Conan: I've been linked to the tech tree system.

Roughly speaking, about 40 years ago, after Karasuma Renya passed away at the age of 99, many people with high status in the political and economic circles gathered at this Twilight Villa to auction off a large number of custom-made items left in the mansion of this legendary tycoon.

Everyone was initially excited about the high-end products, but on the second night of the auction, two mysterious men suddenly arrived at the Twilight Villa, claiming that they had lost their way due to a storm and asked for shelter from the rain.

The auctioneer initially refused them, but the two men, seeing this, pulled out a hallucinogenic drug that was selling very well on the market and bribed the organizer, eventually managing to get them into the annex.

They distributed the drugs to other members who had attended the auction, and the attendees, being well-informed, readily accepted them.

To their surprise, the so-called "hallucinogenic drug" was different from what they had imagined; it really could induce hallucinations.

Before long, the people who had taken the drugs began to hallucinate and kill each other.

And so, in one night, eight high-ranking officials died, and more than ten people were seriously injured and unconscious, and the auction was called off.

The two mysterious men who distributed the medicine also disappeared.

Others might be frightened by such a somewhat supernatural story, but Toru Tono knows exactly what's going on.

Isn't it just that the boss was worried that his things would really be taken away, so he sent two early members of the Black Organization to deal with this? It's just that the method was a bit fantastical, probably also to test the special drugs he was developing.

"Now, you will also put on that same ugly spectacle in this villa."

The tape played the following words: "The game will officially begin once one of you lets out the first scream..."

Before the recording from the organizers had finished playing, Harufumi Mogi suddenly started coughing violently, his neck veins bulging, and he desperately tried to suppress his throat with both hands.

"Mr. Mogi, are you alright?" The kind-hearted Ran jumped up in alarm.

"Hungry... uh, just kidding!" Mogi Harufumi suddenly sat up straight, giving what he thought was a very charming wink, "I'm perfectly fine."

"Hey, hey." Ran and Conan, who were equally startled, squinted at him. "It's not funny at all, okay?"

"In short, I'm not playing this game anymore. I've never been interested in treasure hunting..."

As he said this, he prepared to walk out of the restaurant.

Before he could finish speaking, Da Shang Zhu Shan's obese body suddenly straightened up, his eyes widened abruptly, and he gripped his throat with both hands. Then he slowly slid off the seat and collapsed to the ground.

"Hey." Harufumi Mogi was speechless. "This kind of thing is only fun once; it gets boring after a while..."

As he said this, Hakuba Saguru suddenly pushed him aside, squatted down next to Oogami Shuzen who was lying on the ground, and reached out to check his breathing.

He then took out his pocket watch and said in a low, regretful tone, "At 22:34:51 PM, cardiac arrest has been confirmed."

He sighed.

"In his condition, recovery is impossible."

"what?!"

Chapter 149 Ah, I'm Dead

The air seemed to freeze in the face of sudden death.

Ran's knuckles turned white as she gripped the napkin. A cold glint flashed in Conan's glasses. Hakuba Saguru gently closed his pocket watch, his blond hair falling down to conceal his ambiguous expression.

“There is no blue or purple discoloration on the lips at the moment.” Ikumi Gunta, a former coroner, had put on her latex gloves at some point and brushed her fingertips across Ogami Shuzen’s lips. “However, there is a distinctive almond smell of cyanide gas.”

Ikumi Gunda carefully smelled the scent from Oogami Kisuke's mouth using her fan-smelling technique.

"Could it be that the black tea we drank... contained potassium cyanide?"

Harufumi Mogi looked very unpleasant, never expecting that his casual joke would actually come true.

"Black tea does not undergo acidification and reduction reactions."

Senma Kazuyo, standing to the side, dipped a pastry from the table into the black tea to test it, then picked it up and examined it closely: "I think his cause of death should have nothing to do with the black tea."

"And judging from the content recorded on this tape..."

Chima Kazuyo adjusted her reading glasses on the bridge of her nose, blocking the dim light in her eyes.

"It seems that the timing of Da Shang Zhu Shan's poisoning was already within the murderer's control."

“Strange, but the black tea doesn’t seem to have anything wrong with it.” Ikumi Gunta picked up the black tea cup on the table and examined it carefully, but found no traces that could be drug residue.

"Then he wasn't poisoned while drinking the tea; it's very likely that he was poisoned when the tea entered his mouth." Today, Kogoro Mouri looked unusually serious, reasoning the evidence with great earnestness.

“That’s impossible, because he brought the black tea to his lips two or three times,” Ikumi Gunta continued to deny.

“But,” Ran suddenly spoke up, “isn’t the murderer you’re all talking about Kaito Kid? I remember hearing them say before that he never kills anyone.”

Toru Tohno glanced at Kogoro Mouri, and sure enough, he nodded in agreement, his eyes serious and earnest.

So it's because someone tarnished Kaito Kid's reputation that he's unhappy? As expected of a family identity passed down for two generations, it needs to be maintained with great effort... Maybe it can even be passed on to Kaito in the future.

