mtlumby2d Chapter 73 The History of the Dusk Annex
Chapter 73 The History of the Dusk Annex
Everyone came to the entertainment room with their own thoughts.
In the following time, in order to pass the time, Hakuba Tan and Mogi Harushi played table tennis, Chima Kyouyo and Mori Kogoro played chess, while Gunda Ikumi, Mori Ran, Conan, Xia Yu and the uninvited Morikawa Haku played cards together.
Since there were five of us, there were not enough cards in the recreation room for all five of us to play together, so we decided to play some joker cards.
The few of them played a few rounds together, and during this time, Xia Xi fully realized how good Mao Li Ran's luck was. Not only did she never draw a joker card, but the cards in her hand were always the first to be paired up.
Even Xia Xi herself would inevitably get the joker card sometimes.
It was the same in this round. As soon as Xia Xi opened her cards, she inevitably felt depressed for a moment, and the joker card was dealt to her again.
After a few rounds of drawing, Xia Xi only had two cards left in his hand, but the joker card was still in his hand.
It was Morikawa's turn to draw his cards again. Xia Xi raised the cards in his hand and turned his back to him. He watched his fingers reach out to the card that was not the joker, and his eyes couldn't help but reveal a look of disappointment.
When Morikawa was about to draw the card in his hand, he looked up inadvertently and saw Xia Xi's eyes. He was slightly stunned, smiled, moved his finger to another card and drew it out - it was indeed a joker card.
He glanced at Xia Xi again and found that she was happy as expected. She was quite easy to satisfy.
The round ended soon. The loser was Morikawa. Ever since he drew the joker card, his luck was not good. The card remained in Morikawa's hand. In the end, Morikawa was the only one with cards in his hand.
Morikawa didn't care after losing. He directly distributed the chips in his hand to other people, and then put the joker card in his hand back into the deck.
Xiaolan won again this time. She sorted out the cards on the table and started dealing them.
After the cards were dealt, Xia Xi picked up the cards on the table. But this time, she felt that the cards in her hand were a little strange, and one card seemed thicker than the others. She took out the card and looked at it carefully, and it turned out that two cards were stuck together.
Xia Xi didn't think much about it. After pulling out the cards, he was ready to separate them. However, after separating them, he found that the two cards were stuck together with blood, and judging from the color of the blood, they must have been there for some time.
Xia Xi was not afraid, but she was still a little stunned when she saw this unexpected situation.
"What's wrong?" Morikawa noticed Xia Xi's unusual behavior and looked over with some concern.
Then he noticed the blood-stained cards in Xia Xi's hand. His eyes changed slightly, and he took the cards directly from Xia Xi's hand before Xia Xi could stop him.
"what!"
At this time, Conan and the others also saw that the cards that Morikawa took from Xia Xi were stained with blood. Xiaolan couldn't help but screamed in fear, which attracted the attention of everyone else in the entertainment room, especially Kogoro Mouri, who was worried that something had happened to his daughter, so he quickly ran over here.
At this time, everyone learned from Mogi Haruki that the maid Ishihara Aki once said that the things in this annex had not been moved since the murder 40 years ago. The bloodstain on this card should also be one of the traces left over from the original crime.
At this time, the maid Ishihara Aki knocked on the door and told everyone that dinner was ready and the master was waiting for everyone in the restaurant.
Haruki Mogi said excitedly: "The protagonist is finally going to show up." After saying that, he was still observing Morikawa Shiro's expression imperceptibly.
Morikawa didn't pay attention to the occasional glances at him, and just followed everyone to the restaurant naturally.
On the way, Morikawa walked up to Xia Xi and said curiously, "I also learned some information some time ago. It seems that you were invited by the owner of the annex. Are you a group of detectives? What are you investigating here? A murder case or a treasure from 40 years ago?"
"Treasure?" Xia Xi looked at Morikawa Bai inquiringly, "What treasure? No one mentioned the treasure to us just now."
This time, it was Morikawa who looked at Xia Xi in a strange way: "Didn't you come to this Dusk Annex without asking around?"
"Oh~ It seems that Mr. Morikawa knows something we don't know. Could you tell us about the treasure?" Bai Ma took a few steps back, walked to Morikawa and asked.
Apparently, he had just been paying attention to the conversation between Morikawa and Xia Xi behind him, and now that he heard about the treasure, he couldn't help but interrupt the conversation. The other people also slowed down their pace without leaving any trace, and it was obvious that they were all quite interested in this.
Especially Chima Kyouyo, she looked at Morikawa, who was not in the plan, inquiringly - how did he know the treasure in this dusk annex? Is he related to the Karasuma family, or is he like her, with relatives involved in the incident 40 years ago?
Seeing that everyone wanted to know, Morikawa did not refuse and briefly introduced the two cases that happened in the Twilight Annex 40 years ago: "The first is the old man Karasuma Renya. He knew that there was a valuable treasure in the annex left to him by his mother. He wanted to find the treasure before he died, so he invited many scholars to search for the treasure. Later, these people did not find the treasure, so they killed all the invited scholars before they died."
"Ah~, how could this happen?" Xiaolan felt sad when she heard about the tragedy that happened in the annex, while the others became thoughtful.
At the same time, Morikawa also noticed that Chikan Kyouyo's expression looked a little unnatural.
Morikawa paused and continued, "The second incident happened at an auction in this annex after Karasuma Renya passed away in the same year. It is said that many well-known politicians, economists, etc. were invited to auction more than 300 pieces of artworks collected by Karasuma Renya. Then on the second day, two mysterious guests came. Soon, the people in the annex killed each other for various artworks and treasures, turning the interior of the annex into a living hell. The two mysterious guests disappeared along with the more than 300 pieces of artworks left by Karasuma Renya."