I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

Hidehiko Kazama pinched his chin and frowned, his brain working rapidly.

"We are now on the top floor of Building A, the 75th floor. If we go down from here, we can reach the 65th floor and take the connecting bridge to Building B. If only the server room and the power generation room are on fire, Building B should be safe now."

"In this case……"

Inspector Megure was interrupted by Hidehiko Kazama before he could finish his words.

"I remember now, the VIP elevator should still be usable, its power supply system is independent!"

What?

"Is it really necessary to use tape to escape from a fire scene by taking an elevator?"

Serabelle questioned with a look on her face asking if she was awake.

Fengjian Yingyan explained: "This was taken into consideration when the VIP elevator was first designed, so its passages have been reinforced. Although they cannot be used directly in a fire, the server room and generator room are still a long way from the 65th floor and will not be affected by the fire for the time being. We have enough time to evacuate!"

"very good!"

At this critical juncture, it was impossible for Inspector Megure to argue with the building designer. "No one knows elevators better than me," he said loudly, then he pulled aside the curtain and walked to the front of the stage, saying to all the guests in the banquet hall below.

"Everyone, listen carefully. I am Inspector Megure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The situation is urgent and there is no time to explain in detail. Please follow my instructions. Women, the elderly, and children should take the VIP elevator to the 65th floor. Men should follow me and take the stairs to the 65th floor. Then, take the connecting bridge to Building B opposite for shelter..."

While Inspector Megure was still speaking on the stage, Serabell walked slowly down to the stage.

In the darkness, a brown-haired girl came over and asked in a low voice, speaking faster.

"Did something happen?"

"Hmm, about the same."

Serabelle squatted on the spot, lowering her own altitude to the same height as the former, thereby lowering her voice.

"I just received a call saying that there was an explosion in the server room and generator room of this building. All firefighting systems have failed. It would be dangerous if we continue to stay here and wait for the fire to spread."

"This style of work... was done by those people. They really came."

There was an obvious pause in Haibara Ai's words.

With the dim moonlight shining in from the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on the side of the banquet hall, Serabelle clearly caught a glimpse of a brown-haired girl biting her lower lip.

"...Are you scared?"

"No."

Haibara Ai flatly denied it.

Serabelle didn't argue with her, but just curled the corners of her mouth.

"It's okay, just relax. They blew up the server room, probably to destroy some of the data inside, not targeting you. Besides, they don't know you look like this, and they probably wouldn't recognize you even if they saw you. It's not a big deal. You should just take the elevator with those kids and leave later... huh?"

As if she had thought of something, Serabel paused.

Haibara Ai didn't think too much about it and asked the question for some unknown reason.

"how about you?"

Her thought process was interrupted, and Serabelle shook her head and pointed in the direction of the emergency exit with a green light.

"Of course I took the stairs. Inspector Megure just said that except for children and the elderly, all men have to take the stairs...Okay, the elevator over there is almost ready for people to leave. You go over first."

"Then see you downstairs later."

Huibara Ai nodded and said this, then turned and walked towards the elevator.

Because it was the first elevator, most of the women and children got on it, including Haibara Ai and the three little ones, Genta Ayumi and Mitsuhiko.

Only Conan remained outside the elevator door.

The three little ones were obviously unwilling to leave their companion alone, and called Conan to get on the elevator and go with them.

"Oh, it's okay. I'll just go with Sister Xiaolan later..."

"Okay, Conan, you should go down with Genta and the others."

Conan was about to refuse, but before he could finish his words, Xiaolan pushed him in from behind.

grumble--!

However, perhaps because Mrs. Yuan was too heavy, the elevator, which was originally designed to carry eight adults, reached its load limit after it was changed to five adults and four children. As soon as Conan stepped into the elevator, the overload alarm sounded.

Conan also took advantage of the situation and jumped out of the elevator, then smiled and waved at his friends.

"Look, the elevator itself says it has no room left. You should get off first. We'll be there next time."

There was nothing that could be done at this point, and the elevator carrying five adults and four children closed its door and went down.

Only then did Serabelle come to the elevator door and looked at Xiaolan behind Conan and Sonoko who was standing side by side with Xiaolan, looking as if she was ready to stand by her best friend.

"You guys will take the next elevator later, right?"

"um, yes."

"Okay, I'll go down the stairs first, and I'll see you at the communication bridge later."

"Meet the contact bridge."

After agreeing on the meeting point, Serabelle turned and walked towards the emergency exit, moving downstairs with the main group.

After all, elevators are much faster than stairs. It takes at least five minutes to walk down ten floors normally, but an elevator can reach the destination in fifty seconds.

Going down and up again, plus the time for people to come in and out, by the time he reaches the 65th floor, Sonoko, Ran and the others should have arrived... This is what Serabelle thought.

Sure enough, when he reached the 71st floor, he looked down through the glass window in the safety passage and saw someone running in the transparent communication bridge at the top below.

Those were the first people to leave in the elevator.

only……

Serabelle tilted her head in confusion.

Why didn’t he seem to see those three little ones, and even Haibara Ai?

Could something go wrong?

