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Faced with these doubts, Ah Li sat down again and drank a few sips of soda, and then gave himself an excuse not to distract himself: "This is just a detective's occupational disease. Who told Dazai that his story has too many loopholes?" .”

And Ranbu also picked up the glutinous rice sticks on the plate and ate them as if nothing had happened. He had no intention of introspection at all, and was still picking on the fault here: "It's not the turn of the real detective to use [Super Reasoning], so it's not even a mystery at all. superior!"

Dun: "...don't say it in such a proud tone."

As expected of their childhood sweethearts, these two did not hesitate to do so in order not to be frightened by the strange talk.

"However, I think this kind of atmosphere is a kind of fun, and it's quite interesting." Zero made a representative with a smile.

Conan Dead Fish next door looked at him: "...Are you serious?"

Hundred Stories is about to become a joke convention!Are they going to round up a hundred jokes to end the game—

Conan thought about it for a while, and suddenly he felt bad.

Later, when it was Jinghua's turn, I don't know why she followed Ah Li, and the story she told made people completely confused about the ending.

"One night, I woke up from my sleep and found that there seemed to be strange movements outside. So I went out and opened the partition, and found that it was pitch black outside."

Everyone was waiting for her next words, but found that after waiting for a long time, there was no voice from her.

"……and then?"

"No then."

"What kind of weird story is this!"

Jinghua said with a paralyzed face, "Darkness is a very scary thing, and there may be many dangers lurking, such as killers and beasts."

Everyone fell to the ground. In short, since Ah Li, the first ghost story teller, opened that precedent, the whole Hundred Story game went awry. Even Kenji later mentioned that he heard strange screams one after another during working hours. , Finally, I found out that it was the sound of my own stomach.

"It's hopeless, I shouldn't have agreed to play this game in the first place, I should have realized earlier that there are no normal people around..." Tanizaki said weakly.

The black, long, straight girl next to him silently groped into his clothes: "If my lord is bored, do you want to play other games with Naomi?"

"No no no! I suddenly discovered that this game is actually quite fun hahaha..."

After almost half a turn, they finally reached Conan's side. In order to readjust the atmosphere, Zero laughed.

"Then it's my turn, right?"

The light blond young man with a mixed-race appearance slightly hooked his lips, his already deep complexion seemed to blend into the darkness, and the light shone on his tall facial features, and he suddenly thought it was a human face emerging from the darkness.

People with dark skin have a natural advantage in this environment.

Even Ah Li's face couldn't help being stained with a bit of seriousness, and he leaned forward with his hands pressed on his coiled legs, not to mention other people who were infected by this image.

"I hope everyone will be able to listen patiently to what I have to say next." He opened his mouth unhurriedly in the dark, "This is a true story that happened around me..."

Everyone's heart skipped a beat.

This person is an old fritters when he speaks.

Under the man's narration, this Hundred Stories game was finally pushed on the right path——a terrifying path.

Not only him, but everyone who played next was ruthless.For example, Yu Xie Ye, who is keen on bloody things, said that it was a ghost story, rather than saying that she herself was an evil spirit, and the medical details she told were terrifying.And the flower bag that followed also broke through everyone's psychological defense. Although he is an otaku, he has quite a reserve of horror stories. It is not a lie to say that he can tell a hundred strange stories with his mouth.

Everyone finally felt the fear of being dominated by a game like Hundred Monogatari.

At present, this situation can no longer make people stay out of it. After the game progressed round, Lan, who was sitting next to his friends at the long table, suddenly twisted his body a little impatiently, and his state was not quite right.

She whispered to her friend's ear and asked, "Well, Yuanzi, can you accompany me for a while..."

"Ah? What's wrong?"

Yuanzi didn't read what she meant, so Xiaolan could only coyly add another sentence, and Yuanzi finally understood.

She immediately pulled Lan to stand up and said carelessly to everyone: "Excuse me, let's go to the bathroom!"

It happened that Ah Li also had the same intention, so he also raised his hands: "In that case, I will go with you too."

