North Hall, restaurant.
Since finishing breakfast, the Young Detective Team and Yuriko Matsunaka have been thinking about the mystery here.
Fortunately, a lot of the leftovers from last night's dinner disappeared inexplicably, and Mr. Chong didn't ask and still gave them enough breakfast.
Except for Yuantai, there is still not enough to eat.
However, even if nutrients are replenished in time, Conan's brain is not an AI and cannot immediately calculate the answer to the puzzle.
What also puzzled him was why he called the police last night, but the police didn't come by noon the next day.
What kind of police dispatch efficiency is this?
If that didn't work, he wanted to personally go to the underground tunnel where Mitsuhiko found the body to have a look and examine the body first.
By the way! You can check the body first!
If you're lucky, that corpse will be related to the treasure left by Yoon Secheon Gozo?
Conan raised his hand and looked at the time. It was now 11:30, and there were still 7 hours left before the 24-hour time limit.
If useful clues can be found on the corpse, 7 hours is enough to solve the puzzle!
On the contrary, if you stay here and try to answer the question, you may just sit there and wait for death.
"Okay, let's go to the place where Mitsuhiko found the body and take a look."
Conan's sudden voice broke the long silence in the room.
As giants in action and dwarfs in logic, the expressions on the three little guys' faces immediately became happy when they heard that they were going out to investigate.
Mitsuhiko stood up from the chair, "Let me tell you, the treasure must be in that tunnel!"
"Okay! Young Detective Team, let's go!"
Yuantai also jumped down from the window sill, raising his arms and shouting.
Immediately, a group of six primary school students ran out of the restaurant in a hurry and set off towards their destination.
Mr. Chong was currently in the kitchen, cooking lunch for several people that strictly followed the recipes and portions. He did not notice that the young detective team had already set off.
…
Outside the Beizhi Museum, Qin Zhibo hid in the grass and quietly watched the young detective team running out of the main entrance of the museum.
But after running for a while, he realized something was wrong.
These primary school students don’t want to go south at all!
That's the east side!
Qin Zhibo quickly recognized that the direction in which these people were traveling was not the Angel of the South as he had expected.
This shows that Conan has not solved the first sentence of the puzzle at this time, and is still in a state of confusion and blindness.
I haven’t seen you for a few days, Conan, you are really cool!
But the time now is close to 12:00 noon. If you miss today's opportunity, you will have to wait until tomorrow for the chance to enter the Angel of the South.
But if today passes, many variables will arise.
For example, looking at the amount of ingredients Mr. Clock prepared in the kitchen, it seems that he has no intention of letting Conan and others live here for a long time.
As for the corpse, Conan might call Gunma Prefecture Police Station again at any time.
Once the police come, Mr. Clock may be investigated, or the frightened Mr. Clock may fly away forcibly, or the police may seal the Angel Pavilion for half a month or a month.
These situations are all possible.
At that time, it will be very troublesome for me to implement the plan of "stealing one thing and replacing it with another".
So for me, now is the best time.
Just when Qin Zhibo was about to take out his flash gun and shoot Conan, the leader of the team who was running, his thoughts changed again.
The place Conan wants to go to is the East Hall, which means that he wants to investigate the tunnels and corpses there.
As the old saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, and you don't have to stick to asking Conan to solve puzzles to reach the base of the Angel of the South.
Isn’t it also possible the other way around?
In addition, Mr. Clock is not following them now, so it is just right for him to do this.
Thinking in his mind, Qin Zhibo put away the aura gun, put on the [Lord of the Rings], and entered the invisible state.
…
On Conan's side, under Mitsuhiko's instructions, he climbed into the room through the magic wall from last night.
Entering the room, Mitsuhiko pointed to the golden cow on the fireplace and said: "That is the cow without horns! As long as the head and tail of the cow are exchanged, the passage under the fireplace will be opened!"
Mitsuhiko was very proud of cracking this "trick". This was one of the few wonderful moments when he could defeat Conan.
"Misuhiko, you are so awesome!" The innocent Ayumi praised him without hesitation.
"Hehe~ It's okay, hehe~"
Mitsuhiko scratched his head and his face became rosy.
