Chapter 219 Winter is Coming

Tsukiyama Asari suppressed his emotions and slowly followed Amuro Toru's movements to pull the boy up.

In the process of pulling, he seemed to accidentally touch the arm of the man next to him. With the help of the light and the cover of the clothes, he tapped a few times on the upper part of the arm, indicating that the man next to him should look at the place he had just noticed.

Even if there were only icons and the sounds of falling into the water that he didn't know whether the other party heard it or not, he believed that with Amuro Toru's sensitivity, he could perceive his intention.

Sure enough, after the blond-haired and dark-skinned man looked at the wall according to his hint, his hand movement immediately paused, and then, his purple-gray eyes flashed a light quickly in the dim light.

Their biggest worry before was that even if they found and captured Rum, it would be a problem how to leave here. Now with this ship that was originally used to take Rum's side off the island, this problem has been solved.

The boy who was pulled up by the two men shook his sore arms, temporarily put aside his excited expression because of the discovery, and said, "It turns out that these two secret passages are connected. Fortunately, there are Brother Asari and Brother Amuro."

Tsukiyama Asari randomly slapped the head of Conan Edogawa who was trying to open his eyes. He knew that the other party would fall because he wanted to observe the actions of the two people, so he deliberately ran at the back, but he didn't care about his own safety at all. He narrowed his eyes dangerously, bent his fingers, and tapped the boy's hairy head twice with his bent knuckles.

This slap will be given after it's over.

The little detective immediately understood the other party's intention from this action, and shuddered, and the relaxed expression on his face that had just appeared because of the discovery of the ship disappeared.

Please, this guy's beating really hurts, okay!

Recalling the fists that hit his head when he made mistakes since he was a child, Edogawa Conan's teeth ached, and he instantly wilted. He lowered his head when he was led by Tsukiyama to continue walking forward, and he looked like he was still frightened by what happened just now.

The gaze that had been lingering on the boy because of his overly calm performance was quickly retracted. Sai Takashi, who had one eye covered, took a lighter and waved it towards the crowd.

Tsukiyama avoided his sight and looked in the direction he had just run from, frowning and saying, "Did the secret passage we came from collapse as well?"

After holding up his lighter, Toru Amuro looked over and nodded solemnly.

"Even the retreat is blocked..." He looked around and saw only two roads leading forward. They discussed and decided to go the left one together this time.

"Then I'll turn off the lighter first." The old man who had been holding the lighter suggested.

There are many hidden dangers in keeping open fire in a secret passage where you don't know the situation. Seeing that no one objected, Takashi Sai finally took a look at the eyes of the man holding the boy from under the mask, which were mostly illuminated by the firelight. He quickly released his hand holding the lighter, letting the firelight and the eyes that were illuminated to the point where they couldn't tell the color disappear into the darkness.

Because of the accident just now, the group was extremely cautious when they walked forward again. After Kogoro Maori carefully tested the bricks in front of him again to see if they would be loose before stepping on them, he couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Didn't they know to put a light when they designed the secret passage? I really don't know if these guys would walk like this if they walked by themselves."

If they walked, they should bring a light or equipment that can provide night vision.

Conan Edogawa twitched his lips because of Kogoro Mori's complaint. He followed the other party's movements and stepped forward cautiously. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and the helpless expression on his face instantly retreated. He was holding Tsukiyama Asari's hand, and now he simply pulled the other party hard and shouted softly, "I can't walk anymore--"

Tsukiyama Asari raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look. Even in the darkness, the little detective performed with great emotion, like a child who was acting coquettishly and even leaned against him while talking. Whether it was his movements or his tone, it was clear that he was unwilling to move another step.

He saw that Amuro Toru, who was only wearing a half-face mask, twitched his mouth several times, and looked like he wanted to laugh but could only hold it back.

"You brat!"

Maori Kogoro couldn't help but raise his voice when he heard this. If it wasn't too dark now, he couldn't find the little kid who was acting like a spoiled brat at this time, and he would have punched him on the head.

"But I really can't walk anymore--" Edogawa Conan dragged out his voice, pulling Tsukiyama Asari's sleeve hard, "Just take a break for a while..."

"How can you do that in this situation now..."

"It's okay, I'll carry you away." Tsukiyama Asari blinked, followed the boy's hint, half squatted down and picked up the boy with one hand. Maori Kogoro muttered, "You and Xiaolan are too used to this kid," and then he didn't say anything else.

The few of them continued to walk forward. While they were discussing the situation in the secret passage, Edogawa Conan put his arms around the black-haired man's neck, and when he leaned his head over, he whispered in his ear, "Brother Asari, can you see clearly?"

