Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1371 What's in the Box

"bomb!"

"There's a bomb!"

Upon hearing the name "Eight Eggs", the guests screamed in fear and moved to the back.

The whole venue was in chaos.

"If you don't want the ship to sink, just listen to me!"

Kusaka Hironari held the detonator in his hand as if it were a talisman.

Megure quickly raised his hand to persuade him, "Calm down first!"

"Why on earth would you do that?"

Facing the police's questions, Kusaka Hironari shouted angrily: "It's to avenge my father!"

"Fifteen years ago, the crew member who died on the Eighth Generation Cargo Ship was my father!"

"Two years ago, I heard many doubts about the shipwreck from my colleagues who came to pay tribute to my father."

"The then president of Yashiro Shosen and the director Entaro planned to sink the cargo ship in order to defraud insurance money to overcome the financial crisis!"

"Also, they wanted to get rid of Captain Okita, who always demanded better treatment for the crew, so they recruited the then vice-captain Kaito Watari..."

Facing Kusaka Hironari's accusations, Kaito Wataru on the stage remained calm and unmoved.

Kusaka Hironari stared at Kaito Watari and said coldly: "You agreed to join them, let Captain Okita drink coffee with sleeping pills, and then deliberately let the ship hit the iceberg and detonated the bomb prepared in advance..."

"The location of the bomb was also in accordance with the instructions of the designer, Yashiro Eito, right?"

Kaito Watari on the stage remained silent.

Only Akiyoshi Miwako looked surprised and surprised, "I didn't expect the teacher to..."

In order to delay time, Megure continued to follow Kusaka Hironari's words and asked: "Kusaka, tell me how you killed the eighth president?"

Kusaka Hironari snorted coldly and replied nonchalantly: "Because the old guy pressed his body against me and grabbed my neck, I threw him into the sea with an over-the-shoulder throw..."

"Then I plan to learn from you to blow up the ship, and then kill you during the chaos."

Kaito Wataru on the stage looked down at Kusaka Hironari with a slightly fixed gaze. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but nothing came out.

Just then, a male guest quietly approached Kusaka Hironari from behind.

Megure saw it immediately, but he was unable to stop the guest's behavior, so he could only yell to attract Kusaka Hironari's attention.

"Wait a minute! Kusaka!"

"Please take your fingers off the remote control first, then we can sit down and have a good chat..."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Kusaka Hironari yelled at Megure, but his eye happened to catch a glimpse of the male guest who rushed towards him from the side and rear.

He twisted his body to the side, just avoiding the male guest's pounce, and at the same time pressed the detonator with his finger.

Conan, who was taking a detour not far away and preparing to shoot Kusaka with an anesthetic needle, saw this scene and immediately thought that something was wrong.

Oops!

But just as Conan was ready to face the first wave of impact from the bomb, the ground in the venue didn't shake at all, and no sound of explosion was heard.

There was a hint of doubt in Kusaka Hironari's eyes. He stared at the detonator in his hand and pressed the detonation button several times in a hurry.

However, the banquet hall was still silent, and nothing happened at all.

Conan's face was shocked. Could it be that the detonator was broken?

Megure, who was a few meters away, also realized this and rushed forward with his men.

"Take him!"

"what!"

Takagi, Shiratori and Megure pounced on Kusaka Hironari together, pinned him down in a pyramid posture, and snatched the detonator from his hand.

When Kusaka Guangcheng got up from the ground again, he was wearing a pair of silver bracelets on his hands.

"I'm not reconciled!"

"I'm not convinced!"

Kusaka Hironari was held on the left and right by Takagi and Shiratori, still roaring angrily.

"Why am I the only one arrested? The man who killed my father is still standing there!"

Kusaka Hironari glared at Kaito Wataru on the stage. This man did not show any apology from beginning to end, and even his emotions did not fluctuate much.

Megure said sternly: "If what you said is true, we will certainly not let a criminal go..."

Then, he turned to Hai Teng Du and said, "Mr. Hai Teng, could you please come over and cooperate with our investigation?"

Kaito Watari nodded, "Okay, but before that I need to explain something to my crew members..."

With Megure's tacit consent, Kaito Wataru turned around and gave instructions to the crew members around him.

