The gate to the castle is locked after the protagonists enter.

Amuro looked at the windows one by one and found a suitable spot to pick the lock.

However, when he turned back to get the kit, he found that it was empty behind him.

On closer inspection, Matsuda was standing on the side wall more than ten meters away, staring at something outside the wall for a while, and then he suddenly jumped off the wall and walked over there.

The distance of "......", if you call people, may alarm the people in the castle.

Toru Amuro hesitated, picked up his bag, and followed.

There are no arcades or other places to play in this kind of place, so Matsuda should not have been attracted by the strange amusement facilities, but perhaps he had made a new discovery.

Shiraishi does intend to take the VIP direct passage.

There are two ways to get into the castle.

One inside the castle, in the office of Natsumi Kasaka's great-grandfather, there is a trap door hidden under the floor, which can only be opened by entering a specific code, from where you can enter the underground.

The entrance to the other road is hidden in a tower on the outside of the castle.

Shiraishi remembered that in the original plot, the doctor came to send Conan special strengthening glasses for the defense history test, and the young detective group also followed.

They tried to enter the castle, but the door was ruthlessly locked by the deacon.

In the end, Gray Plains wandered around and stumbled upon the tower on the side.

This tower does not have a door, in fact, it is more like a vacant firewood house, there is a loose brick on the door frame, and when you press it, the door hidden in the ground will open, allowing the person standing on it to fall into a slanted downward slide, and slide directly into the dungeon, without even having to enter the password.

Shiraishi climbed over the side wall and walked down the stairs to the bottom, where he saw the simple tower.

He heard footsteps behind him, and it was supposed to be Amuro following.

Shiraishi stopped at the door, wanting to wait for Amuro to walk in and "inadvertently" lean against the wall, press down the mechanism, and give this teammate a direct surprise, by the way, let him go first and wipe the dust off the slide.

However, as soon as Amuro stepped past him, he stepped on the door on the ground on his toes, and suddenly gave a thoughtful look and retreated.

Amuro stared at the ground for a while, half-crouched down, and knocked twice on the ground with the crowbar in his hand: "It seems to be empty down here." ”

"......" Shiraishi revisited the floor.

The floor of this room is only solid one meter from the wall, and the rest of the room is the door that opens downward.

The junction between the door and the ground is indeed very subtle, but because the mechanism has not been used for a long time, the ground is dusty and not conspicuous at all.

You can see that...... Teammates are getting worse and worse.

Shiraishi looked away and looked at the wall.

The Q version assistant just sent the news that the protagonist group who had rested had restarted and was heading to Kasaka Natsumi's great-grandfather's office, and in a little while, he might have to find the entrance to the passage.

So there can be no more delay here.

There is a brick on the wall, which is slightly different in shape from the others.

Shiraishi: "This seems to be a push." As he spoke, he clicked down.

Amuro was shocked, and subconsciously wanted to stop it—in a place like a castle, there might be some mechanism hiding that would drop rocks at the slightest click.

However, Matsuda's movements were too fast, leaving him no time to react, only a crunch, and the ground next to him suddenly opened downward, revealing a diagonal downward passage, and the depths were dark, and it was impossible to see where it led.

Shiraishi withdrew his hand, and the door stopped for a few seconds, then closed again.

“…… There don't seem to be traps, at least not on the surface. "Love Chinese Net

Amuro recalled the scene he had just seen, and felt that it was also right - according to the information he had heard before, the underground of this castle was specially left by the craftsman for future generations to explore, and there was no reason to make a bunch of insidious traps to harm future generations.

He rummaged through his bag and pulled out a bundle of rope, tied one end to a protruding rock outside, and held it on his own.

Then Amuro looked at Matsuda: "I'll go down to see the situation first, you stay here and hold the mechanism, if there is an abnormality down there for a while, you ...... first" He wanted to say that he would call the police first.

But thinking that the occasion is not right, and the person is not right, I can only change my words: "Just leave first." ”

Matsuda nodded, raised his hand and pressed the switch, and the door on the ground opened again.

Amuro saw that he was quite cooperative, so he grabbed the flashlight and jumped down with the rope.

The diagonal downward passage was polished smooth and covered with some dust, but it didn't interfere with movement.

Amuro slid out more than ten meters, and as soon as his feet were empty, the slide seemed to have come to an end.

He tightened the rope, stopped at the edge of the slide, looked down, and saw that two or three meters below was the ground.

With a slight sweep of the flashlight, the ground below is flat and empty, and it doesn't look dangerous.

In addition, there is a passage on the opposite side, presumably leading to the underground palace, where there should be what he is looking for.

Amuro subconsciously pressed the fake gem inside through his pocket, preparing to wait for another egg of memories to take a look at the situation first, and in case it was genuine, he would immediately replace it with a fake one, and then take a video to give it to the organization.

Thinking of this, he was a little glad - thanks to the fact that this mechanism needed to be pressed, it gave him an excuse to leave Matsuda on it, so that when he did it himself, he didn't have to worry about being discovered.

With that in mind, Amuro threw the extra rope down, dragging it up when he returned, and then jumped to the ground himself.

The moment he landed, he seemed to hear an echo.

But soon, Amuro realized that it wasn't an echo - something was falling, right behind him!

After all, there was a gloomy castle around, and the environment was placed here, and suddenly something was quietly approached so closely, and Amuro was cold behind him.

He took advantage of the momentum of the landing to roll on the spot, dodging the non-existent attack, and then drew his gun and pointed it at the place where the "echo" sounded just now, and the flashlight also shone past.

In the pillar of light, Matsuda raised his hand to block his eyes and protested: "Don't shine on me." ”

“……”

Aren't you responsible for staying on it and holding the switch!

Amuro twitched out of the corner of his eye, and secretly stuffed the fake gem in his pocket deep with the action of collecting the gun.

…… Could it be that Matsuda's mysterious organization hasn't completely given up on another egg of memory?

Sure enough, when it comes to business, it becomes difficult to fool around......

Amuro sighed: "The door is closed, how can we go up in a while?" ”

"It doesn't matter, I removed half of it." Matsuda raised a small crowbar in his hand.

"......" Amuro was slightly stunned.

He recalled the door above. I have the impression that the door is quite exquisitely built, and the door shaft is also hidden, at least I don't notice where to start.

And it didn't take him long to slide down, to observe, and to land. In just one or two minutes, Matsuda was able to tear down the door quietly, and the family's dismantling skills were really ......

However, now that the Matsuda people have come down, the door is no longer an obstacle, and it seems too deliberate to find an excuse to open him.

Moreover, although Matsuda is very persuasive most of the time, when it comes to key issues, his attitude can be summed up in one sentence: I just listen.

…… Forget it, let's take a look at it first, and the egg of memories inside is not necessarily genuine.

Amuro found a spare flashlight and gave it to Matsuda, and walked to the passage tiredly.