The call was completely unexpected by Conan, so much so that for a short time, he didn't even know how to speak.

He seemed to have suddenly become a mute, and he only knew that he was stunned in place.

Tang Zeyu: "...... Feed? ”

There was no movement on the other end of the line, and he paused, and when he spoke again, he had carefully lowered the volume.

"If it's not convenient right now," he said, "just knock on the phone cover."

"......" Conan closed his eyes.

Tang Zeyu didn't think much about it at all, only he was here to think twice. For a moment, he even had a little disdain for this erratic self.

Conan said, "I'm okay right now. ”

Having made up his mind, he no longer hesitated, and quickly explained his current situation. The sudden medical examination, the disappearance of the gray plain, and the strange private hospital everywhere, Conan said: "I followed their head, and the current location is in the dean's office, but there is no one inside. Gray Plains didn't know where they were hiding. ”

It's the most terrible of all the situations, without the slightest clue, all the effort like a blind man touching an elephant.

As a private hospital, Tokyo Jikei Hospital is not very large, but even then, it occupies an area of five or six buildings. The person who took Gray Plains was far more familiar with this place than Conan, and if it was hidden in a corner like the utility room, at least he could find it. If the other party is stunned, covering her under the quilt of any hospital bed, finding her is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

After listening, Tang Zeyu's voice immediately became serious: "I'll go to the Ministry of Communications now." ”

“…… That's right, Conan also reacted immediately: "Monitor! ”

The sudden ringing of the telephone stirred up the mud and sand like muddy water, and the process of telling made the impurities settle down little by little, and Conan's mind regained its clarity. Tang Zeyu's actions were undoubtedly a shot in the arm, accurately pulling out a thread from the messy yarn.

Contacting Akai Shuichi, Conan hoped that the other party would come to the hospital immediately. Without knowing the details of the kidnapper, his soccer belt and anesthetic needle were only used once, and once he made a mistake, the margin for error was too low.

But now it's Tang Zeyu on the other end of the phone, with different identities and resources, and Conan immediately has other arrangements.

"There is surveillance in the park next to the hospital. Brother Tang Ze, please take a look at whether there are any suspicious people or vehicles in and out of the recent period. ”

"Okay." Hiroshi Karasawa has a calm voice. Footsteps came from the other end of the phone, hurrying down the quiet hallway.

He should be in the Metropolitan Police Department by now.

The only question is, is the Metropolitan Police Department really so quiet during working hours on weekdays?

…… I can't hear any human voices.

After the seeds of doubt take root, they are like cat's claws that are only haunting everywhere, and they have to scratch their hearts from time to time.

Pushing open a door, the metal clanging. The sound of the roller passed by, Tang Zeyu took off the key, pushed the swivel chair, and sat down in front of the monitoring: "Don't worry. ”

"Isn't there something that can be located on Gray Plains? That detective regiment badge. With your glasses, can you confirm her location? ”

Conan was in a trance for a moment, then shook his head again.

That's why he's so anxious.

As soon as he found out that Gray Yuan Ai was missing, he immediately called up the location map of his glasses. Three red dots of light flickered around, which were Mitsuhiko, Ayumi, and Motota. In the past, there were actually four anchor points on the lenses, and the one representing the gray plain mourning disappeared out of thin air.

The red dot will disappear only if the Detective Corps badge is turned off, or if it is out of range.

If it's a detective regiment badge off......

This is exactly the kind of situation that Conan doesn't want to think about and don't want to see, the person who kidnapped Gray Plains knows everything about her, and the moment he catches someone, he immediately turns off all communication equipment.

- which means that the man is likely to have come prepared, and by the time Conan arrived at the office, Gray Plains Mourning might have been transferred.

The crisp sound of keys came, and Tang Zeyu suddenly said, "Good news." ”

"Gray Plains, she shouldn't have left the hospital yet. You should rejoice in this

It's remote enough that no one will come here for a while when you arrive. ”

The second possibility was ruled out, and Conan was slightly relieved when he heard it.

