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"You're too kind. This is not some advanced technology... It's very common in other countries." After hesitating for a moment, Wu Wanying still said the following sentence.
Lock picking is not a sophisticated skill. Foreign locksmiths all know how to do it, and many of them are more skilled and proficient than Wu Wanying.
"Really? Then it turns out that our country is too backward... The locks of the cells should be replaced with electronic locks as soon as possible."
After saying this in self-mockery, Barry suddenly turned serious and said in a deep voice:
"You really shouldn't have gotten involved in that matter yesterday."
Obviously, he regarded Karasuma Ying and Mary as a whole.
The incident he was referring to was naturally the murder of Birun.
Thinking about the reason why Barry said this, Karasuma Ying weighed the pros and cons and asked tentatively:
"Is your plan related to that small village ten years ago?"
Hearing this, Barry glanced at her with his only remaining eye, without much surprise in his eyes.
"It seems that they have already told you?"
"Yes, he also asked me to tell you not to do anything unnecessary for them. He doesn't want the country to be in turmoil because of them again." Wu Wanying said the old man's words truthfully.
"Is this so..."
There was still no surprise on his face. Barry just nodded calmly, and after a moment of silence, he spoke in the same calm tone:
"It's too late. We have no way out."
After saying this, he paused and continued:
"Of course, I don't mean to hate you. You just did what you were supposed to do. This is not your fault."
Wu Wanying just listened quietly without interrupting.
However, Barry also fell silent after saying this, and the two of them just stood in the corridor, falling into an eerie silence for a while.
This silence lasted for several minutes before Barry spoke again and asked, "Why do you want to be a detective?"
Unexpectedly, he asked this suddenly. Wu Wanying was stunned for a moment and then gave her answer.
“It’s the result of following the trend.”
Sister Terumi had asked her this question before, and Karasuma Ying's answer remained unchanged. The so-called detective was just the result of her going with the flow.
In addition to being good at reasoning, Karasuma Ying has never thought that he fits the world's mainstream impression of detectives.
She had neither a fanatical interest in reasoning nor a persistent pursuit of justice.
Apart from the incidents she was accidentally involved in, everything she has done so far is to solve the mystery of her relatives, and then...
"The Blue Sapphire is no longer in the kingdom."
Barry's voice brought back Karasuma Ying's wandering thoughts.
Chapter 218 Aunt Mary Cares About You (Updated)
"The Blue Sapphire is no longer in the kingdom."
In the corridor of the King's Castle, One-Eyed Barry suddenly spoke. Under Wu Wanying's puzzled gaze, he continued:
"The gem was indeed stolen, but the person who stole it was not a thief outside, but Princess Freya."
"Huh?" Wu Wanying was extremely surprised by the result and was completely confused.
Freya is the one who stole the blue sapphire?
But why would the princess of the kingdom steal her own secret treasure?
"I don't know the details." Facing Wu Wanying's puzzled gaze, Barry continued: "But I guess that Princess Freya may have been used by someone, and stealing the gems was probably not her original intention..."
"Under someone's orders?"
Wu Wanying thought of the two Onimaers in Japan. She had already confirmed the identity of one of them, Princess Freya of the Kingdom of Andrew, but they still didn't know the identity of the other one.
But according to Conan, when El was making pharmaceuticals, both of them tried to fight for the blue sapphire.
According to what Barry said, could it be that the other unidentified Onimare was the one who instigated Freya to steal the blue sapphire?
After realizing that she had made a big mistake, the princess followed him all the way to Japan?
"That gem is not an ordinary gem." Barry went on to explain: "The gem returned to the royal family ten years ago. That was a very sensitive time. I think you should be able to guess this."
"Ten years ago?"
Once again, hearing about a very special time point for this country, at Barry's suggestion, Urawara Ying only thought for a moment, then suddenly looked up and looked at Barry in disbelief.
"Could it be that the blue sapphire was also mined from that border village?!"
Wu Wanying has not forgotten the story that the old man told her. Ten years ago in the border village, when the researchers from El Pharmaceutical detonated that special ore for the first time, the power of the explosion directly flattened half of the village.
She didn't know how much ore the researchers had used for the experiment, but based on common sense, she would assume that the first sample experiment would generally only use a small amount of samples.
