Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 165: The Dark Mysterious Train (Part 3)

Conan led a group of people walking in the corridor of the train: "How strange, I don't remember that I counted the wrong number of the car number just now?"

"It can't be helped. There's no carriage number written on the sides of the train," Mitsuhiko consoled. "And the doors of all the rooms only have English letters."

At this time, Dr. Agasa opened the door and looked at everyone: "Oh, it's you, how's the reasoning puzzle going?"

This scene made Conan a little confused again: "Doctor, is this the room we are in carriage number six?"

"Yes." Dr. Agasa stepped aside and showed the interior of the room to everyone. "Look, the snacks you just finished eating are still here."

Now even Yuantai noticed that something was wrong.

"Hey, Conan, something seems strange."

"We clearly started from car number eight, so we only skipped one car."

"So," the little girl said in a sinister voice, "Car number seven disappeared out of thin air. Is this a ghost train?"

"Ah!" Ayumi was startled.

Conan, who didn't believe it, went straight to the conductor of the carriage to ask.

"Car number seven disappeared? How is that possible?" The conductor sat in his chair and listened to the children's questions.

"Just now, we were in carriage number seven and saw an uncle being shot. The criminal in that room immediately escaped after committing the crime. We chased after him and accidentally lost him."

"When we returned to the room, we found that carriage number seven had become number eight!"

"There's a gun?" the commander was slightly surprised. "If that's the case, why didn't you tell us immediately when you saw it?"

"We all thought it was part of a reasoning puzzle. Anyway, you should confirm it quickly. Carriage number seven has disappeared, along with the passenger who was shot." Conan was a little anxious.

The conductor said calmly, "I think you should just ask the conductors on standby in each car. At the end of the corridor in every car with guest rooms, there's a conductor sitting in a chair like me."

A room's call bell rang, and a red light above the room illuminated. The conductor, seeing this, stood up and prepared to attend to the passengers. "I think you must have made a mistake. Due to the owner's reasons, the carriages on this train don't have numbers displayed inside. Because of this design, many guests don't know where their rooms are. It's really hard for us conductors to guide them."

Watching the conductor knock on the guest room door, Mitsuhiko suddenly realized: "So, if I press the call button inside the room, the light outside the room will turn on. The conductor will even come over to check."

"That's so cool. I want to try it later." Yuantai's mind was immediately no longer on the puzzle in carriage number seven.

The little girl quickly reminded him, "It's better not to bother the conductor with trivial matters."

Conan also brought the topic back on track: "The most important thing now is to find the missing car No. 7. Let's go and confirm it quickly."

The three little ones finally came to their senses and followed Conan's pace.

In front of the conductor of car No. 7, the group repeatedly confirmed that this was indeed car No. 7, so Conan prepared to go to room B to take another look.

When they opened the door, they saw Ran, Sonoko, and Sera inside. Sonoko was a little unhappy about being disturbed twice: "Didn't I tell you that this is carriage number eight? Why don't you all go back to your rooms and stay there!"

After thinking for a while, Conan recalled that the last time they entered the room, Sera was holding a letter in her hand, and now he understood.

After figuring out the reason, Conan opened the door again and interrupted Sonoko who was about to talk to them: "This is undoubtedly Room B of Carriage 7, right? Sonoko-san, you also got the letter, right? It's similar to this one, so you also started to act according to the instructions in the letter, right?"

Conan took out the letter from his pocket: "But your letter asks you to temporarily exchange rooms with the passenger in this room who is playing the victim, so that the person who is in charge of playing the detective will be confused about the current situation, right?"

"That's amazing, he's really Conan." Xiaolan applauded.

Shiliang also sighed: "Yes, this is the correct answer."

However, Sonoko still seemed very unhappy after the truth was revealed.

The little girl, with her hands on her hips, complained, "Huh, the three sisters acted as accomplices, so when we opened the door, asked without success, and left, you must have been laughing secretly in the room."

Upon hearing this, Sonoko immediately felt embarrassed, because she had indeed laughed out loud in the room when Conan and the others left for the first time because she felt that her plan had succeeded.

So Conan took the opportunity to ask about the whereabouts of Mr. Murohashi, who played the victim.

Xiaolan: "I think he should still be in carriage number eight."

"Where is Uncle Kogoro?"

Sonoko: "The passenger who will play the victim asked Uncle to wait in the restaurant car. He's not here."

Xiaolan added: "It seems that the other party wants Dad to play the role of the detective responsible for explaining the final part of this puzzle game, so he was asked to wait there for the time being."

"By the way, this is the first time we meet." Sera turned to Huibara. "You are the child named Huibara, right? I have been wanting to have a good talk with you for a long time."

Huibara hid behind Conan and trembled. Suddenly, Sera's expression changed: "Who is it?"

Shiliang opened the door, but there was no one outside: "I always felt that someone was peeking at us just now. Am I being too suspicious?"

After closing the door, the postman's dog Wick walked past the door in small steps.

[Postman: That was a close call. We were almost discovered.]

[First Mate: But no matter what, Vermouth can confirm that Haibara Ai is on this train, so there is no need to help them cover up.]

[Spellcaster: Ms. Michiko seems to be in the restaurant car right now.]

[Akai Chou: Yes, I'm here with Maori Kogoro.]

Maori Kogoro, who was sitting opposite Hongchou at this time, sighed, "Oh, I didn't expect Miss Michiko to be on this train, and you've changed into such a gorgeous dress."

Hongdie (Eternal Night Aurora) chuckled: "Thank you for the compliment, Detective Maori. This is a dress designed for me by a designer with the theme of 'Metropolis'."

Red Butterfly wears a gorgeous metal crown, her facial makeup is delicate and gorgeous, and her glittering outfit is made up of fur sequins and silk. She seems to be wearing the gorgeous neon lights of the metropolis, and she looks like a star singer who is the focus of everyone's attention, and the image of an extremely gorgeous media queen.

"However, Detective Maori, please keep those... sharp objects away. I've been seriously scratched before, and the tableware I usually use is specially made." Hongdie shifted her gaze away from the metal tableware.

"Really? Sorry, I'll ask the waiter to remove them right away." Kogoro Mouri was quite considerate at this time.

At this time, a fire was breaking out outside the train window, and the passengers in carriage number 8 felt a little scared when they saw it.