Chapter 50: The Haunted House
"Already two children are missing? I see, I'll be right over! You stay safe and stay in touch with me at all times! "The matter is urgent, and I don't dare to slack off when I come to Qixiao. He hurriedly said goodbye to the confused Black Feather Kuaidou, and then took Ravenda's hand and left.
"Call the police? Mobile phones are not yet widely used in this era! Secretly complaining, Lai Qixiao was looking for a phone booth on the street, and without a mobile phone, he could only rely on this way to call the police.
"Leave it to me to call the police!" Fortunately, at this time, Ravenda extended a small helping hand to Qixiao, "Guest, hurry up and go to your friend's!" I'll meet you there later. ”
"Well, I'll leave it to you!" Lai Qixiao didn't say much, and after handing over the task of calling the police to Lawenda, he stepped on the skateboard and disappeared into a small alley across the road.
He calculated the distance between himself and Conan's location, and if he had used the knowledge world to speed his skateboard to its highest speed, it would take him about fifteen minutes.
"Hey, Kudo!" Lai Qixiao said to Conan with the communication badge, "I've already figured out a way to call the police, and now I'm rushing to your side!" Have you contacted Dr. Asasa? He's closer! ”
"No, I can't get in touch!" Conan, on the other side of the com, was still holding his voice down, "The Doctor probably didn't wear the badge on his body!" ”
"Then you should be vigilant, and I'll be here in fifteen minutes. I probably won't be able to keep in touch with you for fifteen minutes, be careful! ”
With that, Lai Qixiao put the communication badge in his pocket, rode a skateboard over the crack in front of him, and rushed into the cognitive world.
Dressed in a strange thief suit, Lai Qixiao increased the speed of the skateboard to the maximum, jumped onto the smooth avenue, and ran towards the address that Conan had just told him.
"Haunted house? And the children who are going to be taken away? It's those little ghosts from the Junior Detective Corps! Lai Qixiao tried his best to recall the content of the original work he knew. Although in the original work, these little ghosts who are good at death can always save the day in a crisis, but now Laiqixiao is not a stage built by the script after all, but the real world, and he is not sure that Conan will not die this time.
"Stinky little ghost, you have to run to some haunted house in a good manner! Just do whatever you want if you're the protagonist! Lai Qixiao couldn't help but scold, he reluctantly recalled the original circumstances of this case.
In his vague memory, the "haunted house" that Conan and the others entered was actually a hiding place prepared by a crazy mother for her son. Twenty years ago, his son killed his father in a dispute, and in order to save his son from prison, his mother hid him in the basement of the house, intending to hide until the end of the retroactive case.
But in the past twenty years, the son gradually could not bear the condemnation of conscience and the dark life, and wailed all day long; And the mother gradually went crazy, and was locked up in the dark basement forever with her son.
If this was just a normal Kexue world, Lai Qixiao would not be so worried about Conan's safety. But after seeing the treacherous waves of the cognitive world, he didn't dare to hope for Conan's protagonist aura.
Fifteen minutes later, Lai Qixiao arrived at his destination. But before he could leave the cognitive world, he sensed that something was wrong with the dilapidated old house in front of him
Lai Qixiao observed the gloomy house with his third eye, and found that the crack to the real world was located on the door of the old mansion.
He lifted his skateboard and crept through the door. And when he stepped into this house, the strange thief suit on Lai Qixiao's body disappeared as usual. But the disappearance of the strange thief suit does not mean that Lai Qixiao has returned to the real world, he can still feel the abundant power floating in his body, as if he is in the cognitive world.
Just when Lai Qixiao was puzzled, the immature female voice belonging to Lawenda sounded behind him again:
"Looks like you've noticed something unusual here, guest." Ravenda saluted Laiqixiao, who turned around.
"The desires of the two humans who have lived here for so long have been out of control that they have almost merged with their own shadows after being tortured for so long. Their distorted perceptions over the years have also changed reality, making the old mansion almost integrated into the cognitive world. ”
"In the long run, the house will completely become a part of the cognitive world and disappear from the real world."
“…… I kind of get it. Faced with such an abnormal state of affairs, Lai Qixiao couldn't help frowning, "So, this is still the real world." But the two humans who live in it have a power similar to that of the shadows? ”
"Weaker than the average shadow. But here, you can't fully summon the Personality Mask, so be careful. ”
Lai Qixiao nodded, he asked Lawenda to stay outside the house, and he took out the dagger from his waist and quietly sneaked into the haunted mansion.
He tried to summon the Personality Mask, and as Ravenda said, he could only attach a portion of the Personality Mask's power to his body, but not fully manifest it.
"Kudo, can you hear me?" He pulled out the communication badge from his pocket and tried to see if he could contact Conan in crisis here. A few seconds later, Conan's voice came over the speakers;
"I can hear you. Laiqi, where are you now? ”
"I've arrived, and I'm on the lawn outside the house." Lai Qixiao was communicating with Conan while observing the surroundings, "How are you doing now?" ”
"I'm hiding in the basement with another kid right now. There's an adult man locked up here...... I kind of understand the truth about the haunted house. ”
"Laiqi, if my reasoning is correct. There should have only been one old woman in the house besides us and the man who had been locked up. Although I think you should be able to handle it, be careful! ”
"I see, but you should pay attention to yourself. Also, I've probably found the two kids. ”
Lai Qixiao carefully walked to the other end of the lawn, where two little boys, one fat and one thin, were sleeping sweetly, smiling as if they had some sweet dream.
"The two of them just fell asleep, so it shouldn't be a big deal. So, you're still ...... yourself."
Speaking of this, Lai Qixiao suddenly swung the dagger behind him and intercepted the sharp knife that was stabbing him in the back of the head.
"I've got something on my side, I'll get back to you later." After speaking, Lai Qixiao stuffed the communication badge back into his pocket. Only then did he have the strength to turn around and look at the white-haired old woman who had attacked him just now.