My neighbor's name is Conan

As the saying goes, seeing is believing, hearing is false!

Aoki Matsu would certainly not make the same mistake as Conan. He could just take a photo of the situation inside with his mobile phone.

While taking pictures with his right hand, Qing Musong stretched his head to look inside, and sure enough, he saw mountains of antique jewellery, and a - a little black man!

It’s done~

After finishing the photography, Aoki Matsu put away his phone and climbed down from the tree.

"Brother, how is it?" Sayuri asked impatiently.

Aoki Matsu did not answer Sayuri's question immediately, but said to Maruta Ayumi: "Notify Inspector Nakamori and ask him to bring people over to catch the criminal."

When these words came out, everyone was shocked and said “Ah!”

"Brother Aoki, is the robber really in the warehouse?" Conan asked in shock.

"No, it's impossible." At this time, the old man on the side overreacted. "You just saw it, there was nothing in the warehouse, how could there be a prisoner?"

"I think it was Kichiemon Sanmizu who set up a mechanism on the roof." Aoki Matsu said, then took out his mobile phone and showed the captured footage to everyone.

"Wow!" The little ones cried out in surprise when they saw the dazzling array of antique jewels.

"Most of these things were stolen by robbers who reported the antique shop to the police." Qingmu Song said, pointing to several antiques in the picture.

"Ah, this..." The old man was shocked when he saw this scene. "There is nothing in the warehouse!"

"That's why I said it must be a trap!" Qing Musong looked at the old man and said, "Old man, since you are the owner of the house, you can't leave now."

Qing Musong knew that the old man was not the criminal, but according to the normal investigation process, the old man was suspected of being an accomplice.

Sometimes when handling cases, you must follow the procedures, otherwise there is a high probability that something will go wrong.

After all, behind every outrageous regulation, there is an even more outrageous and tragic real-life story.

The old man's face suddenly turned bad when he heard this, but he still replied, "I understand." He paused and asked again, "Do you want me to open the door?"

Qing Musong shook his head. "Let's wait until the reinforcements arrive. If the robbers rush out at this time, it is very likely that Maruta and I alone will not be able to protect you, one old man and six children."

Aren’t the elderly and children the best candidates for hostages?

Especially since Ayumi has the physique of a chosen hostage.

Even though the criminal seemed to be caught docilely in the cartoon, Aoki Matsu couldn't take the gamble.

Just because the other party dared to commit five crimes in one month, he is not a cowardly person.

"Inspector, Inspector Nakamori said he will bring people here soon." Maruta Ayumi closed his cell phone and trotted over.

"Well, we'll be guarding here now. Don't get close to the warehouse. Be careful that the prisoner inside might suddenly come out and take you hostage." Aoki Matsu warned.

"Got it, Brother Aoki." The little ones responded and obediently moved away from the warehouse.

After a while, sirens were heard outside, and then Nakamori Ginzo came over with several people, looking like someone owed him millions.

"Mr. Aoki, are you sure the robber is in the warehouse?" Nakamori Ginzo responded quickly when he saw Aoki Matsu.

Aoki Matsu showed him the video directly.

"It is indeed the stolen items reported by the antique shop." Nakamori Ginzo confirmed after taking a look, and then said with great enthusiasm: "Yoshi, open the warehouse door immediately and arrest the criminal."

Seeing this, Aoki Matsu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Inspector Nakamori, it's not that simple. The builder of this warehouse was Mimizu Kichiemon, a famous master of machinery during the late Edo period. I guess there is a machinery on the roof of the warehouse. If we destroy it forcefully, it is very likely that the entire warehouse will be destroyed in an instant. How will we explain to the owner then?"

In this kind of theft case, it is not only necessary to catch the criminal, but also to find the property intact and return it to the owner.

If you can only choose one of the two, based on various considerations, you will naturally choose the latter.

The case of Kaito Kid is a good example.

Therefore, the warehouse cannot be forced into, let alone destroyed. God knows what kind of mechanisms Sanmizu Kichiemon has set up.

Aoki Matsu remembered the big diamond Nioh Stone, and the mechanism of Sanshui Kichiemon, but it almost drowned everyone. This man is not Kaito Kidd, he really doesn't care about human life.

