Conan's Beginning was Picked Up by Xiaolan

"Kichiemon Sanmi, as I remember he was a man from the late shogunate period." Ayumi said the answer she thought of.

Xiaocheng didn't say anything, but listened quietly to Ayumi's next words.

Ayumi winks...

Small town winks...

“?” What’s next?

"Gone?" Xiaocheng looked at Ayumi with wide eyes.

"That's all." Ayumi nodded, looking innocent.

"Forget it, let's wait for Conan to come." Xiaocheng held his forehead with one hand, his tone helpless. It turned out that he couldn't have too many expectations for children.

But at this moment, he thought of the diary he had just found and thought he could take a look at it.

The diary was soaked through, and Xiaocheng flipped through it carefully. The handwriting was a little blurry, but still vaguely legible.

Quite interesting. He read the diary with great interest. It turned out to be the deceased's treasure hunting diary. There was also a distribution map of the treasures on it. Was he a treasure hunter?

A group of people who search for treasures everywhere, a bit like tomb robbers, but treasure hunters have a wider business.

"Now that we have found a partner who can help us, we will definitely be able to defeat that dirty thief."

"I drank that boiled water several times. That magician..."

Xiao Cheng's eyes wandered around, things seemed to be getting more and more interesting, partner? Boiled water several times?

When he performed the autopsy just now, he found that the deceased had been strangled to death. It seemed that he trusted his teammates too much during the treasure hunt.

His death was not unfair. He was a temporary partner, but he had no guard against her at all?

But what aroused Xiao Cheng's greater interest was the dirty thief? The magician?

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Kaito, could it be you, kid?

"Hey! Small town!"

A voice came from not far away. He turned around and saw Conan running towards him.

You ran so fast, and you still said you were not being lazy on purpose and didn't come out to pick up branches? ?

"Conan!" A sweet and soft voice full of joy. Of course, it couldn't have been said by Xiaocheng, but by Ayumi next to him who was very happy to see Conan appear.

"Hey, Ayumi, are you guys okay?" Conan responded.

However, his gaze was not on Ayumi, but on Kojou who was standing there watching with a diary in her hand.

Xiao Cheng looked at the time. The round trip had only taken nineteen minutes, which was one minute faster than he expected.

"Come here and take a look at this, it sounds like a secret code, I don't understand it." Xiao Cheng was very honest. If he didn't understand, he didn't understand and he didn't pretend.

This code obviously involves the background of the late Japanese shogunate. How could he know it?

Conan was slightly stunned and looked at the corpse beside the river. Shouldn't he look at the corpse first?

"Don't look at it. The deceased is Terunao Tamai, 42 years old. He was probably a treasure hunter. He died by being strangled with a rope or something like that."

"The murderer should be a temporary partner. The method of the murder should be to give the person some drugs that can cause dizziness or loss of strength and then make him drink them and then do the murder."

"The time of death is difficult to determine. The temperature of the river water is around 20 degrees, which affects the determination, but it should be within an hour."

Xiaocheng told Conan all his findings. Conan thought about it and immediately began to organize the things based on the clues Xiaocheng gave him.

"Treasure hunter!?" Genta Mitsuhiko and Xiao Ai hurried over.

Among them, Genta Mitsuhiko heard the treasure hunter’s excitement for a moment. Does this mean that there is treasure nearby?

"Yes, take a look at this diary. It should be able to prove the deceased's occupation. However, I still suggest you take a look at these words that seem like coded words."

Xiaocheng first answered Genta, then handed the diary in his hand to Conan, and then pointed to the Chinese characters engraved on the inside of the base of the stone lantern.

"By the way, where is the doctor?" Xiao Cheng looked around, wondering where the only adult in the team was.

"There was no signal in the tent, so he went to find a signal to call the police. We came here first." Xiaoai replied Xiaocheng.

Xiaocheng looked at Conan with a puzzled look on his face, who was already checking the Chinese characters on the base of the stone lantern, and was surrounded by a vaguely excited Mitsuhiko Genta.

"No, then will the doctor be able to find us later?" It's not far here, but it's still some distance away, and the most important thing is that this is a forest.

It was easy to get lost without having walked before, and he doubted whether the Doctor could find them.

"The original plan was to let Genta Mitsuhiko and the Doctor stay together, but you also know them." Xiao Ai put her hands behind her back and walked across the town.

The meaning was already very clear. Xiao Cheng looked helpless. These two guys really just hang out wherever there is fun.

"Come to think of it, you are really awesome. You brought them out to pick up a branch, and you picked up a corpse." Xiao Ai's words seemed to be teasing.

"Haha...it's the time and the fate. This is science." Xiao Cheng smiled helplessly.

"Science?" Xiao Ai was stunned for a moment. She really didn't understand what the connection was between the two.

"Okay, you take Ayumi and the others back to the tent later. Conan and I will stay here." Xiaocheng gave his suggestion.

With three children? If possible, he definitely didn't want the three kids to stay here.

Xiao Ai glanced at him sideways but didn't say anything.

"Kichiemon Sanmizu, the mechanical puppeteer." Conan also stood up at this time. He had finished reading the Chinese characters.

He came to the body and planned to take another look.

When he arrived at the scene, if Xiaocheng was there, he would have already figured out what had happened.

The deceased treasure hunter found a partner and came here to look for treasure, but something happened along the way and his partner killed him.

He also discovered that the stone lanterns showed signs of disassembly, which was very recent, meaning that they were most likely done by the deceased and his partner.

Why? Conan's eyes flickered. Could it be because of the Chinese characters on these stone lanterns?

Could it be related to the treasure, so the two of them destroyed it in order to prevent it from being discovered?

"How about it, did you figure out anything?" Xiaocheng came up to Conan and waved his hand in front of him.

"Sanmizu Kichiemon was a famous puppeteer during the late shogunate period. The puppets he made were lifelike and were loved by many dignitaries."

"He made a lot of money and became a wealthy man, also known as Jigaki Yoshiemon." Conan said, but his eyes were looking at the abandoned house behind.

Is this the house built by Sanmizu Kichiemon?

"There's someone inside." Seeing his appearance, Xiao Cheng whispered in his ear so that Bu Mei and the others couldn't hear.

"Uh..." Conan turned his head and looked at him in surprise, then frowned. How could he not understand what Xiaocheng meant.

There is someone inside, and it is very likely the murderer.

"Is the treasure in the house?" At this time, Guangyan saw that Erxiao's eyes were looking towards the house, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Should we go in and take a look?" Yuan Tai was a little excited.

"No!" Conan's decisive words were like a bucket of water, extinguishing their enthusiasm.