Seeing that a new passage seemed to be opened above, Conan decided to climb up.
This is an upward slope, but the surface of the slope is not smooth.
If you are an adult, due to your weight, it is still difficult to use limited friction to resist the slope, and you must borrow tools.
But Conan is a child. As long as the friction force remains basically unchanged, it is still possible to climb the slope without using tools.
He took a position under the stone wall, crawling on the slope like a spider, trying to spread his weight as much as possible.
Climb up the slope for about ten meters and you will reach a vertical passage, about two meters high.
Unless you are Spider-Man, there is really no way to climb up.
There was no other way. Conan used his two feet and one hand as a fulcrum. With his free hand, he used a watch-shaped flashlight to shine upward, trying to see what was above.
The light spread out in the darkness above the head, which seemed to be a stone enclosed space.
The space above your head and the underground maze are connected by a mechanical trap door. If you step on it blindly, you will fall down.
Conan glanced at the open trap doors on the left and right, and then discovered that there was a glass bottle stuck to the top of one of the doors.
There is something dark inside the glass bottle.
Conan moved to the side of the bottle in a crawling position, grabbed the bottle, and stood on the slope with the help of the extremely solid glass bottle.
He unscrewed the plug on it, and inside was a cone-shaped black stone, which seemed to have been placed here deliberately.
"black crystal?"
The light was not very good, and Conan couldn't clearly tell what type it was, but it was a kind of stone with a slightly cool texture.
He put the black crystal into his pocket, scanned it around again and found nothing else. As soon as he let go of his hand, he stepped on the slope and slid down the slope very quietly.
"Conan! How about it? Is there any treasure up there?"
The three little ones immediately gathered around expectantly, but Conan shook his head with certainty.
"This shouldn't be a place to hide treasure. I only found this thing..."
Conan took the black crystal out of his pocket, looked carefully under the light of the flashlight, and found that it was no ordinary crystal.
On the surface of the crystal, there is also a small patch of gloomy green.
But even so, this thing isn't worth much, it's probably just artificial crystal.
"Oh, why is this happening?"
"It took you so long and all your work was in vain?"
When they heard that it was not a treasure, Mitsuhiko and Genta were immediately discouraged like rubber balls.
Conan looked at the black crystal in his hand, frowned, and secretly thought about the reason.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
Maybe the hard work is not in vain...
"Mitsuhiko, do you remember the puzzle? Tell it again and I'll listen."
"Wait a minute, let me look for it..." Mitsuhiko took out a small notebook from his pocket and read: "When the horns on the cow's head disappear and the tail becomes the head, the angels will come from the sky..."
"stop!"
Conan suddenly shouted stop, with an excited expression on his face.
"That's it, I understand!"
"I understand the meaning of the puzzle..."
As one of the two brains of the Young Detective Team, Conan took Mitsuhiko's notebook and wrote a big word "cow" on it with a pen.
"Actually, 'the horns on the cow's head disappeared' refers to the Chinese character 'cow'. If you remove this part, it becomes 'noon'."
"In the Chinese zodiac, 'Wu' represents the 'Wuma', which symbolizes the direction of due south, and the time is the noon hour of noon."
Conan compared it with the "treasure map" and said: "Judging from the direction of the treasure road, we should be south of the Angel's Pavilion now, most likely under the Angel of the South."
"I guess the space above can be opened at 12 noon. Enter it and get this black crystal, which is the first part of the puzzle..."
Qin Zhibo, who was standing on the other side of the rock wall, was listening to Conan's reasoning and knew that it was absolutely correct.
Although Conan didn't expect the linkage between Chinese character decryption and the Chinese zodiac at the first time, his ability to use the inversion of answers to deduce questions is not bad.
Let Conan get the fake Paneste fragment, and he will be half successful.
The next step is to let Mr. Clock get the fragments at the right time without harming the young boy.
…
On the way back to the East Hall, Conan passed by the human skeleton and carefully inspected it.
However, the result was still the same, nothing was found to prove the identity.
Without investigation results, we can only return to the ground, wait for the police to come, and slowly check the previous missing persons to find out the identity of the deceased.