Everything seemed to be going well.

Conan looked at the successfully solved case and fastened the anesthetic needle launch aiming cover on his watch.

The guests at the venue gradually relaxed a little, and surviving the disaster put a smile on everyone's face.

As soon as Conan returned to the identity of the three little ones, he was questioned by them.

"Conan, where did you go?"

"Me? Hehe..."

The corners of Conan's mouth rose slightly. Of course, he was ready to be the "key man".

As a result, he failed to become Mr. Key, and Kusaka Hironari's detonator broke down at the critical moment.

But this guy's luck was too bad, the detonator broke. It was the first time that Conan encountered a bomber who ended up in such a hasty manner.

A hasty ending...

Suddenly, Conan's expression changed.

He remembered that in the previous Tokyo Tower bombing case, someone had disposed of the bomb planted by the bomber in advance and created a fake bomb for feinting.

And that person is Qin Zhibo.

  The failure of the detonator this time was not just luck, but Qin Zhibo predicted the murderer's plan in advance and broke the detonator?

Moreover, Qin Zhibo once stayed in Rixia Guangcheng's room on the pretext of reading a script, and it is very likely that he took advantage of that time to do something.

Could it be that in this case, Uncle Maori was on the first floor, he was on the third floor, and Qin Zhibo stood directly on the fifth floor?

He solved the case early on and ruined the murderer's plan, and then chose not to take action in order to give himself a chance to perform.

This uncle...

Just as Conan was thinking, he heard the conversation between Sonoko and Mouri Ran from behind.

"How strange!"

"Sonoko, what's so strange?" Ran Mouri turned and looked at Sonoko.

Sonoko looked a little puzzled, holding her chin with one hand, and recalled: "I remember my mother said that the Yashiro Group owed our Suzuki family a big favor..."

"Fifteen years ago, the Yashiro Group encountered a financial crisis, and it was Suzuki's investment that helped it to overcome the crisis. In order to repay the favor, the Yashiro family asked their designer, Mr. Yashiro Hideto, to design the 'Sabnis' for free."

"Did I remember it wrongly?"

Conan glanced back at Sonoko and frowned slightly.

If what Sonoko said was true, the way the Yashiro Group survived the crisis 15 years ago was to seek help from the Suzuki Group, not to defraud insurance. Then the sinking of the cargo ship 15 years ago was not the Yashiro father and daughter working together with the vice-captain Kaito Watari to blow up the ship, but there was another hidden story...

  boom!

Suddenly there was a loud bang at the bottom of the cabin.

The ground of the entire venue began to shake violently. The guests, who had just regained their composure, became instantly panicked. Screams and the crackling sounds of things breaking could be heard incessantly.

Megure looked around in panic and asked loudly: "What happened!"

Cold sweat ran down Shiratori's forehead. "Maybe something exploded..."

"Explosion?" Megure tilted his head to look at the detonator in his hand, then turned to look at Kusaka Hironari, "Did you install other bombs?!"

The arrested Kusaka Hironari also shook his head in confusion, "I don't know..."

At this time, Kaito Watari also ran over and said to Megure, "Mr. Policeman, I have to go check the damage to the ship now. I'm afraid I can't go with you for the time being."

Megure's eyes were determined and he knew the seriousness of the situation, so he could only let the captain, Kaito Wataru, leave to command the entire ship.

At the same time, Akiyoshi Miwako, who watched Kaito Wataru leave, also walked away quietly from the venue.

……

On the other side, Qin Zhibo was walking in the cargo passage at the bottom of the cabin.

The sudden explosion and the violent shaking of the ground forced him to hold on to the iron wall beside him, and only then did he manage to steady himself.

When the impact of the explosion subsided, a terrible sound of the hull being squeezed and deformed was heard from under the floor, and seawater began to flood into the cabin from the bottom layer.

All this was within Qin Zhibo's expectations.

Based on the results of the search in Akiyoshi Miwako's room, he had already guessed that she was using a countdown bomb.

The explosion happened to take place at the same time as the welcome reception.

The reason why he did not try to defuse these bombs was that only with these bombs could the possibility of casualties be minimized.

Only when it is confirmed that the damage to the ship is irreparable will the passengers on board be required to escape in a lifeboat.

