Conan: Start with three choices, but sequence potion

Chapter 231 Detective Field, Expand!

"You know?" Hattori Heiji looked at Conan in surprise.

"Ah."

Conan held up the photo of the paper with the puzzle on it in front of him.

"Thanks to those two versions of nursery rhymes by you and Ms. Chika Ling, did you notice? The patterns drawn here actually represent the lyrics of the streets in the ball song."

Hattori Heiji suddenly understood: "It's true!"

"Just put them in the order of the ball song."

Conan drew on the map with his finger: "Just like this, you can see a big 'king' character."

"And if you add this abrupt dot, it becomes 'jade'."

"The stolen Buddha statue is most likely located at this point, which is the Foguang Temple."

"Also." He found a photo of the Yamashi Tathagata statue at Sanneng Temple on his phone a long time ago and enlarged the forehead. "Look at this."

Hattori Heiji moved closer curiously and saw a pure white crystal bead between the Buddha statue's eyebrows.

"This is."

"This is the crystal bead you have been keeping."

Conan cruelly revealed the truth: "That was not left by your first love, but the Buddha statue 'White Hair' that was accidentally dropped by the 'Genji Hotaru' group after they broke into Sannoji Temple and stole the Buddha statue eight years ago."

"I think it was because you showed the crystal bead in the magazine not long ago that the murderer noticed you and attacked you."

Hattori Heiji fell into deep thought.

"From the current clues and circumstances, the day you met your 'first love' should have been the day that 'Genji Hotaru' was on the move. They were in a hurry during the theft and accidentally dropped the white hair of the Buddha statue. They may have discovered it afterwards, but you, who had just woken up from your coma, had picked it up as something left behind by your first love."

"Without the important white hair, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the people of 'Genji Hotaru' to sell the Buddha statue, so they will temporarily hide the Buddha statue and secretly search for the whereabouts of the white hair."

"The person who hid the Buddha statue at that time was probably Yoshitsune, the leader. In order to stabilize the other members of the gang afterwards, he hid the code pointing to the location of the Buddha statue on the drawing paper and distributed it to each member."

"During these eight years, I don't know if something else happened, but the leader Yoshitsune's control over the other members gradually disappeared. Benkei, the most ambitious of them, got a magical item by chance. He wanted to keep the Buddha statue for himself, so he killed the others who had the code paper."

With just a few words, Conan sorted out a relatively reasonable and clear chain of events based on the existing clues and information.

Hattori Heiji looked at the white hair on the forehead of the Yakushi Nyorai statue on the screen of his mobile phone, and finally gave up his fantasy about his first love. He concentrated on following Conan's thoughts and began to think about the development of the whole case.

The two stopped a car on the side of the road, preparing to change their previous plan of meeting up with other people at Shanneng Temple and go to Foguang Temple instead.

The journey was not far, and they arrived at their destination after about ten minutes.

"We're here. This is Foguang Temple."

Conan jumped out of the car and looked at the temple in front of him which was a bit shabby and seemed to be quite old.

The gate of the temple has been demolished, leaving only a dusty threshold. There are no entry restrictions and few tourists visit.

"Could the Buddha statue really be hidden here?" Hattori Heiji looked around and asked hesitantly.

Although it does look like a good hiding place as it is rarely visited by people, it is too shabby and it is hard to believe how secretive it is.

"I don't know either"

Conan shook his head, suddenly walked out the door and stepped back, observing the dilapidated temple as a whole.

When he stepped back for a distance, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a stone tablet on the side of the road.

"This is.?"

Hattori Heiji followed out after hearing the sound and saw Conan standing in front of the stone tablet with a thoughtful look on his face.

He turned his head and saw the words "Yulong Temple Ruins" written on the stone tablet.

"Yulong Temple" He had some understanding, "Could it be that the point on the map actually refers to this?"

Hattori Heiji took out his cell phone, looked on the map, and found that the current Shingyokuryuji Temple is on Kurama Mountain.

"Let's set off without further ado!" Seeing that the case of "Genji Hotaru" and the truth about his first love were right before his eyes and everything was about to come to light, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but fall into a complex emotion of expectation and confusion.

