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Suddenly, he heard a creaking sound of a mechanism turning, and immediately leaned against a pillar beside him, closed his eyes and lowered his head.
With the sharp and shrill cries of several children and a loud 'bang', several children fell to the ground, drooping limply on Conan's football.
After a while, Chu Ming jumped down from above holding Haibara Ai. Yuan Tai triggered the mechanism too quickly, so he only had time to pull Haibara Ai back. The remaining children all depended on Conan's football to save their lives.
When they turned on the flashlight and saw that there were skeletons all around them, the children shivered and curled up around Chu Ming's legs, like chicks surrounding a mother hen, huddling together for warmth.
Shining the flashlight towards Kidd who was leaning against the wall, Chu Ming's mouth twitched. The old lady in front of him with messy hair, sunken cheekbones and very ugly appearance was Kidd in disguise this time.
Ayumi leaned forward with some discomfort: "Even the old lady——"
Kidd suddenly opened his eyes, scaring Ayumi who was next to him. She screamed miserably, then took a few steps back and hugged Chu Ming's legs tightly: "He's faking it!!!"
Chu Ming looked at the sudden increase in points and looked at Kidd with an especially kind look.
Good guy, I can help him get some points.
It is indeed the little pigeon that everyone likes.
"I'm not pretending to be dead. I'm not dead at all. I'm just sitting here to take a rest." Kid smacked his lips in dissatisfaction, looked in Conan's direction, and couldn't help but start to ask, "Little boy, your forehead looks black, it's not good--"
Chu Ming was a little confused and blinked his eyes. What? When did Kidd switch to fraud?
[Another day of forcing myself to finish two chapters~ I’m stuck again, so uncomfortable QAQ]
Chapter 603 My Ancestors Have Yin-Yang Masters
Conan didn't expect that the first thing the old lady said when she saw him was this. He tilted his head and pretended not to hear her and asked, "Old lady, are you here to look for treasure too?"
The two treasure hunters who had met Chu Ming and others in the house before had changed their expressions when they heard this.
"I'm not here to play, I'm here for serious business." Kidd stood up, ready to scare everyone away. He came early and had found the diamond a few days ago, and he also cracked the code. However, when he took off the diamond to see if it was the Pandora he was looking for, he heard the sound of the mechanism turning as soon as he took the stone. If he hadn't released it quickly, it would have been washed down to the bottom of the valley by the water.
He hadn't left these past few days because he knew that several treasure hunters would be coming, so he wanted to stay and keep an eye on them.
As a result, not only did he stumble upon a treasure hunter, he also stumbled upon a Conan who seemed to have had contact with a puppet.
He even discovered that not only Conan, but even Chu Ming had a subtle smell, which meant that the puppet had had contact with both of them, and had been in contact with Conan for a longer time.
What a pity, why is it Conan...
He was a little disappointed. It was so difficult to get information from this detective...
Chu Ming didn't know why Kidd paid special attention to Conan this time. Most of his eyes were on Conan. From upstairs to downstairs, this series of mechanisms, Chu Ming suddenly felt inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen these mechanisms somewhere.
Although there are many traps in the house, there will be no life-threatening danger if you are careful. Besides, Kidd is there and with Kidd watching over them, Conan and the others will not be in any danger either.
He followed the main force slowly, observing the mechanisms carefully and wondering when he had seen them before.
——He remembered!
It's Karasuma Annex!
His golden castle!
The mechanisms in the villa are similar to those here, maybe they were designed by the same person!
The Karasuma Annex was left to Karasuma Ren'ya by his mother, and Karasuma Ren'ya was more than 140 years old. More than 100 years ago, it was exactly the end of the shogunate. It is very likely that these mechanisms in the annex were the masterpieces of Sanshui Yoshiemon...
That being said, there might be some unknown mechanisms in the annex. Ever since the BOSS gave the annex to him, he has never lived there except for the last time he went there with Conan.
I have to find some time to go and see it.
Thinking of this, he looked up, but saw that there was no one in front of him. As he walked leisurely, Conan and the others seemed to have discovered something, and a group of people seemed to run away?
Chu Ming shook the flashlight in his hand and resigned himself to opening the focus list to see where Kid and Conan had gone.
Just as he opened the system, a group of people came out of a cave on the right with their heads down.
"What? You didn't find it?" Chu Ming couldn't help laughing when he saw the children with their heads hanging down.
