Chapter 1381 1389 [Russian Undercover Gin]
When Kidd saw its enthusiastic look, he instantly felt much more balanced.
He stretched out his hand, took the cat onto his shoulder, and stood up again. For a moment, he had the illusion that among all the cat owners, he was the real owner.
Just as he was thinking about it, the cat cooperatively stretched out its round claws towards him.
Kidd raised his hand and squeezed it in a friendly manner.
The next moment, he felt that the magic power in his body, which was already limited, decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Kidd: “……?”
…So this cat looks so friendly, just to get close to him and take advantage of his magic?!
The corner of his eye twitched, and he felt that he had been betrayed.
But then he thought, it's just a cat after all, it's normal for it to have poor self-control, it's just following its instinct as a monster... Kidd took a deep breath and barely maintained a calm and adult expression.
…
Conan was a little surprised when he saw the man and the cat "getting along so well" and asked, "Has this cat also been to Inspector Shiratori's house?"
"Inspector Shiratori" shook his head, took the cat into his arms, and petted it vigorously, deciding to take advantage of the fact that Mist Tengu wasn't looking and get back all the mana that was squeezed out: "I encountered it while on duty, and it helped me a little."
The hungry cat was startled and waved its claws to hit his hand.
Jiang Xia glanced at it and said: Don’t forget your business.
“…”
The eating cat silently retracted its outstretched front paw.
Then, at the moment when "Inspector Shiratori" relaxed, it suddenly bent down, kicked his hand with one foot, and fell to the ground with a thud when he let go, and ran back to the side of Mao Lilan.
Ran Mouri hugged the cat and cast a reproachful look at "Inspector Shiratori".
Conan and Inspector Shiratori made other discoveries.
The two were stunned and stared at the place where the cat had just landed: "It doesn't sound right... there's a hole underneath!"
Jiang Xia seemed to have the same view.
He moved closer to the floor, thought for a moment, and then grabbed a strand of Conan's hair.
Conan's head ached, and his thoughts were interrupted: "...Huh??"
Before he could ask, Jiang Xia had already pinched his hair and moved closer to the ground.
As the hair passed through the crack in the ground, it swayed slightly up and down.
"Sure enough, there is wind here." Jiang Xia put the hair back into Conan's hand, returning it after borrowing it, "There may be a passage leading to the underground under this floor."
Conan's attention was immediately drawn: "There must be a trap nearby!"
Having said that, he no longer cared about his hair and focused on looking for anything abnormal nearby, trying to open the door leading to the underground.
Beside him, "Inspector Shiratori" watched all this silently, and couldn't help but raise his hand to touch his head, feeling a little phantom pain: "..." Jiang Xia, this guy, is really not a pure detective. He pulls people's hair so easily. When he used a baton to beat people before, his movements were also very skillful. The police must have chosen to ignore these things because they saw that he solved the case quickly... Alas, stupid police.
But now is not the time to think about these things. The most important thing at the moment is the "Egg of Memory".
"Inspector Shiratori" pointed to the wooden floor near the wall and said, "There seems to be a concave gap where it touches the wall."
Jiang Xia turned his head and knocked on it with his hand, then held the gap and tried to lift it up.
A piece of the floor was lifted up, revealing a palm-sized cipher disk underneath. It looked like a calculator, but with more buttons, and the words on it were not numbers.
"Inspector Shiratori" finally found something and his eyes lit up: "There are Russian letters printed on it. Enter the correct password and you can open the door to the underground!"
"Russian." Jiang Xia stood up and made way for the Russian ambassador. At least on the surface, he was the only person here who was proficient in Russian.
The ambassador immediately realized that it was time for him to make his debut.
He put down his backpack and walked over, staring at the code disk curiously, then asked in confusion: "What's the code?"
The art dealer said excitedly: "Since the entrance is located in the craftsman's office, what is hidden underneath must be his masterpiece, the 'Egg of Memory' - memory! Try the Russian word 'memory'!"
The ambassador nodded and read the letters on the cipher disk: "Воспоминания."
Jiang Xia: “…” So long.
After a long string of letters was pressed, everyone looked at the code dial expectantly.
However, one second, two seconds...many seconds passed and there was no response.
"…It seems not." The ambassador sighed, thought for a moment, and tried the name of the producer "Kiichi Kosaka" again.
Still no movement.
Jiang Xia turned to look at Kosaka Natsumi and her butler, trying to hint: "Do you have any impression of the mechanism here?"
The old and the young shook their heads in sync.
Suzuki Sonoko received the hint by accident: "Oh right! I remember when we were on the boat before, Miss Xia Mei once mentioned a strange thing, Ba... Ba... Ba what about buying meat..."
After being reminded by her, Kosaka Natsumi belatedly remembered: "It's 'Balusheni Kukadame'."
"Is this Russian?" The ambassador scratched his forehead, gradually becoming confused about his native language, "Why can't I understand it?"
Kosaka Natsumi smiled sheepishly: "I don't speak Russian very well. This is a word I accidentally memorized when I was a child. Many years have passed since then, so it may be a little different from what I heard at the time - isn't there a word in Russian with a similar pronunciation?"
Jiang Xia stepped back and watched the discussion among several people who knew Russian.
At this moment, he suddenly felt his phone vibrate and received a new email.
Looking down, Jiang Xia discovered that it seemed that there were more than just people in the room concentrating on solving the puzzle - there was actually a student who was sitting in on the class and sent him the answer:
[ВОЛШЕБНИККОНЦАВЕКА, which means 'the magician at the end of the century'. If you calculate the time, it just corresponds to her great-grandfather.]
"..." Jiang Xia glanced at the wall silently.
When they came down just now, Gin and Vodka happened to be strolling nearby. Now, perhaps because they saw that everyone had stayed in this room for too long, the two of them arrogantly followed them to the next room.
But next door was the Knight's Room, and a group of people had just been taken there by the butler, so they wouldn't be back in the short term. Even if they did, there were dark statues of knights everywhere, and the two men in black were mixed in, so it was relatively easy to hide.
It seems that both colleagues are still sane, so there is no need to worry about them doing anything too reckless.
Jiang Xia no longer cared where the two were and replied casually:
[You actually know Russian? You are not an undercover agent sent by Russia.]
I pressed send and waited for more than ten seconds, but did not receive a reply from Gin.
But next door, the murderous aura of alcohol suddenly grew stronger—it seemed as if someone thought “undercover” was a swear word.
(End of this chapter)
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