Chapter 218 Winter is Coming

The open machine carpet quickly closed after they landed, blocking out the bright light in the venue.

The dark passage was completely dark. Fortunately, Tsukiyama Asari had experience with Kasugawa Shugo before. He closed his eyes tightly and quickly adapted to this overly dim environment.

He stood up with the help of the wall, and adjusted the mask belonging to Okiya Subaru on his face. After making sure it was firmly fixed on his face with the straps, he put his hand down and observed the situation around him.

This was a not-so-large rectangular passage. They seemed particularly crowded standing in it. There was no ventilation in the dark passage, and the air was thin.

Compared to the secret passage where Kasugawa Shugo was before, which was dim but at least he could see things clearly because of a little light, this secret passage was completely in a state of being pitch dark. If it weren't for the fact that the entrance above had not closed when they fell just now, letting in a little light, they probably wouldn't even be able to see the flying darts clearly.

He stretched out his hand against the wall, and the coolness quickly spread to his whole body along the skin that was in contact with the wall. He learned the lesson of cheating by turning on the night vision in a foreign villa last time, but was overwritten because of his obvious performance. After Tsukiyama Asari let the system turn on the night vision, he still pretended that he couldn't see clearly like everyone else. He touched the wall little by little and finally found the first exit.

There are three passages leading out of the room. Tsukiyama didn't speak immediately after he touched the first one. When he saw someone pointed out other entrances, he said, "There's another one here."

"There are actually three exits." Edogawa Conan frowned. He walked around the room and looked around the room. There were no mechanisms around the door, nor were there any inscriptions or any settings that seemed to indicate the correct passage. "

It should be just passages to three different places." Okiya Subaru thought for a while before speaking.

In other words, these three secret passages are all safe, completely different from the life-or-death choices they encountered before. All three can be considered the correct answer.

If they act together, first, the efficiency is too low, and second, with the two people who look like Rum around, their actions will be very inconvenient, and they may even make Rum suspicious. But if they go separately, how to divide into groups and communicate will be a problem.

In the dark, Toru Amuro slightly adjusted the communicator hanging on his ear. The originally fuzzy electronic sound finally turned into silence after they fell into the secret passage. He tried to call Matsuda Jinpei next to him. The latter, who was originally thinking with his head down, immediately stopped and put his hand on the earphone.

It seems that they just blocked all the signals inside the venue.

This will make communication much more convenient. After thinking about it, everyone agreed to go in three groups. Kogoro Mori took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and decided to decide by drawing lots.

Although he knew that this random drawing of lots would make Rum relax his vigilance, Tsukiyama Asari still secretly complained in his heart that it was too casual.

According to the current situation, apart from Conan Edogawa who is automatically tied to his father, Kogoro Mori, because he is too young, there are seven people left, and there will definitely be two groups of two people walking together.

As long as they are not alone with Subaru Okiya, it doesn't matter who they walk with.

When Tsukiyama took out the cigarettes that had been torn into pieces of different lengths and placed in the cigarette box, he looked inside at Subaru Okiya who had just helped him put on the mask, and prayed in his heart with embarrassment.

Whether it was his eyes that were similar to Gin to some extent, or his performance when he confronted Mia Yutani on the building before, he subconsciously felt a little scared of the other party.

In short, it was the type that he could not deal with at all.

Tsukiyama Asari thought about it and took another look at the cigarette in Okiya Subaru's hand. With the night market function of the system, he could easily see that the other party was holding a long and thin cigarette that was not torn, while the cigarette in his hand was very short, only about one-third of it.

The black-haired man breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mine is a medium-length cigarette." Maori Kogoro said. Even though it was dark now, he still raised the cigarette in his hand and gestured to everyone, "Who has the same cigarette as me?"

"I am."

After the air was quiet for a while, Kawashima Akiyoshi spoke. He did not take out the cigarette he had just smoked, but turned his head in the darkness to look in the direction where Maori Kogoro's voice came from.

After he finished speaking, Tsukiyama squinted his eyes and saw the old man next to him look around, then took out his cigarette and showed it to Maori Kogoro who was also holding a cigarette, and said with a smile, "It seems that we are together, Mr. Maori." As soon as

this grouping situation came out, Amuro Toru immediately frowned. He reached out and pressed the earphone on his ear, tapping the surface lightly. I don't know what kind of signal he sent to the other party. After Edogawa Conan tapped the earphone a few times with a serious expression, the blond-haired and dark-skinned man finally relaxed his frown.

As if he had received assurance from the boy that he would be fine alone, Amuro Toru put down his hand that was touching the earphone and said casually, "That means the three of you and Conan will be together. I drew the shortest one."

Tsukiyama Asari, who was watching Kawashima Akiyoshi and Saeki Takashi seriously through the cheating system, was stunned. He raised his short cigarette and remembered that the other party should not be able to see anything in such a dark environment. He coughed twice before speaking, "Me too."

