Shancun Cao thought that Chi Feichi was worried that they wouldn't be able to get out of the Forest of Gods, so he hurriedly said, "Don't worry, don't worry! The stone statue you were trying to hold up just now is a front-down Ksitigarbha that is used to suppress evil spirits. As long as you don't put it down,
It will be fine if you lift it up, but it is said that if you lift it up, evil spirits will be attracted, so it has been lying there ever since!"
Mao Lilan was frightened and took a step back.
Yamamura Cao smiled again and said, "Since we are all going to Aoi House Hotel, I will take you on a ride!"
"No..." Mouri Kogoro was about to refuse, but Maori Lan had already opened the rear door and got in.
Yamamura Cao also got out of the car quickly. In front of Haiyuan Ai, he stretched out his hand seriously and bowed, "Your Highness, please!"
Haibara Ai:"……"
Is there really nothing wrong with this police officer’s mind?
A group of people got on the bus.
Maori Kogoro went to the passenger seat, while Chi Feichi held Conan in his arms, and squeezed into the back seat with Mao Lilan and Haibara Ai.
"Oh, I didn't expect to see the forest princess. I'm so lucky!" Yamamura Cao continued to be excited.
"Actually, Xiao Ai is a beautifully dressed sacrifice." Chi Feichi said a cold joke.
"Hey? Mr. Chi has also heard of that legend?" Yamamura Cao was a little surprised and said to himself, "I heard this from my grandma. It is different from the foreign fairy tales of forest princesses. The forest here is
The princess legend is that a long time ago, there was a little girl who was treated as a sacrifice. She was dressed up in a rainbow-like gauze skirt and was dedicated to the evil god in the forest. That night, the little girl
She was eaten by the evil god, but her soul turned into a forest princess who fought against the evil god of the forest..."
Hui Yuan Ai looked sideways.
By the way, Brother Chi must have known about this legend...
Conan glanced sideways.
And she dressed Haiyuan up like this...
Mouri Kogoro looked sideways.
This kid...
Mao Lilan looked sideways.
The idea is a bit scary...
Chi Feichi: "..."
Do you believe this is a coincidence?
He just mentioned the sacrifices casually.
"Mr. Chi, if you can offer your sister, I think the villagers here will thank you!" Yamamura Cao said with a smile.
Chi Feichi lowered his head and asked Conan he was holding, "How long will the sentence be for assaulting a police officer?"
Conan: "..."
"Assaulting the police?" Yamamura Cao took over, "Let me think about it..."
"Forget it, let's just say how many years will it take to be beaten to death," Chi Feichi said.
"Well... then it's murder," said Yamamura Soo, thinking seriously. "The lighter sentence is 15 years, depending on the circumstances. It also depends on whether the crime was planned, whether the circumstances were bad enough, and whether he surrendered..."
"Then what if we smash him to death with the Ksitigarbha statue falling forward?" Chi Feichi asked.
"That's a bit bad," Yamamura said, "and that's not good. It will cause the Ksitigarbha statue to be possessed by resentful spirits, and some terrible monsters may be born..."
Mouri Kogoro felt powerless in his heart. Even he understood what Chi Feichi meant. With such a police officer, he really worried about the people of Gunma County. "Well, let's talk about that case.
"
"Ah, okay..." Yamamura Cao turned to the case again.
Mouri Kogoro listened quietly for a while, "Oh? The person who discovered the body was an employee of Kuiwu Hotel?"
"Yes, I heard that the employee found it when he went to pick wild vegetables," Yamamura said more seriously, "but the corpse is very strange..."
Mao Lilan felt a little hairy on her back again.
"Strange?" Mouri Kogoro asked, "What's strange?"
"He obviously had the car keys but no driver's license," Yamamura recalled. "There were cigarettes, but no lighters or matches. Moreover, he died in the summer, but he was wearing a winter sweater."
"How do you know he died in the summer?" Conan couldn't help but ask.
"Because the hiking bag carried by the deceased contained fresh milk and red bean buns," Yamamura Cao replied. "The expiration date was exactly July 12, four years ago. Although the fresh milk and red bean buns in the backpack were not found when the deceased fell to the ground.
The bag is smashed, but there is still a receipt in the wallet for purchasing these items from a nearby convenience store, so it must be correct!"
"Falled?" Mouri Kogoro was confused.
"There was a rope around the deceased's neck, and there was a branch tied with the rope next to him," Yamamura said. "The branch probably broke after the deceased hung himself..."
"It sounds like it's just an ordinary suicide case..." Mouri Kogoro said, touching his chin.
Chi Feichi looked down at Conan and found that Conan was also looking up at him.
After checking their eyes, they were all people who noticed something was wrong.
Chi Feichi remembered this as an incident, but had a vague impression of the murderer.
However, from Yamamura Cao's description, we can also infer that this person definitely did not commit suicide. Even if he committed suicide, after the death, someone came to the body, took away some things, and left some things to confuse.
Time of death.
"Yes," Yamamura Cao agreed with Mouri Kogoro's inference, "so I want to ask the hotel staff again if they know what those strange places are about. What about you? Mr. Mouri, what are you doing?
Why go there?"
"Oh, I did it because the owner of the hotel said that he had seen the man in red with long hair, so..."
