When Yuan Tai came over to hold the door, Conan immediately ran into the basement.

He first picked up the watch that fell below the steps, then used the light source of the watch as a illumination to inspect the body.

Unlike the fresh corpses produced locally in Rice, this time the corpses have been highly ossified.

Conan checked it briefly and determined that the body had been here for at least 10 years.

There is nothing on the bone that can prove its identity.

Holding a cloth strip on the right hand of the bone, there was a pile of incredible words written on it.

"This is……"

Since the body had been left for a long time, all traces of it had disappeared, and I was not afraid of destroying the scene. This time, Conan picked up the cloth strip with his hand.

I saw that the text on the cloth strips were all Chinese characters, but some were false words composed of radicals of Chinese characters, and no information could be read.

Looking at the cloth strip in his hand, Conan was stunned and suddenly remembered that one day 10 years ago, he had seen such a cloth strip.

Time went back 10 years ago, when Shinichi Kotaku played football with other classmates on the playground.

Xiaolan suddenly ran over and said that she had found a magical "magic belt" in the old warehouse behind the school.

So, the two came to the old warehouse and saw a tape with unknown words tied to the handle of the warehouse door.

Shinichi Xiao recognized that the text on the strap was somewhat similar to Chinese characters, so he wanted to untie the strap and take it back to show it to the teacher.

But at this moment, a man dressed as a baseball player appeared behind him, warning them not to take off their straps.

"Because that strap is used to seal the terrifying monster in the warehouse..."

Even though time has passed, Conan still remembers what the man said at that time.

But later this matter was left alone, after all, it is easy for children to distract themselves.

Could this strap be the one from that time?

The unsolved mysteries of childhood are now in front of me again, and this skeleton immediately aroused Conan's curiosity.

He took out his cell phone, took a photo at the cloth strip, and then turned around and asked the three little ones to call the police.

However, the three primary school students did not bring their mobile phones when they went to school, so the task of calling the police fell on Rumi Wakasa who was standing silently behind.

...

Soon, the police arrived at the school.

The person who handled this case was Shirato Ren Saburo, who had been promoted to the police department before.

First, I heard Conan and the Three Little One describe the discovery of the body, and Shirou began to conduct on-site investigation.

After a while, a conclusion was drawn.

This skeleton should have been a thief during his lifetime.

There was a big crack behind the skull of the skeleton, and it was lying on its back under the steps, and a large bag of lime was still in its arms.

This shows that this person came to the school warehouse to steal lime in the middle of the night, but his center of gravity was unstable when he went up the steps, which caused his body to fall back and die.

Because the warehouse was abandoned soon after, no one discovered it.

"Anyway, this should be just an accident."

"When we go back, we will investigate the population disappearance records 10 years ago, and we should be able to confirm his identity..."

"So farewell."

Watching Officer Shiragou leaving, Yuan Tai put his head on his arms and sighed: "What are you doing? It turns out that it's not a murder case..."

Mitsuhiko: "Yes, it's a bit boring..."

Azumi: "What a pity, I thought I could catch the murderer again..."

Listening to the increasingly outrageous speech of the three little ones, Conan was both emotional and helpless.

These children have been following them all the time and are less and less awe of life.

Was it the same for myself in the past?

Conan recalls himself a year ago and shows an excited expression when encountering a case.

Especially the more confusing the case is, the more excited the brain feels.

This feeling of crazy secretion of dopamine makes me enjoy it very much.

But little did not know that this idea would make people more and more like a case-solving machine, rather than a human detective.

From the process of enjoying reasoning, the occurrence of a case is due to the expiration of the case.

A mediocre case with no casualties is not enough. The more bizarre, the more enjoyable it is for a brutal case.

What happens once this desire is not satisfied for a long time?

Going to create a case in person...

This transformation process is actually a process of gradually pursuing excitement.

Conan reflects on himself, and at the same time, he is also reflecting on the Sherlock Holmes he has always regarded as his faith.

Sherlock Holmes is a detective who pursues the fun of reasoning.

When he can't find a case that can stimulate his brain, he will be so bored that his brain almost goes crazy. He can rely on morphine to get over the trough.

In this process of pursuing reasoning and puzzles, will humans lose the empathy that they should have in the process?

The occurrence of a case often means that someone's interests are damaged, money or life interests.

Is it a thought that humans should have that hope that such things can happen every day?

But what would happen if Sherlock Holmes had not encountered a case that could stimulate him for a long time?

Sherlock Holmes could become a lunatic, as he had always said to Watson.

Or overdose of morphine and one day died alone in the house at 221B Baker Street.

Or you may come to create a case in person and seek another way to pursue excitement.

If the thing that drives Moriarty to commit crime is ambition, then Holmes is pure fun.

This kind of criminal is even more terrifying.

Because all his actions have no purpose to follow, and Sherlock Holmes is a person with extremely meticulous logic.

He will be the most "perfect" criminal in history...

Fortunately, Holmes is just a character portrayed in literary works. Whether he is good or bad, life or death, it is the difference between the author's thoughts.

But this is not the case in the real world.

Some things are not going to be back once they are done.

Once some thinking is developed from childhood, it will be difficult to change when you grow up.

Both yourself and the three little ones should establish a mindset - detectives exist to solve the case, not expecting the case to happen.

Therefore, Conan decided to give the three little ones a habit now, try not to let them solve the case with him and accept the mental stimulation from the case.

"Okay, the lunch break is almost over, let's go back to the classroom..."

Conan turned his head and walked towards the teaching building.

The three little ones looked at Conan who turned around and left, and they were still feeling unsatisfied.

In their impression, Conan can often characterize the police as an accident case and turn it into a case designed by the murderer.

As a result, Conan said nothing this time and did not even investigate it again.

The three of them looked at each other in a glance.

But without Conan, they had no direction even if they wanted to investigate, so they could only follow them back to the classroom in disappointment.

...

During the first physical education class in the afternoon, Conan left the Youth Detective Group on the excuse of going to the bathroom.

He came to the teacher's office alone, first stretched his head and looked around, but did not see the teacher.

Eh?

Why is there no one?

Conan came to the office and wanted to borrow the printer here to print out the strips of cloth found on the bone's hands at noon.

After thinking about a physical education class, he had guessed the purpose of the cloth strip.

It was a kind of password stick used by the ancient Spartans.

Just wrap the strip of cloth around a wooden stick, write the text on it, and then remove the stick, and the text on the strip will become a code that no one can understand.

Only when another person has a wooden stick of the same thickness as before can the secret code be restored.

So, he now wants to print the words on the cloth strip on the paper, and then find a stick-like object that is about the same thickness as the warehouse door handle, and test his guess.

This kind of reasoning process similar to a small scientific experiment could have brought three little ones together.
To be continued...