Chapter 729 The Riddler who battles wits with the air
There was a military green pickup truck parked in the underground garage. Belmod glanced at it and quickly compared it with the one Gin had mentioned. It's quite funny to associate it with a bulletproof pickup truck.
Whether it was Bourbon or Kumel, their social status was not suitable for driving this kind of car. She guessed at that time that they wanted this car just to drink gin. Now looking at this car that was thrown here carelessly, she really got it right.
The attributes of whiskey in bourbon are becoming increasingly obvious, and Kumail also hints at his dissatisfaction in his words. Although the conflict between the boss and his subordinates is sharp, they are surprisingly in harmony... Gin, said Maybe he is really good at reading people.
Looking away in confusion, Belmode walked through the garage, ignored the small maintenance room that seemed to contain thermal weapons, and walked into the villa.
The structure of this building is similar to Kudo's house, except that it does not have the exaggerated giant library obstruction structure of Kudo Yusaku. The whole building is in the shape of a zigzag, with corridors on all sides connecting each room. In the center of the building is an exquisite small atrium.
Now entering it, the interior of the house is decorated in a typical French style. The previous owner obviously preferred the design of European architecture. Judging from the slightly outdated furniture, the new owner who bought it did not make any modifications. The faint smell of dust and musty in the air is a constant hint that someone is coming, and the place is still vacant.
These are all illusions used by Kumel to confuse snoopers, and Belmod will never believe them to be true.
She put on the shoe covers she had prepared in advance, double-checked the shielding clothing she was wearing, and then quickly walked around upstairs and downstairs.
As she expected, she found nothing.
But anyway, she didn't go around to find anything, she just wanted to compare it with the blueprint of the house to find a possible hiding place.
Of course it is impossible for Kumel to put the secret in such an obvious place, but if the safe house is set up upstairs, there will definitely be flaws in the internal building structure.
After looking around, Belmod turned his attention to the first floor again.
Since the structure here is similar to the Kudo house next door, there must be a basement here.
She looked around but couldn't find the entrance, it must have been hidden by Kumail.
The highlight of today is probably right there.
After determining the direction of travel, Belmode took out the equipment for scanning signals and circuits from his arms, preparing to investigate possible locations on the first floor.
A hidden room that consumes so much water and electricity and is tightly protected must have circuits.
Noah’s monitoring room.
"Is she looking for something?" Zhu Fu Jingguang watched this old colleague he had never met before walking back and forth in the room, turned his head, and looked at his teammates beside him in confusion.
Belmode walked in slowly, looked for something again, and battled wits with the air for a long enough time. Now not only the others, but also Xingchuan Hui, who had gone out for a walk, came back and was sitting close to him. The location of the door, waiting to appear at the right time.
"They are mystics like this." Xingchuan Hui, a semi-distillery employee, was not surprised. "Regarding this issue, the leader and we have a long-term bet project. You can also participate if you are interested."
"What's the bet?" Zhu Fu Jingguang, who had vague guesses after hearing the mystic, asked cautiously.
I feel like I am going to hear some strange discussions next.
"About the question of who will spend the longest search time when Bermod, Officer Furutani, Detective Conan and others break into the space arranged by Noah." Miyano Akemi chuckled, obviously Also one of the participants.
Zhu Fu Jingguang thought about her question for a moment, and was really confused for a moment.
He looked again at Belmode, who had begun to search for circuits along the wall, and couldn't help but ask: "So, is there really no mechanism set up in this house?"
"No. "Noah, who was standing in front of the table, turned around and answered from the perspective of a designer, "I asked the leader if I wanted to add some decorations when I was making it, but he said no."
"'Nothing. There are no puzzles, they can have fun with themselves, so why waste that computing power? '" Hoshikawa Teru repeated Tangze's original words, and raised his chin to motion to Belmode on the screen.
Belmode, who acted cautiously and was always in a tense mood, was still immersed in the tense atmosphere of solving puzzles.
The first thing to be eliminated were the rooms in the outer circle. The structure of the dining room and the reception room was very simple and easy to see, and it didn't look like there were hidden doors.
In the inner circle of rooms, she suspected that the atrium, vegetation and small courtyard buildings were good disguises for the mechanism, but considering the effort required to do so, she ruled out this conjecture.
Just ten days after Kumel acquired the identity of Goro Akechi, Akai Shuichi was exposed and defected during a mission to cooperate with Gin.
Bourbon left Tokyo the next day. It was at this time that Kumail received the task of replacing Karasawa and interrogating the whereabouts of the information.
This is an unexpected situation. Unless Akai Shuichi has communicated with Kumail in advance, the time left for him to react will definitely be very short. His actions will be very hasty, and it is impossible to set up something that takes time to build. aisle.
It is only possible to slightly change the original structure...
Thinking like this, Belmod carefully checked the circuits in the two rooms, and finally stopped in front of the wardrobe in the cloakroom.
