Black Gold Forest Hotel, because it was an unexpected guest, did not prepare another guest room, Gao Cheng had to follow Hattori and Conan to share the bed, as for Xiao Ai, he went to Xiaolan and Heye.

However, after the "monster" attack, Xiaolan and Ye Guts became very small and didn't want to live in the original room.

"Change rooms?"

"Yes, our room used to be the foreigner who died in the landslide accident, and there is a notebook in the drawer where the person practiced calligraphy, all of which are relics, which feels a little scary." Xiaolan said distressedly.

"It's very interesting," a hint of joy flashed in the eyes of the glasses aunt Zengzi Shi Hui when she heard this, "Then I'll change rooms with you, my room is on the 2nd floor......"

"I'll stay in that room," the bald uncle Danzawa suddenly interrupted, "I can't let women leave terrifying memories." ”

The room was reassigned, and in the end, the bald uncle and Xiaolan exchanged rooms to the 3rd floor, and the half-race brother also changed from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor with a face, probably because the previous monster just had access to the window on the 2nd floor.

For safety reasons, Hattori told everyone to stay in the room until the police came, and the mobile phone and other announcements were kept by Hattori for the time being, because the terrible screams could have been made by someone with a loudspeaker.

"I see," the old village chief took a broom as a weapon and guarded the place where the fire had started downstairs with Hattori, "we can see everyone's rooms here, and if that monster attacks again, we can drive it away!" ”

Hattori looked at the village chief who was armed with a dark face: "Why are you here too, village chief?" Didn't it make you stay in the room honestly? Leave it to us here! ”

"That being said, I invited you here, and as the village chief, it is my responsibility to keep everyone safe."

The old village chief said righteously, and his eyes clearly glanced at Hattori, Conan, and Gao Cheng, who was studying something on the other side.

Two high school students and an elementary school student, how can they deal with monsters?

But then again, this high school student named Joto can't be the Tokyo detective, right? Looks a lot like high school detective Shinichi Kudo.

In fact, the client wrote in the letter that he asked Detective Mori Kogoro to come over, but he spent all the money on the renovation of this hotel, so at first he considered looking for Kudo Shinichi, and because he couldn't be contacted, he found a replacement for Hattori in Kansai.

High school detectives are mainly cheap, and they don't even need to be paid, and it is enough to reimburse transportation expenses, but the detectives in the agency are different, and they are not easy to fool.

It's just that it's not very clear how there can be an extra detective who looks like a high school student for free now.

The old village chief looked at Gao Cheng.

It shouldn't be Tokyo's Joto Takanari, whose commission fee is now more expensive than Mori Kogoro.

“nue……”

Gao Cheng was studying an old notebook, and a page torn from the notebook, on which were three letters.

It is said that it was the last message of the foreigner in the landslide accident, which means "鵺".

The message paper has been stored in the village office of Suri Village for 16 years, and it was discovered when the former village chief dug up the body of a foreigner, along with an old hairpin made of iron.

The notebook was provided by the mastermind behind this time, and the tear on one of the pages was exactly the same as the message paper.

The notebook records in detail the clues found by the excavation team, as well as the detailed process of excavation, which can be used as a reference for this treasure hunt.

The old village chief originally planned to go to the cave tomorrow to hunt for treasures, so he asked several experts to discuss the notes, and also arranged a camera to make a short film for publicity.

If, as the village chief said, someone really entrusts it, the purpose of the other party is definitely not to help the village boost its popularity, and there should be some special reason for looking for those 4 people to come.

Gao Cheng thought about it and closed the notebook.

Specific people, specific room arrangements...... This behavior is not new to him, and he has encountered it several times.

If there is no accident, the culprit behind the scenes is also among these people in the hotel.

"Mr. Village Chief," Hattori did not drive the village chief away, and asked carefully, "The reason for calling those four people over is written in the letter that person gave you, right?" ”

"Yes, archaeologist Michiki Tanzawa, who is very familiar with the geology here in Shizuoka Prefecture and has done surveys in the vicinity before."

The old village chief introduced.

Not only in Shizuoka Prefecture, but also in various parts of the country, he was famous as a commentator on a TV special program related to the ruins a few years ago.

