Chapter 242 Climb Over

"A haunted house?" Kawasaki Machi turned his head in confusion. "Are you talking about that one where you hear a woman's terrifying cries in the dead of night?"

Mitsuhiko nodded vigorously, "That's right, that's right!"

"Huh? Are we really going there? It sounds scary."

Ayumi hesitated because there were many versions of the 'haunted house' at school, each one stranger and more terrifying than the last.

"What if the crying is actually someone calling for help?" Machi Kawasaki guessed.

He's trying his best to portray a fearless elementary school student!

Sure enough, after he said that, the other three suddenly became excited, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

"That's right! As the saying goes, it's better to be safe than sorry!"

"Then let's hurry over there now!"

"oh!"

The three of them started walking in unison as they spoke.

The pink-haired girl grinned and followed them, even turning back to greet Conan and Ai Haibara.

"You two hurry up and catch up!"

Conan: ...

Chuan Sheng, you weren't like this at first. Were you assimilated by those three?

...

The "haunted house" they were talking about was actually just an ordinary mansion, but it had been deserted for a long time due to being uninhabited.

The yard was overgrown with weeds, and even the branches and leaves were covered with a layer of dust. There were many clearly visible spider webs inside and outside the house. In the daytime, it looked like an ordinary house that had been abandoned for a long time.

But perhaps because crying could indeed be heard in the middle of the night, most of the nearby residents moved away, leaving only a few families who lived a little further away in the community.

Conan stood outside the courtyard with his hands in his pockets, surveying the surroundings. No matter how he looked at it, it didn't seem like anyone had been there.

"The door's locked." Kawasaki Machi fiddled with the dusty padlock on the iron gate, glancing over the gate into the yard. "It looks like nobody's here. Shall we climb in and take a look?"

As he spoke, his pale purple eyes brightened, and then he glanced at the iron gate, which was two and a half times his height. He took a few steps back, and amidst the increasingly surprised and astonished gazes of the others, he took a running start and leaped over the iron gate with the ease and stability of someone who had done it hundreds of times before.

Everyone: !!!

Kawasaki Machi stood up, casually dusted off his hands, turned to the three real children and two fake children who were shocked, and gave them a bright, sunny smile. "Alright, you can come in now!"

The three children stared at him with their mouths agape, their eyes shining with admiration. "Wow! You're so amazing, Zhenzhi! How did you do that?!"

Kawasaki Machi scratched her head and smiled shyly, "It's alright, actually my brother is even better, he taught me all of this!"

Conan's lips twitched, and then he couldn't help but doubt again.

He had heard about his brother twice from Kawasaki Machi. The first time was when he helped them find out the identity of the owner of the Otsuma News Agency, and the second time was now. Judging from Kawasaki Machi's actions just now, it seemed that his brother was also very strong in terms of martial arts.

"Alright, you guys hurry up and figure out a way to get in first. I'll take a look inside too."

Kawasaki Machi said something, and then slipped away to the side before Conan could call him back.

Then they found a dog hole in the corner of the wall to the right of the gate.

The entrance to the hole was blocked by tall weeds, and it was quite difficult to find without careful searching.