Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

Chapter 407: The Red and Black Surge in the Deep Sea (7)

On this side, Conan was also trying hard to run to the fifth floor.

"Who is there?"

A loud roar disrupted Conan's steps. Conan's expression froze and he turned around and hid himself behind an antique vase next to him.

A series of hurried footsteps came over.

The mercenary raised his gun and looked around suspiciously.

"What's wrong? Who is it?"

"It was a shadow that flashed by so quickly that I couldn't see it clearly."

"He should be running that way, chase him!"

Soon the footsteps disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Behind the vase, Conan breathed a sigh of relief.

That's why he remains a child.

In a place full of enemies, it is easier for children to hide.

As for a head-on confrontation with those guys? Come on, let alone Conan who has no equipment now, even if he turned back into Kudo Shinichi, facing the gun muzzle would only take one shot.

So at this moment Conan has a clear understanding of himself. Instead of dealing with Rum and the people in the fortress, what he has to do now is to find Karasuma Renya and confirm Karasuma Renya's situation.

Karasuma Renya is the key to everything. Only by catching Karasuma Renya can all this be completely ended——

Conan clenched his fists and ran forward with all his might, but he didn't expect that there was someone at the end of the corridor!

The mercenary was smoking a cigarette and seemed to be slacking off. He was startled when he saw Conan rushing out.

"Ah, it's that kid."

The mercenary obviously knew Conan, but after being frightened, he became nonchalant. He put out his cigarette and walked over, reaching out to pull Conan, "Why are you here——"

The next moment, Conan threw out the two tubes of reagents that he had been carrying for a long time.

"Boom———"

The mercenary was caught off guard by two tubes of reagents hitting his face. Broken glass and chemicals flew directly into his eyes, causing him to cover his face in pain and howl.

"what--"

The potion began to react chemically, and white smoke sizzled out of the mercenary's face.

Conan turned and ran.

As soon as I entered the stairs, I was picked up by someone.

Conan almost threw a punch.

"It's me, it's me." Matsuda Jinpei quickly carried the man away, "Don't throw those damn things in my face."

Conan was surprised to see Jinpei Matsuda: "Officer Matsuda!? Why are you here?"

Matsuda Jinpei coughed lightly and said, "It's a long story. Let's go to the sixth floor first."

"Did Officer Matsuda discover something?" Conan asked in confusion.

"Well, I just explored the lower floors. The floors of the fortress are evenly spaced and the heights are roughly the same. There shouldn't be any special external spaces. But from the outside, the control room occupies the fifth and sixth floors. This is definitely not right." Matsuda Jinpei said as he walked. "And I just heard that the fifth floor is the control room, so the hidden space should be on the sixth floor."

"Officer Matsuda, do you have any photos from the outside?"

"It was taken by Rum's people, and I just happened to find it."

Conan was overjoyed: "That's great!"

Officer Matsuda is truly a timely help!

So the two of them rushed up to the sixth floor in one breath, analyzing their current position and direction while exploring the hidden space along the outer outline in the photo.

Fortunately, Conan and Jinpei Matsuda are both people with very quick thinking. Even though they were in a fortress with twists and turns like a maze, they finally found the corresponding location.

Looking at the unremarkable room in front of them, the two exchanged glances and confirmed that this was the place in front of them.

After some banging and hammering, neither of them found the right way to open the room.

It seemed as if this was really just a very ordinary living cabin, with a bed, a folding table, and a built-in bathroom... If the exterior picture hadn't already shown everything, they would have been fooled.

“That’s strange—”

Conan was very puzzled and stood there racking his brains for a solution.

However, Officer Matsuda beside him had already put down the bag on his back.

The bag was square. Conan had just seen Officer Matsuda carrying it on his back, but the situation was urgent and he didn't have time to ask. Now seeing Matsuda Jinpei taking off the bag, his eyes lit up.

Officer Matsuda must have brought some kind of investigative tool—

"You go out and find a place to hide. I'm going to blow up this place." Matsuda Jinpei took out the bomb left by the pirates and said to Conan expressionlessly.

Conan:?

He swallowed and looked at Matsuda Jinpei with admiration: "Officer Matsuda, you are worthy of it."

I have an inextricable bond with bombs, and I always carry bombs with me when I go on such missions. This shows that I have never forgotten my original intention.

Matsuda Jinpei:?

Watching Conan run away, Matsuda Jinpei didn't think much about it. After observing the location of the wall that was most likely to be the secret space, he installed the bomb and turned around and ran out.

After a while, the dull sound once again spread throughout the underwater fortress.

"boom--"

Everyone shuddered.

Rum, who was fighting with Karasuma Renya's clone and mercenaries, suddenly looked up.

"That must be the gentleman!"

He dodged an attack from a clone and shouted, "Some of you hold these guys back! Some of you follow me to the explosion!"

Someone on the sea also heard the sound.

"This is Matsuda's bomb!" Hagiwara Kenji recognized it in a second. "Something must have happened to them!"

Zhu Fushiki Jingguang signaled to Feng Jianyu: "Let them activate the mechanism, we will go down immediately!"

A brief battle just took place here, and now the armed ships nearby and the "ghost ship" they are currently on have been taken under control by the public security.

And now, they are about to officially enter the battlefield!

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At the explosion site, looking at the large hole in the bulkhead that was blown out, Conan carefully blocked one of the small holes that was gushing water, and looked at Matsuda Jinpei: "Officer Matsuda, it seems a bit too strong."

Water is starting to come in here!

Matsuda Jinpei coughed lightly, a little embarrassed. "This is also a bomb I stole. I'm not sure about its power. Ahem, as long as it can explode, it's fine. Let's go in and take a look."

Conan was ashamed.

The only person who dared to explode without knowing the power was Officer Matsuda.

One big and one small walked slowly inside.

This place is somewhat similar to the trap room hidden behind the pure white space just now. It is pitch black all around and there is no trace of light. Only in the very center, there is a beam of light suddenly shining down from the top.

"Cough cough cough-"

An old man's weak cough was heard, and this time, it was not a strange sound conveyed by a machine, but a sound made by the old man himself.

Jinpei Matsuda and Conan stopped at the same time.

"Cough-cough-"

The old man finally stopped coughing, but was still gasping for breath. In the end, he could only lean weakly on the bed, looking pale and powerless at the two people who broke in.

His eyes were full of surprise.

Unexpectedly, the last person to come was neither Gin nor Rum.

"That's awesome."

The old man murmured to himself, "What a pity, that's all."

As he spoke, the whole room began to tremble.

A figure suddenly fell from the sky.

Jinpei Matsuda quickly took Conan and dodged backwards.

He raised his gun and wanted to point it at the person who came, but he only felt a flash of silver light in front of him, and the gun in his hand was directly chopped into scrap metal.

If Matsuda Jinpei's hand had been a little further forward, perhaps all his fingers would have been chopped off.

Matsuda Jinpei took a step back and took a deep breath.

"What a quick knife!"