Chapter 628 - Searching for the Buddha
About fifteen minutes later, all that remained was a handful of the police officers who had put the finishing touches on the search and a few who had not yet left.
"Are you sure you're here?" Conan looked at Hattori Heiji and wondered.
"Right here," Heiji Hattori nodded rather confidently. "If my reasoning is correct, here it is."
"Reasoning?" Thousand Feathers raised an eyebrow. "Tell me? If you are in this temple, is it difficult to find somewhere? Otherwise, with Saijo Taiga's control over these subordinates, he would probably have been able to find this thing a long time ago, sell it for himself, and leave with the money. ”
"I don't know why he didn't find it," Hattori's answer made Chiba frown slightly. "But my reasoning does make sense, so I wanted to check it out."
"Uh-" Chiba glanced at the bandage tied around Hattori's head, didn't say anything, just sighed, and then followed Hattori Heiji into the temple from the temple gate. As soon as they entered the temple, Heiji Hattori led them around to the right side of the main building as if he was quite familiar with the place.
"There's a little attic up ahead, and I think the treasure should be there." Before going around the main building, Hattori Heiji was so determined, and in fact there was indeed a small attic over there, as Hattori Heiji, who had never been here, said.
"How do you know there's this here?" Conan wondered.
"I've seen satellite images of this place from satellite remote sensing maps before," Heiji Hattori explained as he walked to the small attic. "Then I found out that this Jade Dragon Temple has always been very 'jade'."
"It's always been 'jade'?" Conan was stunned. "What does that mean?"
"On the satellite map, the layout of the Yulong Temple is to place the building in the shape of a 'jade' character, which is exactly the same." Heiji Hattori said. "And that ink dot is the building—it looks like it's supposed to be the bell tower of this Buddhist temple."
"You mean, the treasure is in there?" Qian Yu frowned slightly, looking at the bell tower that looked like it was made up of two floors. "With such a small building, there isn't much room for hiding from the Saijo River, right? If it's really here, it's hard to find the big river in Saijo, right? ”
"Let's see," Hattori shrugged. "What if it's really a very hidden place?"
With that, they walked up to the first floor of the bell tower, and Conan turned on the flashlight on his watch and began to examine the ground.
"Don't use that little thing of yours," Heiji Hattori glanced at Conan's watch, pulling something from his fanny pack that looked spectacular. "We use this—"
What he pulled out was a powerful searchlight, and when he turned on the switch, it immediately overshadowed Conan's small light.
At this moment, Qian Yu suddenly looked upward, and then climbed up the ladder next to him to the second floor of the bell tower.
"Do you think it's up there?" Hattori Heiji asked after seeing Chiba's movements.
"If it's ground, it means digging a confined space underneath, and regardless of the difficulty of hiding, we also have to consider the amount of information that the treasure map contains: that map lacks location information, and the only information we can get is to the bell tower - of course, if the treasure is also hidden in the jade point for this bell tower, it is a different matter, but I still think that is too much work."
"In other words, it may be hidden in a characteristic location related to some information on the treasure map—a treasure map that can barely hide other coordinate clues, i.e., features that suggest that the treasure is located in a certain type of place."
"Is there a place to store food here?" Conan's first thought was the acorn on the treasure map. "If it's an acorn, it's probably a place to store grain, right?"
"It's possible, but at the same time, you have to think about where you can hide the Buddha statue," Qianyu had already climbed to the second floor. "We need to find some places where we can escape Saijo Taiga's search - it's hard for us to beat Saijo Taiga's search results if we're just looking for treasure, we have to find something outside the box."
The layout of the second floor is very simple, except for some cleaning tools and impact tools, which is the big clock in the middle of the house.
But Qianyu's focus is not on these, but on the place above the second floor - from the outside, the top of the bell tower is a spire, while the second floor is flat-roofed, which means that there should be an attic space above the second floor, which has a lot of potential for things. In fact, the Tachibana Mansion is also designed like this, and the space between the spire and the second floor is designed with a refuge space and corresponding materials prepared, so Qian Yu will start to wonder if there is anything on it at the first time. As for how to get up......
The auxiliary unit began to search for the construction pattern of each of the planks in the ceiling, only to find that each plank seemed to look exactly the same.
【??? Chiba was stunned for a moment, but then heard the sound of Heiji and Conan climbing up. "You're coming up?"
"What do you think about this?" Walking to Chiha's side, looking at Chiha's gaze, Hattori Heiji also looked at the top. "On it? Good idea, but not so easy to go up, right? ”
"The key is whether it is on it or not, and my opinion is that it is indeed on it." Conan also walked over and pointed to it. "Think about it, treasure, the jade is under the roof (in Japanese kanji), which means that the hidden things are under the roof - you are ready, I may kick something down, and if that happens, please catch the valuable things that fall from above."
With that, Conan took a cleaning tool next to him and kicked it on his foot. "Let me try and see if I can find any interesting space......
With such words, Conan directly kicked the cleaning tool upward. "Up!"
"Bang!" The cleaning tools failed to kick the plank away, but they did kick the plank out of a crack in front of the trio, showing them the existence of the space above.
"I think we might have found the answer to that question," Hattori muttered. "Does anyone agree with me?"
"I have no opinion." Conan shook his head.
"I obviously didn't either." Thousand Feathers shrugged.
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The Doomsday Judgment Book, officially known as the Land Tax Survey Book, is used to investigate the state of the land, and through this survey book, the status of fixed assets in various places is clarified and the amount of tax is determined.
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