RNP Chapter 814 Vampire Mansion
Chapter 814 Vampire Mansion
Chapter 814 Vampire Mansion
The police escorted the criminal back and everyone came out of the hot spring bath.
Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha looked at each other, then looked away and pretended nothing happened. Xiaolan and Conan looked at each other, then looked away and pretended nothing happened. Conan found that Sera Masumi was staring at him and smiling, so he turned his head and pretended not to see it.
After taking a bath, we looked for a place to have lunch, because Maori Kogoro treated us during the bath, and Otaki Goro rushed to pay for lunch. Martin ate and drank for free again today.
Just after lunch, Otaki Goro suddenly received a call.
"Otaki, how's the matter going?" The person who called was Hattori Heizo, the chief of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters and Hattori Heiji's father.
"It went pretty smoothly, except that something else happened in the middle, and after we resolved it, we missed the train back home." Otaki Goro said as he moved away from the others: "Aheira and Kazuha plan to stay at Mr. Mori's house until the evening, so I thought I might as well go with them. (I'm not slacking off on a business trip, I'm here to accompany the young master.)"
"No hurry..." Hattori Heizo did not urge him to come back to work, but paused and said: "Otaki, there is something I want to ask you to do. It's a semi-private matter... Do you... believe in vampires?"
……
"Where should we go next? How about the zoo?" Yuanzi suggested.
"Okay, okay..." Yuanshan and Ye Zheng agreed enthusiastically, but he noticed from the corner of his eye that Otaki Goro, who was not far away, looked unnatural: "Uncle Otaki?"
"A Ping, He Ye, go and have fun. I still have some things to do." Otaki Goro said vaguely, and then said goodbye to Maori Kogoro: "Thank you Mr. Maori for your hospitality. I will come to have a drink with Mr. Maori another day."
"Is there work again?" Kogoro Mouri asked with concern. It seemed that the police were very busy recently.
"Are you going back?" Hattori Heiji said with a little regret: "We'll go back with you."
In fact, Hattori Heiji had already planned to stay at the Mori family for a night, and he even carried a change of clothes in his backpack.
"No, no, no, it's a private matter." Otaki Goro waved his hands and ran away.
Hattori Heiji looked at Otaki Goro's back in confusion. It seemed that he had changed after he answered the phone. Although Otaki Goro walked away after answering the phone, Hattori Heiji still vaguely heard a voice from the other end at first and felt that it should be the voice of his own stinky father.
"It feels a bit strange." Mouri Ran also said. Hattori Heiji was not the only one who felt that Otaki Goro's behavior was strange.
"Normally, when a middle-aged man sneaks around, he should either have his feet washed or have a massage," Martin said. "But it's a little unreasonable not to call him uncle after having his feet washed."
"Don't set me up." Maori Kogoro gave Martin a knife: "I won't go even if you call me."
"Could she have gone on a date?" Suzuki Sonoko's train of thought was always towards gossip: "If Xiaolan ran away like this stealthily, she must have gone on a secret date with Shinichi-kun."
"That's true!" Kogoro Mouri glared at him again.
"No way!" Xiaolan retorted—I have never done anything sneaky.
The last time she and Shinichi went on a date was at the Tropical Paradise. Not only did her father and Sonoko know about it openly, but the stupid Shinichi was also hit on the head by someone, and they said goodbye forever.
Hattori Heiji pinched his chin and suddenly had an idea: "Come to think of it, Uncle Otaki is indeed still unmarried at his age."
Sera Masamune rolled his eyes and said, "Could it be that he really went to see his lover? Why don't we follow him and see for ourselves?"
Maori Kogoro: "Hey..."
Mao Lilan: "Following Officer Otaki? That's not a good idea, right?"
"Xiaolan!" Yuanzi pulled her and said, "Don't you want to know what the police officer's lover looks like?"
Lian Heye also nodded continuously: "Let's follow them!"
So the group followed quietly. During the time, Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other and confirmed their eyes. They had the same idea: just like a shark smelling blood, their keen sense of smell as detectives made them sense the scent of the case.
Then Conan felt a very burning gaze from behind him, and turned around to see Sera Masumi staring at him with great interest, his eyes seemed to say: "I have the same idea as you, come and look at me in tacit understanding!"
Conan shifted his gaze guiltily, as they had heard the conversation between Masumi Sera and Xiaolan in the hot spring. On the one hand, Conan felt guilty as his identity was exposed, and on the other hand, he couldn't figure out how Masumi Sera came to be known as his "first love".
