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As soon as he opened it, he saw a picture and text message uploaded by an account named Haibara Ai, which was uploaded two minutes ago.
[Great! It really works! ]
Conan was overjoyed and quickly clicked on the picture and text.
[Great Detective, the stairwell on the seventeenth floor of Beiye Building, I and the three children are trapped here.]
There was also a photo on it, which showed an expressionless Haibara Ai and the three little ones squatting in a row in the corner behind her. Judging from their dejected looks, they were probably about to do something impulsive again, but were scolded by Haibara Ai.
[I'm in East Leaf now. Why did you guys go to North Leaf? What's going on there? ]
After taking a photo of the office, Conan also uploaded a picture and text on the software.
"Conan? What are you doing?" Shimazaki Kanako looked over curiously.
"Ah, it's the employee management software, Sister Kanan." Conan turned over the phone and gestured to her.
"Huh? It turns out this software can still be used?" Shimazaki Kanako took out her mobile phone and took a look in surprise.
"Well, it seems that its network doesn't rely on that radio tower! Speaking of which, I have to thank you, Sister Kananzi!"
Conan said this in a cute tone, and his eyes suddenly became serious when he looked at Shimazaki Kanako.
"After all, wasn't this software designed at your request, sister Kananzi? If it weren't for you, sister Kananzi, we might not be able to contact the outside world now."
"It seems... that's the case." Without noticing the change in Conan's tone, Shimazaki Kanako nodded after thinking carefully.
That’s exactly what the female programmer I met before said. She was the one who asked me to design this software…
However, this software needs to be reinstalled on a new server, right?
She is just an architect in charge of design. Does she really have such great power to let the engineering department of the Moriyama Group do these things?
And judging from the reaction of the president's secretary, Hiromichi Moriyama didn't seem to know that she had done this...
Although there are still huge gaps in her memory, Shimazaki Kanako now has a vague premonition that the relationship between her and this company may not be as simple as it seems.
"Hey, Sister Kananzi."
Suddenly, Conan's voice brought Kanako Shimazaki back to her senses.
"What's wrong, Conan?"
"If the memories you want to retrieve are those that are disadvantageous to you, what are you going to do, Sister Nanzi?" Conan asked very directly, almost revealing his true colors.
"I..." Upon hearing this, Shimazaki Kanako just lowered her head, bit her lip and remained silent without answering.
Like Shimazaki Kanako, or even earlier than her, Conan had already noticed something abnormal about her.
After learning what happened at Clover Hill while he was unconscious, Conan's doubts turned into naked suspicions.
Mysterious amnesia, familiarity with Hiromichi Moriyama, and this software that fits the current situation perfectly... There are so many suspicious points about this person.
Why did she lose her memory?
And the reason why she insisted on coming to Clover Villa even after losing her memory...could it be because of this incident?
Who are you?
"Ding!"
At this moment, a message from Haibara Ai came on the software.
[I won't explain why we are here. Anyway, we are trapped here. We just saw a lot of terrorists with guns. By the way, it's so chaotic there. I saw Mr. Maori lying on the ground. Is he okay? ]
Below is another photo of Haibara Ai and the three little ones.
"Terrorists? Could they be the people who were escorted to Beiye?" Thinking of this, Conan typed quickly on the screen.
[Did you see which floor those people were on? And the uncle is fine, he just fainted. ]
“Why does this software require pictures when uploading?”
After complaining, Conan turned around and took a high-definition close-up of the unconscious Mouri Kogoro, then clicked send.
[Great Detective, you don't have to take pictures for me. Those terrorists are on the 17th floor just like us. As for where the people they escorted are being held, I don't know, but I did hear the sound of the shutter door opening and closing.]
"Rolling door?"
Shimazaki Kanako, who was also watching the two people exchanging messages, frowned. She subconsciously raised her hands to cover her head and said, "That should be... in an empty warehouse on the 17th floor of Beiye."
"Is it in the warehouse?"
"Hmm!" Feeling a sharp pain in her mind, Kanako Shimazaki suddenly recalled some of the arguments she had with the construction team after the completion of Clover Villa.
"Yes, it was a large warehouse... I remember that the ventilation duct on that floor seemed to have a problem during construction. There was a mezzanine space in the ceiling of that warehouse..."
Chapter 291 There is no other way
"I remember that there should be a mezzanine space above the ceiling of that warehouse..."
In the president's office of the Toye Building, fragmented fragments of memories popped up in her mind intermittently. Shimazaki Kanako raised her hands to cover her head, closed her eyes and tried hard to recall.
"Mezzanine space?" Conan looked at her in confusion.
"Well, I remember that when the ventilation duct on that floor was being designed, the construction team simply built a mezzanine space in the ceiling of that floor in order to save costs, and then left a ventilation hole on the ceiling of the corresponding room to get the job done...
No, it shouldn't just be on that floor. I remember that there seemed to be similar shoddy workmanship in many places in Clover Villa..."
【real or fake? 】
Looking at Shimazaki Kanako who was still trying hard to recall, Conan's mouth twitched twice.