But then, Conan's words were like cold water poured on his head.
"But this is not a mechanism at all, just an ordinary ornament..."
Everyone turned around and saw Conan stepping on the chair at some point and holding the whole golden bull in his arms.
"What? This is impossible!"
Mitsuhiko quickly ran over, raised his feet and looked at the top of the fireplace. It was indeed a complete marble plane with no mechanism on it.
He groped for it several times without giving up, but still couldn't change this fact.
"Really, there is no mechanism..."
Conan put the golden bull ornament back to its original place, jumped down from the chair, and was immediately praised by Ayumi.
"Conan, you are so awesome!"
"Um, oh..." Conan nodded, then turned around and ducked into the fireplace.
Although the mechanism of Taurus is wrong reasoning, it means that it must not be related to the mystery.
But since we're here, let's take a look at the body first.
Just like that, Conan and his party got into the fireplace in rows.
…
At the same time, Qin Zhibo took advantage of his long legs to arrive at the East Hall early and climbed through the window into the room with the fake fireplace.
Then go through the passage under the fireplace and come to the corpse.
In the underground passage, Qin Zhibo turned on the navigation device and could view the map of the entire maze.
He tore off a piece of paper from the small notebook in his arms and used a pen to outline the map of the maze with minimalist lines.
The other parts are not important, it is enough to draw the path that leads to the base of the southern angel.
Taking into account the "treasure map club" of the Junior Detective Group, Qin Zhibo thoughtfully drew a big, eye-catching "×" on the Southern Angel's base.
After doing this, he placed the paper on the ground and rubbed it randomly a few times to create some signs of aging.
Teen Detective Team Trap, get!
Qin Zhibo put this old "treasure map" in the pocket of the clothes worn by the skeleton, and the sound of footsteps came from the passage.
He quickly put on the Ring and his figure was once again hidden in the darkness.
At this time, the young detective team's watch-shaped flashlight happened to shine here, and they saw the corpse lying on the ground.
Although they had been mentally prepared for it, when they saw the skeletal corpse in this environment, the children were immediately frightened and grinned.
The most calm person among them is not Conan, who has experienced many killings, but Haibara Ai.
Bones, they are all old friends...
The old detective Conan immediately squatted next to the body and began the autopsy.
It can be said that it is an autopsy. In fact, the places that can be inspected are limited. After all, the body has turned into bones. The most is to check whether the body has suffered any trauma before death and what items it carried with it.
At this time, the first thing to check is whether there is any trauma to the head.
There is no trauma to the top of the back of the head.
Conan just stretched out his hand to scratch his head, trying to check the condition of the skull on the side of the ground, but as soon as he exerted force with his fingers, his skull split open.
Wow, half of his head rolled on the ground, making a weak sound.
"ah?"
"ah--!"
Conan screamed in surprise, while Ayumi and Matsunaka Yuriko, who were standing two meters away, screamed in fright.
"Big, big, brain, split!"
"It's cracked!"
Mitsuhiko and Genta were so frightened that they screamed, but Haibara Aitanding, who had seen the world next to them, came over.
She squatted next to the frowning Conan, reached out and picked up half of the skull on the ground without hesitation, and held it in her hand like a scoop.
After only observing for a few seconds, Haihara Ai's eyes changed.
"What's wrong?" Conan asked.
Haihara Ai held half of the skull in her hand and explained: "This is a cerebral circumcision operation, which is an operation to cut the entire human skull from the top in a circular shape."
"But the diameter of this circumcision is too large, and it has exceeded the purpose of general surgery..."
Haihara Ai didn't finish her words. Considering that there were children nearby, she didn't say "It's like taking out the whole brain."
However, Haihara Ai has actually seen similar cases of surgery.
When she was studying at Harvard in the United States and going to the University of Michigan as an exchange student, Haihara Ai had read about it in the medical books in the University of Michigan library.
More than a hundred years ago, a strange brain parasite disease was prevalent in the UK. The longer the parasite resides in the human brain, the more aggressive the host becomes, committing self-mutilation and other irrational behaviors.
British doctor Moonlight Smith developed a brain drilling operation that can remove the parasite from between the brainstem and skull.
