Conan's other me

Chapter 76 Beetle Super Evolution
a few days later.

"Scarab?"

Conan couldn't help shouting when he saw the doctor's new car.

Dr. Ali planned to take the children to go camping after a long absence. At this moment, Ayumi and others gathered around the doctor's new car curiously, and opened the door to go in to experience it.

The biggest feature of this car is the tail like a Beetle.

"This is the earliest multi-purpose vehicle," Conan continued. "It was born more than half a century ago, and production has long been discontinued. This car should be in a museum, doctor, how did you get it?"

"This is..."

"No, it's just what it looks like...I said, doctor," Conan looked at Dr. Ali with a blank eye, "you probably modified this thing yourself, right?"

"Shh!" Dr. A Li hurriedly made a silence gesture to Conan, "Don't talk nonsense."

"The restrictions on modified cars have been relaxed a long time ago, doctor, what are you afraid of?"

Conan complained, faintly feeling that things might not be that simple.But the left and right were just cars, so he didn't think much about it.

"Doctor, how much do you like the Beetle?"

Conan continued to complain.

Feng Yuan is also watching seriously.

He did know what the doctor was doing before, but he only saw the results today.

I really don't understand the doctor's aesthetic...

After struggling for a long time between the convenience of taking the children on a trip and the Beetle car, Dr. Ali finally remembered that he was an adult, so he chose to have all of them.

The doctor also spent a lot of money for this, and even invited many domestic and foreign engineers to help. Feng originally planned to pay for the doctor himself, but the doctor did not agree.

And in order not to appear too raw, Feng Yuan did not insist.

He just bought some shares of the luxury brand Fuesa for the doctor in private, and planned to give it to the doctor at the right time.

At this moment, after letting the children appreciate his new car, the doctor walked over excitedly, intending to take the children to go camping.

But he was stopped by Fengyuan.

"Doctor," Fengyuan said, "the tent and food are not ready yet."

……

a few hours later.

"Do you know the way, doctor?"

"It's been so long, it's almost dark!"

"Let's just find another place." Conan couldn't help but persuade.

"Oh, well," Dr. A Li hesitated and sighed, "It's just a pity about the mushrooms there."

Dr. A Li stepped on it a long time ago, and deliberately picked a place where a lot of mushrooms grew.

It's a pity that things backfired. Even though it was the second time, he still lost his way.

Thinking about finding another suitable camping place, the doctor opened for a while, and Yuan Tai suddenly shouted.

"Look over there! Is that the castle!?"

"How could this kind of place be possible—" Conan said while looking towards the front of the car, and then obediently shut up.

A blue western-style castle came into their eyes.

Although it was very strange that there was such a castle in the forest, it was rare to see such a scene, so Dr. Ali stopped the car to let the children take a closer look.

The castle is not as huge as in the film and television works, but the feeling of standing by the fence gate is completely different from the feeling in front of the TV.

"It's amazing!"

"Some rich man must have bought a castle in a foreign country, and then reassembled it here." Conan said casually, holding the back of his head with his hands.

"What an extravagant rich man."

Hui Yuanai agreed, and then glanced thoughtfully at Dr. A Li.

However, she is only the height of a child now, and Dr. A Li didn't notice at all.

Let the children watch it for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, the doctor called the children to leave, "Okay, I've seen enough. It's getting dark, shall we go?"

"But Bu Meili wants to go in and take a look."

"Hey, there are still people living here," Conan suddenly became alert, "Hurry up and leave."

But Yuan Tai didn't care.

Although the iron gate was very high and had sharp barbs, Yuantai, who was familiar with it, climbed up before the doctor could react.

"Hi!" the doctor yelled hastily, "what are you doing?"

"Of course I went in and explored!"

Jumping off the door, Yuan Tai was about to run in, but was suddenly grabbed by the back collar.

"Where did you come from, little brat?" A man wearing a work hat who looked like a gardener grabbed Yuan Tai and shouted, "Why did you come in without authorization!"

"I'm sorry!" Dr. Ali hurriedly shouted through the door, "We are not suspicious people!"

"Huh? Who are you?"

"We passed by here and saw this magnificent castle..."

Dr. Ali originally wanted to take Genta and leave, but after looking at Ayumi who was looking at the castle longingly, he hesitated for a moment and then answered, "If it's convenient, can we have a visit?"

"No! Outsiders are not welcome here!"

"Who are they?" a new voice cut in. "I don't remember any visitors today."

