Jiang Xia disappeared without warning. In the castle room, Amuro Toru, Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko and Conan looked at me and I looked at you, and they all fell silent - none of them could even accurately tell the last time they saw each other.
Time to arrive in Jiangxia.
——There happened to be two windows in this room, and there was a clothes rack in the middle to block the view. Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan didn't see Jiang Xia, so they thought that Jiang Xia, as a boy, was going to have sex with the man next to the other window.
It's piled up.
Toru Amuro felt that, based on the enthusiasm Jiang Xia expressed towards his two female classmates, Jiang Xia must be on the side of Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko.
As for Conan... As soon as he arrived at the window and saw the huge chessboard full of puzzles, he entered the puzzle-solving mode without even thinking about the question "Which window is Jiang Xia next to?"
Now that Conan was aware of the situation, he lowered his head silently and reflected - his observation skills were so poor that he didn't even notice that there was a missing person next to him... It shouldn't be, this really shouldn't be the case.
There is no signal here, so I can’t use my mobile phone to ask where Jiang Xia is now.
However, although one person was missing, the four of them had not heard any suspicious movements, let alone screams, so they did not panic at all - maybe Jiang Xia just went to the bathroom.
However, they went to the bathroom and looked around, but couldn't find anyone.
Considering that the terrain of this castle is relatively complicated, several people walked around in the corridor on the same floor for a while, but did not see Jiang Xia at all.
Finally, the four of them stared at the end of the corridor and fell into silence.
This is a bit strange. Even if you get lost, you won't get lost in other levels.
Conan frowned, thinking of Jiang Xia's reasoning speed, and suddenly thought: "He...Did brother Jiang Xia solve the puzzle, so he went to the location indicated by the chess piece?" Jiang Xia may have already made a preliminary inference, but it's just that
I'm not sure about my judgment, so I want to verify it first.
After having this idea, Conan remembered how Jiang Xia carefully answered the questions when he was dragged by Kudo Yukiko to participate in a puzzle game when he was a child. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the truth should be like this.
Toru Amuro didn’t have as many supplementary materials as Conan. He thought wrongly: “You want to say that Jiang Xia went to find the treasure by himself?”
…But if Jiang Xia really deciphered the code, even if he didn’t tell the castle owners, he would at least tell them.
This kind of sneaking away behavior can easily make people think of "snatching the treasure".
But Toru Amuro thought of the funds that were not embezzled by Jiang Xia but were used to advertise the store, as well as the experience coupons and Feng Shui Pills that Jiang Xia refused to sell, and felt that Jiang Xia should not be that stupid.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan certainly didn’t think about the bad side.
Suzuki Sonoko was convinced: "He must have been obsessed with solving puzzles. He was too focused and forgot to tell us when he left - that so-and-so, Kudo. Didn't he often run away suddenly when he thought of clues?"
Mao Lilan nodded with authority: "Indeed."
After such inferences, although the mental processes of the four people were completely different, they managed to reach similar conclusions.
"This castle is very big. If you want to confirm the location of the treasure, it will indeed take a lot of time." Toru Amuro said, turning around, "Let's go back to the room and wait. Maybe he will go back by himself after a while.
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However, the facts prove that it does not.
Even until dinner time, Jiang Xia did not show up.
It was actually Mamiya Mitsuru who sent someone to look for them - Mamiya Mitsuru had prepared a feast for the guests and wanted to ask about the progress of solving the puzzle.
The four of them arrived at the restaurant, and Mitsuru Mamiya greeted them while rubbing their hands. Then he was confused and disappointed to find that the detective he had placed his greatest hopes on was missing.
After all this time, the protagonists finally realized that things seemed to be beyond expectations.
No matter why Jiang Xia left, he still hasn't come back so late. Maybe there was an accident.
Toru Amuro’s face was particularly ugly.
He looked out the dark window, and for the nth time he couldn't help but think of the weird tooth marks on his tires and the inexplicable puncture.
If the tire blowout was not an accident at all, but caused by other people or other things, such as g...cough, no, it can only be interference from other people. That means Mamiya Mitsuru, the owner of the castle, may not behave like him at all.
He came out so friendly.
Mamiya Mitsuru was peeping around to find where the young detective was. Before he could find it, a sudden shiver came from behind him.
Mamiya Mitsuru raised his head alertly and found Toru Amuro staring at him with a creepy gaze again.
Mamiya Mitsuru shrank his neck: "What, what's wrong? Where is that young gentleman?"
Toru Amuro looked at him silently for a while, but saw no problem.
He frowned and frowned. After a while, he remembered the vast area of the castle and the number of Mamiya Mitsuru's servants. He tried to tell Mamiya Mitsuru about the missing person and planned to ask the castle owner to help find the person.
If Mamiya Mitsuru really plotted against Jiang Xia and caused Jiang Xia to disappear, if he asked Mamiya Mitsuru to help find someone now, at most he would only be laughed at by Mamiya Mitsuru for "trusting others easily", and there would be no worse consequences.
And if Mamiya is full of innocent people, then his group of helpers will undoubtedly greatly increase the speed of finding people.
If Jiang Xia's disappearance was not due to someone's plot, but because he was unlucky enough to encounter an accident - for example, he followed the prompts and found a certain place, but the place fell into disrepair and suddenly collapsed, causing him to be trapped. Then he would have been found earlier, of course.
This will help you avoid accidents.
…
Mamiya Mitsuru did not refuse.
Someone is missing from his home, or a detective who is suspected of being able to find treasure is missing. Of course, he must do his best to find the person.
While Mitsuru Mamiya and the protagonists were trying to find someone, there was another person in the gloomy secret passage who was desperately trying to find Jiang Xia.
Nishikawa Suimi, the maid who had been transformed into a fake old lady, was walking silently in the long passage while carrying a wooden stick.
She usually pretends to be demented, but in fact she has been paying close attention to what is happening at home. Today, as soon as several guests came, Nishikawa Suimi immediately discovered it.
She was sitting in a wheelchair, pretending to be crazy and chatting with a few guests. She was shocked to find that there were two detectives in the group, one of whom was quite famous.
Nishikawa Suimi was a little nervous. First, she was worried that these people would covet her treasure. Second, she had killed so many people before, so she naturally felt guilty towards police detectives and the like.
Nishikawa Suimei originally planned to wait until later to take the opportunity to drive these people away, but before that, she suddenly discovered that the young famous detective was missing.
Others could not figure out why a living person could disappear out of thin air, but Nishikawa Suimei knew it very well.
——She had accidentally discovered the mechanism in the castle before and knew the distribution of the secret passages very well. Xichuan Suimei recalled the location where Jiang Xia and the others were observing the chessboard, and immediately realized that there happened to be an entrance to a secret passage nearby.
The detective must have discovered the secret passage and walked in.