As soon as the group of people got out of the fireplace, Ayumi came over and asked.
"Conan, what should we do next?"
Haibara Ai also asked with great trust: "Edogawa, you have solved the next riddle, right?"
"Yes."
Conan nodded solemnly, but then changed the topic, "But now there are still 5 hours before the end of time, and it is no longer possible to find the treasure."
"Why?" the three little ones said in unison.
Just as Conan was about to explain to a few people, the door to the room suddenly opened, and a figure stood directly at the door.
It's Mr. Clock.
The young detective team all trembled, like bad kids who did bad things and were caught by adults.
"Everyone, why are you here?"
The man in a gray suit stood at the door. After he finished speaking, he slowly walked into the room. The surface of his dark sunglasses reflected everyone's faces.
The handsome face under the sunglasses was expressionless, giving people a strange sense of fear.
"We are solving a mystery. We just found it inside..."
Yuantai was about to explain to Mr. Clock what they had just gained, but Conan blocked Yuantai's words with a big hand.
"We wanted to find some clues about the puzzle below, but we found nothing~"
Conan smiles innocently, and his cosplay skills as a primary school student are already perfect.
But Mr. Clock just stood there quietly, looking at everyone expressionlessly, and did not respond to Conan's words.
After a moment, he took a half step forward, and Conan subconsciously reached out to protect the three little ones behind him.
Mr. Clock saw Conan's obviously defensive behavior and did not go any further. Instead, he slowly turned around on the spot and turned his face to several people.
"Lunch is ready, it's time to go back and eat..."
After saying that, Mr. Clock left from the door.
Seeing Mr. Clock leave, Conan put down his arm to protect everyone behind him, but his eyes were still sternly staring at Mr. Clock's leaving back.
Conan has always considered himself to be very discerning when it comes to looking at people.
For example, before and after the eucalyptus, Conan can often detect the person who may be the murderer by observing a person's micro-expressions.
This is similar to a detective's intuition, and Conan's intuition is often more accurate.
But facing this "Mr. Clock", there wasn't much Conan could see through.
This man used many disguises on his body, including the codename "Mr. Clock", sunglasses that he never took off, never showing a meaningful expression, and a complete "poker face".
It is this inability to see through that makes detectives like Conan, who are good at seeing through people's minds, subconsciously be more vigilant.
But from the level of evidence, he still cannot fully prove that Mr. Clock is a bad person.
At this time, Mitsuhiko, who was standing behind, said, "Don't you think the clothes on Mr. Chong's body are very similar to those on the skeleton?"
"That being said, it seems so." Ayumi was not sure.
Conan recalled that the clothes worn by the underground skeleton were a gray suit. Although it was very worn, it was indeed very similar to the clothes worn by Mr. Clock.
But what does this mean?
After thinking about it for a while, Conan decided to go back to the North Hall for dinner first and then think about the next countermeasures.
…
Returning to the Kitanokan where they live, the boy detective team started to have lunch.
Although he was a little unhappy just now, Conan was not worried that Mr. Clock would tamper with the food.
Because no matter whether the clock is a good guy or a bad guy, for whatever reason, he and others need to solve the puzzle first and find the treasure left by Yun Seikawa Gozo.
In other words, as long as the puzzle remains unsolved, everyone is safe.
After lunch, Yuanta was still not full.
Conan pretended to continue thinking about the puzzle with the boy detective team, but never offered any constructive suggestions.
Because since lunch ended, Mr. Clock has been sitting in the restaurant, monitoring everyone all the time.
He's not leaving.
Conan was aware of the oppressive feeling coming from under his sunglasses, but he did not choose to make it public. He continued to chat with the young detective team, discussing the mystery without a moment.
In fact, he has already thought of the answer to the riddle.
The so-called "tail becomes head" refers to replacing "South" and "Noon" in the first sentence of the puzzle with "North" and "Zi Shi".
In the Northern Angel's Base at midnight, you can find the treasure left by Yoon Seikawa Gozo.
But by that time, the 24 hours stipulated in the will have long passed.
Because of this, Conan's suspicion of Mr. Clock has deepened.
