Apparently, someone pressed the elevator button and called it down - it certainly wasn't in the Cloak Man and Officer Nakamori's plans.

There was no doubt that if anyone came up, it would be Kidd the Thief. Thinking like this, Qian Yu aimed the crossbow arrow launch port of the Traceless Umbrella in the direction of the elevator door. Behind him, Conan also crouched down and pressed a button on a thin control panel inserted into his rain boots. With this movement, Chiba could hear the sound of a mechanical operation coming from inside Conan's rain boots—the sound of a functional element that he had seen before that increase the strength of his feet.

Just then, the elevator went up again - just like what had happened when Chiba had fought Kidd before, the elevator was completely filled with thick smoke. Wait a minute, if that's the case, will it ...... Thinking of this, Qian Yu's brows furrowed, and then the fingers that were originally on the shooting trigger were slightly released.

When the elevator returned to this floor, Qian Yu took a deep breath and then held his breath.

Here it comes.

At the same time, the elevator doors were opened, and thick smoke drifted out of the cracks in the elevator doors.

"Really," Chiba heard a sigh from the cloaked man behind him. "I'm going to have to do a multiple-choice question again."

As Chiba and the Cloaked Man had guessed, and Conan and Ash Hara might have guessed, more than 10 police officers, including Officer Nakamori, appeared in the elevator as the smoke that didn't look particularly dense cleared.

"It's like a drag party," Gray Yuan frowned. "Why does this Mr. Strange Thief always engage in all these bells and whistles?"

"But it works...... "Chiba uses the auxiliary unit to lock down the police officers who came out of the elevator one by one, and then compares it with the walking pattern of the monster thief Kidd recorded earlier. The final comparison results showed that either Kidd the Strange Thief was not among these people, or Kidd the Strange Thief had already achieved a complete correction and radical change from the personal pace that Qian Yu pointed out earlier.

Having said that, if Kidd the Strange Thief had completely changed his way of walking in order to deliberately make it different enough for Chiba to make it unrecognizable, he might have been able to narrow down the potential suspects a bit.

However, there is none. All of these cops acted in a way that was more or less similar to that of the original Kidd the Monster Thief, but there was no trace of anything to be done.

"Stop!" Realizing what might have happened, Officer Nakamori shouted. "Report the number and check the people!"

After a quick count of the number of people, there were still two police officers still underneath and did not board the elevator to get here.

"What should I do?" Officer Nakamori looked at the cloaked man.

"First," the cloaked man gestured to the corner of the observation hall not far away. "You guys have a little rest over there now, and we'll keep waiting—wait for Kidd the Monster to come himself."

Suddenly, the elevator went down again, and the cloaked man's walkie-talkie rang again a few seconds later.

"This is Mori Kogoro!" Accompanied by the sound of walking and wheezing, Mori Kogoro's breathless voice came. "Me and your men found Kidd and are now chasing him!"

"Where are you?" The cloaked man was clearly surprised. "Tell me where you are, and we'll mobilize the police to assist you."

"I'm not quite sure where we are now, probably in the direction of the power zone." Mori Kogoro's breathing lessened, and he said intermittently. Subsequently, the walkie-talkie was hung up.

Then, Chiba's gaze turned to the elevator room, which went up again, and a police officer, apparently out of breath from overexercise, appeared behind the elevator door.

"Huh?" The cloaked man glanced at the policeman in the elevator. "Officer Nakamori, is this your own?"

"Yes," Officer Nakamori replied immediately. "He's ours - do we need to confirm him?"

"Officer!" The policeman immediately objected. "Please let me finish first! I just met Kidd the Strange Thief with Kogoro Maori, and they ran in the direction of the engine area! ”

"Why didn't you tell us about it on the walkie-talkie?" The cloaked man asked.

"My walkie-talkie was stolen," the policeman innocently spread his hands. "Then I'll just run back and tell you. Please hurry! Otherwise, Kidd the Thief is likely to escape! ”

Officer Nakamori looked in the direction of the cloaked man and asked for his opinion.

"You all go," the cloaked man said lightly. "This cop can stay here for now, it looks like he's tired from running back anyway."

……

After Officer Nakamori and the others left, the cloaked man slowly walked over to the jewel cabinet and turned his gaze to the policeman who had basically stopped breathing. "Have you rested? If you're resting, let's ask a few questions. ”

"Verify your identity?" The police apparently realized what the cloaked man wanted to do. "What do you want to test?"

"What's your code name?" The cloaked man asked.

“7。” The policeman immediately closed his left eye and replied.

"Your soft armor is still there, right?" The cloaked man said this, motioning for Conan to go up and check. "Let me see how the timing system looks like on your soft armor."

"That'......" the policeman looked a little embarrassed. I can't have broken this thing, right? I've hit a door before and probably broke these hoses around that time. ”

"His hose doesn't show any signs of filling," Conan's explanation followed. "It doesn't even look like stolen clothes, it's like a hose with no signs of liquid injection."

"Is that so?" The cloaked man slowly walked in the direction of the police. "Okay, then, one last additional question."

The policeman just looked at the cloaked man in silence.

"What's your police ID number?"

“？” Qian Yu raised his eyebrows, because this question is really difficult for some strong people. Do police officers need to memorize their police ID numbers? He had never heard of anything like it.

Wait a minute, if this cloaked man didn't expect the other party to answer at all.

"I don't remember." The policeman frowned, then shook his head. "Sir, how can I remember the number of the police officer ID so long?"

At this moment, Qian Yu suddenly noticed that the cloaked man beside him had changed his posture, and Conan had taken a few steps back.

What's the matter, is there something wrong with what this person said? Qian Yu looked at Ash Yuan Ai in astonishment, trying to confirm if he had really ignored something particularly low-level, but he found that Gray Yuan Ai was also confused.