Conan Rick's Investigator
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Chapter 402 You both have bloody disasters...
Bloody disaster!
When everyone present heard this, they all looked surprised.
Even if you don't understand Tarot cards at all, you should be able to tell that the meaning of this [Death] card is definitely not good.
And Chang Liangyao’s problem is his fortune for the next month. Doesn’t that mean that Chang Liangyao will be in danger in the near future?
Everyone looked at Nagaharu Haruka, a professional fortune teller, to see what she had to say about the divination result.
The corners of Chang Liangyao's eyes trembled slightly, but then he calmed down again and said calmly, "I'm sorry, your divination can only produce wrong results..."
Koizumi Akako did not respond to Nagara Haruka's statement. She took out the second card and turned it over on the table.
"The power of reversed..."
"You will lose your clear judgment because of the power, and you will not be able to withstand the test of temptation, which will lead you to a bottleneck..."
"enough!"
Naganarahara suddenly screamed hysterically, and the pearl necklace around her neck trembled, which really scared everyone present.
Everyone looked at Chang Liangyao in surprise, shocked that this icy beauty fortune teller was so angry that her personality collapsed because of this "unreliable" divination.
"Ms. Nagara..." Mouri Ran said absentmindedly.
Qin Zhibo also quietly tugged at Koizumi Hongzi's sleeve.
Just when the atmosphere in the entertainment room became a little awkward, the twin maids suddenly appeared next to everyone.
"Dear guests, I'm sorry to disturb your elegance..."
"For years, this mansion has had a rule of locking the mask room at midnight..."
"Once locked, the east and west wings can no longer be connected to each other. Before that, we can only ask everyone to return to their rooms and rest."
"I hope everyone will cooperate..."
The two squinty-eyed maids explained the rules one by one, which made everyone present feel relieved.
Nagara Haruka was the first to pick up the tarot cards on the table and was about to get up and leave.
However, Koizumi Hongzi warned with a serious face: "The bloody disaster of the Death Card is not unavoidable. As long as you are more careful..."
Previously, when Koizumi Akako was fortune-telling for Kuroba Kaito, she had also drawn the card of the God of Death, but Kuroba Kaito still managed to escape danger.
In other words, Koizumi Akako herself is not very proficient in tarot card divination, but crystal ball prediction is her traditional strong point.
Before going out this time, she had divined through the crystal ball that she would meet the dead this time.
We didn’t know who the deceased was before, but now everything seems to be clear.
"If I have a bloody disaster, then you also have..."
Nagaharu pulled out the top card from the deck in his hand, and it turned out to be a Death card.
But this was because when she was collecting the cards just now, she directly put the Grim Reaper on the top. Nagahara Haruka wanted to imply that Koizumi Ankako had secretly shuffled the bad cards to the top.
Seeing Nagayoshi who didn't believe her, Koizumi Hongzi's expression suddenly relaxed, and she said nonchalantly, "If you don't believe this prophecy, then forget it. But don't blame me for not reminding you when the time comes..."
"you……"
Just as Nagarahara was about to continue arguing, Qin Zhibo stood in the middle, separating the two people whose tension was growing stronger.
"Let's leave it at that for now, both of you. Just assume that you'll both suffer a bloody disaster within a month..."
"Okay, let's go..."
……
Under the leadership of Shimokasa Honami, Qin Zhibo and the Maori family were arranged to live in two rooms on the second floor on the east side, while Shimokasa Honami and rock singer Aichuan Fuushi lived on the first floor.
As for how the west side was allocated, Qin Zhibo was not sure.
Back in the room, Qin Zhibo quickly turned off the lights. He seemed to be sleeping, but in fact he was thinking about Koizumi Hongzi's divination.
Koizumi Hongzi's magical prophecy is still trustworthy, but according to the laws of science, Qin Zhibo feels that Sufang Hongzi is more like a deceased person.
Because so far, she is the only one who seems to have a motive for murder, and she is also the president of a company.
As for the murderer, it might be Katagiri Masaki, whom she wanted to investigate.
Qin Zhibo thought about it for a while and decided to place a guard totem in Katagiri Masanori's room to see what this person was doing.
In the bright room, Katagiri Masaki was sorting camera films.
After a while, he put all the film into his backpack, turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Qin Zhibo was a little puzzled, but the night was still long and he was in no hurry to sleep anyway, so he decided to see what this person was planning to do.
……
It was not until two o'clock in the morning that the intercom in Qin Zhibo's room rang.
Qin Zhibo picked up the phone and heard Koizumi Hongzi's voice on the other end.
"It's almost time to act, right?"
"Well, you start from the west side and we'll meet at the vent above the Mask Hall."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Zhibo sat up, turned on the night vision goggles, and opened the door quietly.
As soon as he opened the door, the deafening snoring from the next room reached Qin Zhibo's ears.
If I'm not mistaken, it should be Kogoro Mori.
The power of the snoring can be felt through a door, let alone living in the same room.
Qin Zhibo, who thought that Conan might be unable to fall into a deep sleep because of the snoring, became more careful and passed by the door of the Maori family almost silently.