The one who just walked over and was called "Master" by the gardener was a middle-aged man with a square face and short hair.He was talking, but his eyes did not look at people, but fell on Dr. A Li's new car.

His name is Mamiyaman.

"This dumb old man said he wanted to come in," said the gardener.

"Stupid? I'm a scientist!"

"Scientist?" Mamiya was taken aback for a moment, and looked away from the doctor's car.

"That's right, my name is Dr. Ali, and I'm a well-known inventor."

"Oh? Really?" Mamiya thought for a moment, "Then your mind must be much better than the average person's?"

"this…"

"Okay, please come in!" Ma Gongman signaled the gardener to open the door, "you can stay here for the night!"

"..."

Dr. Ali was a little surprised that the other party suddenly became very enthusiastic.In fact, he just wanted to see if he could let the children visit it.

"But, sir," the gardener was a little surprised, "I didn't know Mrs. Tai..."

"Just tell her that she is my friend." Ma Gongman didn't care about it. "My mother-in-law is like that, so I don't need to tell her too much."

Mrs. Tai in the gardener's mouth, his mother-in-law has long been demented.

It seems that he thought that the car driven by Dr. A Li was an antique with a long history and considerable collection value. Afterwards, Ma Gongman chatted with Dr. A Li for a few words about the scarab car before leaving, leaving the gardener to entertain the group.

The gardener, who looked fierce just now, seemed to be more patient now, and led everyone to visit the garden he had just taken care of.

There are many stone sculptures in the courtyard.

"Wow, Arima!" Ayumi happily ran over.

"There's a black one!"

"Why is there only a head?" Mitsuhiko asked curiously.

"This is not an ordinary horse," Haibara Ai explained standing beside Fengyuan, "this is a knight, one of the chess pieces."

As she said, the sculptures on the ground are chess pieces.Not only the chess pieces, but the turf below has also been trimmed into pieces, making it look like a chessboard.

"Is there anyone here who loves to play chess?" asked Dr. Ali.

"I don't know. I just follow the instructions of the previous master, Mr. Zhenzhao, and tidy up like this every day. And Mr. Zhenzhao heard that he followed the last words of the old master who passed away 15 years ago."

"The former master? The one just now..."

When the topic opened, the gardener told Dr. Ali about the composition and history of the family.

The primary school students happily played the live chess game and acted as the characters on the board.Fengyuan, Conan and Haibara Ai listened to the gardener's story with Dr. Ali.

As the gardener narrated, they also noticed a charred stone tower next to them.

Four years ago, the wife of this family returned to Japan after many years, and wanted to celebrate Mrs. Tai's birthday.As a result, she arrived in the middle of the night, and a fire broke out at dawn, and all the maids and servants who served her were burned to death in the tower.

While chatting, the gardener led everyone into the castle, and the elementary school students also followed after they found that the stone sculptures were difficult to move.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw the portrait of the old man several meters high facing them.

"My wife's son, the noble young master, looks exactly like Mr. Tai," the gardener continued, "The portraits on both sides are Mr. Zhenzhao and his wife. Mr. Zhenzhao, who is married, respects Mr. Tai who is a historian very much. Mrs. doesn't think so. She often says to Mr.——"

"Father is just a reasonable intellectual." An old lady in a wheelchair leaned over, startling the doctor, Ayumi and the others, "Master Tai also knows about this. And he didn't take it for granted, on the contrary, he was very happy."

"Sorry to remind you of something unpleasant." The gardener said shyly.

"No need to apologize, I'm used to the days when he's not around. It's like the pattern of banknotes and the size of passports have changed. I'm not used to it at first, but I get used to it after a while."

Feeling sad, Mrs. Madam Jian Gong Zengyo looked at everyone again.

"By the way, who are they?"

"Oh...it's the master's scientist friend."

The gardener lied as Mamiyaman ordered.

"Scientists?" Mamiya Zoyo was stunned for a moment, "It's really exciting...then we must ask them to solve the puzzles left by the master..."

Keyword capture, puzzles.

After learning that the old man of this family left a last word before his death, saying that he would give his treasure to the person who solved the mystery of the castle, the young detective team had a new idea.

Soon, everyone headed by Conan went to the room where the chess in the courtyard could be seen, and Fengyuan habitually walked at the back.

"Aren't you interested in puzzles?" Haibara Ai asked curiously, "Big detective?"

(End of this chapter)