Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 211 The Disappearing Hostage

"Before this, Atsumi Maki and her unmarried son had not entered the house. Atsumi Liuzō even thought that they, her son and Mrs. Takami lived in a villa in Chiba Prefecture. It was not until the kidnapping case happened that Atsumi Takami had to ask Atsumi Liuzō for help...

"And Atsumi Maki has remained tight-lipped about the identity of the child's father, which shows that there is a deep rift between this person and the Atsumi family. The child's father took his son away, and in order to distract attention, he just made up some dirty laundry about the Atsumi family... This possibility is not impossible," Shiraishi explained.

"The girl is so young... Damn it, people like this should be sentenced to death!" Huigu complained angrily.

"By the way, Brother Huigu, do you have a daughter this old?" Narcissistic asked curiously.

"Shut up!" Huigu has always kept his mouth shut about his family affairs - everyone only knows that he has been separated from his wife and children for a long time.

"Is Atsumori Maki still in the Beika Central Hospital? We should let Gen go there. He's better at getting people to talk." Akasaka suggested.

Because he was attacked in the Beika Apartment, Atsumori Maki was sent to the Beika Central Hospital nearby.

"No, let Fuji go to the hospital. Yuan has his own mission." Shiraishi shook his head.

Yuan is indeed good at getting information out of people, so Shiraishi placed him in the Beika Apartment - to let him get information from the detective Soichi who was there. Otherwise, now that Counselor Uno is in charge at the scene, he will not take the initiative to share important clues with Shiraishi and will just unilaterally let the Beika Agency do the work!
And based on Shiraishi's understanding of Yuan, his routine words are most effective on middle-aged and elderly women and young men. As for young girls, it's better to let Fuji go.

Although Fuji is a patrol officer, but...

Whenever Shiraishi needed her, she would always be used as a detective!
"The people in the search team are now concentrating on the family of Hiroshi Amano and the kidnapping scene... The families of the other six suicide victims probably haven't reacted yet to investigate, so let's check them first," Huitani suggested.

It's not that the people at Souyi are so incompetent that they didn't even notice this, but because...

The people "above" did not dare to investigate Atsumi Ryuzo for fear of angering him, so naturally their investigation into "Mikumo Life Insurance" was only superficial.

In contrast, Shiraishi rushed forward directly, made a list for "Sanyun", and easily noticed the other victims!
"Well, divide the investigation tasks among them...but remember, they are the victims' families. If they are serious, we don't have the right to search. You have to consider their mentality when investigating." Bai Shi reminded.

Then, before they divided the tasks, Bai Shi patted Huigu and Zi Nai's shoulders with both hands and said, "You two stay here and assist me."

"Eh? Yes." While being puzzled, Zi Nai and Hui Gu still agreed.

Although Shiraishi now feels that Kanzaki Hitomi is not a revenge maniac and should be more pragmatic, but since she has become so narcissistic, Shiraishi is still prepared to let her rule out the wrong options!

However, after hearing Shiraishi's arrangement, Huitani looked embarrassed: "Director, Counselor Uno will not allow us to participate in the investigation, right?"

"When I was in Souichi, I worked on a case with Counselor Uno. He was quite appreciative of me at that time..." Narcissistic said in a low voice.

"Don't worry. Of course I'm not asking you to go directly to Ms. Kanzaki. Just follow me. I will create an opportunity for you to meet." Shiraishi said as a matter of course.

Huigu still didn't quite understand at this time - create an opportunity to meet? If you want to investigate, you should at least be able to ask questions, right? What's the point of just having an opportunity to meet?

……

December 12, 22pm, outside Mihua Apartment.

Shinichi is still apologizing to Xiaolan. It can be said that he has basically stood Xiaolan up for the whole day!
At his mother's press conference, Xiaolan had been looking for him, and then Shinichi suddenly appeared, and together with the police, took Yukiko and Kanzaki away. Xiaolan wanted to follow, but was also stopped by the public security personnel...

Shinichi is now investigating a kidnapping case in Beika Apartment. He hasn't been looking at his phone and didn't know that Xiaolan was calling him.

After Shinichi calmed down Xiaolan... or rather, after Xiaolan came to terms with it, she went to buy bread and a bento for Shinichi as dinner, while Shinichi continued to investigate on the scene!
The two major investigation directions of "Soichi" are now "Amano Hiroshi's family" and "the crime scene".

Needless to say, as for the former, Hiroshi Amano's family is the most suspicious in terms of motive; the latter is a purely technical investigation, such as checking surveillance and visiting passers-by, hoping to find clues left by the criminal!
As a "detective", Shinichi obviously doesn't like to start from "motive", so he came to Beika Apartment at noon, hoping to find clues from the scene.

