Conan Rick's Investigator

Facing the impending "death", Chis remained calm, with his hands in front of him, sitting calmly on the bench.

But what he didn't expect was that the masked man outside the cell shook his head, took out the key and opened the iron door.

"We are not executioners, but we are here to save this country."

"Rescue?" Chiss muttered, rising from the bench. "Did I ever hire you?"

The masked man shook his head, "No Sakura"

"Then why should I believe you?"

"Not everything in this world can be measured by money. There are also justice, loyalty, and morality..."

Chis frowned slightly, "Which one are you?"

The masked man shook his head again and said coldly: "Now is not the time to ask me, but what do you want to do?"

"The prison door is open for you. Will you escape? Or will you fight for honor like a warrior?"

The masked man's voice was not loud, but it was deafening to Chis's ears.

As the captain of the royal guard, Chis has served the royal family for generations. As long as he can get out of the prison, it will not be difficult for him to escape from the palace and the country.

As far as he knew, this underground prison had a passage leading to the outside world and had been abandoned for decades.

But what would happen even if I escape?

He bore the stigma of a traitor throughout his life, hid from the xz, and could not live in peace, and finally died in depression.

If he stayed, although he might not be able to clear his name, at least he could die on his own battlefield, which would be considered as fulfilling his duty.

But the right and wrong will be judged by future generations.

"Okay, I'll stay."

"Kyle, what about you?"

The man with a crew cut stood next to Qisi and said, "Wherever Mr. Qisi is, I will be there..."

"Well, thank you."

Qin Zhibo secretly observed the attitudes of the two Raos and had already formed an evaluation of them in his mind.

From these two perspectives, they are the losers in the palace struggle, no longer trusted by the Queen, and should have lost hope for the country.

But they still wanted to be loyal and not flee abroad.

For people with such faith, I don’t mind pointing the way forward.

"In fact, this country has been controlled by Kirad and some external forces. Even if you go out and make a desperate appeal now, it will be fruitless."

"The only thing you can do now is to find and rescue Princess Mira. She is a legitimate member of the royal family and should not have been controlled yet..."

The masked man's words were like enlightenment, and Chis, who had been puzzled for 24 hours, suddenly understood.

"I just wonder why the Queen and the Prince would..."

Without saying anything more, Chis immediately walked out of the cell, opened the doors of the adjacent cells, and released Mira's two personal maids.

After telling the two of them the situation, the maid decided to follow Chis to find Princess Mira.

Qin Zhibo looked at the backs of several people and felt quite relieved.

These people originally lived in the palace and were very familiar with the layout inside the palace. They also knew Mira's location better than "Conan" and Kudo Yusaku.

However, in order to prevent accidental injury to friendly forces, it is still necessary to notify them.

Just as Qin Zhibo was about to pick up the walkie-talkie, it started ringing by itself.

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

"I've found someone, but Lan isn't here..."

Chapter 1093: Palace Action (II)

Xiaolan isn't here? Conan, standing next to her, trembled in his ears, and his expression immediately became anxious. Qin Zhibo thought for two seconds and said into the intercom, "Then I'll go find her, and you can help others rescue the princess."

"Once I find the person, I'll meet you outside..." Kudo Yusaku on the other side was stunned. This masked man from a certain organization didn't know Xiaolan, so how could he find Xiaolan?

But when he wanted to ask for details, the intercom stopped answering.

Conan asked anxiously,

"How is it?" Kudo Yusaku put away the intercom,

"The other two people who cooperated with us are going to look for Xiaolan..." Maori Kogoro shook his head immediately after hearing this.

"No! I can't leave my daughter's safety in the hands of an outsider!"

"Yeah!" Conan also rarely agreed with Maori Kogoro's idea. But Kudo Yusaku did not answer. Instead, he raised his hand to support his chin, frowning slightly, and recalled the afternoon when the masked man found Lupin III's base.

If that man really would

As for "magic"... Kudo Yusaku only has a guess about this, but he can't be 100% sure.

But in the current situation, the palace may discover the invader at any time, and Ran Mouri has disappeared for a whole day. It is an impossible task for the three of them to find Ran Mouri in a short time.

"Mr. Maori, I understand how you feel, but the best thing to do now is to do what that person says."

"As long as we can find the princess, even if we fail to find Xiaolan this time, we can still keep opportunities for the future..." Kudo Yusaku did not express it very clearly, but his basic meaning was to use the princess as a hostage to exchange for Maori Ran.

