HBWnovel Chapter 51: Why has the case become complicated again?
Chapter 51: Why has the case become complicated again?
Bai Yexiu felt his phone vibrate and was slightly taken aback when he saw the text message and picture sent by Pei Nuo. He then looked towards the building.
Isn't Conan still here? The scene where the three robbers enter that building hasn't even started yet, how come they've already gone in?
—A few minutes ago—
Three robbers hid in the shadows, silently watching the four people on the riverbank.
"Are these kids reliable? It's been so long." One of them glanced at his watch and began to look around impatiently.
"Be patient," the other person said, giving him a playful shove.
The person who was looking around didn't turn his head back, but stared intently at the sign of a building and said slowly.
"Look, doesn't that sign look familiar?"
Upon hearing this, the remaining two accomplices turned their heads away in confusion.
"Hey? Isn't that the one at the bottom of the map?" one of the bandits said in surprise, as if he recognized something.
"Looks like those kids were right," one of the robbers grinned, beckoning to his accomplices as they ran towards the building. "Looks like there's no point in fighting those kids. Let's go!"
……
While Byakuya was pondering why the plot had been brought forward, Conan successfully revealed the final location of the treasure.
"That's the building!" Conan sprinted towards the building at top speed.
Wait a minute, at this point in time, I'll probably run into Pei Nuo.
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Bai Yexiu's forehead as he ran after him.
As soon as they entered the building, the group nearly bumped into a refined-looking young man. The young man didn't seem surprised by their sudden appearance. After glancing at them, his gaze lingered on Bai Yexiu for a moment before shifting away.
Bai Yexiu immediately recognized the young man—Pei Nuo.
Because Pei Nuo's refined and elegant face and his captivating eyes are very distinctive.
Pei Nuo ignored Conan and his group and left directly, appearing extremely aloof throughout.
When Conan and his friends rushed to the scene, they found several men in black lying where the gold coins had been hidden, but there was no sign of the gold coins.
It's obvious that the gold coins were intercepted.
The image of the young man he had met at the door naturally came to Conan's mind.
If I remember correctly, the person seemed to be carrying a backpack that appeared to be filled with heavy items, and wasn't wearing a school uniform, but rather a very simple shirt. And so late, unless they had a specific purpose like them, who would enter this building?
He definitely hasn't gone far!
Just as Conan was about to rush downstairs to find the suspicious young man, a man in black who had been unconscious slowly got up and raised his gun at them.
The atmosphere suddenly fell silent until a figure tumbled down the stairs without warning.
At this moment, the remaining two men in black also got up...
A few minutes later, as expected, the children were tied up, except for Bai Yexiu, who was nowhere to be seen at the scene after rolling down the stairs for unknown reasons.
"Could the other kid be dead? He hasn't made a sound for so long." After tying everyone up, one of the bandits remembered that someone seemed to have rolled down the stairs when he woke up, and glanced in the direction of the dark staircase.
There were no lights in the stairwell, and the moonlight provided only limited illumination. The stairwell where Bai Yexiu had fallen was now pitch black, like a dark, gaping hole.
"Hmph," another bandit guessed maliciously, "probably smashed his head and died."
None of them went down to check.
The Junior Detective League members looked in that direction with concern, and Conan was especially worried for Bai Yexiu—hoping he wasn't really dead.
"Hey," just as Conan was pondering, something hard and cold pressed against his forehead, "Have you seen a high school kid with a backpack around here? Which way did he go?"
"That older brother left a long time ago. I don't know his exact direction," Conan said truthfully.
Nothing was gained. The robber kicked Conan to the ground.
“It’s no use.” He turned to his two other companions and said, “What do we do now? The gold coins have been stolen by some brat who appeared out of nowhere.”
"Tch, where did this brat come from!" Another robber kicked a pile of junk against the wall in frustration, even though it hurt his toes.
Conan, who was lying on the ground, also felt a strange sensation on the floor—there seemed to be a small amount of unidentified powder on the floor.
The building hadn't been renovated recently, and the clutter piled up in the hallways consisted of broken tables and chairs. Considering that the robbers had collapsed on the floor before they arrived, an idea popped into Conan's mind...
These powders may be what drugged these robbers.
In this way, the source of the powder can also be found out—it came from that high school student.
"Kill these brats, they're in the way." One of the robbers spat at them, venting his anger at the high school boy on the Junior Detective Club members.
The other two accomplices tacitly agreed, slowly raising their guns and preparing to pull the trigger.
Conan and the others stared at the gun barrel, beads of cold sweat dripping from their foreheads. Ayumi even burst into tears.
Suddenly, the glass in the stairwell shattered completely, and shards of glass rained down, catching the robbers off guard.
"What's going on?!"
One of the robbers roared angrily and ducked into a corner to avoid being cut by the broken glass.
The other two robbers also instinctively shrank into the corner, and Conan subconsciously told the Junior Detective League members to shrank into another corner.
The robbers stared blankly at the shards of glass scattered on the ground. Just as they were about to get up and find out who had broken the glass, the corner where they were standing was enveloped in a cloud of white powder, like flying snowflakes.
Caught completely off guard and caught off guard, the three robbers collapsed to the ground, limp and powerless.
For a fleeting moment, Conan seemed to understand why the three robbers had collapsed in the stairwell at the beginning.
Coincidentally, just as the robber collapsed, a lot of noisy and hurried footsteps came from the stairwell, accompanied by a familiar voice.
"Quick! The children are still up there!"
The children immediately recognized the voice and exclaimed in unison, "Inspector Megure!"
At that moment, a hand gripped the window in the stairwell, and a head peeked out—
"Brother Longze!" Conan said, looking at the head that had popped out.
"Are you alright?" Bai Yexiu nimbly jumped down from the window and patted his hands, which were covered in dust from climbing the wall.
Bai Yexiu did not fall down the stairs and get knocked unconscious or killed as they said. At this moment, he did not appear to have any serious injuries, except for a band-aid on his forehead.
He saw that the robber had woken up, so he pretended to roll down the stairs—mainly because he didn't want to deal with the robber himself, so he left this kind of thing to the all-powerful Conan!
He appeared to have accidentally fallen down the stairs, but in reality, he quietly slipped to the next floor, climbed the building's exterior wall, and ambushed the window on that floor. He also called the police, and then symbolically put a band-aid on his perfectly intact forehead.
Watching the robbers being carried away by the police, Inspector Megure patted Hakuya Xiu on the shoulder and exclaimed, "Brother Ryuzawa! You did a great job this time!"
He had been worried these past few days about not being able to catch those three escaped robbers in time, and Long Ze really came to bring him warmth, even helping him to drug the robbers.
“Brother Longze is alright…” Ayumi blinked, somewhat disbelieving her eyes.
Just as the children were curiously asking Bai Yexiu what had happened, Conan squatted down and wiped away some powder that had just been spilled on the ground with his finger.
This powder was the one Longze had just used to knock out the bandits, and its texture was exactly the same as the powder he had touched when he was tied up.
Could it be that the person who intercepted the gold coins used the same powder as Long Ze?
Conan looked up at Bai Yexiu, who was smiling and telling the story to a few children not far away, and his brows furrowed.
What's going on? Why has this case suddenly become complicated again?
Conan rubbed his forehead.
This is the umpteenth time I've felt the case is getting more complicated.