Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"From the way they are dressed, they seem to be treasure hunters," Sudo Yunzo kicked away the skeleton at his feet and shone the flashlight on an old woman leaning against the wall, "Where did this guy come from?"

"Humph," the short-haired girl said nonchalantly, "He's dead, but for treasure hunters, this is a good grave."

"That's too much." The old woman suddenly raised her head, revealing a lich-like old face. "I just took a nap... and slept so soundly!"

"Oh?" The short-haired woman looked at the old woman and smiled, "Is this old lady our opponent?"

"Opponent? I'm not a treasure hunter. I just came here to visit the grave of that Yoshimataemon." The old woman glanced at the stone tablet beside her. "I've seen a lot of people like you. You're all a bunch of idiots controlled by desire..."

"Sweeping the grave?" The short-haired girl approached and examined the stone tablet. "Confused person, please offer me the artifact, Sanshui Yoshimataemon... Hey, old lady, isn't this the secret code left by Yoshimataemon?"

"Really? I thought it was a grave..."

"Don't lie, grandma. How could an ordinary old man run to such a haunted place? Even if he came, he would have been killed by a trap long ago... We are all treasure hunters, what is there to hide?"

The short-haired woman chuckled, glanced at the thoughtful Maori, and turned to Sudo Yunzo and said, "The question is, the artifact mentioned above, could it be the stone thing you are looking for?"

Sudo Yunzou's face was slightly stiff: "Probably..."

"Mr. Sudo," Maori led Conan and the others forward and said, "Since you know that the artifact is a stone, you should have found one, right?"

"This one……"

"We found one, too, uncle," Conan continued, "one of the artifacts made of stone..."

"What?" Sudo Yunzou was shocked and asked anxiously, "What is written on the stone you found?!"

Conan laughed and said, "Sure enough, my uncle has found it too!"

"No, no," Sudo Yunzo said awkwardly, "I just..."

"Uncle," Xiao Ai raised her eyelids, "It is not a smart move to try to monopolize the information in this situation."

"Well," Sudo Yunzo looked at Mao Li who was silently checking the stone tablet and laughed dryly, "That's true. What I found was a mirror made of stone, with the word 'eternal' engraved on it..."

"Eternal?" Yuantai stared at the stone mirror that Sudo took out of his bag. "If it's related to the sun, does it mean burning forever?"

The short-haired girl looked at the stone mirror, then turned to the children and asked, "So, is it possible that the word 'flame' is engraved on the magatama you found?"

"That's true."

Mao Li put his hands on his chest and walked away from the stone tablet: "But I have already checked it out. There is no mechanism here. It is just a secret code."

Sudo Yunzo sighed and said, "As expected, there is no way to solve the mystery unless we find another artifact."

"another?"

"Of the three legendary divine tools, only the mirror and the magatama remain. There should be one more..."

"It's the Kusanagi sword, right?" Xiao Ai continued, "If the mirror is the Yata Mirror and the magatama is the Yaban-niyon-kyu-dama, then the remaining one is the Kusanagi sword, which was named after the divine sword used by a Japanese warrior who fled to the grassland a long time ago when he was set on fire and chased by the enemy and had nowhere to go, by cutting the grass to escape..."

"Little sister, you know a lot," the short-haired girl chuckled, "If you find the Kusanagi sword made of stone and collect all three artifacts, you will have a good chance of finding the treasure. The problem is that I have searched everywhere and haven't seen any swords made of stone. We still have to rely on this big brother who found the stone mirror."

Sudo Yunzo stammered, "I just found it in this basement."

"Let's look again," Maori illuminated the surroundings with a flashlight, "Is there any other exit underground?"

The short-haired girl glanced at Sudo Yunzo who had put the stone mirror away again and said, "I'll have to ask this big brother. If you hadn't come here to see the inscription, you wouldn't have valued the stone mirror so much, right?"

"Humph," Sudo Yunzo said helplessly, "I'll lead the way!"

The underground space is no smaller than the one above. Maori followed several treasure hunters in a low-key manner. No matter how they tried to ask questions, he didn't say much and just treated himself as a nanny.

These treasure hunters might be much better at finding treasure than he was, his target was only the murderer.

And to be honest, Mori didn't think that Kichiemon Sanmizu, who built this mechanical house, would be a kind-hearted person who would easily leave behind any good treasures.

