Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Chapter 65: Come and fight with me, Kogoro Mori. Do you have the ability to do so?

Late at night, just as Mamiya Mitsuru had said, the rain really got heavier and heavier, and the sound of raindrops was endless.

For safety reasons, Mori, Professor Agasa and others slept in a large room. Haibara and Ayumi shared a bed, Genta and Mitsuhiko shared a bed, and Mori himself slept with the professor.

Listening to the doctor's snoring beside his ear, Maori was too tired to complain. He looked at his watch and saw that it was almost time, so he quickly got up quietly.

The little fat boy Genta was also snoring, with one hand on Mitsuhiko, and his whole body taking up the entire bed in a spread-eagle position. Just looking at him, Maori felt bad for Mitsuhiko; on the other hand, the two little lolis Haibara and Ayumi next to him were sleeping very quietly, like two little princesses.

"Okay, let's go find Conan while these naughty kids are asleep..."

The door opened with a creak, and suddenly there was a noise coming from the corridor outside.

"grandmother,"

Mamiya Takato followed the old lady in the wheelchair and asked worriedly, "It's so late, why are you still here?"

"My daughter hasn't come yet," the old lady said hoarsely, "I'm going to pick her up..."

"Let us take care of Mom's affairs. You should go back to your room and have a good rest."

Takato Mamiya sighed and pushed his wheelchair, disappearing at the end of the aisle.

(Why are this family still awake so late...)

Mao Li frowned, looked at the corridor through the crack of the door, and walked out of the room after confirming that no one was there. But just as he walked out, Huiyuan followed him out.

"Uncle, are you going to start the investigation?"

"Shh, don't wake them up."

Mao Li pulled Huiyuan and saw Ayumi and the others sleeping soundly in the room. He whispered, "You stay here and take care of everyone. I will take care of the problem."

After leaving Huiyuan behind, Maori walked cautiously in the corridor alone. He did not go to the entrance of the secret passage on the second floor, but looked for clues in the castle.

First of all, the identity of the impostor.

Although nothing can be seen from the words carved on the stairs in the secret passage, if Maori guessed correctly, the fire four years ago should be the key, and the other is the identity of Mamiya Mitsuru and Mamiya Takato.

No one had seen the two of them beforehand. According to the gardener, the identity of Mamiya Mitsuru was confirmed based on a photo of him and Madam Mamiya's remarriage when they were abroad, and Mamiya Kin was identified purely because he looked too much like the deceased master.

There are many questions here, the biggest one being why Lady Mamiya arrived at the castle in the middle of the night and was burned to death along with a group of servants that night.

It is possible that they were silenced.

"crunch-"

Pushing open a door with a flashlight, Mao Li walked into a large studio filled with painting supplies and plaster statues serving as models.

This is the studio of Takato Mamiya. He has spent most of his time painting here in the past few years since he returned to the castle. If there is a secret passage in this room, Takato Mamiya will undoubtedly become even more suspicious.

"Ok?"

A thick stack of newspapers appeared at Maori's feet. He used the flashlight to read the newspapers clearly and found that they were all reports about the fire four years ago.

"Why does he collect these?"

Mao Li quickly glanced through the report for a while, and suddenly his ears moved - he vaguely heard a clicking sound outside. He quickly turned off the flashlight and leaned against the door to observe the corridor outside.

At the end of the corridor, an open door was shaking in the wind and rain, and a blood-stained round hat fell to the ground.

(It’s Conan’s hat…)

After looking around, Maori picked up the blood-stained hat cautiously and his eyes fell on the half-open door of the Jiaota.

A section of the corridor connecting to the main building collapsed, exposing the stone tower to wind and rain, which shows that the fire was quite serious.

Maori gently opened the tower door and turned on the flashlight again.

This place should have been locked. There are only two possibilities for Conan's hat to appear here for no reason. One is that Conan was brought here, and the other is that the criminal in the dark deliberately lured him.

The latter possibility is undoubtedly greater. The criminal is probably hiding somewhere in Jiaota waiting for him...

interesting.

Maori walked to the charred stairs, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Compared to a smart detective like Conan, although Maori is not bad in intelligence, he is undoubtedly better at violence - he prefers rough and direct actions rather than using his brain.

"Click."

Suddenly there was a slight noise outside the tower, someone stepped on a twig.

"Ok?"

Maori stopped and listened carefully, then without giving the person a chance to react, he turned around and rushed out of the tower gate!

The person who appeared in front of him was not the murderer, but Ayumi and the others who were hugging each other in fear, and even Haibara was standing aside.

"You guys..."

Mao Li looked at the grinning Ayumi and the others in confusion, then pulled Huihara over and said, "Miss, what are you doing? Didn't I ask you to watch them?"

"no way,"

Huiyuan said helplessly, "They sneaked out without permission..."

"Because we are all worried about Conan, Uncle Maori."

Ayumi was holding a bag full of bread and looking at Maori eagerly.

"Please, we want to help too. We can definitely find Conan quickly with us here."

Mao Li sighed: "Okay, then let's make this a practical exercise for our Junior Detective Team. Remember to follow my instructions."

"it is good!"

Ayumi and the others, who were brave but afraid of their surroundings, followed Mori into the burnt stone tower and obediently gathered around him.

"what is this?"

Mauli looked at the bread bag in wonder.

"Because Conan didn't eat, we left some bread for him, otherwise he would starve to death..."

"That kid's name is tough!"

Maori walked quietly in the charred tower. There was nothing unusual about the walls. They were empty, without a single piece of debris.

