At 9:11 pm, on the road in front of the Red Fort Hotel, a yellow Beetle rushed quickly and drifted to a stop in front of the hotel.
At this time, there was another shabby van parked in front of the hotel. Conan could tell at a glance that this was the one that Mouri Kogoro rented today.
"I'm responsible for going to Fantasyland to find the children."
Dr. Agasa rolled down the window and said to Hattori Heiji who rushed out of the car with Conan on his back.
"Okay! I'll take care of you, Kazuye!"
"I see!"
Now for them, the phrase "time is life" is no longer a metaphor, because they only have more than forty minutes to tell the perverted client the facts of the case and the conclusions they have reached.
Not wanting to waste any second, Hattori Heiji carried Conan with his injured leg straight to the hotel door.
It seemed that Uncle Maori had already gone up to report before them, and he didn't know if he could stop them before it was too late.
When he arrived at the door of the original banquet hall, he found that the door was already half-open. He didn't bother to knock on the door, so he ducked in and got in.
But soon, the two detectives who had learned the truth smelled an unusual smell - it was a rust-like smell that they were very familiar with.
That's the smell of blood.
Immediately afterwards, they saw Mouri Kogoro standing by the long table, and the secretary who was already lying on the ground with a hole between his eyebrows.
"This, this is..." Both of them were stunned. Now they understood why Mouri Kogoro stood aside like a wooden man.
At this time, Mouri Kogoro spoke: "I got here a minute earlier than you, and I saw this guy lying dead on the ground..."
"The body is still warm. It must have been dead not long ago." Uncle Maoli added.
Conan and Heiji looked at each other and saw the shocked look in each other's eyes.
The two men quickly stepped forward and began to examine the secretary's body.
As Kogoro Mouri said, this man probably died within an hour. He was shot to death by the murderer without any trace of resistance.
The secretary died in a mysterious way, but the matter that the three of them cared about the most has not been resolved at all.
How did they find the mysterious client?! You know, the bomb in the ID is going to explode in only forty minutes!
The lives of themselves and those they care about are still in extreme danger. At this critical moment, they have no time or attention to think about who killed this secretary.
"Wait a minute... when I called this man named Takada, I heard noise on the phone. The noise was exactly the same as when I was talking to the client before! The client should be nearby!"
Hattori Heiji said suddenly.
Without saying anything, Conan immediately started rummaging through the secretary. Sure enough, he quickly found a remote control. After pressing it randomly a few times, a secret door opened out of thin air on the wall next to it.
"The client is most likely inside!"
The three of them immediately walked towards the secret door, but standing in front of the secret door, the three of them frowned in unison.
The smell of blood!
The smell of blood is even stronger than before!
The three of them looked at each other and walked cautiously into the secret passage.
The patter of footsteps sounded in this gloomy secret passage, which was particularly permeable.
Finally, the scene at the end of the secret passage appeared before their eyes.
A female corpse with blond hair was lying on the ground, her eyes still open, with endless fear in her eyes. She was shot between the eyebrows, and the way she died was exactly the same as Secretary Takada just now.
The three of them quickly recognized that this was Reiko Shimizu, who was Ito Suehiko's close friend at the Crime Research Club when he was in college and who also worked at Far East Company after graduation.
Conan and Heiji looked at each other again, and immediately rushed to the chair in the secret room with its back facing the door.
Even the real culprit behind the scenes, Shimizu Reiko, is dead, so isn’t the client Suehiko Ito...
They rushed to the seats and saw that Suehiko Ito, who was wearing sunglasses and an unshaven beard, had lost his voice and a bloody hole on the top of his head was hidden in his hair.
It was also a clean bullet that directly killed Suehiko Ito from above.
Who is it?
The situation is already very clear - someone entered this banquet hall within an hour before them, and silenced Secretary Takada, Ito Suehiko, and Shimizu who didn't know when they came here, and may have come to kill Ito Suehiko.
Reiko and the three of them shot and killed them all.
Such ruthless killings are frightening.
"Hey! Work... kid, look here!" Hattori Heiji soon made a new discovery, "The words on this screen..."
Conan and Uncle Mouri gathered around them, and saw that the screen facing Suehiko Ito's body was on, with two lines of words written in the center of the screen:
The first line is: All IDs have been unlocked and can be removed and recycled.
The second line is: Eliminate evil and do your best.
"Who did this?" Mouri Kogoro's eyes widened in surprise.
This man not only killed three people, but also conveniently lifted the ID restrictions?
They raised their wrists. Sure enough, the ID that had been stuck before could now be removed smoothly.
The three of them were even more shocked, and at the same time they also had a strange sense of powerlessness.
The case they had been working on all day, the ticking time bomb they were worried about, was solved like this?
It always feels like a punch hitting cotton.
Not to mention that this mysterious man used such a clean and neat method - kill all the guys who might be troublesome, and there won't be any trouble.
"Anyway, I'll call the doctor first. Uncle, you can also contact the Memu Police Department to confirm whether their IDs have been removed."
Conan was the first to react and immediately took out his cell phone to call Dr. Ali.
For some reason, he always felt that this way of acting had a sense of déjà vu, reminding him of a certain person. If it was the person he was thinking of, there seemed to be sufficient reasons for doing such a thing, and at the same time it did not make him think of someone else.
He felt strange.
——But if it was really that person, he would definitely not leave any traces.
Finally, the call was connected, and after both confirming that all the IDs with bombs could be removed, the three finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"The Megure Police Department said he would be here soon." Mouri Kogoro also told the Megure Police Department what happened here, and the police would be here soon.
At the same time, Conan quietly turned his body, covering the screen of his mobile phone without leaving any trace, and blindly typed a text message to Haibara Ai.
"Haiyuan, was Mr. Yuan always by your side just now?"