Conan: Goodbye, Brewery, I'm running away

Seeing that Sanyutei Shu had already started to form an alliance, the other people at the table also began to observe each other, looking for suitable alliance partners.

The butler, Mr. Kitajima, just looked at everyone with a smile, as if he was waiting for everyone to form an alliance before continuing.

Mao Lilan turned her head to look at Conan, "Conan-kun, shall we go with Hattori and the others?"

Conan looked up at Mouri Ran. Just as he was about to agree to her, he noticed that Hattori Heiji suddenly looked at him with a slightly provocative look.

Okay, the famous detective from Kanto, Kudo, the Unyielding, Edogawa, Conan, Shinichi, said that he doesn't want to be with Hattori Heiji.

He looked at Mao Lilan in a baby voice and said, "Sister Xiaolan, I also think what Brother Heiji said just now is very right. It is more interesting to solve the decryption by yourself. I want to solve it by myself."

Mao Lilan looked at Conan helplessly, and rejected Toyama and Ye's invitation to form a team, "Sorry, Ye, I'd better go with Conan."

Toyama Kazuha looked at Conan in confusion, then looked at Hattori Heiji who was pretending to be innocent, and said with a little regret, "Okay."

So everyone in the restaurant acted either individually or in teams, and quickly completed the team-forming phase.

In the end, the people present were divided into four teams: Morimoto Mika and Ochi Eri, who were worried about Mori Ran taking Conan alone and tried to wait for Mori Kogoro to sober up; Sakai Kyoko and Miyutei Itsuki teamed up with Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha; the couple Akikawa Sarina and Amuro Toru who were not disturbed by anyone; and Nomura Kento who wanted to reason alone.

After everyone had formed teams, the butler pushed the cart and let everyone draw clues according to the time they arrived at the villa today.

After the clues were drawn, the butler said again: "For the fun of the game, please do not open the clues here yet."

Naturally, no one would object to the butler's opinion. They came here to have a vacation and have fun, and as the butler said, they wanted to ensure the fun of the game.

Seeing that everyone was ready, the butler spoke again, "Since it is a treasure hunt game, there must be prizes worthy of this game. Our master has prepared prizes for the winner of this treasure hunt game. As for the prizes..."

He pointed to the clue cards in everyone's hands and said, "The winner can draw a prize at the end. The prize is one of the items on the back of the clue card."

After drawing the clue cards, several people noticed the things behind the cards. Before they could figure out what these things meant, the butler Bei Dao released the news.

Hattori Heiji, who was closest to the butler, said with a smile, "The master is really generous."

Noticing everyone's gazes towards him, he shook the card in his hand, "Isn't it?"

Everyone took another look at the contents on the card. Since they were not short-sighted, they all recognized the value of the prize, so they naturally agreed with what Hattori Heiji said.

"Okay, the game starts now. The deadline is tomorrow morning breakfast time. Before then, everyone can write their own inferences on cards and put them in the safe on the table at the entrance of the hall."

The butler glanced at the people at the table. Seeing their different expressions, he thought of the master's instructions and the smile on his face faded a little.

I hope to see these guests again tomorrow morning.

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Butler Kitajima said good luck to everyone and left the restaurant with two maids. Nomura Kento turned the clue card he had just received in his hand and said to everyone, "The game has begun. Everyone, I will go first."

After saying that, he walked out holding the coat he had taken off while eating, putting it on as he walked, obviously ready to go out.

Of course, everyone had not forgotten the butler's request not to open the clue cards in the restaurant. Seeing Nomura Kento leave, everyone else naturally took action. They greeted each other and left the restaurant in groups.

In order to ensure the fairness of the game, Akikawa Sarana did not deliberately use the system's surveillance perspective to observe everyone after the butler announced the rules of the game.

At this time, she and Toru Amuro were the only two people left in the restaurant. Akikawa Sarana handed the clue card she had just drawn to Toru Amuro beside her. Before drawing the card, she even shook hands with Xiaolan, hoping to draw some useful information.

"No one chose to join our team." Akikawa Sarina said casually after handing the clue card to Amuro Toru.

