Chapter 652: Events in the castle


   On Saturday, March 20th, in the afternoon, Hachioji City, a blue castle villa in the mountainous areas of Takao and Jinma in the Tama Hills.
   Conan ran to a room on the right side of the third floor and opened the window to take a look. He could see the chess downstairs clearly, so he took out the notepad and pen he carried with him and started drawing according to the chess below.
   After Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko came running, Ayumi stood in front of the window, next to Conan, Genta stood behind them, and Mitsuhiko ran to the next door when he saw this.
   Motota stretched out his head and looked around, but he was always close, so he squeezed forward.
   "Ah!" Ayumi called, "Genta, don't squeeze me."
   Mitsuhiko called: "Genta, you can see clearly from this room."
   "Really?" Yuan ran away too happily, and Hui Yuan took his seat.
   Soon after, Conan drew the picture, sat down and said to himself: "Does the arrangement of the chess pieces have any special meaning?"
   Haibara moved his face over, "Is that your favorite secret sign?"
   "Huh?" Conan was a little uncomfortable and blushed.
   "Isn't it a secret sign?" Huihara asked.
   "No..." Before Conan finished speaking, Bumei yelled, "Genta, what are you two doing? You will fall like this!"
   Conan hurriedly 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. After arriving, 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." Genta put his head out the window.
   "Be careful." Mitsuhiko grabbed Genta.
Seeing this, Conan was about to go back, but inadvertently found that the room next door and the wall of this room were beside the window. He was stunned for a while, thinking that when he ran over, there was a distance of three or four between the two rooms. I laughed, that's it, is it necessary to build such a thick wall?
   Conan knocked on the wall, but it really made a different sound.
I took a closer look at the wall and found that there was a clock on it, so I moved to the chair in the room, and then I took a stack of books from the bookshelf and placed it on the chair. Then I stood up and played the clock on the wall, but the broadcast was 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 shape.
"It hurts, but things are getting more and more interesting. It really is not an ordinary castle." Conan got up from the ground in the dark, took out a small flashlight and took a picture, and found that there was nothing on this side of the wall. , The mechanism doesn't seem to be here, so I use the light of a small flashlight to check the surrounding road. ...
   On the other side, in the villa.
Hearing the sound of something falling to the ground, Genta and Mitsuhiko looked back and found that a chair fell on the ground with some books beside it, but Conan who was still there was no longer there, so they shouted, "Conan! "Huihara and Bumi were attracted over.
   Hearing that Conan was missing, Huihara looked at the missing scene, the chair and the book, and the clock with the lid open on the wall, so he raised the chair, put the book on it, and climbed up to prepare to broadcast the clock.
   At this time, nobleman Mamiya came over, "Hey! This is not allowed to move, what if it breaks?" He took Huihara down as he said.
  At this time, Dr. Aka and the gardener Tahata also came over, and Dr. Aka asked, "What happened to them?"
  Mamiya nobleman smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a kid's prank."
   Ayumi asked, "Doctor, Conan is gone, did you see it, are we looking for him?"
   "Did you go to the bathroom? The bathroom is downstairs, maybe I didn't hear your yelling." Tian Hata Gardener said.
   Dr. Aka said: "Then please come over and have a look."
   However, everyone went to the bathroom and found that Conan was not here.
   Dr. Aka asked, "Is there only this bathroom?"
   "Yes, there is only this in the public restroom, and nothing else is used." The gardener Tabata scratched his head, "Where will this go?"
   "Let's look for it, maybe it's outside." Huihara took the Doctor and walked out.
   "Huh? That would be troublesome." Gardener Tabata frowned and followed.
   "Why?" Dr. Aka asked.
  Miyagu nobleman said: "There was a servant who suddenly went missing. One day later, we called the police, and the police launched a large-scale search in the forest in this area."
   "Then what?" Huihara asked.
  Tabata Gardener said: "Ten days later, the police finally found him in the forest, but he was starved to death by then."
   "How could this be?" Dr. Aka was taken aback.
"I don't know, the police didn't find the reason, so they decided this incident was an accident of starving to death by mistakenly entering the forest." Nobleman Mamiya said, "and here, this matter has become a rumor among the servants. It was heard for a long time that they thought it was the wrathful spirits of those burned to death in the tower, which made him die. After that, the entrance and exit of the tower were sealed."
