Chapter 103 The Bloodstained Villa

Got off the boat.

The village chief and a group of villagers are giving a warm welcome.

Kogoro Mori walked over proudly.

Su Beixun held Jiang Shouhuang's hand and followed behind.

A little girl came up to Conan and started talking, then she hugged his arm.

Su Beixun looked down at the little fat boy beside him.

Even though he was standing next to Conan, he was ignored like air.

How miserable.

He touched the little fat boy's head, causing Jiang Shouhuang to look up in confusion.

"Then, Mr. Maori, let's say goodbye."

Su Beixun shouted at Maori Kogoro, then turned around and left.

He just came to get the money and didn't want to have too much interaction with Conan.

"Brother, where is the treasure?"

After leaving the sea, Jiang Shouhuang felt sleepy again, yawned and asked.

"I'll take you to get it right away." Su Beixun responded.

Although the island is large, it is easy to find the cave around it once you find the lighthouse.

Most of the villagers are now at the port. Hamada on the lighthouse, the man who killed the original owner of the Dragon God and hid the gold here, is also there.

They came in without being seen by anyone.

Walking into the cave and moving the shrine at the end, another cave entrance appears before your eyes.

A gust of wind blew out from inside, making a whimpering sound.

Jiang Shouhuang looked at the dark hole and swallowed his saliva: "Should we... go down?"

"of course."

Su Beixun nodded and walked straight down.

The little fat boy could only follow behind.

After walking for a while, Su Beixun suddenly bent down, picked up a brick and threw it behind him: "Take a look."

Jiang Shouhuang took it in a panic.

"what is this?"

"The treasure you wanted."

The little fat boy was stunned, looking at the gray, mossy bricks, and after thinking for a while, he wiped them with his palm.

Suddenly, a golden light shone out in the darkness.

The little fat boy opened his eyes wide.

Although Jiang Shou's family was wealthy, Jiang Shouhuang had never seen such a fortune. The impact of holding a gold nugget in his hand shocked him.

"It's... that easy?"

"What do you think?" Su Beixun rolled his eyes at him. "Overcoming traps, deciphering maps, surviving in the jungle, and then risking one's life to find the treasure... Come on, this is just a plot in the story."

Jiang Shouhuang suddenly didn't know what to say.

Su Beixun waved at him: "Go upstairs and wait for me first."

——It’s best not to let others know about the space.

After the fat man left, Su Beixun collected all the gold nuggets, then returned to the previous cave and restored the shrine to its original position.

"Uh...are we just going to leave like this?"

Jiang Shouhuang hesitated, and raised the gold nugget in his hand: "Only one piece?"

"Just keep it as a souvenir." Su Beixun said, "We can't take that much. And didn't you hear what the uncle on the boat said? Even if we find the treasure, it doesn't belong to us."

He took the gold nugget from the fat boy's hand and said, "You have nowhere to hide it. I'll keep it for you first and return it to you when I get back."

Jiang Shouhuang looked up and said "Oh".

Su Beixun put the things in his arms, then took Jiang Shouhuang back the same way.

Everything is going smooth.

When we returned to the port, the crowd was still gathering.

Su Beixun squeezed in and asked, "When is the next ship leaving?"

A villager thought for a moment and said, "It should be four o'clock in the afternoon. Although it may be later sometimes, it will never be later than five o'clock at the latest."

Su Beixun thanked him.

"It's still early, why don't you find a place to sleep?"

He asked Jiang Shouhuang, but without waiting for the other party to answer, he took the fat boy to find a hotel to stay in.

What Su Beixun wanted was a room with two beds.

After entering the room, he took a shower first, then put on his clothes and lay down on the bed.

Jiang Shouhuang was lying on another bed, but his eyes were wide open, staring at the lights on the ceiling in a daze.

Seeing this, Su Beixun said, "If you really can't sleep, then go and have fun by yourself. As long as you don't leave the hotel, you don't have to worry about the bomb problem."

After saying that, he closed his eyes, and soon his breathing calmed down.

Jiang Shouhuang lay there for a long time and found that he was not sleepy at all.

Su Beixun was right, two hours of sleep is indeed enough for children.

So he carefully got out of bed and tiptoed out of the room.

But looking at the empty corridor, Jiang Shouhuang didn't know what to do.

After being stunned for a long time, he walked to the window at the end of the corridor, lay down on it and looked outside.

Blue sky and white clouds, the spring scenery is brilliant.

He stretched out his hand, the sun licking his skin, the warmth made him smile unconsciously.

But his smile didn't last long. As soon as his hand touched his neck, he sighed with a sad face.

If only there was no collar...

If only Su Beixun really treated him as his younger brother...

If only they were here for tourism...

Then he wouldn't have to deliberately cater to Su Beixun and be a good boy in his eyes.

You have to know that he used to be a bit of a devil, always getting into trouble with his two buddies.

Jiang Shouhuang pursed his lips and rested his chin on the back of his hand.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

A hurried sound of footsteps came from the stairs.

Jiang Shouhuang turned his head subconsciously.

He saw the fellow in a blue suit whom he had met on the boat running up.

