At noon that day, a group of people went to Poirot Café for a quick meal.
In Poirot Cafe, Azusa Enomoto was the only one looking after the store. According to Azusa Enomoto, Toru Amuro took half a day off in advance, helped Azusa prepare the food and ingredients before leaving the store in the morning, and in recent days, Toru Amuro seemed to accept
I have been entrusted with something, and I have been very busy.
While others were talking, Chi Feichi remained silent, finished his share of food, and called someone to arrange a car suitable for entering the mountain.
When the vehicle arranged by Ike Feichi arrived outside, Mouri Kogoro took the initiative to take over the driving task and drove a group of people to the mountains of Nagano Prefecture and found the hotel Hattori Heiji mentioned.
This hotel is called "Ryoju Ryokan". It is located on a snow-covered mountain. It covers a large area. There are many Japanese-style buildings in front and behind that are merged into one hotel. It looks very grand.
Hattori Heiji reserved a suite in advance, planning to let the two girls Maori Ran, Toyama and Ye live in the small bedroom in the suite, while he, Chi Feichi, Mouri Kogoro, and Conan would live in the large bedroom.
After the hotel proprietress registered a group of people at the front desk, she took a group of people to see restaurants and other public places, and then took six people to check in their rooms.
Mouri Kogoro kept looking around all the way, and when he arrived at the room, he looked at Hattori Heiji with suspicion, "I said, are there really college girls here coming here for vacation and soaking in hot springs? Don't talk about college girls along the way.
No young girls have seen it... No, it should be said that there are not many guests in this hotel at all, right?"
"Dad, please stop talking!" Seeing the embarrassed look on the landlady's face, Mao Lilan quickly grabbed Maori Kogoro and smiled at the landlady, "I'm sorry, what my father meant was that the environment of your hotel is so good and the price is so good.
It's fair, it's not full, which makes him a little surprised..."
"It's okay," the landlady felt Mao Lilan's kindness, and responded with a gentle smile, "This gentleman is right, we do not have many guests in the hotel, but please don't worry, we have not neglected to take care of the guest bedrooms.
Regarding the cleaning and maintenance of indoor public facilities, I hope you can have fun here!"
Chi Feichi walked into the room, "I think it's better to be cleaner like this. There won't be many people crowded in the hot spring."
Conan laughed inwardly and followed Chi Feichi into the room.
Anyway, one of Uncle Kogoro and Brother Chi must be dissatisfied. Let's let him down this time. I hope he won't be deceived so easily next time.
Yuan Shanheye and Mao Lilan also walked into the room.
“The room looks very nice, and there is a big window with a view of the snow!”
"It's very clean inside... Dad, come in and take a look. The environment here is really good!"
Hattori Heiji saw Mouri Kogoro entering the door with a speechless expression, and followed him with a smile.
They are already here. Even if the uncle finds out that he has been deceived, he can only settle down now~
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A group of people looked at the room, made the beds, and then went to the dining room to have dinner.
This hotel can serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner for guests. You only need to indicate the number of people when checking in or making a reservation, and then pay a relatively inexpensive catering fee, and you can eat in the restaurant during meal times.
Probably because the hotel is not in the city, it is not convenient to buy ingredients. In addition, there is only one chef in the hotel and the food he can cook is limited. Therefore, the hotel does not accept guests' designated meals and only provides home-cooked food made by the chef himself.
Of course, if the guest really wants to eat a certain kind of food, he can also pay extra and ask the hotel waiter to buy it in the city.
It was the first time for Chi Feichi and his party to stay in this hotel, and they were happy to try the skills of the hotel chef. The chef did not disappoint the group. Although the 'parent-child rice' he made looked ordinary, the eggs inside were slippery.
The chicken is tender and fragrant, and the overall taste is not bad.
In addition, the hotel also provides guests with ginger juice and arrowroot soup to dispel cold for free. After eating a 'parent-child rice' with chicken and egg dumplings, and drinking a bowl of warm soup to dispel cold, as long as the guests do not pursue high-end food, such
Dinner wasn't bad either.
Mao Lilan drank ginger juice and arrowroot soup after the meal and said with emotion, "This arrowroot soup is delicious. The ginger in it is very rich. I feel warm all over after drinking it!"
