"Quack—"

Under the crow crying with fluttering wings, Gao Cheng followed the maid on the left into the east wing.

"In this mansion, if you don't follow the rules, you're bound to be catastrophic...... Because this is the mansion where the cursed mask lives......"

The words of the twin maids made Gao Cheng's heart furious, and he began to feel eerie when he looked at the interior decoration of the villa, especially the masks hanging all over the walls, which looked particularly weird.

"What the hell is going on here?"

"Teacher Su Fang has always had a penchant for collecting masks," the maid led everyone upstairs, "I'll go put my luggage now, and ask a few people to wait in the mask hall for the time being." ”

"Kamen Hall?"

On the side of the stairs on the second floor, after pushing open a door, a room appeared in front of several people connecting the east and west wings, and it happened that Matsudaira Mamoru and others also entered the hall from the opposite side.

After Haruka Nagara took off his coat, he revealed a long purple dress, which looked like a fortune teller.

"I'm sorry, Detective Joto," Masaki Katagiri smiled at Takasei, "I thought it was Mr. Mori's son, but I didn't expect you to be another famous detective, Takasei Kiroto." ”

"Nothing." Gao Cheng could only laugh dryly.

It seems that every time I have to be taken advantage of by this guy......

There are masks on display everywhere in the masquerade hall, ordinary, infiltrating, just like a mask museum, and the owner here, Su Fanghongzi, has a really quirky hobby.

I just don't know what will happen this time.

None of the people present could see anything unusual, and the only clue was the threatening letter of "Cursed Mask".

Perhaps a horrific murder is brewing in this eerie villa......

"What are these?" Conan didn't know what he had encountered, the red curtains on both sides of the hall opened, and hundreds of identical white masks were displayed in front of everyone, and the empty smiling faces startled everyone.

"How can there be so many?"

"These are all masks of Shoble." A noble old woman appeared at the door, with silver-gray hair and a red shawl, and although her face was old, she still had a faint charm, followed by a short-haired woman wearing glasses.

"You are Ms. Su Fanghongzi!" Uncle Maori recognized the person at a glance.

"It's so nice to be here," said the old woman, who walked up to the uncle with a bright smile, "what do you think?" My favorite collection is okay, right? ”

"This ......"

"These are the two hundred masks that legend has it said were completed by the Spanish sculptor Chauvelle Scour Conderes before his death......"

Fortune teller Nagara Haruka looked at the white mask on the wall with a slight gaze: "Curse the mask?" ”

"Excuse me," the uncle wondered, "what does the cursed mask mean?" ”

"For Chauble was a tragic sculptor, who, though gifted, fell into the trap set by his brother, and was robbed of his status, fame, and even possessions, and in despair he continued to carve these masks as if possessed by something."

Lady Su Fang said in a boastful voice: "Just after he finished carving the two hundredth, he actually ended his life, and these masks scattered around his body at that time were all stained with blood, as if they were sucking his blood......

"Not only that," said Nagara Haruka, "and then the masks were scattered in the hands of different people, and the people who held them were cursed, and most of them ended in tragedy. ”

"But Ms. Su Fang has collected all these masks," Gao Cheng scoffed at the legend, picked up one and looked at it, "Aren't you afraid that something will happen?" ”

The old woman laughed, "You don't have to worry about this, I have already asked a powerful psychic medium to seal all the curses of these masks." ”

"Medium?" Gao Cheng glanced at his lips.

There seem to be a lot of psychic mediums and exorcists in the Conan world, and there are really a lot of them, all of them are guys who cheat money, and they really can't get on the stage, but there are really people like Su Fanghongzi who are willing to believe it.

However, it is usually easy for people with cursed legends to get into trouble, because criminals also like to cover up their crimes with cursed legends and the like.

"Actually, in the real world, human evil thoughts are much more terrible than curses," Gao Cheng turned to Uncle Maori and said, "Right, uncle?" ”

"Ah," the uncle reacted, taking the threatening letter from his bosom, "to be honest, we were halfway here when we were blocked by a tree that had this piece of paper on it. ”

"It's ......"

Several others were surprised: "I also received the same letter." ”

"Me too."

"Our company also received a strange letter." A yellow-haired young man with sunglasses walked into the hall, still holding an envelope in his hand.

"Fuyuya?" Su Fanghongzi reproached softly, "Why did you arrive so late?" ”

"I'm on a national tour, and if it's a little late, you don't have to worry about it."

The yellow-haired young man didn't see it at all, and handed the envelope to Su Fang Hongzi with a chuckle: "The letter did not indicate the sender's name, only that the recipient was Teacher Su Fang, and the words were also very strange." ”

"It's deliberately neatly written to hide the handwriting."

After asking for permission, Uncle Maori opened the envelope and pulled out a threatening letter.

"Tonight, Cursed Kamen will be sucking blood...... On the messenger of the cursed mask? ”

"Huh?" The uncle's face changed, and he said cautiously, "Ms. Su Fang, I think it's better to call the police for this matter!" ”

"I don't think it's necessary to take it to heart," Su Fanghongzi said disapprerovingly, "Ever since I started working in charity, threatening letters like this have never stopped. ”

Gao Cheng looked at the threatening letter and did not speak.

Sometimes it's just so unreasonable, it's hard to say whether Uncle Maori or Conan is a plague god, but it's right to always be involved in incidents.

This Su Fanghongzi thought too well.

……

After a lavish dinner, a fine snow fell outside.

Uncle Maori was called to the room on the third floor by Su Fanghongzi alone.

"Mr. Maori, I would like to ask you to help me investigate something."

"Want to find out who sent that letter?"

"No," Su Fanghongzi said with a wine glass, "Actually, I want to ask you to help me investigate in detail the car accident of Mr. and Mrs. Katagiri twenty years ago, and give you 2 million after the fact, what do you think?" ”

The uncle stood up suddenly: "Huh? 2 million?! I'm going to do it! ”

In the hall of the villa, Gao Cheng stood by the window, silently watching the snow scene for a while, and his eyes swept over the crowd gathered together to laugh.

In addition to the guests who were invited, the villa also included Su Fanghongzi and her secretary Kazuyo Inaba, and the popular rock singer in the company, Fuyuya Lankawa.

There is nothing wrong with these identities alone.

Su Fanghongzi started charity activities 15 years ago, and this time she also held a charity party for children who lost their families in car accidents.

The original cause was due to the fact that the good friend who took care of Su Fanghongzi's daily life 20 years ago hit someone and escaped, and Lanchuan Dongya was the son left behind by the good friend after committing suicide, and he gradually got to where he is today with Su Fanghongzi's assistance.

That car accident seems to have had a deep impact on Su Fanghongzi, who has been working for more than a decade to help orphans become independent due to car accidents.

Gao Cheng agreed to participate in the charity gala because he felt that it was beneficial to his own development.

In short, I can't see that Su Fanghongzi has anything worth killing at all, and there is no inheritance dispute.

Could it be that Su Fanghongzi made a scene by herself?

The hype around the cursed mask to expand its influence is of course a good thing for Hongyan Performing Arts Company, and the charity gala in a week may be even more well-known.

Thinking about it this way, the strange rules in the villa and Su Fanghongzi's strange behavior seem to make sense.

"That's right, uncle," Gao Cheng walked towards Uncle Maori, who was with Haruka Nagara, "Ms. Su Fang called you alone just now, is there something wrong?" ”

"No, no." Uncle said vigilantly.

"Really?" Gao Cheng looked suspicious.