Yuan and Yamada from the Beihua Police Station were also here. Relying on Yuan's communication skills, they were able to get a lot of clues from the police officers at the headquarters here.

and……

Because Genya knew Shinichi, although unlike Suzuki Atsushi, he had become a stooge of Hakuba Detective, but they had worked on a case together before, plus the order given to him by Chief Shiraishi, so...

Gen decisively decided to cooperate with Kudo Shinichi - Gen gave him the opportunity to enter the scene, and Kudo Shinichi had to share the clues he found with Gen, including the clues he found when he and Megure came together shortly after the case occurred in the morning!
Yuan also reported online to the "temporary headquarters" at this time.

Inside the police van, Yuan's face was displayed on the computer screen...

"At 7:20 this morning, the Metropolitan Police Department received a report from Councillor Atsumori. Prior to that, at :, Ms. Takami Atsumori called the emergency number. The incident occurred between : and :..." At : in the morning, Takami left home. When he returned half an hour later, he saw his daughter lying on the ground with blood all over her head, and his grandson was gone.

Maki has woken up now, but she couldn't clearly explain the exact time of the incident. She only said it was "some time after her mother left."

Yuan also sent photos at this time. It can be seen that there were traces of a not-so-intense fight at the scene. The mirror was broken and blood could be seen on the edge. It was obvious that after the gangster came in, he quickly controlled Maki and hit her head against the mirror... Then Maki fainted!

It was not until Guimi returned home that he was sent to the doctor in time...

"From the traces at the scene, Ms. Maki did not put up much resistance. She was more like being controlled. From this point of view, the criminal should be a strong man... But when we checked the surveillance later, the most suspicious person was a thin man with his face covered. He only had a stroller, and he might have taken the child out."

There is only one surveillance camera at the entrance and exit of Mihua Apartment, and the situation in the corridor is unclear.

In addition...

The suspicious person in question did not find any record of his entry, and during subsequent visits, no one noticed a masked man carrying a stroller or a child.

The surveillance cameras at the nearby bus stations and taxi pick-up and drop-off points also found nothing. The surveillance cameras on the road outside did match six private cars that came out of the apartment garage after the time of the crime, but they were all found to be normal residents, not suspicious.

This is probably the clue obtained by "Search One".

In other words, the police were somewhat frustrated during the "purely technical" on-site investigation and did not find many useful clues. They didn't even know how the criminal left the scene!
In addition...

"Also, according to Kudo Shinichi's speculation, the criminal... and Ms. Maki are very likely acquainted. Firstly, there are no signs of a fight at the door. All the signs of a fight are around the dressing table. Secondly, the crib that Xiaoshu was lying in was very complicated. The criminal must have carefully opened the protection and then took Xiaoshu away in a very stable manner. His behavior was not rough."

Yuan then relayed the clues he got from Kudo Shinichi. These were not just clues deduced, but more importantly... in the morning when Kudo Shinichi was helping, he secretly took photos and kept them as a record!
Therefore, Yuan saw the surveillance video from Shinichi.

"Know him? If that's the case, Xiaoshu's father is even more suspicious..." Akasaka couldn't help but frown after hearing Yuan's report.

"That's right, hasn't Fuji asked yet?" Yuan asked casually, as if he was ahead.

"No, Maki still refused to talk about the identity of the child's father. She only said that he had nothing to do with the case. And because she was frightened, she claimed that she couldn't remember what happened when the case happened." Akasaka shook her head.

The more she said this, the more it seemed that she might be shielding a criminal!
However, Atsumi Maki's identity was sensitive - not only was she a minor, but she was also the granddaughter of Atsumi Ryuzo, so the police did not have much opportunity to ask her anything.

If Fujiwa Kawai hadn't dressed harmlessly, there wouldn't have been a chance to get close to her...

Now she has been transferred to Dongtei Hospital, and Fuji and Kawai have no chance to get close to her.

"What does the director say? Should I continue here? Or should I go to the hospital and try to contact Miss Maki?" Yuan did not feel that his questioning ability was limited to "middle-aged and elderly women."

"No, the director is still in the villa, you please wait." Akasaka said and glanced at his watch.

……

At the same time, Shiraishi finally got the chance to let his two "little brothers" meet Kanzaki Hitomi!

and……

"Officer Kogure, you are really talented!"

"No, no... It's the femininity of Ms. Kanzaki that makes me feel like writing poetry!"

Seeing how Kogure was being extremely humiliating to Kanzaki Hitomi, Shiraishi was basically certain - the criminal was indeed related to Kanzaki Hitomi, and even... she was an accomplice!

Although it was unexpected, the effect of [Cupid's Poison Arrow] was right in front of him, and Bai Shi had to believe it.

But Bai Shi did not make it public immediately, after all...

The person who took direct action was definitely not Kanzaki Hitomi who was present at the press conference. She had accomplices, and the child was in their hands. We couldn't alert them!
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