"Maybe he doesn't want to disturb us." Toru Amuro thought about the way everyone looked at them before, and probably guessed what everyone was thinking, and directly opened the clue cards of the two of them in his hands.

Previously, the butler did not allow everyone to open the clue cards here simply because he did not want people outside the team to exchange information. Now that only he and Sarina are left here, it doesn't matter whether they open the clue cards in the restaurant or not.

Looking at the clues on the card that Sarina handed to him, Toru Amuro's lips curled up slightly, his confidence evident in his words.

Then he returned the card to Sarina. Sarina Akikawa took it and looked at it with a smile in her eyes, "Isn't this the same symbol we saw this afternoon?"

As she spoke, she took out the hand-drawn map from her pocket, on which she had marked all the symbols she had discovered that afternoon.

Placing the map between the two people, Akikawa Sarana, who still remembered the locations of all the symbols, pointed out the locations of several symbols on the map.

"It looks like some kind of totem? But the clues are incomplete and I can't piece together a complete pattern." Akikawa Sarana pondered.

Toru Amuro also felt that this totem was very familiar. He drew the half of the totem on the tablecloth in order with his fingers, "It looks like a part of some kind of flower?"

Akikawa Sarana looked at the only two words on the clue that Amuro Toru had extracted, "There are also these two words 'Tower of the High Tower' and 'Under the Big Dipper'..."

She looked at the card in her hand with half-moon eyes, "Are the meanings of these two words a little too simple and straightforward?"

It's so straightforward that they don't even have to think about it, they know where the next clue is.

"Then let's go here first. I went here this afternoon."

For a moment, Toru Amuro couldn't remember what this flower was. He came back to his senses and looked at the clue card he drew, and tapped the four words "Tower of High Tower" with his finger.

"Okay." Akikawa Sarina nodded without asking any more questions. He had been there in the afternoon and wanted to go there again. He must have his own ideas. He probably had something he hadn't figured out and needed to take another look.

The "Tower of Towers" should refer to the seven-story tower in the northeast corner behind the villa. It is the only building in the entire villa that can be called a tower.

After discussing where to go next, the two put away the clue cards and maps and left the restaurant together.

"Are you two going out?" As soon as they walked out of the restaurant, the two men saw the maid Nishikawa Mika. Seeing that the two of them had just come out of the restaurant, there was a hint of surprise in her eyes, as if she didn't expect that there were still people in the restaurant.

"Yes."

Amuro Toru nodded with a smile, looking at the direction where Nishikawa Mika had just come from, "Did Miss Nishikawa go to see Mr. Mori and the others? Are they still not awake?"

Mika Nishikawa nodded. "Mr. Kitajima asked me to go see if Mr. Maori and Mr. Yokoyama are awake. Mr. Maori is awake, but Mr. Yokoyama is probably still asleep. When I knocked on the door, there was no sound."

Maori Kogoro is at least Toru Amuro's teacher in name. Toru Amuro nodded to Nishikawa Mika and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Miss Nishikawa."

"This is what I should do. You're welcome, Mr. Amuro."

Nishikawa Mika smiled and shook her head, signaling Amuro Toru to be polite, and then said to the two people: "It's starting to snow outside. If you two want to go out, there are umbrellas for snow protection at the door. You can take them if you need them."

She glanced at Akikawa Sarina as she spoke, "Ms. Akikawa seems to be a little afraid of the cold. Kokubo just placed some warming patches in the hall. If you need any, you can get some yourself.

I will prepare some warming soup in the kitchen and keep it warm on the stove. You two can come to the kitchen to enjoy it when you come back from outside."

"Thank you." Akikawa Sarina's expression softened slightly and she also expressed her gratitude to Nishikawa Mika.

When they arrived at the hall, the two men saw that there was indeed an extra table in the hall. On the table was a locked safe with a narrow gap on the safe that was only wide enough to pass a card.

On the left side of the safe was a stack of blank cards that looked like the clue cards in their hands, and on the right side was a small basket containing the warming patches that Mika Nishikawa had just mentioned. Judging from the traces, the people who came out before them should have noticed these as well.