It was unknown whether Otaki Goro was preoccupied or his anti-detection ability was too poor, but he was followed by a group of eight people, a rabbit and a stone, and they never found him. The group followed Otaki Goro to the car rental agency and watched him rent a car.
"It seems that Uncle Otaki's lover (target) is not in Tokyo."
"We've followed him all the way here. It would be a shame to give up. Should we rent a car?"
"Hello..."
The only adult in the team, the driver Maori Kogoro, wanted to refuse, but was forced into the car rental company by Hattori Heiji and Suzuki Sonoko: "Please, uncle, if you're slow, you'll lose Uncle Otaki."
We rented a van to accommodate the group of people, and then followed Otaki Goro all the way out of Tokyo.
Two hours later, Maori Kogoro felt something was wrong: "I say...if we continue driving, we will almost reach Gunma Prefecture, right?"
There is Saitama Prefecture between Tokyo and Gunma Prefecture, and they are about to drive out of Saitama Prefecture.
Martin: "Are you going to clean up the mess for Little Caocao again?"
It would be fine if they stopped in Gunma Prefecture, but now Kogoro Mori is afraid that Goro Otaki will drive to a farther place in one breath. Even if he doesn't drive to Osaka, he will not be able to bear it if he drives to Nagoya.
"It's probably Nagano or Niigata at most, right?" Conan analyzed, "For places farther away, it's faster to take the Shinkansen to nearby places and then rent a car."
"Attention, Uncle Otaki is getting off the ramp!" Hattori Heiji reminded loudly: "Ah, he's going to the gas station."
When they arrived at the gas station, Otaki Goro did not refuel, but got out of the car and ran to the bathroom in a panic.
"GO!" Martin put Bunny and Diamond back into the Poké Ball, then waved his hand and got out of the car with Hattori Heiji, Sera Masumi, and Conan, forming a 'troublemaking group'. The four of them crouched down and quietly slipped towards Otaki Goro's car, ready to sneak in.
"It's actually locked." Hattori Heiji clicked his tongue. Seeing how flustered Otaki Goro was when he got out of the car, he thought he had forgotten to lock the car.
"It's okay, just look at me." Martin took off the hairpin on his bangs, leaned against the car door, and looked up to fiddle with the car lock.
Car door locks are usually straight-plate double-row bullet grooves, which are classified as Class B locks. Anyone who has been trained and mastered the skills can open the lock within five minutes.
Hattori Heiji glanced at Martin and asked, "Can you also pick locks?"
"This is a necessary skill for 'giving warmth' at a doorstep." This is not Kinoshita Hideyoshi's skill, but Martin's own. Back when Ai and Martin were at loggerheads, she had five types of locks on her experimental door at most, but it still didn't stop Martin. Later, they had to dig a tunnel, and of course, Martin's skilled lock-picking skills were all used at the beginning. "Can you hurry up? It won't be fun when Officer Otaki comes back." Sera Masumi urged.
"Although my speed can't compare to that of a certain black guy, middle-aged people have frequent and urgent urination and can't urinate completely, which leaves us enough time - OK, let's go."
The moment the door opened, the car's anti-theft alarm was about to sound, but Martin quickly opened the door and pressed an alarm-disarm button under the inside door handle.
The anti-theft alarm only sounded once before being turned off, and it sounded similar to the beeping sound when the vehicle is unlocked.
Under the speechless gaze of Kogoro Mouri in the car behind, the troublemaker group slipped into Goro Otaki's car.
When Otaki Goro came back, he could never imagine that someone would sneak into his car during this time, so he didn't even pay attention to the back seat. After driving out of the gas station, he didn't notice that there was a car following behind him.
Ten minutes later, Otaki Goro lost his focus while driving and began to mutter, "Don't be sucked dry... Don't be sucked dry..."
"What sucked it dry?" A childish voice suddenly came from behind.
It's because Otaki Goro is mature and prudent. If it were a driver like Xiaolan who is easily frightened, Conan's shout would be enough to send the car into the isolation pier.
Martin: "Is your lover a succubus?"
Sera Masumi: “Does that really exist?”
Hattori Heiji: "Could it be a woman's lips?"
"A Ping? Why are you in my car?"
"By the way." Hattori Heiji chuckled, "Uncle Mori and the others are also behind us."
Otaki Goro focused his attention on the rearview mirror above his head, and then he saw a van following behind him. Through the windshield, he could see Maori Kogoro's insecure face: "Why?"
"Because I really want to see the woman you, Uncle Otaki, keep outside." Hattori Heiji grinned.
Conan followed suit: "Sister Xiaolan is also looking forward to you introducing them to each other."
