Conan: Start from Lucky Three

Chapter 27 If the Forward Way Doesn't Work, Then Go the Reverse Way

With the help of the moment of insight, Tachibana Seiji spent three hours watching the internal surveillance video of the bank seven days before the robbery at double speed.

The reason why we choose to only watch the internal surveillance video is very simple. No matter how ambitious the robber is, he will definitely go to the bank to scout the area before taking action.

Whenever he comes to the bank to scout the place, he will be recorded by the surveillance camera. Tachibana Shizuka needs to compare the physical characteristics of these people with those of the robbers to find the robbers from the "vast crowd".

If you don’t find it within these seven days, then push it back seven days.

However, Tachibana Shizuka's luck is still good, and under normal circumstances, the time between the robbers' reconnaissance and action will not be too long.

After all, the longer the night, the more dreams you have.

After watching the entire seven days of surveillance video, Tachibana Shizuka closed the Insight Moment, rubbed his swollen head, took out an energy bar from his pocket and started eating.

"Would you like one?" Tachibana Shizuka took out an energy bar and asked Hattori Heiji beside him, but Hattori Heiji waved his hand to refuse.

Hot-blooded and passionate have always been labels attached to Hattori Heiji, and another way of saying this is that he lacks patience.

But Hattori, this black brother, is a very good person. Although he has little patience, he waited patiently for three hours so that Shizuka Tachibana could watch the bank's seven-day surveillance footage.

At this time, Hattori Heiji had no intention of sharing the energy bar with Tachibana Shizuka.

"Hey, Tachibana, have you discovered anything? If it doesn't work, don't force it." Hattori Heiji persuaded Tachibana Shizuka in his own "obscure" way.

Although they had only known each other for a short time, Shizuka Tachibana was surprisingly to his liking. When facing Shizuka Tachibana, Hattori Heiji was not as angry as he was with Kudo Shinichi.

His idea was simple: if Tachibana Shizuka couldn't handle it, he would take over - and just when he was watching the video of the bank robbery, he found some inconspicuous clues.

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem." The rewards given by the system are reliable after all. The first reward saved his life.

Until this moment, Tachibana Shizuka was still the beneficiary of the system's rewards, and he had indeed made an important discovery.

Hattori Heiji didn't eat the energy bar, and Tachibana Shizuka didn't put the things away. Instead, he replenished his energy and continued, "You also found out, right? The robber's accomplice in the bank."

"That's right! You actually discovered it too!" Hattori Heiji's eyes suddenly lit up. He didn't expect that Tachibana Shizuka, whom he met casually at Teitan High School, actually knew how to reason?
"It's useless to find that." Tachibana Seiji calmly poured a basin of cold water on Hattori Heiji.

"If we had investigated after the robbery, this clue might have been useful. But several days had passed, and the accomplice would have probably already cut ties with the robbers.

In other words, it's not easy to use the accomplices as a starting point for investigation."

The investigative approach of a detective when investigating an incident is completely different from that of the police. The police need evidence to support their arrest or interrogation of suspects.

Without evidence, we can only watch the suspect walk out of the police station in a swagger.

But detectives are different. When they determine that a person is a suspect but have no evidence, they will basically choose to deceive, cheat, or "sneak attack" the suspects, causing them to expose their own flaws or even hand over the evidence to them.

Tachibana Shizuka is not against this method. He is not a policeman. He is just a high school student who is here to earn extra money. For him, being able to recover the stolen money is a success and his ultimate goal.

But this approach is still not efficient enough. What if the two robbers transferred the stolen money away during this period of time? Wouldn't Tachibana Shizuka be out a million today?
So, given a better solution, Tachibana Shizuka would naturally choose the more efficient one. "Excuse me, both of you, for interrupting me. What you just said is that there's a mole in our bank?!"

Just as Tachibana Shizuka and Hattori Heiji were discussing the case, the bank manager interrupted their conversation.

He had just heard something extraordinary - no matter when or where, the traitor is always the most hated.

"That's most likely the case." Tachibana Shizuka didn't take offense at what the bank manager said. He just walked to the console and started controlling the playback of the surveillance video.

"Here, and here." Tachibana Shizuka pointed at the screen and said to the manager, "Although the robbers are wearing helmets, you can vaguely see that the two of them subconsciously want to communicate through eye contact.

But the plan ultimately failed because the visor on the robber's helmet was too dark.

But these can only provide us with some investigative ideas, and cannot be used as evidence to prove that he is an accomplice of the robbers."

After being pointed out by Tachibana Shizuka, the bank manager also noticed the unusual behavior of his subordinates. Many things are like this, and many small details will be overlooked by those involved.

"But if we can't confirm that this guy is a suspect, how are we going to find the stolen money?" The bank manager was a little anxious. The breakthrough was right in front of him, but he couldn't use it.

It feels like you have used your eloquence to get a date with a girl who has an amazing figure and looks, but during the final in-depth communication, she tells you that today is the first day of activating the shield.

That feeling of being anxious and unwilling to give up is simply the most severe psychological torture.

Ju Jing patted the bank manager's shoulder to calm him down. "Although we can't find the robber through his accomplices, we can definitely use the robbers to incriminate the accomplices, right?"

Tachibana Shizuka started operating on the console again, and soon several images appeared on the monitoring screen.

"Through video comparison, I found that the robbers had come to the bank twice in the past seven days to scout the area.

The first time he came to the bank, he seemed to be passing by and taking a break. The second time he came to do business when it was busiest.

Whether it's for rest or business, the robbers can spend plenty of time in the lobby, making it the most convenient place for scouting."

Tachibana Shizuka briefly played a few more videos, and then played the original video of the bank robbery.

Now both the bank manager and Hattori Heiji discovered that the target's body shape and movements in several videos were surprisingly similar.

The most interesting thing is that because of the reconnaissance, the robbers could not cover themselves completely before scouting the place, so the surveillance camera captured the robbers' faces.

"Contact the detectives from the Investigation Division and have them investigate this person. With any luck, the stolen money might not have been moved yet.

By following the clues, we can also find out your inner traitor."

The bank manager was convinced by Shizuka Tachibana's analysis. Although he didn't know how Shizuka Tachibana did it, there was no doubt that the suspect Shizuka Tachibana found was reliable even for him, a layman.

The bank manager immediately ran to contact the police. As for Hattori Heiji, he was staring at Tachibana Shizuka with a ghostly look.

(End of this chapter)