Conan and I start the hell-level main line

Time was passing slowly, the wind and snow outside were slowly dying down, and Edogawa had already questioned everyone who was present at the time.

It can be known that the mayor's death must be related to Natsume, Liang, and Amuro. The murderer may be among them.

Classic three choices? Oh, why did I think of this word?

But why did the store manager disappear today? Jiang Duchuan, who was standing by the window, looked at them silently. They all appeared here together. Was it a coincidence, or...

At this moment, Natsume suddenly made a horrified and frightened sound, and pointed outside with a trembling expression, "Look, it seems to be foggy!!"

Everyone looked over and said, "Really?"

Outside the hotel, fog that appeared from nowhere was approaching the hotel little by little. The strange white fog was eating away at the space little by little. The gray clouds in the sky began to be shrouded. The vision was obstructed by the fog, leaving only an eerie white in front of the eyes. In the fog, a strange black shadow was looming in the farthest sight. Was it a long shadow monster? No, it was originally a forest. However, in the fog, it seemed like a ghost, revealing a gloomy and creepy feeling. At a glance, there was only endless white, leading to another world.

"Close the window quickly!" Natsume shouted, pushed Edogawa who was sitting by the window, closed the window, and prevented the fog from pouring into the hotel.

The fog is rising and approaching the second floor, and soon the entire hotel will be shrouded in fog.

Natsume hid behind Kogoro trembling, "It's over, the fog has really come, is it going to kidnap another unlucky person?"

Edogawa: "According to physics, fog will not form after snowfall, because snow releases heat..."

Liang interrupted him and he started to panic, "Who wants to listen to your popular science? Don't you know what fog means?"

Jiang Dogan rolled his eyes at him in annoyance, "I know, but I'm a detective. I don't believe in ghosts and monsters. I only believe in science."

Natsume (Natsume Star) (?_?): Although I am acting now, I really want to complain that there is no science in this world, only science. Newton would have been pissed off by you a long time ago.

Mitsuhiko was a little worried about the person who was alone upstairs. "There's a foreigner living upstairs. Are you going to ignore it?"

Liang also raised his head and thought, "This... it's really not right to ignore it..."

Amuro has always been very indifferent, but he still couldn't bear it. After all, he has worked here for a long time, and he seems to believe this legend even more deeply.

"I'll go and bring him down. No matter how he resists, he has to come down."

"sorry to bother you."

Just after Amuro left, Edogawa was observing the outside world through the window. The fog was thick and the vision was limited. Now the store manager could not be found, and the case from last month was almost at a standstill due to lack of clues.

Edogawa raised his head and looked helplessly at the gray foggy sky: What should I do now? I seem to be losing my direction.

Mr. Holmes, if it were you, perhaps you could point out a way.

Road? . . and so on.

I just asked Mr. Amuro, and he said that when the murder happened that day, he was sitting at the front desk just like he was today. Mr. Amuro said that he was on night shift every night at the request of the store manager, because the mayor had the lounge exclusively, and he also had to supervise other guests from entering. At that time, those people gathered in the restaurant, and they were all sleeping at night, so there should be no such thing as an alibi.

"Officer Kogoro, you mean the body was found by Mr. Amuro? Did he say that the murder scene in the lounge was a secret room?"

Liang heard Edogawa's question and answered, "He said that because the lounge is locked, the mayor would do this in order to monopolize the lounge. There are two keys. The store manager has one, which was in Amuro's hands at the time, and the mayor has the other."

Kogoro: "But the key has been taken away by the police as evidence."

"I see..." Edogawa fell into deep thought again. The murder case at that time was not what he thought.

The crime scene turned out to be a secret room. How did the murderer kill people and leave there?

Suddenly, Jianghu's eyes narrowed. He seemed to sense something vaguely. Moreover, outside the window, in the fog, he always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him.

Edogawa looked over suddenly, and saw in the fog, at the limit of his sight, a humanoid shadow floating outside. At first glance, he thought it was a cocoon hanging there.

But...if you look closely, this really looks like a human figure, with limbs!

"It seems like someone is outside!" Edogawa shouted.

"What?! Could it be the store manager?!"

Jiang Dogan didn't care and ran out first, "I'll go over and take a look."

Liang wanted to persuade him, "Wait, there is heavy fog outside..."

"I am a materialistic detective..." (Is there still a term of materialism in this world these days?!)

At the fastest speed, Edogawa pushed open the door and disappeared into the fog, but reason made him stop. He knew very well that in the fog, perception would be hindered and it would be easy to get lost, so he stopped and waited for them.

Soon, they all came down.

Edogawa was too lazy to listen to the nonsense and moved forward in the direction he had just seen. White mist surrounded him and he could feel something passing by, as if it was moving in the water. It was very magical.

This also indirectly shows that the fog is extremely thick.

Soon, Edogawa came to the place where he saw the shadow, but strangely, the shadow he had just seen disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

what happened?

Mitsuhiko: "Edogawa, are you sure you saw something here?"

Edogawa nodded affirmatively, "I'm sure, but now... wait, look over there!"

Edogawa accidentally noticed a dark shadow not far away. Looking carefully, it was indeed the one he saw!

"there!"

I clearly saw a black shadow here just now, and now it appears there. Is it a mirage? Yes, this may appear in the fog.

The black shadow was some distance away from the hotel, and if it weren't for the mirage bringing the shadow closer, he really wouldn't have noticed it.

However, when they got closer, they saw the black shadow that looked like a hanging cicada pupa, and then they realized that this was actually a hanging person!

A man was hanging on a tree, his face was pale, shadows covered his whole body, and he was lifeless. His soul had been completely swallowed up by the ghostly fog.

Edogawa was shocked, "He...he is?"

Natsume recognized him immediately, "It's the store manager!!"

"what?!"

The manager was found hanged in the woods after two hours of fruitless searching in the hotel.

Everyone couldn't believe it. "How could this happen? When did he get out?!!"

An electric arc flashed through Kogoro's mind, and he discovered a terrible fact, "No, have you noticed a problem?"

"There is no snow on the store manager's body or hair, which proves that he was hanged here after the heavy snow. But, look at the ground, there are several footprints!"

Several people lowered their heads together. It would have been fine if they hadn't looked, but they were shocked when they did. There were five of them in total: Edogawa, Mitsuhiko, Kogoro, Natsume and Liang.

Where are the store manager’s footprints?

Natsume's face darkened. "Is he a ghost? How did he get here without leaving any footprints?"

The fog in the woods was getting thicker and thicker, and the sight in front of my eyes was gradually replaced by white, and I could not see the road ahead clearly.

"Whatever, let's put the manager down quickly and take his body back to the hotel. The fog is too thick and if we stay here for too long, we'll easily lose our way back. Let's make a long-term plan!"