Book 4: Chapter 24: Gushan Road’s Famous Detective

Book 4: Chapter 24: Gushan Road’s Famous Detective

I had no memory of this at all. Of course, the bond between me and my Uncle Three was very complicated. He took me to do too many strange things, so not only did I not have any memory of this matter, but I also only had a general theme in my memories of many other things that had happened. For example, those many summers of catching all kinds of bugs was eventually unified into catching crickets in my mind.

As Jin Wantang spoke, I didn't interrupt and just looked at him quietly. To be honest, I had trained myself to maintain an indifferent attitude towards such secrets and clues because I dared not cling to them so easily.

He went on talking about what happened back then.

At that time, the game was very similar to playing house. Everyone pretended to be an archaeological team member, just like those kids who picked their favorite One Piece character to play fight. But because I was too young back then, I had little memory of it.

Jin Wantang believed that Uncle Three was trying to recreate what really happened at the Xisha underwater tomb at that time. Qi Yu wasnt important to the whole story, so Uncle Three took me to make up the numbers.

When they replayed the series of events that time, they actually discovered a very important clue. It was because I had participated in the whole process that I was able to stir up some of their fragmented memories.

That important clue was related to Qi Yuthe person I was playingand all of my Qi Yu-related training started after that game.

Jin Wantang's reasoning process wasnt rigorous, so theres no need to repeat it here. Ill only record what his conclusions were.

First, some people had hoped that Qi Yu was still alive, so they trained me to learn his handwriting. In essence, did these people want to believe that Qi Yu was me?

I couldnt seem to find any logic to it, but Jin Wantang continued talking, "I don't know if Master Hua finally found the answer in the end, but there is a problem that we can think about."

He coughed a few times, leaving some traces of blood on his mouth that gave me a bad feeling.

He didn't seem to notice and just kept talking, "Did those individuals your Uncle Three wanted to lie to actually believe in this?"

"Only a fool would believe it," Fatty said.

I didnt think so. First of all, there was a period of time when I had wondered why I had some strange memories and why my handwriting was the same as that of my predecessor. If this kind of thing wasnt directly explained by the person involved, then all the secrecy was actually quite scary and convincing.

This matter had always existed in Jin Wantang's heart, but it was only recently that a man came to him and told him that he was very good at Qimen Dunjia. As that man had stood in Jin Wantang's shop at the time, Jin Wantang felt that his posture was very familiar.

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TN Notes:

(1) The main character in Detective Conan is Kudo Shinichi. He gets turned into a child after ingesting some lethal poison, so he adopts the pseudonym Edogawa Conan to hide from those who poisoned him. (Fun fact, family names traditionally come first in Japanese so I just stuck with it here). Gushan Road is in Hangzhou where Wu Xie lived (lives? Not sure if Rain Village is their permanent residence now).