Chapter 3081 3093 [Ghost Room]
Jiang Xia mentioned the bookshelf, and Mao Lilan just noticed this place. She glanced at the scary ghost covers and couldn't help but want to scream again.
But thinking that these were after all someone else's treasured collection, Mao Lilan took a deep breath and finally just praised: "You are so brave to stay with them - if I put a bunch of these in my room, I'm afraid I would have nightmares every night."
"That's nothing." The otaku laughed, "Mr. Banmachi in Room 4 is much better than me. His room is a veritable haunted house."
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"It really is a haunted house-like room!"
The group then visited the puppeteer again. Looking at the various items displayed in the house, not to mention Maori Ran, even Maori Kogoro couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows: "Why are there only statues of monsters and ghosts, and they are all black...Does anyone really buy these things?"
"Of course, this is art." The puppeteer raised his hand and pulled the light cord, his tone slightly boastful, "And these are not ordinary puppets. If you turn off the lights - look!"
As the lights went out, the room became pitch black. But soon, all kinds of strange fluorescent lights illuminated everyone's vision again.
——The puppets with horrible shapes and distorted expressions actually glowed. Against the pitch-black background, their terrifying appearances suddenly became clearer and more terrifying.
Mao Lilan looked at this hellish scene, grabbed her arms tightly, closed her eyes and screamed: "Ah!!!"
Kogoro Maori's eyes twitched and he hissed.
"..." On the other side, Jiang Xia looked at his arm that had been repeatedly ravaged tonight, and was glad that he had quietly laid a layer of puppet clay on it.
Conan watched this scene and felt a little sour after realizing it belatedly. But then he thought, given his height, if Xiaolan was nervous and put her hands together, she would probably only be able to reach his neck...
After hesitating for a moment, one of the detectives felt a chill on his cervical spine and rationally stopped the idea of running over to comfort the girl who was afraid of ghosts.
He pointed to the counters with dolls on display, using science to dispel the horror brought by ghosts: "There are a lot of fluorescent lights here! - Uncle Banmachi, the dolls glow because you applied special paint on them, and the fluorescent lights will reflect different colors of light when shining on these paints, right?"
"Hmph." The puppeteer lit the light again in a dull tone. "You little brat know a lot."
Conan then remembered Calvados next to him, and hurriedly explained with a dry laugh: "These are what the owner of the toy store told me. Toys are children's specialty!"
Jiang Xia did not continue to discuss this topic. He turned to ask the puppet master: "I heard that you also saw the ghost light in the building next door?"
"Yes, but the will-o'-the-wisp I saw was not in the building, but on this side." The puppeteer pointed to the window on the other side and recalled, "It gave me a lot of inspiration, especially the wonderful color change, which is as wonderful as a neon light."
Conan walked to the place he pointed, opened the window and looked out, then found that the upper right corner of the room was the corridor window where the strange figure had just appeared.
As I was watching, the puppeteer shouted over here, "Hey, kid! For the sake of your frightened sister, you'd better close the window quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Mao Lilan's scream behind him - there were several big moths dancing in the room, and they were the ones that slipped in through the window when Conan opened it just now.
"!" The fake child who had caused trouble came to his senses and hurriedly closed the window.
Looking at this group of people, the puppeteer shook his head in disdain. "You don't seem to like ghosts at all. Then why did you come to me? You might as well go find the graduate student in Room 1. Maybe you can find some common topics with that blockhead who doesn't believe in ghosts. Okay, hurry up and leave. Don't disturb me at work. Late at night is when inspiration comes."
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The ghost-loving tenant ordered them to leave, so they had to return to the corridor. Maori Kogoro scratched his head and whispered to Jiang Xia, "Did you see anything?"
Jiang Xia nodded, but did not answer directly. Instead, he said slowly, "I have already asked two people. Why not go to that graduate student and see if we can get some new clues from him?"
"But doesn't he not believe in ghosts and has never seen any supernatural phenomena here?" Kogoro Mouri was a little confused, but thinking about the crime-solving rate of this neighbor's child, he finally said nothing and followed Jiang Xia to the graduate student.
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"Why did you come to me? I've said it so many times that the so-called haunting can definitely be explained by science, but the other tenants just don't want to think about it deeply."
As he spoke, the graduate student was typing away on his keyboard: "Rather than worrying about something so illusory, I'd rather quickly get rid of that abandoned building nearby."
Jiang Xia: "Do you hate that building?"
"Of course." The graduate student had wanted to complain about this for a long time. He stood up, walked to the window, and opened the curtains. "You see, because of this building, my room, which used to have good lighting, has almost no light. I have to keep the lights on even during the day."
As he spoke, he glanced diagonally upward and sighed enviously: "The landlord is much more comfortable than me - although the window on this side of his house is also blocked, there is another window on the road side, which provides good light."
"Do we have to turn on the lights during the day?" Mao Lilan thought about this harsh environment and couldn't help asking, "Then why do you still live here? Isn't it better to move to another place?"
"Of course it's because the rent here is cheap." The graduate student muttered, "and my grandmother said that the room I live in now has the best feng shui - so when I first came here, I chose this room among so many rooms."
Conan: "..." Aren't you a staunch scientist? Why do you believe in Feng Shui? And this house is so spooky, how can it look like good Feng Shui? Are you the only one in the whole apartment who has never seen a ghost?
"ah!!"
Just as I was thinking about it, a scream suddenly rang out.
Everyone was stunned and looked at Mao Lilan in surprise: Could it be that this house that has never been haunted is finally going to be haunted?
"Moths!" Mao Lilan pointed at Calvados' arm, "You, there are two more moths on your arm!!"
"?" Calvados looked down and found that it was true. He quickly shook his sleeves in disgust, but the two moths flew up briefly, then circled around again and stuck to him affectionately again.
Watching the sniper fighting the moth, Jiang Xia raised his phone as if nothing had happened and laughed: "It seems that you are very popular with these little animals."
(End of this chapter)
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