RNP Page 174
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To his surprise, the first person to break into the room and be dealt with was Professor Agasa, the only adult among them.
"Alright, let's hurry up and get out of here." Seeing Professor Agasa looking slightly embarrassed by being caught, Yuu Aragaki had no choice but to change the subject.
"Yes!" Conan suddenly felt inexplicably confident. "It's time to bring the real culprit behind all this to the surface!"
"What, Shin... Conan, do you already know who did all this?" Professor Agasa looked at Conan in surprise, almost blurting out Shinichi's name without thinking.
"Of course, I already know everything, and I know exactly what happened!" Even though there was no light shining on it, Conan's glasses, which Aragaki Yu had found, suddenly started to reflect light.
Fearing that the culprit might return to check on Professor Agasa's condition, the three of them immediately set off.
"Be careful, follow me. I remember the way I came in." After reminding the two people beside him, Yuu Aragaki followed Hotaru, who was already getting impatient, and turned to leave the secret room where Professor Agasa was being held captive.
Conan and Professor Agasa immediately followed.
Although Conan had already retrieved his glasses by this time, he was able to use the tracking function on the glasses to locate the detective badges of the Junior Detective League members who were outside, and thus escape through the secret passage.
However, since someone can lead the way, it is obviously more convenient and easier at this point.
Only Aragaki Yu, who was walking at the very front with Hotaru, felt a deep sense of helplessness at that moment.
Chapter 219 Conan's Confusion
Even Professor Agasa, an adult, was attacked and captured by that guy.
Then Aragaki Yu had even less hope that those kids would stay put and not run around.
Even if he had already warned Ai Haibara, she would probably still go into the secret passage with them, swayed by the kids' emotional appeal to save Conan and the professor.
After all, all I did was remind Ai Haibara not to let them deliver the items one by one, and not to let them "deliver them all at once" unless necessary.
Sure enough, the next moment, Conan, who had been fiddling with his glasses the whole way, suddenly stopped and tugged at Aragaki Yu's sleeve, whispering, "Aragaki-nii, there's a detective badge signal behind this wall!"
"What? Could it be that something happened to Ai and the others too?!" Professor Agasa couldn't help but exclaim softly.
"Hmm." Having anticipated this situation, Aragaki Yu nodded and walked to the wall where Conan was standing. Following Hotaru's prompting, he began to feel around on the wall to find the mechanism to open the hidden door.
A short while later, as the hidden door opened, the three found Mitsuhiko and Genta lying inside.
Seeing that Genta and Mitsuhiko were motionless, Conan checked their breathing and condition before finally letting out a sigh of relief: "They're fine. They were just knocked unconscious."
Aragaki Yu picked up the two unconscious little ones.
Mitsuhiko is alright, but Genta is a guy who does have some weight to him.
If it weren't for the boost from spiritual power, Aragaki Yu wouldn't be able to guarantee that he could lift him up with one hand.
Looking at his unconscious friend, Conan suddenly thought of Ai Haibara and Ayumi: "Were they all taken care of?"
Professor Agasa also became anxious, "By the way, what about Ai and Ayumi...?"
"No, not yet!" Conan breathed a slight sigh of relief after confirming with his tracking glasses that Ai Haibara and Ayumi's detective badges were still moving rapidly. "They're together, and their detective badges are moving, so they should be safe for now."
"Moving fast?" Aragaki Yu hesitated for a moment before suddenly speaking, "If that's the case, perhaps they're being chased by someone."
Conan's heart skipped a beat when he heard Aragaki Yu's words: "They're to the southeast above us. Let's go and meet up with them!"
“Okay, I just found a shortcut up while I was looking for you. I’ll take you there.” Aragaki Yu handed Mitsuhiko to Professor Agasa beside him, then picked up Genta and set off. At a corner, he found a mechanism that opened the wall, revealing a ladder leading up. He picked up Genta with one hand and held onto the ladder with the other, climbing up.
At the same time, he reminded Conan behind him and Professor Agasa carrying Mitsuhiko, "After climbing up from here, you'll reach the Black Tower that was once burned down by a great fire."
Although Conan didn't know how Aragaki Yu had found so many secret passages and doors in this secret passage, the situation was urgent, and he couldn't worry about the questions. Without hesitation, he followed Aragaki Yu up.
Professor Agasa, carrying Mitsuhiko on his back, followed closely behind.
As they were about to reach the ground via the stairs, after confirming that there were no people waiting around the exit, Yingcao quickly reached out and climbed out from the stairs.
Yu Aragaki cautiously reminded Conan and Professor Agasa, who followed him out, "This is the first floor of the Black Tower. Be careful and try not to make any noise. If Ai and Ayumi are really being chased by someone, I think that person might be hiding nearby."
"Hmm." Professor Agasa and Conan nodded solemnly, turned down the lights in their hands as much as possible, and carefully followed Aragaki Yu's steps.
"Wait, their positions are changing again!" Conan suddenly grabbed Aragaki Yu, who was about to walk forward. "They're moving towards the castle!"
"..."
Yuu Aragaki glanced silently at Professor Agasa, who was panting heavily from carrying Mitsuhiko through the secret passage.
Keep in mind that they had just escaped from the castle's underground to the Black Tower through a secret passage.
So, we're going back now?