Nakamori Ginzo listened to the advice and looked at the old man beside him and asked, "You are the owner of the house, don't you know the mechanism of the warehouse?"

"I only just found out that there is a mechanism in the warehouse. Before, we all thought it was a story made up by the seller, but who would have thought it was actually true." The old man said helplessly.

Seeing this, Qing Musong looked at the old man and said, "Old man, don't be nervous, just cooperate with us. Although the warehouse cannot be dismantled, we can do some experiments. Please open the warehouse door now."

"Here is the key, you can open it yourself." The old man handed the key directly to Maruta Ayumi who was standing beside him.

This is a theft case, and the stolen goods and the criminal were found in his own warehouse. The old man is now trying his best to avoid this matter and does not want to be implicated.

also.

Seeing this, Aoki Matsu signaled with his eyes that Maruta Ayumi should go and open the door.

Maruta Ayumi walked forward with the key and opened the warehouse door.

I shone the flashlight inside, but still saw nothing.

"Still nothing." said Maruta Ayumi.

At this time, Ginzo Nakamori also came to the door of the warehouse and looked inside, and sure enough, there was nothing there.

Qing Musong smiled and said, "No, there is something in here." He pointed to the footprints in the middle of the ground and said, "This set of footprints is the clue."

"What clues?" asked Ginzo Nakamori.

"It's the clue to unlock the mechanism!" Qing Musong said with a smile: "The owner of this warehouse doesn't even know there is a mechanism, so it's even harder for others to know. And judging from the situation, this warehouse has been abandoned and has not been used. The robber stole the things and stored the stolen goods here.

He didn't expect to be discovered, so he didn't deal with the footprints. Look at the footprints on the ground, they are not tilted, they are directly facing the abacus on the wall, so I guess the abacus on the wall is very likely the key to the mechanism."

Maruta Ayumi nodded and said, "That makes sense."

Qing Musong stepped forward, took out his key chain, turned on the flashlight fingerprint detector attached to it, and shone it on the beads on the abacus. Sure enough, he saw that the dust on some of the beads was in different conditions.

He reached out and tried to move one of the beads upwards.

As soon as the move was completed, the sound of machines running was heard from the top of the warehouse.

"Ah!" Everyone was shocked.

"Okay, it seems like something made a noise." Mitsuhiko said, looking up at the ceiling.

Sayuri urged, "Brother, try to move again."

"Okay." Qing Musong moved a bead next to him upwards.

That voice appeared again.

"Sure enough, there is a mechanism!" said the little ones excitedly.

Aoki Matsu didn't continue with the riddle. After shining the flashlight all over the abacus, he pretended that he had solved it and started moving the abacus.

After the two words "San Shui" appeared in the blank spaces on the left and right sides of the beads, the mechanism started to work.

The entire warehouse shook, and then the warehouse door closed automatically in an instant.

Matsu Aoki, Ayumi Maruta, Ginzo Nakamori, and Detective Kobayashi who entered the warehouse were locked up inside.

"Oh my God, the ceiling is slowly lowering!" Detective Kobayashi exclaimed while looking at the ceiling with a flashlight.

It looked like it was going to crush Aoki Matsu and the other three. It was really scary in such a confined space.

But when they saw that the ceiling had been lowered to a very low level, it really pressed down on the four people's heads.

Detective Kobayashi couldn't help but yell "Ah!"

"Hurry up and squat down." Qing Musong said quickly: "Don't worry, the space on the sloping roof will be preserved."

So just squat down and you won’t be crushed.

After the warehouse did not respond, Qing Musong shone a flashlight around and found a folded wooden ladder, which he pulled down.

"This should be the staircase leading to the secret room on the roof." After saying that, Aoki Matsu looked at Nakamori Ginzo and asked, "Let's go up and take a look?"

"Okay." Nakamori Ginzo responded, and then added: "After going up, the first thing to do is to capture the robber and ensure his safety."

"Ah."

Therefore, Qing Musong and the other four did not rush forward immediately. Instead, they shone a flashlight forward first. Seeing that there was no movement above, they carefully touched forward.

