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

Yuya Kazami didn't dare to look directly into Kudo Yuki's eyes. His eyes were evasive. He wanted to say something to explain, but he didn't know where to start.

The light from the flashlight on Conan's watch flickered in the darkness and accidentally touched the man lying on the bed: "Hey, come and see, there is a body lying on this bed. Moreover, his appearance is exactly the same as the man who locked us up here."

Kudo Yuki and Amuro Toru hurriedly moved closer to check. Amuro Toru's eyes were serious as he observed the face of the deceased: "This person's face will look a little older, but it does look like him."

"He, he is Mr. Hatoyama Yoshisuke." Kobayashi Sumiko was surprised and raised her voice unconsciously: "This person is the owner of Hatoyama Ranch who sent chickens to our Teitan Elementary School."

Kudo Yuki asked: "Have you met him before?"

"No, we communicated over the phone. I saw his photo when I was searching for ranch information online."

"So, the man who locked us up here just now was not lying. He is the ranch owner's brother."

"Now, you can tell us." Conan frowned and looked at Amuro Toru: "Amuro brother, why did you and Sister Xue come here?"

Amuro Toru turned his head to look at Kazami Yuya and signaled with his eyes: "Let Tobita tell the story."

“About 30 hours ago, I received information that a large amount of explosives had been stolen from a construction site, and we suspected that someone was going to use the explosives to commit a crime.

At this time, I found a suspicious worker named Hatoyama Kaisuke, so I followed him to the ranch. As a result, I was knocked unconscious by him. When I woke up, he was already in the basement. Then I used the deceased’s phone to contact the…”

As Yuya Kazami was speaking, he felt Kudo Yuki's warning gaze and his voice stopped abruptly.

Kudo Yuki narrowed her eyes and smiled, looking at him with a slight warning: "Mr. Feitian, why don't you say anything?"

Yuya Kazami got goosebumps all over his body and immediately changed the subject: "I have contacted Mr. Amuro."

Amuro Toru explained: "Xiaoxue and I came here to rescue him, but we didn't expect that we would be caught now."

Kobayashi Sumiko sighed: "It turns out that detectives also do this kind of investigation work that the police conduct in secret."

Conan complained in his mind: [Because he is a public security officer.] He curled his lips and thought to himself.

Feng Jianyuya brought the topic back: "Now, it is unclear why Hatoyama Kaisuke wanted to kill his own brother and steal a large amount of explosives."

Kudo Yuki frowned, her eyes full of thought, and she spoke slowly: "No, I think this person committed suicide."

Conan echoed, "I think so too."

"Why do you think so?"

Conan put the flashlight of his watch close to the dead man and said, "Look here, there is only one mark on this person's neck, and the edge of the mark is neat, without the messy marks left by a struggle."

Kobayashi Sumiko leaned forward and looked at the dead man's neck, still with a hint of uncertainty on her face: "Is that so?"

Conan explained to her, "When someone strangles you, out of the instinct to survive, you will definitely twist your body desperately, trying to break free, thus scratching your neck or leaving multiple messy marks around your neck."

He then walked to the deceased's side and held up his cell phone to examine it carefully. "Of course, it is also possible that his hands were tied up, but there are no marks of strangulation or even any signs of binding on his hands, and his skin is not red, swollen or broken due to the friction of the rope."

"Maybe someone gave him sleeping pills, put a rope around his neck while he was asleep, and pushed him down from a high place."

Conan shook his head decisively, denying this guess. "I think this is unlikely. If he was fed sleeping pills and lost consciousness under the effect of the drugs, his body should be in a completely relaxed state, not as tense as it is now."

"The place where you can hang yourself is next to this table." Kudo Yuki said, and Conan took off his watch and handed it to his sister.

Kudo Yuki took the watch, and the light shone on the shoes not far away. "This person is not wearing shoes, so the pair of boots next to the table is most likely his."

Kudo Yuki returned the watch to Conan, who took it, shone the light from the watch on the place where the deceased had hanged himself, and analyzed it.