As a result, the plans of the people behind this voyage came to nothing.

At this moment, a sound suddenly came from the long freight channel.

Qin Zhibo quickly put on the magic ring and entered invisible mode.

I saw four crew members in uniform coming to the passage and walking along the passage to the end.

There is a large cargo elevator that reaches outside the ship's hull to bring supplies from the port directly to the height of the cruise ship's cargo hold.

A large amount of supplies on the cruise ship were transported in through this channel.

But now there is no material transportation and the freight elevator is also external.

One of the crew members came behind the control panel and pressed the recovery button, and the huge motor began to hum.

As the elevator gradually emerged from the sea level and rose to the height of the cargo hold gate, a huge iron box slowly emerged.

Qin Zhibo hid in the dark and took a closer look. This should be the iron box that Cheng Shi saw in the dock.

Just as he had guessed before, the iron box was not hidden inside the ship, but was hidden below the sea surface outside the hull along the freight elevator.

In this case, it would be impossible for Minase Yangmeng to find the person by searching only inside the hull.

The four crew members had dark skin and looked like sailors.

They worked in perfect harmony and quickly unfastened the iron box and unloaded it from the freight platform.

But before they could push the iron box, a man quietly appeared among them.

"Who are you!"

A sharp-eyed crew member saw Qin Zhibo and just as he shouted, he was punched in the face by the latter and knocked unconscious.

The other three also came to their senses, and seeing Qin Zhibo suddenly appear, they immediately rushed over with fists raised.

  But how could these people possibly be Qin Zhibo's opponents?

Qin Zhibo first kicked a crew member down with a crotch kick, then dodged a crew member's fist, and while dodging, he punched the crew member in the abdomen.

In just a few seconds, three crew members were knocked down by him.

The last person was still obsessed and rushed over like a madman.

Qin Zhibo shook his head lightly, took out a pocket pistol from his pocket and pointed it at the crew member's head.

Although the pocket pistol looks quite kawaii, the four black holes on the muzzle don't look like a joke prop.

The crew member instinctively regained his senses and stopped rushing forward in time.

Qin Zhibo used the [Inspiration Gun] to pretend to be a real pistol, pointed it at the crew member's head, and asked: "Tell me what's inside this iron box?"

The crew member who was frozen in place glanced at the box next to him, with some hesitation on his face.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo's face turned fierce, and he imitated Gin's cold expression and said, "Answer me, or I will shoot you to death!"

This sentence was quite intimidating, and thanks to Qin Zhibo's personal social skill (intimidation), the crew members were frightened and shuddered.

"Yes……"

"Dark Young..."

Hearing this unfamiliar term, Qin Zhibo frowned.

He continued to ask: "Where did you come from? And who asked you to bring it up?"

The crew member shook his head, "I don't know..."

"Tell the truth! Or I'll beat you to death!"

"It's Vice Captain Ize!"

Qin Zhibo thought about it and realized that he had no impression of this person, because the person he met in public was Captain Hai Tengdu.

"Why bring this on board this ship?"

"…Because of the Supreme Mother…"

The Supreme Mother Goddess?

Another word I haven't heard of.

At this moment, the hull suddenly shook violently.

Qin Zhibo staggered and almost fell.

The crew member also took the opportunity to rush over, knocked Qin Zhibo to the ground, and tried to snatch Qin Zhibo's pocket pistol.

But Qin Zhibo simply let go of the pistol and let him snatch it away.

However, just as he pulled the trigger at Qin Zhibo with a ferocious expression, the bullet fired did not cause any harm to Qin Zhibo.

  Huh?

The crewman glanced at the gun in his hand in confusion.

But before he could figure out what was going on, a fist as big as a sandbag hit him in the face and knocked him unconscious.

"I bet there's no bullet in your gun..."

Qin Zhibo stood up, took back the [Inspiration Gun], and said something lightly to the crew member who had fainted on the ground.

Then he came to the iron box and carefully put his ear close to the box.

Although the crew member just said the name of the contents of the box, there was no completion prompt for the main task.

Qin Zhibo guessed that it was because he had not personally experienced the contents of the box, so he could not truly "know".

As the ear got closer, a creepy sound became clearer.