Conan: I am really a good person

Chapter 381 The rhythm is good
A clear future goal.

As soon as he entered the fire scene, he ran straight to the third floor without changing his expression, as if the flames and thick smoke that blocked his view and route did not exist.

The third floor is the dining area. Most of the shops sell drinks, desserts and other foods that can be prepared in advance. Ichijo went to a sushi restaurant.

The sushi restaurant is almost entirely made of wood, and its decoration style tends to be elegant, refined and aristocratic. Customers are required to take off their shoes and change into wooden clogs when entering. When there is no fire, this is part of the style and a small means to increase the price. However, at the fire scene, it hinders the customers' escape.

Fortunately, it was on the third floor. Most of the guests took the initiative to escape when the situation was not right, or were swept away by the crowd. Only a few people stayed due to unexpected circumstances. Because they did not leave at the beginning, they were now trapped by the sea of ​​fire.

Ichijo Mirai turned right after entering the door, walked straight for more than ten meters in the flames that jumped up from the wooden table, and saw two people.

They were a young couple. The man looked very bad, sitting against the wall, dying. One leg was crossed and the other was wrapped in plaster and could only be stretched straight. It seemed that he was in the countdown to his death.

His mouth and nose were partially covered by the woman's wet clothes. She was coughing rapidly, but her eyes were fixed on the man's mouth and nose, very anxiously, "Hey, stop talking, go out and blame yourself, shut up and take it easy!"

The wet clothes were a women's coat. Not all of it was wet, only a large part of the hem was wet, with a few pieces of tea leaves that had not been skimmed off.

"Towel," Yi Tiao Wei walked straight over. When the two people who heard the voice looked up, he picked up the young man's arm and put it on his shoulder. He half-supported and half-pulled the young man up, and handed the towel to the young man, "Cover yourself."

"Cover your mouth and nose with your clothes, pull my clothes, lower your head and follow me, and be careful not to fall."

He said something briefly to the young woman, then dragged the young man away.

With the injured person present, he could not walk in the shortest straight line by hopping and tumbling this time. He just walked along the original corridor of the store and swept away any obstacles he encountered with his legs. He walked very fast. In just a dozen seconds, he cleared the fire five or six times and walked to the door of the store. He waited for a few seconds with the young man who had been hopping on one leg all the way before the young woman stumbled out.

There was also a fire in the corridor. Although it was not as fierce as the fire in the wooden sushi restaurant, there was more smoke, which almost blocked the vision of normal people, so that they could only see the red of the fire and the gray of the smoke.

"Follow me. I'll take you to the stairs. Go down directly when you get there." Yi Tiao Wei glanced at the young woman and continued walking after finding that she was in good condition. "My friend and I have cleared the obstacles at the exit. Be careful and you can pass through. Just walk normally and follow the road to get out."

He walked to the stairs, stopped, and handed the young man's arm to the young woman, motioning for her to hold on, "Don't walk too fast, walk normally."

After saying that, he turned around and continued to go upstairs.

The young couple was a little slow to react. A future appeared too suddenly and left too suddenly, but it was very natural. To them, it was probably as natural as picking up food while eating, even if it seemed like picking up food while passing by a stranger's table.

He was dressed in plain clothes, without any equipment, and appeared so quickly that he didn't look like a police officer, but his tone was...

It sounded like an order, but even more unquestionable than an order, like stating a truth with no second option.

It is very strange to rush out to rescue people at such a serious fire scene. It is even stranger to put people at the stairs after rescuing them and let them go down by themselves while you go upstairs.

The young couple looked at each other hesitantly for a few seconds. Finally, when they heard the sound of future footsteps moving up two or three floors, the young woman thanked them loudly and immediately supported her boyfriend to walk downstairs.

The sound echoed in the stairwell and swirled into Ichijo's ears. His expression remained unchanged as he stayed on one floor for a moment, pulled out two or three groups of rescuers who were in bad conditions, and defused the bomb.

When he stopped for the third time to rescue someone, he reached the eleventh floor.

The eleventh floor is the recreational area, with most of the floor being the game room. Normally, it looks like a giant neon ball, with the entire floor ablaze with colorful lights from various game machines and claw machines. Now, there is an irresistible stinking burnt smell.

Two people were trapped in the karaoke machine in the game hall. Because the game machine had a certain soundproofing effect and they were wearing headphones, their ears were filled with the singing of themselves and their companions. They did not notice the fire at first. When they found out later, there was already thick smoke outside and the unpleasant smell of the burning machine. It would be very dangerous to leave, so they could only stay inside and wet their clothes with drinks to cover their mouths and noses.

They are still alive, but their hiding place is too small and enclosed, and their condition is very bad.

Most of the various game machines in the game hall were lying in a mess. In the future, a simple path was built that was wide enough for one person to pass through to bring the person out of the karaoke machine.

"Going in the direction I came from will lead you to the stairwell. I have cleared some obstacles along the way and you can walk normally," he said quickly. "Just go downstairs. There is only smoke in the stairwell. Remember to cover your mouth and nose and lower your head to avoid inhaling too much smoke."

As he said this, he left his mouth and nose exposed in a very unauthoritative manner, with no intention of covering them at all.

The two trapped people were like fish that had been sweltering in a can for too long. They were still a little dizzy and couldn't come back to their senses. They processed the information several beats slower than usual. They looked at each other blankly before responding and asking in a daze: "Wait, are you still going in?!"

Ichijo Future had already walked deeper into the arcade, and took the wet clothes from one of the people. "Yes, I need them. Thank you."

While he was talking, the trapped person asked dazedly: "Um, you want wet clothes, eh?!"

