Conan Rick's Investigator

This is an abandoned lot, and there is a garbage storage point not far away.

In the middle of the open space, an abandoned warehouse stood.

Conan looked at the warehouse in front of him and couldn't help but sigh that things have changed.

When I was in elementary school here ten years ago, this warehouse was still in use and it didn’t look as shabby as it does now.

"Look, the door here is not locked!" Yuantai shouted, pointing at the warehouse door.

Conan put his hands in his pockets and said nonchalantly: "This place was not locked 10 years ago..."

Before he could finish his words, Haibara Ai next to him nudged him with her elbow.

Conan realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly shut up.

But the three little ones who had already heard what he said still turned around in surprise.

"Huh? How did Conan know?" Ayumi asked in a puzzled tone.

"Um... it was Sister Xiaolan who told me, haha~" Conan scratched his head, his expression exactly the same as when he lied to Haibara Ai just now.

But the three little ones still looked unconvinced.

Seeing this, Haibara Ai changed the subject directly, "Since it has not been used for such a long time, why didn't you discard it earlier?"

Conan held his chin up, "I remember the principal said at the graduation ceremony that it couldn't be demolished because of Feng Shui reasons..."

"No!" He realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly corrected himself, "I said it at the opening ceremony..."

"Opening ceremony?" Mitsuhiko frowned, looking puzzled. "Conan, aren't you a transfer student? How could you have attended an opening ceremony?"

Ayumi: "And the principal didn't seem to say anything like that..."

amount……

Realizing that he was making things worse, Conan hurriedly walked towards the warehouse with a wry smile, "Ha~ I think we should hurry up and go in to find some lime!"

Haibara Ai hugged her shoulders and wondered if Conan had been too careless about his identity recently.

Although Gin is dead now, it is possible that other people in the organization still remember Kudo Shinichi.

Fortunately, there is no one nearby who can trigger the organization's radar, otherwise the words just now would definitely arouse suspicion.

However, Wakasa Rumi, who was standing behind them like a transparent person, was already looking at the two of them thoughtfully.

……

As I pushed the door open and entered the warehouse, a musty smell immediately hit me in the air.

Because the warehouse has been abandoned for a long time, the lights inside can no longer be turned on.

Wakasa Rumi wanted to go back and get a flashlight, but all the members of the Junior Detective League took out watch-shaped flashlights.

"No need for a flashlight, we have this!"

Wakasa Rumi was also slightly surprised when she saw the watch-shaped flashlights in the hands of the three children. "You actually have such a convenient tool on you..."

When someone praised him, Yuantai quickly showed off, "This was made for us by Dr. Agasa!"

"There's also a detective badge that can be used as a walkie-talkie!"

The three little ones showed their detective badges to Wakasa Rumi.

Wakasa Rumi looked at the tiny detective medal, which had the function of a walkie-talkie, and immediately grasped the key point. She murmured, "That doctor is so amazing..."

Next, several people began to search the warehouse.

Although this warehouse has been abandoned for a long time, there are several rows of shelves inside that divide the warehouse into several areas.

There are many unused items on the shelves, so it takes some time to find them.

Of course, the premise is that there is lime here.

Conan was walking around the warehouse with a watch-shaped flashlight in his hand, seemingly looking for lime, but in fact he was still thinking about the organization's affairs.

Qin Zhibo said in London that he believed the organization's real purpose was likely related to the existence of "Cthulhu".

Cthulhu is a god that sleeps in the sea.

The purpose of the organization is to revive it.

After experiencing the previous parallel worlds, Conan now fully realizes that not everything in this world can be explained by science.

At least not in the way humans think of science.

However, Conan felt that Cthulhu itself should not be as evil as a "god".

First of all, it is indeed possible that alien life exists.

The so-called gods should be just some more powerful, mysterious and unknown alien creatures.

Just like humans in ancient times even regarded thunder, lightning, wind, rain, and solar eclipses as totems of gods, they were actually giving a lofty meaning to things that were incomprehensible.

Cthulhu now is an existence that is incomprehensible to humans.

Return to Japan

Later, Conan tried to search for some relevant clues on the Internet, but he didn't get much.

In addition to the rhetoric of the Old Ones, it is said that Cthulhu is sleeping in the underwater city of R'lyeh and will reappear in the world when the stars return to their positions.

However, compared to previous online searches, Conan found that there is now significantly more content related to "Cthulhu" on the Internet.

Previously, this entry was only on the Noah's Ark Knowledge Website, but now many people are discussing it.

Some said they dreamed of Cthulhu; some said they had dived into the sea; and some even said they were Cthulhu’s children.

In short, each one is more outrageous than the other...

So again, as a staunch materialist, Conan will only believe in things that have been proven to exist.

