Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

Gao Cheng vigilantly picked up the blood-stained hat, and his eyes fell on the half-open door of Jiaota.

A section of the aisle connected to the main building collapsed, exposing the stone tower to the wind and rain, which shows that the original fire was quite serious.

Gao Cheng gently opened the tower door and turned on the flashlight again.

This side should have been locked. There are only two possibilities for Conan's hat to appear here for no reason. One is that Conan was brought here, and the other is that the secret prisoner deliberately lured him.

The latter is undoubtedly more likely, the prisoner is probably hiding somewhere in Jiaota and waiting for him...

interesting.

Gao Cheng walked up to the scorched stairs, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up.

It's cool to find the murderer by deduction, but he doesn't reject direct violence. If he's the only one, he doesn't mind having fun with the prisoner, but of course it's best to have a quick fight now.

"Click." Suddenly there was a slight movement outside the tower, someone stepped on a small branch.

"Um?"

Gao Cheng stopped in his tracks, listened carefully, turned around and rushed out of the tower door without giving the visitor a chance to react.

What appeared in front of him was not the murderer, but the startled Ayumi and the others, even Haibara stood aside.

"How many of you..."

Gao Cheng looked at the grinning Ayumi in bewilderment, pulled Hui Yuan and said, "What are you doing, didn't you want you to look at them?"

"No way," Huiyuan said helplessly, "They sneaked out without authorization..."

"Because we are all worried about Conan."

Ayumi grabbed a bag full of bread and looked at Gao Cheng eagerly.

"Please, we also want to help. With us, Conan will be found soon."

Gao Cheng was really pissed off, it would be more troublesome to have these brats following him, but it wouldn't do to just leave it alone, it would be even worse for these brats to run around by themselves.

"It's up to you, just don't die."

"what?"

Ayumi and the others finally followed Gao Cheng into the burnt stone pagoda. They were courageous but fearful of the surroundings, so they gathered closely around Gao Cheng.

I really owed these guys something in my previous life...

"What is this?" Gao Cheng looked at the bread bag strangely.

"Because Conan didn't eat, we left bread for Conan, otherwise Conan will starve to death..."

"How can it be so easy to starve to death?"

Gao Cheng walked step by step in the scorched tower. There was nothing abnormal about the wall beside him, it was empty, without any sundries.

"Let's look for it, there should be a secret passage here." Gao Cheng said to Ayumi.

Not only did he want to find Conan, he also wanted to find out the guy in the dark quickly, otherwise he would feel uneasy.

"It's so dark here, it's dirty." Yuan Tai's little fat man looked around the black wall with a flashlight.

"Of course, there was a fire here four years ago."

Mitsuhiko groped the wall vigorously, and walked into the toilet on the second floor unconsciously: "Hey, brother Kido, come and take a look, there seems to be something wrong with the wall here, and it is empty inside."

"Really!" Ayumi and the others gathered around Mitsuhiko who kept beating on the wall.

"But I can't push it away..."

"Have you forgotten? There are organs at the entrance of the secret passage here." Gao Cheng looked outside vigilantly, and then followed into the toilet.

The toilet was dilapidated, of course there was no clock for the mechanism, only a dusty sink, a cracked mirror, and a dirty toilet with a hidden secret door next to the toilet.

Gao Cheng walked around and noticed the weird decorative light above the toilet.

"Is it this one?"

After trying to turn it, with an obvious hinge sound, the hidden door next to it clicked open, revealing a small, dark space.

There's nothing in it, just a hole leading downstairs and an escalator,

Before Gao Chengduo could say more, Yuantai and the others had already drilled down excitedly.

Gao Cheng smiled wryly and shook his head, worried that something might happen to them, he hurriedly followed Hui Yuan.

"You came here on purpose, you should have found something through the investigation?" Huiyuan took this opportunity to ask Gao Cheng.

"The person who captured Conan this time should have something to do with the fire four years ago. He might have set that fire on purpose. He was a ruthless guy..."

Gao Cheng sighed softly, and looked at Ayumi and the others who were looking around in the secret passage: "If we weren't here, these guys wouldn't know how they died. Really, when can we save some time?"

"I'm afraid I will disappoint you. What do you think will happen to a child of this age, plus that sloppy little detective?" Hui Yuan said flatly.

Gao Cheng was helpless, turned to Hui Yuan and said, "Where's the secret code for the treasure? Do you have any clues?"

"There's nothing particularly difficult about that chessboard." Huiyuan walked in front calmly, "Let's talk about it after we get out."

"Not difficult?"

Gao Cheng scratched the back of his head.

He has no idea what's going on...

"Brother Kido!" Ayumi's surprised voice came from the front, "There is a man over there!"

"Someone? Wait a minute..."

"Ah! It's a skeleton, a skeleton!"

"There are dead bodies here," Gao Cheng walked over the trembling Ayumi to the side of a white-haired skeleton, "they have completely turned into bones, and have been dead for many years..."

Huiyuan came over: "What's the matter with this corpse?"

"It wasn't supposed to be here," Gao Cheng checked the surrounding situation, and turned around in a deep voice, "I'm afraid it was transferred here after being discovered by Conan."

"Transfer?"

"It's troublesome because it's discovered." Gao Cheng's eyes fell on the dark corner behind him. "In the fire four years ago, 15 people died, and even their bones were burned to ashes. Reports at the time mentioned using relics." After identifying the identity, it was found that one of them was missing... Is that right, using the fire to impersonate Mrs. Tai's former housekeeper?

"I've been following you for so long, shouldn't you come out?"

"What are you talking about?" The ugly old lady slowly walked out of the darkness, "I just heard something and came to see, what happened?"

"Oh? Are your feet able to walk?"

Gao Cheng looked directly at the old lady, he didn't expect this guy to come out as soon as he got excited, it's really difficult to deal with hiding in the dark all the time.

"This skeleton's foot bones are much thinner than other places. It seems that there was something wrong with the feet before it was alive, and it was an old woman... There are 7 last words left in the secret passage on the other side. Isn't it a coincidence?"

"Hmph, as expected of a famous detective who has gained fame recently, he actually knows so much. If I hadn't been unable to find the treasure all the time, I would never have asked you to come here. I can only blame you for your bad luck."

The old lady's glasses reflected light, and she took out a steel pipe with her back, and said with a ferocious smile: "Don't worry, I won't let you stay in the dark basement like this old woman, and when you die in two or three days, I will put you and me together." Put that spectacled kid together in the woods."

"Brother Kido..." Ayumi grabbed Gaocheng tightly in fear.

Gao Cheng stopped a few people behind him, and asked calmly: "Mrs. Tai and the servants who starved to death two years ago, were you also the ones who killed them?"

"That's right," the old lady's face became even uglier, and she held up the steel pipe and said with a sneer, "I came to this castle for the treasure, but the old lady found out and wanted to drive me out, so I can only pretend to be her... "

"16 lives, for an unknown treasure, you killed so many people, is it worth it?" Gao Cheng's eyes were fixed, and he paused to walk towards the monster-like old woman.

"what?"

The old woman's complexion changed, and she rushed towards Gao Cheng with a roar, her vigorous movements contrasted sharply with her old and deformed face: "You meddling in your own business! Who told you to be smart and pursue it!") Readers, let's pay attention!