The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"It's Conan and the others!" Ayumi stood up happily and ran towards them.

Conan's slightly tired voice came from the detective badge in Huihara Ai's hand: "Ah, Chiyo saved my life."

Soon they met the Junior Detective Team and put on their detective badges.

"We were worried to death!"

"Conan is such a worry!"

Seeing the blood on Conan's head, the three little ones became worried.

Conan was tricked this time, but he couldn't refute it, so he could only laugh awkwardly.

"What then?" Haibara Ai walked to the doctor and led the way for him instead of Chiyo, while checking the doctor's injuries.

"You didn't notify me immediately after you found the person. Didn't you say you would keep in touch?"

"Ah, it seems I did forget..."

Chiyoko was speechless.

At least Ping An found the person.

"Hey, come and see!" Mitsuhiko shouted, pointing at a step.

“There are words engraved on the stairs!”

The doctor rubbed his eyes in distress: "I can't see clearly at all. Did you pick up my glasses?"

Speaking of glasses, Conan also asked: "Oh, and my glasses!"

"Here, this is such an important thing, don't lose it easily next time, Detective?" Haibara Ai took off the glasses she had just used to check their location and put them in his hands.

"I know, I know." Conan impatiently put his glasses on his nose and felt a little relaxed.

"I really have to repair it when I go back this time, Doctor." The lenses were rubbed to the point of being blurry. Conan touched the scratches and smiled bitterly.

Hearing the doctor's complaint, Mitsuhiko considerately shone the flashlight on the line of engraving and read out the words one by one.

"That guy pretended to be me and wanted to steal the treasure of the castle..."

"The word behind it is not finished, but I think it is 'treasure'!" He automatically filled in the last content.

"Yes, I mean the treasure of this castle."

Conan smiled complacently and said, "I have solved the secret code in this castle."

Chiyoko took the bag that Ayumi had been holding in her arms, took out a piece of bread from it, stuffed it into her mouth, and then slapped it at Conan.

"Not only that, but the murderer has also been found, right?"

Just then, Conan's stomach started to growl.

"You haven't eaten for almost the entire day. You should fill your stomach before you start your reasoning show."

Ayumi nodded in agreement.

"This is a gift prepared for you by Yoshida and the others. It can't be wasted." Huibara Ai hugged her chest and smiled.

"You guys..." Conan was stunned holding the bag, and a warm feeling surged in his heart.

He took out the bread and devoured it.

"Let's leave this secret passage first." The doctor was still frightened by the stick.

"Hey, Doc," Yuan Tai stood in front of a wall, holding up a pair of cracked round-frame glasses and shouting, "Are these your glasses?"

The doctor heard the sound and walked over, "Oh, it's true!"

"Now I can see clearly!" He put on his glasses happily.

Haibara Ai walked over and fumbled on the wall for a while.

"The fact that the doctor's glasses fell here means..."

With a click, a wall brick was pressed down, and the wall in front gently popped open, revealing the corridor outside.

"Outside is where the Doctor disappeared."

"Wow, it's true!" Ayumi exclaimed in support.

A group of people walked out of the secret passage.

"I was knocked unconscious here." The doctor's head still felt a little swollen.

At this time, Master Mamiya's surprised voice sounded beside him: "Mr. Agasa, why are you here?"

He was holding the landline in his hand and was about to make a call.

"I saw that the door of your room was wide open and the children were missing. I was just about to call the police."

Conan swallowed the bread and sneered, "Of course I'll call the police."

"It's just that we need to call the police about a nasty serial murder case!"

"Oh, it's the kid with the glasses. Did you find him? That's great."

Mamiya Mitsuru narrowed his eyes, then relaxed his brows slightly, "But what do you mean by that?"

Conan was not in a hurry to answer his questions, but took everyone to the lobby of the castle.

"Let's talk about the secrets hidden in this castle first. I think this is what you are most concerned about, right?"

Nobuto Mamiya happened to be walking down from the second floor and stopped halfway up the stairs when he heard this.

"Oh?" Mamiya was very interested. "Little boy, have you figured out the secret code left by the old master?"

