The Split-Actress in Conan's World

Watching Ayumi running with a smile on her face to meet Mitsuhiko Genta, Haibara Ai closed her eyes slightly and looked back at the gradually heavy rain outside.

got windy.

The shadows of the trees danced in the wind and rain; the moonlight was obscured by the clouds, casting a light veil, making them look even more ferocious.

Dr. Agasa walked in a little later and said in a teasing tone: "Ahem, kids nowadays are really..."

It seemed that he had heard their conversation just now.

"It's very wrong to eavesdrop on girls' private conversations, Doctor."

The doctor chuckled.

He changed the subject: "But Ai-kun, you are right. Shinichi should be fine. No news is the best news."

"What are you thinking about?" Huiyuan Ai walked on the stairs, her steps unconsciously heavier, "Do you think he would disappear for hours without any reason, without any contact, and make people worry about him for nothing?"

The doctor sweatdropped and realized it.

"Something must have happened to him. Maybe he was imprisoned by the people in the castle and couldn't escape... Maybe he was killed."

"Difficult, is it possible?!"

The Doctor followed her in a panic, totally losing his composure.

Ai Huihara walked ahead with her hands behind her back and said calmly, "In any case, we must keep it a secret from the people in the castle. We must call the police immediately and conduct a thorough search without leaving any holes."

"Chiyo is already doing it. Without the two of them, the only one we can rely on is you, my Lord."

"Keep up the good work, Doctor."

Being asked to do this, Dr. Agasa also felt a heavy sense of responsibility on his shoulders.

Realizing that he was the children's only support, he took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down and stay rational.

Now... call the police, yes, call the police.

He took out his cell phone and found there was no signal.

Is it because this place is too remote and it is raining?

There should be a landline in the castle, so he began to look for it.

"Phone, phone..."

"Ah, found it!"

After turning several corners, he finally found a landline phone in the corner of a corridor.

pat.

Just as I was about to dial, a rough friction sound was heard not far away.

The Doctor turned to look.

Huh?

Isn't this Shinichi's hat?

Could it be that Shinichi is nearby?

He put the phone down, walked over to the hat and picked it up.

At the corner, there was a half-open door.

The doctor poked his head out suspiciously: "Shinichi, are you in there?"

In the darkness, the dark shadow hiding by the door succeeded in his plot. He showed his big white teeth, forced out an evil smile, and hit the head with sparse hair hard with the stick in his hand.

Bang!

"Uh......"

The doctor let out a dull cry of pain and soon fell down.

"Doctor, if you want to call the police, why not just find a police officer you know?"

Outside the corridor, Huibara Ai's voice slowly approached.

Seeing that there was no one in front of the landline, she was stunned for a moment, then took a few steps forward.

It's a dead end.

The corner that the doctor saw earlier disappeared for some reason and turned into a blocked wall.

A chill rose in Huihara Ai's heart.

She watched the Doctor walk in, but in this corridor that ended in a dead end, the Doctor disappeared?

"How strange! Did I take the wrong path?" she murmured in a loud voice, then went back the same way.

It wasn't until she had walked three or four corridors that she pulled out her detective badge from her coat pocket.

"Chiyo, the doctor is also missing. I suspect there is more than one secret passage here."

"As soon as we turned the corner, we lost sight of him. We were planning to call the police, but the area near the landline was not safe, so I gave up trying to get close to him."

Chiyo responded quickly.

"Your judgment is correct. There are too many traps in this castle. I am in a lot of trouble."

His tone was more serious than ever before, without the laziness and carelessness of the past.

"In addition, I also made some discoveries. After coming down from the secret passage, I saw a skeleton. Judging from the teeth, it was an elderly person, and the leg bones were severely atrophied."

"She's the real lady." Huibara Ai understood just by listening to the description.

"That's right. There is also a long trail of blood next to the skeleton. It was not long ago. If I'm not mistaken, Kudo was discovered by the murderer here and then knocked unconscious."

There was a teeth-grinding friction sound coming from the badge; it looked like Chiyo had triggered some mechanism again.

"Unfortunately, the kid didn't bleed enough. The blood trail stopped after a short distance, so we can't determine the direction he was transferred to. You must be careful outside, not only around that fake madam, but also everyone else."

