Conan: Above all force, there is truth!

Genta seemed to realize that he shouldn't have spoken, and shut his mouth.

Not long ago, the group witnessed Director Tsugawa's strange words and actions before leaving the museum.

Now, they've finally managed to evade Director Tsugawa, making him think there's no one here at all.

Now, all they have to do is wait for Director Tsugawa to come out of the library, and then they can begin their investigation.

……

Conan and the others peeked out and saw Director Tsugawa carrying a bag enter the elevator before they came out from around the corner.

The group pushed open the door to the children's library, preparing to go in and investigate thoroughly.

Based on their memory, the group walked to the box he had just rummaged through and began investigating the foreign books of unknown origin inside.

Conan casually took a plastic book box from the box, only to find that the contents were long gone, leaving only an empty shell.

Seeing this, Mitsuhiko guessed, "I think he must have taken the contents of the bag with him."

After hearing Mitsuhiko's words, Conan lifted the box up so that the others could see the number of book boxes inside.

"So many empty book boxes, and so many things inside. Director Tsugawa's little leather bag definitely can't hold them all."

"He must have hidden what's inside in this room!"

At this point, Conan put one hand into his pocket, looked around the room, and said, "In short, we'd better find what's in the book box before we find the body."

Upon hearing Conan's analysis, Mitsuhiko and the other two immediately showed expressions of excitement.

Ayumi clenched her little fists excitedly and said, "So, now it's our turn, the Junior Detective League, to make our appearance!"

Hearing this, Conan pointed to the bookshelf behind him: "Hmm... well, let's start looking from this bookshelf. We can split into two teams and search separately."

Upon hearing Conan's words, the group immediately raised their fists and cheered happily.

……

Outside the library gate

Director Tsugawa chuckled sinisterly as he walked.

But before he could take a few more steps, the library behind him, which should have been empty, suddenly turned on its lights.

Director Tsugawa was startled and immediately turned around to look.

To his shock, the light was on in the library on the third floor.

It was the place where he moved "that thing" before he left.

Thinking of this, his eyes widened instantly.

In the reflection of the moonlight, his wide eyes flashed with an eerie white light.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately turned around and walked back to the library.

At the same moment, a figure descended from the sky not far away.

After landing, the figure followed Director Tsugawa into the library.

……

"What are you two doing?! Why are you turning on the lights? What if the curator sees you?"

Upon discovering that Ayumi and Genta had turned on the library lights, Conan immediately rushed forward anxiously.

Seeing Conan's serious expression, Genta smiled and said, "Don't worry, that curator has already gone far away."

Conan ignored Genta's words, instead turning off the light and running to the window to look out of the library.

After seeing that there was no one outside, he finally breathed a long sigh of relief and felt at ease.

It seems that Director Tsugawa has really gone back...

With that in mind, Conan and the others continued to browse through the books in the library.

It didn't take long for them to discover the secret of the foreign language book.

Those foreign language books didn't seem to have spines; both sides were made to look like book pages.

Based on this, the group discovered the secret of the bookshelf.

Hidden among the books on the bookshelf are these lost foreign language books.

Ayumi asked疑惑地问道, "But why would the curator do that?"

Conan casually picked up a book and, under the puzzled gazes of Mitsuhiko and the others, began to deduce, "To buy such a strange thing from abroad, I think it probably contains a handgun or drugs..."

After saying that, he forcefully pried open the strange foreign book in his hand and found that there was indeed a bag of drugs inside.

Seeing this, the other members of the Junior Detective Club also opened the foreign language books in their hands and found that they all contained this thing.

At this moment, Mitsuhiko also realized: "It seems that the curator is involved in drug trafficking."

"Yes, that's right. He kept these things here to store them and then secretly sold them. I think Mr. Tamada was probably silenced by the curator because he happened to discover these things."

After figuring out the sequence of events, Conan led the group to find a public phone in the library to call the police.

