The famous criminal in the world of Conan

Chapter 472: Being Preempted

in the afternoon

After coming out of Kogoro Mori's detective agency, Ryusuke Soma, Sadahei Naito and Subaru went straight to the Metropolitan Police Department.

After giving their names, they were taken to the conference room where Bai Masong and several policemen were already waiting for them.

These policemen are all officers from the Public Security Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department, and one of them is Shiramatsu's old acquaintance, Yuya Kazami.

"I'm Hakuba Matsu from the Metropolitan Police Department."

"Officer Baima, I've heard a lot about you."

Soma Ryusuke and the other two looked at each other, then came forward and said some polite words to Hakuba Matsu.

However, it is not wrong to say that I have heard of your name for a long time. After all, during this period, since Bai Masong took office as acting department head, cases have become a little more frequent, and coupled with the revelations in newspapers, he often appears in people's field of vision.

"Ah."

Bai Masong nodded and asked the three to sit down.

After the three of them sat down, Bai Masong briefly told them that the case was a bit complicated, so it was currently being handed over to the public security department for investigation.

Moreover, the three of them need to talk about the details of this period in detail.

Perhaps it was because what Bai Masong said was a little serious, coupled with his cold and serious performance, as well as the fact that the several policemen sitting next to them, although they did not speak, had obviously different auras, made the three of them feel a sudden increase in pressure.

Naito Sadahei and Subaru both had slight sweat on their foreheads, and Soma Ryusuke's hands were shaking slightly involuntarily.

Afterwards, the three of them repeated what they had said to Kogoro Mori to Hakuba Matsu and others.

Bai Masong also asked in detail about the matter between Soma Ryusuke and the burly man before, but Soma Ryusuke seemed to have just seen it by chance and didn't know much about it.

So, Bai Masong and Feng Jianyu next to him looked at each other. They all knew that the key so far still lies in the missing Itakura Taku, so it is better to find Itakura Taku first.

"But,"

Feng Jianyuya asked Bai Basong,

"How are we going to find Itakura Taku now? And did he disappear on his own, or..."

Yuya Kazami didn't finish his words, but Hakuba Matsu knew what he meant.

After all, if Itakura Taku was really kidnapped by members of a certain organization, it would seem difficult to find him with just the few people from the Ministry of Public Security.

"Then give it a try."

Bai Masong said lightly,

"Let's assume that Itakura Taku disappeared on his own, so he should have found a hotel to live in seclusion and cut off contact with the outside world."

"Besides, Itakura Taku is well off financially, so he definitely won't go to those small hotels."

"So, now we just need to call those big hotels..."

As he spoke, Bai Masong stood up and took out his cell phone from his pocket.

Then, he changed the phone card and called the front desk of Beihu Hotel.

"Hello, this is the Haido Hotel..."

"Hey,"

Bai Ma Song clamped his vocal cords and forced himself to change to another voice. He spoke quickly with a dissatisfied tone,

"I'm the tenant who borrowed chess, go, and chess from you before..."

"I'm sorry sir, we don't have this person here, please don't call again."

The front desk clerk at the Beihu Hotel seemed a little impatient. He said a few words to Bai Masong and hung up the phone.

After being hung up, Bai Masong was a little confused.

"Officer Bai Ma, what are you doing..."

Bai Masong was confused, and Feng Jianyuya had a question mark on his face.

Soma Ryusuke and the other two were also stunned, but Soma Ryusuke raised his eyebrows, and it was unknown what he was thinking.

"I'm just testing."

After a brief moment of indifference, Bai Masong immediately returned to his indifferent expression and explained to Feng Jianyuya,

"If Mr. Itakura Taku were to live in seclusion in a hotel, he might ask the front desk to buy these three chess games for research. Since there are very few people who buy all three chess games at the same time, the front desk should have an impression of it."

"Oh I got it."

Feng Jianyuya suddenly realized,

"That's why Officer Hakuba pretended to be Mr. Itakura Taku in order to get some information."

"Ah."

Bai Masong nodded, then frowned.

"However, judging from the reaction of the front desk staff at the Beihu Hotel just now, someone must have asked them questions before I did, so they thought that what I said later was a prank or something, and they hung up without responding."

"hiss!"

Hearing what Hakuba Matsu said, Kazami Yuya took a deep breath and became very worried.

"Could this be someone from that organization?"

"probably not."

Bai Masong shook his head.

"That organization is different from us. If they value a person, especially this kind of 'outsourced' talent, they will definitely monitor his location and won't have any trouble finding him."

"Now I think this person might be..."

"Jingle Bell......"

As he was speaking, Baimasong's other mobile phone rang.

Bai Masong answered the phone.

"Hey."

"A Song, we received a report that a man named Itakura Taku was found dead in his room at the Beihua Hotel."

It was a call from Miwako Sato.

Bai Masong listened to the conversation on the phone and thought to himself, it's not so.

It looks like the brat is acting on his own again.

"Okay, I understand. I and the police will handle this case. You don't have to worry about it."

"Huh? Okay."

Miwako Sato exclaimed subconsciously, but was not overly surprised.

Bai Masong went out just now, it seemed like it was for this matter. Now that the police were mentioned, she had some guesses.

After hanging up the phone, Bai Masong looked at Feng Jian Yuya.

"Kazami, get ready. Someone found Itakura Taku's body in the Rice Flower Restaurant."

"what?!"

.........................................

Twenty minutes later, Bai Masong and Feng Jianyuya arrived at the Rice Flower Hotel with several police officers from the Ministry of Public Security.

Hakuba Matsu also brought the three people including Soma Ryusuke along.

According to the nature of the Conan world, even if the case involves the main storyline, as long as someone dies, it will still give you a classic reasoning question, asking you to choose one out of three or four.

Now that Itakura Taku is dead, according to the rules, the murderer is most likely one of Soma Ryusuke, Naito Sadahei and Subaru.

In order to avoid the trouble of having to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department to bring them over to identify the scene, or letting them go, Bai Masong chose to bring them over directly.