Conan: The Mechanic

In the afternoon, Chiba came to the astronomical telescope again—Honda and the others seem to have completed the final adjustment, so they are resting in the room now, so there is no one here for the time being, which is very suitable for Chiba to continue the previous observation.

He did find some mechanisms that Jiroyoshi Suzuki set up here before, but whether some of them are mechanisms is still up for debate, so Chiba specially borrowed a small telescope from the crew this time—if there is a small telescope, the one in the glass case before. The inexplicable color on the daylight window has an abnormal pixel point to confirm - is it just a subtle optical problem or there is something strange there.

The moment the elevator door opened, Qianyu found someone standing in front of the glass case, looking at the jewelry inside.

He seems to be wearing the uniform of a staff member - from his standing posture, it looks like the staff member who was standing beside Mouri Kogoro and Suzuki Jiroyoshi after they were drunk yesterday?

If it was really that person, how could he be here? His colleagues should be preparing afternoon tea now, right?

With some doubts, Qianyu walked to the glass counter.

Just as Chiyu was walking over there, the man turned around—the recognition function of the auxiliary unit immediately told Chiyu that this was not the staff member from yesterday, nor the staff member he had seen before.

"Hello, kid." The staff member smiled and looked at him.

"Are you a staff member?" Chiba asked curiously. "I don't seem to have seen you before?"

"That's right, little brother." The staff came to Qianyu and squatted down. "I'm the bartender on this airship. I work at the bar, so if you haven't been there, little brother, you must have never seen me!"

"Then what are you doing here, brother?" Qianyu nodded noncommittally.

"This big jewel here," the staff member pointed to the glass cabinet behind him. "Such beautiful jewelry, you must take a good look at it!"

"Hmm..." Chiyu's eyes wandered for a while and then returned to the staff's eyes. "How about that, that jewelry is beautiful, isn't it?"

"That's right," the staff member patted Chiyu's head with the left arm that had just pointed at the glass cabinet. "Okay, it's time for me to go back to work, keep watching here!"

Having said that, the staff stood up and prepared to leave here.

Just as the staff got up, Chiba's eyes suddenly narrowed.

The staff didn't seem to notice this at all. After walking a few steps forward, they realized that Qianyu had been standing there, so they looked back curiously.

Seems to have heard the staff stop, Chiyu also turned around and looked at him.

The traceless umbrella was pulled out from the backpack by Qianyu and unfolded, entering the battle mode.

"Who are you?" Qian Yu asked in a deep voice.

"Me?" The staff member replied with a smile after being stunned for a moment. "I'm a bartender!"

"Excuse me, but have we met before?" Qianyu asked. "For example, did you pick up a little girl while we were on the airship and get hurt?"

"Huh?" The staff member's expression was quite astonished. "Kid...you remember correctly? I've been working as a bartender, and I shouldn't have seen you before!"

"Oh, really?" Chi Yu's expression was rather ironic. "Well, let me remind you of one thing - look at your left arm, to be precise, the scar on your left elbow."

"Oh?" The surprised expression of the staff this time seemed to be different from the previous one, and he then looked at the left elbow quite seriously.

A short coagulated wound appeared at that position, and the intermittent short scabs on it indicated that the wound seemed to have just healed not long ago.

"What... what's wrong?" The staff looked at Qianyu with an inexplicable expression.

"Don't you feel familiar with that wound?" Qianyu asked back. "If the dividing plane of the upper and lower arms is used as the original plane, the angle between the wound and the cutting plane is 79 degrees, and the length is 3.7 cm, which is the same as the angle of the wound on the elbow of the previous service worker who injured himself while helping the beauty. All the same length."

"Uh..." The staff really showed a surprised expression. "Kid, you..."

"Please tell me, who are you?" Qian Yu said coldly. "By the way, have you ever noticed that you have a language habit? If I guessed correctly, you played the waiter who looked after Mouri Kogoro and Mr. Suzuki Jirokoshi alone yesterday? There's a weird way of breaking the rhythm - the three of you are the only ones on the airship that end the tails like this, and none of the others end the tails in this strange way."

More importantly, because Chiba always felt that the waiter from yesterday was a little strange, so he specially recorded the basic information of the waiter with an auxiliary unit.

His gait is exactly like this man! Whether it is the movement pattern of the body's center of gravity or the swing angle of the legs, it is almost exactly the same as the person in front of it now!

"..." The staff fell silent, and this silence made Qianyu confirm her thoughts and prepare for battle.

"Your Excellency, don't you think you should say something?" Qianyu aimed the arrow launcher at the staff. "I guess, you should be the Kaitou Kid, right? Besides, there shouldn't be anyone here who thinks about disguising."

"Who are you?" The staff member's mouth suddenly rose slightly ~www.readwn.com~ asked. "I meant your name."

"Is this important?" Qianyu frowned slightly.

"Let's see what it says," the staff - or Kaitou Kidd smiled. "It doesn't matter at all if you want me to call you a child."

"Whatever." Qian Yu said in a deep voice.

"Aren't you going to call someone?" Kidd asked.

"No need," Qianyu shook her head. "It's enough for me to catch you alone."

"So confident?" Kaitou Kid raised his eyebrows. "If you don't call the police, are you sure you can catch me alone?"

"I think there should be, at least I have the confidence." Qian Yu said lightly.

At this moment, Kaitou Kid seemed to have discovered something, and looked behind him in surprise.

Chiba knew exactly what Kidd was looking at—because he actually made it.

Not far behind Kidd, the number on the elevator's floor display screen was constantly rising.

"Did you call someone here?" Kaitou Kid looked at Qianyu with a complicated expression. "When did you..."

"Guess what," Qianyu tilted her head. "Maybe I called Uncle Jiroji just after you walked past me and let them hear all our conversations?"

Of course, if this is really the case, Kaitou Kidd probably heard the sound of pressing the keyboard of the phone just now. Chiba used a more subtle method, which was absolutely impossible to be discovered by the phantom thief Kid.

After all, the auxiliary unit has the function of simulating the mobile phone signal, so in this case, it is quite easy to use the auxiliary unit to simulate your own mobile phone to send a text message, isn't it?