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"What do you care about?"

"I don't know where to start, so I want you to take a look first."

Enomoto slowed down, stood up, walked to the pendulum clock, turned the pointer according to the method in the morning, and opened the secret room.

"Enomoto-san, please go in with me." Junko said, then turned to look at Sawano, and said, "Mr. Sawano, the structure of this secret room cannot be opened inside, so please Can you open the secret room for us in 5 minutes?"

Ze Ye nodded: "Well, leave it to me."

Junko stood at the door of the secret room. Although she was out of danger and safe at the moment, recalling the feeling of helplessness and suffocation in the dark in the secret room, Junko was still frightened for a while.

Seeing Junko's appearance, Enomoto was stunned, patted Junko's shoulder, and said softly, "Don't worry, I'm here."

The gentle tone startled Junko, but also made Junko extremely at ease.

Junko nodded and followed Enoki herself into the secret room.

Junko said while gently closing the secret room: "This pendulum clock is equivalent to the door of the secret room. There is a small grounded window at the bottom. From the inside of the secret room, you can see and hear the outside, but you can't see the inside at all from the outside, and you can hear it." No sound from within."

"This window is different from the ones in ordinary interrogation rooms. One side looks like a mirror, and the other side looks like transparent glass. This window looks transparent from the inside, but it looks the same brown as a pendulum clock from the outside. It's not at all. Wouldn't notice it's a piece of glass."

Junko nodded and said, "This is the window I want to show Enomoto-san."

"Is there any mystery about this window?"

Junko squatted down, pointed to the window and said, "Look, Enomoto-san, looking out from this window, the first thing you see is the big swing arm of the pendulum clock, and then the glass door of the pendulum clock. In the distance, you can see the living room." sofa, and the paintings on the wall behind the sofa.”

Enomoto looked in the direction Junko pointed, nodded, but did not speak.

Junko continued: "Enomoto-san, now please lower your center of gravity and pay attention to the glass door of the pendulum clock and the paintings on the wall."

Enomoto followed Junko's instructions while looking at the glass door of the pendulum clock and the words on the wall, while slowly lowering his center of gravity. When the whole person was about to lie down on the ground, Enomoto was suddenly surprised: "This is it?"

The painting on the glass door of the pendulum clock looks like mountains, waters, flowers and trees from the outside, and it is impossible to tell exactly what the painting is. Looking from the inside of the secret room, that is, from the opposite direction, it is even less clear what the painting is. What's up.As for the oil painting hanging on the wall, the woman in the painting is wearing a bathrobe, and there are beautiful patterns on the bathrobe, but no one can tell what kind of pattern it is.

However, what is surprising is that when viewed from a certain angle in the secret room, the painting on the glass door of the pendulum clock and the pattern on the bathrobe fit together very well, like gears, snapping together without gaps , not at all obtrusive.The two combine to form a new picture, with the mystery unique to treasures.

Seeing Enomoto's reaction, Junko asked, "Does Enomoto-san think the same as me?"

Enomoto paused, and asked without answering, "How did you find this out?"

Junko sighed and said: "At that time I was trapped here alone, the only thing that was lit here was this small window, and you and Sawano were sitting on the sofa under the oil painting, I called you desperately, but you listened No. It was at that time that I noticed that these two seemingly unrelated paintings had different effects when viewed from a specific angle."

Enomoto's eyes became sharper.

Unexpectedly, when he was in chaos because of Junzi's disappearance, Junzi was only separated from him by a wall!Is this the irony of those two people?Was this new discovery within their expectations or beyond their expectations?

Because Junko's mobile phone was broken when she was caught, Enomoto took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the scene in front of him.

At this moment, Sawano's voice came from outside: "Miss Lawyer, 5 minutes are up, I'm opening the secret room now."

Then there was a rustling sound, as if the gears were turning continuously, and finally, with a click, the door opened.

"How? What did you find inside?" Serizawa asked impatiently as soon as Enomoto and Junko came out.

"Could it be that there are other hidden doors and secret rooms inside, and the treasure is hidden there?" Beicun did not forget that the secret room behind the pendulum clock was found based on the words prompted by the treasure.Since there is a reminder, there should be treasures. How could the secret room be empty?

Enomoto ignored it, and just walked up to Mikoshiba on his own, and asked, "Miss Mikoshiba, you said that ten years ago Kikukawa set a fire here and burned all the evidence. Was everything rebuilt after the fact?"

Yu Zichai paused for a moment, and didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but finally nodded and said: "At that time, many places were completely burned down. Although I wanted to rebuild it to be exactly the same as before, there were always some places that were not satisfactory."

After hearing the words, Junko remembered, no wonder the photo of Ju Chuan and the deceased ten years ago, the villa in the background looked very similar to this haunted house, but not exactly the same.

"Then the furnishings here are the same as ten years ago?"

Yu Zichai shook his head and said, "It can't be done exactly the same."

Enomoto's heart trembled, and then he pointed to the oil painting on the wall and asked, "What about this painting? Did it exist ten years ago or did you hang it later?"

"Hey, the things from ten years ago should be burnt out, right?" Bei Cun couldn't help muttering in a low voice.

When Miko Chai looked at the wall, his eyes became distant, as if he saw ten years ago.

Miko Chai said softly: "It is said that this painting is about a woman who is in love with my grandfather's great-grandfather but can't stay together. It is said that my grandfather's great-grandfather was a very famous watchmaker at that time, and this pendulum clock is his. Since then, this painting and this pendulum clock have been placed here in this form, which can be described as family heirlooms of our Okoshiba family. Coincidentally, a few days before that incident, I While playing with my sister, I accidentally cracked the wooden frame of the painting, so my father sent the painting to the craftsman in the town for repair. Before I could get it back, the place has become a ruined wall. But also Because of this, the painting survived. I don’t know why this pendulum clock, after such a fire, was able to be intact, and even the time was as accurate as usual. Perhaps, it was the spirit of grandpa’s great-grandfather that blessed it Bar."

Hearing this, Enomoto asked slowly, "Then, are the positions of the pendulum clock and the oil painting the same as ten years ago?"

Yu Zichai nodded: "Although there was a fire in the living room at that time, the wall did not fall down, and the nails on the wall where the paintings were hung were still there. The pendulum clock seemed to be nailed there and could not move. As far as I am concerned, My original intention is to rebuild here, of course, to restore the original furnishings as much as possible, and to make them as accurate as possible. Moreover, the placement of pendulum clocks and oil paintings is not just the same as it was ten years ago, but also from their placement. From the moment I was here, it has never changed."

Enomoto heard the words and Junko looked at each other, and nodded tacitly.

Serizawa, who was confused by Enomoto's series of questions, finally couldn't help asking: "Enomoto, why are you asking these questions? Why are you so interested in pendulum clocks and oil paintings?"

The author has something to say: December 12, next Monday, update: Chapter23 The Secret of the Treasure

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