Chapter 57: A Night in the Library
"Wow-ha-ha, you're dead...... Transform! ”
In the evening, Gao Cheng put down "Criminal Psychology" in his hand and was bored to watch the TV show, but it turned out that there were only cartoons to watch at this point.
At this moment, the phone rang suddenly.
"Hey, this is the ...... of the Joto Detective Agency"
"Brother Chenghu, are you free now? There is a case......" I got on the phone at dusk, and when I heard the voice of something transforming from the other side, my face froze strangely, "I think, it's better to ask Maori......
"I'm free," Gao Cheng turned off the TV and cheered up, "What is the case?" ”
Twilight wiped a cold sweat and continued, "Actually, a library clerk suddenly disappeared, and he couldn't be found anywhere, and there was no clue in the surveillance footage. ”
"Library staff?"
"Yes, it's a staff member named Kazuo Tamada at the Rice Flower Library, and I heard his wife say that he hasn't been home since he worked overtime the night before......"
"Rice Flower Library, huh?" Gao Cheng thought that Conan and Ayumi were going to the Rice Flower Library during the day, and his expression suddenly tightened, "Didn't you find it in the library either?" ”
"No," Twilight said with a headache, "because Mr. Tamada calls his wife in the library every day before leaving work, but he didn't call the night before, so we think he may have been taken away while working overtime, or he was killed and hidden in the library...... However, after searching the library, warehouses, toilets, and other places that are not very noticeable, I have found nothing......"
"If Mr. Tamada has already been killed, is there a suspect?" Gao Cheng continued to ask.
"Well, I heard that the director of the library, Hideji Tsukawa, stayed with Mr. Tamada the night before yesterday to work over......time," Twilight recalled, "If you say that he is the most suspicious, do you suspect him?" ”
"It's not clear yet."
Gao Cheng looked at the time and responded, "Officer Twilight, I'll go to the library first and contact if there is any situation." ”
Since he was involved with Conan, something must have happened, so he decided to go to the library to investigate first.
Hanging up the phone, Gao Cheng called the Maori Detective Agency again, and after learning that Conan did not go back, he had a really like this expression on his face.
Conan's Grim Reaper physique is really worthy of its reputation, but it is unpredictable, who would have thought that there would be cases in a library.
……
"Dada!"
In the dimly lit library, Hideji Tsugawa looked around with a gloomy expression.
"Strange, there was a voice just now...... Am I being too careful? ”
In the dark, Tsukawa's thin appearance looked extremely ugly, he stared at the staircase with wide eyes, and cautiously opened the bathroom door to look inside, the boss looked at the door with a face for a while, and only turned around and walked away after seeing that there was nothing unusual.
"Babble!" A slight sound of the door opening sounded clearly in the dead silence, and Tsukawa's footsteps suddenly stopped, and he looked back into the bathroom with a terrible expression.
A trace of cold sweat appeared on Tsukawa's cheeks.
It seems that someone is really hiding here, and if that's the case, maybe his secret has been discovered......
"Here!" Tsukawa gently walked to the outside of a toilet and slammed the door open, and when he saw that it was empty, he walked out of the bathroom with the door in confusion, not noticing the children trembling behind the door.
Conan gritted his teeth and covered Ayumi, who almost screamed, and his back was unconsciously soaked with sweat.
He was too careless, obviously Gao Cheng had already reminded him not to let Bu Mei's children get into danger, but he still relaxed his vigilance......
"Hey, Conan," said Motota, touching his round belly, "how long will I stay in the toilet, I'm going to be hungry if I wait any longer......"
"Shh
Conan stopped Motota and walked solemnly to the door of the bathroom, just in time to see Director Tsugawa take out a leather bag from the reading room and walk into the elevator to leave.
"Okay, he's back."
Conan breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked helplessly at the children beside him.
I used to ask these guys to go home, and now it's even more impossible......
"Conan, what are we going to do now?" Ayumi and the others all looked at Conan.
"Let's look for it first, the curator seems to be hiding some secrets."
