Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Kudo Yuki spoke first, calming everyone's panicked hearts: "We just figured out the matter of the Red Lotus Skull."

The abbot of Shengle Temple, Monk Zhejin, was shocked and asked, "Do you know the truth of the incident?"

Hattori Heiji looked relaxed, his hands casually shoved in his pockets, and he raised his head slightly: "Yes, I untied them all too."

Kudo Yuki took over the conversation: "Okay, since you know it, then you can tell the rest first."

Hattori Heiji nodded slightly, cleared his throat, and glanced at everyone present.

"The mystery of the spirit climbing up the stairs has also been solved, as well as why Master Qinzhe's body suddenly appeared in the confinement room at the end of the stairs. And I also know where the missing uncle from the detective agency is being held."

When Mouri Ran heard Hattori Heiji say that he knew where Mouri Kogoro was, her eyes, which were originally full of worry, suddenly lit up, and she was looking forward to him helping her find her father.

However, the abbot of Shengle Temple, Monk Zhejin, Xianzhe and Dunzhe frowned, with expressions of doubt on their faces.

"Are you trying to say that someone is behind this?"

"But I've seen those spirits before."

"That's not something a human could do."

Hattori Heiji held the door with one hand and walked steadily towards the living room, saying as he walked: "If we want to recreate that scene, we need that guy's help."

Toyama Kazuha and Mao Li Ran followed closely behind, and the two were still discussing in low voices.

"Are you talking about the uncle from Xiaolan's family?"

"You guys are going to start a mystery show, right?"

Kudo Yuki shook her head slightly, her hair swaying gently, "No, it's what I mentioned just now."

Hattori Heiji pushed the door open and said in a loud voice: "Mr. Red Lotus Skull."

Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They hugged each other tightly and screamed in unison: "It appeared!"

Kudo Yuki smiled and comforted them: "Xiaolan, Heye, didn't I tell you that it was all a lie? It's just a trick. Right, little detective?"

She blinked at Conan, her eyes full of understanding.

"Yeah." Conan came down the stairs from the confinement room, holding a piece of tissue paper and a fire stick in his hands, and walked quickly to the front of everyone, explaining and demonstrating: "Roll the tissue paper into a tube, and then use the fire stick that you will use when camping, and you can easily create the phenomenon just now!"

Conan squatted down, fiddling with the things in his hands, and patiently explained: "First, apply glue to this end of the thin paper, roll it into a tube, and place it on the ground like this.

When you light a fire with a fire stick, the surrounding air will be heated and an updraft will be generated. The ash produced by burning paper is very light and can follow the updraft and fly up while burning! "

Toyama Kazuha and Mao Li Ran stared intently, nodded frequently, their eyes full of amazement.

“Really?”

"Amazing!"

Hattori Heiji looked towards the confinement room with a deep gaze, trying to recreate the scene in his mind: "In other words, the criminal should have simply placed the thin paper on the steps in order."

"Put them in order?" Yuanshan Heye looked confused.

"Yes, if the criminal uses a fire stick to light a fire while climbing the stairs, the ashes of the thin paper will float up from the bottom stairs and disappear. Doesn't it look like a soul is climbing the stairs?"

Xianzhe hid behind Dunzhe, his body trembling slightly. He leaned forward nervously, his voice trembling a little: "But, but, won't there be ashes left on the stairs?"

Dunzhe pointed at the ashes on the ground and said, "Look, there are ashes right in front of you."

Conan simply sat on the ground, exposing the bottom of his socks for everyone to see clearly. The bottom of the socks was black. He smiled and said, "Yes, I stepped on it when I went upstairs. Look! The bottom of the socks is black. But because Master Xianzhe knocked over the bucket, the gray smoke was washed away by the water, so it can't be seen on the stairs, right?"

Dunzhe took advantage of the situation and attacked Xianzhe, with a hint of blame in his eyes: "Xianzhe, did you overturn the bucket in order to destroy the evidence?"

Xianzhe didn't want to be blamed for no reason, so he quickly defended himself, waving his hands anxiously: "No, no, I really tripped."

Kudo Yuki suddenly thought of a possibility. She frowned slightly, and a thoughtful look emerged on her delicate face: "Or, the criminal deliberately placed the bucket on the edge of the stairs in order to make others trip over it."

