Suddenly, the originally silent hotel reception hall echoed with the distinctive sharp sound when the door was opened, and the three people standing at the door froze at the same time.
"Who! What sound!"
Mouri Kogoro had the biggest reaction. He danced and screamed and hid behind Conan and Koshimi Nanatsuki. He looked warily at the direction where the sound came from, causing both of them to look at the big man quite speechlessly.
One glance.
I just want to say that this kind of abandoned hotel is too easy for people to think of unscientific supernatural phenomena such as demons and ghosts.
Soon, a bearded man dragging a suitcase and carrying a travel bag stepped out of the shadows that made the sound.
As the man walked towards this side, he looked at Mouri Kogoro and said, "You can't live here anymore. It will be demolished next week. You have a really hard life too, with two children..."
"Ah no no no, you misunderstood..." Mouri Kogoro quickly waved his hands to deny.
Conan had vaguely guessed who this slovenly-looking man was, and asked, "Uncle, have you always lived here?"
The man nodded: "Yes, I have been living here since this hotel closed down two years ago."
He is a homeless man with no fixed abode, and he finally found such an abandoned hotel. No new people have taken over the place in the past two years, so he just happened to make a semi-home here.
But now, he has to move out of here - otherwise, if he was still sleeping in the room during the demolition, he might be buried alive in the ruins after the demolition.
When Conan and Yueshui heard his answer, their eyes lit up at the same time.
Having lived here for two years, maybe I can provide them with some useful clues!
"Uncle, has anything strange happened here recently? No matter what."
"Well, let me think about it..." The man thought for a moment and patted his head, "A big white bird once flew in and leapt in front of the sun."
"Big white bird?" Moori Kogoro heard such a description and narrowed his eyes in confusion.
Koshimi Nanatsuki was also a little confused, but as soon as Conan heard this description, his eyes sharpened instantly.
The big white bird leaping in front of the sun... it was hard not to remind him of a certain eye-catching thief who liked to show off.
He himself felt that he might have fought with that person too many times, which made him overly sensitive to such descriptions...
Conan asked: "When did that happen?"
"On my birthday, April 4th, a strange car parked outside early in the morning. The real estate agent also came and locked the basement over there."
Since it was his birthday, the man remembered these details quite clearly.
"What kind of weird car is it?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki pursed his lips.
"There are very few cars driving here - when I was going out in the morning, there was a new black car parked in the courtyard outside. When I came back in the evening, it had turned into a white, shabby old car...
…Parts of that car were also stolen in the middle of the night, leaving only a pile of skeletons.”
The man tried to remember.
"Then what do you mean the basement is locked?" Mouri Kogoro continued to inquire.
The man also started to become a little impatient. He spread his hands and dragged the box towards the door of the hotel: "Because that basement is a mechanical room, maybe you want to sell the machinery for money?"
"What time did that happen?" Conan looked at his back and quickly asked his last question.
"In the evening." The homeless man waved his hand to them coolly, and then disappeared outside the door.
The three of them looked at each other.
"Don't run around, I'll take a look around here." Mouri Kogoro cleared his throat and decided to wander around the hotel first to see if he could find any useful clues.
Seeing Uncle Mouri walking away with a flashlight, Conan and Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at each other and walked towards the stairs leading to the locked basement pointed out by the homeless man just now.
The dark and silent space echoed with their footsteps, adding a hint of horror to the atmosphere.
If Yuan Huaiyu were here, he would probably give this comment: If some eerie background music was added, it would probably be on "Today's Statement".
Arriving at the basement door, Conan tried to turn the door handle, but it turned out to be locked and motionless.
At this time, Koshimizu Nanatsuki patted his shoulder and pointed toward the top of the door.
"Kid, can you try to crawl in from there?"
Conan looked in the direction of her finger, and there was a vent blocked by an iron fence.
"Sister Yueshui, please step back."
Conan stepped on the door handle deftly, took out the telescopic sling and wrapped it around one of the iron fences, and then tied the other end of the belt to the handrail column of the stairs.
Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at him in bewilderment as he gently and deftly pressed the middle of the sling, and then the sling contracted. There was a loud "click" and the huge pulling force pulled the iron fence down completely.
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Obviously, Koshisui Nanatsuki doesn't know much about science yet, but today was an eye-opener.
The vent was probably just big enough for a child to get through. With the help of Nanatsuki Koshimizu, Conan dexterously got into the vent and jumped down from above.
The sound just made also startled Mouri Kogoro. When Uncle Mouri came to the basement door with his neck hunched, Conan had already opened the basement door from the inside, showing the situation in the basement before their eyes.
"What, it turns out it's you kid..."
Mouri Kogoro breathed a sigh of relief - as long as it wasn't haunted.
The basement contained some ordinary control devices and mechanical structures. Apart from being in a state of disrepair and covered with dust and cobwebs, there was nothing unusual about it.
The three of them observed in the basement. Conan opened the cabinet doors one by one, and soon found a bulging travel bag in the corner of a certain cabinet.
He reached out and took out the travel bag, which was even a little heavy.
"What's this?"
The other two people also gathered around, and Mouri Kogoro immediately opened the zipper of the travel bag, wanting to see what was inside the bag.
"This is……"
The contents of the bag appeared in front of the three people, and they were shocked at the same time.
It was a set of clothes, a pair of gloves, an eye-opening hood, and...a pistol.
What would you think of if you saw these things for the first time?
Yes, this is almost a standard outfit for a robber.