Conan Rick's Investigator

In invisible state, he returned to the place where Conan was tied up, took off the ring, pretended to have just arrived, and rescued Conan.

However, Conan's condition was not very good at this time. He looked dull and his eyes were arrogant.

Oh no, are you stupid?

Qin Zhibo took Conan's hand and walked out, and by the way, he investigated Conan's will.

[Will: 45]

A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even after witnessing the incredible scene just now, Conan still has a good will and does not need to be sent to Aoyama Mental Hospital.

The fake Mamiya Masuyo has been discovered. Qin Zhibo is worried that the case will be solved by others, so he quickly runs back to the hall with Conan and starts reasoning.

……

"Nishikawa Mutsumi?" Mamiya Takato frowned and thought, "This name seems a bit deja vu..."

Mamiya Mitsuru frowned, indicating that he did not know this person.

Actually, this is normal. Takato Mamiya has been studying abroad and only returned recently. He doesn't remember things from his childhood very clearly.

Mamiya Mitsuru married into the family six years ago and had no idea about the castle's past situation.

Including the current butler, gardener, servants and the like in the castle, they were all replaced after the fire four years ago.

At this moment, another voice sounded from the other side of the hall.

"Ms. Nishikawa, is that you?"

Matsumoto Ryohei came out and asked tentatively.

The fake Mamiya Masuyo looked at Matsumoto Ryohei, and a tear rolled down from the corner of her eye, wetting the brown age spots.

"Mr. Matsumoto, do you know her?" asked Mitsuru Mamiya.

Matsumoto Ryohei, who had often visited the castle since childhood, nodded. "She was the former housekeeper of the castle..."

Upon hearing this inside information, everyone was shocked and speechless.

The former housekeeper of the castle actually had plastic surgery to look like an old lady and lurked in the castle. Is this a distortion of human nature or a decline in morality?

"Why are you doing this? Why did you become like this?" Matsumoto Ryohei walked forward and asked.

Nishikawa Mutsumi saw the truth in front of her eyes. She glanced at the dozen or so people surrounding her. Escape was impossible, so she could only weakly explain, "I came here to obtain the treasure..."

"Fifteen years ago, Master Mamiya left behind a will after his death, saying that whoever can solve the mystery of the castle will find his most treasured treasure."

"So I have been secretly searching for the treasure in the castle until seven years ago, when the old lady discovered my purpose and drove me out of the castle."

"But I couldn't stop thinking about the treasure, so I changed into the old lady's appearance, took on her identity, and continued to stay in the castle."

"Four years ago, my wife, who had lived abroad for a long time, wanted to return home to celebrate my mother's birthday. I was worried that my disguise would be discovered, so..."

As Nishikawa Mutsumi explained her motives in detail, Qin Zhibo also received a system prompt.

[Congratulations on completing the side mission]

[Task Completion Rating: B+]

[Acquire 400 general skill proficiency]

[Get 140 social credits]

[Rating Reward: 170 General Skill Proficiency]

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It is gratifying that Qin Zhibo's depleted skill proficiency has finally been replenished.

However, Qin Zhibo's reasoning was not yet complete, which was about the treasure in the castle.

"Actually, the mystery of the castle's treasure refers to the chess pieces in the courtyard..."

"If you mark the horizontal and vertical sides of the chess pieces with English letters and numbers, the white pieces will become the word 'Egg head', and the black pieces will become a counterclockwise arrow."

"At first I thought the 'nerd' referred to the study, but in Mr. Mamiya's manuscript, I discovered that 'Egg head' actually referred to him."

"In other words, the real treasure hiding place is..."

Under everyone's gaze, Qin Zhibo walked to the huge portrait of Mr. Mamiya on the stairs leading to the second floor and rotated the painting counterclockwise with both hands.

When the picture is rotated to a certain angle, a secret passage is revealed.

Qin Zhibo went in, and Mamiya Mitsuru, who was determined to find the treasure, followed quickly.

Climbing up the pitch-black, straight vertical ladder, the two came to a corridor parallel to the ground.

The corridor is very short, and at the end of the corridor you can see a heavy door emitting a faint light.

Mitsuru Mamiya walked past Qin Zhibo and rushed forward to hit the door with his body, but was stopped by Matsumoto Ryohei who climbed up from behind.

"Wait a moment!"

"If you were to hit the door like this, you would fall pretty badly..."

Mamiya Mitsuru was so frightened by Matsumoto Ryohei's words that he stopped dead in his tracks. Matsumoto Ryohei walked forward and said suddenly, "I never thought that the treasure that Uncle Mamiya mentioned was referring to this place..."

Matsumoto Ryohei slowly opened the door, and the dark night sky slowly appeared behind the door.

When the entire door was opened, there was no golden light as in the legend, but a night sky dotted with stars.

"This, this is..." Mamiya Mitsuru walked forward in disbelief and looked around.

There is no gold or silver here as expected. Looking into the distance, you can see a lake with sparkling silver light and a quiet and dark forest.

Qin Zhibo was also somewhat surprised by this "treasure" and turned to Matsumoto Ryohei beside him and asked, "It seems you knew about this secret passage a long time ago?"

Matsumoto Ryohei did not deny it. "Yes, Uncle Mamiya brought me here once. Watching the sunrise here is a very good experience..."

"But I didn't expect that this was the 'treasure' of the castle."

amount……

The answer is right beside me?

At this time, after much pleading, Mutsumi Nishikawa was led up the ladder by Takahito Mamiya and saw the "surprise gift" in front of her.

