In Hokkaido, Koji Takada personally drove Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai into the depths of the mountains, and the fog between the mountains made people a little uneasy, but fortunately, the road was still clear.

Gao Cheng held a note with a poetic code in his hand, and looked at Xiao Ai next to him who was holding his arms and closing his eyes for a break.

"Didn't they all say it's just work? I also took a leave of absence to come over......"

"Anyway, it's all simple knowledge from elementary school," Xiao Wai raised her eyelids, "Even if you don't go to class, it's not ......"

Is that why you skip class for a week?

Gao Cheng reluctantly continued to study the code.

Xiao Ai is indeed a little better than him in terms of codes, but he can't see anything from these sentences alone, and he has to go to Hokkaido to see it in person.

But then again, what the hell was the well-known mystery writer thinking, didn't he know that setting up such a challenge could easily lead to accidents?

Or is it deliberate......

As the car went deeper, the lake in a mist gradually appeared in front of Gao Cheng, and a castle-like building could be vaguely seen in the middle of the lake.

"I can see it," Koji Takada said with a smile, "The building built on a floating island in the middle of the lake is the Lucia Pavilion, Mr. Yamanouchi's villa. ”

The car stopped by the lake through the woods, and the castle was completely revealed, looking very much like a mosque architecture.

"This is a Russian architectural style," as if knowing Gao Cheng's thoughts, Koji Takada took the initiative to explain with a smile, "Because it is an onion-shaped roof, it is easy to mistake it for a mosque, it is said that Russia was originally a country that believed in Greek Orthodoxy, but through Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, which is now Istanbul, the imported Christianity and *** culture are also reflected in Russian culture......"

"Ahem."

Gao Cheng nodded as if he didn't understand, and just then an old man with round-framed eyes walked over, wearing a decent suit, which was very intellectual.

"Good work, Mr. Takada," the old man greeted with a smile, "next to him is the detective...... Joto Gaocheng, right? I've admired the name for a long time, and the detective of the castle ......"

"Who are you?"

"I'm Fujio Tashiro, Mr. Yamauchi's housekeeper, come, please here, I need to take a boat next."

The old man said and led everyone to the dock, but his smile looked a little reluctant, and Koji Takada whispered to Gao Cheng: "He has been a housekeeper for Mr. Yamanouchi for so many years, but he has no share of the inheritance, so he will be unhappy somewhat, and the matter of the inheritance should not be ...... in front of him for the time being."

"I know."

Gao Cheng can be regarded as a person who has entered the society, of course, it will not be much.

The so-called boat is a small boat with an electric motor, which clicks all the way, and after dropping off everyone on the island in the middle of the lake, it returns the same way and leaves.

"Isn't there a boat here?" Gao Cheng asked, looking at the empty dock.

"No, this is the instruction of the deceased Yamauchi Sensei, until the teacher's birthday in 5 days, everyone can only stay on the island, you are the last ...... to arrive"

The butler Tashiro led everyone to the front of the villa, and up close, the castle-like building looked a little more ornate, around the atrium there were five tower-like buildings, each with an onion-shaped roof, and the most striking was the bell tower behind the atrium, on which a large clock was heard, and the bell reverberated in the thick fog of the lake as the hour came.

Gao Cheng didn't have much to appreciate, this kind of place was like it was prepared for crime......

In the atrium of the villa, there were already a few people present, and when the housekeeper Tashiro led Gao Cheng in, all eyes suddenly gathered.

"Baotian, you're really slow," a middle-aged bearded man in a nightgown stood up with a wine glass and said, "Is this little brother next to you invited to help?" How do you invite a little ghost to come over......"

"Mr. Kamimei, I think you may have misunderstood, the famous Detective Castle is not a little ghost......

A teenager who looked like a high school student walked over and stared at Gao Cheng with great interest: "It's great that Mr. Takada can invite the detective over, and it's my honor to be able to compete with the detective from the city......"

