"Creaky--"

The eldest wife pushed the wheelchair and turned to walk towards her room. There was an old-fashioned oil lamp hanging on the wheelchair, and the flickering flame illuminated the dim passage.

When I just came in, I felt that there was light inside... The eldest wife looked around a little uncertainly. It must be an illusion. I really don't know why Mamiya Mitsuru let those children run in. What if they touch things and find these secret passages. And those children went to the third floor. If they messed with the mechanism, it would be bad. I have to go to the third floor to keep an eye on it.

Thinking of this, she quickened her pace, pushed the wheelchair to the wall, and kicked a carved brick in the corner of the wall skillfully.

The wall moved to the left smoothly, revealing a staircase facing upwards. The eldest wife lifted the wheelchair and climbed up the stairs, opened another mechanism and disappeared on the third floor.

The passage on the second floor was slowly closing. At the moment it was completely closed, a figure jumped down from above.

It was Shi Mo Mi who was hiding up there. Fortunately, the top of the passage was quite high. Shi Mo Mi couldn't find the switch to get out, so she simply climbed to the top in a big letter shape. The eldest wife didn't have the habit of looking up, so she really didn't notice her.

With the help of the oil lamp hanging on the eldest wife's wheelchair, Shi Mo Mi could see that the skin on her hands didn't look like an old person at all. The moment she stayed there was not enough for the system to detect the eldest wife's bone age, but the fact that she could carry the wheelchair and walk briskly was enough to prove that she was not the head of the Mamiya family.

Shi Mo Mi knew this, but he was not in a hurry to find the secret passage leading to the eldest wife's room. Instead, he confirmed his position through the system and turned to find the passage leading to the tower.

Outside the main body of the castle, there is a tower, which is also the location where Mamiya nobleman's mother was burned to death four years ago.

Outside the passage... The gardener told Conan and others that the master had said that the chessboard at the door must be maintained. Conan knew as soon as he heard it that this was related to the secret treasure of the castle that the master mentioned. He proposed to go to the third floor to see the full picture of the chessboard.

When Conan finished copying the chessboard and was deciphering it, Yuantai and Mitsuhiko, who were restless, tried to go to the next door to take a look.

The third floor of the castle was basically unused. Since the servant who lived on the third floor starved to death in the woods two years ago, everyone on the third floor moved to the first floor.

The rooms on the third floor were extremely empty. Conan keenly noticed that the wall between the two rooms was too thick, as if there was a secret passage hidden. He immediately began to look for any mechanism in the room.

Soon the clock on the wall caught his attention. It was obviously no longer working, but no one went to change the battery for it. If it was because no one lived there, so no one cared, then this clock seemed a bit too clean.

Conan moved the footrest, opened the cover of the clock, and moved the minute hand...

After turning a few times, he was caught off guard by the rotating wall and was shot into the black secret passage.

The secret passage was still dark. Conan didn't care about the pain of falling and walked down the stairs. At the bottom of the short staircase was a dusty object wrapped in black cloth.

Conan pointed his watch flashlight at it and took a closer look, and found that it was a skeleton covered with a tattered black cloak.

Before he could take a closer look, he heard the sound of something swinging through the air from behind, and a familiar voice saying something.

"Old Deng, hitting someone with this thing could be fatal."

Conan turned around suddenly and saw the old man he had just seen downstairs, who was severely pressed to the ground and screaming while being held upside down. He subconsciously shone his flashlight at the culprit who held the old man, and it turned out to be Shi Mo Mi.

Shi Mo Mi squinted unconsciously at the light source: "Don't shine that on me, it's blinding."

Conan moved his watch away: "I'm tired of asking..."

Shi Mo Mi understood and explained directly: "Why am I here? I came here on behalf of the Mamiya family to investigate this person."

"I had to go down the mountain because the doctor didn't bring a tent, and he got lost. Is it okay for you to hold her down like this?"

"Oh, it should be okay, she looks quite young."

Conan looked at the struggling person again. His face was full of age spots, and his facial skin was full of wrinkles like a dead tree. He was completely different from being young. Conan was worried that he would be killed by Shi Mo Mi in the next second...

You call this young? ? ?

The faker who was pressed to the ground by Shi Mo Mi was about to explode. Let's not talk about what the girl said, that she was hired by Mamiya nobleman to investigate him. The fact that these two people held him down and chatted was enough to make people angry.

