Conan: The Mechanic

The port of Yokosuka.

"It's still a bit strange, right?" Qianyu and Conan asked in the same direction, looking in the same direction.

"Yeah, even though I know it won't get any results, and it's not even the first time I've encountered such a thing, it's still very unpleasant." Conan pouted, staring at the scene in front of him. "There is a corpse in front of him, and he knows who killed him, but he can't take action to bring the murderer to justice."

In front of them, the coffin containing the body of Hanchuan Dragon is being transported to a police vehicle-the police station needs to conduct an autopsy on the body as soon as possible for more detailed identification.

"Don't worry," Qian Yu sighed, but still cheered up, encouraging Conan. "As long as the original shape is revealed in that castle, everything will be solved."

"But at that time, we will also watch the whole movie and wait for them to find the murderer, and then watch the whole movie and wait for them to arrest the murderer. It's so boring—" Conan's expression became even more unhappy.

After discussions on the boat, the adults decided on a battle plan: the next visit to the castle will exclude all unnecessary personnel, and only retain armed personnel with considerable combat capability to accompany Kasaka Natsumi and the housekeeper. As well as three suspects considered possible candidates. In other words, Conan, Chiba and others will not be able to participate in the exploration of the castle.

However, although Conan and the others were not able to join the list of the team who personally caught the murderer, their emotions were only complaining about such a small imperfection - just a small imperfection, because they have been compensated to a considerable extent .

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At midnight (to be precise, 1:30 the next day), outside the castle.

"This castle is really beautiful," Suzuki Jiroji sighed as he looked at the brightly lit castle. "It is indeed one of the first emperor's favorite places!"

At the request of Jiro Yoshi Suzuki, Officer Nakamori chose to compromise and arranged an early exploration operation for them without informing any other candidates: the specific participants included the Mouri family, Chiba, Ai Haibara, and Natsumi Kasaka With his housekeeper, Officer Nakamori and Officer Shiratori.

Tonight, Kasaka Natsumi and the housekeeper have returned to the castle ahead of schedule, and Suzuki Jiroyoshi and others have also arrived here, ready to be the first witnesses to discover the secrets in the castle.

As for why Kasaka Natsumi needs to return to the castle early? Because in addition to them, there is a new batch of police personnel working there.

"They are carrying the geological exploration equipment I borrowed from my alma mater." Officer Shiratori led everyone towards the castle gate, and explained the identity of the police officers to everyone. "According to the records we have reviewed, this castle was once used by the royal family as a place of residence, so there must be a secret escape route that was built in a hurry, or temporarily opened. It is possible to find these passages through conventional methods. That’s why I thought that maybe I could use geological exploration equipment to search for underground structural cavities. Even if I can’t crack the mechanism that opens the passage, at least I can use violent means to break into the ground when necessary. "

With such an introduction, everyone slowly entered the gate of the castle, and the foreign aid invited by Police Officer Shiratori did not live up to his exhaustive introduction and his expectation of betting his face.

"The foundation depth of the entire castle is uneven, and the stone walls of the outer layer and most of the rooms extend to a considerable depth underground, but one wall of a place identified as Mr. Kasaka Kiichi's office is very shallow - from According to the observation results, several other walls bear the load-bearing function of this wall, so that it can be erected here without being extremely firm." A policeman explained to the Shiratori police officer.

"In other words, does that leave room for the foundation of this wall to be in the dark passage space?" Officer Shiratori understood the implication very clearly. "Have you found the entrance to the secret passage?"

"The location of the entrance can basically be determined, but we haven't found the relevant mechanism. However, according to the data results, there should be only a very thin layer of thick wood covering the passage. If necessary, we can use the breaker to directly smash a passage. ." The other party nodded.

"Let's explore as much as possible first, and see if we can open it in a more orthodox way," Suzuki Jiroyoshi didn't seem to want to forcibly invade in such a violent way. "Looking for a mechanism or something is also a kind of respect for a master of mechanism skills like Mr. Kasaka Kiichi, isn't it?"

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"Check carefully to see if there are any hidden compartments that can be pulled open, and then check to see if there is any mechanism that looks like it should be able to move, but is actually firmly fixed." Inspector Shiratori reminded everyone, and everyone also Under such an order, he spread out and repeatedly searched Mr. Kasaka Kiichi's office.

"Excuse me," Qianyu suddenly asked the policeman just now. "Where is the doorway of the secret passage you deduced?"

"Huh?" The policeman was stunned. "That... by the wall over there, but why are you asking this?"

Chiyu immediately walked to the direction of the secret door~www.readwn.com~ and began to check on a wall that had not been checked yet.

"If I were a designer, I would definitely not design the activation mechanism too far from this door: the longer the transmission distance of the mechanism, the more complex the relative spatial relationship, which means that the transmission mechanism will be longer and increase The possibility that the mechanism itself will gradually fail over time - of course, this is just my personal opinion, Mr. Kasaka Kiichi may also have full confidence in keeping his mechanism forever young." Saying this, Chiyu has locked his eyes on it. A piece of floor on the floor. "Um... the entrance is here, isn't it, then..."

After looking around for a while, Chiha stroked a wooden floor that was close to the base of the wall: because the adjacent floors in the entire room were intertwined with each other, the floor at the edge was only half the length of a normal wooden floor. "This piece...isn't it right?"

Chiba's assertion is well-founded, because unlike other wooden floors at the base of the wall, there is a tiny crack that is hard to find, but does exist where the wooden floor connects to the base of the wall. This means that the plank is not tucked into the final gap like other planks, but can be...

Reaching out his hand, Qianyu tried to push the wooden board, and the wooden board was immediately pushed into the wall obediently-to be precise, the part of the wall here just left a groove, allowing other people to push it into the wall. The plank was pushed into the groove, revealing what was hidden under the plank.

Between the two rails that aid the movement of the plank, is a keypad consisting of buttons engraved with Russian letters.

"I found the mechanism," Qian Yu's expression was rather subtle. "But it seems like...you need to enter a password to go down?"