After Shiraishi finished taking useful shots, he returned to the cabin, took out his laptop, and started editing along with the material captured by the two cameras outside.
Even if it cannot be used as effective physical evidence due to secret photography or other reasons, it can at least allow the police to focus on Sadao Whalei and avoid disturbing innocent passers-by.
And idle time is idle time. Amuro Toru can still play Conan with a bug, but Shiraishi is almost tired of playing. If there is no entertainment, it will be really boring.
The time soon passed midnight, and the statute of limitations for the case had expired.
Shiraishi glanced at his watch. At this time, the retired police officer who was looking for "Ye Saizo" should have given up and returned to the restaurant. "Ye Saizo" was just a dummy disguised by Whalei Sadao, and it was impossible for him to find it.
Now that people are gradually gathering in the restaurant, Whalei Sadao is about to start his performance.
Just as I was thinking about it, there were suddenly several bangs and bangs outside - the firecrackers that Nawaii Sadao used to delay lighting with cigarettes exploded.
It's really difficult to distinguish the sound of guns and firecrackers when we are far away, not to mention that there is a lot of noise from the moving ship itself.
Hearing this kind of noise, people in the restaurant would have thought that someone was shooting and were preparing to head to the bow of the ship.
Shiraishi brought up the picture from the ship's front camera and was about to see which section could be cut into the video. Suddenly, the screen of the mobile phone thrown next to him lit up.
I picked it up and saw that it was a message from Toru Amuro.
——A simple and easy to understand one:[?]
…
Everyone in the restaurant was attracted by the sound of gunfire and ran towards the bow of the ship.
Toru Amuro followed, and halfway through, he felt his phone vibrate.
Matsuda replied.
The content returned is also very simple and clear: [×]
Tohru Amuro was immediately relieved. Although this accomplice had an elusive brain circuit and was very capable of causing trouble, he would usually admit to the things he did.
Since he replied with an "X", it means that the gunfire just now had nothing to do with him.
In other words... an incident happened as expected.
…
Amuro Toru's hunch was not wrong.
A group of people ran to the bow of the ship following the sound of gunfire and found an old banknote nailed with a knife on the deck, with several large characters scrawled on it:
[Poseidon gives me life, the shadow has been resurrected]
The word "shadow" immediately reminds people of Ye Caisan, whose nickname is "Shadow Planner".
At this time, Kameda Teruyoshi was dead, and the royal scapegoat Ekuya Kanai had been stunned and tied up and hung outside the ship. Of the three accomplices, only Nawaii Sadao was still there.
Whalei Sadao let out a panicked scream: "He's still alive... He's really still alive!!"
In Whalei Sadao's plan, Hisashi Kanie, who had been a mercenary and had an old gunshot wound, was the most suitable candidate for "Ye Saizo".
Ye Caisan was shot into the sea by them, and now he has survived the disaster and returned to take revenge - the script is very reasonable.
Therefore, as a "former accomplice targeted by Ye Caisan", I must act more panicked. After that, as long as I can get an alibi...
At this time, the stern of the boat suddenly exploded. It was the timing device set by Sadao Whalei that ignited the gasoline tank in the box.
A group of people rumbled to the stern of the boat again.
The box containing the emergency escape ladder was burning brightly, and a figure could be faintly seen in the fire.
The man was surrounded by fire and gasoline. He looked dead and was being burned. His hands were stiff from the heat and curled up in front of him. A gold watch was conspicuous on his wrist.
Several people recognized it at the same time - it was Kanie Hisashi's watch.
A murder suddenly occurred on the ship. Although this murder seemed to be related to Ye Caisan, Hattori Heiji did not know who Ye Caisan was.
Therefore, when he saw the corpse, he subconsciously looked at the most suspicious target in his mind - the man wearing a knitted hat, whose name was "Akai Shinji" from the records in the passenger register.
Toru Amuro didn't know why he chose this name.
At that time, he just thought that in order to prevent the information database from being messed up, it was best to change the name of the vest. Matsuda watched for a while and said that if he didn't like this person, he could use the name "Shenji".
Although I don't know what the purpose is... Matsuda rarely made a suggestion, and Toru Amuro didn't have any special requirements for the name, so he just used it.
Along the way, Hattori Heiji kept observing Akai Shinji.
He had long discovered that this person paid great attention to a certain room - that seemed to be a place where life-saving equipment was stored.
In addition, there was an explosion at the stern of the ship just now. Everyone else was more or less shocked, and Whalei Sadao was so frightened that his face turned pale.
But Akai Shinji didn't have much abnormality. He seemed to be used to similar noises, or... he had expected that this place would explode?
Also, when he saw the corpse, Akai Shinji's performance was too calm, and even gave people a feeling of "sure enough".
However, precisely because he was always observing him, Hattori Heiji was able to determine that Akai Shinji was sitting in the restaurant when the gunfire rang out, and it could not be him who shot him.
Then...could it be another of his accomplices?
Hattori Heiji suddenly thought of Conan who was alone in the room, and his heart skipped a beat.
He looked ugly, turned around and wanted to run to the room, but he also thought that he should go to the side of the boat first to see if anyone was dumped in the sea - the burning box in front of him was not necessary. Judging from the size of the body, it was obvious that the person was being roasted in the fire.
An adult cannot be Conan.
But as soon as he turned around, Hattori Heiji saw a child standing at his feet.
Conan was wearing his baseball cap, with the brim of the hat pushed down very low, looking sneaky... However, this disguise was actually almost non-existent. Apart from him, there were no other children on the boat at all.
Hattori Heiji was shocked.
He quietly moved between Conan and Akai Shinji, barely blocking Conan's sight, and lowered his voice: "Are you crazy!? You're running around now!"
"I thought about it carefully later. Since they had heard your voice through the bug and heard that I was going to board the ship with you, they must have known that I was on the ship."
Conan's voice was also very low: "If I were really just a child who was good at solving crimes, and I suddenly heard gunshots while hiding in the cabin, and heard the crew shouting that someone was dead, whether it was fear or curiosity, it would be difficult for the child to endure it.
Similar emotions, continue to stay alone in the room..."
——Yes, after a series of careful consideration, Conan feels that the best situation at present is that he is regarded as an overly smart child, rather than an adult shrunk by APTX4869.
The former organization is most curious.
The latter is a fatal matter.
At present, judging from the fact that they can still stay on the boat safely instead of being packed into a luggage bag, the people in black should not have thought about this aspect yet.
Otherwise, even if they had only a few suspicions, they would have captured this rare experimental subject long ago.
In this case, why not act like a child who is talented and curious.
"..." Although Hattori Heiji felt that his actions were suicidal, when he thought about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.