Chapter 12: Coercive Sniping Incidents
After calling Officer Twilight to inform him and asking him to check it out, he didn't find any useful clues.
Coupled with the fact that most of the police officers have been on vacation recently, this matter has been temporarily closed.
But Conan, who returned to the office, was still unwilling, and after thinking hard for a long time, it was still fruitless, and he suddenly became irritable. "Damn, I don't understand it at all!"
"Well, you're still thinking about it, little ghost! In my opinion, if the calculator is really a clue left by the man, then it is nothing more than time and place. ”
"The message is 3135134.162, and you found those people training to snipe in an S-shaped river at one o'clock in the afternoon."
"Then it's very likely, that they're going to be in action at one o'clock in the afternoon, and they're being sniped on a fast-moving vehicle in an S-shaped bend."
As he spoke, Kogoro took out the map and quickly searched for it. "First of all, the location should not be too far away, and there must be a suitable sniper point nearby."
"If I'm not mistaken, these are the only places where they might be able to act." He spread the two fingers of his right hand and pointed to two places.
"And when is the date? Which one represents one o'clock in the afternoon? There are still too many doubts that have not been solved! ”
Although Conan still has a lot of doubts, he still decides to go to the place he has identified under Xiaolan's suggestion.
Early the next morning, Kogoro had to get up early at the urging of Conan, and after breakfast, he set off with Koran Conan and the three members of the detective group.
The first thing they went to was National Route 162, which had an S-shaped bend in the outer ring of Tokyo, but when they searched for it to no avail, there was only one intersection left under construction.
"It doesn't seem to be here, and if it's under construction, it's unlikely that anyone will be driving in there or something."
"Then that's all that's left there, so the numbers can be unraveled." Kogoro was looking upside down at the computer in Conan's hand at this time.
In his eyes, the string of numbers at this time took on a new meaning. "Is the Heisei Limited Express train at one o'clock in the afternoon on the 29th!?"
At this moment, Kogoro's musings were interrupted by a ringing of his mobile phone. "It's Officer Twilight! What's the matter? "Please bring those children to the Metropolitan Police Department as soon as possible."
Soon after, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the three members of the Mori family and the trio of detectives were sitting in a small conference room across from Officer Twilight.
"Not long ago, I received a notification that Police Officer Koichi Yamabe, who was traveling with his girlfriend Eri-sama, was on vacation, and both of them lost contact."
"What!?" "Yamanbe used to be an Olympic rifle shooter, so you guys are not wrong in your guesses." Officer Twilight nodded in affirmation to Conan's four detective team members.
"So the gangsters kidnapped the mountain police officer and his girlfriend, and then used her girlfriend to blackmail him into sniping someone!?"
"Yes, that's probably the case. It's a pity that we haven't figured it out until now, regardless of the time and place. Officer Twilight said with regret.
"We already know the location!" Three elementary school students answered immediately. "Is it true, Maori brother!?"
Looking at Officer Twilight with an excited face, Kogoro nodded slightly. "It's not just the place, but the time I've decided."
"That's great! When was it there? "At one o'clock this afternoon, the target was on the Heisei Express train that had been on the newspaper."
"Are you sure!?" "Sure, look at this." As he spoke, Kogoro displayed the string of numbers written on the paper upside down in front of several people.
"SO IT BECOMES 291HEISEIE." "This is the origin of the Heisei Limited Express train at one o'clock in the afternoon on the 29th!"
"Is it one o'clock in the afternoon!? Then there are only two hours left, so let's go! Officer Twilight waved his hand, and everyone immediately followed quickly.
Because there was plenty of time, Officer Twilight arranged a number of officers on the tall buildings near the S-shaped bend of the train line.
After that, it's time to wait, and one o'clock in the afternoon is just around the corner. With half an hour to go, the group came into their sight.
There were five of them, four men and one woman, and the woman was obviously controlled by two men, and everything was just as they thought.
Because it was on the street, those few were deliberately hiding weapons and intentions. However, the encirclement of the police is gradually shrinking under such circumstances.
In the end, when several plainclothes people 'passed by' them at the same time, they suddenly moved, because they were too hasty, and several gangsters did not have time to draw their guns, so they had to engage in empty-handed combat.
Under the warning of the police officers who arrived at gunpoint, several people had no choice but to give up resistance and were arrested.
As a great contributor to solving this case, Kogoro and several members of the detective team also received praise from Officer Twilight.
Although Kogoro didn't seem to care, the three elementary school students were unusually happy. Ran, who thinks it is necessary to reward them, decides to ask Kogoro to take them to the paradise to have some fun.
Eventually, Kogoro was informed by Officer Twilight that they were all members of a yakuza here.
But their boss and many important cadres were arrested because of a prosecutor, so they decided to take revenge on him.
Therefore, under the investigation, he chose the former Olympic rifle designer and kidnapped them while he and his girlfriend were away.
A few days later, Kogoro received a commission. asked Kogoro to investigate his wife's affair, so he began to stalk and take pictures secretly.
The reason why he wanted to accept such a commission was just that he found it interesting, and although he was embarrassed, he still couldn't help but be curious about other people's privacy.
On Saturday, he went to his employer's home to report on the progress of the investigation as agreed, and in order to better hide his identity, he brought Xiaolan and Conan with him.
In one room, Kogoro and his employer sat opposite each other. He pulled out a photograph and pointed to the woman on it.
"It's already certain that your wife is having an affair, and this is the one who is the object." "And what about his identity!" He roared angrily.
"Well, it's not clear for the time being, at the moment I only know that his profession is a doctor." Before he could continue, the doorbell rang.
"What about people?! Someone is coming, don't go and open the door! Because of his anger, his voice couldn't help but beat a little at this time, but after saying it, he remembered something.