Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 275: The Ghost of the Crystal Palace (Part 5)

"So Luca, our dear investigator, where do you plan to start your investigation?" the mechanic asked with his hands on his hips.

The prisoner fiddled with the instrument. "Let's start with the first ghost sighting."

"Wait, Tracy, why are you so excited?" The prisoner scratched his head.

"That's a ghost. Don't you find this kind of supernatural event interesting?" The mechanic rubbed his hands excitedly.

"In fact, most supernatural rumors are ultimately proven to be accidental coincidences or rumors spread by ignorant people. My mission is to uncover the truth."

"Stop, stop, stop, great inventor, there's no need to tell me your old theory. I always feel that you regard ghosts as some kind of special electromagnetic field, and then you try to capture one and stuff it into your machine to create a perpetual motion machine." The mechanic waved his hand and expressed his guess.

The prisoner blushed again: "No, could you please not bring everything up with my research on perpetual motion machines? Can't I just be here to investigate seriously?"

The mechanic then stared at the prisoner with a suspicious look: "Oh? It really has nothing to do with it?"

The prisoner felt uncomfortable being stared at. "Well, actually, it's the price the client offered that I really couldn't refuse. You know, those professional research equipment are very expensive, and the teacher wouldn't easily approve me to use the ones in the lab..."

"Anyway, please, don't tell on me!"

Maori Kogoro watched the interaction between the two and complained: "What kind of perpetual motion machine is this? It would be great if there was a machine that could produce unlimited beer."

Xiaolan held her forehead and said, "There's no way there's a machine like that."

Conan was eager to find out the truth about the ghost: "Brother Luca, Sister Tracy, let's start investigating."

The prisoner finally came to his senses. "Yeah, that's right. We need to gather evidence first... If this is our first ghost sighting, we should just ask the warden."

So the group went to the wild man again and asked: "Excuse me, in the first ghost sighting, where did the ghost disappear at the end?"

"It's over there, on the fourth floor of the left corridor, behind the glass wall of the shops." The savage pointed to the shops on the upper floors.

"Did you find any clues at that time?"

The Savage scratched his head. "No, I was in a hurry to go around the Crystal Palace to search for traces of the ghost. The next day, the Duke sent a patrol to search the entire Crystal Palace, so I didn't have time to go back to the fourth floor to check on the scene."

"Then let's go there and take a look now."

The group walked up to the shops on the fourth floor.

Dr. Agasa was so tired that he was out of breath. "Huh, these stairs are really hard to climb."

The mechanic was also exhausted. After reaching the fourth floor, he began to rest on the handrail: "This Crystal Palace is said to be even bigger than the World Exhibition back then. Huh..."

The prisoner chuckled cheerfully, "Haha, Tracy, you need to get more exercise. It's not good for you to stay in the studio tinkering with robots all the time."

"Humph!"

[Forward: Is this what it means to be weak and out of strength?]

[Lawyer: My husband is as hard as iron.]

[Hitter: As long as I go all out, even Miss Galatea's statue can't catch up to me, hehe.]

[Sculptor: Tsk.]

[Fool's Gold: (Induce Stone Seal Interaction) (Charge Pickaxe) (Ready to Explode)]

[Batter: Ugh! (Falls to the ground)]

[Fool's Gold: Even if you have the fastest interaction speed in my area, I'll still give you a shock.]

[Batter: That's too much. I didn't protect myself!]

[Gravekeeper: Ganji, that's not what you said when you were dancing on the Supervisor's face with a cricket bat...]

[Crying Clown: Not as good as me in pulling the rocket.]

[Cheerleader: Look at my handy pom-pom.]

[Opera Singer: Oh?]

[Joker: I didn't say anything.]

The prisoner lay on the fourth-floor window sill, looking around. "According to the guard, the ghost flew away from here and disappeared into the night. He had to go down from the fourth floor to check outside the Crystal Palace."

Conan also looked over. "It's more than ten meters high here. The glass wall is broken, and there are some debris on the ground that hasn't been cleaned up. It seems that they haven't had time to clean it up yet."

Yuanzi exclaimed: "Wow, these glass panes are so big! One piece of glass must be more than two meters high."

Maori Kogoro tapped the glass gently and said, "And these glasses look very strong. They should be difficult to break with external force."

The mechanic explained, "The Crystal Palace is constructed entirely of glass embedded in steel bars. The Crystal Palace at the World Expo used square meters of glass. And this Crystal Palace is even larger than it was back then."

After touching the glass, Kogoro Mouri stood on the windowsill and looked at the transparent outer wall. He immediately suffered from acrophobia and his legs trembled. Xiaolan hurriedly pulled him to a place where the ground could not be seen.

Conan showed half-moon eyes: It turns out that uncle is weak in this area.

Just as Conan was thinking about where to start looking for clues, he saw the prisoner take out a metal detector.

"Brother Luca, what is this?" Conan asked, pointing at the metal detector in the prisoner's hand.

"I'm a professional, so of course I carry professional tools. This is my invention, a metal detection rod. This way we can use scientific methods to detect these so-called supernatural phenomena." The prisoner put his hands on his hips proudly.

Xiaolan and Sonoko were also attracted by the instrument that was said to be able to detect "ghosts".

"So how do we do it specifically?"

"First, magnetize it with a magnet, then sprinkle the metal powder on a metal rod. Then, hold it in your hand and follow the direction in which the swing amplitude of the metal rod increases to find the clue!"

The mechanic looked at the metal rod humming and trembling in the prisoner's hand with a skeptical expression: "Will this really work?"

Conan also doubted whether this would be useful, because this instrument looked like a simple metal detector, and the "ghost" couldn't be made of metal.

"Got it!" The metal rod in the prisoner's hand shook violently as it approached the outer edge of the wall.

"It's a few metal parts, springs and screws. It looks quite delicate, like a specially customized model."

The mechanic was speechless. "What? You're just dangling two poles around? And you only found these obvious things?"

Sonoko was also a little disappointed: "Really, I was really looking forward to this device being able to make ghosts appear directly."

Xiaolan said, "Zonoko, ghosts don't really exist."

"Don't worry about it. Just find the clues." The prisoner spread out several parts in his hands and examined them.

Sonoko was rather curious: "But don't ghosts usually pass through walls? Why do they leave behind these parts?"

The prisoner smiled and said, "Perhaps this ghost is really made of metal. Come on, let's take these parts to ask the guard."

The Savage looked at these parts with some confusion. "Strange! These don't look like parts from the Crystal Palace's steel support frame. But how can a flying and multiplying ghost be related to screws and springs?"

The prisoner explained, "Perhaps what you saw wasn't a ghost in the traditional sense. We can continue investigating based on what we have."