Daily life of a spy in the world of Conan

Of course, this is all later. Once the treasure is obtained, there will be plenty of time to think about how to proceed.

Whether he does it himself or hires a killer, it is not a difficult task. With his many years of experience in society, it is not difficult to capture an old woman and an old otaku.

The other little ones named their dishes one after another, and even Haibara Ai was forced by a few people to randomly say a wish.

She secretly put away the web-shooter that Xia Chuan gave her, hoping it was just a false alarm.

Although Natsukawa had given her the gun in advance for self-defense, in order to prevent the little brats from causing trouble again, it seems that it is useless now. Mamiya Mitsuru just looks a little ferocious, but he seems to be okay in reality.

Anya blinked, considering whether to tell her father about the other party's plan.

So, what reason do you want?

She had casually let the secret passage matter go in the afternoon, and now if she does it again this time, even Xia Chuan would be suspicious of her, right?

The secret of mind reading must never be told to anyone!

Think again.

......

Time goes back to ten minutes ago.

Basement treasure room.

Conan scratched his head, squatted on the stone platform and began to think.

"If the self-righteous intellectuals refer to the old man from fifteen years ago, and the basement is different from my guess, there are no relics of the old man. In this case, where is the place that the self-righteous intellectuals refer to?"

The castle is very small, but he has basically figured out its interior.

He had also been to the room where the old man had lived before, but that room had been converted into a guest room and did not contain anything related to the old man.

After reasoning to this point, the answer naturally emerged in Conan's mind, and the huge oil painting in the hall came into view.

"Oil painting, it's oil painting!"

He had always believed that [Self-Righteous Intellectual] had left something about the old man of the Mamiya family in the basement, but he did not find anything along the way.

If we exclude the basement, the only thing in the entire castle that is most obvious about the old man is the oil painting in the hall!

That’s right, the key must be behind the oil painting in the hall!

So that's it, the letter G in Kuroko's name has this meaning.

Conan figured it all out at once, and the puzzle was completely solved by him!

After completing the deduction, Conan was extremely excited. After going out with Natsukawa so many times, he could finally deduce and solve the puzzle comfortably.

After listening to Conan's reasoning, Xia Chuan looked a little strange, "You mean, the key to this stone platform is hidden behind the oil painting?"

"Yes, the key must be behind the painting, there is no doubt about it!

I have always been very curious about the meaning of the white piece. I thought it was related to the mechanism of this room just now, but now I think it is more than that. It actually represents the hidden location of the key.

Uncle Xia Chuan, let's hurry back to the castle to get the key. The mechanism is making too much noise, and the people in the castle are probably woken up. We have to hurry."

Conan never considered going back to the castle to tell Professor Agasa and his crew and the owner of the castle about the situation. To him, everything had to wait until he had satisfied his desire, otherwise nothing else could be discussed.

As he said that, Conan grabbed Natsukawa's hand and was about to run towards the corridor.

"Wait."

“Don’t wait any longer. If we wait any longer, the secret passage might be discovered by others. We have no idea if the person pretending to be Mamiya Dai has other accomplices.

I think Mamiya Mitsuru will also think about what happened in the afternoon."

Xiachuan: ...

My goodness, it sounds like a thief who is afraid of being discovered by the owner of the house. But our group of people have been invited in openly to solve the puzzle, okay?

Conan was anxious, but Natsukawa didn't move at all, as if he was rooted into the ground.

"Actually, you don't have to go up there to look for it. Why don't you try this key?"

Xia Chuan reached into his pocket and pulled out an old-fashioned F-type key.

This is the key he pulled out when he opened the window. I thought that if Conan solved the puzzle and went up to find that he couldn't open the window, his expression would definitely be very interesting.

He just wanted to see how Conan looked when he was confused.

I didn't expect that this key could be used in a place like this.

Too late and things will change.

In this case, there is no need to watch Conan make a fool of himself. It is better to open the stone platform quickly and confirm his identity as the real first-line heir to the treasure.

Conan:? ? ?

(There is another chapter at 6 o'clock)

Chapter 256 Treasure and Origin (Day )

A question mark appeared above Conan's head: "Uncle Xiachuan, did you secretly solve the chess puzzle in advance this afternoon without telling me?"

Conan was completely confused.

