As a female high school student quietly pondered,
Conan, who had failed to get through by phone, felt his heart lurch violently as well.
His gaze swept rapidly over the rows of cars in the parking lot, and soon he spotted a flash of vivid yellow—the little Beetle that belonged to Professor Agasa.
"They're still here?" Conan was puzzled, but he also breathed a sigh of relief.
He hurried over, but when he got a clear look inside the car, he realized he had relaxed too soon—the car was empty, with only a phone buzzing on the seat.
Conan: "???"
Could it be... could Jodie have abducted Professor Agasa and Haibara Ai in the brief instant while Jiang Xia was solving the case?!
Countless terrifying possibilities sprang into his mind. Then, the light around him dimmed, and a shadow silently fell behind him. Someone asked above his head, "What are you looking at?"
"!!!" In that instant, Conan's memories seemed to return to the moment Gin had knocked him unconscious from behind... But when he spun around, cold sweat pouring down his face, he found that it was not Gin behind him at all, but Jiang Xia, who had somehow walked over.
The moment their eyes met, that inexplicable sense of oppression vanished like an illusion.
Conan scratched his head, muttering that he was imagining things too much, then hesitantly replied, "The Professor and Haibara ran off somewhere. How about asking the police to help look for them?"
—As he remembered, The Organization did not like exposing itself to the police. If the police could intercept them on the way...
Conan was rapidly making calculations in his head, but unfortunately, unlike Professor Agasa, who always did as he said, Jiang Xia did not seem to think it was a big