"Scorpion had originally been struggling to find me when she suddenly heard her phone's ring tone go off on the other side of the storeroom. She followed the sound over, but I'd already moved." Jiang Xia mentally reconstructed what had just happened and found it perfectly plausible. "She couldn't find me for the moment, then realized she'd forgotten to take her phone. I could send the police this location, so she hurriedly activated her backup plan, blew up the garage, and fled... Yes, that was exactly it."
Following the script, he waited long enough before sending an appropriately worded message. He casually described his perilous battle of wits with the armed criminal, then reminded them to stop Scorpion's vehicle.
In the distance, the recipient quickly received a reply.
Conan stared blankly at Jiang Xia's message, not expecting they would actually manage to contact this little partner whom the Phantom Thief had spirited away.
He quickly opened and read it, then ignored the first half and quietly read out the part he found useful: "'However, she just drove away in a truck. I'm worried she's moving the stolen goods, so have the police stop her. The license plate was obscured earlier, so I couldn't see the number clearly. The vehicle is a somewhat faded blue. Also, be careful of the gun in her hand'... Scorpion really did discover our tracking!"
Suzuki Sonoko's priorities were clearly elsewhere. She leaned over to read the message. "Put stopping Scorpion aside for now. We can find the stolen items again if they're gone, and that's the international police's business. We should go to the garage and find him first."
"It's fine. There's plenty of police force. I can handle at least ten officers by myself. They can intercept her while I go rescue him."