Just as he was about to stand up, Luanbu grabbed Ah Li's hand at this moment, and when he learned that she was about to leave, the famous detective showed a trace of panic on his face: "Wait a minute!"

Ah Li looked back at him in bewilderment, and the black-haired young man puffed up his face in depression, but finally he could only choke out a sentence: "You are limited to come back within 5 minutes."

(...Could it be that he is afraid when he is not around?)

Ah Li blinked, feeling that his waywardness had been magically cast, and it became unusually cute.

In order to coax him, Ah Li squeezed her earlobe to think, then seemed to remember something, she quickly searched for something in her bathrobe.

"found it!"

She happily handed over the toffee she always had on her body to Ranbu, and smiled peacefully at him, falling into this dark room lit only by candles, like a lotus lantern quietly flowing through the night river, emitting It is not inferior to the stable brightness of the surrounding candles.

"Just wait, I'll be back before you finish eating this candy!"

Luanbu stared at her silently for a moment, then unwillingly took the candy, peeled it off and threw it into his mouth, the milk candy he contained rolled around in his mouth, making his cheeks bulge slightly from time to time, like a quarrelsome The child who had to obey and compromise.

He vaguely made an agreement: "You said it."

The smile on Ah Li's lips couldn't help but grow wider. At this time, Dazai's teasing came slowly from behind: "Miss Li and Mr. Ranpo have such a good relationship..."

"...I want you to take care of it!"

Ah Li turned around and glared at the unfilial son, slapped his head behind the table, quickly joined Xiaolan, Yuanzi and the others and pushed open the sliding door to go out.

Perhaps everyone has seen Ah Li's strength, and with her company, they felt a great sense of peace invisibly on this trip, and the fear they had just heard in the room of the ghost story dissipated a lot.

After solving the needs of the fairies and washing their hands on the washstand, the three of them held each other's arms, chatted affectionately, and walked in the corridor planning to return the same way.

"Obviously Mr. Amuro's ghost stories are so scary, but Ms. Li doesn't seem to be scared at all..."

Lan really admired Ah Li's performance before, if she could have such ability, she wouldn't be too scared to go to the bathroom alone.

The whole hot spring villa is almost approaching the rest hour at this moment, and almost all the guests received are concentrated in the big room to play games, so that other places have become very quiet.Absorbed in the quiet courtyard at night, there is only the sound of whirling trees. They stepped on the wooden floor, and it was easy to feel a certain kind of fear in their hearts.

If it wasn't for someone to accompany her, a teenage girl probably wouldn't have the courage to walk alone in such a place where danger would suddenly come out of the darkness.

"It's nothing, just because I've seen a lot."

Ah Li's tone of voice was relaxed, and while the hanging hair was swaying with the steps, the streamer in his eyes seemed to be dancing briskly.

The reason why you are afraid of the unknown is because you worry about whether your own strength will be difficult to resist this threat.And what she lacks the most is her confidence in her own strength.

"But if you are so strong on the surface, sometimes you will miss a lot of opportunities."

"Wow-"

Suzuki Sonoko, the love instructor, jumped on her and made Ali's petite figure shorter than the average girl, just like the snow that has just bloomed and turned into a girl's soft body Buried tightly.

"Wouldn't it be a pity to lose a chance to act like a baby with my sweetheart?" The short-haired girl winked at her and hinted.

Ah Li, who was poked by the word "sweetheart", frowned slightly, and her eyes drifted aside to find that even Xiaolan was looking at her like this, and she couldn't help feeling a little hotness on her cheeks.

"Of course I understand the truth, but this point is useless to me and him..." Ah Li muttered in a low voice, "In that case, it would be me who was being spoiled. "

But their proposal is quite reasonable... Ah Li tried to think about it for a while, and then the cat's tail was so excited that he flicked it back and forth imperceptibly.

"...I'll try it next time."

"That's right! You have to pretend to be cute and pitiful, so as to arouse a man's desire to protect!"

Yuanzi immediately imparted the experience gained from the romance novel to A Li excitedly, wishing to let her try it on the other party when she turned around, so as to reap some results.Ah Li was almost buried by the excitement of her rushing towards her, and Lan who was at the side had no choice but to hold back her best friend who didn't care about her image when she was happy.