"Smack!" Downstairs in the library, Tsukawa left with a smile on his purse, and suddenly the lights on the third floor behind him came on.
He froze, smiling and turning to the library, where he saw that the floor where the lights were lit was the children's library where he had just stayed......
"Is this it?" After a while, Gao Cheng hurriedly rode his bicycle to the Rice Flower Library by the moonlight, and after stopping on the side of the road and locking it, he found that the lights on the third floor of the library were still on.
"Sure enough, it must be those bear children again."
Reaching out to the side and grabbing the summoned Toya Lake, Gao Cheng walked straight to the downstairs of the library, and was having a headache how to get in, but the door of the building was not closed tightly, and even the key was still on the door, as if someone was running in in a hurry.
"Could it be those guys who stole the key?"
Gao Cheng pouted and walked into the library, and after finding the elevator, he pressed the 3rd floor with his hand, planning to go to the 3rd floor to meet Conan first.
The elevator door was almost closed, and a dark shadow walked out of the staircase, looked at the elevator upstairs with a shocked expression, and hurriedly returned to the exit and pulled out the key to lock the door.
"Someone is still coming......"
Tsukawa Yin looked at the elevator stopping to the 3rd floor with a face, and didn't care about Conan and his party who were looking for the body in the library area on the other side, and immediately turned around and went to the 3rd floor with a steel pipe.
"Ding!" On the third floor, Gao Cheng stood in the elevator that opened the door suspiciously.
Strange, obviously just taking an elevator, his whole body was covered with cold hairs standing up, which had only happened before when he touched a corpse.
Could it be ......
Gao Cheng sniffed, and after vaguely smelling the faint smell of blood and corpses, he instinctively looked at the top of his head, and his scalp was numb.
"It's above!"
The corpse was actually on the top of the elevator...... No wonder the police found nothing after the search......
"It's hard for you to find out, the legendary detective," Tsukawa stopped at the elevator with a hideous face, "You're so much better than the police and those imps!" But that's the end of it......"
Tsukawa used his body to completely block Gao Cheng in the elevator, looked at this face that often appeared on TV and newspapers, and sneered and waved the steel pipe fiercely: "Die, Kudo Shinichi!" ”
"Bang bang!" Two crashing sounds sounded in succession, and Tsugawa stared at Gao Cheng, who was holding Lake Toya, and fell to the ground with a muffled grunt as the steel pipe in his hand landed crisply.
"Really, haven't you heard of the modern left script?"
Gao Cheng walked out of the elevator with a dark face, withdrew his wooden knife and looked at Director Tsukawa, who was resting on the ground.
"Who is this guy? I didn't even have time to ask......"
The man's thin face widened his eyes, and he looked a little scary, like a dead body, but he had just fainted.
Although he started a little heavier, he was also measured......
"Let's contact Officer Twilight first." Gao Cheng took out his mobile phone, and suddenly heard movement downstairs.
"Was there any sound up there?" Mitsuhiko walked to the top of the stairs and looked strangely at the top of the staircase, "It seems to have the sound of something falling on the ground." ”
"Could it be that the curator is back?"
Conan cautiously walked ahead: "You guys wait here for a while, I'll take a look!" ”
"Conan!"
On the third floor, when Conan quietly walked down the stairs, the elevator entrance was empty, and it didn't look like someone had ever come.
There is nothing unusual about the library with the lights on, and the rest of the ......
"Huh?!" Walking in the dim aisle, Conan was suddenly startled, and before he wanted to move, he stretched out a pair of hands to cover his mouth behind his back, pulling him into the darkness.
"Hmm——!"
"Conan?" Ayumi waited at the top of the stairs for a while, but never saw Conan come down, and there was no movement upstairs.
"What to do? Did Conan have an accident? Ayumi burst into tears of fear.
"Yes, probably not, right?" Mitsuhiko's voice trembled, and he forced himself up the aisle, "He must just want to scare us, I'll go find him." ”
"Mitsuhiko!"