Chapter 133 Disappearing Things

If you have too many things on your mind, you will go crazy one day.

So, taking advantage of Hattori's question, Conan told him everything that had happened before.

Su Beixun’s declaration of confrontation.

Disaster trip to Hokkaido.

Feng Jianwu's paranoid philosophy.

Jiang Shouhuang's cry on a rainy night.

……

There were so many things piled up in Conan's mind that once he started talking, he couldn't stop and kept on talking for a long time.

Hattori didn't interrupt and listened attentively.

After Conan stopped, he patted the other person's shoulder and said with a smile: "What? It turns out that you had such a rich experience before we met."

"……Rich?"

Conan smiled bitterly, "I'd rather nothing happened around me."

"Oh, is it so?"

Hattori rolled his eyes: "But I remember that last month someone was very proud of himself because he solved two more cases than me."

Conan choked and had nothing to say about this.

Hattori suddenly said seriously: "Don't worry."

In the slightly cool night, he placed his hands on his knees and said more seriously than ever before: "I will help you, Kudo!"

The moist wind after the rain blew down from the distant sky.

The fresh smell of nature relaxes the tense nerves little by little.

Conan felt a warm sensation in his heart.

But he still grinned and complained: "You guy... why are you trying to be cool in this situation?"

"I just don't want to see someone in a negative light."

Hattori snorted coldly, he looked up at the low sky, a hint of anticipation on his face: "Besides, after listening to your description, I really want to catch that guy named Su Beixun more and more!"

"But that guy is dead!"

"Really? Don't you suspect that he faked his death to get away?" Hattori grinned, "Kudo, I believe in your judgment. From what you described, there are indeed many suspicious points that don't make sense."

Seeing his friend getting more and more excited, Conan took a deep breath and reminded him: "Hattori, that guy is not simple. He is completely different from the criminals you faced before. Don't..."

Hattori waved his hand to interrupt him: "You won't know until you do this kind of thing!"

"Don't worry, I'll be careful."

He turned the wet hat on his head, his eyes sharp.

"Besides, there is something I want to ask him in person..."

As he spoke, he suddenly showed an unhappy expression and pointed his thumb at himself: "How am I, a Hattori from Kansai, inferior to you?! Why don't you come to me to issue the challenge?!"

Conan rolled his eyes at this childish guy who was too competitive.

……

More and more police officers are coming from the vicinity of Osaka Castle. After such a vicious case, active response and handling are the only way to restore reputation.

The deceased was taken back to the police station and his family was notified to claim the body.

All the survivors were sent to the hospital after routine questioning.

Although Hattori's injuries were not serious, they still needed to be treated.

But it was just daybreak.

He left the hospital making a fuss.

"Damn it! With so many things going on right now, how can I waste my precious time lying in bed?!"

Hattori patted his bandaged arm and said to the nurse: "Don't worry, with my physique, this kind of minor injury will be completely gone in less than a week!"

Faced with such a stubborn patient, doctors and nurses had no choice but to compromise.

After he was told with a headache to keep the wound away from water and to come for a checkup every two days, he let Hattori leave the hospital.

The streets outside were still deserted.

Although it is time to go to work and school, Osaka is clearly unable to return to normal today. The residents are frightened and are now all staying at home.

As a result, there were only three of them, but they stood out much more.

Conan turned his head to look at Huibara who was following him, and scratched his head speechlessly: "By the way, you have always been uninterested in the case, why do you have to follow?"

After leaving the hospital, Hattori and Conan of course continued to investigate the case. Xiaolan and Kazuha were worried and wanted to follow.

But after what happened last night, the three children were obviously depressed and no longer had the curiosity about the case as before. The two girls could only take them back to Hattori Mansion to rest.

But Huibara followed out quietly.

When faced with Conan's question, she did not retort as usual, but said solemnly: "Because there is something I must confirm!"

Conan wondered.

But after repeated questioning, Huihara remained silent, so he could only give up.

Walk to the newsstand.

Hattori casually bought a newspaper and said, "Japan was really hit by many disasters yesterday."