The host, Cheol-jin, exclaimed: "What an interesting deduction, but there is a big loophole! Where did the person who was lighting the paper tube and going up the stairs disappear into? There is only Kan-cheol's body in the confinement room at the end of the stairs. You can indeed create the effect of a spirit with the method just now, but you are thinking too simply."

Hattori Heiji shook his head and continued, "That's not right, Master Abbot. I was convinced only after I unlocked the soul's technique. If there was only a body in the room at that time, it means that there is a secret room in that room in all likelihood."

Toyama Kazuha and Mao Lilan were shocked and shouted in unison: "Secret room!"

"That's right." Hattori Heiji recounted the criminal's crime process, trying to make everyone understand more clearly: "The criminal lit the fire and went upstairs and hid in that room. The amulet I lost also fell there."

Yuanshan Heye asked: "Did it fall into that secret room?"

"No! In front of the secret room, the rope on the amulet is stretched straight like this." Hattori Heiji put his index fingers into the rope and stretched it straight to demonstrate. He looked very serious, as if he was afraid that others would not understand.

He squatted down, dropped the amulet on the ground, and continued to demonstrate with the tablet in his hand: "Generally, if something with a rope like this falls to the ground, it will snap and turn into a ring, right?"

Kudo Yuki explained in a way that Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha could understand: "According to what you said, the rope became a straight line because it was blocked by something."

Only then did Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha understand completely.

"Room, door."

"It was pushed by the door that turned it into a straight line."

Host Zhejin looked puzzled: "B-but, there is no door in that room."

"Okay, let's go check it out and confirm it." Hattori Heiji stood up and walked straight into the confinement room. The others followed him and came to the door of the confinement room.

Host Zhejin carefully observed the surroundings of the confinement room for a long time, but still could not find any trace of the secret room. He could not help but ask in confusion: "Where is it in this room?"

The brother and sister walked into the confinement room.

Conan spread his hands and said helplessly: "The reason why no one knows where the room is is because they haven't figured out how to open the door. Think about it, why did Brother Heiji's amulet fall here? In fact, it was sucked onto something of the criminal and was brought here."

He turned to look at Yuanshan Heye who looked confused, and asked with a smile: "Sister Heye, think about it, what was put in the amulet?"

Yuanshan Heye tilted his head and thought for a while, then answered: "Ah, I remember there was an iron chain inside. When I was a child, I was unlucky enough to be handcuffed with Heiji. The fragments of the handcuffs from that time were placed inside the amulet."

Mao Lilan seemed to have thought of something and asked hurriedly: "If it is attracted, is it a magnet?"

Hattori Heiji nodded and answered, "Yes, the criminal put the magnet used to open and close the secret room door in his sleeve, and then it attracted my amulet. The criminal came here directly without noticing, and when he wanted to open the door of the secret room and take out the magnet from his sleeve, my amulet fell to the ground."

Host Zhejin still had some doubts and continued to ask: "But if you really carry magnets with you all the time, it will be easy for people to suspect you."

Kudo Yuki raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and smiled and reminded: "The criminal is very smart, he disguised the magnet as something else, a rosary that monks carry with them without being suspected!"

Hattori Heiji continued, "My amulet was sucked by the rosary in my sleeve during the time between when our clothes were taken out of the dryer and when they were delivered to us. Is that right?

Master Dunzhe, when you took it out of the dryer, you said, 'I put it all in the basket.' It was you who locked Master Kanzhe in the confinement room and killed him."

Dunzhe opened his mouth in surprise, and the muscles on his face tensed instantly. He put his hands together, with Buddhist beads hanging on his thumbs. He looked extremely panicked and quickly explained: "No, no, I don't have any magnets or anything..."

Hattori Heiji slowly approached Dunzhe, "It's no use denying it! When you were praying, one of the beads you took out was sticking out, and it was attracted to it like a magnet. How do you explain this?"

Host Cheol Jin asked in confusion, “But why did Don Cheol want to kill Kan Cheol?”

Hattori Heiji reached into his arms and fumbled for his phone, explaining to everyone: "When Master Kanzhe was confined in this room, it was most likely that the door of the secret room was not closed properly and he noticed it."

