Chapter 448: Stairway to the Golden Ship

June 1, Sunday, morning, Water Army Cave.

Conan and Sanshangling entered the cave behind the altar. Not long after they walked, they turned a corner and saw a light in front of them. Sanshangling pointed there and said excitedly, "Conan, look ahead." She ran forward, but as soon as she took a step, she slipped and rolled down, and Conan, who was being pulled by her, could only roll down.

Fortunately, the height here is not high anymore, Conan and Misakasuzu only became covered in dust and were not injured.

Mishang Ling complained: "What kind of ladder is this? I didn't do it well when I did it." Then she looked at Conan's painted face and laughed.

Conan smiled angrily and said, "What's so funny, you're not the same." Then he found a metallic reflection in front of his eyes, he looked for it immediately, and found that it was a brick at the corner of the second step. There are some reflections on the bumpy surface.

Conan stretched out his hand to buckle it, but it didn't come out, but some of the lime skin was peeled off, exposing the golden yellow metal.

Sanshangling said: "Conan, this one needs to be kicked, let me help you." As he said, he kicked the bricks loose.

Conan weighed the weight and thought, it looks like it should be gold. It seems that my reasoning was wrong. Mr. Hamada knew the whereabouts of the gold, because obviously this ladder cannot be built by one person in a short period of time. Mr. Hamada must have built it bit by bit. And Mr. Hamada pointed his binoculars here to monitor the gold. But why didn't he leave the island with the gold? Could it be that he thought the island was safe and wanted to wait for the prosecution period to pass on the island? By the way, I don't know if he has revealed the location of the gold deposit.

At this time, San Shangling pointed in one direction and let out a terrified scream.

Conan immediately looked over and found a man with blood on his face, sitting motionless about ten meters behind them, and there seemed to be a pistol on the ground beside him.

"He, is he dead?" San Shangling asked behind Conan.

Conan put it on the bricks, walked over, looked around, and found that this is a cave connected to the sea, and the sea water overflowed into the cave, which is probably the reason why the Longshen drifted out of the water. Then it turned out that that person was actually Captain Uehara, he was shot in the temple, how could he be here? Was it discovered after looking at Mr. Hamada's binoculars, or was it told to him by someone who knew about the place from Mr. Hamada, and then came to kill him? Conan reached out and touched Captain Uehara's neck. It was already cold, and it seemed that he had been dead for a while.

"Did he commit suicide?" San Shangling asked.

Conan said, "I think..."

A voice came down the stairs, "I think he probably committed suicide because he thought he couldn't escape." He said and walked down.

Conan Mikami saw that it was Mr. Kinoshita.

Conan asked, "Why are you here?"

Mr. Kinoshita said: "I came to take a look, and then I found a hole behind the altar and came down." Then he said, "Come on, come back with me, the village chief and the others will come back soon."

"Okay, Uncle Kinoshita." Misakasuzu said.

"Wait a minute." Conan reached out and stopped Misakasuzu.

Mr. Kinoshita asked, "Any more questions, kid?"

Conan said: "I don't think Captain Uehara committed suicide at all, he was killed."

"No way?" Mishang Ling was taken aback.

"We don't seem to say who the dead is, right? How does he know who the dead is?" Conan asked, "And when we came, the altar was blocked at the entrance of the cave. Would a person who was about to commit suicide do that?" Then he said , "The most important thing is that this pistol is in the right hand of Captain Uehara's body. As long as you look carefully, you can find that Captain Uehara's wound is small on the left and large on the right. This is the best evidence that the bullets go in from the left and come out from the right. In other words, Captain Uehara was shot from the left side, but it is too strange to shoot himself from the left temple with the pistol in his right hand."

Mr. Kinoshita sighed: "Sleeping Kogoro really lives up to his reputation, even the children around him can teach so well."

Conan raised his triangular eyes. Strictly speaking, I taught him.

"Uncle Kinoshita." Misakasuzu shouted in surprise.

"It's no longer necessary for me to hide the matter from you." Mr. Kinoshita said grimly, "Because you will never have a chance to speak out."

"Why?" Conan asked.

Mr. Kinoshita asked in surprise: "Oh, you don't seem surprised at all?"

Conan said, "That wound on your arm was shot by you yourself."

"It turns out that you even noticed this." Mr. Kinoshita said.

Conan said: "Because there were scorched marks on your sleeve at that time, that is to say, the muzzle of the gun was pressed against your sleeve when you fired the gun. But you said that Captain Uehara shot suddenly. If it was suddenly Shoot, it's hard to stick it on your sleeve so coincidentally and shoot."

