Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

Seeing this seemingly aloof girl say such unexpected words, Mamiya Takato hurriedly asked, "Could it be that you already know the meaning of those chess pieces?"

Huiyuan took a sip of tea and said calmly, "How could I possibly know this? You guys have spent so many years trying to figure it out, and I'm just a kid, how could I possibly do it?"

Upon hearing this, Mamiya Nobuto, who had just shown an expectant look on his face, sighed softly.

He was indeed anxious. How could a child have that kind of ability?

"By the way, I heard that the four-eyed little boy is missing." Mamiya Mitsuru asked, "Has he not been found yet?"

Dr. Agasa shook his head, looking worried: "We plan to go look for him separately after dinner."

"This castle still has a lot of traps," Mamiya Mitsuru reminded. "I think he must have gotten lost somewhere. Just don't break into that tower."

Dr. Agasa looked confused: "Tower?"

"It's the stone tower on the left side of this castle," Mamiya Mitsuru said. "My wife was burned to death there four years ago. Now it's overgrown with weeds and a desolate tower. Oh, and I remember two years ago, a new servant we hired to work here suddenly disappeared one night. Upon asking, I found out that he had told a servant he was on good terms with that there must be something strange in the tower. So, I immediately went into the tower to look for him. Although there were signs of someone entering, I couldn't find him. With no other choice, we called the police..."

"Did he find that person later?" Dr. Agasa asked.

156. I hope Conan is killed.

Mamiya Mitsuru sighed softly: "Nine days later, we found his body in the nearby woods. He starved to death."

Dr. Agasa was stunned: "Why, how could this happen?"

Mamiya Mitsuru shook his head. "I don't know. Later, the police believed that he accidentally wandered into the forest, got lost, and died trapped there. They treated it as an accident. But around that time, there was a strange rumor among the people. It said that after my wife was burned to death, her ghost lingered in the tower, and her hatred was transferred to him. Since then, I have sealed the entrance to the stone tower."

The three children from the Junior Detective Team felt a chill in their hearts when they heard this.

Ayumi said fearfully, "If we don't find Conan quickly, will he starve to death?"

"I think we should hurry up and find Conan." Genta suddenly felt that the food in front of him was not delicious anymore.

Mamiya Takato stood up and said, "In that case, let's split up and look for it. I'll ask Servant 17 to help."

Dr. Agasa quickly thanked them: "Thank you for your trouble."

……

They searched the entire castle but still found no trace of Conan.

"Not in the yard."

"We've searched everywhere in the castle, but found nothing."

Dr. Agasa looked at the stone tower not far away with a worried look on his face: "Could it be that Conan really went into the tower?"

"No." Mamiya Mitsuru came over: "I just went to the entrance to check, and the lock on the door is still locked."

"Then the four-eyed boy could have run off into the forest," said Mamiya Takato. "I think we adults should go look for him, and leave the children in the castle. If one of them gets lost, it'll be a real problem."

"Alright."

In the castle room.

Ayumi said worriedly: "I don't know if the doctor and the others can find Conan."

"Don't worry, Ayumi." Mitsuhiko comforted him, "Maybe Conan will come back by himself soon."

Yuan Tai suggested: "Why don't we look around the castle? Maybe there's something we missed."

"I agree." Mitsuhiko agreed: "We have nothing to do anyway, so why not look for it again?"

The three children unanimously agreed, and Watanabe Toru and Haibara could only obey the majority.

In the room where Conan disappeared.

While surveying the room, Huibara said to Watanabe Toru, "Given that Edogawa has been missing for several hours and hasn't contacted us, I think something must have happened to him. For example, he discovered some secret and was captured by someone in this castle, or perhaps he was killed."

Watanabe Toru said slowly: "If these are the two possibilities, then I hope it is the latter."

Huibara suddenly looked up and looked at Watanabe Toru in surprise.

Watanabe Toru scoffed, "Is it hard to understand? Don't forget, he's a detective and I'm the bad guy. You've never killed anyone, so in his eyes, as long as you reform, you can be his partner. But I'm different. Once he knows my true identity, he'll do everything he can to capture me. We can't be partners. In that case, his death is of course a good thing for me."

Huiyuan remained silent.

She had to admit that what Watanabe Toru said was right. The reason why Conan was willing to trust her was entirely because she was only in the organization as a scientist and had not done anything criminal except studying aptx-4869.

