Chapter 585 Your Wife is Gone
"Huh? He actually showed up on his own initiative?"
Grandma Qianjian pushed her glasses in confusion.
The maid responded, and then immediately remembered her previous guess that "the master probably doesn't plan to show up", and lowered her head a little embarrassedly.
Her face turned slightly red, and she quietly turned sideways, opened the door, and led the guests in.
…
A group of people walked through the corridor and came to the restaurant.
Pushing open the double doors, I saw three tables arranged in a ∏ shape in the restaurant - two long tables were placed opposite each other, and the short table facing the door and farthest from the door had someone sitting at it.
The "owner" sat in the main seat, with a set of tableware with exquisite patterns in front of him.
He was wearing a black robe and a purple pointed hood, with his face completely covered, leaving only two dark eye holes showing. He looked like a villain in a game who accidentally slipped into reality.
Jiang Xia: “…” So, so childish.
Next to him, the cowboy detective apparently had the same idea.
And he said it out loud: "Haha, have you watched too much TV? It is said that Kidd is a middle-aged man in his forties, but you look like a fourteen-year-old eighth grade student."
The chuunibyou in the restaurant ignored him.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, the host said in a deep voice: "Famous detectives present. I sincerely welcome you to this dusk annex - please take a seat first."
"..." Kidd stared dimly at the homeowner who looked different from himself in every way, secretly condemning his unprofessional behavior.
However, on second thought, the mastermind has already blew up the bridge, and now no matter whether the organizer is really Kidd or not, the detectives can't escape for a while... It seems that there is really no need to continue acting.
Kidd sighed inwardly, found a seat and sat down, wanting to see what tricks this "organizer" was going to play by impersonating him.
…
Several sets of tableware were placed on the long dining table.
A group of people found a place to sit and looked at the table at the end.
Under the gaze of the crowd, the host spoke slowly: "I asked you all to come here because I hope you can help me find the treasure hidden in this annex. In order to let you feel at ease to accept this commission..."
boom--
As soon as he finished speaking, a vague explosion suddenly sounded in the yard.
Then, through the window of the restaurant, I could see that it seemed to be getting a little brighter outside - there was a vague flickering light, like a flame burning.
From where Jiang Xia was standing, he could just see a corner of the parking lot outside the window.
I saw a car parked there, which had been deformed by the explosion.
Considering that the organizer wanted to keep the guests, he would not blow up only one car. Although the other cars in the parking lot were out of his sight, it was not difficult to imagine their miserable state at that time.
"..." Jiang Xia lit a candle for the luxury car and someone's wife.
Others also heard the explosion, and the atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly became tense.
The host seemed to have anticipated their reaction and said with a low laugh, "Don't panic. This is just to prevent you from leaving without permission."
Then, he spoke in the tone of Kaito Kid: "In the past, you have always been the ones chasing me. I think, based on the principle of fairness, we should occasionally switch positions.
“This time, it’s my turn to enjoy the pleasure of forcing you into a desperate situation.
"Oh, by the way, the suspension bridge leading here is broken now, and you should have discovered it a long time ago. There is no phone here, and there is no signal... You can't leave.
"——Unless you help me find the treasure."
At this point, the organizer's voice suddenly sank, with a hint of threat and murderous intent: "It took me many years to get this wealth. Even if it costs my life, I will get it. I hope you won't let me down."
Kidd touched the goose bumps on his arms.
…It’s okay to be a little bit childish, but when I think about this person speaking under his identity, it suddenly becomes extremely awkward. The real Kid would never say such a thing.
Jiang Xia leaned back in his chair leisurely, looked at the host who was not murderous, and laughed: "When you said 'risk your life to find the treasure', do you mean risk our lives?"
Beside him, Toru Amuro glanced at him and thought that he seemed to be able to talk again. Speaking of which, the familiar feeling in Kurosawa's actions disappeared almost from the moment he left the living room.
...There is indeed some connection between "not being able to speak" and "the figure having a familiar feel".
Could it be that he had stayed in the living room for a while, and now he had recovered and had the energy to continue disguising himself?
Or maybe there is some allergen in the living room that disturbs Matsuda's condition... Well, I'll observe later to see if Matsuda deliberately avoids the living room.
At the same time, Amuro Toru instinctively touched his phone while speculating. He wanted to immediately send an email to Kazami Yuya and the others, asking them to thoroughly investigate this "Kurosawa Sa" and Chima Kyouyo who came with him... Unfortunately, there was no signal here.
…
In front of the dining table.
The second-year organizer still ignored any questions or complaints.
He concentrated on what he had just said and continued, "For the person who finds the treasure, I will not only give him half of the wealth, but also tell him how to leave here - the above are the general rules. I hope everyone here can enjoy this tense game where life and death are at stake."
"Enjoy it?" The cowboy detective pushed the dining chair away with a bang, and stood up with a sneer.
He thought of his wife, whose luxury car had been blown up in the parking lot outside and whose life or death was unknown. When he looked at the organizer, his words were inevitably thorny: "I have no interest in participating in a game organized by a timid person like you who doesn't even dare to show his face."
As he said that, he strode to the host, grabbed the sharp corner of the hood and pulled it off with force.
The other detectives watched this scene and secretly breathed a sigh of relief - it was a relief.
However, everyone's eyes quickly focused.
——What was revealed under the host’s hood was not the “real face of the thief”.
It is a round plastic head.
...The gloomy, cunning and unsociable "organizer" turned out to be just a plastic humanoid model with a speaker on its head.
…
The model was just an ordinary model without any emotions. She didn't feel socially dead even when her hood was taken off and she was forced to show her bald head.
Under the complicated gazes of the crowd, it continued in that strange tone:
"Well, you can't solve puzzles on an empty stomach, so please enjoy this last supper."
“…”
The restaurant was silent for a moment.
After a moment, Bai Ma put his hands on his chin and sighed elegantly: "Asking the detective to help solve the puzzle that he can't solve himself is not something Kid would do. He is the one who sets the puzzle..."
Plop--
While he was posing with his hands, the eagle that he was holding suddenly looked fierce and flew towards Jiang Xia.
Then he was grabbed by the anklet attached to the back of the chair and began to thrash around on the spot.
(End of this chapter)
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