"Boom!"

The rain outside became heavier and heavier amid the rolling thunder, and the lightning reflected Gao Cheng's figure on the corridor wall.

"Ah, Young Master Ah Cheng......" The maid stretched out her hand, hesitated and did not stop Gao Cheng, turned around and went back to the restaurant with a few members of the Yincang family.

In addition to the restaurant, the other maids and cooks of the Yincang family also stayed in their rooms under Gao Cheng's orders, and only Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai and the old housekeeper were left in the huge villa.

"But, Detective Castle," said the old butler, doubtfully, "if the opponent is a vampire, is it all right with us?" ”

"No problem," Gao Cheng took the old butler back to the photo room, "I already have a rough idea of the vampire's methods, but it's just artificial." ”

"What?" The old butler opened his narrowed eyes, "Could it be that the old man ......?"

"The terminally ill master shouldn't be able to accomplish so many things, and there are accomplices in this villa," Gao Cheng looked back at the old butler and said, "Who do you think is more suspicious?" ”

"This ......"

The old butler bowed his head.

"If you want to say something more suspicious, it may be the maid Miss Komitsu, you should also have heard about her mother, Miss Yoko, the day she died was a stormy night, Miss Yoko, who was waiting for the lord to come back in the mansion, suddenly said that she was going to drive to the lord's hospital to pick him up......

I dissuaded her and said it was dangerous, but ...... As a result, she fell off the cliff at the bend of the mountain road, and the police deduced that the cause was fatigue driving caused by unclear vision. ”

"Is there anything hidden in this matter?" Gao Cheng frowned.

"Actually, before she went out, I received a call from my lord asking me to tell Miss Yoko that her daughter's operation had been successfully completed, and finally the maid Miss Shimizu went to find Miss Yoko......"

The old butler said sadly.

"The maid, Miss Shimizu, said that she probably wanted to see her daughter as soon as possible, but now that I think about it, Miss Yoko's face was very pale at that time, and it didn't look like that, and I kept wondering if Miss Shimizu's death could have something to do with this......"

"What about Mr. Mashin?" Gao Cheng grabbed the clue and said, "Does Mr. Ma Xin have anything to do with this matter?" ”

"I don't know, but at that time, Miss Yoko was driving Master Mashin's car, and it was the 13th anniversary of the old lady's death, so everyone returned to the mansion," the old butler said with a heavy face, "Everyone here today was there that day, so if that accident was really a conspiracy planned by someone as rumored, it would not be surprising that there would be retribution......

Gao Cheng's mind flashed the innocent figure of the maid Xiaoguang.

"Does Miss Koko know about this?"

"I shouldn't know, the master asked me not to say it, saying that he would tell Miss Xiaoguang in person."

"If that's ......"

Gao Cheng thought of what the maid Xiaoguang mentioned.

That email.

The email that was sent out in a hurry......

If Inkura explained the incident in the email, or asked Xiaoguang to meet in Nanban's room and confessed, Xiaoguang in order to avenge his mother would indeed cooperate in committing this murder.

And, whether it's finding a coffin corpse, taking a photo to see a ghost, or even in a restaurant...... The first to be discovered was the maid Xiaoguang.

It seems that this maid is directing and acting herself.

But......

There's no reason to take the initiative to mention the email to him, a detective.

"Miss Shouhe," the old butler worried, "could something have happened?" ”

"I'm afraid so, but at least the body should be found," Gao Cheng put aside the matter of the maid Xiaoguang for the time being, and asked the old housekeeper, "Have you really found every corner of the villa?" ”

"yes, because everyone is looking for the master......"

"What if she had been killed or gagged somewhere by then?"

Gao Cheng thought of the secret passage under the coffin.

"Do you guys have any strange behaviors recently or since half a year ago? For example, renovating the mansion, or buying something or something. ”

"Speaking of which," recalls the old butler, "about half a year ago, the lord said that he wanted to give everyone in the mansion a rest, so he arranged an overseas trip for about a week, and soon after, the maid, Miss Shimizu, had that incident. ”

"How's it late?"

"Recently, my lord suddenly bought an inflatable pool for children on the Internet, and it seems that he also bought a toy airplane or something, and sent a big suitcase...... Oh, by the way, the old man recently bought a new locked refrigerator on the counter. ”

In the kitchen, Gao Cheng stood in front of the large locked refrigerator.

