Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven Nine o'clock in the evening

It was nine o'clock in the evening the next day. There were some things that happened before, so here is just a rough idea.The night before, Mr. Shimada called the police, who arrived shortly thereafter and set up defenses around Shimada's house.The next day, Nakamura, the police chief responsible for the search, visited Shimada's house, asked Mr. Shimada about the situation, and left.Towards dusk, Nakamura's team leader led three police officers to Shimada's home, one of them stationed in the study, the other two patrolling outside the house, and the team leader squatted in front of the safe in the basement.

Meanwhile, the Detective Boys are on the move.The transparent monster has been eyeing Shimada's home, and the news has spread in the school.There happened to be a member of the Boys Detective Team among the classmates, so they told the incident to Captain Kobayashi.The head of the Kobayashi team is Yoshio Kobayashi, the right-hand man of the great detective Akechi Kogoro.Readers of my book and "Dr. Monster" must be familiar with the boy detective team. It is said that when Captain Kobayashi learned about this, he met with Shimada-kun and Kinoshita-kun to discuss countermeasures, and then selected five regiment members who lived near Shimada's house to undertake security tasks under his leadership.Although it is a warning, the opponent is an invisible monster after all, and it is not enough to just rely on the eyes.Captain Kobayashi came up with a brilliant idea: he and his five friends each had a flashlight, and after dark, they patrolled around Shimada's house and in the yard in groups of two.

What good would it do?Although the transparent monster is invisible to the naked eye, it has a shadow. It scans the surroundings with a flashlight. Once a suspicious shadow appears in the light, it can determine where the monster is, and then a tiger pounces on him!Kobayashi expressed his thoughts to the team leader Nakamura, and the team leader sincerely admired him and asked his subordinates to do the same. In this way, after dark, the lights around Shimada's house fluttered, like fireflies flying around. It is beautiful, but it is also quite scary to look at. And look at the basement.It was ten minutes to nine.Four chairs were placed around the safe. As early as an hour ago, Shimada-kun, his father, reporter Kurokawa, and Team Leader Nakamura of the Metropolitan Police Department were waiting here, and their eyes did not stray from the door of the safe.

When the four of them entered the basement, they were as careful as the night before to ensure that there were no loopholes to exploit, so it was impossible for weirdos to sneak into the basement.Moreover, the two checkpoints are locked, so it is impossible for the weirdo to enter later. "Maybe it's because I haven't seen him before. I can't figure it out when you look like you're facing a big enemy. You're so careful, so it shouldn't be a problem. He said to start at nine o'clock. In my opinion, that's to scare you." Team leader Nakamura in a suit finished speaking and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case.At this time, reporter Kurokawa answered the call:

"Don't underestimate him, that guy is a monster. Maybe, the door of this safe will open slowly and automatically under our noses." "Hahaha... Don't worry about this. Mr. Xiaolin came up with a good idea. That guy has a shadow. We just need to pay attention to his shadow. There is a light in the basement. If that guy comes in, he will definitely leave a shadow .” "Team leader, you don't know. Sometimes this guy doesn't leave a shadow. Just like last time he taught the little gangster a lesson for the little shoe shiner. I was watching at the scene. I didn't find his shadow, only the little boy. The shadow of the gangster is struggling by itself. I feel that it probably has a kind of magic, and it only shows its shadow when it wants to scare people."

"Hahaha... Kurokawa-kun, by the way, you really admire him." Team leader Nakamura said with a smile. Before the words fell, there was a "click" sound from nowhere.The four of them were taken aback and looked at each other. There was no sound in the basement. Shimada-kun glanced at his father's watch and blurted out: "Dad, it's nine o'clock in one minute." The three adults wearing watches all adjusted the time by broadcasting the time in advance.Team leader Nakamura and the reporter also checked the time, and it turned out that there was only one minute left before nine o'clock.Everyone was silent, and even Team Leader Nakamura looked as if he was facing an enemy. The scene was so quiet that the ticking of the second hand of the watch could be clearly heard.Ten seconds, twenty seconds, the time passed in a flash, and eight eyes were fixed on the door of the safe.

While Shimada-kun was staring at the safe door, he felt a hazy figure standing beside the safe. "Huh?" He looked there intently, but there was nothing.Is it an illusion, or... At this moment, there was another slight "click", and the four of them turned pale.Shimada-kun was so frightened that he screamed loudly and ran away, his little heart was almost in his throat. This weird feeling really cannot be expressed in words. "Wa hahaha……" Suddenly, there was a burst of wild laughter in the room—it turned out to be the leader of Nakamura.He got up and laughed loudly:

"Everyone, it's already past nine o'clock, and it will be nine o'clock in twenty seconds... You see, it's already nine o'clock in the middle of talking, that guy failed to keep the promise, and the safe is safe and sound, Kurokawa-kun What do you think? That note was just a way for him to scare people." Team leader Nakamura happily announced his conclusion. "Don't rush to draw conclusions. What happened to those two 'clicks' just now? Mr. Shimada, just to be safe, please take a look inside the safe." Mr. Shimada has exactly this intention.He stood up, walked to the safe, turned the dial, inserted the key, opened the door, and looked inside—

"what!" It doesn't matter at this point, Mr. Shimada yelled and froze. "What's wrong?" The team leader and the reporter hurried over.Shimada-kun followed closely behind, grabbing his father's clothes: "Where's the Pearl Tower?!" There was only an empty box left in the safe. "Uh heh heh..." It was that creepy laugh again!The sound came from the basement.That guy is indeed here!The four of them looked around, but they didn't even see anyone. "I know! That guy reached in from the side and stole the Pearl Tower the moment Mr. Shimada opened the safe. I saw a white figure!" Reporter Kurokawa was extremely excited.

If it was true as what Kurokawa said, then the stolen Pearl Tower should still be in the basement, but everyone searched under the chairs, behind the safe, and in mid-air, but there was no trace of the Pearl Tower.Next, the three of them winked at each other, and ran in circles with open arms. They searched in this way, but they also found nothing. Team leader Nakamura ran up the stairs, listened to the iron plate at the entrance, and heard that creepy laughter again. "Oh, he's on the other side of the iron plank! Outside!" It sounded like the sound was indeed coming from outside.It was the sound from the basement just now, why is it coming from outside now?Could it be a puff of smoke or a ghost or something that goes through walls?

"You have learned. I say one is one, and two is two. I never break my promise." The voice was very soft.The transparent weirdo spoke word by word outside the iron plate. As soon as the four of them left the basement, Yoshio Kobayashi ran out of breath to report the situation: "Just now we caught a suspicious guy, a homeless man, squatting outside the fence trembling, claiming to have seen a ghost. I don't know if what he said is true or not, but he is still trembling, which shows the truth I'm terrified. I'll bring him here." The team leader ordered Xiao Lin to bring people over immediately.Who did the Detective Boys catch?What kind of "ghost" did the homeless man see?Let's listen to the next chapter.