After Aoki Matsu went up, he immediately used a flashlight to scan the dark place, and the next second he found the figure of the little black man. Nakamori Ginzo, who was following behind him, immediately rushed up and subdued him.

Then Aoki Matsu and Maruta Ayumi, who followed behind, checked the secret room on the roof and confirmed that the robber had no accomplices. They said, "It's safe. He's the only one."

Detective Kobayashi said at this time: "Inspector, in addition to the items on the recently reported stolen list, there seem to be some things that I have no memory of at all."

For example, the one-meter-high ceramic bottle that he is now shining his flashlight on.

"These may have been the things that were originally in this warehouse. After all, it's not surprising that the person who could afford to hire Sanshui Yoshiemon to design and build such a mechanical warehouse would have some treasures in his hands. It's even possible that that person built such a warehouse specifically to prevent these treasures from being stolen." Aoki Matsu said.

It’s just a pity that the later generations didn’t know about this situation, so…

Nakamori Ginzo also said, "There is a list. When we get out, have someone count it and we'll know."

"Kichiemon Sanmizu is really amazing. This is a really amazing mechanism." Maruta Ayumi exclaimed as he looked at the mechanism above his head.

"But how do we get out of here?" Detective Kobayashi looked around and said, "Because the ceiling has dropped, half of the door is blocked."

Qing Musong went up and observed carefully with a flashlight and said, "Don't worry, we can get out. Look here, there is a line at the junction of the lowered floor and the door. In other words, if we pull a certain part of this door, we can open it."

As he said this, Aoki Song tried it and found a button. After pressing it, the upper part of the door suddenly fell outwards - it opened.

"Ah, brother." Sayuri outside the door saw this scene and shouted happily.

"Brother Aoki!" Several little ones also shouted happily.

"It's okay." Qing Musong replied with a smile, then walked down from upstairs.

Then Ginzo Nakamori pulled the robber down.

At this time, the old man looked at the robber who had been arrested, pointed at him and said, "Ah, aren't you the gardener we hired before? It was at that time that you knew the secret of this warehouse."

The robber didn't know whether he was caught or was really sorry. When he heard the old man say that, he actually bowed his head and apologized to him: "I'm really, really sorry."

Aoki Matsu was speechless. If you really felt sorry, why did you steal and leave the stolen goods here?

"Take him back to the Metropolitan Police Department." After Nakamori Ginzo handed the robber to his men, he called more people to check the items in the warehouse.

"Oh, so many antique jewels!" Seeing the police officers carrying out the items one by one, the kids were excited.

"Old sir, some of these are stolen goods, and some were originally in the warehouse. After we count them, the things that were originally in the warehouse will be handed over to you." Aoki Matsu said.

Although neither party knew about the treasures in the warehouse when the other party's father bought the house, so the price was not calculated, but that was a matter between the old grandfather and them.

Now from a legal point of view, the things in the warehouse belong to the old grandfather, so these things naturally belong to the old grandfather.

As for whether the Neon museum will come knocking on their door, that is none of Aoki Matsu's criminal business. They are only concerned with recovering the stolen goods.

The old man was a little surprised when he heard this. "There were still things in the warehouse!"

"Well, there are quite a few things, and they should be treasures hidden by the previous owner. Now that more than a hundred years have passed, they are even more precious." Aoki Matsu said.

Even glass cups from a hundred years ago are antiques, because they represent the craftsmanship and design style of that era and have high historical and cultural value.

In terms of money, the price is definitely not as high as porcelain of the same period.

The cleaning lasted until the evening.

Finally separated the things.

Fortunately, there is a list of the stolen items, otherwise I don’t know what to do.

About two-thirds of the things inside were stolen goods, and one-third were original.

After Aoki Matsu and his men packed up the stolen goods, they sent them back to the Metropolitan Police Department. As the old man had instructed, the other items were left in the guest room at the inventory site and were not transported back to the warehouse.

The old man said that he plans to find an antique expert to appraise the items and see how valuable they are. As for what to do with them afterwards, he will decide after the appraisal.

Aoki Matsu guessed that the old man would not sell it, because his house was a huge Japanese-style courtyard mansion, and only the rich people in Japan could afford to live in it - the annual property tax and maintenance fees were a huge amount of money.