"Is this it?"

He tried it, and the larger freezer room below was locked, and the unlocked upper freezer was normal, but it was also stuffed with ingredients.

"Why lock?"

"I don't know," the chef who was called shook his head, "I heard that there was high-quality meat for today's guests, but it still didn't use ......."

"Do you have a key?"

"The master should have it in his hands, and Xiaoguang may have it too."

"Little Light?"

"The keys to this kitchen and the nearby rooms are all kept by Xiaoguang." Chef explains.

"Yes, that's right," replied the maid Xiaoguang, who was found in a daze, "but I've seen it in the refrigerator, and there's nothing but a big jar of seaweed." ”

After clumsily trying a few keys, the maid Xiaoguang finally found the key and opened the refrigerator, and sure enough, just as she said, there was only one cylindrical jar in the two-story refrigerator freezer that was empty enough to fit two people.

Gao Cheng carefully checked the refrigerator, the temperature of the freezer was very low, and there was ice inside, so there was no problem.

"Are there any other places in the mansion where people can hide?"

"Probably not......

"Oh no!" Outside, a doorman in a raincoat suddenly ran into the room in a hurry, saw the crowd gathered in the kitchen, and hurriedly shouted, "Out, something's wrong!" Someone is dead on the other side of the forest! ”

"Forest?"

"Right in front of the gate!"

It was already late at night, it was still raining outside the villa, and the air was stuffy, and it seemed to be filled with an irritating atmosphere.

The corpse was located in the forest directly opposite the gate, and the daughter of the Yin Cang family, Yin Cang Shouhe, was tied to a wooden stake with his backhand and fell down under the tree, the corpse was wet, and the clothes that were not thick were clinging to the body, revealing a round and miserable white chest, and a small amount of water in the ravine, and the neck was wrapped around the rope, faintly revealing the strangulation marks below, staring wide, and his face looked a little frightened under the rain.

"It's Mamoru Mademo!"

Gao Cheng rushed to the scene with Xiao Ai in the rain, first checked the situation around the corpse, and took pictures with his mobile phone before approaching to inspect the corpse.

The cause of death was suffocation and strangulation, and judging from the condition of the body, the time of death was about 6 hours, which means that he may have been killed when he accompanied Inkura Kishi to develop the photos.

Gao Cheng turned back to the two guards and asked, "Did you see her come out?" ”

There is only one entrance and exit to the mansion, and the door guard is also responsible for the iron gate switch, if there is anything abnormal, the doorman should find it as soon as possible......

"No," said the doorman with a flashlight, "no one has been out of the house all this time." ”

"You've been guarding the door?"

"Well, the door was opened once because the furniture company's truck came," another fat doorman explained, "and the old man said that the chairs were old and he was going to replace them all with new ones, so he placed an order with the furniture company just the other day......

"But when we were counting the goods, we found that it was mistakenly packed as a sofa, so we asked the truck driver to go back today, and by the way, there was an explosion that caused the tunnel to collapse at that time, and we stared at it for a while, but it was just for a while."

"Could she have come out at that time?" The thin man looked outside the door at Inkura Mamoru and the corpse.

"Didn't you find the body when you tied it to a stake here and then went back to the mansion?" Gao Cheng pondered, "Impossible, it's already time-consuming just to bring people over......"

"And this hole," Xiao Ai pointed to a stake-sized pit dug up next to the corpse, "Was it prepared to be used to insert a stake in the first place?" Just like half a year ago......"

"It's true that I wanted to hang the corpse upside down like half a year ago, but this time it wasn't finished, at least the corpse wasn't drained of blood, and there were only strangulation marks on the neck."

The scene looked like the prisoners had left halfway through before they had time to set it up.

But the strange thing is that Mamoru Inkura has almost his entire body firmly tied to a stake, which is very different from the situation when the maid was hung upside down half a year ago.

There is also a way for the prisoner to return to the mansion.

If the furniture company's truck came and the explosion on the other side of the tunnel only attracted the attention of the doorman, it would be a short time, and the risk of being detected was very high.

The murderer's modus operandi......

Gao Cheng's eyes glanced at the entire mansion, and the figure of Yin Cang Mi flashed in front of him.

This incident is obviously a continuation of half a year ago, yes, the police at that time may have been misled to just remove the coffin to check the floor, but failed to find the secret passage hidden by the carpet, and did not find the mystery on the back of the coffin.

