Conan: The Mechanic

Conan took everyone through the tunnel. Although the roads were very complicated, Conan's route selection was very clean and neat, without any sloppy appearance. The route through this place was obviously already familiar to Conan.

When Conan finally stopped, the scene around him could no longer be seen without a flashlight - everyone is now in a hall that is several meters square, and four permanent lights are installed on the top of the hall, so everyone can confirm that everyone is now It's like standing at a crossroads.

"No matter how you look at it, this is the part of the reminder that follows..." Conan looked at the people behind him and shrugged. "Sorry, I haven't been able to crack the part here, so please be patient."

"Conan-kun..." Ayumi said.

"If you're tired," Conan had already fallen back into his thoughts and just responded. "You can sit down casually, Mr. Tadao has a tissue, you can borrow one from him..."

"No!" Ayumi shook her head. "How on earth did you deduce how to get here?"

"That..." Conan pouted. "You all want to hear?"

"Yeah!" Everyone nodded fiercely.

"Write the first two lines 'The hidden noon horse waits for the monkeys to appear, the road suddenly becomes slow, the snake and the sheep look at the dragon and bewildered'" according to the ancient bamboo slips (start from the right, write from the top to the bottom, and change after one line is written) to the line on the left) and write it down. As you can see, because this is an ancient script, it is all written in katakana (before WWII, katakana and kanji were both used for official documents), so that we can The katakana names are arranged one by one."

As Conan spoke, he showed everyone the crossword that he had written on Tadao's notebook.

"The Big Dipper has seven stars, so the Big Dipper represents 7, and the Big Dipper means filling the katakana into a square with a side length of 7 squares - those two lines have exactly 49 hiraganas, and I can also verify my Extrapolate - so, the whole table would look like this."

Conan showed everyone a table with a hiragana in each grid.

From right to left, the columns are as follows

TA-DA-SHI-KI-HA-U-MA

NO-A-YU-MI-TO-SHI-TE

SA-RU-NI-CHI-KA-DU-KI

A-RA-WA-RE-HE-BI-KA

HI-TSU-JI-WO-MI-CHI-N

KI-NA-RU-NI-YU-U-TO

WA-NO-I-NO-CHI-NA-SU

"Then what?" Tadao asked impatiently.

In the eyes of everyone looking forward to it, Conan put the pen tip on the grid (TA) in the upper right corner and slid down. However, after drawing the "hidden" katakana, the tip of Conan's pen did not continue to draw downwards, but to the left!

Tadao immediately put on a stunned expression, because every time Conan draws a grid, the next three grids that he can draw will definitely have one or two katakana in the grid that can be connected to the katakana in the grid Conan just drew. , and when Conan's nib stopped, Tadao read out the katakana in the grid drawn by Conan's nib.

"The hidden road calls me..." (TA-DA-SHI-KI-MI-CHI-NI-WA-RE-WO-MI-BI-KA-N-TO-SU)

"That's right," Conan replied with a smile. "This sentence is hidden in two lines of seemingly meaningless text in such a way!"

"Where should we go from here?" Tadao asked. "I'm afraid there's only one way to go here..."

"From the blue, stand in the yellow, for the black to fall forever, for the red to fill the sand, only the white can pass..." Conan said the code words he heard before (I think the code words written like this are a bit more compelling. , at the end of this article, I will rewrite the previous vernacular code that is easy for you to understand into an ancient version)

"Why do I think this is a proposition no matter what I hear..." Tadao's mouth twitched.

"Yeah..." Conan also had a solemn expression.

"Let's go and see..." Yuan Tai curled his lips and said disdainfully. "As long as you walk cautiously, there should be no problems."

"Hey!" Just when Conan was about to dissuade him, he saw Yuan Tai already walking towards the entrance on the right.

"Don't go there!" Tadao was shocked. "Come back soon!"

In an instant, accompanied by a scream, Yuan Tai disappeared in front of everyone.

"Yuan Tai!" Conan exclaimed, and then ran to the place where Yuan Tai disappeared.

"Don't go!" Tadao hurriedly reminded. "Narro Falls Forever!"

"!!!" After hearing these words, Conan stopped as if he had been immobilized, and then confirmed the condition of his feet.

If he walks 20 centimeters forward, Conan will fall into the fall trap that is close at hand in front of him - a deep pit that cannot be seen to the end.

Right in front of Conan, Genta's hand desperately grabbed the edge of the trap like a drowning man grabbing a log.

"Come here!" Conan looked at the situation and realized that he might not be able to pull Yuanta back, so he shouted for help.

With everyone's concerted efforts, they finally dragged the big fat boy, Yuan Tai, up, and everyone lay exhausted beside the deep pit.

"Can you stop being so rash next time?" Conan complained. "You almost killed us all!"

"Sorry..." Yuan Tai said in a low mood.

"Then which way should we go..." Tadao said helplessly. "If this is the eternal fall of Naraku, then it means that there is one of the remaining two paths, isn't it..."

"Hmm..." Conan agreed, but was too tired to complete the nodding action. "That's bad..."

"What do you mean?" Mitsuhiko prostrated - in the process of dragging Genta just now, Conan grabbed Genta's two feet, while Mitsuhiko and Ayumi both grabbed Conan's right foot and pulled upwards.

"Because the red sand is filled with sand..." Conan explained. "If you enter the red road, then you will encounter cinnabar."

"Cinnabar filled the air?"

"Cinnabar, the scientific name is mercury sulfide," Conan explained. "It is a common alchemy material in ancient times in the Far East. If you can extract mercury~www.readwn.com~ alchemy material, there should be no problem, right?" Yuan Tai scratched his head. "Even if mercury can be extracted, the cinnabar as a raw material won't be too toxic, right?"

"Cinnabar itself is certainly not the main problem," Conan denied. "But the problem is that in the mines, there is something wrong with the reason for using cinnabar to produce mercury!"

"Hey?"

"During mining, gold ore is often soaked with mercury, and amalgam is obtained through a displacement reaction... During this process, a large amount of highly toxic mercury vapor is produced."

"Could it be..." Ayumi guessed.

"Yeah," Conan concluded. "If you go wrong, you will walk into a road full of poisonous mercury vapor, and you will not even have the chance to come back..."

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The Japanese literal translation of the prompt (if you feel that the katakana maze in this chapter is not to your taste, then say it in the book review area. If it exceeds the 10th floor, I will write a single chapter and throw away the Chinese maze that suits everyone's taste. Come up and replace the katakana maze. Similarly, my previous inference about the step is in Chinese mode. If you want to see the inference of Japanese mode, you can also say in the book review area, the standard is also on the 10th floor)

The sun is shining, the setting sun is shining, where the sunset is.

If you are chasing a big rat, choosing the middle and taking it, what a joy.

It is correct, follow the horse's footsteps

Near the spirit monkey, snake or sheep, appear in front of you

The rare dragon, the life of Shui Jiu

That is, according to the direction of the Big Dipper, guide me on the right path

From the green to stand in the yellow

Fallen forever for Hei Zena

For the red cinnabar to pervade

Only white can communicate, this treasure is

Comparable to gold, thousands of faces, white rice and one stone