She struggled hard, but the seemingly frail girl had an incredibly strong grip, pinning her to the ground so tightly that she couldn't move. She twisted on the ground for a long time, but only made herself more embarrassed.Conan couldn't stand it any longer: "Why don't you pull her up first... It looks like you're bullying an old man."

Shi Mo Mi kindly pulled her up, took out a restraint from his pocket, and tied her hands and feet. Then he dragged the wheelchair that the faker had brought up and threw the person on it.

"It's indeed troublesome to keep pressing."

The faker's old voice couldn't be suppressed anymore, and he cursed at the two people, and the dirty words were simply unbearable to hear.

Shi Mo Mi scratched his ears: "She's so noisy, your thing is useless, right?"

"Not really..."

"Hurry up, hurry up, give her a blow, I can't stand it anymore."

"Not so good."

"She just swung the oil lamp to hit you!"

Conan hesitated for a while and felt that it was not impossible, but he didn't want this person to see his watch that could launch a needle, so he went around behind him and opened the dial.

The faker looked horrified. What were these two people talking about? Why... I suddenly felt so sleepy. Could it be poison? Kids nowadays are so scary.

Watching the fake sleeping, Shi Mo Mi moved his wrists, put the lampshade he had just snatched together with the base of the oil lamp on the ground, and found a match to light the oil lamp.

The yellow flame illuminated the situation in the passage. The skeleton lying under the stairs seemed to want to climb up the stairs before it died. It was a bit funny that it was lying in front of the stairs in the posture of a fallen leader.

Conan was still thinking about the other children outside who might be worried, and he was thinking about opening the mechanism to go out first to ensure safety. But there seemed to be no mechanism inside to open. Conan tried for a long time and had to give up, and turned back to find Shi Mo Mi who was fiddling with the skeleton.

Shi Mo Mi was holding a tibia for observation. Seeing Conan coming back, he handed the bone to him: "Look at this, a typical case of long-term inactivity without nutritional supplements!"

Conan took a step back: "How can I not look at it?"

"Tsk, you don't know how to appreciate it. In my opinion, this is the real wife, who was locked up in here and starved to death."

"You just said that someone asked you to investigate. Did your client find out that this wife was a fake?"

"It's just a suspicion. If he was really sure, he wouldn't ask a doctor to confirm whether there was a medical history, but directly Find a detective to find out who is pretending to be the fake. "

Shi Mo Mi lifted the hand of the unconscious fake and showed it to Conan: "The skin condition of the hand is very different from that of the face. This person has spent a lot of money to pretend to be the eldest wife. Her real age is only in her forties. This kind of deliberate plastic surgery to look older, I can use my connections to find out who she is. Wait for me, I will go and ask."

Conan nodded: "Then I think the chessboard I just saw should be the key to unlocking the treasure of this castle."

Shi Mo Mi actually pretended to go to the side to make a phone call, but he was actually checking the information found by the system. Shi Mo Mi's identity as a doctor is involved in the Public Security Bureau and the Metropolitan Police Department. There is no need to do criminal things in public for a criminal.

The system's direct investigation speed is very fast. It only needs to compare the time of the disappearance of the "eldest wife" given by Mamiya Nobunaga and the personnel who had plastic surgery and maintenance during that time, and quickly screened out the real identity of the fake.

System: [Nishikawa Mutsumi, plastic surgery seven years ago. The former housekeeper of the Mamiya family, whose whereabouts are unknown many years ago...]

Before Conan figured out what the code meant, Shi Mo Mi came back after roughly browsing the information and told Conan the general situation: "...her past experience is roughly these, you don't seem to be surprised that she is pretending."

Conan was holding a notebook and writing something under the oil lamp: "I actually noticed it when I just saw her. She is an old woman who has been living in the castle and has difficulty moving. She actually knew about the change of passport size. You know, the change of passport size has only happened in recent years, and she doesn't need to go abroad, so how could she know about the change of passport size."

"Then she can still pretend in this family for so many years... The Mamiya family is really amazing."

"Who said it wasn't? That Mamiya Mitsuru is the same. I think he didn't leave just for the treasure in the castle...ah, it's solved.egg head."

Shi Mo Mi leaned over to look at what Conan wrote: "Theorist?"

"It's usually a derogatory term in English. The only intellectual in this family who can only do theory is the master."

Shi Mo Mi sneaked up from the garage and had not seen the paintings in the hall: "It's not referring to the master's grave, letting his children dig his own grave, what a cruel old man."

