The unscientific detective in Conan

"It's really strange..."

"I've been here several times before, but how come I didn't notice there was a villa here?"

Suzuki Sonoko was walking on the road, looking at the villa not far away and touching her chin, with a strange look in her eyes.

Xiaolan, who was standing by, had a worried look on her face: "This villa feels so gloomy and dilapidated. Could it be that no one has lived here for a long time?"

She actually wanted to say that it was even more gloomy than the Sonoko family’s villa.

But think about it, her best friend had just suffered a critical blow because of the words of the two little kids.

I didn't say this out loud.

Xiaolan didn't say it out loud, but if she had said it, Fujino would have agreed.

Indeed, the Sonoko family's villa was built in front of a cliff, and it is surrounded by trees and there are trees behind it. I don't know which Yin-Yang master did the feng shui. It is really unpopular and a bit shady.

Conan followed behind the others, looking at the villa with his arms folded across his chest, and suddenly said, "It should be occupied by someone. I just saw tire tracks on the dirt road leading here, and the villa doesn't look shabby when I looked through the window. The grass in front also looks like it has been trimmed. Someone should come here from time to time to take care of the villa!"

Listening to his confident reasoning, Huihara Ai showed dead fish eyes: "So if you come here occasionally, you will be caught up by us by such a coincidence?"

"It would be useless if they were not in the villa now."

"Don't we still have Brother Fujino?"

Conan chuckled and then said, "As long as we ask Brother Fujino to pry open the door lock, or kick it open, can't we get in?"

"……?"

Everyone looked at Conan with strange eyes for coming up with a crooked idea.

Fujino narrowed his eyes and frowned slightly, saying, "Conan, it's okay to break into an uninhabited haunted house, but if you break into a house where someone lives, it's trespassing. I'm not sure about the specific legal provisions, but detention is for sure."

Conan: “…”

So why don’t you tell me whether it’s illegal when you beat someone up?

By the way, it seems that there is no such thing as paying with one’s life in Japanese law.

Well, then you don’t have to go to jail even if you kill someone.

Just as Conan was thinking about it, a small station wagon jeep suddenly drove out of the forest behind him.

Of course Fujino noticed it too.

Sitting on the left side of the car was a woman wearing a pink sleeveless shirt with a large horizontal stripe collar. Her hair was curled and tied into a ponytail. Her expression gave people a cold feeling and she seemed to be an ice beauty with a slightly cold personality.

It looks like this is an imported car.

This is what Fujino focused on.

Cars produced in Japan are usually right-hand drive, and only imported cars are left-hand drive. This is more obvious in Japan to judge the difference between imported cars, and it is also very obvious.

There were two men sitting in the car.

A man with long brown hair and glasses, who can be simply called the long-haired glasses man.

A guy with a hedgehog-like haircut and a gymnast vibe, can be simply called the Hedgehog-like Gymnast.

At this time, the cold-looking older sister with a ponytail also noticed the group of people. She stopped the car, put one hand on the open window and asked them, "What are you doing here?"

“That’s right!”

Xiaolan has a gentler personality and took the initiative to explain the purpose of their visit.

As they explained, a few people followed them into the villa and asked their names.

The cold and aloof older sister is named Makino Jun, the long-haired guy with glasses is named Tian Tang Xiang, and the long-haired athlete is named Kuramoto and Yao Ye. It seems that they have a good relationship.

Fujino was a little surprised when he heard the name of the long-haired man with glasses. He thought to himself that he had met another person with the same surname as Tiantang Qinghua. It seemed that there were a lot of people with the surname Tiantang...

It's like heaven or something, a bit weird.

But when he thought about the combinations of Japanese surnames and how many weird surnames there are, he was not surprised. It was nothing that even the main hall had a heaven, it was all made up later.

In fact, before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, ordinary people were not worthy of having a surname. Only aristocrats had a family surname of their own. It was not until after the Meiji Restoration that ordinary people had surnames. But how could a Japanese country boy without a surname think of a surname with a profound meaning?

