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

The weather was not good at the time, and this was a mountainous area. The hot weather caused the water on the ground to evaporate too quickly. Nearing evening, thick dark clouds had gathered in the sky, and there were faint thunder sounds.

"Squeak-"

On the second floor of the villa, the window of the reception room was quietly opened from the outside.

Gin nimbly climbed in from outside, threw the suitcase on the dusty sofa, and glanced out the window. "The world really changes so suddenly."

It was sunny a few minutes ago, but now it is thundering.

Shaking his head, Gin took out a pair of rubber gloves from his pocket, put them on, and then put a mask on his face.

——How can we play this puzzle adventure game without gloves and masks?
Well, of course, you usually wear gloves to prevent fingerprints from being left behind, and wear a mask... well, special times require special treatment. What if there is some virus in the secret passage in this house?
Moreover, after a while, no one took care of this place and the dust increased...

There is also a faint smell of rot.

After thinking for a while, Gin officially started working.

First of all, the most difficult and arduous task is!
Remove! Floor! Carpet!
Gin had long ago lifted a corner of the red carpet that was tightly attached to the floor and smelled a different scent.

But at that time he hadn't thought about the secret passage.

Now that I think about it, the carpet in this room might be there to cover up a secret passage somewhere.

Moreover, this carpet is very thick. Unless you are a spirited young man jumping on it, even if you walk hard, it is not easy to find that there is a hollow space under the floor.

"If this inference is true, there should have been three murders in this Karasuma family mansion."

Removing the carpet is a physically demanding and boring job. While removing it, Gin pieced together the information he had so far.

In places like Tokyo and the organization's base, Gin seldom thinks about problems now, for he is afraid that if he does, he will forget that he is a loyal member of the organization.

Especially this kind of inside information related to the organization's secrets - Gin can say without hesitation that the current organization, no matter what it was before, is now a tool group of the Karasuma family. Although he doesn't know who the top executives are in reality except for the boss, as expected, they should all be upper-class nobles related to the Karasuma family...

"The first time was to celebrate the birthday of Karasuma Renye. No one knew what caused the conflict, and some of the people present were massacred, including Vermouth's father."

Gin rolled up a corner of the carpet with force, tapping the ground with his knuckles as he rolled it.

“The second time, it was when a suspected unscrupulous boss replaced Karasuma Renya and invited scholars to decipher the code left by ‘Grandmother’.

If it was Karasuma Renya himself, from the perspective of Vermouth's narration, he must have known everything about his family, so there was no need to go to such lengths. Even if he wanted to solve the code, he could have started earlier.
The invited scholars were unable to crack the code, and the only one who figured it out... who was it? And he just happened to learn about the unscrupulous boss's plan to kill them, and left a code for future generations, leaving behind a blood-stained playing card?"

Thinking about what happened later, Gin felt a little uncertain. After all, he had no way of reconstructing what the scene was like at that time.

As for the third time, it was after the Karasuma family announced that 'Karasuma Renya had passed away' and opened the mansion to the public. As a result, a bunch of prominent families treated it as an auction site and even took out the Karasuma family's antiques as items for sale. Karasuma Renya... or the boss, was worried that these items might contain 'secrets', so he simply sent people to intimidate them and cleared out all the people who had bid for the treasures, killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.

I'm afraid that the senior executives who participated in the auction all knew about the power of the Karasuma family. Those who survived in the end were probably given a gag order and would never mention this matter after returning.

"The third incident had a bigger impact. The police came to investigate and the bodies were taken away. But what about the first two times?"

Gin had already lifted up most of the carpets in the room, but still couldn't find the so-called secret passage.

"The first time, it was an internal family fight, and it was not exposed to the outside world at all. Those who could attend Karasuma Renya's birthday should be either rich or noble, and the dead should also be mostly this kind of people..." "The second time, the scholar disappeared, and it was also not reported to the outside world... The dead in both cases were not ordinary people, and the people who executed the killing order should be the subordinates of the Karasuma family. They would not do such a thankless task as transporting the bodies away."

"Besides, the annex is deep in the mountains, so we can bury them right there... But there are quite a few scholars coming this second time. In order to prevent the police from finding the bodies here and nearby, the best way is..."

Gin completely removed the carpet in the living room. The furniture was in disarray, and the rolled-up carpets were piled at the door. The stench was so obvious that even with the mask on, one could smell it.

Gin stood up, walked to the window where he had seen the problem with the wall tiles from the outside, and slowly stomped his feet in a straight line towards the door.

Tap, tap...

Benedict...

Tap, boom!

Noticing that the sound under his feet was different from the previous steps, Gin immediately squatted down to check the ground.

Hard work pays off. After ten seconds of searching, Gin finally found a horizontal crack on the floor, which was almost imperceptible.

I lowered my head and the smell seemed to be stronger.

Gin's eyes flashed, and a black dagger appeared in his hand. He used his Qi to stab into the solid wood floor, and then cut the floor open.

You know what, the floor is very thick, at least five or six centimeters.

"...The best way is to hide the body in the secret passage of my house." Gin narrowed his eyes and murmured in a low voice, "This way, even if the police come, they won't find anything... After all, no police will search the house of a tycoon tycoon indiscriminately just to solve a case."

Well, speaking of which, the mother of the Baiba family, the Baiba Superintendent, was most likely at the scene of the first incident, so she knew about the so-called "curse of eternal life".

It is very likely that Karasuma Renya or an unscrupulous boss threatened the other party to make the Hakuba family work for the organization?
However, there is too little information about the Hakuba family, and Gin can only guess...

“Ooo ...
It was pitch black under the dug-up floor, and as if there was an outlet, a very light and cold wind blew out from the darkness, making an eerie "woo" sound.

“…Is there wind?”

Gin looked odd.

He used a little force to remove the nearby floor panels, revealing a black hole that was big enough for two people to fit in.

Then Gin locked the windows, drew the curtains, and in the pitch-black environment, he entered the dark secret passage.

however……

Gin thought the secret passage went down vertically, but as soon as he went deeper, his foot stepped on something solid, and it seemed that he crushed something...

Take out the flashlight and shine it.

Gin looked at the broken skulls on the ground and fell into deep thought.

Brother, he really didn't mean it.