Protect our prophets

The two of them had a careful and in-depth discussion on the feasibility of this plan, and then looked at the peaceful classmate Huadi, faintly feeling...it seemed a bit cruel.

"Let's see again." Songxue sighed, "Until the last moment, it's better not to be so violent."

Conan also nodded, and said solemnly: "After all, we are still detectives, and we have to go through legal channels..."

Songxue looked back to the end of the corridor: "As for tonight——"

"Anyway, the poisoned wine tonight will definitely wake him up," Conan concluded. "If the murderer fails once, it will be even harder to succeed next time."

The two looked at each other with complicated emotions.

What can one do with such a party?

I hope tonight is Christmas Eve, Songxue drew a sign of the cross on her chest, praying silently: Ah Chuang!

……

Although Katori Shinzaburo didn't care much about poisoning, the detectives had to.

Seeing that it was still early, Songxue waited for a while.

The butler brought the tea into the study and came out again. When he looked up, he saw a tall figure standing in front of him.He froze for a moment, then lowered his head, and met the innocent smile of the little boy.

"May I interrupt you?"

Such a small child also likes detective games.He sighed.

The wine cellar is in the basement, and only Katori and the butler have the key.

Katori Manzaburo likes wine tasting, and often goes to the wine cellar alone to select collections. Occasionally, when he is busy—for example, when he is receiving guests—he will ask the butler to pick up the wine for him.

As for the ice cubes, they are usually brought in by the butler together with the refreshments. Before that, only the helpers in the kitchen touched them.But the small trolley with meals was parked at the corner of the second floor. As long as they knew this information, prisoners could easily find opportunities to poison.

There were orders from the employer first, and the housekeeper was kind and answered their questions in detail.

Then he heard the sound of the bell ringing again. The butler said that it should be other guests looking for him, and hurried over after bowing.

"The guests he mentioned should refer to the characters played by individual players, right?" Songxue saw the butler leaving, and walked upstairs.

Ordinary players live in small villas in each courtyard, and only selected players assigned to specific roles will live in the main house.

She looked at Conan thoughtfully.

Has the drama started yet?

On the eve of the start of the game, many players acted as early as they did.On their way back, there were flashlights everywhere.

Atobe stood under the corridor and saw shaking figures on the rockery in front of him from a distance.

It seemed that someone had stepped into the pond, and the sound of pattering water disturbed the fish, and the lotus leaves in the pond swayed along with it.

"It's too exaggerated." Kuai Dou was beside him, shaking his head again and again, "Who would hide something in the water? What if it was swallowed by a fish?"

"Then you have to find it slowly." Atobe shrugged.

Kaito looked at him with a smile: "Atobe-kun, don't you think—"

"uh-huh."

Atobe was noncommittal, and his attitude was very arrogant: Did I say anything?

Kaito patted him on the shoulder, smiling unabated.

"I understand. You need me to help you find the 'Tears of the Sky' and use each other."

After making a rough circle around the entire illusory house, the white horse has further improved the map, and marked directions and various marks in every corner.

"Including us, there are a total of eight locations that belong to the player's residence." He said while pointing to the Chinese character on the southeast corner: "Lin".

This is their forest house.

"There are small forests near our yard, and it probably got its name from this."

Heiji's eyes turned to the "fire" mark on the side, and he couldn't help but twitched his mouth: "Where is the house of fire?"

"There are a lot of lanterns hanging over there." Baima replied, as if thinking of something, he couldn't help smiling, "If this is not a 'secret room', it is very suitable as a scenic spot for vacation."

"Eight teams, living in eight directions, have the same straight-line distance to Mr. Katori's 'House of Illusion', but the actual distance is slightly different. In theory, we are on the same starting line."

Kaito pondered: "If Mr. Uesugi, who played the leading role, arrived at 'Summer's Joy' with us, then, according to Mr. Katori's perfectionism, the gems should have been brought in after he entered here."

Pingji understands.

"Before the dinner, Mr. Uesugi had been with his friends who were traveling with him, so there was no way he would have had the opportunity to hide the gem."

"Maybe, Mr. Katori doesn't know where he will hide the gem?" Baima asked abruptly, "He wants to create an 'unexpected' dramatic effect so much..."

"So, the clues to the treasure hunt are actually a cover?" Atobe frowned.

"No, it might be for Mr. Uesugi to arrange it himself." Heiji shook his head, trying to guess the other person's mind, "Think about it, if he came to the Illusion House for the first time and held this map, what would he plan? "

The four of them studied the map for a long time, but found nothing for the time being.

The movement in the distance gradually weakened, and the crowd gradually dispersed. Tonight's exploration is almost over.

When they got back to the forest house, Song Xue was coming out of the living room, holding a new card.

"Are you back?" She looked at it again and again, and then handed it to Atobe, "It seems that someone sent it here while we were away."

Atobe took it and saw that it was printed in the same cursive style as the card Baima got in the afternoon.

"At eight o'clock tomorrow morning, Mrs. Katori will hold a tea party in the garden, and welcome everyone."

"Ms. Katori? When did it come out?" The teenagers were a little at a loss.

