Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

"Yes." Quan Yi said with a smile without changing his expression.

What Izumi said surprised Conan and the children. Among the crowd, only Xiao Ai remained expressionless.

Because Xiao Ai knew that this sinister transvestite must be planning something.

"Aren't there a lot of strange stones in the stream in the courtyard?" Quan Yi's next words made Conan breathe a sigh of relief. "There are a lot of them piled together, and there are a lot of words on them. I can only understand some of the words, let alone these children."

"This..." Sudo Yunzo was startled at first, then he twitched his mouth speechlessly, "Okay, if you see that special stone, remember to tell me." After saying that, he turned around and walked into the darkness in the distance.

It would be impossible for these little kids to find the stone by chance. The adult leading them doesn't look like someone with experience in treasure hunting in the wild. He looks so fair and tender... Sudo Yunzo thought to himself that judging from their expressions, being able to see the stone lantern in the courtyard was probably their limit.

"Smart." Conan couldn't help but admire Cheng.

Indeed, this is the best way.

Whether the visitor was friend or foe was uncertain. If he told the truth, he might face the possibility of being killed and robbed by the murderer. However, if he pretended not to have seen anything, these children were so cunning that they would most likely see through him. If that happened, it would only make his cover-up more obvious. So, it would be better to tell a half-truth. With Quan Yi's ability (an innocent appearance), the first half of the story would be true and the second half a lie, making it harder to detect. That way, even if they could see something from the children's expressions, they would assume they were nervous about the stone lantern, which would only bolster his confidence and make him and his companions completely treated as novices and children.

It is much safer and more convenient to act in secret than to be exposed early on.

It's better to leave deception to professionals. Conan's mouth twitched. Otherwise, why would Izumi-kun be surrounded by so many girls...

"It's standard procedure. Everyone sit down." Quan Yi smiled. "However, it seems that this person seems to be very familiar with the mechanisms in this house. For now, we should follow him. It will be much more efficient than crossing the river by feeling the stones on our own."

"But." Conan narrowed his eyes, "Could this person be the murderer? Or, could it be Kaito Kidd?"

"If he's a murderer, then he's not." Izumi shrugged and said softly, "It's even less likely that he's Kaito Kidd."

Conan nodded with assurance. Quan Yi was always cautious in what he said. He would not easily express his opinions unless he was 100% sure.

"So, whether it's the murderer or Kidd, they might still be in this room," Quan Yi continued. "As for why he's not one of these two people—when I tested him, his face showed only suspicion, not fear. So he didn't know there was a body buried beneath the stone lantern, so he can't be the murderer."

"As for Kaito Kidd," Izumi smiled. "To put it bluntly, even if that guy turned into ashes, I would still recognize him."

Conan gave a professional fake smile.

"Okay, stop dawdling and follow him."

Don't scare the children

At this time, the police who received Xiao Ai's call were trying hard to find a way in the woods.

Unfortunately, they got lost...

house.

Sudo Yunzo didn't seem to express any dissatisfaction with Quanyi and others following him. Instead, he let the children follow him. Quanyi chatted with him from time to time. Although he tried his best to pretend to be indifferent, he still responded.

"There's actually a man-made river in the house..." Conan couldn't help but sigh. The space inside this huge mansion was much larger than it looked from the outside. There was even a small artificial river inside, which looked similar to the high-end restaurant outside. "I think Ji Jiemon must have been an interesting person back then."

"There are fish in the river." Ai looked at the koi fish that were still swimming slowly under the light of the flashlight. "I wonder if it leads to the stream outside."

"It looks like they should be connected." Quan Yi looked at the koi in the river and chuckled. "What do you think, Mr. Sudo?"

"That's a correct judgment." Sudo Yunzo looked at Izumi with interest, "But how did you come to that conclusion?"

"Let's not even talk about the koi carp's identical appearance and the question of whether they have food," Quan Yi chuckled. "If it weren't connected to the stream outside, this room has been abandoned for so long, and the windows are covered with oil-paper, so it's always pitch black, day or night. If the koi carp lived here for a long time, they would definitely be extremely sensitive to light. But just now, when Xiao Ai shone the flashlight on them, they were still swimming leisurely. They're obviously living in a lighted environment."

"Interesting." Sudo Yunzo chuckled, "What do you do?"

"Just like you, a treasure hunter." Quan Yi replied with a smile.

"I'm not a treasure hunter." Sudo Yun was secretly wary of Quan Yi.

"Look, there's actually a bridge!" Yuantai flashed his flashlight and saw a wooden bridge over the small river. On the opposite side of the bridge, a half-hidden wooden plank was vaguely visible. "There's actually a trap over there?"

"No, it looks like a trap at first glance." Sudo Yunzo smiled slightly, slowly walked onto the wooden bridge, and then stepped onto the plank. "Actually, it's not like that."

