"Ahh Save ......", Ayumi was scared out of tears, fluttering and struggling and shouting, but the shouting had just begun, and he was covered by Bai Shu.

"Let her go!" , Conan was also startled, and subconsciously shook the flashlight towards Bai Shu's face, and was about to take advantage of the other party's dazzle and kick him hard, Conan saw the other party's face clearly.

"Naoki?! …… Brother. Conan was so excited that he almost called out his name directly, and finally added a suffix to go back, "Why are you here?!" ”

“……？” , Ayumi was stunned for a moment, and stopped fluttering.

She turned her head curiously to look at the white tree, this is someone Conan knows?

Seeing that she was quiet, Shiraki put Ayumi back on the ground.

In the face of Conan's question, Bai Shu moved out of the usual words, "Of course, because you haven't come home so late, Xiaolan is very worried, let me take a look." ”

"It's not ......", Conan didn't think it was right.

This basement was very secretive, and if he hadn't seen the long-haired woman disappear before, he might not have imagined that the end of the corridor would be connected to a basement.

But why did Naoki ......

At this time, I don't know if it was because of the entanglement, the "wild man" howled in pain beside him.

This sound successfully drew the attention of Conan and Ayumi.

Ayumi glanced at it, then swooped back behind Shiraki, clutching his pants, so frightened that there was only a sound of gas, "In the cage...... Why is there someone in the cage? ”

Conan was also startled, but he didn't say anything.

The moment the "wild man" looked up, he saw the face of the "wild man" - a small mole under his left eye, and his face was thin, much like the person he had just seen in the family photo.

A long list of clues connected in a line, Conan was shocked, and suddenly had a guess about this "haunted house".

His face changed slightly, and he asked Bai Shu, "Brother Naoki, have you brought your eldest brother to adulthood?" ”

"Nope." , Bai Shu knew that he wanted to call the police, "But the police should be coming soon." ”

"Oh, that's good."

Conan was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly remembered something, "Wait, you called the police?" ”

And judging from his words, he still called the police before entering here.

…… How did Naoki know that something was going to happen here?

Conan's question was clearly written on his face.

Bai Shu glanced at him and continued to use his old tricks perfunctorily, "Didn't I say it, you came back too late, and the adults would be worried." ”

“…… Is that really the case? Conan had become a dead fish-eye, and he didn't believe much in this simple and crude statement.

Besides, when ordinary people encounter children returning late from school, their first reaction should be to think where the child is playing, and first find out by themselves, only some very sensitive parents will choose to call the police directly.

As for Naoki and Kogoro...... That's not to mention. Ke Nan seriously suspected that if he really ran away from home one day, I am afraid that only Xiaolan could find out that something was wrong.

Conan held back the question, but just as he was about to speak, Shiraki suddenly made a silent gesture.

He looked at the door and whispered, "Someone's coming." ”

“？！” , Ayumi immediately thought of the "ghost" floating in the corridor before, she got goosebumps all over her body, and reflexively retreated.

took two steps back, and suddenly felt that there was also gloomy behind him, and he ran back again and hugged Bai Shu's legs.

Conan also took two steps back away from the door, and he looked much more stable, "It's okay, Ayumi, if my guess is correct, there is only one old woman living in this bungalow except for this locked up, and Brother Naoki should be able to deal with it." ”

"Hmm." , Bai Shu scratched the back of his head and nodded in agreement, it seems that in the end, it has become manual work.

Before he could say anything more, footsteps outside approached, and the door was slowly pushed open, revealing a long-haired woman with a plate of plates.

The woman was slender, wearing a black dress, which made her more and more thin as a stick, her white hair was long to the roots of her legs, and she held a dinner plate in her dry wood-like hand, and a few wrinkles could be seen on the small half of her face.

Her movements were numb and sluggish, like walking corpses, until she looked up and saw a few strangers behind the door, and the woman was stunned for a moment, and showed a little fierceness.

She put the dinner plate on the ground, took out a kitchen knife out of nowhere, and held it in her hand a little nervously, "It turns out that in addition to the two little mice just now, someone else broke in!" ”

"Stop." , Bai Shu tried to mouth, and at the same time he took off Ayumi who was stuck to his leg and put it back to prevent it from affecting his hands for a while, "Although mother's love is great, but after hiding with her son for so many years, you should be tired." ”

As soon as the words came out, the woman's whole body was violently agitated, and Conan, who was behind Bai Shu, also frowned and stared at his back for a while.

Conan actually found out when he first came in, this bungalow has running water, and there is a hidden exit, not like no one has lived in it for five years.

And just now, he also saw a family portrait of the owner's family of three in the house, and the son in it had a mole under his left eye, and his face was thin, just like ...... The same as the man who was locked in the iron cage next to him.

Normal people don't lock up their sons after a subject's death. These anomalies made Conan quickly think of two possibilities:

One is that five years ago, the woman killed her husband and imprisoned him in order to prevent her son, who had seen everything, from calling the police.

The second is that the son is a murderer, and the mother tries to use this method to let him escape the law.

However, until now, Conan didn't know what the truth was, but Naoki's words just now seemed to be very sure that his son was the real murderer.

…… Why?

After living together for so long, Shiraki's image in Conan's eyes has long since changed from a complicated first impression to a god-like, lazy, and unreliable image of Maori Kogoro.

But what happened today reminded him of the case he solved when he first met Bai Shu.

Now it seems that Bai Shu was able to solve the case that day, not by luck and coincidence.

The person's ability to reason...... Far more powerful than he imagined!

When Conan was making a big deal and gilding the white tree, the two adults at the door were still facing each other.

The woman froze for a long time, then spoke in a dumb voice, "What do you know?!" ”

Her hands trembled a little, and even her whole body trembled.

Against children, she has an absolute physical advantage.

But when the opponent is replaced by an adult man, even if she tries her best, it is difficult to kill him.

Although Bai Shu is salted fish, the body he uses now is a police academy student before, and he has been exercising hard for several years.

Looking at Bai Shu's not thin figure and the faintly visible muscle lines on her arms, the woman's heart was filled with a trace of despair.

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