Of course, this plan is based on the premise that the princess is still important to the country and that Mao Lilan is still alive.

After listening to Kudo Yusaku's rational analysis, Conan and Maori Kogoro gritted their teeth in anger. Although they were reluctant, they knew that this was the only choice.

Seeing that the two no longer raised any objections, Kudo Yusaku looked down at Conan and said calmly: "Conan, do you know where the princess might be?"

"Yeah!" Conan nodded.

"Okay, let's go quickly!" Led by Conan, the two adults, Kudo Yusaku and Mori Kogoro, ran towards the corner of the stairs.

On the other side, in the underground prison, Qin Zhibo also parted ways with Conan.

"I'll go find Xiaolan, and you go save that thief." Qin Zhibo assigned Conan a simple task, intending to go alone to find the location of Maori Ran.

On the one hand, this was to save time. On the other hand, Qin Zhibo was worried that there might be a skirmish during the rescue of Mao Lilan.

If the enemy has more people, he will not be able to guarantee Conan's safety in the battle. Conan looked up at Qin Zhibo with a serious face and asked subconsciously: "Can you do it yourself?" Qin Zhibo smiled slightly.

"Remove the word 'ma'." Seeing that Qin Zhibo was still as reliable as ever, Conan nodded with great confidence.

"Then I'll leave Xiaolan in your hands." After saying that, the two of them ran along the prison corridor with their backs to each other.

Qin Zhibo first ran back to the previous position of the prison control console. The two tied guards had not woken up yet.

Judging from the footage from the surveillance camera, Conan is heading towards the prison area where Lupin III is located, and there are no patrolling guards along the way.

But the strange thing is that there is no sign of Xiaolan in this prison. In other words, Xiaolan is neither imprisoned here as a prisoner nor under house arrest like Maori Kogoro.

Where could it be? Reasoning was no longer effective at this point, and all he could do was use magic to find a way out.

Qin Zhibo put on the magic extractor, closed his eyes, and began to cast the locating spell. He hadn't used the locating spell before because he assumed that Mao Lilan and Princess Mira were close to each other. Even if he used the spell, he couldn't be sure which was which.

And in a complex building, a general sense of direction can easily be misleading. But now it has to be done.

As the image of Mao Lilan appeared in his mind, he had two senses of direction. Although Mao Lilan and Mira did look different in real life, the locating spell could not make such a detailed distinction, no matter how close he was to the target.

Furthermore, mythical creatures are almost immune to the Hiding Object Charm. When the Hiding Object Charm was first used, even a cooked frozen lobster in a supermarket freezer was identified as a mi-Go.

Two directions, which one? Qin Zhibo felt like he was in an infinitely dark space, with only two red ribbons floating in the air before him.

There were two ribbons, one representing Mao Lilan and the other representing Mira. Qin Zhibo raised his hand, wanting to grab one at random, but he couldn't believe his luck of only 35.

Which one? Suddenly, he remembered the information Conan had passed back yesterday, saying that one of the conditions for Duke Kirard to cooperate with mi-Go was to ensure that he could get Princess Mira.

Why did Kirad want the princess? The princess was as beautiful as a flower and in her prime, so she was extremely valuable both from the perspective of a political marriage and simply as a female partner.

Since it's valuable, it should be under house arrest somewhere, safe from abuse. Qin Zhibo looked at the direction of the two ribbons again. One was floating overhead, and the other was almost parallel to his own height.

One is up high, and the other is underground like herself. The one up high is the princess, and the one underground is Xiaolan!

Qin Zhibo quickly grabbed the red ribbon in front of him, opened his eyes and looked straight ahead.

The brain pieced together the direction of the red ribbon in the residual vision of the eye with the map of the palace, and discovered that the location pointed to the palace's newly built underground system.

The Vespaña Palace has two underground systems. One is an old underground system from decades ago, which includes air-raid shelters, escape passages, and underground prisons.

The other is an underground system newly built in recent years, mainly underground warehouses, treasure houses, etc. The two systems are not connected underground, and can only be entered by going up to the first floor and then from another underground entrance.

Qin Zhibo determined the route and headed towards the target. Not long after Qin Zhibo ran away, Conan in the surveillance video also arrived at the prison area where Lupin III was.

When a one-meter-tall child wearing a golden mask appeared outside the cell door, Lupin III and his friends were stunned and couldn't say anything meaningful for a while.

"Child?"

"Whose child is this? Jigen, do you know him?"

