Chapter 58
"Mr. Principal, please wake up."
There was a voice calling his name in his ear.
Kurokawa Akishige slowly opened his eyes, rubbed his aching head, and saw clearly in the light of the flashlight the person who had been calling his name.
Edogawa Conan looked at Kurokawa Akiwa with concern in his voice: "Are you okay?"
The quest box in his sight hadn't been closed yet, remaining stuck on the treasure quest he'd accepted. Kurokawa Akishige casually closed the quest, leaned against the wall, and breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm fine."
Next to him was a cell phone with a broken screen, and a little light could barely appear when he pressed the power button.
After confirming that Kurokawa Akiwa was alright, Edogawa Conan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. I was shocked to see the principal lying here just now."
He also thought that Kurokawa Akiwa was also killed.
Kurokawa Akiho was adjusting his cell phone, and when he turned it on, he found that the flashlight was also intermittent and very dim.
He took the initiative to ask: "Did anything happen during the time I fainted?"
Edogawa Conan's face was a little gloomy: "Mr. Shimanaka was also killed."
Kurokawa Akishige frowned.
"The manner of death was the same as that of Mr. Murauchi and Ms. Fuyukawa, all fatal wounds to the back. Mr. Ishiki, Ms. Saikawa, and Mr. Gomei are currently missing."
"And Ran-sister, Sonoko-sister, and the others, they don't know where they are now."
Kurokawa Akishige once again called up the mission he had just received, his eyes fixed on the final mission reward.
The red team represents the reputation of the police, but finding the pirates' treasure increases the reputation of the police. This doesn't make sense no matter how you think about it, does it?
The tasks issued by the system will be based on the actual situation of the player. If Kurokawa Akifusa finds the treasure, there will definitely be no option to hand it in.
In other words, this treasure is not the kind of treasure he understands in the traditional sense.
"If I'm not mistaken, the murderer is seeking revenge for the incident ten years ago." Conan Edogawa muttered to himself.
"revenge?"
"Yeah." Edogawa Conan nodded. "I found a diary in another room a while ago. Many pages were torn out. From the few remaining pages, I can tell that the owner of the diary should be someone who experienced the incident ten years ago."
"That makes a lot more sense. Mr. Ishiki said that if what happened ten years ago is dug up, no one will be able to escape." Kurokawa Akiho thought, resting his fingertips on his chin.
"The couple who were mysteriously murdered here ten years ago must be related to them."
We are getting closer and closer to the truth of the treasure.
Kurokawa Akifusa: "If this is revenge, Ran-san and the others shouldn't be in too much danger."
Edogawa Conan shook his head: "Not necessarily, Mr. Ishiki and the others are also a huge threat."
If things are really as they think, then the most dangerous and uncontrollable people are Ishiki Ryosuke and others.
Kurokawa Akiwa was silent for a few seconds. He stood up and dusted himself off. "Let's go find someone first."
"Yeah." Edogawa Conan nodded.
Their current location was an old room filled with worn-out cabinets.
When Kurokawa Akiho took his first step, a slight discomfort in his ankle made him pause and support himself with his hands on the cabinet beside him.
The worn cabinet door could no longer hold up and sank inward.
Kurokawa Akishige steadied his body and glanced at the things in the cabinet, then he was slightly stunned.
Edogawa Conan poked his head out from the side, reached out and picked up something from the cabinet, his eyes widened: "Could this be--"
*
Saikawa Yoshino covered her scratched arm, stepped back hastily, and breathed rapidly.
"I didn't expect the murderer to be you."
Chongsen Ye Zi held the blood-stained dagger with a gentle smile on her face.
Saikawa Yoshino calmly observed the surroundings. She took a deep breath and said, "I don't understand why you want to kill us."
Okimori Ye Zi slowly approached Saikawa Yoshino and slowly repeated, "Why should I kill you?"
"Why did you kill my parents? They shouldn't have taken pity on you that rainy night and agreed to let you stay."
Saikawa Yoshino's eyes suddenly widened and she stared at Okimori Yezi's face.
After a while, she finally found a sense of familiarity: "Are you that child?"
Chong Sen Ye sneered: "It seems that your memory is not bad."
Saikawa Yoshino gritted her teeth and said, "It's such a pity that we didn't find you back then. Where were you hiding? In this basement?"
"That's right. Ishiki searched so many places but couldn't find you. The only place you can hide is in the basement." Saikawa Kanano asked herself and answered.
While delaying time, she slowly retreated to a preferred position.
Okimori Ye Zi noticed Saikawa Yoshino's little move and said, "You can't run away. From the moment you entered the basement, there was only one ending."
When Saikawa Yoshino turned around, Okimori Yezi, who was originally some distance away from her, rushed forward with explosive force and swung the knife down fiercely.
*
Kurokawa Akiho and Edogawa Conan were the first to discover the unconscious Suzuki Sonoko.