I can see clearly because there is a system cheating, and it has nothing to do with other experiences. Don't write scripts for me casually.

Tsukiyama Asari had a long list of explanations flashing through his mind. He knew that Edogawa Conan would ask this question probably because he wanted to ask him for help. In the end, he nodded helplessly and said "hmm" in a whisper.

This inaudible conversation went through the ears of the two people who entered the secret passage and found that the earphones that were never disconnected for the convenience of contact after the communication was restored were transmitted to Amuro Toru who was not far away. He stopped and finally confirmed that the intuition he had just had when he was alone in the secret passage with the black-haired man was not an illusion.

"I want you to help me..." Edogawa Conan whispered a long string of words in the man's ear. After receiving the affirmative answer from the other party, the boy curled his eyes, said that he had rested at the next corner, jumped out of the black-haired man's arms, and landed steadily on the ground.

The secret passage was very long. Because they were extremely careful in their subsequent actions, they managed to avoid the unavoidable departure mechanisms several times.

There were many mechanisms here, which was very different from the empty secret passage where Kasugawa Shugo and Hagiwara Kenji were before. After dodging the long arrow shot from nowhere again, Tsukiyama Asari couldn't help but complain in his heart. After

staying in this narrow, dark place full of mechanisms for a long time, he suspected that he was about to jump to the tomb robbery theater next door.

As if to give him a better limited-edition tomb-robbing experience, Maori Kogoro, who was walking in the front, continued to explore the front and kept asking questions. He took out the lighter from his inner pocket and lit it. He saw that half of the foot he had just carefully stretched out was on the outside of the broken rock. The black hole below was so deep that he took several steps back in a cold sweat, "Isn't this the place we just walked through?"

Both the gap and the sign in front of the gap were almost the same as those seen by the previous few people. Amuro Toru combed his hair and said, "It seems that we are back to this place again."

They entered from the road on the left, but now returned to the starting point from the road on the right.

"Could it be that the passage just now was curved?" Kawashima Akiyoshi frowned and turned his head to look again, "But I felt that I was indeed walking on a straight road just now."

"Because of the light, we all walked by holding on to the wall. It wanted us to go in a certain direction, and we had to go there." Tsukiyama whispered inwardly. He reached out and touched the wall, and suddenly remembered something, "How was the mechanism that caused the ground to collapse just now triggered?"

"At that time..." Hearing this question, Maori Kogoro was stunned for a moment, but Edogawa Conan looked around and immediately said, "I remember that the grandfather walking at the side pressed the wall."

"Oh yes, I accidentally pressed a brick on the wall." Sai Takafumi reacted and subconsciously touched the wall with his hand, "I wanted to rest against the wall at that time, but I didn't expect that the brick sank directly, and then the floor began to fall... I didn't dare to touch the wall hard that time."

"So, the mechanism on the ground triggered those arrows, and the wall is connected to the ground..." Maori Kogoro touched his chin, "But what's the point of studying how to activate this mechanism? Don't we have to avoid these mechanisms?"

"If the road here is blocked." Amuro Toru narrowed his eyes and pointed down at the floor under his feet, "We can only try the road below."

"Down, down the road?" Maori Kogoro subconsciously glanced down the cliff and asked uncertainly, "Is there really a road down here?"

The high cliff with rubble rolling down before looked like a monster with its mouth wide open in the darkness and a little firelight. It would make people feel dizzy if they couldn't see down for a moment. The man retracted his gaze and looked unconvinced.

However, compared to Maori Kogoro's reaction, Amuro Toru was more concerned about Rum. Neither Kawashima Akiyoshi nor Saeki Takafumi showed obvious resistance or surprise. After analyzing the current situation, he agreed to return to the original passage and try to use this mechanism to find a way to leave.

If this method only had a 50% success rate before the two of them expressed their opinions, then after they expressed their opinions, the success rate was already 100%. Rum would never put himself in a dangerous situation. He agreed to this method, which showed that there must be another passage under the mechanism.

However, he probably wanted to use other mechanisms at the exit to directly deal with the people who had the good luck to escape from the venue.

I just don't know what his attitude is now towards his capable subordinate who "had a legitimate reason" to stay in the venue and did not leave as ordered.

Thinking of this, Amuro Toru narrowed his eyes and suddenly realized that he had just made a small mistake.

When Conan Edogawa missed his step and fell off the cliff, he should have stopped jumping over to save people immediately after seeing Tsukiyama Asari had already grabbed the other person. For such a thing, he should be indifferent and even hope that his companions would have more accidents. If Rum had been paying attention to his actions, this behavior would probably make the other party unhappy.

