Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Are we really going in?" When it came to entering the house, Yuan Tai hesitated a little. "When I really want to go in, this house is really creepy... Is the treasure really in there?"

"It should be inside," Conan gently pressed on the door, "The words engraved on the stone lantern mean that the place where Nioh sleeps is the closest to the sun, a very rich place where old people gather, and there is the Nioh Stone, which is a diamond..."

"However, it's too dangerous to go in like this. Besides, I still don't understand the last sentence of the code, and the magatama hidden in the hem of Mr. Yujing's trousers. Now I can only wait until the notes are dry and then look at the rest of the content..."

"Do we have to wait any longer? It seems like nothing..." Yuan Tai pushed the door open with a creak, looked inside through the crack, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "It's pitch black..."

"I've already said this might be a house with a mechanism," Mao Li grabbed Yuan Tai, "Who knows what kind of dangerous mechanism might be inside?"

"But," Yuan Tai shouted, "since the diamond is closest to the sun, it means it is hidden in the highest part of the house. Can't we just climb up carefully?"

"It's not that easy," Mao Li said unhappily, "If you run around again, I'll tell your mother when I get home and deduct a month's pocket money from you!"

“No!” Yuan Tai’s face changed drastically, and he raised his head with a bitter face, “But are we just going to leave it alone? Uncle Maori, if we don’t hurry up, Kaito Kid might steal the diamond.”

"If they wanted to steal it, they would have stolen it long ago."

Maori put Genta down, turned on the watch flashlight that Dr. Agasa had modified for him, and looked inside the house with a slightly frown.

There is a staircase in the middle leading to the upper floor, but other than that there is nothing else. It is completely empty, without even a single decoration. It is hard to believe that there is nothing wrong with it, but nothing can be seen on the surface.

When I came here before, I saw that this old house was a rectangular block, and there was obviously some space inside. If the murderer who killed Terunao Tamai had not escaped yet, he was very likely in the house.

The other party obviously has some understanding of the mechanisms here, which is undoubtedly more dangerous. If there were no children, he could still try to get in, but...

Mao Li gathered his eyes and made a decisive decision: "Let's hide from the rain here..."

"Hey," a tall figure suddenly walked out from behind the dark stairs, "What are you kids doing?"

The person gradually walked into the light of the flashlight. He was a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows, a big nose, a wide chin, and a crew cut. He was carrying a backpack and looked like a tourist, but he exuded a dangerous aura.

“Hmm?” The big man saw Mao Li’s expression, his eyes narrowed slightly, and then he smiled, “Are you also here to look for Yoshimata’s treasure? You’d better be careful, this house is full of traps and mechanisms. Yoshimata is a very eccentric person. If you act without thinking based on what you see, you will get into trouble, just like this seemingly normal staircase…”

"Bang!" The big man stepped on the stairs from the side, and with a clicking sound, the originally calm steps suddenly closed together and turned into an inclined landslide. The floor underneath also collapsed, revealing a dark and bottomless hole.

“It’s moving…”

Yuantai was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and his heart started beating rapidly.

If he had gone straight over there just now, he would be dead now.

"That was a close call! Isn't this too despicable?"

"Humph," the big man stepped on the stairs to restore them to their original state, and smiled nonchalantly, "This is just a small trap. If you want to go upstairs, you have to go inside..."

Conan looked at the big man for a while and asked, "Uncle, are you a treasure hunter?"

"I guess so," the big man glanced at Maori, "My name is Sudo Yunzo, and I came here because I'm interested in treasure hunting. By the way, have you found any strange stones?"

"No," Conan grabbed Mitsuhiko who wanted to speak and smiled cutely, "We just came here to camp and happened to find this place."

The big man looked at Conan deeply, then looked at Maori and said, "Well, let me know if you find it."

"Okay." Maori secretly praised Conan for his caution.

Although Conan often gets excited when dealing with cases, he is still quite reliable when he is calm.

"Hey, Conan," Mitsuhiko looked at the big man walking in and asked Conan in a low voice, "Why are you lying?"

"That person specifically reminded us, he doesn't seem like a bad person..."

"That's not necessarily true," Xiao Ai explained softly, "Maybe he wants to get close to us and then take away the stone jade. It's hard to tell whether the bad guy pretending to be a good guy is good or bad until he reveals his true face..."

"What Ai said is right," Conan continued, "This guy came for the treasure, his purpose is obviously not simple, and he might be the murderer..."

