Chapter 652: Events in the Castle

Saturday, March 20th, afternoon, Hachioji City, Blue Castle Villa in the mountainous area of ​​Mount Takao and Mount Jinma in the Tama Hills.

Conan ran to a room on the right side of the third floor, opened the window and looked, and could clearly see the chess downstairs, so he took out the notepad and pen he carried with him, and drew according to the chess below.

After Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko ran over, Ayumi stood in front of the window first, next to Conan, Genta stood behind them, and Mitsuhiko ran to the next door when he saw this.

Yuan Tai stretched out her head to look around, but she was always close, so she squeezed forward.

"Ah!" Ayumi yelled, "Genta, don't squeeze me."

Mitsuhiko shouted, "Genta, you can see it clearly from this room."

"Really?" Yuan Tai happily ran away, and Hui Yuan took his seat.

Not long after, Conan finished drawing the picture, and when he sat down, he bit the pen and said to himself, "Is there any special significance to the arrangement of the chess pieces?"

Huiyuan moved his face closer, "Is that your favorite code?"

"Huh?" Conan felt a little uncomfortable, blushing.

"Isn't it a password?" Huiyuan asked.

"No..." Before Conan finished speaking, Ayumi yelled, "Genta, what are you two doing? You will fall!"

Conan quickly put his head out of the window to look, and found that Genta's body was already outside the window, and quickly ran to the next door. When he arrived, he found that Genta had climbed up with Mitsuhiko's help, and he was relieved.

"Genta, are you okay?" Ayumi's voice came.

"It's okay, it's okay." Yuan Tai stuck his head out of the window.

"Be careful." Mitsuhiko held Yuanta back.

Seeing this, Conan was about to go back, but inadvertently found that the walls of the next room and this room were next to the window. I laughed, so it is, is it necessary to build such a thick wall?

Conan knocked on the wall, but it really made a different sound.

Looking carefully at the wall, I found a clock on it, so I moved a chair in the room, and then put a stack of books from the bookshelf on the chair, and then stood up to play the clock on the wall, but it played too fast, The wall suddenly opened and knocked over the chair, causing Conan to fall into the dark wall by surprise, and then the wall returned to its original state.

"It hurts, but things are getting more and more interesting. This is really not an ordinary castle." Conan got up from the ground in the dark, took out his small flashlight to take a picture, and found that there was nothing on this side of the wall , the agency didn’t seem to be here, so I checked the surrounding roads with the light of a small flashlight. ...

On the other side, in the villa.

Hearing the sound of something falling to the ground, Genta and Mitsuhiko looked back and found a chair lying on the ground with some books beside it, but Conan who was still there before was gone, so they shouted loudly, "Conan! "Bring Haibara and Ayumi over.

Hearing that Conan was missing, Haibara looked at the scene of the disappearance, the chair, the book, and the clock with the cover on the wall open, then lifted the chair, put the book on it, and climbed up to play the clock.

At this time, nobleman Jian Gong came over, "Hey! This is not allowed to move around, what if it is broken?" He said and hugged Hui Yuan down.

At this time,

Dr. A Li and Gardener Tabata also came over, and Dr. A Li asked, "What happened to them?"

Gentleman Jiangong smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just a child's prank."

Ayumi asked: "Doctor, Conan is gone, have you seen it, we are looking for him?"

"Did you go to the bathroom? The bathroom is downstairs, so I may not have heard your yells." Gardener Tabata said.

Dr. A Li said: "Then let me go and have a look."

However, everyone went to the bathroom and found that Conan was not here.

Dr. Ali asked, "Is this the only restroom?"

"Yes, this is the only public restroom, and the others are not used." Gardener Tabata scratched his head, "Where will this go?"

"Let's look for it, maybe it's gone outside." Huiyuan pulled the doctor to go outside.

"Ah? That would be troublesome." Gardener Tabata frowned and followed.

"Why?" Dr. Ali asked.

Gentleman Jiangong said: "There was a servant who disappeared suddenly. One day later, we called the police. The police launched a large-scale search in the forest in this area."

"And then?" Gray asked.

Gardener Tabata said: "Ten days later, the police finally found him in the forest, but by then he had starved to death."

"How could this be?" Dr. Ali was taken aback.

"I don't know, the police didn't find the reason, so we had to define this incident as an accident of starving to death by wandering into the forest by mistake." Mamiya nobleman said, "But in our place, this incident has become a rumor among the servants. It has been rumored for a long time that they believe that it was the wraiths of the people who were burned to death in the tower, which caused his death. After that, the entrance and exit of the tower were sealed."

