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

"Oh, I heard that this area seems to be a famous Feng Shui treasure land, but this is all when we were in high school."

Another man appeared behind the woman, and said impatiently, "Stop talking nonsense and get down to business!"

The man touched his eyes and then complained, "I finally took the time to come here."

At this time, a man came in through the door.

"You're amazing! There doesn't seem to be any heating equipment here. How about we finish our work early and then go have a hot pot? We haven't been together for a long time."

A smile spread across his face, and he wanted to finish things here quickly.

Amuro Toru looked at them with a puzzled look in his eyes, "Do you all know each other?"

"That's right." Nishino Sumiya nodded and introduced, "We are high school classmates. It's been many years since we got together like this. By the way, what are we going to do next? Fujiide."

Fujiide Yorito uttered a sound of surprise, and Nishino Sumire continued to murmur, "Didn't you send a message asking us to come here?"

"No, no, no," Fujiide Yorito smiled and pointed at Wada Kohei, "I came here because I received a message from Wada. How can you say that I asked you to come?"

"I didn't send you any message." Wada Kohei widened his eyes, his eyes full of innocence. His eyes fell on Gu Pu Yu Hui, and he gave her a thumbs up: "Yu Hui sent a message to ask me to come."

"What on earth are you talking about?" Koura Ikue looked incredulous. She turned her head to look at Kawasaki Yosuke and raised her voice a few degrees, "It should be Kawasaki who called us here."

Kawasaki Yosuke looked at Nishino Sumiya and anxiously explained, "No, I was called here by Nishino. Nishino, please don't wrongly accuse me!"

Nishino Sumiya immediately retorted: "You must be mistaken! It was Fuji who sent me here. Don't talk nonsense!"

Kudo Yuki looked at these people pointing around but couldn't figure out who had called them. She had a guess in her mind: "Could it be that Mr. Maori's client called them?" She frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.

Maori Kogoro suddenly interrupted their conversation and swept a suspicious look across everyone's faces, "You just went in a circle."

Wakita Kensuke looked at the people opposite him and said, "I see. It seems someone lied and wanted to give you a surprise."

Koura Ikue looked confused: "Then who called you guys here?"

Maori Kogoro looked serious and took a few steps forward. "It was a man named Hihara Yasuo who wrote to ask us to come here."

The people on the opposite side all looked surprised when they heard this. "Hey, are you kidding me?" Nishino Sumiya suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Fujiide Yorito quickly responded: "How is this possible!"

Wada Kohei hesitated: "Because the person you mentioned is called Hihara Yasuo..."

"It's the Ari we mentioned." Kawasaki Yosuke's expression was very solemn.

Furuura Ikue reluctantly told the truth, "He hanged himself in this place two months ago."

Everyone who heard the news was surprised. Conan frowned and thought to himself: "Someone led us here and hid his true identity. What is going on?"

At this moment, a whistling sound was heard, shaking the abandoned church slightly. The dust on the wall fell down and shook along with it.

Wakita Kensuke pretended to be panicked: "What's going on? What's that noise?"

Toru Amuro looked around calmly, his ears trembling slightly as he listened carefully to the location of the sound.

Maori Kogoro walked quickly to the door, "It seems like something collapsed."

Nishino Sumire also looked worried: "Could it be over there in the parking lot?"

Kudo Yuki suggested: "Let's go over and take a look."

Toru Amuro grabbed Kudo Yuki's hand and said, "Let's go, everyone follow us!" and led everyone to quickly rush to the location of the roar.

Everyone hurried to the parking lot, only to see a huge hole in the ground. Nishino Sumiko was so frightened by this sudden situation that he quickly covered his ears.

Wada Kohei looked down with his eyes wide open, "The platform here has collapsed, and our car has flipped to the bottom of the valley!"

"Is it because the supporting pillars are rotten?" Furuura Ikue frowned and looked at the ancient church building. "After all, this church is quite old, and it is possible that the building has aged."

Kawasaki Yosuke's hands hung limply at his sides, his eyes full of heartache, "That's a new car I just bought not long ago! I haven't even driven it a few times!"