Speaking of which, this place is located on the border of Gunma Prefecture and Saitama Prefecture, and it seems that it is under the jurisdiction of Gunma Prefecture, so the police who came here half a year should not be ......

Gao Cheng collapsed his eyelids.

Hopefully it won't be that guy.

One doorman was left to guard the body, and the other doorman took Gao Cheng around the walls of the mansion.

There is no place to enter or exit, and there are anti-theft sensors on the fence, so if anyone wants to climb over the wall, the doorman will know right away.

These were there half a year ago, and only the doorman was invited after the maid incident, so it is unlikely that they will do it quietly.

As for the secret passages......

At the beginning, it was only possible to use it for renovation for only a week, and if a secret passage was built on a large scale, it was easy to arouse the suspicion of the workers, and there was a vampire legend here.

And if there are secret passages, there is no need to arrange special furniture company trucks and blow up tunnels.

The prisoners had only a little time to spare.

……

When Gao Cheng returned to the villa again, everyone in the Yincang family who learned the news in the restaurant had already quarreled.

"He's not a policeman, so why should we listen to him?"

"Even if it's a detective, he's too young, who knows if it's ...... me"

"Yes," the little white face cried, "I will give an explanation for what you said, and as a result, my darling was not killed?!" ”

"Let's protect ourselves......"

Everyone was determined and left the restaurant despite the repeated requests of the maid Xiaoguang.

Xiao Ai wanted to go over and stop everyone, but was pulled by Gao Cheng from behind.

"Forget it, it's useless," Gao Cheng shook his head and said, "And I probably know the murderer's intentions." ”

At this time, he also encouraged everyone to leave, and the murderer obviously had a plan.

"You already know?" Xiao Wai wrinkled her nose.

Aside from the previous clues, she didn't know what was going on......

"I've solved so many cases alone," Gao Cheng walked into the empty restaurant, "The more complex the case, the more traces can often be traced, not to mention that the opponent is not necessarily a high-IQ criminal." ”

"It's going to stink in this kind ......of place," Xiao Wai muttered quietly, and followed Gao Cheng to the balcony window below the attic crime scene.

Gao Cheng pulled the curtains and observed carefully.

"The coffin and the photograph are all unraveled, and that's what remains, the vampire bat...... The bat was supposed to be just a toy airplane controlled by remote control, but the problem was that the sudden appearance and disappearance of Inkura Kumi, there were no obvious traces left on the attic, and we rushed over almost immediately......"

"Could it be that there is some other mechanism?" Xiao Wai reminded and asked.

"It's for sure that there are organs."

Gao Cheng imitated the little white face at that time to open the curtains, his eyes fell on the window glass, and after closer inspection, he found that the top piece of glass was a convex lens, which could turn the outside scene upside down.

In other words, at that time, it seemed that Yin Cang was retracted upstairs, but in fact, he fell down, because the window below was blocked by the little white face, so everyone didn't notice.

In this case......

Gao Cheng walked outside the balcony, rummaged through a pile of flower pots next to him, and after seeing a miserable white fanged face, he stretched out his hand to stop Xiao Ai, who wanted to follow.

Hidden by the flowers and plants is a skull and the shoulders of a vampire cloak propped up with padding.

The owner of this villa, Inkura Sakumi, is actually dead, and only a head dressed as a vampire remains......

Gao Cheng's eyes tightened, and the previous scenes flashed in his mind like lightning.

The voice of the maid Xiaoguang, as well as the conversation of everyone in the Yincang family, and the narration of the old housekeeper......

"I see." Gao Cheng gathered his thoughts.

"So what the hell is going on?" Xiao Ai wanted to probe to see what Gao Cheng had found, but his vision was all blocked by Gao Cheng, and his eyelids collapsed depressedly.

Why is this man like this......

"Okay," Gao Cheng got up and pushed Xiao Ai into the room, "Let's get to the bottom of this case thoroughly." ”

"Speaking of the case," Xiao Ai raised her eyelids, "Kudo has also encountered a case, and the case has already been solved." ”

"Conan's side?"

Gao Cheng was stunned.

Speaking of which, the Maori family accompanied the garden to the villa in Izu Kogen, and they didn't know what they did to solve the case.

"As long as you can solve the case," Gao Cheng said calmly, "The prisoner here doesn't plan to stop yet......"