Conan: I'm really not a model worker at a winery

Chapter 189 - The Traveler
Listening to the chaotic voices from Kaito, Gin was not in a hurry, and walked around the living room silently.

He has been famous for this evening pavilion for a long time, but today is really his first visit.

Because more than 40 years ago, a huge tragedy occurred in this annex, when dozens of financiers died here.

Responsible for what exactly happened, no one knows...

Some old people who knew the inside story also kept silent about this matter, for fear of committing some taboo.

However, the unscrupulous boss is at ease with Gin, and even said that he has saved a file of this matter somewhere, so he can go and find out if he is curious.

But Gin only took it as gossip, and didn't understand it at all...

It wasn't until today that he realized that:

What happened here back then was not simple.

When Gin first came in, he felt a fierce aura coming towards his face-this kind of aura can only appear in places where many people died in vain, or a large number of deaths.

Fierce Qi is similar to Yin Qi, except that the former is more harmful to people, and it may even become abnormal after staying for a long time.

But the difference is that the Yin Qi is not easy to dissipate, and the fierce Qi will gradually dissipate with the passage of time.

...In short, many people have indeed died in this place, and Gin can be sure.

And he could smell a fishy smell vaguely.

I'm afraid it was left after the blood was not cleaned up thoroughly... Although it was very faint, he hardly felt it, but it was there.

Moreover, Qin Jiu also discovered that this place itself is a shaded place, which is of great benefit to someone like him who has already cultivated 'Qi'.

Too bad it's too far from Tokyo...

"Uncle Blade, do you have anything special over there? Just looking at the puzzles, I don't know what it means..."

On the other end of the phone, Kaito's voice was a bit tangled, but his tone was much clearer than at the beginning.

Gin turned around and returned to the table, put the kraft paper with puzzles back in its original place, and took out a pack of playing cards on the other table:

"Specially... I do know a few sentences of this puzzle. The two travelers may be the hour and minute hands, and the king, queen, and soldiers may be the K, Q, and J of playing cards..."

"Pointer?" Kaito Kuroba was a little confused.

Gin turned his dead fish eyes to look at the surrounding walls, "Ah yes, because there is only one wall clock in the whole house."

Fortunately, I have a watch, otherwise I would have to run around to check the time...

Can't that one consider the issue of convenience when placing furniture?
"Oh...that should be right." Kaito Kuroba pondered for a moment, and suddenly said in surprise, "No, Uncle Blade, your ability to guess riddles was not very good..."

"That's the puzzle you came up with, it's too nonsensical!!"

Qin Jiu's face darkened for a moment, Kuai Dou, why didn't he open any pot and carry which pot!
His decryption ability is not bad either, okay?

It's just that he is better at tracking and tracing than guessing crossword puzzles.

Kuroba Kaito smiled awkwardly: "Then, shall I change to something simpler next time?"

Gin: "..."

No matter how simple it is, don't ask him to guess!
Kaito Kuroba brought the topic back at this time: "By the way, if it's a poker card, the puzzle should also include diamonds, hearts, and spades, right?"

"...K of diamonds, Q of hearts and J of spades?"

Gin immediately understood Kaito's train of thought, but...

"I can understand that cubes represent treasure, but the Holy Grail is nothing like hearts, swords and spades, right?"

Gin's face darkened again.

Especially swords and spades...whose swords are as round as peaches! !
"...Well, it means meaning, Uncle Blade, don't take it seriously."

Gin heard that Kaito Kuroba was as comforted as he was, and silently picked out the corresponding three cards from the playing cards.

He just made complaints about it, and he seems to have read it somewhere, Italians regard spades in playing cards as swords.

However, when he took out the Jack of Spades, Gin was stunned for a moment.

How did these two cards stick together?
The gin turned over and found that it was still sticking a little tight, and the playing cards were separated with a little force with two fingers.

Immediately afterwards, his pupils shrank slightly:

"This is……"

"Ah? What's wrong, Uncle Blade."

Qin Jiu looked at the two playing cards, showing a thoughtful expression: "No, it's just that there is a 4 of clubs stuck under the Jack of Spades...it's glued with blood."

"……Blood?!"

Heiyu Kaito said in a startled voice, then thought of something, and said solemnly, "I checked that villa, and it seems that there was a tragedy... Is it true?"

Gin raised the corner of his mouth: "I'm afraid it's more than that."

"Eh?"

"There is only a small piece of blood sticking to the playing cards, as if the blood was dripped on it, and then another card was put on it... otherwise it wouldn't be so perfect." Gin turned out all the playing cards, "Besides, the only ones with blood stains are these two. I'm afraid there is something hidden in them... Maybe it's some kind of hint."

"Then, have you finished deciphering the original puzzle?"

Gin temporarily changed the topic.

Hearing this, Kaito Kuroba didn't hesitate: "Hmm... Could it be that the pointers point to zero, and then rotate 13, 12, 11 according to the direction of the faces of the king, queen, and soldiers..."

"I didn't ask this." Gin had a strange expression on his face, "I've already removed the clock, and I'm sure there is a mechanism behind it."

Kuroba Kaito: "..."

So what did Uncle Blade come to him to ask?

"That mechanism seems to be spread all over the entire annex, and it's impossible for me to tamper with it." Qin Jiu continued, "Can you see what he wants to express from the puzzle? You haven't figured out the phrase 'the devil has descended on the castle' yet." .”

If there is an alarm or something connected to this agency, it will be troublesome...

"This... let me think about it again."

After Kuroba Kaito said something, he fell silent again.

Gin is not in a hurry.

He can spend the whole night here - because tomorrow is still summer.

While Kaito was thinking about literal puzzles, Gin also picked up the two blood-stained playing cards, thinking about what they might mean.

'The back of the Jack of spades is stained with blood, the 4 of clubs is the front...'

Gin carefully looked at the bloodstain on it.

If the blood was dripped first and then the other card was covered, the blood on the side that was first stained with blood should be more solid.

"Plum Blossom 4..."

Gin narrowed his eyes.

The bloody one should be Club 4... Is this related to the puzzle?
"Or was it just a sign that he was going to die? Was he stabbed in the back by a 'soldier'? Or was he referring to himself?"

Gin began to let go of his own guesses.

He regretted that he didn't read the details of what happened here before. Now he only knows that a group of scholars died at that time, and then some political leaders and some economists died.

Maybe there are some other people who can't tell...

"I don't know how to die..."

Although Qin Jiu suspected that this was a signal left by a person before his death, he felt a little nonsensical, and it didn't match the puzzle in the villa just now.

(End of this chapter)