Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 295 The Shadow in the Lake

"Mr. Kudo Shinichi, I have found the error in your reasoning at that time, but in order not to hurt your self-esteem as a detective, how about we meet in private, at the cabin in the woods where we first met..."

Taking off the mask, Conan read out the letter signed by Kudo Shinichi sent to Hattori Heiji with a hoarse voice, and walked up the mountain along the path between the trees.

It is said to be a cabin in the forest, but it is actually built on the cliff at the top of a hill at the mountain pass. At the bottom is a large lake where the entire village usually draws water and fishes. It is usually used by forest rangers who go up the mountain to stay.

Putting away the letter paper, Conan stood at the door of the hut and knocked lightly on the door panel and shouted: "Is anyone here? I came here according to your request."

Makoto Yata, he remembered that as the adopted son of the Yada family, he had a village head who had won many championships in the Kanto Hammer Throwing Contest, a very gentle adoptive mother, and a very gentle adoptive mother. His brother who is very close.

"You said that my reasoning was wrong, so you have found the truth..."

Conan opened the door and closed his mouth when he saw no one. Suddenly he realized something was wrong. Before he could turn around, the door behind him was tightly closed, and it seemed that he could hear the sound of being chained outside.

"It's so dark in here."

The house in the forest had no windows, but it was only slightly lit because there was a small skylight above the head, which was nailed shut with wooden sticks.Sitting down and holding on to the wooden wall, Conan crossed his arms and felt that his forehead was getting a lot hotter.

If Yuuji were here now...

"Really, when did I become like this, obviously I'm the big brother."

Turning on the flashlight of the watch, his eyes fell on the corner, Conan touched the long bamboo, and confirmed the position of the skylight again.If you are pole vaulting, you can get out through the skylight by kicking out the electric shock ball the moment you let go of your hand.

"Yo Xi, even though you are not physically strong enough, let's give it a try."

Otherwise, if you don't do anything and just scream for help, the boss's dignity will not be preserved.

.........

"Lord Reaper Luo?"

Sitting in the hotel drinking, Mouri Kogoro looked at the children eating, picked up a piece of tofu and put it in his mouth.

"Yes, this is what Heye and the others inquired from the residents of the village just now. It is said that there is a ghost named Shinigami Luo in this village, who will kill the residents on the mountain."

Really, haven’t these mysterious cases always appeared in Gunma Prefecture before? Why are they happening here in Tokyo as well?
"Anyway, it's probably because there were villagers who got lost in the mountain before, so later generations made up some monsters or something." Mao Li Kogoro drank the beer in his hand in one go: "Compared to Mr. Shinigami Luo, I want to see cats more Demon."

Ming Zi and the three of them stopped holding the food, and looked at Uncle Mao Li in panic.

"Hoora, it's a female cat demon wearing a maid outfit and cat ears on her head."

Breaking the chopsticks forcefully, Akiko glared at the startled uncle, and wiped her hands with a paper towel.

Really, what dirty jokes did this uncle tell in front of the children?There is a fat black cat, but I don’t know if he wants it.

Hattori Heiji didn't eat. He pushed aside the food in front of him, and then kept taking out case documents from behind.

The policemen at the Higashiosuho Village Police Station didn't seem to like Kudo Shinichi, and he asked the curly-haired police officer who had been on good terms with Yuji to find this record.

"But no wonder they don't like Kudo." Hattori Heiji took a copy and began to talk about the case.

The head of Yatian Village is a good person in Dongaosui Village. Everyone elected him to be the head of the village. He has always spared no effort to help if there is a problem at home.

In addition to Yada Makoto, who adopted him personally, he also found homes for many orphans and brought things to his door from time to time. Thanks to this, Higashi Okuho Village changed from a run-down village in the last century to what it is now.

Although it is not very good, it can be considered rich, and the villagers in the village will of course be grateful to him.

"But Kudo theorized that this rare village leader actually killed his wife and then committed suicide after he found out that he had cancer."

In the eyes of the villagers, this not only mocked the village chief, but also insulted the hard work they had spent together and their current happy life.

"Xinyi must have a reason!" Xiaolan put down the bowl and chopsticks: "He will never reason casually..."

Recalling Conan's own views on the Moon Shadow Island case later, the girl paused again and sat silently.

"Anyway, even if we want to go to the scene of the case, it will be tomorrow. Let's finish our meal and go to bed quickly."

Everyone tacitly forgot about Conan and continued to chat.

.........

"It's so cold!"

After jumping out of the skylight of the hut, he just landed in the lake. Conan struggled, but no matter what he couldn't use his strength, he sank straight down.

Looking at the lake that is getting farther and farther away, the yellow light from the setting sun is still very clear.

After resting for a few seconds and preparing to swim to the shore, Conan suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow swimming towards him from the corner of his eye, with a long tail behind him.

That size, is it a bear?But is the bear's tail so long?etc!He came here smelling of me!

Suddenly frightened to choke on the water, feeling that some strength had been relieved from his body, Conan hurried to swim to the shore, but seeing the black shadow getting closer, he finally lost his temper, closed his eyes and passed out.

By the lake, the three old men who were fishing were chatting and laughing, and after counting, whoever caught the most fish.

"There are so many fish on the mountain, there are ten of them!"

"It's nonsense, obviously there are many under the field, and he can catch up with five other people with one."

After saying that, both Shanshan and Tianxia looked at the third person, as if to say, "Where's yours?"

"I'm unlucky today..."

"That's the Air Force?"

Nonsense, how can you talk about the Air Force when it comes to fishermen.

When the three old men were arguing endlessly, Tianxia wrinkled his presbyopic eyes, and vaguely noticed a black figure coming out of the lake with a child in his mouth.

"Look at it!"

Seeing a long-haired black figure running towards them, the old men didn't even need crutches, so they ran away, yelling as they ran.

"You can't be wrong, that's definitely Lord Death Luo!"

"Why did Mr. Death Luo gain weight?"

"If there are too many people eating it, of course they will get fat. I think Makoto must have been eaten by it too!"

With Conan's collar in his mouth, Yuji sat on a stone by the lake and began to dry his hair in front of the sunset.

He just drove here in the afternoon and had already taken photos on his mobile phone. He did not go to meet up first, but planned to visit the forest cabin in the letter first.

Fortunately, if I had come a step later, I would have died.

After groping with his paws for a few times, he threw the water plants wrapped around his head into the fire that the old people had raised. Yuji shook the two buckets beside him and was very happy when he saw there were fish in them.

"It's good to have something to eat. Ah! There's a bucket over there!"

Looking at the empty bucket by the runway lake, Yuji was silent for a while, then turned his head and ignored the blue plastic bucket.

It’s too pitiful not to catch any. Just pretend you’ve never seen this bucket...

(End of this chapter)