After running back and forth like this, the sky soon became dark.

Kurama Mountain.

"Gah-"

"Gah-"

A line of ravens flew across the red-gold sunset; their hoarse cries echoed in the valley, outlining a sense of solemnity.

Mt. Kurama is not a barren mountain, but it is not located in the city of Kyoto. Instead, it is in the suburbs. The mountainside is covered with wild cherry trees, which sparkle in the setting sun.

The two of them climbed up the stairs with some effort, wiped the sweat from their faces, and saw the wide open gate.

Yulong Temple is located on the top of Mount Anma.

This is a temple of considerable size. The spacious dojo at the entrance alone is more than twice the size of the main courtyard of Sannoji Temple.

This is understandable. After all, the land resources in the city cannot be compared with those in the suburbs.

It is obvious that this Yulong Temple is newly built. It does not have any historical atmosphere and does not seem to have much heritage.

A figure wearing gray shorts and dressed like a wandering warrior appeared on the steps.

The man was wearing an ugly wooden mask, so his features could not be seen clearly, and he had two long samurai swords on his waist.

Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other and saw the same meaning in each other's eyes.

So Hattori Heiji nodded, put on a confident and hearty smile, pressed the baseball cap on his head, and took a step forward.

"While investigating the case, I suddenly had a wild idea."

"In a series of events, only the names of Yoshitsune and Benkei did not appear. I once wondered if the whole case was an internal conflict between these two people in order to exclude dissidents and monopolize the Buddha statue?"

"But as the investigation progressed, this speculation gradually lost its basis. That is, Yoshitsune, the leader who knew the location of the Buddha statue and had considerable control over the entire gang, did not seem to have the necessary basis to cooperate with Benkei." "So a possibility naturally came to my mind--"

"Is there a possibility that the leader Yoshitsune has already died due to some accident?"

Across the dojo, the figure stood there quietly, seemingly unaffected by his words and without any reaction.

Hattori Heiji was not in a hurry and continued to explain his reasoning without any evidence.

"Based on this illusion, many things make sense. After Yoshitsune's death, Benkei had evil thoughts and killed the remaining members. He wanted to take the code paper with the location of the Buddha statue hidden in their hands and keep the Buddha statue for himself."

"But what he didn't expect was that as early as when the leader Yoshitsune died, the cowardly 'Ise Saburo' Sakura Masazō had become wary of Benkei, and when several other people were killed one after another, he realized that all of this was caused by Benkei's murder. In order to avoid ending up like them, Sakura Masazō made a copy of the treasure map with a secret and sent it to Sannoji Temple where the Buddha statue was stolen. He wanted to make a big fuss about it to save his life, so he stayed with the people in Sannoji Temple."

"This way, Benkei lost the opportunity to assassinate him secretly with that magical item, so he had to approach him in person and plan an elaborate murder."

"He prepared a plastic bottle and a transmitter in advance. After killing Sakura Masazo, he put the murder weapon and the transmitter into the bottle and threw it into the Qi River through the narrow window of the basement. He let it drift with the current and waited until the police inspected it before looking for an opportunity to retrieve it."

"Because Benkei himself is not a Beyonder, he was able to evade the police's spiritual detectors. However, due to the existence of some magical items, he was able to avoid the divination from Miss Xiaolan. I have to say that the murderer is very lucky."

Hattori Heiji sighed with regret.

"If I'm not mistaken, when Mr. Sakura Shozo asked to take a rest, he didn't really want to sleep, but he made an appointment with you to negotiate, right?"

"The one who created 'Genji Hotaru', Mr. Musashibo Benkei Saijo Taikawa?"

He had no intention of beating around the bush and directly revealed his reasoning and the identity of the real murderer.

The figure remained indifferent.

"Heh, there's no point pretending." Hattori Heiji sneered, and then said: "When you deliberately concealed your proficiency in archery, I had already set my sights on you!"

"When you kneel down, your right foot will move half a step back before your left foot before you sit down. This is called 'half-foot dragging' and is a habit that only masters who have practiced Kyudo for many years will develop."