Nishino Sumire also complained, "Really? How can you arrange a parking lot in such a dangerous place? Isn't this cheating?"

Fujiide Yorito murmured, "It seems that we can only call the police or firefighters." With that, the few of them returned to the church helplessly.

Maori Kogoro and the other five stood aside, watching them silently, with different expressions on their faces. Wakita Kanenori followed behind them, walking slowly.

Amuro Toru suddenly stopped in front of the parking lot sign. He observed carefully, "It's so strange, this church is so dilapidated, but this parking sign is new."

When the siblings heard what Amuro Toru said, they immediately came to the parking lot sign. Maori Kogoro put his hands in his pockets and observed the sign, "Could it be that someone deliberately asked everyone to park their cars here so that all cars cannot be used?"

Wakita Kensuke, who was not far away, heard this and did not stop his pace. Instead, he quickened his pace and rushed forward. "If it is true as you said, I guess something is going to happen next."

Maori Kogoro turned around and looked at Wakita Kanenori's back as he walked away. "So what do you think will happen?"

"Isn't this a common scenario in mystery novels?" Wakita Kensuke walked forward without looking back, looking at the vast snow-covered landscape in the distance. "Serial murders are most likely to occur in this villa in the snowy mountains."

Kudo Yuki secretly guessed in her heart: [Maybe someone will take action before the truth is investigated, but one thing is certain, where Conan is, there will be a case.]

Seeing that his sister was lost in thought, Conan pulled her clothes to bring her back to her senses, but it didn't work.

Toru Amuro walked up to Kudo Yuki, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and tapped her forehead lightly.

Kudo Yuki's thoughts were interrupted, and she covered her forehead: "Toru, what are you doing?"

"Stop daydreaming and let's go." After saying that, Toru Amuro took Kudo Yuki's hand and walked towards the church.

Conan looked at this scene and thought of the time when he was beaten by his sister. He couldn't help but twitch his lips and secretly complained in his heart: "The difference in treatment is too obvious!"

Everyone returned to the abandoned church.

Maori Kogoro hurriedly took out his cell phone and made a call: "Hello, your Nagano Prefecture police can't come to rescue immediately now?"

A voice came from the other end of the phone, "You must have passed through a tunnel on the way here. Just now, there was an avalanche here, and the tunnel was blocked to death. It's impossible to pass through."

Maori Kogoro was surprised: "No way!"

"Whether I can come and pick you up depends on tomorrow's weather conditions."

Maori Kogoro yelled into the phone: "Yes, it will take until tomorrow! Go shovel the snow now and come here immediately."

"Three or four days ago, the weather forecast said that there would be heavy snow today. Didn't you know that?"

A woman's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Excuse me, how many people are there over there now?"

Maori Kogoro quickly glanced at the people around him, "Including me, there are 10 people in total."

"Really? What are these people doing in that place?"

A woman's voice came, "Listen carefully, we will find a way to get there as soon as possible, just stay in the church and wait, don't go out."

"What's wrong, Gao Ming?"

Zhu Fu Gaoming's voice came from the other end of the phone, "I seemed to smell a little bit of gunpowder just now."

A woman's voice came, "Gunpowder, is it a bomb?"

Zhu Fu Gaoming's voice was a little solemn, "If this avalanche was caused by humans, then the 10 people might be in danger."

Maori Kogoro's heart skipped a beat after hearing this, and he decisively hung up the phone. He looked at the people around him with a serious expression: "The rescue team said they can't come until tomorrow. Your cars are all scrapped, so you can only make do in this church tonight."

Wada Kohei looked at Maori Kogoro and his group, "I want to ask, how did you get here?"

Maori Kogoro raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest, "I came here by taxi."

Wakita Kanenori looked at the person asking the question calmly, "We got off the car at the edge of the forest and walked here."

Nishino Sumiya looked at his high school classmates with a serious face and raised his voice: "Alright, it's about time you confess. Who is it? Who used someone else's name to lead us to this place?"

Gu Pu Yu Hui waved her hands a little awkwardly: "This, this matter has nothing to do with me."

Wada Kohei quickly responded, "It wasn't me either."

