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After confirming this, a meaningful smile suddenly appeared on Huibara Ai's face.
After Beiye executes all the captured people, the important leaders of the Liberator Organization will directly escape from Clover Villa on this helicopter.
As for those minions who haven't even shown their faces, will they be completely abandoned on this artificial island surrounded by the sea and left to fend for themselves?
Realizing this possibility, Haibara Ai suddenly became very interested in the identities of those captured by this Liberator organization.
Although she had not heard the speech broadcast by the leader of this organization in the stairwell of Kitaye before, on the way to the top floor just now, she had learned from Conan through the software what was happening in Clover Villa at that time.
This terrorist organization calls itself the Liberators. According to their leader himself, they are a brave and righteous organization. Their purpose in holding Clover Hill hostage is to capture and execute members of an evil organization that is trying to control Japan and has come to this artificial island for the memorial service.
At first, Huiyuan Ai just thought that this was an excuse for the terrorist organization to cover up its crimes, and there was nothing worth thinking about...
But now it seems that it is not that simple.
A righteous organization used so many resources to equip such a group of armed personnel in order to fight against an evil organization.
Then the justice organization took this group of armed personnel and hijacked the artificial island with extreme violence. Finally, when their goal was achieved, the important leaders of the justice organization would abandon all these armed personnel and completely leave this place by helicopter.
How should I put it? The more Haibara Ai thinks about this whole process, the more she feels that something is wrong. Is this something a normal organization can do?
Those gun-toting muscular men should be considered members of your organization even if they are just minions, right? Do you really treat them all as disposable? Can this be considered an organization that claims to be righteous?
Even the Black Organization she once belonged to shouldn't be so cruel, right?
Even if we don't consider this point, just from the perspective of the development prospects of your organization, this behavior of abandoning companions is undoubtedly a kind of destruction to the future of the organization.
From the perspective of the Liberator Organization, after this Clover Hill incident, no matter what the final outcome is, this organization will inevitably cause a stir in Japan and even the world.
At the same time, the organization’s leader’s radio speech will surely become famous.
And, your cruel act of abandoning members of your own organization.
Such a righteous speech, coupled with your final act of abandoning your companions, in sharp contrast to the two, Haibara Ai feels that anyone with normal EQ and IQ should be able to see the hypocritical nature of this organization.
With such a bad reputation, do you still want to survive as an organization?
But if you look at it from another angle...
This Liberator Organization, or should I say the leaders of this Liberator Organization, they actually don’t care about this at all?
They don't care about the life and death of those minions, nor do they care about the future development of the Liberator Organization. They just want to disguise themselves and then come to Clover Hill to kill a group of special people?
And for some purpose, they also want to publicize their action of killing these people in a high-profile manner in order to achieve some goal.
Her eyes flickered continuously, and Haibara Ai felt that she might be getting very close to the truth about this organization's actions.
The most important question she came up with in this series of speculations was:
What are the identities of those people who were captured and brought to Beiye by this Liberator Organization?
It's actually worth it for this mysterious terrorist organization to spend so much effort to do this...
[No! Wait! ]
Suddenly, Huihara Ai's face turned pale, and she suddenly realized an extremely important detail that she had just overlooked.
Who told Conan that there was a telescopic ladder on the roof of Kitaye?
Chapter 294 A tacit understanding
Obviously, there is no way Conan would know that there is a telescopic ladder on the roof of the Kitaye Building.
Because since arriving at Clover Villa this morning, Conan has never approached the Kitaye Building, nor has he been to the rooftops of other buildings, and after the Liberator Organization's operations began.
Conan was even affected by the explosion when they blew up the cross-sea bridge, but he is still trapped in the president's office of Touye.
He himself did not have any conditions to know this information.
In other words, the information about the telescopic ladder could only have been learned by him from a third party.
According to the photos Conan sent earlier, there were only two people in the president's office besides Conan.
The unconscious Kogoro Mori, and Kanako Shimazaki, the designer of Clover Hill.
Kogoro Mouri's movements this morning were basically the same as Conan's, so it was also impossible for him to obtain this information on his own.
So, the answer is already very obvious. The information about the telescopic ladder was told to Conan by Kanako Shimazaki.
This is precisely the most terrifying possibility.
Before, when they were at the rock field, Haibara Ai had learned a little about Shimazaki Kanako from Conan.
The architect of Clover Villa mysteriously lost his memory and was found unconscious on the roadside this morning by Conan and Mouri Kogoro.
According to Conan, she seemed to have lost all her memories at that time, but she had a strong reaction to the name of Clover Villa.
After arriving at Clover Villa, Kanako Shimazaki first acted with Kogoro Mori and others. After Hiromichi Moriyama's case occurred, she stayed alone in the president's office, trying to find something that could stimulate her to recover her memory.
During this period, she herself did not leave the president's office.
