Chapter 20 Twenty, underground treasure house

The wise-wrapped sofa plunged into the phosphorescent shisha of the stern, doing several somersaults like a living thing.After a while, the black shadow disappeared. "This is a water burial. Now, we have finally eliminated the stumbling block. However, I feel a little sad to think that the wise detective who has always been active has been buried in the sea like this, madam." Jun Yugong said while observing the expression of the black lizard, his tone was full of malicious sarcasm. "Don't talk too much, back off quickly." The woman in black scolded. She let her men into the cabin, and then leaned on the railing at the stern, staring down at the sea that had just swallowed the sofa.

The sound of propellers repeats the same rhythm, the waves follow the same trajectory in circles, and the phosphorescence of fireflies rolling out of curves makes the eyes lose focus.Is the boat moving forward, or is the sea flowing?There are only eternal rules that outline the same trajectory day after day. In the cold wind, the woman in black stood motionless for nearly thirty minutes.When she finally returned to the cabin, under the bright light, her face was frighteningly pale, and her cheeks were even stained with tears. After stepping into her bedroom, she seemed restless, and went to the corridor again, staggering towards the room where Sanae was imprisoned.

She knocked lightly, and Beicun answered the door immediately. "You go out for a while, Sanae will be my guard." After leaving Beicun, she walked into the room. Poor Sanae was slumped in a corner with her hands tied behind her back and a cloth stuffed in her mouth.The black lizard took the cloth from her mouth and said: "Miss Sanae, I have to tell you very bad news. You will be sad and cry." Sanae got up quickly, staring at the female thief with hostility, and didn't intend to reply at all. "Do you know what it is?" "..." "Hehe, Akechi Kogoro, your patron saint, Akechi Kogoro, is dead. The sofa where he was hiding was tied round and round with strong ropes. If he couldn't escape, he could only sink into the bottom of the sea with the sofa. What happened just now, we held a grand water funeral for him on the deck. Ha ha."

Sanae was stunned, staring straight at the woman in black who was laughing hysterically. "Really?" "Will I be so happy for a lie? Look at me, I'm going crazy with joy. But you must be very disappointed. The only companion you can rely on is dead. The straw that can save your life is broken. No one can save you. You will be locked up in my art gallery and never see the light of day." Sanae observed the other party's face, and gradually realized that the bad news was not a lie.And what the death of a famous detective means, she knows too well. is hopeless.The more one trusts Mr. Wise, the more piercing the feeling of despair.She was acutely aware that she was being thrown into a pack of wolves with no help.

She bit her lower lip tightly and tried her best to endure it for a while, but she still couldn't bear it.With her hands tied behind her back, she lowered her head and lightly leaned on her knees, sobbing with her face buried in her face, and tears kept falling drop by drop. "Don't cry, what are you crying for? It's shameful. It's worthless, it's too worthless." Seeing this, the black lizard scolded extremely sharply.However, before she knew it, the temptress also collapsed beside Sanae, with tears streaming down her cheeks. Is it the loneliness of losing a unique enemy in the world, or is it for a very different reason?The sadness of the female thief is indescribable, and quite inexplicable.

Unknowingly, the kidnapper and the hostage, the black lizard and her bait, the two people who should have a deep hatred turned into a pair of sisters, holding hands and crying bitterly.Although the reasons for their grief are different, the degree of grief is equally deep and intense. The woman in black wailed bitterly, like a five or six-year-old child.Sanae, who was emotionally affected, also burst into tears.What an unexpected and unreasonable situation!Now, they are just a pair of childish young girls, or two simple and innocent primitive people.All rationality was thrown to the sky, and the emotions of grief flowed freely.

This incredible mournful chorus, accompanied by the monotonous sound of the engine, lasted for a long time.They cried and cried until the chest of the female thief was filled with the evil of the past, until Sanae felt hatred in her heart. In the evening of the next day, the steamer sailed into Tokyo Bay, dropped anchor near the coast of the reclaimed port T, and waited until late at night before lowering the boat.Several people got into the boat and rowed to a corner of the landfill that was deserted. Finally, the three oarsmen returned to the boat, and the woman in black, Sanae and Junichi Amamiya went ashore.Sanae's hands were still tied behind her back, her mouth was tightly gagged, and this time even her eyes were covered with a thick cloth.Probably because they were finally approaching the black lizard's lair, they didn't want Sanae to write down the route.After going ashore, Amamiya took off the crew uniform and changed into a khaki-colored worker uniform. With a fake beard covering most of his face, he dressed as a foreman in a machinery factory.

There is a large factory area in the land of the reclamation port T, and there are hardly any residential buildings.It was a recession, and almost no factories were open at night.Therefore, except for a few scattered street lamps, there are no lights, and it is like a ruin. The three of them crossed the wide grassland connecting the coast, twisted and turned in the small road in the factory area, and finally entered an abandoned factory.The collapsed walls, broken and crumbling doorposts, and overgrown weeds inside the door, it is simply a haunted house with no lights.So, the woman in black turned on the flashlight she carried with her, silently illuminated the ground, and walked forward stepping on the weeds.Followed by Amemiya in workman's uniform, he put his arms around Sanae who was blindfolded.

After walking about five or six rooms from the gate, an imposing wooden structure building appeared.The torch light sweeps across the sides of the building like a gentle caress.There are many glass windows, but the glass is all broken, not a single piece is intact.The woman in black clattered open the broken door and entered the room full of cobwebs. The flashlight scanned the broken machinery, the drive shaft hanging from the ceiling, the drive wheel, the broken drive belt, etc., and finally stopped on a small room in the corner of the building, which looked like the foreman's office.Pushing open the glass door without glass, the three of them stepped onto the wooden floor.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..." The heels of the woman in black knocked out a rhythm.That must not be an ordinary footstep, but a special Morse code.As soon as the sound of shoes hitting the ground stopped, the floor covered by the light of the flashlight quietly moved aside, and a round hole about three feet square appeared in front of you, with the concrete floor inside looming.What is even more surprising is that the concrete floor itself is a heavy door like a warehouse door. It sinks slowly, and what appears in front of it is a dark underground passage entrance. "Ma'am?" A low voice asked from the ground.

"Yes, I brought a distinguished guest here today." After that, Amamiya silently hugged Sanae, and carefully stepped down the stairs, and the figure of the woman in black also disappeared.Immediately afterwards, the secret door and the floor were restored to their original state, and only this lonely abandoned factory stood upright as if nothing had happened.