……

In the dark and damp underground space, Sudo Yunzo led everyone to trigger a mechanism and enter a long passage, where they could faintly hear the sound of flowing water.

"Uncle," Conan found Maori who was left behind and whispered to him, "Did you find out just now? That woman should be..."

"Don't worry about it for now."

Maori shook his head slightly and used the flashlight to check the wooden board at the top of the passage.

"The floor here is wet, there's water..." Ayumi, who was walking in front, suddenly shouted.

"The wooden planks above are misaligned," Sudo Yunzo looked at the leaking spot on the ceiling, "It is said that there was an earthquake here before, and the foundation of the house was tilted, so groundwater is gushing out..."

"earthquake?"

"Hmph," the old woman chuckled, "Just as Yoshimataemon said, this might be the anger of Lord Niou. It's better not to look for any treasure and go back quickly!"

"You, the old lady, are the ones who should go back, right?" The short-haired girl walked past the sarcastic old lady and continued walking forward without paying attention to the wet floor.

"Hey, uncle," Ai, who was carrying Terunaga Tamai's notebook, retreated to Maori's side, "The notebook seems to be dry, 'I met a bad guy... I will be killed... If I don't hide the stone I found, I will be killed... By the poisonous rat who wants to kill his companions and take the treasure for himself...', the back page is torn off..."

Conan frowned slightly: "So the poison rat is..."

"It's hard to tell until the end."

Maori took a step forward and continued to follow Sudo Yunzo.

After seeing and hearing so much, a connection gradually formed in his mind.

Treasure, treasure hunter killed by his companions, Kidd mentioned in the notes...

If he was not mistaken, Kaito might have been here before and had cracked the code and found the treasure, but something unexpected seemed to have happened in the middle.

"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a sound of waterfall coming from the front. Then, eight red waterfalls outside the passage gushed out from the cave and gathered together, with water vapor rising.

"It's a hot spring waterfall..."

Everyone walked down the stone steps and followed Sudo Yunzou to find the exit hidden by the steam.

"Why is the water red?" Yuantai walked to the pool in astonishment.

“Maybe it contains more iron.”

Maori put his hands on his chest and looked at the forked water flow. Like the waterfall, there were a total of eight branches flowing into unknown caves.

"Mao...Sir, the exit is this way." The old lady reminded while standing at the exit.

"Wait a moment," Maori led Conan and the others to look around, "I remember there was a legendary monster called Yamata no Orochi, right?"

"Yamata no Orochi?"

"That's right," Conan continued, "It's the legendary giant snake with eight heads and eight tails. You should have heard of it, right? In order to help Princess Kidaida, Amaterasu's brother got a monster drunk and subdued it. The sword that came out of the tail of the Yamata no Orochi was later called the Kusanagi sword."

"so……"

Sudo Kumozo realized it belatedly and looked around the entire hot spring.

"It's actually the Yamata no Orochi. The waterfall is the head of the snake, and the tributary is the tail? Damn it, I didn't even notice it when I passed by here!"

"In that case, the Kusanagi sword is somewhere in the tributary?"

"Yes, the myth says that the sword appears in the middle tail, so it must be the fourth or fifth branch, and the Kusanagi sword should be hidden in it..."

"Hey, are you planning to dive into the hot spring?" Sudo Yunzo swallowed softly as he looked at Conan groping around.

Are they really just a group of ordinary kids? He is willing to accept as many of these burdens as possible...

"Little ghost," the old woman urged, "it's just a coincidence. If the bottom is the valley, people will die..."

"No," Conan walked to the stone wall and checked, "It seems there is a mechanism here."

"Kid!"

"Crack!"

Conan checked for a while and calmly pressed down a stone. Suddenly, the water in a tributary in the middle became shallower, and the flow stopped as a stone slab was lifted up, revealing a dark cave at the end.

"There's no water!" Yuan Tai walked towards the dry passage in surprise, "It seems like we can go in..."

"Genta!"

"Step aside!!"

The old woman pushed Yuantai away and rushed into the cave like a possessed person.

"Haha! It's really Kusanagi Sword!"

"What the hell," the short-haired girl snorted, "This old woman is really after the treasure!"