The previous owner died of homicide, and his personal belongings were emptied by the police and family members after the case was concluded. There were only many sundries packed in cartons left in the cloakroom, and the dust raised left only one lamp. The room was gray.
Looking at the superficial situation, no one has set foot here for a long time, but Belmod looked at the gray carpet laying on the ground and strode in.
Unlike the floored room, the footprints here will be less obvious. There is no professional survey equipment to assist in judgment. At a glance, it looks very consistent with the state of being still unused.
So the possibility here is very high.
Belmode opened all the closet doors in the cloakroom one by one.
The friction sound caused by the sliding rails kept ringing. The uneasiness of not being able to see clearly behind the door and being exposed to some surveillance at any time made her even more nervous.
In such an atmosphere, Belmode finally found what he wanted to see behind a closet.
The built-in safe is just like the ones found in many hotels. It is not out of the ordinary to appear here, but it makes Belmode more careful when he reaches out his hand.
Password, password... What will the password be...
She only has one chance for the five-digit password.
Staring at the number nine key in front of him, Belmode thought for a moment and pressed it tentatively.
If, she means, if Kumail did not kill Tang Zezhao for some unknown reason after completing his mission, what changed his mind?
Akira Karasawa, and the name Karasawa Ikawa gave to his core invention...
What this child said in a weak voice at the last moment when he was shot was something that only Kumail heard in the world...
With various thoughts swirling in his mind, Belmode pressed the button carefully. .
Akira——25472——
“Beep——”
A weak electronic sound sounded, and the green indicator light on the keyhole lit up.
Belmode pursed his lips and slowly opened the small safe door.
There is also nothing in the cabinet, but a lever that is obviously a switch is quietly embedded in the back of the safe.
“She really guessed it right?” Shimabukuro Kimie covered her mouth in surprise, “This password seems easy to say, but she can guess it...”
When she said that, she looked at Xingchuan Hui.
If Kumail is really Hoshikawa Teru himself, this password setting is quite reasonable.
Karasawa's name was given by his parents, and Hoshikawa Teru's name was given to him by himself, but by coincidence, although their names have different Chinese characters, they are both akira when written down.
Did Belmode really discover something wrong, and also said that this was also part of Karasawa's temptation?
Faced with the curious looks of several people, Noah shrugged: "Actually, it makes no difference. Even if she presses five 1s or five 0s, the door will still open."
This is what Karasawa meant. He said that only the Riddler can figure out what the Riddler is thinking. Instead of trying to predict Belmod, it is better to be direct. So in fact, this password box does not have an exact pass code set at all. If anyone presses any five numbers, the door will open.
Several people in the room rolled their eyelids and covered their foreheads, but they couldn't help but feel at the same time that this approach was indeed very Tang Ze.
“If you think about it carefully, it’s not surprising.” After being speechless for a moment, Asai Narumi laughed again, “After all, his purpose is not to stop Belmod.”
As the lever As he moved, a crack slowly opened in the wall behind the wardrobe.
"He has made so many preparations for this day, tinkering around and trying to hint, just for this moment." Shimabukuro Kimie, who has specialized in trauma and medical content for a long time because of Karasawa's request, agreed. nod.
A staircase leading downward appeared behind the door. The not-so-bright light in the cloakroom stretched Belmod's shadow very long, extending all the way to the door below.
"I even dragged Zero to act out this weird script with him, constantly improving the character's logic..." Zhufu Jingguang shook his head, "I don't know what Karasawa's plan is, but Belmod must have played a role in it. A very important role.”
Belmod walked down the stairs slowly.
The shoe covers and processed soles made no sound. She walked down silently and stood in front of the smooth metal door.
There are no exposed mechanisms or password disks on this door, and as the entrance door behind you closes automatically, this door opens slowly and automatically.
"Let's wait and see." Miyano Akemi turned her chair and approached the screen set up by Noah.
Everyone in the Phantom Thieves gathered in front of the screen.
Tang Ze, who had his back to the door, seemed to feel something. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the person.
Belmod stood in front of the door blankly, looking at the young man sitting in the wheelchair, dumbfounded.
Although she had expected this, even though she had some subtle suspicions in her heart from the moment she saw the photo...
But watching this scene happen before her eyes, she saw that she had already Tang Zezhao, who should have died, appeared in front of her in an image that she had not expected. Belmode was still shocked.
Kumail, Kumail is really...
Is he crazy? What good does this do to himself? !
Tang Zezhao is actually not dead!
How did he hide it from the truth, how did he do all this, the video sent to the organization, and the flash card he handed in that indeed detected Akira Karasawa's DNA...
Cluttered Emotions were roaring in Belmode's mind, but she took off her hat and revealed her blond hair in a calm and calm manner.
Now that we have reached this point, it is impossible to avoid being discovered by Kumel. There is no need to continue to hide our lies.
She walked into this spacious basement.
