Chapter 569: Angel's Mansion (Clock)

Angel of the South, at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, Conan's group of people rushed to the bottom, and sure enough, they didn't encounter any dangerous facilities, and the clock just followed silently.

After a stone brick on the base of the angel pillar was pressed in, a secret door suddenly opened, and inside was a large space, only a glass bottle was placed on the central ground, and a beam of light leaking from above shone directly on the bottle, and it could be seen that a black crystal was placed in the bottle.

Conan led the way into the chamber, but failed to pick up the glass bottle, which seemed to be fixed to the ground, so he had to pull the stopper and remove the black crystal inside.

"Is this the treasure of the Wild Bull?" Motota stared at the cone-shaped black crystal.

"No," Conan looked at the crystal and said, "This should be the key to solving the next puzzle, the horns on the bull's head disappear, and the tail becomes a head, which means that the direction is reversed, towards the direction opposite the afternoon, that is, the north, and the next clue must be in the tower of the northern angel, Brother Chenghu......"

"Quick...... Hurry up and get out! Gao Cheng looked around with a slight expression, faintly heard the sound of a mechanism running in his ears, and when he turned around, he saw the clock grabbing Yuriko Matsuchu and pulling it out.

Without worrying about Conan's explanation, Gao Cheng hurriedly grabbed a few people and pushed them to the door, and as time skipped 12 o'clock, the floor of the secret room suddenly collapsed from the middle, and a huge trap appeared.

"Get out!"

Gao Cheng narrowly grabbed the fixed glass bottle, hugged Ayumi who couldn't escape and threw Conan to the exit, and let go directly before the secret room was completely sealed and fell into the ground with Yuantai.

"Boom!"

When his feet landed, Gao Cheng turned on his watch flashlight to look around, and found Yuan Tai lying on the stone floor without any movement.

"Motota! Wake up, Genta! ”

Gao Cheng checked Yuantai's condition and found that it was okay to breathe smoothly: "Wake up quickly!" ”

Yuan Tai muttered in a daze, "Brother Chenghu...... Another eel rice ......"

"No eel rice! At this time, I still want to eat! ”

Gao Cheng picked up Yuan Tai with a stinky face, and looked up with a flashlight again.

The ground isn't too high, so maybe it wasn't designed to kill people when it was designed, but it's impossible to go up from here.

However, the tunnels here are very similar to those in the East Building, and the Southern Angels underground seems to be a labyrinth.

In this case, you can go out through the stove in the East Building, but the question is whether the maze on this side is connected to the East Building......

Outside the Southern Angel Tower, Conan stood silently in front of the re-enclosed entrance, still unable to recover from the sudden change.

"What should I do?" In the end, Ayumi, who was sent out of the secret room by Gao Cheng, whimpered, "Brother Joto and Yuanta, ...... them"

"Uncle Clock," Conan looked at the clock who saved Yuriko with a calm face, "You knew there was a mechanism in the first place, didn't you?" ”

"I'm sorry," the clock met everyone's eyes, "I, as the executor of the master's will, everything is according to the rules, and this mechanism is also part of the challenge......"

"Then how did you still save Yuriko?"

"If you have this time to question, you might as well hurry up and solve the puzzle, or rescue the city detectives......"

The clock couldn't see his expression while wearing sunglasses, and the detective badges of Conan and the others suddenly rang when the atmosphere froze.

"Joto?" Conan was stunned and hurriedly took out the detective badge, "It's the city...... Brother Joto? How's it going over there? ”

"This should be an underground labyrinth," Gao Cheng carried Yuan Tai along the tunnel, "Yuan Tai and I are looking for a way now, if we go to the East Pavilion, we should be able to get out, what about your situation?" ”

"We're all fine," Conan looked at the few mourners around him, "We'll enter the labyrinth from the East Pavilion later, and judging from the situation of the skeleton, the maze should be connected." ”

"I see."

Gao Cheng put away the detective badge, looked at the sleeping Yuan Tai on his back, and sighed with a wry smile.

The little fat man didn't sleep much last night, but now he sleeps soundly, and he doesn't have to worry about being trapped in the underground maze.

Giving up the idea of waking up Yuantai, Gao Cheng took in the surrounding environment with the help of a flashlight.

He does have no sense of direction and has been lost many times, but at the same time he is also a detective, and it is not impossible to get out of the labyrinth.