However, the telephones inside the building seemed to be malfunctioning and could not be connected.

"That's strange, why can't I make a call again?"

"Wait, why did I say 'again'?... "

After hanging up the phone, Conan agreed to Mitsuhiko and the others' suggestion—since they couldn't get through by phone, they should go find the body hidden in the museum first.

As they walked forward, the group chatted happily about how much credit they would receive for finding the body.

But the group didn't notice that a pair of blood-red eyes were peeking out from around the corner behind them.

Director Tsugawa had discovered Conan and his friends long ago, but he hadn't shown himself yet.

Because he wasn't sure at first whether the children knew what he had done.

Because of the incident in Yutian, the police had already taken notice of this place.

If a few more children go missing during this period, even a fool would know there's something wrong here.

So he quietly followed the children, eavesdropping on their conversation, wanting to find out what they knew.

If they know nothing, it's not impossible to let them leave...

Unexpectedly, these kids not only found the location where he hid the drugs, but also analyzed the reason why he killed Yutian.

Upon hearing this, a murderous glint appeared in his eyes.

Now that things have come to this, none of these brats can be let off the hook!

He took out the steel pipe that he had already put in his bag and followed behind the Junior Detective League, ready to begin the hunt.

But what Director Tsugawa didn't notice was that around the corner not far behind him, there was also a pair of blood-red eyes staring at him.

When he pulled the steel pipe out of his bag, his blood-red eyes suddenly became even more menacing.

A demonic whisper echoed at that moment: "Who do you think you are? How dare you use a steel pipe as your primary weapon?"

……

Another library room

"I weigh 40 kilograms."

"That's almost twice as much as mine!"

"I only weigh 15 kilograms, looks like you need to lose weight, Genta!"

Conan paused, looking at Genta and the others discussing their weight, and began to think, propping his head up with his hand.

"Oh right! I forgot, I'm a child now! The last time I weighed myself, I think it was... 18 kilograms."

"Wait a minute, when I took the elevator this afternoon, I shouldn't have been overweight..."

Realizing this, Conan immediately raised his head and shouted, "I know! I know where the body is hidden!"

After saying that, Conan ran out of the library.

Seeing this, Mitsuhiko and the other two immediately followed.

Soon after, Mitsuhiko and his two friends arrived at the elevator in search of Conan.

Upon hearing the sound coming from the stairs, the three of them immediately looked towards the stairs.

Upon seeing Conan coming down the stairs, Ayumi immediately exclaimed, "Really, Conan! Where have you been?! You scared me to death!"

"I just went to the machine room upstairs and I set the elevator doors to manual mode."

At this point, Conan opened the elevator door and pressed the elevator's up button.

Chapter 74 Axes and steel pipes are essentially the same.

"I think the body must be up in the elevator."

"The evidence is that when we were riding the elevator during the day, the elevator, which has a capacity of 8 people, made a noise because it was overloaded."

“We are just kids, and together we weigh no more than 100 kilograms, which is only about one and a half times the weight of an adult.”

"But at the time, there were only four adults in the elevator. Even with the things they were carrying, it was far from enough to make the bell ring."

"That's right, we're still missing one person's weight..."

"There was already someone in this elevator from the very beginning. In a blind spot where no one could see them!"

As Conan deduced the reasoning, the elevator slowly rose.

After Conan finished his deduction, everyone happened to see the corpse on the elevator ceiling.

Mitsuhiko and the other two were so frightened that they backed away, while Conan calmly began to analyze the cause of Tamada's death.

"Judging from this, he may have been strangled and then his body was thrown down from above by the murderer."

At this point, Conan turned to look at everyone and smiled, "This was all the work of that Director Tsugawa! Alright, we can go call the police now~"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mitsuhiko and the others suddenly cried out in surprise.

Seeing their strange reaction, Conan asked curiously, "What's wrong? Why are you all suddenly so scared?"

Upon hearing Conan's question, the group pointed behind Conan.

"Tianjin…"