Ke Xuezhuo's son-in-law

Chapter 26 The Haunted Villa

Arrive in Shizuoka Prefecture two hours later.

The client was waiting for Mouri Kogoro outside the station early in the morning.

"Detective Mori, here." A graceful and elegant beauty called Kogoro.

Seeing that the client was a super beauty, Kogoro felt happy.

"My guess is indeed correct, she is indeed a beautiful woman."

When the two of them talked on the phone the day before yesterday, he had sensed something extraordinary in the other person's voice, imagining that the other person was a beautiful woman. Now that they had met in person, it was indeed true!

He walked over very calmly and said: You are the client, right? "

"Yes, I am entrusting you to come here, Eriko Arakawa."

"Nice to meet you."

The two shook hands in a friendly gesture.

Only then did I realize that the two people beside Mouri Kogoro asked in confusion: "Are these two..."

Without waiting for Mao Li to explain, Xiao Lan answered: "I am the daughter of Detective Mao Li."

She came here specially this time and found out that the client was a woman. She came here forcefully because she was afraid that Kogoro Mori would do something to disgrace his mother.

Although Kogoro is dissatisfied with his daughter's interruption, he must maintain his grace in front of beautiful women.

"Oh, is Detective Maori married? I thought you were single like me?"

Listening to the faint words of the beautiful woman in front of him, Kogoro felt a million regrets. If he had known, he would have found a reason not to take Xiaolan with him.

In order to cover up his embarrassment, Mouri Kogoro touched his head and smiled:
"Although we are married, I have been separated from my wife for ten years."

"Ten years?" The beautiful woman covered her mouth and said in surprise. She didn't understand that two people could not get divorced after being separated for ten years.

At this time, Xiaolan came out to defend again: "Although they have been separated for many years, they still love each other in their hearts, right dad?"

Looking at Xiaolan's determined and angry eyes, Fujiwara couldn't help but feel a little funny, but he also felt sad for the environment in which Xiaolan grew up.

If I remember correctly, Kogoro Mouri and Eiri had a big fight because the latter's cooking was unpalatable, and Eiri couldn't bear to take advantage of Kogoro's toilet break and left home for ten years and never came back.

Kogoro looked at Xiaolan's firm eyes and wanted to admit it, but when he thought of the woman's proud look, he suddenly sobered up and covered up his embarrassment with laughter.

"Hahahaha, aren't we here to solve the commission? Then let's go back and see the scene first."

Kogoro's words awakened everyone. It is true that they are here to solve the problem, not to discuss whether there is still love between the couple who have been separated for ten years.

"That's right, it's time to go to the scene." After saying that, she smiled and led everyone to get into her red car.

Fujiwara was taken into the car before he could introduce himself, as if it didn't matter who he was.

On the way, Eriko Arakawa explained the purpose of this trip to everyone.

The place she took them to this time was an old castle left by her ancestors to their family. It was in a very dilapidated state due to years of disrepair. After her parents passed away, as the sole heir of the old castle, she planned to renovate the old castle and build it into a theme hotel. .

The father and daughter Maori seemed to have ignored the commission. They sighed at Eriko Arakawa's creativity and believed that the theme hotel must be feasible.

"I hope so."

Although she also hopes that the decoration can be completed smoothly, there is only one problem in front of her, that is, everyone who walks up to the second floor says they have seen ghosts...

"Castle Hotel?"

Fujiwara sniffed out this unusual keyword. You must know that anything related to the castle in Conan must be a case. The plot of the Blue Castle, known as the shadow of childhood, came to his mind.

"It's not like they found out that the castle is haunted and that's why they called us here."

Passing through rivers and forests, towards evening they finally arrived at the purpose of their trip, a castle-themed hotel.

The hotel is surrounded by dense forests, and a black castle stands here, which looks a bit strange.

“Does anyone really want to come and experience this place?”

After parking the car, Eriko Arakawa led everyone into the so-called hotel.

