Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 609 Grabbing Uzo's Tail

Hearing this sentence, Jiang Xia immediately thought of the gold that was too much to make him tired.First of all, I was a bit tired by reflex, and I wanted to collapse into the sofa of the neighbor's house. It would be better to have a fried shrimp roll to soothe my soul.

But considering that I was driving the villain vest that I had been looking forward to for a long time...

In the end, Jiang Xia's face remained unchanged, and he replied softly: "Of course."

Following these words, he turned sideways and his eyes fell on the clock on the wall of the dining room.

According to the usual action pattern of detectives, he should walk over at this time and demonstrate how to trigger the mechanism.

But after thinking about it, I felt that it would be out of style to roll up the sleeves in person.And now, he is playing the role of a terminally ill patient, and there is a group of detective "audience" waiting for the results of the inspection.

So in the end, Jiang Xia just moved a bit, then fell back to his seat.

It also meant that he closed his eyes and pretended to fail to get up, and was buffering the dizziness.

After a second or two, he pointed to the huge watch on the wall: "Sorry, you should come. I'm really not feeling well."

"..."

Mother-in-law Qianjian always feels that Kurosawa, who used the former plastic "host" as a stepping stone, is not as weak as he appears on the surface.

And just now, this young man who swayed twice when he walked unexpectedly arrived at the restaurant one step ahead of her.Obviously, the central control room is farther away from the dining room than the secret room where she is...

However, the bait of "the location of the treasure" is too tempting.

Qianjian Jiangdai tried his best to think calmly like a detective, calm down to reason, and smooth out all the suspicious things about the young man in black.However, the "boom" and "boom" of the heartbeat hammered on her dull eardrum, and the excitement and anticipation were pushed higher and higher.

Seeing Jiang Xia's appearance that he really didn't intend to get up, Qianjian Jiangdai finally compromised again.

According to what Jiang Xia pointed out, she walked towards the clock that might hide some dangerous mechanism.

"When the detectives searched the annex, I also followed to check the situation - the Dusk annex has a vast area and countless rooms, but there is only one place with a clock, which is the one on the wall in front of you... ...don't you think that's weird?"

"..." Qianjian Jiangdai listened to his voice, looked up at this unique watch, and nodded unconsciously like a policeman listening to a detective's reasoning.

——She carries a pocket watch with her, so she doesn't need to check the time with the clock in the annex.Therefore, although there are very few clocks in the annex, this did not bother Qianjian Xiadai and did not leave a deep impression on her, so in the end it did not become a powerful booster for her thinking. .

In short, Qianjian Jiangdai simply realized that "there are few watches", and subconsciously thought that the clocks in other rooms were sold by the gourmet detective. Although the guy said he kept the annex as it was, according to As far as Qianjian Xiadai knows, due to the debt, the gourmet detective inspected some valuable items and found that there were no traps inside them, then recorded their locations, and then sold these items one by one.

At that time, Qianjian Jiangdai had not been invited to enter the annex building belonging to the gourmet detective, so she naturally thought that the things that were sold included the clocks in other rooms; and the watch in the restaurant It survived because it was the type that was recessed into the wall, and the dial was so plain that it looked cheap.

……

But now, judging from Kurosawa's words, there is something else hidden behind this watch.

...Well, it may be that Kurosawa didn't have a mobile phone or a watch with him, so he paid special attention to this aspect.Qianjian Jiangdai nodded secretly.Habitually reviewing my mistakes.

Then she smiled and shook her head—after what happened tonight, from all angles, she can no longer continue to be a detective, and she doesn't need to worry about replaying.

When she was distracted.

Kurosawa's voice came from behind:
"Do you still remember the 'tips' you left us through the mouth of the 'host'?"

Qianjian Jiangdai was brought back to his senses by his gentle-sounding, but strange tone against the bloody background.

She looked at Jiang Xia, suppressed the doubts in her heart, nodded to his question, and repeated the words that had been engraved in her mind:
"Two travelers looked up at the sky at night, and the devil came to the castle; the king fled with the treasure, the princess shed the Holy Grail in tears, begging for forgiveness, the soldier swung his sword and killed himself, and the blood stained the earth."

"That's right." The young man in black rested his elbows on the armrest, resting his chin in satisfaction, and tapped his fingertips above, "'The night of two travelers looking up at the sky' means that the long and short hands of the clock point at the same time. Zero hours above."

After speaking, he paused and looked at Qianjian Jiangdai.

Qianjian Jiangdai looked at him suspiciously and nervously for a moment, and gradually read a silent urging of "I've told you the answer, why don't you work?" from his eyes.

"..." After a moment of silence, the old lady could only turn around, raised her hand like an obedient wage earner, and silently moved the hands on the watch, setting them to the appropriate position according to what Jiang Xia said.

As the two pointers clicked together, behind her, the voice of a passerby or a demon sounded again:

"The next steps have actually been written in your father's message. You should have noticed the bloody writing on the piano—'I finally hold the trump card to find the treasure'.

"The key is the 'card'.

"So the 'king', 'queen' and 'soldier' ​​in the clue..."

Hearing this, Qianjian Jiangdai finally caught up with his train of thought, showing a bit of what a detective should have.

She blurted out: "It refers to the K, Q, and J in playing cards. In addition, the 'treasure' refers to diamonds, the 'Holy Grail' is hearts, and the sword is spades...K of diamonds, Q of hearts, and J of spades ?”

With such keywords specific to the details, she suddenly remembered the blood-stained deck of cards that Yumi Gunida used in the living room just now, and she understood completely.

——Almost all the things in this annex are custom-made by the Karasuma family, including the deck of cards of course.There must be clues to the treasure hidden on the three corresponding cards!

……

When we were in the living room just now, Qianjian Jiangdai chose chess as his entertainment.

She wasn't involved in the game and doesn't remember the exact patterns on the cards.

Just about to rush to the living room and take down the deck of cards.

But just as this thought flashed across her mind, she suddenly heard Kurosawa's words behind her without any pause:

"That's right. So according to the orientation of the character's face on the corresponding card, and the points of the card. The way to open the mechanism should be to turn the needle 13 degrees to the left, then 12 degrees to the left, and finally 11 degrees to the right...Huh? In the middle of speaking, he paused for a while, and asked as if chatting, "What's wrong? Why don't you try it?"

"You..." Qianjian Jiangdai didn't move, and turned his head to stare at him.

All kinds of suspicious things were suddenly connected in a series in her mind. Although they could not be completely connected, they were integrated into a bigger whirlpool-like mystery.

There was a trace of questioning in her tone, as well as deep horror: "In the living room, you have been playing billiards, which is the farthest from the card table. Tao J. Later, you searched for 'host', let alone opened the playing cards in the living room...

"How do you know the faces of the other two cards?!"

(End of this chapter)