I'm on the scramble

I have known for a long time that the waist of the bamboo horse is a ticklish weakness, and it will shrink up like a ball of cats when poked.Sensing the threat, Luanbu immediately writhed restlessly, and whispered in a hurried tone: "You are not included here, you are somewhere else!"

Ah Li grabbed his kimono and did not let go, taking advantage of the situation and asked: "Where is it?"

Reality is always different from imagination, and Luanbu muttered perfunctorily: "This answer is reserved!"

Ah Li got angry and quarreled with him for a while.The scene was still inevitably chaotic.

"Hey everyone, calm down..."

The beneficiary who was invited to the party was a rather well-built middle-aged man with a rather amiable personality. It could be seen that he was trying to smooth things over.But usually, it is this appearance that is not easy to be suspected that is the most suspicious.

"Maybe it's just a misunderstanding. Speaking of it, I can testify that the maid lady did come to the room to look for me. I was looking through the auction catalog in the room at the time. The master said that this time there is something I like. If you want me to come and have a look, ah—that orangutan is really as majestic as I imagined."

As for the newspaper reporter, he seemed to know more, with a cautious and mysterious face, he threw out an answer that was more far-fetched than common sense.

"It's the curse of 'Black Cat'!"

He kept holding the camera in his hand, excitedly lowered his voice and said: "The text clue left by the master before his death - pluto, Pluto, refers to the evil black cat that the master once kept! I heard After this incident, a fire broke out in the house immediately on the day it died, and this time it must be the soul of its tragic death who came to take revenge!"

Suspicion and ghosts are not within the scope of unbelief of the gold master, he laughed and wanted to confuse the past: "The theory of ghosts is just a baseless fantasy fabricated by people, how could it exist in this world—"

As a result, a thunder suddenly flashed outside the window at this time.

"boom--"

In the thunderstorm scene, the lines connecting each crystal lamp in the hall were short-circuited, and the eyes turned black for a moment.

"...Is this a power outage?" The patron had a bad feeling.

Fortunately, the lights in the hall were restored quickly, but the uncle who happened to notice a certain detail suddenly said a word.

"Brother, did his body move just now?"

The air froze suddenly at this moment.

On the south side of the well-drawn hall, there are huge pieces of Venetian glass arranged side by side. It is obvious that the doors and windows are tightened due to rainy days, but the window screens hanging on it seem to be automatic without wind.Only at this time did he realize that there are many strange details in every corner of the whole house.

For unknown reasons, the faintly swaying window screens are actually engraved with wonderful and absurd patterns, setting off the gloomy and deep rainy night outside the window.In this extremely uneasy atmosphere, Ah Li took Ranpo's hand in turn, and focused his eyes on the corpse like everyone else.

The skin of the male master lying on the ground was still bloodless, like a cold marble slab mixed with purple and blue patterns, showing a terrible death.

But when they looked at it, they felt that a greasy coldness seemed to gradually spread on the surface of the corpse.Some people held their breath involuntarily. During this tense waiting time, every bit of heartbeat was infinitely amplified.

Suddenly, another bolt of lightning flashed through the window.The lightning strike completely wiped out the light in the hall, and the head maid screamed suddenly in fright. In the chaotic world, for no reason, people felt a gloomy, dilapidated, and rotten smell hidden under the bright and beautiful appearance. .

In a dark hall, there is a large screen ready to display product information when the party starts.

At present, there is a faint shadow reflected by the lightning above, and it is slowly approaching the corpse.

"This, this, this..."

The indescribable fear just hit the unsuspecting few people. It was so magical. The gold master who sensed the appearance of some inhuman thing couldn't help shaking his body, trembling, and took it out of his arms. an electronic device.

"Brothers, let me put my fear on the public screen first—"

It's a pity that for ghosts, there is unfortunately an experiencer who specializes in this kind of 'species'.

Ah Li squinted her eyes to observe, she could see more clearly than others, it was a graceful figure of a woman.Unlike her, women are dignified and elegant in both their posture and walking gait. If there is any similarity here, it is that she has long black and smooth hair like a black cat, and A Li It is separated from it, with a pair of agile golden cat pupils.