Conan was speechless: "How is it possible? Aren't there paintings of family members in the hall? No matter how you think about it, it must be referring to that one."

"I haven't been to the hall, let's not talk about this, go toLet's find the exit. We've been here for quite a while. You've been here for quite some time. The people outside must be anxious."

Shi Mo Mi pulled the wheelchair with one hand. If it wasn't for Mutsumi Nishikawa's own moving tools, she wouldn't bother to bring her along.

"You should have come in earlier than me. Didn't you find the exit?"

"Not too early. The mechanism of this castle is easy to find from the outside, but the inside wants to lock everyone up. I've been here for so long, and I've only found a cell where Nishikawa is imprisoned. There are bloody words written on the wall by the servants who were imprisoned there."

"Who would make a cell at home?"

"You can see it now?"

Conan: ...

When the two found the mechanism and came out, it was already very late. Even Mutsumi Nishikawa showed signs of waking up.

Shi Mo Mi grabbed a servant and said, "Where is Mamiya Nobuhito now? Please take me to find him." "

The servant looked at Shi Mo Mi who was pushing the sleeping wife strangely. He didn't know who she was, but the person following her was a friend brought back by Mamiya Mitsuru, so there shouldn't be any problem. The servant thought for a while: "Okay, please follow me, Master Mamiya is in the restaurant."

After Conan suddenly disappeared, Ayumi was still very worried, but Mamiya Mitsuru just thought that Conan was hiding because he was naughty, so he invited them to have dinner.

After all, Mamiya Mitsuru had lived abroad for so long, and this meal was also the Western food that he often ate at home, with croissants as the staple food.

Ayumi was worried that Conan would be hungry, and wanted to leave her bread for Conan. At this time, the door of the restaurant was pushed open by the servant, and the person standing at the door teased:

"I wonder if Master Mamiya recommends two more people to dine?"

Mamiya Mitsuru looked at Shi Mo Mi who was pushing the wheelchair in, confused: "Who are you?"

"You are the guest I invited. "Although Mamiya Takato didn't understand why Shi Mo Mi would push the "first wife" in, he still subconsciously covered for Shi Mo Mi. He held the fork tightly, "Have you confirmed it?"

"Do you want to say it directly here?"

Mamiya Takato nodded nervously.

Shi Mo Mi stopped struggling and told them the identity of Nishikawa Mutsumi that he had found out, as well as the secrets of the fire four years ago and the death of the servant two years ago. He also informed them that he had just called the police.

Mamiya Takato seemed to be relieved. He put down his knife and fork, leaned back in his chair, sighed, and called his tutor, as if he wanted to go abroad to continue his interrupted studies.

Mamiya Mitsuru didn't care what his cheap son was going to do. The inheritance was distributed at the beginning. He didn't get much, but he was counting on the secret treasure in the castle to make a fortune. He asked the servants to prepare dinner for the two children and asked attentively: "Then have you found where the treasure is? "

"This kid has solved the code on the chessboard. The treasure should be behind the master's oil painting."

Miya Man was too lazy to eat and ran out to look for it with great interest.

Shi Mo Mi waited until the police arrived, but did not see Mamiya Man come back. He could not help but let the system find out where he was.

The oil painting in the hall was not returned to its place, so Shi Mo Mi looked for it according to the location given by the system.

In the not-so-small castle's pointed-roof hut, Mamiya Man sat decadently on the ground, with a candlestick that was about to burn out next to him, and he was still muttering, "How is it possible? How could this happen? Can this also be called a treasure?" and so on.

Shi Mo Mi was curious and went over to look at the secret door with words engraved on it next to Mamiya Man.

"I would like to give this castle and this scene to the first person who finds this place... Isn't this pretty good? "

Miya Mitsuru looked even more depressed. He was a good-for-nothing. He thought he could enjoy a good life by marrying Mamiya's wife, but now it seems that there is no hope after the inheritance is finished. He dared to complain to Shi Mo Mi: "Without the title deed, this castle can't be sold. What's the use?"

"It's already a castle, and there are so many secret passages. Wouldn't it be great to renovate it and make it a place for entertainment and sightseeing? It's not far from the interior, and there is a holy place for camping not far away..."

Miya Mitsuru's eyes suddenly lit up: "Master, I understand!"

Shi Mo Mi: ... You really deserve to be the one who didn't notice that Nishikawa Mutsumi was wrong after four years, and couldn't decipher the chessboard code.

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