Transform randomly in Kexue World

Chapter 161 Complicated Relationships

The three little ones leaned on the chess pieces together. They kicked on the ground for a long time but failed to move the heavy chess pieces like Conan did. Then they all sat on the ground without any strength.

After Martin and Conan 'recovered' their respective moving chess pieces, the gardener Tabata briefly introduced to the young man who appeared later that 'they are the master's friends'. The young man frowned and did not question them. He looked directly in front of the chess pieces and felt distressed. Observe whether the chess pieces are damaged.

Regardless of the chess pieces moved by Conan, Martin was absolutely gentle when moving the chess pieces. At most, there were a few deep pits and footprints on the lawn below, but they were not as good as the trenches left by Conan's hard push.

Seeing that the young man did not pursue the matter, the gardener Tabata hurriedly led Dr. Agasa and his party to get rid of the problem.

"Does that gentleman like chess very much?" Dr. Ali thought that the set of chessboard sculptures was decorated by the young man just now, so he was so angry.

"No, I have never seen the noble young master have a hobby of chess." The gardener knew very well why the young master just valued those sculptures: "This set of landscapes was ordered by the old master Zhenzhao to preserve it carefully and prune it every day. There can’t be any changes…”

As he said that, the gardener rolled his eyes. It would take him a long time to recover from the ditch that Conan had made.

"I heard that this seems to be the last words left by the elder when he passed away 15 years ago. Master Zhenzhao has never violated them."

Dr. A Li noticed something unusual: "You just said 'past master', does that mean the person just now was...?"

"He is my wife's second husband, Mr. Aman. He and my wife got married about four years ago. Mr. Zhenzhao passed away six years ago." As he spoke, the gardener looked a little depressed: "Our wife, she He also died in that fire four years ago."

"Fire? What fire?"

"That's it." The gardener stretched out his hand and pointed. From their position at this time, they could clearly see a stone tower independent of the main body of the castle. The surface was full of scorched marks, and it had obviously been abandoned for a long time: "That place is Mrs. The old dormitory.”

Martin suddenly asked: "A small high-level executive in Riverview alone, your wife is Rapunzel?"

Gardener Tabata ignored him: "Back then, my wife came back to this castle from abroad to celebrate my eldest wife's birthday... My wife came back in the middle of the night, but before dawn, the flames were lit."

The early morning hours are the time when most people are most lazy and sleep the most.

"Not only the wife was buried in the flames, but the friends she brought back with her, as well as the steward and servants who had served the eldest wife for many years, a total of more than ten people, were swallowed up in the fire together."

"The only ones who survived were a few servants like me who had just arrived here not long ago, and the eldest lady who was living in an annex far away from here because of a cold."

"The noble young master just now..."

"Yes, there are also Young Master Guiren and Master Aman. They came back 2 or 3 days earlier than my wife. Speaking of which, Young Master Guiren was sent abroad to study since he was a child, and my wife and Master Aman have been living together since they got married abroad. In that country, so that was the first time we met those two.”

The husband and son who came back two days earlier than the wife were killed in a fire the night they arrived home?
Moreover, my wife’s remarriage and death were actually within a few months of each other in the same year.

As a detective who is proficient in more than 1000 criminal methods, Conan immediately made a conjecture: "Doesn't that mean that there is actually no way to prove that they are the wife's husband and son?"

"No." Although the gardener Tabata was surprised by Conan's tricky perspective on the problem, he gave a tentatively reasonable answer: "My wife sent back photos when she got married, so we can recognize Master Aman. As for the noble young master, as soon as we saw it He just gets it—he looks exactly like the big boss.”

(The eldest master and the eldest wife are the wife’s parents. The wife has two married husbands who are called masters. The young master is the child of the wife and the first master.)
Behind the scenes, the children were all confused: "What, madam, madam, what is he talking about?"

Gardener Tabata took them into the castle lobby, and then they saw a huge oil painting hanging in the lobby. It was a half-length portrait of an aristocratic man in a suit with a well-groomed beard. Without the beard, The eyebrows and eyebrows are indeed very similar to the noble young master I just met.

