Chapter 265 Three suspects who went around in a circle
Indeed, the efficiency of doing this is too slow. It takes a lot of effort just to find the traces. By the time a route is found for tracking, the three people will probably have disappeared.
"Is there hope in looking at their social identities?"
Chiba shook his head, "The three of them have just joined the company not long ago. The headquarters has asked them about their situation in the workplace. Basically, all colleagues including the boss have only a partial understanding."
"What about before this job?"
“There are no traces, so it’s probably not easier to find it than this.”
Chiba pointed to the ground, Kuroki Ren lowered his head along his hand, pondered for a while and said:
"Let's go back to the hotel."
The fire in the hotel has been put out, and apart from the three missing suspects, the only remaining residents are four children who are still here to catch up on their sleep.
To be precise, three children.
Dr. Ali, Wakamu On and Conan have all left. How could Haibara Ai fall asleep while the suspect is still on the run? She sits on a chair in the house and keeps vigil. Although she closes her eyes and rests, she can't hide the slightest disturbance.
Ears.
The lights in the room were turned off, so no one saw Haihara Ai when he suddenly opened his eyes.
There was a noise outside.
She gently got off the chair, walked to the door, and put her ear to it to listen to the sounds outside.
Someone was talking, and the voice sounded like...the store owner.
Haibara Ai used her detective badge to tell Conan not to speak in code, and turned on the microphone here so that she could talk for a while.
Conan was sitting in the car. When he heard the sound of the detective badge, he kept the car quiet. Then the three of them held their breath and listened to the noise coming from over there.
The sound outside was too low, and Badge's microphone couldn't pick up that much sound, so Haihara Ai had no choice but to transmit the sound simultaneously in a low voice.
But her method of transmission is the Morse code used by Kuroki Jin during the day.
Ruomu Wenren looked weird for a moment, suppressed his questions, and waited for Conan to translate the code.
Conan listened attentively at first, then opened his eyes wide in surprise. Before speaking, he did not forget to turn off his microphone to prevent the sound from being transmitted.
"Those three people seem to have returned to the hotel."
The driver's eyes changed when he heard the words.
Because traces of the suspect were found on the mountain, most of the few police officers left behind are now on the mountain. Including Kuroki Jin's car that was temporarily mobilized, there are a total of three police vehicles, all of which are on the ski mountain.
!
In addition to the two police officers who dealt with the follow-up, the other police officers were also on the mountain. At this time, the suspect returned to the town. One can imagine what the consequences would be.
"Call Chiba quickly!" Megure yelled. After yelling, he realized that he was the only one present who had Chiba's phone number.
I first pulled the car over to prevent an accident while driving while talking on the phone. Then I dialed Chiba’s number, but no one answered the call.
Conan's face became serious, while Ruomu Wenren still looked calm.
"It's okay, Brother Kuromu is here." He said, "Let's go down the mountain first."
"...Damn it, those policemen noticed that we were going up the mountain so quickly."
Nishikai Toshio looked a little ferocious and said angrily. With his hateful face, even Noriko Hirano, who had always been clinging to him, stood a few steps away.
Not long after they fled like a mountain, they received a call from their boss, saying that the police had gone to the mountain to search. As a last resort, they used the ski equipment they usually used to remotely control, cut Kawakami Atsushi's hand and made a blood bag for him.
The aerial photography equipment flew all the way up the mountain with the blood bag.
This is why there are only footprints at the beginning and only bloodstains along the way.
After circling around on their skis, they spotted the police vehicle going up the mountain, so they came down the mountain from another exit and secretly returned to the hotel.
Because the store owner is one of their own, they dare to come back.
"How's it going? Did you get the stuff?" the store owner asked in a low voice.
"Your share is indispensable." Xihai Junsheng snorted coldly, "The key now is how we can escape, otherwise everyone will be caught."
"Damn it, after all the limelight, here comes another woman who makes trouble and attracts the police!"
The corner of Hirano Noriko's mouth twitched slightly, and she thought to herself: You have fallen in love with that woman, and you have to bring someone with you on such an important skiing trip, otherwise could there be an accident?
It's a pity that she didn't dare to say it.
"I have a cellar here, you can hide in it." The shop owner kindly suggested, "I will let you out after the police have left and the storm has passed."
"I'm afraid we will be locked up in the cellar directly." Xihai Junsheng said venomously, "Let me tell you, the things were taken out, but I hid them again."
"It's best not to use that set of yours, otherwise everyone will be done with it!"
The shop owner laughed and muttered "How could that be?"
"Why don't we hide for now." Kawakami Atsushi is relatively easy to talk to, and he spoke now just to appease Nishikai Toshio's violent temper.
"We can't hide." Xihai Junsheng gritted his teeth, "If we hide, we really have no way out."
"Let the police leave." He showed a ferocious smile, "Are there any other residents in this store now?"
Sugimoto and Dr. Agasa's car returned to the town first. Dr. Agasa was a little worried about the children and wanted to go back to the hotel first.
Sugimoto felt confident and drove towards the hotel where the fire broke out.
"Here we come, Junsheng."
Noriko Hirano squatted in a corner at the town intersection. When she saw a vehicle representing the police car driving by, she whispered to the other side on the phone.
"Got it."
Xihai Junsheng hung up the phone and looked at the four kidnapped children. The knife in his hand glowed coldly.
Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi never imagined that they could be kidnapped while sleeping. Genta even started to close his eyes and said: "This is a dream, this is a dream, this is a dream..."
Hui Yuan Ai was the calmest. Although she was awake all the time, people were talking at the door and she couldn't run away even if she wanted to. Especially with the three children there, she couldn't run away no matter what.
So everyone was arrested together and then tied here as hostages.
But looking at the madness of this leader, I'm afraid that this group of hostages will not end well.
They didn't wait long before Sugimoto Criminal and Dr. Agasa arrived.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Sugimoto narrowed his eyes, slowed down his brisk walking, and even pulled Dr. Agasa, who was a little anxious.
"What's wrong?" Dr. Ali was staggered by him and turned around to ask him with confusion.
"It's so quiet."
Criminal Sugimoto pushed up his glasses and stared at the house in the backyard that was slightly burned to black.
He pulled out the pistol from his waist and signaled Dr. Ali to hide behind him, but he moved forward step by step.