Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 161 The Secret Path
"What kind of text is this?" Moori Kogoro scratched his head and asked looking at the various unfamiliar text buttons on the combination lock keyboard.

"Those should be Russian letters." Kaito glanced at the button and said, "It seems that this is the combination lock to open the secret room."

"Since it's in Russian, let someone who understands Russian be responsible for securing the password." As he said that, Mouri Kogoro glanced over Pusi Qinglan and Ovchinnikov, and finally said to Qinglan , "Miss Qinglan, let's guess the password, and I'll leave the input to you."

Qinglan didn't twitch when she heard the words, she nodded and walked to the combination lock and squatted down, ready to enter the password.

"Maybe this is the room where the eggs of memories are stored, so let's try 'memory' first!" Mori Kogoro took the lead in expressing his conjecture.

Qinglan quickly entered the corresponding Russian language, but the combination lock didn't respond, she shook her head and said, "It doesn't seem to be the combination."

"Maybe it's the name of Mr. Kiichi Kasaka, try it." Ovchinnikov immediately guessed.

"It seems not." Qing Lan shook her head after entering the password again.

"Isn't that right?" Ovchinnikov frowned, then looked at Xia Mei who was standing behind him and asked, "By the way, Miss Xia Mei, do you have any impression of the password here?"

"No, I've never heard grandma mention any password." Xia Mei also shook her head when she heard the words.

"Xia Mei, did you hear any strange words from your family when you were young? I think if grandma and the others mentioned the password in Russian, you probably don't know that it is the password." At this time, Ishino reminded Xia Mei, intending to solve the problem quickly. Puzzles advance the plot.

Xia Mei heard the words and recalled for a while, suddenly she had a flash of inspiration, and said with a dazed expression: "Yes, I did hear a strange but impressive sentence when I was a child, the pronunciation seems to be 'Balu Xueniku Katame'... ..."

"Balushiny? Kukatame? Balushiny Kukatame...It doesn't feel right, it doesn't look like a Russian word." Ovchinnikov read it for a long time without understanding it. out the meaning of this sentence.

"By the way, could it be 'Baluchopnic Kanzameka'?" Qing Lan, who was squatting next to the combination lock, suddenly said, "In translation, it means 'the magician at the end of the century. '."

"The magician at the end of the century, I always feel like I've heard it somewhere?" Xiao Lan murmured to herself when she heard the words, and suddenly recalled something and exclaimed, "By the way, it's the notice letter from Kaitou Kidd!"

Mori Kogoro also remembered the signature on the notice letter, and then asked in doubt: "Yeah, isn't this really a coincidence?"

"Anyway, let's try the password first." Interrupting the association between Mao Li's father and daughter, Qing Lan entered the password again.

Different from the previous two times, after the password input was completed, accompanied by a creaking sound of the mechanism turning, the floor of the whole room began to visibly shake, and a few seconds later, a stair passage extending downward appeared in front of everyone. before.

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On the other side, a group of children who had enough food and drink started their long-awaited castle exploration.

Several children from the Boy Detective Team tried to find possible secret passages or hidden compartments outside the castle. After an hour of splitting up, they returned to the tea party to exchange information.

"Mitsuhiko, did you find anything there?" Ayumi who returned from the flower garden asked eagerly.

"I've searched all the places around the wall, but I haven't found any place where the treasure might be buried. What about you, Yuantai?" Guangyan shook his head, then turned to ask Yuantai again.

"It's the same for me. There is no place like a secret entrance around the castle." After finishing speaking, Yuan Tai scratched his head anxiously and said, "Damn it, if you don't hurry up, you won't be able to find the treasure first!"

Seeing this, Ayumi habitually wanted to seek Conan's help, but she didn't see the other party's figure, so she wondered: "By the way, what about Conan-kun, why hasn't he come back yet?"

"As for Edogawa, I walked down the steps on the edge of the cliff just now, maybe I found something." Xiao Ai pointed to a stone arch not far away and responded. She didn't turn her backyard upside down. Therefore, I have been staying in place with my sister drinking tea.

"Conan must have discovered something and is planning to act alone, let's go find him quickly." Saying that, the three little ones rushed towards the edge of the cliff without waiting for Dr. A Li to stop them.

Xiaosaki was worried that something might happen to the children, so she also pulled Xiao Ai to follow. In this way, the group walked down the steps on the edge of the cliff to the end, and came to the foot of a stone tower, where they saw Conan who was exploring inside the tower.

"Conan-kun, did you find anything?" Seeing the three little ones wandering inside alone, he immediately asked.

"No, I just think it's strange to build such a separate tower on the edge of the cliff, so I came here to have a look, but as you can see, there is nothing here." Seeing the little friend appearing here, Conan replied truthfully.

"So that's how it is." Ayumi sighed in disappointment, then looked at Xiao Ai who was beside her and asked, "Xiao Ai, have you ever been here, and what is this place for?"

"It's also my first time here." Xiao Ai shook her head after hearing the words, and continued to explain, "According to the shape and construction location, this should be the arrow tower or watchtower that guards the castle."

"It may also be the entrance and exit of the secret escape passage connected to the castle." Conan added aloud, "Generally speaking, this kind of European-style castle will have similar passages, so I suspect that there may be some mechanism here..."

Before Conan could finish speaking, he saw Dr. Ali rushing here panting, leaning on the wall at the door and panting loudly: "Hey, since you don't have anything, let's go back quickly."

As soon as the words fell, the stone brick that Dr. A Li was supporting suddenly sank, and the next second a big hole suddenly opened in the floor of the tower, swallowing all the six children standing inside...

A few seconds later, a group of children descended into a huge space underground along a curved slide.

Since the slope of the slide is not too steep, except for Yuantai who fell down and squatted because of too much inertia, the rest of the children landed safely, especially Xiaosaki who consciously protected herself during the slide. Ayumi's head, so as not to hurt the other party.

"Yes, there is a snake?!" Motota, who was sitting on the ground, felt a long strip of objects beside him, jumped up from the ground in fright, and screamed loudly, almost scaring Ayumi and Mitsuhiko beside him half to death.

At this time, Conan turned on the flashlight on his watch with a calm face, and comforted the three terrified children: "It's not a snake, you see, it's just a broken rope ladder."

(End of this chapter)