Chapter 187 Quietly Entering the Village

“?!”

The people in the bedroom were stunned.

This place happened to be very close to the balcony, so they opened the curtains, rushed out to the terrace and looked down.

I saw a person on the terrace just below, looking up.

——That was "Nagato Hideomi" with his face wrapped in bandages. He held a shiny kitchen knife in his mouth and smiled grimly at the people upstairs in the dark night. In the pale moonlight, one could see bloodstains on his face and the kitchen knife.

Combined with the phone call just now, the situation seems to be very clear - Nagato Hideomi ambushed in the house below and attacked Shimura Mitsuaki who came to find him!

"…How dare you kill someone in front of the detective!" Hattori Heiji turned around suddenly and rushed downstairs.

The other people in the room also ran over, trying to stop the horrific crime.

Hinata Yuki didn't leave. She seemed to be devastated. She stumbled back a few steps, fell to the ground, and cried bitterly, "Hideomi... How could he..."

The chaotic footsteps quickly faded away and headed downstairs.

The room quickly became quiet, and Hinata Yuki listened to the noise behind her and stopped crying.

Today's "Nagato Hideomi kitchen knife murder case" was planned in advance by her and Shimura Mitsukoshi. Shimura Mitsukoshi wanted to kill Nagato Chairman and pass the blame to "Nagato Hideomi" so that he could succeed to the throne as soon as possible, while Hinata Yuki wanted to find an opportunity to kill Shimura Mitsukoshi in the process.

Recently, the "Nagato Hideomi" who committed suicide by taking poison was actually played by her and Shimura Mitsuaki in turn.

During the period after Nagato Hideomi's death, Hinata Yuki had been forcing herself to smile and trying hard to act like a "happy woman who was about to marry her true love."

And now, it is finally time to reap the fruits of our labor.

She stood up from the ground, her expression turned cold, and was about to close the bedroom door and go to the balcony.

But when she turned around, Hinata Yuki's pupils shrank - besides her and the chairman who was knocked out by sleeping pills, there was actually another person in the room.

——The young Tokyo detective did not leave. He stopped by the table, holding the table with one hand, and half-knelt on the ground, pressing his chest painfully, as if he was having difficulty breathing.

A moment later, under Hinata Yuki's shocked gaze, he fell to the ground with a thud and lay motionless.

Hinata Sachi: "?!!"

She subconsciously ran over and pushed Jiang Xia: "What's wrong with you?!"

Jiang Xia did not react. Hinata Yuki stretched out her hand in front of his face, then withdrew her hand in shock - her breathing was so weak!

"..." Could it be that the bastard Shimura Guangming found Jiang Xia here and was worried that his conspiracy would be exposed by him, so he shamelessly poisoned him... Speaking of which, only Jiang Xia had drunk the tea on the table just now. And the place where Shimura Guangming was before was very close to the tea tray!

"Hey, wake up..." Hinata Yuki knelt beside Jiang Xia and couldn't help but panic. Although she had made up her mind to kill someone, she only wanted revenge and didn't want to involve innocent people. But Jiang Xia was like this, probably because of Shimura Guangming, and Shimura Guangming's plan was provided by her...

Hinata Yuki felt a pang of conscience. She gritted her teeth, suddenly ran over, locked the balcony door, and then turned Jiang Xia over, trying to think of the steps for first aid.

There will be a chance to kill Shimura Mitsuaki later, but the loss of life cannot be recovered... Save him first!

…

Behind Hinata Yuki.

On the bedroom terrace.

Just now, Hinata Yuki turned around and saw Jiang Xia.

Under the cover of the howling night wind, a rope hook was thrown from the terrace downstairs and clicked onto the balcony railing of the bedroom.

Downstairs, Shimura Mitsuaki, dressed as "Nagato Hideomi", tugged hard at the rope hanging from above, then holding a kitchen knife in his mouth, grabbed him with a sneer, and began to climb up to the balcony.

——He locked the door of this room. After the group of idiots who were lured away from the mountain ran here, they had to wait for a while to unlock the door.

During this time, Shimura Mitsuaki planned to use a rope hook to climb up to the bedroom upstairs, kill Chairman Nagato and Hinata Yuki who knew about it, and then cut himself with a knife to put all the blame on the dead "Nagato Hideomi". Nagato Hideomi's body was buried in the soil in advance, so that the decay speed would be slowed down, which could confuse the time of death to a certain extent and prove Nagato Hideomi's evil deeds of "insanity, killing his father and fiancée, and then taking poison to commit suicide".

The huge Nagato Group was about to be taken. Shimura Mitsuaki climbed up the rope, his spirits were particularly high.

He quickly approached the bedroom above and grabbed the bedroom railing.