"Also, when Gong. Conan asked who else was practicing archery, you blurted out the word 'Yamakura'. Everyone was wondering why Ms. Yamakura practiced archery, but in fact, what you wanted to say was not 'Yamakura', but the term that only people who practice archery would understand, 'Yashin'!"

"What you wanted to say was, 'Ms. Chiga Ling's arrowhead seems to be injured.' Your purpose was probably to mislead our reasoning. After all, most people noticed the small wound on Ms. Chiga Ling's palm when they were in the izakaya. But halfway through your speech, you realized that the word 'arrowhead' should not come from your mouth when you claimed that you 'didn't know Kyudo', so you stopped talking immediately."

Hattori Heiji took out a small silk bag from his pocket, poured out the white crystal bead from it, and tossed it in his hand.

"As for why you're targeting me, I almost understand now."

"You saw the interview about me in the magazine and wanted to get this thing from me, right?"

"Without this important white hair, I think even if you find the place where the Buddha statue is hidden, you will not be able to sell it, right?"

The masked "Benkei" remained silent, but raised his hand slightly.

A group of masked men wearing kendo uniforms, holding samurai swords and carrying longbows on their backs rushed out of the temple, formed a circle and surrounded Hattori Heiji and Conan.

"It's that unknown magical item." Hattori Heiji's eyes became serious. "These guys are puppets wrapped in iron sheets. It's very likely that they have no sense of pain."

Faced with the siege of so many people, he couldn't help but feel a little numb.

Unlike the attack last night, there are at least twenty people here, and they all have sharpened samurai swords in their hands, which are far different from wooden swords with limited threat power.

Benkei pressed his wrist, and the masked men burst out at an astonishing speed, rushing towards the two men with their blades raised high.

"Hattori, use that talisman!" Conan shouted and reminded.

Hattori Heiji then remembered that Conan gave him a talisman for self-defense last night, and quickly took it out of his pocket.

"silence!!"

The obscure ancient Hermetic language rang out from his mouth.

An invisible force field spread out, as if the speed was slowed down tenfold. The masked people's movements became stagnant, as if a machine that had rusted for years was stuck and moving at a snail's pace.

Hattori Heiji knocked down a masked man in a few moves and took the samurai sword from his hand.

Conan took off the puppet head of the masked man who had been knocked down, squatted down and turned the knob of his foot-strengthening shoes, and instantly electric arcs flew.

He kicked the puppet's head out, creating a visible hurricane, and the masked people fell to the ground like bowling pins.

Seeing that the masked people were ineffective, Benkei finally reacted. He took off the ugly wooden mask with a sinister smile, revealing the thin and long face behind it.

It was Nishijo Taikawa who ran a used bookstore.

"Hehehe" he chuckled, his eyes full of sinisterness.

"I haven't even looked for you yet, and you come to me on your own, huh?"

A silver light flashed, and Nishijo Taiga reacted extremely quickly and drew his sword to chop it down. The bright silver steel was unsheathed, and the extremely sharp edge was chilling.

A thin silver needle was knocked down and fell to the ground, making a slight "ding-dong" sound.

"Tsk."

Conan put away the scope of his watch and felt a little disappointed when he saw that his sneak attack did not work.

"There are still many tricks."

Nishijo Taiga shook his head, danced with his sword, and put the samurai sword back into the scabbard at his waist.

"Long Yuan and I all practiced swordplay in the same kendo field," he suddenly said in a light voice, telling his story.

"One day, I heard about an ancient kendo school in Kyoto called 'Yoshitsune Ryu', so I started to study this Yoshitsune Ryu, and two years ago I quit the kendo field and began to call myself the descendant of Yoshitsune Ryu."

Hattori Heiji sneered: "The Yoshitsune-ryu founded by Benkei?"

"I like Yoshitsune better!!"

Nishijo Taiga roared fiercely, expressing his dissatisfaction with him making fun of his ideals.

"I've always wanted to be Yoshitsune!!"

"However, Yoshitsune's title was taken away by the leader, and I was given the title of Benkei because I had the highest position in the group."

(End of this chapter)