It's just that since there were rumors that he was suspected of forging unearthed cultural relics, he disappeared all of a sudden. ”

"Oh," Hattori continued to ask, flashing the figure of the bald old man in his mind, "What about the aunt who wrote it?" ”

"Don't you know her?" The village chief was surprised, "She is a well-known fantasy writer, she knows the legends of ancient Japanese yokai well, and when she was made into a TV series, she also had a lot of say about the scenery and the like, because she herself graduated from the University of Fine Arts, and her works are very popular." ”

"Huh?" Hattori wondered, "Does this aunt sound like it has nothing to do with the Tokugawa treasure?" ”

"Yes," said the village chief, laughing, "and the letter also says that if the treasure hunt doesn't work, the bird will be used as a gimmick." ”

In the woods on the side, Gao Cheng found the body by the pond.

As Conan described, there are four large claw marks on the back and waist of Dye Diconk.

But it's clearly artificial.

Although he didn't know much zoology and didn't know what the wounds of a real monster attack would look like, he had no problem judging the extent of the wounds.

The first is that there is nothing wrong with the victim's coat, it looks like he specially lifted his clothes to leave claw marks, and then the blood stains are also very problematic, and there is a lot of blood in the middle of the bottom wound, and the belt and pants are dyed red down.

Herein lies the problem.

Only this one blood stain was downward, that is, when the victim was standing.

The real fatal wound suffered by the victim was the stab wound that caused massive bleeding, and the blood stain was wrong because the other wounds were disguised by the prisoner after the victim had collapsed.

But why was this Dye Di Kangke killed?

According to the information provided by the village chief, Someji is a historical researcher who has studied the treasures of the Tokugawa River, and is as famous as archaeologist Michiki Tanzawa and magician Masuko Shie.

Among the 4 people invited, only the half-breed brother is a fledgling rookie writer who has been chasing the legend of the monster, but he has not achieved much, which is really redundant compared to the other 3.

Gao Cheng squatted beside the corpse to inspect it for a while, and he didn't feel terrified, and concentrated on looking around his surroundings.

He didn't see the scene where the monster appeared, so he didn't know the specific scene, what kind of trick the prisoner could use to deceive the eyes of so many people, and even Hattori and Conan said that they saw the monster.

If you re-comb it, it starts when Hattori notices that the hotel is on fire downstairs, and when he arrives downstairs, he hears a strange scream, followed by a monster that is one or two stories high, appears from behind the wall, bites the warning sign and leaves.

By the time Hattori and Conan had bypassed the hotel building, the monster had dropped the warning sign and disappeared, and Conan followed the bloodstain to find the body by the pond.

It's funny, it's like a magic show.

Generally speaking, this technique requires specific occasions and conditions, and the first condition is the evening.

Then there is the ignition, which needs to keep the audience blocked by the fire.

And then there's the monster itself.

It appeared for a short time, and for some reason it just took the warning sign in its mouth, and fled with the warning sign still behind the wall.

The traces of the performance are too obvious.

But is it just to create the illusion that youkai are killing people?

"Buzz ——!"

Without waiting for Gao Cheng to think about it, a strange whine suddenly echoed again in the night, like the sound of a wave of oscillating tuning forks, as if there were monsters under the night sky, making people have goosebumps all over their bodies, and they were creepy.

Gao Cheng quickly returned to the hotel, and at this time, as the shouting stopped, the surroundings of Hattori and several people burned again for unknown reasons.

"What the hell is going on?" Hattori's face changed drastically, "Why did it suddenly burn?!" ”

In the same place, it was burning in front of everyone, and the half-race brothers who opened the window also stared at this terrible scene.

"Uhh A scream suddenly erupted from the room on the far side of the third floor, echoing instead of the monster's scream, further increasing the atmosphere of fear.

"It's an ostrich!" The little brother leaned out of the window on the third floor and was the first to shout, "That monster is here again!" ”

Gao Cheng walked out from behind the wall, and heard the little brother shouting frantically and was speechless: "What kind of monsters." ”

This rookie reporter is a typical Ye Gong Haolong, who is timid and always excited.

"What's going on with that scream?"

Gao Cheng and Hattori rendezvous, looking up at the nearest room on the third floor, just upstairs from Aunt Glasses, the window was open, and there was no movement.

"It seems to be Mr. Tanzawa's voice upstairs." The glasses aunt poked her head out and looked upstairs.

"Oops!"

Hattori and Conan saw that Danzawa Michiki on the third floor did not move, so they anxiously rushed back to the hotel and ran upstairs, and even chased after the old village chief, leaving Gao Cheng alone to stay next to the fire.

Because of the relationship between the fire and the fire before, there is no need to rush to extinguish the fire, but the cause of the fire makes Gao Cheng very interested.

This time it wasn't kerosene, it seemed to be using sodium metal.

The prisoner had set up the place in advance, and once again performed a monster-infested trick in front of Hattori and Conan.