After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 293

Edogawa Conan laughed dryly: "Um, I don't know. Nobody told ."

The hard-boiled detective also helped smooth things over: "I didn't figure it out either... If it were so easy to guess, this puzzle wouldn't have gone unsolved for over forty years, right?"

Usuha Izuki sighed and couldn't help complaining internally.

What was going on? Did the detectives in this world really have so barrier with the protagonist group? The batch from forty years ago, plus all these forty years, really not a single one figured it out, but as soon as the protagonist arrived, he saw through it...

But he was too lazy to explain, so he walked directly to the dining room clock, reached out and fiddled with the minute and hour hands for a while, then everyone watched the clock suddenly fall down and crash to the floor.

Usuha Izuki was brief: "Alright, this is the treasure."

Even those who had already solved the cipher were confused: "???"

You're really not going to explain anything at all?!

And why did the clock just fall down after solving the cipher? Had the chanism finally broken after all these years?

Yes, although the cipher had been solved, no one knew what would happen after solving it.

Edogawa Conan was still puzzled about what exactly the treasure was.

He had previously been to a castle that supposedly had treasure, where a maid had even had plastic surgery to look like the castle's mistress, an old lady, wasting twenty years of her youth for the treasure, only to discover the treasure was actually beautiful scenery.

Don't tell him that after all this trouble, like the blue castle he'd visited before, it was again sothing that only provided emotional value?

At least Ms. Chikama was already an old lady herself and had lived quite fulfillingly these years, not really throwing forty years of youth into this castle...

Although Edogawa Conan had a comparison in mind, Old Lady Chikama herself didn't!

She stared blankly at the clock that had fallen after the series of operations, not understanding what kind of treasure this was: "Um... we've co this far, at least let die understanding! Isn't anyone willing to explain?"

Hakuba Saguru, who still had gentlemanly manners, couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to explain: "The 'two travelers' in the cipher refer to the hour and minute hands, 'ace' refers to playing cards, and following this logic with the cipher... blah blah blah..."

Old Lady Chikama listened carefully to the end.

Being a detective herself, she actually understood how to solve the cipher by the middle of the explanation, but...

"If this is how to solve the cipher, then where's the treasure?" Old Lady Chikama posed the ultimate question.

Edogawa Conan had already run over to pick up the fallen clock: "Ah, the treasure should be this. Look, after the paint on the clock face peeled off, what's exposed inside seems to be gold. Hmm, this weight, it might be pure gold..."

Old Lady Chikama sighed deeply: "Even if it's pure gold... just this little bit... all for this..."

So many people had died over these decades!

Edogawa Conan was still puzzled.

The treasure was a pure gold clock... that was barely acceptable, but Samukawa-san's earlier ntion of [the old crow's golden nest]... just this little bit of gold seed inadequate for the title [golden nest].

And even if Samukawa-san had heard about the cipher here and solved the puzzle, he shouldn't have known what the treasure was, right?

The paint on this golden clock had been intact all along...

Just as he was wondering, everyone suddenly felt the ground shake beneath their feet.

The basic instinct of people from a country with frequent earthquakes was to imdiately think:

"Earthquake?!"

"No, it should be that the chanism from earlier has more to co!" Seeing Usuha Izuki not speaking and walking straight out, Hakuba Saguru had to take command. "Everyone get out quickly, just get on the helicopter!"

Matsuda Jinpei had been communicating with his colleagues and was also confused by the tremor, but fortunately he soon saw everyone running over, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "Get on quickly, there's room for everyone!"

Then soone shoved a clock into his hands.

Matsuda Jinpei looked at Usuha Izuki speechlessly: "What are you giving this for?"

"Souvenir."

Matsuda Jinpei: "...???"

Hakuba Saguru had already gotten in and sat down. Seeing this scene, he coughed: "That's pure gold, it needs to be sealed as evidence..."

"Pure gold?" Only then did Matsuda Jinpei look down at the clock in his hands in surprise. "So this is that treasure? Wasn't it supposed to be massive wealth? Although pure gold is indeed... but this is too little, hardly counts as massive, right?"

Usuha Izuki finally opened his mouth to explain: "It's not just this much. Wait until the chanism finishes and take another look."

With everyone aboard, the aircraft took off. Everyone couldn't help but look toward the castle outside the window, discovering that whatever chanism it was, the castle was dropping wall plaster like it had really experienced an earthquake...

Wait! Hold on! After the wall plaster fell off, why did it feel like...

Under the sunlight's illumination, where the historically weathered wall plaster had peeled away reflected dazzling light.

Everyone's eyes involuntarily widened.

Old Lady Chikama pressed against the window: "Ah... could it be that this castle is actually made of gold? No wonder it's called 'Twilight Mansion'..."

Edogawa Conan's mouth also unconsciously opened.

—Ah! [The old crow's golden nest]!!! Is this what it refers to?! But why would Samukawa-san know...

