Conan's Corpse Picker

She gradually gave up the idea of ​​rushing to the nearest guest room to grab a gun, instead she walked into the dining room where the young man in black was, pulled out a dining chair and sat down.

Then he sighed: "Two people who are about to die, it seems that they shouldn't be enemies...Child, do you want to hear my story?"

Jiang Xia: "..."

In fact, I don't really think about it, after all, he already knows what he should know.It's a bit boring to listen to repeated stories.

However, looking at the murderous aura on Qianjian Jiangdai's body gradually softening, and thinking about the murderous aura of various flavors that fell from other detectives after she did this thing...

He nodded slightly.

……

As people get older, they may talk more.

Qianjian Jiangdai slowly told about her father's tragic death in this annex, and also fully revealed her collusion with the gourmet detective, as well as their later enemies.

During the process of narrating, Jiang Xia watched the murderous aura on Granny Qianjian: every time it became loose, she should nod her head in agreement.Seems like a serious listener.

——The old woman wanted to kill too many people, and her murderous aura was abundant.

The only disadvantage is that they are all ordinary murderous flavors, not special flavors.

However, exquisite meals for enjoyment are important, but of course the psychic who has worked hard to raise ghosts will not refuse the daily dry food.

Generally speaking, Jiang Xia is quite satisfied with the harvest of this incident.

……

Although Qianjian Jiangdai unfortunately met a fake audience, but what she said was still not in vain.

They passed through the crack of the door and successfully fell into the ears of the real audience.

Across the wall, the detectives who pretended to be dead and waited secretly pricked up their ears, eavesdropping on the situation inside through the open restaurant door.

——Just now when Jiang Xia left the central control room and went to the restaurant, he passed these "corpses".

After the corpses lay down for a while, they felt that Qianjian's mother-in-law should have been cheated, so they all cheated on the corpses and came to the restaurant lightly.

……

"—Osami Zhushan's expression was too crazy when he was thinking about how to kill you one by one, starting with the maids.

"In other words, he went crazy when he broke his fortune and bought this villa, but failed to find the treasure from it."

Granny Qianjian couldn't bear to close her eyes, but she said something that didn't match her compassionate expression: "So I had to kill him first, lest the detectives kill each other until all of them die before starting the treasure hunt. People solve puzzles.

"Unexpectedly, I still overestimated the calmness of the younger generation. What happened just now is no different from when Dashang Zhushan was alive. Fortunately..."

Having said that, she paused.

Then he opened his old eyes and looked at Jiang Xia with piercing eyes: "...Have you really discovered the location of the 'treasure'?"

Chapter 609 Grabbing Uzo's Tail

Hearing this sentence, Jiang Xia immediately thought of the gold that was too much to make him tired.First of all, I was a bit tired by reflex, and I wanted to collapse into the sofa of the neighbor's house. It would be better to have a fried shrimp roll to soothe my soul.

But considering that I was driving the villain vest that I had been looking forward to for a long time...

In the end, Jiang Xia's face remained unchanged, and he replied softly: "Of course."

Following these words, he turned sideways and his eyes fell on the clock on the wall of the dining room.

According to the usual action pattern of detectives, he should walk over at this time and demonstrate how to trigger the mechanism.

But after thinking about it, I felt that it would be out of style to roll up the sleeves in person.And now, he is playing the role of a terminally ill patient, and there is a group of detective "audience" waiting for the results of the inspection.

So in the end, Jiang Xia just moved a bit, then fell back to his seat.

It also meant that he closed his eyes and pretended to fail to get up, and was buffering the dizziness.

After a second or two, he pointed to the huge watch on the wall: "Sorry, you should come. I'm really not feeling well."

"..."

Mother-in-law Qianjian always feels that Kurosawa, who used the former plastic "host" as a stepping stone, is not as weak as he appears on the surface.

And just now, this young man who swayed twice when he walked unexpectedly arrived at the restaurant one step ahead of her.Obviously, the central control room is farther away from the dining room than the secret room where she is...

However, the bait of "the location of the treasure" is too tempting.

Qianjian Jiangdai tried his best to think calmly like a detective, calm down to reason, and smooth out all the suspicious things about the young man in black.However, the "boom" and "boom" of the heartbeat hammered on her dull eardrum, and the excitement and anticipation were pushed higher and higher.

Seeing Jiang Xia's appearance that he really didn't intend to get up, Qianjian Jiangdai finally compromised again.

According to what Jiang Xia pointed out, she walked towards the clock that might hide some dangerous mechanism.

"When the detectives searched the annex, I also followed to check the situation - the Dusk annex has a vast area and countless rooms, but there is only one place with a clock, which is the one on the wall in front of you... ...don't you think that's weird?"

"..." Qianjian Jiangdai listened to his voice, looked up at this unique watch, and nodded unconsciously like a policeman listening to a detective's reasoning.

——She carries a pocket watch with her, so she doesn't need to check the time with the clock in the annex.Therefore, although there are very few clocks in the annex, this did not bother Qianjian Xiadai and did not leave a deep impression on her, so in the end it did not become a powerful booster for her thinking. .

In short, Qianjian Jiangdai simply realized that "there are few watches", and subconsciously thought that the clocks in other rooms were sold by the gourmet detective. Although the guy said he kept the annex as it was, according to As far as Qianjian Xiadai knows, due to the debt, the gourmet detective inspected some valuable items and found that there were no traps inside them, then recorded their locations, and then sold these items one by one.

At that time, Qianjian Jiangdai had not been invited to enter the annex building belonging to the gourmet detective, so she naturally thought that the things that were sold included the clocks in other rooms; and the watch in the restaurant It survived because it was the type that was recessed into the wall, and the dial was so plain that it looked cheap.