Haibara Ai felt that there should be no problem with this.
Because the case of Hiromichi Moriyama took less than half an hour from the time it was discovered to the time it was solved, and a round trip from the East Leaf to the rooftop of the North Leaf building, even by elevator, would take at least ten minutes.
In addition, when the case was almost halfway through, she and the three little ones had just left Beiye Building and were taken to the aquarium by Qingshui Jing who came to find them.
The whole process is too time-sensitive, and the possibility that Shimazaki Kanako would avoid everyone and go to Kitaye Building alone during this period is extremely low, so it can basically be ignored.
Based on this, it can be inferred that Shimazaki Kanako must have known about the telescopic ladder on the roof of Kitaye Building before today.
So, did she already know about the existence of this helicopter before today?
Ai Haihara believes that if the premise is that Kanako Shimazaki has indeed lost her memory, then this possibility is very high.
Because it is obvious that a person who has lost his memory to the point where he has forgotten even his own name cannot remember an insignificant ladder.
Shimazaki Kanako must have seen the discussion between her and Conan on the software before, and recalled this scene that she once remembered clearly.
It is obviously impossible for an ordinary ladder to leave a deep memory for an architect, so it must be something on the roof of the Kitaye Building, which was clearly remembered by Kanako Shimazaki along with the ladder, that stimulated her brain.
What could it be that she could remember so clearly?
She was not even directly stimulated, but recalled it just by the impression of the ladder?
Kanako Shimazaki must have known about the existence of the helicopter on the roof of Kitayo Building before today.
If you think about it carefully, there are usually quite a few people in Clover Villa, so it is almost impossible for those terrorists to hide a helicopter here secretly without telling the people from the Moriyama Group.
But what if there is someone helping within the Moriyama Group?
And could this person be Kanako Shimazaki?
This is what worries Haibara Ai the most.
At this time, the great detective was trapped in the president's office. If Shimazaki Kanako really had a problem and she recovered her original memory under stimulation, the great detective's situation would become extremely dangerous.
"Habara, why don't you come down? What's in there?"
Suddenly, as if because she had been standing on the ladder for too long without moving, the three little ones who had been hiding at the back also crouched and quietly ran over.
"Nothing, there's a hole down there, and the cement for repairing it hasn't dried yet, so we used these iron plates to surround it."
After making up a lie to get over the incident, Haibara Ai quickly got down the ladder and folded the telescopic ladder down, not giving the three little ones any chance to go up and take a look.
"You guys, didn't I tell you not to come over here?"
"Because you were standing there motionless, we were worried about you..."
Maybe it was because they were scolded by her not long ago, the three little ones all had a fearful look on their faces.
"Okay, this is my fault. I'm sorry."
Admitting her mistake quickly, Huiyuan Ai lifted a corner of the telescopic ladder and said to the three children, "Let's go, each of us lift one leg. We still need to carry this telescopic ladder back to the 17th floor."
"Ugh--"
"I told you to keep your voice down!"
"understood……"
[Great Detective, thank Miss Shimazaki for me. We found the telescopic ladder, but the wind is a bit strong up there.]
While stopping to rest on a building platform, Haibara Ai quickly took a photo of the telescopic ladder and uploaded it to the software.
At this moment in the Toye Building office, Conan was looking at the message sent by Haibara Ai on the software, and his mind suddenly paused.
Strange, what does Huibara’s last sentence mean?
At this time, you still have the mood to feel the breeze on the rooftop. Huihara, are you such a romantic person?
【wrong……】
With a slight frown on his face, Conan suddenly turned his head to look at Shimazaki Kanako, who had been thinking hard with her head down.
He had felt that there might be something wrong with the fact that Shimazaki Kanako could remember the telescopic ladder so keenly.
Huibara's last somewhat abrupt words might be a hint to him.
It implies that she found something on Kitayo's rooftop, and Huihara believes that this discovery is likely related to Shimazaki Kanako.
So she couldn't say it directly, because the content on this software is common and everyone who installed this software can see the content on it.
Huibara was afraid that if she said it directly, it might stimulate Shimazaki Kanako to recover her memory faster.
In other words, could Huibara's discovery be disadvantageous to him?
Acutely aware of this.
Conan quickly edited a message and took a photo of the office including him and Shimazaki Kanako and uploaded it.
On the other side, after seeing this photo, Haibara Ai's mouth corners slightly raised.
What a sharp detective! He reacted so quickly.
When seeing this photo without Kogoro Mouri, Haibara Ai realized that Conan had already guessed the meaning of her last words.
Thinking of this, she also edited a message and sent it back.
[We are almost on the 17th floor, please be careful of those terrorists. ]
In the president's office of Toye Building, Conan's eyes became increasingly solemn after seeing this message.
He deciphered the information that Haibara Ai wanted to convey to him.
Kanako Shimazaki... could she be related to this Liberator organization?