Chapter 3074 3086 [Uninvited Guests]
Conan looked at the huge puzzle in front of him and interrupted with a righteous face: "Sister Xiaolan, if you are afraid, take Brother Jiang Xia back first. I will help you find out the truth, so that you don't have to be afraid in the future."
Jiang Xia: “……?”
However, Mao Lilan was suddenly enlightened by these words: If you think about it carefully, this apartment is actually not too far from Beika Town, and she has to pass by nearby when she goes to school.
No one has stipulated that all ghosts are earthbound spirits. If those ghosts like to wander around, they might wander to places where she occasionally passes by.
In other words, if the problem is not solved today, then when I go to and from school alone in the future, especially in the dark winter...
Thinking about the dark night road, goose bumps started to creep up her back.
"Well, why don't you stay and take a look before it gets dark?" The educated high school girl knew that a short pain is worse than a long one. She took a deep breath and patted Jiang Xia's shoulder vigorously, "I'll leave the mystery here to you!"
As for Dad and Conan... Although I don't know why, Dad occasionally turns into "Sleeping Kogoro" as if possessed by a god and his reasoning ability greatly increases, but the probability of this phenomenon occurring seems very low.
And if Jiang Xia and I were not there, and my father was sleeping alone, with only Conan watching over him, then before he could reveal the truth, the two of them would probably be wiped out.
After carefully preparing herself mentally, Mao Lilan clenched her fists and made the final decision: "I'm not leaving!"
Conan looked at Jiang Xia who also followed him: "......?"
Why? Why did you suddenly change your mind?
Maori Kogoro was quite relieved: "That's right, if you really encounter a ghost, you can use your karate to teach it a lesson - if you ask me, it is 100% a human pretending to be a ghost."
"Oh?" At this time, a voice came from above.
The middle-aged man in a sweatshirt walked down the stairs. He looked at the strange guests in front of him and smiled with gloating: "I thought the haunted incident here was over a long time ago, but I didn't expect that there are still people coming to watch the fun - it seems that 'that thing' is going to get excited again tonight."
Maori Kogoro looked at him in confusion: "Excited? What excitement? What thing?"
"Oh, don't play dumb, what else could it be? - Of course it's a ghost."
The man in the hoodie walked up to the four people and said grimly, "Didn't someone say that ghosts like to appear in places where people gather."
As he said this, he chuckled unpleasantly, put his hands in his pockets, and walked out.
Jiang Xia looked at the old landlord, waiting for him to introduce the residents in the house: "Who is this?"
Rather than selling his own house, the old landlord seemed to prefer selling the haunted house. He answered all the questions from the guests who came to see the ghosts:
"He is Mr. Banmachi who lives in room 4. He works in a model shop. Don't blame him for being rude. After all, his daily job is to stay in his room and make some scary dolls. Anyone would become like this if they worked in this line of work for a long time."
The stiff and weird appearance of the puppet appeared in Mao Li Ran's mind. She shuddered quietly and couldn't help but begin to doubt whether her decision to stay was the right one.
Just then, there was a loud crash at the end of the corridor.
"!!!"
Mao Lilan jumped up in fright and almost knocked down Jiang Xia who was next to her.
Jiang Xia rubbed his shoulders and raised his head, looking towards the source of the sound, just in time to see a fat man with a homely air in his shorts walking out of the room.
"It would be nice if a ghost was willing to come out." The fat man had obviously heard the conversation just now. He laughed and commented on the unknown ghost, "It's been too quiet here lately. It's really boring... But the more I look forward to it, the less likely she will dare to show up."
As he spoke, he slid into the toilet next to him and closed the door with a click.
"Your tenants here are very bold." Maori Kogoro's eyebrows jumped, "Who is this?"
The old landlord chuckled and said, "It's Mr. Yotsuya from Room 2. He's obsessed with special photography and has a whole room full of videotapes. I remember a while ago, he and his college classmates used my apartment as the location for a documentary ghost film, but it's a pity they've been hiding it from us."
"Because that kind of thing is not worth watching at all."
A cold voice came from the stairs, and another tenant appeared - this time it was a square-looking, bespectacled graduate student.
His words are as square as his appearance. He seems to be the only person in this apartment who does not believe in ghosts: "Using 'ghosts' that do not exist at all as the subject, what kind of serious thing can be filmed? It's ridiculous and stupid."
The old landlord did not argue with his tenant. He just looked at the person coming down from the second floor with some confusion: "Mr. Mudan? Aren't you living in Room 1? Why are you upstairs?"
The graduate student pushed his glasses and said, "The toilet on the first floor was occupied just now, so I had to go to the second floor. Anyway, I don't care whether you believe in ghosts or not, but please don't make too much noise at night - my paper is due tomorrow, and if I can't finish it tonight because of the noise, I will not let it go."
"Papers?" Jiang Xia thought of one of his graduate students and felt quite close to his colleague. "Are you a student too?"
The graduate student nodded in response. He didn't talk much and quickly returned to his room.
The old landlord answered Jiang Xia's question enthusiastically: "Mr. Mudan is a graduate student, the most educated person in our house. I don't know if it's because the ghost doesn't study well, so it doesn't want to see him. In short, up to now, among all the residents here, Mr. Mudan is the only one who has not seen a ghost with his own eyes, so he refuses to believe it."
Upstairs, Calvados secretly listened to the noise below and fell into deep thought for a moment.
——Why did the three tenants come out one after another? Was it some kind of welcoming ceremony of this apartment building? Or should he also go downstairs to show up and follow the local customs?
"Forget it." This thought flashed through his mind, but was quickly ignored by Calvados: Although Jiang Xia had helped him out several times and even helped him avenge the burning of his chocolate, perhaps because of a bad first impression, he felt annoyed no matter how he looked at this detective and didn't want to get close to him.
The unfortunate lone wolf was not going to compromise himself for the sake of the rules of a shabby house.
But the next moment, the old landlord's voice came from downstairs: "Oh, yes, I almost forgot - a new tenant came this afternoon. If he is included, there are two of us who have not seen a ghost."
Enthusiastic and outgoing high school detective: "New tenant? Can we meet him?"
Calvados: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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