For safety reasons, they sent Suzuki Sonoko out through the nearest basement exit.
Suzuki Sonoko remained in a coma, and Kurokawa Akiwa, who had sprained his ankle when he fell, struggled to climb while carrying her on his back.
After he climbed out of the exit, he was stunned when he noticed the scene in the room.
It turned out to be a medical station.
"What's wrong, Mr. Kurokawa?" asked Conan Edogawa.
The medical station was pitch black and very quiet. The door was closed and the rain outside was gradually subsiding.
Kurokawa Akiho placed Suzuki Sonoko on the chair in the medical station. He observed the situation in the ward and found that Dr. Miike from the medical station was not there.
He found a clean towel from the storage room and covered Suzuki Sonoko with it.
Edogawa Conan also climbed up, half of his head appeared from the passage, and his eyes looked around and finally fell on the oil painting on the wall.
Kurokawa Akishige squinted his eyes as he looked at the oil painting on the wall.
"Is this the medical station?"
Kurokawa Akifumi: "Yes."
"There are oil paintings even here. Could this island be full of darkrooms?" Conan Edogawa couldn't help but complain.
"Maybe." Kurokawa Akifumi smiled.
The two returned to the basement again and began to look for people and send the unconscious people back to the medical station one by one.
It was easy for the kids from the Junior Detective League to carry him up. After Dr. Agasa woke up, he climbed up by himself. Kurokawa Akishige took a breath and moved his ankle by holding onto the wall.
Edogawa Conan looked nervous: "Mr. Principal, is your foot okay?"
It was like this from the beginning. It seemed that the head teacher had sprained his foot.
Kurokawa Akiwa shook his head: "It's more important to find someone first."
When Kogoro Mouri was found, he was sleeping soundly on the ground.
A hash mark popped up on Edogawa Conan's forehead.
This uncle can actually fall asleep in this situation.
Not only was Kogoro Mouri asleep, he was completely impossible to wake up.
Kurokawa Akiwa estimated the weight of Maori Kogoro and waved his hand at Edogawa Conan: "I can't carry this."
Just when the two were at a loss, miserable screams echoed in the basement, which made Kurokawa Akishige and Edogawa Conan stunned for a moment.
Edogawa Conan frowned tightly: "It seems that she has started to do it again, damn it."
At the same time, footsteps were heard not far away.
Kurokawa Akiwa lowered his eyes and stared at the location where the sound came from.
The light swept away the darkness, and gradually revealed the figure of the person coming.
After Kurokawa Akishige's eyes swept over Jincha's hair color, he let down his guard.
Edogawa Conan breathed a sigh of relief.
Amuro Toru walked towards him from the darkness. Just as he was about to say hello, he noticed Maori Kogoro lying on the ground. His eyes narrowed: "Mr. Maori?"
Kogoro Mouri, lying on the ground, was snoring slowly.
Toru Amuro: "..."
Put aside your worries.
"That's great, Mr. Amuro." Edogawa Conan had a happy look on his face, and he explained the current situation to Amuro Toru.
After listening to this, Amuro Toru's eyes unconsciously looked at Kurokawa Akiho's ankle. He said, "I'll send Mr. Mori over. Mr. Kurokawa, take a rest first."
*
Akishige Kurokawa was forced to stay at the medical station. His ankle had become red and swollen due to continuous exercise.
After examining him, Toru Amuro applied medicine for his injuries, and then the two of them settled down and returned to the basement again.
Kurokawa Akiho was forced to sit on the bench and wait for them to find Maori Ran.
[The little headmaster is so miserable. He hasn't played anything since he came here and keeps getting hurt.]
[Now that we've caught the murderer, we can have some fun, right?]
Not at all, because the hotel will burn down.
[No spoilers ahead! ]
Burn it?
"Is there a fire over there?" Suzuki Sonoko looked outside while wrapped in a blanket.
Kurokawa Akiho shifted his attention from the barrage and looked in the direction Suzuki Sonoko pointed, and sure enough, he saw the burning hotel.
The raging fire quickly engulfed the hotel. The decreasing rain was unable to extinguish the rapidly burning fire. The wind blew the flames higher, making it seem like daylight in the darkness.
The hotel is connected to the basement, and a fire of this magnitude quickly spread down there. A lot of rum is stored in the basement, and if it is ignited, the people in the basement will quickly suffer from oxygen deprivation.
"What should we do? Xiaolan and the others are still inside." Suzuki Sonoko said worriedly.
There was no signal in the basement, and there was no way to notify them by phone or other means. Kurokawa Akiho frowned.
"I'll go find them."
After saying that, he raised his hand to touch the picture frame and opened the basement door.
After returning to the basement, he could clearly feel the faint warmth in the air. He did not stay for too long and raced against time to find the remaining people.
He quickly closed the system message notification as soon as it popped up.
"I told you not to issue tasks at a time like this."
The system looked at the notification of completed tasks from the background.
[……]
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