Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 130 Azoth's Theorem Proof (Part 8)

Conan didn't expect that his voice would be heard by everyone. He felt a little embarrassed and his face turned red, but he still saw "Homonkulus"'s eyes staring at the bookshelf opposite him.

Recalling the contents of the diary, he ran to the bookshelf and tried to push it, but it was too difficult for a child to do so.

"What's wrong, Conan?" Xiaolan looked at Conan running from the right side of the office to the left side with some surprise.

"I think there might be something hidden behind the bookshelf over here."

Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri and Toru Amuro worked together to move the bookshelf on the left, and sure enough, a symbol representing the element of air was painted on the wall behind the bookshelf.

Amuro Toru: "This symbol should be the same as the one we saw with Director Zangyue and Director Mars. They all represent the four elements of alchemy. Is it the element of air this time?"

Maori Kogoro turned on his lighter and looked closely at the symbol: "Really, the light behind the bookshelf is really not good."

In the light of the fire, Amuro Toru discovered some clues: "Mr. Maori, there seems to be a line of small words here."

Maori Kogoro came closer and read out the following words: "One becomes two, two becomes three, and from the third the first becomes four."

Maori Kogoro scratched his head and thought: "What does this mean? Could it be that the murderer who killed the director wanted to tell us this information? Is it the order in which he committed the crimes or something else?"

Toru Amuro had no clue either, so he had to continue flipping through the alchemy notes to see if he could find more clues.

Suddenly, the sound of a glass bottle breaking attracted everyone's attention. Everyone looked towards the source of the sound. The flask that originally contained "Homonkuruz" had been broken. A small shadow rushed past the feet of the old guard standing at the door of the room and ran out.

Xiaolan's eyes widened. "That 'Homonkuluz' is alive? Does that mean the blinking I just saw was real?"

Conan reacted the fastest and immediately chased out of the room, and the others followed one by one.

The small figure finally disappeared in front of a marble sculpture in the hall. After everyone chased after it, they looked at the sculpture carefully.

Amuro Toru walked around the sculpture, looking left and right: "Could this sculpture be hiding some kind of mechanism or secret passage?"

The blind girl squatted on the ground and touched the bottom of the sculpture. "I found it. There's a groove here. This shape should be used with the secret key in my hand."

After the key was inserted into the groove, a slight vibration was heard from deep within the floor and wall. The sound of the mechanism operating was very small, and it was unknown what principle was used.

The astrolabe hanging in the center of the hall began to slowly rotate, eventually forming a concentric circle. In its current state, the four elemental symbols previously seen could no longer be directly observed, but the symbols engraved on the inner circle were exposed to everyone's view.

The old guard arrived late and explained the meaning of the symbols to everyone: "These symbols all refer to the stars. In alchemical culture, astronomical planets and metals are linked together."

"This is a tradition of Esoteric Buddhism. In Esoteric codename culture, the imagery a codename represents is not only closely related to the user's own research direction, but codes with overly grand intentions also require the user to possess a high level of alchemy in that area."

"Similar to Curator Mars' codename for Mars, and Curator Wanyue's codename for the Moon, these codenames encompass entire metals. If the person using the codename isn't proficient in the art themselves, others won't recognize them."

"Come to think of it, I remember the planetarium was built during the time of Curator Mercury. Curator Arya repaired it after taking over, and this statue was also built under the supervision of Curator Arya."

Amuro Toru pondered, "So, Directors Mercury and Arya must be trying to convey some message."

Then, as if he had thought of something, Toru Amuro turned around and asked the old guard, "Mr. Guard, doesn't Director Arya have a code name?"

Conan also realized: "Whether it's 'Mercury', 'Mars', 'Philomon' or 'Wanyue', the previous directors all used code names. Why didn't Director Arya use the code name of the cult?"

"Yes, Director Arya's code name should be 'Chris', but she asked me to just call her by her first name."

Amuro Toru then asked, "Did Director Arya leave any other information before she disappeared?"

The old guard hesitated, "I don't know about that. I only know that Director Arya sometimes stays alone in her office, stroking her cane and crying."

Conan understood that there must be some important information hidden in Arya's office, and immediately asked the old guard to take them to the office of the last director.

There weren't many things in Director Arya's office. Most of them were documents written in Braille and a pile of well-kept letters written in Braille.

The only blind girl present who knew Braille took the initiative to take on the translation work and began to translate the contents of the letters one by one.

"Dear Arya, how are you doing in the library? I heard that your father, Director Mercury, resigned. I hope you are not implicated."

"Dear Arya, our good girl is a little poet. She is now working hard to publish her first collection of poems."

"Arya, I feel terrible. Helena might have noticed something. She's a smart girl, and I don't want her to notice anything unusual."

The blind girl fell silent after reading this, and the others realized that these letters were undoubtedly written by the blind girl's father to Director Arya, who was the blind girl's mother whom she had never met. They also knew that the blind girl's father had died of illness not long ago.

Conan understood that Director Arya might be in a similar situation to Haibara. She studied alchemy in the Oritis organization, and later wanted to escape after an accident. However, she probably didn't have as good luck as Haibara.

The blind woman continued to decipher the letters.

"Arya, there have been a lot of bad rumors about the library lately. You're about to take over as director, and I'm worried about you."

"Thank you for the medicine you sent me. I'm much better now. Is that some new research? Helena has published quite a few poetry collections recently and has become quite famous in the circle. I really hope you can come back and take a look."

"Arya, why haven't you replied to my letters lately? What happened? I really want to come see you."

Then came the last letter.

"I may not be able to get to you, Arya. I don't know what happened to you, but I sincerely hope you're alright. If you ever get out of this, please do send me a letter. Love, John Adams."

Everyone understood that this was probably the last letter the blind girl's father had sent before his death. Unfortunately, he never received a reply. Furthermore, Director Arya might have been killed.

Toru Amuro took the pile of letters from the blind girl, but suddenly found that the symbol of the earth element was drawn in blood on the paper of the last letter.

Amuro Toru was horrified. He understood that Helios must have opened the letter and left the symbol there. There was definitely some hidden plan behind the incident with the four curators, but it must have been incomplete, otherwise they wouldn't have sent the letter to lure Miss Helena here.

If their purpose is really to refine the philosopher's stone, then no matter what, I must stop this group of crazy alchemists.