Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Chapter 3842 Shoji Gate Game

The floor of the reception room is paved with wooden boards and tatami mats. One side of the wall is inlaid with an ebony wood carving of a crow pattern. A coffee table and cushions are placed in front of the carving. The other side of the wall is placed with brown wood cabinets and wooden shelves. A large empty area is left in the middle of the room, making the entire reception room appear spacious, clean, and calm.

Opposite the entrance shoji door, there is still a large row of shoji doors.

A dim light shines through the paper leaves on the door into the room, making it not too dark even when the lights are not on.

Chi Feichi brought Sawada Hiroki into the house, walked through the reception room, came to the translucent shoji door, raised his hand and opened it.

Outside the door is a long corridor adjacent to the open-air courtyard.

Opening the shoji door on the reception room side, you can see that this villa is a U-shaped building. There is a courtyard in the middle of the building. There is a spring in the courtyard with a gurgling sound, slowly flowing into a pond with bamboo forests and green pines reflected on the water surface.

There are maple forests and cherry trees in many places in Kyoto. The sudden sight of the bright green bamboo forest and pine trees made Chi Feichi's eyes brighten, and Fei Chi, who had stuck his head out of his collar, also felt refreshed.

The next second, Fei Chi jumped out of Chi Fei Chi's collar, landed on the corridor outside the door, twisted his body, and quickly crawled towards the courtyard, "Master, I'm going to patrol the yard!"

"What a beautiful yard," the young child Sawada Hiroki exclaimed as he looked at the yard. Seeing that Fei Chi had already crawled into the courtyard, he looked up at Chi Fei Chi and said, "Can I go to the yard and play for a while?"

"Okay," Chi Feichi looked down at Sawada Hiroki and warned, "but don't run or jump around the pond."

"I understand!" Hiroki Sawada nodded with a smile and ran towards the courtyard.

"Don't run so fast," Chi Feichi reminded him worriedly, thinking that Sawada Hiroki's body might be acting entirely according to preset programs at this moment, "Be careful not to fall."

"Okay~!" Hiroki Sawada immediately slowed down and walked slowly down the corridor.

"This child is really sensible..." Jane was amused by the cautious actions of the little child and couldn't help but smile. She said to Chi Feichi, "If you want to rest here, I will go to the tea room next door to make you a cup of tea."

Chi Feichi nodded to Jian, "Thank you for your help."

"You're welcome. By the way..." Jane didn't leave in a hurry. She turned around and walked to the closet, opened the drawer with the key, took out a stack of papers, and handed them to Chi Feichi. "This is the construction drawing of this villa. You can take a look first. If you want to go to a room later, I will take you there. Of course, you can also go by yourself."

After Chi Feichi took the drawings, Jian turned and walked into the tea room next to the reception room.

In order to take care of Hiroki Sawada in the courtyard, Chi Feichi took a cushion and sat next to the shoji door, looking down at the drawings.

This villa is indeed a U-shaped building.

From the side of the reception room, along the corridor, there are toilets, bathrooms, another smaller reception room, tea rooms, three dining rooms separated by shoji doors, kitchens, servants' dining rooms, food storage rooms, household goods storage rooms, toilets, bathrooms, master bedrooms, second bedrooms...

After going around like this, you can return to the entrance from the corridor on the other side.

The rooms on the second floor are also distributed according to the advantages of the U-shaped building, with a tea room, a private study, two bedrooms, and three empty rooms that can be used to temporarily accommodate guests.

As for the servants' bedrooms and laundry room, they are concentrated in a small building behind the villa.

There were two places on this drawing that caught Chi Feichi's interest.

There are secret rooms and secret passages behind the walls of the private study and one of the bedrooms on the second floor. The secret passage leads to the first floor of the servants' building.

This design should be an emergency escape route prepared for the owner's family - if a large group of robbers rushed into the villa from the main entrance, then the owner could retreat to the second floor as soon as possible, hide in the secret room or secret passage, or go to the servants' building through the secret passage and escape from the first floor of the servants' building...

Of course, if the owner wanted to sneak out of the villa through a secret passage, or wanted to hide a few bodies in a secret room, it shouldn't be a problem.

