Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Maori's eyes gradually lit up. "If that's the case, the horns on the bull's head will disappear, which means the Chinese character will become '午'. In addition to noon, 午 also refers to the south. This means the Angel of the South at noon is where we need to find it. We still have time."

"But how do you explain the tail turning into a head?" Mitsuhiko questioned.

"I'm not sure about that yet," Maori looked at the children and smiled softly, "why don't we go to the Angel of the South first to find out if it's true? Maybe there will be some clues there."

……

Angel of the South, at 12 noon, Maori and others rushed to the bottom, and indeed they did not encounter any dangerous facilities. The clock just followed silently behind.

After a stone brick on the base of the angel pillar was pushed in, a secret door suddenly opened. Inside was a large and spacious space with only a glass bottle placed on the ground in the middle. A beam of light leaked from above and shone directly on the bottle. A black crystal could be seen in the bottle.

Conan took the lead and walked into the secret room, but was unable to pick up the glass bottle. The bottle seemed to be fixed to the ground, so he had to pull out the cork and take out the black crystal inside.

"Is this the treasure of the Barbarian Bull?" Yuan Tai stared at the diamond-shaped black crystal.

"No," Conan checked the crystal and said, "This should be the key to unlocking the next puzzle. The horns on the bull's head disappeared, and the tail became the head, which means the direction is reversed, facing the direction opposite to noon, that is, the north. The next clue must be in the tower of the Angel of the North, Uncle Maori..."

"... Get out quickly!" Maori looked around with a slightly serious expression. He vaguely heard the sound of a mechanism operating. He turned around and saw Zhong Shi grabbing Matsunaka Yuriko and pulling her out.

Without bothering to explain to Conan, Maori hurriedly grabbed a few people and pushed them to the door. As time skipped 12 o'clock, the floor of the secret room suddenly collapsed from the middle, revealing a huge trap.

"go out!"

Maori barely grabbed the fixed glass bottle, hugged Ayumi who failed to escape, and threw Conan towards the exit. But before the secret room was completely sealed, he let go and fell into the ground with Genta.

"Boom!"

As soon as he stepped onto the ground, Mao Li immediately turned on the flashlight on his watch and looked around, and found Yuantai lying on the stone floor without any movement.

"Yuanta! Wake up, Yuanta!"

Mao Li checked Yuantai's condition and found that his breathing was smooth and there was nothing wrong: "Wake up!"

Yuan Tai muttered in a daze: "Uncle Maori... another serving of eel rice..."

"There's no eel rice! You're still thinking about eating it at this hour!"

Maori carried Yuantai on his back with a sullen face and looked up with the flashlight.

The underground is not too high, and perhaps the mechanism was not designed to kill people, but it is impossible to go up from here.

However, the tunnels here are very similar to those in the East Hall, and there seems to be a maze under the Southern Angel.

In this case, we can get out through the fireplace in the East Building. The question is whether this maze is connected to the East Building...

Outside the Southern Angel Tower, Conan and the others stood silently in front of the re-sealed entrance, having not yet recovered from the sudden change.

"What should I do?" Ayumi, who was finally sent out of the secret room by Maori, sobbed, "Uncle Maori and Genta and the others..."

"Uncle Clock," Conan looked at the clock that saved Yuriko with a serious face, "You knew the mechanism there from the beginning, right?"

"I'm sorry," Zhong Shi turned to everyone, "As the executor of the master's will, I have to follow the rules. This mechanism is also part of the challenge..."

"Then why did you save Yuriko?"

"If you have time to question, you might as well solve the mystery quickly or rescue Detective Maori and the others..."

Clock was wearing sunglasses and his expression could not be seen. In the tense atmosphere, the detective badges of Conan and his companions suddenly rang.

"Uncle?" Conan was stunned for a moment, and quickly took out his detective badge, "Uncle? How are you guys doing?"

"This should be an underground maze," Maori carried Genta on his back as they walked along the tunnel. "Genta and I should be able to find a way out first. If it leads to the East Building, we should be able to get out. What about you guys?"

"We are all fine," Conan looked at the little Ai who had gathered around him, "We will enter the maze from the East Building later. Judging from the condition of the skeleton, the mazes should be connected."

"I see."

Maori put away his detective badge, looked at Yuanta who was sleeping on his back, and sighed silently.

The little fat boy didn't sleep much last night, but now he is sleeping soundly without worrying about being trapped in the underground maze.

Giving up the idea of ​​waking up Yuantai, Maori used the flashlight to take in the surrounding environment.

"A maze..."

After picking up a stone to make a record at the intersection, Maori continued to step into the next passage. Because he did not lose his direction when he fell into the trap, the only thing he was sure of was that he was heading towards the East Hall. This way, even if he took the wrong road, he would not be completely confused and end up with the same fate as the skeleton.