He had a terrifying guess.

"I don't think that other people who have lived in this castle for many years would be unaware of the existence of the secret passage. I suspect that it is only because of the existence of the 'treasure' that they choose to wait and see."

Chiyo glanced at the same watch on her wrist as Conan's and said calmly, "10 o'clock at the latest. If I can't find any trace of Kudo before 10 o'clock, I will come out and join you."

"Now the doctor is also missing, so try not to be alone and protect yourselves."

I could vaguely hear the noise of the Young Detective Team making noise over there. Chiyo gave a final instruction and put away her detective badge.

I have to say, the person who designed this castle is a genius.

These secret passages are not simply built against thick walls, but are built by taking advantage of the height differences between different rooms.

For example, the ceiling of the restaurant where they dine is very high, while the ceiling of the kitchen next to it is much lower. The room on the second floor above these two rooms is slightly offset in direction and is not completely aligned with the space layout on the first floor.

The space that was moved out is the secret passage.

But this also leads to a very serious problem.

The ground in the secret passage is uneven!

Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. People with poor sense of direction would have felt dizzy long ago.

According to Huibara, the murderer captured the doctor in the secret passage on the first floor, so it is unlikely that he would go to the trouble of bringing the doctor back to the secret passage on the second floor.

Besides, the murderer has been pretending to be a lady for a long time, living in a wheelchair and rarely exercising. I'm afraid his health is not good at all.

In order to save effort, it is likely that the doctor will be brought down.

It seems likely that she left Conan and the Doctor in the same place.

The tower that no one would ever enter.

He walked down the secret passage and slowly moved towards the tower.

Sure enough, after searching for half an hour, Conan and the doctor were found tied up tightly with ropes in a dark and damp corner.

"Is it embarrassing enough?"

At this time, both of them looked very miserable. Not only were their heads covered in blood, but their clothes were also in disarray.

Conan's knitted hat and glasses were gone, and the doctor also lost his glasses. He just stood there with his eyes squinting, looking a little dazed.

"It's you, Chiyo! Untie me!" Conan was illuminated by the flashlight on his watch and turned his head away uncomfortably, his tone full of surprise.

"Oh, is that Xiaoguang?" The doctor couldn't see his face clearly, and only knew it when he heard Conan's shouting.

The two men untied each other, and Conan stretched his body as if he had survived a disaster.

"Where are my glasses?" He reached out to Chiyoko to ask for his precious glasses.

"There is no such thing. Go find the murderer yourself." Chiyoko rolled her eyes at him.

"No glasses? Then how did you find me?" Conan thought he found me by relying on the positioning signal of the detective badge on his glasses.

"Isn't it relying on prophecy again?"

"You're not the only one who can deduce, detective boy."

Chiyoko pulled the doctor to prevent him from bumping into things because he couldn't see clearly: "Let's get out of this damn place first."

He looked at his watch. It was just past 9 o'clock.

Conan nodded awkwardly.

However, he stopped before walking far and turned to look behind him in confusion.

"What's wrong, Shinichi?" The doctor asked with concern when he heard his footsteps stop.

"Did you hear any sound?" Conan frowned.

Chiyoko pricked up her ears and listened, then said casually, "It must be the sound of water drops. It started raining outside not long after you were knocked unconscious."

Conan always felt that it was not the case, but after listening carefully he didn't find anything else.

Maybe it was his illusion?

He looked thoughtful, then turned and followed the two men.

Not long after they left, Professor Lecter slowly walked down the stairs inside the tower.

He pushed his glasses down slightly and looked up.

At the top of the tower, a figure was hanging, with black blood dripping down from his dangling feet.

tick.

tick.

He was holding the freshly washed handkerchief, with an unclear look of reminiscence in his eyes, and a few rays of light flashed in his pupils as deep as the starry sky.

After a long while, he folded the handkerchief and put it safely into his arms.

......

In the guest room that Mamiya Mitsuru arranged for them, the four children slept in a row.

The Doctor's bed was still empty.

After finally coaxing the three little ones to sleep, Haibara Ai had trouble falling asleep.

Kudo and the doctor are nowhere to be seen, Chiyo won't be back until 10 o'clock, and she is the only one the children can rely on.

