Mamiya said that he would give them enough gas, and that it was getting dark, so the four of them could stay in the castle and eat and stay.

But on the condition that several people help him solve the mystery.

Tomorrow happens to be a rest day, and Hattori Heiji and Moriran are not in a hurry to go back.

They were all very interested in this rare castle and readily agreed.

And the so-called "conditions" of Mamiya Man, in the eyes of Hattori Heiji and Conan, are completely welfare. Even if it's upside down gasoline, they're happy to do it - the courtyard and the castle have their own mystery, and it's a fun puzzle to think about.

The transaction was successful, and Mitsuru Mamiya was very satisfied.

He was going to tell a few people about the general situation, but then an important phone call suddenly came in.

The palace man then commanded the gardener next to him, asked him to bring a few people into the castle, briefly visited, and walked aside to answer the phone.

A few people walked through the vast courtyard towards the castle.

The large lawn next to it has been trimmed into the shape of a chessboard, and there are many chess pieces on the "chessboard" that are taller than people.

Heiji Hattori found this garden very interesting: "Your family likes to play chess? ”

"I don't know, I'm just a yard worker." The gardener was a little embarrassed.

He tried his best to drive people out just now, but he didn't expect that as soon as the palace came, he readily let people in, and he had the posture of treating them as honored guests.

Now that the situation has changed, and now he is suddenly questioned by the guests, the gardener has lost the posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away just now.

He answered in great detail, trying to make the atmosphere less stiff: "I just kept the lawn in this state according to the instructions of the previous master—the previous master would do this, and it was also in accordance with the last words of the old man who passed away 15 years ago. ”

"Ex-master? Too old? "Why are there so many masters," ...... the one who agreed to let us stay overnight? ”

"It's Madame's second husband, and the palace is full of masters. The previous lord of Mamiya Sadaaki died of illness six years ago, and after some time, the lord and his wife got married and lived in the castle. ”

Gardeners, like staff elsewhere, have no sense of secrecy.

But the topic of "getting into the redundancy" is somewhat delicate, so he turned to something else, which is something that some reporters often come to inquire about in the past, and outsiders must be interested-

"Four years ago, Mrs. was killed in a fire, and Mrs. Madame's mother suffered from Alzheimer's again, so now, Master Mamiya has become the head of the family."

What the gardener said, Shiraishi basically knew.

To put it simply, this family is scarce, full of disasters, and at present, it seems that only the son-in-law and his mother-in-law are still alive. In addition, it seems that Mamiya Mitsumi also has a stepson.

Thinking of the content of the task, Shiraishi grabbed the key word for others again: "Fire? ”

"yes." The gardener pointed to the minaret on the other side, "Look, it's the charred tower over there." ”

"Four years ago, Mrs. came back from abroad to celebrate Mrs. Tai's birthday. She arrived in the middle of the night and stayed in the tower, which caught fire before dawn. ”

Speaking of which, the gardener is a little scared:

"It wasn't just Madame who died, but more than a dozen servants who took care of Madame. I was on probation and didn't officially move into the villa, so I survived. The other survivors are only Mrs. Tai and Master Man, who are sick and live in the annex, as well as the son of Mrs. and the previous master, the noble young master. ”

A few people followed the gardener's direction, and at the edge of the lawn, they saw a young man with squinting eyes.

The nobleman of the palace was stroking the big chess pieces on the lawn, looking thoughtful, although from his point of view, in addition to the material of the chess pieces, he really didn't know what else could be observed. 139 Chinese

The two detectives silently poured information into their heads.

Once inside, a large portrait stands out on the opposite wall, and on the side wall there are several smaller portraits depicting the owners who have lived here for generations.

As the gardener introduced them, an old lady in a wheelchair appeared from the side and began to mutter something that the old man loved to say.

Shiraishi glanced at her, then at the neat row of ghosts near her, probably knowing what to do.

In fact, most of the things in this castle were made by the "old lady" in front of her.

Of course, she is not a real old lady, she is in the prime of life, but she has plastic surgery and looks like an old man.

Mumi Nishikawa used to be a maid here.

Later, she coveted the "supreme treasure" left by the old man, imprisoned the real lady in the secret passage of the castle, made herself plastic surgery into the lady, and then pretended to be demented, wanting to get the legendary treasure.

This kind of operation is easy to fool passers-by, but it is difficult to fool Mrs. Tai's daughter.

After realizing this, Mumi Nishikawa kept doing nothing, burning all the people who knew the old lady well and disguised it as an accident.

The operation of killing people and seizing treasures has not been uncommon throughout the ages, but in fact, the "supreme treasure" left by the old lady is not property.

Shiraishi looked at the portrait of the old lady in the hall.

I have the impression that when I rotate this oil painting to the side, I can reveal a ladder leading to the top, and I can climb to the top of the castle and overlook the surrounding forest and sea - this scene is the treasure left by the old lady.

This time, the ghosts' requests are also related to these.

They don't really want Nishikawa to be caught or die so simply, but they want her to kill her first, and when they think they are about to get a treasure, get a huge amount of money, and reach the peak of life, they suddenly fall to the bottom of their lives, and then die depressed with that old face.

Bai Shi summed up their requirements slightly, and it seemed that he first made Mrs. Tai think that she had eliminated all difficulties and dangers, ran to the location of the treasure, and then found that the treasure was just a landscape.

It's a lot of fun.

This time, Shiraishi brought with him two puzzle-solving tool men and a thug.

As long as they look at the dead and maintain the "evenly matched" on both sides, Heiji Hattori and Conan should be able to solve the mystery smoothly and let this "old grandmother" have a good experience of the life of bungee jumping.

With this in mind, when Hattori Heiji and Conan found a suitable room and prepared to overlook the chess game on the lawn, Shiraishi walked up to Hattori Heiji and stuffed the folding stick he had brought into his hand.

Hattori Heiji with and without a knife, the force value is simply polarized.

Although he can't directly get a knife, this folding stick is about the same length as a wooden knife commonly used in kendo, and the effect is not much worse.

This is Shiraishi who saw Hattori Heiji on the ship of "Ye Caisan", and learned that there may be a follow-up to the drug dealer's mission, so he specially selected it after returning home to strengthen the helper.

- Even if Hattori Heiji doesn't seem to be particularly friendly to him, as a member of the protagonist group, when danger strikes, this black-skinned detective will definitely consciously go up, and if he rounds up, he can be regarded as half a bodyguard.

In case Nishikawa is a hidden martial arts master, or she is mad and slashes with a long knife, she still has to ensure that there are no dead people here.

As for whether Heiji Hattori and Moriran will be too strong and lead to a supermodel of force...... Don't worry too much, isn't there a teammate to help you balance.

Hattori Heiji didn't know Shiraishi's mental journey, and he looked at the stick in his hand suspiciously: "? ”

I heard the serious expression of half of the colleague opposite, and said in a low voice: "I always feel that the atmosphere here is not right, you should take it for self-defense - you must bring it with you." ”