Some weird surnames sound outrageous in Chinese, but are quite decent in Japanese. For example, Fujino feels that his name is outrageous but it is okay in the eyes of others. Tongzhi is also okay if the meaning is explained separately in Japanese, but Fujino feels that this ridiculous name is as disgusting as an old dog of the Qing Dynasty who died of syphilis at the age of 19.

The same surname is similar. For example, Yamamoto means the foot of the mountain, Suzuki is the sacred tree in the shrine, Takagi means there are tall trees near the house or a carpenter who handles tall trees, and Fujino is the wisteria growing beside the wild. If you think about it, the Fujino in Fujino is transformed from the Fujiwara surname. There is indeed a saying that some of the Fujino are descendants of Fujiwara.

Apart from the ones he named himself, there are some names that have been passed down from ancient times, such as Mori, Fujiwara, Kondo, Sato, Kujo, and so on. As for Sato, there is a saying that his ancestor was Fujiwara no Munekiyo, who branched out from the Fujiwara family.

Anyway, these are just some random hypotheses that have been made up and have no basis at all.

But if it is true, Fujino feels that he is somewhat related to Sato in this world.

After all, strictly speaking, he is the purest Fujiwara seedling. If he is purer, only the Genji, the Heishi and the old thief Gou Tianhuang can compete with him. Tachibana and others have to stand aside.

…………

"So the car that just broke down is yours..."

"By the way, that bridge seemed to have collapsed when we arrived."

Jun Makino crossed his arms over his chest, helplessly reviewing the foreshadowing he had just seen on the road, and finally gladly agreed to the requests of several people: "Well, after all, we are neighbors, so you can rest here for a while before the people who come to pick you up come over. It's quite hot outside, don't let you get a heat stroke."

As she said this, she couldn't help but complain: "But then again, you are really unlucky. You actually encountered so many things in a row. It can be said that we are destined to meet."

"Yeah, yeah~"

Xiaolan showed a helpless expression on her face and responded with an awkward smile.

Suzuki Sonoko glanced at Hondou Eisuke beside her, crossed her arms, and her eyes were full of resentment:

"I'm really unlucky this time."

Fujino couldn't help but nod in agreement and looked deeply at Hondou Eisuke.

In the world of science, there are still some things that cannot be explained clearly.

For example, the good luck of Ran the Unicorn, Conan's death god attribute, the intelligence of Haibara Ai who could become a cadre of the organization to develop drugs at the age of 17 or 18, and the fact that every time the Sonoko family built a house or held an event, they would be hit by two bombs or be targeted by Kaito Kid...

It is not unacceptable that Hondou Eisuke is born unlucky.

I can't take the kid out next time.

Hondou Eisuke: “…”

Is it my fault?

I helped you carry your bags, you don’t look tired, do you?

Hondou Eisuke was speechless for a moment. He observed the few people and then observed the villa.

He seemed to notice something.

Then he sighed nonchalantly, "But this villa is really beautiful. It must have cost a lot of money!"

“…”

Suzuki Sonoko curled her lips when she heard this, feeling a bit resentful in her heart.

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So is this guy blind?

This shabby villa is beautiful?

Where can you find a villa as beautiful as mine?

Why didn’t you feel moved when you saw our villa?

Fujino felt helpless when he saw Sonoko's performance. As expected, she still put all her birth points into her family background as usual.

Hondou Eisuke's question was not really about the villa, but how these people came to own this villa.

Obviously, the dressing style and temperament of these people are not what rich people can have. The same goes for the cars they drive. Although they are imported cars, they are not good cars. It is a pipe dream to want to build such a villa.

He asked this because he was too embarrassed to ask directly, so he asked in a roundabout way.

This guy is quite interesting in terms of social skills.

Fujino thought to himself, and the long-haired, bespectacled man Tiantangxiang took the bait: "It would be better for you to ask the original owner about this kind of question. We are just ordinary people who bought this house at a relatively cheap price."

"Picking up a bargain?"

"Yes, we are all musicians who form a band, that is, we are so-called musicians. We wanted to find a quiet place to practice, and then we found this place."

Seeing the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, Jun Makino explained: "It can be said that we found a treasure like this while searching."

