Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 914 The Answer: Returning to the Origin

The so-called wrath of the king is already outdated in the face of Keji.

"Conan, have you deciphered the code?"

Ayumi's eyes sparkled; she loved Conan's focused state when solving cases. He was earnest and mature, and always managed to solve puzzles before adults could.

Really handsome.

Upon hearing this, the burly man's eyes lit up.

The situation is not good now, but even if he dies, he must find out where the treasure is hidden.

"Uncle Natsukawa!" Conan called out.

His eyes shone, the corners of his mouth curved upwards, and his head was slightly raised, as if issuing a challenge to Xia Chuan.

"Let's go outside, the rain should have stopped by now," Xia Chuan said.

Conan suddenly sighed.

"Conan, what exactly happened? Tell me!"

Genta had already rolled up his sleeves.

Conan is just asking for a beating. People who like to keep others in suspense should just drown him in a hot spring.
Noticing Genta's subtle movement, Conan quickly took a step forward to catch up with Natsukawa, then turned back and asked, "Do you remember what's written on the stone tablet of Misui Kichiemon?"

"of course I know."

“The lost soul, offer me the divine artifacts, that sounds pretty cool.” Mitsuhiko rubbed his chin and shook his head. “But what does that have to do with the stone tablet? I’ve observed it carefully before, and there’s no place near that stone tablet where I can embed three divine artifacts.”

"Isn't that just a smokescreen from Misui Kichiemon?"

Mitsuhiko's guess was not without reason. Judging from the fact that the group in front of him wanted to go up but kept encountering downward mechanisms, this mechanic had a bit of a perverse sense of humor.

"No, what makes Misui Kichiemon so great is not just his mechanisms, but also his unique style in designing puzzles."

Conan shook his head. If he hadn't studied Chinese properly, he might not have been able to decipher this character.

As we emerged from the cave, the sun had already set, and the surroundings were pitch black, with only the constant chirping of insects and birds.

"Conan, do you believe I'll push you into the water?" Genta said in a low voice, his dead fish eyes almost killing Conan on the spot.

“The characters we found on the sacred artifact are all Chinese characters. By combining them with the fact that the sacred artifact was offered to Misui Kichiemon, and the name of Misui Kichiemon was placed next to the characters on the sacred artifact, new characters were formed.”

"炎, 永, 竜, if you add the water radical..."

Ayumi bit her index finger, her pupils almost disappearing, but she still couldn't think of an answer.

She admitted that she didn't know what the three Chinese characters formed by adding the water radical (氵) to them.

“It’s the ‘dan’ of fresh water and the ‘yong’ of swimming. Taki.” Mitsuhiko choked, unable to even pronounce the word.

"Taki represents a waterfall, now you should understand."

As Conan finished speaking, Natsukawa was already standing by the stream at the door.

This stream is actually part of the landscaping of the house. Further ahead, there is a high point where the water gathers at the same inlet and flows downwards.

Although the landscape is small, it resembles a waterfall.

"The Cave of the Benevolent King is located between the Sun Wheel and the Heart of the Ninja, a place where all the elders gather in a time of great prosperity and splendor, and the Stone of the Benevolent King is situated there."

"Mercury is the planet closest to the sun and represents water. The elders can be personified as carp with whiskers. In fact, if I had more time, even without the later artifacts, I might have been able to confirm that it was this stream where people died."

"Yes."

Xia Chuan finally spoke up and agreed.

The reason I didn't interrupt earlier was to keep Jodie occupied and give Kaito time to leave.

Kaito has already secretly hidden away; it's time for him to perform.

"Please don't move around. Ms. Judy, could you please keep an eye on things for me?"

Xia Chuan rolled up his sleeves, slicked his hair back, and plunged headfirst into the stream.

"Seriously, what if there's danger inside?"

Ms. Judy muttered a complaint, and was about to jump down after them when she looked around at the children and suddenly realized something, "Hey, where's that old lady?"

Conan was taken aback, turned around and looked around, but did not see the other person.

"Maybe they knew they couldn't steal the King of Men's Stone, so they left early?" Conan shook his head; he knew all too well about treasure hunters.

Above, there's a murderer who killed for diamonds, still hanging on the second floor cosplaying as an old man; below, a burly man is stirring, approaching Ai Haibara.

Because the notebook wasn't as clearly visible as in the original storyline, Conan didn't realize that Kaito Kid was actually among them.

He slowly opened the wristwatch-shaped anesthetic needle, aimed, and fired it.

The burly man collapsed instantly.

"Hey Conan, who are you? And why are you so smart?"

