Be the god of death in the world of famous detectives

Chapter 26 It's Late But Arrived
"Ah! Help..." Ayumi burst into tears, struggling and shouting, but just as she started shouting, Bai Shu covered her mouth.

"Let her go!", Conan was also taken aback, and subconsciously shook the flashlight at Bai Shu's face, and when he was about to take advantage of the other's blurred vision and kick him hard, Conan saw the other's face clearly.

"Naoki?!...Brother." When Conan got excited, he almost called out his name directly, and finally added a suffix with a hard round to go back, "Why are you here?!"

"...?" Ayumi was taken aback for a moment, but stopped fluttering.

She turned to Bai Shu curiously, is this someone Conan knows?
Seeing her calm down, Bai Shu put Ayumi back on the ground.

Facing Conan's question, Bai Shu used the usual excuse, "Of course Xiaolan is worried because you haven't come home so late, let me take a look."

"No..." Conan felt something was wrong.

This basement is very secret. If he hadn't seen the long-haired woman disappear before, he might not have thought that there would be a basement at the end of the corridor.

But why the white tree...

At this time, I don't know if it was because of entanglement, "Savage" howled in pain beside him.

This sound successfully attracted the attention of Conan and Ayumi.

Ayumi just glanced at it, then retreated behind Bai Shu, clutching his pants tightly, her voice was only breathless, "In the cage...why is there someone in the cage?"

Conan was also shocked, but he didn't make a sound.

The moment the "savage" looked up just now, he saw the face of the "savage" - there was a small mole under the left eye, and the face was thin, very similar to the person he saw in the family portrait just now.

A long series of clues were quickly connected into one line, and Conan was startled, and suddenly had a guess about this "haunted house".

His face changed slightly, and he asked Bai Shu, "Brother Zhishu, have you brought your eldest brother?"

"No." Bai Shu knew that he wanted to call the police, "but the police should be here soon."

"Oh, all right."

In the middle of Conan's words, he suddenly remembered something, "Wait, have you reported to the police?"

And judging from his words, he still called the police before entering here.

...How did Bai Shu know that something would happen here?
Conan's question was clearly written on his face.

Bai Shu glanced at him, and continued to use the old trick to perfunctory, "Didn't I say, you came back too late, the adults will be worried."

"...Is that really the case?" Conan had turned into a dead fish eye, and he didn't really believe this simple and rude statement.

Besides, when a child comes home late from school, most people’s first reaction should be to think where the child is playing, and to look for it by themselves first. Only some very sensitive parents will choose to call the police directly.

As for Bai Shu and Kogoro... that's not to mention.Conan seriously suspected that if he really ran away from home one day, only Xiaolan would be able to find out what was wrong.

Conan held back his questions, but when he was about to speak, Shiroki suddenly made a silent gesture.

He looked towards the door and whispered, "Someone is coming."

"?!", Ayumi immediately thought of the "ghost" floating in the corridor before, she got goosebumps all over her body, and she retreated reflexively.

After taking two steps back, he suddenly felt that there was something dark behind him, so he ran back and hugged Bai Shu's leg.

Conan also took two steps away from the door, and he seemed much more stable, "It's okay, Ayumi, if my guess is correct, the people who live in this bungalow, except the imprisoned person, There is only one old woman, Brother Zhishu should be able to deal with it."

"Hmm." Bai Shu scratched the back of his head, nodded in agreement, it seemed that in the end, it became a manual job.

Before I had time to say anything, the sound of footsteps outside approached, the door was slowly pushed open, and a long-haired woman with a dinner plate appeared at the door.

The woman is slender, wearing a black dress, which makes her thinner like a stick. She has white hair that reaches to the bottom of her legs, and holds a dinner plate in her hands like dry wood. The small half of her face is exposed. to a few wrinkles.

Her movements were numb and sluggish, like a walking corpse, until she looked up and saw a few strangers behind the door, the woman was startled for a moment, and suddenly showed a bit of fierceness.

She put the dinner plate on the ground, took out a kitchen knife out of nowhere, and held it nervously in her hand, "It turns out that other than the two little mice just now, someone else broke in!"

"Stop it." Bai Shu tried to talk, and at the same time he took off Ayumi who was stuck to his leg and put it back, so as not to affect his hands for a while, "Although mother's love is great, but I took my son to hide from such You must be tired after so many years."

As soon as the words came out, the woman's whole body trembled violently, and Conan behind Baishu also frowned, staring at his back for a while.

Conan actually discovered it when he first came in. This bungalow has running water and has a hidden exit. It doesn't seem like no one has lived in it for five years.

And just now, he saw a family portrait of the owner's family of three in the house. The son in it had a mole under his left eye, and his face was thin, just like... the man locked in the iron cage next to him.

A normal person would not lock up his son after the subject died.These abnormalities made Conan quickly think of two possibilities:
One is that five years ago, the woman killed her husband, and in order to prevent her son who saw everything from calling the police, he was imprisoned.

The second is that the son is a murderer, and the mother tried to use this method to let him escape legal sanctions.

However, until now, Conan still doesn't know what the truth is, but what Bai Shu said just now, it seems that he is very sure that his son is the real culprit.

……why?
After living together for so long, the image of Bai Shu in Conan's eyes has already changed from a complicated first impression to one that resembles Mori Kogoro, a bit lazy and unreliable.

But what happened today reminded him of the case he solved when he first saw Bai Shu.

Now it seems that Bai Shu was able to solve the case that day not by luck or coincidence.

This person's reasoning ability... is far more powerful than he imagined!

When Conan was imagining and gilding Bai Shu blindly, the two adults at the door were still confronting each other.

The woman froze for a while, then said in a hoarse voice, "What do you know?!"

Her hands trembled a little, and even her whole body trembled.

When dealing with children, she has an absolute advantage in physical strength.

But when the opponent was replaced by an adult man, even if she tried her best, it would be difficult to silence him.

Although Bai Shu is a salty fish, the body he is using now was a police school student before, and he has worked hard for several years.

Looking at Bai Shu's not thin figure and the faintly visible muscle lines on his arms, the woman felt a trace of despair in her heart.

(End of this chapter)