The three girls just talked and laughed in the corridor, dispelling the lingering silence along the way.However, as soon as they turned the corner, they bumped into another group of people in this hot spring villa who hadn't seen it yet because they staggered their meals.

It was with Sonoko and the others, four students from the tennis club of the next-door university who belonged to the same tennis club.Among them, the muscular boy seemed a little drunk, his strong arms hooked the neck of the only girl, almost holding her in his arms to tease her.

"Don't be shy, didn't you agree that everyone will play until dawn tonight?"

"Please, please let me go..."

It seemed that he was very uncomfortable with his behavior, and a forbearing boy next to him tried to stop him: "Tsuchiya, stop doing this, don't you see Rongzi, she is very reluctant?"

Tsuchiya paused for a moment, then narrowed his eyes and looked at the boy with a slight threat in his eyes.

"Huh? Sano, do you know what you're talking to me?"

He casually pushed Sano, the adventurous Sano was not as strong as him, immediately staggered a few steps due to the push, and knocked down another boy.

Compared with the other person, that person's image was thinner and more gloomy, with his eyes fixed on his feet, not daring to reveal his presence.

"Forget it, Sano, didn't you come here like this before? What kind of hero are you standing up now—"

Looking at his companion who was helping others, Sano clenched his fists, his eyes were filled with shock and anger: "You!"

However, these words pleased the Tsuchiya very well, and then his other free hand put a hold on the thin-faced boy, suppressing him like a good brother.

"That's right, you're the guy who went to school with me, he's just enlightened. We're all good friends, and so are you, Sano. Don't put on such a stingy, poor look. I want to get along well with Eiko too—" —”

After these words came out, the atmosphere in the four people's room became more tense.

Ah Li and the others who came from a distance couldn't help being surprised when they saw this scene.

"Senior Tsuchiya...? Why are you all stuck here?"

Several people happened to be in the middle of the road, and if they wanted to return to the room just now, they had to step over them.As a last resort, Ah Li and the others ran into this group of people, and Yuanzi greeted them.

"Hey, isn't this Yuanzi and Xiaolan and you?"

Tsuchiya, whose face was reddish and drunk, hung shoulders with his companions, creating a harmonious and friendly appearance.However, those eyes sized up these young girls with ill intentions, and when they saw the girl with tea chestnut hair between the three of them, their eyes suddenly lit up.

"Wait, when did you hide such a cute girl and didn't introduce it to me? If I knew there was such a cute girl, I would have dinner with you tonight. Little sister, do you want to have dinner with us later? happy together?"

Ah Li, who was accosted by the drunk, raised her eyebrows in surprise, as if she saw someone begging her to kick in and be buried in the ground with a coffin board.Today, she has actually rarely seen this kind of man who doesn't know what to do or what to do.

"Do you know that the guy who dared to tease me, the last one is dead?" Ali tilted her head to look at him, on the surface she still had a rather deceptively sweet image, but in fact some kind of threat had already leaked out of her body Straight to the opposite.

Sensitively aware of the danger emanating from her, Yuanzi and Xiaolan immediately pulled her back a few steps, keeping a safe distance from the earthen house.

——Big brother, your road is narrow!

"Ahahaha, senior, you are drunk. It is better to go to rest quickly if you are drunk, otherwise you will die... Cough cough. Xiaoli, Xiaolan, it is time for us to go back. Everyone probably Start worrying!"

Yuanzi was more clever, so he and Lan forcibly picked up Ah Li's arm while talking, and carried her away in a hurry.

Ah Li was kicked with his legs suspended in the air, only feeling the scene beside him panning rapidly, and when he realized it, his body had already passed the corridor quickly.

The figures of the four people who met by chance in the rear gradually became smaller and smaller until they shrank a little.Ah Li turned his head and glanced, feeling that there was something wrong with their atmosphere just now.

It's useless to think too much, anyway, there is no way to impose iron fist sanctions on the guy who dared to molested her, Ah Li calmed down a little and decided to give up.

