Chapter 21 Chapter 21 The Mystery of the Dry Well

The search and rescue team searched every room and returned to the entrance.There is a net here to catch the fleeing transparent weirdo.Three police officers stand firm here. "Nothing unusual?" Team leader Nakamura asked the police officers guarding the entrance of the cave. "Report sir, there is nothing unusual." "There is no movement on this net?" "Report sir, there is no movement." If the transparent weirdo passes through here, it will definitely affect this net.Since there was no movement, it meant that the weirdo hadn't passed by.So the guy is still lurking in the cave?

"It's weird. They turned upside down, but they didn't feel anyone's breath. Where is it hiding?" Team leader Nakamura was a little annoyed.The Kurokawa reporter beside him came over and said: "Group leader Nakamura, I just thought, is there another entrance and exit for this air-raid shelter? Bad guys always have multiple minds, and it is impossible to live in a place like a dead end with peace of mind. Backdoor secret passages and the like. This is the only possibility right now." "It makes sense. But we have searched all over. There is really a back door, and we should have discovered it earlier."

"The method is futile. Since you didn't come out from here, there are only two possibilities, either you are still in the cave, or you have escaped from somewhere else. Anyway, go back and look for it." So a group of people turned back to the air-raid shelter and searched room by room with flashlights on. "Team leader Nakamura, reporter Kurokawa, come quickly." In a corner of the chemical laboratory, Kobayashi-kun specially lowered his voice, calling for the two to come over.I saw Mr. Xiaolin opened the door of the closet and searched the inside with a flashlight.The closet was in a mess, wooden boxes, empty bottles, etc. were crooked, broken, and broken, as if they had been trampled on.

"Look here." Xiaolin hit the beam on the front wall, and saw many large iron nails one centimeter thick nailed on it. "He should have climbed up by stepping on the nails." He said and shot the beam towards the closet top.Sure enough, one of the boards leaned to one side, revealing a small crack. "As expected. I'll climb up and have a look." As Xiao Lin said, he stuffed the flashlight into his pocket, held his feet firmly on the big nails, and climbed up. He easily pushed the loose board aside, revealing a big square opening.He took out the flashlight and shone it upwards.

"Haha!" Xiao Lin burst into joy, "The exit is indeed here. This hole leads all the way to the top, and there is a ladder." The vertical hole above the top of the closet is like a dry well, and iron ladders are erected vertically on the well wall, and the top of the closet is equivalent to the bottom of the dry well. "Great! Kobayashi-kun, you climb up. I'll follow you. Team leader Nakamura, please come too." Reporter Kurokawa also entered the closet as he said. In the dark dry well, Yoshio Kobayashi, encouraged by the reporter, firmly grasped the ladder and climbed carefully step by step, followed by Kurokawa and Nakamura.After climbing about twenty steps, we reached the top.

"Oh, we've reached the top." Kobayashi hesitated for a moment, when reporter Kurokawa went up to search for photos and said at the same time: "Impossible. It must be a partition. Push hard to see." "It's really a partition. I'll open it." The partition was made of iron, and it was very heavy. Xiaolin pushed it away vigorously—for a moment, a dazzling light shone in.It turns out that the mouth of the dry well is in the grass above the cliff.Climbing out of the wellhead, it was a pit with a depth of only five meters.Xiaolin and others used the protruding stones on the wall of the pit as a fulcrum, and climbed up to the ground in one breath.

"Heh, it's a good idea to disguise the secret entrance and exit as a dry well. From the outside, that partition looks like the bottom of the well. No one would have guessed that there is a big world underneath." Reporter Kurokawa was amazed. From this point of view, the strange old man escaped from here.The transparent weirdo and others also went out from here.He abducted Otomo-kun and had to climb the stairs, so he must be a strong man. Team leader Nakamura looked around to see if there were traces of the strange old man and the transparent weirdo, but weeds were overgrown here, and nothing was found.As for where they went, there is also no clue.To sum up this operation, the search team only found the weirdo's lair, but failed to capture him, and did not rescue Otomo-kun, almost returning in vain.

Team leader Nakamura left a few police officers at the mouth of the air-raid shelter and dry well, and returned to the task force of the Metropolitan Police Department first.On the way back, reporter Kurokawa whispered to the team leader: "Team leader, this is a huge case in the history of the Metropolitan Police Department. The opponent is too strong, even if we unite the forces of all Japanese police, I can't win. I thought of a person, If he can work hard, maybe there is still a chance to come back." "Who is it?" "Akechi Kogoro. In the current situation, it's time for Detective Akechi to take action. I heard Mr. Xiaolin say that the detective is busy with other cases and can't get away. But now that the enemy is at hand, the detective should put other cases aside and go first. It is to assist the police in solving major cases. Aren’t you a good friend of the wise detective? When you return to the task force, contact him as soon as possible.”

"Yeah. I've thought about what you said. All right, let's rely on him again." Team leader Nakamura seemed to be determined to hire a detective.