Without even thinking about it, Ah Li picked up the fragments of the vase that she crushed just now from the ground, and quickly shot towards the woman's head with her backhand.

The fragments pierced through the ghost's figure, and smashed into the opposite wall.

Everyone could only see an invisible fluctuation, "This, what's going on—"

Ah Li, who saw this scene, immediately bit his fingernails in distress, "It turns out that the ability is really useless!"

Without supernatural powers, physical attacks alone cannot completely destroy the so-called ghosts... Could it be that Poe wants to use this method to prevent violent cases from being solved?

——It's quite good!

It seems that this time she has to rely on her clever little brain to solve the case. Seeing that there is no weapon at hand, Ah Li only grabs Ranbu's hand and warns him: "Ranbu, don't stay too far away from me for now."

In the darkness, his hands felt a little cold for some reason.But soon, he took Ah Li's hand back and interlocked her fingers.

The finger that is closest to the heart and the fingers that do not belong to him fill the gap between each other, just like the blood pumped by another heart flows along the finger to his body, making Ah Li's heartbeat skip a beat.

There was an itchy ear, and Luanbu stuck to the side of her head, wanting to say something.

"Ali, in fact, my..."

But he hesitated to speak, and in the end he still didn't say it.

Now is not the right time to say.

The ghost approached the corpse as if no one was there, then bent down and possessed it.Driven by her, the already dead body flicked its knuckles again, causing several people to scream in fright.

"Move, move! The corpse moved! Is the master resurrected?!"

"This is not resurrection, it's being possessed." Ah Li said in a heavy tone, like a dead soul lodged in the ominous skin of a black cat, the dead male master stood up stiffly in this way.

But he didn't rush to the person's position, but dragged the walking corpse around looking for something.It was precisely because of this that Ah Li did not try to knock him down for the time being, but chose to wait and see.

Some answers may be found in this possessed corpse.

"It's the black cat! The revenge of the black cat pluto!" It was such a time, and the newspaper reporter was still in the mood to take pictures.

From time to time, the camera flash flickered in the dark.

Jin Zhu, whose face was slapped pale, chanted in situ, chanting all the religious gods from the East to the West.He didn't know that this was not to mention praying to God and Buddha, it was really disrespectful to do so.

Ah Li shouted at this time: "Maid, open the door and light the lamp!"

The head maid seemed to have found a backbone, and quickly accepted the mission: "Yes!"

The younger uncle among them saw this scene, and urgently mobilized what little IQ was left in his head, and suddenly thought of something: "I see—the murderer in this case is actually the victim himself. It was my brother who was possessed by a ghost and killed him." That's why I can realize this impossible crime in a hall alone!"

To be honest, this is a very reasonable explanation that exists in the extreme unreasonable.

However, at this time, Ranpo opened his mouth to refute him: "It's a very interesting angle, and it's a good reasoning for ordinary people whose IQ is about the same as that of a monkey. But it's a hundred distances away from the truth, the distance from Yokohama to Mie Prefecture, It's just a smoke to confuse everyone. Bomb."

The brother-in-law who was not compatible with him was angry: "Are you calling me stupid again?"

Luanbu didn't bother to talk to him, but held Ah Li's hand even tighter, sticking to her side very uneasy.

Ash understands why.

——He is afraid of the dark.

"...Don't be afraid, wait for me, I'll finish that guy soon." Ali hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to hug Luanbu's waist in the dark, and then rushed forward.

"Ali!" came a panicked voice from behind.

Ah Li, on the other hand, chooses to fight the hero quite resolutely.The vision in the dark is not very good. Although the difficulty level has increased a bit, it is the difference of stepping on one more step of stairs, which does not prevent her from being aware of the flow of air and distinguishing the opponent's movements.

Another flash of lightning struck out the window, and they found that at some point, the possessed host seemed to have found a rusty ax in the hall, and the few people who had no guarantee of life suddenly panicked.

"He, he wants to kill us?!"

At this moment the head maid quickly left and returned, and lit the candles.

