After listening to Karasawa's explanation, Kogoro Mouri took out a cigarette, lit it, put it in his mouth and took two puffs, then took it down and kept shaking it on the floor.
"Wow, there really is a change!"
Xiaolan's cry instantly attracted everyone's attention to the cigarette in Kogoro Mouri's hand.
The smoke that was originally flowing and rising slowly suddenly became fast and was floating irregularly in all directions.
"You kid know everything, even this kind of mechanical technique?" Kogoro Mouri complained.
"I just know a little bit about it. It's very simple common sense." Tang Ze smiled modestly.
When Conan heard this, he was a little upset!
Conan felt that no one had a better say than him regarding the phrase "I have a little understanding".
Conan burst into tears when he heard this. "God, you know a little bit. Tell me how much you know."
It's okay that the mechanical tricks were simple this time, but I always learn a little bit, a little bit at a time. Didn't you see that I'm losing my hair lately? That's why I studied criminal psychology.
I don't believe you! You're such a bad guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes!
He must be that kind of academic scoundrel who usually says, "Oh, I didn't study either," but always ranks among the top three in exams!
Of course, no one cared about Conan's feelings at this moment. Everyone lay on the floor and began to search carefully.
In a short while, everyone finished checking the ground and found a slightly protruding wooden board near the door.
There is a small groove on the edge of the wall that is easy to open by hand.
After opening the door, there are five rows and seven columns of letter buttons, which appear to be Russian letters.
"Well, it looks like there should be a password." Tang Ze looked at Xiluof Chini and said, "It seems I need to trouble you to enter the password."
"Memories! It must be the Russian word for memories!" Before Tang Ze could say anything, Maori Kogoro spoke first, saying it with certainty without thinking.
But when Siruov Chini tried it, it was a mistake.
Afterwards, everyone offered their ideas, but of course, they were all wrong.
"The magician of the fin de siècle."
Just as everyone was racking their brains, Tang Ze slowly uttered the word, "Mr. Siluof, try this!"
Maori Kogoro stroked his chin and thought, "I seem to have heard this somewhere before."
"It's in Kidd's notice letter. Dad, you have such a bad memory." Xiaolan gave Kogoro Mouri a cold look and reminded him.
With anticipation, everyone watched as Siluofu entered the password. The familiar error message tone did not sound, but the basement opened directly!
"It actually opened. What a coincidence! Detective Tang Ze, how could you have thought of that?"
Kogoro Mouri really couldn't understand why the password set by Miss Natsumi's great-grandfather, Mr. Kiichi, was the same as the content on the Phantom Thief Kid's warning letter.
Hearing Maori Kogoro's question, Tang Ze just smiled and said, "We'll tell you the answer after we get the other egg."
After saying that, Tang Ze took the lead and walked down to the basement.
"Tsk, pretending to be mysterious!" Kogoro Mouri muttered unhappily and followed him.
The rest of the journey went smoothly. After finding the mural, everyone shone a flashlight on it, and then a more secret basement appeared.
After people went in, they found that compared to the rough appearance of the previous floor, there were obvious signs of construction here, and it was well built.
The entire room is shaped like an egg, and a coffin is placed on the platform.
The candles on both sides of the platform were lit, and the surrounding basement environment was illuminated by the candles. Everyone looked around and found nothing worth noting, so they cast their eyes on the coffin.
"Although this coffin has a Western-style design, it's actually made of wood."
Maori Kogoro bent down, picked up the lock on the coffin and examined it. "But this lock is really big."
"Ms. Xia Mei, that key." Conan reminded from the side.
"Oh, yes, this lock is obviously about the same size as that key!" Upon hearing this, Natsumi Kosaka immediately took out the key, walked forward, inserted it into the lock cylinder and tried to open it.
After turning it gently, the big lock was opened as expected.
"It's indeed this key." After opening the coffin, Natsumi Kosaka couldn't help but take two steps back and handed the position to Kogoro Mouri.
"Is it okay to open it, Miss Natsumi?" Kogoro Mouri walked to the coffin and asked with a serious expression.
After all, this involves opening someone's ancestor's coffin, so of course we have to seek their opinion and be cautious.
"Okay." Natsumi Kosaka held the key in one hand, stared at the coffin and nodded.
After getting permission, Kogoro Mouri and Shiratori stepped forward and worked together to open the coffin, and the scene inside came into view of everyone.
Inside the coffin lay the remains of a skeleton with only bones left. The red egg in the hands of the remains instantly attracted everyone's attention.
"Ms. Natsumi, is the body here your great-grandfather's?" Kogoro Mouri asked, looking at the bones.
"No, I think this is probably my great-grandmother's." Kosaka Natsumi thought for a moment and replied, "In fact, there is only my great-grandfather buried in the cemetery in Yokosuka. I thought it was incredible at the time.
I also thought that perhaps because she was a Mao Zedong, she couldn't be buried in the tombs of her ancestors.
Meanwhile, Siluof Chini, looking at the red egg, couldn't help but speak up, "Ms. Xia Mei, although it's a bit inappropriate to say this now, could you please let me see that egg?"
"I understand." Natsumi Kosaka nodded, then walked to the coffin, gently picked up the red egg in the bones' arms, and handed it to Siruof Chini.
After thanking him, Siruof Chini carefully took the egg and examined it, and finally found a small hole in the base of the egg.
But after opening it, the expected gem did not appear, and there was nothing inside.
"How is this possible? It's empty?" Siruof Chini said in disbelief.
"This is a nesting doll design, right?" Tang Ze said with a smile. "Since the two eggs are on the same drawing, and one is large and the other is small, then perhaps the combination of these two eggs will be the true 'Egg of Memory'."
"The real...memory egg?"
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard this, and Maori Kogoro pounded his left palm with his right fist, saying with an unwilling look, "Damn it! If only I had asked President Suzuki to borrow that egg earlier."
"I have that egg," Tang Ze smiled, "thought I might need that egg, so I borrowed this one before I left just in case."
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