Conan: The Mechanic

Who is it?

Chiba hurriedly turned around and looked towards the end of the stairs—the light from the flashlight under his arm also shone through.

No one, as if everything was just an illusion.

Wait a minute, this is a closed space. If other secret passage entrances are opened, you might hear the wrong direction in this place. . .

Anyway, someone came in. . . And it must be the murderer. . .

Qianyu turned her head and began to explore the entire secret passage again.

When the sound of Qianyu's footsteps gradually weakened, a person climbed up from the platform at the entrance of the secret passage - he was lying on this platform that became a blind spot for Qianyu's vision before he was not found.

. . .

Holding a small flashlight, Haibara Ai stood in front of the door of the room where the secret passage was located. She tried to open the door, but found that the door was locked. "..."

Not right. . . If this place is still locked, how did Chiba get in?

Could it be that after Qianyu entered, someone else entered?

So. . . Wait a minute, I remember a valet died while exploring the abandoned stone tower? Could it be that. . .

After a moment of contemplation, Haibara Ai walked downstairs.

Behind her, a person secretly watched her leaving figure and followed.

Outside the abandoned stone pagoda, Haibara Ai looked at the lock at the door of the stone pagoda—the lock was opened.

"..." Haibara Ai hesitated—this lock should theoretically be locked, if the lock is opened, it means that someone broke in from here. . .

Is the criminal. . . Chiba has no keys. . .

Haibara Ai was about to leave when she remembered something.

Why did the murderer come in?

Qianyu chased the murderer, but the murderer escaped? Impossible, if that's the case, Chiba must have come out to find them.

Then there is only one possibility - the murderer has opened the lock here for some purpose. . .

Excuse me, what did the murderer do?

Perhaps, Conan was hidden here by the murderer. . .

Then, the murderer shouldn't be here? That murderer should be fighting Chiba now. . .

Haibara Ai was relieved and walked into the stone tower with a flashlight.

There was no furniture in the stone tower - apparently abandoned after the fire cleared the scene.

But apparently it's not completely abandoned here.

Haibara Ai looked at the footprints on the ground and recognized them.

This is the footprint left by a pair of shoes that are not big, and it does not seem to belong to a tall and strong man.

Wait a moment. . . There is only one thing in this villa that does not belong to this category. . .

Hai Yuanai's brows furrowed. "how can that be?"

That old woman?

Not right. . . Others in this castle have the same condition. . .

It is very likely that the fire that burned the stone tower was also the work of the murderer, but that fire burned down almost all the old servants, and how could the new servants have the motive to do so?

And those who escaped the fire and lived long enough in that castle before. . .

Only the old lady. . .

"Why are you here?" At this moment, a man's voice appeared behind Haibara Ai.

"!!" Haibara Ai turned around in surprise, only to see the bald gardener holding a stick and asking her with a vicious face.

Before she could think too much, Haibara Ai immediately ran up the stairs in front of her.

"Don't run!" The gardener yelled, grabbing the stick and chasing behind Hai Yuanai.

There was a door at the end of the stairs, Haibara Ai immediately ran in, and locked the latch - fortunately, this is a latch instead of a door lock. As long as it is locked from the inside, it cannot be opened from the outside anyway.

As soon as she locked the door, the gardener slammed into the door, making Haibara Ai, who had just locked the door, take a step back.

Clash, bump over and over again. As the gardener kept banging on the gate, Haibara Ai could even see that the latch was being knocked loose by the gardener.

"Haihara?" At this moment, a surprised voice came from Ai Haihara.

. . .

After the secret passage descended to the height of the first underground floor, Qianyu found that the secret passage had entered a horizontal state.

Is this to get out of the castle? From the direction, it seems to be in the direction of the abandoned stone tower?

As we were walking, there was a crossroad ahead, and there was no end to the three roads. Qianyu recalled the direction of the abandoned stone tower, and chose the road in the middle—the road should lead directly to the abandoned stone tower.

A minute later, Qianyu discovered that the passage in front of him was blocked by a stone wall. The stone wall was inlaid with an iron ring handrail, and there was a one-meter-square passage directly above it, which was obviously designed to climb up through the handrail.

Qianyu climbed up from the railing, only to see a small space above, and there was a button on the side stone wall that was obviously a switch.

Qianyu pressed the button, and with a sound, the front stone wall began to rotate, revealing the scene behind the stone wall.

Behind the stone wall is a toilet, and the door of the toilet on the opposite side is wide open - outside the toilet door is Ai Huiyuan with a frightened look.

"Haiyuan?" Qianyu asked in surprise.

"!?" Haibara was shocked when she heard Qianyu's voice.

"Why are you here?" Qian Yu asked. "Didn't I tell you to hide?"

"Don't talk about this yet. UU reading www.uukanshu.com." Haibara Ai was about to speak, but the latch that the gardener kept hitting on looked like it would collapse at any moment. "The gardener outside the door is breaking in!"

"..." Chiba immediately raised the seamless umbrella and deployed it to a mode capable of long-range shooting. "pass it to me."

At this moment, the latch was knocked open, and the gardener rushed in.

The launch port of the Traceless Umbrella was aimed at the gardener, and a crossbow arrow shot out from the crossbow arrow port and plunged into the gardener's neck.

"Ah, ah, ah!" The gardener screamed and fell to the ground, trying to pull out the crossbow bolt from his body, but after pulling out the crossbow bolt, he lay on the ground in pain as he rolled desperately and wailed loudly.

Qianyu stepped forward and smashed the seamless umbrella on the gardener’s back like an iron rod—for reasons that Qianyu himself couldn’t explain, he didn’t want to kill people in front of Haibara Ai, so he chose to temporarily abolish it in this way. The gardener's resistance.

Afterwards, Qianyu took Haibara Ai and fled the stone tower.

. . .

"Why did you come out?" Qianyu asked again while walking on the stone road outside the stone pagoda.

"..." Haibara Ai hesitated for a moment. "Because...because I think it's a shame to leave a friend like this, so I came back to you...well, because you're a friend."

"Okay," Chiba shrugged. "I remember you were hiding here just now..."

Looking at the deserted grass, the expressions of Chiba and Haibara Ai changed.

"Where are they?" Qianyu asked Haihara sadly.

"I don't know..." Huiyuan shook his head sadly and muttered. "I really don't know...wait a minute..."

Haibara pointed to the castle hall.

"The lights are on!"