"Yes, as far as I know, this is the first time something like this has ever happened."

Hakuba Saguru also stood up, turned his back, and looked as if he couldn't believe that his good classmate was actually a murderer.

“No matter what we say, it won’t make a difference. I wonder if anyone is interested in checking if our car parked outside was really blown up by the culprit.” Mogi Harufumi put his hands in his pockets and walked out the door.

“That’s true. If we’re lucky, maybe one or two cars will survive the bombing.” Gunda Ikumi also took off her gloves and followed her out the door.

......

As everyone walked outside, the car parked at the door was still engulfed in flames.

"My rented car!!"

Surprisingly, the angrier one wasn't the car-obsessed Harufumi Mogi, but rather the poor Kogoro Mouri.

It's true that rich men are all heartless; they can just throw away their "wives" without a second thought. They're rich, and the next one will be even better.

"My Ferrari didn't escape the same fate either," said Ikumi Gunta, arms crossed, her tone nonchalant as if it weren't her car.

"My Alfa Romeo and my luxury Porsche are also ruined."

Harufumi Mogi remained relatively calm.

"Whose Mercedes is that?"

Ikumi Gunda turned around and asked Hakuba Saguru and Tohno Toru behind her.

"No, it's not mine. I called a taxi to bring me here."

"me too."

The two answered one after the other.

"That's strange, Tono, didn't you drive your Bentley Continental?"

Kogoro Mouri remembered that he had his own car.

"Ah, because these mountain roads aren't really suitable for low-chassis vehicles, we didn't drive here," Toru Tono casually offered an excuse.

"Hmm..." The people present nodded in agreement, but their eyes held a hint of doubt as they looked at him.

“That’s strange,” Senma Kyouyo said. “I came here in Mr. Mori’s car today, so whose Mercedes could it be?”

"I think that car must belong to the owner."

The maid who had been standing behind them spoke up: "When I came to the villa this morning, the car was already parked there."

"Now it seems that my car, which I parked by the back door, might have been burned too..." The maid bit her nails in distress, perhaps thinking about the subsequent insurance compensation.

"Your car wasn't parked in the parking lot?" Conan looked at her in shock. Why didn't you say so earlier?

"Yes, because my master specifically instructed me to park near the back door..."

"Where's the shortcut to the back door?!"

“Just go through the courtyard.” Ishihara Aki was startled.

Kogoro Mouri and Conan rushed towards the courtyard in an instant, with the rest of the group following closely behind.

When we arrived at the back gate, we indeed saw an orange-yellow car parked there.

"This car is perfectly safe."

"I bet that guy forgot to put the bomb in this car." Kogoro Mori pounded on the hood of the car.

"Then let's go see if that bridge really was blown up as he said." Chima Kazuyo slowly opened the front door of the car.

Harufumi Mogi leaned against the open car window: "I'm happy to oblige."

“In that case, I’ll go too.” Kogoro Mouri said, contrary to his usual behavior.

"Wait a minute, did you guys listen to what I said before?"

Toru Tono interrupted their conversation with a speechless voice, "I have a satellite phone with me... After such a terrible incident, I called the police a long time ago. Inspector Megure said he would be here soon with a helicopter. You don't need to take any risks."

"Ah, is that so..." Kogoro Mouri paused for a moment, clearly having forgotten about this.

"Uh..." Conan, who was already prepared to probe the person who was likely the real culprit, paused for a moment, as if that made sense...

"We're just going to check if the suspension bridge is really destroyed as he said. If a few of us go together, there shouldn't be any accidents, right?"

Senma Kōdai had a different opinion on this.

“Indeed, it might be safer if we split into two teams,” said Ikumi Gunta.

"In that case, I happen to have a few copper coins here... Let's use these to decide who goes first?" Conan took out a small bag and poured the copper coins inside onto the hood of the car.

Seeing that they were determined to do things their own way, Tohru Tono looked rather speechless and waved his hand.

"Do as you please, I'm going back to wait for the police."

He turned around and returned to the Golden Villa alone.

Conan watched his departing figure, opened his mouth as if to call him back, but then suddenly remembered something, and a look of sudden realization appeared on his face. He then fell silent.

......

Tohno Toru returned to the hotel and randomly chose a lucky room. In a corner where the cameras couldn't see, he disguised the "holographic decoy generator" he had used to save Miyano Akemi as if he had been shot in the chest and was lying weakly on the ground.

In this way, whenever someone comes looking for him, they can open the door and see the scene of his "death".

Although it might cause them some psychological trauma, in order to extricate myself, all I can do is apologize.

Tohru Tohno wasn't particularly interested in the detective games played by the others; his immediate priority was to find the secrets of the Hidden Twilight Mansion and a way to seize such a vast fortune for himself.

Chapter 150 Aren't you being a little too hardworking?

Having staged a fake "death scene" of his own attack by an unknown assailant, Tohno Toru first avoided the cameras that were spread throughout the entire annex and returned to the restaurant.