Kawasaki Yosuke took a sip of water from the bottle and put it down. "Of course it won't be me then."

Fujiide Yorito frowned slightly, his expression serious: "It's not me. In this situation, how can anyone admit it?"

Seeing that everyone was at a stalemate, Wakita Kanenori quickly changed the subject, "By the way, the reason we came here is to investigate the truth about Mr. Hihara's suicide here. Do any of you know which room he committed suicide in?"

Wada Kohei put one hand in his pocket and shook his head slightly: "I don't know, I only found out through the news."

The other four also shook their heads and gave the same answer. Fujiide Yorito helplessly spread his hands and said, "I guess the only one who knows this is the mastermind who led us here."

Conan took small steps to Maori Kogoro and looked up at him. "It seems that we have to solve that first. I mean the code attached to the letter that Uncle Maori received."

Maori Kogoro heard this and took out the paper from his arms, "This is what you are talking about."

"Speaking of codes, I also received a copy on my phone." Fujiide Yorito said as he took out his phone, flipped to the picture and pointed it at everyone, "Look!"

Nishino Sumiya also quickly took out his phone, swiped his finger across the screen, and found the picture. "Is it a scary-looking form filled with densely packed words?"

Koura Ikue pulled her phone out of her pocket, staring at the screen, and found the same picture: "I also received something like this."

Kawasaki Yosuke and Wada Kohei were also hurriedly flipping through their phones.

As he flipped through the pictures, Wada Kohei muttered to himself, "I even sent a message asking what this was."

Kawasaki Yosuke did the same thing as his companions, "I thought it would be revealed after we meet in person."

Then, they placed their mobile phones and the paper in Maori Kogoro's hand neatly on a tattered wooden box. Maori Kogoro and his group gathered around, observing carefully, trying to find clues.

Amuro Toru's eyes fell on the characters and observed, "The characters on each table have different directions, hiragana, and katakana. However, the order of the characters on the six tables is the same."

Wakita Kanenori stroked his chin and thought: "I look at the part of 3x3 that is outlined with thick lines. I think it may be the key clue to deciphering the code."

Kudo Yuki stared at the tables, her eyebrows slightly furrowed. "The common point of these six tables is the position of the thick lines. If we ignore the text and only look at the lines, what do they represent?"

Koura Ikue folded her arms across her chest, her body trembling slightly. "I think we should try to keep warm first. It's so cold that I can't stand it any more."

Kawasaki Yosuke adjusted his glasses, a thin layer of mist had formed on the lenses due to the cold, "It's really too cold here. I feel like the cold is penetrating into my bones."

Conan, with his backpack on his back, suggested, "Oh, I remember there's a barrel at the door. Let's find something flammable and put it in there to start a fire and keep warm!"

Maori Kogoro nodded in agreement. "This chapel is so large, and the wind blowing in through the gaps is very cold, so there is no need to worry about the lack of oxygen."

Amuro Toru stood up and looked at the five people behind him. "Now please take out all the water and food you brought and share them. As long as we can get through tonight, everything will be fine."

Nishino Cheng also quickly picked up his backpack and said, "I just happened to bring a lot of snacks with me. If anyone needs anything, just let me know."

Fujiide Yorito searched for the mineral water in his bag, "I brought a lot of water. Do any of you want some?"

Koura Ikue held a mint candy in her hand and said with a smile: "If you want to wake up, just come and tell me. I brought a lot of mint candies."

Wada Kohei couldn't help but tease beside him: "Yu Hui, why are you still the same as before, liking to eat that?"

Koura Ikue chewed a mint candy and responded nonchalantly, "What's wrong?"

Kawasaki Yosuke took a sip of water and said calmly, "Don't bother, I don't need anything. I brought my own water, and not eating for a night won't have any effect on me."

Wada Kohei muttered to himself: "It turns out you still haven't gotten over your mysophobia!"

The five of them put their backpacks together, and Nishino Sumiya looked at his companions, "I'll go out and look for anything that can be burned."

Fujiide Yorito patted Nishino Sumiya's shoulder and said, "I'll go with you."

To be continued...