Compared to the question of "Is he a police officer? A firefighter? Or a brave passerby?", his super high efficiency in clearing roadblocks, rescuing people, and moving on to the next rescue mission without answering any instructions, and the fact that he was not wearing any equipment, as if he was not in the fire scene, made people feel a chill and a horrified question:

Is it, is it a robot?

People who can move freely in a fire scene are not normal people, right?!

A road in the future went straight towards the goal. He stopped and walked along the way, passed through the game hall, walked into the children's playground, identified the direction, and pulled out three people from the office.

A couple and a child to be exact.

The couple looked to be in their forties, and the child was eleven or twelve years old. They were not in good condition. Even though their faces were covered with clothes, others could tell at a glance that their complexion had changed to varying degrees, and could judge that their condition was very bad.

The one in the worst condition was the child.

"Come with me," Yi Tiao Wei opened the door and replaced the child's clothes covering his mouth and nose with wet clothes. "The firefighters have arrived and set up a fire bed downstairs. You will jump down one by one later. You hold the child first." He looked at the woman, indicating that he was talking to her, and added as he walked out, "You must jump down. You can't take the stairs. There is no time. Even if I jump down the stairs holding the child, he will go into shock. We must leave the smoke immediately."

The eleventh floor was filled with thick smoke. Inhaling too much smoke would slow down the human brain. Because the child was taken away, the couple followed without thinking, and only reacted halfway. The man who had just held the child looked at his empty hands, then looked at the future and the narrow road that had been cleared along the way, and asked hesitantly: "You, you are..."

"A fireman?"

The middle-aged woman continued to ask, and when she reached the window, she hurriedly took the child, but became even more hesitant: How can a firefighter come up and hold a child without wearing any equipment?
Even a normal person who wants to save someone else's child wouldn't just come up and take away the child, right?
But if the child hadn't been taken away, they would have definitely stayed there alert and hesitated for a long time before following...

Thinking of this, the middle-aged woman added new elements to her hesitation: Could it be that she knew this a long time ago, so in order to avoid wasting time, she should just take the child and leave?
The sound of breaking glass interrupted her hesitation.

Logically speaking, the high-altitude glass is very strong, but it broke after just a few hits, as cleanly and neatly as if it were ordinary, fragile glass.

He turned around and ordered more decisively, "Jump."

couple:"……"

They looked at each other for a few seconds, looked at each other's red and swollen faces, looked at the broken glass scattered at their feet, and then looked at their children's faces that had turned red to purple.

…It seemed as if the disparity between the two sides was too great, leaving no room for struggle.

The middle-aged woman looked down and made out the crowd and firefighting beds on the first floor from the thick smoke downstairs. She gritted her teeth and said, "If there really is a firefighting bed, I'll jump."

She held the child tightly and jumped down.

The middle-aged man anxiously and fearfully chased after her for a few steps. He looked straight ahead and was relieved when he saw the middle-aged woman land on the fire bed. He clenched his fists repeatedly, "Then, then I'll jump too!"

"You," he asked nervously, mustering up the courage to look at the future, "are you a firefighter?"

"In fact, nine,

"I know there are people in the supermarket on the ninth floor," Ichigo Future interrupted, "jump quickly."

He didn't wait for the middle-aged man to jump down, but turned around and left to start the rescue mission on the ninth floor. "By the way, tell me after you jump down that Jiutiao Future asked them to prepare for first aid. There will be three elderly people and two children who need first aid."

There is a large supermarket on the ninth floor.

Under normal circumstances, supermarkets are places with relatively dense flow of people, and the same is true when a fire occurs. When the crowd panics, it can be very destructive. The supermarket was already a mess, most of which was caused by the crowd trampling and pushing, and a small part was caused by the fire.

A future plan is to go upstairs first to dismantle the last bomb and take away the red banner before going to the ninth floor.

But he did not go directly to the ninth floor. Instead, he went to the tenth floor first, broke the glass window, tied a red banner, and swung into the ninth floor.

There was a cry of surprise downstairs and on the ninth floor as well.

Exclamations belong to the elderly and children.

The place that the future jumped into belonged to a supermarket, but in the department store area, various shelves had collapsed to form a thick outer layer, which kept the fire out at the beginning.

In a sense, it was a protection for the trapped people. However, when the fire spread to the shelves, this protection suddenly turned into a death warrant. The trapped people had no way to get out through the collapsed shelves that were intertwined one after another. They could only wait to die in the circle in despair, like watching themselves being roasted fish.

And because the trapped people were elderly and children, the despair of being unable to resist and only waiting to die was even greater.

The three elderly people looked about the same age, all around 50 or 60 years old. The children were also of similar age, only four or five years old, which should be the age for kindergarten.

They hugged each other, both the old and the children had red faces and tears on their faces. Before the future came, they were probably comforting each other and giving each other their last words. When death came, after the future came, they were stunned.

One of the elderly people was the first to react. He looked at the broken window and the future, and immediately stood up with the child in his arms, stuttering, "Is there a bed downstairs for us?"

"Yes," Ichijo Mirai replied, "but you can't jump."

The elderly cannot jump. If they jump from the ninth floor, even if there is a bed below to catch them, the impact will be enough to kill them. What's more, they are about to die. The same goes for children.

"If you jump in and try to rescue him for about ten minutes, he will die."

A future recollection, added.

The old man who asked the question's eyes lit up and then dimmed again. A few beats later, the eyes of the others also dimmed. The old men looked at each other.

As they asked him to jump off the building with the child in his arms, Ichijo Mirai checked the time and said to himself, "Okay, the pace is good. If I can get out, I can probably meet up with them on the seventh floor..."

[Number of people needing rescue: 156.]

(53 people have been rescued, 0 people have died, and 103 people are waiting for rescue)]

(End of this chapter)