Conan: The Mechanic

Two minutes later, the space behind the opened underground gate.

"This is definitely a construction machinery-level workload," Qian Yu glanced at the scene above, her tone was quite certain, but she also sighed a little. "But even with construction machinery in mind, I never imagined there would be such a luxury building underneath."

At this moment, the group is inside a huge egg-shaped underground palace. The height of the entire space is over 15 meters, and even the highest point is completely covered with bricks. It is clear that the site has been excavated and refined in ways beyond the reach of ordinary human beings.

"A space like this, I think this should be the room related to the [Egg of Memories]?" Conan agreed. "If it's for the sake of sturdiness, it will definitely not be this towering egg shape, but it will be more inclined to a hemispherical shape."

"Hey, the one in front...the coffin...yes, is there two locks on the coffin, and one is obviously locked at the back?" The exclamation of the police officer White Bird drew their attention back to the ground. Go- Chiyu had previously focused all her energy on the most macroscopic spatial structure, instead ignoring what was so conspicuous in front of her.

In front of them, the light of a flashlight was projected directly on a coffin, and there were two different locks in the middle of the coffin, which was obviously used for locking.

"Come and have a look!" Saying this, Suzuki Jiroji walked out of the crowd and rushed in the direction of the coffin, and the others rushed over together.

The coffin was made of wood, with intricate patterns carved on it. A wood-colored lock that matched the elegance of the wooden coffin was hung in a correct position. But at the same time, there was also a rather rude iron lock hanging on the wooden lock, locking the entire wooden coffin again-unless the two locks were opened at the same time, the wooden coffin could not be opened.

"I think, this should be my great-grandmother's coffin?" Kasaka Natsumi guessed. "There is only my great-grandfather's spiritual seat in the cemetery in Yokosuka, but my great-grandmother is nowhere to be seen..."

Is this her great-grandmother's coffin? Well, maybe it does provide something that people don't know about, but it's not helpful at this point because that's not what people care about right now.

At what point does a person put a second lock on a locked coffin?

If Qianyu was asked to speculate on a person's worst maliciousness, he could easily give a possible answer—that is, to prevent the owner of the first lock from opening the coffin as well.

"Miss Natsumi," Suzuki Jiroyoshi focused his attention on the coffin itself. "This coffin...do you know anything about this thing? Can we open it up? If we don't do anything with this coffin, maybe we'll never know the truth."

"Well, open it." Kasaka Natsumi agreed without hesitation to Jiroyoshi Suzuki's request—the secret was related to the [Egg of Memory]. No matter how reluctant she was, she had no choice but to destroy the sleep of her ancestors. "However, we don't seem to have professionals who can open locks here?"

"Children," Officer Nakamori said as everyone looked at each other - but he seemed to be speaking to the children. "I got some instructions from my superiors before, saying that if there is any strange side mission that can't be performed, I'll ask you guys if you can."

"..." Qian Yu gave Conan an inquiring look, and then got a helpless lip response from there.

[It is estimated that my dad can do this kind of thing, and he has to fully squeeze out the last bit of ability of the child. 】

"Okay, okay," Sighing, Qianyu stood up. "Understood, Dr. Li gave me some professional tools before he came. I think it might be for this time."

Having said that, Chiba opened her backpack and took out the unlocking cube. "I may need a little time, just be patient."

Different from the complex mechanical locks at the entrance of the dark passage, these two locks are the simplest padlocks, so the Unlocking Cube just trembled for a moment and then opened the two locks separately.

Such a simple lock... Did the owner of the second lock really just want to use such a simple lock to stymie a senior organization like Mr. Kasaka Kiichi? This is really a somewhat unconvincing conjecture.

Although there are such doubts and I want to understand, it seems that now is not the most reasonable time to think about this kind of thing. As long as you open the coffin to find out, everything will be solved naturally.

"Okay, the second padlock has also been opened." Qianyu put the cube back in her backpack and watched Kogoro Mouri and Officer Nakamori come forward and slowly lift the upper wall of the heavy wooden coffin.

"Squeak (咻)—" With the groaning of the wooden force and the twitching of the hydraulic piston, the coffin lid was slowly lifted by the two of them. "This thing, why is this thing so heavy? The two of us still carry it so hard, at least 100 kilograms, right?"

【100 kilograms? ] Qianyu raised his eyebrows, because after using the auxiliary unit to simply estimate the volume of the coffin lid~www.readwn.com~ he did not think that the coffin lid of this volume could reach the weight of 200kg (pulling the coffin lid from one side only requires force to lift half the weight of the coffin lid.)

But just when he didn't get the answer to this question, a new question appeared.

"..." Because of his shorter height, Chiyu has a better perspective than adults to look inward when the coffin is half-open. Compared with Conan who was also there, he had higher dark vision, so he could see what was inside earlier than Conan.

However, he didn't see anything - or, what he saw was [nothing].

When a considerable amount of light had already been projected into it, Qianyu could only see the darkness inside the coffin...

Or is it because no matter how sharp eyes you have, when you look into the darkness, you can really only see darkness?

When the coffin was opened further, Qianyu confirmed this: the coffin was covered with a layer of black cloth, and this layer of black cloth was not flat, it looked like something was placed underneath.

When confirming this, Chiyu saw more - a silk thread was connected to the near side of the coffin lid, and the other end was pulled towards the bottom of the coffin. With the opening of the coffin lid, the silk thread was continuously pulled out from the bottom of the coffin.

That's right, it's an organ, but what exactly is such an organ...

Before Qianyu could say the warning words, the silk thread snapped, and the opening of the coffin suddenly became smoother.

Immediately afterwards, the layer of black cloth covering something was also pulled out to one side by a strong force from nowhere, showing what was covered underneath to everyone standing in front of it.

It was a lifelike corpse, as if it was just sleeping.