"No, no way?" Ayumi and the others became anxious.

"Anyway, it's better to follow him now, lest he escape before the police arrive," Conan said, looking at Maori, "Okay, Uncle Maori?"

Mao Li followed the big man with a flashlight, and reluctantly warned Ayumi and the others, "Follow me closely, and don't let anything happen. I promised your family."

"it is good!"

Maori glanced at the kids hanging behind him and shook his head secretly.

What kind of famous detective is this? She's just a babysitter...

However, it is obvious that there is something wrong with the big man Sudo Yunzo. It is not surprising that a treasure hunter who comes alone to such a deep forest would kill a few people.

Besides, most treasure hunters wouldn't bring a bunch of kids with them. Just think about it and you'll know it's impossible. This guy clearly knew they were a group of kids, yet after showing up he went straight to talking about the treasure.

Either he knew about the pond outside, or he recognized his identity...

A famous detective who might be helpful in treasure hunting but is also a burden is indeed very attractive to this kind of guy.

Maori was very alert.

"This is amazing," Mitsuhiko followed Maori's footsteps and looked around with a flashlight, "There is actually a river inside the house."

"There are so many carp in the water." Ayumi squatted happily by the pool.

"I wonder if it's connected to the pond outside..."

"Look over here, there's actually a bridge!"

Yuantai stepped onto a small arch bridge in surprise.

“It’s like a fine-dining restaurant!”

"Be careful." Maori glanced around and looked at Sudo Yunzo who was walking in front.

"Uncle Maori," Yuantai shouted with a flashlight, "There is a trap on this side of the bridge..."

“No,” Sudo Yunzo chuckled as he stepped on the slightly sunken wooden floor, “It looks like a trap, but it’s not…”

"Crack!"

As the big man moved, the wooden floor suddenly bounced open, and a secret compartment on a large pillar in front moved, revealing four chains and a piece of thick wooden floor hanging on it.

There was a sound of mechanical gears turning, and the hanging chain was suddenly lifted and stretched straight, and at the same time a hole appeared in the ceiling.

"Amazing!"

"Like an elevator!" Mitsuhiko exclaimed as he watched the thick wooden board slowly rise with Sudo Kumozo pulled by the chains.

"This house has been abandoned for at least 140 years," Conan knocked on the pillars and wooden walls curiously, "This mechanism can still work so well..."

Maori also patted the wall and from the sound it seemed that there seemed to be space inside.

"Hurry up," Yuan Tai stepped onto the rising wooden board and urged, "Come up quickly!"

"Anyway," Sudo Yunzou kept his attention on Mori, and after Mori boarded the original elevator, he quickly explained, "If you want to go up in this house, just go down, otherwise you will be trapped like the stairs in front. It's actually very simple, right?"

"is it?"

Maori insisted on watching more and talking less, and just nodded slightly in response to Sudo Yunzo's gaze.

When it comes to knowledge of mechanisms, he is certainly not as good as this professional treasure hunter, and the other party has obviously studied the Yoshimataemon Mechanism for a long time.

So it’s never wrong to be more careful.

"Mr. Sudo," Maori followed the elevator up to the second floor and immediately scanned the area with his flashlight, "Are you the only one in this house?"

“That’s not clear. I came in a little earlier than you guys, and I ran into you guys after taking a turn,” Sudo Yunzo said with a chuckle, “It’s also possible that the person in front of me was incompetent and got caught in a trap and lost his life…”

"You can only say this now," a short-haired woman in a denim vest appeared in the light of Maori's flashlight in the darkness, playing with a throwing knife in her hand and laughing, "The Mechanical Yoshimataemon is not as simple as you say, a treasure hunter with a child..."

“I didn’t bring these kids here.”

Sudo Yunzo snorted and looked at the short-haired woman.

"So you are a treasure hunter too? I wonder if you have found anything made of stone."

"If you had found me, you wouldn't have stayed here all this time," the short-haired woman also noticed Mao Li and said with a slight smile, "If you want to go up, follow me. The way up is on my side..."

"Uncle Maori," Ayumi held Maori's trouser legs tightly with her small hands and asked in a low voice, "Could this big sister be Kid?"

"No," Yuan Tai said beside him, "Isn't Kidd a man?"

"I heard that he can also dress up as a woman."