She had no confidence in protecting the children, so she used the excuse that the children fell asleep early and took them to the room at 8: and locked the door.

She checked around and found that there were no traps in this room, at least.

She had turned off the communication on her detective badge because she was worried about affecting Chiyo.

Now I have absolutely no idea about the situation outside.

I still can't rest assured...

She sighed and turned her head to look at Ayumi who was curled up in a ball sleeping.

This child is also very insecure.

Haibara Ai quietly opened the quilt and got out of bed.

Without making a sound, she opened the door and left the room.

The corridor was empty, with only bright moonlight shining through the glass windows onto the ground, casting a shadow every few steps.

Not long after she walked, she suddenly felt a blatant sense of being watched.

After turning a corner, she glanced calmly with the corner of her eye, and sure enough, a black shadow that looked like a head flashed by at the previous corner.

She held her breath, pressed against the wall, and waited quietly.

A noisy sound of footsteps gradually approached and soon became quiet.

After a few breaths, a head poked out hesitantly and met her cold eyes.

Mitsuhiko was so scared that he almost jumped up.

"So you didn't sleep." Huibara Ai crossed her arms.

The three little ones came out from the corner and laughed dryly together.

Ayumi opened her eyes wide and said stubbornly, "Because we are worried about Conan."

Yuan Tai held the bread they packed for dinner and said, "And the doctor hasn't come back yet..."

"Let's help search too!" Mitsuhiko clenched his fists, his eyes determined.

"Yeah, four people are better than one."

Huihara Ai turned around and continued walking forward, "I won't care if you get killed."

The four children walked into the room where they had been watching the chessboard during the day.

"Hey, have we been to this room before?" Yuantai looked at the window and felt it seemed familiar.

"There's no one here." Mitsuhiko closed the door.

Haibara Ai quickly brought a chair and a book and replicated Conan's actions during the day.

As the clock hands turned, the wall below quickly began to flip over. Fortunately, Haibara Ai had anticipated this and held onto a shelf nearby, so she was not taken in like Conan.

"Wow, what is this place?"

"A secret passage, could there be a Kamen Rider base down there?"

Mitsuhiko looked at Genta speechlessly: "How is that possible? It's just a TV show."

"There's a very long staircase!" Ayumi looked down with the light from the room.

"Conan might have walked in here by mistake!"

Haibara Ai turned the dial, and bright light immediately illuminated the road ahead.

"What is that? Why is it glowing?" Ayumi looked over her shoulder curiously.

"It's a watch-shaped flashlight that the doctor gave me. You just turn the dial to turn it on."

"So this is how it is used!" Mitsuhiko suddenly realized.

Then three identical rays of light lit up.

The doctor gave each member of the Young Detective Team a watch.

It’s just that Conan and Chiyo have “slightly” more functions.

Since they didn't get hit on the knee like Conan, they quickly made their way downstairs.

"Hey, what is that?" Seeing Haibara Ai squatting down, wiping it on the ground and licking it, Mitsuhiko quickly moved the flashlight over.

"is blood."

"Judging from the color and the solidification, it shouldn't be long."

Ayumi blushed as she praised, "You are awesome! Huibara is as awesome as Conan!"

"You still have the mood to say such things..." Huiyuan looked at the blood on her index finger with a puzzled expression, "This might be Edogawa's blood."

"Ah?" Ayumi was stunned.

Remembering the trailing bloodstain that Chiyo had mentioned before, she stood up, looked around, and soon found the bloodstain.

"Hey, look!" Mitsuhiko made another new discovery.

"Is this Conan's glasses?"

He pointed to a brick next to the steps. A pair of glasses was pressed underneath. If you didn't look carefully, you might not be able to see it.

Haibara Ai quickly rushed over and took the glasses in her hands.

Fortunately, there was only a scratch on the lens. She breathed a sigh of relief, put on her glasses, and opened the electronic map.

Six red dots flashed on the map.

"This distance..."

Besides the fact that the four of them were standing together and therefore close to each other, the other two red dots were also very close and not very far away from them.

Haibara Ai reacted immediately and opened her detective badge: "Edogawa? Chiyo?"

A faint echo came from the depths of the dark passage; it was her own voice.

After a while, three flashlight beams appeared in their field of vision.