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

Chapter 190 - The Devil
Gin thought for a long time, took out the notebook and pen in his trousers pocket, and copied the puzzle again.

It seems that this puzzle was originally placed in the living room in the hope that someone would discover it...

It seems that the owner of the annex wants others to help solve this mystery.

"...The previous direction should be correct."

Gin writes and draws in the notebook: stickman, match castle, match king...

It seems that this puzzle should be as guessed just now, and the main function point is on the only clock.

But the problem is...

"That clock should have been newly installed later."

Gin took the scribed puzzle and walked to the only restaurant with a clock, checked around Vodka and the later members to see if they had packed their things, and then looked at the wall clock.

He had already dismantled the clock just now.

This clock is equivalent to the starting point of the mechanism, and it is fixed on the wall... But Gin found that there are traces that can be made old at the connection between the mechanism and the clock.

Gin looked at the wall clock that he had adjusted back to normal time, and dragged his chin in thought: "What if it's not a clock?"

If the puzzles are really just tricks, then the 'Demons Descend Castle' is really too much to spare...

Of course, if it is to make the puzzle have a story, then two words.

But even with this sentence added, Qin Jiu didn't feel that the story was complete.

"Don't consider the wall clock, if this is describing a fact..." Gin decided to let go of his thoughts, "When two people looked at the night sky, a major accident happened, and the owner of the house took important things and abandoned the family. Leaving, the wife probably felt that she had made a mistake, and then the guards at home committed suicide..."

Ok……

Doesn't seem to work?
After listening to Kaidou for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out, Qin Jiu simply said: "Kaidou, Noah, check the establishment time of the Twilight Pavilion."

"Huh? Oh, well..."

Maybe something can be judged from the time.

Gin returned to the living room after leaving the dining room.

Before entering, Gin could see the slightly different shades of color on the carpet by the moonlight.

"It seems that there were dead people everywhere here at that time." Qin Jiu frowned slightly, "There are no bullet marks on the wall, were they all cut with a sword?"

Thinking about it, Qin Jiu just wanted to step into the room, but suddenly paused.

this blanket...

Why is it only in the living room?
Gin squatted down suddenly, trying to push the edge of the blanket away, but met a resistance.

His eyes darkened, and with a little effort in his hands, he grabbed a part of the blanket...

The moment the blanket was lifted up by him, a stench poured into Gin's nostrils, and he was so startled that he put the blanket back in an instant.

When he got up again, the expression on Qin Jiu's face was still a little surprised.

"This annex..."

Was that blanket covered before the blood was completely cleaned up?
It stinks!
"Uncle Blade, I didn't find the exact time...but it is inferred that it was after the 60s of the last century."

Kaito's voice was one step ahead of Noah.

In some respects, Kaidou's speed of checking information is slightly faster than Noah's.

Gin was not surprised by the answer, "After all, this is an English-style building, and it was almost the same at that time. Isn't there even a time frame?"

"Hmm... It seems that someone speculated that it was before the 80s, right? There is really no clear statement on the Internet."

"...Forget it, anyway, the age of this house should be 100 years."

Gin rubbed his eyebrows.

After all, that person is already over a hundred years old. Even if the house is not his, there must be a certain period of time for inheriting it.

'Then if the riddle is telling the truth, it should have happened before that one...'

Looking at the carpet, Qin Jiu had an unreasonable guess in his heart.

Could it be that the 'king' who absconded back then escaped here?
Could someone have cleared out a group of people who knew the secret before the One killed those who came here?
In such a desolate location, it is possible to kill and bury corpses without being discovered for decades.

"...Kaitou." Gin Jiu suddenly said, "Do you have the Twilight Annex... or a diagram of the internal structure of a similar building?"

Kaito Kuroba's voice paused, "For the annex, I can only find the exterior scenes shot before, but I do have the blueprints for that type of building."

"Then if you have a very important thing that you want to hide without being discovered, but you want to leave it to future generations, where do you think it might be hidden?"

"This one……"

Kuroba Kaito wonders if Gin is deliberately embarrassing him.

When Qin Jiu asked here, he suddenly stopped.

After being silent for a while, Hei Yu quickly said weakly: "Well, Uncle Blade, are you making things difficult for me?"

"...No, I have some ideas, so I'll hang up first." Gin Jiu took a deep breath, "You can fix the clock mechanism next time you come."

"Huh? Wait, uncle—"

'beep~'

Gin put away his phone, with a strange gleam in his eyes.

He immediately tidied up the traces he had left here, turned out the window, and climbed onto the roof in one go.

——The Twilight Annex is a structure surrounded by four sides, and the middle is vacant as a garden.

Looking down from the roof, Gin can directly see the fountain pool in the central garden.

"The night when two travelers looked up at the sky..."

Gin repeated the first sentence of the puzzle in a low voice, leaped deeply, and landed right on the fountain.

The pool water should have not been renewed for a long time, and the whole pool water is somewhat eutrophic.

Gin looked up at the clear night sky.

"The devil came to the castle..."

Gin stared fixedly at the pool of stagnant water in the pool around the fountain, hesitating whether to make a move.

After a while, he let out a sigh: "Forget it, whoever will go to hell if I don't go to hell!"

Suddenly, Qin Jiu gritted his teeth, took off his gloves, fell to the edge of the pool, and quickly groped in the pool.

But after groping around, except for a leaky lid, nothing was missing from the gin.

Gin: "..."

Did he guess wrong?

The clean hand scratched his hair, and Gin's expression collapsed.

That's right, if it were really that simple, the unscrupulous boss would have been found long ago...

However, Gin was not reconciled.

"Would you like to drain the water?"

Adhering to the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Gin pulled out the plug used to block the drain - not to mention, it was still tightly plugged.

A pool of water was quickly emptied.

But Gin only saw the pitted pool tiles being demolished.

Gin: "..."

It seems that this pool has been overturned long ago.

Thinking of the useless work he had done for a long time, Qin Jiu sighed, a little annoyed, and accidentally put a little force on his hand, and planned to put the lid back.

But unexpectedly, the leaky plug that he held for a moment suddenly--cracked!
Gin was taken aback by the broken cork: "...this time?"

He dumbfoundedly lifted the metal sheet that fell off the leaky plug, but suddenly found that there seemed to be something inside?
The gin quickly crushed the entire stopper, only to find that there was actually a small roll of parchment stuffed inside!

Moreover, it was fixed with bamboo sticks, and the width of the rolled parchment was less than five millimeters.

"I'll go, I can really hide..."

This unexpected joy was a bit too unexpected, and Gin didn't even realize it - it seemed that even the plug couldn't be removed by one person.

And when he saw the content in the scroll, his pupils shrank suddenly.

"What is this thing?!"

(End of this chapter)