Chapter 216 - The Gardener's Truth
"Huh...huh..." Hui Yuan Ai seemed to have lost all the courage he had suddenly gained just now. He pulled back his fingers with a groan, took a few steps back, and looked at the old lady nervously.
"Ah!!!" the old lady groaned and collapsed on the ground.
"Come on!" Genta roared angrily, and he and Mitsuhiko suppressed the old lady.
"Um..." Qianyu sat up and hugged the injured leg. "The power of the stick... is simply amazing..."
"Are you okay?" Haiyuan Ai immediately came to Qian Yu's side. "Is Bone okay?"
"It seems fine..." Qianyu's mouth twitched. "But it really hurts..."
"Under normal circumstances, there is no problem at all in breaking the bone by swinging the stick," said Haihara Ai. He carefully grabbed Qianyu's pants at the knees and carefully pulled them up, so that Qianyu's calf was hit.
His pants were also pulled up. "It looks like there are at least no open fractures, and the legs don't seem to be deformed..."
"Well..." Qianyu tried to stand up on his own and took a few steps. "Huh... although it hurts, it can still be overcome..."
"Can you still stand up..." Haiyuan Ai tilted his head. "That seems to be fine... It's because the distance the guy just swung the stick was not long enough, so the lower speed limited the power.
ah..."
"It is indeed the old lady...【】." Conan's slightly tired voice and figure appeared at the corner. "I thought it was strange at first..."
"Huh?" Qianyu and others were confused.
"When we first met her, she said something..." Conan replied. "Just like the replacement of passports and the revision of banknotes, I have taken these past events lightly..."
"Right?"
"The old lady should be close to 90 years old this year, and she should basically never go abroad. Japan is an island country. No matter how you go abroad, you need to take a boat or a plane. And these two modes of transportation will put the elderly in danger.
It is impossible to get treatment in time, so it is definitely a high-risk and low-probability time for a 90-year-old man to go abroad. Then knowing that the passport style was changed a few years ago is even more of a low-probability event."
"Ha..." The old lady, who could no longer move freely, turned around. "I have invested twenty years of my youth here for the treasure here, but I didn't expect that I still missed the treasure..."
"If you read more, you can find treasures..." Qianyu curled his lips.
"What?" The old lady looked at Qian Yu in surprise.
"Have you cracked the chess code?" Qianyu said calmly.
"Of course I cracked it!" the old lady said excitedly. "Egg-head, egg-head!"
"Uh..." Qianyu, Haiyuan Ai and Conan in the distance all looked helpless.
"Egg-head means nerd..." After saying that, Haihara Ai suddenly thought of something. "Wait a minute, does it mean..."
"Isn't there a very conspicuous mural in the hall?" Qianyu shrugged. "The white chess pieces represent the portrait of the great master, while the black chess pieces represent counterclockwise rotation..."
After saying that, Qianyu suddenly looked at the intersection not far away with some surprise.
After a few seconds, his expression suddenly changed. "There's someone!"
Before anyone else could react, Qianyu had already walked quickly towards the intersection.
He heard a sound just now... the sound of someone running in the passage...
Someone heard his deduction and went to find the treasure!
Qianyu didn't have any idea of fighting for the treasure - he really couldn't get rid of clean money from kind people.
But he still wanted to know who it was.
...
Qianyu climbed up from the secret passage and looked at the portrait of the great master - that portrait had been turned 60 degrees by a black shadow.
"Thinking too much," Qianyu said lightly. "Even if you find the treasure, you can't keep it all to yourself. Mr. Gardener, who I knocked down just now."
The bald gardener turned his head and looked at him.
"As far as I know, the eldest master's will is a rare item, right?" Qianyu said leisurely. "And even if there are several copies of the will, they cannot be here with you."
"If they continue to deny the existence of this will by then, then the treasure will be divided according to the default process. The fake old lady has been punished, and you can't get the treasure anyway, right?"
"..." The gardener remained silent and let go of the portrait of the great master.
"Can I ask you a few questions?" Qianyu asked, sitting on the ground.
"Ask..." the gardener sighed and said.
"Why are you chasing Hui Yuan Ai?"
"This is a very complicated story..." The gardener smiled bitterly. "I'll tell you slowly..."
Then the gardener put his hand next to his ear.
Under Qian Yu's dumbfounded gaze, a wrinkled mask with a human face fell to the ground.
"I once had a past that I couldn't get back," the gardener who showed his true face said calmly. "When I was 16, I gave up all distractions and became a killer to make a living. Then I joined a killer group that was about to go bankrupt."
"She was the veteran of that killer group, and she was also the mentor who was responsible for guiding me at the time, so we did several tasks together."
"Later, the boss of that team was arrested, and the senior members of the team disbanded because they refused to accept anyone else... I wanted to follow the eldest sister, so I asked around where the eldest sister had gone."
"I have been searching for almost ten years. About five years ago, I found out that the eldest sister was working as a maid here under a pseudonym, and at the same time she had become a head maid. Although I have become a somewhat famous killer,
I was tired of this gambling life, so I decided to use the gardening skills I learned before to make a living here."
"As a result, there was a fire just a few days after I joined the company...even the eldest sister's head was missing."
"I was already in despair, but I found that although the old lady looked old, her voice was exactly the same as the elder sister's. Later, I tried to plant some flowers that the elder sister liked, and found that the old lady often sat in a wheelchair in front of the flower garden.
Stay, and just stop in front of those flowers that the eldest sister likes."
"By chance, I discovered a secret passage here, and then discovered the old lady's body in the secret passage. I finally confirmed that the current old lady is the eldest sister, and also confirmed that the eldest sister pretended to be the old lady in order to obtain the treasure...
So I decided to help her. But because the eldest sister has a cruel personality, I didn’t dare to tell her clearly, so I could only help her quietly in my current capacity..."
"As for chasing that little girl today, it was because I saw that she seemed to be trying to get in the way of the elder sister..."
Chapter completed!