Now he finally understood why the Dongye Building started to tilt after only two shocks from the explosion...
It turns out that your Lucky Clover Villa is a dangerous building that was built with shoddy materials...
"Sister Ke Nanzi, as the architect of Clover Villa, didn't you try to stop this?"
Feeling that Conan's eyes were a bit piercing, Shimazaki Kanako silently looked away and subconsciously defended herself:
"I tried to stop it, but I failed..."
She didn't lie, in the memory fragment she just recalled, she did have an argument with the construction team because of cutting corners.
But after learning that the construction team's behavior was actually instructed by Hiromichi Moriyama, she seemed to have given up on this effort.
My impression seems to be that with the financial resources of the Moriyama Group at the time, it was impossible to build Clover Villa completely according to her design, but it was impossible for Moriyama Hiromichi to give up the construction of Clover Villa.
That’s why he chose this very common “compromise” solution, and ultimately completed this new landmark building in Tokyo with standards that completely failed to meet building safety specifications.
[Forget it, now is not the time to discuss this. ]
Without further questioning, Conan looked down at his phone and quickly uploaded a picture and text on the app.
Compared to the construction problems in Clover Villa, he is now more concerned about the situation in Beiye Building.
According to the previous declaration of the liberator leader, those who were captured by the terrorists and taken to Beiye would most likely be killed by them in the end.
Because the radio tower was hijacked, he was not sure whether the police outside knew what was happening on the artificial island.
In this situation, it was obviously unreliable to just sit and wait for the police to take action. He had to find a way to do something before the police actually took action.
Fortunately, although Conan is temporarily trapped in this office, Haibara Ai happens to be in Kitayo.
"Sister Kanako, are you sure that the ventilation ducts on Kitaye's floor are connected?" Conan looked at Kanako Shimazaki and asked.
"Rather than being connected, it's more like a whole mezzanine space, with a vent opened in the corresponding room..."
"That is to say, no matter which other ventilation hole on that floor you enter from, you can actually reach the ceiling of that warehouse, right?"
"Well, that's true... eh?" Shimazaki Kanako was stunned for a moment, looked at Conan in disbelief, and asked: "Conan, do you want those kids to use the mezzanine space to find out what's going on in that warehouse?"
Without answering her, Conan quickly posted a picture or text on the software after receiving a positive response.
[Gray, I need you to do me a favor. According to Shimazaki Kanako's memory, there is actually a mezzanine space on the ceiling of your floor. I want you to sneak in there and use the ventilation hole of the warehouse to help me observe the situation inside the warehouse. Of course, don't tell the three children about this.]
This is a very dangerous action, but there is no other solution.
No matter what, he couldn't just stand by and watch those people who were taken to the warehouse die, but he also couldn't just sit there and wait for the police to come to rescue him at any time.
If he was in Kitayo at this moment, Conan would definitely go and confirm the situation himself without hesitation, but now it is Haibara in Kitayo, and he can only choose to rely on her.
At the same time, in the Kitaya Building, Haibara Ai sighed softly after seeing the picture and text sent by Conan.
[There’s really nothing I can do…]
In just a moment, she guessed what the great detective was thinking. Although she could choose to refuse, the great detective would not force her to do it...
However, if she had no solution before, it would have been fine. But now that she could help a little, she really couldn't just abandon those people and walk away...
Moreover, this is actually not a very dangerous thing. It's just diving into the ceiling to observe the situation inside the warehouse. As long as she is careful, there will be no danger.
"Well, there is still no signal..."
Thinking of this, Huiyuan Ai put away her phone, looked at the three little ones still squatting in the corner, thought for a moment, and then said:
"It seems that we can only rely on ourselves to escape now, but before that I want to observe the situation outside. You stay here and wait for me. Don't wander around. I will be back soon."
For such a dangerous matter, she would have acted alone even without Conan's reminder.
"I, we want to go too!" The three little ones said immediately after hearing this.
"No." Haibara Ai directly rejected them.
"But……"
"Have you forgotten what I said before?" Hearing her words, the three of them immediately lowered their heads again after raising them.
"Okay, it's decided. I'm just going to go out and take a look. You all wait here for me. Do you hear me?"
Um. "
After receiving reluctant responses from the three people, Haibara Ai turned around and quietly left the stairwell.
[Gray, on the corridor by the window on the west side of your floor, there is a vent that is larger than the other vents due to a construction error. According to Shimazaki Kanako's memory, this vent should be in a corner of that corridor. Look for it.]
The software received another text and pictures sent by Conan. Seeing this, Haibara Ai looked a little helpless.
You really know how to order people around, great detective.
After leaving the stairwell, she carefully observed the empty corridor and, as Conan had said, carefully came to the window corridor on the west side of the building.
The west window of Beiye just happened to correspond to the direction of Xiye Building. Because she was worried about being discovered by the terrorists in Xiye Building, she bent over all the way, hid under the window and moved quickly, and successfully found the corner that Conan mentioned.
This vent is indeed larger than the other vents in the building, just as Conan said. Although it is still not large enough for an adult to pass through, it is at least large enough for a child like her.