Chapter 266: Toru Amuro is a good hostage. Please give me a monthly ticket.

Goatbeard always felt that with the leader's wisdom, the puzzle he set should not be solved so quickly.

Now that it has been solved so quickly, the puzzle here might actually be like what is written in detective novels, where after one link is solved, there is another one.

In short, if we let the detectives go at this time, we will be in a dilemma if they cannot solve the remaining puzzles.

Amuro Toru had no other plans for today. After all, according to the schedule, this was the time for the mysterious journey to Izu. He estimated that the same was true for others.

He was about to agree, but suddenly he heard Jiang Xia suggest: "It will take more than six hours before it gets dark, which is a bit long. Why not give it a try now."

It feels a bit of a loss to spend a whole day just for two balls of ordinary quality murderous aura.

Half a day is fine.

Conan and Toru Amuro were a little surprised when they heard this and turned to look at Jiang Xia.

Whether it was the "mirror in the armrest" mentioned by Haibara Ai at the door before, or the hole on the study wall at this time, or the dressing mirror fixed on the table, they all indicate one thing - the mysterious mechanism in this villa is related to "light".

The two detectives had even drawn a simulation diagram in their minds - at night, a strong light would be shone from the lion's head ring at the door, and the light would be reflected by various mirrors hidden inside and outside the villa, eventually forming a beam of light bridge, shining into the cuckoo clock and activating that mechanism.

Since many mirrors were installed outside the house and were interfered by sunlight, this mechanism could not be activated during the day... They remembered that Jiang Xia had noticed the mirrors everywhere and connected them together long before the devil's head in the cuckoo clock appeared. It was impossible for him not to have thought of this.

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Jiang Xia walk to the window and pull the curtains shut.

Amuro Toru and Conan looked at his action, stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood what Jiang Xia meant. Their eyes jumped: "You wouldn't..."

Jiang Xia carefully closed the two curtains together.

The curtains used to be ordinary cloth curtains. In recent days, the unfortunate granddaughter who inherited the villa felt that someone was peeping at her, so she replaced the curtains with more dense blackout curtains.

Now, as soon as the curtain was drawn, the room suddenly became dark.

Jiang Xia picked up the high-intensity flashlight on the cabinet, turned it on, and turned the knob to focus the light into a stronger beam.

Instead of going out to look for the lion's title ring, he walked to the cuckoo clock and observed the mirror fixed on the desk and the hole in the wall of the villa.

Then calculate the angle and shine it.

——The fancy reflection is a reflection, and holding the flashlight directly to the face is also a reflection. If you round it off, the difference should not be too big.

Under the light of the flashlight, the cuckoo clock hung quietly on the wall, without any movement.

Jiang Xia was not surprised. He raised his hand and beckoned Huiyuan over, then thrust the flashlight into her hands and said, "Hold it and don't move. Keep this angle."

Huihara Ai was a little confused, but she still did as Jiang Xia said, holding the flashlight and standing still.

The light shines directly on the cuckoo clock.

The attention of others was also focused on it. Jiang Xia took the opportunity to glance at the position in the room at this time. Then he looked away.

There was a reason why he asked Haibara Ai to help him get the flashlight.

——If everything goes well, then the jewel-encrusted watch will appear soon.

By then, the two gangsters are likely to turn against them and snatch the jewel watch.

The robbers were not good at solving puzzles, and now they had to ask for help from others. They were afraid of getting in the way, so they subconsciously moved away from Jiang Xia for a distance and stood at the door.

However, Haibara Ai was not very interested in solving the puzzle and stayed a little far away. Just now, she was actually closer to the robber.

If she continued to stay there like before, she would probably be gloriously promoted to hostage in a minute.

There is no need to worry about Conan, as he is the most reassuring person. He has already stood under the cuckoo clock with great interest, looking up and waiting to witness the miracle.

Anyway, after summoning Haibara Ai, the person closest to the bandits and most suitable to be grabbed as a hostage became Amuro Toru...

Come on, boss.

Jiang Xia silently waved the ball to him twice in his heart, the same one that Miyano Akemi used.

After that, he glanced at the man with the middle-parted hair at his hand in a plaster cast. When the other party realized something was wrong and stared back at him warily, he retracted his gaze and looked back at the cuckoo clock on the wall.

He raised his hand and moved the minute hand, making time fast forward.

According to the clue of "Night" provided by the devil triplets, the mechanism in the villa can only be triggered at night. And according to the situation here, Jiang Xia thinks that the conditions to control this are nothing more than time and light.

Just now, he pulled the anti-peeping blackout curtains of his unfortunate granddaughter, and the light in the room was already very dim, but he still failed to trigger the cuckoo clock.

So time is probably one of the triggering factors.

The mechanical cuckoo clock on the wall in front of him didn't have the function of automatic online calibration. It thought it was the time you set it to, and it was easy to fool. Therefore, Jiang Xia thought that shading + fast forward should be able to meet the triggering requirements.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the mirrors used for reflection have been tampered with with some sophisticated science, and the properties of light will change after passing through them. Only that special abnormal light can activate a cuckoo clock or something like that...

Fortunately, the grandfather who set up the mechanism did not expect that someone would be so unsophisticated to crack his exquisite puzzle, so he did not leave this kind of backup plan.

If he kept it, Jiang Xia would have no choice but to dismantle the clock...

——When it reached around seven o'clock, the cuckoo clock responded.

The small window on the watch opened with a click, and what popped out was no longer a hideous demon, but a friendly-looking pigeon. The time signal from the watch was no longer a sharp and piercing "squeak", "squeak", but a series of pleasant cooing sounds.

The jewel-studded watch was now slung across the pigeon's body like a ribbon.

Jiang Xia raised his hand and took it off.

The middle-parted man's excited voice came from behind. He saw the gem flashing under the flashlight: "My grandfather actually left me such a great gift. Thank you for helping me find it!"

"It is indeed a great gift." Jiang Xia shook the watch in his hand and suddenly said, "——The stolen goods that have not been recovered by the Goblin Bandit Group. I heard that each one is a treasure estimated to be worth tens of millions."

The expressions of the two robbers suddenly changed.

Haibara Ai was also startled and hugged the flashlight vigilantly.

Amuro Toru looked like he had expected this - the Goblin Bandits were once famous, and the devil that just jumped out of the cuckoo clock in the study was exactly the same toy that the Goblin Group would leave at the scene every time they committed a crime. This was a clear hint.

Conan also thought of this, but he still couldn't say anything. He could only listen from the side with a depressed look.

If there were no strangers around, he could reason freely, but not now, he had to behave like a first-grade student... Mainly because the boss Jiang Xia looked very difficult to fool, and there was always a sense of crisis that if you dared to show off in front of him, you would be exposed in minutes.

In short, this is an evil organization...

(End of this chapter)