Because the time when Mr. Clock found them and entrusted them to help Yuriko Matsunaka solve the puzzle happened to be after noon and before midnight.
This means that people who take on the puzzle challenge will never be able to solve the puzzle within 24 hours, and will always be one step away.
Mr. Clock can take this into account, which means that he should have solved the first riddle, but cannot think of the answer to the second riddle.
So in this way, a time trap is set up, allowing others to solve the puzzle, but because there is not enough time to verify the second sentence of the puzzle, the treasure cannot be obtained.
In this case, he can obtain the treasure himself.
Because he is one of the many successors designated by Yin Sechuan Gozo...
Conan looked at Mr. Clock sitting on the chair warily, and he already had some idea of this person in his mind.
It's just that there is no need to tell this matter now. When the police come, they will find out.
But by the way...why hasn't it taken so long for the Gunma Prefecture police to come?
…
Time passed little by little, and night fell outside the window.
Qin Zhibo hid in a hidden place in the Angel Hall, quietly looking up at the sky tonight.
As the sound of "thump thump" sounded in the four directions of the Angel Hall, four high-power searchlights began to operate, and four light beams began to sweep across the hall.
Qin Zhibo stared at the light beam above his head, which seemed to be operating according to a certain established procedure, rather than randomly "writing" in the night sky.
This means that Qin Zhibo's hiding place will never be scanned by searchlights.
And for a mansion like this, searchlights generally deal with threats from the ground, and the light should mainly focus on the ground.
But the strange thing is that the searchlight of the Angel House often shines on the sky, the heads of other angels, and the forest in the distance, places where these thieves will never go.
Suddenly, Qin Zhibo realized something.
He remembered the explanation of the second riddle from Secret Word Investigation and finally understood it all.
For such a complicated riddle, Secret Word Investigation's explanation is not concise and concise. After the explanation, it still looks like a riddle.
But seeing the operation trajectories of these searchlights, Qin Zhibo also understood the key to the puzzle.
With the key to this puzzle solved, Qin Zhibo also thought of a good plan.
…
North Hall, restaurant.
From afternoon to evening, the police still didn't come.
Now, Conan no longer complained about the speed of the Gunma County police's dispatch. It was because they did not take the report of a primary school student like him seriously.
hateful!
Bagaya road!
Conan was so angry that he vomited fragrance in his heart, but there was nothing he could do.
I was picked up directly from school without a bow-tie voice changer. If I reported it to the police again, no one would believe me.
Unless you go to that rookie police officer from Gunma Prefecture, Yamamura Fu.
Although this person is extremely unreliable, at least he has followed Mouri Kogoro a few times, so there should be no problem if the police are called.
But now Mr. Clock is watching closely and seems to have made some determination.
In order to maintain this delicate balance, Conan does not intend to act rashly now and cause any conflict with Mr. Clock.
After all, there are hostages everywhere here, it's too dangerous.
Conan glanced back at Ayumi, Ayumi, Ayumi and the others.
In this case, he pretended not to know anything and waited for the time to come, then he would naturally have no choice but to let the young detective team go home.
At that time, let Uncle Maori come over and ask the police to come back and investigate.
Just as Conan was contemplating his plan after leaving the Angel's Hall, a series of new thoughts suddenly appeared in his mind.
1. The tail becomes the head, which refers to the northern angel corresponding to the southern angel.
Second, angels will descend from the sky, which refers to the light of other angels shining on the northern angel.
Third, blowing the horn uses black fragments to create a horn-like projection.
Four, Just Do It!
what is this!?
Conan didn't understand at all why this series of reasoning about the puzzle suddenly appeared in his mind, and it was almost different from what he had thought before.
But no matter what, let’s verify it first.
He turned to look out the window, observed for a while, and found that the Northern Angel would be illuminated by the searchlight of the Eastern Angel every once in a while.
I see!
The second puzzle has no time limit at all!
It's 6 o'clock now, there's still half an hour to find the treasure!
A confident smile appeared on Conan's face, and he immediately ran to the door of the restaurant, turned around and greeted everyone loudly.
"Everyone, come with me!"
This chapter has been completed!