Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 818 The Legend of the Demon Dog 2
"We've heard about Mr. Shinichi." Inufushi Koko, a middle-aged woman with short hair, came in from the outside, "Mr. Shinichi did say that someone would use a curse to make the Inufushi family lose their children and grandchildren. But there is no curse at all, so don't bother...

"And it will hurt my mother if she hears about it."

"No," Gao Cheng interrupted, "What we care about is not the curse, but now someone is targeting you, the adopted children of the Inufushi family. This is a vicious serial killing incident."

"Serial killings?"

Inufushi Koko and Inufushi Yukihime looked stunned. A young man with a mustache on his chin appeared in the yard and looked at Gao Cheng with dissatisfaction: "What are these brats doing? Haven't the police already investigated them all?" Yet?"

"It's Detective Kido who came here last time!"

"Detective Kido?"

The young uncle looked at the thin version of the werewolf, his face changed slightly after seeing Gao Cheng, and he couldn't help but sweat.

"Hey, can't you? That guy Shinichi said he was looking for the detective, isn't he? The guy Shinichi was obviously not there last time."

Because the servants of the Inubushi family were on vacation, Zuo Ji, an adopted daughter who usually prepares food, went to the dry cleaner to pick up clothes, and there was nothing to entertain Gao Cheng, so everyone drank tea and waited in the reception room.

Hattori pulled Gao Cheng privately and asked in a low voice: "Hey, Kido, what have you done here, why do you feel familiar?"

"I just stayed for half a day, what can I do?"

Gao Cheng has been focusing on the members of the Inufushi family.

Except for Aunt Zuoji, the rest of the adopted children of the Inubushi family happened to be there. Gao Cheng took the opportunity to ask: "Can I ask? When Mr. Shinichi was killed in Tokyo's home, did you go to Tokyo?"

"All four of us went," Inufushi Koko responded, "because everyone wanted to persuade him to return to Inufushi's house."

"Yeah, he seems to be suspicious of someone among us, and we planned to ask him why, but he kept trembling and didn't say anything, as if the prisoner was among us..."

"It wasn't until we came back that Zuo Ji who stayed at home told us about his murder."

Gao Cheng glanced at the four people including Yukihime Inubushi one by one: "You have been together in Tokyo?"

"No," Inubushi Yukihime shook his head and said, "We went together, but we came back separately, because we finally went to Tokyo..."

"is it?"

Gao Cheng paused, and continued to ask: "There is another question, do you know the special meaning of pearls?"

"pearl?"

"I'm not sure if it's related, but Mr. Shinichi, who was killed in a closet, had a pearl inlaid on a tie clip in his mouth."

Gao Cheng kept observing the expressions of the members of the Inufushi family, but there was no difference from the beginning to the end, and the reactions were the same, with a look of horror.

"Speaking of pearls," Inufushi Yukihime said with a pale face, "Actually, when Brother Yingci fell off the cliff, there was a small steel ball by his side."

"That's right," the young man with a chin beard frowned, "That uncle likes to play small steel balls very much, so we thought it rolled out of his pocket, but to be honest, the pool where Mimi drowned was There's also a ping pong ball floating around, right?"

"Yes, yes."

The middle-aged doctor Inufushi Akira was also a little panicked.

"Is there really a curse?"

"Cut," the young man with the chin beard snorted, "someone must be playing tricks! If I see it, I must give him some color!"

The sky was getting dark, and in the end only Yukihime Inufushi was left with Gao Cheng. At this time, Gao Cheng also asked for the alibi of the Inubushi family, but unfortunately nothing was gained.

Sure enough, it is not easy to investigate with simple questions.

The prisoner was clearly prepared to deal with the police and detectives.

However, Gao Cheng was not in a hurry, and still looked for clues from the subtleties.

All crimes will inevitably leave traces, and this serial killing incident itself has traces to follow. Gao Cheng's investigation direction is "cursing the magic dog". Since the criminal used this statement, there must be a reason.

"That is, the ancestor of this family burned the dog to death in the past?"

"Well, it was still in the Meiji period," Inufushi Yukihime knelt at the tea table, telling the origin of the magic dog passed down from generation to generation by the Inufushi family, "The only daughter of the Inufushi family suddenly disappeared, and all the villagers went out to look for it. The dog suddenly appeared with a dying girl in its mouth, and the angry owner of the Inubusu family beat it with a whip and set it on fire...

"But the girl who woke up after that said that she lost her way in the mountains and fell down. It was the dog who saved her. The owner of the bathhouse Inufushi's family regretted it very much, so he built a very grand tomb for the dog... The result was a few days Then there was a fire, only the owner couldn’t escape and was burned to death, and later it was rumored that there was a flaming dog haunting Inuboshi’s house!”

"It sounds like a legend," Hattori yawned with his chin propped up, "and is it so easy to get lost in this kind of mountain?"

"It's really easy to get lost if you're not familiar with it," Inubushi Yukihime looked at Gao Cheng, and suggested, "The tomb is still there, do you want to go and see it?"

"I'm not going."

Gao Cheng immersed himself in writing and drawing in his notebook, but handed over the car keys to Hattori and the others who seemed to be very interested in the tomb of the magic dog, and continued to study under the light alone.

Speaking of magic dogs, he thought of a novel that was widely circulated in Japan called "The Legend of the Eight Dogs in Nanso Satomi". Coincidentally, it was very similar to the situation of the Inufushi family.

The novel tells the story of a city lord who was about to be attacked by the enemy, and jokingly told his pet dog that if he could get the head of the enemy general, he would marry his daughter to the pet dog. As a result, the pet dog really sneaked into the enemy's formation and fetched the enemy general. At the first level, Princess Fu Ji, the daughter of the city lord, thought that the king was not joking, and lived in seclusion in the mountains with the dog.

But this dog was actually cursed by Yuzi, a woman who was beheaded by the city lord. The city lord Mingming's retainers killed the cursed dog and rescued the princess, but the princess blocked the bullet. A rosary flew into the sky and fell into the hands of eight swordsmen.

The last eight swordsmen helped the city lord dispel Yuzi's resentful spirit.

It was such a story, but Gao Cheng suddenly found a problem in the names of the adopted children of the Inubushu family.

Shinichi, Katiko, Saki, Chiaki, Migako, Zenya, Hotaruji, and Yukihime... I heard that they all seem to be named after the deceased president Inuboshi.

He has found out the real reason why Mrs. Suochen is called a princess. It is actually because the combination of "female" and "chen" is "Ji". Surprisingly, no matter whether it is the names of Chairman Inuboshi or the adopted children, Pretty much all the same.

The eight rosary beads in the novel are engraved with "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, loyalty, faith, filial piety and filial piety". In fact, they can all be composed of part of the Chinese characters of these people's names.

This shouldn't be a real coincidence, it was obviously intentional by President Inubushi.

But if that's the case, the only thing that is different is the name "Xinghime"...

Gao Cheng raised his head slightly.

why?
(End of this chapter)