Conan's other me

Chapter 239 The Skeleton Ten Years Ago
The Hatori Road suicide incident was solved in this way, and Maplehara and the others successfully learned the reason why the name of the song changed from KA to CA, but this reason seemed to have nothing to do with Haneda Koji's incident.

And although their investigation into the Haneda Koji incident has temporarily reached a deadlock, time has not stopped flowing.

On this day, Conan went out with Uncle Maori to solve a certain client's request, while the young detective team gathered at the doctor's house to play the latest game.

"You need to double jump to the board here."

Haihara Ai held the game controller in her left hand and supported her chin with her right hand. She yawned out of boredom, "There are also tips written below - jump to the surface and slide along with it..."

"I know." Maplehara clicked the buttons on the handle to control the game character on the screen, but his game character was still the same as dozens of times before, sliding down the edge of the board, then dissipating, and finally resurrected. At the beginning, "But this is too difficult..."

The game is a game where two players each operate a character to pass various obstacles together. Since Maplehara has been stuck here, Haibara Ai had to wait.

"I got there in one go..." Haiyuan Ai cast a look of contempt at Feng Yuan.

"That's it!"

"Maplehara, your game playing skills are really bad!"

"Same as Conan!"

The elementary school students sitting next to the two people also echoed.

"How is it possible? I'm much better than Conan. There must be something wrong with the game settings..." Feng Yuan tried to shirk the blame, "It could also be that the controller is malfunctioning..."

"Don't lie to yourself." Haiyuan Ai said, "Speaking of which, you usually react very quickly, and you do well in the school's handicraft class. Why do you become like this when it's time to play games..."

"I don't know, I always feel a little out of control..."

Feng Yuan said, reluctantly trying again, but the game character lost his life again.

"It's better to let me come!" Genta, who was watching, finally couldn't help but say, "Fengyuan, you have been stuck here for so long!"

"Ah... Yuan Tai is too much!" Ayumi said dissatisfied, "According to the order, it should be Ayumi's turn..."

They had agreed that each of them would play for half an hour, and this would continue in turn.Even though Feng Yuan was in the first group and had less than half an hour of game time, the primary school students had obviously lost patience with him.

So does Kaedehara himself.

So he handed the game controller directly to Ayumi, and then gave up his seat in front of the TV.Ayumi happily took the controller and sat next to Haibara Ai to play the game with her.

Feng Yuan stood nearby and watched.

Ayumi's first attempt also failed.However, before Fengyuan could feel better, her second attempt was successful.

With a slight twitch on his brow, Fengyuan looked away and went to the refrigerator to get himself a can of juice, intending to relax.

Then he came back, leaned on the sofa and watched from a distance.

Although he couldn't understand the game, Feng Yuan could still understand it.He could see that the game between Ayumi and Haibara Ai was going smoothly.

However, ten minutes later, because it was Mitsuhiko's turn, Haibara Ai gave up his seat.

She watched for a while, then turned around and walked to Fengyuan, slightly raising her chin towards him, showing a proud expression.

In terms of games, ten Kudos are no match for her.

but…

"Ah...that's the expression!" Feng Yuan looked at Hai Yuan Ai and whispered, "Let me take a picture of this too?"

"Haha?" Haiyuan Ai immediately put away the expression on his face, "Don't push yourself too far, you've already made two emoticons..."

"What does it matter? You like to use it yourself..."

One is a picture of Haiyuan Ai's disgusted face, and the other is a picture of her expressionless expression applauding. Although it has not been made for a long time, it is only used in conversations between two people. Haiyuan Ai has already used it. Quite a few times.

"No, it just won't work," Hui Yuan Ai snorted and rolled his eyes at Feng Yuan, "I just agreed because I was confused at that time..."

"But that expression just now was really cute..."

"..."

……

the next day.

"Eh? Conan, did you go to catch Kaitou Kidd yesterday!?"

"Did the doctor go too?"

"That's too much! You didn't ask us to come with you!"

"Yesterday, there was another client," Conan defended, "and it was you who called to say that you were going to the doctor's house to play games..."

It was also because of this that yesterday Maplehara and Haibara Ai did not follow the doctor who also received the invitation to catch Kaitou Kidd.

"Doctor, that's too much..."

"The doctor has been punished," Haihara Ai took her phone and saved the new emoticon that Fengyuan just sent, "I heard that Kidd dressed up as the doctor yesterday..."

"Really, really?"

"Kid used a stun gun to knock out the doctor, then tied him up and locked him in the toilet," Feng Yuan explained helpfully, "It looked miserable..."

But the elementary school students apparently had a different view.

"That's great, I want Kidd to pretend to be one too!"

"Ayumi wants it too!"

