Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

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While Genta was suppressing Mitsuhiko, Ayumi thought for a while, then suddenly broke down and shouted:

"Mitsuhiko is a boy, Conan is a detective, Genta is a member of the Detective Boys, so why am I, Ayumi, not in the Detective Boys? Wow..."

"Huh?" As soon as Ayumi cried, the bullying between Genta and Mitsuhiko immediately stopped, and they began to comfort her.

In the end, Mitsuhiko made a concession, giving half of his position as a boy to Ayumi, since Ayumi was also a boy, which finally appeased her.

While the Teitan trio were arguing about the Junior Detective League, Jiang Chengbei turned on his tracking glasses to check if the Detective Badge's location was working properly.

After activating the tracking glasses, Jiang Chengbei discovered that the transmitter from Teitan High School had now reached Sakurada Gate. Shinichi Kudo had gone far enough. Didn't he have class today?

High school students in Japan have such a wonderful life; they can skip classes at will to volunteer for the Metropolitan Police Department.

Shinichi Kudo is working so hard, so I need to hurry up and solve more cases to really make Detective Conan a household name and surpass Shinichi Kudo.

Just then, they wandered to the wall by the playground, so Jiang Chengbei said to the three idiots from Teitan who were arguing, "Hey, you three, hurry up and go back to class, I'm leaving."

After saying that, Jiang Chengbei leaped over the wall of Ditan Elementary School, intending to leave from where he came from.

"Wait, Conan, don't go yet, we still have things to do."

Just as Jiang Chengbei was about to climb down the wall, he heard the shouts of the three idiots from Teitan. Jiang Chengbei stopped, sat on the wall, looked down from above, and asked, "What else do you three want?"

"Conan, are you leaving?"

"Correct."

"But it's school time now, aren't you supposed to be in class?"

"I, Conan Edogawa, am an unregistered resident. I have no school to attend and I don't need to go to school."

"I'm so envious! Conan doesn't have to go to school. We wish we could too."

"I'll be leaving now if there's nothing else. I'm in a hurry to solve the case and press my advantage so that my defeated opponent, Shinichi Kudo, can never recover."

"Huh? Is Conan going to investigate a case? Can we come along? We really want to go too!"

"Yes, we're a group. If Conan goes on a case without taking us along, can we still be considered the Junior Detective Club?"

"That's right, Conan, why don't you take us with you to show off? You were so cool on TV last night!"

After hearing the Teitan Trio's request, Jiang Chengbei thought for a moment. In order to leave more trouble for the real Conan who would take care of children in the future, Jiang Chengbei decided to unleash the Teitan Trio's nature in advance and let them accumulate some experience in causing trouble, so he agreed.

He has the skill of scaling walls and leaping over fences, so it's a piece of cake for him. But for the three real elementary school students below, they can't do the same thing as him; they don't have that ability.

So, Jiang Chengbei waved his hand outside for a moment, and when he came back, he had a simple ladder he bought from an ordinary store. He put it inside the wall, providing these three audacious elementary school students with a way to skip school.

Jiang Chengbei's actions ignited the untamed spirit hidden deep within the Teitan Trio. They exchanged a determined look, nodded encouragingly to each other, and then climbed the ladder onto the wall one by one.

That's more like it. A first-grader so adept at bypassing the Great Firewall on his first try—that's exactly how Jiang Chengbei described Japanese elementary school students in the articles he read in Yilin magazine in his previous life.

Seeing the performance of the Teitan Three Idiots, Jiang Chengbei finally believed the article in Yilin that said Japanese elementary school students could carry dozens of kilograms of stuff and hike dozens of kilometers during summer camp.

Remembering how Mitsuhiko went alone to the deep mountains and forests of Gunma Prefecture to find fireflies in the original series, Jiang Chengbei felt that the Japanese elementary school students described in Yilin might not be a fabrication, as there are quite a few in the world of Detective Conan.

After the Teitan trio climbed onto the wall, Genta and Mitsuhiko worked together to pull the ladder up from inside the wall and placed it outside. Then, one by one, they climbed down the wall, finally laying the ladder down and hiding it so they could use it again when climbing the school wall in the future.

Look, when it comes to climbing over the wall, although they don't rely on their own skills like Jiang Chengbei, they used tools and climbed over it quite skillfully on their first try, the process was very smooth.

Seeing that the three idiots of Teitan had learned to skip school by climbing over the wall on their first meeting, Jiang Chengbei was very pleased: Conan, these are the ministers I have chosen for you to entrust your care. From now on, the three of them will assist you in ascending the throne and conquering the world.

