Conan's I'm really not a model worker in a winery

Chapter 198 The villa at dusk - attending a banquet

When Mouri Kogoro saw the gloomy dusk annex, he suddenly blurted out his inner thoughts:

"This house looks really spooky. Instead of calling it Dusk Villa, I think it would be more appropriate to call it Vampire Villa."

"vampire?!"

Mouri Kogoro's words made Xiaolan tremble, "How about dad, why don't we go?"

Mouri Kogoro glanced at Xiaolan speechlessly: "Huh? We are almost there."

"But, if there really are vampires..."

Xiaolan has experienced more and more incidents, and now she is more and more afraid of ghosts and other things.

"Don't worry, there can't be vampires in this kind of place. At most, there are old monsters from the mountains."

Mouri Kogoro said a comforting word that was not comforting at all.

But just after he finished speaking, Mouri Kogoro narrowed his eyes as he looked at the road ahead, "Huh?"

The one in front is...

Someone!

Kogoro was so frightened that he slammed on the brakes.

Fortunately, the road wasn't very wet, so the car didn't skid, but it barely stopped a few centimeters in front of the person on the road.

However, when Kogoro Mouri looked up and saw the old man holding an umbrella in front of the car window, his soul was almost frightened: "Mountain, the old monster in the mountain!"

"...Isn't it too rude for you to call a woman you just met like that?"

Because the windows of the car were open on one side, the voice of the old woman holding an umbrella could be heard in the car without any hindrance.

Mouri Kogoro finally came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly, "Yes, I'm sorry..."

"Grandma, why are you standing here?"

Conan stuck his head out and asked the key point.

"Because my car suddenly stopped starting just now, I'm just waiting here for others to pass by." The old man turned around and gestured to them, then walked to the driver's seat window, "You must also be going to Dusk Villa, right? Why don't you stop by?

How about giving me a lift?”

"Ah? That's not a problem..."

"Oh, by the way, I still have luggage in the car. Can you help me move it over too?"

"OK……"

"Sorry."

…

On the way to the Dusk Villa, they met the old woman who got on the bus.

The other party's name is Chima Yoyo, and he is a famous detective who could solve a case just by listening to others talk about it while sitting in an easy chair.

After knowing the identity of the other party, Conan's little head started to become active.

If this sender is really that person... what is the purpose of calling the detective here?

…

Dusk villa.

There was a row of expensive cars parked neatly at the door.

After getting off the car, Xiaolan was in a hurry to go to the toilet, so she took the lead and ran into the villa with her luggage.

And Mouri Kogoro and Conan, plus the Senjian Yoyo who just carried them, met another person.

A man who must have just arrived was sitting in the car smoking a cigarette: fellow detective Motegi Haruka.

The other party was still an acquaintance with Qian Jian's mother-in-law, so she put out her cigarette as soon as she recognized Qian Jian's mother-in-law.

——Senjian Yushiro doesn’t like other people smoking.

After entering the annex, they also saw Ogami Zhushan, who is famous as a "food detective".

This relatively plump middle-aged man got very angry when the maid said that the chef could not come due to something else, and then said that he would cook the food himself.

The maid said that in addition to Maori Lan and Conan, including Maori Kogoro, there were a total of six detectives gathered together.

In addition, the new maid also recounted her strange interview experience: there was no interviewer or guide, the interview was in a room upstairs, and there was only a computer and files in it...

Then the other party was hired inexplicably. He had never met the 'owner' here, and communication was only through phone calls or emails.

"It sounds really interesting."

Senjian Fangshi showed a smile, "I'm a little eager to try it."

"Well... I got interested after seeing the strange marks on the door handle." Motegi Haruhi shrugged.

Mao Lilan, who was returning to the team, turned his head when he heard this, and sure enough he saw diagonal traces inside the door, "Really, how did you do it?"

Mao Lilan knelt down and took a closer look.

At this time, Motegi Harushi kindly reminded:

"Be careful, little sister, this may be some historical blood stains."

Mao Lilan: "?!"

No way?

"Not only on the door, on the handrails, on the walls... there are traces of blood everywhere."

A young female detective, Ikumi Gunda, held a can of reagent spray and sprayed it on the armrest.

"Luminol reagent, I didn't expect you to bring this." A young man came down the stairs.

Detective Hakuba, like Kudo Shinichi and Hattori Heiji, is also a high school detective.

What is more unusual is that there is an eagle stationed on his hand.

Probably wanting to compare himself to Sherlock Holmes, Detective White Horse named his eagle friend Watson.

Except for Mouri Kogoro and the others, everyone else seems to have heard a little bit about the 'tragedy' in this villa...

Conan frowned tightly.

What on earth happened in this villa?

——

Next to the villa at dusk.

In the forest, on a tree.

Gin held a magnifying glass and looked inside the annex through the gaps in the leaves.

He is now dressed in an old black windbreaker, with a top hat on his head and small headphones in his ears.

[Lord Blade, Conan is heading to the living room now.]

In the headset is Noah giving a real-time broadcast.

As for the source of information, it is naturally Conan's all-powerful tracking glasses. The eavesdropping function on it has been completely occupied by Noah. With its own recording function, Noah can conduct reverse eavesdropping at any time.

All the lights in the annex are now turned on. As long as the angle is good, Gin can have a clear view of the villa.

However, what I just heard made Gin a little concerned:

"Noah, when we came here a few days ago...were there computers and surveillance here?"

What the maid said just now surprised Gin, so he asked Noah to scan around the villa - things like computers and surveillance that require network lines, Noah can easily enter.

[The Blade-sama who doesn't have it...maybe it was just installed in the past few days?] Noah reasonably speculated.

"..."

Gin opened his mouth, almost wanting to ask how many days had passed between the day before yesterday and today.

Installing network cable computer monitoring in a villa with only a telephone, or in a remote mountain where it takes an hour or two to get in and out, it doesn't look like it was just installed...

Forget it, there's nothing to worry about.

He is now more curious about who the current holder of the Dusk Annex is, because the unscrupulous boss has clearly stated that the holder of the Annex is tasked with helping to take care of the interior and clean it regularly.

...Although some things simply cannot be cleaned.

For example, there are still blood stains sprayed out by the luminol reagent.

(End of chapter)