Before Mouri Kogoro finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yamamura Cao's exclamation.
"What?! When was that?"
"He said that in October five years ago, the man in the coat suddenly visited the hotel and told the hotel owner..." Mouri Kogoro recalled.
[I will give you 100,000 yen, please help me keep this briefcase and this letter... One year later, even if I die, I will come and get it!]
"Briefcase and envelope?" Conan wondered.
"Yes, the man seemed to have told him, 'After one year, if I come to pick it up, give me the briefcase, and if someone else comes to pick it up, give him the envelope.' Although he is not sure about the body that was found.
Is it the man in the red coat, but..." Mouri Kogoro touched his chin and said, "He seems to have repeatedly told the hotel owner not to forget his red coat and long hair, so there should be no mistake."
"What the hell is going on? Five years ago in the fall, that man gave something to the hotel owner and said that he would come back to get it even if I died. About a year later in the summer, when he planned to come back here to get something,
He just committed suicide in the forest," Yamamura Cao said, scaring himself, "Haha... That man is so stupid, how can he get things after he is dead..."
"That's why the owner of that hotel asked me to investigate!" Mouri Kogoro shouted unbearably, "Because he took the man's money and promised the man not to tell the police, so he never told the truth.
"
"Uncle," Conan asked aloud, "Where is the briefcase? Didn't anyone pick it up in the end?"
"No, I heard that the day after the guy left the things with the hotel owner, there was a man who claimed to be his agent," Mouri Kogoro said. "The man wore a hat and sunglasses, and had a big beard all over his face.
, although the boss was a little hesitant, he still followed the man in red's instructions and gave him the envelope. However, he took out the letter in the envelope, looked at it, angrily tore up the letter and threw it into the trash can, and walked out of the hotel.
Never go back again..."
"Then, what was written on that note?" Yamamura asked stammering.
"Well... the hotel owner was also very concerned about it, so he picked out the scraps of the note from the trash can and pieced it together. There were only seven words written on the letter," Mouri Kogoro looked directly at Yamamura with his eyes under his sunglasses.
Shit, "Like seven red letters written in blood... I'll curse you to death!"
"Ah!" Mao Lilan finally hugged Hui Yuan Ai beside her and screamed.
Haibara Ai:"……"
She is really not a doll...
Yamamura Cao was so frightened by the scream that he almost overturned the car and stopped suddenly.
Mouri Kogoro almost threw himself against the front window, sat up and said speechlessly, "Really, if I'm afraid of you, don't follow me."
"It's okay," Conan comforted Mao Lilan, "As long as the boss shows us the briefcase, we can solve the mystery."
"Then, what's in that briefcase..." Yamamura Cao looked horrified, "could it be that man's long hair?"
"Ah——!" Mao Lilan screamed again in fright.
"It may also be filled with bottles, and the bottles are filled with fingers or eyeballs." Chi Feichi said calmly.
After confirming it, it seems that Yamamura Soo also grew up with the horror stories of his grandparents...
Mao Lilan: "Ahhh! It's Brother Chi. I hate it. Stop talking about it!"
"Stop talking." Haiyuan Ai, who was hugged tightly by Mao Lilan, said helplessly.
Chi Feichi: "..."
Well, he originally wanted to tell a story about piecing together beauty skins...
…
After finally arriving at the hotel, a hotel employee helped Yamamura to park the car. A group of people walked in and learned about the situation from Eiji Urakawa, who found the body.
The body was discovered when Eiji Urakawa went to pick wild vegetables.
In this hotel, the owners Fangaro Toda, Eiji Urakawa, and Masao Jimbo who went to park the car took turns picking wild vegetables.
Every summer before the summer vacation, this hotel will suspend operations and organize employee tours. Every time he comes back from the trip, it is Urakawa Eiji who is responsible for picking wild vegetables, because many people come to this forest to commit suicide, and Urakawa Eiji is not the first.
A body was found for the first time.
This time, when Urakawa Eiji found the body of the long-haired man in red, the body had become a pile of bones.
"If there was a legendary forest princess, maybe the suicide situation here would be better..." Urakawa Eiji looked at Haibara Ai and couldn't help but sigh.
They urgently need a forest princess!
Huiyuan Ai silently hid behind Chi Feichi.
Why does she think it's dangerous to stay here?
Wouldn't this group of people just be distracted and drag her to be sacrificed?
It's better to follow their violent actions and not be left alone.
Mouri Kogoro didn't say anything. Looking at his apprentice who smashed cement telephone poles with his bare hands, there was no need to worry, "Since it is suicide, it seems that I don't need to appear..."
"Huh?" Urakawa Eiji was confused, "Isn't this gentleman wearing sunglasses a police officer?"
"Ah, no," Yamamura Cao immediately introduced, "This is a famous detective who is frightened even by children who want to hide something! He..."
"They are Mr. Mouri's companions, right?" Eiji Urakawa said with a smile, "Mr. Mouri seemed to have said before that he would bring four more people over, and we have been waiting for you!"
Mouri Kogoro was stunned, "Companion?"
"No, you are mistaken," Yamamura said, "This is..."
"Mr. Mori arrived earlier than you, and he is waiting for you in the room!" Urakawa Eiji said excitedly.