Chapter 121: Secret Passage in the Castle

Chapter 121: Secret Passage in the Castle

The art dealer looked around with a sly look in his eyes. Suddenly, he saw one of the photos and shouted in surprise: "This man looks like Rasputin?"

The clerk walked over and took a look, then said with certainty, "It must be him, there's a signature on it."

Conan stared at the signature on the photo, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Mao Lilan asked her father in confusion: "Dad, who is Rasputin?"

Maori Kogoro frowned: "I don't know much about him either. I just heard that he is a bad guy."

The art dealer seemed to know a lot about the history of the Romanov dynasty, and he began to talk about it: "Rasputin was once called a demon monk. It is said that he was the culprit who caused the demise of the Romanov dynasty. He once controlled the government, but was finally killed by the emperor's relative, Duke Yus."

"The remains that were found later had a sunken skull and one of its eyes had been gouged out."

"Eyes? The right eye?" Youye asked suddenly.

The artist was stunned for a moment: "Yes, it's the right eye."

Conan's eyes narrowed. Right eye? Could it be...

Kidd said, "Let's not worry about Rasputin for now. What's more important now is to find another Egg of Memory, right?"

Yuya suddenly said: "Regarding this, I roughly know where it is."

Everyone looked at him in surprise.

Yuya tapped the ground with his foot. "This place sounds a little different. There must be a secret entrance."

"Secret entrance?" Everyone gathered around, but the floor looked exactly the same, with no difference.

Conan lay on the ground and groped carefully, and soon found a special piece of floor near the wall with a small hole on it, just big enough for him to put his finger in.

Conan quickly lifted up the floor, and suddenly a panel with many buttons appeared in front of everyone.

"Is this the mechanism to open the entrance?" the art dealer was pleasantly surprised.

"The text on it seems to be Russian?" Kidd said after taking a look.

Conan looked at the clerk: "There should be a password, Mr. Siluouf, can you please press it?"

The clerk came over immediately.

Maori Kogoro said loudly: "Memories, they must be memories."

The clerk immediately typed the Russian words he remembered, but after waiting for a while, there was no response.

Kogoro Maori felt a little embarrassed.

The art dealer quickly asked, "How about trying Mr. Kiichi's name?"

Still no movement.

The clerk couldn't help but look at Kosaka Natsumi: "Ms. Natsumi, have you thought of anything?"

Kosaka Natsumi shook her head: "No, I didn't even know there was such a mechanism in the study."

Yuya moved his lips, he knew the password, but how to tell them?

"Baruxunikukadamme..." Conan suddenly muttered something, and suddenly turned to look at Kosaka Natsumi, "Could this be Russian?"

Natsumi Kosaka was stunned for a moment. This was a sentence she often heard when she was a child. She had mentioned it unintentionally when she was chatting with Conan and the others on the cruise ship. She didn't expect that he still remembered it?

"Baruxue, what?" The clerk was a little confused.

"Baruxunikukadame." Natsumi Kosaka repeated.

"???" The clerk was puzzled. Where did this Russian come from? Why couldn't he understand it?

"Could it be a punctuation problem?" Conan reminded, "Sister Xia Mei said that she heard this when she was a child. Maybe because it has been so long, she doesn't remember it correctly?"

"Baruxue..." The clerk kept trying to break the sentence from different places, but he couldn't think of the correct words.

"Baru Shepnik Kanzume." Yuya said suddenly.

Everyone was in an uproar and looked at Youya.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Conan looked at Yuya in confusion. He didn't understand Russian.

Yuya said calmly: "Barucepnik Kanzhimei, the last wizard of the century, in Neon language, it means - the magician at the end of the world."

"The magician at the end of the world?" Everyone was stunned.

Maori Kogoro frowned: "Why do I feel like I've heard this sentence somewhere before?"

"It's Kid's notice." Conan said in a deep voice. Why did Kid know this? It seems that he stole the Egg of Memory not because of its value. What secret is hidden in it?

The clerk didn't care about Kidd. He just started to fight: "Whatever happens, let's try it first."

Under the surprised and fiery gazes of the crowd, as the password was entered, the floor finally responded and the sound of rumbling mechanisms was heard all around.

The sound grew louder and louder, the floor cracked, and then slowly closed, revealing a dark hole in the ground.

Everyone was stunned and looked at the secret passage that suddenly appeared in disbelief.

