frightfiction Chapter 601 What's the Good Topic?
Chapter 601 What's the Good Topic?
Urawayama
Chu Ming looked at the three naughty kids collecting firewood not far away, stretched and leaned against the edge of the tent, looking at Conan who was surrounded by Haibara Ai and Professor Agasa in the tent, and the two of them were taking turns to persuade him not to continue checking the mailbox.
Conan actually wanted to give up. After all, Chu Ming had already talked to him about it before. However, he was still a little unwilling to accept the repeated refutations. "I can't check, so what about the police? Even if they won't accept the case without evidence, Officer Takagi will definitely help me."
"Of course the good old Officer Takagi will help you, but do you think there is no backup plan left in the Metropolitan Police Department? What if Officer Takagi is killed because of the investigation? With your personality, you will live with guilt for the rest of your life." Haibara Ai's voice was not loud, even a little cold, but this one sentence directly hit Conan's heart, leaving him speechless.
Haibara Ai exaggerated the seriousness of the matter and even compared the boss's mailbox to Pandora's box in order to make Conan back off.
Conan sighed, closed his phone, and felt a little depressed. He had already realized that this email address was indeed something he should seal up and not check any further at this stage.
"Conan! Conan, something bad happened, Conan, we found a dead person in the pond over there!!" Several children ran over shouting and chattering at Conan.
Found someone so quickly?
Could this be——
Chu Ming's eyes lit up, and he stood up and asked the children curiously, "Where is it?"
Conan saw Chu Ming's expression change from boredom to excitement in an instant, and his depressed mood eased a little. Originally, Chu Ming didn't like to go camping. After all, it was really boring to bring a few kids out to play. It was he who dragged Chu Ming out. He originally wanted to discuss with him the follow-up of the email address, but now the email address could not be checked anymore. Chu Ming was really bored outside and almost fell asleep.
Conan felt a little embarrassed, but Chu Ming didn't care about his thoughts at this time. He was eager to see if the body in the pond was Akai Shuichi's, so he quickly called a few children to lead the way and ran over there.
After walking for a long time along the winding path in the forest, we finally arrived in front of a dilapidated old house. In front of the house was a large lake. Yuan Tai stood on the hillside and pointed at the lake from afar: "It was in that lake that we found when we were playing here before. There were also many stone boxes pressing on that person."
"How come you guys can collect firewood from such a far place?" Conan looked around, a little speechless, "This place is at least a thousand meters away from our camp, right? You guys are pretty good at strolling."
The old house that Yuan Tai pointed to was located deep in the woods. The outside of the house was already decayed and moss was spreading rampantly. Because they arrived late, it was almost dusk. The sunlight was not strong, and the house looked particularly eerie due to the branches and leaves.
When they reached the water's edge, Chu Ming could see clearly that the body they had found was being pressed into the water by some rocks, with only an arm vaguely exposed. But after just one glance, Chu Ming was a little disappointed, as this was not Akai Shuichi.
But since he was already here, although the magnetic field was small, it was also extra income. He took out the stones that were pressing on the corpse one by one. At the same time, Conan and a few others worked together to pull the corpse out and put it on the grass.
The deceased was a middle-aged man with messy hair and a stubbled face. He was a little thin. Chu Ming took a quick look and stood up: "He hasn't been dead for too long. He must have been strangled to death."
He looked back at the dilapidated old house behind him, and then observed the stones pressing on the dead body. These stones were in the shape of boxes, and there were words inside. Conan had already leaned on the box and read aloud: "The Nioh Cave is between the sun and the moon, where all the elders gather and the place is extremely prosperous. The Nioh Stone is inside..."
"Nio Stone?" Chu Ming became interested. "Diamond? Could there be some treasure?"
"Treasure?!" Several children became excited and urged Conan: "It must be in this house. Let's go treasure hunting!"
Conan scratched his head, pointed at the signature of this text, and said helplessly: "Brother Chu Ming, why are you more excited than them? This was left by Sanshui Jiyou, the guard, which means that there must be many traps in the house..."
He suddenly remembered something and quickly said to Dr. Agasa: "By the way, Dr., call the police."
The doctor shook his phone helplessly: "No, there is no signal here. Many places in Urawa Mountain are not developed, so there are many places with weak signals. I will go to the tent first to see if I can get through."
After saying that, he ran towards the tent, leaving the people and children there. He probably thought that with Chu Ming there and Conan and Haibara Ai being adults, he didn't have to worry at all.
Chu Ming squatted on the ground and studied the secret code in the stone box, but Conan was extremely cautious at this time because he had been repeatedly persuaded before, and he refused to agree to the children's request to stay here and explore.
He threatened the children in different ways: "Maybe the murderer who killed this man is hiding in the house. What if he attacks us?"
Guangyan secretly glanced at Chu Ming: "Brother Chu Ming is here, who would be so desperate to attack us..."
Conan was choked by him and changed his words: "We don't know the identity of this person, so why not wait until the police come..."
"He seems to be a treasure hunter." Huihara Ai had a wet notebook in her hand at some point. She struggled to identify the handwriting on the notebook. "It contains many locations of treasures scattered across Japan, as well as maps."
Chu Ming immediately became interested. He leaned over to take a look and memorized the locations written on it. Okay, now all these locations have been requisitioned by the organization. I will send people to dig them up later.
"Now that I have found a trustworthy companion, I will definitely be able to defeat that dirty thief this time—" Huibara paused while reading, apparently thinking of something when reading the description of the word thief.
Chu Ming glanced at Conan, who suddenly became very motivated when he heard about a certain thief, and teased him deliberately: "Okay, since Conan insists on asking, let's go back. After all, it's getting late."
Conan sat down on the grass, hugged the stone box with his hands and feet, pretended not to hear Chu Ming's teasing, and coughed twice: "It's okay, since they want to crack the code so much, let's watch here for a while, I think I have some clues."
Chu Ming squatted beside him and pointed at the last name: "This person sounds familiar, I seem to have heard of him somewhere."
"Sanmizu Kichiemon was a famous mechanical maker and puppet maker in the late shogunate. He had superb skills, and the puppets he designed were lifelike. He also made puppets that could automatically deliver teacups using only a spring. The princes and merchants at the time liked him very much, and he was called Mechanical Kichiemon." It was rare for Mitsuhiko to encounter a question related to his profession, and it was something that even Brother Chu Ming didn't understand, so he immediately started talking about it.
"Isn't this just a simple version of the wooden ox and flowing horse?" Chu Ming didn't think that this man was as powerful as they did. Giving a teacup was nothing. According to the legend, Zhuge Liang's wooden ox and flowing horse could even transport military rations on their own.
"Wooden oxen and flowing horses? What are those?"
Except for Conan, the others were very curious about the wooden ox and flowing horse that Chu Ming mentioned. While Conan was thinking about the secret code, Chu Ming simply sat cross-legged on the ground and told the children the legendary story of Zhuge Liang, which stunned the children.
"So there was such a powerful person in ancient China—" Mitsuhiko sighed, "I really want to go and see him."
Yuan Tai remembered what Chu Ming said a long time ago: "Yes, Chu Ming also said before that Chinese watermelons are very cheap, big and delicious. I really want to go to China once--"
Chu Ming patted Conan's head, who was thinking hard, and felt a little sad. He did want to do it, but when he thought that taking them there would mean leading Conan into the house, he decided to give up...