The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"Really, why is Dad so slow!" Maori Ran looked out of the car, but there was still no sign of Maori Kogoro in the direction of the bathroom.

They had been parked at the gas station deep in the mountains and forests for nearly ten minutes.

"Uncle may have a stomachache..." Conan was typing on his cell phone, holding it up from time to time, trying to restore the unstable signal.

“The internet is really bad around here.”

As a result, he couldn't even have a good chat with his friends.

After telling Chiyo and Haibara about the network fluctuation problem on his side, he stopped sending messages and put away his phone.

Uncle Maori finally walked out of the bathroom of the gas station. His steps were a little unsteady and he looked very haggard.

"Who knew I would get diarrhea while driving..." He muttered, got back into the car and started the engine.

Passing through the woods and heading along the winding mountain road, you can see an old mansion standing halfway up the mountain from afar. Its conspicuous ridge-top pagoda has a distinct Byzantine style.

"This is the 'Twilight Annex'..." Mao Lilan looked over there and couldn't help but sigh.

We set out at noon and it was already dark when we arrived at the mansion. Although it hadn't rained yet, thick layers of dark clouds had gathered. A few flashes of lightning flashed by, illuminating the darkness that shrouded the ancient house.

"Rather than calling it Dusk, it would be more appropriate to call it the Vampire House..." Kogoro Mouri narrowed his eyes.

Hearing his subtle tone, Mao Lilan couldn't help but feel a little scared and looked hesitant.

"Are we really going there?"

"Idiot, now that you've received the invitation letter and a check for two million is attached, how can you just say no to going?" Uncle Maori's voice sounded somewhat resentful.

"'Mr. Su Wen is very wise, and I hope you can take the time to come and have dinner with me. I will be very grateful.' That's what the invitation said."

Mao Lilan asked again: "But isn't the signature on that letter very strange?"

"'The phantom child abandoned by God' or something like that..."

Conan in the back seat heard this mysterious name, chuckled, pushed his glasses, and a light flashed on the lenses.

Finally, Mao Lilan seemed a little scared and said worriedly: "I think it's better not to go. It would be terrible if there really are vampires..."

"There are no vampires in Japan." Maori Kogoro squeezed his eyes and said, "Even if there are, they will only be mountain goblins..."

As he was speaking, a figure suddenly appeared in the high beam. Maori Kogoro was startled and quickly stepped on the brakes.

呲——

The tires made an unpleasant rubbing sound on the road.

"Mountain, mountain goblin?!"

An old woman with a slightly hunched back and holding an umbrella was standing in the middle of the road with a suitcase at her feet.

She was wearing a somewhat formal evening gown.

Conan stuck his head out of the car window: "Old lady, what's wrong with you?"

The old woman pointed to a place not far behind her and said, "My lovely Fiat baby seems to have stalled, so I'm looking to see if anyone passes by here and can give me a ride."

Only then did they see a beautiful white coupe parked quietly on the side of the road.

"So this is ah."

"You guys are going to that annex as well, right?" Chiken Kyouyo silently put away his umbrella, picked up the box at his feet and walked over, "Please take an old man like me with you."

"Of course you can..." Uncle Maori's eyes twitched as he watched the old woman get on the back seat in a very slick way, as if she didn't seriously ask for his opinion.

"Hello, cute little boy." Chikan Kyoudai smiled and greeted Conan who was sitting in the back seat.

Conan was also silently observing the old man.

"If we really want to go there, Dad, please drive faster!" Mao Lilan leaned close to Mao Li Kogoro and whispered, her cheeks flushed, "I kind of want to go to the bathroom..."

"You really are..." Uncle Maori gave her a troubled look and stepped on the accelerator.

Qianjian Jiangdai took off his reading glasses and wiped them with a glasses cloth. "Miss, although it may sound a bit nosy, the principal of the elementary school in our town often said, 'The secret to success is to seize opportunities.'"

"Opportunities are rare, and they always come to those who know how to seize the opportunity."

She put her glasses back on and smiled. "So why didn't you take the opportunity to go to the restroom when you were at the gas station?"

"Huh?" Mao Lilan looked at her in surprise.

"How do you know we just went to a gas station?" Conan was also a little curious. Judging from the route, the old lady had been in front of them and should not have seen them stop at the gas station.

"It's very simple, little darling." Qianjian Jiangdai smiled kindly, "Look, the ashtray in the car is empty, but there are cigarette butts underneath."

"The driver was obviously a heavy smoker with cigarette butts overflowing from his ashtray, but the ashtray was empty, indicating that it had been cleaned not long ago."

