Conan led the young detective team and left the car room where Xiaolan and others were staying, and then walked back, intending to straighten out the entire route and see if anything was missed.
But when he walked to the corridor at the door of Room D, Dr. Ali opened the door and stuck his head out of the room.
"How's it going? Have you solved the reasoning puzzle?"
Dr. Ari still trusts Conan's ability to lead a team, so he did not join the Young Detective Team.
But when the young detective team saw Dr. Ari, everyone showed shocked expressions.
"Doctor, is this room our room in Car No. 6?"
Even Conan has some doubts about his elementary school math ability.
But Dr. Ali nodded and replied: "Yes... Look, the half-eaten snacks are still there in the room, aren't they?"
Conan came to the door and looked at the snacks. His eyes widened and his pupils narrowed in surprise.
I was just in Car No. 8, where Xiaolan and others were, and walking back one car, it should be Car No. 7.
But why did you return to Car No. 6?
Car No. 7 disappeared while driving?
After a while, Conan came back to his senses and looked around.
All carriages on the mystery train are not marked with carriage numbers.
If you want to ask for the car number, you can only ask the conductor sitting at the end of the car.
"Follow me!"
Conan led the young detective team and immediately ran to the conductor at the rear of the carriage and told him what had just happened.
"Car No. 7 disappeared?"
"Haha, how is this possible..."
The conductor had a relaxed smile on his face, obviously treating their words as a child's prank.
Yuantai quickly shouted again: "Just now we saw an uncle being shot in Car No. 7!"
"The criminal ran away immediately after committing the crime! We chased him behind him, but accidentally lost him!"
Mitsuhiko continued: "When we returned, we found that carriage No. 7 was missing!"
Hearing this, the conductor pretended to be surprised, but then he smiled and said, "There is a pistol... Then why not find the conductor in other cars immediately?"
At this time, an indicator light in one of the compartments came on.
After the conductor saw it, he stood up and said to the young detective team: "I think you should go find a conductor like me and ask."
"It's all because of the boss's arrangement. There are no numbers in these carriages, which makes it difficult for us conductors to guide..."
The conductor came to the room with the indicator light on, knocked on the door, provided services to the passengers inside, and ignored Conan and others.
And Conan also felt that what the conductor said made sense. Why didn't he think of asking the conductor just now?
So, Conan moved forward one car to the end of the car and found the conductor who was sitting on a chair and yawning.
"Hello, I would like to ask what car number this is?"
"This is Car No. 7."
"Really?"
"Ah, um..."
Mitsuhiko said in surprise: "What's going on! Car No. 7 has resurrected itself again!"
Ayumi: "What's going on?"
The three children only looked at Conan as the backbone, waiting for Conan to come up with an idea.
Conan raised his chin, thought for a moment, and decided to go back to Room B where the incident just happened to check the situation first.
But when they came to the door of Room B and opened the door, there were still three people inside, namely Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko, and Sera Masumi.
"Well, I said, is this really Car No. 8?"
As soon as Conan asked, Sonoko shouted impatiently: "Didn't I tell you that this is Car No. 8?"
"I told you, little devil, to go back to your room and stay there!"
Conan was scolded directly out of the room by Yuanzi, and the door was slammed shut with a loud bang.
The young detective team stood at the door dumbly, not knowing what to do next.
"Did the conductor make a mistake?"
"Maybe, he looks sleepy..."
The object of the three little ones' suspicion was the conductor at the rear of the carriage. They had no suspicion that someone close to them might have deceived them.
However, Conan raised his chin and thought about why Sonoko reacted so loudly these times when he knocked on the door.
It feels like I am deliberately taking myself in another direction.
There is also Xiaolan's smile without saying a word, and Sera's pure and meaningful smile...
Right!
Suddenly, Conan recalled that when he first knocked on the door, Xiaolan and Sonoko were drinking tea with teacups, but Sera was the only one holding a card.
The style of that card seems to be similar to the mystery letter I received.
Thinking of this, the corners of Conan's mouth slowly rose, and the chaotic thoughts in his mind suddenly became enlightened.
He raised his hand and opened the door of Room B in front of him again.
