Xiaolan and Conan also got up and came over, Xiaolan was more understanding, and analyzed it rationally, "That single house is far away from here, maybe I didn't hear the bell." ”

After a boring beep for more than ten seconds, the bell finally hung up, the noise disappeared, and Maori Kogoro breathed a long sigh of relief, stretched, and went back to the house to lie down.

Conan's complexion changed suddenly, he looked left and right in confusion, tilted his head sideways and tried to listen to something, and after a moment asked the other two, "Did you hear any strange sounds?" ”

Bai Shu heard it, and he heard it very clearly, it was a sound of rubbing and scraping things. Although this body is a mortal body, the inner core stuffed inside is different after all, and it is stronger than ordinary people in many ways.

It's just that he doesn't plan to say it: this point, the murderer should be committing a crime, although it can save a lot of things by rushing in to catch a person now, but there are too many variables, such as the murderer breaking the jar and rushing out to hack a passerby to death, or can't think of committing suicide with a backhand for a while, it's not good.

Besides, omitting the reasoning process is not conducive to the title of "sleeping detective" of Mori Kogoro, many of the later cases are based on his fame, and Shiraki doesn't want to sabotage the process at all.

At this time, Maori Kogoro had already gone back to the house and lay down, and Shiraki was pretending that nothing had happened, only Xiaolan answered Conan's question seriously, "No, what kind of voice is it?" ”

Conan had already heard the clue by this time, he no longer glanced around, his gaze was fixed, "a very uncomfortable sound, as if someone was knocking or scraping something...... It came from a single house over there. ”

He pointed to a separate hut in the corner of the garden.

That's where Marutari Jiro met the guests, and he had just gone into the house with the guests, and then he never came out again—Conan couldn't see the guests' faces, but the row of gardening trees was tight and loose, and the parts that were close to the ground were only trunks, and Conan saw the feet of two people.

With Conan's ugly complexion, this passage is inexplicably infiltrating from vocabulary to location, Xiaolan shuddered, "Don't, don't say it again, it's so scary!" ”

"Well......", Conan didn't mean to scare her, but the voice did make him very concerned, and as soon as his eyes rolled, his gaze fell on the white tree who was distracted by the pestle, "Brother Naoki, did you hear that?" ”

"Huh? No, I'm too tired today and have a little tinnitus. Bai Shu shook his head and talked nonsense with an upright face.

Because Xiaolan didn't hear it either, Conan believed it, and he didn't say anything more.

He was the only one of the three who heard it, probably auditory hallucinations...... Besides, they are guests after all, and even if there is a little abnormality, it is not good to mess around in the host's house.

However, after this incident, Conan's attention to the single-family house increased significantly.

Shiraki returned to the room, and Conan and Xiaolan continued to squat next to the pond to watch the fish, and nearly two hours passed in a flash, and it was almost dark.

The sunset shone obliquely into the yard, reflecting a broken light in the pond, and the light spots and goldfish of the same tone set off each other, which can be called a beautiful scenery, but it is a pity that Conan has seen enough, not only is he not interested in it now, but he is also a little numb in his legs, and he has been squatting for too long.

Conan stood up and stretched his legs, frowned at the solitary house, and asked Xiaolan, "Sister Xiaolan, don't you think it's a little strange?" That old man must have been too slow. ”

"yes, he said he would be back soon." , Xiaolan remembers what Marudo Jiro said just now, the pond is not too far from the main house, and she can hear the conversation at the door.

The two looked at each other, and just as they didn't know what to do, the phone beeped again.

The phone at Marudonjiro's house is the default phone ring, without a little rhyme, it sounds very annoying, Maori Kogoro sat up in a dying dream, pulled open the sliding door, and shouted angrily, "It's noisy!" ”

I don't know if he was murdered, but the phone only beeped three times this time, and he hung up quickly.

Maori Kogoro was stunned, scratched the back of his head in confusion, but didn't dig deeper, the short time of the sound was just what he wanted, but he had just been woken up, and he couldn't sleep, he yawned and looked at his watch, "I've been sitting for two and a half hours, how long do I have to wait." ”

"It should be soon." , Bai Shu's whole person is a capital wall, he poured himself a cup of tea, drank it slowly, and did not feel anxious at all.

Maori Kogoro listened to his cooing, and forced himself to be thirsty, he coughed twice, and was about to go over to pour a cup of tea, but before he could touch the teapot, the phone rang again.

Comrade Kogoro may have been a little angry when he got up, he was bombarded by this ugly phone ring, and he didn't care about drinking tea, so he rolled up his sleeves and ran towards the lonely house, "I want to see what he's doing, people don't pay attention, he doesn't answer the phone, what the hell!" ”

Although the phone was also very familiar with each other after three times and hung up, Maori Kogoro's anger was already full, and he ran over without stopping.

Bai Shu drank the rest of the tea in one gulp and followed.

Mori Kogoro walked down the hallway, and as soon as he exited the main entrance, he was confronted by two women, both wearing aprons and looking to be servants of the house.

The two of them were startled by the sudden appearance of the stranger, let out a scream, hurriedly took a few steps back, and reported to a woman in a kimono behind them, "Madam, there is a sneaky person here!" ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Bai Shu also came out of the door, and the two aunts glanced at him, their voices were slightly quieter, and added, "There is another young man." ”

“…… Feed! Why only give me the prefix 'sneaky'! Feeling discriminated against, Kogoro Maori shook his fist angrily, "Where am I sneaky!" I'm a private investigator hired by your master! ”

"Ah......h Conan, who was the slowest runner, heard something wrong as soon as he came and wanted to stop him, but he was a step too late.

When Maru Daozi heard this, he immediately looked at him suspiciously, "Private detective? Why did my husband hire you? ”

“！” , Maori Kogoro was shocked to realize that he had leaked his mouth, and hurriedly covered his mouth, his eyes rolled in panic, thinking that it was over and exposed, and he wouldn't be scolded by that Marudo Jiro for a while.

Bai Shu tried to save the scene, although he knew that this time was estimated to be impossible to save the scene, but it didn't matter, the main owner was dead, "We are employed by your husband, we can only talk to your husband directly, it is inconvenient to reveal the details to you." ”

Maru Daozi's delicate eyebrows immediately frowned, and a small Sichuan character twisted on her forehead, she obviously realized something, and suddenly asked, "Where is my husband now?" ”

"I just went to the detached house over there." , Bai Shu raised his hand and pointed.

Maru Inako didn't really care about her husband's whereabouts, and asked this sentence just to separate the servant, "Kumi, Saori, go and invite the master!" ”

The two servants didn't think much of it, and ran away quickly.

Maru Inako glanced at their backs, then suddenly approached, her eyes wandering back and forth on Mori Kogoro and Shiraki, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, how much do you know?" ”