Chapter 63 The eighth target that disappeared, detonated the Colosseum!
Sato Miwako's question directly made Takasugi Toshihiko, who was filled with hatred just now, speechless.
To be honest, this was the reason why he gradually felt uneasy after hearing the contents of this recording.
Because of the filter of hatred for Matsumoto Kiyonaga, he originally thought that this woman was with him because she was greedy for the Takasugi family's property, but now it seems that his idea is completely wrong——
Sayuri Matsumoto was actually willing to be killed by him?!
Conan, who was inconspicuous among the crowd, lowered his head slightly, an inexplicable light reflected on his lenses, and for a moment he didn't know what to say:
Maybe Teacher Sayuri knew about Takasugi Toshihiko's hatred for his father from the beginning, but she wanted to use her love to melt the hostility in his heart...
"Ahem, Mr. Takasugi Toshihiko, now we suspect you and Matsumoto Sayuri——"
"No need to say these high-sounding words, I will cooperate with you to find Sayuri."
After scolding, Takasugi Toshihiko waved his hand with a complicated expression: "I want to ask her why."
"Then let's take notes."
Megure Thirteen and Matsumoto Kiyonaga, who straightened their hats and took action personally, followed Toshihiko Takasugi into the interrogation room.
"Okay, okay, it's all gone. Go check it out quickly and do what you're told. Tadokoro, I asked you to check out those shady rats that Mrs. Miyazawa told you about. Have you checked them out? Go quickly."
"
After Megure Thirteen left, Miwako Sato, one of his right-hand men, immediately began to ask the onlookers to work quickly. For a while, there were only two or three kittens left in the crowded area.
"Mrs. Miyazawa, as a client, you are hiding relevant facts from me as a detective. This will make me very troubled." It was also only then that I learned that Miyazawa Yuka still had recordings and that she had met with several drug dealers last night.
Mouri Kogoro said seriously about this fact.
"I'm really sorry, because this recording is too important, so I dare not... I'm sorry." Yuka Miyazawa bit her lips and bowed deeply to Kogoro Mori: "Please believe me again, I really
Nothing is hidden from you."
Before she fully trusted Mao Li, she really didn't dare to release the recorder. Today, she was forced by the police to prove her innocence before she took it out.
"..."
Mouri Kogoro, who had intended to refuse, couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the woman running around in front of him to investigate the truth behind her husband's death.
"I still can't figure out why Sayuri Matsumoto is willing to die for a man who wants to kill him. Do you believe this? Uehara?"
Staring at the back of Mouri Kogoro leaving with Conan and Miyazawa Yuka, Sato Miwako leaned on the desk and crossed her hands on her chest and asked.
"It's hard to say, maybe Takasugi Toshihiko just got lucky and met a wonderful woman."
Uehara Katsuki shrugged and threw the notebook and pen in his hand on the desk: "Takasugi Toshihiko is now in charge of the Megure Police Department. Let's go and meet Natsukawa Shiya first."
After reaching out and adjusting Takasugi Toshihiko's photo on the blackboard to the most suspicious circle, Sato Miwako turned around and walked out the door with her partner——
Thirty minutes later, the two of them received news that was not exactly good news.
"I'm sorry, both of you. Dr. Xia Muchuan has an operation tonight and doesn't have time to see you two. Please forgive me."
"Then when does he get off work?"
"tomorrow morning."
"..."
After witnessing the busy life of the high-altitude emergency center of Miwa Central Hospital, Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato were obviously frustrated.
"I got the contact information of Xia Muchuan Zhiye from the director of the emergency department. Let's talk to this busy man tomorrow morning."
Inside the Mihua Central Hospital shrouded in darkness, Katsuki Uehara took several sips of purified water to quench his thirst.
"Drink slowly, be careful not to choke." Miwako Sato, who was replying to the message via email, glanced at him.
"If something really happened, the emergency room is right next door." Katsuki Uehara pursed his moist lips and pointed to the building a few meters next door: "Are there any new clues? Are you typing so fast?"
"No, it's just that our people confirmed that Miyazawa Yuka did not lie. The drug dealers she found all admitted that she really wanted to use money to trade with them and let them buy hydroxide for Toshihiko Takasugi.
The evidence of sodium capsules is that it was the poison Takasugi Toshihiko bought to kill his fiancée."
"She has a lot of connections. She can even find poison dealers?" Katsuki Uehara screwed on the lid and smacked his mouth several times, his eyebrows raised in surprise.
"You can use money to open a road, too."
Miwako Sato, who handed her cell phone to Katsuki Uehara, raised her eyebrows, and Katsuki Uehara, who was doubtful, glanced down -
Every consumption record of Miyazawa Yuka in the past month is particularly clear.