He opened the newspaper and read it as he walked: "Tokyo plague broke out, and the death toll counted in one night alone was nearly nine thousand. Osaka also suffered a terrorist attack, and there were almost a thousand casualties. Tsk, it's really..."

Conan frowned: "Hattori, do you think...are these two things related?"

The timing of the outbreak is too coincidental!
"who knows."

Hattori shrugged.

He rolled up the newspaper and held it in his hand, looking up at the building in front of him that was half bent inward.

"Aren't we here to find answers?"

In the thin sunlight, on the gray stone pier, the seven red characters "Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters" came into view.

"What should we do now?"

Conan looked up at him and said, "Should we call Uncle Heizo and have him come down to pick us up?"

"It's impossible."

Hattori waved his hands and complained: "When that old-fashioned man heard that I was here, it was a good thing that he didn't send people out to beat us back. Thinking of him coming out to pick us up...dream on!"

"what?"

Conan was stunned.

He thought that Hattori brought them here because he was confident that he could convince his father to tell them the relevant information.

But who would have thought...

"Don't worry, Kudo."

Hattori saw that he was speechless, and patted his chest confidently: "Although my father does not agree, the police officers under him and I get along very well, they will definitely be willing to give me some face!"

……Really?

Conan's mouth twitched, and he felt that it was extremely unreliable. But since he was already here, he could only let him give it a try.

Three people sneaked into the building.

Hattori looked left and right, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he shouted, "Officer Sakata! Officer Sakata!"

The police officer who was about to enter the elevator turned around when he heard this. He was a young man wearing glasses and looked very honest.

"Hattori?" Sakata was surprised to see him. "Weren't you involved in yesterday's case and sent to the hospital? Why are you here?"

"Don't worry about these details!"

Hattori laughed awkwardly, ran over and put his arm around his shoulder, leaned over to whisper in his ear, "Officer Sakata, do you have any information you can tell me about yesterday's case?"

"No, no, no!"

Sakata waved his hands when he heard this: "The Superintendent told us that we must not reveal any inside information to you!"

"What does it matter?"

Hattori looked around and said, "Don't worry, Officer Sakata. I promise you, no one will know!"

Sakata was in a dilemma.

But after much persuasion, he finally gave in: "...Okay, then...what do you want to know?"

Hattori immediately asked, "Who attacked Osaka Castle yesterday?"

"I don't know." Sakata spread his hands and replied. Hattori's mouth twitched: "Officer Sakata, you are so mean!"

"What? I really don't know."

Sakata explained: "In fact, this case is mainly investigated by the public security department. We, the police, don't know much."

public security?

How could I be related to them?!
Hattori and Conan looked at each other and said, "Weren't the police the ones who were engaged in the gunfight outside last night?"

"Ah."

Sakata nodded: "When we police arrived, it was already over, so we could only deal with the aftermath."

Conan frowned.

It seems that the intelligence the police have is much less than imagined.

So... should we go to the police station to ask? But who would care if we just go to their house like this?
Hattori gritted his teeth, unwilling to accept the result: "Is it true that there is not even a single useful clue?"

"Well, that's not it either."

Sakata hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "I heard that one of their top brass jumped into the river and escaped last night, and they haven't found him yet."

"The police were short-staffed and seconded our police force, which is why this story got out."

Hattori was overjoyed and asked quickly, "Where is that river?"

Sakata walked to a nearby shelf, took out a map of Osaka City, and circled a section of the river with a marker: "Here, this is it!"

"That's great, Officer Sakata! I'll definitely treat you to a meal later!"

Hattori took the map and ran out excitedly.

Sakata chased after them for a few steps and shouted at their backs: "Hattori! You must keep it a secret! I didn't say anything!"

"understood!"

Hattori waved to him from a distance.

##
After last night's heavy rain, the water level, which was already high, rose a little further.

Just as the river became wider and the flow slowed down, a figure in black clothes suddenly floated up from the water.

His entire face was submerged in water, his limbs were also hidden underneath, and he drifted silently down the current for more than ten meters.

"Officer! There looks to be someone there!"

A police officer on a police rescue boat happened to be passing by and saw this scene and shouted loudly.

Soon, the boat approached.

