Chapter 52: Breaking Through the Haunted House
Lai Qixiao turned around and looked at the old woman who had just attacked her.
The old woman standing in front of him had withered white hair, her right hand with a sharp knife was as thin as a dead branch, and her whole person was like a dead dwarf tree, and her sunken eye sockets shimmered like phosphorus fire.
"What a ruthless attack, old lady!" Lai Qixiao moved his wrist, the old woman's strength was quite strong, and the knife just now was so hard that Qi Xiao's wrist was numb.
This is not the power that a thin old woman can have, and sure enough, as Ravenda said, the two humans who live here have merged with their own shadow warping, and unconsciously have the power of not being a normal human being.
"Die...... the old woman's dry lips opened mechanically, she had long lost her mind after living in pain all the time for twenty years, and only lived in this world with her distorted obsessions.
"Can't let you get out of here......"
"Old lady, you are so unreasonable! Just put them to sleep when you deal with these little kids, and you want me to die when you deal with me? Lai Qi Xiao secretly attached the power of the personality mask to himself, but to be honest, he didn't know how to deal with such an unconventional target.
It is easy to defeat this old woman who is holding on alone with her obsessions, but how to make her repent? Unable to get an answer, Lai Qixiao could only ask Lawenda, who was not far away:
"Ravenda, tell me how to deal with this situation, how to get her to repent?"
As she spoke, the old woman approached ghostly with thin legs like bamboo poles, and the sharp knife in her hand shone with an eerie cold glow in the dark night. Lai Qixiao attached the carnal ability of the dominatrix to his arm holding the dagger, and took the old woman's knife again.
This time in the strength competition, Lai Qixiao had the upper hand, and even the knife in the old woman's hand was shaken out by his wrist strength.
"Just kill her as you would with a normal shadow." Ravenda also replied at this time, "Humans who merge with the shadows will recover after an hour after you kill them, and the shadows attached to them will disappear. ”
"That is, I'm going to let her fake her death for an hour? Forget it, no matter how inefficient the Japanese police are, they won't delay the dispatch of the police for an hour. When the police come, I'll be in trouble! ”
Lai Qixiao's face was bitter, he was not prepared in advance, and he was unable to deal with such an unexpected situation. What's more, he still has to take care of the two children who are sleeping behind him?
The old woman on the other side was still apparently still unforgiving to him, her dry lips closed together, and she chanted mysterious and complex incantations. It was also the power of the shadows within her, a magic that was done unconsciously.
The old woman's spell floated into Qi Xiao's ears, and he suddenly felt a sleepiness rush up his eyelids, and in a few seconds, he had to fall asleep because of the spell, just like the two children behind him.
No, I don't want to be a "sleeping Laiqixiao"! With the last remaining sanity, Lai Qixiao scratched the palm of his left hand with a dagger. The momentary pain allowed him to wake up from his sleeping spell and survive the crisis for a while.
After Maori Kogoro fell asleep, he would accompany Conan to play a double reed at most, and if he slept here, he would have to be dismantled.
While the secret path is dangerous, Lai Qixiao also thought of a way to deal with it. He replaced the dominatrix and allowed Yasen's abilities to attach to his body, turning his fingers, which were no different from ordinary people, into pitch-black barrels.
Filling the Dream Weaver Needle into the barrel of the gun, Lai Qixiao aimed at the old woman's thigh hidden under the long skirt and struck a finger shot. The tiny attack of the Dream Weaver did not cause pain to the old woman who had been hit, but it sent the sleep spell directly into her body.
Although the hypnotic effect of the Dream Weaver Needle was not as effective as the normal hypnotic spell, it was better that the onset was fast, and the old woman did not give her a chance to hurt herself like Laiqixiao did, and let her fall into a deep sleep.
The old man's weight was so light that he couldn't make a sound when he fell to the ground.
After making sure that the old woman was not pretending to be asleep, Lai Qixiao breathed a sigh of relief. Considering that the police were about to arrive here next, Lai Qixiao first walked back to the cognitive world, discarded his dagger, and then returned to the old mansion.
Although the dagger is just a toy knife in the real world, it is a real controlled knife in this special old mansion. Lai Qixiao, who still has a criminal record on his back, doesn't want to be targeted by the police because of such a mistake.
As for getting the old woman to repent, the case she was involved in was not complicated in the first place, and it was almost as simple as handing it over to Conan and the police. Why bother with the Phantom of the Thief?
"Kudo, I've already dealt with it here." Lai Qixiao took out the communication badge and sent a communication to Conan again, "The old lady you said wanted to attack me, but I knocked me out. ”
"I've already done it on my side, and I've reached a consensus with the man who was locked up." Conan's voice came from the speaker, "As I reasoned, he was originally the son of this family, and his mother was locked up here for committing a murder, saying that she would wait until the retrospective period of the case had expired to release him. ”
"He himself has been tortured to the point of madness and is actively pursuing his surrender. I talked to him and I would take him to the police station. ”
…… I'm out there fighting a strong old lady with a knife, and you're done with a cannon in the basement against a prisoner?
It seems that I still underestimated the protagonist's aura? Lai Qixiao was a little melancholy for a while, but soon he collected his emotions again and continued to talk to Conan:
"The police will be there soon, you stay in the basement first. It is best not to have too much contact with prisoners and to be safe. ”
"Well, I see. Thanks to you this time, come to perch! ”
"Little things!" Lai Qixiao said as he did some simple cleaning of his wounds. He rushed to save this little imp who was good at death today, not only because he was the righteous Arcana who had made a pact with him, but also because the suspicious detective trusted him.
As an ex-convict, there are not many people in this world who can trust Lai Qixiao like this. Having lived in purgatory, he now understands the meaning of trust. For him now, everyone who trusts him is worth cherishing.
Five minutes later, the siren sounded from outside the old house, and Officer Twilight, who was belated, hurriedly got out of the police car and asked Lai Qixiao, the only one still standing at the scene, about the situation.