The structure of the underground palace here is not complicated, there are very few forked roads, and there are not many twists and turns along the way.
Shiraishi counted the time, and after walking for a few minutes, he asked the Q version assistant to speed up the search for the entrance to the underground palace by the protagonist group.
The Q version assistant received the message and looked up at the people in front of him.
This group of people almost forgot what they were here to do, but luckily Conan, who loves solving puzzles, helped them remember.
Conan first asked if there was a basement or secret room here.
After receiving a negative answer, he reluctantly asked the deacon to take them to his great-grandfather's study.
The study also looked very ordinary. Conan stared at various murals or decorations, and even tried turning the ceiling lamp, but found nothing.
The Q version assistant is thinking about how to prompt.
After a while, he stared at the long hair on the tip of the black cat's tail and thought.
Conan jumped down from the stool and happened to see the black cat squatting not far from him, the tip of its tail swaying very slightly.
This cat had been clinging to Mao Lilan before, not bothering to take a step by itself. Now it suddenly ran to the ground and stayed in one place for a long time... Conan always felt that something was wrong.
When he got closer and took a closer look, he discovered that the tip of the cat's tail was not moving on its own, only the cat hair was fluttering.
Conan looked at it for two seconds, and a flash of lightning seemed to strike in his mind. He understood that there was wind in the cracks in the floor.
In other words...it may be empty down here.
Conan subconsciously wanted to scratch the cat's tail to see if the wind was only here or elsewhere.
However, before he could touch it, he was slapped in the face.
He reluctantly withdrew his hand and had no choice but to lie on the ground and test the direction of the wind.
Soon, Conan found a handle against the wall.
He pulled the handle, lifted it up, and pulled up a wooden floor more than one meter wide. A door was exposed under the floor, and a code disk above the door, all with Russian letters on it.
A group of people all gathered together, using commonly used names, birthdays, etc. as passwords, and tried randomly.
The password door has no response.
Fortunately, Kasaka Natsumi's great-grandfather was kinder and didn't set a limit that would lock it permanently after a few mistakes, allowing them to try as they pleased.
Later, the cipher disk was solved by relying on a word that Natsumi Kasaka heard occasionally when she was a child. According to the "Shiratori Police Department" who followed, it was the Russian version of "The Magician of the End of the Century".
As soon as she switched to Japanese, Kasaka Natsumi understood - this was the nickname of her great-grandfather. Her great-grandfather once participated in the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, where he exhibited amazing Japanese dolls, and some people later called him that.
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As a group of people chatted and descended into the secret passage, Shiraishi and Toru Amuro stopped in front of a closed stone door.
Compared with the corridor, this door is very ornately made. A huge two-headed vulture is engraved on the door, which is the coat of arms of the Romanov dynasty emperor. Behind the bird's head is a warm yellow sun.
There is no keyhole or handle on this door.
To be precise, it is more like a mural than a door, but it is carved into the shape of a door.
Shiraishi's gaze paused for a moment on the crown on the head of the two-headed vulture.
He remembered that the sun behind the crown seemed to be beautiful at first glance, but in fact it was a hint to crack the mechanism - shining a certain intensity of light on the crown for a period of time would trigger the black-tech brightness meter and open the tunnel to the coffin.
With this thought in mind, Shiraishi moved the light beam towards the bird's head on the door.
After Toru Amuro saw this "door", he also guessed that a trap was hidden here.
He was about to take a closer look, but before he could take in his surroundings, the ground suddenly began to shake and gradually cracked on both sides, revealing a downward step in the middle.
Toru Amuro took a few steps back, stood firm and looked up, and found that the crown illuminated by Matsuda on the stone wall was glowing instead of reflecting light.
After being startled for a moment, he understood - there might be a brightness meter hidden in the crown.
...But how did Matsuda figure it out in such a short period of time?
That weird intuition again?
Or has he actually been here before, or heard about the method of opening it from Kidd?
That Phantom Thief is really good at this.
I don't know where Kidd is now. If he is waiting in the corridor below, if he goes in with Matsuda, they won't join forces to attack him.
Speaking of which, the same was true for the previous slide. After looking at it for a few seconds, Matsuda found the mechanism and broke the door so quickly.
Even further forward, when he should be looking for the entrance to the castle, he instead walked around to the side of the castle. It looked like he knew something about the castle in advance.
Once or twice, it can be explained by coincidence. This is the third time...
Toru Amuro suddenly felt that he was in a bit of a dangerous situation.
He thought about it and felt that these two people should not kill anyone - regardless of Matsuda's Schrödinger conscience, if he really killed his partner, it would be difficult for him to explain it to Gin alone.
After all, it's not a per capita Belmode. If an average person's partner dies too many, it will definitely arouse suspicion. When Tequila died before, Gin asked someone to verify it. Matsuda would not be unaware of this.
And Toru Amuro feels that he is definitely a very suitable partner - he can paddle with his teammates and always write reports by himself.
Unless Matsuda no longer plans to work in the black organization, or Mello suddenly switches to field service, for an undercover agent, no other partner can be more suitable than him.
No, even if Mello is transferred to the field service, he will not be better than him. This can be seen from the fact that Matsuda would rather discharge his batteries outside than go back to Tokyo for inspection...
After thinking about it, Toru Amuro quickly calmed down and decided to choose between striking first, counterattack, escaping, and pretending to be dead according to the specific situation. It would be best to further understand the purpose and behavior of this organization.
He secretly checked the weapons on his body and deliberately took two steps slowly, intending to let Matsuda walk in front of him.
When Shiraishi passed by him, he said nonchalantly: "I didn't expect you also researched the brightness meter."
He said this, but Toru Amuro knew in his heart that the brightness meters made by these craftsmen would look no different from ordinary glass jewelry until the exposure time or light intensity reached the standard. If Matsuda followed the instructions, then
It means...
"No, I took it because..." However, the development of things was different from the script in Amuro Toru's mind.
He heard Matsuda pause, then looked up at the stone wall again, and asked sincerely: "Don't you think a bird with two heads is strange?"
"...?"
Just because of this?
Toru Amuro couldn't judge the authenticity of this sentence for a moment. He paused for a moment and saw Matsuda walking past him. He didn't seem to pay much attention to the position of the two people, and it didn't look like he was planning a sneak attack.
Amuro came back to his senses, took a look behind him, and listened carefully. He didn't hear the sound of the third person. He hesitated for a moment and followed him down the stairs.
When you reach the end, you will see a rather spectacular, round, egg-shaped space in front of you. The base here is flat and there are certain curvatures on all sides.
Toru Amuro quickly scanned the area with his flashlight. There was no Kid anywhere he looked, and there weren't many places to hide people here.
He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he might have thought too much just now.
When he looked back, he saw Matsuda walking straight towards a large rectangular wooden box.
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Shiraishi lowered his head and looked at the lock on the coffin, and was about to pry it, when suddenly his vision blurred, and a translucent thing floated out of the coffin - there was actually a hidden old lady.
However, perhaps because she died too early, this old lady, who was very old in age, looked quite young.
While Toru Amuro was still mumbling at the door, Shiraishi asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?" After speaking, he pointed to the coffin and said, "Do you mind if I open it?"
My great-grandmother was quite kind and friendly, and her mission was quite satisfactory - she wanted to be buried with her husband.
A few decades ago, this would have been very difficult.
But now, in this world, this is not a big deal - as long as Kasaka Natsumi knows the truth, she will naturally deal with it.
Grandma Ghost had no objection to opening the coffin. She only said that the structure of the lock was very delicate. If possible, she hoped to preserve this crystallization of art.