Chapter 9 - The Fifth Man

"I think something is wrong with them!" Before Qianyu could speak, Conan had already expressed the concerns shared by the two.

"Leave this alone!" The robber's hand pulled a few centimeters behind Chiba's head, drawing Chiba's attention back to the most practical thing at the moment. "Get rid of them!"

"Take the escalator!" After Conan finished speaking, he immediately ran in front of Chiba and led the way for him. "Follow me!"

"Escalator?" Qian Yu was slightly stunned.

Soon, Chiba had a general understanding of the specific structure of the building (Chiba had been reading books at the bookstore at the door before, and after being trapped in this building, he only moved around the gate and stairs, so he didn't observe these at all)

In fact, this building does not only have stairs and elevators, but also escalators. The entire building was built only a few years ago, and the facilities are very advanced, so there is also an escalator connecting the adjacent floors inside the building.

"We have little devils on our side, too! Two! Behind Chiba and Conan, the robber dressed as a supporting actor of Kamen Superman, who was desperately chasing, yelled at the walkie-talkie in his hand.

"Yuantai, they were really caught... Qian Yu now really regrets why he didn't take a good look at those daredevils, now that these guys have hostages in their hands, both the difficulty of maneuvering and the difficulty of catching them will be greatly increased.

"It's almost time to the escalator!" Conan pointed ahead and said to Chiba. "Prepare to turn right!"

"Okay, ah!" As soon as Qianyu was halfway through her answer, she felt a heavy poke in her back, lost her center of gravity, and fell forward to the ground. Behind him, a cane falls to the ground with a crisp sound - in the process of chasing Chiha, Kamen Superman picks up the cane on the booth next to him and smashes it at Chiba.

"Cut!" Qianyu was about to get up again, but a huge black shadow had already enveloped Qianyu's body - the Kamen Superman who threw his cane had already come behind Qianyu, and the dagger in his hand slammed down!

"Thousand feathers!" Conan had already turned his head after hearing Chiha's scream, but he was even more shocked at this time, but the tranquilizer gun in his hand was too late to shoot.

"Dang!" To the surprise of the two robbers and Conan, the dagger with the breath of death suddenly came to a halt after the sound of gold and stone colliding. Qian Yu held the traceless umbrella that he had been holding in his hand with both hands, and he actually hit it directly, blocking the dagger made of steel!

"Die!" Kamen Superman is annoyed and presses all his body weight on the dagger.

Qian Yu only resisted slightly, and then felt unable to bear the strength, and immediately released the handle of the umbrella with his right hand, and the whole umbrella was uneven, falling to the right, and the dagger that was stopped by the Traceless Umbrella was also pushed aside by the unloading action of four or two thousand catties, and even the center of gravity of Superman with the robbery mask lost stability.

"Smack!" Kamen Superman falls to the ground and is motionless.

"Knock-" With a muffled sound, Qian Yu turned around, only to see Conan sliding to his side in a slippery kneeling position, and the muffled sound just now was obviously the sound of his knees hitting the ground. Although Conan was sliding all the time, his hand was steady, and the watch was always aimed behind Chiba.

Conan's face was full of confident sneers, and the corners of Qianyu's mouth were slightly raised when he saw Conan's expression. Being able to show such a smile represents the confidence of killing with one blow.

Conan's fingers trembled slightly, and a numbing needle flew out quickly, silently piercing the throat of the second gangster who was rushing, and then turned into a cloud of ice mist and disappeared into the air. (There is a special description of the anesthetic needle in the anime, and after piercing Kogoro's forehead, it flashed a little light, and then disappeared out of thin air)

"Finally—" Qian Yu was just about to speak, only then did he feel that his heartbeat had accelerated dramatically due to the nervousness, and the oxygen consumption had become extremely fast. As soon as he relaxed, the feeling of suffocation immediately swept through Qianyu's cranial nerves. "Huh-Huh-Huh"

"What's wrong?" At this time, the walkie-talkie in the hands of the supporting characters sounded.

"It's nothing," Conan said as he put his mouth on the bow and actually made the voice of the masked superman. "Come up and help, a certain idiot slipped by the glass ball thrown by the little ghost head and fell unconscious, I can't control the two little ghost heads alone, come up and help me!"

"Kazuhiko he fell unconscious?" The voice on the intercom was full of helplessness. "Okay, okay, I'll come up right away."

The children were caught, which meant that the other two robbers were on the third floor, and the fastest way to get from the third floor to the seventh floor was to take the elevator. (The elevator is likely to be stopped by robbers on the seventh floor, in which case it will be dead, and the fact that they are on the third floor may be exposed.) That's why Qianyu didn't take the elevator. )

So. Ambush at the elevator entrance.

Chiba put her hands inside the umbrella and hid to the left outside the elevator door. Conan holds a metal weight prop that was previously tucked into Kamen Superman's waist and maximizes the stimulation of the acupuncture points of the shoes on his feet. Both men held their breath and waited for the elevator.

The robbers didn't react at all as if they were asleep. It wasn't until a few minutes later that the elevator started running from the first floor, stopped on the third floor, and sped towards the seventh floor.

4th floor, 5th floor, 6th floor.

The "7" on the floor display of the elevator is extremely conspicuous, and the sound of the elevator running gradually subsided.

Next, the elevator door will open, and the robbers inside will be completely exposed to the attack range of the two, and then a 2-on-1 numerical advantage will be formed.

All wonderful calculations, once again pierced - pierced by bullets!

"Ahh A ball of blood bloomed on Qianyu's right shoulder - if it weren't for Qianyu's change to a squatting position just now because of some discomfort in his posture, it would have been his heart that was hit.

"You're still too tender, little one." A smug voice came from behind Chiba—from the direction of the escalator.

"How could it be !!?" Both Conan and Chiba were shocked. "How could he come from there!!"

The elevator doors slowly opened, but there was no one inside.

"You know what?" With the appearance of another tone, the fourth robber actually appeared behind the armed robber. "We know everything you are doing here, even the one who pretended to be our companion with a bow. As a friendly reminder, don't act rashly where there are surveillance cameras. ”

"Two people?" Throwing the Traceless Umbrella on the ground, his right hand hanging down, and his left hand covering his shoulder, Qian Yu frowned. "They locked up Motota?"

"Not necessarily," Conan whispered. "If you think about it, if the two of them came running from the escalator, it must have been not long after we finished talking on the walkie-talkie that they started going up the escalator. The question is, who is in the monitoring room on the second basement floor and discovers the suspicion through the camera? ”

"So," Chiba laughed self-deprecatingly. "It turns out that there is...

"What about the fifth... Conan said through gritted teeth.