He pondered for a moment: "Actually, there is another possibility, and that is signal shielding. Ashbara may be in the vicinity of some intensive care units. ”

Sophisticated medical instruments are easily scrambling by radio, so there are signal shielding devices around the general intensive care unit.

Despite his efforts to find a needle in a haystack, this is the only clue at the moment, and Conan plans to look for it in the building in the back.

- Suspicion lingered for a short time, and soon, he had let go of his attention to the ringing on the other end.

Tang Zeyu also deliberately lowered the volume on the phone, maybe it was because he didn't want to disturb his colleagues, the Metropolitan Police Department was not in the field, and it was normal for the office environment to be quiet.

*

Conan came out from under the desk, and then Tang Zeyu suddenly proposed: "What about this office, do you want to check it first?" ”

"Since the physical examination form has been handed over here, whether the dean is the mastermind or not, he should have nothing to do with the organization, and the office may be able to find clues."

In fact, there is nothing peculiar about the office, and the furnishings can be seen at a glance, but Conan still followed Tang Zeyu's advice.

During the inspection, he also synchronized the situation with the person on the other end of the phone.

“…… Empty shells? ”

Conan was a little surprised, the floor-to-ceiling bookshelf behind the desk was full of books, but he didn't expect them to be all swollen and fat.

He was wearing the white gloves he was carrying, so he reached out and flicked them twice, and the bookcases were glued to the shelves, firmly motionless.

Compared to the red solid wood bookshelves, this approach seems too tyrannical.

Outside of the neat bookcase, the only thing that can move on the bookshelf is a solid wood photo frame. It was stabbed upside down in a book, and Conan memorized the position of the frame, carefully picking it up.

The moment he saw the photo, Conan froze in place.

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Tang Zeyu asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The people up there......" Conan muttered, "a lot like Gray Plains." ”

The woman on the left side of the photo has long pale blonde hair and turquoise eyes with drooping corners, smiling at the camera. On the right is a bearded man with square-rimmed glasses, a square face, a white coat, and a pair of stethoscopes around his neck.

Although there is still a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes standing in the middle, you can get a glimpse of the slight movement of the head, and the left and right are likely to be a couple.

Conan stared for a little longer, and gradually, the focus of his gaze drifted away, and the left and right faces slowly overlapped in the field of vision.

The unique cold look between the woman's eyebrows and eyes, and the man's handsome facial features...... Blended together, it is Shiho Miyano who has grown up!

No wonder Gray Plains Mourning was recognized.

It should be the middle-aged man in the center of the photo who kidnapped her, and if he can keep this photo all the time, he must have a good relationship with the Miyano couple, because he saw Miyano Shiho when he was a child, so he can ignore the stereotype of "people can't rejuvenate" and accurately lock her identity!

Conan quickly opened the frame, and behind the photo, he wrote a line in pencil:

"Listing cocktail party, with Mr. and Mrs. Miyano. Pisco”

The date of the inauguration is more than 20 years ago.

- All reasoning is in place.

Conan suppressed his excitement and whispered his discovery to Karasawa Yu, but the person on the other end of the phone seemed to be in a state of thinking, and Karasawa Yu was not surprised by the new wine name.

Instead, he said, "I find something strange about the bookshelves. ”

"Bookshelves?"

Conan glanced strangely, and the solid wood furniture was unremarkable. Karasawa continued: "Why do you have to choose a bookcase for decoration? This is a very faceless thing, not to mention that a few books are not expensive. ”

"The only advantage of the case is that it is light."

"If you put in the effort to stick to the bookshelf, no matter how you move it, it won't mess up." He thought to himself, "I have only one explanation for this—"

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At this point, anyone can react.

Conan perked up, and almost said in unison with Yu Tang Ze on the other end of the phone:

"There's a secret passage behind the bookshelf!"

- The glimmer of surveillance illuminates the jaw, and in the watery darkness, the man in the swivel chair smiles.

Yu Karasawa tapped a key on the main console in front of him, and at the same time, Conan in the dean's room had just tentatively broken open a book.

