After thinking for a moment, Hattori lowered his head and carefully examined the secret passage that was revealed after the mechanism was opened, and felt that the ground was very flat.

He shook off the folding stick that Shiraishi had given him, and poked at the ground in the secret passage, and found that the ground was as solid as it looked, and there was no mechanism that would immediately trap a person when he stepped on it.

Other words...... Kudo must have been so addicted to solving puzzles that he forgot to take care of them.

Hehe, he deserves to be lost in the secret passage.

However, in any case, it is better to be locked up in a secret passage than to be beaten to death by a prisoner.

Hattori Heiji felt a little more relaxed, he found the flashlight and pressed it, and entered the secret passage.

After taking two steps, I suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked: "You stay ......"

Before the words fell, by the light of the flashlight, Hattori Heiji saw Shiraishi standing behind him.

Later, the wall clicked and closed, and the flashlight suddenly became the only source of light in the darkness.

"......" Hattori Heiji looked at Shiraishi's innocent and puzzled face, which was still politely waiting for him to follow, and the corners of his forehead couldn't help jumping twice.

He thought that there was no need to say it, Baishi must also understand, and would guard him inside and outside, leaving a way out.

The reason why he was specifically instructed just now was to remind Shiraishi that if he felt sleepy, he should remember to hide and sleep, so as not to arouse the suspicion of others in the castle.

Unexpectedly, this slow person actually moved extremely quickly at a strange time, and followed up directly.

In Hattori's condemning eyes, Shiraishi said very naturally:

"I'm afraid that something will happen if you come in by yourself, and if Conan is already unconscious, you can't keep your hands free when you move him, it's easy to encounter danger in this kind of gloomy place, after all, it's an antique, and the secret passage may contain the cruel mechanism of the Middle Ages."

“…… No, I'll explore the path first. And it's enough to carry the dodo with one hand. You're waiting outside. Hattori Heiji took a deep breath and walked back and pushed the wall, trying to send Shiraishi away.

However, the wall grain does not move at all.

"......" also seems to need triggers.

But Hattori looked around carefully, but he couldn't find where the mechanism was at all.

In the end, Shiraishi pointed to the side: "Is it this?" ”

Hattori Heiji took a flashlight and shone it over, and saw a brick with a slight difference in color and a little cobweb-like crack, and the surface layer had been weathered and broken.

He walked over and knocked on it, feeling like he could push it in.

But less than half a centimeter was pushed, the brick stuck, and the mechanism here seemed to be broken, and could only be opened unilaterally from the outside.

"Forget it, let's find another exit." Hattori Heiji had no choice but to give up.

He stood up straight, took a second look at this very hidden, without any obvious features, and suddenly felt that Conan was not exaggerating - Shiraishi's observation is really strong, obviously he didn't use the light here just now, only some scattered light, so dim environment, he can even find it.

…… In this case, maybe with him, you can really find Conan as soon as possible.

Thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem necessary to let Shiraishi answer, in case he suddenly falls asleep, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving it away for nothing.

Heiji Hattori quickly adjusted his mind, he took a deep breath calmly, and then coughed in the dust in the secret passage.

When he coughed, he saw that Shiraishi was already moving forward, hurriedly chased a few steps to follow, and took out a spare flashlight plug for Shiraishi.

In the past, Hattori Heiji went to a lot of corners in order to find Conan, so he found an excuse to borrow some lighting equipment from the domestic servant in the villa.

Seeing Shiraishi take the flashlight, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but think, Shiraishi entered the secret passage so neatly, was he worried about Kudo's accident?

From this point of view, this person is indeed quite righteous, and it is not in vain that Kudo and Mao Lilan have always regarded him as a good person.

…… Well, maybe he's really a good guy - just like now, he thinks there might be a mechanism in the secret passage, and he even deliberately walks in front to find the way for himself.

Thinking of his previous suspicion of Shiraishi, Hattori Heiji suddenly felt a little guilty.

He ran to the white stone again, and used his folding stick to probe all the way to the mines, while cautiously descending the steps.

But in this secret passage, there is actually no mechanism.

Shiraishi watched Hattori Heiji fight with the air for a long time, traveling slower than a tortoise, silently pressed the urge to make him go faster, and silently followed down to the end of the secret passage.

After stepping on the ground, Hattori Heiji looked at the space that had become larger, substituted himself into Conan, and began to guess what Conan did after he came here to cause his disappearance.

Holding a flashlight and shining it around, Hattori Heiji was surprised to find that there were blood stains on the ground, and it was not old blood marks, it didn't seem to have dried up - this was blood that had just flowed out!

Hattori Heiji chuckled in his heart, feeling that Conan was about to finish.

After reminding Shiraishi to be vigilant, he crouched down and dipped his fingers in a little blood.

As soon as he leaned in front of his nose and sniffed it, Hattori's face was choked and wrinkled.

- This blood has a faint smell of rotten eggs, I'm afraid it has been spoiled.

Calculating the time, it shouldn't have just flowed out of Conan's body, and Conan's condition should be fine.

But if it weren't for him, who would have come here and spill the broken blood?

Heiji Hattori is getting more and more confused.

There is only one thing that is certain—since the blood has not dried up, the person who spilled the blood must not have gone far.

In other words, something unusual must have happened here recently, and someone has been here.

At such a critical juncture of human life, of course, there should be information sharing.

Hattori Heiji told Shiraishi about the discovery of the bloodstains, and asked him to smell it, maybe he could make some new discoveries.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the Tokyo detective stiffened slightly, showing a little resistance and reluctance.

Hattori was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that Shiraishi must not want to believe that something had happened to Kudo.

So Hattori Heiji hurriedly added: "It doesn't matter, this shouldn't be Kudo's blood." ”

- When I first learned from Conan that Shiraishi knew "Conan = Kudo Shinichi", Hattori Heiji was very surprised and thought that Conan was too hasty.

However, this is also the reason why Hattori Heiji reluctantly believed that even if Shiraishi was not a good person, he should not be an accomplice of the black-clothed organization, otherwise Kudo's rare case would have been arrested and used for experiments.

And now, with his own personal observations, Hattori Heiji has gradually recognized that Shiraishi is a good person - although there are still many suspicious places, but the character has little to do with these, and no one can be a little secret.

While Shiraishi was observing the blood on the ground, Hattori Heiji was not idle, he shook his flashlight, trying to look around for other clues.

His gaze quickly settled on the stone on the side of the staircase.