Hondou Eisuke was still a little confused: "But no matter how cheap it is, it can't be too much cheaper, right?"

"You are wrong about that."

Hedgehog-headed Cang Ben shook his head slightly at this time and said: "This house has a story. To be honest, if we didn't buy it, it would have been demolished long ago."

"story?"

Yuanzi and Xiaolan's curiosity was aroused, and then they told the "story" of this villa.

Legend has it that the previous owners of this villa were two wealthy brothers. On a rainy night, the elder brother suddenly began to talk nonsense, saying that an unknown demon would climb in through the window of the house. Then he sealed the window like a madman. Then he said that the devil had come in, and renovated the house again. Then, in the second year after the renovation, the old sister-in-law in the backyard saw that the sealed window had opened a crack and an eye was revealed.

A few days later, the sister-in-law hanged herself in her room, and then the brother jumped out of his room and died. Finally, the younger brother and his wife thought this place was too evil, so they sold it at a low price.

After hearing this story, Fujino was speechless.

So, isn’t this just a villa with two soul rings of wronged souls and a bit of strange legend?

Why say something so mysterious?

Why not just say it's a haunted house where two people died?

In the world of science, haunted houses are very cheap. After someone dies there, the price of the house can be cut in half, or even by a broken bone. You can even rent a high-end apartment in the center of Tokyo for only 32,000 yen, with the Tokyo Tower visible from the outside. With a little gift money or deposit, you can buy a second-hand house for only 10 to 30 million yen.

What is the concept?

This is equivalent to a large flat in a high-end apartment near the Oriental Pearl Tower, which only sells for 600,000 to 700,000 yuan or 1 to 2 million yuan.

Of course, it is also very expensive, but there are other houses that can be bought for even millions.

But you have to not mind the soul rings of the original owner. The more soul rings the house has, the cheaper it is. For a house like this where two soul rings were given to a couple who died unexpectedly, and which also has a ghost story, it is estimated that it is possible to get back the investment for the entire land with 10 million.

For example, the dusk annex.

If it weren't for the story of Karasuma Renya and the detective who died after biting his finger, it is estimated that 270 million yen would not be enough to buy a castle like that. After all, the land alone could be sold for more than that, not to mention the huge building on it.

Fujino vaguely still remembers the enthusiastic look of the Fengyun Bank receptionist at that time. She almost pounced on him to have an in-depth communication with him.

After all, whoever buys this thing will be in big trouble. How can you run away when you finally meet a fool?

As the introduction went on, everyone came to the sealed window.

The window was pitch black and you couldn't see outside clearly. It was covered with all kinds of steel nails and iron sticks. It looked as if they were really sealing some terrible devil or monster from coming out of it.

Jun Makino looked at the sealed window and smiled helplessly: "Actually, they were planning to help us fix the window, but we thought it was too troublesome and didn't do it."

Xiaolan looked at the window in front of her and her face turned pale. She was always afraid of ghosts and complained in her heart: Why don’t you fix the window...

Isn't it abnormal to not repair windows or something for fear of trouble?

Seeing the little girl so scared, Cang Ben, who looked like a hedgehog-haired athlete, teased her, "Why don't you stay here for the night? Maybe you can see a ghost!"

Xiaolan thought about the monsters and demons in the story and felt her scalp tingling. She quickly changed the subject: "Forget about monsters! We'll just stay here for a while!"

Fujino glanced at Kuramoto Yoji, who looked like a gangster, and felt deeply that the description of the athlete was correct.

Then, he couldn't help but glance at Conan.

Conan crossed his arms, glanced at Kuramoto with an extremely dissatisfied look, and said unhappily: "What monster? If you ask me, there are no ghosts in this world. If there were, the deceased would definitely not need the detective to help him seek justice. He could just turn into a ghost and kill the murderer."

"The story of this case must be the work of someone. The brother who suddenly went crazy must have sealed the window for some purpose, and the same goes for the renovation. As for the death afterwards, it must be related to this incident."

Well, the jealous king of Southeast Asia is jealous again.

Fujino folded his arms across his chest and nodded, confirming this in his heart.