"I see. You can tell at a glance that they are your biological grandfather and grandson." Dr. Ali commented, and then looked at the other portraits around him: "What about the ones on the left and right?"

"Portraits of Master Sadaki and his wife." Looking at these photos, gardener Tabata couldn't help but talk about the past: "Master Sadaki is a historian like the elder, and he admires the elder very much, so that the wife often eats She often complained to Mr. Zhenzhao..."

An old voice came from the castle and answered the gardener's words: "She often said that dad was just a nerd who talked nonsense."

An old woman pushing a wheelchair appeared behind the gardener. When the gardener heard the voice, he turned around and was startled: "Madam!"

"Actually, the child's father often heard about this, but he was very happy." Although the old woman in the wheelchair looked a little scary due to her age, she said in a very kind tone.

"I'm very sorry!" The gardener took off his hat and bowed slightly in front of him: "I shouldn't have reminded the eldest lady of these past events."

The three little ones poked their heads out from behind the gardener one after another, looking at the eldest lady curiously.

"It's okay, you don't need to be too nervous." The eldest lady said gently: "I have long been used to living without him here."

"It's just like the changes in the pattern of banknotes and the size of passports. I wasn't used to it at first, but as time went by, it became nothing strange." The eldest lady wore slender round-rimmed glasses, with squinting eyes behind them. Eyes rising: "Time is indeed a terrible thing. Regardless of joy, anger, sorrow, or joy, it will disappear with time... By the way, these are my son-in-law's friends?"

"Yes, these are my friends. This old gentleman is a scientist."

"Oh, scientist..." Apparently Master Aman didn't tell the eldest lady about this. She opened her narrowed eyes and revealed a cunning look: "That's really great..."

Not to mention Martin, even Conan noticed it. Both the master and the eldest lady coveted Dr. Ali after he showed his identity as a scientist.

However, the eldest wife mistakenly thought that Master Aman had already said 'that thing', or thought that these people were specially invited by Master Aman to solve the mystery, and said directly: "Then please help us solve it and see. What mystery has he buried in this castle?"

"Mystery?" Dr. Ali was stunned.

And a certain professional puzzle solver also instantly became energetic.

"It is said that before the great master passed away, he left a last word: whoever can solve the mystery of this castle, he will give his most precious treasure to that person." The gardener explained.

The elder passed away 15 years ago, and his last words can only be heard by the gardener who came to work five years ago.

But the eldest lady, who was supposed to be the most suitable to verify the information, suddenly said at this time: "My daughter hasn't come back yet."

Everyone was stunned. The gardener had just said that her daughter, the madam, was killed in the fire four years ago. "She said she came back today to celebrate my birthday..." The eldest lady muttered to herself and pushed the wheelchair away: "When she comes back, ask her to come to my room."

No need for the gardener to explain, everyone understood that the eldest wife must have been suffering from Alzheimer's disease due to excessive longing and old age.

The ruthless reasoning machine doesn't care about this, he has already guessed what the mystery of this castle is - since it comes from the great master's last words, and the great master's last words also contain another thing that must not be changed, that is Chess sculpture in the yard.

No wonder the noble young master cared so much about that set of sculptures, and obviously thought of this level as well.

Conan immediately asked the gardener: "Uncle, are there any rooms here where you can see the 'chessboard' from above?"

Facing the uninformed gardener, Conan habitually acted like a good kid: "Please, take us to see it. I really want to see that chessboard from above."

Facing this child who was so powerful and so arrogant, the gardener was very timid. Even if Conan acted coquettishly, he was afraid that the child would break his legs if he acted coquettishly again.

So he quickly took them to a suitable room.

Halfway through, Martin noticed another thing: "By the way, apart from this bald uncle, I haven't seen any other servants so far."

Even when the eldest wife goes out, she always pushes the wheels of her wheelchair.

"There are indeed a lot fewer servants. Since the fire four years ago, because the eldest wife needed to rest, no new servants have been hired. In addition, some of the survivors have left their jobs." The gardener said, "Fortunately, The master and the young master have lived in the castle without leaving each other since then, and they will not neglect to take care of the eldest lady."

