Chapter 248 Guardian Knight(1/2)
The elder Zhu Shan stood up suddenly, so excited that the table shook when he touched it.
"Then...the thing behind..." His lips trembled and he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
Kitahara continued: "[The Devil Comes to the Castle] - This sentence is alluding to playing cards. Because there were only 52 real playing cards at the beginning, and the ghost cards were added later. The original meaning was that you can play any role like a clown.
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"Demon, king, princess, soldier..." Kitahara Sosuke said slowly: "They should represent the ghost cards in poker, k, q and j respectively!"
"That's right! That's right! It makes sense..." Ohsami Zhushan's body was trembling, and his eyes stared at Kitahara Sosuke with longing, as if he had turned into a child full of curiosity, "That treasure and
The Holy Grail is..."
"The treasure is a diamond; the Holy Grail is a heart, and the sword is a spade. So these three cards are the diamond k, the heart q, and the spade j, and then according to the direction of the faces of the characters in the cards..." Kitahara turned the pointer,
Everyone's eyes followed his fingers.
expect.
perturbed.
curious.
Suspect.
All kinds of emotions are written on everyone's faces.
Block k, go left, thirteen!
Q of hearts, to the left, twelve!
Jack of spades, right, eleven!
The hands made a ticking sound when they rotated. When the rotation finally stopped, the clock seemed to shake due to unbearable load, and fell with a "click", and was caught by Kitahara Sosuke.
'Mouri Kogoro' raised his eyebrows and said, "Hey, you kid, you won't break other people's things, right?"
"No, it fell by itself." Kitahara Sosuke weighed the weight of the clock, and then handed it to Dashang Zhushan, and said: "Congratulations, this clock should be made of pure gold, and it is not valuable.
Fei.”
Zhu Shan was stunned for a moment.
With the clock in his hand, and feeling its weight, he knew that what Sosuke Kitahara said was true. But...
Everyone saw the gourmet detective grabbing the clock and banging it against the fireplace!
"Bang!!!"
With a loud noise, a large piece of paint on the case fell off, revealing the dazzling golden color underneath.
"This is the treasure...it turns out...this is the treasure..."
The elder Zhu Shan held up the pure gold clock and murmured in despair.
To others, such a clock is certainly a windfall. But its value is completely worthless compared to the price that Dashang Zhushan paid for it in the past two years.
Not to mention the huge debt he owed to buy the castle, just to invite a few detectives this time, he paid Mori Kogoro and four other people 2 million yen each, for a total of 8 million yen. According to the current gold price
He can buy almost four kilograms of gold, and he can build a mere gold clock by himself.
Holding the long-desired treasure in his arms, Da Shang Zhu Shan's vision went dark and he almost fainted.
That's it...
That’s it?!
"This doesn't seem to be much better than the scenery outside the window, right?" Motegi Haruji muttered, not daring to say it out loud to stimulate Ogami Zhushan.
He didn't notice that the fingers of Senjian Yoyo sitting next to him were trembling slightly, his face was extremely pale, and his body was shaking slightly.
Everyone quite understood Zhushan's mood at this moment. They didn't know how to comfort him, and they were too embarrassed to eat and drink at this time, so they could only remain awkwardly silent. The room was so quiet that you could hear the sound of a pin dropping.
In this extreme silence, distant sounds appear very clear.
"What is that sound?" After a moment, Gunda Ikumi asked doubtfully.
Conan said: "It seemed like the sound of something collapsing..."
The sound became louder and louder. Everyone looked at each other, unable to restrain their curiosity. They got up and walked to the window to take a look. In the light, they saw a huge, dark thing falling.
The sound became louder and louder, and the whole castle seemed to start to shake.
"Oops! Is this castle going to collapse?"
Motegi Harushi shouted, and everyone was shocked. They all ran outside. When 'Mouri Kogoro' was about to go out, he turned around and found Ogami Zhushan still standing there. He didn't answer even though he shouted, so he simply turned back.
Drag him and run out together.
The group of people ran out of the gate and turned back to look. They saw the entire castle shaking and the walls falling in large chunks like a heavy rain. The roof, walls, window sills, chimneys...everywhere they could see was shining with dazzling golden light.
, it is simply confusing to human eyes under the interplay of moonlight and lights.