   "Evil spirit!" The hairs of the three of Bumei stood up.
   At this time, everyone came to the living room, and Hui Yuan found a phone in the far corner, so he asked: "Can the phone work?"
   "It works," said Gardener Tabata, "but there is no mobile phone signal here, and it's useless to call him."
Haibara did not answer, but only asked for the address here, and then one person ran over, then glanced at the gardener and nobleman of Mamiya standing in the same place, called the Mori detective office, waited for the connection, quickly Speaking of it. ...
   On the other side, Maori Detective Agency.
   Mori sits behind his desk and plugs in his earplugs while watching TV, while Yamazaki, Mei Daizi and Ran sit on the sofa meeting the guests and read books, preparing for the exam. Mei Daizi came here with Yamazaki in the afternoon, and then Lan also moved here from the upper floor.
  At this time, the phone rang, and Maori picked up the phone casually, "Hello, this is Maori Detective Agency..."
   Without waiting for Maori to finish, Huihara said, "Come here, we are here." Then he reported the address here, and then hung up the phone.
   "A cyan castle? Hello, hello?" Maori noticed that the phone had been hung up, and complained, "Damn it." Then he hung up the phone.
   "What's wrong, Dad, will there be another incident?" Lan asked.
   "Yes, I hope it's no more trivial things." Maori said irritably.
   "Dad, was it a murder in the morning?" Lan asked angrily.
   "Ah, this..." Maori was stuffed up, and then watching Yamazaki flip through the cabinet, 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, which burned many people to death." Yamazaki said.
   "Is there another fire?" Mei Daizi smiled, "Then I should go to the fire department."
   "Don't be kidding." Lan complained.
   "Oh?" Maori thought for a while and said, "By the way, it should be in 1993."
   "In 1993?" Yamazaki took out a piece of news clippings and put it on the table and turned it over.
   "That's it." Ran pointed to a piece of news and said, "A big fire broke out in the tower of a villa in the mountainous area of ​​Hachioji City late at night. It is visible from ten kilometers away."
   "Is it really here?" Mei Daizi smiled, "Uncle, you really deserve to be a detective, I remember it all."
   "Of course." Maori smiled triumphantly.
   After reading it again, Yamazaki said, "Uncle, I remember there was a missing person notice to find Mutsumi Nishikawa."
   "Musumi Nishikawa?" Maori 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, "Pet-seeking notice, Dalmatian, body length... If it can be returned, the owner would like to pay 3,000 yen in reward. What is this?"
   "It's a petting notice, you can see it as a kind of commission." Yamazaki smiled.
   "Huh?" Lan was a little angry, "Are these all commissions?"
   "Almost." Maori said casually, "These are all issued by the local police station. Anyone who finds people, finds lost items, finds pets, etc., is not a bounty."
   "Damn it!" Lan was angry, "There are so many commissions, father, you..."
   "What are you talking about, these bounties are loss-making business." Maori interrupted Lan's angrily.
   "Lost money?" Lan didn't understand.
   "Of course." Maori pulled out a pictorial, "That's it." Then he said, "For example, this is the missing person notice for Mutsumi Nishikawa. This is issued by the Hachioji City Police Department."
   "The bounty is 30,000 yen, which is not less." Lan said while looking at the pictorial.
"Idiot, this is from Hachioji City. People must have disappeared in Hachioji City. The local police can't find it. Even if I can find it, it won't be a day or two. How much will it cost for transportation and food. For those who disappeared in Mihua Town, 30,000 yen can barely find them and try their luck." Maori asked irritably, "Understand?"
   "Oh, oh." Lan blinked awkwardly.
   Mei Daizi turned the topic off, "Is this the same person from the missing person notice and the missing person from the newspaper?"
   "I'm thinking about asking this too," Yamazaki said.
   "The same person? Show me." Morina took a look at the information, touched his chin and said, "If it's the same person, it would be strange."
   "What's weird?" Mei Daizi asked, "Isn't it normal to find the missing person?"
"In terms of time, this missing person notice was issued one year after the fire broke out." Yamazaki said, "and in such a catastrophic accident, one year of missing would be deemed dead. For a deceased person Send a missing person notice..."
   "It's really weird to say that," Lan said.
