age is not a problem

"Dong dong——!"

Holding the phone but getting no response for a long time, Nicole, who was a little anxious, heard a knock on the door.

After opening the door, Qingmei walked in directly. The two people's rooms were next to each other, right next door to each other.

After Qingmei walked into the room, she ignored Nicole's question and rummaged through the room.

"What are you looking for? I didn't bring any luggage today." Nicole asked puzzled.

After searching for a long time without finding anything, Qingmei took out the card she just found in the room from her pocket, and waved it in front of the other party:

"Did you find such a card in the room?"

Nicole shook her head, "I didn't find any cards... What's wrong?"

Flipping the card between her fingers, Qingmei smiled, but the smile didn't go deep into her eyes, instead it added a bit of sinister:

"It seems that I was targeted by a fanatic of Agatha Christie... I became the chosen one, the chosen one who received the death notice."

Nicole took the card in a daze. After seeing the content on the card, he was instantly taken aback.

On the card, a series of beautiful Italian cursive characters printed out——

"Seven little men, sit around a bonfire;

One was burned to death, and six remained.

Six villains, spend money to eat;

One was poisoned to death, and five remained.

Five villains, practice shooting together;

One was shot, and four remained.

Four villains, explore the jungle;

A snake bites to death, and there are three people left.

Three villains, skydiving at high altitude;

One fell to his death, and there were two remaining.

Two villains, dive into the sea;

One was drowned, and one remained.

A villain, lonely and lonely;

They were killed in the flames, and there was not a single one left. "

Quietly waiting for Nicole to read the string of ballads, Qingmei couldn't help but sneered: "Don't you think it's very similar to the plot in Agatha Christie's famous novel "And There Were None", a song about death The ballad, and then the people mentioned in the ballad, died one by one according to the method of death mentioned above... But it is still kind, there are ten people who are sentenced to death in the novel, but here there are only seven."

"If the target of the person behind the scenes really includes you, which one of the people mentioned in the card do you think you will be?" Nicole handed the card back to Qingmei.

"Undoubtedly, the third last one, the villain who is predicted to fall to his death in the air." The coldness in the opal-like pupils grew stronger, and he glanced at the card from the corner of his eye, "It seems that that person should It is known that I have the weakness of 'fear of heights', so there are two possibilities, either that person has investigated the information about me in too much detail, or that person is a person who is quite familiar with me. Moreover, More importantly, this card was placed in the room I stayed in in advance, and I stayed in that room as 'Asakawa Kiyomi', which means... that person, I'm afraid he already knew that my body was getting smaller things."

Watching Qingmei staring at him, Nicole also raised his eyebrows, "So... are you doubting me now?"

"I didn't say that." Qingmei shrugged, and then asked with a half-serious and half-joking attitude: "Hey, Nicole, can I trust you?"

"Whether you believe me or not is a decision in your heart, I can't control it and can't influence it." Nicole replied, and then shook the phone in his hand, "However, as you said, the person behind the The ghost, it seems that she is really a fan of Agatha Christie. He restored all aspects of the scene of "And There Were None", not only the death warning ballad, but also... I remember that it was written in the original book The location happened on a small island isolated from the outside world. People on the island cannot leave the island or get in touch with the outside world. Just now I found out that the mobile phone has no signal, and we are currently unable to use communication tools to communicate with people outside the island. The world is in contact. If it is worse, maybe the speedboat we drove to the island, and even all the ships on the island have been destroyed."

"So, it means... including me, no one can leave this island until the seven sentenced people mentioned in this card meet God." Said in a relaxed tone Easy words.

Nicole: "However, if it's you... Even if you don't have any means of transportation, you can still swim back to the Apennine Peninsula."

Qingmei, who was about to say something, when she heard Nicole say the word "swimming", something flashed in her mind, and she turned to look at the sentence on the card - "Two little People, dive into the sea; one is drowned, and one is left."

His brows were slightly furrowed, and his fists were gradually clenched, just when there was some entanglement in his heart and an urge to come out...

"Fire! Run!"

"Big fire! Big fire!"

"Retreat! Retreat! Everyone retreat quickly!"

People shouted from outside, and Kiyomi and Nicole in the room could smell the thick smoke from the fire.

The two people whose room was on the second floor jumped out of the window immediately. Following the sound of shouting, they found that a small unused warehouse in the hotel had caught fire.The scale is not too big, but it still frightened the people nearby, running and shouting one by one.

