Chapter 1291: 1299 [Outlaws join group chat]
Conan was stunned, and the connection failed: "Dragon Tiger Stone? What is that?"
Yuanshan and Ye heard it with sharp ears and came over happily: "See, I told you that it is necessary to visit tourist attractions! - It's over at Sakura Gate. It is said that there are two stone walls guarding the castle tower. They look ordinary most of the time, but when it rains, patterns of crouching tigers and coiled dragons will appear on them."
Hearing this, the two detectives suddenly thought of a possibility.
The next moment, Hattori Heiji grabbed the scroll from Inspector Otaki's hand and stood in the heavy rain.
Inspector Otaki was stunned: "This is important evidence, we can't let it get wet in the rain!"
He hurriedly tried to chase after her, but he bumped into Jiang Xia who happened to be passing by. He bounced back just as he stood up. Jiang Xia looked at him in surprise and said, "Are you okay?"
Then he kindly pulled up the Osaka police.
“……”Inspector Otaki always felt that he was deliberately blocking the road, but there seemed to be no evidence.
Looking more closely, Jiang Xia looked normal, without much evidence of deliberate intent.
Inspector Otaki: “…” Am I overthinking?
…It was indeed a bit narrow here, and there were a lot of people. Jiang Xia heard the noise and wanted to come over to look at the scroll, but ended up bumping into himself. It sounded very reasonable.
...No, now is not the time to think about these things!
He woke up with a start and remembered the unfortunate physical evidence.
When he rushed over and took a look, Inspector Otaki was stunned:
After being drenched by the rain, some new content actually appeared on the originally blank scroll.
The edge of the scroll was burned unevenly, and on the tattered paper, a gourd shape could be vaguely seen on the left, with the vertical and horizontal dimensions marked on both sides.
On the right side of the scroll are a few lines of scribbled words.
"A gourd, pottery pieces with numbers within one thousand printed on them, and gold powder..." Hattori Heiji looked at Conan, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly: Could it be the legendary treasure, the Thousand-Chapter Gourd? !
——Who doesn’t love treasure hunting? Regardless of the money involved, the process of solving countless puzzles and finding this legendary treasure is enough to make them yearn for it.
A few meters away.
The four members of the tour group stood in the shadows, looking at them quietly with different expressions.
Among them, "Akechi Mitsuhide" had a greedy look on his face, while his "lord" Oda Nobunaga turned his back, took out a piece of ceramic fragment from his pocket, looked at it, and then carefully put it back and hid it.
The old man "Tokugawa Ieyasu" walked away a few steps, took out his cell phone, turned his back and made a call: "It's me, don't act rashly, the police haven't left yet - what we are looking for is right in front of us, everyone, cheer up!"
"Ningning" was very consistent with her identity. She stared at all this, smiling without saying a word.
Jiang Xia stared at the scroll for a while and couldn't help but look up at them.
As expected, I saw several balls of murderous aura.
Jiang Xia: “…” Although Conan alone has caused many murders, the proportion of people involved carrying murderous intent does not seem to be as high as it is now.
Hattori Heiji is really useful.
Thinking of this, he looked at the enthusiastic and cheerful Osaka classmate in a friendly manner.
Hattori Heiji was thinking about the treasure, but suddenly he noticed a strong presence. He was startled, looked back warily, and suddenly met Jiang Xia's eyes.
"..." After staring at each other in silence for a moment, Hattori Heiji took a deep breath and asked calmly, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Jiang Xia came back to his senses and said politely, "I just want to admire your heroic performance in solving the case."
"???" Hattori Heiji thought of the past, and a hint of escape flashed in his eyes. He grabbed Conan and handed him forward, "Your classmate from Tokyo is here, treat him as your opponent, and don't think about going after the Osaka guy!"
Conan: "..." The cunning Osaka people!
"Tokyo classmate?" Ran Mouri looked at Conan, then at Hattori Heiji.
After a moment, she was silent in the look of horror at Conan: Jiang Xia and Conan both go to school in Tokyo, and if you ignore the age difference, they can barely be considered "classmates".
Mao Lilan: "..." In order to avoid being spoiled by Jiang Xia, Hattori even spared the children. How could he do that? Children also have a desire to win! She saw Conan secretly put earplugs in his pocket...
As she thought about it, her gaze towards Hattori Heiji became full of condemnation.
Hattori Heiji faced her scumbag gaze and said: "..." Kudo, this guy, actually turned into a child to evade responsibility...
…
In the chaos, only Inspector Otaki, who didn't want to work overtime, was still thinking seriously about the matter at hand.
He stared at the scroll for a long while, but couldn't figure out anything: "Is this really related to the treasure?"
Jiang Xia took a closer look at the material of the scroll and thought: "This should be the case that the writer left a specific message and then covered the piece of paper with other thin paper. In this way, once the paper on top gets wet, the hidden words will emerge. This method was used intentionally to cover up the content. It does seem to be somewhat related to the word 'treasure'."
Inspector Otaki couldn't help but look at him with satisfaction. This detective who had a very good reputation among the Tokyo police was indeed different from the average high school detective. He actually remembered important matters like a policeman.
He looked at the scroll again: "But the important sentences were burned into such fragments that I can't tell what was written."
Conan heard them discussing the case and came over.
As the only person present who had seen the other fragments, he guessed: "These pottery fragments found on the body are most likely fragments of a pottery gourd. Add to that the size marked on the scroll and the gold powder on the inside, and no matter how you think about it, it looks very much like Toyotomi Hideyoshi's horse seal - Sennari Hyoran."
"Senari Hyotan?!" Inspector Otaki had of course heard of it, and looked at the scroll again in shock.
Although the gourds marked on the scroll are not large in size, if Toyotomi Hideyoshi really did as the legend goes, adding a golden gourd every time he won a victory, and finally diligently added a thousand gourds... then the value of this treasure is simply inestimable.
"This, this..." Inspector Otaki suddenly felt the scroll become hot, "This is impossible."
Next to them, the four people from the tour group obviously knew about Qian Chengpiaotan a long time ago.
They couldn't contain their excitement and even joined the conversation between the detective and the police: "How is it impossible? It is said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had a huge treasure. After his death, even Tokugawa Ieyasu was shocked by his wealth. And there was a rumor that Toyotomi Hideyoshi threw a lot of gold into the Kinmei Well in front of the castle tower in order to purify the water."
"In that case." Jiang Xia suddenly remembered something and looked at them thoughtfully, "Killing for this kind of treasure is a very sufficient motive."
“……”Several suspects who came to the door were stunned.
(End of this chapter)
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