Conan Rick's Investigator

"Rum, the second-in-command of the organization, seems to have fallen..."

Qin Zhibo was slightly stunned and repeated it in disbelief.

"Rum fell?"

"What exactly does this mean?"

On the other side, Toru Amuro also had a look of shock on his face, because he had just received the information from Curacao.

"I don't know the details, but Curacao said that someone in the organization is currently taking over Rum's sphere of influence."

"And Rum himself seems to have disappeared..."

Rum disappears?

Is this a smoke screen released by the organization?

Qin Zhibo thought about it for two seconds and felt that it was unlikely.

Because such smoke bombs seem to have no effect on the Red Team except for causing instability within the organization.

If this is the case, there is probably something big going on within the organization.

Does this have anything to do with Haibara Ai being arrested?

"Got it. I'll rush back to Japan as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Qin Zhibo and Akai Wuwu looked at each other.

"Are we going to Japan right away?" asked Akai Tsutomu.

Qin Zhibo nodded as a confirmation.

He had a bad feeling in his heart.

Because Rum's downfall, or loss of power, must be related to major decisions within the organization.

In other words, the fact that the second-in-command of the organization, who had been deeply rooted for many years, could be brought down so easily must have at least been motivated by the organization's boss, Karasuma Renya.

And Rum was "plucked from the top", and a person of this level would definitely not surrender obediently.

Maybe he will do something crazy...

……

On the highway heading to Gunma Prefecture, Japan, a white Toyota Crown is driving by.

In the passenger seat of the car, Mao Lilan was yawning, drooping her eyelids, looking listless.

Kogoro Mori, who was driving nearby, glanced at his daughter and lectured her in a somewhat unhappy tone.

"Hey, hey, I saw that you had nothing to do during the summer vacation, so I specially brought you out for a ride."

"You're yawning?"

Mao Lilan did not give in at all and started to accuse Mao Li Kogoro.

"Are you still blaming Dad for borrowing that horrible DVD and keeping me awake till morning?"

"Then what can I do?"

Maori Kogoro glanced at his daughter and complained, "That was a low-cost C-grade horror movie. Miss Okino Yoko was clearly in the film, but the TV station refused to broadcast it..."

Obviously, Kogoro Mori was very angry about the TV station's decision.

Conan, who was sitting in the back seat, looked at Kogoro Mouri in the front seat and grinned helplessly.

This perverted uncle...

Apparently, I rented the tape specifically to watch it because the clothes worn by Yoko Okino in that movie had less fabric.

Just yesterday, the Mori family watched the movie "Zombie Blade: Dinner of the Dead" starring Yoko Okino.

From the title and the main actors, we can tell that this is a low-budget blood-thirsty film with the gimmick of beautiful girls fighting zombies.

But even so, when watching the movie last night, Mao Lilan was so scared that she hugged Conan tightly in her arms.

Today, Kogoro Mori, who felt that it was boring to stay in the office, took the initiative to propose a pilgrimage to the scene that appeared in the movie.

Originally, Mao Lilan rejected this proposal.

But Conan kept clamoring to go and see it, so he reluctantly agreed.

Of course, Conan actually has no interest in the place where low-budget movies are shot.

However, the organization's revenge may come at any time recently. If the Maori father and daughter stay in the office, it will be too easy for the organization to attack them.

Moreover, the destination this time is a villa located in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture, and it is unlikely that the organization can track them all the way.

Thinking of this, Conan glanced back at the car and confirmed that there was no vehicle following behind.

……

The car drove for another half an hour until it stopped in front of a villa with a conventional design.

"Wow! We're finally here!"

As soon as Kogoro Mori got out of the car, he screamed excitedly and ran to the stairs in front of the villa to tour it.

I was even excited and took out my phone to take pictures everywhere.

"This is the door where Miss Yoko spat out blood!"

"That's the window where Ms. Yoko kicked the zombie out!"

“There are treasures everywhere!”

This left Conan, who was standing behind, speechless.

Isn't this just a rental villa that can be found everywhere?

If you randomly pick a villa in the mountains where a murder has taken place, it will look more like a story than this one, right?

At this moment, Mao Lilan on the side slightly clamped her legs together, clenched her hands nervously in front of her chest, looked around and said.

"Conan, it feels like there are really zombies appearing in this forest..."

