Seeing Shiraishi, Hattori Heiji breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if this teammate is very unreliable, and his combat effectiveness may suddenly become negative at any time... But with one more person, at least he can share clues.
Moreover, the act of telling another person what you have learned is also a very effective induction and summary.
Moreover, judging from Shiraishi's ability to predict the current situation in advance, his role will definitely not be small when he is not asleep. Together with him, we may be able to find out the truth about the castle and the whereabouts of Conan faster.
Hattori Heiji briefly told what happened after Shiraishi fell asleep, especially the disappearance of Conan.
Then he told Shiraishi his speculation:
“I think there are two possibilities. One is that Kudo witnessed something ‘shouldn’t have been seen’ and was arrested by someone who wanted to silence him, and his movements were restricted. He might even have been killed.
"But what Kudo saw must have nothing to do with the treasure and Mamiya Mitsuru - we have already said that we will not covet the property left by the ancestors of the Mamiya family, and Mamiya Mitsuru has no reason to attack us because of the treasure.
"If other people wanted to bypass Mamiya Mitsuru, the head of the family, and get the treasure, it would be difficult for them to think that a child could solve the mystery, and there would be no need to kidnap Conan to serve as brainpower.
"So at the beginning, I focused my search on other people in the castle and the corners where people could easily hide, but there were still no clues... I had to contact the police, and they would send someone over, but it would probably take until early in the morning.
When the time comes, let them supervise the people in the castle and start a large-scale search."
Shiraishi nodded, thinking that police relations are easy to use.
He half wanted to remind Hattori Heiji to ask his police friends to help bring a tow truck, so that he would not have to drive the car back and just pretend to be asleep in the police car.
But now that Conan was missing, as a kind-hearted neighbor, he shouldn't focus on driving, so he had to swallow his words again and continue to listen to Hattori Heiji's analysis.
"Another possibility is that Kudo discovered some secret passages or secret rooms - after all, this is a historic castle that was moved intact from abroad, so it is not surprising to have these devices.
"When the mechanism is triggered, it is usually accompanied by a certain sound... By the way, I don't think the Mamiya family knows that there is a secret passage in the castle, otherwise Mamiya Mitsuru would have told us the relevant situation, which would make it easier to solve the puzzle.
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"Of course, there may be something shady in the secret passage. But in this case, most people would not specially invite detectives to the castle to investigate.
"So I am more inclined to believe that these mechanisms have been forgotten for a long time and have not been used for a long time - that is to say, the noise when it is activated will only be louder.
"But before and after Conan disappeared..." Hattori Heiji suddenly glanced at Shiraishi, "Apart from the fact that you leaned against the door and accidentally hit it against the wall, there were no other suspicious sounds around here."
"So I thought at that time that Kudo might have triggered the mechanism further away. But just now I searched all the rooms further away on this floor and still couldn't find where the mechanism was."
"So now I'm thinking, could it be that the sound of you leaning against the door blocked other sounds - such as the sound of Kudo touching the mechanism, giving us the feeling that he disappeared 'silently'?
illusion."
When he first thought of this, Hattori Heiji actually suspected that Shiraishi did it on purpose. After all, the timing was too coincidental.
But when I thought about it again, I felt that I lacked motivation.
Both Kudo and Mao Lilan seemed to trust Shiraishi.
If Shiraishi wanted to kill them, all he had to do was find an opportunity to inquire about their itinerary, and then "encounter" them when they went out. After the plot was successful, it would definitely be more difficult to throw them into the deep mountains and wild forests than it is now with him as a variable.
Much safer.
In addition, when Shiraishi made any noise, Hattori Heiji immediately turned around to check.
He was able to confirm that Conan was not in the room at that time, and no mechanism in the room was closing.
After Hattori Heiji thought of this, he immediately came to the room and imitated Shiraishi's posture at that time, leaning against the door. Then he searched all the walls within his field of vision, but could not find any suspicious mechanisms.
...In other words, if the moment Shiraishi approached the door was really the time when the mechanism was triggered, then at that point in time, Shiraishi would not be able to see Conan at all, and he would not be able to grasp Conan's actions.
So this should be just a coincidence. Although such coincidences are rare, they are not completely impossible.
——Of course, as a detective who pays attention to science, Hattori Heiji never imagined that there would be a ghost in Shiraishi who could inform him.
In short, after a series of brainstorming and trial and error, Hattori Heiji came to a conclusion.
——Conan should have disappeared near them, and the sound he made when he disappeared was similar to the sound of the door hitting the wall. Otherwise, if the sound was too different, it would not be confused with the sound of Shiraishi leaning against the door.
With the support of his guiding ideology, when Hattori Heiji once again approached the room that he had ruled out from the beginning, after a short observation, he immediately discovered the problem.
The windows in this room, and in the next room, are built against the wall.
But when the probe looked from the outside, it could be seen that the distance between the windows was too large - there was probably a secret passage in between.
When he thought about it, Hattori Heiji immediately understood.
No wonder Conan discovered the problem immediately. At that time, Hattori Heiji was busy talking to the employees, and Conan ran ahead, listening and looking for a window to observe the yard.
Hattori Heiji didn't think much at that time and followed Conan directly into the target room, so Conan's observation of the windows was much more detailed than him.
——Hattori Heiji felt much better after trying to make amends for himself. He walked to the next door and started looking for possible mechanisms hidden there.
He quickly noticed the decorative frame on the wall and the clock above the frame.
When I took a closer look, I saw that there were a few trailing fingerprints on the transparent watch cover, as if someone had grabbed it in a panic and failed to catch it.
Hattori Heiji couldn't remember the specific shape of Conan's fingerprints, but after a little comparison, he felt that the size did look like those left by a child.
"That should be it." Hattori Heiji and Conan had the same idea. While explaining the situation to Shiraishi, he started to turn the pointer.
After returning to 12 o'clock, the mechanism on the wall flipped again.
Bai Shi raised his hand and used some force to hold the wall that was turned away.
Hattori Heiji also raised his hand and pushed against the wall, feeling the weight, and showed a "Sure enough" look:
"He should have disappeared from here. This kind of force is indeed enough to drag a child in... But after such an accident, he didn't knock on the wall to remind us that we are obviously next door."