A heavy clatter clicked, and the gears and chains snapped, driving the entire mahogany bookshelf to slowly rotate. A cloud of dust drifted through the cracks, and the black entrance expanded.

A staircase leading to the ground appeared before Conan's eyes.

*

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Nan locked the door of the dean's room and went down the passage to the ground. At the height of three or four floors, you will walk down the last step and the world in front of you will be different.

A long white passage with cold white walls on both sides, and the metallic glow evenly illuminates the entire space.

Could this be a hidden research institute underground?

Conan looked around suspiciously, still not forgetting the purpose of his visit. When I took a few steps forward and stepped onto the metal corridor, a fourth red dot instantly appeared on the lenses!

"Received a signal from Gray Plains!"

He was pleasantly surprised to report to the other end, but there was an unusually shrill current sound coming from the phone, and the voice was so loud that it was almost inaudible.

"Found ...... Hiss...... Just ......"

"If you find it, I'll come right now." Karasawa said, "You must be careful yourself. ”

The underground signal is weak, and the call will automatically hang up soon.

Tang Zeyu put down his phone, but he didn't have any intention of getting up, and he was still lazily curled up in the swivel chair.

The main control room sank into a watery darkness, and the screen in front of him was the only source of light.

In front of him was a wall of monitors, the square of which was constantly changing, showing all the movements of the entire research institute at all times.

Tang Zeyu did not lie to Conan, he did see the surveillance video outside the hospital, but not in the traffic department of the Metropolitan Police Department, but from the surveillance in front of him. The coverage of the camera is completely incompatible, encompassing everything in and around the institute.

Most screens are pure white because the rooms and hallways themselves are empty.

This underground research institute was at its most glorious more than 20 years ago, with a large amount of capital from the Karasuma Group, abundant experimental funds, and free research directions. It was once a paradise that countless researchers dreamed of joining, but soon a pivotal study proved to be an insurmountable technical barrier, and overnight, a raging fire engulfed everything.

The buildings on the surface had collapsed, and the black-and-gray ground was covered with grass. A few years later, the land was transferred and a hospital was rebuilt on the ruins.

- Tokyo Jikei Hospital.

Underneath it, the research institute that the Karasuma Group has invested in, shares the same name as another company that collapsed 25 years ago, both of which are called Shirakuya Pharmaceutical.

*

At the end of the pure white passage, a figure quickly ran past.

Like a drop of ink falling into white paint, Conan knew how abrupt and conspicuous his blue suit was here. He could only carefully lower his body and cautiously weave his way through the corridors.

The corridor is separated by one metal wall after another, and when you get closer, you realize that it is a sensor door that slides open automatically, and the sensor door is embedded in the metal wall, and when it closes, you can't find a single crack in the door.

Conan probed it and found that the trigger distance of the induction was about half a meter.

At this distance, once there is someone behind the door, the result of opening the door is that the face and the face meet in a narrow way. So every time he carefully stayed half a meter away, listening carefully to the movement behind the door, and this tireless confirmation finally helped him a lot, staying in front of a sensor door, Conan clearly heard the footsteps passing behind the door.

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He was shocked, quickly retreated to the previous fork in the road, and chose a new path.

The list of leave requests for Class B for the year in his pocket also came in handy at this moment, and Conan took a ballpoint pen to record what he had walked on

Route. As the number of bends increased, he almost had the illusion that he was walking through a labyrinth.

The corridors may be long or short, but the scene behind the door is exactly the same.

The four metal walls, and the ceiling glowing with a faint white light, the same path repeats itself, and the boundless cold white can even give people a sense of panic.

- The insignificance of one's existence, the meager sense of direction, will soon disappear, and this dark underground labyrinth will trap all intruders in it.

Realizing that he had unconsciously had a frustrated thought, Conan was shocked and silently cheered himself up.

Fortunately, the remaining road is not long, and there are red dots on the glasses for reference, and before you know it, the location of the gray plain is already close.

*

A pure white surveillance screen, a dark blue figure flashed. Behind the elementary school students who ran by, the metal sensor door opened and closed.

