Conan: I am really a good person

Chapter 290 How strange

Ichijo Mirai: "This child..."

The clerk was looking around. She didn't see her colleagues who were replenishing goods, nor the goddamn boss who might suddenly come out and deduct her salary, so she answered a question: "My colleague said there were five people in that car. There were six people, basically all men, who didn’t seem to be easy to mess with. There was only one child, so I thought it was strange, so I paid extra attention.”

“Then I said something about almost getting hit by a van, so we were even more impressed.”

"Well," she hesitated to speak, she looked very guilty like an incompetent employee who wanted to ask her boss for a raise, "Can you,"

The guilty employee looked at the clean checkout counter, then at Ichimirai's right hand and knees that touched the counter when he jumped over the counter, and finally at Ichimirai's eyes that listened to the sound and looked at the speaker seriously. Under those red eyes, he swallowed his objections, "No, it's nothing..."

He's quite handsome and polite. At first glance, he looks like a warm and cheerful person. He's probably the kind of person who would give a warning when walking on the road, and then touch the elbow of a blind person without moving his eyes. Next, a kind person who politely leads the way.

Since she is a kind-hearted person, the clerk has no objection at all: mainly from the crisp and neat movements of Ichimi Mirai when she turned into the checkout counter, she has already seen that even if this sunny-looking nice guy just grabs the cash and runs away, she will Nothing can be done.

"My wages will be deducted if I break into the cashier. Do I need to replace the monitoring during this period with normal monitoring?" A future casually said, continuing to look at the monitoring, "OK, I understand."

Although it is not necessary, refresh when loading the file.

Probably because the residents of Neon pay more attention to privacy, there are obviously two cameras outside the convenience store, but the surveillance coverage is not too large. A large part of it is the location of the convenience store, and even the opposite side of the road cannot be photographed. The information captured was not too much, it only pointed out the direction of the robber at this intersection.

Instead of alerting the robbers, they will continue to do so quietly. They will not take any big action until the robbers contact the police or their parents. This will allow the robbers to maintain emotional stability and prevent the hostages from being scolded on the spot or excessively retaliated against due to the police's actions. .

The caller was Onitsuka Hazo.

After only seeing each other for a short time.

The quality of the surveillance video is not good. You can notice a strip of dark shadow that looks like scratches in the future. This is because the van is almost entirely black. The face and hands of the robber are relatively large gray, which is different from the surrounding black. A contrast is formed.

But the discoverer and the frontline person are the same in the future. When Matsumoto Kiyonaga asked, he was delegating power without hesitation, allowing the police academy student to take command.

Ichijo Mirai was startled for a moment: Do you trust him too much?

If it were any other police officer, he would definitely be very pleased. He thought that although the police officer in question was not very professional, he had rich experience in requesting tactical guidance and was very skilled in kneeling down and hugging his thigh without hesitation.

To alert the snake, the police will take direct action, start a large-scale pursuit and investigation in Tokyo, and issue emergency news to describe the characteristics of the robbers and hostages.

A message from the future sent all the information about the little hostage and the robbers to Onizuka Yazo, and replaced the surveillance that he had just turned into the cashier, "Thank you very much, bye."

"Did you see the message I sent? Why didn't you reply to me, you bastard!" Onizuka Yazo condemned first, and then reported in a more urgent tone, "No parents have reported to the police that their children are missing. It is the end of the elementary school time. Many primary school students may not go home immediately, but go out to play together, and the parents of the kidnapped child will most likely not react yet,"

The whitest color is the child's face and hands. There are no hairpins or rubber bands on her short hair. Her hair hangs down on the side of her face. Her ragged bangs fall above her eyes, not completely covering her frown and some Panic eyes.

In the uneven black and white of different light and dark, some robbers hidden in the car only provided a blur of darkness. The only robber who showed his face was a robber with triangular eyes and a fierce look. His right hand was curled up and holding a He was smoking a cigarette, and there were faint scratch marks on the back of his hand.

And one thing was certain: including the driver, there were five adult males and one hostage in the car.

This……

Compared with the previous clues, it was great to be able to point out a correct road node. Mirai glanced a few times to confirm the direction without any emotion, and then began to play the surveillance video repeatedly, watching it at various speeds.

He pulled out the cashier and walked out while answering the vibrating phone, "Hello?"

The disadvantage is that the safety of the hostages is given up to a certain extent.

But Matsumoto Kiyonaga is not a useless policeman, but a capable policeman with a very developed sense of smell. To actually delegate power like this, it can only be because he has great trust in the future.

