Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

Listening to a police officer's complaint, Jiang Chengbei felt it was about time, so he spoke up:

"I have a naive idea. Do you think the bomb could be planted on the railway tracks, and with a light-sensitive trigger? Once the sun goes down and the sunlight stops shining for a while, the bomb will explode?"

Moreover, the bomber demanded that all trains travel at speeds of 60 kilometers per hour or more in order to control the time it took for the trains to pass over the bomb and block sunlight.

If the train travels too slowly, it will spend more time on the bomb, triggering the photosensitive detonator and causing the bomb to explode.

After listening to Jiang Chengbei's account, everyone suddenly realized that this was a possibility, so the police immediately searched for the bomb on the railway tracks.

Soon, they found five plastic bombs on the ring road.

Unfortunately, they didn't find any bombs on the Shinkansen, which caused them a lot of worry as the sun went down.

Given today's events, several railway companies had originally planned to implement enhanced security checks for passengers boarding trains, but upon learning that a bomb had been found on the railway tracks, the enhanced security plans were immediately cancelled.

What a joke! The terrorists planted the bomb on the railway. What's the point of them strengthening security checks before boarding?

Can strengthening security checks before boarding prevent criminals from planting bombs on railways?

No!

Therefore, strengthening security checks before boarding is wasteful of resources and will only make passengers feel uncomfortable and give them a bad travel experience. Such things should not be done.

Five bombs were found on the ring road. After obtaining samples, the police quickly discovered that these were the plastic explosives stolen from the Dongyang gunpowder depot a few days earlier.

Now, the problem was much bigger. The police, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, started working overtime again because the bombs they had just found, along with the two bombs that had exploded earlier, were still a drop in the ocean compared to the explosives stolen from the gunpowder depot.

Based on the amount of gunpowder reported stolen from the Japanese gunpowder depot, this bomber could easily produce several hundred more bombs of similar yield.

What's even more troublesome is that, after the bombs exploded a few times before, he was able to call and provoke Shinichi Kudo, urging him to come out sooner.

But now, since the bomb was found, and since the sun went down quite a while ago, the bomber hasn't called yet, and everyone suddenly has a bad feeling.

Meanwhile, Conan was also racking his brains, trying to figure out who he had offended, who had such a deep grudge against him that they would go so far as to threaten innocent people with bombs to force him to appear.

Because Jiang Chengbei impersonated Shinichi Kudo, Professor Agasa, who was in charge of receiving the Kudo family's daily correspondence and phone calls, directly handed the tea party invitation to Jiang Chengbei.

Conan was completely unaware of this, had never attended any tea party hosted by Teiji Moriya, and didn't even know that Moriya was such a person. He was also unaware of the extent to which Moriya was obsessed with left-right symmetry.

Lacking so much crucial information, Conan still hasn't been able to deduce that the mastermind behind the bombing is Teiji Moriya.

And what about Hattori Heiji?

He wasn't much better off.

First, he didn't know what kind of grudge between Shinichi Kudo and Teiji Moriya that would lead to bombings. At most, Teiji Moriya might have heard Shinichi Kudo mocking him and wanted to kill the foul-mouthed guy, but it wouldn't have come to the point of planting bombs all over the world to force him out.

Since they had just met a few days ago, they didn't lay a hand on the foul-mouthed Shinichi Kudo when they were angry, nor did they plant bombs at Shinichi's house. Most importantly, Heiji Hattori wasn't a resident of Beika Town and didn't know the local customs, so they never expected that a few sarcastic remarks would escalate to the point of planting bombs.

Furthermore, even if Heiji Hattori thought that Teiji Moriya hated Shinichi Kudo to the point of using bombs, in his mind, he should just bomb Shinichi Kudo directly, or bomb Shinichi Kudo's house, instead of bombing innocent people all over Tokyo.

Furthermore, because Jiang Chengbei preemptively criticized Moriya Teiji, interrupting Moriya Teiji's original critique of the young architects, his extreme obsession with bilateral symmetry was not exposed.

Furthermore, because Jiang Chengbei nearly drove Moriya Teiji to his death with anger, Hattori Heiji did not invite him to the exhibition hall of his designed works after helping Moriya Teiji solve the mystery of the Japanese gunpowder depot.

Many of Moriya Teiji's secrets have not been revealed.

Conan and Hattori had far fewer clues, but after finding several bomb samples and learning that the gunpowder used inside was stolen from a Japanese gunpowder depot, Conan and Hattori gained a new idea for finding the bomb culprit.

Whoever stole the explosives will be the current bomb culprit.

When the police brought over the case file of the theft of the Japanese gunpowder depot, Jiang Chengbei, who was prepared, immediately flipped to the page containing the code to the Japanese gunpowder depot. Just as he was about to show off, he suddenly remembered that he had gone to the tea party as Shinichi Kudo.