Looking at this Japanese architectural design, he was reminded of the difficult experience of a killer in his previous life who assassinated Japanese dignitaries.

It is said that the killer's target lived in a house with shoji doors on both sides of the corridor and some rooms separated by shoji doors. When the killer was moving, he was blocked by the target's bodyguards for a while, causing the target to run into the corridor and hide in various rooms. The sound insulation effect of these shoji doors is not good. As long as the target opens and closes the door, the killer can identify the approximate direction. However, because there are too many shoji doors, the killer ran to the area where the sound came from, and there was no way to determine which shoji door the target was hiding behind. He had to open one door after another to search. As a result, he went in and out of doors left and right. The elite killer who has been famous in the United States for many years almost confused himself...

When he first heard about this, he felt that this Japanese architectural design had a certain anti-assassination effect.

Seeing that this villa actually had an emergency escape passage, he couldn't help but imagine that if there was a killer who wanted to kill him living here...

First of all, if you want to drive your car into the mansion, you must pass the security check at the door. Strangers without an appointment cannot drive their cars in.

If the killer is not an acquaintance who has made an appointment with the owner of the mansion, he will not be able to drive in. He can only find a way to avoid the surveillance on the wall and sneak in by climbing over the wall.

The killer who was running breathlessly and dizzy in the mansion had already cleared the mines for his colleagues - when encountering this kind of assassination target, it would be easier to ambush and assassinate the target when he is out.

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Moreover, if a killer rashly breaks into the main residence of aristocratic families such as the Karasuma family and the Ooka family, it would be like breaking into a dangerous place. No matter how powerful the killer is, it would be difficult to escape unscathed after killing someone. It is more likely that the killer will accidentally die in some corner of the residence, and even the body may not be found afterwards.

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Ten minutes later.

Jian brought the tea to Chi Feichi and placed it on a wooden table. He also put an iron basin aside. He looked at the drawings Chi Feichi had placed beside him and reminded him, "That person said that after you have read the drawings, please burn them yourself."

Chi Feichi withdrew his gaze from the courtyard, took out a lighter from his pocket, lit a corner of the drawing, and when the flame grew high, he threw the burning drawing into the iron basin and watched it burn to ashes bit by bit.

Jian waited on the side until all the drawings were burned, then poured two cups of water into the basin, turning the paper ash into a pool of black, unrecognizable paste. "Do you want to go and see the other rooms in the annex?"

"Let's talk about it after Xiaoshu has had enough fun," Chi Feichi looked at the little child playing with Feichi in the courtyard, "I'm not interested in decorating the house, as long as the interior furnishings are acceptable."

"That's right. You'll have plenty of time to get familiar with this place in the future. There's really no need to rush." ​​Jane smiled and expressed her understanding.

"Would you like to sit down and have a cup of tea with me?" Chi Feichi asked proactively.

"Then I will respectfully obey your command."

After Jian sat down, Chi Feichi chatted with Jian casually, occasionally paying attention to the children in the courtyard. He slowly drank two cups of tea before the sound of the door opening was heard from the entrance.

"That person should be here." Jane quickly stood up and walked out of the reception room.

Chi Feichi set out to catch up and discovered that in addition to Rum, there were two unfamiliar men in black who arrived at the annex with Karasuma Hideya. He stopped at the door of the reception room and did not let himself be seen by the two men.

At Karasuma Hideya's instruction, the two men in black stayed outside the door, and only Rum accompanied Karasuma Hideya into the house and changed his shoes at the entrance.

After the entrance door was completely closed by Jian, Chi Feichi walked out of the reception room and greeted Karasuma Hideya at the entrance, "Grandfather."

"Have you been waiting impatiently?" Karasuma Hideya walked forward and looked at Chi Feichi, his eyes full of smiles as always. "I originally wanted to wait for you in this annex, but there was an emergency that needed to be dealt with this morning, so I had to let Margo bring you here first. How is it? Are you satisfied with this place?"

Facing his grandfather's smiling face, Chi Feichi couldn't say anything to spoil the mood, so he turned around and led the way into the reception room. "From what I've seen so far, it suits my taste very well. There's nothing to complain about."