Conan also saw Jiang Shouhuang in the corridor, and after approaching, he asked curiously: "Where is your brother?"

The little fat boy said, "Brother is sleeping in his room."

"Sleep? Now?!"

Conan was a little confused and thought it was strange that they came here to look for treasure but found a hotel to sleep first.

But thinking of the purpose of coming here, he put all this behind him: "Did you come here directly after landing on the island?"

Because Uncle Maori was attacked during his speech and the village chief forced them to stay and look for treasure, Conan thought of the two people who were also here to look for treasure and came over to ask about the situation.

Jiang Shouhuang didn't know whether Su Beixun wanted him to tell anyone about the gold nugget. After thinking about it, he just said, "We walked around the area after we got to the island, and then came here."

Conan nodded and reminded: "Then you should be careful. Something is wrong on this island. It's best to leave quickly."

After he said that, he turned around and left to investigate other places on the island.

"and many more!"

Jiang Shouhuang called him: "Are you... the assistant of Detective Maori?"

"I guess so." Conan said perfunctorily.

But looking at the other person's tangled expression, he couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong? Is there something you need your uncle's help with?"

The little fat man touched the collar of his coat uncomfortably, and after hesitating for a moment, he said, "No... nothing."

Conan looked at him strangely.

However, I just thought that the other party was worrying about something that only children would worry about. In addition, Uncle Maori’s matter was more urgent, so I suppressed my curiosity and planned to ask him when I had time later.

But he had only taken two steps when Jiang Shouhuang stopped him again.

Conan turned around helplessly.

"What on earth is the matter with you?"

The little fat man pursed his lips and said, "Can you... leave me a phone number?"

"……sure."

Conan took out the notebook he carried with him, wrote down his number and handed it to him.

"Thank you."

The little fat man bowed and held the note in his hand.

There is definitely a problem!
Conan's eyes narrowed.

He made up his mind that after he had resolved the issues on the island, he would find the other party and ask them clearly.

"You can call me if you have anything." He said seriously. Jiang Shouhuang nodded: "Yes!"

After Conan left, he memorized the number on the note, then tore it into pieces and threw it out of the window.

After finishing, he turned his head to look at the still closed door and breathed a sigh of relief with a guilty conscience.

……

Time passes quickly.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Beixun and Jiang Shouhuang boarded the cruise ship on time.

Watching the island getting farther and farther away, Jiang Shouhuang held the railing and asked, "Can we go back now?"

"Bear with it a little longer, we still have to go to the last place."

Su Beixun smiled and rubbed his soft cheek.

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Nagano Prefecture.

Located in the central part of Honshu Island, Japan, between Kansai and Kanto.

The Dusk Annex is located here.

The area here is vast and sparsely populated, and transportation is inconvenient, so it is possible to hide such a large villa in the deep mountains and forests.

At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark.

A dim light was on in the villa, and a middle-aged man was pacing back and forth, biting his nails.

"I can't find it... Damn it, why can't I find it? Where is Karasuma Renya's treasure hidden?!"

He kept complaining, looking anxious and ferocious.

An old lady who had fallen on a chair nearby was so annoyed that she sighed and said, "Calm down, Mr. Okami. If the treasure was so easy to find, it wouldn't have been left until now for us to pick up."

"You're making it sound so easy, old woman!" Dashang Zhu Shannu snorted, his expression unchanged: "It's me who is on the verge of bankruptcy because of buying this house."

Qianjian Jiangdai shook his head and said nothing more.

40 years ago, Chijian's father was invited by Karasuma Renya to come to the Twilight Villa to look for the treasure left by Karasuma's mother.

But half a year later, there was no news from him.

It was not until 20 years ago that Chima Noboru learned the secret code of the treasure through the words engraved on the letter sent by her father, as well as the fact that Karasuma Renya invited other scholars to find the treasure and killed them.

But when she found out it was too late, even the owner of the villa, Karasuma Renye, had already died.

Chima Kyouyo thought this would be a mystery that would be taken to the grave forever.

However, during a conversation with Dashang Zhushan, who knew about this, he actually paid to buy the villa and invited Qianjian to join him in treasure hunting.

Unfortunately, two years later, they gained nothing.

After a moment of silence, Da Shang Zhu Shan angrily raised his fist and said gloomily, "We can't go on like this! We have to invite other detectives over."

Chima Nozomi looked at his somewhat crazy expression and knew in her heart that even if the treasure was found, Okami would not let other detectives leave alive, not even her.

But out of curiosity about why her father died, she did not refute the proposal.

Just ask, “Have you decided who you want to invite?”

Okami Zhushan put his fingernails in his mouth again and said in a vague voice: "There are only a few famous detectives in Japan, so let's invite them all...Qida Ikumi, Shigeme Harufumi, Hakuba Tan, and the recently famous Maori Kogoro."

He added: "If we just invite them in the name of Kaito Kid... I think there is no detective who would not be interested in him."

Qianjian Jiangdai also nodded. She was just about to discuss some details...

Suddenly, I heard a "bang"!
“It’s really remote.”

She turned her head and saw two children push open the door and walk in.

The larger one looked around the walls and exclaimed: "It's really big, really nice... Although it's a little hard to find, I can totally accept it."

