Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World - Chapter 434: The zipline breaks through, the gears are finalized: the double danger of the mine and

Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Chapter 434: The zipline breaks through, the gears are finalized: the double danger of the mine and
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"Look southeast!" Hagiwara Kenji zoomed in on the satellite map, and the beam of his tactical flashlight flickered on the screen. "Six heavy-duty vans appeared near the mine. The truck numbers match the transportation codes of the dark web'ES Dark Amber' plan. They are preparing to use County Road 207 for land transportation."

Idahang squatted down and ran his fingertips over the newly sprayed axe-shaped marks on the ground. His fingertips were stained with a layer of paint with a chemical smell. "These road signs have been re-covered, and the transportation time has been advanced by three hours. Matsuda, can the explosive device be ready in ten minutes?"

"Don't underestimate me." Matsuda Jinpei knocked on the explosives hidden in his backpack. "When Kenji Hei entered their navigation system, I had already buried detonators in the culvert on the road they had to pass through."

He tilted his head and smirked: "Just waiting for those gas canisters to have an exciting 'tunnel adventure'."

Kuroda Bei's voice came from the headset, with unquestionable calmness: "Kudo, take Conan to the high point of the winding mountain road, where you can overlook the entire transportation route. Date, Matsuda, you are responsible for setting up an ambush on both sides of the culvert; Hagiwara, disrupt the communication signal within a radius of five kilometers."

"Understood!" The three responded in unison, and the roar of a truck engine was heard in the distance.

Conan suddenly grabbed Kudo Yuki's wrist, and the gear watch made a slight stuttering sound: "Sister Xue, the license plate number of the truck is consistent with the registration number of the shell company in the equity structure of Nagano Trading."

His voice was a little hoarse due to the low-grade fever, but still clear. "And according to the navigation route, their final destination is..."

Kudo Yuki took out the rat hidden in her pocket, and the little fat paw was patting her palm anxiously. Telepathy mixed with the sound of the wind came: "Xiaoxue! An abnormal heat source was detected under the culvert. It is a constant temperature transport device for nerve gas!"

"Manager Kuroda, the enemy is likely to be moving gas canisters through the culvert!" Kudo Yuki stepped on the accelerator and rushed up the steep slope, "Requesting support troops to block both ends of County Road 207!"

Matsuda Jinpei squatted in the shadow of the culvert, with the detonator on his waist: "Kenji, is the signal jammer ready? I can already smell the 'perfume' of those gas canisters."

Kenji Hagiwara hid the modified jammer in the cracks of the roadbed. The blue light of the display illuminated his focused face: "All frequency bands within a radius of five kilometers have been cut off, including the Bluetooth signal they use for remote detonation." He suddenly frowned, "Wait! The main team has started to turn back. They found the tracker!"

Kudo Yuki braked suddenly at the edge of the cliff, and the motorcycle barely stopped at the edge of the cliff. She rolled Conan behind the rock and glanced at the winding road below - the originally neat convoy suddenly scattered and drove towards different forks.

Conan turned the gear watch, but the friction between the soles of his shoes and the ground did not make any sound: "Sister Xue, the real gas tanks are still in the cold storage under the mine! These trucks are just a cover!"

Kurodabei's voice suddenly deepened: "Kudo, watch your back - there are two black SUVs encircling us along the mountain road."

Kudo Yuki threw out a flying rope and wrapped it around the tree trunk. At the moment when the bullet rubbed his ear, he dragged Conan into the bushes. The rat in his pocket vibrated violently, and his telepathy was filled with fear: "It's the cleaning team of the winery! They have a sonic detector in their car!"

"Use this!" Conan took out the sonic jammer given to him by Kenji Hagiwara. The gears in his palm spun rapidly, synchronizing the interference frequency with the sound of his own footsteps.

The moment the headlights of the black SUV swept through the bushes, the figures of the two people mysteriously disappeared into the blind spot of the sound waves.

At the critical moment, the muffled sound of a sniper rifle was heard in the distance. The tire of the leading SUV burst and it lost control and crashed into the mountain.

Kudo Yuki caught a glimpse of the crow tattoo behind the ear of the person in the car, and at the same time received an encrypted text message from Mizunashi Rena: There is a secret door in the ventilation hole on the west side of the mine, which will open in three minutes.

"Sister Xue, the ventilation ducts of the underground cold storage and the transportation route map completely overlap." Conan coughed, and the gear watch began to heat up due to long-term use. "They disguised the poison gas as frozen food and transported it through cold chain logistics!"

Kudo Yuki pushed him into a hidden crevice: "You stay here to crack the cold storage access control system, I will go and meet up with Kuroda. Remember, if the poison gas leaks..."

"Be careful of the sonic trap." Conan held her hand tightly, his eyes firm behind the lens, "I will use the gear watch to create interference frequency."

At the same time, Yi Dahang pried open the entrance of the mine disguised as a warehouse, and the foul smell of formaldehyde hit him in the face.

Hagiwara Kenji's detector was alarming frantically: "The concentration of poisonous gas in the underground floor has exceeded the standard by five times! Matsuda, should we blow it up or not?"

