Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

"Work?"

"almost."

"Don't you plan to call Yukiko this time? When we had dinner before, she happily told us that you promised her that you would bring her with you in the future if conditions permit." The female teacher raised her head and glanced.

"Yes, if the conditions permit." Qin Uanshu rolled his eyes and said, "The problem is that this time they directly sent an invitation letter and invited me by name. Can you tell me how the conditions permit?"

Qianshi Qianxun still looked carefree: "It should be no problem. Besides, isn't it normal for a well-known detective to have an assistant?"

"Or is there possible danger this time?" she asked coldly.

"That's it."

Qin Xianshu shrugged and said meaninglessly.

After all, there is a high probability that this will be a Hongmen Banquet...

he said in his heart.

Chapter 152 The God of War in the Easy Chair!

It is more than 700 kilometers from Chiba to Tottori, and it will take at least seven hours even if you take the Shinkansen.

Qin Xianshu set off early the next morning.

He departed from Sakurasou and arrived at Chiba High Speed ​​Rail Station. After buying a ticket, he took the Shinkansen and went straight to Tottori Prefecture.

It was still eight o'clock in the morning when we set off. By the time Qin Sanshu got off the Shinkansen and officially set foot on Tottori, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Although it has been almost a month since the beginning of autumn, and the days are shortening and the nights are gradually lengthening, autumn is not yet deep after all, and the sun at four o'clock in the afternoon is still very bright, and the scorching sun is scorching the earth crazily.

It looks like we should be able to arrive before the sun sets...

After walking out of the high-speed rail station and looking at the distortion of the air a few centimeters above the asphalt road in the distance due to the high temperature, Qin Sanshu thought with a flag in his heart.

Compared to Chiba Prefecture, which is classified within the Tokyo metropolitan area, Tottori Prefecture is far less prosperous than the former.

At least in Tottori, if you look around, you will rarely see the kind of high-rise buildings that often have twenty or thirty stories. Most of them are single-family houses with one or two stories, or very traditional small bungalows with white walls and blue tiles.

Anyway, it just highlights a rural area.

The relatively backward economic situation has also reduced the number of taxis.

After all, taxis are really expensive in Japan. For example, in Tianchao, if you use doordoor to take a taxi, as long as you don’t live in a remote place, a taxi to the city center may only cost about ten or 20 yuan, which is not enough for a cup of milk tea. price.

In Japan, for the same distance, you almost have to add a zero at the end of the price, and then convert it into Japanese yen at the exchange rate. Just think about it and you will know how scary it is.

Especially in a place like Tottori, where the overall economy is relatively backward, there are even fewer people who take taxis.

It is true that only rich people take taxis, while poor people buy their own cars and drive them.

Fortunately, the lack of taxis does not mean that there are no taxis at all. At least in places like high-speed rail stations and airports, you can still see many taxis parked on the roadside outside the ticket hall, waiting for business to come to you.

Qin Mianshu randomly picked a taxi and opened the back door and got in. The taxi driver probably fell asleep in the taxi with the air conditioner on. When he heard the sound of the door opening and closing, he suddenly woke up and quickly turned his head to look behind him with a smile on his face. Ju.

"Hey little brother, where do you want to go?"

"Hmm... Dusk Pavilion, do you know the way?"

Qin Xianshu was still looking down at the location of the Twilight Pavilion on his mobile phone. When he heard the driver's question, he responded casually.

"Oh, the House of Dusk!" The driver suddenly realized, "I know the road, but it's a bit far from here. It will take at least more than an hour to drive there even if the road conditions are good."

"It's okay, let's go."

"okay!"

Qin Xianshu's calm tone made the taxi driver completely relieved.

It's as if being eloquent is an inherent job skill of all taxi drivers in the world. As the taxi slowly moves away, the driver's mouth also starts to move.

"By the way, little brother, I don't think you are a local. Are you going to visit someone in the Dusk Pavilion?"

"Why do you say that?" Qin Xianshu did not answer directly.