Before the sensor door opens, a green dot will light up on the right side of the door crack.

Conan thought this was a sign of the success of the induction, as was the case with all the doors he encountered along the way, and gradually, he stopped throwing attention at the green dot.

But he didn't know that the real meaning of the green dot was actually that the identity authentication was passed.

Within half a meter of the door, invisible rays invisible to the human eye sweep across the whole body, from the contours of the face, iris features to height and body shape, the characteristics are compared one by one, and the access control will allow the release. I don't know how deep the bottom layer of the network is, the weak current slides rapidly, and one signal after another descends step by step, jointly transmitting a message:

"Authentication is successful, permission is granted."

In the corner of the screen in the main control room, the green prompt of the above words kept slipping by, and Tang Zeyu leisurely supported his chin, and there was a photo of Conan's ID card on his left.

Half an hour ago, the system scanned and said: "The information has been entered, it is a temporary identity access control, and all areas have been opened." Travel time: two hours. ”

As for the other ID photo, it is not so well treated.

- At the other end of the surveillance wall, a wet Amuro retrieves his phone.

After receiving Pulque's message, he tentatively knocked on the wall again, this time the wall changed, and a red dot flashed on the smooth metal. Amuro stared thoughtfully for a moment, then took two steps back to the left side of the room.

It was also a metal wall, but when he walked within half a meter of the wall, a sensor door suddenly slid open!

Amuro's pupils shrank.

The four hollow walls that I thought were actually this kind of hidden sensor door. And with his proud observation, he didn't even notice where the crack in the door was!

Behind the sliding door is a long corridor, with the same decoration layout as the room, and the pure white light illuminates the space, and Amuro even suspects that what he is lying on is not a room at all, but the junction of four corridors.

Facing the open passage, he did not rush to leave, but knocked on the remaining two walls in turn. The result is still a glowing red light, only next to the open sensor door, the flickering light source turns from red to green.

…… It's like someone deliberately turned on access permissions in the background.

The phone in his pocket shook, and another text message came.

[pulque: Let's go.] 】

For a moment, Amuro felt like a blind man who was walking in the same way, unconsciously being led to the intended end.

But he had nowhere to go but this corridor.

The blonde took a deep breath and slowly walked forward.

The evenly spread white light makes the field of vision white no matter where you look. The corridor is oppressive and empty, and the gaze loses its reference, and such an environment can easily make people lose their sense of time.

Amuro's mobile phone had already entered the water, and as soon as he pressed the screen to turn it on, the battery dropped rapidly, and in order to continue to receive messages from Pulque, he could only restrain his desire to check the time.

[Right.] 】

[Before.] 】

[Left.] 】

【……】

I don't know how long this detour lasted, but in a snow-white space, Amuro felt like he was about to become snow blind.

Another metal door slid open, and several

Caught off guard, the end of his vision suddenly shrank, and a black wall appeared in front of him.

*

A whole black wall, lacquered of unknown material, without the slightest reflection, like a mysterious black hole in the universe, can absorb all light.

At this time, Toru Amuro had not yet reacted, and stared at it in a daze for a long time, only to find that there was a relief of a crow on the wall that was about to fly.

There was silence in his pocket, and the mysterious pulque never sent any other messages.

After a long time, Toru Amuro finally realized that this was the end.

He woke up from a big dream, and immediately looked around, thoughts and associations collided with each other, and between the lightning and flint, an incredible guess pierced his mind.

Amuro's grey-blue pupils widened in disbelief, and he unconsciously pursed his lips, and the voice was inaudible, almost like it was for himself.

He muttered, "...... boss？ ”

- Tang Zeyu walked through the dark and long passage, and as if to meet the occasion, he also jokingly draped a white coat under his long gray plaid scarf.

The sensor door at the end of the passage slid open, revealing an empty room with a chair in the center, facing a black wall.

A black wall splits the room in half.

Amuro was on the other side, behind the black wall, and Yu Karasawa sat down leisurely.

TBC.

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