Chapter 3083 3095 [Winery Minions]
As soon as he left the room, the puppeteer suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned around and saw a ghost figure floating outside the window at the end of the corridor, looking at him with a sneer.
——It was as if ghosts were rioting, and classic haunted scenes suddenly unfolded before his eyes.
"ah--!!"
A scream started and echoed throughout the entire apartment.
1st floor.
Hearing the shouts coming from upstairs, the two doors opened.
The otaku poked his head out excitedly: "The ghost is out again? Who is it scaring this time? She is very active today!"
The graduate student was a little annoyed: "Didn't those guests leave? Why is there still someone shouting upstairs? Could it be the new tenant?"
As they were talking, there was a polite knock on the apartment door. The two turned around in confusion and saw Jiang Xia coming back and opening the door from the outside.
The detective had obviously heard the graduate student's mumbling, and answered openly, "It should be the puppeteer."
"Mr. Banmachi?" The group walked upstairs together. The otaku shook his head and refuted Jiang Xia's words, "He wouldn't be scared like this by a ghost. He is one of the few close friends who share the same hobbies as me."
Jiang Xia sighed sympathetically: "You are not afraid of those supernatural phenomena because you really like them. But your 'confidant' is not afraid of ghosts because he is the one who created those supernatural phenomena.
"And now, even though he didn't make any move, the 'ghost' appeared. That's why he changed his normal behavior and became so scared."
As they were talking, they went up to the floor where the puppeteer was and stopped at the stairs.
The otaku looked out and saw the ghost outside the window which had not yet completely disappeared, and the puppeteer with a pale face leaning against the wall in the corridor.
"Why do you look like that?" The otaku looked at him in surprise, then looked at Jiang Xia, "Could it be that what this high school student said was right?"
The puppeteer was too shocked to answer.
Jiang Xia spoke for him considerately: "First, it's the 'bleeding toilet' - every time this kind of supernatural phenomenon happens, the bathroom will become very smelly, and also..."
He suddenly looked at Calvados: "Mr. Yamaguchi, when you opened the water tank cover behind the toilet just now, did you smell a smell of alcohol?"
When he heard him mention the water tank, Calvados imagined the hand half-sunk and half-floating on the wall of the water tank: at that damn critical moment, who would care about alcohol or not?
But he didn't want to say that he was so scared by that hand that he didn't notice anything, and thinking back carefully, there did seem to be a smell of alcohol at the time...
The code-named cadre nodded nonchalantly: "That's right."
Jiang Xia: "The stench is actually the smell of ammonia. In the science experiment class at school, there is usually an interesting little experiment - dissolving phenolphthalein in alcohol can produce a simple acid-base indicator.
"This solution is colorless in acidic and neutral environments, but it quickly turns red in alkaline environments. Ammonia is a typical alkaline substance.
“That is, the person who created this paranormal phenomenon first added ammonia into the toilet, and then poured phenolphthalein solution into the water tank.
"When you flush, the two solutions mix and the toilet starts to 'bleed'."
The graduate student shook his head and said, "There is indeed such a reaction, but the liquid obtained like this is closer to pink in color, and it doesn't look like the 'blood' you mentioned at all."
Jiang Xia pointed to the half-dead light in the bathroom and said, "Light has a great influence on color. As long as the light is dim enough, the color of the liquid will become darker, closer to people's concept of blood.
"Also, once the first person who encounters this situation shouts 'the toilet is bleeding', all other tenants who hear about it will immediately associate the reddish liquid in the toilet with blood."
The otaku also went to college, and although his major was not so relevant, he quickly recalled the chemistry he learned in middle school.
He suddenly realized: "Ammonia does smell like urine after being left for a long time. So, every time I encounter a ghost, the toilet does smell worse than usual. I thought before that someone accidentally went outside and the ghost got angry, so it scared the person who was using the toilet... So this is actually man-made?"
The exposed puppeteer's expression changed from one to another: "This, this does sound reasonable, but what makes you say that I am the one who did this? - Everyone else here can do it, especially this graduate student!"
Calvados turned to look at Conan.
Conan reluctantly dragged a bunch of bottles and jars out from the corner, reciting his lines dryly: "I just found these in Uncle Banmachi's room - I just wanted to take a look at those interesting dolls, but I didn't expect to find these things by accident."
"Also..." Conan said, "I also found a very scary video tape."
Puppet Master: “?!”
Looking at his expression as if he had been hit hard, Conan felt a little relieved, but there was also a hint of regret in his relief.
——Originally according to Jiang Xia’s arrangement, it should have been Calvados who found these things.
If that's the case, I can quietly hint to the puppeteer and have him catch Mr. Yamaguchi trespassing into a private house, causing some trouble for this guy who is highly suspected to be a member of the organization, and preferably capture him.
However, unexpectedly, perhaps because he had too many dealings with the police before, Mr. Yamaguchi actually had a strong sense of law - as soon as this suggestion was made, he refused and looked at Conan, and without any instruction asked this child who would not break the law to carry out these tasks.
Beside him, Calvados looked at Conan and felt gratified: No wonder Sherlock Holmes in the novel raised the Baker Street Guerrillas, these little things are really useful sometimes.
Unfortunately, at the same time, the child also has too many shortcomings, such as not thinking carefully enough, love to show off, easily let slip, and will attract great attention from the police and society if something happens... Each of these is extremely unsuitable for members of an organization that needs to be secretive. Otherwise, he really wanted to learn from Jiang Xia and get a few of his own.
Conan suddenly felt a chill on his back. He subconsciously looked at Calvados, and then met the other's gaze that was a mixture of appreciation and regret.
Conan: “…”
What is this guy trying to do! What's that look in his eyes? Did he recognize him as Kudo Shinichi?
The mini high school student felt guilty, but fortunately at this moment, the two tenants interrupted this strange eye contact.
The otaku asked with great interest, "A very scary video tape?"
Conan nodded quickly, making exaggerated gestures like a child, imitating the contents of the videotape: "It was a woman like this, dressed like a ghost, and kept saying things like 'get out' and 'get out'."
(End of this chapter)
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