Chapter 32
It was pitch black inside the horror house, and the small electric light provided by the staff could only illuminate the road in front of you and prevent people from falling.
When queuing to enter the area, all the backgrounds of the horror house are presented to them through holographic projection. They will explore an ancient castle that belongs to a horror doll. After finding the sleeping heart that can restrain the doll, they will successfully escape from the horror house to complete the level.
But be careful with the dolls in the horror house, because they are all alive and will die if caught.
An ancient castle filled with dolls doesn't sound scary at all, but rather adds a touch of fairy tale charm.
Ayumi Yoshida was a little excited and followed Haibara Ai to discuss the appearance of the doll with her.
After they entered the castle and encountered the first doll, Yoshida Ayumi's guess was wrong. She looked at the thing called a doll illuminated by the light and fell silent.
Haibara Ai was also a little speechless.
Kojima Genta's eyes widened as he exclaimed, echoing everyone's thoughts: "How can there be such an ugly doll?!"
After seeing it clearly, Edogawa Conan also felt it was a bit disgusting. He had never seen such an ugly doll.
Huiyuan Ai said silently: "I have been thinking since just now that the director of this amusement park is not only very smart, but also has a unique vision in a certain sense."
If it weren't for the doll's exquisite skirt, she really wouldn't be able to tell it was a doll.
Conan Edogawa thought about the countless ATM machines and facilities with unique designs since he entered the amusement park, and suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with what Haibara Ai said.
Director Kurokawa still has some aesthetic sense.
Kurokawa Akiwa, the doll designer who was on his way to the house of horrors, sneezed.
Perhaps because it was too ugly, it lost its sense of terror, and the horror doll was uniformly ignored by the Junior Detective Team. They followed the instructions floating in the air and completed their tasks room by room.
Kosakabe To looked at the busy children with a sneer, "What's the point of running around when you haven't even found the right clue?"
"But that's true. Only elementary school students like you would be interested in this kind of thing." Kosakabe To picked up a doll's golden hair and threw it aside casually.
The doll's body fell to the ground with a crisp, shattering sound, shattering into pieces. A few strands of golden hair scattered on the ground, and its azure glass eyes rolled out. Its face was covered in broken pieces, scattered on the ground, revealing an eerie and miserable look in the darkness.
On the other side, Kurokawa Akishige saw the notification box that popped up from the system.
[Doll number one in the horror house has been damaged. Should I spend 1,000 yen to repair it?]
This murderer is still smashing things in the horror house?
Kurokawa Akiho frowned, cursed, and clicked "Repair."
Everyone turned their backs to the golden-haired doll as its shattered body gradually repaired itself, its dull hair becoming smooth and silky once more. The fallen fragments were pieced together, the tufts of blonde hair that had been plucked out disappeared, and the dusty dress was completely new. Then, with an irresistible force, it returned to its chair.
All this happened silently, at the exact same location, as if nothing had happened just now.
"Does this clue mean we should go to the hall?"
"No, I think it's about the doll."
The young detective team looked at the latest clues and discussed them enthusiastically.
Edogawa Conan followed them towards the hall, and when his peripheral vision caught sight of a golden corner, he suddenly stopped.
"Haibara, was that doll dropped to the ground just now?" Conan Edogawa's face was cold, and his glasses gleamed coldly.
Ai Haibara followed Conan Edogawa's gaze, and then her gaze narrowed slightly.
"Um."
Conan Edogawa did not lower his voice deliberately. Not only Haibara Ai, but also the Junior Detective League heard it and looked over in confusion.
Ayumi Yoshida nervously clutched her clothes tightly.
"Isn't that doll lying on the ground?" Kojima Genta exclaimed, "And it should have been broken into pieces."
The voices of several people startled Kosakabe To and the other two who were in another room.
As they walked, Kosakabeto complained, "Kids are such trouble. They're even scared of things like dolls."
"No, Budou." Tamura Kazuma, who had followed him and stretched out his hand, was shocked. He pointed to the doll's location and said in a voice filled with fear: "Look there, you've clearly smashed the doll, haven't you?"
The blonde doll's face was covered in cracks, and as everyone looked at it, its distorted and broken face began to mend itself bit by bit. The corners of its bright red mouth were covered in terrifying cracks, spreading densely.
A dark red glow shone in the doll's azure eyes, lurking in the darkness like a beast stalking its prey. As the eerie music of the horror house played, the blonde doll raised her blood-red lips and smiled at the crowd.
Even the knowledgeable Conan Edogawa gasped.
Ayumi Yoshida screamed.
Genta Kojima and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya couldn't control their bodies from shaking.
Kojima Genta turned stiffly and said, "Conan, is this also a special effect?"
Kazuma Tamura asked the same question as Genta Kojima, but he was asking Toshio Kosakabe, the person who threw the scary doll on the ground.
