On the other side, as on this side, most of the architectural styles should be like this.

The only difference is that at the end of the corridor on the other side, there is a room with a painting on the wall. This room is not big, but the paintings are not small, taking up more than half of the space of one wall, surrounded by two rows of bookshelves, a few tables and chairs on the ground, and a carpet underfoot, even after so many years, it is still very soft to step on.

Lu Yuan and the three of them searched for a few turns, but there were no clues, so they finally stopped in front of this painting.

On the painting, it is an old man, sitting in a wheelchair, behind the old man, standing a couple, who look about 40 years old, and next to the old man, there are two small children, who look like they are 10 years old, and the faces of the five people are filled with very bright smiles, as for the background of the painting, it is this old house, but during the day, this house looks quite magnificent, not at all like it is so gloomy now.

Lu Yuan stared at the painting for a while, and after a while, he asked, "That's your family, right?" ”

Kazuo Sugi nodded: "Yes, the old man in the middle is my grandfather, and the one in the back is my parents." ”

"The first two boys are you and your brother."

"Yes, it's me on the left, my brother on the right, and we're only a year apart."

Lu Yuan's eyes fell on the smile of this family.

"In this way, your family had a good relationship a few decades ago." Lu Yuan said.

Kazuo Sugi hesitated slightly, as if he didn't want to remember something from a long time ago, but in the end he took over the topic.

"Okay, my grandfather was still there at that time, and in my memory, the days were still very happy, but a few years later, my grandfather passed away, and a few years later, my mother also left us because of a traffic accident, and after that, only my father and my two brothers remained, and the successive departure of relatives made my father's character silent, and he became more and more strict with me and Yuji...... And in the end, it should be Yuji who is more in line with his expectations......"

After saying these few words, Shanmujun was silent, and Lu Yuan nodded indifferently, probably understanding the history of this family.

"Okay, let's go to the second floor."

Lu Yuan said, and then turned around and left the study, and the three of them returned to the hall again, preparing to march from the stairs to the second floor.

But just when Xiaolan and Kazuo Sugi had already turned around and stepped up the steps, they found that Lu Yuan seemed to be in a daze in front of the stairs, he was shining a flashlight on the floor, his head was down, and he didn't know what he was doing?

"Eh, Mr. Lu Yuan, what's wrong?" Xiaolan waited for a while and found that Lu Yuan was still stunned, so she asked.

Lu Yuan raised his head, his eyes were full of doubt, and he muttered, "Gone?!" ”

This is like a question sentence, and it seems to be talking to herself, which makes Xiaolan also very confused: "What's wrong?" ”

"Battery." Lu Yuan replied again.

"Huh?" Xiaolan was stunned: "But...... Lu Yuanjun's flashlight is still on, the battery has just been replaced, and it hasn't run out so quickly. ”

Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan shook his head: "It's not that this battery is the last set of batteries." As he spoke, Lu Yuan took a look at his feet: "Just now, after I changed the battery, the two batteries that were out of power were still here, but now...... But it's gone. Lu Yuan said, as if he had fallen into some kind of contemplation again.

"This ......" Xiaolan seemed a little uncomfortable after hearing this: "Hehe, will it ..... Lu Yuanjun remembered it wrong. ”

It's a small thing if the battery goes out, but it's ...... In this whole house, just the three of them, how can this battery be said to be gone.

"yes, yes, maybe it's going somewhere, haha." Kazuo Sugi also leaned over a little uneasily and said.

However, Lu Yuan still shook his head and pointed to the carpet on the ground: "There is a carpet here, it is difficult for the battery to roll on its own, besides, I am not blind, there is no battery around at all." ”

As I said before, Lu Yuan's eyesight is beyond ordinary people, so he took a flashlight and scanned around, and he could find that there was no battery at all.

"So, something took the battery, or rather, the battery disappeared suddenly, silently, like the missing people." Lu Yuan didn't care what the other two people thought, because he knew that this was the way things were.

"But...... But how is this possible?! Xiaolan was also a little anxious, and he subconsciously wanted to find a reason to explain this phenomenon.

"It's all happening, what's impossible." Lu Yuan said, and then he gave up and continued to think about this question: "Go, go upstairs!" ”

"Good...... Good! Xiaolan and Shanmujun hurriedly answered, and then followed towards the upstairs.

After such an incident, this old mansion was even more creepy, and Lu Yuan sped up his pace, quickly searched every room on the second floor, and then went straight to the third floor.

Of course, although Lu Yuan was fast, he didn't leave any corner, and when he finished searching the second and third floors and returned to the middle staircase, it could be sure that there was absolutely no trace of anyone living here, that is, the previous speculation that there was a murderer hiding here was not valid.

Moreover, along the way, Lu Yuan's mobile phone was always on, and he was looking for a place with a poor signal, because if he found the location of the non-communication signal, maybe it would be very close to the location of the missing person.

But I didn't expect that the signal in this old house was so good, and the signal in the entire building was full.

At this moment, the three of them were completely directionless.

Of course, while the incident was at a bottleneck, the atmosphere seemed to ease a little, after all, all the places had been searched, and it was confirmed that no one else was hiding here, which made everyone's uneasiness slightly lightened.

As for the disappeared battery, as well as the green light spots that once appeared, it seems that they have been forced not to think about it again, after all, they haven't seen anything terrible, people, before they really see something too incredible, they still believe in science.

"What should I do, I don't seem to have found any useful clues." Xiaolan couldn't help but be a little worried.

"yes, I don't have any clues, but I can actually imagine it, because if there was anything special, he should have found out when you and Officer Twilight came before, and he was a veteran." Lu Yuan pinched his chin and said, "By the way, what was it like when Officer Twilight disappeared, can you try to repeat it." ”

Xiaolan nodded: "At that time, Officer Twilight and I were looking for my father and Conan everywhere in this house, but we were looking for it separately, I was on the second floor at the time, he was on the first floor, and I searched for about 5 minutes on the second floor, and I didn't find anything, so I wanted to go downstairs to find Officer Twilight, but he was gone." ”

"Hmm." Lu Yuan pondered for a moment, and then spoke again: "Then Shanmu-kun, what was it like when Mr. Maori and Conan disappeared at that time, can you repeat it?" ”

"...... Sugi-kun?"

"Sugi-kun ???????"