"I'm talking about you!"
Yuanzi saw Conan at the door reappearing like an unbeatable Xiao Qiang. Just as he was about to reprimand a few people, Conan interrupted him with a serious look on his face.
"This room is undoubtedly Room B of Car No. 7, right?"
"I, all, said..."
Sonoko still wanted to struggle, but Conan just threw evidence.
"Sister Sonoko, you also got the letter, right?"
"It's almost the same as this one..."
As he spoke, Conan took out the envelope from his trouser pocket and showed it.
"The card should say that this is part of a mystery puzzle. It allows you to temporarily switch rooms with the passenger who plays the victim in this room, so that the person responsible for playing the detective is confused, resulting in the current situation..."
Seriang smiled and said: "The correct answer~"
"That's awesome, you really deserve to be Conan~" Mao Lilan smiled and clapped her hands.
Because she wasn't very good at lying to people, and she was lying to acquaintances around her, she didn't speak during the whole process.
However, Yuanzi thought it was a good opportunity and planned to take this opportunity to attack Conan's "arrogance".
But Sonoko didn't expect that instead of deceiving Conan, Sera thought it would be more interesting to give Conan some hints and let him solve the puzzle with confidence.
So she deliberately picked up the card, waited for Conan to come over, and deliberately let him see it.
"What~ It's so boring..."
Sonoko shook her head helplessly, and then shouted angrily at Conan: "The card said that we should exchange rooms with the passengers of the victim in Car No. 7 to make the mystery puzzle more interesting, so here we are!"
"I didn't expect you to see through it so quickly!"
Sera smiled and added: "I happened to meet them exchanging rooms when I was visiting, so I joined together..."
Conan looked at Yuanzi who was furious after his trick was discovered, and the corner of his mouth twitched helplessly.
Haha, being told the truth made me even more angry...
Next, several people exchanged details about the reasoning puzzle.
The card that Sonoko and others received invited them to act as accomplices and hide the fact that they had exchanged rooms.
Mouri Kogoro was asked to wait alone in the dining car, and he finally explained the entire incident.
Conan grinned and thought to himself: I'll have to be responsible for explaining later, it's really troublesome... At this moment, Sera glanced at the children at a lower place and noticed the brown-haired lolita at the back of the crowd.
This is a good opportunity to say hello to my cousin~
"By the way, this is our first official meeting, right?"
"I've always wanted to find a chance to get to know each other. I heard that you guys formed...a young detective team?"
As soon as they heard the keyword "Young Detective Team", the three little ones immediately became energetic and gathered together to pose.
"That's right! We are the Junior Detective Team!"
"My name is Genta Kojima!"
"My name is Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya!"
"My name is Yoshida Ayumi!"
"Edogawa Conan..."
Seeing the adorable looks of the three little ones, especially Conan's languid look, Sera sneered at the corner of his mouth and turned his head to Haibara Ai at the back.
"What about this little girl?"
Ayumi immediately turned around and introduced: "This is Xiao Ai! He is also a member of our young detective team!"
"Oh? Then please give me more advice in the future~"
"Xiao Ai~"
Sera Masumi bent down, his eyes were level with Haihara Ai's, and he stretched out his hand in front of Haihara Ai.
But when Haihara Ai looked at the familiar Shiliang Zhenchun in front of him, his heart beat violently.
Her body subconsciously shrank behind Conan, which was a disguised rejection of Sera Masumi's handshake.
Conan glanced at Haihara Ai behind him and didn't understand why she was suddenly so afraid of strangers, but he still helped her to smooth things over.
"Sorry, she is quite afraid of strangers~"
"Ah..." Shiliang was startled and could only retract his hand, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter..."
Sera Masumi straightened her body and looked at her palms inexplicably. She wondered in her heart whether she was too enthusiastic and scared her cousin.
I just want to get to know him...
…
After solving the reasoning puzzle, everyone headed to the rear of the carriage, intending to tell the conductor about the situation.
However, the conductor showed doubts in his eyes when he received two envelope cards containing reasoning puzzles.
"Well...this is indeed the same design as the instruction card I used before..."
