"The arson suspects should be among them!" Xingchen muttered in a voice that only Conan and Xiao Ai could hear beside him.

A fire that killed more than a dozen people is a big case anyway.

Conan knew that Xingchen must have come to the castle villa after investigating the fire that year, so he asked him, "What is the result of the police?"

"Accident!" Xingchen shook his head and explained helplessly, "The source of the fire was the white wine that Madame Minako brought back from Germany, and several cases of wine were not stored in the storeroom before they could be stored in the storeroom, and they happened to be piled up at the entrance of the tower to block the passage, so there was not a single survivor." ”

Conan is also aware of the police's handling process, for the loss of more than a dozen people, without identifying the suspect, the best way for the police is to treat it as an accident, which can reduce the difficulty of solving the case and calm the impact of the case as soon as possible.

As the crowd passed through the front yard, Ayumi saw a half-human-tall stone sculpture carved into the shape of a white horse on the grass, and she ran over screaming, "Wow!

"There's a black horse next to it!" Mitsuhiko followed, touching the sculpture as he asked, "But why is there only a carved horse's head?"

"This is no ordinary horse, it's a knight, a pawn in chess. Pointing to the ground beneath the sculpture, Gray Yuan said, "You can see that the lawn on the ground has also been mowed to look like a chessboard with a deep and shallow one. ”

"Is there anyone in this castle who is particularly fond of chess?" Conan noticed that the placement of the pieces seemed to have some meaning.

"Who knows? I just followed the instructions of the previous master, Mr. Sadaaki. I build it every day, and I keep it that way. The gardener, Katsuo Tahata, explained to everyone in detail: "I heard that Mr. Sadaaki also listened to the last words of the eldest lord who died fifteen years ago. ”

At this time, the noble young master was also in the garden, and he was not interested in the visit of Dr. Asa and his party, but just groped for the stone chess pieces by himself, as if he was studying something.

Later, the group entered the castle hall, and as soon as they entered, they saw a huge oil painting that took up almost the entire wall in front of the entrance.

"This is the old man of the palace, the noble young master and the old master of the palace really look alike!" said Katsuo Tahata, the gardener, to Dr. Katsuo.

Everyone looked at the oil painting, and saw that the middle-aged man on the oil painting had lost his mustache, and if he was a few years younger, he would be the appearance of the noble young master he had just seen in the garden.

I have to sigh at the ability of the Manomiya family to inherit from generation to generation.

On the walls on the left and right sides of the hall, there is also a huge oil painting painted by the deceased Mrs. Minako and her first husband, Sadaaki of the Omama Palace.

Sadaaki on the oil painting looks polite and polite, and Mrs. Minako is as beautiful as a flower, and the two can be called talented women.

Gardener Katsuo introduced the basic situation of the Manomiya family to Dr. Asa and others, saying, "The old man who has entered the house admires the master of the historian very much. Instead, Madame ......"

"It is said that the old man is just an intellectual who loves to reason. An old voice interrupted the gardener's introduction.

The speaker is an old woman in a wheelchair with a face full of age spots, a pair of reading glasses on her face, and she is the wife of the old man of the palace, the 83-year-old Mamiya Zengdai.

Older people always seem to be prone to immerse themselves in the memories of the past, and the old lady of the new generation continued: "The old man knows, and he doesn't care, but he is very happy!"

"Sorry to remind you of an unpleasant past. The gardener took off his hat and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"It's okay, I'm used to the days when he's not around. The old lady of the new generation sighed: "Just like the change of the banknote pattern and the size of the passport, it will be unaccustomed at first, but after a long time, it will be like that." Time is terrible, and all the joys and sorrows will fade with it. ”

Then the old woman looked at Dr. Asa and the others and asked, "Who are they?"

"It's a scientist friend of Master Man. The gardener Katsuo replied to the old lady Masudai according to the instructions of the palace.

"I'm really looking forward to it, please be sure to solve the mystery left by the old man!" said the old lady with a smile on her face.

The gardener Katsuo added: "The last words left by the old man before his death were to give the treasure to the person who solved the mystery of the castle. ”

"By the way, hasn't my daughter arrived yet? Didn't she say that she was going to come back today to celebrate my birthday?" said the old lady in a daze.

It was not the first time that the gardener had encountered such a situation, and he explained anyway: "No, Madame is already ......"

"Came back and called her to my room, and I waited for her. The old lady interrupted the gardener unceremoniously, and after speaking, she pushed her wheelchair back to the room.

"Well, I've been in a daze since the fire, and I don't know if it's Alzheimer's disease or the pain of losing my daughter. The gardener was also helpless about the old lady's frequent nonsense.

But fortunately, the old lady is only unable to move and can still take care of herself, so she did not arrange a special person to take care of her.

"Conan, are you interested in competing with me, see who finds the treasure in this castle first!" In order to behave in front of his goddess, Xingchen deliberately said: "Let Xiao Ai be the referee!"

Gray Yuan is intrigued by the reasoning duel between Xingchen and Conan, and it is also a good opportunity to learn more about the two men.

Although Conan was not interested in the reasoning competition, his strong curiosity still drove him to want to explore the castle, so he didn't directly refuse Xingchen's suggestion, but just said to himself in his heart that no matter what Xingchen said, it was not once or twice that he deliberately set a trap and misled the reasoning into a dead end.

"Uncle, is there a room here with a panoramic view of the chess in the courtyard?" Conan asked the gardener, with a child's innocent expression.

Obviously, the chess stone carvings that the old man asked to remain as they were all year round were an important clue to solving the mystery.

After challenging Conan, Xingchen is in no hurry to express himself.

At the first glance of seeing the old lady Masumiya, Xingchen recalled the general plot of the entire case.

The cyan castle exploration event is also one of the shadows of childhood.,Xingchen won't be like the protagonist in other fanworks.,Remember the plot but pretend not to remember.。 He doesn't need to have the special ability of a professional killer, just by listening to the heartbeat, he can tell the approximate age of a person or whether he is lying or something.

The established facts do not change, but what we see is the whole truth of events?