Chapter 597: Death in Progress
Jiang Xia: “…”
To later treasure hunters, these last words seemed to have no meaning.
No, that's not the case. Maybe this man named Kyousuke Sengen simply wanted to make Karasuma Renya angry to death when he saw these words - "I know where the treasure is, but I'm dead."
There is only one thing that is of concern. The person who left this old blood letter was called Chiken Kyousuke - the same surname as Chiken Kyouyo.
Qianjian is not a very common surname. In the current situation, it is hard to regard this as a coincidence.
With this clue, there seems to be more indirect evidence that Grandma Qianjian is the mastermind behind the incident.
In the darkness, next to the faint fluorescence.
After reading the blood letter, Jiang Xia looked at the other two people and pretended that he was also thinking about the above inference.
Afterwards, he glanced at the camera in the corner and prepared to leave the battlefield.
After all, now he is just an innocent patient who is responsible for surviving to the end and asking Grandma Qianjian for the way to leave.
He should have found a quiet place to wait instead of continuing to wander around and teaming up with other detectives to stage a "no one survives" scene.
…
After reading the blood writing on the piano lid, "employee" Kidd walked over and turned on the light.
Toru Amuro turned around and planned to look for other clues in the room.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly heard a chaotic sound coming from the piano behind him, as if someone was pressing on the keys - Amuro Toru turned around quickly and saw Matsuda following him and taking two steps towards the closet. On the way, his feet went weak and he fell to the side... He looked like a patient in the late stage of a terminal illness who couldn't even walk steadily.
Toru Amuro was startled, and he supported the person. He instinctively listened to his breathing, checked his pulse, and looked at his eyes... After completing the observation process, he stopped and began to wonder whether this was a fake or real.
Then he saw Matsuda leaning against him weakly, raising his hand to press his eye sockets: "...This fluorescence is really disturbing. My head is starting to hurt again."
Amuro Toru: "..." Hmm? Can you still talk?
...It seems like he's pretending.
No wonder Matsuda had the audacity to remind the detectives to pay attention to their acting skills just now - Matsuda himself actually acted quite convincingly. I always felt that this guy must have pretended to be sick and weak to scam people before, otherwise how could he be so skilled...
However, when it comes to "bumping into cars", it is often associated with breaking the law.
Well... on the bright side, maybe it's not that Matsuda often acts like a fake, but that he himself does often suffer from dizziness due to illness, so it looks similar in his acting?
...Wait, what kind of "think positively" is this?
Amuro Toru fell silent for a moment.
...In the end, I decided to just assume that Matsuda has a talent for acting.
He remembered the general strategy that a group of people had decided on before the performance of "No One Survives" tonight, and decided to deal with the current situation first.
So he held the unsteady Matsuda and said with mixed feelings: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay. I'm used to it." Jiang Xia sighed and closed his eyes. "There seems to be an empty bedroom next to it... You guys continue to check. I'll go in and lie down first."
In order to make the detectives kill each other, Grandma Qianjian and the Gourmet Detective placed some weapons in the guest rooms.
But there are many guest rooms in the villa, and not every bedroom has them. The "side room" that Jiang Xia mentioned does not have any handy tools.
Only by staying in this kind of room can Mother-in-law Qianjian feel more at ease and tell the truth when she faces him later.
——Although Jiang Xia himself doesn’t care about the truth, he just wants to take the opportunity to see if the detectives have any new tastes in murderous aura and develop some suitable new granaries.
But after the detectives have worked so hard to perform and deliver murderous intent, they must be paid a little, so that it will be easier to cooperate in the future... Well, of course, the premise is that they can really produce murderous intent.
…
Toru Amuro put the "terminally ill patient" in the next room to lie down, and let Jiang Xia wait quietly.
Afterwards, he and Kidd, who was dressed as Jiang Xia, closed the door and continued their half-real, half-fake search along the corridor.
…
The other side of the annex.
The maid stood at the door of the bathroom, biting her thumb nervously, waiting for her teammate, Gunda Ikumi, to come out of the bathroom.
After biting, she just put down her hand when a wet handkerchief suddenly came from behind and covered her mouth and nose heavily.
The maid, whose acting skills were average, held her breath nervously, somewhat thankful that her face was covered by a handkerchief, so the people behind the surveillance camera could not see her expression. She struggled for a moment, closed her eyes and fell to the ground.
Behind the maid, Gunda Ikumi, who "sneak attacked" her, showed a meaningful smile, dragged the maid into the tool room and hid her.
Then he washed his hands and prepared to leave.
As soon as I stepped into the corridor, a voice suddenly came from the side: "...I knew there was something wrong with you."
At the same time, there was the sound of a gun being loaded.
Qiangtian Yumei was startled and turned her head.
She saw a white-horse detective holding a gun standing there, with the muzzle of the gun raised and pointing at her.
Bai Matan recalled the provocative "reminder" from the young man in black just now. His eyes were cold, and he tried hard to regard Qiangtian Yumi in front of him as a brutal villain who needed to be killed.
At the same time, he made a serious and flawed reasoning: "The maid's car was equipped with a bomb, and the criminal would not risk riding it, so the murderer is more likely to be among you, Mr. Mogi, the maid, and the people who stayed behind, rather than the four people who went to the bridge.
"At first, I was more suspicious of the maid here. The so-called 'interview content' was all her own talk. And compared to my colleagues, I tend to suspect others who are not good at solving puzzles and want to use the power of detectives to solve the puzzles first...
"I didn't expect that I would actually get something after following her all the way here. But it's not what I expected. The maid was the one who was attacked."
Gunda Ikumi didn't answer directly. She laughed and said, "How can an underage high school student carry a gun with him?" She pretended not to know that everyone had a gun in their room. "Is this a privilege for second-generation police officers? The reporters will probably like this news very much."
Bai Ba Tanye sneered: "I found this under the pillow in my room. I just used it for self-defense. Don't pretend. You are planning to use it to frame me after everything is over."
"I don't have one..." There was a small palm bomb hidden in Qingtian Yumei's hand.
While Hakuba Tan was attracted by the topic of "pistol" and his attention was focused on the gun in his own hand, Gunda Ikumi suddenly turned around and fired a shot.
Bang--
The sound of gunfire echoed in the corridor, and the white-horse detective fell to the ground.
Gunda Yumi raised her chin slightly and glanced at the defeated opponent: "I'm sorry, but this is also for self-defense - if I don't take action first, young people like you who can't keep calm will be frightened and shoot randomly, and things will be troublesome..."
While saying these self-comforting words, she left the "corpse" behind her and walked towards the stairs in her high heels, intending to go to the control room on the fourth floor.
(End of this chapter)
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