Isn't it very scientific to use the Death Note to kill people?

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This situation caught her attention.

Amuro Tooru, however, used his professional skills to eliminate all the listening devices in the house... there were as many as four.

While doing these things, he managed to get some information about Conan out of Ran, who seemed easy to talk to—he had been very interested in Conan ever since the Lupin III incident.

A kid actually knows the FBI and the Lupin Society, and their relationship is anything but ordinary...

It's just too abnormal no matter how you look at it.

Amuro Tooru couldn't easily gather information from Hayashi Yoshiki, because in his view, given the latter's intelligence and keenness, he would definitely be noticed if Amuro tried to probe too much.

Because Amuro Tooru works at Hayashi Yoshiki's agency, and Ran hadn't really thought there would be anything to keep secret about Conan's special characteristics... she gave him some information, which made Amuro Tooru's eyes gradually deepen.

Chapter 490: You've always been very good at lying.

"Hey, Boss, we found the criminal plan for the bank robbery that happened before on the computer in this apartment!"

what happened?

In the messy apartment

Ignoring the suitcase next to him containing a corpse and emitting the stench of decay, Amuro Tooru bent down to read the contents of the screen while making a phone call to Hayashi Yoshiki.

"The bank robbery that happened five days ago was only reported on the news yesterday... Boss, you should have heard about this news, right?"

Ah, I know. It's the news about three robbers involved in a robbery that resulted in the death of a bank employee, right?

“That’s right. We found their crime plan on the computer here, and we have confirmed the identities of the three robbers from the plan—the body in the suitcase was one of the robbers, and the one who seemed to have kidnapped Kei Kenzuka and then committed suicide out of guilt was also one of the robbers.”

Both robbers are dead, so what about the one who's still alive?

Lin Jiashu's calm voice came through the phone.

Sitting in front of the computer, Nanatsuki Koshimizu scrolled down the page by scrolling the mouse wheel.

After opening and carefully reading the new email, Amuro Tooru said:

"We saw an email from the last robber in the inbox, and it had an address on it... We're now considering that these two robbers were killed by the murderer to avenge the bank employee, so it's very likely that they're taking Conan and heading towards the address sent by the last robber!"

I understand. We're now tracking the signal on the tracker.

"Okay, we'll set off right away."

After hearing Yoshiki Hayashi hang up the phone, Amuro Tooru immediately looked at Kogoro Mouri and the others behind him and said that he would go to the address on the email first.

The latter nodded in agreement without hesitation.

"What about the body in this apartment?" Nanatsuki Koshimizu asked.

"Let's call the police after we leave here. Let the police come and clean up the scene and take notes first."

"understood."

The four of them immediately ran out of the room and took the elevator.

This apartment building has a layout of two elevators serving two units per floor.

Just as Ran and the others entered the elevator and closed the doors to go downstairs, the elevator next door opened, and Sera Masumi stepped out—she had accidentally learned about Conan's kidnapping while harassing Ran on the phone, so she hurriedly rode over on her motorcycle.

Lin Jiashu's car stopped at a traffic light halfway through the journey.

Ai, who had been keeping a close eye on the tracking signal, said, "Their location has started moving again. They must have gotten on the train... They're heading towards Beika Town now."

"How long were they stopped just now?"

"About ten minutes."

"There was a slight movement, right?"

“That’s right, the signal was moving at a walking pace just now.”

"Then let's just send a text message and ask."

Lin Jiashu suddenly laughed: "It can't be that the kidnapper carried Conan around and then carried him back to the car... If he can walk on his own, it's possible that he reached some kind of agreement with the kidnapper, or even that he went with the kidnapper on his own."

“Mr. Lin, but I just sent a text message to Shinichi’s phone, and he hasn’t replied.”

"Is that so? Then send another text message and tell him that Xiaolan is in danger."

"Uh……"

When Dr. Agasa, an honest man, heard Hayashi Yoshiki's "bad idea," his expression turned somewhat surprised.

Ai looked at him with a reproachful gaze.

"You've always been very good at lying."

Lin Jiashu simply smiled.

The subtle atmosphere between the two made Dr. Agasa feel strange.

He looked at Hayashi Yoshiki with a questioning gaze, wondering if he had offended Ai in some way—because he remembered that their previous interactions were not like this, and in his impression, Ai had always cared a lot about Hayashi Yoshiki.

Ai Haibara is always in a good mood the night before she and Yoshiki agree to go out. Not only will she go back to her room to rest early, but she will also sometimes agree to Professor Agasa's request to eat some unhealthy food... And the most obvious thing is that she will wear a cute dress on the day she goes out, which is completely different from her usual clothes.

Dr. Agasa then realized that the two of them hadn't been in contact for about half a month.

And Ai Haibara seems to have been in a bad mood lately...

"Mr. Lin."

"What's wrong, Professor Agasa?" Yoshiki Hayashi's gaze fell on Professor Agasa through the rearview mirror.

