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

Cicadas chirp in the empty mulberry forest in summer.

The forest near the dusk annex blocked the scorching sun, and the gloomy environment prevented the gin from turning into shochu on the spot.

"That's amazing. Why is it always summer when I come here?"

Gin didn't forget to complain as he climbed over the wall and into the atrium.

He had been so busy lately that he had forgotten the year and month. When he said that, he felt the temperature was not right. He took out his phone on the way to check the date and found that it was the beginning of August...

I really don’t know if the world arranged it this way because they were afraid that he would not be able to bear the gloomy atmosphere of Dusk Villa and freeze to death.

If it was true, he could only say thank you as a sign of respect.

despair!
Falling from a height of more than ten meters, Gin just tapped the ground with his toes, making an imperceptible sound. "Hmm... I feel a lot shabbier than when I came here last time."

A casual glance reveals that the lawns and flower beds that were once well-kept are now overgrown with weeds, and the branches of trees are growing in a very creative way, with a peak here and a head there...

Life is pretty carefree.

Gin glared indignantly at these unruly plants, stood up, dusted off his trousers, and strolled around the atrium carrying his slightly heavy suitcase.

"He doesn't even tell me where the abnormal place is. Jing, this guy, really likes to cause trouble for me." Gin muttered to himself a few words in annoyance. After walking around, he began to check the square backyard by himself.

The Dusk Villa is a typical European-style building with a relatively old style, a mixture of British and Italian architectural styles. The inner arch of the main entrance faces the central courtyard. If the door is opened wide, you can directly see the messy lawns in the middle and the large fountain in the center from the outside.

The central fountain had been drained after Gin and Chablis took over, and the detectives who played the "game" here did not concentrate on searching the courtyard, so they did not find anything unusual.

The fountain's pool is still dry, and its porcelain surface is covered with a thick layer of dust.

Perhaps the scene brought back sad memories for Gin, he walked to the fountain and pulled out the metal plug that he had broken. Looking at the crack on the metal plug, he felt mixed emotions.

——He accidentally discovered the "biggest" secret of the Karasuma family.

And this secret is related to the immortality that the unscrupulous boss pursues... The brown paper found by Gin actually contains a way to make people immortal - the formula of a medicine.

But in fact, Gin secretly handed the formula over to Xie for research, and he concluded long ago that the drug could not make people immortal, but at most it could delay aging, just like the effect of the old version of APTX, but with fewer side effects and special functions than aptX...

——Yes, aptx. Even the first generation of successful drugs cannot make people live forever. As long as they are human, they cannot escape cellular aging.

Although Vermouth, him, and other people who have taken drugs are all very young, in a sense, this is a disguised overdraft of vitality...

Maintaining an ageless appearance at the expense of accelerating cell division.

If nothing unexpected happens, the normal successful experimental body's physical abilities will still age with age, even more so than ordinary people, but it will still maintain a young appearance;
What is more surprising is that both Vermouth and Gin are not normal - Gin has the bug of 'qi', which can delay physical weakness to a certain extent, offsetting the effect of aptx drugs; and Vermouth, according to Gin's analysis, this Miss Karasuma has been used as an experimental subject more than once, and the mixing of different drugs may have produced some kind of qualitative change, resulting in the final effect being extremely close to the secret formula of the Karasuma family.

That original 'immortality' drug had no negative effects and could even strengthen the body. It was a precious drug that could develop human potential...

Of course, the formula is also very simple. At first glance, Gin almost thought it was all Chinese medicine. Later, after careful identification, he found that there were many unfamiliar medicine names. He suspected that the secret of the villa could not be as simple as gold.

After confronting Vermouth, some of the information Vermouth revealed gave him a complete picture of the events of the Karasuma family:

At the beginning, it should be as Vermouth said, Karasuma Renya held a celebration in this mansion.

Judging from the fact that Karasuma Renya is still alive, he must be a beneficiary of "eternal life", and most likely the original beneficiary...

Vermouth's father died during this celebration.

Because Vermouth was young at the time, she didn't know what was happening.

However, according to later analysis of the situation, her father's death was closely related to this drug, and the unscrupulous boss was the murderer. He was also related to Karasuma Renya by blood, and judging from their ages... Vermouth's father and the unscrupulous boss were probably cousins, or even brothers.

"Unfortunately, Vermouth herself doesn't even know who the members of the Karasuma family are..."

Gin later asked Vermouth in detail, and the latter said that he was used as an experimental subject not long after being brought out by Karasuma Renya. Before that, his family had been living in the UK and had little contact with their main family.

Otherwise, he could use the process of elimination to eliminate the identity of the boss.

Gin searched the pool again, but didn't find the 'secret passage' that Jing had asked Rei to tell him, so he gave up searching the area.

The original words that Jing Tuole told him were:
"There is a suspected secret passage in the courtyard of Crow Mansion. Part of the source of the Yin energy is there. If you are interested, you can go and take a look."
These words really piqued Gin's interest: At first he also found that the yin energy here was a bit unusual, but he didn't go to check it out specially. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by Jing who came here to open up the land.

According to Gin's idea, if the secret passage is found, some secrets about the Karasuma family may come to light...

...How could there be no secrets in a secret passage filled with gloomy aura?

Suddenly, Gin's moving figure stopped, and he sensed something from the scattered breath. He suddenly looked up and looked at the courtyard wall facing the gate.

"... on the wall?"

Gin blinked in surprise, thinking about how to build a secret passage on the wall from the first floor to the second floor.

The place where the Yin energy suddenly became more obvious did not seem to have any obstacles such as walls. Looking closely, the wall tiles there were indeed more recessed than other places...

"Wait, I remember this location is..." After looking up and observing carefully for a while, Gin recalled the internal structure of the Dusk Villa.

On the second floor, there is a bedroom on the left, a study, a piano room on the right, a medical room, and a toilet...

Right in the middle is...

The conference room with the blood-stained playing cards!