Qianjian Jiangdai narrowed his eyes and had a very ominous premonition in his heart.

"Wait! What are you two doing?! This is my place!"

Dashang Zhushan came back to his senses and spoke in a bad tone.

He was about to chase the two little devils out, but after taking two steps, his body suddenly went limp.

A bullet went through his forehead!
Drops of blood splattered on the floor, and Dashang Zhushan fell to the ground with a thud, twitched a few times, and then became silent.

"Feel sorry."

Su Beixun shook the hot gun barrel and said coldly to the corpse on the ground: "I have nothing to say to you."

Jiang Shouhuang bit his lip, looked at the blood on the ground, and turned his head away to avoid his sight.

"...Really? How dare you do this in front of the detective? If I were 20 years younger, I would fight you to death in the morning."

Qianjian Jiangdai's pupils shrank for a moment, and then immediately relaxed: "I think you are going to kill me, an old woman, next."

"Yes." Su Beixun pointed the gun at her and smiled slightly: "Who made you see me today?"

"Haha." Qianjian Jiangdai laughed a few times in an old-fashioned way.

She looked at her wrinkled hands and sighed, "That's really unfortunate... just like my father who died here."

"Come to think of it, this annex really seems to be cursed... I remember the auction after Karasuma Renya's death was also suddenly broken into by two strangers... It's exactly the same as now."

Qianjian Jiangdai shook his head, without any fear of impending death: "My little friend, you are also here to look for treasure, right?"

She asked with a hint of request: "Can you please tell me what is hidden in this villa?"

Su Beixun looked at her, and after a moment, pointed around.

Said: "I don't know what Karasuma Renya is looking for, but I came here for the villa itself... This villa is made entirely of gold, and its value would make even me jealous."

"...Gold...Made...You mean..."

Chijian Jiangdai's eyes widened. She looked around at the walls and ceiling, then suddenly calmed down.

"I see...I see. My father lost his life here because of these vulgar things."

She was a little sad, but also a little relieved: "Thank you for telling me so much."

"Nothing." Su Beixun pulled the trigger tightly: "After all, you are already this age, and you don't have a gun on you, so you can't pose any threat to me."

“…How straightforward.”

Qianjian Jiangdai arranged his clothes neatly and said: "If you underestimate the old man, one day you will suffer."

She smiled gracefully and said, "Before you kill me, can you promise me one more thing?"

"The old man is really brave."

Su Beixun poked his scalp with the barrel of his gun: "Tell me about it."

"Don't worry, it's just a small matter."

Qianjian Jiangdai said: "Before you shoot, can you let this child go?"

She looked down at Jiang Shouhuang who was hiding behind Su Beixun and said, "Children won't be able to sleep well at night if they see this kind of scene."

Su Beixun answered without hesitation: "I refuse."

"……Yeah."

Qianjian Jiangdai sighed.

She looked at Su Beixun: "You are so cold. No wonder this child has always been afraid of you."

"fear me?"

Su Beixun laughed.

He reached out and touched Jiang Shouhuang's head: "Your eyesight is blurry, we have a very good relationship."

"Are you on good terms? Not necessarily."

Qianjian Jiangdai seemed to be mocking him: "It is precisely because I am old that I can see everything clearly."

She said softly: "Whether it's being coquettish or cute, or liking you or relying on you, this child... is just trying his best to please you."

Qianjian Jiangdai looked at him with pity.

"We always say that children are heartless, that's because pain stays on them for a short time. Compared to pain, they can find more joy and happiness in the ordinary than adults."

She looked up at the expressionless Su Beixun: "To be able to make a child suppress his nature... How many excessive things have you done to him?!"

"Don't make it sound like I'm a sadist."

Su Beixun's voice gradually cooled down: "You talk too much, old woman."

He looked at Jiang Shouhuang who lowered his head: "Besides, fear is also a kind of longing. The more fear there is, the more longing there is."

“Just as the more people fear nature, the more they want to control the wind and rain; the more people fear the universe, the more they want to fly into space.”

"Even if my brother is really afraid of me, I will only be happy."

"Because that means I am guiding his growth!"

"Really... So, you compare yourself to nature?" Qianjian Jiangdai shook his head gently, his eyes calm: "Too arrogant, kid! You are not a god, and there is no difference between you and me or him. In this world, no one needs your guidance from a high place!"

Su Beixun stopped talking and just looked down at her indifferently, without any hesitation.

Qianjian Jiangdai pursed his lips and said seriously: "Although it's just the first time we meet, but... you are really an unforgivable little devil!"

"Thank you for the compliment……"

Su Beixun raised his gun: "Well, goodbye forever."

Bang~!

The bullet came out of the chamber.

Chikan Kyoudai looked at Jiang Shouxiang kindly and gave him a guilt-ridden smile: "Sorry, kid, I'm going to give you a nightmare."

Jiang Shouhuang's eyes slowly widened.

The pitch-black cave entrance leads to the underworld, and the orange-yellow god of death comes to lead the dead.

The pale hair suddenly turned red.

The little fat man stretched out his hand, then withdrew it weakly.

(End of this chapter)