"Thanks to the prisoner for locking me in the dark for so long, I had enough time to think." Conan said in a sarcastic tone.

"The positions of chess pieces are usually black on top and white on the bottom, and the letters A to H and the numbers 1 to 8 are used to code the vertical and horizontal directions."

"From the position of the knight, looking at the white pieces in order, we get the word 'EGGHEAD', which is what we say in the common saying..."

"An intellectual who loves to make sense."

This answer made Mamiya Mitsuru and Mamiya Takato suddenly realize.

"You mean..."

"Ah, it's the old master, or rather the unusually large portrait of the old master."

Conan looked up at the portrait which was several dozen square meters.

"As long as you rotate the picture counterclockwise according to the arrangement of the black pieces, you will see the answer left by the great master."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mamiya Nobuhito turned back to the second floor and started fiddling with the portrait.

As he rotated the portrait about 60 degrees, a long and narrow passage appeared in front of everyone.

"Treasure..."

Mamiya no Kin murmured in a low voice.

Climbing up along that passage is the top of the castle.

The rain outside has stopped, the clouds have dispersed, the quiet night sky is dotted with stars, and the bright crescent moon dutifully casts its soft light on the forest, covering it with a veil.

There was a hint of moisture in the air, making the veil even more pure and mysterious.

"I will give this castle and this beautiful scenery to the first person to arrive."

Mamiya Noble Lady quietly read out the words carved on the wall and was suddenly touched.

"When I was a child, my grandfather loved to teach me to paint in the attic facing these landscapes."

“That’s why I fell in love with painting.”

Mamiya Mitsuru climbed up breathlessly, and was stunned for a moment when he saw the scenery.

"That is exactly what my father-in-law would do."

He smiled with relief.

After all, half of the castle legally belonged to him.

"It's really beautiful." Ayumi sighed softly.

"It was originally a little fun among family members, but it unexpectedly became the beginning of tragedy." The moonlight was reflected in Haibara Ai's eyes, and she was somewhat moved, but there was regret in her tone.

Conan pushed his glasses, and a white light flashed on the lens: "Yes, she would kill the lady, reshape herself into an old look, and kill the servants who found something wrong in order to get the treasure. But it turned out to be such a 'boring' thing. I think she will collapse, right?"

"Kill the madam...what are you talking about, kid?" Mamiya Mitsuru looked back at him in confusion.

Mamiya Nobuhito had the same reaction.

"Of course I'm talking about the criminal in this incident, the fake madam." The familiar link arrived, Conan smiled confidently, and began his reasoning show.

"She is probably the only one of the servants who has not been identified in the fire four years ago."

"She took advantage of the fire to have evil intentions. She secretly locked up the real Madam who was alone in the annex and starved her to death. Then she had plastic surgery to look like the Madam in an attempt to get the treasure of the master!"

However, Mamiya Mitsuru still looked puzzled.

"what are you talking about?"

His words suddenly made Conan feel uneasy.

"The lady died in the fire four years ago."

"What?" Conan's expression changed.

"Yes, grandma couldn't escape from the fire because of her disabled legs..." Mamiya Takato also looked at him in confusion.

"You haven't been hungry for too long and your mind is confused, right, kid?"

"How is that possible! We just saw that fake Madam this afternoon, right Huibara?!"

Conan pulled Haibara Ai aside and asked as if seeking confirmation.

"Yes, I remember it very clearly. There was an old lady sitting in a wheelchair." Haibara Ai gave him a reassuring look, which was like a shot of cardiotonic and calmed Conan a lot.

"Besides, didn't you hire a psychologist to stabilize her emotions?"

Chiyoko intervened sharply and helped the two of them to interrogate.

The Doctor and the three little ones haven't figured out what's going on yet.

A calm voice came from behind them. Professor Lecter climbed up from the passage and wiped his hands with a handkerchief: "Are you talking about me?"

Mamiya Mitsuru replied naturally: "It is indeed me who invited Mr. Lecter, but he is not in a good condition because of what happened in recent years."

The three pseudo-children looked at Professor Lecter.

Professor Lecter nodded: "The commission I received is indeed about Mr. Noble."

A chill ran down Conan's spine.

no such person?

