Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

After some hesitation, Hiroki and Conan decided to drive the boat to the ocean buoy and left the guards in the pink car.

The wedding started at midnight, and they arrived in Sihanoukville at around four in the morning. The boat headed northeast towards the morning sun. If it were a movie, it would definitely be time for the credits to roll, but it was just beginning.

"Hey, don't play the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack at a time like this."

Conan, who was driving the boat, fully demonstrated the superb skills he learned in Hawaii, while Hiroki, who was exploring the boat's sailing records, played music and operated the boat's equipped computer.

"Isn't this flight number... the same ship you came on?"

Hiroki put his hands to his mouth and reported the ship number to which the boat belonged to Conan. After getting confirmation, he pulled out the boat's sailing route for the day.

"How about it?"

The car slowed down and started the autopilot, and Conan leaned over. With Hiroki's introduction, he also understood the route map.

Before the afternoon, the boat's sailing route was a long line, which was completely consistent with the big ship Conan and his friends were on. But later, a part of the boat's route suddenly became bold, proving that the boat had retreated a part and turned to the north of Hachijo Island, indicating that the boat was completely separated from the big ship at this place.

"It finally stopped in the sea north of Hachijo Island. It should be a reef, but the storm and the waves caused by the bombs dropped in West Port also blew it over."

Hiroki patted the side of the boat; the broken anchor rope was the best proof of his guess.

"Who was it that was on the same boat with us and then drove off in the boat?"

Conan held his chin with a gloomy face: "I am sure that this guy is the source of all evil."

"So sure, I don't think so?"

Hiroki put away his phone, signaled to Conan to lower the engine of the boat and make the noise not too loud, then pointed to the large police ship not far away.

"Look, that should be the police department's ship!"

The ship stopped next to a circle of steel roads. Three circles of roads surrounded a raised circular building. Only the head of the building was visible, but the part above the sea was as big as three basketball courts.

The people in the police station were led by Nogami Kazuka, and standing next to her was a man in a black leather jacket. Conan didn't know this man, but subconsciously felt that he was very dangerous.

"He's looking this way! Lower your head quickly." Hiroki was pushed down hard by Conan.

"What's wrong? Director Dequan?"

Nogami Kazuka followed the man's line of sight and saw the boat with its engine turned off floating on the sea. She signaled with her eyes that a team of soldiers should go down to check the situation, and her right hand holding the black box tightened a little.
"The time is almost up. The loud noise from Hachijo Island just now made me very concerned."

"You want to go back and take a look, right?"

Nogami also looked towards Hachijo Island. Several thick black smokes kept rising into the sky. She was also a little worried about Mita and Amami.

"It's a pity that I can't go back now. How about I let a team go back with you?" "No need. Commander Nan said that everything will be based on you. Besides, I have people on my ship."

“Report! There’s no one on that boat, and the anchor rope is broken. It looks like it’s the boat that picked up the guests before, and it probably drifted over from Westport.”

Pulling the boat back to the outermost Guangdao, Nogami signaled his subordinates to pull the boat into the berthing area of ​​the Ocean Buoy. After Dequan glanced at the boat and left, he waited quietly for the people from the Ocean Buoy to come out and greet him.

The small boat slowly pulled into the berthing area, and after everyone had left, Conan and Hiroki emerged from the bottom of the boat and watched Nogami and his group walk in warily. They all clung to the side of the berthing area and climbed up with the help of the rivets on the steel surface.

“My hand hurts!”

The claws of both men turned red and purple after they climbed up the wide road because of the excessive pressure.

"Fortunately, Guangdao has a curve, otherwise we would be easily discovered."

He crawled forward on the ground, leaving two wet marks. Conan and Hiroki used their glasses to see the central platform beginning to rise. After it was completely fixed, a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties walked out.

"Hello everyone in the police department. I am Makino Kawataro, the director of the Ocean Buoy. Welcome to cooperate with our international police. I believe that with the joint efforts of both parties, Japan's public security will definitely be improved in the future."

Makino rubbed his hands together and said, "Even in Tokyo, I believe there will be a day when there will be zero cases of rice popcorn!"

"This person is too arrogant!"

Conan at the back widened his eyes and leaned upwards, as if wanting to see what kind of person dared to say such a thing.

"That's right, that's rice flower." Hiroki also nodded.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's quickly get into the base and finish what needs to be done."

Nogami walked straight in, and her subordinates behind her also came forward, but seeing this, Makino reached out and stopped her.

"Miss Officer, don't you think you've brought too many people here?"

Makino looked at the dozens of people in front of him. Although he was a little panicked, he still refused everyone to come in. After all, there were only five of them inside the ocean buoy. Ed's life and death were unknown, and Leonhardt was not on it yet. If these policemen were allowed to enter, it would be hard to say who the ocean buoy belonged to.

"I hope Miss Officer can come into the base with me, carrying the surveillance equipment." Makino raised the corner of his mouth: "I will report to my superior later."

After hesitating for a while, Nogami frowned and nodded slightly amidst the dissuading looks from his subordinates.

"can."

(End of this chapter)