After leaving the office, the group took a car to a nearby restaurant for dinner.

Ye Geng dialed the landline of Dr. Ali's house and told the other party that he was going to Nagano County tonight.

but…

In the afternoon, just as I was thinking of coming here to hang out with the incident, the incident came to me on my own initiative. I really don't know whether I should say that I am lucky, or it is too metaphysical.

Ye Gengyi slightly moved his lower cervical spine.

With nano-robots as auxiliary treatment, in fact, even if he went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination of the muscles and nerve tissues of the body, he could not find any problems, but he still felt uncomfortable.

...If it was changed to before, I'm afraid I would only think it was a psychological effect. Now... let's collect more data.

the other side. Mori Kogoro was injured by the wife of the client who was investigating an extramarital affair, and his self-esteem was almost killed. The mood to assist the police in solving a major case is naturally quite urgent.

However, no matter how he asked, Yamato Gansuke used the excuse of 'I don't want to instill preconceived information and affect reasoning', and only revealed that the destination was a villa called 'House of Hope', and that he was in that house three years ago. After a tragic death of a female body was found in the warehouse of the mansion, the villa was renamed the 'Death House'.

I don't know if it is the bad taste of the rich, but this villa is also built in the deep mountains and old forests.

Starting from Mihua Town, eating and traveling, it took a total of more than 2 hours to reach the foot of the mountain.

A very remote place... Ye Gengyi gave a fair evaluation.

There is no concrete or asphalt road ahead.

After driving the car into the lush forest and bumping along the winding and rugged mountain road for a while, I finally saw the villa quietly hidden in the night.

A group of people got out of the car.

Conan also found an opportunity to ask Yui Uehara, who has been acting as the driver, why Yamato Gansuke thought of coming to Mihua Town for help this time.

He clearly remembered that in the "Fenglin Volcano" incident last time, this criminal policeman with a rather sharp style was quite independent...

It's not like being hit by Brother Gengyi once, and you lose your temper, right?

If that was the case, he must have condemned someone severely.

Hmm... psychologically condemned.

Yui Uehara laughed lowly and explained:

"Because there is a person who dares to die and doesn't want to lose, who also participated in the search of this case."

search?

Conan caught this keyword and asked curiously: "Eh? Is that person also a criminal policeman?"

"Yes, but it's not the criminal police of our Nagano Police Headquarters. He belongs to the Shinno Bureau that governs this area." Yui Uehara said.

Criminal police in the jurisdiction?

Conan was taken aback.

For example, even if Takagi Tsutomu is sent over, if the local director has no backbone, he can call his subordinate unit "leader" with a straight face.

To compare the two sides, to describe it more intuitively, I still take Takagi Tsutomu as an example.

It's like a certain Tianmu Mushisan received a call from the police and brought a team of people to the murder scene. Suddenly, Takagi appeared aggressively, not only did not obey the order, but began to fight for the right to handle the case...

Conan wondered: "This... Since this is a case to be investigated by the headquarters, the subordinate units should actively cooperate, right? How can there be any competition?"

"Actually, that person has been Ah Gan's classmate since elementary school, no matter what the two of them have to compete, and oh..."

Yui Uehara lowered his voice and gossiped: "That friend of Gan's is the first graduate of the Faculty of Law of Toto University, but his temper is very strange. He has so many choices, but he just plunged into the police in Nagano Prefecture. The headquarters should start with a grass-roots criminal policeman, er, something happened later, and he was transferred to the Xinye Department."

"So, he was originally your colleague." Conan asked.

"That's right. And his name is the same as Ah Gan, he looks like a military advisor..."

Yui Uehara worked hard.

the other side.

Yamato Gansuke, who had already glanced in this direction several times, even though he didn't know what the two were whispering, but the repeated "Agan" still made him quite concerned.

Yamato Gansuke couldn't help saying:

"Hey! Uehara, stop dawdling there."

"Ah, yes."

Uehara Yui was a little dissatisfied, before chasing after her, she added in a low voice:

"Because Ah Gan has never won against that person, as long as the two of them meet, there is no way to keep calm. This time... I always feel that he went to Mihua Town not to find Maori detective, but you and Ye Experts. In short, please help him.”

"Ah? Me..." Conan was taken aback.

It was too late to say anything, Uehara Yui had already run away.

…

A light was on in the villa where 'Hope' was renamed 'Death'.

There was still a police car parked in the open space outside, and two police officers in uniform stood outside the door, one on the left and one on the right, as if guarding the scene strictly.

Judging from the attitude, it is obviously impossible for the case from 3 years ago...

I think so, but after seeing this behind the scenes.

Ye Gengyi still searched the Internet for information about the 'House of Hope' and the 'House of Death'.

Although the identity of the woman who died tragically inside 3 years ago was not found, a news report related to this villa was found.

The origin of the name "House of Hope" is explained above.

It is said that the rich man who funded the construction of this villa, after living here for some years, felt that the residence was a bit old, so he simply selected some talented young people without money, and let them live here for free until the realization of their respective dreams.

Seeing this, Ye Gengyi asked:

"The traffic is so inconvenient, is there anyone living in the villa?"

"Not now. In fact, the transportation in this place was quite convenient in the past."

Yamato Kansuke said: "There used to be a bus station right next to the villa, but it's a pity that after it became the 'Pavilion of Death', no passengers were willing to come to this place, and it was demolished over time..."

"The people who live here, including this villa, are all sponsored by a rich man. The old man died of illness many years ago. Without the supply of property, those residents have also moved out of this place one after another."

Yui Uehara recalled slightly, and added: "It seems...only 5 or 6 years ago, there was a married couple who stayed."

A group of sponsored young people with dreams...

If you still have the spirit and inherited the will of the old rich man, once you have learned something, you should move out of this place. The funding has stopped long ago, so... it means that this case will not be related to money. related.

Moreover, Dahe Gansuke also revealed that the area where the bus station has been demolished has not been listed as a geomantic treasure by default. If the economic value is not high, it will not involve conflicts caused by tourism and demolition...

Also, since the people living here are a couple.

So... it was his wife who died here 3 years ago? And recently her husband has also been cold?

Hmm... It's also possible that it's not dead yet, just missing or something...

Based on the only information available, Ye Gengyi made a fairly reliable inference in his mind.

Yamato Gansuke took a file bag from the policeman, led everyone into the house, and handed it to Ye Gengyi:

"This is the photo of the six people who used to live in this villa."

Conan, Mori Kogoro and Mo Lilan came to watch~lightnovelpub.net~ and followed Ye Geng to find out one by one.

Yamato Gansuke also introduced them one by one.

With disheveled hair and a pair of round-frame glasses, the one with sharp eyes is the illustrator Shusaku Akashi;

The one with mustache and gloomy eyes is the actor Naoki Suikawa;

The one with medium hair and a beauty mole under the left eye is Jia Xiaoqiao Aoi;

Then, there was Shoji Yamabuki, a fashion designer with an unruly look and wearing a different style;

And Takuto Moose, a computer graphics artist with bearded faces and a peaked cap, who can't see the talent.

And the last music producer Naoki Shiro who dyed his hair blonde.

(end of this chapter)