"How's it going, what's going on?"

Otaki, who was walking through the woods, asked the police officer who was inspecting the car in front of the raincoat and hiding in the grass, and the officer who turned around shook his head, "Officer Otaki, I can be sure that this is Numabuchi's car, but I didn't find any trace of him." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Otaki, who looked around for a while, saw a wooden house not far away, and pointed, "What about that hut?" ”

"We went in and looked at it just now, but we didn't find anyone, so we probably fled somewhere else......"

"It should be in there......"

A childish but confident child's voice came into Otaki's ears, and I saw the grass swaying, and a black-haired girl came over with a little boy, and the voice just now was made by the little boy.

"Huh? Aren't you the little brother who followed Mr. Maori? And Miss Ayukawa came with her......"

Conan, who didn't answer Otaki's question, took out some paper from the tin box he was holding that hadn't been completely burned, "You see, this is a receipt from a convenience store five days ago and three days ago, and the expiration date on the wrapper of this bento is today...... No one would come to this place every day to eat a convenience store bento, right? ”

Otaki, who took the paper, carefully identified the already somewhat scorched font on it, "That's right...... But it shouldn't be possible for a wanted person to go to a convenience store to buy something with a swagger, right? ”

"Then there's only one explanation,"

The girl holding the big umbrella said, "That's someone bought it for him... Someone who harbored him for some special reason ......"

After listening to the analysis of the two people, Otaki beckoned the police officers and returned to the wooden house, which looked very shabby, and did not look like anyone had lived in it except for the musty smell of wood and the heavy dust.

"Did you find anything?"

Otaki, who was shining around with a flashlight with a strong flashlight, asked, and several other police officers who were doing the same thing shook their heads, indicating that this room was exactly the same as when they came just now, and there was no sign of anyone in it.

"No... Have you inspected the suspended ceiling on the ceiling? ”

The girl's cold voice made everyone stunned, and when she heard this, she quickly shone the flashlight on the ceiling, and soon found that the height of the ceiling was inconsistent with the height seen from the outside, "However, there seems to be no place to go up here......"

"Yes, Officer Otaki."

Conan, who was next to a window, said, "There are dirt footprints on the edge of this window, and there are no cobwebs on the beams and pillars of this window, so just step on it......"

Conan, who was about to practice it himself, was hugged by Otaki and put on the ground: "Thank you, little brother, just leave the rest to me." ”

According to Conan, Otaki, who climbed onto the beam, found a movable door on the ceiling directly above, and after opening it, Otaki, who stood up carefully, shone it with a flashlight, and a man with a stubbled beard appeared in the aperture.

Otaki, who recognized at a glance who this man was, roared: "Nichiro Numabuchi!" I am charged with robber murder...... Hey? ”

"Rice...... Rice...... Give it to me... Eat ......"

Halfway through the roar, Otaki found that the eyes of the swampachi who were handcuffed to the pillar in the corner were slurred, and after seeing him, there was no criminal who was afraid of the police, just blindly begging him for food.

Seeing that Otaki had found Numabuchi, Conan, who was relieved, walked out of the wooden house to breathe some fresh air, but as soon as he went out, he saw Xiaolan walking towards him angrily, "Ke-Nan! Why do you always like to run around! It's always worrying me! ”

At this time, Otaki, who had already left Numabuchi off the ceiling, was escorting him towards the door, and Numabuchi stumbled with a demented look, and suddenly stumbled and fell into a pile of rusty and tattered kitchen utensils near the door.

The sound of ping-pong metal hitting each other made several people look sideways, and under the urging of Otaki, Numabuchi slowly stood up, but Otaki, who was facing away from him, didn't notice that he was still holding a cold and shining knife on his hands raised from the pile of kitchen utensils!

"Get out of here!!"

Nushabuchi, who was not restrained, suddenly rushed forward, and in front of him was Xiao Lan, who was facing away from him, and Conan and Kazuha were just seeing all this, but Numa Abuchi was only five meters away from them, and this fleeting distance could only make people react, and what they wanted to do was powerless.

Except for one person.

"You guys really don't have any alertness......

A figure stopped between Xiaolan and the swamp abyss who was sprinting with a kitchen knife, only to hear a crisp sound, and the swamp abyss with the kitchen knife in his hand was shattered in the next second, and found that the world in front of him was spinning in the next second, and then he felt that the bones in his whole body seemed to be falling apart when he slammed on the ground, except for some painful ho-ho sounds in his throat, he couldn't even control one of his fingers.

At this time, Otaki, who had just come back to his senses, hurriedly commanded two police officers to restrain him from the swamp abyss lying on the ground, one left and one right, and he came to several people to apologize again and again, and the girl who shook her head said helplessly: "Officer Otaki, is it because there is no big case recently, that even you, a fierce general, have been lax like this......"

Although the girl's tone was flat, but Otaki, who was already a human spirit, still heard the meaning of the girl's words, and a drop of cold sweat slipped down his forehead, he couldn't help but imagine the scene just now, if there was no girl present, Xiaolan or Conan would inevitably be hurt after rushing over to Nuabuchi, no matter what the consequences were, he who should have been holding Nuabuchi was a serious dereliction of duty.

After a while, Otaki, who was scared for a while, looked at the girl who turned around to preach Xiaolan and Conan, and secretly thought in his heart, "Indeed, I've been slacking off a lot lately, and I actually gave the serial murderer a chance to break free!" But then again, it's really the legendary flower of Tokyo, and I've always been vigilant in this situation...... Sure enough, it lives up to its name. ”

"Officer Otaki, why does that person have two pairs of handcuffs on his left hand?"

After the two police officers took Numabuchi out of the house, Conan realized that Numabuchi actually had two pairs of handcuffs on his left hand, and he felt strange that he had escaped from the girl's chattering preaching, and when he heard his question, Otaki lowered his head and replied, "Is this this?" I don't know, he was already handcuffed to the post, so I had to cut off the original handcuffs and put new handcuffs on them......"

"Handcuffed to ...... On the pillar? ”

"But little brother, you're not wrong at all, it's true that someone has been bringing him food......" Otaki, who didn't notice that Conan's face was a little wrong, was still talking, but Conan didn't listen to what he was saying.

"Is it ......?"

Conan, who took out a copy of the 20-year-old driving class photo from his pants pocket, once again looked at the face of the high-flat-headed, big-nosed instructor Inaba, and his face changed dramatically.

"Oops, noos!"