Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

In Hokkaido, Kouji Takada personally drove Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai into the depths of the mountains. The heavy fog in the mountains made people feel uneasy, but fortunately, the road was still clearly visible.

Gao Cheng was holding a note with a poem-like code in his hand, and looked at Xiao Ai who was resting with his arms folded and his eyes closed.

"Didn't you say that it's just work? You even asked for leave..."

"Anyway, it's just simple knowledge in elementary school." Xiao Ai raised her eyelids, "It's okay if you don't go to class..."

Is this the reason to skip class for a week?

Gao Cheng reluctantly continued to study the code.

Xiao Ai is indeed a little better than him in terms of codes, but you can't tell anything from these sentences alone, you have to go to Hokkaido to see for yourself.

But having said that, what is that well-known writer of mystery novels thinking? Doesn’t he know that setting up such a challenge is easy to cause accidents?

Or is it intentional...

As the car got deeper, a misty lake gradually appeared in front of Gao Cheng, and a castle-like building could be vaguely seen in the middle of the lake.

"I can see it," Takarada Kouji said with a smile, "The building built on the floating island in the lake is Mr. Yamanouchi's villa Lucia Pavilion."

The car parked by the lake through the woods, and the castle was fully revealed, which looked very similar to the architectural style of a mosque.

"This is a Russian architectural style," Kouji Takarada smiled and explained as if he knew Gaocheng's idea, "Because it has an onion-shaped roof, it is easy to be mistaken for a Christian mosque. It is said that Russia originally believed in It is a Greek Orthodox country, but through Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, which is now Istanbul, the Christianity and Christian culture introduced are also reflected in Russian culture..."

"cough."

Gao Cheng nodded half-understood, just at that moment an old man with round eye sockets came over, dressed in a decent suit, he looked like an intellectual.

"Thanks for your hard work, Mr. Baotian," the old man greeted with a smile, "the one next to you is a famous detective... Kido Takasei, right? I have known you for a long time, Kido Detective..."

"you are?"

"I'm Fujio Tashiro, the housekeeper of Mr. Yamanouchi. Come, this way please. Next, we need to take a boat."

The old man said that he took everyone to the pier, but his smile seemed a bit forced. Baotian Guangji said to Gao Cheng in a low voice: "He has been a housekeeper for Mr. Yamanouchi for so many years, but he has no inheritance. He will be unhappy to some extent. The matter of the inheritance is temporarily closed. Just don't mention it in front of him..."

"I know."

Gao Cheng can be regarded as a person who has stepped into the society anyway, so of course he will not be troublesome.

The so-called boat was a small boat with an electric motor. It clicked all the way, and after arriving at the island in the middle of the lake to put down everyone, it went back the same way and left.

"Is there no boat here?" Gao Cheng looked at the empty pier and asked.

"No, this is the instruction of the deceased teacher Yamanouchi. Everyone can only stay on the island until the teacher's birthday in 5 days. You are the last batch to arrive..."

Butler Tashiro brought everyone to the front of the villa. From a closer look, the castle-like building looked a little more gorgeous. Surrounding the atrium were 5 tall tower-shaped buildings, each with an onion-shaped roof. The most eye-catching one was The bell tower behind the atrium has a large clock on it, and the bell echoes in the thick fog in the lake as the hour arrives.

Gao Cheng has nothing to appreciate,

This kind of place seems to be prepared for crime...

In the atrium of the villa, several people were already present. When the butler Tashiro led Gaocheng and the others in, all eyes immediately gathered.

"Baotian, you are so slow," a middle-aged man with a beard in a nightgown stood up holding a wine glass and said, "Did you invite the little brother next to you to help out? Why did you invite a brat to come over..."

"Mr. Shenmei, I think you may have misunderstood. The famous Kido Detective is not a brat..."

A boy who looked like a high school student came over and stared at Gao Cheng with great interest: "It's great that Mr. Baotian invited a famous detective here. It's my honor to compete with Detective Kido..."