As soon as I walked in, I saw a red floor-to-ceiling window about ten meters long. Looking up, I saw a Western classical mural at the top of the hall. One person was half-lying down and communicating with another person with his fingertips. The painting seemed to be called " Genesis?"

"It's so spectacular!" At this time, Xiaolan was also shocked by the majestic momentum contained in this huge mural.

Mouri Kogoro also stopped in the hall to enjoy the spectacular scene, and had dinner with Miss Arakawa at her invitation.

Several hours of driving had already made several people hungry. Although Maori and his daughter had weighed their stomachs before leaving, they were just on the pass line of hunger at this time.

It was only after dinner that I remembered the commission.

"Ms. Arakawa, what is the entrustment you want to entrust?"

The other party didn't mention the content of the commission, but directly invited him over for one million yen, which made him extremely curious about what kind of commission required him to dispatch.

Arakawa Eriko suddenly looked embarrassed and weakly told the whole story.

"What? Do you suspect that there are ghosts living in the villa? And there's more than one?"

According to her description, many workers who had been working here claimed to have seen a beautiful woman who invited them to walk together. Then they would feel a heavy back when going up three stairs, as if something was climbing up.

"This is fake. Are you trying to make a joke on us?"

Mouri Kogoro looked disdainful, thinking that the other party was fooling him.

It’s almost the 21st century, why do people still believe in ghost legends?

Xiaolan's expression was wide-eyed and full of fear. She was afraid of ghosts, especially afraid of ghosts.

Fujiwara Hoshikai was also afraid of ghosts, but when he saw Xiaolan's frightened face and she looked very helpless, he walked over to comfort her: "It's okay, Miss Xiaolan. Didn't Miss Arakawa just say that she was just suspicious? Maybe there is no such thing at all." thing."

Even if there is a ghost, he can just deal with it.

"Really? It should be, right?"

In fact, she doesn't really believe in ghosts. After all, the theory of ghosts has long been refuted by various scientific magazines, but this does not affect her fear of ghosts.

Seeing that the other party did not believe her and even began to doubt herself, Eriko Arakawa recounted the previous times she had asked someone to entrust her to eliminate ghosts.

Those people claimed that they were onmyojis and could subdue evil spirits and defrauded her of her money.

Although it was indeed effective at the time, within a few days another ghost appeared and frightened people.

"I believe you, Miss Arakawa, but I am a detective and am not good at dealing with such supernatural incidents. This kind of thing makes me helpless."

Although the other party gave him one million yen, he really couldn't do such a trick as catching ghosts. This was not in line with his professional ethics.

"That's right, my dad can't solve this kind of thing at all."

Seeing that the other party was about to leave like the others, Eriko Arakawa quickly raised the stakes and was willing to give him 500 million yen as a reward as long as he found the one.

"I know that Maori detectives are good at finding vixens, so dealing with such ghosts is not a problem." After saying that, he showed the five million check he had prepared and waved it in the air.

"Okay, keep it on me."

Mouri Kogoro's eyes widened when he saw the money, and he immediately agreed to the other party's request.

He planned to follow the example of the previous few people, wander around casually, and then run away with the money.

"Xiaolan, please stay here and chat with Miss Arakawa. Fujiwara and I will go upstairs to see who this self-proclaimed ghost is."

Xiaolan naturally didn't dare to go up, but she still verbally wished the two of them to be careful.

The hotel has a total of five floors. There is an elevator but it is not in use, so the two had to walk upstairs.

After going up to the second floor, the two entered several rooms and found nothing, so Kogoro suggested that they stop by the third floor to take a look.

The weird things started on the third floor...

Although the steps of the stairs are quite flat, it feels like something is crawling up my back as I walk, making it heavier and heavier as I walk.

After only a few steps, I was exhausted.

Ding! Ah Piao detected!

"One, shake it off. Reward: Intermediate singing voice."

"Two, ignore it. Reward special skill point +1."

　There have been many delays during this period and I have been very busy. I will resume two updates after New Year's Day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)