But Watanabe Toru is different, he is a killer, his hands are stained with the blood of those he killed. Conan will never associate with such a person, and will even try his best to arrest Watanabe Toru and let him face the punishment of the law.

The same goes for his sister. In order to get herself out of the organization, she robbed a bank. If Conan knew about this, he would send his sister to prison without mercy.

Light and darkness cannot coexist unless they can create their own sunlight.

Although it is difficult, they are slowly moving along this path under the leadership of Toru Watanabe.

Seeing Huibara in a daze, Watanabe Toru continued, "However, although I think so, I have to admit that Conan is quite smart. I don't think it's likely that he was killed. So, for now, let's find him first. I'm also thinking of finding the treasure in this castle first, and then buying it."

Huiyuan came back to her senses and asked, "Do you know how Edogawa disappeared?"

"It's nothing more than triggering the mechanism in this room and recreating the scene at that time." Watanabe Toru said, moving a chair from under a table and placing it under the clock hanging on the wall. Then he took a few books from the bookshelf and placed them on the chair, stepped on it, and moved the hands of the clock on the wall with his hand.

Soon, there was a click and a secret door opened.

"Eh? There's a door here?" Hearing the noise, Ayumi and the other two immediately walked over.

Ayumi's pretty face was filled with amazement, showing her admiration for Watanabe Toru: "Toru, you are so amazing! You actually found the secret door."

Watanabe Toru smiled and said, "Let's go, Conan should be inside."

Behind the secret door was a corridor so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. Watanabe Toru and others turned on the flashlights on their watches and could finally see the way forward.

"Watanabe, look there."

After advancing a few dozen meters, Huiyuan's light shone on the ground, and he said solemnly, "Is there blood there?"

Watanabe Toru stepped forward, squatted down, felt the ground with his fingers, and said, "It's blood. Judging from the color and the degree of dryness of the blood, it should have been left not long ago. If my guess is correct, this blood should be Conan's."

"what!!"

Ayumi exclaimed: "Is Conan injured?"

"Maybe." Watanabe Toru straightened up. "But judging from the size of the bloodstain, it might have been left by him accidentally falling."

Ayumi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come and look at this place. It seems that there are some words engraved here." Mitsuhiko also made a new discovery and called his companions.

Everyone walked towards him, and under the light, they could clearly see the words carved on the wall.

Huiyuan whispered, "That person has taken my identity and wants to steal the castle's treasure... There's no text at the end, but I think they meant to write treasure. The inscription is very old, it's been there for a while..."

157. Want to know where the treasure is?

Watanabe Toru echoed Huihara's point of view: "That's right. Although we don't know who carved it, but judging by the fact that the word 'treasure' wasn't even finished, it seems that the person couldn't continue carving. Perhaps he died at that moment."

"Haibara, Tohru, you guys are so amazing."

Seeing how the two could analyze so many things from a single paragraph, Yuan Tai was amazed: "It's just like what they did on TV, a pair with great tacit understanding."

Mitsuhiko agreed: "Now that you mention it, it really does look like it."

Only Ayumi remained silent, and the expression on her face could not be seen in the darkness.

"Okay, let's keep going." Watanabe Toru said calmly, "Everyone, watch your step and don't fall. Getting injured in this place is not a good thing."

Several people continued to move forward.

Although they were illuminated by the flashlight on their watches, visibility was still very low and they had to move forward slowly.

Suddenly, Genta seemed to have touched something, and he uttered a cry of "ouch". He stumbled forward and fell out. Mitsuhiko and Ayumi, who were following closely behind him, were also dragged out.

"Huh? There's actually a secret door here." Huibara was surprised and walked forward to push it, but the secret door didn't move at all.

"It seems that after opening it once, it can't be opened a second time." Huiyuan turned back to Watanabe Toru and said, "What should we do now? Should we continue forward? Or should we look for a mechanism nearby that can reopen the door?"

"Let's keep going." Watanabe Toru said, "Those kids are not here, so I can catch the guy who is following us without any worries."

Huiyuan was startled and subconsciously glanced back. Seeing the dark circuit, he turned back and asked in a low voice, "Is someone following us?"

Watanabe Toru hummed, "From the moment we entered the secret passage, that person has been following us."

"Do you know who it is?"

"know."

Haibara breathed a sigh of relief, and seeing Watanabe Tetsuyun's calm look, she also relaxed.

"You just said that the lady in the castle was a little strange?"