"Hmph, just let that guy go this time."

Yuanzi nodded perfunctorily: "I thank you on his behalf!"

Back to the room where everyone gathers, the story inside will still be in full swing.During the time they left, it seemed that the turn had taken half a turn again, reaching the occasion where Ranpo had just finished speaking.

Unable to hear the story he told, Ah Li, who sat back in his seat, looked unwilling, and leaned over to ask.

"What, what, I haven't heard the story you told Ranpo!"

"It's late, there is no ticket replacement service here——"

The famous detective with candy in his mouth rested his face with one hand, and his voice dragged on for a few beats. When he said this, he seemed to be able to smell the milky scent that accompanied his breath.

It was just like the smell of his body after taking a bath, wrapped in a faint milky sweetness.

Ah Li blinked, immersed in this unconscious thought, and then felt a shadow cast over her forehead, bent her knuckles in random steps, and bounced a brain on her forehead.

"Oh! What are you doing!"

Ah Li immediately covered his forehead and questioned him, and found that Luanbu pushed the candle to her position, and the melon-eaters sitting around the long table all watched the interaction between the two of them just now with dodge eyes, covering their lips from time to time Cough.

"It's your turn next."

Being reminded by Luanbu like this, Ah Li didn't care about his flicking his forehead, so he was suddenly shunned.

"Okay, okay! It's time for you to recall the fear of being dominated by me!"

So Ah Li regained his strength and started a new round of fighting.

It's just that it's not an easy project to tell a hundred strange stories. In the later stage, everyone gradually became unable to follow up. Little stories that happened.

"So, I used to have a troublesome relationship with this guy in high school. But she is a student who disobeys discipline. As the monitor, every time the person to suppress her falls on me."

At this time, it happened to be Kunikida's turn to tell, and for some reason, the topic was brought to the story that happened with Ari in high school.

This is a past that even the members of the Armed Detective Agency rarely know about. Most of the people present listened with curiosity and anticipation.It can be said that such opportunities are rare.

However, Ah Li inserted a few words from time to time to express his opinion: "Just ignore me, you were really annoying at that time, and you even chased me to the women's toilet to block me. The students are all gathered in the corridor to watch, okay!"

Kunikida retorted indignantly: "If you feel annoying, don't cause so much trouble for others! Every time I go to various places to arrest you and go back to the class meeting, I am also very annoyed! But the head teacher kept asking us to form a team after that Homework, even the two-legged men and women in the sports meeting are arranged with you! You are so short..."

With a bang, the small fruit plate was thrown on the table by Ali. While eating the snacks, she slammed and stared at Kunikida who was about to say something dangerous, with an invisible threat in her eyes.

Kunikida was stuck at the time: "Short, short..."

Seeing his appearance, the opposite partner couldn't help but burst out laughing, and then said meaningfully: "Kunikida-kun and Ms. Li have known each other for the longest time in the detective agency except for Mr. Ranpo, right? It’s so good that it’s enviable…”

Kunikida didn't see through the trap that Dazai set for him, because of this sentence, there was something strange on his face.

Suddenly, he thought of the back view of a girl lying on the desk to catch sleep that he saw the most in class a few years ago before he left the campus.The open window sometimes blows in cherry blossoms and breeze, which will slightly lift the girl's hair. It is the longest and most profound picture that has stayed in memory in the past three years.

It's not that there were no classmates who misunderstood their relationship, but as long as her bamboo horse appeared at the school gate, everyone knew who the real person standing by her side was.

"...It's just evil fate."

The young man wearing flat-frame glasses collected himself, pushed the frame and said calmly: "But thanks to her, I have the honor to meet Master, him, and everyone."

"You're pretty good at talking, Kunikida, but I didn't expect you to join the detective agency. It's all up to you." Seeing his excellent performance before, Ah Li praised him without hesitation, and occasionally Colleagues also need business bragging to maintain friendly exchanges.

However, before she could wait for the other party's reply, someone next door yawned.