"Let's look for it. There should be a secret passage here as well."

Maori whispered to Ayumi and the others.

Finding Conan is only Maori's secondary goal. His main goal is to quickly catch the murderer in the dark. Otherwise, they will be in a passive position if the other party is always in the dark and they are in the light.

"It's so dark and dirty here."

Little fat boy Yuantai looked around at the dark walls with a flashlight.

"Of course. There was a fire here four years ago."

Mitsuhiko groped the wall energetically and walked into the bathroom on the second floor unknowingly: "Hey, Uncle Maori, come and have a look, there seems to be something wrong with the wall here, it's empty inside."

“Really…”

Ayumi and the others gathered around Mitsuhiko who kept banging on the wall.

"But I can't push it open..."

"Of course it can't be pushed open. The entrance to the secret passage here is equipped with a trap."

Maori looked outside vigilantly, then followed him into the bathroom, and of course, he did not forget to close the door.

The restroom was shabby and of course there was no clock like in the castle. There was only a dusty sink, a broken mirror, and a dirty toilet.

The hidden door that Mitsuhiko discovered was right next to the toilet.

Maori walked around the side and soon noticed the strange decorative light above the toilet.

"Is it this one?"

He tried to turn it, and with a distinct sound of hinges, the secret door next to it opened with a click, revealing a small, dark space.

There was nothing inside, just a hole and an escalator leading downstairs.

Maori made a gesture, and the children understood and followed him carefully inside.

"You came here on purpose, you must have found out something, right?"

Haibara, who was walking beside Maori, asked him.

"Ah, the person who took Conan away this time must have something to do with the fire four years ago. He might have set the fire on purpose. He's quite cruel..."

As Maori finished speaking, the flashlight from his watch suddenly shone on something.

"Ah! It's a skeleton!"

The children immediately shivered and huddled together.

"There is indeed a dead body here,"

Maori walked to the white-haired skeleton and examined it carefully. "It has completely turned into bones. It must have been dead for a long time..."

Huiyuan also came over, with a serious look on his face: "What's going on with this corpse?"

"It wasn't supposed to be here,"

Maori checked the surroundings and turned around in a deep voice, "I'm afraid they were moved here after being discovered by Conan..."

"Transfer?"

"Because it would be troublesome if we were discovered."

Maori's eyes fell on the dark corner behind him, his face full of sarcasm, "Four years ago, 15 people died in the fire, and even their bones were burned to ashes. The report at the time mentioned that the identities were identified by relics, and it was found that one of them was missing... Is that right? He used the fire to impersonate the former housekeeper of the lady?"

"What are you talking about?" The ugly old lady slowly walked out of the darkness. "I just heard some noise and came to see what happened?"

"Oh? Are you able to walk on your feet now?"

Maori looked directly at the old lady - he really didn't expect that this person could be provoked so easily.

"The bones of this skeleton's feet are much thinner than other parts of the body. It seems that there was something wrong with the feet when she was alive and she couldn't walk. She was an old woman. There was a suicide note in the secret passage on the other side... Don't treat others as fools!"

"Hehe, you are worthy of being a famous detective who has become famous recently. You actually know so much. If I hadn't been unable to find the treasure, I would never have asked you to come here. You can only blame your bad luck."

The old lady's glasses reflected a cold light. She took out a steel pipe from her back and said with a grim smile, "Don't worry, I won't leave you in the dark basement like that old woman. When you die in two or three days, I will put you and that kid with glasses in the woods."

"Uncle Maori..."

Ayumi clung to Maori tightly in fear.

Mao Li stopped the others behind him, sighed, and asked quietly, "Did you kill the lady and the servant who starved to death two years ago?"

"That's right!"

The old lady's face became even uglier. She raised the steel pipe high and grinned, "I came to this castle for the treasure, but the old woman saw through me and wanted to drive me out. I had no choice but to pretend to be her..."

"What an honest confession!"

Maori looked at the monster-like old woman coldly, then twisted his neck and took the initiative to walk towards her.

"what?!"

The old woman's face changed, and she rushed towards Maori with a roar. Her agile body and old and deformed face were in sharp contrast: "Nosy guy! Who told you to be so smart and investigate!"

"You are so naive!"

Maori had no intention of dodging at all. When the old woman rushed in front of him, he directly "caught the steel pipe with his bare hands" and kicked the old woman away, rolling several times.

"Let me ask you, do you have the ability to fight with me, Maori Kogoro?"

"Hmm? Do you have the ability to do that?!"

Maori threw the steel pipe aside, approached the maid, and kicked her in the stomach, making her scream in pain.

Under the intense exercise, this guy's old face began to deform - her appearance was not the result of makeup at all, but a complete plastic surgery.

Not only had he brutally taken the lives of more than a dozen people, but he had also been so cruel to himself and tried to kill even more people - Maori had no mercy on such a monster.

"Hoo, hoo,"

The old woman looked at Maori in horror and crawled backwards in a panic. Suddenly she stopped and laughed sinisterly while panting, "Hahaha, it's useless no matter how much you torture me. Things have come to this point. I can only wait to collect the corpse of that little devil..."

"That sounds quite plausible."

Mao Li interrupted with disdain, "But have you ever thought about it? Even if there are many and complicated secret passages here, how long would it take for 50 police officers to search them thoroughly? How about a hundred? On the other hand, you have waited for so many years, don't you want to know the mystery of the castle's treasure?"

The old woman was shocked and looked at Maori intently: "Did you already know it?! Did you solve the chess code?!"