Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Looking at the torii and the surrounding gables, Conan realized that it was this strange smell that had been affecting him, and these hallucinations were probably related to the fragrance. He looked at his hands, feeling distressed.

The problem now is how he can regain consciousness, because even if he is stimulated, he cannot be sure whether he is still hallucinating or not. After all, those mechanisms hit him so hard that they eventually covered up his hallucinations.

After walking back a few steps, Conan walked uphill again under Orange's puzzled eyes. He quickly climbed back to the wooden door of the passage, raised his watch and looked at the hole at the steps, only to find that it had indeed disappeared. Walking inside, he found that there was another deep hole. Looking down, he happened to meet Orange's eyes again.

"As expected, if I can't leave the illusion, I can't go back either."

He returned to Orange as he pondered this, feeling that he had no other options.

"Orange, why don't you try it."

Conan pointed at the shrine. He suspected that the things inside the shrine were completely different from what was inside in reality. Because this was an illusion, even if they successfully reached the shrine and opened the small door, what they saw in the end would not be real.

"No, if it's an illusion, maybe it's not real to you."

Conan stared at Orange, thinking that something like hallucination probably couldn't be connected online.

[Isn't this a dead end? ]

……

Behind the shrine, Yuji frowned with a stiff expression as he looked at the ghost holding the remote control. It was not until the person opposite him pressed a button, causing the main hall of the shrine to burst into flames and collapse, that he believed it was true.

"What do you think? If you don't let us go, this whole mountain might be blown into ruins."

The only person present who could make the decision was Kudo Yuji. If Tokuizumi was here, he might have listened to the adults. But whether he was a teenager or not, at this time they could only let the two ghost-faced men leave and have their own people escort them as they left, so as to avoid being caught by Officer Nishimura and Maori Kogoro and others at the foot of the mountain.

"You also need to prove that the bombs on the mountain won't explode after we get you out safely."

Yuuji ordered Nana Komachi and several of his subordinates to come out together.

"This sharp police officer must have known that the bomb we planted could use this kind of remote control, and it was a single-line non-time bomb."

Ghost Face shook his head and said, "Unless you accidentally touched the explosive line when defusing the bomb, our remote control can only be used within a range of 600 meters near the mountain."

Of course, if the police intended to arrest them six hundred meters away, they would not sit there and wait for death.

"I want you to provide me with a car that doesn't have a tracker installed."

The two ghost-faced men retreated towards the mountain gate while trying to prevent the police who followed them from suddenly ignoring the bombs and arresting them. When they saw the collapsed steps at the mountain gate, they paused for a moment and then went down the mountain from the dirt road next to it.

After exchanging a glance with Nana Komachi and seeing several people and the ghost faces go down, Yuuji immediately urged Gojo to take people to defuse the bomb, while he returned to the two statues at the entrance of the mountain. "The rotation position is correct, which means that the hole is the final mechanism."

When the boy reached the torii gate at the mountain gate, he noticed how dark it was inside and confirmed that Conan and the shrine maiden had probably already gone in. Instead of following them directly, he called Conan to confirm the cell phone signal.

"It shows no signal, which means it's very deep inside."

Using the flashlight from where he was, he could see the open wooden door, but no one answered after he called out, which meant that either Conan went too deep to hear his calls, or something went wrong.

"It's probably the second one. This mountain is not very big to begin with. No matter how deep we dig, it won't get much deeper."

Considering the possibility of a mechanism, Youji called Gojo and asked him to ask someone to get a set of remote-controlled detectors, and then sat at the entrance of the cave and waited.

"Ah, that's it."

Not long after, a man in black clothes climbed down the mountain carrying a large box. He told Yuji that the two ghost-masks had escaped and then put the box on the ground.

"The two drove to the south of the university, then abandoned the car and rushed into the school. By the time we wanted to catch up, it was too late."

“Then close the school.”

Yuuji nonchalantly issued an order: "All teachers and students are not allowed to leave the school. The police will eliminate them one by one. If anyone wants to escape over the wall, please stay at the police station for a while, and leave some information in their files."

"Isn't this a bit too much..." The person who came was very confused and was glared at by Yuji.

"After all, he is a medical student. His family spent a lot of money to train him to this age..."

"Wait, you said medical students."

Yuuji had just opened the box when he suddenly paused and turned to stare at the man: "Is this the school where the National Kendo Tournament was held?"

"Yes."

"So... Fukujo Ryoe is also studying there, right?"

Yuuji lowered his head.

【Finally I have some ideas. 】

(End of this chapter)