"Who are you?" The young man sitting in the middle of the room turned the handle on the side of the wheelchair, quickly adjusted the angle of the wheelchair, and faced the strange visitor.
Belmode lowered his eyes and stared at the pale-skinned man.
"Are you Tang Zezhao...?" The answer was already obvious, but she still asked as if to confirm.
Even if you ignore this familiar face, his physical condition is the best indication of who he is.
When he first saw him, because he could only see his profile clearly, Belmode had no other thoughts except that he was shocked by his identity.
However, now that he could see the other person's whole body clearly, Belmod's shock became even more meaningful.
Big and small scars covered all of his skin exposed outside his clothes.
His face was criss-crossed, with four to five scars of about ten centimeters completely ruining his handsome face. The most conspicuous one diagonally crossed the bridge of his nose from the peak of his eyebrows, and stretched all the way to his cheeks. On the other hand, anyone who sees this face cannot help but take a half step back because of the slightly horrifying visual effect.
But his face was the least injured part of him.
The injuries on his neck and collarbone were large and small, of varying depths, and the hideous scars like spider webs were embedded into his clothes.
The forearms and wrists exposed by the cuffs were completely deformed due to the loss of skin and muscles, especially the back of the hand. Two penetrating wounds that once showed deep bones completely changed the appearance of the smooth back of the hand.
The hand is an important moving part that can perform many fine operations. Such a serious injury cannot have no impact. It is not difficult to see his difficulty and clumsiness in his movements of moving the wheelchair.
Due to the presence of his trousers, Belmode could not clearly see the condition of his legs, but just looking at the legs and feet hanging down weakly under the trousers, it was not difficult to imagine how miserable it would be.
That's right, if there was no problem with his legs, how could he be in a wheelchair?
Belmode asked this, just to confirm that the person in front of him was still the "complete" Tang Zezhao.
She has not forgotten the shot that hit the temple directly in the video. Even if he survived by chance, it is already a miracle among miracles that he can still remain conscious.
"...I am. Do you recognize me?" Facing this strange intruder, Tang Ze narrowed his eyes, "Or, do you know my father?"
Karasawa's appearance combines many characteristics of Karasawa Ikawa and Karasawa Leona. However, because of his very distinctive eyes and fluffy hair, anyone who knows Karasawa Ichikawa will quickly realize the blood relationship between them. .
"You are actually alive." After receiving confirmation from himself, Belmod murmured in surprise.
This surprise was not only surprising at Tang Zezhao's almost medical miracle of survival, but also surprised at the other party's still complete cognition and memory, as well as the fact that he was still awake and did not seem to have an excessive mental state.
Tang Ze tilted his head and looked her up and down with a cold and scrutinizing look.
The gaze that seemed to be checking and scanning inch by inch once again made Belmod feel familiar.
"You are very doubtful about my survival. It seems that you are one of them." Tang Ze quickly came to the conclusion, his already wary face became even tighter, and the corners of his mouth were completely turned down. .
As expected of Karasawa Ikawa's son, even though he didn't grow up beside him, he still developed a sensitivity and aura similar to his.
Is this the reason why Karasawa can survive to this day in the hands of Kumail?
“I do come from the same place as Kumail.” Belmod nodded under his gaze.
"Kumel...?" Karasawa frowned and thought for a moment, "You guys, is that what you call Hoshikawa Hoshi?"
"...Hoshikawa Hoshi?" repeated Belmod couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this unfamiliar name.
Is this the name Kumail told Karasawa?
It’s not surprising that Karasawa doesn’t know the codename Kumail.
After all, the two of them had not known each other for long. Kumail, who had acquired the identity of Akechi Goro, had just acquired the reputation of a detective and quickly approached according to the requirements of the mission. Not long after, another When Rye Whiskey defected, he somehow tricked Karasawa into opening the door and killed him in the loft of Bourbon's cafe.
It was by virtue of killing Akira Karasawa and successfully retrieving the important research information leaked by the Karasawa couple that Kumail was recognized by the organization and officially obtained the code name.
If Karasawa never saw the sun again after that abuse and was always locked up in this basement, it would be normal for him not to know Kumail’s true state. It must be impossible for Kumail as well. Explain your situation to the victim in detail.
"It seems that this is not his name." Tang Ze didn't seem surprised. He just readjusted his wheelchair and moved towards the other side of the room. "I don't know why you came here, but no matter what What’s the purpose? I’m sorry, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed. I can’t help you with anything.” Sneezed.
Zhu Fu Jingguang said nothing and silently patted the other party's shoulder, fully conveying his sympathy.
After all, you can’t escape the fate of being written into the script by Karasawa, Hoshikawa.
Thinking about Jiang Guling, who might have had the same itchy nose at this moment, Zhu Fu Jingguang once again felt deep sympathy.
This guy Karasawa, when he created the necessary scripts and characters and started acting, he really didn't care about the life or death of everyone, including himself.
(End of this chapter)