The burly man's fainting and the old woman's disappearance made Ms. Judy give up the idea of ​​going into the water. She squatted down and looked at Conan, chatting casually.

This Conan is special; even a child prodigy couldn't be more amazing, right?

"Little kid, why don't you join the FBI?" She whispered in Conan's ear.

"Oh dear, Ms. Judy, men and women shouldn't touch each other."

Of course, Ayumi, the little simp, couldn't stand it.

Conan's intimacy with Ran had already made her suspect that Conan liked older women or aunts. Now that Jodie-sensei was going too far, she was afraid that she wouldn't even be able to keep her status as a simp.

"Okay, okay, I understand."

Judy rolled her eyes inwardly. A simp will eventually get nothing in the end. Ayumi is still too young. She will have to experience some things before she knows.

"Forget about the FBI, my goal is to become a detective like Sherlock Holmes."

“Sherlock Holmes?” Judy’s lips curled up as she looked at the bright moon in the night sky. If her father hadn’t had that accident, Shuichi probably wouldn’t have chosen to become an agent, and with his reasoning abilities, he would probably have become a detective.

Time passed bit by bit.

Just as the crowd around them was getting impatient, Xia Chuan finally surfaced.

"found it."

"really!"

A glint flashed in Conan's eyes.

"Uncle Xia Chuan didn't take the diamond off, did he?"

Natsukawa only surfaced and did not raise the diamond, so Conan believed that he must have also noticed one of the sentences left by Misui Kichiemon.

"Why can't we take it off?" Ayumi chimed in, her straight man.

Conan crossed his arms and continued to explain: "Mimizu Kichiemon probably never intended for anyone to take the diamond from the beginning. You can tell from the traps along the way. The 'Wrath of the King' also expresses this point."

He looked around and confidently guessed, "The house is located in the center of a basin, surrounded by slopes on all sides, and there is a rushing river to the east. If I'm not mistaken, taking the diamond will trigger some kind of mechanism, and the river to the east will completely flood the entire basin!"

"what?"

Xia Chuan looked shocked. "Why didn't you say so sooner?"

He raised his right hand, and in the center of his palm, a huge diamond shimmered with iridescent light under the moonlight.

"So beautiful!"

"My father is amazing."

People's joys and sorrows are not the same.

Anya and the other three were cheering, while Conan, Jodie, and Gray were staring wide-eyed.

"Brother Xia Chuan"

Realizing he'd misspoke, Conan didn't have time to correct himself. "Put it back right now!"

"What did you say?" Xia Chuan scratched his ear, making it appear to everyone that water had gotten into his ear and affected his hearing due to an accident. Conan didn't have time to explain; he immediately plunged into the water, intending to snatch the diamond from Xia Chuan's hand and put it back in.

The same goes for Judy.

She didn't care about the others, but she definitely couldn't get hurt. It was true that she was a good swimmer, but according to Conan, the amount of water caused by the trap was probably quite large, and she wouldn't even know how she died.

"Hurry up! Put it back! Put it back!"

The further Conan swam toward Natsukawa, the farther away he became. Eventually, he almost sank to the bottom of the water but still couldn't touch a single hair on Natsukawa's head.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore."

Xia Chuan smiled, reached out and scooped Conan up, tossed him onto the shore, and then locked eyes with Jodie, who had gone into the water.

Although she didn't know why the mechanism hadn't been triggered, Judy didn't care anymore. She raised an eyebrow, as if to say, "Take me ashore."

Xia Chuan blinked, indicating that he did not understand.

"Oh no, help me! I can't swim!"

No one believed this lame excuse except the three little ones, but Xia Chuan found it amusing and reached out to grab Judy.

"I knew you would be gentle and considerate."

"Of course, it will hurt a little next, just bear with it."

"pain?"

Is it a little too fast?

Judy didn't understand, but then she experienced Natsukawa's enthusiasm firsthand.

With a "whoosh," she flew out of the water. The moonlight illuminated the water droplets and Judy, making them look like fairies escaping from the moon palace, as seen from the three little ones' perspective.

Then, the fairy descended to the mortal realm and crashed to the ground.

"you!"

Even a fool would know that Xia Chuan did this on purpose.

Judy was so angry that her face turned red. She couldn't understand why Xia Chuan was acting this way now, since he had clearly touched her butt earlier.
No one answered her questions.

Anya jogged over, squatted down in front of Judy, and asked with feigned concern, "Does your bottom hurt, Teacher Judy? If it does, you can wait for that bad uncle to wake up and carry you."

"."

Judy didn't want to talk; she just wanted to close her eyes and sleep.