“Although I don’t know who moved his body to the bed, if he took off his shoes when he was asleep, he should have placed them next to the bed.

So, the only possibility is that he wanted to hang himself, and then when he stepped on the chair, he took off his boots. "

Yuya Kazami recalled and murmured: "But, but, when I woke up and saw that chair, it wasn't actually fallen over. There was a shoe print on it, and I wiped it when I sat on it."

Amuro Toru looked up, his eyes deep: "Is that a boot print on the chair?"

"I remember it should be the prints of leather shoes."

"Those should be the footprints of the man who locked us up, because he was wearing leather shoes." Amuro Toru looked around solemnly, "I think he might have found his brother who committed suicide here. So he stepped on the chair and put his brother's body down. The question is his motive for suicide."

"I think he is most likely investigating something." Conan gently lifted the dead man's hand. "Look, there are some clearly visible marks of fluorescent pen on the index finger and thumb of this person's left hand."

Kobayashi Sumiko leaned forward and got closer to examine it carefully: "It really is. Usually when looking for information, I use a highlighter to mark it."

Conan frowned as he thought, "What's strange is that the colors on his left hand are pink, blue, and yellow, but the highlighter in his breast pocket is the only one without yellow."

Kudo Yuki and Amuro Toru were looking for clues separately. Amuro Toru searched around in every corner of the room, "Where did he forget his pen?"

Kudo Yuki opened the drawer and looked through it: "Why did you lose the yellow highlighter?"

Kobayashi Sumiko looked worried: "I am now worried about what is happening to Mr. Wakasa and the others outside."

"If he takes your cell phone away, then there will be no way to contact you."

"Don't worry about that." Conan took out the Junior Detective Team's communicator from his pocket, "We all wear detective badges with intercom functions."

After he finished speaking, he quickly pressed the button of the communicator to communicate with Haibara Ai, and roughly repeated what had happened.

Huihara Ai was a little anxious: "The ranch owner's brother locked you guys up in the basement of the ranch office?"

"Yeah." Conan looked around and spoke into the communicator, "Besides, the rancher's body is now lying in this basement."

When the two kids heard the news, their faces were filled with surprise.

"remains!"

"Have you found Ayumi?"

Conan glanced at the unconscious Ayumi again and lowered his voice: "Yeah. She was drugged by the ranch owner's brother and is still sleeping. I put her in a relatively safe corner."

The two kids said in unison: "Okay, we'll go rescue you right now."

But he was stopped by Conan's voice: "Wait a minute, don't act rashly, that man also stole a large number of bombs from the construction site."

Huihara Ai was shocked: "Bomb!"

"If we provoke him, who knows what he will do. Remember, the person who locked us up is the ranch owner's younger brother, Hatoyama Kaisuke. He wears a white fisherman's hat on his head, looks to be in his thirties, and has narrow eyes. Call the police before that person finds you."

As soon as Conan finished speaking, the four heard Hatoyama Kaisuke's voice coming from behind them: "Excuse me, are you looking for someone?"

Genta opened his mouth to tell the truth: "Well, actually we..." Before he could finish his words, Mitsuhiko and Haibara Ai both covered his mouth with their hands.

Huiyuan Ai was a little nervous, but she was smiling and spoke quickly: "Have you seen tourists like us with children? We came here in a car, and we had a lot of fun with them."

"Are you talking about them?" Hatoyama Kaisuke bent down slightly with a seemingly kind smile on his face: "The rancher is my brother. I told them that my brother was out, so they had to go back."

Huiyuan Ai kept smiling: "Is that so."

Just then, two men came towards them on the path in the distance.

Hitsuka Junya was wearing a simple shirt and his steps were a little hurried, while Minami Takeki was wearing casual clothes and his steps were steady. Their figures gradually became clearer under the sunlight.

"What? The rancher is really not here!"

"No wonder there's no one in the office."

