Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Rice flower town.

The wheels of a car rolled over the flooded ground, splashing a large amount of water, and a car sped towards the suburbs.

The time in the car shows that it is now 1pm.

My colleague was holding the steering wheel, beads of sweat covering his forehead without him noticing. He was carefully controlling the speed of the car to avoid skidding and an accident, while also paying attention to what the people around him were saying.

"Tokai Village? Are you sure it's there?"

“…I can’t be sure, but the possibility is very high.”

Zhu Fujingguang put down his cell phone. He had just finished a call with the Public Security Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Through the reminders of his colleagues and the inexplicable memories that came to his mind, he speculated on the place where Daizo Eto was currently being held.

He speculated that the location was...

"Ibaraki Prefecture, Naka County, Tokai Village."

Zhu Fu Jingguang held his cell phone tightly, his expression frighteningly gloomy.

"——That is the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in Japanese history."

My colleague swallowed and said, "...Is it the Tokai Village nuclear criticality accident? I know there was such an incident, but I don't know the details."

Even if he is a public security policeman, it does not mean that he will know all the major accidents that have occurred in the country. After all, some accidents happened a long time ago.

"At the end of the last century, at a nuclear fuel processing plant in Tokai Village, Naka County, Ibaraki Prefecture, three workers improperly poured excessive uranyl nitrate solution into the sedimentation tank, causing excessive uranium to accumulate in the tank and a chain nuclear fission reaction to occur on the spot."

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked ahead and told the important details of the accident.

"One hour after the accident, the gamma radiation dose rose to four times the normal value, and many workers were affected. In addition, the factory manager did not mention that it was a nuclear radiation accident when the police were first called, so the emergency personnel entered the accident site without any protection and also suffered varying degrees of radiation exposure."

My colleague's hair stood on end when he heard this: "How many people died exactly?!"

"Two workers died due to operating errors, and more than 200 people were affected by nuclear radiation. They are still living with the shadow of it."

Thinking of the documentaries he had watched during his student days and the more detailed investigation reports he had read after joining the police force, Zhu Fujingguang's expression became even more gloomy.

"But..." The colleague was puzzled, "Why do you suspect it's there?"

"Because of the tip given by Aniseite."

When mentioning Aniseite, Zhu Fujingguang's syllables became heavier.

"The windmill swayed and pointed to number ninety-two. The radiation warning sign is a three-blade symbol with a yellow background and a black background. It looks very similar to a three-blade windmill. And in the periodic table, number ninety-two is uranium."

"As for the second line, 'white towers painted on snowy mountains, swings swinging in the clouds,' I think it refers to the Kalka Wonderland theme park in Europe."

"It is located at the border of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. It was originally a nuclear power plant, but at that time a serious nuclear leak occurred in the Soviet Union. The Dutch were worried that it would also have an accident and resolutely resisted its commissioning. Then a Dutch investor bought it and converted it into a theme park."

Zhu Fu Jingguang said this in one breath, paused slightly, and began to talk about the parts that were consistent with the hint.

"The landmark building of this park is a white cooling tower, which was difficult to demolish at the time, so it was retained during construction. Workers painted a pattern of rolling snow-capped mountains on its exterior wall, and the interior was transformed into a children's playground with a rotating lifting swing that is 58 meters high - in line with the three characteristics of 'white tower', 'snow-capped mountains' and 'swing'."

"In summary, her first two sentences both point to nuclear weapons, while her second sentence implies that the site is still in use. Tokai Village is the only place in Japan that fits the bill."

The Tokai nuclear criticality accident affected nearly 300,000 people that year, but the Japan Atomic Energy Agency did not evacuate the area. Then, several leaks occurred over the years, but fortunately, no casualties were caused.

After hearing all his reasoning, the colleague was confused for a while.

After a long while, he said stupidly, "Zhu Fu, you are amazing. The first sentence is fine, but the second sentence was so obscure, and you were able to guess the location?"

This time it was Zhu Fu Jingguang who remained silent for a moment.

"…Aniset once told me about that park." He whispered, "She said she went there out of curiosity when she went to Europe before."

——"It's actually quite interesting there, but it's a pity that the person who went there with me before is no longer here... Scotland, if there is a chance, would you be willing to go there with me again?"

——"Don't bring Gin. If you bring him, it won't feel like a date. It'll feel like a terrorist attack."

Three years ago, he and Anisette met privately - Anisette always jokingly called it "dating" - the number of times was not very often, but it was far more than the normal frequency between ordinary members.

Sometimes she would ask him to drink and chat, play chess or billiards together, and sometimes she would ask him to go shopping. She would ask him if a certain lipstick was good-looking. If he answered perfunctorily, she would buy it and try to apply it on his lips. Once he didn't dodge in time and was really smeared.

"..."

The colleague vaguely read something from his expression, stopped talking, and did not ask him how he interpreted the following hints.

For a moment, the car was strangely quiet, with only the sound of rain outside the window.

……

One forty in the afternoon.

A red Mazda sounded its siren and weaved through the traffic at an extremely fast speed, moving forward.

Takagi Wataru and Edogawa Conan were sitting in the back seat together. Due to Sato Miwako's wild driving skills, he almost fell down in his seat, but fortunately the seat belt held him back.

"Conan-kun." After another thrilling turn, he was finally able to speak in complete sentences, "Are you sure it's there? Do you want to confirm with Mr. Maori?"

More than ten minutes ago, they were in the garbage room of Kadokawa's family in Adachi District. He handed several shopping receipts found in the bedroom to the other two people. Then the boy shouted "I know!" and suddenly turned around and rushed out.

