Chapter Seventy-Seven: A True Treasure

Looking at Conan's constipation-like expression, Zero's mood improved a lot, and she coughed lightly and said to everyone: "I don't know if you have noticed, in this Dusk Pavilion, there is something that only exists in this restaurant, and is not found in other rooms." ”

Haruki Motegi thought for a moment: "The dining table? ”

This was obviously a wrong answer, but before Zero could correct it, Conan was the first to say, "I see, it's the clock!" ”

There is an unlit fireplace directly in front of the restaurant, and a round clock hangs about a meter above the fireplace. This clock is the only clock in the entire Dusk House, and there is no clock in other places, such as the living room or the bedroom.

This is indeed very abnormal, there should not be only one clock in such a large building. And this clock doesn't have a glass cover, which also seems a little strange.

Conan's mind was extremely clear, and when Detective White Horse and the others were still thinking, he figured out the crux of the problem with just this hint from Zero. He walked to the fireplace with a chair, climbed up to the fireplace with the help of the chair, and pointed to the clock and said: "The first sentence of the code, 'Two travelers look up at the night of the sky,' refers to the twelve o'clock when the hour and minute hands point directly above at the same time. ”

As Conan spoke, he turned the hour and minute hands of the clock to twelve o'clock at the same time.

However, Conan suddenly woke up to find that the others were looking at him with strange eyes.

Conan hurriedly jumped off the fireplace, trotted over to Zero, and said cutely: "This is all my blind guess, Sister Zero, am I guessing right?" ”

"Well, Conan guessed right, you're really smart." Zero responded with a smile, and at the same time reached out and touched Conan's head, "So Conan, how to solve the next code?" ”

Nima touched my head again? Conan wanted to slap Zero's hand away, but he could only hold back his unhappiness at this time, and continued to pretend to be cute and said: "I haven't thought of the next, so I can only rely on Sister Zero to solve the puzzle." ”

Just as Zero was about to continue to answer, he saw Bai Ma Tan knock his left palm with his right fist and said, "I see, I have figured it all out." ”

So the white horse detective went to the fireplace, ready to start his reasoning. However, Zero walked up to him and pushed him away: "You go to the side." ”

Conan's little guy is okay, but you're going to rob me of my fork moment.

So the white horse detective returned to his original position again, his expression was very aggrieved.

Zero jumped on the fireplace and said to the crowd, "Next are the three sentences of the king absconding with the treasure, the princess shedding the chalice with tears, and the soldier wielding his sword to cut himself." The King, Princess, and Soldier correspond to the King, Queen, and J in the playing cards, while the Treasure, Grail, and Sword correspond to the Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades. These three sentences refer to the King of diamonds, the Queen of Hearts, and the Jack of Spades. The king, queen, and jack represent the numbers 13, 12, and 11, respectively, while in the King of diamonds and Queens of Hearts, the faces of the kings and queens are facing left, while in the J of spades, the faces of the characters are facing right. ”

Then Zero leaned over and fiddled with the minute hand of the clock, and said while fiddling: "According to the code prompt, first point the hour and minute hands to twelve, then turn the minute hand to the left for thirteen minutes, stop for a while, then turn left for twelve minutes, stop for a while, and finally turn right for eleven minutes......"

After dialing, I only heard a "click", and the whole clock suddenly fell directly from the wall and fell to the ground.

The clock was struck when it fell to the ground, and the paint on the surface peeled off, revealing a touch of gold.

"This is ......," Haruki Motegi said, holding the clock, "the paint layer has come off to reveal gold, and the weight of this clock is not ordinary...... Could it be that the whole clock was made of gold? Is this golden clock, hidden by a layer of lacquer, a so-called treasure? ”

Listening to Haruki Motegi's words, the expressions of the others were a little subtle.

Although they all said that they were not interested in treasures before, after all, the dummies have been rendered for so long, and they are still more or less curious about treasures in their hearts. Nowadays, the so-called treasure is just a pure gold clock, which is inevitably disappointing. Even if the clock is made of pure gold, it is worth only tens of millions of yen, and it will not exceed 100 million yen at most. Although this is a lot of value, how can it be called a treasure.

The others reacted well, but the reaction of the thousand generations was a little excited, and she stared at the clock, and her breathing became a little short, as if she didn't believe that the so-called treasure was such a thing.

Zero looked at the descent of Qianjian and said, "Mother-in-law Qianjian, you are the mastermind behind this incident." And Mr. Ogami and you are complicit, but for some reason, you decided to make him the first target to get rid of. ”

Conan had already vaguely guessed these situations, but he was not too surprised, and the others looked at the Senma Descendant first and then at Zero.