He took out his cell phone, quickly found the photo of the Buddha statue he had taken in the secret room, and showed it to everyone.

Host Cheol Jin immediately took the phone, and Hyun Cheol also came over to watch it with Host Cheol Jin.

"This, this is the Guanyin statue that has been passed down from generation to generation in my temple."

“Why are there so many of them there?”

Dunzhe looked at him guiltily and didn't dare to say anything.

Hattori Heiji revealed the truth: "I checked before, and they are sold everywhere on the Internet. They are so-called high-quality imitations. Master Dunzhe, you secretly brought the real Buddha statue into the secret room and secretly carved it according to the image every night.

The customers who bought your Buddha statues all gave very good reviews, which may have given you the illusion that it is okay to worship them as authentic ones.

But he was discovered by a Buddhist statue researcher named Murata, so you locked him up in a confinement cell, killed him, set the body on fire, and threw it on the stone stairs in the forest.

In order to allow the climbers to find the body, you also played the trick of the spirit climbing the stairs, which was quite successful. So when you found out that Master Kanzhe had also discovered the secret room, you did it again!

To make things look more like the curse of the Red Lotus Skull, this time you want us all to be your witnesses, using deliberate screams and that ghost trick to lure us into this room.

While our attention was distracted by the body, he came out of the secret room and sneaked up behind us, pretending to be a new arrival. "

Mao Lilan asked directly: "Then why did Dad..."

Kudo Yuki raised her eyebrows and said, "When he used the string of magnetic Buddhist beads to open the secret room door, a magnetic bead fell off, and Mr. Maori happened to pick it up."

Dunzhe still insisted on asking, "So where is the secret room?"

Hattori Heiji held the tablet in his hand and looked at him with interest: "You look like you're thinking that I don't have any magnets now anyway, right?"

After hearing a click, he fastened the tablet screen to the wall, with the back facing the crowd, supporting it with one hand. "You know tablets, right? There is a magnet on one end to install a magnetic keyboard."

Hattori Heiji exerted a little force, and the secret room door slowly opened and appeared in front of everyone. "This is a simple design that can open and close the door lock just by moving the magnet."

Kudo Yuki took a step forward before she could say anything.

While everyone's attention was on the confinement room, Dunzhe suddenly turned around and started shouting as he ran down the stairs: "Woo-wa-wa-wa."

Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha were the first to react.

"Ah! He ran away."

"Heiji, why don't you hurry up and catch up?"

"Don't worry, he can't run away." Hattori Heiji asserted.

Conan pointed at the secret room and said with a smile: "Guess why we use tissue paper and fire sticks to solve the puzzle? Because those things are placed in the secret room, we just use them directly!"

Kudo Yuki reminded with a smile: "There are even stun guns."

Mao Lilan said in shock: "The locked-up father has already..."

Hattori Heiji nodded, "Yes, by now the criminal should have been caught and thrown over his shoulder."

Dunzhe wanted to escape from here in a panic, but when he ran to the gate, Maori Kogoro, who had been waiting behind the door for a long time, suddenly stood up.

Dunzhe's face was filled with shock, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was slightly open in fear, the muscles on his face tensed instantly, his steps subconsciously paused, and he seemed to be nailed to the spot, with no time to react.

Kogoro Maori grabbed Donzhe's shoulders with one hand and threw him over his shoulder with his other hand. With a "thump", Donzhe was thrown heavily to the ground, and stars appeared in his eyes.

Kogoro Maori grabbed Donzhe's shoulders and clasped his shoulder blades with his five fingers, making him unable to move.

Immediately afterwards, Kogoro Maori turned around, using his broad back as the axis, and using the strength of his waist and legs to exert force, throwing Donzhe off his shoulder.

During this process, Dunzhe's body drew a short arc in the air.

With a loud thump, Dunzhe's back hit the ground. His limbs spread out uncontrollably, his head tilted back, his eyes staring at the ceiling, and he suddenly saw stars and felt dizzy. He was knocked dizzy by the violent impact and lost the ability to resist.

At this time, the gorgeous sunset outside attracted everyone's attention, and Toyama Kazuha and Hattori Heiji couldn't help but watch it intently.

“What a beautiful sunset.”

"Yes."

To be continued...