"Yeah, Conan said he didn't have any clues either—" Mitsuhiko looked disappointed, "I thought we could find the legendary Nioh Stone."
The other two treasure hunters didn't believe it and thought there must be some place they haven't seen, so they stopped following the kids. Only the old lady in Kidd's disguise was still following them slowly: "Hey, I'd better follow you. Seriously, little brother, have you been to some place you shouldn't have been to recently? Or have you met someone you shouldn't have met? I can see an ominous aura on you..."
Kidd was trying to deceive Conan in a mysterious way, but he personally didn't think it was really a lie. He had already encountered a puppet of the devil, so wasn't that an ominous sign?
Ayumi looked at Conan nervously with concern, then looked at Kid: "Really, old lady? Do you have a solution?"
Mitsuhiko was obviously a little unconvinced. He held Ayumi and spoke with some caution: "This is just a lie for children. We have to believe in science. There is no such thing as an ominous aura. It's all fake."
Kidd's mouth twitched. He also hoped that this was fake. Didn't he want to believe in science? He hoped more than anyone else, but the problem was that he had seen the devil! The devil also wanted to make him a puppet when he grew up!
Chu Ming didn't know why Kidd suddenly told Conan all this, but he was still considerate enough to give Kidd a way out to see what he was up to: "Mother-in-law, what do you want to say? Just say it straight, don't beat around the bush."
Kidd sighed and began to make up a lie: "Everything I said is true. Although I am a treasure hunter, because of my family background, one of my elders is a Kuchiyose shrine maiden, and my ancestors also have Yin-Yang masters, so I have dabbled in spiritualism. Little brother, there is a murderous aura between your eyebrows. Have you met any unusual people these days? Or people with a strong murderous aura?"
He tilted his head to look at Chu Ming, and said seriously: "You also have a bit of this evil spirit. You two should have met this person together, but you have been with this little brother for a longer time."
Conan did not comment: "There is no such thing as an unusual person. I haven't met any recently-"
He paused and looked at Kidd with suspicion, mainly because Kidd's description reminded him of that organization. He was not stupid and could obviously hear that the old woman in front of him was asking him questions in a leading manner.
So this person is also a member of the organization?
Was he trying to test him to find out whether he had seen the member of the organization at the Shitara old house at that time?
Then are you planning to silence him?
But it's not right either -
This kind of cliché with so many loopholes is really not like the style of that organization.
Kidd was somewhat helpless when Conan looked at him with suspicion. The tricks he was good at were not very useful to someone as vigilant as Conan. He could only sigh and retreat: "Alas, what I said is true. I can't help it if you don't believe me. After all, it's really hard for you to accept such things. Forget it, it's me, an old woman, who is meddling in other people's business--"
He said forget it and turned away, but in fact he was stretching out his voice, waiting for someone to ask him to stay.
Ayumi was the first to take the bait. She looked at Conan worriedly and eagerly stepped forward to grab Kid's hand: "Old lady, what should we do in this situation?"
Seeing that someone was cooperating, Kidd suppressed his joy and cleared his throat: "It's not that there is no solution. As long as little brother tells me where the evil spirit was contaminated, I can prescribe the right medicine--"
【Today is just one chapter QAQ My dears, go to bed early after reading it~】
Chapter 604 Kidd is a narcissist
"Damn it!" Before Kidd could finish his words, an exasperated voice came, "He got there first again."
Several people looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was the treasure hunter Sudo who had said before that he wanted to take a look around.
"Who got there first?" Yuan Tai asked curiously.
Sudo shone the flashlight in his hand towards the cliff beside the pond. There was a piece of paper stuck on it. It was Kidd's special note.
"I took the Nioh Stone~——Kaito Kidd"
At this moment, the children no longer had any evil thoughts in their hearts. They looked at the note with bitter faces: "Is this true? Kidd is too powerful..."
Yuan Tai shook his feet in dissatisfaction and almost knocked Mitsuhiko, who was standing nearby, into the river. Chu Ming picked him up. He remembered that it was this guy who saw the diamond hidden by Kidd after falling into the water, and after coming out, he blurted it out in front of everyone.
He didn't want to be washed by water, so he decided to just leave the diamond buried here.