With the sound of a mechanism turning, four iron chains slowly hung down from the sky above the house. A wooden board was hung underneath it. After everyone went up, it slowly rose up.

"This is..." Conan couldn't help but exclaimed, "An elevator from one hundred and forty years ago?"

"I see." Xiao Ai couldn't help laughing after being surprised, "What an interesting mechanism."

"If you want to go up, you will actually go down." Mitsuhiko suddenly had an idea. "If you want to go down, you will actually go up, right?"

"There will be no problem if you know the principle!" Yuan Tai also said with a smile. At this time, the 'elevator' had just risen to the top floor, and everyone had just walked down. Before Yuan Tai finished speaking, he suddenly saw a cold light piercing directly towards Yuan Tai's round head!

"Oh my God!" Yuantai was shocked. The cold light pierced through the wood next to his head, less than five centimeters away from his head.

"Flying knife!" Conan's pupils suddenly shrank, and he subconsciously rushed from the back of the team to the front.

"How foolish." A female voice chuckled from the darkness, and then a graceful figure slowly emerged. "If it's that simple, he doesn't deserve to be called Jige Kiemon."

"Why did you attack us!" Conan stared at the woman.

"She's helping us," Quan Yi said. "Look at her dagger."

"dagger……?"

"...Poisonous spider!" the children screamed.

Where the woman's dagger had pierced it, a massive, spotted spider was struggling. It was pierced through, and green juice was slowly flowing out.

"Thank you." Quan Yi nodded to the woman. But Xiao Ai, who knew him well, frowned. Although Quan Yi was saying thank you, his expression and eyes did not show any intention of thanking her.

This woman...

"I didn't expect that you would bring so many helpers this time." The woman ignored Quan Yi and said this to Sudo Yunzo.

Until now, she still thought that Quan Yi and others were brought by Sudo Yunzo.

"You scared the kid. It wouldn't sound good if you told others about it." Sudo Yunzo snorted, but instead of explaining, he narrowed his eyes at the woman. "Even so, I'm afraid you don't care, do you? Duisharina?"

"Stop talking nonsense, you ungrateful guy." Duishalina curled his lips, "If you want to get to the top floor, it's better to go this way." After saying that, he turned and walked towards the other end of the darkness.

When they reached the top floor, they found nothing but a hole where the window had been. Yuan Tai leaned over the hole and looked out, and only then did they realize that they had reached the top floor.

Seeing this scene, everyone was immediately disappointed. The rain outside continued to fall, and the sky became completely dark. Mitsuhiko and others shone their flashlights around, hoping to find something, but found nothing.

"Do we have to go to the roof to find it?" Mitsuhiko looked around disappointedly. "Fortunately, there are stairs leading to the roof."

"Don't touch it!" Quan Yi shouted hurriedly.

But it was too late - the process of getting in had been too smooth, the children had lost their initial restraint, and Mitsuhiko had already grabbed the ladder.

With a few screams from the children, the floor suddenly collapsed, revealing a dark hole. Several children, including Ai and Conan, fell directly into it.

Quan Yi jumped down without saying a word.

"Bang!" Several collision sounds were heard, and several people fell down directly. However, they did not fall on the hard ground, but fell on a soft cushion-like object. Looking closely, the thing was black and white, and it was actually a huge football.

"Didn't I tell you?" Quan Yi said weakly, lying on the football mat with his arms and legs spread out, "Don't touch anything. And if you try to go up, you'll fall down..."

Conan, who was standing by, calmed down, picked up his glasses and put them on, looked around, and his face changed drastically.

"This is..." Conan glanced around and his pupils suddenly shrank. "Where have we fallen into?"

"What's wrong, Conan?" Ayumi looked at Conan's expression with a hint of surprise. In her impression, Conan's expression rarely changed much. "Is there something wrong here?"

"Something is seriously wrong." Conan said in a deep voice, "Look around you and even under your feet."

"Huh?" Not only Ayumi, but Genta and Mitsuhiko also became curious when they heard this sentence. But when they looked down at their feet with the help of the dim flashlight, they were suddenly frightened, and Ayumi even screamed.

Under everyone's feet, the part wrapped by the deflated football was still intact and could not be seen, but the other parts exposed outside were covered in white, and glowed palely under the flashlight. The uneven ground was covered with skeletons!

“Ah!” Mitsuhiko screamed in fear, and it took him a long time to recover. “Why…why are there skeletons in this place?”

"That's the treasure hunter who got caught in a trap before," Duisalina's voice came from above. Everyone turned around and saw her slowly sliding down the rope. "I checked the roof, and there's nothing there. It seems coming down was the right decision."

"A treasure hunter who's been trapped?" Ayumi's face turned increasingly pale, and even her voice began to tremble. "Then will we also..."