Several people went into the water and worked together to lift him out.

What came into view was a man with a swollen face and a frighteningly pale face.

His hair and eyebrows were all gray, and even with his eyes closed, he gave off a fierce aura.

The police officer had some guesses when he saw this scene, but he still squatted down and reached out to feel his breath.

Then he said in a knowing tone: "Sure enough, he is dead."

The police officer sighed, took out his phone to take a picture of the body, glanced at the gun bag on the man's waist, and ordered: "Report to the higher-ups... The person we are looking for should be him!"

The subordinate next to him immediately took out his cell phone and made a call.

But unexpected.

Compared with the police, it was the senior public security officials who arrived at the scene first.

After he glanced at the body, he turned around and asked, "Where are his belongings? Are they all here?"

"It's all here."

Although the police officer was dissatisfied with his impolite tone, he still put the overall situation first and said, "My people are still searching underwater, but so far no other findings have been made."

The senior public security official nodded and waved his hand without allowing any objection: "We have taken over this body. Please carefully salvage it from the river where it floated. Bring up any strange things!"

The police officer's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly.

But remembering the order from the police superiors to cooperate, he suppressed his anger and informed his colleagues of their current mission.

On the calm river surface, there was a continuous "splash, splash" sound of diving.

##
Conan and the other two took a taxi and rushed to the scene of the incident.

But when we arrived at the scene, the area around the river had been completely blocked by cordons.

Hattori took the lead and wanted to continue to save face.

But unfortunately, the grassroots police officers don’t know who you are. No matter how much Hattori says, they will just respond with “No”.

It really made him lose his temper.

As they stared at each other, a voice like the sound of nature came from the side: "Eh? Isn't this Brother Hattori?"

It was the same police officer who had just salvaged Ireland!
He touched his head and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Officer Yamashita!" the waiter shouted excitedly, ran over and asked, "I heard you are looking for the top leaders of the terrorist attack yesterday?"

"Yes."

Yamashita nodded: "In fact, we have found it, but what we found is a corpse."

Corpse?

Drowned?

Hattori's face tensed, but relaxed in an instant, and he said anxiously: "Officer Yamashita, how about we go and take a look? You know me, you should be able to find some clues!"

"…I'm sorry, Hattori."

Yamashita smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If it was before, I would certainly be happy for you to help, but now the public security has taken over, and our people can't get in at all."

"Ah~!"

Hattori sighed in frustration.

Seeing this, Shanxia remembered the help this young man had given him before, so he took out his cell phone, pressed a few buttons and handed it to him.

"Here."

He pouted and said, "Although I can't take you to see the body, I can still take you to see the photos."

Hattori was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed.

He took the phone and squatted down to watch it with Conan.

Behind the two of them, Huibara also leaned over to take a look.

"strangeness."

Hattori suddenly reached out and enlarged the picture: "Officer Yamashita, did you find the gun in his gun bag?"

"No."

Yamashita shrugged: "It was probably washed away somewhere by the water. We are still looking for it."

Conan touched his chin and said, "Logically speaking, with the style of the gun bag he is wearing, if it is fastened properly, it should be very secure and should not be washed away by water."

"Maybe it's for convenience? If this holster is fastened tightly, it will be very troublesome to take out the gun."

Yamashita thought for a moment and explained, "Not to mention anything else, in our search class alone, many people's holsters are only half-closed, so that they can react faster in emergencies."

"Makes sense."

Conan nodded, not paying attention to this point, scanning the photo, trying to find other suspicious points.

But at this moment, a hand suddenly grabbed his waist.

"Hey, Kudo!" Huibara called him softly from behind.

Conan turned around in surprise and saw Huiyuan's pale face. He asked curiously, "Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Huiyuan didn't answer, but waved at him and whispered, "Follow me."

Conan was confused, but seeing her serious expression, he left his friend beside him and followed her to the side.

"Hey, Huiyuan, did you find anything?"

Huiyuan nodded.

She took a deep breath, and the moment she spoke, Conan was stunned for a moment.

"Kudo!"

"The person in the photo..."

"He is a core member of the organization!"

(End of this chapter)