"......Then it seems that we two are leaving together." Matsuda Jinpei paused, his eyes swept across the place where the two voices came from, but he didn't say anything, just said to Okiya Subaru who happened to be standing next to him, "Let's go." Amuro Toru

took the lead and walked into the secret passage closest to the two of them. It was much colder inside than the venue. When he just came down, he only felt cool, but after walking for a long time, the cold quickly replaced the coolness.

Tsukiyama pulled up the collar of his thin sweater a little bit, and then realized that the atmosphere was a little too silent. He turned his head to look at the man who was carefully exploring the way ahead, and he could feel that the other party seemed to have something to say but hesitated.

"Do you... have something to ask me?" The black-haired man followed him for a long distance, touching the wall of the secret passage, and finally couldn't help but speak in a low voice. He cast his eyes on the other side, and saw that Amuro Toru immediately stopped after hearing this sentence.

Do you have something to ask...?

To be honest, even Amuro Toru himself didn't know the answer to this question. He did have a lot of questions to ask, or as a friend and the public security who was in contact with him, he had a lot of problems to care about, including Kogiri's departure, the noisy family of Kasugawa Shugo hiding in the orphanage, and now only he knew about it, his brother who had been missing for many years, and the unexpected reunion on the screen in the venue.

He couldn't imagine how Tsukiyama Asari felt when he saw that scene with his own eyes, but he couldn't ask. In the silence in the dark passage, he just said, "Why did you come here...?"

It was really a difficult question to answer.

If I hadn't come here, you would still be in the venue trying to control the chaos. Of course, it was to use the system's non-scientific functions to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

But of course, this sentence couldn't be said to the other party. Tsukiyama Asari thought for a while before speaking, "...I got some news, so I wanted to come and see."

His words were vague, but Amuro Toru immediately understood that he had received news that his long-missing brother would also board the ship. As for the source of the news, if nothing unexpected happened, it should only be that guy Kasugawa Shugo.

In the complete darkness, the blond-haired, dark-skinned man rarely concealed his expression. From this expression, he guessed that the other party had been hesitant to speak because of the scene in the venue before. Tsukiyama pursed his lips and walked forward first, "...Actually, I guessed it a long time ago."

He pulled the corners of his mouth reluctantly and continued the topic, "But it is still...completely different from seeing it with your own eyes."

As he spoke, a slight clicking sound suddenly came from the dark passage, and the fire lit up, allowing the two to finally look at each other in the dark. Amuro Toru held a small lighter in his hand. After seeing the things in front of him clearly, he was stunned for a moment before speaking, "Have you changed your mask?"

"Well, it broke when it fell, and Mr. Okiya gave me his."

Hearing the name Okiya Subaru, the blond-haired, dark-skinned man subconsciously frowned, curled his lips, and said unhappily, "That guy is quite reliable."

He didn't know what to say, so he simply turned his head to look at a small scratch he had just touched on the wall. He originally thought that someone had accidentally carved it when passing by, but now he used a lighter to look at it and found that it was a pattern that should have been carved when this secret room was built.

The delicate lines outlined a ship setting sail, but this mark with a sense of design appeared on the bare wall, which was inevitably a bit abrupt.

"...Ship?" Tsukiyama frowned, and simply put the topic behind him. He touched the mark casually. There was not much dust on the symbol or even in the groove, as if someone would always reach out and touch this icon when passing by. It

was a very familiar symbol. Kasugawa Shugo had seen it on the instrument in the middle of a laboratory that did not seem to be involved in human experiments not long ago, but he did not expect to see such an icon here.

"I've seen this kind of pattern before." Amuro Toru narrowed his eyes and immediately informed the people who were heading to the other two secret passages through the earphones of his discovery, "On the floor in the center of the conference hall."

What exactly does this symbol mean...

Tsukiyama Asari frowned. He simply couldn't understand the brain circuits of this organization. They liked to find some incomprehensible words to name everything. It was debatable whether this ship was a real ship or just a nickname.

"This is for you." The voice from the side suddenly interrupted his thoughts. The man turned his head and saw that Toru Amuro had pulled out a dagger from somewhere and handed it to him, "Be careful, maybe later..."

With the beginning, the public security officer could speak the next words smoothly. Seeing that the other party was talking more and more, and it seemed that he was going to give him a public security safety lecture here, Tsukiyama Asari, who was continuing to explore the way ahead, finally couldn't help but stop and sighed, "Mr. Amuro."

"...Huh?" Toru Amuro immediately stopped. After observing the icon, he put away the lighter, letting the secret passage fall into darkness again. But now, he intuitively felt that the other party was looking into his eyes accurately in the darkness, as if he was completely accustomed to falling into darkness.