Kosakabeto was also sweating coldly, and he felt a little scared: "When I threw him just now, I didn't feel any mechanism or anything like that."
Everything in the haunted house was designed to scare people, and when he had just thrown the doll away, he hadn't felt any weight, let alone any mechanism. It was completely hollow inside.
And it can't be a holographic projection.
Tamura Kazuma swallowed hard, looking at the doll with fear in his eyes: "No way. Could it be that he has encountered the real thing?"
"Idiot! How could this be true? These kids must have put the doll back." Kosakabeto suppressed the intense fear in his heart and scolded Tamura Kazuma harshly.
"We don't!" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya shouted.
"That's right, we just found the clue, and when we turned around, the doll returned to the chair by itself." Ayumi Yoshida said in a low voice.
The sound effects of the water organ in the horror house are creepy, the weird doll has cracked mouth corners, and in the dark environment, fear deeply shrouds them.
“Bang—”
A loud noise sounded particularly real in the horror house, as if the dull sound of footsteps was gradually approaching.
Fear filled Yoshida Ayumi's eyes. She tightened her grip on Huihara Ai's arm, her voice trembling slightly as she asked, "What was that sound just now?"
Kosakabe To obviously heard the strange sound. He couldn't help but take a half step back and suddenly found that it was unusually quiet behind him. He turned around and saw that Yaki Ayaka, who was originally standing behind him, was gone.
"Where's Mingxiang?" Murata Kazuma opened his eyes wide and hurried to check in the nearby room. "No one's there. Mingxiang is gone!"
There was only one door in the room they were in, which ruled out the possibility that Ya Qimingxiang had left on her own.
Kojima Genta shouted nervously, "Could he be captured?"
"When we first came in and looked at the background, didn't it say that if the doll found you, you would be captured and killed?" Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko recalled, his expression turning horrified: "Could that big sister have been captured by the doll?!"
Edogawa Conan's eyes were calm. He stuck his head out of the door and looked a few times. He shone the small light around a few times, and after confirming that there was no trace of Yaki Ayaka, he turned his attention to the gloomy doll.
Could it be that he was really captured by the doll?
Kazuma Tamura looked at Conan Edogawa's back as he walked away and breathed a sigh of relief.
His little action did not escape the eyes of Conan Edogawa.
Conan Edogawa saw from the corner of his eye that Tamura Kazuma was obviously in an extremely strange state of nervousness, and a sense of confusion and disharmony surrounded his mind.
It always felt like there was something he had overlooked.
"Let's go and rescue that big sister quickly." Although the Junior Detective Team was frightened, they still suggested rescuing Yaki Akika who might have been kidnapped.
"Big sister must be in danger now."
Kosakabeto said nonchalantly, "How could it be dangerous? I won't go. If you want to go, go ahead."
The Young Detectives looked at each other.
Yoshida Ayumi looked at Kosakabe in disbelief: "Big brother, how could you do this? Isn't that sister your girlfriend?"
"What's a girlfriend? Why should I play this kind of game with you little brats?" Kosakabeto's tone was filled with impatience: "Whatever you want, I want to get out of this damn place."
After saying that, he opened the door and walked out without looking back.
Tamura Kazuma anxiously called out to his back, "Hey, Budou, Mingxiang hasn't been found yet. Where are you going?"
The door was slammed shut by Kosakabeto, making a loud noise that was unbearable to hear.
Tamura Kazuma looked lonely.
"How can this big brother do this! This is too much." Yoshida Ayumi said angrily, she glared at the door.
Kojima Genta and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko echoed: "That's what I mean."
Huiyuan Ai shook her head: "There is always a lack of scum in this world."
"Then let's go, Junior Detective Team, and rescue the big sister from the doll!" Ayumi Yoshida suggested.
Perhaps because Kosakabe To's performance aroused too much hatred, Kojima Genta and the others were no longer so afraid of the horror house. They nodded in agreement and prepared to rescue Yaki Ayaka with high morale.
After making the decision, Yoshida Ayumi asked, "Do you want to come with me, Brother Tamura?"
The three of them looked at Tamura Kazuma expectantly.
Tamura Kazuma paused, then nodded: "Okay, let's go save Mingxiang."
The corridor was pitch black. After the doll incident, they always felt that a pair of eyes were staring at them in the darkness.
Conan Edogawa fell behind the team, rubbing his chin with his fingers in thought, his glasses dimly glowing as the small light in front of him flashed by.
"ah--!!"
A female scream came from further down the corridor.
"It's Mingxiang's voice!" Tamura Kazuma shouted, his voice filled with unconcealed anxiety.
The sounds of messy footsteps mixed together, the sounds of rapid breathing merged with screams, the dark water organ's irregular sound made people's hearts tremble in the darkness, the light of the small electric lamp swayed, and someone rushed towards them quickly.
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