Conan: Above all force, there is truth!

Everyone noticed his flustered appearance.

But out of politeness, everyone pretended not to notice.

……

It was midnight, and Longye and the others were sleeping.

Suddenly, the telephone rang inside the house.

Everyone was awakened by the ringing of the bell.

Longye answered the phone casually.

"I am a mask..."

"Snapped"

After hearing the beginning, Longye hung up without hesitation.

Seeing this, the sleepy-eyed crowd didn't react at all.

"what happened?"

……

At the same moment, Lan Chuan Dongya, on the other end of the phone, was stunned when he heard the "beep beep" sound from the receiver.

"???"

"H-hung up?"

After a few seconds of hesitation, he dialed the number again.

There was no other way; the internal phone he had could only call the guest bedrooms on the east and west sides…

……

When the phone rang again, Longye answered it once more.

This time, Longye didn't hang up. Instead, he held up the phone so that everyone could hear the voice on the other end.

"—Hehehehehe~ I am the messenger of the Masked Curse! The Cursed Mask now thirsts for blood, who will be our sacrifice~ If we don't hurry, it will be too late~"

After the eerie, shrill voice on the phone ended, everyone immediately ran towards the masquerade room.

Uncle Mori twisted the doorknob hard and found that it was already locked.

He immediately turned around: "Ran, Ryūno, go and wake up that maid named Honami!"

"No need to bother."

"Ok?"

--"boom!"

To Uncle Mori's astonishment, Tatsuno kicked the door open.

Without a second thought, everyone rushed into the masquerade room.

Upon seeing the empty frames on both sides, everyone was immediately horrified.

The more than 200 masks that should have been on the shelf have all disappeared!

Seeing this, Uncle Mori ran non-stop towards the main entrance on the west side of the masquerade hall.

Longye used the same method and kicked the door open again.

At this moment, the people who heard the door being broken down also woke up. They came out of the room and looked at Longye and the others with confusion.

"What on earth happened?!"

As Uncle Mori ran toward Ms. Su Fang's room, he briefly explained the phone call he had just received.

A moment later, everyone arrived at Ms. Su Fang's room.

Uncle Mori immediately tried to turn the doorknob a few times, but found that he couldn't open it at all.

Just as he was about to speak to Ryūno, Conan suddenly pointed to the window on the door: "Look! There's a vent there!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Uncle Mori immediately moved a chair, grabbed a vase, and smashed the transom window.

Upon seeing the scene inside, he immediately opened his mouth wide and his expression changed drastically.

Seeing Uncle Mori's appearance, everyone quickly asked, "How is it, Mr. Mori?"

"Ms. Su Fang is lying in bed; she appears to be injured and bleeding heavily. Furthermore, the room is covered with Xiao Bu'er's masks!"

"What!?"

Ignoring the startled crowd, Kogoro Mouri surveyed the room and asked, "Besides this door, where else can we get in?"

Aikawa Touya immediately replied, "No! There is still one door inside, but that door has long been sealed off!"

"hateful!"

Seeing the situation escalate, Conan immediately shouted, "Let me in through the window in the door! I'm small..."

Before he could finish speaking, Tatsuno walked directly to Uncle Mori's side.

"Uncle, please get down first."

Upon hearing Ryuno's words, Kogoro Mouri was taken aback at first, but then seemed to understand something and immediately made way for Ryuno.

Amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Longye grabbed the doorknob with one hand and pressed the other hand against the junction of the door and the door frame.

"boom!"

Amidst the shocked gazes of the crowd, Longye exerted force with both hands and ripped the entire door off.

"What!?"

"..."

Chapter 110 Staying up late often will cause wrinkles

The scene before them clearly overturned everyone's worldview.

Matsudaira and the others rubbed their eyes vigorously, seemingly doubting whether they were still fully awake.

Ai Haibara also opened her mouth in surprise, staring intently at Tatsuno.

Although she had been living with Ran for a while and knew that Ran seemed to be very capable.

But she never expected that Longye was so powerful that he could dismantle a door with his bare hands!

Unlike these other people, Kogoro Mouri and Conan were clearly already used to it.

They didn't even pay much attention to the intact gate in Longye's hands, but went straight to Ms. Su Fang Hongzi's bedside.

After a thorough examination, Kogoro Mouri closed his eyes and shook his head regretfully: "Already..."

Seeing this, Aikawa Touya, one of the crowd, covered his face and cried out, "How could this be! Teacher, she..."

At Kogoro Mouri's instruction, everyone stood outside the door.

The police arrived shortly afterward.

"Hey Mori, I feel like I've been seeing you a lot lately. Why do you always seem to be involved in cases?"

Inspector Megure looked at the familiar face in front of him and muttered a helpless complaint.

"Hehehe, because cases always seem to be calling for me, the famous detective! Hahaha!"

"Alright... let me tell you about the situation on the ground."

When Inspector Megure saw Kogoro Mouri start grinning like an idiot again, he immediately steered the conversation back to the main topic.

With explanations from Kogoro Mouri and Officer Takagi, everyone present understood the full situation at the scene.

Ms. Su Fanghongzi's door was locked from the inside, and it was locked with two locks.

Apart from the door that Longye had removed, there was no other way to enter the house.

The door connecting the room to the next dormitory has been sealed off, making it impossible to enter Su Fanghongzi's room from there.

There were only a few narrow slits in the gate for ventilation, making it impossible for anyone to pass through.

The scene was completely a locked room.

After learning the basic situation at the scene, Inspector Megure and the others fell into deep thought.

The situation outside has already been investigated by the police.

It was snowing outside, but there were no footprints near the mansion.

Furthermore, before committing the crime, the "Cursed Masked Messenger" specifically notified Tatsuno and the others via internal phone.

Therefore, the prisoner was definitely not an outsider, but someone inside the mansion.

At this point, the investigation into the case reached a stalemate.

"—Inspector, the deceased showed no signs of struggling; it's suspected he took sleeping pills!"

At that moment, the forensic investigator, who was carefully examining the body beside the deceased, told Inspector Megure his findings.

Upon hearing this, the female secretary standing nearby said, "Ms. Su Fanghongzi should have taken the sleeping pills herself."

"She's been having trouble sleeping lately, so she always takes sleeping pills before bed."

After hearing the secretary's explanation, Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mouri were even more confused.

If that's the case, how did the perpetrator kill her?

The lock inside the deceased's house was a hanging lock, making it impossible to lock from the outside.

In addition, Ms. Su Fanghong always takes sleeping pills before going to bed.

Considering both of these points, even if the perpetrator used some means to enter Su Fang Hongzi's room first, it would be impossible for him to lock the door and leave after killing her.

For a moment, everyone fell into silence.

The crowd looked at the masks of Xiao Buer scattered on the ground around them. Many of the masks still had traces of the dead's blood at the corners of their mouths.

It was as if Shaw's mask truly possessed the ability to "suck human blood".

This bizarre scene was etched firmly into everyone's minds.

Matsudaira Mamoru, who believed in the ways of divination and fortune-telling, was visibly sweating profusely, and his movements were no longer as fluid as before.