Chapter 129 - Confrontation
"Calm down!" After Conan saw this scene, he immediately used both hands to suppress Genta and Mitsuhiko who were about to rush out behind him - even if they couldn't see them, it was really hard to see how the two little devils would react.
You can guess it with your eyes closed.
"I'll ask again," Tanaka pulled Haiyuan Ai up. "Where is the treasure!?"
"I said, I don't know." Although Huihara Ai's whole body was trembling with pain, his emotions were obviously not out of control.
"Do you want to die?" Tanaka knocked Haihara Ai to the ground again, then turned the gun in his hand over and pointed the gun in the direction of Haihara Ai.
"Go and save her!" Mitsuhiko couldn't bear it anymore and was about to rush out, but was held back by Tadao.
Just when Mitsuhiko wanted to ask why Tadao stopped him, Tanaka fired. A burst of sparks exploded in Haibara Ai's ear - Tanaka's shot hit the marble floor next to Haibara Ai's ear.
"His gun was aimed at the side of the little girl," Tadao smiled and comforted Mitsuhiko, who had just woken up from a dream. "Now we should wait and see what happens."
With a cold face, Tanaka removed the cartridge case from the barrel of the shotgun and replaced it with a new cartridge.
"Hey," Mitsuhiko gestured to the shotgun in Tanaka's hand and asked Conan. "Can we make a fuss? If we attract him to fire a shot, maybe we can..."
"It's useless," Conan shook his head. "That's a double-barreled shotgun with two barrels, and that Kimura is also holding a double-barreled shotgun. What's more, those two people may have Swiss Army knives on them.
Or other extremely powerful cold weapons."
The surrounding moonlight suddenly disappeared, then lit up again.
"?" Following this change, Conan subconsciously looked up, and then he was able to get a glimpse of the entire space.
The entire space is a standard cube, about 20 meters square, and the place where Conan and the others are hiding now is a platform five or six meters high. You need to go down from the side slope to the platform where Tanaka and the others are standing. Above the entire space
, a 3o cm diameter hole is casting dim moonlight in.
"Tanaka," Kimura looked at Tanaka's ferocious expression and frowned. "You are so rude!"
"Brother!" Tanaka said anxiously. "If we don't do something, we won't be able to pry this little girl's mouth open!"
"But it's not wise for you to do this," Kimura said, helping Haihara Ai up. "She is our partner, and we should talk to her on an equal footing."
Haibara Ai did not resist Kimura's move to help her up, but the iceberg-like indifference in her eyes showed no sign of melting.
"Little sister," Kimura asked with a smile. "We are not unreasonable people. If we find a treasure, it will definitely be endless wealth. If you lead us to find the treasure, we will definitely get a lot of it.
A considerable amount. After we find the treasure, we will let you go and let you leave happily with the treasure and your companions."
Haihara Ai looked into Kimura's eyes and did nothing.
"Then, let me ask another question," Kimura continued. "You said you don't know where the treasure is. So, can you retell the original text you memorized? You can also tell us the general content."
"I talked about the way I walked along the way before, and then I said that there was a Koshu bucket and three pieces of Koshu gold placed on the altar just now, and then I talked about what this space here looks like, and then..."
"Then what?" Kimura asked anxiously.
"The writing stopped abruptly." Hui Yuan Ai shook his head and said, "The notes will not continue."
"Three grains of Koshu gold?" Conan's expression was slightly startled. "Three grains? That's equivalent to three taels of gold at that time... The prompt said ten thousand taels of gold, could it be said that there are ten thousand grains of Koshu gold? But that's not right either.
...Such a small plate will never fit...Wait...Does this prompt really mean what I thought before?"
"Are you kidding?" Tanaka's roar, far more powerful than before, burst out of Kimura's throat, and Kimura's body trembled with anger. Then, he lifted Haibara Ai up and threw him around twice.
After that, he threw Haiyuan Ai five or six meters away - it looked like it was very painful!
Now, Conan really didn't have time to hold Genta and Mitsuhiko down.
"Let her go!" Mitsuhiko and Genta had already stood up, roaring angrily as they rushed down the ramp. Conan and Tadao looked at each other helplessly, signaled Ayumi to stay where they were, and followed them out together.
"!!!" After seeing Mitsuhiko and Genta, Tanaka raised his gun in surprise and pointed it at the two of them. "How did you get here? Did you come after us? No... If so...
If you had followed us, we should have spotted you long ago..."
"We completed the decryption on our own and came here with our own wisdom!" Mitsuhiko waved his fist and said angrily.
"Your own wisdom?" Kimura ignored Haibara Ai who was lying on the ground, but pointed the gun at Conan and Tadao. "Forget it, let's just pretend that you bumped in by yourselves... But then, just
As you can see, there is no treasure here at all."
Kimura raised the shotgun in front of his eyes and prepared the aiming procedure.
"So, do you mind if I bury a few corpses here to make treasures for future generations?"
"Wait a minute!" Conan's confident voice sounded.
"Oh?" Kimura changed the target of the shotgun from Tadao to Conan. "What do you want to do?"
"Let's make a deal," Conan asked with a confident smile. "How about it?"
"What deal?" Kimura said playfully. "Are you going to use something in exchange for your life? What are you going to use in exchange? If you are going to beg for mercy and then take me to find your other companions in exchange for a way of life, then
I can think about it then."
"My price is to let them go back." Conan smiled slightly and told his deal. "The conditions I can offer are..."
"Find the treasure for you!"
"Find the treasure for us?" Kimura was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
"Kid!" Kimura said with a smile. "Even the old man who spent decades couldn't find the treasure, but you..."
The laughter gradually stopped in front of Conan's calm expression.
"But," Kimura turned to ask in a calm tone. "Does that treasure really exist? The girl said that the note did not indicate where the treasure was, and the girl didn't seem to be lying..."
As he said that, Kimura looked at Haihara Ai with some suspicion.
"She probably didn't lie, because the notes may not indicate where the treasure is." Conan shrugged.
"Because even the owner of the note, Mr. Kubo Haru, couldn't find where the treasure is."
Chapter completed!