Hakuba Saguru marveled: "That clock was just the switch for the chanism. This is the real treasure."

The curly-haired woman was also shocked: "How much gold would it take to build such a castle? It's wealthy enough to rival a country..."

Usuha Izuki loved dampening enthusiasm: "Much cheaper than you imagine."

Everyone's expressions paused as they slowly turned to look at him.

The dangerously aura'd young man seed completely uninterested in the magnificent scenery outside, lazily leaning back in the cramped helicopter seat with no expression as he said:

"After all, pure gold's hardness isn't sufficient for building castles."

Everyone: ".................."

Ah, right.

That made sense! Pure gold was actually quite soft—you could scratch it with fingernails.

To make the castle walls gleam golden like this required craftsmanship, but adding other materials to gold to make it hard enough for castle construction ant the purity wouldn't be worth much. If it was just this surface layer gleaming golden, it might be gold plating, which would be even more...

What was going on! The more they thought about it, the more ordinary this castle seed!

Matsuda Jinpei, having spent a long ti with the particularly heart-stabbing Samukawa Shinryu, rationally analyzed the situation:

"So it's not pure gold. Otherwise, during castle construction, it would have drawn crowds long ago. With so many processes and workers, it's impossible everyone would keep quiet. It's probably because they knew that while valuable, it wasn't that valuable, which made building this castle feasible... Or maybe they were silenced. We should investigate the Karasuma family later."

Old Lady Chikama, who had just fallen into lancholy after rising from the disappointnt of "just one pure gold clock," fell back into disappointnt: "So it's not pure gold..."

"The scenery is still beautiful and magnificent. As a tourist attraction, quite a few people would want to visit," the curly-haired woman tried to salvage the situation.

Edogawa Conan also laughed dryly: "Right, and although the entire castle can't be pure gold, given that this clock is pure gold, there might be other pure gold items in the castle... it's not that little..."

If there were other pure gold objects, they might add up to a considerable fortune.

But compared to everyone's earlier shock at thinking the entire castle was built of pure gold, this gap was terrifying. After hearing this, everyone felt completely unmoved and just wanted to say "That's it?"...

Old Lady Chikama felt her heart had been damaged by these ups and downs, and complained resentfully:

"What's wrong with the Karasuma family! Are they sick?!!!"

Quite a few people nodded in deep agreent.

Usuha Izuki turned his head away, suppressing his rising smile.

The helicopter flew to a nearby police station.

There was a minor incident midway—Phantom Thief Kid found an opportunity to jump from the aircraft and escape. But considering he was innocently implicated and had his reputation damaged, and was just here to take a look this ti, the police weren't too persistent about catching Phantom Thief Kid and let him go.

Matsuda Jinpei also rappelled down from the helicopter at where he'd parked his car, lovingly caressing his beloved vehicle for a while before saying to Usuha Izuki with rare warmth:

"Get in, I'll drive you ho. I'll handle the statents!"

With Old Lady Chikama, the main culprit, there to explain everything clearly, the matter was pretty much settled. Other people's statents were just formalities.

So Usuha Izuki was driven ho.

The car ride was a bit bumpy, and he'd walked quite a distance last night, but having watched the excitent, fard lots of suspicion values, slept well, and seen the criminal age ten years from tornt, he felt it was alright—he wasn't at a loss.

As for "Twilight Mansion"... let it stay there. He'd see what the Boss planned later.

Since the current owner of "Twilight Mansion" was the deceased Gourt Detective, it would probably be auctioned off. In that state, no one could live there peacefully anymore—it might beco an internet-famous tourist spot.

When the Boss returned to his own ho, he might even have to buy tickets, which was hilarious.

Usuha Izuki gleefully pulled out his phone, planning to see if the Boss had said anything recently.

He had previously pulled the Boss's alternate account into that group that badmouthed Gin. The Boss probably had to occasionally chi in with agreent to blend in and avoid being detected as suspicious.

Like saying [Gin really is too much] and such... he felt sorry for Gin!

Although that's what he said, the Boss would continue to rely heavily on Gin as before—after all, the Sherry incident hadn't reached the level of assassinating Usuha Izuki. Since Usuha Izuki wasn't angry and even advised the Boss to stay calm and get the facts straight, if the Boss was willing to trust Gin, he would naturally continue the heavy reliance.

It was also a way of expressing "I trust you, be more careful with missions from now on."

Usuha Izuki checked the group chat and found that when he didn't speak, everyone else was very quiet.

He also checked his emails and found nothing interesting, all advertisents.

Sigh... so boring...

Usuha Izuki thought about it, removed Akai Shuichi from his blacklist, and sent an email.

[How do you still dare co to Japan?]

Akai Shuichi, receiving the email: "............"

—How did he know this again?! Are there other people in the FBI privately contacting Usuha Izuki?!