Cracking sound! ”

Downstairs in the Black Gold Forest Hotel, a raging fire broke out in the corner of the lawn inexplicably, and Hattori and Conan, who found the fire outside the window, hurriedly beckoned everyone to run downstairs.

"The front of the hotel is on fire!"

"It's on fire! Hurry up! ”

The two of them shouted loudly to warn the others, and hurried out of the hotel door first.

The fire started on the right side of the hotel leading to the Black Gold Pond, and a warning sign embedded in the edge of the forest can be seen in the smoke of the fire.

"Damn! Who did it exactly? ”

"Yes, it's an ost!"

"The bird appeared with black smoke! It's a bulge! ”

The people who were already ready to rest hurriedly ran downstairs, and when they heard the terrible screams that followed around them, their faces changed again, and they looked at the spreading fire in horror, and they were even more incoherent about the half-breed brother who was particularly fanatical about the legend of the monster.

Seeing this, Hattori scolded and said, "Idiot, how can there really be such a thing in the world? ”

"There really is!"

The half-breed brother didn't have the excitement he had before at all, and his face was pale and cold sweat was pouring out to look at the other side of the fire wave.

A terrifying black shadow that was one story high suddenly walked out from behind the wall, and the behemoth-like beast almost scared the little brother to pee.

"It's a squid!"

"How is this possible?!" Hattori stared at the giant beast in shock, although he could only see the thick forelimbs, giant claws and half of the body, but a monster of this size......

Is there really a youkai?

What is this?

The beast opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and bit the warning sign, and directly turned away with the wooden sign in its mouth, its tail cocked like a snake behind it, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Escaped!" The hattori quilt who wanted to chase after him couldn't get close to the fire wave, so he hurriedly shouted, "Mr. Village Chief, quickly bring a fire extinguisher!" Get all the fire extinguishers here to put out the fire!! ”

Leaving everyone to help put out the fire, Hattori and Conan gritted their teeth and bypassed the hotel building, intending to catch up with the beast from the other side and figure out the true face of the monster.

He still didn't believe in any monsters, but he was really shocked by what he saw.

The fire was still very large, but the other side was not affected, and the two managed to reach the place where the beast had fled, but they only found a warning sign with a huge tooth mark on the wall.

"It's strange," Hattori looked around with a solemn look of confusion, "we came around from behind, but we didn't run into that monster." ”

"Could it be that you have escaped through the woods and into the pond?"

Conan turned to the pond in the woods next to him, and soon found dots of blood on the grass that stretched in the direction of the pond, and the reason why there was a warning sign here was that he was worried that the guests would accidentally fall into the pond in front of him......

"Hey, Kudo!" Hattori stopped Conan, "If you go any further, you'll fall into the pond!" ”

"Hattori."

Conan's face was heavy and he found the historical researcher Somechi Conk lying behind the tree, and the end of the bloodstain was here, and through the moonlight reflected on the surface of the lake, he could see that the entire back of Somechi was caught with huge blood.

"What's wrong?" Hattori followed, but he didn't see it clearly at the first time, and said in surprise, "Isn't this Mr. Someji?" Passed out? ”

"No, he's dead."

Conan shook his head to check the condition of the corpse, and the shocking blood marks could not be avoided.

"It's like being attacked by a giant beast, and there are still claw marks on ...... body"

As the night deepened, when Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai walked through the forest to find the hotel, the fire in front of them had been extinguished by everyone, and Hattori and Conan had also returned from the pond.

"Joto?" Hattori glared, "Why are you here?" ”

Not only here, but also with the young lady of the office......

What the hell is this? The hotel is still quite far from the village, not to mention whether Gao Cheng came from the village, it is a miracle that he did not get lost in the forest.

And it just happened to be a fatal case, it's toxic, right?

"Well, it's a long story," Gao Cheng opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain it, but fortunately changed the subject, "It's you, what's going on here?" ”

Hattori came back to his senses, didn't care about Gao Cheng, turned to everyone with a heavy face and said, "Everyone, Mr. Dyji was killed, and he was in the woods by the pond next to him, with deep claw marks on his back!" ”

"What?"

The people who were still cleaning up the scene stopped their movements in an instant, and at the same time stared at Hattori.

"It's hard, is it like being scratched by a tiger's claws?"

"It's bigger, there are about 10 centimeters between the two claw marks, there are four in total." Conan added.

"What are you kidding? How can there be such big claws? Aunt glasses scolded.

"How could it be a joke?" The half-race guy with sweat on his face snorted and laughed, "Didn't you see that just now?" It's an ostrich! Dye was killed by that giant monster! Legend has it that the claws of the owl are like the claws of a tiger! ”

Gao Cheng stood on the side with a blank face, and glanced at each other with Xiao Ai.

The case came so suddenly, he didn't know anything, and he couldn't understand what was being said.

The only thing he knew was that his original plan to spend the night was completely ruined, and it seemed that he couldn't rest properly in this situation.

After a pause, Gao Cheng's gaze fell on the messy grass behind the fire.

Kerosene taste...... Is it artificial?

"Pingji," said after Ye and Xiaolan called the police, "The police said that this is a deep mountain, and there is no way to rush over immediately...... Moreover, can the police beat that monster? ”

"Stupid," Hattori clasped his hands together, the desire for victory in his eyes skyrocketed, "how could something like a monster really exist?" There must have been some kind of trick, and the fire here was also caused by someone throwing kerosene, and it still smells, doesn't it? ”

"But," the half-breed brother also smelled kerosene, "aren't there huge claw marks on the back of the dyed ground?" ”

"That's true, but the fatal wound is only one of the four claw marks, and only that one is particularly deep."

Hattori had never been ahead of Gao Cheng, and looking at Gao Cheng's appearance that he was still unclear about the situation, he couldn't help but feel excited.

This time, he solved the puzzle first.

It's his turn, too, if he beats Kudo......

"It may be that Mr. Somechi was stabbed in the back by the killer and fled for a while before falling to the ground, and then the killer processed the original wound into a long wound, and then added three more wounds to the side, disguised as if he had been attacked by an ostridge."

Hattori was full of fighting spirit, turned to the old village and said.

"The only one who can do this is Mr. Zoji, the village chief, who called Mr. Somechi here."

"Ah, me?" The old village chief panicked, "I was also entrusted by someone, and the client sent the letter and money, as well as the notebook that I showed you at dinner, which said, 'As long as these four people are called, the legend of the treasure will become a topic of conversation again, and the village will prosper'.

I put the letter to the four people in it, saying that they would come after reading it, right? You should have seen that, too. ”

The old village chief inquired and looked at the half-breed brothers.

Hattori excluding the number of make up is exactly four people.

Hattori frowned.

Did he come here separately from the village chief......

"That's right," the half-breed nodded, "It's a letter about the collapse accident 10 years ago, and that's why I'm here." ”

"But what does that mean?" Several other people followed and looked at the village chief, "Who knows if there is really any client." ”

"It's true," said the old village chief urgently, "even the rooms you stay in the hotel are designated by the client. ”

Gao Cheng didn't say anything later, just quietly observed.

It seems that this village chief does not seem to be lying, and the person who arranged this kind of thing will not expose himself so casually, maybe there is really a mastermind behind it.

In that case......

Although the situation is still unclear, this time the case does not seem to be over.

It is a case of serial homicide.

Gao Cheng covered his mouth sleepily and yawned.

I drove here in the morning, and after I arrived at the temple, I started to investigate the supernatural phenomenon, and I drove down the mountain without much rest, but I was in the forest until now, and I was really tired today.

Now he wanted to see that monster with his own eyes and refresh himself.