"It's so spectacular..." someone couldn't help but said softly.
"So that clock is a mechanism for dismantling the outer wall?" Baima Tan praised: "What an exquisite design!"
"Clang!"
The golden clock fell to the ground, but no one was looking at it.
Zhu Shan, who was extremely sad before but now overjoyed, opened his arms as if he wanted to hold the entire castle in his arms and said with a big smile: "Hahaha... The Pavilion of Twilight! It turns out to be the Pavilion of Gold! Hahahahaha... I
Get rich! This is mine! These are all mine! Hahahaha..."
He was laughing so wildly that his facial features were distorted and he couldn't stop laughing.
Kithara Sosuke shook his head, patted the shoulder of the person next to him, and said, "Let's go!"
"Huh?" 'Moori Kogoro' was stunned: "Didn't he say before that he would use one-tenth of the treasure as a reward for solving the puzzle?"
Kithara Sosuke said calmly: "It's possible that the amount is small. Even if this golden castle is gold-plated, one-tenth is still a lot. He would only give it to me if he is crazy. Let's go!"
"But I haven't eaten yet..."
"Let's go!"
"Okay, okay..."
'Moori Kogoro' walked slowly to the car and looked back reluctantly, as if he couldn't bear to leave the Twilight Pavilion.
Kitahara Sosuke:......
Kaitou Kidd, are you possessed by the spirit of Kogoro Mori? Do you want to pretend to be so?
He circled around the car and felt relieved when he saw that there was no explosives underneath it like in the plot.
Any contact will leave traces. Even if the bomb is installed in a very concealed place, it cannot hide from his five senses.
The maid Ishihara Aki noticed the group leaving, trotted over quickly, bowed and said: "Hello, are you leaving?"
"Well." Kitahara Sosuke had already opened the front driver's seat door. He put his arm on top of the door and said sideways, "Since the commission has ended, there is no need for us to stay."
"But..." Aki Ishihara said blankly: "It's very late now...you haven't had dinner yet..."
Looking at the ignorant and cowardly little maid, Kitahara Sosuke smiled and said: "I think Ogami-san is not in the mood for dinner now. With the condition of this castle, it doesn't seem like he can entertain people right now.
That's it, goodbye."
"Yes... I wish you a safe journey." Aki Ishihara bowed and watched the group leave.
Behind her, almost all the paint on the walls of the castle had fallen off, forming a circle of debris and ruins around it, showing the true appearance of the castle shining brightly in the mountains and fields, extremely gorgeous.
Hakuba, who was watching, heard the sound of the car. When he looked back, he found that Kitahara Sosuke and others had already left.
"It's strange, you don't want any reward?" Motegi Haruhi said.
Even though he was always free and easy, he couldn't help but feel jealous when he saw such a huge golden castle. He didn't expect that the person who could justifiably take away one-tenth of the castle didn't say a word and was the first to leave.
"I think he must have seen that Mr. Ogami will not fulfill his promise." Bai Ma Tan looked at Ogami Zhushan who threw himself against the wall and kissed her crazily, smiled and said, "Just leave directly, that's okay."
Don't worry, Mr. Ogami will be suspicious when he sees him later, or even..."
He didn't say anything further, but everyone understood.
With the greed and madness displayed by the great leader Zhu Shan, no one doubted that in order to preserve his wealth, he would definitely kill someone.
"Instead of arguing over this matter from now on, why not just pretend it never happened?" Gunda Ikumi said with a smile: "I always think it's cool! This kind of decisiveness... That young master Kitahara is really a young man.
?”
"Don't forget, he once gave up the Towa Society, which was within easy reach." Motegi Harushi lit a cigarette, took a puff, and tried to suppress the throbbing and jealousy in his heart: "In terms of total assets alone, Towa
It will not be inferior to the Dusk Pavilion in front of you, not to mention it has huge power and status."
After being silent for a long time, Senjian Yueyo finally slowly revealed a bitter smile after hearing everyone's words.
"Today's young people are so..." She thought for a while before she thought of a word that could describe her mood at the moment: "It's so scary..."
"That's right. If it were me, I would be reluctant to let go no matter what. What about you?" Motegi Harushi said.
Detective White Horse was unusually confused: "...I don't know."
He asked himself that he was not a greedy person, but...
To be continued...