Conan: Another Famous Detective

After a while, Mamiya Takato left.

Meng Yu turned her head and looked at Yu Gongming: "Is it really okay to tell him like this?"

Yu Gongming smiled lightly and said: "It's okay. We don't need to find the answer. It's enough to collect the puzzle pieces called clues according to the answers."

"In this case, it doesn't matter if I tell him something. Anyway, I just told the eldest lady's suspicions, but I didn't say that she was the murderer. Mamiya nobleman should not take drastic measures rashly."

"It's better not to be too careless. The plot doesn't change once or twice. We have to guard against the butterfly effect." Meng Yu said with a serious expression.

Yu Gongming was stunned for a moment, then nodded solemnly: "Indeed, I took it for granted."

"Then let's wait for midnight to arrive." Meng Yu said with a smile.

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Twelve o'clock at midnight.

In the room where the young detective team lives.

Mamiya Mitsuru specially arranged a large room for the Young Detective Team and the doctor, and also asked the servants to bring a few small beds for the children. Therefore, the five children of the Young Detective Team and Dr. Agasa were squeezed into the same room. inside.

At this moment, there were only moderate snoring sounds in the room, and occasional murmurings that sounded like sleep. Other than that, there was no other sound.

At a certain moment, Conan, who had his eyes closed suddenly opened them!

He slowly got out of the quilt, got out of bed, picked up the foot strength-enhancing shoes beside the bed, and walked to the door barefoot.

The sound of walking barefoot is obviously quieter.

Conan had left the door half-closed before. When he came to the door, Conan just lifted the door slightly and then pulled it gently.

The door silently opened a gap for Conan to pass through.

Conan turned his head and glanced at the three little ones who were still lying quietly on the bed. He breathed a sigh of relief, slipped out through the gap, and then slowly closed the door.

However, the moment he closed the door, the quilt on the bed where Mitsuhiko was sitting suddenly moved...

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Based on his memory, Conan came to the room during the day and gently opened the door.

"Your movements are still so slow!" Yu Gongming laughed.

Conan rolled his eyes: "I'm not like you. I can come whenever I want. How can I dare to leave the room without confirming that those children are asleep?"

"They didn't follow, did they?" Mengyu confirmed.

"Don't worry, I'm paying attention. There's definitely no one following you." Conan said with determination.

Yu Gongming nodded: "Since everyone is here, let's get started."

He raised his hand to open the outer cover of the wall clock and began to turn the hands on the wall clock.

The moment the pointer points to a certain scale...

"Click!"

Where the wall clock was, a piece of wall about the width of a person suddenly cracked a gap, and then the entire wall began to rotate, eventually forming a large 45-degree angle.

The inside of the angle is dark and deep, and a downward staircase can be faintly seen.

"It is indeed a secret passage!" Conan's eyes flashed.

"Go in." Yu Gongming said.

The three of them entered the secret passage one after another. Yu Gongming used a flashlight to explore the path ahead, Meng Yu was responsible for cutting off the rear, and Conan, who had the weakest fighting ability, was protected by the two in the middle.

"This staircase is so deep..." Conan said in shock.

"It looks like it should lead directly to the ground... huh?"

Yu Gongming turned his flashlight towards the stairs, and when scanning an area, it suddenly shook, and then suddenly froze.

Conan's eyes widened and his face changed slightly: "Is this!?"

Under the flashlight, what caught Conan's eyes was a humanoid skeleton without any skin or flesh!

At midnight, in such a secret passage, he suddenly saw such a skeleton. Even Yu Gongming, who had expected it, felt nervous.

Conan couldn't wait to get past Hanemiya Akira, squatted down and began to observe.

"This is the corpse of a human female. The bones throughout the body are still intact. The bones in the feet are obviously dislocated and deformed. She should have suffered a foot injury during her lifetime..."

Conan described the autopsy situation in an orderly manner, and suddenly said "Hey":

"There seems to be words on the steps below the skull... Hanomiya, move the flashlight forward!"

Akira Hanomiya adjusted the flashlight as instructed, and Conan didn't care. He took out his handkerchief and moved several ribs away from their original places, revealing the writing below.

[She has taken over my identity and wants to snatch the castle’s treasure...]

"There are some scratches on the back, but I can't identify them." Conan frowned slightly.

"But it doesn't hinder understanding, right?" Yu Gongming said calmly.

"Indeed, I didn't expect that I would gain so much just after I came in." Conan said with a smile.

Yu Gongming waved his flashlight on the skeleton: "It seems that the murderer of the fire four years ago should be that person. In this way, my commission can be completed."

"Your commission?" Conan raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Yes!" Akira Hanomiya nodded, and then briefly told Conan about the investigation that the noble Mamiya had entrusted him to investigate, as well as the clues he had.

"I see, then many things can be connected in series!" Conan showed a confident smile that he had everything under control.

"Oh? Have you even figured out the secret code?" Yu Gongming asked with a smile.

"What about you?" Conan asked.

"Egg head." Yu Gongming spit out an English phrase.

Conan looked as expected: "Yes, look down at the chessboard from the direction of the white knight, then replace each column of the chess pieces with letters, and finally replace the column with the white chess piece in order from bottom to top. When you combine the letters, you get the word.”

Yu Gongming took over: "This word means nerd, or dull intellectual, which also refers to the big boss."

"Yes." Conan said with a smile: "Then the pattern formed by the black chess pieces is actually a direction hint, that is, rotating the portrait of the great master in the castle to the right, and the mystery will be solved."

"I said, you have solved the mystery, so do we still need to continue exploring?" Mengyu asked with a half-smile.

Yu Gongming shrugged: "You're here now, but you still have to explore the entire secret passage before it's complete, right?"

Conan pushed up his glasses: "Then let's keep walking. Maybe there will be other discoveries?"

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The room of the Young Detective Corps.

The door that was originally closed opened again.

This time, the gap in the door was larger than when Conan came out.

Immediately afterwards, several sneaky figures slipped out of the room.

Huiyuan, who was walking at the end, silently closed the door.

"Damn it! Conan ran away alone again!" Mitsuhiko said with a dissatisfied look on his face.

"He should have gone to find Brother Hanomiya and the others, right?" Ayumi guessed.

"It doesn't matter. They should still be investigating in the castle. Just follow my instructions and don't make any noise, lest they notice and avoid us deliberately." Xiao Ai's voice remained calm.

After the three little ones looked at each other, they nodded at the same time and looked at Haiyuan.