The tunnel was extremely quiet, with only the sounds of Maori's footsteps and Yuantai talking in his sleep and drooling. There were also many forks in the road, and after a while, it turned back to the original intersection.

Looking at the mark he left at the intersection, Maori continued to explore the way in silence.

On the other side is Conan. He is not too worried about getting out of the maze. What he cares most about is the puzzles in this Angel's House.

Now it seems that the first half of my analysis is correct. The remaining clue lies in the Angel of the North, but the sentence "An angel will descend from the sky, blowing a flute..." is a bit strange.

The Angel of the North and other angel statues do not seem to have the mechanism mentioned in the code.

"Uncle," Conan contacted again with the detective badge, "Did you hear any sound just now?"

"No, you have already entered the maze?"

"Yes, we pulled a string in from the exit, just like the half-minotaur story where he used a ball of string to leave the maze... If we don't hear any sound, it means we are still some distance away..."

"Your idea is quite clever, but there's no need to rush here," Mao Li interrupted, "Time is running out, and the most important thing now is to help Yuriko solve the mystery..."

"Actually," Conan paused, "just like you said before, uncle, the next clue to the puzzle is in the Angel of the North, but to open the Angel of the North Tower you have to wait until midnight, but our time is already 9pm, and I can't think of what to do for now. There is a high-voltage current that thieves can use to escape the Angel of the North Tower, and we can't get close to it unless we wait until midnight...

"Besides, it's still a question whether Mr. Clock can be trusted."

"The clock?"

"Yes, he deliberately announced the puzzle at nine o'clock in the evening. In this way, if you want to open the South Tower, you have to wait until noon the next day. Even if the challenger finds that the next clue is in the North Tower, the earliest they can open it is until midnight that day..." Conan frowned and said, "No matter who challenges it, it is impossible to complete it within 24 hours..."

"But," Xiao Ai asked doubtfully, "what good will this do for him? Even if all the challengers fail..."

"What if he is an heir to Yuriko?" Conan said in a deep voice, "If he wants to officially take the treasure as his own as the heir, then that makes sense. I'm afraid the so-called protection is just to monitor us and hinder us..."

"wrong."

Maori silently carried Genta back to the intersection again and interrupted Conan's reasoning: "There is no reason why Isegawa Gozo could not foresee this situation. The tycoon known as the Bull must have chosen Mr. Clock for a reason. He cannot be a completely unrelated outsider, so as to prevent outsiders from stealing the treasure, but he cannot be someone who can inherit the inheritance..."

Conan was stunned: "Uncle, what do you know?"

"I was confused when Mr. Clock found me. In fact, he should be able to find Yuriko even without me. So his purpose should be to let me help Yuriko solve the mystery of the Angel's Mansion..."

Maori said calmly: "Mr. Zhong is related to the Iseyokawa family. There is no doubt about this. He is a relative of Iseyokawa, but he has no inheritance rights. He gave up his original name and became a secretary. In the end, he was made an executor of the will. He can only be free when the mystery is solved..."

"Could it be..."

Conan suddenly realized.

"Yes, that seems to be quite clear now."

Maori stopped at the intersection.

"He is hated by Iseyagawa Gozo, but he is also a relative of Iseyagawa and has no right of succession... and he just saved Yuriko in the Southern Angel Tower. The only person who meets these conditions is the one who eloped with Yuriko's mother."

Mao Li smiled and said, "I have checked specially. The body of Yuriko's father was not found. What is certain is that the car ran off the cliff and fell into the sea... The so-called fatherly love..."

"So Mr. Clock is Yuriko's father?"

Ayumi and the others looked at Yuriko who seemed a little dazed behind them.

"Although I'm not 100% sure, this possibility is very high. After all, no matter what, Iseya Gozo will not choose an executor casually," Mao Li looked forward and said, "Okay, I think I can hear your voices. Let's talk about everything after I get out."

Chapter 118: Fishing Suzuki Jirokichi

Seeing that the light outside was getting darker, Maori looked at Conan who was thinking hard:

"After learning more about Iseya Gozo, I feel that the puzzle may not have been designed entirely by him. The meaning of the word 'cow' is more like a game. If I think about it again..."

Maori's eyes sparkled as he looked at the Angel Searchlight System that was working again. The entire Angel Hall's searchlight trajectory instantly took shape in his mind.

"How can an angel descend from the sky? Have you noticed that the orbits of these searchlights are completely fixed, exactly the same as yesterday..."

"Searchlight?" Conan looked outside in astonishment, and was startled, "Could it be..."

"So I think," Maori said to Conan and the others while holding the diamond-shaped black crystal, "the reason why the puzzle was announced at 9 o'clock in the evening is actually to give us the opportunity to see the searchlight running again the next day, which is at this time... Let's go to the Oriental Angel Tower."

"Eh? Isn't that the Angel of the North?"

