Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 633 Knock them out
The North Hotel on Hachijo Island is located on a steep cliff. The waves constantly hit the cliff face, and the clanging sound completely covers up all the details nearby.

A bus carrying a group of police officers from the police department came from the east, bypassed the hotel and drove into a small road to the west of the hotel. The road went down and the road surface was obviously very wet, and finally led to the bottom of the cliff.

After dropping off more than forty police officers from the police station, Nogami Kazuka looked at the bus returning along the same route and took the small black box handed to her by her subordinates.

"Chief, Chief Mita of the Transportation Department and Chief Amami of the Intelligence Department are now leading their subordinates to set up defenses all over Hachijo Island."

Goto, the leader of the third team, spoke up, "Are we really going to take four teams to that ocean buoy?"

"What do you want to say?"

Nogami Kazuka checked her watch and stared at the sea that was beginning to be shrouded in fog.

"It's just a broken base. I don't think there's any need to protect it."

The captain of the second team, Jingjian, also stood up and said, "When the deputy minister issued the mission, he said someone sent him a threatening letter, saying that they wanted to disrupt the wedding. Then why do we in the Operations Department have to go to the Ocean Buoy?"

Several captains were indignant, causing their team members and police officers to whisper to each other, but their voices were drowned out by the sound of the waves.

"That's enough. You're just worried that you won't get any credit for this mission."

Nogami interrupted his subordinates with a sharp voice, glaring around until they all quieted down.

"We are police officers, not ordinary police officers. We should not apply what we learned in the police academy to the present."

As Nogami turned around, several bright lights flashed on the sea. Soon, a police ferry broke through the fog and appeared in front of everyone. It lowered several small boats into the sea and finally stopped on the small beach.

"Section Chief Nogami, get ready. I'll take you to the ocean buoy to hand over your stuff."

The man who came adjusted his glasses. He was wearing a black leather jacket and black gloves. While the police officers boarded the boat, he also checked his watch.

"Director Dequan."

Nogami bowed to the man, and a group of people quietly got on the boat and paddled towards the sea.

……

"Stop, stop, stop! There's someone ahead!"

Conan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw a horizontal checkpoint in the middle of the road and men in black suits standing on both sides. He immediately felt goosebumps all over his body and hurriedly shook Hiroki, who was lying down while driving.

"Stop then?"

"Wait! Let me think!"

Conan looked at the people in black who were whispering next to Yokoka. He first touched his belt, and then made sure that there was no problem with his shoes.

"I see there are only five people ahead. With the doctor's equipment, it's not impossible to knock them over as long as we plan well..."

Conan turned his head and looked at Hiroki who took out a loaded pistol from his backpack. He immediately gasped and rushed over to press the muzzle of the gun. He touched it and knew that it was not an electric shock gun like Yuuji's, but a real gun loaded with bullets.

"Where did you get the gun?!"

"I rubbed it myself." Hiroki pulled back hard, but failed to break free from Conan's hand.

"No, no, no, I mean how did you get to the island!"

Conan shook Hiroki's shoulders vigorously: "There are security checks when boarding the ship, there are security checks when getting off the ship, and there are security checks when landing on the island. How can you let others not miss it!"

"Security check, isn't it just exposure?" Hiroki patted his backpack and said, "Have you forgotten the anti-peeping paint made by the doctor?"

"Is that so! So that's how it is. Thank you for reminding me!"

Conan's expression was distorted, and he clenched his fists, wishing he could stab Hiroki in the face.

"No guns allowed, no killing allowed."

"Got it. I'll hack the surveillance in this area first." Conan pressed the button on his waist in advance, told Hiroki to stay in the car, then opened the door and rushed out. Then he immediately swung his right leg and kicked the football into the face of a man in black.

Watching Conan playing football, Hiroki was inexplicably reminded of the revolver cowboys in those American western movies, where the speed of drawing the gun depended entirely on the speed of their hands.

"Hiss, my leg is cramping."

Conan covered his right leg, squatted down little by little, and was then supported by Hiroki who slipped out of the car.

"You kicked eight balls in ten seconds..."

Hiroki hesitated to speak, and finally his eyes stopped on the football belt that was already emitting black smoke.

"Next time I'll install a button for you that can spit out multiple balls at a time."

Conan's action of constantly pressing the belt was really too weird, but when he thought that every ball kicked could send a person to the hospital, Hiroki began to doubt Dr. Agasa's original intention of making this thing.

It's both weird and terrifying.

"Stop talking, just do a quick ID check on them."

Conan took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and slapped them on Hiroki's arms. He rubbed his stiff thighs and slowly moved towards Yokoka.

"Let me see."

Hiroki squatted beside a man, first mourned at his swollen pig face, and then touched it randomly.

"There's a gun."

But other than that, there was nothing to prove their identity; these people didn't even have their cell phones with them.

"How to do?"

If they are from the police department, then they must not mess around, but if they are from an organization, they must not be let go!

The two men made suggestions, but they were quickly rejected. In the end, they had no choice but to move the people in black to the side of the road, tear off their clothes, and tie everyone up.

"The quality of the clothes is not good enough, so add some of the anesthetic needles that the doctor and I have just developed."

Hiroki took out a purple box from his backpack and pointed the small opening at the front of the box at the necks of these people.

"This anesthetic injection is concentrated according to Uncle Maori's latest standards. An average person would have to lie down for half a month after taking it."

The two of them moved the horizontal card together, then returned to the car and continued to head towards Sihanoukville.

On the horizontal bar, the infrared transmitter hidden between two different colors began to flash again. The frequency of the flashing became faster and faster, and finally it went black.

In the basement of the exhibition hall, sitting in a large office, Mita Nobuno picked up the sugar and milk tea that Amami Yuki brought down, bit off the cup lid with his mouth, and ate it slowly with the sandwich.

"Chief, the Western Division has not responded since ten minutes ago from Team 8."

The female police officer sitting below tapped a few times on the keyboard and then projected the map of Hachijo Island onto the large central screen. Everyone looked at the flashing red dot, and some people had already started to take deep breaths.

"According to the mission, the infrared light on the middle of the horizontal bar will flash for a period of time every five minutes. As long as someone in the team touches it, it proves that there is no problem with the level they are responsible for. However, Team 8 has not responded for more than two times."

The policewoman stood up from her chair and said, "The other checkpoints cannot be moved. Do you want to send someone to check it out?"

"Don't worry." Mita Nobuno took out his cell phone and found that Nogami's number could not be dialed. He instructed everyone to inform the investigation department of the situation.

"I'll go find the deputy minister. You guys stay on guard."

After saying that, Nobuno Mita winked at Tianhai, and the two of them rushed out of the basement together, ready to find the deputy minister.

(End of this chapter)