Akikawa Sarina, who already had a warming patch on her body, did not go forward to get it. The two of them just took a look at the new things in the hall and continued to walk outside.

Arriving at the entrance of the hall, Toru Amuro took an umbrella and pushed open the door.

Akikawa Sarana looked at the size of the snowflakes falling outside, "It's actually falling so heavily."

Toru Amuro held the umbrella over Akikawa Sarina's head and also looked at the falling snow. "It's snowing so heavily..."

Hearing the hesitation in his words, Akikawa Sarana knew what he was thinking and took his arm. "I've made preparations for the cold weather. We'll go over there and take a look and come back."

Seeing how eager she was to try, Toru Amuro had no choice but to agree. The two of them walked quickly on the thin snow on the ground towards the high tower in the northeast corner of the villa.

Akikawa Sarana looked at the footprints on the ground that disappeared completely after they turned the corner. "There are no footprints at all here. It seems that each of us drew a different clue card."

Amuro Toru looked up at the not-too-far entrance to the tower and said, "That should be the case. According to the map, there is only one way to the tower."

Two people walked on the snow that no one had ever stepped on, leaving two rows of footprints that were close together.

Entering the tower, there was no light in the entire tower, only the snow that had just fallen outside could cast a little light at the entrance.

Akikawa Sarana turned on the flashlight on her phone and shone the light upwards. What she saw was a series of winding stairs going upwards.

After putting away his umbrella, Toru Amuro used the light from Akikawa Sarina's flashlight to press a certain spot on the wall and turned on the lights inside the tower.

Akikawa Sarina turned off the flashlight and looked at the switch that Amuro Toru used to turn on the light. The color and shape were the same as the bricks and stones on the wall inside the tower. It seemed that the owner had a bad taste and deliberately hid the light button.

Noticing the look his girlfriend gave him, Amuro Toru smiled and explained, "I didn't see anything special on the top of the tower this afternoon. Since the game time was set at night, I guessed that it should be visible at night, and the clue card also pointed to this place."

He winked at Akikawa Sarina, "Shall we go upstairs now?"

"Okay." Akikawa Sarina tilted her head slightly and winked at him as well.

Amuro Toru smiled and reached out to hold his girlfriend's wrist, tapping the inside of her wrist a few times without leaving a trace, while also pulling her to the opposite side of the stairs, "There is an elevator here, let's take the elevator when we go upstairs, and take the stairs when we go downstairs."

Going up the stairs would definitely make Sarina tired, so it would be better to take the elevator.

"There's an elevator?" Akikawa Sarana understood what he had just whispered to her, and whispered back in the same way, while looking at the place they were facing in surprise, "You can't see it from the inside or the outside."

Reassured, Amuro Toru nodded, "I also noticed something was wrong from the walls and the interior. The architectural structure and interior decoration of this tower are designed to magnify the space visually, so it's not easy to find it if you don't look carefully."

Hearing what he said, Akikawa Sarana, who was being pulled forward, lowered her eyes. She no longer looked at the walls around her, but switched to a surveillance perspective to look down at the structure of the tower. After noticing something wrong, she raised her eyes to the elevator location in front of her, which she saw from the system's perspective, "It is indeed!"

Then she sighed softly, "The designer of this villa is very good at using visual effects to deceive people. The small door before had a similar effect."

Amuro Toru's face was full of approval. "I was able to quickly realize the incongruity of the space here because of that small door. It's better during the day, but at night with the lighting here it's even harder to detect the visual deception here."

At this time, the two people had already walked to the wall, and Amuro Toru pressed a spot on the wall. After a moment, the wall in front of them opened in both sides, revealing the elevator with a metal wall inside.

Entering the elevator, Toru Amuro pressed the "7" button.

As the elevator door slowly closed, Akikawa Sarana suddenly thought of something. She turned her head to look at Amuro Toru, "Did you find a similar mechanism when you were investigating in the villa this afternoon?"

Amuro Toru knew she would ask herself this question, "There is no unlocked space."

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Taking care of the patient caused my cold and fever to get worse, so I have to continue to take leave. Thank you for your concern~