"I'm Sato, and I'm on my way to the target location with Takagi." In the passageway, Officer Sato reports to the security room through a headset.

The view inside the stalactite cave is stunning, but the couple of Officers Sato and Takagi don't bother to appreciate it, they both know what it means to let the prisoners do something uncontrollable in the building.

Officers Shiratori and Chiba are in charge of guarding the facility's critical equipment, each leading a plainclothes squad to hide around, and some police officers disguised as maintenance workers to patrol important locations such as power supply and ventilation facilities.

What the current officer Nakamori has to do is not to arrest the thief Kidd, but to lead people to swagger through the situation on all floors, especially in front of Sunflower, there are some police officers left behind. This is to create the illusion that the police are so far on guard against Kidd the Monster Thief, and that they only care about this and will do nothing but this.

In order to paralyze the prisoners, the latent lurking, the acting of acting. The Metropolitan Police Department has done a lot of work, will the prisoners fall into the net?

"What did you say!" The Twilight Police Department asked incredulously, "Kidd the Strange Thief is missing?" ”

Jiroji Suzuki wiped the saliva from his face: "Twilight Police Department, don't get excited, I made an appointment with Kidd to send me a message if there is a situation, and send me a message every ten minutes if there is no situation, but after twenty minutes, I haven't received a single message." ”

The Twilight Police Department said, "Could it be that Kidd wants to fish in troubled waters while we are moving?" But the gem is not here at all! We're just creating the illusion that the gem is here, and he knows it! ”

"So I wonder now if Kidd wants to sneak out of the museum and go to the place where the gems are kept, but Kidd is a man of his word, and the condition between us is that when the prisoner is caught, I'll give him the gems in the evening, and he just needs to take a look."

The Twilight Police Department was simply sleepy: "Mr. Suzuki, you are not a child, so you are not afraid that Kidd will regret it?" ”

Jiroji Suzuki thought for a moment: "Well, there is indeed this risk, but I also noticed that Kidd would take a look after stealing the gems many times, and I thought at first that he was just provoking us, or tasting the quality of the gems, but then I found out that he might be looking for a particular gem, you see, the gems he stole before, didn't they all come back in the end." ”

"A specific gem? What is that? ”

Jiroyoshi Suzuki said, "Who knows? Maybe he's looking for the perfect gemstone, whether it's color or internal structure, a perfectionist? It's also very much in line with his image. ”

While chatting, Jiroji Suzuki was not idle. To leave the museum, you have to go up to the 8th floor and take the elevator. The museum's surveillance has a facial recognition function, and even if the guy looks like another tourist, the facial recognition system will list the same two faces. It would be even better if he was disguised as someone who was not in the museum, and the recognition system would mark the unrecognizable object in red, and then he could catch it.

Not only against Kidd, but also against prisoners. The guy didn't know how to get through the security check, and there was his identity in the system - fake, of course. According to the information, the target has certain information technology capabilities, and it is expected that it will be able to pass through the system backdoor deliberately left by the Suzuki Foundation.

Because of this, the identification system cannot identify the target, which is one of the reasons why Jiroji Suzuki came to Kidd.

"We have not detected any images of the people involved." Goto said the operation monitoring.

Kidd's system information was provided by himself, and the photos and fingerprints on it were fake. Jiroji Suzuki didn't care so much, he knew that Kidd would definitely be disguised as the person in the photo. So he said: "Immediately identify everyone and find out the suspicious people who are not registered in the system." ”

"Nor was it found, nor was the same person."

"Then Kidd must be in a place where there are no cameras! Restrooms, backstage, infirmary, and where the mechanical and electrical equipment is stored, the twilight police department! ”

The Twilight Police Department held the mobile phone: "I have already sent someone to check, and there will be news soon." ”

Officer Sato was not the only female police officer on the mission, but more than a dozen female police officers participated in the mission. Soon, the police who went to investigate and search reported that they did not find any suspicious persons.

"Report to the police department," Officer Sato reported, "and we have found no targets that Kidd has reported." ”

Kidd the Monster Thief disappeared with the goal of this mission?

"Something must have happened! Maybe Kidd the Thief is in some trouble! Listen, with the fire as an excuse to evacuate the tourists, I'm going to have to find Kidd and that unpardonable guy! ”

The Twilight Police Department did not stop this seemingly ridiculous approach, and he knew that Jiroyoshi Suzuki, a seemingly rough and well-thought-out person, was actually thoughtful. The target came this time for the gem, and he thought that the gem would not leave if it was here. And for him, the fire was just the right thing for him to stop sneaking around looking for something.

