Conan's Almighty Extraction

Under the inexplicable gazes of the crowd, the old woman withdrew her gaze from left to right and asked the gardener, "Tabata, isn't my daughter here yet? Didn't she say she would come back today to celebrate my birthday?"

"This, Mrs....Actually."

The gardener seemed to want to explain something, but was interrupted by the impatient old woman, and said: "Forget it, I won't wait for her here, I'll go back to my room first, Tabata, when she comes, call her immediately Come to my room, it's really exciting."

After saying this, the old woman left everyone behind and slowly left the hall in a wheelchair.

Seeing the old woman leaving with the wheelchair, Shiraiwa Maha asked unexpectedly: "Mr. Tabata, isn't today the eldest wife's birthday?"

"Today is not the eldest wife's birthday."

The uncle gardener shook his head and explained: "Ever since my wife died in the fire, the eldest wife has been like this. She regards every day as the day before the fire. I think she may have been hit too hard."

After the old woman left, Conan, who was bored by the winter camping, suddenly became interested in the mystery she mentioned.

Thinking of the stone carvings of chess pieces and the lawn chessboard that he saw in the front yard, Conan felt that they might be important clues, so he quickly asked, "Uncle, is there any room where I can see those chess pieces in the yard clearly?"

"Chess in the yard..."

After thinking for a while, the gardener replied, "If you want to watch chess, you can go to the room on the second floor and open the window to see it."

"Uncle, we want to go and see, can you take us there?" Conan asked.

"And us, we are the boy detective team, maybe we can solve the mystery."

The Ayumi trio, who like to join in the fun, naturally expressed their desire to go together, and also brought along the reluctant Haibara Ai.

"Okay, I'll take you there, but you have to be careful not to damage the things inside."

The uncle gardener did not refuse, and took them to the room on the second floor, and then took Shiraiwa Maha and Dr. Ali to the living room, and brought tea and snacks to entertain them.

……

At the same time, Conan and the others in the room on the second floor also opened the windows and watched the chess in the front yard condescendingly.

Conan took out his notepad and drew the layout of the chess pieces on a blank piece of paper to analyze the information that might be hidden in it.

Ayumi lay beside Conan, looked at the chess pieces below, and exclaimed, "It's great, the chess pieces are all neatly arranged!"

"Where is it? I can't see it!" Yuan Tai, who was standing behind the two, rushed to the window anxiously.

Ayumi looked at Genta dissatisfied, and complained: "Please, don't push me, Genta, I haven't finished watching it yet."

Mitsuhiko, whose mind is better than Yuan, did not compete with others for a position. After finding that there was an unlocked room next door, he ran over to check the situation.

Soon, the window next door was also opened, and Mitsuhiko's head stuck out from inside, shouting triumphantly: "Yuantai, you can see it from the window here, come here quickly."

"Really? I'm coming right now." Yuantai immediately gave up competing for the position with Conan, and ran over happily.

Conan ignored the others, and after recording the content of the chess game, he sat down on the floor, biting the tip of his pen and meditating.

Seeing this, Hui Yuanai walked over slowly, and asked with great interest: "This should be your favorite puzzle-solving activity, so, are you sure to decipher the information in it?"

Before Conan could speak, Ayumi shouted eagerly: "Please, what are you two doing?! Are you going to fall?!"

Conan's complexion changed, and he stood up quickly, looked out of the window, and found Genta's body fell outside the window, and he was panicking at the window next door, while Mitsuhiko was holding onto Genta's tightly. Arm, but judging from his strenuous expression, it is obvious that he can't last long.

"What an idiot!"

Seeing that the two were in danger, Conan didn't dare to delay at all, and hurriedly ran from the corridor to the next room, and together with Mitsuhiko, pulled the overweight Genta in from the window.

"Ah, I'm saved, I almost fell just now." Mrs. Yuan touched the cold sweat on her forehead, with a look of fear on her face.

"Really... Be careful next time, I won't save you all in such a timely manner every time."

Conan was very helpless towards these reckless little ghosts. When he was panting with one hand propped against the wall, he suddenly remembered a strange thing.

[The window in this room is next to the wall, and the window in that room just now was also next to the wall. There should be only one wall in between, but when I ran over from the corridor just now, there was a gap between the two rooms. The small distance means that there is likely to be a hidden secret room between the walls! 】

Thinking of this, Conan became excited, tapped lightly on the wall with his fingers, and soon found a relatively empty place on the wall.

After confirming the location of the secret room, Conan began to observe the layout of the weekend, looking for mechanisms that could enter the secret room.

With his excellent observation ability, Conan found that above the secret room, there was a clock with a non-moving pointer. Combining with the knowledge about the secret room that he had learned in Hawaii before, he deduced that it was the mechanism to open the secret room on the wall.

"For this type of mechanism, the clock should be turned to a certain time before it can be turned on."

Conan moved a chair and put several thick books on it, stood on it cautiously, fiddled with the hands on the clock little by little.

When the pointer moved to the reserved position, a gap suddenly cracked in the wall, which turned 180 degrees like a revolving door, and Conan, who was caught off guard, fell into the secret room in the wall.

"Hehe, it seems that this castle is really not simple."

Conan climbed up from the ground, showing an expression that was as expected, then turned on the flashlight function of the watch, walked along the steps of the secret room, and went to check the situation inside.

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And when Conan fell into the secret room, the movement of chairs and books turning sideways also made Genta and Mitsuhiko's attention withdraw from the chess below.

Yuan Tai scratched his head, and said in surprise: "Eh? That's strange, where is Conan? He was still here just now?"

"Why are the chairs and books here? Did Conan put them here?"

Mitsuhiko looked at the overturned chair and books with some doubts, and felt that things were not that simple, so he took Genta to the next room to find Conan.

However, in the next room, there were only Ayumi and Haibara Ai. After Conan went to save Genta, he did not return here. In other words, Conan disappeared!