However, at that time, even if he had seen Tsukiyama Asari grab the other person, he still had to do it himself to ensure 100% safety. He naturally would not let others risk their lives in order to gain Rum's trust.

I don't know if there will be a chance to rescue later.

He reached out and pressed his forehead, which was a little painful, and walked forward. Before actually triggering the mechanism, the group carefully circled the secret passage again. After not finding any different mechanisms or prompt symbols, they came back to the mechanism that could cause the ground to collapse.

Sai Takafumi said that the surface of the mechanism they touched before was uneven, so they quickly found the brick with the ship symbol engraved on it based on this clue. It was just above the floor and they had to squat to touch it.

"Are you sure?" After seeing the blond-haired and dark-skinned man place his hand gently on the stone slab, Kogoro Mori swallowed and whispered, "If there's a cliff like the one just now below, we won't even have a place to retreat."

"We'll starve to death if we stay here." Kawashima Akiyoshi crossed his arms and said, "Why don't we give it a try. The worst that can happen is that we'll all be smashed to pieces."

Tsukiyama frowned inwardly. He always felt that when he said this just now, the man gave him a meaningful look, but he didn't have time to dwell on it now.

Amuro Toru pressed hard on the bricks with his hand, and the entire square stone surface sank. In addition to the click of the mechanism, there was also the rumble that everyone had heard. Soon the ground began to shake, and the bricks on the ground collapsed again from the previous broken position, falling into the bottomless hole.

But this time, the speed of collapse was slower than before.

"Retreat first." Tsukiyama frowned and listened to the movement. He stretched out his hand to hold the people behind him, indicating that they should face the collapsed area like him and retreat to the back little by little. Knowing that it was not suitable for Amuro Toru to come out at this time, he simply took over the other party's work and quietly reminded the people behind him to pay attention to safety.

Amid the roar, the sound of falling rocks gradually became louder. He listened with his ears to the side. When the collapse was about to spread to his feet, he finally heard a few muffled sounds that were completely different from the previous ones, when rocks hit the nearby stone surface.

The black-haired man's eyes lit up and he immediately realized something. He reached out to take the lighter that Amuro Toru had placed in his inner pocket, stepped on the edge of the collapse line and shone it down, "There's space below!"

Not knowing whether the back would become that bottomless hole again, the group of people no longer hesitated after hearing this, and jumped down directly with their heads protected. It was unknown how the secret passage below was designed, and the falling rocks would fall along the slope to a place outside the plane, and when the few people jumped down, there was a slope to cushion them, and they followed the slope all the way to the round stone surface in the middle.

It seems that there is a smaller circular platform under the circular secret passage... With this skill, he can definitely go to the tomb passage next door, right?

Yueshan Chaoli kept thinking in his heart as he tumbled down the slope. He felt that this trip was more exciting than robbing a tomb. When he finally landed on the ground, before he could shake off his dizzy head, he saw a hand stretched out in front of him, obviously trying to pull him up from the ground.

"Thank you..."

He subconsciously put his hand on it with the help of the light from outside, and then looked up at the person who stretched out his hand to him. Kawashima Akiyoshi leaned down slightly. Even though his clothes were in disarray, he did this action very gracefully. There was a smile in his eyes. After seeing that the other party met his eyes, his lips moved slightly and uttered a word.

"Tsukiyama...?"

These two words were uttered slowly by Kawashima Akiyoshi with a hint of doubt, causing Tsukiyama to widen his eyes and his pupils to shrink.

"So this is your last name?" Seeing the other party's expression that could not be concealed at all in this situation, Kawashima Akiyoshi curled the corners of his mouth and helped the man up from the ground like a gentleman, as if the inquiring and dangerous look just now was just an illusion.

"Sorry, sorry, you didn't seem to have a formal self-introduction before. I only know your name from other people. Since we are leaving here together, let me know your name at least... Do I remember a long time ago, when I was on the cruise ship, I seemed to have heard someone call you Yueshan. I didn't expect it was really this last name."

He narrowed his eyes, and except for the smile from the corners of his eyes and mouth, the other expressions were blocked by the mask. "This last name is quite special."

If someone who knows Jundu very well can probably easily connect Yueshan with the code member who has changed his name to Yugu Mie for decades, so after meeting these people, those who have always called themselves Yueshan changed their name and called him by his name.

Unexpectedly, the occasional call before was still heard by him.

