"Is it around here?" Following Conan up the mountain, Chiba had already turned on the auxiliary unit and began to capture the details of the nearby footage at full power.

"It's still a little bit above," Conan probably remembered. "You have to go to the Monk Zhenggu Fudo Hall above, and there is still a little distance from here."

"Upper?" Thousand Feathers raised an eyebrow. "Did you follow this route at the time?"

"Yes," Conan nodded. "So we can't go straight up and we need to walk through the jungle to retrace the path we were ongoing...... That's pretty much it. ”

As he spoke, Conan pointed to the side of the road—where what appeared to be the root of a fallen tree, stretched higher in front of them.

"You slipped here from this root up there?" Chiba tried to use the auxiliary unit to observe the traces in the dirt between the paths and the roots of the trees, which the builders leveled in order to create such a trail on the mountain. If someone were to run down from above at a very fast speed, stepping on this part of the leveled dirt and canceling out the longitudinal kinetic energy would inevitably leave a deep pit in the leveled soil here.

But there are no traces, probably because too much time has passed, and even if there were any traces, they have long been smoothed out by the wind or something.

In this way, the three of them, led by Conan, walked upwards along the rolling tree remains on the dirt slope.

"Did you slip down here?" Suddenly, Qian Yu said.

"Yes, how do you know—" Conan said, his gaze locked on a bend in the trunk of the tree in front of him, and it dawned on him. "Ah, did you see that?"

In the bend ahead, an unusual break in the bark of a tree was noticeable - if Conan remembered correctly, he had slid down the tree yesterday while he was chasing his assailants, and it was here that he had carved a hole in the bark with his foot, and then changed the direction of the slide by doing so.

"Hmm," Chiba nodded. "This kind of irregular traces, considering the size of the traces, is just about the same as your and mine's feet."

……

About five minutes later, the group arrived at the location of the Shoshoya Fudodo Hall, where Heiji Hattori was said to have been attacked by the attackers. It was worth noting that there were quite a few thick and tall trees in the vicinity, and it would have been almost impossible for them to spot them if they had stood on the trees and attacked like Conan had mentioned to Chiba before.

"It's up there," Conan said, pointing to a tree not far away. "He shot the arrow at that tree, and he shot it at the tree."

"Hmm......" Fujiwara narrowed his eyes slightly, and then walked over to the tree where the arrow that Conan pointed at. I saw the arrow marks, but apparently the arrows had been taken. ”

"Well, so the place where the attacker shot the arrow was—" Chiba looked in the direction of the tree where the attacker was hiding at the time, but paused for a moment, and then a subtle look appeared on his face.

For no other reason than because he captured someone's cell phone signal. Although he is not in a state of imminent combat now, so he does not fully activate the function of the signal base station, he still turns on the monitoring of some people, as long as the mobile phone signal of these people enters a certain distance from him, he can complete the capture.

He detected a 2G signal from Saijo Taiga's phone, but how could he be here?

"What's wrong?" Conan saw that Qianyu's expression was a little strange, and immediately asked.

"No, I'm just thinking about something...... Qianyu said after thinking for a moment, then frowning. Why did he choose to go around you in the mountains when he was on the run, and finally get rid of you by burning wooden bridges? If it were me, I wouldn't have gone back to Mt. Kurama at all, but would have tried to use the traffic to get around you. ”

"Probably he's not sure—" Conan seemed to think of something and fell into deep thought.

"Why would he be able to get rid of you here?" Fujiwara also realized where the problem was. "He couldn't have been here to assassinate you before you came, so he couldn't have mastered the terrain in advance in order to assassinate you, and at most he was unusually familiar with the terrain for some reason, so he chose to take advantage of the situation when you came here. So the question is, why is the other person so familiar with this place? ”

"At least, I thought of a real possibility, and while it would be easier to check with nearby residents, it was a very possibility." Qianyu grimaced, reading the message from the auxiliary unit.

As soon as he searched for nearby phones by adding the power of the identification function to the base station function, he quickly found the same familiar number — but it was even more surprising that it appeared here.

Toyama and Haha's signal also appeared here, and based on the fact that the nearby base station did not search for Toyama Kazuha's signal, it can be deduced that she should be in the deep mountains of Mt. Kurama.

Almost at the same time that Chiba got the news, Saijo Taiga's cell phone signal also disappeared from the range of the signal base station at the bottom of the mountain.

……

"It looks like the abbot is still alive," Hattori Heiji, Chiga Suzu and Moriran walked out of the main entrance of the temple. "Then, this possibility can basically be ruled out." As he walked, Heiji Hattori said.

"So it's supposed to be investigating the rest of the temples, right?" Maoliran asked.

"yes," Hattori nodded. "So let's go left first—"

At this moment, Heiji Hattori suddenly stopped, startling Moriran and Suzu Chiga, who were still moving forward. "What's wrong?"

"I seem to have seen the 'Jade Site' ...... just now" With a somewhat uncertain tone, Hattori Heiji deviated from the original path and walked to a wooden sign not far away.

It was an inconspicuous-looking sign erected on the wall, which read "Yulong Temple Site"

The name Jade Dragon Temple, which appears near the range of answers identified by a treasure map in the shape of a jade character as a clue, is not a coincidental phenomenon.

At this moment, Hattori Heiji's cell phone rang - the mobile phone number belonged to Toyama Kazuha.

On Mt. Kurama, Chiba's brow is tightly knit.

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The Western Roman Empire fell in the 4th century, while the Eastern Roman Empire only fell in the 15th century under the siege of the Ottoman Turks. Although the Eastern Rome is also jokingly called the court of defeat, it still lasted a long time.

The next question is, the first Rome was Rome before the division of East and West, and the second Rome was Byzantium, so which country is the third Rome?