After the fire was finally extinguished, the owner of the hotel breathed a sigh of relief, lamenting that it was an empty warehouse and did not cause too much damage.It's just that when I covered my mouth and nose with a towel and walked into the warehouse that still smelled of smoke...

"Ah! Burn, burn... burn to death!"

Hearing the boss's exclamation, Qingmei and Nicole, who were standing in the crowd of onlookers, rushed in immediately!

On the vacant ground, a burnt man lay quietly there, and the boss sat aside in fright.

Qingmei took a few steps closer, and after a simple inspection, she was sure that this person was hopeless and was already a corpse.

It's just that this person's face has not been completely burned in the fire, and at this moment he looks like he is dying.

Nicole squatted down and got closer. After carefully examining the corpse's face, which was still recognizable, his expression became a little dignified:

"This man... is the president of a well-known hotel chain in Italy. He has been involved in insurance fraud lawsuits for the past two years. Someone sued his hotel for the past two years. The fire incident in the past two years was actually planned by him, with the intention of extracting high insurance premiums. Compensation. Because the fire incident caused innocent casualties, it had a very bad social impact. However, he hired a lawyer to help him find loopholes in the law to fight the lawsuit. Not only did he not lose anything, he even I made a lot of money." Nichol remembered that he had seen this man in the bureau's information database, "People who use arson to satisfy their desires end up being burned to death by the fire, It's really ironic."

Qingmei stood up slowly, with an inexplicable expression on her face, "Nicole, do you still remember the first sentence of the ballad on the card..."

Seven villains, sit around a bonfire; one is burned to death, and there are six people left.

"Now, the first death has come true."

After saying this, Qingmei ignored Nicole's shouts behind her, and ran out directly, not daring to delay for a moment to find that person.

She had a hunch that Tsunayoshi Sawada must have received this card as well.If he really received the card, then "Two villains, go diving into the sea; one is drowned, and one is left."...It should be him!That guy whose swimming skills are a little better than a dog planer!

In the room before, when Nicole mentioned "swimming", she thought of this, but she thought that since Sawada Tsunayoshi is a very important person to Vengley, someone should protect him.

But just now, after seeing the first death come true, only the last instinct remained in her brain... She wanted to protect him!Protected by her!

Even if she and him may be on opposite sides, even if she may have to do something to him in the future, but before that, she wants to protect him.Whether it's killing him or protecting him, she doesn't want outsiders to interfere!Otherwise, she would never be able to settle down!

Although the size of the island is small, it is not an easy task to find someone like this, so anxiously shuttled through the streets and alleys of the island looking for that brown-haired boy... brat!Give my wife a good life!

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Another hotel -

"Gang, the sentence on the card has come true." Looking at the dead body lying on the dining table in the middle of the restaurant of the hotel, Takeshi Yamamoto said solemnly.

In the restaurant just now, a table of people was sitting around eating, but suddenly a man in that table pinched his throat with a painful expression. Three seconds later, he died of poison, which instantly caused a commotion in the entire hotel.

Six villains, spend money to eat; one is poisoned to death, and there are five people left.

Gang Ji silently looked at the words on the card in his hand.

At this time, some of the crowd were talking, "My God, what happened to the island today? Why did people die again!" "That's right, that's right, I heard that another hotel just caught fire , It seems that someone was burned to death!" "Oh my god, it's terrible..."

Before those people finished discussing, Tsunayoshi hurriedly threw a sentence to Takeshi Yamamoto, "Yamamoto, I will leave this to you first", then turned and ran out.

He remembers, he remembers the previous school trip, when he got lost and was trapped in the mountains, Qingmei tried her best to suppress her trembling when walking that section of the cliff mountain road, she told him that she had a fear of heights...

Three villains, skydiving at high altitude; one fell to death, and there are two remaining.

...Don't worry, Kiyomi!

Just after running out of the hotel, gunshots rang out in the street!Immediately afterwards, people screamed in horror!

Tsuna ran towards the place where the gunshots came from, while recalling the third sentence on the card... This is, the third dead person, the person who was shot, is about to appear? !

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Friends who often watch Conan should be familiar with Agatha Christie, the famous British female mystery novelist.There are several cases in Conan that pay tribute to her novels, such as "No Survival" in this chapter, the famous detective (Karasuma Renye's Golden Pavilion) summoned in Conan is based on "No Survival" for the prototype.