After picking up a stone and making a record at the intersection, Gao Cheng continued to step into the next passage, because he did not lose his bearing when he fell into the trap, so the only thing he was sure of was that he was heading in the direction of the East Pavilion, so that even if he took the wrong road, he would not be completely clueless, and finally ended up with the skeleton.

The tunnel was extremely quiet, only the footsteps of Gao Cheng and the sound of Yuan Tai talking and eating saliva in his dreams, and there were many forks in the road, and after a while, he turned back to the original intersection.

Looking at the imprint left by himself at the intersection, Gao Cheng continued to explore the road without saying a word.

There is Conan on the other side, and he is not too worried about getting out of the labyrinth, but he is most concerned about the puzzles in this angel mansion.

Now it seems that Conan's analysis in the previous part should be correct, and the remaining clues are in the northern angels, but the sentence "angels will fall from the sky and blow the flute ......" is a bit strange.

The Northern Angels, including the other Angel statues, do not seem to have this mechanism in the code.

"Brother Joto," Conan on the other side contacted again with his detective badge, "Did you hear anything just now?" ”

"No, you're already in the labyrinth?"

"Yes, we pulled a thread through the exit, just like in the story of the halfling minotaur who borrowed a ball of thread to leave the labyrinth...... If we don't hear a sound, it means that we are still some distance apart......"

"Conan, I don't need to rush here," Gao Cheng interrupted, "Time is running out, the most important thing now is to help Yuriko solve the puzzle......"

"Actually," Conan paused, "as I said before, the next puzzle clue is in the Northern Angel, but to open the Northern Angel Tower, you need to wait until midnight, that is, at midnight, but we arrived at 9 o'clock in the evening, and I can't think of what to do for the time being, the Northern Angel Tower has a high-voltage current for thieves, and I can't get close to it until I don't wait......

"And it's a question of whether that Mr. Clock can be trusted."

"Clock?"

"Yes, he deliberately waited until nine o'clock in the evening to announce the puzzle, so that if he wanted to open the South Tower, he would have to wait until noon the next day, and even if the challenger found that the next clue was in the Northern Tower, he would have to wait until midnight that day to open it at the earliest......" Conan frowned, "No matter who challenges it, it is impossible to complete it in 24 hours......"

"But," wondered Xiao Ai, "what good is it for him?" Even if all the challengers lose......"

"What if he's an heir after Yuriko?" Conan said in a deep voice, "If he wants to officially take the treasure for himself as the heir, then it makes sense, I'm afraid the so-called protection is only to spy on us and hinder us......"

"That's not right."

Gao Cheng silently carried Yuan Tai back to the intersection again, and suddenly interrupted Conan's reasoning: "There's no reason why Gozo Isegawa can't foresee this situation, the monopoly man known as the wild bull must have some reason for choosing Mr. Clock, neither will he be a completely unrelated outsider, so as to avoid outsiders stealing the treasure, but he will not be a person who can inherit the inheritance......"

Conan was stunned: "Brother Chenghu, what do you know?" ”

"I was surprised when Mr. Clock found me, in fact, he should have been able to find Yuriko without me, so his purpose should be for me to help Yuriko solve the puzzle of the Angel Pavilion......"

Gao Cheng said calmly: "Mr. Zhong is a person who is related to the Isegawa family, this is not wrong, since he is a relative of Isegawa, he has no inheritance rights, and he gave up his original name to become a secretary, and in the end he was used as an executor, and he was not allowed to ......be free until the puzzle was solved."

"Is it ......?"

"yes, it seems pretty clear."

Gao Cheng stopped at the intersection.

"Hated by Isegawa Tsuyozo, and at the same time a relative of Isegawa, he has no right to inherit...... and just saved Yuriko in the Tower of Angels in the South.,The only one who meets these conditions is the one who eloped with Yuriko's mother.。 ”

Gao Cheng smiled slightly: "I specially checked, and Yuriko's father's body was not found back then, what can be determined is that the car rushed off the cliff and fell into the sea." ”

"Mr. Clock is Yuriko's father?" Ayumi looked at Yuriko, who was a little dazed behind her, at the same time.

"It's very likely, no matter what, Isegawa Gozo won't choose an executor casually," Gao Cheng looked forward and said, "Okay, I seem to be able to hear your voices, let's go out first." ”