solid and strong that even if there's a flood, I don't think it will suffer any significant damage. We might just be swept away by the flood."

This hard shell actually becomes a barrier to protect them.

"But this also carries a huge risk," Zhu Fujingguang said rationally, "What if the bomb we drop doesn't hit the bottom, but gets stuck somewhere else..."

"Let's give it a try first." Furuya Rei suggested, a dark light flashing in his eyes, "At least this is a chance for everyone to survive."

Kenji Hagiwara also agreed.

Zhu Fu Jingguang was silent for a moment and could only nod in agreement.

If they were stuck here, the best that could happen would be that they would be dragged to the bottom of the sea by the fortress and buried there forever. The worst that could happen would be that they would be swallowed up by the storm caused by the fortress's complete explosion and turned into pieces.

There is no worse possibility.

Kenji Hagiwara pushed out the box containing the bomb, and everyone listened with bated breath.

"Bang-bang-bang-bang-"

The box went all the way down, and the sound of it hitting the wall lingered in the air, gradually getting farther and farther away from the crowd, but everyone's hearts also followed the box as it slowly explored downwards -

"Bam—"

The box made its last sound, and then fell completely silent.

Zhu Fujingguang pressed the watch in his hand, his face somewhat solemn; "The time is wrong."

Judging from the weight of the box and the time and distance it fell, the box has only fallen to about the third floor.

This is far from their expectations.

"I'll go down and start it."

As he spoke, Fūya Rei was about to squeeze outside, ready to go down and install the bomb himself.

"You're crazy-"

Zhu Fu Jingguang grabbed him and said, "You won't be able to come back in time at this distance!"

"Then I won't come back!"

Rei Furuya stared at the person in front of him and spoke in a calm and firm voice.

"I have long been ready."