As he spoke, the young man shook hands with Gao Cheng and said, "I'm high school detective Takashi Inukai, and I'm a neighbor of Mr. Yamauchi in Kanagawa, and I was thanked for treating me like a relative, so I was also selected as a candidate for inheritance this time, so please take care of me!" ”

"Please take care of ......"

Gao Cheng shook his hand gently, a little surprised that there was such a young boy among the candidates, and he didn't quite understand the criteria for selecting Yamauchi Hengsheng, no wonder the housekeeper complained.

The bearded man who was called Mr. God didn't look very good, and he snorted at the boy, "What is the showdown?" I started pretending to be a detective again, but I just happened to solve a small murder case, and other city detectives are also professional detectives no matter how they say it......"

The boy ignored the mustachioed man, looked around expectantly, and said, "Yamauchi-sensei probably didn't expect a detective to come, right?" However, he actually arranged a reasoning competition here, and he really deserves to be the leader in the reasoning world, Yamanouchi Hengsheng......"

"Actually?"

"Doesn't Detective Joto know? The scene here is exactly the same as Yamauchi Sensei's early masterpiece "Lucia Puppet Murder Incident", so Detective Joto must have studied Yamauchi-sensei before he came, right? After all, the key to this competition is the code he prepared......"

Looking at Gao Cheng's embarrassed look, the young man paused and smiled reluctantly: "It seems to be different from what I imagined, but I heard that detectives like to hide clumsy, so Detective Chenghu shouldn't be deliberately showing weakness, right?" ”

"I really don't know much about Mr. Yamauchi......"

Gao Cheng chuckled honestly.

In a hurry, he really didn't have time to read the works of Yamauchi Hengsheng, but only collected some biographical information, and most of his energy was focused on studying Takato Harukichi.

After all, this trip to Hokkaido was mainly for Takato Harukichi, and even though he had dealt with Takato Harukichi several times, he was a little lacking in confidence......

"Is there Lucia Doll Murder here?" Gao Cheng asked Tashiro, the housekeeper.

"There should be one in the teacher's room, I'll get it later."

After arranging the accommodation room, the housekeeper Tashiro came over and brought a book, which was still the first edition of "Lucia's Puppet Murder", Gao Cheng took advantage of Xiao Ai's luggage to look through it.

As the boy said, the background of the story is also the current villa Lucia Pavilion, and the five people gathered in the villa were compared to Lucia dolls and killed one after another.

It seems to be similar to the last Black Magic incident, like a curse killing.

But the content doesn't seem to have anything to do with the code this time.,If you don't guess wrong.,There should be a key hint next.,That's why the 5-day deadline for this time was arranged.。

"Detective Joto!" After a while, Koji Takamada came over and shouted, "Everyone has gone to the reception room to gather." ”

"Okay."

Gao Cheng took Xiao Ai out of the door, and followed Koji Takada to the reception room on the top floor of the clock tower, in addition to the mustachioed male god Tadashi and high school student Inukai Takashi who he had seen before, there was also the sexy reasoning Kaoru Umezono who had seen but did not speak, and the beautiful illustrator Yuzuki Laimeng, who had just met with long hair, was wearing a black suit, and his long hair covered half of his face.

Gao Cheng looked at the big beauty for a while, and his attention was focused on a long-legged young man wearing a mask behind Youyue Laimeng.

Although he couldn't see his face, Gao Cheng's gaze shrank sharply when he saw those eyes.

It's Gao Yuanyaoyi, this guy actually appeared so grandly, and there is no intention to hide it in other aspects, the mask can hide it from ordinary people, but it definitely can't hide it from him......

"Looks like it's all here," the masked man chuckled, noticing Gao Cheng, "Can we start?" ”

"This is ......" Everyone was surprised to see the masked man.

"He's the helper I hired, Mr. Scarlett Rosyth," Dark Moon introduced, "because he used to wear a mask because he had been severely burned while practicing magic......