Hatoyama Kaisuke stood up after hearing this. Nan Wujing looked at him and said, "This is my first time here and I don't know anyone here, so I came here with this person."

Hatsuka Shunya continued, "Actually, I'm not very familiar with this place. I've only met Mr. Hatoyama once. I came here this time because I have something to ask him."

Hatoyama Kaisuke moved closer to the two of them. "My brother is currently in the hospital. Something happened recently that has hit him hard."

Both of them were surprised and said in unison: "Hospitalized?"

Nan Wujing asked with concern: "Is your brother okay now?"

"Now his health is gradually improving, and he sent me a message."

"Pass on a message?" Hituka Junya was a little confused. He tilted his head slightly and looked at Hatoyama Kaisuke in confusion.

"Go somewhere in that mountain and find that thing. Then, bring it back quietly and keep it until he is discharged from the hospital."

Wakasa Rumi stood not far away, her eyes slightly cold: "What is he talking about?"

"I don't know. He said he would know when he got there."

Hatsuka Junya and Minami Takeki both clenched their fists, their eyes filled with curiosity and anticipation.

"Then let's go take a look."

"You'll know once you go there."

Hatoyama Kaisuke immediately asked: "Are you and the family just now the only ones who came here by bus?"

Mitsuhiko stood aside and muttered quietly: "There is another person. That brother is very tall and looks very fierce."

Hatoyama Kaisuke suggested: "Then let's go find him first, and then go together."

The two nodded in agreement and followed him. Their footsteps echoed on the grass, and the three of them chatted as they walked.

“I don’t know if I can find him.”

"He went into the mountains alone."

The three of them gradually walked away, and Kudo Yuki and the others heard the entire conversation through the communicator.

Conan frowned and continued the previous topic: "Listen to me, Huibara. After that man leaves, call the police immediately."

"Unfortunately, my phone is out of battery."

The two little ones also said they couldn't help.

"I forgot my phone at home."

"My phone doesn't have enough battery to make a call."

Just when everyone was at a loss, Wakasa Rumi suggested: "Then use my phone."

Mitsuhiko watched Wakasa Rumi take out her phone from her back trouser pocket and reminded her, "Teacher, there is a hole in the back pocket of your trousers."

Wakasa Rumi hurriedly felt her pockets, but couldn't find her amulet for a long time. Her face suddenly became a little panicked: "It's gone, it's gone."

Huihara Ai approached Wakasa Rumi with a concerned look in her eyes: "Teacher, did you lose something?"

Wakasa Rumi tried to hide her panic and smiled: "No, it's okay. It's not something important."

Yuanta then remembered something: "Oh, I saw Brother Amuro seemed to have picked up something like a piece of wood. Sister Xue wanted to take a closer look at it."

"That detective guy?"

Huiyuan Ai was anxious: "Don't worry about that, call the police first."

However, something unexpected happened.

Wakasa Rumi pretended to slip her hand and tried to catch the phone but failed. The phone bounced twice in her hand and then fell into the bucket.

The four of them almost dropped their jaws in surprise. They stared with their eyes wide open, unable to believe what they were seeing.

Huiyuan Ai said apologetically: "I'm sorry, we can't call the police."

Conan was shocked: "No way!"

Mitsuhiko remembered the video he had seen on the bus before, and he described the scenes in the video.

Conan was puzzled: "There are beams of light in the night sky? Is that what the big guy is showing on his phone?"

"Yes. There was also a small voice saying who was it? Who was the person setting off the rocket launcher in the mountain? I thought it was a science fiction comedy."

"Science fiction comedy?" Conan frowned, his mind quickly thinking about the meaning of this clue.

Huibara Ai interrupted, "Anyway, the four of us should go to the office first, and we'll talk about it when we get there."

At this moment, Kano Shogo was walking alone in the woods, looking at the scene with his phone, with a confused look on his face. "Where exactly is this place?"

He looked around, hoping to find some clues.

The woods were silent, with only the sound of his footsteps echoing. He felt increasingly uneasy, not knowing where to go.

To be continued...