Edogawa Conan turned his head and quietly looked at Kuroki Jin, who was carefully tying a safety rope on one person and stretching it with his hand to prove its tightness.
"Okay." He patted the man's shoulder and sent him down through the window opening.
Conan took advantage of the opportunity and asked: "What about the rest of the people?" He pointed to the few dozen people left: the trembling old man, the children crying loudly, and the pregnant woman who was about to give birth.
Kuroki watched the hour hand point to two o'clock, heard the sound coming from the gin side of the headset, and then smiled calmly:
"Then it depends on my ability."
Gin can go down from the fifth floor to the first floor, so he has a way to go out. Just like the chimney on the rooftop, there is also a hidden passage to the outside world on the first floor. How can he persuade Gin to agree to take people from there?
Getting out is a problem.
"There is one more question." Conan saw that he had an idea, so he let it go and asked about another thing: "There are quite a few people on the first to fourth floors. Can they be accommodated in just one elevator?"
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"Yes." Kuroki Jin said firmly, even though he had not seen the actual capacity of the elevator.
The elevators stopped at each floor, and people crowded in one after another. Fortunately, only the restaurant on the fifth floor and the milk tea shop on the first floor were still open as the business was about to close. There were not many people on the first to fourth floors.
This is so, thanks to the amazing size of this elevator.
The moment the elevator door opened, Conan couldn't help but murmured: "Is this going to transport an elephant up?"
The volume of the elevator even exceeds that of an ordinary freight elevator.
The trapped people moved towards the window, pushing and shoving. Kuroki Jin took a step forward to block Conan's sight. By the time he reacted, the elevator door had already closed.
Conan looked around, but did not see the friend of Kuroki Jin whom he had just met.
Kuroki Ren didn't wait for him to say anything else, and quickly organized everyone to return to their respective places. The young and middle-aged people slid down the rope, while the old, weak, sick, and pregnant women stayed aside and waited.
Until it was time to go down, only Conan was left.
Conan pushed up his glasses, and the expression on his face didn't seem to be fake: "I'm a child."
This little kid had just climbed up to the top floor with him and slid down the chimney.
Kuroki Ren's face was expressionless, and Megure's phone call came in at the right time, asking the remaining people what his plans were.
"I was just about to call you." Kuroki Jin smiled again, "I just tried to contact the Chiyo Consortium and they made a request."
The Chiyo Foundation is the nominal owner of this department store.
"any request?"
"If the police do not pursue responsibility for this accident, he will provide a safe passage to the outside."
Mumu Police Department only felt that the fire was rising. He could hardly control his anger: "If this is the case, why didn't they say it earlier!"
Kuroki Jin replied faintly: "An accident involving more than two hundred people is different from a dozen people... Don't scold me, I'm just a messenger."
Although Mu Mu was angry, he agreed without much hesitation and would save people first.
"Ahem," Kuroki Ren coughed dryly, "They need to issue a guarantee letter over there."
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By the time the stamped guarantee form was ready, half an hour had passed. Kuroki looked at the time, pretended to make a phone call, answered a few casual calls, and led the remaining people to the safe passage.
Opening a secret door hidden in the utility room, the dark staircase comes into view, and it is so long that one cannot see the end of it.
"Conan-kun, are you going to take the lead?" Kuroki Jin pushed Conan forward.
Conan curled his lips and wanted to say something, but was urged by everyone to move forward.
Kuroki Jin stepped back without hesitation, even walking further back, communicating with Gin in a low voice.
But as you go further down, all sounds and signals are isolated.
Kuroki couldn't help but quicken his pace and caught up with the last person in front.
Just now, Gin said in the headset that the mouse was cornered by him, and rejected Kuroki Jin's plan to help, asking him to go out first and not cause trouble for him.
Kuroki Jin naturally believed in Gin, but the signal was blocked and he was currently unable to synchronize the information there, so he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
The staircase is very long, and each step is very short and narrow, but stretches out for a long time, and even has several big turns.
This passage is built around the outermost perimeter of the entire department store, so walking down from the fifth floor is equivalent to walking around the department store five times.
The long-term darkness and endless corridors made the last few people who evacuated gradually became anxious.
Conan discovered it at the right time and quickly led several children to sing songs, which soothed everyone's emotions.
Just walking like this, Conan at the front finally saw a glimmer of light.
"Blackwood!" he shouted.
"Kick it away!" Kuroki Ren responded.
Conan was silent for a moment, then turned the button of his shoe in a circle and kicked hard on the wall with only a few holes of light.
An external unit on the outer wall instantly fell off and fell to the ground. The loud noise attracted the attention of the police on alert outside. Soon the rescue team arrived, dug a large hole from the cracked wall, built stairs and picked up the people one by one.
come out.
By now the sky has turned white, and the night has passed like this.
Kuroki Jin was the last one to come out. Before he could gain a foothold, Megure pulled him over and interrogated the details carefully.
However, Kuroki Ren noticed a group of black-clad convoys blocked outside.
"Who is that person?" He pointed to it, and Miwako Sato's face darkened instantly, and she said angrily: "It's the decoration team sent by the Chiyo Consortium."
"What did the other party say?" Kuroki Ren had no intention of going over to say hello.
"They said the gates would be opened everywhere at seven o'clock so they could go in and repair the damage done tonight."
Sato couldn't hold back when he said this: "Obviously it was them who caused the trouble in the first place, but just now they seemed to be blaming us."
"Sato." Megure stopped her, and then said seriously: "Mr. Kuroki, I hope what happened tonight will not happen again. This is also the intention of the upper management of the Metropolitan Police Department."
"I will convey it." Kuroki Ren agreed with a smile, knowing that their anger was not directed at him, so he didn't care, "Will the police department go back now? I'm afraid I will still be here..."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly widened and he looked towards the department store behind him in disbelief.
"boom--!!"
Glass shards from the fifth floor of the building were sprayed outward, and in just an instant, the fifth floor was covered in flames.
"Get away!" The glass fragments scattered downwards. Fortunately, the police cordon was stretched far enough, and the general public was almost unharmed.
The only thing left in Kuroki Ren's eyes was this fire. He didn't know who pulled him back before he came back to his senses. His lips moved slightly but he didn't care about anything else. He turned around and rushed inside.
"Kuromu!" The person who pulled him was none other than Conan. Seeing that Kuromu Ren was about to go inside, he hurriedly grabbed him again: "There may be a danger of explosion, so don't go!"
"Let go!" Conan's strength was not comparable to that of Kuroki Jin. He threw the person aside with a wave of his hand, and then ran towards the safe passage he had just drilled out.
If it was just a simple explosion on the fifth floor, he wouldn't be like this, but just before the explosion, he clearly heard a burst of electricity coming from the headset that had been making sound intermittently, and then there was nothing.
"Gin! Gin!" Kuroki repeatedly pressed the switch on the headset and rushed into the cave entrance, but was hugged again at the door.
"Kuroki!!!" Sato held on tightly and refused to let go, "You can't go in!" she almost roared.
"Let me go!" Kuroki Jin held her wrist, forcing Sato to let go with pain, and then dived into the hole.