Chapter 129: Shocked
"What happened to Ran, kid!"
Seeing his daughter in shock, Mouri Kogoro naturally didn't want to continue to stimulate her, so he asked Conan seriously.
Fortunately, Conan is not a real six or seven-year-old boy, otherwise he would really be frightened by his expression at this time.
Conan told what happened again in fluent language. Natsume heard it from the side and found that it was the same as what the maid team said before. Natsume also noticed that Conan's expression was both angry and confused. Obviously, with the knowledge he had learned, , I can’t explain what happened before at all.
Conan saw with his own eyes that Mao Lilan seemed to be dragged under the water by some invisible thing, but even if he saw it with his own eyes, he still did not believe that there was a so-called curse in this world. Someone must have used some kind of curse that he was not aware of. Caused by the method!
It was obviously inappropriate to continue staying by the swimming pool, so everyone returned to the house. Mao Lilan and Conan also returned to their rooms and changed into clean clothes.
"An accident happened again!"
In the living room, everyone except Mao Lilan and Conan were sitting together. Most of the people's faces were not very good-looking, especially those of the Kikuchi family, who showed it unconsciously on their faces. A look of fear.
Even Yuriko Kikuchi, who had sworn not to believe in the curse before, now had an ugly look on her face.
No matter how hard-nosed a person is, his heart will probably be shaken when encountering such strange incidents over and over again, let alone these things happening around him or to people he knows.
The atmosphere in the living room was very depressing, and Mouri Kogoro didn't care whether it was rude or not. He was smoking there alone, with the strength of his fingers as if he was about to pinch the cigarette.
Mouri Kogoro was also very diligent in looking for clues before. At that time, it was for work. Now he will be even more diligent in looking for clues. This time, it is for his own daughter.
They are all accidents. What happens to others and what happens to his own daughter affects Moori Kogoro completely differently, and the effort he will put into it is naturally different.
There is no way, people are born like this, there is always someone close or distant in their hearts.
"I will definitely find the criminal!"
Mouri Kogoro put out the cigarette in the ashtray, as if he was swearing to the Kikuchi family, and also to himself: "
No one can survive after committing a crime. Get away with justice!"
After saying that, Mouri Kogoro turned to look at the butler:
"Bring me the video data recorded by the monitor just now. I don't believe that I can't find any flaws in the murderer!"
The butler looked at his master and saw After he nodded, he respectfully took Mouri Kogoro away to watch the surveillance video.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Tomoe, Master Natsume."
Watching Mouri Kogoro leave, Kikuchiemon turned his attention to Natsume and Tomoe, and said apologetically: "Originally, I just invited you to
my birthday party, but I didn't expect that. Such an unfortunate thing happened."
Kikuchiemon was really upset. What he was upset about was not that a guest had an accident at his house, but that Tomoe had seen this incident!
I really don’t know if this will affect his view of himself and his cooperation with his group!
Therefore, no matter how kind he appears, Kikuchiemon, as a businessman, is still very cold in nature.
Seeing that Kikuchiemon didn't apologize at all for Maorilan's almost drowning, all he was worried about was Tomoe's opinion of him. Natsume suddenly felt a little uninterested, so even if he could easily invade now Even though Kikuchiemon brought out the evil spirit in his brain, he didn't do anything.
Natsume didn't even pretend to see anything, just sitting there quietly drinking tea.
If Natsume is the sun, then Tomoe is the sunflower. He always decides his actions with Natsume's attitude, so after seeing Natsume's silence, Tomoe knew what to do.
"It's okay, President Kikuchi, but Xiaozhi and I are a little tired now and want to go back to the room to rest first." "Okay, okay, please do as you like, please do as you please!" Kikuchiemon felt relieved and asked the maid with a smile. Send
Natsume
and Tomoe back to their rooms to rest.
——After
Natsume and Tomoe disappeared from sight, Kikuchiemon's expression changed, and his smiling expression instantly turned ferocious: "Check, check hard to find out who did this!
I will make him pay the price!"