Speaking of the boy, he shook hands with Gao Cheng familiarly and said: "I am Takashi Inukai, a high school student detective, and I am Mr. Yamanouchi's neighbor in Kanagawa. Thanks to him treating me like a relative, I was also selected as the heir to the inheritance this time." Candidates, please take care of me!"

"Please take care of me..."

Gao Cheng shook hands lightly, and was a little surprised that there was such a young boy among the candidates. He didn't quite understand the selection criteria of Hengsheng Yamanouchi. No wonder the housekeeper complained.

The man with the mustache who was called Mr. Shenming had an unattractive face, and snorted at the young man, "What's the showdown? I started pretending to be a detective again, but it just happened to solve a small murder case. Other city detectives After all, he is a professional detective..."

The boy ignored the man with the moustache, looked around expectantly and said, "Mr. Yamanouchi probably didn't expect a famous detective to come, did he? But he arranged for a reasoning competition here. He really deserves to be the leader of the world of mystery novels..."

"Really?"

"Don't Detective Kido know? The scene here is exactly the same as Mr. Yamanouchi's early masterpiece "Lucia Doll Murder Case". Detective Kido should have studied Mr. Yamanouchi before coming here, right? After all, the key to this competition is his preparation signal……"

Seeing Gao Cheng's embarrassing expression, the young man paused for a moment and forced a smile, "It's different from what I imagined, but I heard that famous detectives like to hide their clumsiness. Could Detective Chenghu be deliberately showing weakness?"

"I really don't know much about Yamanouchi-sensei..."

Gao Cheng chuckled frankly.

He came in a hurry, he really didn't have time to read Yamanouchi Tsunesho's works, he just collected some biographical information, and most of his energy was devoted to the study of Gao Yuanyaoyi.

After all, this trip to Hokkaido is mainly for Gao Yuanyaoyi. Even though he has dealt with Gao Yuanyaoyi several times, he still lacks confidence...

"Is there "Lucia Doll Murder Case" here?" Gao Cheng asked the butler Tashiro.

"It should be in the teacher's room, I'll get it later."

After arranging the accommodation room, the housekeeper Tashiro came over and brought a book, which was the first edition of "Lucia's Doll Murder Case", Gao Cheng took advantage of Xiao Ai's time to pack up his luggage and looked through it.

As the boy said, the background of the story is also the current villa Lucia Pavilion. The five people who gathered in the villa were compared to Lucia dolls and were killed one after another.

The situation seems to be similar to the last black magic incident, like a curse to kill someone.

However, the content of the novel does not seem to have anything to do with the password this time. If there is no mistake in guessing, there should be a key reminder next, so the 5-day deadline was arranged this time.

"Detective Kido!" After a while, Kouji Takata came over and shouted, "Everyone has gathered in the reception room."

"it is good."

Gao Cheng took Xiao Ai to go out, and followed Baotian Koji to find the reception room on the top floor of the clock tower. In addition to the bearded male god Ming Tadashi and high school student Inukai Takashi whom he had seen before, there was also a sexy mystery novelist whom he had seen but did not speak. Meiyuan Kaoru, and the long-haired beautiful illustrator Youyue Laimeng who just met, are wearing black suits, with long hair covering half of their faces.

Gao Cheng looked at this beautiful woman for a while, and then focused on a long-legged young man wearing a mask behind You Yue Laimeng.

Even though he couldn't see his face, Gao Cheng shrank suddenly when he saw those eyes.

It was Gao Yuanyao, this guy actually appeared in such a grandiose manner, and he had no hidden intentions at all in other aspects. The mask can hide the truth from ordinary people, but it can't hide it from him...

"It seems that everything is here," the masked man noticed Gao Cheng, and said with a chuckle, "Can we start?"

"This is..." Everyone was quite surprised when they saw the masked man.

"He is the helper I invited, the magician Mr. Scarlet Roses," You Yue introduced, "Because I was severely burned when practicing magic before, I have been wearing a mask..."