Conan's Science Manga Artist Kudo Yuuji

"Damn it, you actually have to soak in the water after you come in!"

After taking off her diving mask, Mizuno Reina was extremely angry, and at the same time, she looked at Machiko with a bit of resentment in her eyes.

"President, don't you have anything to say?"

The three are now on the 18th floor of the ocean buoy, while the water is still falling from the 17th floor. Due to the increased weight inside the base, you can see through the glass windows on the 18th floor that the entire ocean buoy seems to be sinking a little.

"How did you choose the location of this base? The seabed here is so soft, and the water has only fallen on the third floor."

Keir was clinging to the window. There was no light in the dark deep sea, which proved that Vodka and the others had driven the submarine far away. Even if they wanted to return to the ship, they would have no chance.

"Water is a good thing."

After kicking the unconscious Indian lying on the ground, Machiko raised her hand to check the time and found that it had not been more than three hours since she got off the submarine.

"Our goal is to install a remote control system at the bottom of the ocean buoy after the Japanese police hand over surveillance rights, and then kidnap the woman named Naomi. Isn't there a better way now?"

"A better way? You mean..."

The two of them followed Machiko's line of sight and noticed the Indian lying on the ground with his face almost completely submerged in water and bubbles starting to bubble from his nose. They hurriedly helped him up.

"Naomi is the most important part of the cross-age system. We can't replace her until she manually connects to Japan's surveillance rights, but others will be fine."

"You want to disguise yourself."

Mizuno Reina hesitated for a moment. Her personality in the organization was that of an ordinary code-named thug. She had not shown any talent in computers or other areas before.

But in fact, the CIA also trained her before being sent out as an undercover agent. If she just cooperated with others, there should be no problem.

"Then now I will assign a temporary task."

Machiko pinched the Indian's face and forced him to make a sound to capture his voice. Then she patted him and took out the waterproof communicator. After checking that there was no problem, she motioned Fujiwara to the stairs while she Run to the end of the 18th floor.

At this time, the water on the 18th floor had completely reached the knees of the three people. He gestured to Fujiwara to slowly walk towards him. Machiko pretended to be frightened, pressed the communication button and shouted.

"Ah! Ah!"

On the floor, the three people in the command room and Leonhardt, who was putting on equipment in the equipment room and getting ready to go, immediately heard Ed's fearful cry.

"Ed-kun! What happened! Are you injured?"

As the director, Makino immediately pressed the communication button on the console in front of him, hoping that the Indian could relay the situation there.

"Don't come over! Don't come over!"

【Why don't you come over? 】

"Is there anyone else over there? Mr. Ed, has someone invaded the ocean buoy? Don't worry, just tell me the situation and I'll ask Naomi to call for help!"

Makino was ecstatic at the moment. If the ocean buoy malfunctioned because the four of them had a problem at the maintenance base, he would not be given juice at the International Police Headquarters, but if someone invaded, it would be a big difference.

"Ed, did you hear what the director said!" Naomi also looked at the screen eagerly.

Hearing the voice coming from the communication machine, Machiko paused and stammered: "Director..."

The combat uniform on her arm flashed with blue lightning, and then Machiko crushed the communicator.

"There are not many people in this base now, and there is not even one person who can be called a defensive force. It seems that the original plan was for the Japanese police to be responsible for the security work."

Machiko felt the paralysis in her hands caused by the combat uniform, and guessed the identity of the maker.

"Aren't you going to replace them? What if the director asks for help?" Fujiwara frowned, wondering what Machiko was doing.

"He probably won't make any calls outside, at least until it's determined whether it was a mechanical failure or an intrusion."

Mizuno Reina walked over with the Indian in tow and looked at Machiko: "I just wanted them to send someone down to confirm, so that's why they crushed the communicator at that time, right?"

"The road leading to the top on the 16th floor is blocked." Machiko tilted her head helplessly, feeling that the water in her ears had not been drained yet. She said sheepishly: "This happened beyond my expectation."

Originally, she wanted to cause a power short circuit and shut down all the power systems on the 16th floor to prevent the camera from capturing the faces of the three people. However, she did not expect that the power was indeed cut off when she dropped the dagger, but not only the inner mechanical door was loosened, but also the outer mechanical door that blocked the sea water. The door also popped up automatically.

"Who designed this base? Even though I don't understand architecture, I know that the outermost door needs to separate electricity."

Machiko complained, but also wondered: "Do they actually have any backup means?"

The three of them had tried their best to close the mechanical door on the inside, otherwise there would be no need to run down.

"Instead of thinking about this, let's focus on the water level first!"

Shui Wu Liannai patted the water that had reached his thighs, and reminded the two of them: "Our oxygen may not be enough for the people above to come down."

"I checked these three floors before when I was running down. There are some research rooms inside. Unfortunately, there are no oxygen bottles. However, there is a scrap document in an office that says that the lower floor has not been built yet, so only Some mechanical equipment has been installed, and even monitoring has not been installed.”

Fujiwara couldn't help but glance at the oxygen bottle behind the Indian, but noticed that the other two people had no intention of taking away the man's oxygen bottle, so he suppressed his thoughts first.

"If it doesn't work, we will find a way to continue."

Machiko's words were immediately refuted.

"The top and bottom are sealed. How to go down? We can't open the steel mechanical door with just our hands."

Mizuki Reina also started to look behind the Indian.

"It's true that the floor is out of power now, but the mechanical door is not."

Machiko led everyone back to the mechanical door down: "I have observed that each floor drives the mechanical door to the next floor. The short circuit caused by the sea water should only be on the 16th and 17th floors, and together with the 18th floor. power outage."

Otherwise, it would be impossible for three people to reach the 18th floor.

"What you mean is that the real problem is on the 16th and 17th floors. The 18th floor just failed incidentally due to the paralysis of the upper layer. In fact, there is no problem."

Fujiwara, who was slightly familiar with the machinery industry, reacted immediately, so he lay on the machine door and checked everywhere.

"It is the most common interlocking structure mechanical door. As long as we cut off the power on the 18th floor, this door will automatically open!"

Fujiwara thought of something and immediately took out the square battery that matched the oxygen supply bottle from the waterproof backpack on his back.

"The power supply line of this door seems to be at the upper right hinge. This place is also very fragile. After smashing it open, pull out the wire. After we use the same method to destroy the power grid system on the 18th floor, we can fix the two ends of the wire. With the battery, the mechanical door will not fail after the 18th floor is flooded.”

"But what should I do if the battery runs out?"

Shui Wulian also removed his own battery.

"So once we got to the lower level, one of us looked at the Indian, one stayed at the mechanical door, and the other went to look for large batteries or generators as much as possible."