"Really?" Tsukiyama Asari blinked, but did not look away. He stood up with the help of the other party, and said casually, "I think this surname is quite common."

The other party smiled and said nothing more. Tsukiyama Asari looked at him, and suddenly recalled a scene he had accidentally seen at the banquet.

When Yutani Miu raised the much younger face on the screen, the scene almost immediately fell into a huge frenzy and excitement, while Kawashima Akiyoshi just stared at the face, and many emotions flashing in his eyes were blocked by the dim light and the mask. His fingers unconsciously clenched the wine glass in his hand, and the force was so strong that it seemed as if he wanted to crush the person on the screen like a wine glass.

To be honest, he still didn't know how he had offended Rum, the second in command of the organization, so that in addition to the one-eye and the three external labels, another important way to identify him was his bad attitude towards Jundu.

Tsukiyama's fingers hanging at his side moved slightly, and he quickly lowered the look in his eyes, took two steps back, and walked away from Kawashima Akiyoshi, pretending to look for Edogawa Conan who had been walking with him.

The boy obviously heard their conversation, and his brows were locked. When he saw the other party's actions, he immediately ran over there, trying to separate the two, but he didn't expect that the whole ground would shake again when his feet just stepped nearby.

"What's going on?!" Maori Kogoro said seriously. He stood firm against the wall and soon found that the faint light that had just penetrated from above had also disappeared. Above the circular dark room, the originally collapsed secret passage began to slowly move out new bricks from somewhere, sealing the entire top again.

They looked up at the movement above and did not notice that there were two horizontal and vertical dividing lines with fine cracks on the stone slab of the circular secret room under their feet, dividing the entire stone slab into four rooms with wide lines.

Feeling the place where he stepped on slightly vibrate, Yueshan looked down towards the consciousness inside. Before he could see the situation under his feet clearly, he felt someone pulling his arm hard. Because of this pulling force, he staggered back. Just as his feet moved away from the middle line, two cross-intersecting walls rose into the air and suddenly collided with the ceiling that had just been closed.

The huge crash and the dust that followed made the black-haired man feel a little bit of pain. If no one had pulled him from behind, he would probably have been lifted up by the wall and trapped between the stone wall and the ceiling, making the original young detective comic instantly bloody and enter another partition.

Thinking of this, Tsukiyama Chaoli turned his head and looked at the person who had just pulled him over from behind.

It turned out to be Takashi Sai, who had not said much on the road before. The old man with one eye covered waved his hand while thanking him, indicating that nothing was wrong, "Fortunately, I reacted quickly... It seems that we are all separated now."

The rising stone wall divided the originally not-so-large plane into four small closed spaces. Because he was pulled by the old man behind him just now, he was separated from the others, and the two were locked together separately.

"Mr. Mori." The black-haired man simply stretched out his hand and knocked on the wall of the stone wall. A response came quickly from the other side. Although the sound was blocked a little, it was still clear.

They quickly communicated with each other about the situation on both sides. Except for him and Takashi Sai, the others did not separate after falling down, and were isolated in the same room when the stone wall rose.

Looking at it this way, he really "hit the jackpot".

After searching the narrow space, Tsukiyama Asari finally found a stone slab that could be turned over in a relatively obvious place, just like the secret room where Kasugawa Shugo was before. There was no pattern or logo below, just a combination lock that flashed with a faint light.

It was a very simple and crude device. The line below that said "More than three errors will cause a bomb to be launched" was also very concise and clear, except for the four words "stranger accidentally entered" to be smeared on his face.

Below is a black screen, which is very similar to the one I saw in the organization's base before. It is a fingerprint input interface. It seems that this thing is double-locked.

He said that Rum, who was traveling with him...whether it was Akiyoshi Kawashima or Takashi Saei, they both looked like they were letting them explore randomly, as if they were not afraid of the secrets they hid under the manor being discovered. It turned out that they were waiting here.

If it weren't for the password and fingerprints he knew, no one could go down. They would either starve to death here or try the password and disappear in the explosion.

While Tsukiyama Asari was thinking, the people in the next room had also finished searching the room. Edogawa Conan raised his voice and shouted, "Asari, did you find anything over there?"

"Yes, there is a combination lock with a fingerprint."

"With a fingerprint?" Maori Kogoro paused, as if he confirmed something over there, "We don't have that thing here, but we have three combination locks facing different locations."

He complained, "......How long has it been since anyone came here? When I opened this stone, it was full of dust and it was so smelly."

...Only here is there a panel for fingerprint unlocking.

It seems that the thing to be opened here is a little more important than what they have over there. Could it be a passage connecting to the next place?