"I do know someone in this country who's about the same age... but that shouldn't be him, right?"

"Hmm - very suspicious... kid, which unit are you from?" Lupin III propped up half of his body with a smile, and his tone was very inappropriate.

Conan looked at the three people in the cell, some meditating, some lying flat on their backs, and couldn't help but wonder: How could such people be more powerful than Kaito Kid?

If Kaito Kidd had been imprisoned in a cell like this, he would have escaped long ago, right? But now was not the time to complain. Conan didn't waste any more words. He pulled out a bunch of keys from the guard and threw them through the gap in the iron bars.

The key dropped to the ground. Lupin III, who was just chewing a straw to relieve his boredom, stood up and looked at it. His eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hey! The key!" Before Lupin III could stand up, Daisuke Jigen rushed over quickly to pick up the key, took it to the lock in front of the iron gate and began to try them one by one.

"This... not this... not this..."

"Hey! Jigen, could you please hurry up?"

"Don't rush me! There are so many keys here, how am I supposed to know which one it is?"

"If I had a knife in my hand..." Looking at the three people who still needed to try the keys one by one, Conan's expression under the mask became even more helpless.

The world's number one thief? I tui~ Conan's own height is a bit difficult to touch the door lock, but he also has other

"Open the door" method. Conan took out a sling from the pocket of his cowboy suit, wrapped it around the two iron bars of the cell, and then adjusted the tension on the counter.

10N, 20N…2000N! The number on the counter suddenly increased by two digits, which surprised Lupin III who was observing quietly nearby.

This is equivalent to 200 kilograms of force, and this is just the limit that Conan estimated the iron railings can withstand, not the limit of the retractable sling invented by the doctor.

Conan pressed the button below the counter, and the straps tightened immediately. The two iron bars inside were bent as expected, creating a wide gap for a normal adult to pass through.

"Come out from here..." Conan said calmly. Jigen Daisuke, who was trying the key, looked to the side and could only make a sound.

"Eh," he said, not understanding what was going on. Lupin III emerged from the widening gap, glanced at the retractable sling Conan had put back in his arms, a glint of greed in his eyes.

"Little boy, how did you get here?" Lupin III looked down at Conan, with a smile on the monkey's face that Conan thought was a bit mean.

Conan didn't want to get entangled with these unfamiliar people, so he said directly: "It was the uncle named Zenigata who asked me to save you." When Lupin III heard this, he raised his hands and shouted with a lively expression.

"Uncle! Long live!" At this time, Daisuke Jigen also came out from the back. He stretched his arms leisurely and twisted his neck three times to the left and three times to the right.

"Huh, finally out." Next came Ishikawa Goemon, dressed as a ronin. The first words he said when he came out of the cell were,

"Where is my sword..." Lupin III turned his head and looked at Ishikawa Goemon, with a slight smile on his lips.

"Of course we have to find your knife, and we have to pay back the debts those guys owe us and Fujiko."

"Hmph..." Conan felt the aura of the three men suddenly change amidst their cold snorts. Lupin III, the leader, instantly evolved from a clown into a boss-like smile, giving off a sinister vibe.

The man in a suit on the side held his hat with one hand, an unpredictable smile on his face. The ronin, with his arms crossed, had a serious expression, his eyes revealing a murderous aura that looked down upon the world.

Conan looked up in disbelief at the three men standing in front of him, all of whom were in a depressed state a minute ago.

Now they're... all villains! ... Vesbania Palace, Princess's room. Mira sat at her dressing table, her beautiful face delicately painted, her gorgeous dress neatly arranged, a stark contrast to the dishevel she'd seen yesterday.

She stared at herself in the mirror expressionlessly, seemingly calm and composed, but in fact her little hands on her legs were trembling slightly.

The reason for her trembling was not anything else but that a pair of sharp scissors was already held in her hand between the fluffy white folds of her skirt.

After thinking about what almost happened last night, Mira decided to die with Duke Kirard.

Although she wanted to save the country's current situation and rescue her imprisoned confidants, her power alone was limited.

She was so weak and politically inconsiderate that she couldn't even leave this small room. And judging from Kirad's confident words last night, he had completely controlled the palace, inside and out, even the queen and the prince.

This made Mira even more desperate. However, thinking back to the conversation with the strange man that day, Mira felt that she could not escape by committing suicide directly.

Even if we can't completely save this country, we must be with Kirad... At this moment, the door of the room opened, and a burly middle-aged man in a green suit pushed the door open and walked in.