The rest were all members of the Kikuchi family. They had long been accustomed to Kikuchiemon's inconsistent behavior, so none of them looked too surprised.
It's just different from the last time when they were sure it was someone who did it. This time everyone believed in the curse a little more. After all, Mao Lilan was an outsider who had nothing to do with their family. If it was man-made, he couldn't bother to choose like this. An insignificant person!
Who would risk harming an unrelated person? This is unreasonable!
Is it really a curse?
Not sure if it was an illusion, but everyone felt that the temperature in the living room had dropped a few degrees.
Not to mention the people in the Kikuchi family, when Natsume and Tomoe were walking to their rooms, they met Conan and Maori Ran in the corridor who had already changed clothes and came out.
Mao Lilan's face looked a little better than when she was by the swimming pool just now, but the frightened look in her eyes had not completely disappeared, making her look a little pitiful.
"Natsume, Mr. Tomoe."
Mao Lilan took the lead in saying hello to Natsume and Tomoe:
"Are you going back to your room?"
"Yes."
It was Natsume who answered Mao Lilan. After all, compared to Tomoe, Natsume is more familiar with her:
"I'm a little tired."
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"To be honest, I kind of want to go home."
Mao Lilan said to Natsume, not feeling ashamed at all:
"This villa is really weird !"
At this time, Mao Lilan also thought of what Natsume said last night. He said that he believed there was a curse in the world, and his face turned pale again: "At that time, I really felt that someone was pulling my leg!" "The curse
was
originally It just exists. If you don’t believe me, look at your ankles.”
Natsume said to Maori Land, not afraid of scaring other girls.
"What?"
Because she had always been confused, Mao Lilan didn't notice anything strange about her body. Now when Natsume said it, she immediately lowered her head to look at her ankle reflexively. Of course, she looked over with her. There is also Conan, who wants to see how Natsume can prove the existence of curses in the world.
Then...
"Ah!"
"How could this happen!"
Chapter 130 Missing (Part 1)
If Conan's face was shocked, then Mao Lilan's face was full of fear. Not only was it fear, her eyes were even filled with tears at this time, and they looked like they would fall at any time.
Conan and Mao Lilan stared blankly at Mao Lilan's ankle. For a moment, they didn't know what to say at all. On
Mao Lilan's ankle, a complete black palm mark was visible, and it looked like Someone pinched Mao Lilan's ankle hard, leaving a dark bruise.
Mao Lilan and Conan both have very good memories, especially when the incident happened not long ago, so they both remember clearly that the ankle where Mao Lilan had an accident in the swimming pool is the one with bruises now!
Oh my god, what the hell is going on? There were obviously only two of them in the swimming pool at that time, so how could there be bruises on her ankles as if someone had pinched her?
It can't really be the so-called curse, right?
Conan's brain was spinning rapidly, thinking about ways for the prisoner to hurt Mao Lilan under his nose without being discovered by himself and the surveillance system, but Mao Lilan couldn't be as calm as him.
Originally, Mao Lilan was timid and was extremely afraid of things like ghosts and curses. Now that something happened to her, how could she, a "weak" woman, not be afraid?
"Ke...Conan...there is really a curse in this house. Let's go find dad now and go home, okay?"
Mao Lilan grabbed Conan's arm and begged. At this moment, she had not looked at the demon sword at all. Muramasa's leisurely mood has become elegant, or to be more precise, at this time, Mao Lilan is scared to death of the demon sword Muramasa, and wishes to stay as far away from it as possible!
"But..."
Conan didn't want to leave at all. He was also distressed by Mao Lilan's appearance, but he wanted to find out the truth even more. If he couldn't catch the murderer who almost killed Mao Lilan, he would definitely not be able to sleep for several days. !
"I don't care, I must go home!"
Mao Lilan, who had always been gentle, rarely became willful, which showed how scared she was.
