Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 190 The Dusk Villa-Devil
Gin thought for a long time, took out the notebook and pen from his trouser pocket, and copied the puzzle again.

This puzzle was originally placed in the living room, seemingly hoping to be discovered...

It seems that the owner of the villa wants others to help solve the puzzle.

"…The previous direction should be correct."

Gin wrote and drew in the notebook: stickman, stickman castle, stickman king...

It seems that the puzzle should be as we guessed just now, and the main focus is on the only clock.

But the problem is...

"That clock must have been installed later."

Gin took the copied puzzle and walked to the only restaurant with a clock. He checked to see if Vodka and the other members who came later had packed up their things, and then looked at the wall clock.

He has just dismantled the clock.

This clock is equivalent to the starting point of the mechanism, and the whole thing is fixed on the wall...but Gin discovered that there are traces of aging at the connection between the mechanism and the clock.

Gin looked at the wall clock that he had adjusted back to normal time, and he lowered his chin in thought: "What if it's not a clock?"

If the puzzle is really just a mechanism, then the "Devil descends on the castle" is really redundant...

Of course, if the purpose is to make the puzzle have a story, that’s another matter.

But even with this sentence added, Gin didn't feel that the story was complete.

"Leaving aside the clock, if this is describing a fact..." Gin decided to let his thoughts fly, "When the two of them were looking up at the night sky, a major accident occurred. The owner of the house took the important things and abandoned his family. His wife probably felt that she had made a mistake, and then the guards in the house committed suicide..."

Ok……

It seems to be of no use?
After listening to Kaito for a long time without any idea, Gin simply said: "Kaito, Noah, check the establishment time of the Dusk Annex."

"Huh? Oh, okay..."

Perhaps we can tell something from the timing.

Gin left the restaurant and returned to the living room.

Before entering, Gin could see in the moonlight that the color of the carpet was slightly different in shades.

"It seems that there were dead people everywhere." Gin frowned slightly, "There are no bullet marks on the wall. Were they all cut by swords?"

Thinking about it, Gin was about to step into the room, but suddenly paused.

This blanket...

Why is it only in the living room?
Gin suddenly squatted down and tried to push away the edge of the blanket, but encountered resistance.

His eyes darkened, and he exerted a little strength with his hands, and only then was he able to grab a part of the blanket...

The moment he lifted the blanket, a foul odor rushed into Gin's nostrils, and he was so frightened that he immediately covered the blanket back.

When he stood up again, there was still some doubt on Gin's face.

“This annex…”

Could it be that the blanket was put on before the blood was completely cleaned up?
It stinks!
"Uncle Blade, I didn't find the exact time... but I guess it was after the 1960s."

Kaito's voice preceded Noah's.

In some ways, Kaito is slightly faster at looking up information than Noah.

Gin wasn't surprised by this answer, "This is a British building after all, and it was almost the same at that time. Isn't there even a time range?"

"Hmm...some people seem to have speculated that it was before the 1980s? There is indeed no clear statement on the Internet."

"...Forget it then. Anyway, this house should be at least a hundred years old."

Gin rubbed his brows.

After all, that person is already over a hundred years old. Even if the house is not his, it will definitely take some time for him to inherit it.

"If the puzzle is telling the truth, then it should have happened before that person..."

Gin looked at the carpet and had some groundless guesses in his mind.

Could it be that the 'king' who escaped that year fled here?
Before that person killed those who came here, could it be that someone had already cleaned out a group of people who knew the secret?
In such a remote area, it is possible to kill someone and bury the body without being discovered for decades.

"...Kaito." Gin suddenly said, "Do you have a diagram of the interior structure of the Dusk Annex... or a similar building?"

Kuroba Kaito paused, "As for the annex, I can only find the exterior scenes that were filmed before, but I do have the blueprints of that type of building." "Then if you have something very important that you want to hide without being discovered, but you also want to leave it to future generations, where do you think you might hide it?"

"This one……"

Kuroba Kaito wondered if Gin was deliberately making things difficult for him.

When Gin asked this, he suddenly paused.

After a moment of silence, Kuroba Kaito said weakly, "Um, Uncle Ren, are you trying to make things difficult for me?"

"...No, I have an idea. I'll hang up now." Gin took a deep breath, "You can fix the clockwork next time you come."

"Ah? Wait, uncle——"

"Beep~"

Gin put away his phone, a sinister light flashing in his eyes.

He immediately cleaned up all traces of himself here, climbed out of the window, and climbed onto the roof.

——The Dusk Villa is surrounded on all sides, with the middle space left empty as a garden.

Looking down from the roof, Gin can directly see the fountain pool in the central garden.

"Two travelers looked up at the night sky..."

Gin repeated the first sentence of the puzzle in a low voice, took a deep leap, and landed steadily right above the fountain.

The pool water has not been renewed for a long time, and the whole pool water is somewhat eutrophic.

Gin looked up at the clearing night sky.

"The devil has descended upon the castle..."

Gin stared at the stagnant water in the pool surrounding the fountain, wondering whether he should take action.

After a while, he sighed: "Forget it, if I don't go to hell, who will?"

Suddenly, Gin gritted his teeth, took off his gloves, fell to the edge of the pool, and quickly groped in the pool.

But after searching around, Gin found nothing except a leaky lid.

Gin: "..."

Did he guess wrong?

The clean hand scratched his hair and Gin's expression fell.

That’s right, if it was that simple, then the unscrupulous boss would have found it long ago…

But Gin was somewhat unwilling.

"How about draining the water and trying?"

With the attitude of trying everything possible, Gin pulled out the plug used to block the drain - and it was quite tight.

The pool of water was quickly emptied.

But Gin only saw the bumpy pool tiles that had been removed.

Gin: "..."

It seems that this pool has been ruined a long time ago.

Thinking about how he had been working in vain for a long time, Gin sighed, feeling a little annoyed. He accidentally exerted a little force with his hand and was about to put the lid back.

But unexpectedly, the drain plug that he held suddenly - cracked!
Gin was stunned by the broken cork: "... so many times?"

He stupidly lifted up the metal piece that had fallen off the drain plug, but suddenly found that there seemed to be something inside?
Gin quickly crushed the entire cork, only to find that there was a small roll of parchment stuffed inside!

It is also fixed with bamboo sticks, and the width of the rolled parchment is less than five millimeters.

"Oh my god, he can really hide..."

This unexpected surprise was so unexpected that Gin was a little slow to react - it seemed that no one could remove the cork.

But when he saw the contents of the scroll, his pupils suddenly shrank.

"What is this thing?!"

(End of this chapter)