"I want, too!"

"Yuan Tai, haven't you been disguised once before..."

"Okay, students!" As he was speaking, Teacher Xiaolin opened the classroom door and walked in, "Please go back to your seats..."

The classroom slowly became quiet.

Teacher Xiaolin walked to the podium as he spoke. Fengyuan noticed that there was a middle-aged woman wearing glasses standing at the door of the classroom. The woman held her hands tightly in front of her, giving the impression that she was very nervous. .

It seems like there is a new teacher again...

"Today I want to introduce you to a new teacher," Teacher Xiaolin introduced to the primary school students. "She is your deputy class teacher starting today... Teacher Wakasa!"

Teacher Wakasa walked into the classroom this time and came to the podium.

"Hmm... My name is Rumi Wakasa! I'm ten years older than Mr. Kobayashi! Please, please take good care of me!"

After introducing herself, she bowed deeply to the primary school students. However, she failed to grasp the distance properly and her forehead suddenly hit the podium.

She couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.The primary school students below were stunned for a moment, and then they laughed.

The classroom is filled with a happy atmosphere.

Perhaps it was because the Young Detective Corps were one of the few students who didn't smile. During the lunch break, when Maplehara and the others gathered for lunch, Wakasa-sensei came to them for help.

She comes and asks where is Lime.

"lime?"

"What do you want to use it for?" The primary school students were a little curious.

"During the fifth PE class, aren't we going to play dodgeball on the playground?" Teacher Wakasa replied, "So I wanted to take advantage of my lunch break to draw the lines. But there wasn't much lime left in the line drawing car. No spare lime was found in the warehouse..."

"Then go to the old warehouse and have a look!" Conan said, "Maybe there will be extra lime there!"

"Oh," Yuantai also had some impression, "Is it that shabby warehouse that seems to be haunted by ghosts?"

"Yes," Mitsuhiko added, "It is said that a teacher was imprisoned there and starved to death..."

"Hey, hey, you two..." Fengyuan was a little helpless.Teacher Wakasa, who was already hesitant, looked even more hesitant.

"Teacher, don't you know where the old warehouse is?" Haibara swallowed the food in his mouth and turned to look at Rumi Wakasa.

"Knowing...is knowing..."

"Teacher, do you want us to go with you?"

"Ah?" Conan said in surprise, "Are you afraid?"

"Oh, yes…"

Teacher Wakasa admitted very embarrassedly.Their lunch was almost finished. After a while, after tidying up, they accompanied Mr. Wakasa to the old warehouse.

"I'm sorry, everyone..." Teacher Wakasa said as he walked near the warehouse, "It's obviously lunch break, but I still need you to come with me..."

"It's okay," Fengyuan replied, "We often go out for a walk after lunch..."

But this is the first time the Young Detective Team has come here together.

"This place is really broken..."

"There's no lock on the door..."

"This place was unlocked ten years ago..."

"How did you know?" Ayumi looked at Conan curiously.

"Ah, okay, it seems that Sister Xiaolan once mentioned..."

"This place should have been demolished and rebuilt a long time ago, right?" Hui Yuan Ai looked at the dilapidated warehouse in front of him.

"Mr. Principal is here..."

"Ahem." Fengyuan coughed twice to interrupt Conan's words.

"What's wrong, Mr. Principal?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Ah..." Conan came back to his senses and realized that he had almost exposed that he had gone to school here many years ago, "It's nothing..."

"Fengyuan, have you caught a cold?" Ayumi asked worriedly.

"No, it's just that my throat suddenly felt a little itchy..."

"It looks like there's a lot of dust here..."

"Anyway! Let's go find lime first!"

Conan quickly brought the topic back, and Feng Principle reached out and opened the warehouse door.It was pitch dark inside the warehouse.Next to the door was the light button, but after trying it a few times, Haihara Ai found that the light bulb was broken.

Fortunately, they all had watch-type flashlights with them, and the schoolchildren quickly illuminated the warehouse with their own devices.

"Oh, everyone is carrying such a convenient thing!" Teacher Wakasa said.

"This is what the doctor did for us..."

"There is also a detective badge that can be used as a walkie-talkie!"

"Oh... what a great doctor!"

The warehouse was not big, so they immediately looked for lime, but they couldn't find it.Ayumi did find a tattered course schedule. What made them feel a little strange was that there were many blank spaces on the course schedule.

Conan quickly noticed that the rust on the iron door leading to the basement was still fresh.

It seems someone has opened it recently...

"Hey, Feng Yuan," Conan turned to call Feng Yuan, "come here and help open this."

"...You can just drive it yourself."

"This looks very heavy at first glance."

