Jiang Xia was sitting in the passenger seat. Before she opened her eyes, she heard the whispers of the ghosts. There were more ghosts now, and it was a little noisy, but she could still tell what they were saying - there was something nearby.
Can be picked up.
Jiang Xia looked outside through the car window. At the same time, he skillfully let the shikigami fly into the trunk, skillfully condensed the white puppet, and skillfully broke the tires in the trunk.
Toru Amuro didn’t know what was happening in the trunk.
When he realized that the car had a flat tire, he was slightly startled and pulled over to the side.
Toru Amuro used to get a flat tire every ten times he drove a car, but now, when he was on an ordinary errand and drove without speeding, he got a flat tire twice...
Toru Amuro glanced at Jiang Xia next to him, and suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the conclusion he had drawn before - Jiang Xia might not be lucky, but was jumping back and forth between extreme good luck and extreme bad luck.
Otherwise, cars always break down along the way in Jiangxia.
Jiang Xia faced Toru Amuro's complicated gaze. He vaguely guessed Toru Amuro's thoughts, but he could only maintain innocence and doubts on his face: "?"
Toru Amuro: "...It's okay." After saying that, he opened the door and got out of the car, intending to put on the spare tire.
Jiang Xia actually felt that having two flat tires in a row was too coincidental, but when he thought about it carefully, it turned out to be very reasonable.
——Let’s not talk about my own luck. Conan is still sitting in the car. The two are superimposed. How can I make sense without encountering some incidents?
Conan was trembling behind his back. He raised his head sharply and met Jiang Xia's encouraging eyes.
Conan: “……?”
Jiang Xia looked away when the primary school students looked back in confusion, and got out of the car. The other three followed. It was not good for them to stay in the car when others wanted to change the tire.
After getting out of the car, Mao Lilan found that the trunk lid was open, and Jiang Xia's boss, who seemed very reliable, had been staring at the trunk for a long time.
Mao Lilan approached suspiciously. She saw a tire in the trunk with some uneven stubble on it.
…
Toru Amuro stared at the hole in the tire and fell into deep thought.
The last time the tire was bitten, the trunk was left open, which could be interpreted as some wild animal sneaking in while he wasn't paying attention.
However, this time, the trunk was closed tightly. But when he opened the lid just now, he saw that the tire was punctured.
…If he hadn’t taken care of the ignorant citizens nearby, Toru Amuro might have taken out his gun at this time.
But now, he could only look at it with a gloomy face, and rummaged through the debris piled in the trunk with his bare hands, trying to find the unknown and terrifying creature biting his tire, but unfortunately he found nothing.
This made Toru Amuro feel relieved and even more confused.
When he opened the lid of the box, he obviously didn't see anything slipping out. Why on earth were the tires...
Jiang Xia walked up to Toru Amuro, glanced down, and wondered: "Why is it broken again?"
Toru Amuro always feels that his next sentence is "I told you before that there are definitely rats in your car."
Toru Amuro: "...I must have picked it up by mistake before. I accidentally put the broken tire up."
He actually did not believe that he would make such a mistake.
But now, if the memory is not wrong, it means that a supernatural event has occurred.
Such a comparison... Sure enough, he was too tired in the past two days and remembered things wrongly. After all, he didn't close his eyes for almost the entire night yesterday. It was normal for his memory to be affected due to lack of sleep...
Conan put down his cell phone and walked next to them: "There is no signal here, but I saw a building over there that looked like an old castle. We can borrow the landline phone from the owner and call a tow truck."
“Indeed.” Jiang Xia also put down his mobile phone. He had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.
Toru Amuro turned his head following the direction of the two people, and through the layers of trees, he saw an old castle standing in the forest.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this old castle was eerie and had a strange atmosphere.
…But there are no ghosts in this world.
So it must be an illusion.
Moreover, there is no village in front of or behind the store, no other cars passing by, and no signal. If you want to leave as soon as possible, you really need a landline phone.
Toru Amuro took a deep breath and closed the trunk with a normal expression: "Let's go."
…
Jiang Xia looked at the old castle in front of him. The yard around the old castle was very large, and he couldn't detect anything unusual for the time being, but judging from the reactions of the other three ghosts, there were a lot of things that could be picked up hidden in this old castle.
