rpbooks Chapter 775: It's Opening
Chapter 775: It's Opening
Chapter 775: It's Opening
"Don't you dislike lying about your name? Why do you want to call yourself Gin when you appear on TV?" When the reporter lady went to interview the hesitant little Martin, Conan complained beside Martin.
"It's okay. After a while, it will be the Vtuber era. By then, I won't be lying if I create a Vtuber account called Gin." Martin had a plan for this: "It will also allow Moss to earn some money for electricity bills."
On the other side, the reporter finished interviewing the Junior Detective Team and then came back to interview the financial sponsor of this project, Suzuki Jirokichi: "Counselor Suzuki, how do you think you can protect these four keys from being taken away by Kaito Kid?"
"That's it!" Suzuki Jirokichi suddenly took out a 'U'-shaped nail, put four four-color keys on the nail, then pushed the nail against the wooden pillar with a unicorn horn on the back, and took out a hammer from somewhere.
Eighty! Eighty! Eighty! In just a few seconds, the nail was firmly nailed to the wooden pillar. Even if Suzuki Jirokichi wanted to take it down himself, he would have to ask for help.
"That petty thief who is good at magic can never steal these four keys." Suzuki Jirokichi was so confident that he wanted to open a bottle of champagne at halftime.
Martin's voice came from outside the screen: "What if Kaito Kid steals the hammer directly from you, then smashes the pillar and takes the gem?"
Nakamori Ginzo looked at him with dead eyes: How much do you despise me? I am a thief, not a robber!
"Impossible." Suzuki Jirokichi also didn't believe it: "Kaito Kidd is a magician who seeks to use gorgeous and incredible methods to complete the theft. He would never do such a tasteless robbery!"
Mitsuhiko's voice came: "What if Kid has a way to open the mechanism without the key? Conan and Ai both said so."
For the three little ones, you can choose not to believe what Conan says or even laugh at it, but you'd better believe what Ai says.
However, Suzuki Jirokichi still chose to laugh: "Impossible, absolutely impossible, without the key, this mechanism can never be opened!"
However, just as he finished speaking, the camera did not have time to move away, the large pillar behind Suzuki Jirokichi suddenly trembled, and then with a loud bang, the pillar separated from top to bottom, and the upper part was lifted up with the nails and keys nailed on it.
This scene was very familiar to everyone except the three people from the TV station, as they had just seen it once before.
Martin's voice came from outside the TV screen again: "Yes, it's open."
No one knows whether Sanshui Kichiemon, the Lu Ban of the scientific world, has a different way of thinking or has some bad intentions. After building a mechanism for others that requires four keys to be activated at the same time to open, he also left a back door for thieves to use. It doesn't even require four people. After deciphering the code, one person can push the four platforms at the four corners in four directions one by one in a specific order.
As for the fact that the platform is protected by electricity provided by Suzuki Jirokichi, it is a weak current and can be solved by wearing insulating gloves.
After solving the conditions, Conan originally planned to ambush Kaito Kid, but Martin decided to try the correct order first, and then opened the pillar directly.
Suzuki Jirokichi stared at the unicorn horn in front of him, his brain short-circuited. His hand loosened, and the heavy hammer slipped down and hit the instep of Nakamori Ginzo next to him.
"Ah!" 'Nakamori Ginzo' not only felt the pain in his feet, but also in his heart.
"You've ruined my place again..." Seeing that the special surprise he prepared was exposed by Martin, Nakamori Ginzo gritted his teeth, but was unwilling to give up easily. He took the Kirin Horn in his hand and shouted, "Kid is coming! Protect the gem!"
At Inspector Nakamori's command, the eight police officers who were still surprised that the mechanism had been unlocked reacted and gathered together, surrounding Nakamori Ginzo, Suzuki Jirokichi and the pillars that had been opened.
"Wait!" The reporter who was pushed out of the encirclement was also a little panicked. She shouted to the camera: "Quickly switch the signal to other content--"
Swish, the TV screen went black, then flashed and suddenly turned into a huge waterfall. This was a travel guide to scenic spots across Japan.
"What the hell." Suzuki Sonoko stared at the TV with a half-mooned look in her eyes: "Is this considered a broadcast accident?"
"It was originally said that the mechanism could never be opened by Kaito Kid, but it was opened by its own people before Kaito Kid arrived." Maori Kogoro squinted his eyes and complained: "This is more than just a broadcast accident."
