Chapter 88 Take One More and Leave
Jiang Xia went into the next room and took a quick look at the furnishings there.
Then he walked to the wall with a clear goal.
There is an inconspicuous watch hanging on the wall.
Jiang Xia raised his hand and moved the pointer above.
When the minute hand and the second hand turned to a certain angle, there was a click, and the wall in front suddenly opened, revealing a dark and deep passage.
On the ground further inside the passage, a pale Shikigami was crawling on the ground.
Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but walk up to it, squatted down and poked it.
The shikigami shrank back in fear, then gripped the ground even tighter, like a flattened, solid sticker.
At this moment, the wall at the entrance spun closed and the passage fell into darkness again.
Jiang Xia was not panicked at all and borrowed the night vision ability from the ghost.
After he could see his surroundings clearly, he took out a knife, tore off a piece of paper from the note, and folded out a small square paper bag.
…
This secret passage is connected to the tower that caught fire. After the fire that killed the witnesses, the bodies of more than a dozen people were scattered everywhere. The fake "old lady" walked through the tunnel all year round, and the soles of her shoes were stained with ashes, and occasionally she would bring some of the ashes to other places.
Therefore, the shikigami do not always stay in one place, but are scattered throughout the passages.
Jiang Xia took a knife and a paper bag, pierced the shikigami on the ground with the knife, scraped the bricks under it, and put the scraped dirt into the paper bag.
Then he pinched the paper bag and shook it over the shikigami's head.
The shikigami lying flat on the ground hesitantly raised one corner.
"!" Jiang Xia felt there was hope.
He put away the knife, grabbed the shikigami, and threw it into the paper bag at lightning speed, forcing the move.
The shikigami seemed to be frightened, and shivered as it crawled deeper into the paper bag, clinging to the ashes.
This self-protection action actually made things convenient for Jiang Xia - he didn't even have to fold it himself, the Shikigami would fold it and put it in the bag.
…
Jiang Xia successfully dug up a ghost.
Although it has not been processed yet, the contract cannot be signed for the time being.
But it is much safer to keep them in your pocket than to let them run around in the dark passage.
Jiang Xia put away the paper bag.
He originally planned to leave the passage first, return to the protagonist team without being noticed, and then use this existing Shikigami to find out the Shikigami's obsession.
This way, once you resolve the obsession, you can sneak into the secret passage once more and pick off all the ghosts.
But before getting up, Jiang Xia looked up and accidentally discovered that just a few steps inside, there was also a Shikigami clinging to him.
Jiang Xia paused: "..."
...If you think about it carefully, it doesn’t take too much time to scrape off a little soil.
And sooner or later, I will have to come to pick up ghosts. There is actually no difference between picking them up now and later...
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia took out the knife and paper bag again and walked towards the Shikigami that was a little deeper.
Catch another one.
Just catch and leave.
…
Ten minutes later.
Conan took out his notebook and carefully drew the layout of the chess pieces in the courtyard.
Toru Amuro withdrew his gaze from the window and glanced at Conan and his notebook.
Since Conan is holding a pen in his mouth and thinking, and looks like he is in a daze, Toru Amuro has not yet discovered anything unusual about this child. He just feels that Conan does things in a more organized way than ordinary children.
At this time, Toru Amuro vaguely had several ideas for solving the puzzle, but they were not clear enough, and he always felt that some information was missing.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that no one had spoken for a long time.
"..." This is very abnormal - according to experience, shouldn't Jiang Xia take a quick look at this time and immediately decipher the message that the old master wants to express, and then find the location of the treasure?
Toru Amuro turned around slightly with doubt, wanting to see Jiang Xia's cracking progress.
Unexpectedly, when he scanned the entire room, he only saw two high school girls huddled together in front of the window next to him, whispering about which flower bush was the most beautiful.
Jiang Xia was not in the room at all.
Amuro Toru: ...Where are the people?
…
Maybe he was just too lucky. Every time Jiang Xia dug out a ghost and was about to turn back and leave the secret passage, he would always see another one nearby.
It doesn’t take long to dig out a Shikigami.
Jiang Xia couldn't help but dig some more.
By the time he came back to his senses from the joy of the harvest, a long time had passed.
Jiang Xia glanced at his watch, estimated the time he had spent since he came in, and fell into deep thought.
"..." After so much time has passed, it's hard to pretend nothing happened and get back into the team.
And once you tell others that "there is a secret passage here", they will most likely follow in and watch out of curiosity.
But Jiang Xia remembered that there was an old lady's skeleton hidden in the secret passage. If his teammates had called the police immediately and the police had sealed off the secret passage...
Jiang Xia: “…” When the time comes, if you want to dig ghosts as if no one is around like you do now, you won’t have such a good environment.
Jiang Xia looked at the fresh wild Shikigami in the paper bag, then looked at the Shikigami waiting to be dug at his feet, and another Shikigami waiting to be dug a few meters away. After hesitating for a moment, he half-knelt down silently.
...It's too late to go back now anyway, so I might as well pick up all the ghosts before going back.
Moreover, after thinking rationally, Jiang Xia found that there was actually no problem at all if he disappeared for a short while.
After all, the only villain in this castle is just a maid who had plastic surgery to look like an old lady.
On the protagonist's side, there are two top fighters, Toru Amuro and Ran Mouri.
Conan also has all kinds of black technology plug-ins. Suzuki Sonoko is at least a healthy high school girl who exercises regularly, but the fake old lady sits in a wheelchair all year round and cannot get any sunlight...
As long as it is not a sneak attack, the fake old lady will not be able to take down any of them and will even be killed in return.
Jiang Xia thought about it and felt relieved. His sudden departure would not only not cause harm to his teammates, but would make them more alert and aware of the sneak attack the old lady might take. He could be said to have sacrificed himself for the benefit of the whole team. He did a good thing today.
Jiang Xia nodded secretly, and continued to dig out the Shikigami under his feet with the knife without any burden.
(End of this chapter)
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