"Evil spirit!" Ayumi's three hairs stood on end.

At this time, everyone came to the living room, and Huiyuan found a phone in the far corner, so he asked, "Is the phone working?"

"It works," said Gardener Tabata, "but there's no mobile phone signal here, so it's useless to call him."

Haibara didn't answer, just asked the address here, then ran over alone, then glanced at Tabata Gardener and Mamiya Takahito who were standing there, called Mori Detective Agency, and after the connection, quickly Talked up. ...

On the other side, Maori Detective Agency.

Mao Li sat behind the desk, watching TV with earplugs inserted, while Yamazaki, Mei Daizi and Lan sat on the reception sofa and read a book, preparing for the exam. Mei Daizi came here with Yamazaki in the afternoon, and Lan also moved here from upstairs.

At this moment, the phone rang, and Maori picked it up casually, "Hi, this is Maori Detective Agency..."

Before Maoli finished speaking, Huiyuan said: "Come here quickly, we are here." Then he reported the address here, and then hung up the phone.

"A blue castle? Hello, hello?" Molly found that the phone had been hung up, and complained, "Damn kid." Then hung up the phone.

"What's the matter, Dad, won't there be another incident?" Lan asked.

"Yeah, I hope it won't be such a trivial matter anymore." Maori said angrily.

"Father, isn't this a murder incident this morning?" Lan asked angrily.

"Ah, this..." Maori was speechless, and then saw Yamazaki looking through the cabinet, so he changed the subject, "What are you looking for?"

"Uncle, I remember seeing this place in the news clips. There was an accidental fire there, and many people were burned to death." Yamazaki said.

"Could it be a fire again?" Mei Daizi smiled, "Then you should call the fire department."

"Stop kidding," Lan complained.

"Oh?" Maori thought for a while and said, "By the way, that should have happened in 1993."

"From 1993?" Yamazaki took out a copy of news clips and put them on the table and flipped through them.

"This is it." Lan pointed to a piece of news and said, "A fire broke out in the tower of a villa in the mountainous area of ​​Hachioji City late at night, and it can be seen ten kilometers away."

"Really here?" Mei Daizi smiled, "Uncle, you really deserve to be a detective, you remember all of this."

"Of course." Maori smiled triumphantly.

After reading it, Yamazaki said, "Uncle, I remember a missing person notice for Mutsumi Nishikawa."

"Nishikawa Mutsumi?" Mouri thought for a while, and took out the bottom drawer of the desk, which was full of pictorials.

"What is this?" Lan asked.

Mei Daizi took one, "A notice for looking for pets, Dalmatians, body length... If you can return it, the owner is willing to reward you with 3,000 yen. What is this?"

"It's a pet-seeking notice. You can see it as a commission." Yamazaki said with a smile.

"Ah?" Lan got a little angry, "Could it be all entrustment?"

"It's about the same." Mao Li said casually, "These are all issued by the local police station. Those looking for people, lost property, pets, etc. are all for no reward."

"Damn it!" Lan got angry, "There are so many commissions, Dad, you..."

"What are you talking about, these bounties are loss-making business." Mao Li interrupted Lan's words angrily.

"Losing money?" Lan didn't understand.

"Of course." Mori pulled out a pictorial, "This is it." He continued, "For example, this missing person notice for Mutsumi Nishikawa was issued by the Hachioji City Police Station."

"The bounty is 30,000 yen, which is not too small." Lan said looking at the pictorial.

"Idiot, this is from Hachioji City. The person must have disappeared in Hachioji City. The local police can't find it. Even if I can find it, it will not be a matter of a day or two. How much will it cost for transportation and food? If this For those who disappeared in Mihua Town, 30,000 yen can barely be found, and try your luck." Mao Li asked angrily, "Do you understand?"

"Oh, oh." Lan blinked her small eyes in embarrassment.

Mei Daizi changed the subject, "Could the Mutsumi Nishikawa on the missing person notice and the Mutsumi Nishikawa who disappeared in the newspaper news be the same person?"

"I'm also thinking about this and asking." Yamazaki said.

"The same person? Show me." Mao Lina took a look at the information, touched his chin and said, "If it's the same person, it's strange."

"What's strange?" Mei Daizi asked, "Isn't it normal to look for missing people?"

"From the perspective of time, this missing person notice was issued one year after the fire." Yamazaki said, "And this kind of catastrophic accident will be regarded as death if it is missing for one year. For a person who died Send a missing person notice..."