"Uncle Kogoro accepted the commission. If you don't complete the task, you won't get the money. Don't forget that the water and electricity bills at home this month have not been paid yet, Sister Lan!" Conan knows what Mao Lilan cares about, so Conan is very smart
. Starting from Mao Lilan's weakness, sure enough, after listening to Conan's words, Mao Lilan hesitated. She really wanted to leave this weird villa, but her father's work was also very important!
Mao Lilan convinced herself in this way, and finally slowly suppressed her fear a little. Of course, as long as the bruises on her ankles did not disappear, Mao Lilan would not be completely unafraid, but considering her family's financial situation, there was nothing she could do about it. Mao Lilan finally plucked up the courage, nodded and agreed to stay.
Here Conan and Mao Lilan were shouting and making a fuss, but over there the instigator Natsume had already returned to his room with Tomoe.
Then, it never came out.
When the Kikuchi family members were anxious and couldn't find anyone, so they used the spare key to force their way in. They were shocked to find that Natsume and Tomoe had already disappeared from the house, and the house was as clean as if no one had ever lived there.
——How did they disappear without being discovered?
Everyone was confused. For the past half day, they were only busy with the swimming pool. They all thought that Natsume and Tomoe were just resting in the room, especially Conan and Mao Lilan. They saw Natsume and Tomoe leave with their own eyes. Why can't I find anyone who entered the room now?
You must know that the surveillance in this villa is said to have no blind spots. When looking for Natsume and Tomoe, they checked the surveillance videos. There was no record of them leaving in the corridor, and there was no trace of them climbing outside the window. The two big workers The person actually disappeared from a bedroom in front of everyone!
——The
faces of everyone in the Kikuchi family, especially Kikuchiemon, turned pale. As a successful businessman, he knew better than everyone else in the family Tomoe's status in the mall and his ruthless methods. He is so powerful now. When a person disappears, what will the power behind him do?
If Kikuchiemon was nervous because he was worried that he would be implicated, then Conan was feeling uneasy and worried from within.
The friendship between Conan and Natsume is not ordinary. In Conan's heart, Natsume is definitely a very important existence, maybe not as good as his parents and not as good as Maori Lan, but he is definitely an existence that can affect Conan's nerves.
Don't look at the fact that Conan always avoided Natsume before, but it wasn't because his relationship with him had faded. He really knew him too well and was too smart about him, so he was worried that he would reveal his secret.
Now it’s better, you don’t have to worry about revealing your secret, because everyone is gone!
Seeing this scene, Mao Lilan's nerves, which were already tense to the limit, trembled suddenly, and she almost fainted. It was Mao Lilan's shouting at her to call the police that made Mao Lilan come back to her senses.
Mao Lilan had just taken out her cell phone and had not had time to ring the number. Her cell phone suddenly rang. Mao Lilan was so frightened that she threw the phone away. Fortunately, Conan caught it with quick eyes and hands.
"Why did you throw your phone away, Ran!"
Mouri Kogoro stared at his daughter speechlessly:
"The most important thing now is to call Officer Megure first. The longer the delay is, the more dangerous Natsume and Tomoe will be!"
Mouri Kogoro said As soon as Goro said this, Conan, who had rescued the phone over there, saw the name displayed on the phone, his pupils shrank suddenly, and then he connected the phone without thinking.
"What the hell are you doing, how could you answer your sister Lan's call without permission? Do you know..."
Mouri Kogoro once again didn't finish his words because he heard Conan call out a shocking and incomprehensible name.
——
"Natsume-nii!"
Rather than answering the phone, Conan shouted into the phone: "
Where are you now, Natsume-nii? Are Tomoe-nii with you? How are you two?"
Upon hearing this, The person on the other side of the phone turned out to be Natsume. Kogoro Mori snatched the phone from Conan's hand without saying a word: "Where are you now, Natsume? Are Tomoe with you? How are you two?" The corners of Conan's mouth twitched, and he looked at Mouri Kogoro with contempt in his eyes -
Aren't you asking the same question as me? Why do you have to grab the phone and waste time? If you didn't grab the phone, I would have the answer now, and everyone knows the answer!
You are so busy, Uncle Kogoro!