Matsuda Jinpei placed his finger on the detonator, his mouth curled up dangerously: "Manager Kuroda, what does the freighter's image show?"

Kuroda Heibei's tactical tablet suddenly lit up with the image sent back by Mizunashi Reina - deep in the mine, Rum's confidant was using a dagger to cut open the seal of the container. Countdown: 03:00.

"Explode." Kuroda's voice was as cold as steel. "Detonate the mine support structure to cut off the path of the poison gas spread. Kudo, take Conan and evacuate to a safe area immediately!"

The moment the explosion sounded, Kudo Yuki felt the air wave blow her windbreaker off. She rolled down the hill with Conan in her arms and heard Shushu's anxious scream: "Xiaoxue! The gas tanks in the cold storage are automatically pressurizing. They want to create a chain explosion!"

Conan suddenly grabbed her arm, and the gear watch made a harsh jamming sound: "Sister Xue! I cracked the access control system, but there is a pressure detonator in the main control room. Once..."

Amidst the earth-shaking roar, thick blue-gray smoke rose from the direction of the mine.

Kudo Yuki instinctively protected Conan under her body. The moment she closed her eyes, she saw a familiar silver reflection flash on the top of the mountain in the distance - it was Mizunashi Rena's sniper scope.

When the smoke cleared, Kuroda Heibei came over with Date Kou, who was covered in dust.

Kenji Hagiwara was holding a smoking computer, and Jinpei Matsuda's blond hair was covered with gravel, but he was still holding a half-deformed lollipop in his mouth.

"Manager Kuroda!" Kudo Yuki rushed over, her eyes falling on his gray-stained cuffs, "Poison gas..."

"The mine has completely collapsed." Kuroda pointed to the ruins in the distance. "Matsuda sealed all the ventilation holes with concrete before detonating the explosion."

Conan was helped to sit down by Hagiwara Kenji, and the gear meter finally stopped turning: "The core data of the transportation chain..."

"Here it is." Matsuda shook the hard drive he had retrieved from the ruins. The metal casing was still warm. "It seems those guys were in such a hurry when they escaped that they left the treasure behind."

Kudo Yuki's phone vibrated, and a text message from Mizunashi Reina popped up:

Mission accomplished without alerting core members.

She looked up at the gradually brightening sky, and the morning light shone through the clouds onto the gear watch on Conan's wrist.

Shushu poked his head out and pointed his chubby paw at the smoke that had not yet dispersed in the valley. "Xiaoxue, the system prompts that the core data of the transportation chain has been obtained, and the mission completion rate is 98%!"

"The remaining 2%?" Kudo Yuki asked telepathically.

Shushu's eyes rolled around: "There is a hidden data terminal that we haven't found~ It's just..." It suddenly covered its mouth with its paws, "The secret cannot be revealed, wait for you to find it!"

In the morning light, Kudo Yuki helped Conan sit down on the gravel slope, touching his hot forehead with her fingertips, but her eyes were fixed on the ruins of the collapsed mine in the distance.

Shushu curled up in her palm, his chubby little paws unconsciously patting the remaining fluorescent mark. Telepathy mixed with the cold morning mist came: "Xiaoxue, the system mall has newly added gear lubricant..."

"Remember this first." Kudo Yuki interrupted and took out a crow feather from her pocket.

The light blue powder at the base of the feathers glowed strangely in the morning light, the same color as the warning sign on the gas tank in the mine.

Conan suddenly grabbed her wrist. Although the gear watch stopped, his fingertips drew Morse code on her palm: "Feather...Detection."

"Understood." Kudo Yuki put the feather into the evidence bag and looked up to see Kuroda Heiwei walking towards the refrigerated truck outside the cordon.

Date Kou helped Hagiwara Kenji dismantle the tracking device on the car, while Matsuda Jinpei leaned against the police car and pried the back cover of the gear watch with a toothpick - that was the trophy he had picked up from the scrapped fake police car.

"Ms. Kudo." Zhu Fushi Gaoming's voice came from behind, and the shoulder straps of the police uniform were still stained with dust raised by the explosion. "Manager Kuroda asked me to take you to the hospital. Conan has a low-grade fever..."

"No need." Conan suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse but with persistence, "Sister Xue, the ventilation duct drawings of the cold storage..."

"Here it is." Kudo Yuki pulled out a crumpled satellite cloud map from her inner pocket and ran her fingertips over the blue lines below the mine. "But our first priority now is to analyze the hard drive that Matsuda-kun found."

She turned to look at Jinpei Matsuda, who was walking over with a hard drive in his hand. "Does it contain the financial data of the transportation chain?"

Matsuda frowned and shook the hard drive: "More than just finance... No, it's too light."

Hagiwara Kenji came over immediately and took out a portable scanner from his tool kit: "The shell has been tampered with!"

The moment the blue light swept across the hard drive, everyone's pupils shrank suddenly - the inside was actually hollow, and a micro memory card lay in the interlayer.

"A trap." Kuroda Bei's voice came from above. He held the fake account book found in the refrigerated truck in his hand. "They left this on purpose. The real data..."