"It's really strange to say that," Lan said.

"Let me ask." Maori called, using the speakerphone, and asked the Megure Police Department.

"Nishikawa Mutsumi?" Megure Police Department asked, "Who is it?"

"It's the accidental fire at the castle-style villa in Hachioji City." Maori explained.

"Oh, that matter," Megure Police Department said, "Actually, we and the fire investigation team think that the fire is probably not an accident."

"No way?" Molly was taken aback.

Megure Police Department said: "Because all the remains were found in the tower, this is very strange."

"Why?" Lan asked.

"I know that." Mei Daizi said, "People who are on fire on TV can't stand it, and they will jump down no matter where they are."

"That's right," Megure Police Department said, "I didn't find Mutsumi Nishikawa's body at first, I just thought it was burned beyond recognition by the fire, but then another incident happened in that villa, a missing servant died of starvation outside in the forest."

"No way?" Mei Daizi said, "There will be people starving to death in the forest? There is food everywhere, and it's almost like being poisoned to death." Then asked, "Could it be winter when the mountains are covered by heavy snow?"

"It's not winter, it's the turn of spring and summer, and that's the problem." Megure Police Department said, "On the second day after the person disappeared, the local police launched a three-day search, but they didn't find him. Then on the tenth day, a tourist found the body of that person, and the result of the autopsy was that the person hadn’t eaten for ten days.”

"This is really weird," Molly said.

"I see, a different dimension." Mei Daizi smiled.

"Mei Daizi." Lan said helplessly.

Mumu police department smiled and said: "It makes sense to understand that. The owner of that villa said before he died that he left a treasure in the villa. His villa also includes the forest outside, so we suspect that there is a secret passage underground in the forest. The servant It was in there for ten days, and we found out that the man had trauma to the head."

"Baby? Is it a treasure?" Mao Li showed a pair of money eyes.

"Dad." Lan protested.

"In other words, someone knocked him down, imprisoned him, and threw him in the forest." Yamazaki said.

The Megure Police Department said: "Yes, so we suspect that Mutsumi Nishikawa is not dead, but is hiding in the forest looking for treasures, and the fire that night was also caused by her drugging the dead to make them unable to move, and in the end it was like this He was burned to death, but unfortunately there is no way to examine those remains.”

"That is to say, the treasure is in the forest?" Maori asked excitedly.

Mumu Police Department asked angrily: "Are you listening?"

"Yes, yes, I have heard." Mao Li said quickly, and then asked, "Then the missing person notice?"

"Firstly, her name had already been announced in the list of victims of the fire. Although she was missing, she had been considered dead for one year before the starvation incident. Secondly, we had no evidence, no There is a way to change the file of the incident and re-open the case for investigation, so we had to ask the local police station to issue a missing person notice." Mumu Police Department said, "We thought she couldn't stay in the forest all the time, and she would always come out to move around. She wants to buy something, but no one has seen her until now."

"So that's it," Mao Li said with a smile, "I see, thank you to the police department." Then he hung up the phone.

"Hey? Don't you inform the Mumu Police Department?" Lan asked.

"What's the notice, wait until I find the treasure." Maori said.

"What?" Lan asked angrily.

Yamazaki said: "Don't worry, Lan, since you can call us, you will naturally call the police, but the Megure Police Department doesn't know, it shouldn't be a murder."

"Yes, yes..." Maori wiped off his cold sweat, and then said to Yamazaki, "Get ready, I'll rent a car first." Then he ran away. ...

On the other side, a little bit forward in time, the Cyan Castle Villa.

After Huiyuan made the phone call, he said to Dr. Ali, "Let's go back to the room."

"Ah?" Dr. Ali didn't understand.

"Just go." Huiyuan pulled Dr. Ali away.

"Ah," Dr. A Li said to Gardener Tabata and Mamiya quickly, "Then let's go back to the room."

"Aren't you looking for it?" Jiangong nobleman asked.

"No." Hui Yuan said.

Ayumi said: "Huh? Then Conan..."

Glancing at Tabata Gardener and Mamiya Takahito who were not following behind, Haibara smiled at Ayumi: "Don't worry about him, I suddenly understood just now, he must be hiding somewhere watching our jokes now."

"Ah? Could it be that Conan is playing hide-and-seek with us?" Ayumi asked.

"Well, it's really possible." Mitsuhiko said.

"Okay, then let's ignore him, and catch him when he can't help but run out by himself." Yuan Tai laughed. ...