……
The villa adopts a symmetrical design, with three floors on each side. The only connection in the middle is the mask hall, which is also on the third floor.
When he reached the third floor, Qin Zhibo quickly found the ventilation hole, moved the iron grid away effortlessly, and crawled in.
Shuttled back and forth in the winding pipes, Qin Zhibo quickly climbed to the top of the mask hall.
After waiting for a while, Koizumi Hongzi, who was a little weaker, appeared at the other end of the pipe.
Because she was afraid that her outer clothes would be contaminated by dust from the ventilation duct and arouse suspicion, Koizumi Hongzi wore a pair of pink pajamas.
Qin Zhibo was the same, wearing blue and black pajamas.
Just like that, the two "pajama thieves" glanced at each other and stretched their heads to look into the mask room below.
Naturally, there was no one in the mask room. One could only see the faint moonlight projected on the glass of the display cabinets and the scarlet carpet.
"I'll go down first and then catch you?" Qin Zhibo asked like a gentleman.
"No, I can jump down from this height by myself..."
Since that was the case, Qin Zhibo was no longer polite. He moved the iron grid away, jumped onto the display cabinet in the mask hall first, and then jumped from the cabinet to the ground.
For Qin Zhibo's current agility of 60, such a double jump is not too difficult.
And Koizumi Hongzi followed suit and jumped down with two consecutive jumps like Qin Zhibo.
However, Koizumi Akako's agility is 5 points less than Qin Zhibo's. When she landed, her foot twisted and she almost stumbled.
Fortunately, Qin Zhibo was quick to act and supported her.
"Thanks……"
"You're welcome."
After the two of them stood up and looked around the mask room, they immediately discovered something unusual.
In the moonlight, several display racks displaying Shaubel masks were empty.
Chapter 403: The Invisibility Spell in "The King in Yellow"
"How could this happen! Where are the masks?"
Looking at the empty mask racks around them, Koizumi Akako and Qin Zhibo were both very surprised.
Qin Zhibo then remembered that Shimokasa Honami had once told him not to go out easily at night because Xiaobul's mask would cause trouble at night.
Every time after dawn, these masks either tilted left or right or fell directly to the ground.
Could it be that what the maid said was true?
Qin Zhibo: Will -2
Koizumi Akako: Will-4
"Let's ignore that for now. Use magic to detect the location of the Pale Mask."
"Um……"
Both of them were believers in metaphysics, so they regained their composure fairly quickly, and their willpower didn't drop too much.
Koizumi Hongzi took off the necklace from her neck, grabbed the chain, and let the red crystal pendant hang under her right hand.
As Koizumi Hongzi concentrated her mind, a visible light red magic power floated out of her body and slowly gathered on the red crystal pendant.
Driven by magic, the pendant slowly drew circles in the air, then suddenly changed its movement and began to swing violently back and forth, twisting like a snake.
After waiting for a few more seconds, the pendulum-like pendant finally fixed itself in a certain direction on the west side of the villa.
"It's nearby, probably in a room on the third floor on the west side."
Koizumi Hongzi made a decisive judgment. At the same time, she put away the necklace on her hand and put it back on her neck. She continued, "Only the woman named Sufang Hongzi lives on the third floor on the west side. Could it be in her room?"
"Maybe……"
Just as Qin Zhibo was lost in thought, there was a sudden sound of the doorknob turning violently from the east door of the Mask Hall. At the same time, the voice of Kogoro Mouri was heard outside the door.
"The door here is locked!"
"Ran, Conan! Go wake up the maid and open the door!"
Kogoro Mouri's voice was urgent, as if something very urgent had happened.
"Will the detective discover us?"
Koizumi Hongzi subconsciously moved closer to Qin Zhibo, and the two of them were close to the window.
Qin Zhibo frowned, remembering that when he left the room, Maori Kogoro was snoring loudly. It was unlikely that he would wake up so suddenly and rush to the mask room as soon as he woke up.
There must be something else.
However, Qin Zhibo had no time to analyze what had happened because time was passing by.
When the maid brought the key to open the door and saw the masks disappear, he and Koizumi Akako would be speechless.
There is someone guarding the east door now, and the west door is locked from the outside. The only way is to go back through the ventilation duct.
But just when Qin Zhibo wanted to escape from the ventilation duct with Koizumi Hongzi, he looked up and found that the iron grid on the ventilation duct had been covered at some point.
Qin Zhibo remembered that the second person to jump down was Koizumi Hongzi, who also jumped down twice in a row and had no time to cover the iron grid.
This made Qin Zhibo immediately realize one thing: someone had just passed through the ventilation duct.
If the two of them climbed in together now, they would definitely run into the person in the pipe.
"What should we do now?"
The noise at the door fell silent, and Koizumi Hongzi became even more frightened, and clung closely to Qin Zhibo.
Qin Zhibo's brain was quick and he immediately thought of a solution.
"I learned an invisibility spell from a book. Let's try it. Maybe it will work."
Just when Koizumi Hongzi was about to complain about how an invisibility spell she just saw could possibly work, Qin Zhibo had already started chanting the spell.
……
Of course, the Mori family was not awakened by the little actions of Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi, but by an internal call made to the Mori family's room.
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