"Your kid does have a trick, so Maori detective should know about it." Mr. Kinoshita said, "It seems that he should be dealt with earlier."

Conan said: "It turns out that the person who killed Mr. Hamada was really you."

"Really? It seems that Detective Mori couldn't reason, so he didn't expose me." Mr. Kinoshita laughed.

"It's just that you didn't expose your evidence on the spot." Conan said, "Just investigate how many people on the island can wear armor, and they will wear the armor of the navy, and you will know who the murderer is."

Mikami Suzu said: "It seems that no one on our island knows how to wear armor, and except for Uncle Kinoshita who manages the cultural center, no one can touch the navy armor."

Mr. Kinoshita said: "Little friend, do you know? Speaking of which, Hamada will die because of you."

"Me?" Conan thought for a moment and asked, "Is it because of the question I asked?"

"That's right," Mr. Kinoshita said, "Actually, I've been paying attention to Hamada since a long time ago, and I went to the lighthouse to investigate when he was away. I also know about the navy cave with binoculars, but I just haven't thought about it. He is the gold robber. After being reminded by you, in order not to let Maori detectives find the gold first, I went to him, but I didn't expect him to say that he was just a support person, and so was Captain Uehara, so I had to kill him."

Conan said: "I think, even if Mr. Hamada knew where the gold was, you would kill him."

"Hamada's original surname was actually Aoki, so killing him should be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." Mr. Kinoshita said, "The professor and his students who came here before were used by Hamada to deliver meals. Mixed with drugs, they all stunned, and sank into the sea."

"This kind of thing has its own law to punish him, and it's not your turn to do it." Conan said, and then asked, "Do you know how he made his face?"

"It's fake, it's glued on." Mr. Kinoshita said.

Conan said: "You are killing Mr. Hamada. After setting up the scene, you lured Uncle Maoli over, trying to blame uncle and drive him out of the island."

"That's right." Mr. Kinoshita said, "But it was easily resolved by Mr. Mori."

Conan said: "Although you didn't ask Mr. Hamada where the gold was hidden, you did ask the news that the Dragon God was here. You came here to look for it but didn't find the gold. You think the police won't find it either. So You just shot yourself in the hotel to attract the police. And you persuaded Captain Uehara to hide here just to kill him in this place where no one would come, so that he can pretend to be a suicide Afterwards, he pretended to find this place by accident and brought the police here, so that the police would think that he committed suicide in fear of crime, and thus ended Mr. Hamada's incident." Then he asked, "How did you convince him?"

"He pointed a gun at me when I went in," Mr. Kinoshita said. "I told him that he couldn't get out with a gun. I believed he was innocent, but the people on the island didn't believe him and would treat him. Let him lynch and let him hide until the police come out.” Then he said, “It’s not good to be caught with a pistol, so he gave the gun to me for safekeeping.” He picked up the pistol.

"Uncle Kinoshita." Misakasuzu was very scared.

"Little friend, these are all your own reasonings, right? It's really good. But, it's a pity." Mr. Kinoshita said, "By the way, you don't seem to be scared at all, are you waiting for the person who claims to be Mr. Mori?" A high school student with a part-time assistant? Sorry, I saw him go back."

Conan was relieved because the embarrassing scene hadn't been leaked out, but at the same time he became a little nervous because Yamazaki didn't follow.

Mr. Kinoshita said: "Speaking of it, I blame the greedy fellow of the village chief..."

San Shangling said: "My father is not greedy at all, he is for this island."

Mr. Kinoshita continued: "If he hadn't found the Maori detective on the island, so many things wouldn't have happened. If you want to blame them, you can blame them. Speaking of which, the legend that the famous detective Maori Kogoro would bring incidents is true. Yes, this time it's up to you." As he spoke, he wanted to shoot.

"Wait a minute," Conan said.

Mr. Kinoshita asked: "Little friend, what else do you want to say before you die?"

While walking towards the brick he threw on the ground, Conan asked, "You have spent so much effort, don't you want to know where the gold is hidden?"

"What did you say?" Mr. Kinoshita was taken aback. "Could the Maori detective already know where the gold is?"

Conan knelt down to pick up the bricks, and twisted the knob on the shoe while saying, "Of course, Uncle Maori's reputation for being able to solve the incident is not fake."

"So, where is the gold?" Mr. Kinoshita's voice was a little trembling, and then he saw the bricks in Conan's hand, reacted, and asked in surprise, "Could it be that the gold pieces were built into that ladder?" Then he shouted , "Hurry up, show it to me."...