"Ma'am! I'm back!"

With the aid of the light source, the actions of the hostess were instantly exposed to people's eyes. Everyone clearly saw that the wife in their impression completely disregarded the 'love between husband and wife' and kicked the master's head away.If he hadn't died once, he would definitely die again under this kick.

The hostess, who was under the impact of the huge force, was as fragile as a piece of thin paper, and was kicked away even with his body.The moment he fell, the ax in his hand flew to the wall due to the strength, and was deeply embedded in it.

With the disappearance of the ghost, the light has been completely restored, and it has returned to its original magnificent appearance.But this is also the case, and a certain scene can be seen more clearly.

Under the action of the axe, the wall shattered into web-like spider marks, pieces of damaged wallpaper and bricks fell off, revealing the things built into the wall, and an unpleasant stench leaked out.

What was exposed inside the wall was the body of the hostess who had been missing for many years.

"Ouch..." The people covering their mouths and noses stared at this scene in shock, "How could..."

"It must have been done by the dead male master. And the possessed ghost just now is the female master."

Luanbu simply said this sentence and inferred, then wrinkled his face and threw himself back to Ah Li again, grabbed her clothes like a bird that couldn't do without her, and complained angrily: "You were too big just now!" It’s too much! You actually left Ranpo-sama there alone!”

"...I don't want to get back to the original state." A Li patted the unnecessary dust in his hand, and made a rebuttal to him in a low voice consciously.

Of course, Ranpo did not accept her answer, and demanded capriciously: "Next time, don't leave Lord Ranpo in such a dark place!"

Ah Li held back for a long time, then pulled her hair behind her hot ears, turned her head away and said, "...Okay."

Although the mood is quite good, this meeting is not the time to chat easily, and the person who quickly regained his composure looked towards them.

"It is said that this corpse was done by the master... What is going on? And the lady who possessed you just now is actually the eldest lady? Young master, even if you are a novelist who likes to write suspense and fantasy, you can't just say it casually." Put such bizarre charges on the master and wife who gave birth to you!"

Of course, this paragraph is the words of his brother-in-law who fought back against his unknown target.It's a pity that this attack is of no use to Luanbu.

"I would say that, of course, because I have found a definite clue." Luanbu waved his hand, and looked at A Li next to him, "As for who the ghost itself is, A Li, you saw it clearly just now, right? ?”

Ah Li nodded, and truthfully recounted the features he saw on the woman just now.After confirmation, it is consistent with the hostess in everyone's memory.The hostess disappeared five years ago, and the vest worn by Ah Li, the little mother is two years away. There is nothing about the hostess at home, and she has never seen the other party herself. The owner's face is so clear.

Unless what she just recounted is the truth.

The benefactor who had already believed it asked in shock: "You can see ghosts with your eyes?"

"There is an ancient and popular saying that black cats are the incarnation of witches, who can see ominous things and bring death and disaster to everyone who sees them." The newspaper reporter mysteriously said the knowledge deep in his mind , Even his eyes were stained with a little fanaticism and admiration when he spoke.

Therefore, she is the black cat, and she is also an ominous and evil witch who can charm people's hearts.

"You mean, this murder case is the revenge of the return of the dead lady?" The uncle was still full of doubts.

Luanbu unhappily denied: "It's all said, it's not a ghost who kills, are you a monkey whose IQ has completely degenerated?"

"Monkey...you can't even count as a mortal this time..." The uncle, who was seriously injured again by his bluntness, held his chest and took a few steps back, "What do you think of everyone except yourself!"

Luanbu waved his hand and told him quite confidently: "There are only two types of people in this world! One is the people who cry happily after the incident is resolved by me, and the other is the person who cries in distress after the incident is resolved by me." !"

With such a wave of his, the haori worn on him swayed vigorously.It seems that he has changed back to the original famous detective who only runs around for the cases he is interested in, acts innocently and does whatever he wants.

A Li, who was watching him, felt that his mood was shaken by the invisible hand, and became very excited: "Ranbu, even if you don't have supernatural powers, are you still in good shape?"

It started to solve the case.

