Chapter 89 The Jiangxia People Are Gone
At the same time, on the second floor of the castle.
Jiang Xia disappeared without any warning.
In the room, Toru Amuro, Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki and Conan looked at each other and fell silent.
——Not even one of them could tell the exact time when they last saw Jiang Xia.
There are exactly two windows in this room, and there is a clothes hanger in the middle to block the view.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran didn't see Jiang Xia and thought Jiang Xia was with Amuro Toru.
However, Toru Amuro felt that judging from the enthusiasm Jiang Xia expressed towards his two classmates, Jiang Xia must be on the side of Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko.
As for Conan... as soon as he reached the window and saw the huge chessboard full of puzzles, he fell into deep thought and didn't even consider the question of "which window is Jiang Xia next to".
Now that Conan realized what was happening, he lowered his head to reflect silently - his observation skills were so poor that he didn't even notice that a living person was missing next to him... This shouldn't be the case. This really shouldn't be the case.
…
There is no signal here, so I can't use my cell phone to ask where Jiang Xia is.
"Maybe... he went to the bathroom?" Suzuki Sonoko speculated in a low voice.
The four of them then went to the bathroom to look around.
There is no one at all.
Considering the complex terrain of this castle, the few of them walked around the same floor again but still failed to find Jiang Xia.
Finally, the four of them stared at the end of the corridor and fell into silence.
This is a bit strange. Even if you get lost, you won't end up on another floor.
Conan frowned, thinking of Jiang Xia's speed of reasoning, and suddenly thought: "Jiang Xia... Did my brother solve the puzzle, so he went to the place indicated by the chess piece?"
After this thought came to Conan, he remembered how Jiang Xia answered questions cautiously when she was dragged by Kudo Yukiko to participate in a puzzle game when she was a child. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this should be the truth - Jiang Xia must not know whether she had answered it correctly, so she didn't tell others, but went to verify it herself first.
Amuro Toru didn't have as much imagination as Conan did, so he misunderstood: "Are you trying to say that Jiang Xia went to find the treasure by himself?"
This kind of behavior of running away without saying a word easily makes people think of "keeping the treasure for oneself".
But Amuro Toru recalled the organizational funds that were not embezzled by Jiang Xia but were used to advertise the store. And Jiang Xia refused to sell Feng Shui pills, and felt that the employees would not do this.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Li Ran certainly didn't think of it in a negative way.
Suzuki Sonoko slammed her fist into her palm and thought she understood: "He must have been too obsessed with solving puzzles and too focused, so he forgot to tell us when he left - that guy, Kudo, doesn't he often run away when he thinks of a clue?"
Mao Lilan nodded in agreement: "Indeed."
After such reasoning, although the four people's mental journeys were completely different, they actually came to similar conclusions.
"This castle is huge. If we want to confirm the location of the treasure, it will take quite a while." Amuro Toru said, turning around and saying, "Let's go back to the original room and wait. Maybe Jiang Xia will come back by himself after a while."
…
However, it turns out that it didn’t.
Jiang Xia didn't show up until dinner time.
Instead, it was Mamiya Mitsuru who sent someone to look for them - he had prepared a feast for the guests and wanted to ask about the progress of solving the puzzle.
The four of them arrived at the restaurant, and Mamiya Mitsuru rubbed his hands and came over to greet them.
Then he was surprised to learn that the detective he had most hoped for was missing.
…
After such a long time, Jiang Xia's teammates finally realized that things seemed to be beyond their expectations.
——No matter why Jiang Xia left, he hasn’t come back yet so late. Maybe something unexpected happened.
Toru Amuro's expression was particularly ugly.
He looked out the dark window and couldn't help but think once again of the strange teeth marks on his tires and the inexplicable tire blowout.
If the tire blowout wasn't an accident at all, but was caused by something else, like a demon...
Toru Amuro: "..."
What are you thinking! The world is scientific.
He quickly shook his head, throwing the unreliable thoughts out of his mind.
Then the attention was focused on "finding the missing Jiang Xia".
Mitsuru Mamiya gathered the servants in the house to help in the search.
…
At the same time.
In the gloomy secret passage, there was another person who was trying desperately to find Jiang Xia.
Nishikawa Suimei, the maid who had plastic surgery to look like a fake old lady, was now holding a wooden stick and walking silently in the long corridor.
She usually pretends to be an old lady with dementia, but in fact, she has always been paying close attention to the affairs at home.
Today, as soon as a few guests arrived, Nishikawa Suimei noticed it immediately.
She pretended to be crazy and went over to chat with the customer.
She was shocked to find that there were two detectives among the guests.
First, she was worried that these people coveted her treasure;
Second, she had killed so many people in the past, so she naturally felt guilty when facing people like the police and detectives.
…
Nishikawa Suimei had originally planned to find an excuse to kick the guests out later.
But before that, she suddenly heard that the young famous detective had disappeared.
"..."Others couldn't understand why a living person would disappear out of thin air.
But Nishikawa Suimei knew it very well.
——She knew there was a secret passage in the castle.
Moreover, after a few years of exploration when she was bored, she knew the distribution of the secret passages like the back of her hand.
In Nishikawa Suimei's impression, there was a secret passage entrance near the location where Jiang Xia and others were observing the chessboard.
Nishikawa Suimei: “…” The detective must have discovered the secret passage and walked in.
(End of this chapter)
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