"It seems her suspicion is also diminishing."
"We are checking whether she and her husband have other bank accounts. The results are expected to be available tomorrow afternoon."
"Not tonight?"
"Don't think too much, just recharge your batteries and have a good sleep tonight. We might have to stay up all night next."
Miwako Sato took back her phone and sighed: "I'm going home, good night."
"Well, see you tomorrow."
Katsuki Uehara, who was leaning against the stone pillar, chuckled and waved to her.
Late at night at the intersection of Mihua Town, two cars parted ways.
Maori Detective Agency, bedroom.
Holding back the deafening snores of Mouri Kogoro, he hid in bed and used the miniature flashlight of his watch to illuminate the emotions that he had reproduced with his pen in front of his eyes. Conan fell into deep thought.
Regarding the serial murders and the two incidents that happened after that, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't explain it for a while.
The strangest thing among them is that the prisoner tricked the policeman Shiratori Rensaburo into the restaurant called Asahiju and then detonated a bomb.
If it was just to kill Shiratori Rensaburo, there would be no need to go to such great lengths.
And this notice letter...what exactly does it say?
Picking up another handwritten notice letter with his little hand, Conan frowned.
Ancient Rome…
Colosseum…
Conan couldn't figure it out and fell asleep with deep thoughts until he was woken up by Mao Lilan the next morning.
"Conan, get up quickly, you have to go to school today, don't stay in bed."
"Aha...Okay, got it, Sister Xiaolan."
The yawning Conan rubbed his sleepy eyes. He looked sleep deprived, which made Mao Lilan a little worried: "Conan, did you not sleep last night?"
She knew that Kogoro Mori snores when he sleeps.
"How about you sleep in the same room with me, Conan?"
——?!
Sleeping in the same room as Xiaolan?!
Conan, who was still sleepy-eyed, was shocked: "This, this is not good, sister Xiaolan..."
"Why? Don't you want to share a room with me?" Mao Lilan didn't quite understand.
This child's sleep is so bad.
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm going to wash up first, Sister Xiaolan." Conan, who didn't know what he was thinking, rushed out of the room and ran to the bathroom. When he passed the living room, he saw Maori, who was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper.
Kogoro glanced at the brat and shook the ashes from his cigarette——
"Really, you troublesome brat, if that doesn't work, I'll clean up the third floor so you can live there."
"Dad, Conan is still so young, how can you let him live on the third floor alone?" An angry Mao Lilan put down the breakfast brought from the kitchen and said with his hands on his hips.
In the bathroom, Conan was brushing his teeth while stepping on a bench to reach the sink. When he heard the voice of father and daughter Xiao Xiao coming to his ears along with the sound of TV news outside the door, he shook his head helplessly:
Really, it starts again.
"The latest news is that all the injured in the restaurant explosion that occurred in Cupido Town two days ago have been treated and transferred to the corresponding wards..."
In the living room, the news anchor was elegantly broadcasting the press release. In the bathroom, Conan was brushing his teeth while listening, but the speed of brushing his teeth became slower and slower——
?!
Wait a minute! I remember what it said in the notice letter?!
Conan, who had no time to wash off the foam, hurriedly got off the bench and ran back to the bedroom under the watchful eyes of Mouri Kogoro and Maori Ran.
"Conan?"
Under Mao Lilan's gaze, Conan, who had completely forgotten the habits of a child, was squatting in front of his quilt, holding his mobile phone and seemed to be typing and searching for something.
I see……
That’s why prisoners do this!
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"However, it is a pity that in the list announced by Director Onoda of the High-Emergency Emergency Center of Mihua Central Hospital, 34 of the 136 injured who were sent to the hospital still died due to excessive injuries and failure to rescue..."
Tokyo, Chiyoda District, in a high-rise apartment.
Katsuki Uehara, who was having breakfast, was still playing the morning news as background music. While eating, he didn't forget to look through the emails in his mailbox. But when he heard the sound of the news, his brows suddenly furrowed.
——
Um?
Biting the buns he made, he raised his eyes and looked at the host who was broadcasting the details on the TV news. Uehara Katsumi chewed more and more slowly...
Could it be that?!
Suddenly, Katsuki Uehara thought of a possibility, and it was like a flash of lightning flashed through his mind——
Biting the bun, he quickly searched for relevant information on his mobile phone, stood up suddenly, and immediately dialed the number of his boss, Memu Shisan——
"Hello? Uehara-kun?"
"Police Department! Take people to Mihua Central Hospital immediately! Hurry!"
Katsuki Uehara, who hurriedly put on his suit jacket, said sternly: "Both the bomb and Sayuri Matsumoto are in the hospital!"