Natsumi Kosaka opened her mouth in surprise. She had been to this castle before, but only now did she know there was such a secret passage.

Kidd walked in front with a flashlight, and everyone entered the secret passage one by one.

"Ms. Shiho, please follow me closely and don't leave my side." Yuya whispered in Miyano Shiho's ear.

Miyano Shiho nodded slightly and leaned closer to Yuya. She had 100% trust in his words.

The secret passage was very dark and spiraled downwards. Perhaps because of the darkness, everyone felt like they were walking for a long time.

The further down you go, the more empty the space becomes. One can't help but wonder if Kiichi Kosaka hollowed out the mountain in the first place. Otherwise, how could he have built such a secret passage?

Where does this secret passage lead to? Could it be a treasure trove that contains another egg of memories?

I don’t know how long I walked, but the stairs finally reached the bottom. However, this was not the end yet, there was another long passage ahead.

Maori Kogoro couldn't help but complain: "Isn't it the end yet? Why is this road so long?"

Others couldn't help but wonder, they should have walked into the mountain by now, right? How big a project would it take to build such a passage?

Everyone continued to move forward, and no one noticed that one person had disappeared from the crowd.

Finally, the passage came to an end and a wall blocked everyone's way.

"There is no way?" Kogoro Mouri was a little surprised.

"Are we in the wrong place?" Natsumi Kosaka was a little worried. It was too dark here and the light from the flashlight was not enough to illuminate everything, making her feel scared.

Kidd denied it, "No, I observed the road I came from, and there was only one proper road except for a cave that led to nowhere. And, you see..."

Kidd pointed to the wall with a mural on it: "If I'm not mistaken, there should be a mechanism here as well."

Everyone shone their flashlights on the mural, which had many bird patterns painted on it, and the one in the middle was the most eye-catching.

It was a two-headed bird with a crown on its head, and there seemed to be a sun painted behind the bird's head.

Miyano Shiho whispered: "The two-headed eagle is the symbol of the emperor."

Yuya nodded and decided to save time and open the mechanism directly.

He raised the flashlight, focused the beam of light under everyone's puzzled gaze, and then shone it on the crown.

Under the light, the gems painted on the crown suddenly flashed a few times, followed by a rumbling sound all around, and the entire ground was shaking with the rumbling sound.

"What, what's going on? Is it going to collapse?" Kogoro Mouri was a little panicked.

Mao Lilan was a little speechless. Her father was really unreliable sometimes. She quickly comforted him: "It's a mechanism. It should be Yuya who opened some mechanism."

Kogoro Mouri looked at Yuya and found that he was still shining the flashlight on the mural. He immediately reacted and laughed awkwardly.

With a click, the ground suddenly cracked open, and a huge square rock slowly sank. Everyone hurriedly stepped back, and then the ground next to the rock also split apart, revealing a downward staircase.

The stairs lead to the initial sinking boulder, where a door-shaped outline can be seen.

Seeing this, Maori Kogoro couldn't help but exclaimed: "This mechanism is really exaggerated!"

Everyone nodded in agreement. Such a huge project must have cost a lot of manpower and financial resources. It was really admirable.

Following the stairs into the entrance, everyone arrived at an oval-shaped room.

Mao Lilan shone the flashlight around and couldn't help saying, "It feels like I'm in an egg."

Yuya said, "It seems that this is where the Egg of Memory is hidden. Even the rooms are similar in shape."

Kogoro Mouri looked around and saw a high platform in the middle of the room with several candlesticks on both sides. He took out a lighter and lit them one by one. Soon the whole room was bright.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the platform, on which was a coffin.

The style of the coffin is Western, but the material used is wood.

Kogoro Maori couldn't help but knock on the coffin. When he bent down, he saw a huge lock hanging on it.

Conan reacted immediately when he saw the lock and shouted to Kosaka Natsumi, "Sister Natsumi, that old key!"

Natsumi Kosaka came to her senses, quickly took out the key, walked forward and gestured on the lock, and finally inserted it straight into the keyhole and twisted it gently.

"Click!" The lock opened!

Natsumi Kosaka was delighted that the key that she had never found its use for could actually be used here.

Maori Kogoro asked Kosaka Natsumi seriously: "Can I open it?"

This coffin might contain her great-grandparents, or it might contain other things. No matter what the case is, she would still have to ask Natsumi Kosaka's opinion before opening it.

Kosaka Natsumi took a deep breath and nodded: "Please open it!"