Stay away from Conan

Chapter 1837 The red light that followed

"Miss Xia Mei, do you know what the name 'Magician of the End of the Century' means?"

In the castle, everyone discovered the existence of the secret room and walked down together. As for the fact that the password to open the entrance of this secret passage was actually the Russian "Magician of the End of the Century", Siruov couldn't help but feel strange and asked Xia Mei of Kosaka.

In response to this question, Xia Mei of Kosaka was well prepared and responded:

"Regarding this question, Mr. Mingzhi told me the meaning of this sentence I remembered, I thought about it carefully. I think this may be the title of my great-grandfather.

"My great-grandfather participated in the 1900 World Expo when he was sixteen years old, and later lived in Russia."

As a result, as this answer came out, Maori Kogoro on the side couldn't help but say:

"I see, 1900 is indeed the end of the century. It's true. ”

“Because he participated in the World Expo at the end of the century, he was called the ‘magician of the end of the century’…”

But after hearing this answer, Conan was still full of doubts and couldn’t help thinking——

“But the most important question is, why did Kaito Kid know this title? And he deliberately left this name on the notice... What exactly does he want to do?”

So far, with the clues he has at hand, Conan can’t come to any conclusion after thinking about it, so he can only follow everyone and move forward, thinking that maybe after finding the second “memory easter egg”, he may know the answer.

So, the group was led by Nakamori Ginzo in front, Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai walked behind as the rear guard, in order to watch everyone and not act rashly.

In this way, the group kept walking forward along the road in front of them, and finally did not find any detours, and naturally reached the end of the road that could be walked, and was finally blocked by a stone wall——

“Hey? There is no way? "

Looking at the situation where there was no way to go, Nakamori Ginzo was surprised, and he was obviously a little overwhelmed by this situation. After all, he had found the hidden underground secret room. There was no reason why the really important treasures would not be hidden here?

But along the way, he saw nothing. He just reached the end of the road and saw this stone wall and the murals carved on the stone wall. Apart from that, there was nothing.

Seeing this, Qian Jiang looked at this result and seemed completely unacceptable. He asked:

"You didn't take the wrong road, did you?"

"This should be impossible. There should be only this one road along the way! "

Nakamori Ginzo said with certainty.

——"There is a fork in the road..."

When Gao Yuan heard Nakamori Ginzo's certainty, he couldn't help but murmur in his heart, because there was actually another hidden secret passage leading to here, so there was actually another fork in the road underground.

However, this fork in the road eventually led to a tower outside the castle, and the entrance to the main road was a bit hidden from the main road, so no one noticed it when everyone was walking just now, and they only paid attention to the only road under their feet that was obviously opened up by others. .

Therefore, although there is a fork in the road, Gao Yuan does not need to say it, because this is the correct place, and it depends on solving the key mechanism.

So, in this situation, Gao Yuan looked at Conan, thinking that it would be boring to let Conan try to solve the puzzle himself.

So, as Gao Yuan thought, after realizing that he did not take the wrong road and that Kosaka Kiichi was a master of mechanisms, Conan immediately considered the possibility of the existence of mechanisms, and then saw him holding his watch and turning on the flashlight function. They began to reflect and check the pictures and texts on the stone wall, trying to find some key points.

As a result, everyone saw that there were various bird patterns carved on this stone wall, and the image of a two-headed bird in the middle, and there was a relief of a crown on the top of the two-headed bird's head.

Seeing this, Xiruov couldn't help but say:

"Two-headed eagle, the symbol of the Tsar..."

So, Conan, who heard this, naturally focused his attention on the two-headed eagle pattern. This was not only because of the standard symbolic meaning, but also because of the position and size of this symbol. Obviously, the center of gravity of the relief on this stone wall is here, so if there is a mechanism, it should be here.

In this way, Conan, who focused on checking this icon, soon noticed that the relief of the crown seemed to be a little different from other places in terms of craftsmanship, so Conan focused the light of the flashlight on the crown, and when he was about to see it clearly-

Suddenly, without any signs, it seemed that some mechanism was triggered, and everyone only felt that the ground under their feet began to move.

—— "It turned out to be solved in this way?"

In this regard, Gao Yuan stood at the back, just out of the area affected by the mechanism movement. When he saw Conan thoughtfully shining the flashlight on the relief crown and began to examine it, Gao Yuan couldn't help but sigh that this accidental triggering of the mechanism-

Can only say, is this the change of the times?

The photosensitive mechanism set up by Kosaka Kiichi here, in that era, ordinary light sources were not strong enough to trigger the mechanism, so it was necessary to focus the light to illuminate a specific area to trigger it. But now, the light intensity of flashlights is no longer the same as before, and just randomly irradiating it can trigger the mechanism.

Just like that, before Conan could fully figure out how he triggered the mechanism, with the movement of the ground, a passage that continued to go down was revealed on the ground in front of the stone wall.

Seeing this, although most people were still puzzled about the triggering principle of the mechanism, it did not prevent everyone from moving forward. So everyone continued to walk down, still with Nakamori Ginzo leading the team in front and Gao Yuan in the rear -

However, when Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai, who were at the end of the line, were about to follow, Gao Yuan seemed to feel something and turned his head to look behind him.

But all he could see was pitch black, and he could not see anything.

So, Gao Yuan thought that this might be the real Kaito Kidd, so he didn't think much about it, smiled slightly, and walked down with Xiao Ai.

Of course, Gao Yuan was not wrong to guess this, because just after Gao Yuan and others entered the next passage, the figure of Kaito Kidd dressed in white did appear here. After everyone had been in for a while, Kaito Kidd, who was sure that he would not be discovered immediately, followed him into the core area of ​​the basement without making any noise.

However, as Kaito Kidd entered, the three points of red light on the ceiling behind him in the darkness lit up again, as if they were the glasses of some creature, staring at the passage that everyone entered...