"Right?" Toyama and Ye laughed, "I have read in magazines that the arrowroot soup in this hotel is very delicious and is one of the specialties of the hotel!"
"Then what?" Mouri Kogoro glanced at Hattori Heiji, "You don't hesitate to lie and say that there are young girls coming here to patronize, but you also want to call me, a famous detective, to a mountain hotel like this, just to bring me here to drink.
Plant something slimy?"
"Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to drink arrowroot soup together?" Hattori Heiji said with a smile, "The scenery here is also nice..."
Seeing that Hattori Heiji was still talking about him, Conan said speechlessly, "Did something happen?"
"Yes, first of all..." Hattori Heiji stopped trying to be pretentious and took out a photo from his coat pocket, held it up in front of him and showed it to others, "Please look at this photo first!"
The background of the photo is an outdoor hot spring. The edge of the hot spring pool is covered with white snow and the water is steaming. A black figure is running on the hot spring pool. The black figure seems to be carrying a sickle on its back.
The photo was taken at night, and the light was dim, so the specific appearance of the black shadow was not captured clearly. The part behind the feet looked like the hem of clothes and a furry tail, which looked a bit weird.
Chi Feichi looked up at the photo, quickly looked away, and continued to drink his bowl of arrowroot soup.
Sure enough, it was the incident in "Kamaitachi Inn"...
"What, is this a human?" Mouri Kogoro looked at the black shadow in the photo, "No, it looks like some kind of animal..."
Mao Lilan was a little scared, "This shadow looks a bit scary."
Hattori Heiji put the photo on the table, pointed at the back of the black figure in the photo, and reminded, "Look carefully, this thing he is carrying on his back! Does it look like a sickle? Speaking of carrying a sickle
The only animal in the world is the legendary monster Kamamaitachi that appears in a whirlwind and can disembowel a person in an instant, right?"
Maori Kogoro and Maori Lan's expressions changed drastically.
"Kama, Kamaita?!"
"But, doesn't the legendary Kamamaita's claws resemble sickles?" Conan looked at the photo speechlessly, "Doesn't it look like a person is carrying a sickle on his back? Compared to Kamitatsu..."
Mouri Kogoro put away the shocked expression on his face and said thoughtfully, "It's more like a bounty hunter or something..."
"Ah, by the way," Mao Lilan's eyes lit up, "Qi Qi seems to have a sickle as a weapon, because he also wears a black cloak and a white mask, so some people say that Qi Qi looks like the God of Death!"
Conan glanced at Chi Feichi secretly and found that Chi Feichi was drinking soup with a cold face. He smiled helplessly, "But there is no reason to carry a sickle to the hot spring in July, right?"
"Who knows," Mouri Kogoro lost interest in the photo and picked up the soup bowl and said, "Maybe there is some dangerous criminal lurking near the hot spring pool, and that guy was recruited here!"
"But the shadow captured in this photo does not look like a human being at all! The background of this photo is the outdoor hot spring of this hotel. The reporter who published this photo took another photo shortly after taking it.
A photo from the same angle." Hattori Heiji took out another photo from his pocket and put the two photos together. "In the latter photo, the hot spring water has flooded the abdomen of an adult male, but there is a black shadow.
In the photo, the black figure seems to be running across the hot spring water. If you look closely, there are splashes of water at the feet of the black figure. It shouldn't be possible for humans to run across the water like this, right?"
Conan frowned and looked at the photo.
It’s really hard for humans to do this…
"Brother Fei Chi, how are you?" Hattori Heiji met Conan, Maori Kogoro, and Mao Lilan were all attracted by the photo. They turned to Chi Fei Chi expectantly, "Isn't the matter I mentioned worthy of investigation? Look at this
Photos, have you ever had the idea to find out?"
"No," Chi Feichi glanced at the photos on the table again, becoming more sure that he was not interested in this incident, and put the bowl on the table with a cold response, "but their arrowroot soup is good."
Hattori Heiji: "..."
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Hey, they have already talked about the monster incident in this hotel, why is Brother Fei Chi still thinking about arrowroot soup...
He also said that he was not interested in the strange events he mentioned. This was too shocking!
"Also, if you have nothing else to do," Chi Feichi stood up and left his seat, "I want to go back to the room to change my clothes and then go to the hot spring."
Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, then stood up, "But..."