Conan: The Mechanic

After walking a distance, an area full of various stones appeared in front of everyone.

"I think maybe the mine road is near here..." Tadao murmured.

"Yes," Conan agreed after carefully observing the appearance of the stone. "Thick artificial traces..."

First of all, there are some abrupt stab marks on many stones, which are obviously caused by professional tools such as shovels. Moreover, many stones are stacked against each other to form a stone wall.

"What is that?" Yuan Tai suddenly asked, pointing to a large stone with a strange shape not far away. "It looks like a big plate, is it a pot from the Warring States Period?"

"Pot?" Conan was slightly stunned, and then came to "that pot" with everyone.

The whole "pot" is round, about 50 cm in diameter, and about 15 cm in thickness. In the eyes of a child like Yuan Tai, it really looks like a pot. However, this thing actually is. . .

"This is a stone mortar..." Conan said with a smile. "It's a tool used to crush ore in ancient times. It's a very common thing in mines!"

"Crushing ore?" Yuan Tai was at a loss.

"You need to crush the ore into powder to extract the gold from the gold ore..." Conan shrugged.

"Gold?" Mitsuhiko said excitedly. "Does it mean that there may be gold on this stone mortar?"

"Gold?" Yuan Tai immediately became excited when he heard the word, and even ran to the stone mortar and tried to lift it up.

"Is this a gold mine?" Ayumi asked in confusion. "Won't it be another mine?"

"According to the records, there are only gold mines here," Conan shook his head and replied. Then, seeing Yuan Tai's absurd behavior, he couldn't help but say with a smile. "Yuantai, you are thinking too much. Even if the gold ore is crushed, it is still not gold powder! Gold can only be obtained by sorting with running water, then burning it with fire to remove impurities and refining. What's on the mortar is just ore powder."

"Okay..." Yuanta said, the frustration on her face was obvious.

"Alright," Tadao clapped his hands and told everyone to look at him. "Let's keep looking for mines."

. . .

When everyone came to a very flat cube mine, everyone saw what was in the pit - a mine.

"This should be it..." Looking at the mine in front of him, Conan couldn't hide his excitement. "Interval!"

"It should be..." Tadao nodded at the faintly visible wooden structure inside the mine that was used to reinforce the mine. "Otherwise, the cave would never have been strengthened in such a rigorous way."

"At the same time, we can know that those two guys probably entered from here." Conan motioned for everyone to look at their feet.

A few vines extended from their feet and hung down from the pit. It is worth noting that there is a vine with a broken end lying next to several other vines, and this vine's port is very new.

"So, we are going to confront them head-on," Conan said solemnly after checking his equipment. "Everyone cheer up!"

"What does the prompt mean?" Tadao looked at Conan and asked. "The part from 'the hidden noon horse waits for the appearance of the monkeys' to 'the hidden road calls me'."

"I don't know," Conan shook his head. "I really don't know, give me a moment to think about it."

The hidden noon horse waits for the appearance of the monkeys

The road suddenly turns slow, snakes and sheep look at the dragon and bewildered

Follow the Big Dipper, the hidden road calls to me

The whole paragraph is quite confusing, and I can't find any meaningful meaning. . . Even in terms of the grammar of Takeda Shingen's time, this was a rather strange statement. . .

Then, the meaning of this passage should not lie in the literal meaning of this passage, but in an element that every word in this passage has. . .

At the same time, the third line is structurally different from the first two, because the third sentence does not refer to the zodiac like the previous sentences.

Follow the direction of the Big Dipper, the hidden road calls me?

Follow the direction of Beidou? The Big Dipper is in the north, but if Conan remembers correctly, the entrance to the mine is from north to south, and you will only come out following the direction of the Big Dipper!

Following the square of the Big Dipper? However, the square of the Big Dipper will face in different directions depending on the season, which is not acceptable. . .

Follow the square of the Big Dipper? The Big Dipper is seven stars, how to square it—wait, the Big Dipper! ! ? ?

seven. . . Seven squared. . . forty nine. . .

Conan suddenly turned to Tadao. "Brother Tadao, lend me your notebook again, and then please give me another pen!"

When Conan got the notebook and pen, he immediately began to calculate on the notebook.

Everyone just waited for Conan to calculate—although Haibara Ai might be caught by the bad guys, and even if he arrived at the place where the treasure was located one second later, it would make Haibara Ai a little dangerous, but everyone trusted Conan’s reasoning ability. I believe he can lead everyone to make the best choice.

Conan did not disappoint everyone. When he raised his head again, his face was a smile of successful reasoning.

"Wait for me here, I'll check if my reasoning is wrong." Conan replied after checking that the flashlight on his watch was working properly.

"What if I get lost?" Tadao was a little surprised by Conan's aggressive approach~www.readwn.com~ It is said that there are quite a lot of routes in this kind of place, and if you are not careful, you will get lost. . . "

"I'm not wandering aimlessly," Conan said while holding a notebook and pen, turning on the flashlight, and climbing down from the vine. "Wait for my good news, about 10 minutes."

With that said, Conan disappeared into the hole.

. . .

Waiting, waiting like years. Both the little guys and Tadao had already climbed down from the vines and stood at the entrance of the cave waiting for Conan to come back.

"How many minutes?" Ayumi worried.

"It might be 15 minutes..." Mitsuhiko agreed worriedly. "Didn't Conan say it only takes ten minutes..."

"Calm down," Tadao glanced at his watch. "It's only eight minutes and thirty seconds now, you are too impatient."

"But why hasn't Conan come back..." Ayumi was still a little worried.

"Didn't you come back?" Tadao's voice suddenly sounded.

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Tadao blankly, but found that Tadao was also blank.

"Huh?" Tadao looked at the eyes of others in surprise. "I didn't say anything..."

"Conan has returned." Tadao's voice sounded again.

"..." Mitsuhiko blinked, because he saw that Tadao's lips didn't even move, there was no way he was talking, and no matter how he heard it, he felt that the voice came from behind, in the direction of the hole. . . Could it be that!

Mitsuhiko turned around quickly, and saw Conan with a bow-tie voice changer looking at them all with a smile.

"Gentlemen," Conan said in his own voice. "I'm back, my reasoning..."

"That's right!"