But Ranbu paused at her unintentional words, and his expression began to become awkward.

"No! This is a supernatural power!"

Ah Li blinked his eyes in confusion: "Eh? But isn't this a world where abilities cannot be used?"

And she has just practiced it.

"This is the ability! It's the ability I have just like you!" Luanbu, who firmly insisted on this, left everyone angrily, and led Ali to walk forward without hesitation. Ah Li hurriedly followed: "Random steps?!"

The others were also amazed at the two holding hands, and hurriedly asked: "Young master! Where are you taking your wife? She is your father's stepmother!"

In such a short time, the black-haired young man in kimono in front had already led the tea chestnut-haired girl in a long skirt to the corridor.He has always been like this, never caring about the eyes of outsiders, doing what he likes to do, saying what he wants to say, and never caring whether the other party is the victim or the perpetrator when he slaps someone on the head.

In the eyes of outsiders, the backs of the two who had eloped were about the same age, and they were far more compatible than everyone else. They walked away without looking back, as if they were about to bid farewell to this world forever.

"Ranbu, where are you taking me?" Ali, who followed step by step, asked curiously, "Is your [Super Reasoning] working?"

Her bamboo horse just walked forward with her head buried, but the hands interlocking with each other would not separate her. Compared with the feeling of holding her when she was a child, there were several times more inexplicable throbbing and warmth.

"Why are you so stupid, do you want me to tell you?" The detective said sullenly, "Master Ranpo's ability can be used no matter where it is!"

So... this ability is not a supernatural power at all.

——Perhaps for a normal person, hearing his words should be able to get such reasoning.But the tea chestnut-haired girl next to her brightly lit up her eyes.

"Your ability is too strong!"

Luanbu, who turned and entered the bedroom, was speechless for a moment, turned around and bumped into her honey-colored sea.Bright, clear, sweet and viscous, it is a sweet trap that is easy to fall into.

"...Are you so convinced of my ability?"

Ah Li raised his head as a matter of course, and the depths of his eyes gave him full-hearted trust: "Isn't this nonsense, from the first time I saw you, you are an omnipotent superhero in my heart." Capable person!"

Ranbu parted his lips slightly, staring silently into her eyes until Ah Li realized what he had said belatedly.

After a while, when she talked about the latter part, she embarrassedly clenched her other free hand into a fist against her lips, her eyes flicked left and right, and here she said: "Well, that's the one... …You are so smart, you can discover more things that I don’t know in advance than me every time. Since then, I have discovered that you are a bug-level supernatural power user! It is because you have such a powerful ability that you are better than Ah Li is so powerful, right?"

In a panic, he didn't expect to call himself by his own name, and Ah Li began to feel ashamed.If it wasn't for Luanbu still holding her hand, she might immediately squat down and find a place to get in.

But her bamboo horse didn't laugh at her.

"...Is that so, so it's because of this." Ranbu muttered to himself.

This guy is someone who won't listen to what others say, and believes in his ability more than anyone else.

Knowing this, Ranpo felt a little discouraged.

"...What, then I was entangled in vain before."

Ah Li slightly abandoned her shame because of his words, and cautiously inquired: "What is the entanglement?"

Luanbu suddenly exploded.

"Why do you think I can't cheer up all the time! Isn't it all because of you!"

He opened his eyes angrily, and the emerald green waves hidden in the space flowed with a captivating light.

"I don't want to show any uncool appearance in front of you, Ah Li!"

So I have never dared to accept the truth that is clearly in front of me, and I willfully want to escape everything, but...

"But looking at you working so hard, how can I let it go like this. Look, Lord Ranpo is going to win this game perfectly!"

Ah Li stared blankly at him who had returned to his original dazzling appearance, and suddenly also raised a bright smile.

"I want to win too!"

Pulling her hair, she finally explained the reason why she tried her best and worked hard: "I hate this world that needs to tolerate other people looking at us differently, and can't be with you justifiably!"

Randomly picked out a pair of glasses on the table and put them on.Standing behind him, Ah Li could only see his vigorous side face and the slightly raised corners of his lips.

"Then I'll take you away."