"What did you say?! Are you sure Uehara-kun?!"
Megure Shisan, who arrived at the office early, slammed the table, and his loud voice immediately attracted the attention of Miwako Sato and others who had just arrived outside the office: "Have you opened the notice letter?
!”
"Ah, that's what I just thought of."
He stuffed the unfinished bun into his suit pocket, turned the key and started the engine, and the magenta EVO rushed out of the parking space——
"All this time, we have not been able to find out who the eighth person the criminal wanted to kill by detonating the specialty restaurant was. Shiratori? Or the owner of the restaurant? Or a certain waiter?
"We have checked all these, but we have not found any results. On the contrary, we have wasted a lot of time and a lot of police force on this."
Megure Thirteen, who has gone through two generations of Kudo brothers, relied on his years of adulation experience and subconsciously answered: "Uehara-kun, do you already know who the prisoner's eighth target is?"
"The reason why we couldn't find the eighth target is simple, because the eighth target was not a single person, but someone who was in the entire restaurant at the time!"
Uehara Katsumi, who stepped on the accelerator without braking, was controlling the steering wheel with one hand and making a call on his mobile phone with the other hand. He was captured by the intersection surveillance camera.
"Remember the warning letter that the prisoner left behind after kidnapping Sayuri Matsumoto? Police Department, the content above is the reason why the prisoner did what he did."
Katsuki Uehara, who was turning the steering wheel hard, pressed the horn from time to time: "I have said before that the location stated in the notice should symbolize the Colosseum. And in the history of the Colosseum,
, some blood and sin are unavoidable."
Turning on the hands-free device, Mu Shisan's eyes widened: "The history of the Colosseum in ancient Rome?"
"Yes, the Sicilian slave uprising. To be precise, it was the second Sicilian slave uprising."
Katsuki Uehara recalled the content he had searched not long ago and said in a deep voice: "In 104 BC, the second Sicilian slave uprising broke out. The slave Xavius was elected as the leader, and after establishing a team, he met with the western slave leader Athenion.
The troops he led united and began a three-year war with the Roman rulers.
Three years later, in 101 BC, the slave rebel army fought a decisive battle with the Roman army and ultimately failed. Countless captured slaves were crucified and 1,000 slaves were sent to Rome to be gladiators.
"And these rebellious warriors refused to be entertained and hacked each other to death on the practice field."
Hearing this, Miwako Sato suddenly widened her eyes and exclaimed: "Those people who were affected by the bomb in the restaurant are the slave warriors in this allusion. The police who sent them to the hospital were Roman troops, and the hospital that took over the wounded was
Is it the Colosseum?!"
"That's right.
"[The ferocious beasts' eyes were red with hunger in the cheers, the sad fighters waved their deadly spears at their companions in despair; the bright fireworks cheered the victors, and the lives in the cage shrank in a corner and shivered]
The focus of these two sentences is the ancient Roman Colosseum and the two places where you wave your gun at your companions."
"But, why? Why can you tell it's a hospital?" Memu Shisan, who had already started calling the explosive ordnance disposal squad, frowned.
This time, before Katsumi Uehara on the other end of the phone could answer, Miwako Sato already understood: "The second half of the notice letter, divine messenger, God, and the cross are the symbols of Christianity."
"Not only that, Sato, you have also forgotten the most important point."
"The most important thing?"
"That's right."
Katsuki Uehara, who was driving on a shortcut, stepped on the accelerator and flew into the air. He then drifted around a corner and successfully saw the sign of Miwa Central Hospital when he raised his eyes. His eyes focused and he said loudly: "Mihua Central Hospital is now overcrowded. If the police take the car at this time,
The police rushed in and said there was a bomb in the hospital and hoped that everyone would evacuate in an orderly manner under the guidance of the police. How do you think the crowd would react?"
Miwako Sato paused: "The crowd's...reaction?"
"Most people are blindly obedient. Once they encounter something that threatens the lives of themselves and their families, their mentality will definitely be unbalanced, not to mention that it is a place like a hospital where most people care about their lives.
"At that time, all it takes is a slight push from someone, and the police will definitely clash with people who want to escape from the hospital quickly. At that time, the police and the people who clash will be no different from gladiators;
"And this hospital will also become a colosseum for the police and the public, providing a visual feast for the murderer hiding in the dark."
squeak!
!
Under the sudden braking, the tires made a screeching sound against the ground.
Uehara Katsumi, who had illegally parked his car on the side of the road with a swerve, opened the door and got out of the car. He stared at the front entrance of Mihua Central Hospital with people coming and going in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "That's it -" [The sad fighter said in despair