Abominable Kidd. Jiroyoshi Suzuki scolded in his heart.

Conan never received any more messages from Kidd, and he called Jiroyoshi Suzuki to inquire, only to be told that Kidd had lost contact.

It seems that Jiroji Suzuki wants to pin his hopes on Conan and let him find out where Kidd is hiding.

"How so? Don't tell me that Kidd accidentally encountered the poison of a prisoner, this kind of divine unfolding does not exist. Ji Haihong said.

Conan began to be embarrassed: "Now Uncle Suzuki wants me to find Kidd, but I only know that Kidd ended up on the third floor, and then I don't know where he went?" ”

"We have a detailed map of the museum on our phones, with internal staff access on it, and Kidd must have this map, and I think he might be in it now, or hidden in a ventilation shaft."

"Don't tease me," Conan Half-Moon Eyes, "this is underground, do you know how cold the ventilation shaft is?" ”

Sister Xiaolan saw Conan and Ji Haihong whispering, and asked very strangely: "Conan-kun, you seem to have been talking absentmindedly, why don't you come to enjoy such a beautiful scenery?" ”

In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, the two of them had to go to the side of the passage, and they were greeted by a spectacular and gorgeous stalactite scene, and at the bottom of the cave, artificial colored lights were blooming beautifully.

Artificial lights? Seeing this light, Conan suddenly understood, and he connected everything together. All keywords, Kidd the Monster Thief, Jewel, Jiroji Suzuki, United, Twilight Police, Target, Gem Hunter, Insider, Art Museum, Sunflower, Stalactite Cave.

Who does the gemstone belong to? This is a question that Conan had never thought about before. Now that he was thinking, at first glance, it seemed that Jiroyoshi Suzuki was cooperating with the police, so it was likely that the gem belonged to the police (or a collection institution). Because this kind of thing itself is confidential, Conan didn't ask directly, and Suzuki Jiroji never said anything about gems.

But what if, the gem is Jiroyoshi Suzuki's?

Then Jiroyoshi Suzuki has all the right to deal with a gem, which is itself very suspicious. The joining of the strange thief Kidd, the acquiescence of the Twilight Police Department, and the cooperation of the police...... Everything was incredible but normal, however, he always felt that there was something wrong with Jiroji Suzuki.

Jiroji Suzuki behaved like a thief! Yes, it's the same as being a thief. He did not hesitate to join forces with the strange thief Kidd, and also dragged the Dusk Police into the water, all to protect the gem. To protect the gem from being taken by that target.

Jiroji Suzuki was too nervous, which was not normal.

Having a problem with gemstones?

Where are the gemstones now? If this is just a decoy, the real thing will not be in the museum.

But what if, too, it's a bait?

"This stalactite cave turned out to be able to enter people, this lighting effect is good." Ji Haihong said.

Conan understood, he was suggesting that both Kidd and the target might be in the stalactite cave.

Flies don't bite seamless eggs, and since these two "flies" are there, the gems must be there!

There was no time to think about why Jiroji Suzuki hid the gem there, Conan used the upper toilet as an excuse to pull Ji Haihong out of the main passage and into the staff passage.

There is also an elevator in the employee passage, but this elevator does not lead to the ground. They took the elevator to the ground, and after stepping out of the elevator and walking a little further, the two of them came to an iron door.

"Put this on," Ji Haihong took out two hard hats from the closet on the side, "It seems that this closet can put ten hard hats, but now in addition to the ones in our hands, there are two less, and Kidd also went in with the hard hats?" ”

"I don't know."

"Do you want to contact Uncle Suzuki?"

"No, he has a ghost in his heart."

"Hey, that's a scary thing to say, then, be careful not to catch a cold."

Ji Haihong flipped the valve in front of the door, and the electric iron door made a dull sound. Then, the "whining" sound of the cold wind appeared, and finally Conan and Ji Haihong felt the cold breath underground. Ji Haihong was the first to walk into the stalactite cave to observe the environment, followed by Conan.

Looking up, a towering artificial passage runs through the middle of the rock face, and this crude architectural art is even more visually striking. The stalactite cave is illuminated by various colored lamps on the ground, so Conan doesn't need to bring their own lighting.

"Walk against the rock wall, don't be discovered by the people above, I'll go, this stalactite is really cold."

Conan also leaned on the stalactites formed by millions or even trillions of years behind him, he couldn't help but hug his arms, and his glasses were even covered with a layer of cold air.

Following the path of natural formations and traces of artificial excavation, they are firmly moving forward. Because the mystery ahead is still waiting for them to solve, all questions will be turned into answers.

That's what he, Conan Edogawa, was going to do.

――TBC――