"The high voltage current of the Angel of the North will only be released when it is activated, and it is useless even if it is activated."

Maori led everyone straight to the bottom of the Oriental Angel Tower, and at the same time borrowed a ladder from Zhong Shi, and climbed up with Conan, and used the escalator on the tower to climb to the angel base at the top of the tower.

"Uncle," Conan immediately found a diamond-shaped groove in front of the searchlight, "It's here! As expected, that black crystal is the flute!"

Maori nodded and embedded the black crystal into the groove in front of the lamp head. Suddenly, a pointer-like black shadow appeared in the searchlight of the Oriental Angel.

"Let's get started. If it's the same as yesterday, the light should shine on the Angel of the North..."

Maori watched the searchlight beam move slowly across the ground, slowly illuminating the North Pavilion, and finally shining upwards towards the Angel of the North.

"coming!"

Conan held onto the railing and stared closely at the Angel of the North bathed in light. As the angel's shadow was projected onto the ground, the black crystal shadow gradually transformed into a flute held in the angel's hand and raised to his mouth, making him look like an angel playing a flute.

"Crack!"

Using a ballpoint pen to jam the searchlight's gear to stop the beam of light, Conan quickly shouted to everyone below the tower: "Shadow, the shadow of the angel playing the flute has appeared! It's over there in the forest, on the hill next to the charcoal hut! The shadow of the flute is there, and that's where the treasure is!!"

"really?"

Ayumi and the others below jumped up and cheered: "That's great!"

"Finally found it!" Yuantai, who had been blaming himself after the maze accident, finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's go there quickly!"

As the evening breeze blew, Maori looked at the shadow of the angel projected on the hill and smiled faintly, but he was not too excited.

Rather than the treasure itself, what really interested him at this time was Isegawa Tsuyoshi who left a will.

Letting the great-granddaughter's father be the heir to the estate, perhaps it was intended from the beginning to leave the estate to the great-granddaughter?

Although Zhong Shi himself was not too biased, he still found this famous detective in advance and secretly protected Yuriko, and prevented them from being accidentally injured by the defense system.

What a strange family...

……

The small hill where the shadow was cast collapsed automatically after Yuan Tai and several others volunteered to dig, revealing another underground space that looked like a maze. However, there was no branch inside, and it led directly to a basement, which was where the final treasure was.

"Mr. Clock," Maori called out to the clock that was following the crowd, "or should I call you Mr. Matsunaka Yoshito? You really came here specially to see me, right?"

Zhong Shi's eyes tightened slightly under his sunglasses: "I just want to find Yuriko through Detective Maori."

"It doesn't matter," Mao Li and Zhong Zhong walked into the basement side by side, "In fact, there must be a reason why Iseya chose you to execute the will."

The basement was golden. Yuriko, accompanied by Conan and others, stood in front of a pile of gold bricks. Rather than the unpredictable huge wealth, the children's attention was attracted by the photo frames placed on the gold bricks.

It was a photo of Isegawa Tsuyoshi when he was young and a little girl who looked very similar to Yuriko. It was placed carefully right above the treasure, as if it was more important than the treasure itself.

"This is……"

"She's the granddaughter of the master," Zhong Shi said, "that's Yuriko's mother. In fact, that puzzle was what Yuriko's mother thought of when she was a child..."

"My mother?" Yuriko turned around and looked at the clock.

"That's right," Zhong Shi recalled, "I heard that the master has always loved his granddaughter, Yuriko-san, because she looks very much like his dead wife, so the master tried every means to bring her back from eloping with me. At that time, he also had a lot of contacts with gangsters. If I really angered him, I don't know what would happen..."

"In order to protect Yuriko's mother and the newly born Yuriko, I had no choice but to disappear from their sight and stay by the master's side to work..."

"You..." Yuriko stared at the clock in a daze, "You are..."

"Detective Maori may have known it from the beginning," Zhong Shi took off his sunglasses to reveal a sad face, "I am indeed Matsunaka Yoshito, Yuriko's father."

"D-Dad?"

"Last year, the master suddenly said that he wanted to see his granddaughter and reconcile with Yuriko's mother, so I went to find him immediately..."

Zhong Shi looked at Yuriko with misty eyes: "But I learned of her death. The master's health suddenly became very bad because of despair. Until the last will, I can be free as long as the puzzle is solved... Now think about it, the master may have intended to leave the treasure to Yuriko."

"Mr. Iseya Gozo owes your family a lot."

Maori glanced at the mountain of treasure, put his hands on his chest, turned and left.

Isegawa Gozo finally realized at the end of his life that family is a treasure more precious than money. Although it was a little late, it was better than dying in ignorance.

But no matter what, he was able to reunite Yuriko and her father, and his commission was completed very well.

……

At the Beika Cinema, Sonoko looked at the Mori father and daughter sleeping next to her, then sat up depressedly and looked at the last part of the movie.