"No." Quan Yi chuckled. "How could we possibly be trapped in a place like this? But staying here forever isn't a solution. How about we try somewhere else?"

"That's definitely the best way." Behind him, Sudo Yunzo also climbed down from the rope. "It would be nice to continue to the other side and take a look. There are so many skeletons here, so there obviously aren't any large traps. It might be a good idea to go and take a look."

"Let's go then." Quan Yi said.

Yamata no Orochi

Everyone walked forward, and soon -

"That is..." Ayumi walked and shone the flashlight around fearfully. At this moment, her flashlight accidentally swept across a figure in the dark, causing Ayumi to cry out again.

It was an old man wearing a gray coat and a red hat on his head. His gray hair hung down from under the hat. He sat there quietly, looking as lifeless as the skeletons.

"Even this old man..." The old man attracted everyone's attention and everyone came closer. Ayumi looked at the old man sitting there quietly and couldn't help feeling sad.

But at this moment, the old man who was originally thought to be a corpse suddenly opened his eyes.

"I'm sorry, little girl." The old man laughed hoarsely, "I'm an old lady, not a grandfather."

Everyone: "..."

"Ah!" Ayumi's terrified scream once again echoed in this dark underground world...

After a long time.

"So, you're also a competitor?" Duisarina raised an eyebrow at the old man named Senju, and a hint of interest was revealed in her tone. "Even someone of your age is interested in treasures?"

"I'm not interested in that." Old Mrs. Senju chuckled, "I'm only here to visit a grave."

"Grave sweeping?" Conan raised his eyebrows, his heart slightly moved. @

How could Kichiemon's tomb be in his own house?

Just thinking about this, Conan subconsciously looked towards the end of the team, hoping to get some evidence from Quan Yi, but when he saw Quan Yi's half-smile, he was suddenly stunned.

What does this... mean? *

"Why don't you take us to see the grave you want to sweep." Quan Yi smiled, "Old Red Hat, ah, old woman..."

The old woman nodded very unnaturally.

Soon, in front of everyone was a high semicircular stone platform with a stone tablet in front. At first glance, it really looked a bit like a tomb.

And on the tombstone that originally belonged to the grave, there were a few square words engraved on it.

"Lost, offer the sacred artifact to me." Conan shone the flashlight on the tombstone and murmured, "Sanshui Kichiemon... What does this mean?"

"Hey, old woman," Duisalinai asked, looking at the 'grave'. "Isn't this a secret code?"

"Oh?" Izumi heard Kaito say in the voice of an old lady, "I always thought it was Kichiemon's grave."

You’re pretending pretty well... Quan Yi rolled his eyes secretly.

Conan's brain began to work rapidly.

The lost ones obviously refer to us now. Conan frowned, or rather the pile of skeletons under his feet, but what is the artifact behind it?

Is that imitation jade pendant made of stone?

Conan frowned. The stone with the word "Yan" on it must be related to the so-called artifact, but... has there been any artifact with the word "Yan" on it in history?

And the shape of that stone... Conan lifted his chin, it looks like a magatama, right?

Magatama... Conan was slightly startled. In Japanese history, there really was such a magatama that was called a sacred artifact...

Well, if we're talking about this, then the other two artifacts that come with it...

It should be in the hands of one of these people, right? Conan narrowed his eyes and looked at the people around him with different expressions, and couldn't help but sneered in his heart.

Conan looked at Quan Yi, who nodded at him. Conan smiled knowingly.

"Hey, uncle." Conan said to Sudo Yunzo in a deliberately soft voice, "Didn't you ask us before if we saw any strange stones? Does that mean that uncle also has a strange stone?"

"What?" Sudo Yunzo's pupils suddenly shrank and he asked subconsciously.

"Actually, we just found it." Quan Yi said with a smile, "One of them is probably a divine weapon made of stone." As he spoke, Quan Yi took out the stone magatama from his pocket.

"You have one too?" Sudo Yunzou looked at Quanyi taking out a stone in his hand, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Is there a word engraved on yours too?" As he said this, he was about to step forward to look at the stone in Quanyi's hand.

However, Quan Yi shook his head and put the stone in his hand away.

"It's time for us to be honest with each other." Quan Yi smiled slightly, "Uncle, isn't it time to take out the magic weapon in your hand?"

"Yeah," Duisharina beside him also raised an eyebrow, "If you don't want to be excluded, it's better to take it out."

"This..." Sudo Yunzo gritted his teeth, and finally slowly put down his backpack and took out a round stone from it.

The stone is shaped like a pure circle, with gorgeous carvings on it. It looks similar to the shape of an ancient mirror. In the middle of the mirror, the word "Yong" is engraved.

Conan looked at the mirror and his heart suddenly moved.

really.

He also had something in his hand, which was the sacred weapon that Sanmizu Kichiemon mentioned.

The artifact in his hand is a mirror.