"But the content above is completely different from the tricks I heard before."
With that said, the conductor returned the two cards to Sonoko and Conan.
Yuanzi stared at the card in his hand and asked puzzledly: "What on earth is going on?"
Conan was thinking seriously.
The conductor had previously said that the puzzle would not start until an hour later. He thought that the conductor said that in order to cooperate with Sonoko and others to deceive them.
Now it seems that it may be a "misunderstanding".
As for what the "misunderstanding" is, we can only go first...
"At this point, we can only go to Car No. 8 and ask the passenger who is responsible for playing the victim."
"What do you think? Conan?"
Sera looked at Conan who was standing low, with a meaningful smile on his lips.
Conan looked at Sera with some confusion and could only nod his head and said "Yeah".
In this way, everyone walked around the connection between the carriages and headed to carriage No. 8.
At this moment, the train just entered the tunnel, and it was dark outside the window, leaving only the dim light on the corridor arch.
In Room A of Car No. 8, Qin Zhibo was carefully taking off his human skin mask to let fresh air flow to the skin on his face.
The human leather mask on the table is full of wrinkles, and the beard under the chin and nose is quite lush.
Since all the tickets for the mysterious train were sold out long ago, Qin Zhibo had to start with people who already had tickets.
After a series of investigations, he found a user who blogged about mysterious train rides every year.
Let Hiroki Sawada hack into this person's blog, obtain his IP address information, and then find this person's identity information, which is called Noto Taisaku.
He is a former Self-Defense Forces officer and his hobby is kendo.
Since his body shape and height were similar to his own, Qin Zhibo targeted him for his disguise.
This morning, he crouched down in the parking lot at Noto Tesori who was planning to drive to the train station, knocked him unconscious, and then took his identity and headed to the station.
But when he arrived at the station, he realized something was wrong.
It turns out that this man did not take the mysterious train alone, but took the mysterious train with some fixed people every year.
That is, the other passengers in Car No. 8.
Not long after the train departed, these people called themselves to gather in the dining car.
Fortunately, the intersection between these people is not too deep. It seems that they were the fire survivors who gathered together to mourn the deceased because of a certain fire.
Qin Zhibo sat on a chair, put out his laptop, and searched for information about the fire on the computer.
Since several people had just talked in the dining car that the fire occurred in April 5 years ago, and the location was a property owner's villa, they found it easily.
Five years ago, at 22:40 on April 17, a fire broke out in a property owner's villa in Shizuoka Prefecture during a birthday party.
It took five days for the fire to be completely extinguished, and the 2,600-square-meter villa was burned to the ground.
The incident resulted in the death of 12 people, including the bourgeois family and some guests attending the banquet.
There are a total of 6 survivors.
Qin Zhibo calculated that there were a total of 5 cabins in this first-class carriage, one of which was shared by the old lady with limited mobility and the maid.
There is one survivor in each of the other rooms.
It's just that the man named Murohashi was arranged by the organizer through the back door this time and failed to get a room in Car No. 8.
And the target I chose to disguise myself happened to be one of them.
This strange configuration, plus Conan is also on this train, could it be a sign of the case?
While Qin Zhibo was thinking, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Mr. Noto!"
"Mr. Noto!"
Qin Zhibo quickly put away his laptop and put the human skin mask back on his head.
He opened the door and found the conductor of this car standing at the door.
"What are you doing? I didn't ask you to come over!"
Qin Zhibo imitated Noto Taize's usual tone and yelled at the conductor in front of him.
The conductor was stunned, "But if so, the bell just rang..."
The bell means that each carriage is equipped with a pager, which can call the conductor in the corridor to come over at any time.
However, Qin Zhibo clearly remembered that he did not press the pager.
"What does this have to do with me? It's not me who pressed the button. You came here to disturb my rest even though everything was fine..."
At the same time, the door of the room not far away opened, half of his head was exposed and he was looking around, with a phone in his hand.
However, Qin Zhibo didn't pay too much attention and quickly closed the door to prevent any flaws in the human skin mask he put on hastily.
As soon as the door to Qin Zhibo's room was closed, the call bell rang again in the dim corridor.