This attempt to show off is ruined!

Chapter 129 Conan: Is my brother really like what Jiang Chengbei said?

Since this wasn't something he could show off, Jiang Chengbei figured he should keep the good stuff in the family and casually handed the documents in his hand to Kogoro Mouri.

And so, while Heiji Hattori and Conan were reviewing the warehouse theft invoices and the modus operandi, Kogoro Mouri, looking at the documents in his hand, shouted out:

"I know who the thief is! I know who the bomber is!"

Conan and Hattori were somewhat shocked by Kogoro Mouri's crazy behavior.

They've spent some time with Kogoro Mouri and have basically figured him out. In short, he's a bumbling detective whose reasoning skills are worse than the fruit shop owner next door.

Well... to be honest, it's a bit embarrassing. Hattori and Conan realized that their reasoning skills were sometimes not as good as the fruit shop owner next to the Mouri Detective Agency.

However, considering that this fruit shop owner is also the owner of the Mori Detective Agency, losing the deduction to him isn't such a big deal.

"The thief and bomber in this case is the famous architect Teiji Moriya. A few days ago, he invited me to a tea party he hosted, and he used the names of these three warehouse managers to create a riddle."

I couldn't solve the mystery at the time... I felt something was amiss, so I didn't help him solve the mystery, which was the code to the gunpowder depot.

However, Hattori lacked social experience and was inexperienced, so he hastily gave the answer to Momotaro to Teiji Moriya without much thought.

Therefore, I can confirm that Teiji Moriya held this tea party so that he could ask me, the detective, to help him crack the code to the gunpowder depot.

Heiji Hattori's face darkened after hearing Kogoro Mouri's boastful words. Fortunately, he was already dark-skinned to begin with, so it was impossible to tell just how dark his face was now.

"Is what Uncle Mori said true?" Conan asked in a low voice, after hearing what Kogoro Mori said.

“That’s right.” Hattori nodded dejectedly.

Next, although this cannot be used as evidence to prove that Moriya Teiji was the thief of the gunpowder depot and the mastermind behind the series of explosions, trying every means to find out the gunpowder depot's password is also an important clue. If Moriya Teiji cannot explain it clearly, he will not be able to escape being a suspect.

Furthermore, inspired by Kogoro Mouri's suggestion that Teiji Moriya was a suspect, Inspector Yumina of the Arson Investigation Team of the First Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Department also came up with a clue: the Mizushima, Yasuda, and Akutsu houses, which were recently set on fire, were all designed by Teiji Moriya.

Afterwards, Jiang Chengbei and his group, along with police officers like Shiratori, marched in a large procession to the Moriya Teiji family's residence.

On the way to the Moriya family's house, Jiang Chengbei put on his Conan-style chakra sunglasses and quickly calculated that the Conan-style chakra transmitter he had placed on Moriya Teiji had come into play, informing Jiang Chengbei that Moriya Teiji was not waiting at home.

It turns out that when Moriya Teiji called "Kudo Shinichi" earlier, Jiang Chengbei called out his name immediately, which startled Moriya Teiji quite a bit.

After learning this lesson, Teiji Moriya took the crime seriously. After a brief recollection, he discovered many flaws and clues pointing to him.

For example, he would use riddles at tea parties to try and find out the code to the Japanese gunpowder depot. If any of the detectives, such as Shinichi Kudo, Heiji Hattori, or Kogoro Mouri, were involved in investigating the theft of the gunpowder depot, he would be caught red-handed.

So after discovering this loophole, Teiji Moriya began to prepare for his escape. If the matter came to his attention, he would flee the country and live a life of luxury in a foreign country where there was no extradition treaty with Japan.

As for stopping there and not continuing the bombing operation, Moriya Teiji had not considered it.

If we were to stop here and allow his flawed works from his youth to continue to exist, it would be a disgrace to this fanatic: asymmetry is worse than death!

And even if he wanted to give up, it doesn't seem so easy.

When Moriya Teiji called Jiang Chengbei, the explosives had already been stolen, the bombs were ready, and they were all placed in place, just waiting for the right moment to detonate.

If he regrets it now, he'll have to risk everything to disarm the bombs and retrieve them one by one.

Rather than getting caught red-handed while defusing bombs, it's better to let nature take its course and let them explode, while using the time to transfer assets and become a hero abroad.

So when Jiang Chengbei and his group arrived at Moriya Teiji's house, they still couldn't find him.

The police were still having a headache about not finding the suspect. Just when they were at a loss, Hattori and Conan stepped forward and, ignoring the police's obstruction, climbed through the window and began a thorough search of the Moriya Teiji house.

