The pressure was too great, but Mao Lilan was not so panicked. A small fire slowly ignited in her eyes, she clenched her fists, nodded, and rushed down the stairs.
Conan faced Sekiguchi Yoshio, who was walking towards him with his head lowered, and stopped him in front of the corridor.
At this time, the little advantage of being a child finally came to light - if an adult were to talk to him, the robbers would be alert immediately.
Conan pulled Sekiguchi Yoshio and said a few words, but found that the other party was not in the mood to chat at all, and even prepared to bypass him and leave. He went straight to the point and said: "Uncle, did someone ask you to use the weapon in the puff box to kill that person?"
A man burned by fire?”
Sekiguchi Yoshio's expression convinced Conan that his speculation was probably true.
He pointed to the seat next to him and wanted to pull Sekiguchi Yoshio to sit down.
Sekiguchi Yoshio looked at his watch and saw that there were still four minutes left before the time limit.
He reflected on his state in a daze.
Even a child can tell something is wrong at a glance. If the middle-aged man in the ward discovers something is wrong, not only will he not be able to save his daughter, he may even be killed. After all, he is a vicious bank robber!
Fortunately, I met this innocent and keen kid. Chatting with him for a while might ease my mood...
——This is what Sekiguchi Yoshio originally thought.
However, after chatting for a while, he revealed that he had to take action on the hour and was about to get up and go to the ward, when the face of the well-behaved child next to him suddenly changed.
Conan initially planned to delay time and wait for Mao Lilan to rescue the child before taking action against the robbers, but he did not expect Sekiguchi Yoshio to start taking action so early.
...We can't wait any longer. We can only find all the robbers at once, and then knock them all down before they send out the signal.
——Conan didn’t know why he had such confidence, but he had to do it when he thought about it, and the tight time was not enough for him to hesitate any longer.
After thinking for a moment, Conan grabbed the puff box, opened it with lightning speed, and took out a gun from inside.
Sekiguchi Yoshio couldn't react at all. He could only watch the child holding up the gun in the crowded hall and said loudly: "Wow, it's a gun. It's so cool! Uncle, is this a real gun? It was given to me."
What?"
As he spoke, Conan turned to observe the crowd.
Most people thought it was a naughty kid playing havoc with a toy gun.
But the expressions of two people changed drastically - one of them was the suspicious policeman, and the other was a burly Mediterranean uncle. He looked frightened and crumpled the newspaper in his hand.
Only two people? Conan was a little surprised.
When the police officer in question approached, relying on his identity, and was about to fool him about the gun, Conan turned on the switch of the foot-strengthening shoes.
At the same time, he pressed on his waist.
A black and white sphere quickly expanded from the mouth of the belt - this is the new equipment developed by Dr. Ali, the football belt. The effect is to use unknown principles to make footballs out of thin air, and any size can be made.
Conan has just started using this prop, and Shang is still relatively conservative. He only rubbed a normal-sized football, which is also the weapon he is most accustomed to.
The football flew out, hit the wall hard, rebounded hard, and hit the police officer in the face accurately.
Conan predicted the landing point of the football, and with another kick, the ball flew out with a sound of "Woo--" and was carried by the wind, and went into the face of the strong Mediterranean man.
The two robbers immediately pounced.
Conan retracted his foot and smiled confidently under Sekiguchi Yoshio's dull gaze.
However, soon, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and suddenly found a man running quickly towards the stairs. Before leaving, he looked back at him, acting in an unusual panic.
...This is not the reaction that the onlookers should have.
Conan's heart felt cold... There was actually an accomplice!
…
Mao Lilan panted and rushed to the roof of the building opposite, bought a ticket, and ran into the open-air children's playground.
There were many children playing and having fun inside, and at a glance, I didn’t see any children in bad condition.
This made her a little confused for a moment.
But thinking of Baishi's reasoning ability in the past, Mao Lilan firmly believed that he was right and that he must not have observed carefully enough.
When Conan was recounting the situation just now, he seemed to have said that the robbers who took hostages often used a pair of binoculars to peek in the direction of the hospital...
Mao Lilan raised her head and focused on the side near the hospital.
She glanced around and quickly stopped on a recliner.
On a white plastic chair, a woman wearing sunglasses is half-lying. At first glance, she looks like she is sunbathing, but upon closer inspection, her body is a little crooked, and her hands hang down weakly, as if she has lost consciousness.
Next to one hand, there is a pair of binoculars.
...It looks suspicious no matter how you look at it!
Mao Lilan was alert and walked over there. Soon, she successfully found a little girl without an adult near the woman.
The girl wears twin ponytails and has a lively and outgoing personality. Mao Lilan is also very kind, and the girl will talk about everything as soon as she talks to her.
Her name was indeed Yumiko Sekiguchi, and she came here with the woman on the lounge chair. She had never seen that woman before today, but "the eldest sister is very gentle. She even bought me snacks and said she would send me to see my dad later."
!”
Mao Lilan's expression was a little stiff. After a moment, she took a breath of fear.
She knew that according to "Shiraishi's" reasoning, the girl's father would be silenced and she would be sent to see her father... Those beasts would not even let such a small child go!
…
Conan usually insists on never giving up until the last moment.
When he saw the kidnapper escaping, although his heart skipped a beat, he chased after him without stopping for a second.
Fortunately, this fish that slipped through the net was obese and seemed not very good at exercise.
As he rushed downstairs, the robber took out his mobile phone, flipped through the address book, and called the last accomplice. As soon as he got through, he shouted in panic: "We have failed! Take the children as hostages..."
He couldn't finish the rest.
A football flew out of the door and hit his head like a cannonball. The last lone seedling showed an extremely unwilling look in his eyes and finally collapsed.
Conan took out his voice changer, ran closer and grabbed the phone that had slipped through the net.
Seeing that the call was still on, he shouted into the phone in a robber's voice: "Look below! Look at the hospital entrance quickly!"
As long as the last robber is willing to show his face, there is still room for redemption!
"..." At the door of the hospital? Mao Lilan looked at the female robber's mobile phone suspiciously and warily.
It's a bit unethical to answer other people's calls without permission.
But she was worried about something going on at the hospital, so she planned to pick up the call first and listen, thinking that she might be able to help stabilize the robbers and delay some time for the people in the hospital.
She was still struggling with what to say, but she didn't expect that the strange man opposite was particularly anxious. Before she could say anything, she gave two instructions to the "female robber" one after another.
"Mission failed, with children...", plus "look down"...
Could it be that he wanted to express that the mission had failed and let the female robber escape with the child and meet up elsewhere later.
And looking down is to let women notice their escape route?
After successfully rescuing the girl, Mao Lilan is in a good mood now.
She chuckled and thought mischievously: I didn't expect that your escape route was not communicated to the robbers at all, but was discovered by the police's helpers.
...Ah, speaking of which, why did the female robber suddenly faint?
Mao Lilan thought and looked at the fence beside her.
The walls here are not too high, so adults can easily stick their heads out and observe downstairs.
Without further ado, Mao Lilan grabbed the telescope, walked to the edge of the building, lowered his head and looked down.