Conan explained to them that it was Mr. Katori who temporarily changed the plan and asked Mrs. Katori and friends to fill in the vacancies among the players.

"So, the scope of suspicion has not changed." He said slowly, "It has even expanded."

"Leaving aside the murderer in the script, the real murderer..." Kaito looked at everyone meaningfully.

Bai Ma said: "No matter what, tomorrow's morning tea party must be very lively."

……

Before going to sleep, Songxue heard the knock on the door, opened the door to probe, Baima Tan politely apologized, and said: "Just in case, Miss Songxue remember to lock the door before going to bed."

"Yes." She nodded, although she didn't think so.

Baima smiled: "You and Conan went to find Mr. Katori tonight and disrupted the murderer's plan. If the other party is angry and wants to attack you..."

He shook his head slightly.

"Conan and Hattori are in the same room, so it shouldn't matter."

In the small living room on the second floor, Atobe passed by in an exaggerated silk pajamas.Songxue caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye and was very surprised: "You still drink coffee so late?"

Baima glanced back: "Atobe-san said, it always feels weird if you don't drink something after bathing."

"...His habits are rather strange."

After the white horse left, Atobe knocked on the door again.

Before he could speak, Songxue answered decisively: "I don't drink coffee, thank you."

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Atobe was puzzled, and said with a half-smile, "Didn't you notice that the air conditioner in this room is too noisy and keeps dripping water."

"Ah, oh, did I disturb you?" Songxue realized later, and turned to look, "I didn't seem to hear it here, is the water pipe leaking?"

In such hot weather, she couldn't sleep without the air conditioner on.

Songxue walked to the window, opened the curtain and looked out.The air conditioners in the two rooms were very close together, and water dripped on the windowsill.

She turned back: "how about you bear it for a while?"

Atobe frowned in disgust, and said that he had already called someone to repair it.

"..."

Action is really strong.

When the water pipe was repaired, the midnight bell was heard in the distance.

Songxue watched the property management team leave downstairs, closed the window, and was about to change back into her pajamas when the door rang again.

This time it was Kaito Kuroba.

Before the door could be locked, he slipped into the room without a sound, and saw Song Xue holding a curling iron and looking at him blankly.

"Didn't you consider that I might be changing clothes?" She asked after a moment of silence.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Kaito put on Kudo Shinichi's identity, blinked his eyes without any psychological barriers, folded his hands together and apologized repeatedly, and then explained why he came, "Can I do you a favor?"

Songxue stuffed the things in her hand back into the drawer of the dressing table, very puzzled: "You want my help?"

"Yeah, with Kawaji-kun here, I'm too embarrassed to bother Atobe-kun." Kaito sighed.

"Where's Conan?"

"He and I should have different ideas." He said seriously.

She was very curious: "Then, tell me?"

Kuroba Kaito paused for a moment before grinning.

"Want to catch rape?"

Songxue was slightly shocked, so excited when she came up?

"In "House of Illusion", on the eve of the murder, the hero had an affair with his first love, and was discovered by the heroine, which led to the tragedy of the next day." Kaito said calmly, "Since the script is based on the same background, Yes, then, the game has actually started tonight, right?"

"Or, Uesugi Kenkatsu went out under the guise of having an affair, and hid the gem somewhere?" Songxue speculated along his train of thought.

Kaito nodded, "It's very possible."

"It's kind of like cheating..." She hesitated.

"That's why I said, that kid might not agree." The other party shrugged and said regretfully, "I don't want to be scolded by him."

Songxue had to admit that the adventure factor in her heart was agitated.

She said, "Just wait for me."

"what?"

"I'll save the computer file and come."

Kaito subconsciously looked at the laptop on the table, but was blocked by Matsuyuki.

Five minutes later, the two met outside the door.

Kaito turned on the flashlight, caught a glimpse of the excited look on the girl's face, and reminded softly, "No matter what you see later, don't get too excited."

"Huh...huh?" Songxue was surprised, "Isn't it a script, the leading actors can't really stage a field battle, can they?"

The strange thief sighed and shook his head, took out his years of night travel experience, and said earnestly:

"It's hard to say, anything can happen."

—he was right.

They haven't seen Uesugi Shuzo or Otsuka Hideko yet, but they found two faint figures in the garden.

With quick eyes and quick hands, he dragged Songxue to hide behind the flower bed.

It was the voice of a strange woman talking to a man.

The tone is intimate, like a lover, gentle and sweet.

"Shizuko, I'm a little worried..."

"Shh."

After a while, the woman said softly: "It will be fine, trust me."

The two looked at each other with some doubts.

Kaito was good at changing his voice, and he was particularly sensitive to voices. He recalled that he had never heard a similar voice at today's banquet.

Songxue also remembered the outlines of the leading actors clearly, but looking at the elongated figures in the pavilion, she felt very strange.

She was silent.

Kaito said dryly:

"It seems... I caught a real affair."

The author has something to say: got it real (.

I don’t know if you are confused, but to explain briefly, there are two lines here.

One part is the case in the script (leading actors and players), and the other part is reality (related to Katori)

Actually, it's very simple...

After all, I can only make up mentally handicapped stories! _(:з」∠)_