Chapter 1383 1391 [Okiya Subaru, are you willing to be my younger brother?]
In the center of the hall stood a wooden coffin with a huge lock hanging on it, and on the lampstands on both sides were some burnt candles.
There was only one flashlight for lighting, which was a bit shabby.
Jiang Xia took out a lighter and lit the candles on both sides.
The dim candlelight flickered, and the passage and the wooden coffin were stained with a faint yellowish hue, which instantly made the environment more atmospheric. Jiang Xia nodded slightly in satisfaction.
The warm light dispelled the darkness, and Kosaka Natsumi finally came back to her senses. She carefully walked up the stairs and came to the wooden coffin. Her heartbeat became more intense, as if she had guessed something.
"This lock is really big." "Inspector Shiratori" weighed the lock, looked at the keyhole, and instinctively wanted to give it a try.
But before he took out the lock picking tools, Jiang Xia turned to look at Kosaka Natsumi: "Is there a key that you took out with the blueprints?"
"Oh, yes!" Natsumi Kosaka came to her senses, hurriedly opened her bag, and took out a huge key.
Kidd: “…”
…Forget it, it will be the same if I try again later.
He calmly stepped aside and used a flashlight to help Kosaka Natsumi, looking like a normal, good policeman.
Natsumi Kosaka picked up the lock, inserted the key and turned it. With a click, the lock opened.
She herself was a little surprised: "It really is the key here."
"Open the coffin and take a look?"
Although it seemed impolite to open the coffin without permission, they had no idea what was inside, maybe it was just an empty coffin.
Kosaka Natsumi nodded and said, "Thank you for your help."
Jiang Xia was the closest. He walked over and looked at the heavy coffin lid covered with dust. Suddenly, he missed the vodka in the distance.
Jiang Xia: "..." It's nice to have a little brother, he can come in handy at times like this... Unfortunately, Matsuda Jinpei already has the identity of "Uzo", he can be used to take the blame, but it's not easy to bring him out to do the hard labor of opening coffins. It would be great if there was another "assistant" in the open.
Although Vodka was used as an assistant, this guy's identity was obviously shady. He could only be tricked out to squeeze ice cream occasionally, and it was impossible for him to form a daily team.
As he was thinking, a face suddenly appeared in Jiang Xia's mind: squinting eyes, light-colored hair, and a face that somewhat overlaps with Vodka's professional field - the all-round graduate student whose event physique is gradually awakening, Subaru Okiya.
Jiang Xia: “…” Unfortunately, this person has already established contact with Akai Shuichi.
But on second thought, recruiting subordinates is not a matter of first come first served. And doesn't Akai Shuichi already have a loyal FBI subordinate? This graduate student shouldn't be of much use to him...
While he was distracted, he and the people next to him lifted the coffin lid and pushed it aside.
The flashlight shone inside, revealing a skeleton lying quietly in the coffin.
The skeleton was wearing rotten clothes. After hundreds of years, both the person and the clothes were as old as a handful of dirt. Only the area on the chest of the skeleton was dazzling - there was a red Easter egg with a shell inlaid with gems, which was very similar in shape to the egg in Suzuki's house.
"Egg of memories! Another egg of memories on the blueprint!"
The ambassador was excited, and then he remembered something. He looked at the body and asked Kosaka Natsumi, "Is this your great-grandfather?"
Natsumi Kosaka shook her head: "It should be my great-grandmother - there are only the remains of my great-grandfather in the family cemetery in Yokosuka. Maybe because my great-grandmother was a foreigner, she was not buried in the family cemetery. I also wondered where my great-grandmother's body went, but I didn't expect..." It was actually hidden under the castle.
She reached out and carefully picked up the "Egg of Memory" from the corpse's chest.
The shell of the egg is decorated with rose-shaped gems and inlaid with golden branches, which is extremely gorgeous.
But the moment she picked it up, Natsumi Kosaka was slightly stunned - compared with the simple "Egg of Memories" in the Suzuki family, this Easter egg was a circle larger, but it seemed to be much lighter.
Jiang Xia took the egg from her hand, opened the upper half and looked inside.
Art dealers and ambassadors also came over and looked inside excitedly.
Then he was stunned.
——There is nothing inside the easter egg.
This egg that was carefully hidden in the coffin underground was actually just an empty eggshell.
"Inside the other egg of memories are golden statues of the emperor's family. Why is this one so empty? Could it be that in order to build the castle, the jewel on the shell of that egg was sold, and this one was sold for the golden statue inside?" The art dealer slapped his thigh in grief, "It would be better to sell the whole thing! At least then both are complete, and I can..."
Jiang Xia was annoyed by his noise. He stepped back and interrupted politely: "The two eggs are one big and one small. The big one has a groove on the bottom. Maybe there was nothing inside it originally. It was designed to be like a Russian nesting doll."
"Matryoshka?" The art dealer was a bit far from his childhood. It took him a few seconds to remember, "It's the kind of wooden doll that you put smaller toys inside when you open it, one by one?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
The ambassador also understood. He pointed to the bottom of the eggshell and said, "So the groove here is not because the original things have been taken away, but it was carved in advance to put another egg in?...It's a pity that the egg is not here, otherwise we can put it together and see what the effect is."
Next to him, "Inspector Shiratori" suddenly smiled when he heard these words.
"I had thought that this might happen, so..." He reached into his bag and naturally took out an egg, "I asked Chairman Suzuki to borrow it."
Jiang Xia turned to look at him, thought about it, and showed a little doubt.
Almost at the same time, Conan's eyes fell on "Inspector Shiratori": "..." I had expected this kind of thing... Could Inspector Shiratori be so foresighted?
Either the inspector just wanted to play with the "Egg of Memories" himself, or...
Conan suddenly remembered the missing Kid.
——If Kidd was really ambushed by "Scooping" the night before and fell from the sky, he would definitely not have fled in such a disgraceful manner.
Perhaps at this moment, mixed in the crowd was not only the "Scooping Soldier" of unknown identity, but also Kidd who was good at disguise.
Thinking of this, Conan subconsciously looked up at Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia was looking at "Inspector Shiratori" meaningfully, as if he had some doubts about him.
This made Conan more confident in his judgment. At the same time, he couldn't help but feel itchy, wanting Jiang Xia to grab the face of "Inspector Shiratori" to see if there was a layer of disguise on it - of course, in fact, he wanted to solve the mystery himself, but unfortunately there was a height difference, and he couldn't reach the face of "Inspector Shiratori".
(End of this chapter)
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