The gate of the castle was locked after the protagonist group entered.
Toru Amuro checked the windows one by one and found a suitable location to pick the lock.
However, when he turned back to pick up the tool bag, he found that it was empty behind him.
Taking a closer look, Matsuda was standing on the side wall more than ten meters away, staring at something outside the wall for a while. Then he suddenly jumped off the wall and walked over there.
"..." From this distance, if you call someone, you may alert the people in the castle.
Toru Amuro hesitated for a moment, then picked up his bag and followed.
There are no game arcades or other places to play in this kind of place. Matsuda must not have been attracted by the strange entertainment facilities, but maybe he has made a new discovery.
Shiraishi really plans to take VIP direct access.
There are two ways to enter the underground of the castle.
Inside the castle - in the office of Kasaka Natsumi's great-grandfather, there is an agency door hidden under the floor. It can only be opened by entering a specific password, and from there you can enter the underground.
The entrance to the other road is hidden in a tower outside the castle.
Shiraishi remembers that in the original plot, the doctor came to give Conan special reinforced glasses for military defense, and the young detective team also came with him.
They wanted to enter the castle, but the door was locked ruthlessly by the deacon.
Finally, Haihara Ai wandered around and accidentally discovered the tower on the side.
This tower has no door. In fact, it is more like an empty woodshed. There is a loose brick on the door frame. When pressed, the door hidden in the ground will open, allowing the person standing on it to fall into a place diagonally downwards.
The slide slides directly into the underground palace, and you don’t even need to enter the password.
Bai Shi climbed over the side wall, followed the stairs to the bottom, and saw the simple tower.
He heard footsteps coming from behind, it must be Toru Amuro following him.
Shiraishi stopped at the door, expecting to wait for Toru Amuro to walk in, then "accidentally" lean against the wall, press down the mechanism, and give his teammate a direct surprise, while also letting him take the first step and wipe off the dust on the slide.
But Toru Amuro had just passed him and stepped on the door on the ground with his toes. He suddenly showed a thoughtful look and stepped back again.
Toru Amuro stared at the ground for a while, squatted down, and knocked twice on the ground with the crowbar in his hand: "It seems to be empty down here."
"..." Shiraishi looked at the floor again.
The floor of this room is solid only one meter away from the wall, and the rest is the door that opens downward.
There is indeed a very slight difference at the junction between the door and the ground, but because the mechanism has not been used for a long time, the ground is dusty and it is not noticeable at all.
You can see this...it's getting harder and harder for teammates to cheat.
Shiraishi turned his eyes away indifferently and looked at the wall.
The Q version assistant just sent a message, saying that the resting protagonist group has started again and is heading to the office of Kasaka Natsumi's great-grandfather. In a while, they may find the entrance to the passage.
So there can be no further delay here.
There is a brick on the wall that is slightly different in shape from the other bricks.
Shiraishi: "This seems to be able to push." As he said this, he clicked it.
Toru Amuro was startled and subconsciously wanted to stop it - in a place like the castle, there might be some hidden mechanism that could cause rocks to fall when pressed.
However, Matsuda moved too quickly, leaving no time for him to react. He only heard a creaking sound, and the ground next to him suddenly opened downwards, revealing a diagonally downward passage. It was dark in the depths, and it was difficult to see where it led.
Shiraishi withdrew his hand, and the door paused for a few seconds before closing again.
"...It seems that there are no traps, at least not on the surface."
Toru Amuro recalled the scene he just saw and felt that it was right - according to the information he had heard before, the underground of this castle was specially left for future generations to explore by the craftsman. There was no reason to set up a bunch of insidious traps to entrap people.
Descendants.
He dug out a bundle of rope from his bag, tied one end to a protruding rock outside, and held the other end by himself.
Then Toru Amuro looked at Matsuda: "I'll go down and check the situation first. You stay here and hold down the switch. If something unusual happens down there, you first..." He wanted to say that he would call the police first.
But thinking about the wrong situation and the wrong person, I could only change my mind: "Just leave first."
Matsuda nodded, raised his hand and pressed the switch, and the door on the ground opened again.
Seeing that he was quite cooperative, Toru Amuro took the flashlight in his mouth with confidence, grabbed the rope and jumped down.
This section of the diagonally downward passage has been polished very smooth, and there is some dust on it, but it does not hinder movement.
Toru Amuro slid along for more than ten meters. When his feet were empty, the slide seemed to have reached the end.
He tightened the rope, stopped at the edge of the slide, looked down, and saw the ground two or three meters below.
After a brief sweep with a flashlight, the ground below was flat and empty, and it didn't look dangerous.
In addition, there is a passage on the opposite side, which probably leads to the underground palace. There should be what he is looking for over there.
Toru Amuro subconsciously pressed the fake gemstone inside through her pocket. After finding another memory egg, she would check the situation first. If it was genuine, she would immediately replace it with a fake one, and then take a video of it.
Organizational communication.
Thinking of this, he was a little lucky - thanks to the fact that this mechanism needed to be activated, it gave him an excuse to leave Matsuda up there, so that he didn't have to worry about being discovered when he tampered with it.
With this thought in mind, Toru Amuro threw the extra rope down so that he could drag it up when returning, and then jumped to the ground himself.
The moment he landed, he seemed to hear an echo.
But soon, Toru Amuro realized that it was not an echo - something fell down, right behind him!
After all, the surroundings were a gloomy old castle. In such an environment, and something suddenly came so close to her quietly, Toru Amuro felt a sudden chill in her back.
He used the momentum of landing to roll on the spot to avoid the non-existent attack, then drew his gun and pointed it at the place where the "echo" just sounded, and followed it with his flashlight.
In the beam of light, Matsuda raised his hand to block his eyes and protested: "Don't shine on me."
"..."
Aren't you responsible for staying on top and pressing the switch?
Amuro Toru's eyes twitched, and with the action of sheathing the gun, she secretly stuffed the fake gems in her pocket deeper.
...Did Matsuda’s mysterious organization not completely give up on another memory egg?
Sure enough, when it comes to serious matters, it becomes difficult to fool...
Toru Amuro sighed: "The door is closed, how can we go up in a while?"
"It doesn't matter, I removed half of the door." Matsuda raised a small pry bar in his hand.
"..." Toru Amuro was slightly startled.
He recalled the door above. In his impression, the door was quite exquisitely made, and the door shaft was also hidden. At least he didn't notice where to start.
And it didn't take long for him to slide down, observe, and land. In just a minute or two, Matsuda was able to quietly dismantle the door. This family's disassembly skills are really...
However, now that everyone from Matsuda has come down and the agency door is no longer an obstacle, it seems too deliberate to find excuses to push him away.
Moreover, although Matsuda listens to advice most of the time, when it comes to critical issues, his attitude can be summed up in one sentence: I will just listen.
...Forget it, let’s take a look at the tunnel first. The memory eggs inside may not be genuine.
Toru Amuro found a spare flashlight and gave it to Matsuda, and walked toward the passage tiredly.