"Then it's almost time for the game to end—"

The sleepy Luanbu burst into tears, Ali subconsciously took out the phone and looked at the screen, and found that the number on the screen was past 9 o'clock in the evening, and they played here for a long time without knowing it, and the time when Luanbu's baby is used to sleeping has passed .

"Then if everyone has no objections, let Dun Dun tell the final story in the end. It just so happens that you have a large lung capacity and can blow out all the candles in one go!" Thinking of the final scene, Ah Li felt a little restless.

"Hey, can I finish it?"

Dun was a little flattered by this proposal, but his biggest advantage is that he will be obedient.

I picked someone from my memory who was imprisoned in a room because he was punished in the orphanage, but during the confinement period, he found that those children of the same age had been hiding behind the bookshelves and peeping at him.And he couldn't help but hugged his knees and shrank into a ball, unable to understand their psychology of watching others' miserable end.But in the end, he endured peeping all night, only to find that there is actually no one's story behind the bookshelf.

"Hiss, I don't see it, Dun Dun, you are quite good at speaking..." After listening, Ah Li took out a breath of air and spoke highly of his level.

I didn't look at those timid people like Xiaolan and Kunikida, and they started to get hairy again.

Dun scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, with a naive expression: "Hey, I just said it casually, please don't take it seriously."

Everyone looked at him with a sudden change in their eyes.

Feeling like I can't sleep tonight, Mr. Ranpo thinks it's a big mistake, he shouldn't let Dun come to finish it in the first place.

He couldn't help but grabbed Ah Li's bathrobe sleeve, but his lips were firmly locked, and he refused to say anything.In order to retaliate, Ranpo finally reminded him maliciously when Dun was about to blow out the candles.

"Dun Jun, usually the person who blows out the candles last will have some strange things happen to him."

Dun's body stiffened instantly.

As an expert in dealing with supernatural events, Ah Li naturally had a corresponding understanding of this statement, and couldn't help touching his chin and said, "Well, Ranbu, are you talking about summoning 'something'?"

"Dun Jun, you have to be careful, you must be prepared to be possessed." Dazai's face stood out from the shadows at this moment.

Of course, he is indispensable for being able to match up and bully people together!

Feeling more and more uneasy, Dun couldn't help standing up and shouting: "Please don't scare me!!"

Then he regained his courage and looked down at the candles on the table. They probably each spoke for four rounds, which took them within two to three hours.So much so that there were half of the candles left on the table at the moment, and with his eyesight, he calculated that there were about 32 candles.

It's a bit difficult to blow them all out in one breath, but he can still do it.So the silver-haired boy who inherited the white tiger's ability took a deep breath, and then blew out all the air accumulated in his chest cavity forward.

"call--"

However, at the moment when the air flow passed over the wick, Dun realized a problem in a trance.

Starting from the beginning of Ah Li, the narration continues clockwise. Even if each of them has spoken for four rounds, and there are still 7 people in front of Dun, then when it is his turn to blow out, there should be 33 candles left.

...then there was another candle, who blew it out?

While thinking about this question, Dun had already blown out all the candles.

The room was plunged into complete darkness.

At that moment, Dun felt that as darkness poured into his field of vision from all directions, his consciousness seemed to have fallen into a deep well, and the sticky suffocation controlled him, isolating him from the world around him.

(How is this going……)

Just when he felt that he was gradually having difficulty breathing, the light in the room was turned on with a snap, and a warm and soft hand from the opposite side slapped his forehead suddenly, making all the uncomfortable feelings recede like a tide.

"Come back to your senses Dun Dun, what, is it really possessed by something?"

In the brightened world, the girl on the opposite side stared into his eyes curiously.

When he saw the pretty face in front of him, Dun seemed to regain his life, and even he didn't know that there were crystals popping out of the corners of his eyes.

——He really almost thought that he was going to step into another world just now.

"It's okay...just, just a little scared."

Reassured, he lowered his head and looked at his hands. Although his vision was blurred by an inexplicable moisture, he could still see the intact body through the mist, and nothing happened.

"Sure enough, it's just a psychological effect...Haimonuyu is just a fiction, so there will be no strange things..."

Before Dun finished speaking, at this moment, all of them heard a scream from a distance.