"Stopped?"

"What happened?"

Lord Yingyou stood up from his seat and looked out the window curiously.

Outside the tempered glass was not a subway station, but darkness. The subway stopped in the dark tunnel between the stations.

Qin Zhibo looked at the subway's alarm light. The red light did not flash, indicating that there was no malfunction in the subway, but that it was simply stopped by human control.

"You guys wait a minute, I'll go to the front and take a look."

Qin Zhibo had already memorized the direction of the subway when he entered the station, and now he was heading in the direction of the front of the subway.

When passing two carriages in the middle, it seemed that the scattered New Yorkers were confused about the situation and kept asking "en?"

Qin Zhibo came to the cab at the front, a small space of less than 3 square meters, separated from the passenger area by a mottled metal door.

The vertical glass strips on the door of the conductor's cabin revealed the situation behind the door. The subway driver was not there, and the driver's seat was empty.

The driver disappeared quite suddenly because the subway stopped under emergency braking.

After taking a look at the complicated control levers and various buttons behind the door, Qin Zhibo felt a little regretful. Conan had not defeated the subway driver yet, so he did not know how to drive the subway.

…

Returning to the original carriage, Qin Zhibo told Koizumi Hongzi and Hondo Eyou about the current situation.

Now there are two methods to choose from. One is to stay in the subway. If the Metropolitan Transportation Authority finds that the subway does not arrive on time, it will send people to search along the track line.

Or get off the car and look for the driver. In the current situation, the driver must have gotten off the car, because there are no subway driver-related occupations in the carriages behind.

As for calling for help, it is impossible. This is a subway and there is no phone signal.

"Did the driver go to the toilet?"

"How about we go look for it."

Neither Yingyou nor Hongzi Koizumi want to wait around, and the same goes for Qin Zhibo.

Although as long as you wait in the subway, you will be rescued sooner or later, but the process will definitely be quite long.

The United States has not yet experienced the 911 incident, and its vigilance against terrorist attacks and hostage-taking incidents is not high, and may not even be as high as in Tokyo, Japan.

In addition, New York's subway lines are old and still use technology from a century ago, so delays of more than ten minutes are not uncommon.

The subway has been busy all day, why not take a break in the middle of the night?

And even if you can't find the driver, you can still go to the maintenance points located every other section of the subway tunnel. There are wired telephones installed there to facilitate the subway maintenance workers to contact each other, and they can quickly notify the ground in case of emergency.

Having made up their minds, the three of them got off the subway through the back door of the subway.

Standing on the pitch-black track, dark red indicator lights stretched into the bottomless darkness.

Qin Zhibo took out his lighter and lent it to his friend Yingyou, while he used his night vision goggles to observe his surroundings.

The three of them searched nearby. Koizumi Hongzi saw a map on the wall next to the track, which marked the location of the maintenance points on this line. The nearest one was more than a mile away.

The subway station is 4 miles away, and the time it takes to walk there is enough for the Transportation Department to discover that the subway is out of service.

After searching around the subway twice, I saw that the subway driver was completely missing. If he had gone to the toilet, he would have returned long ago.

So, the three of them decided to head towards the maintenance point.

…

In the deep underground of New York, the three of them walked towards the maintenance point a mile away with the only light source.

This subway line from Broadway to New York City Hall, that is, in Manhattan, is the earliest line opened to traffic in New York and has a history of 102 years.

Due to its age, this subway line has also undertaken the construction of many other pipelines.

Water pipes like red thorns grow wildly on the wall, and black rubber pipes are the wires that carry power to the signal lights.

Occasionally, a drop of water seeped out from the joints of the water pipes, forming small puddles on the uneven cement floor.

Bang, bang, bang...

Three pairs of feet stepped on the puddle, making the only clear sound in the tunnel.

In the dark and depressing environment, the three of them said little and walked forward based on their intuition.

Cold and humid air blows in from the unknown front from time to time, giving people an uncomfortable feeling.

Suddenly, something that was incompatible with the dark tones here lay in a puddle on the road and entered Qin Zhibo's field of vision.

He stepped forward and saw a blue and white work permit.

The photo on the work permit shows a man with a stubble on his chin, named Paul, and his position is a subway driver.

This old work permit was lying in a puddle, but it had no water stains. It was obviously dropped here recently.

Normally, Qin Zhibo would cast the Finding Object Curse at this time.

But this time with Koizumi Anko, she obviously didn't need to do this.

Koizumi Anko took the work photo, closed her eyes and meditated for two seconds, then opened her eyes.

"The person should be right in front."

"But be careful, there is something wrong with this place..."

Koizumi Hongzi warned with a serious expression.

As a witch, her magical sixth sense is always accurate except when used on Kaitou Kidd.

This made Qin Zhibo feel vigilant, as if there was really some danger lurking in the tunnel.

Hondo Yingyu also swallowed nervously and followed at the back of the team.

…

After walking a little further, the narrow subway tunnel suddenly opened up.

The walls on both sides of the tunnel open to both sides, and here is a quite spacious shaft.

The subway tunnel passes through the shaft through an iron bridge to the other side of the shaft. A dozen meters below the shaft is the complex New York City underground water pipeline.

The air here is extremely humid, and there is also a faint smell of rust and putrefaction.

"It should be down here..."

As soon as Koizumi Hongzi finished speaking, a series of strange cries came from the empty space under the shaft.

There was a noise like a gathering of moles, the barking of large dogs, and even the pitiful cries of women.

The chaotic sound made people unable to stop their curiosity when they walked to the iron bridge and lowered their heads to look down.

Qin Zhibo stood on the edge of the iron bridge, lowered his head and looked down. Through his gray-green night vision vision, he saw a group of sneaky figures gathering in the deepest part of the shaft, as if some kind of evil gathering was taking place.

They were deformed, hunched figures crawling and walking around, all surrounding a man who fell to the ground and panicked.

The man's mouth was whimpering, and he kept making crying sounds for mercy.

"please..."

"letmego...oh-mygod!"

Suddenly, a crouched figure suddenly rushed towards him, and slapped the man to the ground with one claw.

"Roar--!"

The figure looked up to the sky and barked like a wolf dog. Only then did Qin Zhibo see some features on its face.

It was a humanoid monster with protruding upper and lower jaws like a dog. Qin Zhibo immediately recognized what it was.

Ghoul!

Qin Zhibo's face trembled, he didn't expect to encounter a ghoul underground in New York.

Generally speaking, ghouls live in cemeteries near human gathering places. This group of ghouls lives directly under the most prosperous city in the world.

At this time, Koizumi Hongzi, who was lying on the edge of the iron bridge regardless of her appearance, also understood something and murmured: "That... seems to be a ghoul?"

Hondo Yingyou, who was also lying next to him, was surprised, "Ghoul?"

Koizumi Anko explained: "It is a creature that feeds on rotten corpses. It looks like a dog, but its size is about the same as a human being..."

"Dog? Human?" Bentang Yingyou's eyes were startled, as if he was thinking of something.

"But this kind of creature often lives in cemeteries. Why does it appear here? And there are so many of them at once..."

Koizumi Hongzi murmured her confusion, while Hondo Eyou was more concerned about the situation of the person below.

"Is there someone down there? Is that the subway driver? Will something happen to him?"

"It's hopeless. He's already dead."

Our hall Yingyou couldn't see clearly the situation below, and Qin Zhibo used the night vision goggles to broadcast the current situation to the two of them.

The claw of the ghoul just now was directly on the driver's neck.

Blood spurted out under the influence of blood pressure, and several ghouls quickly crawled around, greedily licking the man's blood like puppies.

"Let's go quickly before they find us."
To be continued...