Out-of-control players in the world of Detective Conan

Skyscraper Building A.

Led by Kogoro Mouri and Shuichi Akai, the people in the banquet hall continued to ascend the stairs.

Conan is just a kid, he can't be relied on.

Kyogoku is a warrior, and he's not very useful now.

Although they knew that there were other people below their banquet hall who might be in a state of panic, they couldn't do anything about it.

"Mr. Akai, where exactly did Qi Ming go?"

Conan followed behind Shuichi Akai and asked softly.

They have now climbed three flights of stairs, but still have not seen Qi Ming.

Could it be true, as he just said, that Qi Ming slipped away first?

But this doesn't seem like his personality at all.

Shuichi Akai shook his head.

He remained vigilant throughout.

As it stands, Qi Ming doesn't seem to intend to make a move against him; it's likely that Gin from another building will be the one to do so.

But since an explosion has occurred, why hasn't Gin made a move yet?

As they climbed another floor, the flames had already spread to a quarter of the floor, and everyone couldn't help but quicken their pace.

The floor they were on was somewhat unusual.

They need to exit the stairwell and pass through the rooms on this floor to continue upwards.

Just as everyone rounded the corner, Qi Ming and Ai Haibara finally appeared.

However, their current behavior is strange; instead of going upstairs, they are squatting in front of a table.

"Ms. Miyano, what are you doing here?"

Qi Ming heard Kogoro Mouri's voice, but he did not respond.

As the footsteps behind him grew closer, Qi Ming turned around and waved his hand with a feigned look of horror.

"What are you doing? Find cover and crouch down, don't move!"

"Squat down?"

Shuichi Akai and Conan were puzzled by Qi Ming's current behavior.

What could possibly frighten this person?

"Why are you crouching down? The fire is almost at our doorstep! Don't stop, let's move on!"

A middle-aged man following behind the group heard Qi Ming's voice and shouted disdainfully.

Then he moved to the front.

"Are you deaf? There's a sniper!"

Qi Ming had just spoken when the sound of shattering glass rang out.

The middle-aged man at the front froze, then fell straight to the ground.

"what?!"

Kogoro Mouri's expression changed, and he quickly stepped forward to check. The bullet hole in the fallen man's chest, stained with blood, was very obvious.

"This is a gunshot wound!"

thump—

thump—

Several more heavy thuds echoed as objects fell to the ground, and several people in the crowd collapsed to the ground, their chests stained with blood.

"Sniper! There's a sniper! Everyone, get down and find cover!"

Shuichi Akai shouted immediately and found a nearby counter, where he squatted down.

Where did the sniper come from?

The organization, Gin?

No, no, no, if it were an organization's sniper, Qi Ming wouldn't need to dodge at all.

“Run, run!!”

Seeing their companions collapse right beside them, many people hurriedly turned around and tried to run towards the stairwell.

However, without exception, all those who went back the way they came had a sudden inspiration and lay on the ground without making a sound.

Seeing that there was no way to turn back, the remaining people had no choice but to find a place to squat down.

The flames on the floor were still spreading, and everyone felt the temperature rising steadily.

go?

How do we proceed if there's a sniper?

don't go?

Damn it, I'm going to get burned again!

For a time, the situation was extremely tense.

"Judging from the direction this person was moving in, and looking at this bullet hole, the bullet must have come from a parallel distance in that direction."

Shuichi Akai leaned slightly out from behind the bar and looked at the corpse lying on the ground. He quickly made a judgment.

Turning his head to look at the floor-to-ceiling window on the right, he indeed saw a bullet hole in the window.

However, to Shuichi Akai's surprise, there was no building of the same height as their skyscraper outside the window, only a small hill that was estimated to be nearly two thousand meters high.

Ghost bullets? Where did these bullets come from?

It couldn't have been shot from that small hill two thousand meters high, could it?

"I've found it! The bullets came from that other building!"

"Yes, I saw it! There are bullet holes in the window!"

Two voices suddenly came from the crowd.

Upon hearing this, everyone cautiously peeked out and looked out the front window.

thump—

Perhaps because a large portion of their head was exposed, another person was shot and fell.

However, everyone could see clearly at this moment that another crack appeared in the front window of another building after the person fell!

Now people were certain that the people shooting at them were from the other building!

"Why? Why do those people over there have guns?"

"They're terrorists, they must be terrorists!"

The crowd began to panic and make a ruckus.

With the fire raging, they had to hurry uphill to escape.

Now we have to face terrorists in another building?!

"Mr. Akai, are you able to understand the current situation?"

Conan looked at another person lying on the ground and asked Shuichi Akai with a grim expression.

"...I don't understand at all."

Shuichi Akai frowned and looked to his right again.

There was a bullet hole in that window when that person fell!

No, the bullet definitely didn't come from that building across the street!

The famous Sherlock Holmes once said something like this.

When you eliminate all the impossible scenarios, what remains, however unbelievable, is the truth.

Hideaki Akai looked at Qi Ming.

This was Qi Ming's doing; this is the truth.

"...Conan, look at the bow tie Qi Ming is holding, isn't it similar to yours?"

Noticing the red bow tie in Qi Ming's hand, Shuichi Akai suddenly asked Conan a question.

bow tie?

Conan looked at the bow tie in Qi Ming's hand, then looked at the bow tie he was wearing with a puzzled expression.

Her voice changer bow tie was still on her; Qi Ming hadn't taken it.

Before Conan could think further, when his gaze returned to Qi Ming, Qi Ming was using a voice changer to switch to another voice.

"Damn it, they want us trapped here and burned to death in the fire!"

"...Nani?"

Conan can now be certain.

Those sounds just now were made by Qi Ming!

But isn't it a bit too outrageous of you to openly use a voice changer and bow tie to change your voice so blatantly?

Is this how you use it in front of so many people?

The key point is that those people didn't even realize that all the sounds were coming from the same place.

What exactly is Qi Ming trying to do?!