The old bachelor Ohtaki Goro smiled regretfully: "I don't have any good women to introduce to you."
Martin: "So there are bad women?"
"nor."
"Then can you tell us?" Hattori Heiji's frivolous expression suddenly became serious: "What exactly happened?"
The car drove into a long tunnel and darkness enveloped the outside of the car.
Otaki Goro slowly explained the cause of the incident.
Hattori Heizo suddenly called and sent Otaki Goro on a second business trip to a mansion located at the junction of Gunma and Saitama prefectures to witness an inheritance notarization.
A case had occurred in that mansion half a year ago. A maid in the mansion was found dead in the forest near the mansion. Her body was hung upside down and tied to a wooden stake, and almost all the blood in her body had been drained.
Moreover, the only external injuries on the body were two small wounds of a few millimeters in diameter on the carotid artery. This made the case horrific, because the blood contains platelets, and no matter whether the body is dead or alive, the wounds will slowly form blood scabs, and the blood may even coagulate in the blood vessels. Normally, it is impossible to drain all the blood with just two small wounds.
The wound was shaped like a tooth mark, which made the case look like a vampire sucked the maid's blood. There was even a vampire ready-made - the owner of the mansion suddenly began to sleep in a coffin at night before the maid died, and he hated garlic so much that he threw away all the silverware in the house.
So the closer Otaki Goro got to his destination, the more nervous he became. He felt that he was getting closer and closer to a vampire's lair.
Hattori Heiji said disdainfully: "How could there really be vampires in this world?"
Conan glanced at Martin. "Even if there is, he has been thrown into prison."
Sera Masumi thought for a moment and said, "If there are two tooth marks, could it be from a venomous snake? Some venomous snakes have hemolytic toxins that can cause coagulation disorders."
"Maybe the deceased had leukemia?" Martin also speculated, "Or it's even simpler. Aspirin can prevent blood coagulation. Just give the deceased a lethal dose of aspirin in advance."
"Well... I'm not sure." Otaki Goro shook his head.
The case happened in Gunma Prefecture, so of course it was under Gunma Prefecture's jurisdiction, and Gunma Prefecture's detective, Yamamura Sou... those who know know. Hattori Heizo had only found a few words of case information because he was sending Otaki to do something, and he dictated it to Otaki Goro over the phone, without so many autopsy details.
After exiting the tunnel, we turned two corners, then drove on the winding mountain road for a long time. When we reached the top of the mountain, we arrived at the destination of this trip, a European-style mansion with a bit of a spooky and ghostly atmosphere. The main building of the mansion has two floors, a sloping roof and an attic.
"There's no suspension bridge. This place doesn't feel pure." Martin said with disdain when getting off the car.
Conan Half Moon Eyes: "If there is a suspension bridge, I will stay at the bridge head and wait for the criminal to burn the bridge."
There is no suspension bridge anyway, he said casually.
Kogoro Mouri got out of the car and walked over to ask Goro Otaki about the details. Then, when he learned that it was a vampire who committed the crime, his face turned pale.
"You were talking about vampires?" The remaining three girls came over at this time. They heard Maori Kogoro shouting "Vampire" from afar. Yuanshan and Ye were immediately scared: "What's going on?"
Hattori Heiji's eyes moved quickly, and he thought of a homonym on the spot: "Bumper! We are talking about bumper! The bumper of our car was damaged on the way here, and we are wondering what to do when we go back!"
"Is that so?" He Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
The sound of the car attracted an old butler from the mansion to come out. The old butler was called Koga Rikushige, and he was seventy years old. "Welcome everyone, who is Officer Otaki from the Osaka Prefectural Police?"
"I'm Otaki." Otaki Goro stepped forward: "Are you the client...?"
"I'm the butler Koga. I'm a police officer in the same period as Chief Hattori's father." The old butler looked at the people behind Otaki. At a glance, there were three men, four girls and a child (Martin was counted as a girl, and Sera was counted as a boy). "But I didn't expect so many people to come."
The old butler was an old colleague of Hattori Heiji's grandfather. Because of this relationship, he asked Hattori Heizo to send a capable police officer to attend a dinner party about the distribution of inheritance. So this matter was a commission, not a report to the police.
"I'm so sorry..."
"It doesn't matter, actually." The old housekeeper glanced at the crimson sunset glow in the west: "The sun is about to set, the master should be getting up soon."
"Before dinner is ready, please feel free to walk around the museum." The butler's expression suddenly became gloomy. It was unclear whether he was serious or had some other meaning. "The matter of inheritance will be discussed after dinner."
(End of this chapter)