Seeing the reactions of the crowd, Kidd laughed strangely from behind: "Ah, Kidd is indeed a thief who travels all over the world. If he was taken away by a thief who plays tricks on everyone in the world, I'm sure that the guard Sanshui Jiyou would not feel disappointed~"
Seeing him so proud, Chu Ming couldn't help but hit him, and deliberately lowered his head to talk to Conan: "I have met Kaito Kid quite a few times, and I found a pattern."
Conan also almost knew who Kidd had disguised himself as, and cooperated with Chu Ming: "What's the pattern?"
Chu Ming whispered to Conan in a voice that Kidd could hear: "Kid is a narcissist. He always likes to exaggerate himself. If you see someone praising Kidd for no reason after something is stolen, it is very likely that it is Kidd himself."
After thinking for a while, Chu Ming added: "Except the garden."
"Brother Chu Ming thinks so too. I think so too. That narcissistic thief just knows how to brag about himself all day long..." Conan stretched out his tone, staring at Kidd, his eyes full of mockery.
Kidd cleared his throat, shook off his windbreaker, stood up, and took off his camouflage in a very pretentious manner, posing in Kidd's classic pose in the whistling mountain breeze.
"It's you." Conan also stood up. He was short but very imposing.
Just as the two were about to start threatening each other, another treasure hunter, Sharina, jumped down from the stone wall nearby and loaded her gun with a click: "Kaito Kid, hand over the gem."
Conan looked at the gun in her hand, narrowed his eyes, and slowly touched the anesthesia watch on his right hand: "You finally couldn't hold it back. The body in the river before was killed by you, right?"
Sharina pointed the gun at Kidd and snorted coldly: "It's me, so what, little brother, just stand aside and stop talking nonsense. I'm looking for Kidd now. After I finish talking to Kidd, I'll send you to the water to cool off."
Conan originally wanted to use his reasoning to attract Sharina's attention, and then take the opportunity to approach her and anesthetize her. However, she only wanted to get the diamond from Kid and had no intention of listening to Conan's chatter.
There was no choice but Conan could only step aside as she requested. When he was about to ask Chu Ming for help, he found that Chu Ming had already circled behind Sharina and slowly pulled out a baton from his sleeve.
Conan widened his eyes, and for a moment he felt that Chu Ming's action of raising the baton was extremely familiar.
"Gudong-"
Sharina fell down.
Chu Ming bent down and rubbed the baton on her clothes, then gracefully put it away. When he stood up, he found Conan staring at him in amazement. He tilted his head in confusion: "What's wrong? Are you scared?"
“That’s not the case—” Conan showed his crescent eyes. The danger was strangled in the cradle by Brother Chu Ming before it could even arrive. He was so frightened that he was stunned, but... Brother Chu Ming’s movements were too skillful!
How many times did it take to develop this skill?
At this moment, Dr. Agasa and two policemen hurried over: "It's here, officer, we found the body here."
Chu Ming conveniently revealed Sha Linai who had fainted in the back: "Mr. Officer, you came at the right time. The murderer is this lady. She has just admitted that she was the one who killed the person. She also wanted to threaten us with a gun, but we have subdued her."
Conan turned around anxiously: "The police are here, why don't you - what?"
He had just completely understood the code and realized that the diamond could not be taken out. Considering that Kidd did not steal the gem this time, he was ready to let Kidd go and wanted to remind Kidd to leave quickly, but when he turned around, he found that there was no one behind him.
Kidd had left without knowing when.
He silently withdrew his hand, stared at the nearby forest, and silently threatened: "One day, I will catch you with my own hands!"
It was already late. After the police took the body and the murderer away, they reminded several people to remember to give a statement during the day and then left in a hurry.
Several people returned to the tent, looked at the cold stove and sighed. They had been busy for a long time, but they still didn't get the treasure and hadn't cooked dinner yet. It was too miserable.
The doctor directed a few children to collect the firewood they had collected earlier, and quickly made a simple curry rice to fill their stomachs.
Soon, the steaming curry rice was served on the simple dining table. The children had been busy until late at night and were already extremely hungry. They stuffed the food into their mouths like little pigs.
"Hey, kind children, I'm lost in the forest, tired and hungry. Can I exchange this fruit with you for some food?" An old voice came, and an old man, hunched over, holding a bunch of wild fruits in his hand, slowly walked out of the woods.
Ayumi looked in the direction of the voice and saw a familiar face: "Ah, it's the old lady from before - no, aren't you Kidd?"
Kidd didn't refute, but just shook the fruit in his hand: "This kind-hearted girl, can you give me some food in exchange?"