"That's the Twilight House." The driver said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Almost half a century ago, that annex was owned by a rich man from Tottori. However, the rich man never died of old age. No matter what descendants he left behind, the annex became ownerless after his death, but in the past two years...more than a year ago to be specific, someone bought the annex again."

At this point he took a breath and continued preaching.

"Just think about it. We in Tottori are not like the big cities in Tokyo. We go all the way to the mountains and old forests to buy such a big villa. Why? It takes more than half an hour to drive to and from get off work every day to buy vegetables. The people who can live there must be rich people who don’t have to work, and if you want to go there now, I must be acquainted with the owner of Dusk Villa."

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe he just knows me unilaterally." Qin Sanshu said with a smile, "By the way, do you know who bought the villa at that time."

"This...I don't know." The driver shook his head.

"That's it."

The two of them chatted for a while, from the high-speed rail station to the suburbs, and then drove onto a slightly narrow winding mountain road.

And the sky, which was still clear ten minutes ago, also turned cloudy unconsciously.

again and again--!

A raindrop fell on the car window, pulling out long strands of water, which attracted Qin Ushu's attention.

"It's raining?"

"It's normal. It's like this all the time in this area. It rains whenever you want." The driver didn't even look back, but turned on the headlights and slowed down. "But it gets dark early in the mountains, and it gets dark when it rains." Earlier.”

"Don't be in a hurry, just drive slowly."

Qin Xian sighed in relief and continued to lower his head to look at his phone.

The car drove slowly along the winding mountain road. After a while, the driver in the front seat suddenly let out a soft sound and lightly stepped on the brakes to stop the car.

"that is……"

"what happened?"

Qin Xianshu raised his head and turned his head slightly, looking across the gap between the driver and passenger, towards the windshield where the wiper kept dragging back and forth.

At this time, it was raining heavily outside, and the sky was completely dark. Without the illumination of street lights and city neon lights, the winding mountain road in the evening was as dark as a giant centipede entrenched on the mountain. The visible range was only the area in front of the car. That distance of five or six meters.

The dense raindrops falling from the sky gathered into a curtain of rain that blurred their vision, and just one or two meters away from the bright coverage of the car lights, a short and rickety dark and strange shadow stood in the middle of the winding mountain road holding an umbrella, blocking their way.

"Wait for me here for a moment. I'll go down and take a look." Qin Xianshu immediately opened the car door, but stopped when he took the first step.

"Is there an umbrella?" He turned to the driver.

"Yes, yes..."

The driver quickly pulled out a folding umbrella from the car door and handed it over.

Qin Xianshu reached out to take it and opened it toward the door. He stood up and walked out of the car. At the same time, the stick in his other sleeve slipped silently.

He came to the front of the car and turned his back to the light from the headlights. Only then did Qin Uanshu clearly see that the figure standing in the middle of the winding mountain road was not a ghost at all. It was clearly an old woman in her sixties.

He has an old face, a thin body, gray hair mixed with white, round reading glasses, and a Fiat 500 that seems to have broken down parked behind him.

If there were any other knowledgeable detectives around at this moment, they would definitely tell his name with a loud exclamation.

After a thousand generations of descendants, people in the world called him the god of armchair war...the detective.

Both sides watched each other quietly in the rain. For a moment, it seemed as if the raindrops were falling slower, and the atmosphere was as chilling as the confrontation between two peerless swordsmen before drawing their swords.

After a few seconds, Qin Xianshu spoke unhurriedly.

"Can you please stop blocking the road? It's very dangerous for you to do this."

Chapter 153: The mountains and seas are uneven, so people can overcome them on their own

The time went back to seven hours ago. Just half an hour after Qin Ushu set off, Misaki Uekusa's voice rang out in the living room of Sakura Manor.

"It's not good, it's not good! Xian Shu has run away from home!"

"Running away from home? What's going on?"

Mitaka Jin, who had just gotten up and was brushing his teeth and washing his face in the bathroom, heard the sound and poked his head out to take a look.

Then he saw in the corridor outside the bathroom door, his dear childhood sweetheart, like a cat that just wanted to eat cat food but couldn't eat it, violently pulled at the door handle of Qin Uanshu's room, but It just can't be opened.