Before the TV content switched to the travel guide, the TV screen went black for a moment. This was not a technical problem, but before the source switched, the scene on this side of the camera suddenly fell into darkness.
The audio guy: “What’s going on!”
Nakamori Ginzo: "The power has been cut off!"
Suzuki Jirokichi picked up the intercom and said, "Start the backup power supply quickly!"
Suddenly, a blue light flashed in the darkness, and then Conan screamed: "Ah——!"
"Conan! What's wrong with you, Conan!" The children followed the voice in panic and looked towards Conan. Then they remembered that they had the watch flashlights provided by Professor Agasa, and they turned them on one after another.
Then the police officers took out their own flashlights and the light returned to the room.
"Conan!" The children saw Conan lying face down on the ground, with his left hand stretched out and pointing forward.
I walked up to him and found that Conan was motionless and didn't react even when I pushed him.
"Conan was killed!"
"Calm down." Huiyuan Ai said in a deep voice: "There are burn marks on his neck from the stun gun, and there is also a stun gun dropped beside him. He was just knocked unconscious by someone."
"Ah? The bad guys are coming?" Little Martin was a little confused.
The adults now had no time to pay attention to Conan's miserable condition, because when they shone their flashlights on the location where the Kirin horn was originally located, they found that the pillar had returned to its original closed state.
Nakamori Ginzo put his hands behind his back and rubbed his fingers secretly. "It's really no good when I touch this guy. First my toes were hit by the hammer, and then my fingers were almost pinched by the closing mechanism."
"The mechanism is closed!"
"Quick, open it again!"
The police officers pulled the key from the pillar with great effort, then divided it into four corners and opened the mechanism using the original method.
The mechanical pillar rose again, and the Qilin horn inside the pillar disappeared without a trace of surprise. The Qilin statue turned into a bald Qilin without horns.
"The gem is gone!"
The people outside finally started the backup power supply and restored power. The lighting in the room was restored, but there was no sign of Kaito Kidd.
"It doesn't matter! The theft of the gem was part of my plan!" Suzuki Jirokichi suddenly said, and revealed his true colors: "I deliberately announced a week ago that I had 'just' found this gem, so that Kidd would think that I was just making hasty arrangements here and installing some anti-theft nets on the windows..."
"In fact, I have already spent a month transforming all the traffic here! It has been transformed into an airtight steel cage! Kaito Kidd will never be able to get out! He is still among us!"
Whether Kaito Kidd can open the mechanism is actually not that important to Suzuki Jirokichi. What really matters is this "cage" to catch Kaito Kidd.
"In fact, I already knew about your renovation project." Nakamori Ginzo complained silently in his heart. In fact, the unicorn horn is amber, which is a fossil of rosin. It can't be the Pandora that Kaito Kid is looking for. And he has long noticed that Suzuki Jirokichi and his men are secretly repairing the house here.
However, in order to capture Kaito Kidd, Suzuki Jirokichi tirelessly collected various gems, which saved him a lot of trouble. He thought of it as a reward for old customers or playing with old children. Kaito Kidd still pretended to fall into the trap.
While thinking in his heart, 'Nakamori Ginzo' squatted beside Conan, pretending to check Conan who was knocked down by his own hands: "But this boy is fainted now, damn it! Why did Kaito Kid hurt someone this time!"
Firstly, it was to make it easier to hide the gem on Conan's body, and secondly, it was a natural way to call an ambulance. Sending Conan to the ambulance was a good opportunity for him to escape from this steel cage.
But be careful that Martin might do something bad again.
"Wasn't Conan working with Martin to crack the mechanism before the power went out? Did Martin notice anything?" Mitsuhiko turned his head to look for Martin.
But all he saw was little Martin, whose face had no tooth marks.
"Eh?" Little Martin raised his hands and shook them: "I'm not him..."
I looked left and right, but I couldn't see any trace of Martin.
"Strange, where is the other classmate Martin?!" First the children were confused, and then the adults were confused too.
After the power and lighting were restored, Martin's figure disappeared from the room.
"Where did that boy go?" Suzuki Jirokichi stared. He said the mechanism couldn't be opened, but the boy opened it with his other hand.
I just boasted that I had turned this place into an iron cage, but the moment I turned around, I disappeared!
"Where is Martin? Did he go out? Impossible! I can't even get out! Is there a secret passage I don't know about?" Even Nakamori Ginzo was sweating coldly, and he stared at every corner of the room with wide eyes.
