Chapter 3079 3091 [Detective]
The puppeteer also closed the window in boredom. He glanced at Calvados with disdain: "You reacted so strongly, I thought it was something else, but it turned out to be just a bug... What a waste of emotion."
As he said this, he and the otaku tenant shook their heads and walked away side by side.
The graduate student looked at the noisy guests and said, "Don't listen to their nonsense. There are no such things as ghosts in the world. The figure on the window should just be a reflection. As for you, please be quiet from now on. I really can't finish my thesis."
After saying that, he looked at his watch, also with dark circles under his eyes, and left quickly.
As the residents returned to their houses one after another, the originally crowded corridor suddenly became deserted.
Mao Lilan shuddered: "Let's go too. We really can't stay in a haunted place like this for too long."
Maori Kogoro seemed to be somewhat tempted by this suggestion. However, before he nodded, Conan spoke first: "But I'm very curious about what the ghosts here look like - this kind of ghost that can scare Uncle Maori and Mr. Yamaguchi to scream must be very scary!"
Mouri Kogoro: "?"
Calvados: “…” The only one who was screaming was your uncle, I didn’t say a word!
Although it instantly ignited the anger of the two people, Conan's provocation was obviously effective.
Maori Kogoro immediately gave up the idea of going back: "Why go back! There are no ghosts in the world, only people who pretend to be ghosts - I must find that bastard who scares people!"
After saying this with great ambition and passion, he rationally added a safeguard to this puzzle-solving operation: "Jiang Xia, let's go! Let's investigate this place thoroughly!"
Looking at their backs, Calvados hesitated for a moment and followed them silently.
——I have to admit that when it comes to solving mysteries, the high school detective does have a pretty good brain.
Rather than thinking about it alone, it is better to use the power of this detective cleverly - once he knows the true identity of the "ghost", he will definitely let that guy taste the iron fist of the organization.
A sniper who lost his gun slowly clenched his fists.
…
"You guys aren't leaving yet?"
When the group passed by the landlord's door, the old landlord saw them and shook his head helplessly: "Then come into my room and sit for a while. It happens that I slept for a while at night and now I have insomnia."
"Then I won't be polite." Maori Kogoro walked into his small living room, sat down on the cushion, and began to sort out the strange things that Jiang Xia encountered tonight:
"The figure outside the second-floor window should be just a reflection from the glass, just like what the graduate student said."
"As for the blood in the toilet bowl... there must be something rusty in the toilet bowl. The rusty-colored sewage gave me an illusion."
"In short, everything is the influence of the environment. You must have heard the story of the neighbor who suspected the axe was stolen. The principle is the same - we thought this was a haunted house from the beginning, so we are suspicious of everything and always regard some normal phenomena as ghosts."
"Alright! The case is solved like this. There really are no ghosts in the world!"
Calvados listened carefully for a long time and finally heard this conclusion: "......?"
"Did I follow here just to listen to this nonsense? This explanation is too far-fetched." He couldn't help cursing in his heart, "If I had a motive, I would really suspect that this guy with a mustache is the mastermind behind the haunting."
Mao Lilan also seemed to be skeptical of this statement: "But if that's the case, how do you explain the woman on TV? It can't be an illusion - I really saw a woman with burns all over her body appear on TV, saying 'get out', 'get out' and so on."
"!" Calvados blurted out after hearing this familiar scene, "Did you see her crawl out too?"
"Climb out?" Mao Lilan was so scared that she almost jumped up on the spot, "She can still climb out?!"
Conan caught another key word: "What do you mean by 'also'? What have you seen?"
"..." After a brief hesitation, Calvados felt that there was no need to keep it secret, and said:
"I saw the same scene. Just as I was about to turn off the TV, a hand stretched out from the screen and grabbed my wrist. Her face also bulged out of the TV screen, as if it wanted to pass through the screen and squeeze out."
"...Don't, don't say it." Mao Lilan wanted to faint on the spot when she thought that she was only one step away from being grabbed by the ghost. Unfortunately, although she was timid, her physical fitness was very strong, so she could only stay awake and tremble, "What should I do? That ghost can actually show up through the TV!"
Jiang Xia flipped through the newspaper in the old landlord's house and shook his head: "Maybe you read it wrongly. During that time period, no TV station broadcast any program related to ghosts or burned women."
Mao Lilan first breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt something was wrong: "Isn't that even more terrifying! The TV station didn't broadcast it, but it appeared on TV... All the TVs here must have been invaded by ghosts!"
Beside him, although Calvados did not speak, he was obviously further shocked by the clues provided by Jiang Xia. His expression became increasingly ugly, and the murderous intent rising from his fear became increasingly strong.
Maori Kogoro looked at the program in Jiang Xia's hand, and suddenly thought of something. He glanced at the old landlord beside him with a meaningful look:
"In addition to being haunted, there is actually another possibility - someone wanted to make this apartment 'haunted', so they deliberately played some pre-recorded haunted tapes while we were asleep."
Conan: "But just now when Xiaolan said there was a ghost on TV, I went to the TV cabinet and checked - it was empty underneath, there was no videotape at all."
Calvados couldn't stand this nonsense detective with a mustache anymore: He thought that Jiang Xia's acquaintances should be capable. But now it seems that there are still too few detectives with real skills.
He could only reiterate: "I wasn't asleep at the time. I was cleaning the house, but the same scene suddenly played on TV."
Maori Kogoro then looked at him suspiciously again: "You are a tenant living here, who knows if you are hired by the landlord - and the story of 'seeing a ghost crawling out of the TV' is simply a fantasy. You must have heard my daughter say that and deliberately came to create atmosphere."
Calvados: “…”
Conan nodded secretly in his heart, and rarely agreed with Mouri Kogoro's speculation: a member of an organization inexplicably came to live in a haunted house, and kept saying that he saw a ghost... There is a problem, a very problematic problem.
"Could it be that the organization wants to use ghost legends to hide something?"
Conan looked at the apartment and his eyes became serious.
(End of this chapter)
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