"He just ran away from home!" Misaki Ueizusa cried sadly, "I originally wanted to play with Ushu, but it turned out that the door to his room was locked. Just now I went to the outside window to check, and no one was in the room."

"Maybe he went out temporarily because of something?" Mitaka Jin made a relatively reliable guess.

"Then don't lock the door!"

"Too……"

Sakurasou Neptune touched his chin: "Maybe he's going on a long trip. Generally speaking, if it's me, I'll lock the door if I'm going on a long trip."

"Then he really ran away from home!" Misaki Kamiikusa became even more confident.

"No, no, no, there is a difference between traveling far away and running away from home..." Mitaka Jin held his forehead slightly.

"What? Umbrella Shu is missing?!"

An incredible sound came from the direction of the stairs. It turned out to be Yukiko, followed by Mashiro, who was sleepy and barefoot.

Nanami Aoyama was not here. She had a voice actor training class to attend today and she also left early in the morning.

"No, so I think he just..." Mitaka Jin suddenly paused in the middle of his words, "Wait, I think I know what he did. Do you still remember the letter the day before yesterday?"

"Letter?" Misaki Uekusa looked confused.

"Hey, it's the letter I put on the dining table before..."

Mitaka Jin wanted to continue explaining, but at this time, in the master bedroom on the other side of the living room, a female teacher in pajamas opened the door and walked out. She seemed to have been woken up from her sleep, with the word "unpleasant" written all over her face.

"It's so noisy, what are you doing?"

Qianshi Qianxun scratched her short burgundy hair that looked a little frizzy because she hadn't combed it yet.

"Isn't it just that you travel far away for work? You will all experience this kind of thing gradually in the future. There is nothing to make a fuss about."

"Eh? Chihiro-sensei, do you know anything?" Misaki Kamikusa asked a question that many people wanted to ask in one sentence.

"I... know."

Qianshi Qianxun hesitated for less than half a second before decisively selling Qin Sanshu.

"He told me when he came back yesterday evening that he was going to Tottori in the next two days and should be back tomorrow afternoon or evening."

"That means it's still work after all..."

Misaki Uesusa said subconsciously, but Mitaka Jin patted her on the shoulder.

On the stairs, Yukiko looked slightly sad when she heard the word "work". After a brief silence, she cleared up the emotions on her face and smiled a little reluctantly.

"If it's because of work, then there's really nothing we can do about it."

"Well, I also asked a little bit about the specific situation." Qianshi Chihiro continued, "According to him, this job may be very dangerous, and even he can't be sure about it, so... Yukiko, you should understand me. the meaning of."

"Danger!? How dangerous?"

Misaki Kamikusa yelled again.

"I don't know about this." Qianshi Qianxun shrugged.

But the next second her shoulders were held down, and the girl who was standing on the stairs two seconds ago came to her at some point and said anxiously.

"Teacher, where is Xian Shu now?"

"How do I know this?" The female teacher was a little helpless. "And he only told me that he was going to Tottori. I don't know the specific place in Tottori."

"how so……"

"How about making a call and asking?" Misaki Kamikusa suggested.

"No, he won't tell Usama Shu, if he has made up his mind." Yukiko shook her head, but still took out her phone, looking at the dark screen with a slightly hesitant expression.

"Come, come! This is the exclusive assistance provided by Ryunosuke-sama!"

Suddenly, without any operation, the screen of her mobile phone suddenly lit up. Amidst a burst of cheerful music, a cute Q-shaped maid dragged a USB cable about the same size as its body from the phone. The corners of the screen popped out.

"According to the real-time positioning on the satellite map, a certain self-righteous high school detective has just set off from Chiba Station, heading towards Tottori Prefecture!"

"This, this is..."

Yukiko was stunned on the spot.

When Misaki Ueizusa heard this voice, she jumped up excitedly and took out her Suzuki Langdi's car key from nowhere.

"Mei Dou-chan! As expected of Doragon! Now that we have a way to know the location of Usama Shu, let's set off now! A trip to Tottori! Operation to save Usama Shu! Let's go! Let's go! People who don't want to come are lifted A hand!"