"Huff, huff..." Professor Agasa, panting heavily, looked at Conan helplessly and complained, "I, I said, Conan, couldn't you have said so sooner? I'm really exhausted!"
"Haha..." Conan, realizing he was in the wrong, chuckled awkwardly before explaining, "Doctor, I didn't notice these things because I was climbing the stairs!"
Seeing the slightly resentful expressions on Aragaki Yu's and Professor Agasa's faces, Conan had no choice but to take the lead and prepare to return through the secret passage he had come from. He urged them, "Let's hurry up! The two of them have sped up a lot, it looks like they've encountered some danger."
However, Conan had only crawled halfway into the tunnel when he was grabbed back by Yuu Aragaki.
"Huh?" Conan, who was once again suspended in mid-air, blinked blankly. "Are we going back to the villa without going through here? Big brother Aragaki, do you know any other secret passages?"
Aragaki Yu: "..."
Yuu Aragaki stared at Conan, whom he was holding in his hand, a complex look in his eyes: "This kid, is he an idiot? Is he really a detective?"
After exchanging a glance with Aragaki Yu, Conan blinked blankly again. He felt that Aragaki Yu was looking at him like he was an idiot.
“We’re already on the ground now, so if we want to get back to the castle, isn’t going to the ground the fastest way? Why would we need a shortcut?”
Conan: "..."
Just as Dr. Agasa was about to ask the same question, he promptly covered his mouth.
Indeed, after wandering up and down, left and right, through the dark passage for so long, no matter how short the passage is, it can't compare to walking directly on the ground.
Because they had been trapped in the secret room for so long, the two of them had forgotten this simplest of things.
Conan noticed the look in Aragaki Yu's eyes and was somewhat taken aback, because he seemed to see doubt in his intelligence.
What's even more infuriating is that even Professor Agasa looked at him with the same expression after hearing Yuu Aragaki's explanation.
Hey Hey hey!
Conan could somewhat accept that Aragaki Yu was looking at him like that, but he was 100% certain that Professor Agasa must have had the same doubts as him just now!
Chapter 220 Ayumi Takes the Bravest
the other side.
"At the time, 15 people died in the fire. The fire was so intense that it burned their bones to ashes, and their identities could only be determined by the personal belongings they wore. Only one person is currently missing..."
In the secret passage, Ai Haibara found a newspaper article about the fire four years ago and couldn't help but analyze in her mind: "She must have used this fire to switch places with someone else."
"Oh dear, Ai, Mitsuhiko and Genta, they seem to have disappeared!" Ayumi Yoshida, who was observing her surroundings with a watch-shaped flashlight, suddenly tensed up.
"What?!" Because of the newspaper, Ai Haibara was momentarily distracted and hadn't paid attention to the situation of the kids. She was stunned for a moment.
At this point, she had some guesses in her mind. She was afraid that Mitsuhiko and Genta had already been dealt with by the murderer.
"..."
Please don't send them to each one individually, otherwise it will be very troublesome for me to find you.
Aragaki Yu's words seemed to echo in Haibara Ai's ears once again.
Even though that guy had warned me, I still managed to lose Mitsuhiko, Genta, and even Professor Agasa who went to call the police.
She suddenly felt ashamed and didn't dare to face Aragaki Yu.
Ai Haibara and Ayumi cautiously began to explore their surroundings.
Ayumi pointed to an open hidden door not far away and cautiously asked Ai Haibara, "They wouldn't have gone through that door, would they?"
"That's strange!" Ai Haibara looked at the hidden door in front of her and immediately became alert. "That direction should be the entrance to the tower that caught fire four years ago, but wasn't it said that the tower had been sealed off?"
Ayumi and Ai Haibara cautiously made their way to the hidden door.
Looking into the dark, empty space behind the hidden door, Ayumi Yoshida couldn't help but call out, "Mitsuhiko! Genta! You're here..."
Before she could finish speaking, Ai Haibara reached out and stopped Ayumi Yoshida, who was calling out to her companions and trying to step into the secret door.
"Ayumi, wait a minute! This hidden door is just openly placed here, it might be a trap! You should stay outside and hide in the bushes for now, I'll go in and check the situation first!"
Ai Haibara was afraid that if Ayumi Yoshida stepped through the hidden door, she would also be attacked and taken away by the murderer.
If that happens, then it will truly be as Aragaki Yu said, that not a single one will be left behind and all of them will be sent out.
How could I possibly face Aragaki Yu after that?
"But...but!" Ayumi's expression was conflicted as she watched Ai Haibara walk into the secret door.
Although Ayumi herself was indeed very scared, she was also worried about letting Ai face the danger alone.
Seeing Ayumi still hesitating outside the hidden door, Ai Haibara had no choice but to warn her, "If I haven't come out by the time you count to 300, you'd better run away!"
"Huh?" Ayumi was taken aback when she saw Ai's serious face.
Ai Haibara reminded Ayumi outside the door, "If we can escape to the driveway in the woods outside, we might be able to be rescued if we're lucky."
"Haibara-san!"
Ai Haibara looked at Ayumi and comforted her with a smile, "You have to be strong too, Ayumi. You probably still want to give those breads to Conan, right?"
"Mmm." Ayumi nodded silently, clutching the bag of bread in her arms.