……

At the same time, a sniper rifle was quietly set up on the top of another high-rise building hundreds of meters away from the twin-tower skyscrapers.

The moonlight shone, and the long black windbreaker fluttered.

Chapter 173 You guys are really courting death

Time went back to three minutes ago, when the first escape elevator carrying five adults and four children had just descended.

Since Inspector Megure did not explain the current situation too clearly in the banquet hall and only said that the situation was urgent, there was not much of an emergency evacuation atmosphere at a fire scene in the elevator.

For most of the ordinary guests, they don't even know what happened specifically.

In the elevator, Genta Ayumi and Mitsuhiko looked at each other and nodded, then they moved closer to the brown-haired girl who was standing aside with her hands behind her back and looked exceptionally calm, and lowered their voices.

"Hey, Haibara-san, do you know what happened?"

"I don't know."

Haibara Ai opened her eyes and glanced at them, still speaking softly.

"The police chief just told us to evacuate to Building B across the street. Besides, I don't know any more than you do."

"But, but didn't Sera-brother seem to say something to you, Haibara-san?" Mitsuhiko asked persistently.

"……what?"

Haibara Ai didn't expect that she would be seen talking to Serabell in such a dark environment. She was stunned for a moment and then shook her head.

"Oh, he did say it, but what he said was no different from what the inspector said at the time."

"Eh? Is that so?"

"Yes, that's it."

She wasn't stupid enough to talk nonsense like a loudspeaker when the spread of the fire was still under control.

It has no use other than spreading panic, so it's better not to say it.

On the other side, seeing that Haibara Ai really seemed to know nothing, the three little ones had no choice but to stop asking.

Mitsuhiko muttered, "Is that so?" and then raised his head, watching the floor numbers displayed on the elevator LCD screen decrease one by one without saying a word.

74…73…72…71…Ding!

The sudden arrival notification sound of the floor broke the silence in the elevator, causing everyone in the elevator to tense up.

The next moment, the elevator stopped descending, and the heavy sliding doors slowly opened to both sides with the sound of sliding rails.

The bright light in the elevator shone into the dark corridor, and waiting outside was a woman holding a child in her arms.

That’s right, it’s the baby and his mother who cried and made a fuss and even gave Mouri Kogoro a slap in the 30-second guessing activity.

The elevator has a maximum capacity of eight people, and there are already five adults and four children in the elevator. Even if the baby is very light, there is still an adult traveling with him.

"Ah, sorry..."

Looking at the full elevator, the young mother consciously took a half step back, apparently not planning to take this one.

If all the people in this elevator were adults, perhaps the plot would really proceed like this.

After all, adults' minds are much more complicated than children's. Although Inspector Megure did not describe in detail about the current situation in the banquet hall upstairs, the series of response measures taken afterwards were enough to alert them.

There is no doubt that they are now in the stage of escape, and any behavior that gives up the chance of survival to others during the escape may bring death to themselves.

What's more, the other party seemed to have no idea what had happened and was ready to wait for the next flight. If you want to get rid of this trouble, you just need to pretend that you know nothing.

It's simple, not difficult, and there's no need to feel guilty.

but--

Accompanied by the sound of light and crisp footsteps, Yuan Tai, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and the other two walked out of the elevator and came to the dark corridor.

When Haibara Ai saw them like this, she knew what these little guys were going to do next and couldn't help but sigh softly.

She never thought that her momentary concealment would lead to such a thing, but she had no choice but to follow him out of the elevator.

The elevator, which was originally full, suddenly had a lot of empty space.

Looking at the scene in front of her, the woman holding the child was a little hesitant.

"Wait a minute, but you guys..."

"It's okay, it's okay. We're not in a hurry anyway. We can just wait for the next bus."

Almost without saying anything, Mitsuhiko and Genta pushed her into the elevator with a smile.

Seeing that the little ones were so persistent, the woman holding the child didn't say anything more and accepted the kindness with gratitude.

Then the elevator door closed and the corridor fell into darkness again.

An environment surrounded by darkness always inspires people's fear of the unknown. The three little ones who were surrounded by the halo of heroes and vowed to wait for the next shift a few seconds ago soon became uneasy.

"What should I do next?"

Looking around at the seemingly endless darkness, Ayumi's voice became a little unnatural.

"Didn't Mitsuhiko say we should just wait for the next bus? So we'll just wait here." Genta is relatively carefree.

At this moment, a bright light broke through the darkness of the night.

It’s Huibara Ai.

Because she did not participate in the 30-second guessing activity, she did not hand in her watch.

And what was emitting light at this moment was the watch specially made by Dr. Agasa in her hand.

After hearing the results of the three little ones' discussion, Haibara Ai made a light complaint.

"Are you stupid? It was full when we came down just now. Even if we wait until the next one, it will still be full, right?"

"Then...what should we do?"

Now Mitsuhiko was also dumbfounded.

The brown-haired girl sighed again, turned around and shone the light in the direction of the green sign for the emergency exit in the corridor.

"There's nothing we can do. Fortunately, we're only four floors down. Let's go up first."

……