Qianjian didn't get angry, but asked Zero with great interest, "Hey, why do you think so." ”

"Mr. Ojo was poisoned to death, but we have all wiped the dishes and tea sets beforehand, so why is he still poisoned? There is only one answer, and that is that he did not wipe down the dishes and tea sets at all. If he is complicit in you, this makes sense, because in your prior plan, there was no such thing as poisoning in the restaurant, and he naturally felt comfortable eating in the restaurant, not as careful as the others. However, for some reason, you want to kill this accomplice, so you smear poison on everyone's teacups. You know that other detectives will wipe down the dishes out of caution, but Mr. Ogami will skip this step so that you can poison it with precision, no matter how everyone sits down. ”

"It seems to make a lot of sense, but if the murderer is me, how can I control the time when Dajo Zhushan is poisoned? You must know that shortly after Mr. Ogami's poisoning death, the dummy uttered words such as "Detective Ogami sacrificed his own life as the opening performance". It can be seen that the timing of Mr. Ogami's poisoning is very precise, and what can be done to ensure that Mr. Ogami does not die too soon or too late. ”

"From what I've observed, Mr. Ogami has a habit of biting his thumb when he thinks. I think you should have smeared the poison on the handle of the teacup where it meets the edge, so that when Mr. Ogami picks up the teacup, he will get the poison when he holds the handle with his thumb. Later, the dummy tells the secret number about the location of the treasure. Although Mr. Ogami should have heard this code before, he was not able to decipher it, so when he heard the code again, he would still unconsciously fall into thinking and bite his thumb, thus being poisoned. That's how you control the timing of his death. ”

"It's really interesting reasoning, it's worthy of the granddaughter of Kazukosuke Kaneda. But let me ask: what about the evidence? ”

"Indeed, if I want to talk about the evidence of this poisoning alone, I really can't come up with it. But this Twilight Pavilion should have been bought by you and one of the Great Lord's blessings, and the place where you interviewed the maid should have been rented, and your message must have been left in it. And I'm guessing that if you want to play a killing game similar to No One Survives, you should have a pistol or something in everyone's guest room, making it easier for the detectives to fight each other. If you let the police investigate the source of these firearms, you should be able to find out what is relevant to you. ”

Detective Hakuma raised an objection at this time: "But if the prisoner is really Qianjian's mother-in-law, since she planned this incident so deliberately, I'm afraid she won't leave her hands so easily." ”

"Normally, it may be like that, but Senma may not be." Zero continued, "Do you understand what it means for Senma to blow up everyone's vehicles and the only wooden bridge that leads here, making this Twilight House a place of seclusion? ”

"It's difficult, could it be ......" Bai Ma Tan shed a cold sweat, "She didn't plan to get out alive at all?" ”

Haruki Motegi's face also became a little ugly: "But just now the dummy said that he would tell the person who found the treasure how to escape from here." ”

"That's just a lie." Zero said, "Senma's mother-in-law probably designed this incident with the idea of dying with us. In this case, she may not have been very careful in her previous series of preparations, because there was no need for that, so it was possible to leave clues for the police to follow. ”

"But it doesn't make sense!" Haruki Motegi was still a little unwilling: "Isn't the mastermind behind the scenes planning all this for the treasure, in that case, how can he beg for death?" ”

Although Zero Zi knows the reason why Qianjian descended to die, it is inconvenient to say it, after all, this involves the old affairs of the other party's father, and if he can even understand this, it will be too weird.

But fortunately, Qianjian revealed himself at this time: "Miss Kanedaichi is really powerful." Your perceptive reasoning ability may have surpassed that of Kaneda Ichikosuke back then. ”

"I'm really ashamed." Zero is telling the truth, and he is just taking advantage of the foresight.

Senma-in-law continued, "My father was an archaeologist who was invited by the wealthy Karasuma Renya to come to this Twilight House more than forty years ago. It is said that Karasuma Renya was running out of time at that time, and he wanted to entrust my father with finding the treasure left by his mother during the last period of his life. My father took the job, and Karasuma Renya seemed to be paid quite well, and the family received a large sum of money from him every month. Until one day half a year later, my father did not send money this time, but sent a letter, which only recorded some trivial matters. Since then, there has been no news of my father, and then Karasuma Renya died, and then there was a terrible and serious crime in the Twilight Pavilion. We also tried to find my father, but to no avail.

A few years later, when I put the letter under the light and read it, I realized that my father had written a paragraph on the back of the letter in invisible ink. As mentioned above, in addition to his father, there were many well-known scholars who were invited by Karasuma Renya to search for treasures, but as time went on, Karasuma Renya, who felt that death was approaching, became more and more irritable and killed the invited scholars one by one. My father knew that he could not escape the murder, so he left this letter, and at the end of the letter, he included a secret number about the location of the treasure. ”

Hearing this, Conan interjected: "After you discovered the hidden information, didn't you call the police?" ”

"At that time, Karasuma Renya had been dead for several years, and the Dusk Pavilion had already been sold to someone else at a low price, so what's the point of calling the police?"