Just as Conan was thinking, the three little ones on the other side picked up a class schedule from the shelf in the warehouse.

The paper of the timetable was torn and there were many blank spaces.

"Let me see……"

Haibara Ai walked over and took the schedule from Ayumi.

There were only two columns above, with "Moon, Mars, Water, Wood, Metal, Saturn" written on them respectively, representing the days of the week, and only the first vertical column had the courses written on it.

However, Haibara Ai noticed something was wrong at a glance and narrowed her eyes slightly.

But she didn't say anything. Instead, she planned to show it to her old friend in the school, Conan, later. Maybe he would remember what happened.

On the other side, Conan found a floor door while walking.

Huh? Is this here?

The floor door is made of iron and is covered with patches of rust.

However, there was some wear and fall of rust on the floor door and door frame.

This made Conan suspicious.

Has anyone opened this door recently?

Driven by curiosity, Conan bit the watch with his mouth, squatted in front of the door, held the welded handle on the iron door with both hands, and tried to open the door with a weightlifting posture.

He used both hands and the door slowly rose.

But when he maintained the posture of holding the door open and the light from the watch in his mouth shone into the basement, he saw a human skeleton lying right in front of the stairs.

what? !

Conan was surprised and opened his mouth subconsciously, but his watch fell down the stairs.

When the others heard the noise, they hurried over and saw Conan practicing weightlifting.

"Conan, what are you doing?"

"Yuta, come here and hold the door!"

Conan looked serious and quickly called the group's best tank to come and hold the door.

Chapter 1334 Code Interpretation

When Yuantai came over and held the door, Conan immediately ran into the basement.

He first picked up the watch that had fallen at the bottom of the stairs, and then used the light from the watch to illuminate the body.

Unlike the fresh corpses that were abundant in Mihua, the corpse this time had become highly skeletonized.

Conan took a quick look and concluded that the body had been here for at least 10 years.

There was nothing on the skeleton that could prove its identity.

In the right hand of the skeleton was holding a piece of cloth with a bunch of bizarre words written on it.

"This is……"

Since the body had been there for a long time, all the necessary traces had disappeared, and there was no need to worry about damaging the scene, so Conan simply picked up the strip of cloth with his hands this time.

All I saw on the cloth strips were Chinese characters, but some were fake characters made up of Chinese radicals, and no information could be read.

Looking at the strip of cloth in his hand, Conan was stunned, and suddenly remembered that he had seen a similar strip of cloth one day 10 years ago.

Let’s go back 10 years ago. At that time, Shinichi was playing football with other classmates on the playground.

Xiaolan suddenly ran over and said that she found a magical "magic belt" in the old warehouse behind the school.

So, the two came to the old warehouse and saw a tape with unknown words tied to the door handle of the warehouse.

Shin-chan recognized that the words on the tape were somewhat similar to Chinese characters, so he wanted to take off the tape and take it back to show the teacher.

But at this moment, a man dressed as a baseball player appeared behind them and warned them not to take off the belts.

"Because that tape is used to seal the terrible monster in the warehouse..."

Although a long time has passed, Conan still remembers what the man said at that time.

But later on, the matter was left unresolved. After all, children are easily distracted.

Could this belt be the same one from that year?

The unsolved mystery of his childhood now appeared before his eyes again, and coupled with this skeleton, it immediately aroused Conan's curiosity.

He took out his cell phone, took a picture of the cloth strip, then turned around and asked the three kids to call the police.

However, the three little ones did not bring their cell phones to school, so the task of calling the police fell on Wakasa Rumi who was standing silently in the back.

……

Soon, the police arrived at the school.

The person handling this case is Shiratori Nisaburo, who was previously promoted to police inspector.

After listening to Conan and the three little ones describe how the body was discovered, Shiratori began to investigate the scene.

After a while, a conclusion was reached.

This skeleton must have been a thief in his lifetime.

There was a large crack on the back of the skeleton's skull, and it was lying on its back at the bottom of the steps, with a large bag of lime in its arms.

This means that this person came to the school warehouse in the middle of the night to steal lime, but his balance was unstable when he was climbing the stairs, causing his body to fall backwards and die there.

And because the warehouse was abandoned shortly afterwards, no one has discovered it until now.

"Anyway, this should just be an accident."

"When we get back, we'll check the missing persons records from ten years ago. We should be able to confirm his identity..."

"Then goodbye."

Watching Officer Shiratori leave, Genta rested his head on his arms and sighed, "What's going on? It turns out it's not a murder case..."

Mitsuhiko: "Yeah, it's a bit boring..."

Ayumi: "What a pity! I thought we could catch the murderer again..."

Listening to the three little ones' increasingly outrageous remarks, Conan felt both emotional and helpless.

These children have been following me around all the time, and they are becoming less and less respectful of life.