He thought he was on the third floor and Xia Chuan was on the second floor. He was the one deciphering the codes along the way and Xia Chuan was like a bodyguard.

It turned out that he was indeed on the third floor, but Xia Chuan was on the fourth floor.

Xia Chuan had actually already got the key to the treasure.

Could it be that the reason why he was able to successfully complete the puzzle game this time was because Xia Chuan helped him?

The famous detective could hardly accept this kind of blow, which was even more unacceptable than Natsukawa's violent solution.

"Fishing is fake, the lake is fake, all the puzzles I solved are fake..." Conan was about to cry. It felt so bad to be looked down upon, but what could he say? Who could have thought that Natsukawa's ability to deduce and solve puzzles was so strong.

"Even though it's fake, I did see the lake, and Anya and the others were there. If they knew I solved the puzzle, they would definitely want to go check it out. To be honest, the ladder is so steep and it's been there for so many years, so it may not be sturdy. I did this for everyone's safety."

"So, what is the treasure behind the painting? There should be more than one key, right?"

The chess game looked simple, and he solved it within a few minutes of watching it, but that didn’t mean the puzzle was really easy.

Judging from the fact that no one in the Mamiya family has solved the mystery for so many years, the old man's self-proclaimed intellectual is well-deserved.

With so much trouble in setting up the puzzle, there must be something good behind the painting, and it is not impossible that the treasure is divided into two.

"Why don't you go and see it for yourself later and find out?" Xia Chuan smiled without saying anything. Although the scenery is beautiful, only by seeing it with your own eyes can you appreciate its charm.

Natsukawa inserted the key into the hole and rotated it 90° in front of Conan.

click-

A "+"-shaped gap appeared in the middle of the stone platform, which was originally tightly fitted. As Xia Chuan turned it 180°, the stone platform completely cracked, revealing the treasures that had been hidden inside for decades.

"Is this the treasure? It does look extraordinary."

Conan's eyes widened. The treasure was indeed unexpected. It was oval in shape and turned out to be an emerald green...ostrich egg?

The green surface is covered with golden lines, which looks noble and elegant. The color luster is probably because it has been stored for many years and has lost its clarity, but it still has a visual impact.

"..."

Xia Chuan stared at the ostrich eggs for a while, opened his mouth, and was about to complain.

"Uncle Xia Chuan, do you know this thing?"

Conan saw surprise in Natsukawa's eyes. This should not be the expression of someone who has discovered treasure.

The expression of discovering treasure should be curiosity or shock, but Xia Chuan's expression is clearly a bit confused.

"I remember this thing as the egg of memory of the last Tsar..."

“Egg of Memories?” He didn’t know much about this. Among the magicians at the end of the century, he only knew the origin of the Egg of Memories after hearing other people’s introduction.

Xia Chuan nodded, his brows raised with joy.

He had not only seen this Egg of Memories in the animation of his previous life, but he had also seen it on the bounty list of the Dark World in this life.

And it was just recently. He remembered that it should be the Suzuki Group. Although the person who offered the bounty, Suzuki Jirokichi, hid very well, the other party had collected information about the Egg of Memory through Frank.

Frank naturally would not hide the news he knew from Xia Chuan, and the Suzuki family had had some interactions with them recently, so he paid special attention to the affairs of the Suzuki family.

The Suzuki Foundation recently built a modern cultural art museum in Osaka, collecting modern cultural and artistic treasures from all over the world. This egg of memories is one of the goals of the Suzuki family, and it is also the most important goal. Suzuki Jirokichi is prepared to spend a lot of money to collect it and then use it as the treasure of the museum.

After all, this thing is a testimony to the decline of the Romanov dynasty and is a rare milestone in civilization.

The Suzuki Group is also weird. It has been plagued by disasters recently, with kidnappings and terrorist attacks happening one after another, but Suzuki Jirokichi doesn't seem to be worried at all and still has the mind to do this.

“It is also called the Easter Egg, and it is the last treasure of the Romanov dynasty created by the last Tsar.”

"The last Tsar?"

Conan doesn’t know much about this thing, but if it’s related to the last Tsar, then it must be very valuable!

The preciousness of this historical treasure is not only reflected in its cost, but more in its historical value. It is related to the last Tsar, so it can be linked to the country and can be regarded as a witness to the country's rise and fall and end.