"It's possible," Maori followed the woman and said, "That guy often dresses up as a woman."

"Ah? Is Kidd a pervert?"

“About the same…?”

"I forgot to tell you," the short-haired woman glanced at the muttering children, and suddenly turned back to warn, "There are more than just traps here. Yoshimataemon is not a good person. I saw several poisonous spiders here alone. If you get bitten, you will die, kids."

"Poisonous, poisonous spider?" Yuantai and the others were frightened and crowded around Maori, looking around nervously.

Maori's eyelids drooped.

Please, I was the one who wanted to come in, but now I am so timid...

"Wait a minute," Conan hurriedly called out when he saw the short-haired woman walking straight towards an escalator, "It should be a trap if we go up there, right?"

"Humph," the woman climbed up the escalator nonchalantly, "It is true under normal circumstances, but don't worry, I triggered the mechanism of this escalator."

Maori watched the woman go upstairs, and after carefully checking the escalator, he led everyone to follow.

The second person, but I don’t know who the murderer is…

The third floor is the top floor of the old house, and above that is the roof. After Maori went upstairs, he also used a flashlight to check the surroundings as soon as possible.

It was empty again. The hollow pillar in the middle was gone, but there was a ladder hanging straight down from the roof. The broken walls were leaking wind, and some places on the roof were still dripping water.

Maori looked at the roof tiles carefully with a flashlight and felt as if there had been an earthquake in this place. The misalignment of the tiles was not caused by normal wind and rain.

This house seems to have other mechanisms that make a lot of noise...

"Really? You figured out the code?" Sudo Yunzo asked excitedly, "So there's a diamond on the roof?"

"But I can't get up..."

"There's a ladder over here," Mitsuhiko shouted happily with the flashlight, "Uncle Maori, this way!"

"It's just another trap."

Maori squatted in front of the ladder and checked the floor, and sure enough, he found some traces of gaps, just like the trap in front of the stairs on the first floor.

"There is a hollow pillar in this place on the two lower floors, so this trap should lead to the underground. It will be even worse if you fall down to the stairs on the first floor. This mechanism, Yoshimataemon, is really vicious. Would such a person really leave any treasure here?"

"Who knows?"

The short-haired woman looked at Mao Li who was examining carefully, her eyes flickering slightly.

"That's why we treasure hunters have to make our own judgment. If it's really just a joke by Yoshimataemon, it's your own fate. Isn't it the same whether you're searching for treasure or solving a case?"

Sudo Yunzo said impatiently: "Anyway, we should find a way to take a look at the roof first. Maybe there really is a diamond there."

Chapter 142: Burden (x), a capable assistant! (√)

"No! How could there be no?"

On the roof of the old house, Sudo Yunzo and the short-haired girl searched for a long time but found nothing.

"Didn't you say it was on the roof?"

"I think there should be other explanations for the phrase 'the place closest to the sun'..."

Maori muttered something, picked up the black umbrella in his hand, stood outside the trap and lightly chopped the ladder to trigger the mechanism. As the ladder split in the middle, a bottomless hole suddenly appeared on the floor.

"Do you have a rope? If Yoshimataemon likes to reverse the design, maybe the treasure will be in the basement of the mechanism."

"Okay, that's fine," Sudo Yunzo opened his backpack, "I just happen to have a rope in my bag..."

The children were discussing who Kaito Kid might be, and every time they mentioned Kaito Kid's name, the expressions of the two seemed to change slightly.

(What a hassle! I’m afraid the murderer’s true identity will only be revealed after the treasure is found. Since he killed his companions for the treasure, he obviously wouldn’t mind killing a few more…)

"Let's go," Sudo Yunzo avoided Mori's sight and tightened the rope, saying, "I want to see what Yoshimataemon is up to!"

Maori and Conan looked at each other and did not dare to leave the two treasure hunters alone with the children. They waited until both of them reached the ground along the rope, and then they led everyone down one after another.

"Be careful, Conan, get your cushion ready."

"That's an inflatable football!" Conan emphasized.

"Whatever. As long as it can make the buffer bigger, that's fine."

Maori put the black umbrella around his waist, waited until Mitsuhiko and Genta crawled down, then picked up Ai and Ayumi and jumped down, and after a few attempts at gaining leverage, he landed steadily on the ground.

Through the light, one could see that the basement was a huge space with dead bones scattered all over the ground. The number of skulls piled together shocked even Maori.