However, if the parasite persists for too long, a circumcision surgery will be performed to cut off the entire skull and remove the parasite from inside.
However, Haihara Ai prefers these contents to be a kind of folk history. After all, she has never heard of brain parasites that can directly affect human behavior.
Haiyuan Ai held the cut-off half of the skull and continued: "The incision of this cranial circumcision is very smooth. The person who cut this skull is proficient in surgery."
"It would be incredible if it could be cut without damaging the brain..."
Generally, when an experienced doctor wants to cut open a human skull, even with the assistance of modern medical equipment such as an electric milling cutter, he must carefully consider every bit of force. If he is not careful, he may touch the brain inside.
In the process of force frustration, the surface of the incision will be uneven and there will be slight jagged scratch marks on the edge. This is normal.
But this skull has no trace of distortion at all, and is as flat as if it were a mass-produced industrial product.
This isn't even a textbook surgical specimen.
Because such precision of muscle control and calmness during surgery are no longer something humans can achieve.
Sure enough, the incision was made after the person died?
Huihara Ai was also unsure of her own thoughts.
Conan's investigation ideas are directly inclined to murder. The murderer should have killed this man by cutting open his brain.
"But why do this?"
What can be done by spending time cutting open the human brain?
Could it be for eating?
Conan suddenly thought of a certain ogre exploration movie, in which the ogre cuts open the victim's skull in order to taste the victim's front lobe.
Could this be the case...
Thinking of this, Conan suddenly smelled the scent of eucalyptus and quickly groped for the clothes on the skeleton, hoping to find some items inside that could prove his identity.
But after searching all the pockets, Conan found a piece of paper.
There is a simple map drawn on the piece of paper, with an eye-catching "×" mark on the corner of the map.
Mitsuhiko: "It's a treasure map!"
Ayumi: "Really? Is there a treasure here?"
Yuantai: "Great! You can go treasure hunting! Treasure baby~"
The sharp-eyed Mitsuhiko and Genta immediately became excited, and even Ayumi, who was scared a second ago, also became excited.
There is no doubt that the Boy Detective Team is a trap.
Bgm, up!
Give them a treasure map and they can search the entire earth. General MacArthur, the five-star American general, once commented...
Conan held the piece of paper in his hand and looked over it over and over again, thinking that the piece of paper was a road map to somewhere.
"It looks like it's from here..."
"Then let's go to that place and have a look. Maybe it's related to the puzzle!" Mitsuhiko quickly encouraged, his treasure hunter's heart already thirsty.
"Go ahead, Conan, let's take a look~" Ayumi also suggested going treasure hunting.
Conan was still a little hesitant, but with the wind blowing constantly in his ears from the three little birds, he decided to follow the location on the piece of paper first.
Maybe we can find more clues about the murder?
"Okay, let's go."
"That's great! Let's go treasure hunting~"
The three little ones made cheerful sounds, completely ignoring the feelings of the bones on the ground next to them.
Haiyuan Ai also put the skull back to its original position with a calm expression and left with the team.
While the killer's surgical skills may have been impressive, they had little to do with her.
Only Yuriko Matsunaka, who was following the team, still looked scared.
She was still a little confused, why were everyone of the same age suddenly not afraid at all?
She didn't even dare to look at the skeleton, but the two primary school students actually reached out to touch it.
She felt a little out of place in this small group.
…
Following the route drawn on the note, Conan and others arrived at the location marked with an "×".
"There is no way..."
Genta and Mitsuhiko ran forward and looked around, but there was really no way forward.
Conan's attention was focused on a slide that was embedded in the wall and sloping upward.
I stretched my head and took a look inside. It was completely dark above and I couldn't see anything, but it was definitely not the exit.
"Everyone! Come and see, there is something here!"
Under Ayumi's call, several people gathered behind a stone slab, where there was a wooden joystick.
"This must be the key to unlocking the treasure!"
Before Conan could say anything, Genta stepped forward and fiddled with the joystick.
Wow.
Long——
With the sound of machinery running, it seemed that some machinery overhead was running.
Conan quickly climbed into the sloping slide again, and the darkness above seemed to become deeper.
Has a new channel been opened?
This chapter has been completed!