   "I'm here to ask." Maori called, using the hands-free, and asked the Mumu Police Department.
   "Musumi Nishikawa?" the police department Megome asked, "who?"
   "It's the accidental fire incident in that castle-style villa in Hachioji City." Maori explained.
   "Oh, that matter," Megome Police Department said, "In fact, we and the fire investigation department think that the fire is probably not an accident."
   "No way?" Maori was taken aback.
   Mumu Police Department said: "Because all the remains were found in the tower, this is very strange."
   "Why?" Ran asked.
   "I know this." Mei Daizi said, "People on TV who are on fire will not be able to stand it, and they will jump down no matter where they are."
"Yes," the police department said, "I didn't find the body of Mutsumi Nishikawa, but thought it was unrecognizable by the fire, but then there was another incident in the villa. A missing servant starved to death outside. In the forest."
   "No?" Mei Daizi said, "There will still be people starving to death in the forest? There are food everywhere, and it is almost the same as being poisoned." Then he asked, "Is it winter when the mountains are covered by snow?"
"It's not winter, it's the turn of spring and summer. This is the problem." Mumu Police Department said, "On the second day that the man disappeared, the local police had launched a three-day search, but he was not found. Then on the tenth day, a tourist found the body of the person. The result of the autopsy was that the person had not eaten for ten days."
   "This is really weird," Maori said.
   "I see, another dimension space." Mei Daizi laughed.
   "Mai Daizi," Lan said helplessly.
The police department of Mumu smiled and said: "It makes sense to understand this. The owner of that villa said before his death that he left a treasure in the villa. His villa also includes the forest outside, so we suspect that there is an underpass under the forest, the servant. I stayed there for ten days, and we found that the man had suffered trauma to his head."
   "Baby? Is it a treasure?" Maori had a pair of money eyes.
   "Dad," Lan protested.
   "In other words, someone knocked him down, imprisoned him, and then threw him in the forest." Yamazaki said.
The Megumi Police Department said: "Yes, so we suspect that Nishikawa Mutsumi was not dead, but was hiding in the forest looking for a baby, and the fire that night was because she drugged the dead and prevented them from acting. In the end it was like this He was burned to death, but unfortunately the remains can't be examined."
   "That means, the treasure is in the forest?" Maori asked a little excitedly.
   Mumu Police Department asked angrily, "Are you listening?"
   "Yes, yes, I can listen." Maori said quickly, and then asked, "Then the missing person notice?"
"At that time, her name was announced in the list of victims of the fire. Although she was missing, it had been a year before the starvation incident and she was considered dead. Secondly, we have no evidence, no To change the case file and reopen the case for investigation, so the local police station had to issue a missing person notice." The Meguro Police Department said, "We thought that she could not stay in the forest all the time. She wants to buy something, but no one has seen her until now."
   "That's it," Maori smiled, "I see, thank you police department." Then he hung up the phone.
   "Hey? Do you not notify the Megome Police Department?" Lan asked.
   "What to tell ~EbookFREE.me~ until I find the treasure." Maori said.
   "What?" Lan Anu asked.
   Yamazaki said,
Don’t worry, Ran, since you can call us, you will naturally call the police, and the Megumi Police Department doesn’t know, it should not be a murder.

   "Yes, yes..." Maori wiped his cold sweat, and then said to Yamazaki, "You prepare, I will rent a car first." Then he ran away. ...
   On the other side, a little bit ahead of time, the blue castle villa.
   After Haibara finished the call, he said to Dr. Aka, "Let’s go back to the room."
   "Huh?" Dr. Aka didn't understand.
   "That's it." Huihara took Dr. Aka away.
   "Ah," Dr. Aka said quickly to the gardener and nobleman Mamiya, "Then we're going back to the room."
   "Aren't you looking for it?" asked the nobleman Mamiya.
   "No," Huihara said.
   Ayumi said, "Huh? Then Conan..."
   Looking at the Gardener and Noble Mamiya who didn’t follow him, Huihara smiled at Ayumi:
Don’t worry about him, I suddenly understood that he must be hiding somewhere to watch our jokes.

   "Huh? Is Conan playing hide and seek with us?" Ayumi asked.
   "Well, this is really possible," Mitsuhiko said.
   "Okay, then we will ignore him and catch him when he can't hold himself running out." Yuanta smiled. ...
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