There was also a basement inside the cave. A stone sword was inserted on the stone tablet opposite. However, the old woman could not rush over. As soon as she stepped into the stone chamber, she was attacked by flying axes from all directions and was almost torn into pieces.

Maori followed the crowd and saw the old woman who had escaped the disaster and was lying on the ground gasping for breath.

Faced with the dangerous dilemma, Conan walked into the stone chamber with ease. When the flying axes attacked from all directions, he grabbed the hidden handle on it, and followed the returning flying axes to jump across the stone chamber and onto the stone tablet.

"What are the words on it?" Maori asked.

"Dragon, the word 'dragon' is engraved on the sword."

Conan looked at the stone sword and silently returned to the crowd using the flying axe.

"Dragon?" Sudo Yunzo looked at Conan nervously, "Little friend, what do you think? The meanings of Yong, Yan and Long..."

"Isn't it written on that tombstone?" Conan thought for a moment and smiled, "'Confused man, offer me the sacred artifact'... So the key is the Sanshui of Sanshui Yoshimataemon. If Yong, Yan and Long are added with Sanshui..."

"Ying, Dan, Taki?"

After a while, everyone followed Sudo Yunzo and left the underground. They appeared outside the old house, thinking hard about the meaning of the secret code.

"Okay, it's just that Yoshimataemon is joking," the old woman muttered, looking up at the night sky, "It's so late, let's get down the mountain quickly, we shouldn't come to this kind of damn place..."

"That's true," the short-haired girl agreed, "I'll take my leave here..."

"Don't be so careful," Mao Li called to a few people, "I think you should have figured out the code, right?"

The short-haired girl stopped walking with a slightly changed expression: "How could it be..."

"If not, why did you send the others away?" Maori said with a smile, "You don't seem like treasure hunters who would give up so easily..."

The short-haired girl's eyes trembled: "Humph, you are worthy of being the famous detective Maori Kogoro... This kind of code is indeed not difficult for you. In this case, there is nothing to hide."

Ai glanced at Maori gently, and the latter nodded at her.

"That's right," Ai walked in front of Maori and met the short-haired girl's gaze. "Now that we know the key information, there's nothing to hide about the code. The planet closest to the sun is Mercury, the old men are bearded carp, and the fertile land is where the sound of water never stops. In other words, the treasure is next to the waterfall where there are many carp swimming in the fresh water..."

"Little sister is very capable," the short-haired girl said noncommittally as she walked to the edge of the pond waterfall. "But it seems that we have worked in vain. It seems that that guy has gotten there first. Look over here."

"A card nailed to stone by a knife... It's Kaito Kidd!"

Sudo Yunzo sighed with regret: "That guy actually got there first!"

"Kid?"

Maori walked quietly to the side and also found a card that said "The Nioh Stone has been received."

Maori glanced at the treasure hunters who were about to leave, and his eyes narrowed slightly: "Are you giving up now? I don't think Kidd should have taken the treasure away..."

"What?!" The old woman's expression changed drastically, and she and everyone else looked at Maori.

"Not taken by Kidd? What does this mean, Detective Maori?"

Chapter 143: Kaito Kidd: Why do I have to take the blame?

"If the diamonds were really taken away," Maori turned his back to the crowd and observed the pond, "that pretentious guy would definitely not leave so easily, and..."

"And what?" The old ladies stared at Maori.

Maori smiled and said, "It's nothing. Even if Kaito Kidd didn't take it, the diamonds here are not something we can take. We should call the police."

“Hey, hey,” Sudo Yunzo said anxiously, “What do you mean? It took so much effort to…”

"It's not just about the treasure," Maori interrupted, "we also found a body when we came here, so we'd like to trouble you all to go to the police station..."

"stop!"

The short-haired girl suddenly took out a pistol and pointed it at Maori with a sneer: "A famous detective is a famous detective. He just likes to meddle in other people's business... Well, go and get the diamonds, or I will kill these little devils."

The short-haired girl pointed her gun at Ayumi and the others sarcastically: "I have to say, investigating a case with these burdens, it seems that you, a famous detective, are really naive..."

"The murderer is you."

Mao Li's face was calm: "You are the poisoned rat mentioned in the notes that killed Tamai Terunaga, right?"

"You already knew?"

"When we only said that we found a stone artifact, you knew that ours was not a stone sword but a magatama. You must have read the notebook beforehand, right?"

Maori looked at Conan.