Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Hey! Wake up! Mr. Fu Jiang, can you hear me?"

On the pushed hospital bed, Axe Takuzo, his face covered in blood, had one eye open and the other tightly closed. He vaguely saw a man in white clothes running after him, shining a white light pen into his eyes.

"Preliminary assessment shows that he has a broken right leg and a moderate concussion, and the rest are just skin injuries."

Upon hearing this, the man in white immediately pulled out the diagnostic device from Takuzo Axe's chest, signaled the group of bodyguards following behind him to step back, and then pushed the bed into the emergency room.

"How's the driver?"

Miura, the bodyguard at the front, saw that his boss could no longer hear the noise outside, so he turned around and started to care about his subordinates.

"It's really strange. The boss was seriously injured when he was hit by a truck, but our people only had some scratches. How did they do that?"

The people behind were shocked and incredulous about the truck driver who fled the scene of the accident, and now they were urging Miura to make a decision on what to do next.

"If you ask me, now that Fu Jiang Takuzo has become like this, why don't we just steal the knife and show our loyalty to that gentleman..."

A man who was with Miura last night was interrupted by the boss as soon as he opened his mouth to speak. He rubbed his forehead which was hit by the elbow and slapped his mouth guiltily.

"What's the use of a knife? It also completely shattered Fujiang Takuzo's trust in us. Only if we hand over all the clues to the treasure to the gentleman can we get the greatest reward."

Only Miura received the message sent to him by Gojo, so he is now very sure that the truck attack was arranged by the skinny man. If this kind of person cannot bring him the greatest benefit he can, not only will he not get any benefit, but he may even die without knowing how.

"Those policemen went to Fukushiro Ryoe's house. Even if they didn't get the knife, they must have gained something." Miura took out Takuzo Axue's mobile phone from his pocket, turned on the broken screen, and handed it to his subordinate, asking him to tell the police that Takuzo Axue was attacked.

"And this wrapped paper."

Looking at the paper that Takuzo Axe held tightly in his arms before getting on the car, Miura took a photo and sent it to Gojo, and then set it on fire in front of everyone.

"Arrange four vehicles to return to Fujiang Villa, pretending to take things from the treasure house, and then take four routes back here."

Sir, you are right. If we don't provoke Takuzo Axe, he will probably still be hiding his intentions.

"By the way, take out that knife and walk around the corridor with it."

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"Afue Takuzo was attacked?!"

Walking out of the Fucheng family's door, everyone looked at the policemen guarding outside the door in surprise, and the eyelids of Fucheng and his son, who came out to see them off, twitched twice.

"Yes, Officer Nishimura."

Kawazoe Yoshihisa, the only one left by Officer Nishimura, took out his cell phone in a panic and played the recording of the call made by Fujiang's bodyguard. Upon learning that the playboy was hit by a truck while riding in a car, Hattori Heiji and others looked at each other in bewilderment.

"That Kudo Yuji was attacked by the truck. Was it the same group of people?" Officer Nishimura pinched his chin and muttered to himself, but the direction he looked was obviously towards Hattori Heiji, after all, this guy was also one of the targets of the attack.

"That is impossible because the purpose of the attack was different."

Hattori Heiji began to make incorrect inferences very confidently.

"In my opinion, the people who attacked Yuuji, Conan and me are obviously the ones who killed Kugaki Sumito. This guy, not these guys, is afraid of our reputation as detectives, and they attacked us in order to prevent them from deducing the real murderer." Hattori Heiji puffed out his chest: "The criminal did not commit the crime alone, there are at least two of them, it's a group."

Of course, Hattori Heiji was sure that Officer Nishimura also knew this, and the other party might have already suspected the target before him.

The Fukushiro father and son standing in the yard were also shocked by Hattori Heiji's reasoning. Regardless of the attack and overconfidence, the father and son still heard that this student from Osaka Kaikata Gakuen believed that the murderer of the lawyer had someone cooperating.

"As for the person who was attacked by Axie Takuzo, I think the reason why it was different from that group of people was because the knife in his hand did not disappear."

From the recording, we can know that after Takuzo Axue was attacked, the knife he was holding in his arms fell not far away. When the bodyguards rushed over, they found that the knife was not lost. Even Takuzo Axue's driver was not seriously injured. Only Takuzo Axue himself suffered a lot.

"Considering the attack last night, it seems that the attackers were trying to force that guy out of his house."

Hattori Heiji snapped his fingers and said, "Although Axie Takuzo was more interested in the swords before, he collected them in secret. Now it seems that someone behind the scenes is forcing him to move from behind the scenes to the front and hunt for treasures openly."

"The small city of Hakodate is so complicated beneath the water. I wonder how many secrets it hides." Ginzo Nakamori held his head with his hand, feeling a bit of a headache.

"No matter what, let's go to the hospital first."

Officer Nishimura, who was typing while listening to Hattori Heiji's analysis, turned his phone screen towards everyone: "I told Detective Mori that he said he had finished his work and had gone to the hospital."

The group hurriedly said goodbye to the Fukcheng father and son and got into the car and rushed to the hospital. When the police stopped at the hospital entrance, those who did not need to drive ran to the emergency area together and saw Kogoro Mouri and a bodyguard beside him waiting at the gate.

"Let's go. That guy is now on the fifth floor of the inpatient department. I heard from the bodyguard that he was much better when he was pushed out of the emergency room just now."

Maori Kogoro waited for Nishimura and Nakamori to come to him before muttering, "But this guy didn't suffer any fatal injuries."

"So there's a possibility that he directed and acted in it himself, right?"

Officer Nishimura nodded, and the three big guys with a group of minions soon appeared in Takuzo Axe's ward, looking at the guy with a bandage on his head and Miura who was leaning against the window with the curtains drawn.

"Officer Nishimura, you must protect me. Someone wants to kill me!"

Axe Takuzo's eyes were bloodshot. He wrapped his body below the head with a quilt, as if this could make himself invulnerable to swords and guns.

"I was driving out, and when I got to the intersection, my car was hit by a large truck."

"Mr. Fu Jiang, we just met this morning. Could you please tell me why you left Fu Jiang Villa?"

Officer Nishimura moved a chair and sat in front of Takuzo Axie, staring at him straight in the eyes.

"I... Kugaki Sumito is dead, and my house was attacked last night. How can you let me stay there peacefully?"

Axe Takuzo shuddered: "Ken...it must be Brian. This guy has set his eyes on my family's treasure."

As the heir to the largest group in Hakodate, Takuzo Axie certainly knows Brian's background, and he is also aware that the police know the same.

"At this point, do you still plan to let the police help you remove obstacles to finding the treasure?"

Maori Kogoro thought this man was too stupid: "It's better to be honest." (End of this chapter)