Maple is stronger than him, and Conan doesn't want to sell this strength on his own.Fengyuan walked to the side helplessly, observed it, and then lifted the door from the side, showing that he was struggling.

However, before he could secure the door to the other side, he noticed that Conan's face stiffened next to him.

The faces of other people who came to watch also showed a somewhat frightened expression.

Fengyuan tilted his head and looked inside, and then saw a skeleton in the basement, with a belt clutched in the skeleton's right hand.

……

"This skeleton probably died ten years ago..." Officer Shiratori came to the scene this time. "I didn't find anything to prove my identity, but I guess it was a thief or something..."

Teacher Xiaolin is Officer Shiratori's childhood sweetheart, and the two are also dating.It was also because of this that Officer Shiratori volunteered to replace Megure Police Department.

"There is a big crack at the back of the skull," he continued, while two police officers were carrying the body away on a stretcher. "The body was also holding a large bag of lime. The cause of death was probably that he wanted to use the bag of lime. While stealing, he stepped down the stairs... After falling down, the back of his head hit the box under the stairs hard, causing death..."

"Why do you want to steal lime?" Fengyuan complained, "That's not valuable..."

"It looks like this from the scene." Officer Shiratori pretended not to hear Maplehara's words and concluded, "In short, it seems that the possibility of this being a criminal case is very small. Although we are very sorry for the deceased, it is just I have no choice but to close the case like this..."

Officer Shiratori has been looking at Teacher Xiaolin a few steps away.

Teacher Xiao Lin also replied: "Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work..."

"What? It's not a murder case?" Yuantai was a little disappointed.

"Hey! Genta!"

"But..." At this time, another old voice came from beside them, "The police have not been here for ten years..."

"School, Principal!"

"What happened ten years ago?"

"Four robbers broke into the house of a capitalist living nearby, killed the owner of the house...and escaped with their gold nuggets worth [-] million yen..." the principal explained, "late night on the same day , someone saw several suspicious figures entering the campus of Didan Primary School...Then the police came to investigate..."

"Oh…"

"Then the robber was caught later?" Conan asked curiously.

"I don't know, I've never heard of this... but people who do bad things will always be punished... Either they are hiding somewhere in fear, or they are already dead on the street..."

The principal spoke and walked away with his hands behind his back.Feng Yuan watched him leave, then turned to look at the old warehouse.

"What's wrong?" Hui Yuan Ai asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"The principal's words reminded me of what happened ten years ago..." Fengyuan explained in a low voice, "That day Xiaolan found a tape with Chinese characters on the door here, which was similar to the one on the corpse's hand...

But just when I wanted to take off the strap and study it, a man wearing a hat suddenly appeared and stopped me... He told me that I couldn't touch the strap because there was a terrible monster sealed in the warehouse, and this strap The tape is used to seal..."

"Ah, that means that the man was actually killed by the monster in the warehouse?"

"Hello..."

"You're kidding." Haibara Ai said. She was a little unhappy when she heard Kudo talk about his and Xiaolan's previous experiences. "So, do you think he is the skeleton?"

"It's very possible. The skeleton looks almost ten years old, and it's still holding the belt in its hand. If he stopped me at that time because he didn't want anyone to enter the warehouse...then he might be hiding here. I was looking for something or something... but I fell to death here due to an accident..."

As they were talking, Conan and the others on the other side were about to leave.

"Okay, let's go back." Conan had just taken a photo of the tape and wanted to quickly go back to the classroom to unlock the code-like text on the tape. "There's nothing going on here..."

"Oh…"

"Eh?" Fengyuan turned around and looked at Mr. Wakasa, "Teacher, don't you still need lime?"

"Yes, yes...but..." Mr. Wakasa hesitated.

"Hey, hey," Genta said, "Are you talking about the bag of lime that the skeleton is holding?"

"But that one was also taken away by the police..."

"yes…"

"It's not that," Maplehara explained. "I saw a few line painting cars in the basement before, and there might be lime in them. Anyway, Officer Shiratori thinks this is an accident. It doesn't matter if we go back and look for it, right?" "

Officer Shiratori and the other police officers had already left, and he also took Teacher Kobayashi away to talk to her, so only Teacher Wakasa and the Young Detective Team were left here.

The scene was not blocked, so they could go back.

In fact, Fengyuan just wanted to see if there was anything suspicious in the basement. They had not taken a closer look before.

And because they were originally here for the lime, the primary school students returned to the basement together despite being somewhat scared.

After opening the iron door of the basement again, Fengyuan took the lead and walked straight towards the line drawing cars.There was probably lime in it, and if not, it would have been a good place to hide something.

He came to the line drawing car, opened the lid, and was stunned for a moment.

There was a lot of cash inside.

(End of this chapter)