Heiji Hattori didn't know what Shiraishi was thinking. Seeing Shiraishi hesitating, he thought he was worried that he would suddenly fall asleep halfway through the climb and fall to his death, so he decisively pushed the person aside.

He had no scruples about himself, shoved the flashlight into his pocket, grabbed the ladder and climbed up.

Shiraishi glanced at the figures of the two people in the distance, thinking about the height of the tower, and then thinking about if Hattori Heiji was knocked down by Nishikawa Minami, or pushed off the tower by Nishikawa Minami, who was furious after his dream was shattered......

How much credibility does this have to lose?

After thinking about it, there were already two people crawling on it, and even if there were cobwebs, they couldn't hang on themselves, so at most, wash their hands more for a while......

Shiraishi took a deep breath of the fresh air outside, followed in, and climbed upward.

The ladder is twenty or thirty meters high and leads to the spire at the very top of the castle.

When you climb to the end, you can see an old wooden door.

Nishikawa was ecstatic.

This kind of high, hidden place looks like something good is hidden no matter how you look at it.

She pushed open the door and rushed into the small room in the tower, turning on her flashlight to look around.

However, the room was empty, and there was nothing that looked like treasure.

Nishikawa's gaze finally stopped on the opposite wall.

There was a half-man-high "cabinet door", delicately decorated, and a bronze metal plaque with some words engraved on it, but there were too many rust stains, and some of the information was obscured.

Nishikawa glanced at it and saw the keyword "give" on it, and it was immediately clear.

- The treasure must be in this cabinet!

She pounced on her face and pulled open the door.

And yet there was nothing in the "cupboard".

Because this is not a cabinet at all, but a window.

Outside the window, it was pitch black, very gloomy, and there was rain fluttering, and the scenery was gloomy.

Nishikawa was stunned.

It took a few seconds for her to come back to her senses, and then she was angry that she had been deceived, and this was not the place to hide treasures!

Ecstasy turns to rage.

At this moment, Hattori climbed to the top of the passage and poked his head out of the door.

He had just heard Nishikawa's angry scream, and before he could see the scene in the room, he was suddenly grabbed by the collar and dragged up.

Nishikawa snarled in the face: "Liar! Where the hell is my treasure? ”

"Who lied to you......" Heiji Hattori was confused.

After he stood firm, he pulled Nishikawa's hand away from his collar: "Since you have always coveted the treasure, you must have remembered the arrangement of chess in the courtyard."

"The position of the chess is usually black and white, arranged by the English letters a-h and the numbers 1-8, from the position of the knight, according to the numerical order of the white chess, can be interpreted egg·head - 'reasonable intellectual'.

"Didn't the gardener also say when he introduced us to the portrait of the old lady that when the lady of the family was alive, she often said that the old lady was a 'reasonable intellectual', so this code actually refers to himself.

"The black disc is arranged in a 'g' rotated ninety degrees clockwise, alluding to the fact that if the portrait is rotated to the left, the entrance to the treasure will be revealed—so far, everything here is very much in line with the old lady's code. Besides that, can you think of any other place where both conditions can be met? ”

"......" Nishikawa didn't understand much, but I felt that what he said made a lot of sense.

Especially the last sentence.

- She put away all the old lady's belongings she could find, trying to find clues from them, but she never succeeded.

After careful calculation, it is really the portrait below that meets the conditions.

"That'...... Where's my treasure? Nishikawa was at a loss.

She looked at the bricks on the walls around her, and suddenly wondered, could it be that there were actually gold bricks hidden here?

……

As soon as Shiraishi climbed to the door, he heard a clanging sound overhead.

He poked his head out in confusion and saw that Nishikawa was smashing the brick wall next to him with a random stone for some reason.

Hattori Heiji stood not far from her, also looking confused.

- The small room was very empty, there was almost nothing, and the treasure seemed to have been taken.

But Nishikawa's appearance is really broken, it's not like she hid the treasure in advance, and then acted here.

Hattori Heiji looked around and his gaze fell on the open window.

He poked his head out of the window and looked around, and found that there were only ordinary eaves around him, and there were no treasure boxes hanging around.

So he went back and closed the window to prevent the rain from drifting in—there was no treasure here, but there were a few old books in the corner, and the rain came in too much, and it was easy to soak the books.

Hattori slammed the window shut and turned to check the books.

If you are an intellectual, you may be able to write your life experience into a book and leave it as a treasure for future generations.

But before that, he saw Shiraishi walk into the house and staggered past him.

Hattori was stunned for a moment, and immediately withdrew his attention from the book, and went back to observe what Shiraishi was doing - after temporarily forming a team with Shiraishi for a while, Hattori Heiji found that he had begun to get used to this teammate's unusual observation.

Shiraishi stopped in front of the window that had just been closed by Heiji Hattori.

Hattori Heiji really didn't pay much attention to the window before, he subconsciously felt that since Nishikawa had just come back from the window, and there was no rain on the ground by the window, it meant that she opened the window herself - if there was really a problem with the window, Nishikawa Sami must have found out a long time ago.

So at the time, he just shook the window and turned away.

Now seeing Shiraishi go straight to the window, Hattori Heiji realizes that he may have missed some clues.

He walked over to the window and glanced over the white stone, slightly startled.

- This window, compared to this too modest room, looks exquisite. Although it is also dark, if you look closely, you can see that there are gilded corners on the edges, like a gift that has not been opened for a long time.

In addition, there is a small sign nailed to the wooden window, which seems to write something.

Seeing that Shiraishi was standing still, Hattori Heiji couldn't wait.

He reached for his handkerchief and stepped forward to wipe the excess rust away with all his might.

The recessed font gradually becomes recognizable:

[I'm going to give the view from the top of this castle to the first people to arrive here??]

"......" Hattori Heiji read the words on it, and then looked at the last cute symbol, and twitched his forehead twice.

Judging by the age of the brand, it does seem to be used to indicate treasures.

But if the "treasure" is really just that......

Hattori Heiji glanced at Nishikawa Mizumi, who was still knocking bricks on the side, trying to find wealth, and his eyes were quite pitiful.

…… But the subtle feeling is a bit relieving.