He was about to climb up with force, but at this moment, a hand suddenly fell and gently covered the back of his hand.

It was a soft hand. A woman's hand.

Shimura Mitsuaki was startled and raised his head suddenly, only to see two strangers standing on the balcony of Chairman Nagato's bedroom.

They seemed to be a young couple. They were clearly hugging each other tightly. But at this moment, they all lowered their heads and looked at Shimura Guangming expressionlessly with cold eyes, as if all their attention was focused on the person who climbed through the window late at night.

In the middle of the night, he suddenly encountered two strange people who looked like wax figures. Both of them kept staring at him. Shimura Guangming silently got goose bumps all over his body.

It was at this moment that he looked at the faces of the two people and suddenly had an eerie sense of déjà vu: "..." Strange, these didn't seem to be complete strangers, they looked a little familiar.

...Where have I seen him before?

I didn't wait to think this problem through.

The two people on the balcony suddenly started to burn in front of him. Their skin was charred and cracked, their young faces quickly became dry, and the hand that was holding onto Shimura Mitsuaki slowly became as stiff as firewood. It was as if the two people had crossed from life to death in an instant.

The scorching temperature, like that of charcoal, did not pass through the woman's hand to Shimura Mitsuaki, but he felt as if he had been bitten by a poisonous snake, and suddenly let out a scream, an extremely shrill and terrifying scream - he suddenly remembered.

Memories of twenty years ago came flooding back like a tide - a few days after the arson, Shimura Mitsuaki passed by a convenience store and saw a newspaper hanging on the shelf. It was a local tabloid.

One of the reports was about a fire, and it showed photos of two victims, a man and a woman holding hands and smiling tenderly, who looked very similar to the two people in front of me.

"..." These two unlucky guys actually came back from hell! !

Run, don’t let them catch you…Run!!!

Fear filled Shimura Mitsuaki's mind and he subconsciously let go of his hand, forgetting that he was still on the third floor.

Downstairs, the spike-like railings were erected, and the night wind blew through the gaps between them, like waves of mockery.

A muffled sound of "hiss" piercing through the human body.

Shimura Mitsuaki suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened in horror, and large amounts of blood spurted out from the corners of his mouth - he fell heavily on the fence, like a fish that could not escape the steel fork, and was pierced through the chest by countless spikes.

In his blurred vision, the young couple, who looked like charred corpses, leaned over and looked at him silently. The next moment, they suddenly disappeared, as if they had never appeared, blending into the slightly cool night.

…

The couple who were burned to death had a daughter who was only five years old when they died. They were still very young.

The appearance of the puppet was a combination of the ghost fetus and Jiang Xia's soul. The two of them looked like a young couple.

After using Mist Tengu's "Death Reappearance" skill, the parent ghosts turned back into Q version ghost fetuses.

They looked at each other, recalled each other's appearance just now, and their old faces blushed - after becoming puppets, they were quite good-looking, and for some reason, they seemed to be even more beautiful than when they were alive.

The ghosts held hands, scurried through the balcony door, squeezed back into the house, and floated next to their daughter and Jiang Xia. More than 20 years had passed, and this was probably the day they were in the best mood.

…

A few seconds after Shimura Mitsuaki fell.

The door on the second floor was kicked open by Mao Lilan with a shout.

A group of people rushed into the house, only to find that it was empty. Not only was Shimura Mitsuaki not there, but even the attacker, Nagato Hideomi, was nowhere to be found.

After a brief second of silence, Conan and Hattori Heiji looked down at the balcony and saw the dangling rope hook. They were both startled at the same time, and a word suddenly flashed through their minds - lure the tiger away from the mountain.

"Oh no! Chairman Nagato is still in the bedroom!"

A group of people rushed back with a rumble.

But on the way, they gradually put their minds at ease.

because……

"Jiang Xia didn't follow us!" Mao Lilan said happily, "He must have seen us all coming over and thought of the weak fighting power upstairs... He is worthy of being called that!"

Conan responded sourly, "Indeed."

Hattori Heiji also snorted and turned his head away.

However, they all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time - fortunately Jiang Xia reacted quickly, otherwise Chairman Nagato might be in trouble tonight.

A few more seconds passed, and as the bedroom door got closer, Conan's expression suddenly became serious.

He whispered puzzledly, "Why is there no sound of beating?"

Hattori Heiji recalled the scene in "The Journey of Sherlock Holmes": "..." Yes. So strange.

"I hope nothing will happen... go faster!" Hattori Heiji no longer cared about Conan who could not keep up with their speed, and ran quickly forward. Mouri Ran also sped up in an instant.

Conan was left behind: "..." Hey! ! Take care of the elementary school students!

(End of this chapter)