Tsukiyama Asari frowned at this response. He actually didn't quite understand Rum's intention to trap them here. If he wanted them to die here alone, he only needed to go to one of the spaces when the stone wall rose just now, and then he could leave directly and leave them trapped here. But now, no matter which one of them chose to stay in a room with the people he was traveling with.

If he entered the password in person, his identity would be discovered. If he wanted to wait until they lost their ability to move due to the lack of supplies during the long siege before leaving, it would not be worth it.

He frowned, puzzled, and the voice of the system suddenly rang in his ears, with a serious tone that rarely restrained other words.

[Turn off the lighter. ]

Tsukiyama Asari, who was holding the lighter he had taken from Toru Amuro and studying the combination lock, paused for a moment, and then put down his hand holding the lighter as the system instructed. The room soon fell into darkness.

"Sorry, the button started to heat up because it was on for too long." After turning off the lighter, he whispered to Takashi Sai beside him, and shook his hand as if he was really burned. "I can't see anything for now, let it cool down for a while."

Takashi Sai nodded.

"What's wrong? Why did you suddenly ask me to turn off the lighter?"

Tsukiyama Asari pursed his lips, walked to the side a little, turned his face away from the old man, and asked in a low voice in his heart.

[There's not much oxygen, don't waste it with the lighter. 】

When the system sound came out, the panel that appeared out of thin air also released the test results in a timely manner. A lot of messy lines and professional terms gave him a headache, but the words "low content" next to it were clear to him.

"How long can it last?"

[Two people can only last for four hours. 】

Tsukiyama Chaoli frowned. Even two people can only last for four hours, not to mention the secret room with four people next to them. No wonder Rum can stay with them safely, it turns out it's because of this.

Then how does he breathe, the mask...?

Thinking of this, his eyes flickered slightly. The possibility of a mask is very high. With the ability of the organization, it is not impossible to slightly modify the nose part inside the mask to provide artificial air for breathing. In this way, Rum can indeed sneak into the venue full of powder and aroma and the dark room with thin oxygen without any defense.

Unable to directly remind Amuro Toru and the others, Tsukiyama Asari covered his mouth and coughed twice, then said, "The air here seems to be a lot more turbid than the secret passage just now. It feels... uncomfortable to breathe."

"Could it be because a lot of dust fell when the stone wall moved just now?" Upon hearing his words, Sai Takashi took a deep breath of the air here and whispered, "The speed of filtering the air here should be slower than the secret passage just now."

"Is that so."

Tsukiyama Asari narrowed his eyes. He didn't know if it was because of the thin air, but he felt a little sleepy since he checked the combination lock just now. He covered his mouth and yawned, then shook his head vigorously to make himself a little more awake.

"Are you sleepy?" The old man with one eye covered looked around, found a corner, and slowly sat down. His voice was the same as all the kind old people who were a little older, "Take a rest first, and think about what to do next after you have rested well... Speaking of which, I haven't closed my eyes since this morning."

As he spoke, Takashi Sai's voice gradually became lower, as if he could no longer resist the same sleepiness, and closed his eyes to rest.

[Hey, don't really sleep. ]

'I know. '

The alarm sound from the system that came from nowhere made him unable to close his eyes. Tsukiyama frowned and pressed his temples. He couldn't figure out the reason for this very light sleepiness. This sleepiness was too light. He couldn't even tell whether it was due to the medicine or because of fatigue.

Dust...

The two words the old man just said went around in his mind again. Yueshan closed his eyes and suddenly remembered that when he opened the brick with the password lock on the wall, he saw a lot of fine dust-like things in the air with the faint light of the screen. He thought it was the accumulation that could be seen everywhere in the dark passage, but now he thinks it may not be.

He frowned and walked over a few steps, and opened the brick he had just opened once again. After the system finished measuring it, the black-haired man immediately closed the brick again.

[The content is very low, but there is indeed a sleeping pill. 】

When he checked just now, he also noticed that there was very little dust on this brick and the combination lock. It seems that recently...even before they arrived today, someone came from another road and passed through here. When turning on the switch, all the sleeping pills prepared inside were released.

'......How long has it been since anyone came here? When I opened this stone, it was full of dust. It was so stinging.'

Recalling the casual complaint of Maori Kogoro just now, Tsukiyama's eyes widened instantly. The sleeping pills on their side had never been opened, and there were three combination locks in different directions.

'Can you detect the air next door?'

In less than a few seconds, the system that had completed the detection spoke again.

[Not very optimistic, the concentration there is much higher than here. ]

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