Jiang Chengbei jumped down from the wall, and then, amidst the admiring gazes of the three little ones, walked gracefully toward the old Western-style house haunted in Beikacho 4-chome.

Chapter 10 Catching a Murderer in a Haunted House

Soon, guided by the Teitan Three Fools, the four people from Jiangchengbei arrived at the haunted old house in 4-chome.

According to Bu Mei, the old house was haunted five years ago. The male owner was killed by a monster, and then the female owner and their son disappeared. After that, the house became a well-known haunted house.

This old house looks very old from the outside, but the gate and walls are still intact, faithfully performing their duty to keep uninvited guests like the Teitan Three Idiots out.

Although the gate and walls blocked the Teitan trio's path, they knew a lot and had already found a dog hole in a secluded corner of the wall.

They opened the wooden plank above the dog hole and crawled in one by one.

With his ability to scale walls and roofs, Jiang Chengbei didn't need to crawl through dog holes; with a little effort, he could easily climb over the wall and into the old Western-style house.

After Jiang Chengbei and his group entered the old house, they saw that the hall directly opposite the entrance was filled with eerie and terrifying giant ghost statues.

These statues look creepy even during the day; I really don't know why the four little devils in the original show chose to come at night.

These four elementary school students went on a haunted house adventure late at night, doing whatever they could to get themselves killed and seeking the most thrills.

Fortunately, he came from Jiangcheng North today, and under his guidance, they finally got to explore the haunted house in broad daylight.

Even though it was daytime, the Teitan trio were still terrified by the terrifying statue. Even so, Genta Mitsuhiko stubbornly insisted that he wasn't afraid, trying his best to show his manly spirit in front of Ayumi.

Jiang Chengbei didn't come to explore the haunted house. His purpose was clear: to find the basement and the murderer's son who was being held captive by the female owner.

After the Teitan trio explored the entire building like it was an amusement park, Jiang Chengbei finally found the entrance to the basement.

Unfortunately, the basement entrance was covered by an iron plate disguised as a floor, which Jiang Chengbei, being a child, could not open.

Fortunately, he had Conan's gadgets. He took out the legendary retractable strap invented by Professor Agasa, attached it to the doorknob, and activated the strap. It seemed to be filled with infinite energy, pulling up the incredibly heavy iron door.

"Wow, there's a staircase and a basement down here?"

Looking down into the pitch-black basement, the Teitan Sansa immediately leaned closer, their eyes fixed on the end of the stairs, filled with curiosity.

Curiosity killed the cat. Seeing Jiang Chengbei walking down the street with a flashlight, they followed closely behind him, one after another, filled with fear and curiosity. They were both naive and playful.

The basement of the old house was very large, with a long corridor that divided it into rooms. If it weren't for the lack of lighting and stuffy air, the basement would have been almost identical to the rooms upstairs.

Reaching the end of the basement, accompanied by eerie wailing sounds, Jiang Chengbei and his companions finally found the cell where the murderer's son was being held.

Upon opening the door and entering, Jiang Chengbei saw a mother and son with long hair who had lived for many years in a dark, sunless basement, lacking sunlight and activity. They were emaciated and somewhat mentally unstable.

When the four children suddenly opened the door and came in, the woman inside froze, staring at Jiang Chengbei and the others in shock.

Of course, because of the two people's terrifying, inhuman appearance, the Teitan Three Fools trembled and huddled together, almost wetting themselves in fear.

Having received no system messages and no kill reward, Jiang Chengbei realized that these two weren't planning to kill him. Now, Jiang Chengbei had no choice but to take the initiative.

So, Jiang Chengbei took out his brick-sized phone and shouted to the three kids behind him, "We've found the murderer! Go call the police right now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiangcheng North's system responded.

System message: You have sensed Torii Tamako's murderous intent towards you. You are rewarded with one Kill Coin and Torii Tamako's Detective Conan Shop is now open.

New item added to the Conan Mall: Safe House (from Torii Beads, priced at 1 Kill Coin)

Safe House: You can choose a house to become a safe house, where people hiding in the safe house are less likely to be noticed.

A level 1 safe house allows you to designate a house as a safe house.

A level 2 safe house requires 2 kill coins to upgrade, and you can designate any two houses as safe houses.

A level 3 safe house requires 4 kill coins to upgrade, and you can designate any three houses as safe houses.

A level 4 safe house requires 8 kill coins to upgrade, and you can designate any four houses as safe houses.