She looked at Maori Kogoro, who was driving and listening attentively, with some appreciation in her eyes: "Besides, a gentleman who is willing to let a strange old lady get on the car should not do the act of throwing garbage out of the window in front of his daughter."

"From this, we can conclude that you should have stopped at the only gas station a few kilometers away, right?"

Kogoro Mori raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised.

"This kind of insight...it seems that the old man is no ordinary person."

"I'm really flattered to hear that from the sleeping Kogoro."

She leaned back in the car seat and said calmly, "Chikan Kyoudai, he's a detective just like you."

"Chiken Kyoudai?" Kogoro Mori frowned, as if recalling where he had heard this name.

"I know!" Mao Lilan was the first to think of it and said in surprise, "You are the famous detective who can solve a case just by listening to other people's description of the case while sitting in an armchair!"

"That's all just overpraise from the good-natured media."

Chikan Kyoudai smiled amiably and took the ashtray away. "Anyway, let me keep this for now. After all, I hate the smell of cigarettes. Please don't smoke in front of me when we reach our destination."

"......" Uncle Maori was ashamed.

What a troublesome old woman.

Time passed little by little, and soon they arrived at the end of this journey, the Dusk Villa.

After dropping off a few people, Kogoro Mori drove the rented car into a parking lot with specially designated parking spaces and walked closer to this old Western-style building.

“The closer you look, the more it looks like a haunted house,” he sighed.

Ran Mao Li ran into the hall quickly with an umbrella in hand, apparently she was in a hurry to find the restroom.

Conan stayed in the parking lot and observed the other cars. It seemed that those were the cars of other people who were also invited.

Mercedes, Ferrari, Porsche...

It’s really not cheap.

"Isn't this the Alfa Romeo?!" Uncle Maori widened his eyes and leaned over a classic vintage car to observe it carefully, as if he wanted to touch it and feel the luxury and nobility.

"Don't touch my wife!!!" A voice stopped him in time, sounding a little anxious.

"It took me five years to finally get it. If someone else touches it casually and makes her upset, it will be troublesome..."

The long-faced man wearing a western hat was holding a cigarette, looking a bit ruffian, "Isn't that right? Mustache?"

"Isn't this Mogi? Long time no see. You have also been invited to the dinner?" Chijian Jyoudai greeted the man. It seemed that the two were quite familiar with each other.

"Granny Chiken, you're here too?" When Mogi Haruki saw her, his expression changed instantly and he smiled kindly.

"I heard you were shot by the mafia in Chicago last week and it was reported in the newspapers. Are you okay?"

"I don't take this kind of thing seriously at all." He took out his cigarette and put it out against the brick wall beside him, looking somewhat smug.

"You are almost at the age to get married and start a family, so you should be more cautious." Qianjian Jiangdai put away the umbrella and pushed open the door of the mansion.

"Who knows what will happen in the future?" Mogi Haruki shook his head and followed.

Conan and Maori Kogoro looked at each other and followed suit.

Several people walked into this dusk villa which exuded a heavy sense of history.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard a sudden and sharp roar.

"what?!"

"The chef is sick and can't come?!!"

A fat man in a white suit and a mustache was getting angry at a woman with a mushroom-head and pockmarked face who looked like the housemaid.

“Are you kidding me? I came to this damn place just to have dinner!!”

"I'm really sorry!" The maid Aki Ishihara said in a panic, "But we still have ingredients for dinner..."

"Then give up your kitchen quickly and let me cook!" The man named Okami Zhushan is a famous food detective in Gunma. He also came to the Dusk Villa because of the invitation letter.

Mao Lilan seemed to have finished using the bathroom and had some understanding of the situation here. She was a little melancholy: "Including the gourmet detective, the owner here seems to have summoned four famous detectives."

Chima Nozomi asked Ishihara Aki, a maid here, "May I ask what you are going to do? You need to invite four detectives to come to this deep mountain. My old bones can't stand it."

Ishihara Aki was a little nervous because of Okami Zhushan's yelling at her, and she was sweating slightly.

"In fact, we invited seven detectives in total..."

"So besides us, there are actually two more people, right?" Haruki Mogi frowned.

"Yes, there are two ladies and a teenager."

"Boy? Could it be Shinichi..." Mao Lilan murmured.

Conan immediately guessed what she was thinking and said quickly, "It must be Heiji-nii-san!"

However, Ishihara Aki denied this speculation: "No, although the host did include their names on the invitation list, Mr. Kudo has not been contacted, and Mr. Hattori's mother refused the invitation on the grounds that he was preparing for an exam..."