Xia Chuan stretched out his hand to pick up the Egg of Memory, but suddenly a cold voice came from behind him.

"Take your dirty hands away from my baby!"

The voice startled Conan. He really didn't expect that there would be a voice behind him, and the voice did not come from Mamiya, but a man's voice.

"Mr. Tian Yan?"

Conan looked back and found that the person who spoke was Tian Yan Shengnan who led them into the castle during the day.

At this time, Tian Yan Shengnan had taken off his gardener's attire and was wearing black clothes. If he hadn't walked out of the darkness by himself, Conan would not have noticed him.

His footsteps were very light, without making any sound, and he held up a shiny black pistol in his hand and sneered, “Thank you very much, the most correct thing Master Aman has done in the past few years is to let me let you in.

I never dreamed that the treasure I had been looking for for more than ten years was actually in this room. Fortunately, you have opened it in this way, otherwise I probably would never find it in my lifetime."

Tian Yanshengnan smiled self-deprecatingly and waved his gun, "Raise your hands, walk to the wall and face it, or don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Shouldn't you thank us for helping you find the treasure you've been looking for for years? Isn't it a bit too much to point a gun at your benefactor?"

"It seems that you are very unconvinced?" Tian Yan Shengnan had a gun in her hand, was full of confidence, and looked down on Xia Chuan.

In his eyes, Natsukawa and Conan were just ordinary people who were a little smarter. There was no need for him to be afraid since he had a gun in his hand.

As for Xia Chuan's behavior of kicking Xichuan Wumei away just now, what's the matter? It's just that Xichuan Wumei is too weak.

He is a killer. Although he has been retired for more than ten years, he has not stopped his physical training during these years and believes that he can do the same thing.

Tian Yan Shengnan knew from the beginning that Mamiya Dai was actually Nishikawa Wumei in disguise, including the scene where the other party killed Mamiya Dai four years ago, which he also saw.

All of Nishikawa Wumei's actions were carried out under his nose, but he did not expose the other party's behavior. Nishikawa Wumei's existence was undoubtedly a good shield.

The inscription on the stairs was not left by Mamiya Dai on his deathbed, but was deliberately left by Tian Yan Katsuo, so that after finding the treasure, he could kill Nishikawa Wumei and then frame the other party for stealing the treasure.

Otherwise, when Mamiya died, she was already 79 years old, so how could she have the energy to carve such a long string of words on the marble steps?

"Not really, I just think that's impolite of you."

"It seems like you are not very afraid of guns?" Tian Yan Shengnan rarely encounters such a situation. Normal people would tremble when they see him pulling out a gun. There is something wrong with this man named Xia Chuan.

He began to take the other person seriously, and usually such people were not simple characters.

Is he a policeman? Or a karate or taekwondo master?

But as the saying goes, no matter how good your kung fu is, you are still afraid of a kitchen knife, not to mention that he has a hot weapon in his hand.

"Who isn't afraid of a gun?" Xia Chuan pretended to be scared, then put his hands in his pockets and said with a look of contempt, "I'm just not afraid of you."

"Damn it!" Tian Yanshengnan suddenly felt unhappy, pointed the gun at Xia Chuan and said coldly: "Put down that egg, or I will send you to hell immediately!"

"Why don't you try to see whether you hit me first or I hit it to the ground first. It's so fragile, it will break if you throw it to the ground.

You must have stayed in the Mamiya family for many years for this thing, right? You don't want it to fall to the ground and break. Even if you can put it back together, its value will be much less than before.

The Egg of Memory is probably worth tens of billions, right?"

"Is it really the Egg of Memories?" Tian Yan Shengnan's eyes were full of fanaticism. This thing was worth a lot of money.

It was because he got the news about the Egg of Memories that he stayed in the castle for so many years.

Unfortunately, when he arrived here, the old man of the Mamiya family had already died, otherwise he would have captured him and tortured him.

After more than ten years of hard work, she finally made it. Tian Yan Shengnan was so excited that her eyes almost burst into tears.

"You actually recognized that this is the Egg of Memory. Who are you? Are you also a killer?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Conan's eyes lit up and his ears stood up.

By the way, he also wanted to know Xia Chuan's identity.