Conan's I'm really not a model worker in a winery

After looking at the skeleton with only half of the orbital bone remaining for two seconds, Gin silently raised his sinful left foot that had offended the deceased.

"Uncle, please give me my condolences and peace to you. You will definitely have a good pregnancy in your next life."

skull:wdnmd

If the skeleton could talk, it would be breathing sweet scent right now.

Too bad it can't.

So much so that half of its skull, which was barely intact, was held up by Gin and looked at carefully.

"Hmm... Judging from the skull, he is an adult." Gin put the skull down and reattached the cervical vertebrae. "Although most of the clothes are torn, but from a standard point of view, this kind of simple and unpretentious clothes are more likely to be those who disappeared.

scholars."

Gin took a flashlight and looked around.

This secret passage is different from what he thought:

The floor he opened was not the very beginning of the secret passage, but some distance down the stairs, and the skull happened to be on one of the steps, and was stepped on by Gin.

The real entrance to the secret passage is up the steps. Gin judged that it seemed to be just connected to the door of the reception room...

After a moment of speculation, Gin caught a glimpse of the grooves in the stone wall above his head, "This secret passage should be controlled by a mechanism."

But it’s been so long, who knows how to activate this mechanism?

The smell of decay in the underground secret passages is not that strong. It is probably because the smell floats up and clings to the wooden floor. The secret passages are made of stone bricks, which makes people feel cool and cool.

The depth of the secret passage is not yet known, but after Gin stepped over the corpse, he turned a corner and found that there was a staircase that continued downwards. Moreover, under the corpse and around the corner, there were black marks that were different from the color of the stone bricks.

Coupled with the shape of the corpse, it is not difficult to judge that the corpse closest to the exit was probably thrown into the secret passage before it died. Finally, relying on its remaining willpower, it dragged the injured body along the way.

He climbed all the way up the steps, and finally died near the exit of the secret passage due to excessive blood loss and exhaustion of breath...

"It's so tragic..."

Gin glanced back at the corpse lying on the steps, shook his head sadly, and continued down.

"Almost, this should be under the stairs on the first floor."

Every time he walked, he would stop and calculate the distance.

The black bloodstains on the steps were still there, and no other corpses were seen...

Does that mean it has to go down further?

Gin once again admired the skeleton he stepped on in the sentence above, dragging his seriously injured body so far.

Why don't you help it glue its broken head back together before going back, otherwise I'll be embarrassed.

Having made up his mind, Gin temporarily put that skeleton sentence behind him and headed down.

The depth of the secret passage is far beyond Gin’s imagination:

Gin has a very keen sense of spatial distance, and the distance between steps is basically fixed. When he reached the bottom where there were no steps, he estimated that he was already about 20 meters underground, which meant that there were five or six floors underground.

So deep...

This is equivalent to digging through less than half of the cliff where the annex is located.

Gin: I can only say that the Karasuma family is really rich.

you do not say?

The flashlight illuminates the dark and deep underground space.

What's outrageous is that there is actually a door underground!

——Yes, the suddenly open space, in addition to the ten-meter-wide aisle in front, there are also castle-like iron gates on both sides.

Both doors are locked and cannot be opened by outsiders without a key.

but……

Gin went over and took a look at the ancient and exquisite lock. He silently took out two pieces of heavy iron wire from his pocket, bent it a few times, inserted it into the keyhole and fiddled with it several times.

A few seconds later, there was just a "click", and the two palm-sized locks sank slightly in Gin's hand.

The lock is open.

However, when Gin took off the lock and pushed the huge iron door open a gap, he really felt regretful——

In an instant, a stench comparable to a methane poison bomb roared out from the door, pouring into Gin's mouth and nose from 360 degrees.

This made Gin's already pale face even paler, and he chose to hold his breath without hesitation.

This sour smell of rotten meat left in the cellar for three months to ferment and decay is really anti-human!

Worse than canned herring!

Gin resisted the urge to close the door, added another layer of mask to himself, and then looked inside.

...Sure enough, the original design purpose of the huge underground room was unclear, but right now, this room was filled with corpses.

"Six...eight...twenty-seven?" Gin counted the corpses and was slightly speechless, "Including the one above, it's twenty-eight..."

From the inside to the outside of the corpse, through the light of the flashlight, you can barely see that the clothes on the innermost bones are mostly noble clothes, while the few corpses outside are relatively simple, and they are those scholars...

In other words, the death toll in the first massacre far exceeded that of the subsequent ones.

In his mind, he condemned the Karasuma family's madness. Just as Gin was about to close the door, something suddenly occurred to him. After hesitating for a moment, he opened the crack in the door wider, allowing himself to enter.

Because it is a closed space, the corpse odor in the room lingers for a long time, and it becomes even more foul over time...

This is probably why everyone in the Karasuma family moved away from this place - not to mention the remote location, there are so many corpses buried in the warehouse below the house, how uncomfortable would it be to live there?

Replace it with gin, gin...

Gin was happy to live here. There was a lot of gloom here. If he could ignore the corpse, he would live quite comfortably.

He walked among the piles of corpses with only bones left, stopping from time to time next to the bones of those who seemed to be nobles, looking at the faces of those skulls.

'Could Belmod's father be among these people?'

Gin had this suspicion, but he wasn't very sure. After all, Bermod's father was the legitimate son of Renya Karasuma, the head of the old family, so he just dumped the bones of his relatives here. Such an act of mourning.

, shouldn’t be able to do it...right?

After a circle of recognition, the gin recognition failed.

After all, he is not an expert in bone tracking. Maybe he can tell Belmode and let the latter search for it himself.

After having an idea, Gin Jiu stepped up and wanted to leave the charnel house. However, when leaving, he glanced at the corpse at his feet with some feeling, paused, bent down and carefully dragged the corpse to the

He leaned against the wall, walked out of the door, and locked the door again.

Ginjiu also opened the door on the opposite side and took a look, but there was nothing special...

Then, all that's left is the passage in front of us.

When I opened the secret passage above just now, I could feel a faint breeze, indicating that the underground passage was not airtight - there were either exhaust holes or other exits.

Considering the fact that there are rooms below, Gin is more inclined to have both.

"The road surface still has a downward trend. This depth... should be able to penetrate the mountain."

Gin narrowed his eyes.

Let him see where the end of this secret passage is.