"...No, it's nothing."

Dr. Agasa decided it was best to leave these irrelevant topics aside for now.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Ai Haibara followed Yoshiki Hayashi's instructions and sent a text message to Conan's phone about Ran being in danger.

Just a few seconds later, her phone rang.

Haibara! What happened to Ran?!

"Don't worry, she's fine. She was just worried about your safety late at night, so she called Professor Agasa, me, and Yoshiki Hayashi and his people from his agency to frantically search for you."

……

Ai Haibara's calm, monotone voice made Conan on the other end of the phone freeze for a moment.

When he came to his senses, he awkwardly laughed and rambled on for a while before hanging up the phone.

Lin Jiashu had an expression that said, "I didn't expect this."

Even though they knew Conan was safe, the woman who took him away was, after all, the murderer who killed the two robbers, so they couldn't just let him wander around with her.

The white BMW sped off towards Beika Town.

Conan and the female kidnapper who took him away seem to have reached their destination, as the signal on the tracker has not moved much for a long time.

Lin Jiashu took the opportunity to speed up.

As the car got closer and closer to the signal on the transmitter, when it was less than fifty meters away,

boom!

The sudden gunshot made Lin Jiashu instinctively step on the brakes.

Dr. Agasa, sitting in the back, also changed his expression. He looked at the blue sedan that had suddenly started moving and drove away shortly after the gunshot, and asked uncertainly, "W-was there a gunshot coming from that car just now?"

"That's the car!"

Noticing the signal on her glasses begin to move, Ai Haibara immediately shouted, "Edogawa is in that car!"

"Tell Uncle Maoli and the others about this, tell them the car model and license plate number, and ask them to call the police."

Lin Jiashu immediately stepped on the gas and followed.

However, considering that gunshots had just been heard from that car, he dared not follow too closely lest he be discovered.

Chapter 491: Ai Haibara's Terror

boom!

The gunshot that erupted inside the car was so loud it felt like it would rupture your eardrums.

The car window was pierced by a bullet, leaving a conspicuous bullet hole.

"Quick! Drive me now, I'll direct you to a really good, deserted place—!"

From the passenger seat of the car, Conan, caught completely off guard, was restrained by someone who grabbed his neck with an arm, while the assailant pointed a gun at the woman's head and threatened, "Hurry up, don't dawdle!"

The woman in the driver's seat had no choice but to obediently start the car.

The murderer, holding a gun in one hand and strangling Conan's neck with his arm, began instructing Urakawa Serina to drive the car to a certain location.

"You better not move, you brat, or I'll blow your head off!"

Conan, who was being restrained, really didn't dare to move after hearing this.

Because he has the woman in control—Takayo Tegawa—she really dares to do that.

The case is actually not complicated.

The whole thing started with a dinner party.

Kenjiro Shono, who works as a teller at a bank, accidentally reveals during a dinner with friends that his bank will soon receive 200 million yen due to drunkenness. His friend Kei Tsuka, who is also at the dinner table, takes this to heart.

Five days ago, "Tsuka Kei" and two others broke into the bank and robbed it.

During the robbery, Kenjiro discovers that the robber is his friend Kei Tsukasa. He tries to persuade the robber to stop but is shot and killed by him instead.

Meanwhile, Urakawa Serina, a fellow bank employee and Kenjiro Shono's lover, witnessed this scene and decided to take revenge for her boyfriend herself.

The main culprit, Kei Tsukasa, and another robber have already been killed by her. The last remaining female robber... Conan and Serina Urakawa went to investigate, but they inadvertently alerted her, which led to the current situation where they are being held at gunpoint by her.

Lin Jiashu's car followed behind the robbers' car.

"They're heading towards sparsely populated areas, and it's too late for the police to set up checkpoints now!"

"Then we'll have to rely on ourselves. Where are Mr. Amuro's cars?"

"They're already nearby!"

"OK."

With a swift upshift and increased speed, Lin Jiashu steered past the small truck in front of him and immediately saw Amuro Tooru approaching from the opposite lane as he crossed the intersection ahead.

The blue sedan that was on the other side had clearly also spotted the target, and immediately made a U-turn at the intersection to catch up with Lin Jiashu.

He rolled down the car window.

Yoshiki Hayashi and Tooru Amuro exchanged a glance, but at the same moment, Ai Haibara, who was holding her phone, looked terrified.

She sensed it...

Nearby, right around...

Organized people are here!

She looked up at Lin Jiashu, her face pale and covered in cold sweat.

Lin Jiashu, who was completely focused on chasing the robbers in front of the car, seemed to notice her unusual behavior and spoke up:

"You don't need to make that face, I'm here."

I am here.

His voice, calm and seemingly devoid of any power, inexplicably gave Ai Haibara a shot of adrenaline.

Her face was still pale, but the feeling of being plunged into an ice cave seemed to slowly regain some warmth.

Ring ring ring! Ring ring ring!