Conan: The Mechanic

"!!!" Everyone looked at the burning car in surprise.

"..." Chiba immediately glanced at the street on the same side—there was no one within 50 meters. However, there are quite a few people on the street across the street looking at it.

[The only thing that can be blasted with a bomb in this vicinity is the car that Baitiao was in just now. Other facilities are not things like floor tiles that have no conditions for bombs, or things like buildings that cannot be bombed at all. So if there is another second attack, basically, you can only choose long-range thermal weapons. If there is no one within 50 meters, if the attacker wants to shoot them, he must aim the gun at eye level to be sure to hit them. In other words, the attacker must attack in a hidden space that cannot be seen by others in order to escape. That is, in the buildings on both sides. 】

Chiba immediately grabbed Haibara Ai's hand. "Evacuate first."

A place close by where you can take refuge. . . After turning around, Chiba glanced at the properties of several nearby shops.

The entrance is set on the first floor, a bookstore with only one wall visible from the outside; an accessories store with glass doors and windows and a pile of metal cabinets; a fast food restaurant with many tables and chairs.

"Doctor," Qian Yu realized at this time that there were other people who needed to take refuge, and hurriedly greeted Dr. A Li. "Take everyone to the bookstore to hide! It will be bad if it is affected by the next attack!"

Since the police officer Shiratori was attacked when he was going to start the car, it means that the attacker could definitely see the police officer Shiratori—in other words, the attacker could not be in the bookstore where he couldn’t see the outside at all.

Then hiding in the bookstore will definitely not encounter attackers, which means that this is the safest choice.

"It's safe." Bypassing the crowd who were looking at the exploding car from the entrance of the corridor where the bookstore was located, Chiba pulled Haibara Ai and hid in the bookstore. "Then wait here for a while and wait until everything is safe."

"Yeah." Haiyuan Ai glanced at the hand he was holding and nodded.

"..." Only then did Qianyu notice that she still seemed to be holding on to Hai Yuan, so she released her hand gently, and then leaned against the side of the bookcase in a relaxed manner.

Then he suddenly remembered something.

If it was me under normal circumstances, I am afraid that I would never stay here - even if it becomes smaller - I would choose a fast food restaurant no matter how cautious I am.

The seamless umbrella can effectively protect him from any gunshots, and sitting in the restaurant can also allow him to eat melons and watch dramas calmly - it will be fine anyway.

At this moment, Genta, Mitsuhiko, Chiyu, and Dr. Akasa walked in.

Conan didn't come, did he go to the explosion site?

If it was in the days before meeting Haiyuan, I am afraid that at this time, I would have come to the scene to check the situation like Conan. . .

"Heh..." Supporting her forehead with the base of her palm, Qian Yu let out a self-deprecating chuckle.

. . . An hour later, the Metropolitan Police Department.

"We were actually invited here..." Walking into the reception room of the Metropolitan Police Department with Conan and Ai Haibara, Qian Yu raised her eyebrows as she looked at Officer Mumu, who was sitting upright. "Did something happen?"

"This time, someone specially recommended the three of you to come," Officer Mumu said, stood up, and handed three stacks of paper to the three of them. "The top one is a fax letter from the attacker, and the bottom one is the past information. Let's see if you can think of anything. If you need any information, I have an English dictionary and an encyclopedia ready. , you can use it anytime."

"What about the others?" Ai Haibara asked a question. "When I passed the office area just now, I felt that the number of people was not right."

"They've all gone out and searched the whole of Tokyo." Officer Megumi didn't go back to his seat, but walked to the door. "I'm going to deal with the documents first. If you find anything, you can find me in my office outside. Also, if any of you want to leave, just let me know, after all..."

Officer Mumu opened the door. "Such a heavy responsibility should not be shouldered by your little children."

Although the sound of the door closing was absorbed and ignored after hitting the wall for the first time, it still caused the three people present to sigh.

"He also said that we shouldn't be burdened..." Qian Yu slapped the paper on the table with a wry smile, and lay down in the chair. "Who dares not bear it..."

"Yeah..." Hai Yuan sighed. "Even if it's just that powerful bomb, it's easy to kill a three-digit person if it's placed properly."

"So we have no other choice," Conan looked at the two of them. "Get up and see if you can do something."

"I'm a major league member who can play hard balls. Come on, let's start the extended battle. The game signal will start at noon tomorrow and end at three o'clock in the afternoon." Qianyu read this sentence somewhat sloppily - this paragraph There were a lot of things in the words that looked like proper nouns, so he struggled to convert English to Japanese. "Even if you prepare high-quality brakes, it doesn't make sense, and I will reverse in the end."

"That," Conan said. "Stopper means lead pitcher."

"What is that?" Qianyu asked. "What field of things?"

"Baseball, the pitcher who throws the ball." Conan explained. "An ERA...or a pitcher with a 3 or less ERA is a finestopper"

"ERA?" Haiyuan Ai was taken aback for a moment~www.readwn.com~ How to spell it? "

"E, R, A." Conan replied.

"XT?" Haihara muttered sadly. "Hatchback sedan?"

"What's the meaning?"

"Generally speaking, this kind of cipher will play tricks on being able to materialize, because the word itself can carry meanings beyond the original meaning," Haibara Ai turned her paper to Conan and Chiba. "And if you consider that the prisoners used English, you must consider English on the basis of considering the additional meanings of these words in Japanese. The playoff Extra contains the three letters of ERA, and the word is after the letters ERA are removed. XT is gone. If XT is invalid, other methods can be considered, such as considering ERA—”

"Just thinking about XT," Conan shook his head. "It's useless to have efficient pitchers. In other words, ERA doesn't make sense, so the extra conversion to XT is correct."

"Also, considering the contents of that letter three years ago," Chiba looked at the previous materials. "His writing structure is like this... First, he calls himself the Knight of the Round Table, and points out one of the conditions for the location of the first crime (Round Table) and one of the conditions for the type of location for the second crime (Knight of the Round Table); then It is the time (fourteen o'clock), and finally the second condition of the second crime location type (comrade-in-arms' head) the second condition of the first crime location (No. 72)."

"That is to say, XT was the site of one of the crimes... Wen!" Conan suddenly realized that he was halfway through. "After the final reversal of the XT, the T will be flipped, and the XT will become a horizontal 'text'! This is the same type as the 'ten' symbol three years ago!"