Then who knocked him out?

Who defeated the Doctor?

The atmosphere grew strangely cold.

"That might be because Conan is hallucinating because of hunger. Sorry, let's go back to the room first."

Chiyoko easily pulled Conan and Haibara Ai away, and the doctor and the three little ones followed behind in a daze.

After watching them leave, Professor Lecter withdrew his gaze and looked at the remaining two.

He pulled the corner of his mouth in a forced smile, and his deep eyes were filled with the lonely night sky, as if there was no living thing.

He snapped his fingers lightly.

"Hey, Chiyo! Why are you in such a hurry to pull me away? Isn't there something wrong with what they said?"

Conan slapped away his hand that was pulling on his sleeve in dissatisfaction and in a bad tone.

"You can't really think I'm hallucinating, right? You've also seen the Madam!"

Haibara Ai answered him before Chiyoko: "No, Kudo, I think Chiyoko might do something more appropriate this time."

"Don't you think it's ridiculous? They suddenly changed their story, and it doesn't seem like they were colluding with each other. It's more like their memories were really changed."

She looked straight at Conan, the great detective's eyes full of resentment.

"Need I remind you where this sense of déjà vu comes from?"

"Hypnosis." Chiyoko said softly.

"Do you remember the information I showed you last time?"

Those exaggerated resumes reappeared in Conan's mind.

"You mean?" But the information is one thing, and seeing it actually happen in front of him is another feeling altogether.

"Yes, I suspect that he modified other people's cognition through hypnosis."

Qianyiguang's face was frighteningly gloomy, "Didn't you notice that the fake madam hasn't appeared for a long time?"

Seeing Conan was silent, he knew that he already understood what he was going to say, and continued: "We can't be sure what conditions he needs to meet for hypnosis, but in any case, it is too dangerous to stay in his presence."

"You don't want your cognition to be changed at will like a draft, right?"

Huihara Ai rubbed her arms and put on the hood of her red coat: "What a terrible method."

"Let's wait until the police arrive tomorrow." Conan was convinced. He looked at the doctor and the three little ones behind him and felt that he should not take the risk.

"You should be thinking about another question," Chiyoko poured cold water on him, "What should you do if this dangerous person knows your identity?"

"Should you send him to jail?"

"Will he reveal your true identity?"

Conan didn't know how to answer.

He had never encountered a situation like this before.

The most dangerous criminals we encounter in the past are those whose killing methods are more bizarre.

But no one has ever been able to influence other people's cognition and directly erase a person's existence.

What’s even more terrifying is that Conan can’t be sure whether his understanding is correct.

He was sure that if Chiyo and Haibara were not around, he would fall into endless self-doubt.

That night, Conan slept very uneasily.

The police arrived early the next morning.

After a careful search, the police found the body of the old lady in the secret passage. Combined with the testimony of the owners and servants living in the castle, they confirmed that it was the old lady herself.

The decomposition state of the body matched the time period, so they determined that it was a body that was missed and not found after the fire that year.

Regarding the disappearance of Conan and the doctor, the police conducted a detailed investigation of the brick and the stick and found that there were no other fingerprints on them except those of the Junior Detective Team.

Therefore, the police concluded that they broke into the secret passage and touched the mechanism in panic, and were accidentally knocked unconscious.

Amid the strong protests of Conan and the three little ones, the case was unexpectedly closed.

It is worth mentioning that when they requested a thorough search of the entire castle, Professor Lecter also spoke out in support of them and persuaded the owner, Mr. Mitsuru Mamiya, to allow this slightly rude request.

Finally, the police spent another half morning thoroughly checking every room in the castle, big and small, and the secret passages were checked over and over again.

Even the locked abandoned tower was unlocked and searched thoroughly from top to bottom.

Nothing was found.

Not only was there no trace of the fake madam, but even any traces of her life in the castle over the past four years, any written records that might have been left behind, were all gone.

It's as if such a person doesn't really exist.

Conan clenched his fists, pursed his lips, and stared at Professor Lecter from afar.

Professor Lecter smiled, still looking gentle.

Finally they got on the doctor's yellow beetle and left the strange blue castle.