Losing face is one thing, I've toughened up during FBI training; the main problem is that I feel Xia Chuan is insulting and making fun of me.

But I went there myself, and the other party did indeed pull me out.

Ms. Judy felt a pang of bitterness that she couldn't bear to mention, but she held back her tears for Shuichi's sake.

Xia Chuan sneered inwardly; a simp who fawns over his wife will end up with nothing.

"how did you do it?"

Conan was a little confused as to how Natsukawa had cracked the intricate mechanism of Misui Kichiemon.

"It's just a weight-sensing mechanism. This kind of mechanism works fine when it's out of the water, but if it's in the water, it will become inaccurate over time. I just need to find something of similar weight to block it."

Normally, a diamond can be retrieved in just a few seconds, but it stays in the water for so long because they are looking for a stone of the right weight.

With the diamond in hand, the little ones all crowded around to touch and examine it, and Xia Chuan, without being stingy, handed it over to Anya.

Half an hour later.

The cause of the signal loss was found: a woman on the second floor had installed a signal jamming device. Removing it restored the signal.

After making the call to the police, it took more than two hours for officers from the Metropolitan Police Department to finally arrive.

Natsukawa specifically instructed Inspector Megure not to call Yoru, and not only not to, but also not to let her know.

"what!"

Inspector Megure let out a heart-wrenching scream, his eyes wide as saucers, and his heart pounding at an alarming rate.

There's nothing we can do; this diamond is just too big.

Having mastered the legendary Stone of the King of Men, I suddenly had the urge to kill Natsukawa on the spot and swallow him whole.

The other police officers looked at him with envy.

The most pitiful one was the woman who killed her teammate, staring fiercely at Xia Chuan.

Not only did he accuse himself of being the murderer, but he also trapped himself on the second floor, surrounded by poisonous insects. It was really terrifying!

With such a large gemstone, if I had been a little more ruthless and shot the other person while they were still in the courtyard, perhaps things wouldn't be like this now.

However, she never considered that if she actually aimed the pistol, Xia Chuan would definitely notice, and she would only lose the chance to go to jail and go to hell with her murdered teammates.

"Brother Xia Chuan, your luck is too good! Last time it was the Egg of Memories, and this time it's a diamond the size of a fist. Given its size and its connection to Misui Kichiemon, its value is absolutely immeasurable."

Putting everything else aside, once the story gets out, Mr. Jirokichi of the Suzuki family, who treats money like toilet paper, will definitely be tempted.

"It is indeed quite valuable, but I don't intend to sell it."

"Could it be."

Miwako Sato swallowed hard.

Women have an innate fascination with the sparkle of diamonds.

Based on the commotion Xia Chuan caused at the concert hall last time, she already knew the purpose of the diamond.

—Wedding ring!
“Officer Sato, I think if two people love each other and want it to last, they don’t necessarily need diamonds to witness it. Other things will do too.”

"For example, the handcuffs left by your father also have extraordinary significance."

"Otherwise, you can choose a smaller diamond, such as a one-carat one."

Takagi checked his pockets and knew he probably couldn't even afford a chipped piece of the diamond. He hoped Officer Sato would face reality.

"Yes, the handcuffs my father left behind are very important, but..."

Sato Miwako realized what she was saying halfway through and kicked Takagi in the butt.

This guy has an ambiguous relationship with her, and she doesn't know where he learned this method from, but he's actually trying to scam her out of her intention to marry him.

"By the way," Natsukawa looked up at the house, "Inspector Megure, I feel a connection to this house. I'd like to buy it. There shouldn't be any problem, right?"

"Buy it?"

Inspector Megure nodded. "Of course, no problem. I can ask around for you. Although there is a hot spring, the location isn't great, so the price shouldn't be too high."

Are you really sure you want to buy it?

Xia Chuan's investments always seem strange.

The Blue Castle is a good example.

However, the Blue Castle was eventually completed.

The main idea is to highlight the distinctive features and selling points, and then categorize the customer groups.

Many companies now choose to go there for team building activities, or for people who like to relax and rejuvenate.

The reason Inspector Megure knew so much was because his eyes were filled with tears; he didn't want to recount how many cases had occurred.

"It's no problem to create a hot spring themed around Sansui Kichiemon. Brothers and sisters from the Sansui department can come for team building, and I'll give it to you for free."

Xia Chuan patted his chest without hesitation.

"Haha, then I'll thank you in advance, Brother Xia Chuan."

He was very interested in this.

Of course, this is on the premise that Kogoro Mouri is not in Tokyo.

(End of this chapter)