Soon, Hattori and Conan found a small portion of the gunpowder, detonators, wires, and other materials left over from when Teiji Moriya made the bomb.

With these things revealed, it's practically a done deal that Teiji Moriya is the mastermind behind the criminals.

After confirming that Teiji Moriya was the mastermind behind the bombing, Heiji Hattori sighed with a worried expression, his mood low.

Seeing this, Conan asked him why.

When Conan asked him, Hattori readily explained why he was unhappy.

It turns out that on their way back from the Moriya family home, Shinichi Kudo had mentioned that Hattori had gotten into trouble, and that telling Teiji Moriya the answer to the Momotaro mystery was what caused the trouble.

Hattori hadn't taken it seriously before, but now that the truth is basically out, he realizes he's really messed up. If he hadn't told Moriya Teiji the answer to Momotaro's mystery, none of this would have happened.

Upon hearing Hattori say "Shinichi Kudo," Conan had a premonition that Teiji Moriya was not a good person. He had already noticed that something was wrong with Teiji Moriya and even warned Hattori that he had gotten into trouble. Conan immediately realized that if this case were applied to Jiang Chengbei's description of his brother, his brother might actually be the mastermind behind the crime!

Looking back, even though his brother knew what Teiji Moriya was going to do and had the ability to stop him in advance, he didn't take any action. Even when Teiji Moriya came out to tarnish Shinichi Kudo's reputation, his brother still didn't stop him.

In previous cases, Conan didn't find any suspicious points, but judging from today's case, the reason Hattori was able to come here a few days ago to solve the mystery for Moriya Teiji was because his brother had persistently dragged Hattori here.

Hattori just said that he didn't want to come, but he couldn't resist "Shinichi Kudo's" enthusiasm, so he came.

Therefore, all of Hattori and Moriya Teiji's actions were within the brother's calculations.

After discovering these suspicious points, Conan realized that Jiang Chengbei's description of his brother might be true. He hadn't noticed it before, perhaps because the person his brother was using wasn't as smart as Hattori Heiji and remained confused until his death.

Chapter 130 Conan: Anyone is fine, except Shinichi Kudo!

"Conan, what are you still doing here? Weren't you supposed to be watching a movie with your girlfriend, Ran, tonight? Aren't you going to transform and go on your date?"

After discovering the suspicious points about his brother in the Moriya Teiji case, Conan was rebuilding his understanding of his brother when Jiang Chengbei came to his side and said something that caused him to misunderstand.

Because Jiang Chengbei mentioned his girlfriend and Ran together, Conan subconsciously misunderstood that his girlfriend was Ran, and his expression changed drastically.

"You said I wanted to go to the movies with Xiaolan, and we were going on a date?"

After asking himself a question, Conan instantly understood what Jiang Chengbei meant: his perverted brother was impersonating him and was going to see a movie and go on a date with Ran tonight!

After understanding Jiang Chengbei's meaning, Conan screamed in his heart: No, I can't let Ran go to the movies with him, I can't let them go on a date, I have to stop them!

I can't let that bastard steal my girlfriend, I can't let Xiaolan become my sister-in-law, I'll stop him even if it kills me!

Thinking of this, Conan took off running outside with his short legs.

As a result, Conan had only taken two steps when someone grabbed him by the back of his collar and lifted him into the air. His short legs could only step on the air and he couldn't move forward at all.

"Conan, your time for outdoor exercise is over."

Previously, we were short-staffed and no one could look after you, but now that the bomber has been identified and is awaiting arrest, we have the manpower to look after you. You'd better come back to the police station with me obediently and don't run around."

Hearing the familiar voice, Conan turned around and saw that the one who had grabbed him was Shiratori Ninzaburo, who had half a coral head.

"Officer Shiratori, let me go! I have something important to do at the movie theater, please let me go!"

"No, you have to come back to the police station with me. If you keep running around, I won't be able to explain it to my superiors."

When faced with Conan's request, Shiratori Ninzaburo refused outright and then picked him up, preparing to take him back.

Conan tried several times but found he couldn't escape from Jiang Chengbei's grasp. Having exhausted all other options, he finally shouted at Jiang Chengbei:

"Jiang Cheng, you promised me before, you have to go to the movie theater and stop my brother... stop me... anyway, stop Xiao Lan and Kudo Shinichi from going to the movies together!"

Jiang Chengbei understood what Conan meant, but he pretended not to understand. He went to Conan's side and asked with a smile:

"Conan, what did you mean by that just now? I don't understand."

Shiratori Renzaburo, who was carrying Conan, nodded and said, "Conan, I understand the meaning of each word you say, but when they are put together, I don't understand."