"So spooky..."

If it were in the past, Conan would definitely confidently comfort Ran Mouri by saying something like "zombies don't exist."

but now……

"Don't worry, there won't be any zombies~"

Conan still smiled at Mao Lilan and comforted her.

Until now, Conan has truly understood that "not all truths are worth telling."

"I heard there are really zombies here~"

Just then, a voice with a strange accent sounded from behind.

Conan frowned, wondering which tactless guy was disturbing me from coaxing my girlfriend?

But when he turned around, he saw a dark face smiling at him.

"Is it Hattori?"

"And Kazuha?"

Ran Mouri looked at Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, each holding a motorcycle helmet, and her eyes widened in surprise.

"Why did you come here?"

"us……"

Before Hattori Heiji could explain, Maori Kogoro, who had just finished taking pictures of the villa's perimeter, came back with a smile and said decisively: "He must be here for a pilgrimage like me~"

"No, pig-head."

Hattori Heiji mocked Mori Kogoro in an Osaka accent, but the latter still held his head high and didn't seem to care at all.

At this time, Yuanshan Heye spoke to ease the embarrassment, "But, it also has something to do with the Holy Land Pilgrimage~"

Afterwards, the two explained why they came here.

It turned out that there was a couple who had come here before for the same pilgrimage. When they were returning from visiting the villa, something suddenly rushed in front of their car and was run over.

"At first they thought it was an animal, so they got out of the car to check it out, but when they opened the door, they smelled a stench like rotting meat..."

"So they looked under the car, and out crawled a zombie wearing tattered clothes and with a broken neck!"

Yuanshanheye's vivid and emotional explanation scared Maoli Ran so much that she gritted her teeth.

"Huh--!"

Conan frowned slightly, and his eyes looked more serious.

Maori Kogoro put his hands in his pockets and asked unmoved: "So? What happened next?"

"Then the stupid couple drove away without looking back, and told Officer Otaki about it."

"Then, Officer Otaki told me about it, so we came here."

Hattori Heiji skillfully took over the conversation, filled in the whole story, and bent down to look at Conan.

"But I think this is probably some idiot playing a silly prank~"

"What do you think, Conan?"

Facing Hattori Heiji's meaningful questions and a slight smirk on the corner of his mouth, Conan could see that he was still bothered by what happened at the Vampire Mansion last time.

Although Qin Zhibo and I solved the case that time, we did not tell him the truth. I guess he is still keeping it in his heart.

At this moment, Mao Lilan, who had been repeating "go back" beside her, finally couldn't help but yelled out.

"Don't stay in a place like this anymore!"

Maori Kogoro immediately retorted, "What? Didn't we just get here?"

"Besides, the story of "Zombie Sword: Dinner of the Dead" has not yet been completely concluded. If a sequel is filmed, this rental villa may be used again..."

"But whether or not we will film again is still unknown~"

As soon as Kogoro Mori finished speaking, a van drove up behind him.

The window of the van was rolled down, and a bearded man wearing a baseball cap sat in the car and said with a smile.

“There will be a sequel…”

Chapter 1467 The calm before the storm

A gray van drove up to the door of the villa and stopped.

The bearded man who had just spoken to me got out of the passenger seat and said to Maori Kogoro and the others, "Actually, we came here just to shoot the trailer for the sequel."

Maori Kogoro looked at the bearded man and asked in confusion: "Excuse me, who are you..."

"I'm Tetsuto Uchito, the director of the Zombie Sword series."

"what?"

Maori Kogoro was stunned for a moment, then he reacted, "That means all the staff are still sitting in your car, including the heroine?"

"Yes, of course..."

The director turned around and opened the back door.

Realizing that he might meet Okino Yoko, Kogoro Mori immediately looked inside the car with his eyes wide open with excitement.

But when he saw the heroine come out, he was shocked.

"She is our heroine this time, Liya."

A woman wearing a deep V sleeveless belly-baring top and short dark purple hair got out of the car.

Although she is also a beautiful woman, I immediately feel a sense of disappointment when I think that she is not Yoko Okino.

"Eh?"

Kogoro Mori's pupils suddenly shrank, and the disappointment in his eyes was undisguised.

"Isn't the lead actress Miss Yoko? This is clearly the sequel to Zombie Sword..."