High emotional intelligence: The eldest wife needs to rest and not hire too many people.

Low emotional intelligence: The master and the young master are staying at home, and the entire family’s accounts cannot be paid, and there is no money to hire too many people.

Now, apart from the gardener Tabata, there are only a few maids left in this family. In addition to the gardener's work, Tabata also takes care of other miscellaneous tasks such as water and electricity.

Martin understood, walked up to Conan, and in a voice that Conan could just hear, he clapped his fingers and said: "The eldest lady, the master, the grandson, plus the gardener, if you include Conan... there are five of them, and the plot begins. .”

Conan:?
"One of the four people will die first, and then one of the three remaining people will be chosen. This is what the great detective is always good at." Martin winked at Conan.

"None of my business." Conan muttered coldly.

"How about we guess who the deceased is?" Martin's voice was lowered: "I think that gentleman has a cannon fodder face."

"You'd better save it..." Conan still doesn't believe that the case happening around him is an inevitable event or a phenomenon of super powers. Besides, since there are puzzles, why are there still cases?

The gardener took them to a spare room on the second floor on the side where the chess was.

To be precise, because the castle is too big and there are too few people, half of the buildings are idle.

Through the window, Conan and the other children saw the chessboard below.

'Well, I did a pretty good job~' Martin looked at the chessboard below. The positions and angles of the chess pieces he had moved were very harmonious with the surroundings. Even if he looked carefully, there were no inconsistencies.

The black chess pieces, which were originally formed in a circle in the middle and clearly looked like an arrow at the top, were cleverly changed by Martin. Now they look like just an incomplete circle, not so much like an arrow.

Looking at the results of his labor, Martin showed a proud face like a cat with satisfaction.

The three little ones also wanted to see what was going on below, but there was only one window, and Conan and Killua, two superhumans with strange powers, occupied the window, and they didn't dare to compete with them.

But the children quickly thought of the next door and ran directly to the next room to take a look.

Conan took out his small notebook and drew the following chessboard layout on the small notebook. He also marked the identity of each chess piece, such as king, bishop, chariot, etc.

While Conan was concentrating on drawing the chess pieces, Ayumi screamed from the window next to him: "What are you doing? It's about to fall!"

Conan and Martin poked their heads out to see, it would be better to say that they had fallen - Genta had fallen outside the window, holding on to the window sill with both hands. Mitsuhiko was grabbing one of his arms and trying to pull him up, but to no avail.

Yuantai could feel that his hands were about to lose strength and he was about to fall. Maybe he wouldn't be able to kill this little fat guy if he fell from the second floor, but this feeling of powerlessness filled him with despair.

Now that you’ve seen it, you still have to take care of it.Martin quickly appeared at the arm window, then stretched out his hand to pick up Genta, and carried him back to the room lightly. After all, Genta was as heavy as Killua's yo-yo.

"Thank you, Brother Killua..." The little fat man gasped with lingering fear.

Conan also came and came in with a black face to criticize and educate them on safety.

After finishing scolding, Conan casually observed the surrounding situation, and suddenly found that the distance between the window and the wall was not right, and the wall around him seemed to be unusually thick.

The three little ones just defended their actions: "We just wanted to see more clearly, and we also wanted to try to solve the puzzles and treasures."

It doesn't matter whether the puzzle can be solved or not. What matters is that the Mihua family will not give up their yearning for the treasure.

"With the IQs of the three of you, if you want to get the answer before the great detective, it's still hundreds of episodes early." Martin remembered that a few hundred episodes later, there was an original episode of the animation that deliberately made Conan lose to three people. Only once.

But looking back at this episode, Martin's impression is still quite terrifying. The dark background, the intricate secret passages, it seems that even Conan and Dr. A Li were brought down, and Xiao Ai and three others almost had to escape. In the end Conan makes a comeback from a desperate situation.

Let's make a bet with the detective about whether he will overturn his car. Martin turned around to set a trap for Conan, but found that Conan, who was discussing Chinese characters in the back just now, was nowhere to be seen. There was an extra chair by the wall. A heavy tome fell to the ground.

"Where is the great detective?"

(End of this chapter)