The Dusk Annex is located in Tottori Prefecture, not far or close to Tokyo. Shiraishi is a little confused about how to get there.
The distance is not a problem. The problem is that the Dusk Villa is located in a very remote mountain forest. There is no airport, no railways, and no buses within a radius of dozens of kilometers. If you want to reach it smoothly, you can only rely on cars.
If I remember correctly, in order to keep the detectives as free labor and to maximize their potential, Senjian Yuandai and Daigami Zhushanhui, who planned this incident, took all the detectives' cars after everyone arrived.
He blew it up and said that he would tell them how to leave the Dusk Villa only if they succeeded in solving the puzzle.
...In short, once the car is driven over, it will be scrapped.
Therefore, Shiraishi does not plan to rent a car this time. If the rented car breaks down, he will have to pay for it.
He wanted to take various public transportation to get as close as possible to Dusk Villa, and then take a taxi there. Although the taxi fare was not low, it was still more cost-effective than losing a car.
It's just that it wouldn't be easy to take Conan and the others with him.
Shiraishi was originally regretful that there was one less person to solve puzzles. But when he thought about it carefully, there would be so many detectives in the venue, so he could just pick one out and use it.
And it might be a good thing that the mystery can't be solved - if the current owner sees such a large group of detectives being helpless with the puzzle, he might lose his temper and sell the castle at a ridiculous price...
With this in mind, Shiraishi packed his luggage and ran away without telling Conan's family about it.
Although Conan's incident physique is very powerful, no matter how powerful it is, some logic must be applied.
For example, this time, the logic of Conan's contact incident may be "his neighbor received the invitation letter + the neighbor has a good relationship with him = he will be invited to go with him."
But now, his neighbor decided not to take him to play.
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Along the way, Shiraishi did not encounter Conan who had drawn a lottery ticket/was taken out by the doctor/went out to watch a concert with Mori Kogoro as he had feared before.
Perhaps because the bus incident contained too much information, this neighbor of the God of Death was still busy digesting it. He also tried to get information about the black organization from the strict-mouthed Haibara Ai, and had no time to pay attention to the rest of his territory.
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All in all, this trip without Conan was very enjoyable and everything went smoothly until we arrived in Tottori Prefecture.
But after getting off the bus and taking a taxi to Dusk Villa, some problems still arose.
——Shiraishi suspected that he had met a black driver.
This premonition became a reality after the driver pretended to eat mints, put a drug that was probably an anti-narcotic into his mouth, and crushed an anesthetic bomb in a very subtle way.
Shiraishi switched into a mask and floated in the back seat, waiting for the virtual state to end. He almost figured it out. The driver was probably Kidd.
In front of the car is the driver's work permit, which contains the driver's photo, vehicle information and company affiliation.
Shiraishi checked before getting in the car and found out that the company was a real company and there was indeed a driver named Inakao there.
But this person looks like a background board, and he cannot even be included in the "three" of the "three choices". If Mr. Inakao hadn't single-handedly broken the world's conventions, he would have to choose from the background board.
After changing his job to a criminal, the current situation can only mean that the driver has been replaced.
There is probably no one else who can replace him except Kidd. There are only a few people in this world who can disguise themselves.
And as we all know, just like "Sending a commission letter with cash in it can 100% summon Hattori Heiji," sending a notice letter or a challenge letter using Kidd's name can also 100% summon Kidd.
Before the mask appeared, Shiraishi looked at Kidd from the back row. The phantom thief had just taken a black-tech anti-anesthetic drug, and he didn't know if his anesthesia injection would still be effective.
He originally planned to use the owl's head wire to tie Kidd up and try a few needles. If it didn't work, he would drag Kidd away and tie him up and deal with it slowly.
But when I came back to my senses, I realized that there were indeed many dangers in the Dusk Annex - the poison smeared on the rim of the teacup, the real guns placed under the pillow, and those in the car who didn't know the filling rules and how to do it.
Bombs that don't explode suddenly, etc.
If you are not careful, it will be 2,499,999.
If Kidd wants to go to the mine instead of the main body, it is better to let him go and check the situation by himself. And in this case, when we get to the villa, if something happens accidentally, Kidd can still take the blame...
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Thinking like this, at the last second before turning into a physical body, Shiraishi changed into the form of a cat.
It planned to wait for Kidd to put the main body down in the car, then follow him and put the main body away, then follow the car and go to the Dusk Villa together. This way, not only would it get a driver for nothing, but it would also save the taxi fare.
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Kidd didn't notice an illusory shadow behind him, but after seeing the passenger in the co-pilot sleeping soundly, he showed a "planned" smile.
He drove around for a while and soon found a hotel with a window in the bathroom.
Kidd took advantage of the fact that no one was around, slipped in through the window with Shiraishi's body, put the person into the compartment, locked the door, then took Shiraishi's coat, turned it back through the crack at the top of the door, and returned to the outside of the house.
Driving a little further, there is no signal on the mountain road, and of course there are no nooks and crannies like the Dusk Annex.
Kidd came to check it out in advance and knew that there were many bombs on the bridge leading to the annex.
He estimated the time and felt that when Shiraishi woke up, everyone in the annex would definitely be here, and the people behind the scenes would blow up the bridge.
And once the bridge is broken, even if Shiraishi calls the police and the police want to rush over, they have to drive a police car to the nearby area first, find that they can't get through, and then call a helicopter... After all this trouble, he can almost finish the matter.
Kidd was concentrating on planning his actions after arriving at the villa at dusk, but he didn't notice a cat following him silently.
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When Kidd heard that someone was summoning detectives in his name, he made up his mind to come to the party.
Of course, you cannot participate as "Kid", but replace one of the attendees.
When choosing an identity, Kidd also hesitated whether to choose Shiraishi or Hakuba Detective - Hakuba Detective is his classmate, a high school detective of mixed British and Japanese descent.
Because except for Shiraishi and Hakuba, the other detectives who came to the party basically have one or two acquaintances, or people who have worked with them several times. If you want to pretend to be them, you need to spend a lot of effort.
This group of detectives love to talk about cases when they get together. If they pretend to be someone else and are suddenly pulled by their colleagues to talk about cases they have solved together in the past, the secret will easily be exposed if the details don't match up.
It's different for Shiraishi and Baima Tan. They don't often interact with their peers, and they don't have any acquaintances at this party. They can pretend to be whatever they want, just OOC.