"Here it is." Kudo Yuki suddenly remembered something and took out the resume with the crow logo that she had picked up at Nagano Trade. The damp paper was carefully unfolded, and the crow pattern on the back actually showed fluorescent writing in the morning light.

Conan's glasses reflected the light, and although the gear watch could not move, he used his fingertips to tap out a regular rhythm on the edge of the resume - it was binary code.

"Sister Xue, these are the coordinates." Conan's voice trembled with excitement, "It's located at the cable car station of the abandoned ski resort in Nagano Prefecture!"

Shushu suddenly jumped in his pocket: "Xiaoxue! The system prompts that the hidden terminal is right there!"

Kudo Yuki and Kuroda Heibei looked at each other, and the latter nodded: "I will take the squad leader and Matsuda to the ski resort. Kudo, you take Conan to the hospital--"

"No." Conan pressed down Kudo Yuki's lips and turned to look at Kuroda Heibei, "We are more familiar with the enemy's action patterns. And..." He shook the gear watch, "The backup device is with Sister Yuki."

Kudo Yuki sighed helplessly and took off the thin chain from her neck. When the pendant opened, it turned out to be a micro gear set, which was the spare part of Conan's watch.

Kuroda Bei stared at her movements and put his hands on their shoulders. "We will set off in five minutes. Officer Morobushi, arrange for the helicopter to be on standby at the top of the mountain."

As the morning light penetrated the clouds, the roar of helicopter propellers awakened the silence of the valley.

Kudo Yuki was sitting in the cabin holding Conan. Shushu poked his head out from her collar and pointed his chubby paw at the ruins of the ski resort below which were becoming increasingly clear: "There is a metal reaction in the basement of the cable car station!"

"Got it." Kudo Yuki took out the flying rope and turned to look at Conan who was resting with his eyes closed beside him.

The boy's eyelashes cast shadows under his eyes, but he suddenly spoke: "Sister, a text message from Mizunashi Reina..."

"Shh." Kudo Yuki held his hand and tapped his palm twice with her fingertips - this was the safety signal they agreed upon with Mizunashi Rena.

The moment the helicopter landed on the top of the mountain, she caught a glimpse of the silver reflections flashing in the distant cedar forest, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

The iron door of the cable car station was rusty, but Kudo Yuki found fresh traces of fingerprint powder on the door handle.

Conan squatted down and observed the tire tracks on the ground with a magnifying glass: "Heavy trucks, came here within three days."

When he looked up, although the gear watch did not move, he took out a small ultrasonic detector from his pocket - this was a newly improved version of Haibara Ai.

"There's a sound of electricity." The detector vibrated slightly, and Conan pointed to the elevator shaft, "The third floor underground."

Kudo Yuki threw out a zipline to wrap around the elevator cable, and the two slowly descended to the bottom of the well.

The humid air was filled with the smell of rust and burnt electronic components. Shushu suddenly shook violently: "Be careful! There is a pressure-triggered bomb in the right corner!"

Conan quickly turned the gear watch - although there was no sound, he used body language to signal Kudo Yuki to take a detour.

The two of them moved forward along the left wall, and finally saw a metal door with a cold glow at the end of the tunnel. The electronic lock on the door flashed red, indicating that iris verification was required.

"Leave this to me." Kudo Yuki took out the sand table image taken at Nagano Trading, and after zooming in, she found the iris image of a certain executive.

She projected the image onto the keyhole. At the moment of the blue light scanning, Conan suddenly pressed her shoulder. Although the gears on the gear watch did not turn, he mouthed a warning: "Five meters behind, ventilation duct."

The moment the metal door opened, Kudo Yuki spun around and swung out a flying rope, which caught the ankle of the man in black who jumped down from the pipe.

Conan took the opportunity to insert the micro jammer into the door lock, and the electronic screen instantly lit up in green:

Welcome in, Lord Rum.

"It is indeed his secret terminal." Kudo Yuki whispered, dragging the unconscious man in black into the control room.

On the screen in front of him, the densely packed transportation route map was being automatically destroyed. The moment Conan pounced on the host, Kudo Yuki caught a glimpse of the surveillance screen in the corner - Mizunashi Rena was standing at the entrance of the ski resort, pointing her mobile phone at them.

"Sister Xue!" Conan's voice interrupted her thoughts. The boy had already inserted the memory card into the host. "The data is being encrypted and transmitted!"

Kudo Yuki immediately took out the hacking device, but froze the moment she touched the keyboard - the folder icon on the desktop was exactly the "ES Dark Amber" plan she had seen on the dark web.

Shushu's voice was filled with fear: "Xiaoxue! The data is being transferred to an overseas server. Once it's completed..."

"I won't let it be completed." Kudo's fingertips danced on the keyboard.

Conan turned the gear table, interfering with the data transmission frequency with a regular rhythm.

Suddenly, all screens went black, leaving only the main screen with a line of blood-red words:

welcome.

Conan's gear watch made a harsh jamming sound, and Kudo Yuki felt cold sweat on her back.

To be continued...

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