Chapter 2651-2663 [Painful Memory]
The corridor on the second floor of Zhengying's house was unexpectedly narrow.
The light switch was set in the middle of the corridor. Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko followed Hoshigawa Dougo and walked deeper into the corridor using the light coming from the stairs.
After taking only two steps, the ghost-fearing Mao Li Ran's heartbeat began to accelerate.
She looked at the moonlight shining in from the end of the corridor, and felt that the porcelain jars on the balcony looked strange in this cool light: "This place..." Why is it so narrow and dark, making people feel creepy... If she had known, she would not have followed.
Xinghe Tongwu was very used to this. He looked at this place, recalling his living experience ten years ago, and quickly raised his hand and pointed forward: "I remember going in through the door on the right, which is the teacher's room."
As he spoke, he stopped and reached out to press the switch on the wall next to him. However, with a click, the switch moved, but the light did not respond.
"Huh? What's going on..." Xinghe Tongwu pressed the buttons back and forth in disbelief, but the light still didn't come on.
Not only was there no light, but suddenly, even the light coming in from the staircase disappeared abruptly - there was a power outage in the villa.
Mao Lilan, who was already a little scared, said: "!!"
She grabbed the arms of the two people next to her and said, "You, don't leave, I'm scared!"
…
At the same time, on the first floor of the villa, there was another person whose heart was about to jump out of her throat, just like the high school girl upstairs.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Power outage? Why did the power go out suddenly? ! Is there some conspiracy or danger about to happen?
For a moment, it was as if a curtain was slowly opening in his mind, and behind the curtain, there emerged horrific scenes of some innocent passers-by being stabbed in the darkness, or being treated as suspects and having to choose one of three options after the darkness ended.
"..." Maya Hashimoto shuddered, and the next moment, he made a quick decision and grabbed Jiang Xia next to him.
"Well, I can't see the road clearly with my sunglasses on." Hashimoto Maya cleared her throat, "How about I follow first..."
Click.
Before he could finish his words, a bright beam of light shone in his direction, blinding him.
Conan turned on the flashlight on his watch and mercilessly shone it on the suspicious person in front of him: "...Can't you see the road clearly with sunglasses on? Then why don't you take them off, Uncle Hashimoto?"
"It's obviously an excuse. This guy must have other purposes for approaching Jiang Xia." Conan pinched his throat and reminded him in a childish voice, while snorting in his heart, "You'd better plant some kind of eavesdropping device or something, so that I can type it later and ask Jiang Xia to check his pockets, and then expose your true identity as a suspicious person."
This was indeed a blunt statement. Hashimoto Maya didn't dare to take off her sunglasses just now because of Usa's order. She really felt that her vision was blocked in the dark, so she blurted out this excuse.
Coming back to his senses at this moment, he hurriedly tried to make up his mind, but he didn't know where to start.
At this moment, Jiang Xia understood and said, "Mr. Hashimoto, are you afraid of the dark? I have a friend who is the same."
"!" Hashimoto Maya was delighted, "Yes, yes, yes, I am ashamed to say this, but I am really afraid of this."
Conan: “…”
Sometimes it's not good to be too flexible, as you can easily cover up some loopholes in a reasonable way like this... Wait, could it be that Hashimoto Maya knows Jiang Xia's personality, so she deliberately said something full of loopholes? ... How cunning!
The two people, each with their own thoughts, looked at each other, and then looked away in the dim light where no one could see each other clearly.
Jiang Xia flicked Conan's wrist and said, "Stop waving the flashlight around. Find where the switch is."
"Oh, okay." Conan came back to his senses and shone the flashlight on the walls around him. "The switch doesn't seem to be in this room."
Hearing this, Jiang Xia walked to the door and pushed it open.
When he looked up, he saw Mrs. Zhengying coming out of the house opposite. Jiang Xia looked at the elderly lady and asked, "Where is the switch in your house?"
"Over there." Mrs. Zhengying pointed quickly, "Inside the bathroom."
Jiang Xia nodded, dragged Hashimoto Maya, who was holding on to him tightly, along the road, and soon found the power switch: it was indeed tripped.
He reached out and turned on the switch, and in an instant, the lights everywhere became bright again.
Maya Hashimoto looked left and right cautiously, and confirmed that there was no trap, then she breathed a sigh of relief.
However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a terrified scream of "Ah!" suddenly came from upstairs - upon listening carefully, it seemed that there was more than one scream, but a duet.
Conan: “!” This is Xiaolan’s voice!
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The other side.
Akai Shuichi instinctively dodged a bullet and took off his headphones.
After getting rid of the huge noise, his eyes twitched slightly and he rubbed his ears: "..." The lung capacity of these high school girls is really terrible, or it can be said that the equipment provided by the FBI is too high-definition, and the scream seems to be sticking to his eardrum.
After being dazed by the sonic attack, Shuichi Akai regained his senses after a moment. He frowned and analyzed the situation on the other side from the fragments of words he overheard.
"First there was a power outage, and then there were sudden screams. Were they attacked in the dark?" This thought flashed through his mind, but he quickly rejected it. "No, there was no sound of fighting... Hmm?"
Wait, could it be...
"Another murder has occurred."
A voice came from his ear. The woman's voice carried a bit of vicissitudes, a bit of understanding, and a bit of certainty as if recalling the past.
Shuichi Akai turned around and saw Judy with a complicated expression.
Akai Shuichi: "Why are you here?"
Judy: "James said he was arrested...well, he said he was drinking tea and chatting at the Metropolitan Police Department and couldn't get away, so he asked me to come and pick you up on his behalf."
Akai Shuichi: "..."
Judy sat next to him, took out a can of hot coffee, and when Akai Shuichi stretched out his hand... she opened it with a snap, tilted her head back and drank half of the can in one gulp.
——Originally, Judy was still a little excited about working together after a few days, but now... the moment the scream rang out, she felt a flood of memories flooding into her mind, making her suddenly lose all her romantic thoughts, and her mind was filled with all kinds of unexpected cases.
"We have to retreat a bit." Judy put down her coffee and wiped her mouth. "Based on my experience, the police will arrive soon and conduct a large-scale search centered on the villa."
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Not long after, police cars arrived.
Inspector Megure yawned sleepily as he trotted upstairs and immediately saw his dear brother Jiang Xia in the narrow corridor.
Inspector Megure: “…” That’s great, it looks like I don’t have to stay up all night tonight.
As he thought about it, he looked towards the end of the corridor. Next to the window sill, under the moonlight, he saw a short-haired woman leaning against the wall without any breath, her head covered in blood.
(End of this chapter)
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