"What exactly am I in your eyes..." the black-haired man said with a headache. He was a little annoyed that even Edogawa Conan didn't have a safety education class, but Amuro Toru taught him this. "You don't need to give me this knife."

He looked at the dagger in the other's hand that looked very sharp. He reached out and grasped the wrist that was holding the knife, and pushed the knife that was already in front of him back. "Since I decided to come, I must have a way to protect myself. I will definitely not hold you back. And... I have my own knife."

While speaking, the man subconsciously touched the upper part of the waist of his clothes. There was a piece of harder cloth there, and the dagger that once belonged to Cointreau was placed inside.

When they boarded the ship, they mainly checked the communication equipment in the suitcases and on the body. As for the self-defense equipment that most of the guests carried, except for the guns and knives, they turned a blind eye, as if to provide more weapons for the chaos in the venue just now.

Instead of placing it on the waist for easy access, he carefully wrapped the blade of the dagger with gauze and placed it in the inner pocket of his clothes, closer to his heart. Rather than using it for self-defense, it seemed like he was carrying an amulet that should be worshipped.

"No, I..." Amuro Toru frowned, and just as he was about to say something else, he heard a noisy sound of footsteps and shouting coming from the corner at the end of the dark passage. Among them, the voice of Maori Kogoro was the most eye-catching. In addition, there was the sound of something collapsing, as if he was in trouble.

Before they could think that the two secret passages would actually connect in the back, the two of them changed their expressions and hurried to the source of the sound.

At the end of the secret passage was a passage that continued to the left, and the plane connected to the passage was connected to another passage that extended to the right. When the two of them rushed over, they happened to see Maori Kogoro and his group running forward with nervous faces. Seeing the two of them, Edogawa Conan also had no time to think about the problem of the secret passage connection. He gritted his teeth and shouted at them, "Hurry up and run to the secret room in front, the back is going to collapse--!"

As he said, I don't know what mechanism was triggered on the road just now, and the bricks of the secret passage that Maori Kogoro and his group ran through actually collapsed one by one, and I don't know where they fell.

At this moment, someone accidentally stepped on a rare mechanism on the floor, and the sound of breaking air immediately rang out from both sides.

Through the night market, Yueshan looked inside and saw clearly that at the end of the secret passage, the tiles that had been tightly closed suddenly flipped open, and several long arrows that were exactly the same as the iron arrows that appeared at the entrance of the secret passage flew out. The boy running behind subconsciously dodged to the side, but he didn't expect that the corridor on his right collapsed faster than other places. He stepped on the collapsed tiles and fell backwards.

Almost at the moment he fell, the black-haired man rushed to the edge of the broken rocks in the secret passage, stretched out his hand and accurately grabbed the boy who was about to fall down with the turning stone. At the moment he grabbed him, he felt that Amuro Toru, who rushed up at the same time as him, also firmly grabbed the boy's other hand.

The collapse also stopped at this time. The falling bricks and tiles hit something, making a series of collision sounds, and finally a barely audible "gurgle".

I don't know who pressed the lighter that he carried with him in shock, and the dark secret passage was finally illuminated. Tsukiyama squinted and looked inside. The place where Maori Kogoro and his group had just passed was only a long strip of empty space. The bottom was so deep that it was impossible to see where it led to.

Is it possible to dig out such a high open space in the secret passage under the manor?

"Conan, are you okay?" Thinking this way, he looked down at the boy that he and Amuro Toru had grabbed at the same time. The latter raised his head and answered loudly, looking quite energetic. "Then we'll pull you up now."

As the boy was slowly pulled up, several large and troublesome pieces of rubble beside him were pushed down. The sound became particularly obvious in the darkness and silence. He did not hear the sound of collision again, but a few inaudible "gurgle" sounds that were exactly the same as the last one before.

It didn't seem to fall on the ground, but rather fell into the water.

Is there water under the manor?

The black-haired man frowned and tried to look down. The fresh air swept in from the collapse diluted the dusty smell in the tunnel. The tunnel should be connected to the outside world, but because it was already close to midnight, the dense cloudless sky did not allow any light to penetrate. However, the omnipresent wind brought up a wisp of air with a fishy smell. It was so light that he could not catch it if he had not happened to be at the break.

It was the sea.

They hollowed out the bottom of the entire manor, letting the sea water flood the rock surface that was much lower than the sea level due to artificial transformation, and used solid and stable brackets to suspend part of the manor and the tunnel steadily above the entire sea surface.

But the falling rocks in other places did not make this kind of sound of falling into the water. Only at the place where Edogawa Conan almost fell, all the falling rocks sank into the sea.

With an intuition that suddenly hit his brain, Tsukiyama Asari looked at the wall next to him with the faint light of the lighter flame. On the wall, where the floor tiles had been lost, there was a ship symbol that was exactly the same as the logo they had just seen.

This time their symbol was completely literal...

The organization buried a ship that could leave the island under the entire manor.

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