……

But now, judging from Kurosawa's words, there is something else hidden behind this watch.

...Well, it may be that Kurosawa didn't have a mobile phone or a watch with him, so he paid special attention to this aspect.Qianjian Jiangdai nodded secretly.Habitually reviewing my mistakes.

Then she smiled and shook her head—after what happened tonight, from all angles, she can no longer continue to be a detective, and she doesn't need to worry about replaying.

When she was distracted.

Kurosawa's voice came from behind:

"Do you still remember the 'tips' you left us through the mouth of the 'host'?"

Qianjian Jiangdai was brought back to his senses by his gentle-sounding, but strange tone against the bloody background.

She looked at Jiang Xia, suppressed the doubts in her heart, nodded to his question, and repeated the words that had been engraved in her mind:

"Two travelers looked up at the sky at night, and the devil came to the castle; the king fled with the treasure, the princess shed the Holy Grail in tears, begging for forgiveness, the soldier swung his sword and killed himself, and the blood stained the earth."

"That's right." The young man in black rested his elbows on the armrest, resting his chin in satisfaction, and pointed upward with his fingertips, "'The night of two travelers looking up at the sky' means that the long and short hands of the hour hand point at the same time. Zero hours above."

After speaking, he paused and looked at Qianjian Jiangdai.

Qianjian Jiangdai looked at him suspiciously and nervously for a moment, and gradually read a silent urging of "I've told you the answer, why don't you work?" from his eyes.

"..." After a moment of silence, the old lady could only turn around, raised her hand like an obedient wage earner, and silently moved the hands on the watch, setting them to the appropriate position according to what Jiang Xia said.

As the two pointers clicked together, behind her, the voice of a passerby or a demon sounded again:

"The next steps have actually been written in your father's message. You should have noticed the bloody writing on the piano—'I finally hold the trump card to find the treasure'.

"The key is the 'card'.

"So the 'king', 'queen' and 'soldier' ​​in the clue..."

Hearing this, Qianjian Jiangdai finally caught up with his train of thought, showing a bit of what a detective should have.

She blurted out: "It refers to the K, Q, and J in playing cards. In addition, the 'treasure' refers to diamonds, the 'Holy Grail' is hearts, and the sword is spades...K of diamonds, Q of hearts, and J of spades ?”

With such keywords specific to the details, she suddenly remembered the blood-stained deck of cards that Yumi Gunida used in the living room just now, and she understood completely.

——Almost all the things in this annex are custom-made by the Karasuma family, including the deck of cards of course.There must be clues to the treasure hidden on the three corresponding cards!

……

When we were in the living room just now, Qianjian Jiangdai chose chess as his entertainment.

She wasn't involved in the game and doesn't remember the exact patterns on the cards.

Just about to rush to the living room and take down the deck of cards.

But just as this thought flashed across her mind, she suddenly heard Kurosawa's words behind her without any pause:

"That's right. So according to the orientation of the character's face on the corresponding card, and the points of the card. The way to open the mechanism should be to turn the needle 13 degrees to the left, then 12 degrees to the left, and finally 11 degrees to the right...Huh? In the middle of speaking, he paused for a while, and asked as if chatting, "What's wrong? Why don't you try it?"

"You..." Qianjian Jiangdai didn't move, and turned his head to stare at him.

All kinds of suspicious things were suddenly connected in a series in her mind. Although they could not be completely connected, they were integrated into a bigger whirlpool-like mystery.

There was a trace of questioning in her tone, as well as deep horror: "In the living room, you have been playing billiards, which is the farthest from the card table. Tao J. Later, you searched for 'host', let alone opened the playing cards in the living room...

"How do you know the faces of the other two cards?!"

Chapter 610 The Correct Way to Distinguish Jiang Xia and Wu Zuo

It was different from Qianjian Jiangdai's tense expression.

"Kurosawa" sitting opposite her had the same tone as before.

He looked at the "overthinking" old woman in front of him, smiled tolerantly, and said unhurriedly:

"When Ms. Guntian asked us to look at the bloody card, there were indeed only the Jack of Spades and the 4 of Clubs in her hand. But there were other cards on the table.

"——Please don't underestimate the memory of ordinary people. When God closes a window for me, a few more doors will naturally open. If you want to remember the cards in the pile on the table, you only need to glance at them."

Qian Jian descended from generation to generation: "..."

Is there something wrong with this saying...

But maybe it was the calm tone of the person opposite that affected her, and she slowly recovered from the horror of "the black hand is actually opposite me".

……

Qianjian Jiangdai concentrated on recalling the previous scene in the living room, but he couldn't remember exactly what cards were piled on the card table, whether the K of Diamonds and the Q of Hearts were revealed.

... For a moment, she really wanted to go back to the secret room and call the surveillance camera to check.But then she thought about it again: she didn't know that the clues were hidden in the cards before, and the living room was not a key monitoring area, so it might not be possible to capture the scene on the card table from that angle.

Moreover, if Kurosawa is really a dangerous person with unknown intentions, then when she expresses her intention of "wanting to leave", she may be stopped or silenced immediately.

And if Kurosawa is indeed as he said, but simply has a good memory, of course she doesn't need to go back to verify it.

... In short, at present, in the absence of tangible evidence.The explanation given by Kurosawa is quite reasonable.

Qianjian Jiangdai decided to believe for the time being.

What's more, she had already decided long before she did what she did today—as long as she can learn the truth about the treasure, it doesn't matter even if she dies here.