Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 609 Grabbing Uzo's Tail

   Hearing this sentence, Jiang Xia immediately remembered the amount of gold that made him tired. First of all, I was a little tired by conditioned reflex, and I wanted to slump into the sofa of the neighbor's house. It's better to have a fried shrimp roll to soothe my soul.

   But considering that he was driving the villain's vest that he had been waiting for for a long time...

   Jiang Xia's expression remained unchanged in the end, and replied softly, "Of course."

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

  According to the detective's usual action pattern, he should walk over at this time and demonstrate how to trigger the trap.

   But on second thought, I felt that rolling up my sleeves and going into battle in person would be a loss of grace. And now, he is playing a terminally ill patient, and there is a group of detective "audience" across the wall waiting for the acceptance of the results.

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

   also means closing his eyes, pretending that he failed to get up, and is buffering the dizziness.

   After a second or two, he pointed to the huge watch on the wall: "Sorry, you should come. I'm really uncomfortable."

  “…”

   Qianjian's mother-in-law always felt that Kurosawa, who was stepping on the foot of the former plastic "host", was not as weak as he appeared.

   And just now, this young man who was about to walk twice reached the restaurant one step ahead of her. Obviously, the central control room is farther from the restaurant than the secret room where she is...

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

  Senjian Kodai tried his best to think calmly like a detective, calm down his reasoning, and smooth out all the suspicious things about the youth in black. However, the "dong" and "dong" of her heartbeat hit her sluggish eardrum, and her excitement and anticipation were pushed higher and higher.

   Seeing that Jiang Xia really did not intend to get up, Qianjian Yadai finally compromised again.

   According to Jiang Xia's instructions, she walked towards the clock that might be hiding some dangerous organs.

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

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

   - She has 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 trouble Chikan Koyo and impress her too much, so in the end, it did not become a strong booster for her thinking. .

In short, Chikan Koyo 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 that he kept the annex as it was, but according to Chikan Koyo knew that because of the debts, the food detectives checked some valuable items and found that there were no mechanisms inside them, so they wrote down their locations, and then sold them one by one.

At that time, Chikan Koyo hadn't been invited to enter this annex, which belonged to a food detective, so she naturally thought that among the things that were sold, the clocks in other rooms were also included; and this watch in the restaurant It survived because it was the kind that was built into the wall, and the dial was so plain that it didn't look worth the money.

  …

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

  ...Well, maybe Kurosawa didn't have a cell phone or watch on him, so he paid special attention to this aspect. Qianjian Kodai nodded secretly. Habitually reviewing his mistakes.

   Then she laughed and shook her head - after going through these events tonight, from all angles, she can no longer continue to be a detective, and she doesn't need to bother to review.

   When she was a little distracted.

   Kurosawa's voice came from behind:

   "You still remember the 'hints' you gave us through the mouth of the 'host'."

   Qianjian Kodai was drawn back to his senses by his gentle-sounding tone, but in this **** background, there was a hint of strange tone.

   She looked at Jiang Xia, suppressed her suspicion, nodded at his question, and repeated the words that had been carved into her mind:

   "The night when the two travelers looked up at the sky, the devil descended on the castle; the king fled with the treasure, the princess shed tears on the Holy Grail, begging for forgiveness, the soldier slashed himself with his sword, and blood stained the earth."

"That's right." The black-clothed youth rested his elbows on the armrest, supported his cheeks with satisfaction, and pointed his fingertips above, "'Two travelers looking up at the sky at night' means that the long and short hands of the clock point at the same time. Zero hour above."

After   , he paused and looked at Qianjian Koyo.

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

  "..." After a moment of silence, the aged old lady could only turn around, raised her hand like an obedient wage earner, and silently moved the hands on the watch to move them to the appropriate position as 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 also noticed the blood book on the piano - 'I finally hold the trump card to find the treasure'.

   "The point is 'cards'.

   "So the 'king', 'princess' and 'soldier' ​​in the clues..."

   Hearing this, Qianjian Kodai finally caught up with his train of thought, showing a little of the qualities a detective should have.

She blurted out: "It's the kings, queens and jacks of playing cards. Also, 'treasures' are diamonds, 'Holy Grail' is hearts, and swords are spades...King of diamonds, queen of hearts, and jack of spades ?"

   With such specific and detailed keywords, she suddenly remembered the bloodstained deck of cards that Yumi Gunda used when playing cards in the living room just now. Her heart moved and she fully understood.

  ——The things in this annex are almost all 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 he was in the living room just now, the entertainment that Senkan Kodai chose was chess.

   She didn't participate in the poker game and couldn't remember the specific pattern on the poker.

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

   But this thought just flashed by when she suddenly heard Kurosawa say without the slightest pause behind her:

"That's right. So according to the orientation of the faces of the characters on the corresponding cards, as well as the points of the cards. The way to open the mechanism should be to first turn the pointer 13 degrees to the left, then 12 degrees to the left, and finally 11 degrees to the right... Huh? "Having said that, he paused for a moment, and asked like a chat, "What's the matter? Why don't you try it?"

   "You..." Qianjian Yadai didn't move, he turned around and stared at him.

   All kinds of suspicious things suddenly formed a string in her mind. Although she couldn't get through it completely, it was integrated into a bigger swirling mystery.

There was a hint of questioning in her tone, and deep horror: "When you were in the living room, you had been playing billiards, which was the furthest away from the card table, and when Guntian called us over, only the blood-stained black people were shown. Peach J. Later, you searched for the 'host', and you didn't even take down the playing cards in the living room...

   "How do you know which faces the other two cards are facing?!"

   (end of this chapter)