A group of people walked to the door, and through the tall iron gate, they could see a gardener pruning crops in the yard. The yard was very vast, and there were many huge chess piece sculptures placed on the lawn. There was a young man
He was squatting next to the sculpture, looking at it thoughtfully.
Maybe it’s because there are very few visitors in the deep mountains and wild forests, and the two people in the courtyard didn’t notice the guests at the door.
At this moment, a car drove up from outside and stopped behind Jiang Xia and others.
A middle-aged man with a middle-parted hair got out of the car. The man opened the courtyard door and looked at them doubtfully: "Who are you?"
His eyes passed over the others, and when they stopped on Jiang Xia's face, he paused for a moment.
Jiang Xia has seen similar looks many times in the past few days.
He quickly realized that the man in front of him probably recognized him as a detective.
The previous variety show of "Perspective Detective Agency" and the subsequent live broadcast of solving crimes seemed to have some effect. Jiang Xia always felt that this time, his popularity was much higher than before.
I don’t know when I will receive the invitation to enter the serial murder case from afar...
The person who recognized Jiang Xia was named Ma Gong Manchu, and he was one of the owners of this castle.
After listening to several people's requests to borrow the phone, Mamiya Mitsuru enthusiastically welcomed them into the castle.
Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief, but he picked up the phone in the corridor and pressed the number, only to find that he couldn't dial.
He was startled, and the strange tooth mark on the tire appeared uncontrollably in his mind again. After a moment, Toru Amuro looked at Mitsuru Mamiya silently, his eyes slightly focused.
Mamiya Mitsuru originally wanted to get away with it.
But when he was suddenly stared at like this, his vest suddenly went cold, giving him the illusion that his life was threatened.
For the moment, Mamiya Mitsuru couldn't care less about creating the sense of mystery that detectives like, and he sped up his words: "That's it! The earthquake yesterday affected the phone lines. When I came back, I stopped by to ask, and I learned that it would not be possible until tomorrow.
Repair it - I have no other intention of inviting you in. I just want you to have a place to rest. By the way... well, I have something to ask you."
This sentence sounds more like human speech than anything else.
Toru Amuro looked slightly relieved. Since the external line was broken, there was really nothing we could do. We couldn't walk down the mountain with two weak girls and an elementary school student.
He looked at Mamiya Mitsuru and asked for details.
Jiang Xia looked out the window while listening to Mamiya Mitsuru's story.
Just now, when Jiang Xia saw the chess sculptures in the yard outside, he knew exactly which case this was.
This castle has a spire, and the view from the top is superb. So Mamiya Mitsuru's father-in-law regarded it as a "treasure" and arranged a series of puzzles in the castle, with the answers pointing to the top of the spire.
After the death of this playful old man, the legend of the treasure became more and more outrageous, and everyone thought it represented a lot of wealth.
Four years ago, a maid finally had a bad idea. She burned everyone who was familiar with the Dowager to death, and then plastic surgery herself to look like the Dowager, replacing the original old man, and planned to stay in this castle for a long time.
Until the treasure is found.
Mamiya Mitsuru didn’t realize that his mother-in-law had secretly changed into a different person. He was also concentrating on searching for the treasure, and suddenly he had a smart idea that he could use external help - such as the detective who came to the door.
Conan was immediately excited when he heard that there was a puzzle here. Toru Amuro also became a little interested, after all, he also had a little detective soul flowing through him.
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko are not very good at solving puzzles, but the courtyard here is beautifully manicured, and they quickly moved to the window, overlooking the "chessboard lawn" that was said to contain a lot of information.
Jiang Xia looked at the backs of several people, then looked at Xiaobai who had just walked out of the wall, grabbing his trousers and complaining, and walked quietly to the next room.
According to the preliminary investigation by the ghosts, there are indeed many shikigami in this castle.
But they were burned to death in a daze before they were alive. When they had just become shikigami and still had room for action, they didn't know which murderer to pick out, so they had to pick up the place where they died - there were still
There are still a few scorch marks from the body before death, which makes it safer to pick it up.
These Shikigami who died in vain were obsessed with it, and their souls were numerous and powerful. Xiaobai and the others couldn't successfully capture the souls for a long time.
So Jiang Xia plans to enter the secret passage. The secret passage here is connected to the tower opposite that was burned down four years ago. He plans to go and see the situation of the shikigami. If everything goes well, he may be able to pick up more than ten of them this time.