A level 5 safe house requires 16 kill coins to upgrade, and you can designate any five houses as safe houses.

Having obtained the permission to purchase new skills, Jiang Chengbei pressed on, picking up his phone and starting to tap away, saying as he pressed the buttons:

"There's a murderer here! I need to call the police! I need to call the police!"

Strangely, Jiang Chengbei kept saying he was calling the police and pressing the buttons repeatedly, but even after pressing the simple numbers "110" for so long, he still hadn't made the call when the old woman Torii Tamako pounced on him.

Because they met unexpectedly, the old woman hadn't expected anyone to find the basement and come in. She wasn't prepared either, so she could only rush forward empty-handed.

She arrived empty-handed, and the system didn't respond for a long time. Jiang Chengbei could only close the door behind him, leaving the three Teitan idiots, who hadn't even had a chance to enter the house, outside in the hallway.

Then, with his agile movements, he dodged Torii Tama's attack and casually threw a fruit knife on the ground.

Missing Jiang Chengbei, Torii Tamako staggered. Having spent five years hiding in the basement and lacking exercise, she collapsed to the ground. By sheer coincidence, her hand touched the fruit knife that Jiang Chengbei had thrown on the ground.

Concerned about whether her son's crimes would be exposed, Torii Tamako picked up a fruit knife without thinking, got up, and stabbed towards Jiangcheng North.

"No! Mom, no!" The man locked in the cell screamed, clutching the iron bars, as he saw the old woman about to kill someone.

Previously, Torii Tamako's hands were empty, so the system did not determine that she was trying to kill Jiang Chengbei. But now that she is holding a fruit knife and is stabbing Jiang Chengbei, the system reacted immediately.

System message: Torii Tamako is trying to kill you. Hereby rewarding you with 1 kill coin as encouragement.

Seeing that he had the kill coin, Jiang Chengbei dodged past Torii Tamako and had a softball in his hand. With the help of his power-enhancing shoes, he hit Torii Tamako on the head and knocked her unconscious.

"do not want!"

Seeing Torii Tamako collapse after being hit by a ball, the man in the cell nervously gripped the iron bars and anxiously called out, "Mom!"

Thinking that there was still one person there, and adhering to the principle of not wasting any time, Jiang Chengbei pretended to go over and check Torii Tamako's breath, while also pouring ketchup on her head.

After completing these preparations, Jiang Chengbei shone the flashlight on the old woman's head, allowing the man in the cell to see his mother lying in a pool of blood.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I kicked your mother to death."

Jiang Chengbei shook his head and sighed, then pretended to accidentally kick the fruit knife next to Torii Tamako's hand, sending it flying to the feet of her son in the prison cell.

Seeing the fruit knife right next to the man kneeling in the cell, gripping the iron bars, Jiang Chengbei casually walked over and faced the man in the cell. The fruit knife was within easy reach for him.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I killed your mother."

"Ah..." Despite Jiang Chengbei's provocative words, the man locked in the cell ignored him, only burying his face in his hands and crying, showing no intention of avenging his mother.

After several attempts, whether verbally provoking or threatening to call the police, Jiang Chengbei did not receive any new system notifications.

"You couldn't stand a few sarcastic remarks from your father and killed him. Now your mother's killer is right in front of you, and you don't even think about avenging her. What a failure, you unfilial son."

Seeing that the long-haired man hadn't listened to him and was just crying in his own world, Jiang Chengbei had no choice but to despise this man who had killed his father in the past but now didn't even have the courage to avenge his mother.

Left with no other option, Jiang Chengbei picked up his phone to call the police and also called several reporters who had interviewed him the day before, giving them the address.

Chapter 11 The Teitan Trio Receive Love from Their Parents

Jiang Chengbei felt a little disappointed that he hadn't managed to get anything out of Torii Akio, the murderer of his father, in prison.

There's no rush to buy a safe house right now, so Jiang Chengbei hasn't bought one yet. He can buy one when he needs it in the future.

If he doesn't buy a safe house, Jiang Chengbei currently has 3 kill coins. So he spent 2 kill coins to upgrade his Wall-Running skill by one level, and now Wall-Running is at level 2. At the same time, he only has 1 kill coin left.

Shortly after handling the system reward and filing a police report in Jiangcheng North, the reporter arrived before the police.

Having learned from yesterday's experience, Jiang Chengbei was not at all shy in front of the reporters. He had a good grasp of camera presence and told the reporters about the case in a way that was selective and omitted some details.