Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Compared with the brilliant and successful Kudo Shinichi, Kudo Shinichi's life is obviously much more ordinary. If we compare the two just because their names are pronounced the same, it would be cruel to the latter.

But it is not entirely true to say that Shinichi Kudo was a completely ordinary person - ordinary people would not fall to the point of being deliberately murdered.

According to Hattori Heiji, this Kudo Shinichi's real name is Inubushi Shinichi, and he is the illegitimate son of Inubushi Tsuneyoshi, the chairman of the Inubushi Group.

Ever since Inufushi Tsuneyoshi died of cancer five years ago, his illegitimate children have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Inufushi Shinichi is one of them.

However, most people only have one or two illegitimate children.

The younger brother Quanfu Heng was more impressive. There were eight illegitimate children who came to mourn for him and recognize their relatives.

Just gathering seven dragon balls can summon a dragon, but gathering eight illegitimate children cannot revive their beloved daddy.

Not only did the father die, but the mothers of these eight people also passed away one after another.

In other words, all eight of them are orphans.

If they were younger, a few years old or teenagers, they could apply for social assistance.

But the youngest of them is now in their twenties, and the oldest is even middle-aged. The outside world generally does not look favorably upon their behavior of returning to their ancestral roots and dividing up the family property.

Well... not optimistic is a euphemism. The actual words are much more unpleasant than this.

However, sometimes, the development of things is often beyond everyone's expectations.

Faced with the eight debt collectors who came to claim their relatives, Quanfu Hengdi's wife Quanfu Suochen not only did not kick them out of the house, but even adopted all eight of them as her adopted sons. She also made a statement to the outside world that after her death, all the inheritance of the Quanfu family would be divided equally among these eight people.

Inufu Soshin's behavior directly triggered public opinion at the time. In addition to scolding her for having a mental problem, everyone also generally hated themselves for not being one of the eight illegitimate children.

However, no matter what the outside world said, she remained unmoved. As time passed, this farce of the wealthy family gradually died down amid the public outcry.

No one at that time could have imagined that five years later, the Inufushi family would return to the public eye in an extremely shocking way.

By the time they really realized it, the cruel death game had already begun...

"Are you saying that before you came to Tokyo, two adopted sons of the Inufushi family had already died?" Lu Ren asked.

"Yes." Hattori nodded and added details, "Kudo Shinichi should be considered the third. He suspected that the previous two adopted sons were murdered. For safety reasons, he gave up his inheritance rights and fled back to Tokyo to change his surname. Unfortunately..." The unfinished words were left hanging in the air.

"And more." He Ye lowered his voice, "Mr. Kudo Shinichi also told my mother that he suspected that there were fake people with ulterior motives among his other brothers and sisters, and that the evil ghost wanted to make the Inufushi family extinct!"

The atmosphere froze into ice at this moment.

Um... just kidding.

To be honest, He Ye doesn't have any talent for telling horror stories.

Among the audience, only Maori Ran was shocked. Maori Kogoro was indifferent, Conan was thoughtful, and Lu Ren's eyes lit up.

"To end the family line? That means, after seven out of eight people die, the remaining one must be the murderer himself?"

Everyone: "..."

After a long silence, Mao Li spoke with difficulty, "What you said does make sense. But the police investigate cases based on evidence. Without evidence, even if everyone thinks he is the murderer, it will be useless."

And in order to confirm who the murderer is, he just waited for him to kill everyone else. Even if the incident didn't really happen, it's a bit too cold to have such thoughts, isn't it?
Everyone thought of this, but no one dared to speak out.

Then the topic shifted back to the case itself.

Hattori continued, "Among the two adopted sons who were killed before, one of them left a last message after he was killed. He said that he was pushed off the cliff by a demon dog."

"Demon dog?" "Yes. It is said that it is a demon dog whose body is made of flames."

"Flame Demon Dog?" The sudden introduction of fantasy elements fascinated Mao Lilan. The others still reacted indifferently - this kind of bluffing statement can only scare Xiaolan at most, and others will not buy it.

"What about the other adopted son? How did he die?" Lu Ren asked.

Hattori thought for a moment and said, "She was found dead by the swamp. The cause of death was said to be drowning. But I don't know the details. After all, I haven't been to the Inufushi family to investigate. I just heard everything from others."

After he finished speaking, he took the opportunity to invite everyone, "How about going to the Inufushi family together to take a look?"

Before he finished speaking, Conan couldn't wait to nod his head. Although he didn't believe in the existence of demon dogs, Holmes had encountered similar cases before - this was a good opportunity to pay tribute to his idol!

It was a pity that his nodding was of no use. With his current status as an elementary school student, he had no say in matters such as traveling far away.

To put it bluntly, whether to go or not depends on what Kogoro Mori thinks.

As expected, Kogoro Mori was not interested at all.

He always scoffed at such ghost stories. In the last Kappa murder case, the sender had mailed the commission fee in advance, and he drove there out of the spirit of the contract.

He has long passed the age of curiosity and now does things more from the perspective of profit.

Mao Li asked aloud, "Have the other adopted sons of the Inufushi family asked you to investigate this case?"

"Uh, no." Hattori's smile froze on his face. "The police have closed the previous two cases as accidents, and the other adopted sons also agree with this statement."

The only one who had doubts and fears about this was Shinichi Kudo, but he was still lying in the autopsy room.

Maori was not surprised by Hattori's answer. These detectives from wealthy families solved cases just out of interest.

"Since they all think it was just an accident, let's not visit them rashly."

"Brother, aren't you going?"

"Well, you wanna go?"

The opportunity to earn lottery draw times is right in front of you, and it would be a problem if you don’t take it.

"Well. I'm going to go collect some writing materials. Then Hattori and I will go over there, um... and bring Conan with us." Lu Ren rubbed the latter's head, "This kid seems to be very interested in this matter as well."

"Brother Ren, I want to go too!" At this moment, Mao Lilan suddenly spoke.

"Xiao Lan? Aren't you most afraid of this kind of ghosts and monsters?"

"Yes, a little bit, but I'm really curious about what will happen next."

"Me too." He Ye echoed.

"Xiaolan, are you going too?" Mao Li was caught off guard by his girl's behavior. He was silent for a moment and sighed, "Forget it, I'll go with you too."

It doesn’t matter if Conan is such a bad boy, but I still have to feel sorry for my girl.

This kind of case sounds very troublesome. If Xiaolan gets hurt or even injured, he won't be able to explain to Eri.

Hattori naturally accepted everyone who came, "Okay then. Let's go together tomorrow!"

ps: Inufu Sochen's behavior of adopting the eight of them is really outrageous. The author is at a loss for words. I have deleted and rewritten this paragraph, and it just doesn't feel right no matter how I write it. (End of this chapter)