"Administrator Matsumoto is already investigating. He asked me to ask you whether you want to alert the enemy or not?"

Generally speaking, the police will choose the latter without hesitation.

In this branch, we can find the parents of the hostages in a very short period of time, and to a certain extent, find out whether there is any inside story in the case. Did the robbers rob people at random, and hastily selected a child who looked like a rich family to rob, or did they? Deliberate revenge on parents.

"Is that what Matsumoto Kiyonaga said?" Ichijo Mirai walked towards the direction where the robbers left. His eyes kept scanning the surroundings, not letting go of any possible clues, and his tone softened, "It sounds very trusting. As for me, it seems that my rescue skills are good,"

"I am indeed very reliable and a super powerful Messiah," he sighed, "but if you trust me so much, Matsumoto Kiyonaga wouldn't think I was really an angel when he opened his eyes after losing too much blood, right?"

"As expected of me." He found a button on the road.

It was a dark red horn button, the size of an adult's fingernail, and it looked like a button on a coat.

"Let's scare the snake away." Ichigo Mirai turned the button to match the clothes of the hostage in the surveillance video. "Don't worry about the hostage's safety. Just treat her as dead. Find her parents as soon as possible and locate the robber." ."

Then he read out the location of the convenience store, "There is surveillance video there, and it captured a clip of the robber passing by, with the victim's face on it. When I left, I highlighted that video. You can take it away as soon as possible to report the news. "

"Don't worry about personal safety. Treat her as a dead victim."

He said it quite casually, not like a hound tracking prey, not like a policeman chasing a robber, like he was saying 'a cup of creme brûlée, thank you'.

Onizuka Hazo paused for a moment.

The stagnation in the first few seconds was caused by Mirai Ichijo's shameless boasting, and the stagnation in the next few seconds was caused by Mirai Ichijo's indifferent tone that definitely did not belong to the police and was not trying to be calm.

It took him a few seconds to react, "Okay, okay."

"Well, the manager said he probably knows which group of guys are taking the hostages. Some time ago, the police accidentally noticed traces of some people."

It was a group of about a dozen robbers.

There are many ways to make money quickly, the more common ones are robbing gold stores, banks and other places, as well as robbing pedestrians, extorting rich people, and kidnapping the children of wealthy people.

These illegal and criminal incidents are like ripples on the water and cannot disappear forever. However, they have appeared tentatively on a large scale some time ago.

At that time, it happened to be the period when the police academy students were practicing pretending to be criminals.

Probably the police diverted part of their force to deal with the police academy students and relaxed their pursuit of real criminals. Many criminals thought that "Tokyo is going to be in chaos," so crimes occurred frequently, and street robberies and home invasions occurred with high frequency.

The police had to be anxious for a while. Fortunately, shortly after the exercise of pretending to be criminals ended, the police no longer had to allocate manpower to deal with police academy students and could concentrate on cracking down on criminals, so the crime rate in Tokyo dropped to a minimum.

During this period, police patrolling at night repeatedly encountered unknown persons who were visiting high-end residential areas. Matsumoto Kiyonaga suspected that the robbers in this operation were that group of persons.

As for why after burying his head quietly for a while, he suddenly struck out...

"There seems to be a special way of communication among criminals in Tokyo. At a specific time, they will form a rope to fight against something," Matsumoto Kiyonaga said after taking the call, "Since three years ago, From the beginning until now.”

"This method of contact has gradually cooled down as the crisis has gone away, but for some reason, they have been contacting each other with high frequency since some time ago,"

His tone was calm, sounding like he was thinking, "During that time, the police interrogated many criminals, and only a few of them told them that they thought Tokyo was about to be finished, so they planned to leave with one vote, or for The chaotic situation contributes a part of its own strength, wagging its tail to a certain existence."

'Wag the tail' is the exact word.

"So...but..."

Matsumoto Kiyonaga was still saying, "Starting three days ago, just like some time ago, criminals in Tokyo started again..."

"They are like the tide driven by the moon. There are certain patterns in their impatience and immobility..."

"We are tracing..."

Ichijo Mirai can no longer be heard.

He half-crouched on the road, turning the button in his hand, as if he suddenly discovered that there was a very important clue on this button, and sighed in a solemn tone, "So that's it."

"Yes, yes, why have they become so restless in recent days? They feel that the police have no time to take care of low-level cases and they can fish in troubled waters. No big cases have happened. How strange."

"Oh, I suddenly found a very important clue. Let's not talk about it for now. Goodbye, Mr. Manager!"

(End of this chapter)