Watanabe Toru chuckled. "It's puzzling, don't you think, that a lady who's lived in a castle for ten years and never even traveled would know about the immigration bureau changing passport sizes six years ago? Of course, that alone doesn't mean anything, but the words we just saw on the wall give me a bold idea."

"You mean, the sentence [That person replaced me]?" Huibara reacted quickly.

Watanabe Toru nodded. "That's right. The current Dowager in the castle isn't the real Dowager, but someone else has replaced her. She went abroad for plastic surgery to make herself look exactly like the real Dowager. Whenever someone brings up things from the past, she says she's old and has a bad memory. But doing so will still arouse suspicion from those close to her. The best way is to make these people disappear from this world."

Huiyuan's eyes widened and he exclaimed in surprise: "You mean the fire four years ago was..."

"That wasn't an accident, but a deliberate act. This allowed her to play the role of the Dowager as she pleased. Of course, her purpose in doing so was to obtain the treasures within the castle. As for the real Dowager, she must have killed her. The words carved on the wall were her last words."

The footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, even Huibara could hear them.

Watanabe Toru stopped, turned around and looked at Mamiya Masuyo who was standing behind them.

"I'm right, madam."

"You're absolutely right."

A chilling smile appeared on Mamiya Masuyo's ugly, gloomy face. "That's why I came to this castle, but that old woman saw through my plan. That's why I decided to switch with her. As for my voice, it's already very similar to hers. But I didn't expect you to be so clever, to have thought of this. It's completely beyond my expectations."

"Don't worry, I won't leave you in this secret passage forever like I did to that old woman. I'll wait until you die, and then I'll let you and your friends line up in the woods. Who told you to be so smart and come to this secret passage?"

She raised the iron rod hidden behind her back and said with a ferocious expression: "Go to hell."

"Back off."

When 'Masuo Mamiya' brought down the iron rod, Toru Watanabe pushed Haibara away and nimbly dodged to the side, and the iron rod hit the ground with a crisp sound.

"Little devil, stop resisting in vain." Mamiya Masuyo's face was grim as he raised the iron rod and chopped it down again. "I've been walking through this secret passage for years. I know it like the back of my hand. There's no way you can escape from here."

Watanabe Toru dodged nimbly again, then quickly raised his foot and kicked Mamiya Masuyo in the waist.

"Well……"

Mamiya Masuyo cried out in pain, and just as she steady herself, another sharp pain came from her thigh.

In the dim light, the narrow aisle became a burden to her. Watanabe Toru used his flexible body to attack her body again and again, while she was like a drunk ugly woman, swinging an iron rod in the air at random.

boom! !

The iron rod in his hand suddenly fell out of his hand.

Huiyuan was quick-witted and rushed over to pick up the iron rod and threw it to Watanabe Toru: "Watanabe, this is for you."

Watanabe Toru caught the iron rod steadily and gave Mamiya Masuyo a contemptuous sneer: "Then (Zhao's good) Next, it's my turn."

……

'Masuo Mamiya' was lying on the ground. She never thought that she would be beaten by a child and her head was bleeding.

Haibara looked at 'Masuo Mamiya' with some sympathy. It would have been bad enough for this guy to kidnap Edogawa, but he even provoked a tough guy in the organization. She should be thankful that Toru Watanabe was in the form of a child at the moment, otherwise Haibara had no doubt that 'Masuo Mamiya' would just be dead.

Watanabe Toru looked down at Mamiya Masuyo and sneered, "Do you want to know where the treasure is?"

Mamiya Masuyo suddenly raised her head and asked, "Have you figured out the code?"

"of course."

"Hurry, tell me quickly." Mamiya Masuyo spoke in a hurried tone, as if forgetting the pain in an instant, with an urgent look on her face: "Hurry, tell me where the treasure is."

158. Conan's leg was broken

"Chess pieces are usually represented using letters A to H and numbers ① to 8, so the correct orientation of the chessboard is based on the direction of the knight."

Watanabe Toru slowly said, "From this direction, if you read the white pieces in order, it would be EGGHEAD, and if you spell them together, it would be an intellectual who only speaks nonsense. That's right, the answer is the master himself who came up with this code. So, if you rotate the master's portrait clockwise according to the black pieces, you should see a secret passage."

Mamiya Masuro was startled, and suddenly strength surged through his body. He climbed up from the ground and stumbled forward, muttering, "So the treasure is right there! I'm finally going to get it..."

"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and follow them."

Watanabe Toru urged Huiyuan, who was still in a daze, "Do you want to slowly explore here by yourself?"