Chapter 601: Grabbing Uzo's Tail
Hearing this, Jiang Xia immediately thought of the gold that was so abundant that it made him tired. He felt a little tired reflexively at first, and wanted to collapse on the sofa of his neighbor's house, and it would be best if he could have a fried shrimp roll to soothe his soul.
But considering that I am using the villain vest that I have been waiting for a long time...
Jiang Xia finally replied quietly, without changing his expression, "Of course."
As he said this, he turned sideways and his eyes fell on the clock on the wall of the restaurant.
According to the detective's usual pattern of action, he should walk over and demonstrate how to trigger the mechanism.
But on second thought, he felt that it would be ungentlemanly for him to roll up his sleeves and go into battle himself. Besides, he was currently playing the role of a terminally ill patient, and there was a group of detective "audiences" waiting to see his performance on the other side of the wall.
So in the end, Jiang Xia just moved a little and fell back into his seat.
He even closed his eyes and pretended to have failed to get up, trying to alleviate the dizziness.
After a second or two, he pointed to the huge clock on the wall and said, "Sorry, you should do it. I'm not feeling well."
“…”
Granny Chijian always felt that Kurosawa, who was using his former plastic "sponsor" as a stepping stone, was not as weak as he appeared to be.
Moreover, just now, this young man who was so shaky when walking actually arrived at the restaurant before her. The control room was obviously farther away from the restaurant than the secret room where she was...
However, the bait of "the location of the treasure" is too tempting.
Qianjian Jiangdai tried to think calmly like a detective, reason calmly, and sort out all the suspicious points of the young man in black. However, the "boom" and "boom" sound of her heartbeat hit her dull eardrums again and again, and her excitement and anticipation were pushed higher and higher.
Seeing that Jiang Xia really had no intention of getting up, Qianjian Jiangdai finally compromised again.
She followed Jiang Xia's instructions and walked towards the clock that might contain some dangerous mechanism.
"When the detectives searched the annex, I went with them to see what was going on. The Dusk Annex is vast, with countless rooms, but there is only one clock, the one on the wall in front of you... Don't you think that's strange?"
"..." Chima Kyouyo listened to his voice, looked up at this unique watch, and nodded unconsciously like a policeman listening to a detective's reasoning.
——She carried a pocket watch with her, so she didn’t need to use the clock in the annex to check the time. So, although there were few clocks in the annex, this did not bother Chihiro and did not leave a deep impression on her, so in the end it did not become a strong booster for her thinking.
In short, Chima Kyoudai simply realized that there were "very few watches" and subconsciously thought that the clocks in other rooms were taken away and sold by the Gourmet Detective. Although that guy said that he kept the annex as it was, as far as Chima Kyoudai knew, due to debt, the Gourmet Detective checked some valuable items and found that they had no mechanisms installed inside, so he noted down their locations and then sold them one by one.
At that time, Chihiro Chiba had not been invited to enter the annex belonging to the Gourmet Detective, so she naturally thought that the things that were sold also included the clocks in other rooms; and the watch in the restaurant survived because it was the kind of watch that was embedded in the wall, and the dial was simple and did not look valuable.
…
But now, judging from Kurosawa's words, there is actually another hidden story behind this watch.
...Well, maybe because Kurosawa didn't have a cell phone or a watch, he paid special attention to this aspect. Chijian Kyouyo nodded secretly, reviewing his mistakes habitually.
Then she sneered and shook her head - after what happened tonight, from every angle, she could no longer be a detective, and there was no need to bother reviewing the whole thing.
When she was a little distracted.
Kurosawa's voice came from behind:
"You still remember the 'tips' you left for us through the 'host's' mouth."
Qianjian Jiangdai was brought back to his senses by his tone, which sounded gentle, but had a hint of weirdness in such a bloody background.
She looked at Jiang Xia, suppressed her doubts, nodded in response to his question, and repeated the words that had been engraved in her mind:
"Two travelers looked up at the sky at night, and the devil descended on the castle; the king fled with the treasure, the princess poured tears on the Holy Grail, begging for forgiveness, the soldier drew his sword and committed suicide, and the blood stained the earth."
"That's right." The young man in black rested his elbow on the armrest, supported his chin with satisfaction, and pointed upward with his fingertips. "'The night when two travelers looked up at the sky' refers to the time when the long and short hands of the clock point upward at the same time to zero o'clock."
After saying that, he paused and looked at Qianjian Jiangdai.
Qianjian Jiangdai looked at him puzzled and nervously for a moment, and gradually read a silent urging in his eyes, "I have told you the answer, why don't you work?"
"..." After a moment's silence, the elderly lady could only turn around, raise her hand like an obedient worker, and silently move the hands on the watch to the appropriate positions according to what Jiang Xia said.
As the two pointers clicked together, a voice from behind her, either a passerby or a demon, sounded again:
"The next steps are actually written in your father's message. You should have noticed the blood written on the piano - 'I finally hold the trump card to find the treasure'.
“The emphasis is on ‘cards’.
"So the clues of 'King', 'Princess' and 'Soldier'..."
After hearing this, Qianjian Jiangdai finally caught up with the train of thought and showed some of the qualities that a detective should have.
She blurted out, "It refers to the K, Q, and J in playing cards. Also, the 'treasure' refers to diamonds, the 'holy grail' is hearts, and the sword is spades...King of diamonds, Queen of hearts, and Jack of spades?"
With these specific and detailed keywords, she suddenly remembered the blood-stained deck of cards that Ikumi Gunda used when she was playing cards in the living room just now. Her heart moved and she understood everything.
——Almost everything in this annex was custom-made by the Karasuma family, including the deck of cards. The three corresponding cards must contain clues to the treasure!
…
Just now in the living room, Qianjian chose chess as his entertainment activity.
She did not participate in the game and did not remember the specific pattern on the cards.
I was about to rush to the living room and take down the deck of cards.
But just as this thought flashed through her mind, she suddenly heard Kurosawa speak without any pause behind her:
"That's right. So according to the direction of the face of the character on the corresponding card and the number of points on the card, the way to open the mechanism should be to turn the pointer 13 degrees to the left, then 12 degrees to the left, and finally 11 degrees to the right... Hmm?" He paused halfway through his words and asked casually, "What's wrong? Don't you want to try it?"
"You..." Qianjian Jiangdai did not move, but turned his head and stared at him.
All the suspicious points suddenly connected together in her mind. Although she couldn't fully understand them, they were integrated into a larger vortex-like mystery.
There was a hint of questioning and deep fear in her tone: "When you were in the living room, you were clearly playing billiards, which was the farthest place from the card table. When Gunda called us over, he only showed us the bloody Spade J. Later, when you searched for the 'host', you didn't even open the playing cards in the living room...
"How do you know which way the other two cards are facing?!"
(End of this chapter)
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