Chapter 1031

"This..." Genta said in distress, "I still can't think of it, but there are still many bulls here that we haven't checked..."

"I think," Conan raised his head and said, "the bull in that sentence probably doesn't refer to any of the bulls here, but the Chinese character 'Bull'."

"Chinese character?"

"Yes."

Conan's eyes gradually lit up.

"If that's the case, when the horns on the bull's head disappear, it becomes the character 'Noon'. Besides referring to noon, 'Noon' also points to the south. In other words, the Southern Angel at noon is the place we need to find. There is still time."

"But, how do you explain the tail becoming the head?" Mitsuhiko questioned.

"I'm not sure about that yet, but," Conan looked at Akaso Kaze and smiled lightly: "Whether it's true or not, won't we know if we go to the Southern Angel and take a look first? Maybe there are remaining clues."

Akaso Kaze met Conan's fiery gaze, secretly amused in his heart, and shook his head without any desire to compete.

"Then let's go take a look."

Southern Angel, 12:00 noon. Conan and his group swarmed to the bottom, and sure enough, they didn't encounter any dangerous facilities; Tokei just followed silently behind.

After a stone brick on the base of the angel pillar was pushed in, a secret door suddenly opened.

Inside was a spacious area, with only a glass bottle placed on the ground in the center.

A beam of light leaking from above shone directly on the bottle, and one could see a black crystal inside.

Conan took the lead into the secret room, but couldn't pick up the glass bottle; the bottle seemed to be fixed to the ground, so he had to pull out the stopper and take out the black crystal inside.

"Is this the Bull's treasure?" Genta stared at the diamond-shaped black crystal.

"No," Conan examined the crystal and said.

"This should be the key to solving the next puzzle. 'When the horns on the bull's head disappear, and the tail becomes the head' means the direction is reversed, facing the opposite direction of 'Noon', which is North. The next clue must be in the tower of the Northern Angel, Brother Akaso..."

"Hurry up and get out!"

Unable to spare time to explain to Conan and the others, Akaso Kaze looked around with a solemn expression.

He faintly heard the sound of a mechanism operating.

He turned back, hugged Matsunaka Yuriko, Ayumi, and Haibara Ai, and walked out.

As time ticked past 12:00.

The floor of the secret room suddenly collapsed from the middle, revealing a giant trap.

Outside the Southern Angel tower, Conan and the others stood silently in front of the re-sealed entrance, still unable to recover from the sudden change.

"Uncle Tokei," Conan looked at Tokei with a dark face, "you knew about the mechanism there from the beginning, right?"

"I'm very sorry," Tokei met everyone's gaze, "as the executor of the Master's will, everything is done according to the rules. This mechanism is also part of the challenge..."

"Instead of having time to question me, you'd better solve the puzzle quickly."

Tokei was wearing sunglasses, so his expression couldn't be seen. He turned and walked away.

Akaso Kaze looked at his back and didn't say anything.

Conan, on the other hand, frowned.

What he cared about most was still the puzzle in this Angel Mansion.

The remaining clue was at the Northern Angel, but "the angel will descend from the sky and blow a flute..."

This sentence was a bit strange.

The Northern Angel, including the other angel statues, didn't seem to have the kind of mechanism mentioned in the code. ===== CHAPTER 1033 =====