Of course, Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako would not ignore him and followed him out. After they got in the car, Edogawa Conan told them the address: "It's the park with a pond closest to the Metropolitan Police Department!"

Conan Edogawa, who was also almost thrown off the spot by the car's skills, held the seat belt with one hand and the tablet he brought from Kadokawa's house and his own mobile phone with the other hand.

His hand accidentally touched the screen of the mobile phone, and the phone without a lock password soon lit up again, and the picture on it was frozen at the hooded man putting the person into the barrel.

Edogawa Conan took a deep breath and began to explain his reasoning.

"This location best meets their respective 'needs'."

"Huh?" Takagi Shigeru was puzzled.

"Brother Kadokawa didn't commit a random crime. He attacked Officer Eto because Officer Eto killed his mother seven years ago. Officer Eto was a minor at the time and was only sentenced to one year."

Conan Edogawa did not hide the public security officer's past deeds from the two detectives.

Sato Miwako was shocked: "Eto has killed someone? Then how did he become a public security officer?!"

Being a police officer is a special position, and she had already gone through an examination when she was admitted to the police academy. The status of public security police is even more special, involving national security, so in theory their examination will be more stringent.

"…Officer Eto's father is also a member of the Public Security Bureau."

Involving a senior public security official, and the prosecutor didn't explain it in detail, Edogawa Conan glossed over it and returned to the key point: "At that time, Officer Eto drowned Kadokawa's mother, so in the video, Kadokawa's brother tortured him with waterboarding. I think in the end he will choose to let him drown."

The lotus leaves are green, and the reflection in the pond is reflected in the pupils - this is the fourth sentence of the prompt song, which expresses directly that they will sink people into the water.

"So it's revenge..."

Takagi Wataru had a complicated expression. He was an honest and compassionate man. He deduced the time of Kadoya's mother's death based on the age of Mori Ran, and couldn't help but sigh.

Miwako Sato was concerned about another point: "Did he buy the oxygen cylinder to prolong Eto's suffering?"

"Yes."

Edogawa Conan confirmed her speculation.

"My guess is that they put him in the bucket, gave him this oxygen tank, and dumped the bucket in the pond. Kadokawa's mother's body was found in the park pond."

"There was an adult male in that barrel, and it couldn't float with such a weight. Officer Eto had been tortured to the point of being on the verge of death by water torture, and could only barely breathe with an oxygen cylinder for a while. He didn't have the strength to open the barrel and escape on his own."

"That oxygen tank can only be used for three hours. During these three hours, he will slowly feel himself drowning..."

The car was so quiet for a moment that the only sound seemed to be breathing.

Takagi Shigeru was the first to break the silence. He grabbed his phone, opened the address book and found his colleague's number: "There's still time! It hasn't even been three hours since the end of the live broadcast! The person may still be saved!"

He immediately made a phone call and started communicating with his colleague.

But Edogawa Conan frowned.

He looked at his cell phone, staring at the frozen image on it: the barrel full of people, the hooded man with his back to the camera, the smiling Kadokami Nobuyuki, and the gray sky outside the window.

He seemed to have caught something, and just as he was about to think about it, he heard Takagi Wataru ask, "By the way, Conan-kun, why do you think it's in the park near the Metropolitan Police Department? If it was for revenge, he should have sunk to the place where his mother died, right?"

Edogawa Conan came to his senses and began to explain again.

"Because another person might."

Although he used the word "maybe", his tone was very firm.

"We don't know exactly how many people are involved in the operation at the moment, but we can guarantee two people: one is Kadoya-nii-san, and the other is the hooded man who never showed his face during the live broadcast."

"Although we cannot confirm whether the person who brought the tablet to Brother Kadokawa and instigated him to commit a crime was the hooded man, it is certain that one of the criminals this time must be someone who has a strong desire to show off and likes to provoke the police."

This time Takagi Shiguro guessed it right: "Because of that ballad? If it was just for revenge, they wouldn't have left a puzzle to point to the location."

Edogawa Conan nodded and added:
"The fact that we contacted Hibiki is also very strange. I heard from Xiaolan that Brother Kadokawa is quite introverted. Introverted people will not take revenge in such a high-profile manner unless it is decided by others."

He is tone-deaf, but very sensitive to pitch.

The hooded man sang the self-composed guidance song in tune and even with a hint of joy.

In addition, he sent a tablet computer for live broadcasting directly to the police and the other party's father, and left another specially charged tablet computer at Kadoya's house, and even left the receipt for purchasing the oxygen cylinder.

All in all, it was like a provocative statement slapped on the forehead of the Japanese police:
I have left so much evidence, can you save him?

——I have left so much evidence, can you catch me?
"It would be more provocative to sink the person in a pond near the Metropolitan Police Department than in that remote park at that time."

"The cicadas chirped, the pendulum swung across the old axle..."

Edogawa Conan whispered the third sentence in the instructions.

"The chirping of cicadas refers to summer, which corresponds to the season when Kadokawa's mother died. As for the pendulum... I think it refers to the Freedom Bell in Hibiya Park."

Hibiya Park is Japan's first modern Western-style park with a history of more than 100 years. It is close to the Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo High Court.

The Liberty Bell is a replica of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, USA. It was proposed by an American general after the war and donated by American citizens to the Japan News Association as a souvenir. It was later donated to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Metropolitan Police Department, Court, Freedom.

Considering Eto Daizo's past experiences, that place is simply the best place for him to be buried. (End of this chapter)