'Where on earth has Martin gone?'
Where am I going? Is this still China? Sitting on the ground, Martin himself was also wondering about this question.
It was pitch dark in front of me, but I could see hazy wire fences around me, but the light outside the wire fences was not strong.
The ground beneath me felt wet, muddy, and covered with grass. I tried to stand up but hit my head. The space here was very low.
I could still hear the panicked shouts of the group of people, as if something had happened to the great detective, but the sound was coming from above my head, and their chaotic footsteps were particularly clear and unbearable.
Oh see, I'm under the floor.
What happened?
Martin thought about it. Before, in the dark, he casually dismantled the mechanism to close the mechanism column, and then wanted to give himself the ability of night vision. Then his thoughts went astray and he thought about which character Martin had transformed into who could see at night.
In the pitch black darkness, he was in an unobservable state, and his ability to switch skins continued to take effect. As Martin's mind wandered, he changed all the characters that Little Martin had changed into in his memory at an extremely fast speed.
Then, I don't know whether it was the special nature of the transformation, or the skin was switched too quickly and the model was stuck, but Martin's feet were suddenly empty and he fell to the ground with a thud.
On the floor, the panic caused by the disappearance of Martin continued.
Suzuki Jirokichi: "He can't disappear! Look carefully! Look in the corners of the ceiling and behind the table!"
"The gems were stolen, and Martin disappeared..." Mitsuhiko came to a shocking conclusion: "Could it be that Martin is the Kaito Kid?"
Ayumi was very scared: "No, no way, didn't they say that Kaito Kidd can't disguise himself as a child?"
Yuan Tai was very surprised: "Could it be that there really is a skill to shrink bones?"
'Nakamori Ginzo' rolled his eyes and decided to muddy the waters. He squatted down in front of the children and asked, "Isn't he your classmate, your new member? Do you feel that there is something wrong with him today?"
"But...Martin is the new transfer student who arrived today." Mitsuhiko stammered.
This statement made it even more suspicious that Martin was Kaito Kidd. In order to enter the ancient temple, he transferred to the class of the Junior Detective Team as an elementary school student and sneaked into the temple. Moreover, Martin had been studying the mechanism and even successfully opened it. This was too much like Kaito Kidd.
After opening the mechanism, he immediately cut off the power supply, then knocked down Conan who was being used by him, stole the gems and left here somehow. This is also very Kaito Kid.
'Nakamori Ginzo' approached little Martin again: "Little boy, are you really twins?"
As he expected, Little Martin looked guilty: "That...that..."
Although he just didn't know how to explain it, not admitting it right away was already a direct answer for everyone.
Therefore, even the fact that 'Kaito Kidd cannot disguise himself as a child', what Suzuki Jirokichi said seemed to have been refuted.
However, Haibara Ai, who knew very well whether Martin was Kaito Kid and could testify for him, did not say anything. She watched over the unconscious Conan while quietly observing the situation and trying to find the figure of Martin.
"Hey! I'm afraid Kaito Kid has already escaped!" 'Nakamori Ginzo' began to argue with Suzuki Jirokichi: "Open the door now! Send this child to the hospital, and hunt down Kaito Kid!"
"Impossible! No matter he is Kaito Kid or an ordinary kid, he can't get out!" Suzuki Jirokichi still doesn't believe it: "Mechanism! Maybe he hid with the help of the mechanism! The cracked Sanshui Yoshiemon mechanism has other secrets! So the boy who cracked the mechanism with him was electrocuted by him!"
At this time, someone outside brought another piece of news to Suzuki Jiroyoshi through the intercom - because the typhoon caused a small-scale landslide, the only road up and down the mountain was blocked by the sliding rocks.
Now, we don’t have to worry about sending Conan to the hospital for a physical examination until the typhoon is over.
The children are discussing the problems of the organization.
"How did Martin and Conan open the mechanism?"
"I only saw them stop in front of each platform for a while. Could they be picking the locks? If Martin is Kaito Kidd, picking the locks would be easy, right?"
"Impossible! Martin is definitely not Kaito Kidd, otherwise... otherwise... otherwise Conan would definitely find out!"
"By the way, the order in which they walked across the platform seemed to be the same as the order in which the power was turned off, right? Didn't Officer Nakamori say that the platform was in the order of green, red, black and white, and the power would be turned off in sequence with each ring?"
Conan, who was lying on the ground pretending to be unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes: I finally caught Kid’s fox tail!
(End of this chapter)