Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1335 Skeletons in the Abandoned Warehouse
Pop, pop, pop.

Thunderous applause broke out in the classroom, which was a friendly welcome from the children.

After a few seconds, the applause stopped.

"Come on, Teacher Wakasa..." Teacher Kobayashi gestured to Wakasa Rumi next to her to come up and say a few words.

However, Wakasa Rumi looked timid, with a rosy face and her eyes looking downward.

He hesitated for a few seconds before opening his lips and saying, "That..."

"Hello everyone, my name is Wakasa Rumi..."

"Ten years older than your teacher Kobayashi..."

"Please, please take care of me!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she bowed forward.

As a result, he bowed too hard and his forehead hit the podium directly, making a dull "bang" sound.

This rash action first stunned everyone in the classroom, and then everyone burst into laughter.

The classroom is filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Seeing that Wakasa Rumi did not perform well during their first meeting, Kobayashi hurried over to comfort her.

Conan, who was sitting below, looked at Wakasa Rumi's reckless behavior and once again confirmed in his heart that this could not be the "Elena" he met in London.

Although it looks like...

"But it's rare to have a deputy head teacher in the class at this time..." Conan murmured.

Huihara Ai, who was sitting next to her, crossed her shoulders and looked coldly at Wakasa Rumi who was making a fool of herself on the podium. She said calmly, "Because there are many transfer students like us in this class, we need a deputy head teacher..."

"is it?"

Conan, who had other answers in mind, put one hand on his chin and glanced in the direction of the three little ones.

I guess it’s because these three are too troublesome that the school arranged for another deputy class teacher?

……

In a blink of an eye, the morning passed and it was time for lunch.

The five members of the Junior Detective Team put their study tables together and sat together to eat.

Faced with the nutritionally balanced but light-tasting children's meal, the other four people ate it with relish.

Only Conan looked at the milk, fried rice, bread, and vegetable and corn platter on the plate, and had no interest in eating at all.

Alas, when can it change back?

Conan fiddled with the broccoli on the plate with a spoon and sighed softly.

Since returning from London, the impact of the organization's affairs on his mind has not only not weakened, but has become even more profound.

Now that everyone is doing their part to fight the organization, how can I sit here and eat a children's meal with a clear conscience?

Or maybe ask for leave from school?

Xiaolan can also temporarily withdraw...

Anyway, now that we have that guy Kuroba Kaito, no matter what I do, Xiaolan will never suspect me.

Now even if I reveal to Xiaolan that "I am Kudo Shinichi" in front of her, Xiaolan will definitely just laugh it off.

So, on the way back by plane with Kuroba Kaito, Conan made some agreements with this "cousin".

For example, because Kuroba Kaito looks too much like Kudo Shinichi, in order to avoid misunderstandings among Mao Lilan, Kuroba Kaito's activities in Tokyo were delineated in the southwest centered on Ekoda Town.

No more than Shibuya at most.

If you have any important reason to come to Mihua, you must report it in advance.

Secondly, if there is any need here, Kuroba Kaito is always available to help play the role of "Kudo Shinichi".

However, during the performance, Conan also made three rules with him.

First, no physical contact is allowed.

Second, no physical contact is allowed.

Third, no physical contact is allowed.

Important things should be agreed upon three times.

The reason why Kuroba Kaito agreed to these agreements was that he felt guilty about having impersonated Kudo Shinichi's identity before, which led to Shinichi and Ran being targeted by the Beast Brotherhood.

At this time, Huiyuan Ai next to him suddenly said: "There seems to be something wrong with you..."

"Me?" Conan was stunned. "Really?"

Huiyuan Ai didn't turn around to look at him, but continued to talk to herself, "You spent most of this morning with your head down thinking..."

"Did anything happen during your trip to London?"

When Conan heard Haibara Ai's guess, his pupils shocked and he secretly marveled at her accurate intuition.

But he definitely couldn't let Haibara Ai know what happened in London, otherwise she would worry about it again.

"Haha~ What's going on?"

"There's nothing special about this trip to London, really..."

Haibara Ai:"……"

She glanced at Conan, who was scratching his head and laughing, and knew he was lying.

Before Conan returned to Japan, she saw photos of the Wimbledon bombing scene on the Internet, and Conan was in the photos.

Given Conan's habits, it is impossible that he has no connection with the case.

But since Conan didn't want to say it and the incident was over, she didn't want to ask any more questions.

Otherwise it would seem like I care about him a lot...

At this moment, the newly appointed vice-class teacher Wakasa Rumi walked over to the small table of the Junior Detective Team and asked cautiously: "Excuse me... do you know where to find lime?"

"Lime?" Ayumi put down the bread in her hand, "What do you want the lime for, teacher?"

Wakasa grabbed at his collar with both hands and said shyly, "You guys are going to play dodgeball on the playground in the first physical education class this afternoon, right?"

"So I wanted to use lime to draw all the necessary lines in advance during lunch break, but the lime for drawing the lines had just been used up, and there was no spare lime in the warehouse..."

At this time, Conan, as an "old senior", took the initiative to say: "Then why don't we go to the old warehouse of the school and have a look? Maybe there is still some lime there?"

Yuan Tai gave him a naughty look, "Is it that shabby warehouse that's rumored to be haunted by ghosts?"

Mitsuhiko immediately followed the pace, "I heard that a long time ago there was a teacher who was locked in that warehouse and starved to death..."

"Yeah, I heard someone heard it near the warehouse. Please save me. I'm so hungry. I want to eat eel rice..."

Conan rolled his eyes helplessly. This is obviously what you want to eat, right?

However, just as the three children were chatting and laughing and had become accustomed to the topic of death, Haibara Ai saw the expression of fear on Wakasa Rumi's face.

She saw what the new teacher was afraid of.

"What's wrong? Don't you know where the old warehouse is?"

Haibara Ai did not ask an embarrassing question like "What are you afraid of?", but instead asked the question in a different way, guiding her to express her demands.

"I, I know where it is..."

Wakasa Rumi became even more embarrassed, "That, that... is, that..."

"You want us to go with you because you're scared, right?"

Conan said it directly without giving any face.

"Well, yes."

Wakasa Rumi admitted it generously.

……

After the Junior Detectives finished lunch, they took Wakasa Rumi to the back of the school. It was an abandoned vacant lot, and not far away was a garbage storage point.

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 was exactly the same as when he lied to Haibara Ai just now.

But the three little ones still looked unconvinced.

Seeing this, Huiyuan Ai directly changed the subject, "Since it has not been used for such a long time, why didn't you abandon 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..."

"No!" He realized that he had said something wrong and quickly corrected himself, "I said that 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 flashlights, we have this!"

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

When he heard someone praising him, Yuan Tai quickly showed off, "This was made for us by Dr. Agasa!"

"There's also a detective medal 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, muttering, "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 feels 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.

After returning to Japan, Conan tried to search for some relevant clues on the Internet, but did not find 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 with 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, Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, Earth" written on them, 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?"

"Yuanta, come here and hold the door!"

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