"I killed so many people and even changed my face to look like an old woman, all for this..."

Mutsumi Nishikawa burst into tears and slumped to the ground, as if she had lost her soul.

At this time, Qin Zhibo saw some carving marks on the door.

Qin Zhibo walked forward and illuminated it with a nuclear lighter, and saw the content on it.

I would like to give this castle and this scenery to the first person who finds it.

The perceptive Qin Zhibo immediately noticed that the words also mentioned that this "castle" was also a "treasure" given together.

In other words, he now owns 1/10 of the property rights of the Blue Castle.

Qin Zhibo, having calmed down, turned to Mamiya Takatobuki and asked, "How much is the annual maintenance cost for this castle?"

Mamiya Takato pondered for a moment and said, "The cost of this castle isn't as outrageous as some European castles. The annual maintenance costs are around 1 million yen..."

Chapter 275 Conan, such a pitiful person...

Qin Zhibo quickly did some calculations in his mind.

The annual maintenance cost of the Blue Castle is 1 million kos. If you hold 1/10 of the property rights, you have to pay 1 ko.

All his current property is only 1 Ke, and this ancient castle in the mountains is of no use to him.

This is like giving a beggar a Ferrari supercar, which the beggar can neither use nor afford.

Let alone maintaining a car, I can barely even afford to fill up my gas tank now...

If the castle could be sold, it would be nice to get 1/10 of the proceeds.

But not only may the Mamiya family not want to sell the Blue Castle, even if they really want to sell it, they may not be able to sell it.

Spending a huge amount of money to buy an ancient castle with troublesome transportation and where people have died, and having to pay 1 million yen in maintenance fees every year.

Are there such innocent people in the world?

Even the wealthy Suzuki family would not buy such a castle, right?

Castles and villas are not the same concept.

Ancient castles and fortresses are buildings recognized by the government as having historical value. As long as you hold the ownership, you must pay maintenance fees every year to repair the buildings. You are not allowed to change the internal structure and decoration without authorization, and you must hire professionals to take care of them.

To put it simply, a villa is a big house. As long as you are not afraid of thieves, it is fine to leave it vacant for a long time.

Qin Zhibo even suspected that Pu Siqinglan had set fire to the Yokosuka castle at Xia Mei's instruction.

Because I really can’t afford it!

After figuring out the math in his mind, Qin Zhibo decided not to talk about his discovery.

This blue castle...whoever wants it can go!

……

An hour later, Inspector Megure arrived with his team.

"What a coincidence! I always run into you guys when it's my turn to work the night shift..."

Inspector Megure looked at the familiar faces in the castle and couldn't help but complain.

At this point, everyone in the castle knew that the so-called treasure mystery was actually just a piece of scenery.

Or it could be a little joke played by Mr. Mamiya.

"The setting of this 'treasure' is surprisingly romantic, haha..."

Professor Agasa complained indifferently, while Ai Huihara beside him said with a tone of disdain: "It's a pity that this 'romantic' indirectly killed his own daughter..."

"If there hadn't been that last wish, the greed in human nature wouldn't have been aroused."

"Human nature is the most vulnerable to test. If you don't even know this, you are truly an egghead who has lived your life in vain..."

Haibara Ai's comments left the three little ones confused, and Dr. Agasa felt a little ashamed. He turned his gaze to Conan beside him, hoping that Conan could bring some light into Haibara Ai's heart.

However, Conan was still standing there, indifferent to what was happening around him, with a frown on his face as if he was thinking about something.

"Shinichi? What's wrong with you?" Dr. Agasa touched Conan's back and asked quietly, "Why haven't you spoken yet?"

Ever since being rescued by Qin Zhibo, Conan has been silent like an autistic child, which makes Dr. Agasa a little concerned.

"Is Conan too hungry to speak? Here..."

Ayumi kindly handed over the bread she had collected at dinner, but Conan ignored his friend's concern and continued thinking.

Ai Huiyuan noticed that something was wrong with Conan, walked over to him, and asked calmly, "What's wrong, Detective?"

In the cold voice of Huiyuan Ai, Conan slowly raised his head and asked mysteriously: "Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?"

Haibara Ai:"?"

Haibara Ai frowned, took out an Agasa brand recorder from her pocket and started recording.

"On the 21st day of medication, paranoia was discovered in Subject No. 77..."

"This is expected to be a side effect of APTX-4869, which may cause the user to experience delusions."

"It seems that in addition to inducing programmed cell death in the body, the drug APTX-4869 also has a certain effect on brain tissue that reduces intelligence..."

The "Subject No. 77" mentioned by Haibara Ai is Conan's code name in the APTX-4869 experimental research project.

As for the previous 76 research subjects, they were all creatures called "mice".

When Conan heard Haibara Ai define what she said after careful consideration as delusion, he quickly spoke up to defend himself.

"I'm not delusional! I really saw a ghost in the secret passage..."

"Oh?" Huiyuan Ai raised her eyebrows and asked in a playful tone, "Then can you tell me what a ghost looks like, great detective?"

Conan recalled what he had just seen and heard in the secret passage with a serious expression.

"I just saw the old lady's corpse floating in the air, chasing after Nishikawa Mutsumi..."

Seeing that Haibara Ai still looked indifferent, Conan suddenly had an idea and said, "That's right!"

"Mutsumi Nishikawa will definitely remember this incident, and she will definitely be able to prove what I said!"