Chima Demo paused and continued, "Two years ago, I inadvertently revealed my father's affairs to Mr. Ogami. When he learned of the treasure, he immediately bought the Dusk Mansion to find the treasure. However, it took him two full years, and it was still in vain. The cost of buying this Dusk Pavilion was expensive, and with the fact that it had cost a lot of money to find the treasure for two years, Mr. Ogami was already in debt and could not sustain himself. So one day he came to me and proposed to gather a bunch of detectives to gather the wisdom of everyone to find the treasure. Of course, Mr. Ogami and I can't come forward as invitees, so the best bait to attract the detectives is the strange thief Kidd, and as long as you give everyone an invitation in Kidd's name, you will definitely get these detectives to come to the banquet.

Mr. Ogami is afraid that the detectives will not make an effort to find the treasure, so he plans to kill the maid lady first after dinner. Because once someone dies, the detectives will probably get serious. Of course, his last plan is to kill all the detectives who are invited, whether the treasure is found or not. And all these crimes, he will blame the thief Kidd. ”

The White Horse Detective said at this time: "Then did you kill Dashang Zhushan because you found that you were also the target that the other party wanted to kill?" ”

"That's right, although Mr. Ogami once claimed that we were partners, he would never murder me. But I'm also a detective who has been famous for a long time, how can I not see through his real thoughts? So I struck first and made him the first target to kill.

I just didn't expect it...... What my father was looking for at the cost of his life was such a clock, and it was really not worth it......"

Zero smiled slightly, and said, "The treasure may not be just such a clock, you listen carefully, have you heard any sound of Si Suosuo." ”

Everyone listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a sound similar to something peeling off.

A glint flashed in Conan's eyes, could it be......

Zero said, "Let's go outside the museum together, I think the true face of the treasure will be revealed." ”

Everyone walked to the outside of the Dusk Pavilion one after another, and saw that the paint layer on the outer wall of the entire pavilion building was constantly peeling off, and even if it was late at night, they could see the gold hidden inside.

As all the exterior paint peeled off, the Pavilion of Dusk was completely transformed into a Pavilion of Gold. If you watch it during the day, it will be a spectacular sight.

Detective Hakuba, Senma Descendant, Haruki Motegi, Ikumi Gunda, Xiaolan and the maid were all shocked by the scene in front of them.

"It turns out that the entire Dusk Pavilion is made of gold, and that clock is the mechanism that dismantles the outer walls...... The Pavilion of Dusk itself is a real treasure......"

Haruki Motegi said, "The total value of such a huge amount of gold is probably not less than 100 billion yen......

In addition to being shocked, Chima had a complicated look on his face, not only remembering his long-deceased father.

Ikumi Gunda asked Chima and said, "Senma mother-in-law, is there really no other way to get out of here?" ”

"No, my purpose in seeking the treasure is only to satisfy my father's regrets. I had planned to find the treasure and bury it here, because you were all going to die here. And how can I, as the sinner who orchestrated all this, go unpunished? ”

Haruki Motegi was both helpless and angry: "Hey, don't say it so easily!" ”

Just when everyone felt that there was really nothing to be done, they saw Zero Zi pointing to Xiaobai on his shoulder and saying, "Actually, it's not completely impossible to get out of here. Write a letter for help and tie it to Xiaobai's feet, and let Xiaobai fly to the Metropolitan Police Department to find the police's rescue, so that he should still be able to get out of danger safely. ”

It's really an old method...... However, the detectives think it should be feasible, after all, pigeons are used to do this kind of thing, and this pigeon looks well-trained and should be able to complete the task well.

In the original plot, it was the White Horse Detective who used his eagle to ask for help, and the White Horse Detective also complained that the eagle's homing ability was not as good as the pigeon, and he was very worried about whether Watson could bring rescue.

And now there is a pigeon at the scene, and Watson on the white horse is still lying and unable to move, so the task of asking for help is naturally handed over to Xiaobai.

Zero knew that Xiaobai's IQ was much stronger than that of Eagle Watson, so he didn't worry about whether the task could be completed.

After returning to the museum, I wrote a letter asking for help, rolled it up and tied it to my little white feet. Then Zero raised his hand and let Xiaobai fly away from the Pavilion of Dusk and head towards Tokyo.

After Shiro flew away, Detective Hakuba looked at the side of "Maori Kogoro". Now that it can be determined that Zero is not behind the scenes, and naturally she will not know the treasure code in advance, so she can crack the code in an instant, which can only show that her reasoning ability is extremely good, plus she also deduced that the Thousand Descendants cooperated with the Great Celestial Celestial and the Great Celestial Zhuzen was killed by the Thousand Descendants, which is enough to prove that she is not the strange thief Kidd pretending.

Detective White Horse has also dealt with Kidd many times, and he still knows Kidd very well, although Kidd is also a high-IQ genius, but his IQ is mainly reflected in the criminal methods of theft, as for his reasoning ability, it will never be so good.

Since Zero is not pretending to be Kidd, the next most suspicious person is this "Maori Kogoro......