However, even this small amount of samples completely exceeded the predictions of the researchers at the time and directly destroyed the entire institute.
The one in Japan today is as big as an adult male's fist.
No wonder, when the guard Hans was introducing this royal treasure to them, he mentioned that the sapphire had never been publicly displayed to the public since it was found by the king ten years ago.
That's because this gem is actually a high-powered bomb that can be detonated, and the real royal treasure of Andrew has never been found.
King Heninggu simply found the most similar stone among those ores as a substitute to rally the people's faith.
"I don't know." In response to Karasuma Ying's question, Barry shook his head.
"Ugh?"
Barry seemed to feel that this answer was indeed not very good, so he was silent for a while and then added another sentence.
"I swore an oath, an oath to the king, that I would not reveal to anyone what happened ten years ago."
[Are you still such a rigid person? ]
Karasuma Ying wanted to complain about Barry's answer.
By the way, you act like you want me to help you, but you're hesitating when you speak. Is that really okay?
"Anyway, I have told you everything I can say. As for how to deal with these things, you can make your own decision. I will not interfere."
Barry seemed to want to end the conversation between the two. He straightened his collar, ignored Karasuma Ying, and turned directly towards the door of Preben's room.
Of course, his story was over, but Karasuma Ying's was not.
There was one thing she had wanted to take this opportunity to ask Barry.
"Sir Barry."
Behind him, Wu Wanying suddenly called out to him.
"You...why didn't you ask me why I sneaked into the dungeon yesterday?"
Barry suddenly stopped.
"Because you knew it from the beginning, right?"
Looking at him, Karasuma Ying asked the question she wanted to ask most.
"Who have you been in contact with?"
The suffocating silence spread in an instant. Barry stood there, silent for a long time before he opened his mouth to reply.
"No one, I'm just an ordinary person who wants to rescue my relatives, that's all."
After saying this, he quickly left without paying any more attention to Karasuma Ying.
At the same time, Mary also walked out of Preben's room. She looked around the corridor and then walked towards Karasuma Ying.
"Xiaoying, guess what His Highness Preben said to me?"
"what?"
"His Highness told me that the royal commission to retrieve the secret treasure is still valid, and the reward for the commission will be twice as high as what Commander Birun originally set. Moreover, if we retrieve the secret treasure, His Highness Preben will personally award us the Kingdom's Hero Medal...
By the way, Xiaoying, you are still in high school, right? "
"Well, what's wrong?" Wu Wanying asked back.
"Isn't that perfect? If we can find the secret treasure and let you get this hero medal, it will be of great help to you in your college entrance exams.
Don’t think it’s insignificant. Many times, those famous schools will care about these things…”
"This, this is it..."
Seeing Mary suddenly showing concern about her future university, Karasuma Ying could only smile and accept her kindness somewhat reluctantly.
[Why are you suddenly concerned about my college entrance exam...]
At the beginning, Mary actually didn't care about this so-called royal commission because it was meaningless to her and had nothing to do with her mission.
But things changed when Preben offered to award him a medal of heroism.
What she cared about was not the medal itself, but the official honor. Although the Kingdom of Andrew was small, it was also a real country.
Xiaoying is still in high school. If she can get this kind of honor, it will definitely be helpful for her future college entrance examination.
For Mary, there was no conflict between helping the child get this honor and using the child to lure out that person.
Exploitation is real, but concern is also real.
Not to mention that the so-called exploitation by Mary was actually just tying Karasuma Ying to her side. From the beginning, she had no intention of doing anything bad to this child.
Because as long as she keeps the child with her, she will be able to lead that person out, if he is really in this country...
No matter what happened between her and that man, Mary would not involve the affairs of the previous generation in the next generation.
What's more, she had seen Wu Wanying when she was a child, but it was a long time ago, and she had been covering her face with sunglasses these two days, so the child's memory was vague and she couldn't remember it.
Therefore, as a half-elder, Mary really cares about this child's future college entrance examination...
Chapter 219: The rescue plan officially begins
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As it was getting dark, a group of street thugs armed with steel pipes or baseball bats came to an abandoned warehouse at the small dock.