Conan: The Heart Thief

"What's going on? What is this!" Sera Masumi felt like his brain was shutting down.

Just then, screams from a man and a woman were heard, scaring the three women.

"Snake? Are there any snakes?"

"Snakes are snakes. There's no need to be so scared."

"It sounds like there's a cry for help, let's go check it out."

The three women immediately stood up and took action.

They turned on their cell phones' fill lights as flashlights and walked westward. When they arrived at the gate of the villa, they saw a man and a woman who were paralyzed by fear and unable to move.

"Are you okay?"

The three women hurried in to check the situation. It turned out that the man and woman were the master's two disciples.

"Snake, snake demon, so scary."

"We, we just saw a snake demon! What a huge snake!"

Xiaolan and Sonoko looked at each other and were not particularly scared. The two girls were afraid of ghosts, not snakes.

Sera Masumi felt strange: "You two are adults now, so you don't have to be so scared when you see a snake, right?"

"You! You don't know! That's not a snake at all!" Yagura Morio seemed to be still in shock, his face full of fear.

Yukari Mimura opened her arms and shouted, "There's no way a snake can grow that big!"

The three girls were stunned. Are you kidding?

"By the way, isn't there a legend about a snake demon in the Qingming Lake on the mountain?" Yuanzi suddenly remembered this and suddenly felt a gust of chilly wind.

Xiaolan then realized that the two adults in front of her were not seeing a snake, but a snake demon! When it came to the supernatural, she was immediately scared and pale.

Only Masumi Sera was relatively calm. As a prospective high school detective, he didn't believe in monsters or ghosts at all.

"It's so strange. If only one person saw it, it might be a mistake, but they both saw it. Could it really be a snake demon in the lake? Something's wrong!"

Masumi Sera took out his cell phone and informed Lin Xiao about this.

However, Lin Xiao was not in the mood. Just now, he injected hot energy into Suzuki Tomoko's flower. Now his skill was on cooldown and he didn't want to move.

"Master is actually asleep. He is really useless. I, as his disciple, have no choice but to step in."

Shira Masumi comforted the two: "Calm down first, both of you. Can you describe to me what happened when you saw the snake demon?"

Yagura Morio nodded and began to narrate: "My junior sister and I were talking when suddenly the lights went out for some reason. Then, we saw a snake shadow as big as a square passing by the window. We thought someone was playing tricks, so we left the house and chased after it. As a result, we saw a huge snake-like creature, which was very scary!"

The villa in the tea garden is not a Chinese courtyard, but a traditional Japanese building surrounded by hollow bamboo rafts. Through the window, you can see the whole view outside the house.

"But, there can't be such a big snake on the mountain. You are the master's disciples, you should understand." Yuanzi was confused.

"That's right...how can there be such a big snake!" Since Lin Xiao was not around, Xiaolan had no choice but to hug Yuanzi.

"Ms. Mimura, did you really see that snake?" Sera Masumi turned her gaze to the still trembling Mimura Yukari.

Hearing Sera Masumi's question, Mimura Yukari held her head in fear: "I saw it, I saw a huge jumping snake! So scary, so scary..."

Shira Masumi couldn't help but frown. They both saw it, so it couldn't be a mistake...

Chapter 180 Xiaolan wets her pants

Although Lin Xiao was not in the mood, he did not really intend to abandon the three women. After all, he also saw the snake shadow.

He glanced at Suzuki Tomoko and saw that she was lying on her back on the tatami, with her eyes rolled up and drooling. There was a wet stain under her body. She had fallen asleep and would not be able to get up for a while.

He stood up, covered Suzuki Tomoko with a blanket, and left the room, going to the master's disciple's room next door. The scream just now came from the master's disciple. He walked into the room, observing the surroundings as he walked. He noticed a table in the room with two quaint ceramic teacups on the table, with some tea in them. It was estimated that the two had been drinking tea and talking here before.

There is a power switch on the wall, and the wires are exposed. It seems that the circuit controls the light.

"Could it be a trap? What on earth are the two disciples of the master doing? They scared me and Tomoko too."

Tomoko was so scared that she hugged him and accidentally got stuck in it, almost making him pass out from the pleasure.

Then, Lin Xiao came to Liang Zang’s room again, but it was empty and there was no one there.

He saw the nanny still doing housework and asked about Ryozo's whereabouts.

"You are talking about the master. He went to see Mr. Liangyi." said the nanny.

Lin Xiao said "Oh".

Suddenly, Xiaolan's voice of "Ahhh!" came from outside the door.

Lin Xiao's face changed and he ran out quickly.

"what happens?"

"Master, you are finally here."

Shira Masumi held his forehead and said, "Just now, Xiaolan picked up something, and after seeing it clearly, she was so scared that she dropped it on the ground. Come and take a look."

Xiaolan is afraid of this thing, but Zhenchun is not afraid at all and even holds it in his hand.

Everyone came closer to look at Hua.

Sonoko was so frightened that she gasped. She was scared to death. No wonder Xiaolan screamed.

"Such a big scale?" Lin Xiao frowned. It didn't feel real. It must be a made prop.

“Ahhh!” Yagura Morio was so scared when he saw the scales that he held his head and screamed, “That’s it! These are the scales that fell from the snake demon! The snake demon I saw was covered with brown scales! It was like it was wearing armor!”

Yukari Mimura said in horror: "It must be like this. Miss Rie threw herself into the lake and she must have turned into a giant snake like the legend says. She is here to take revenge on the murderer!"

This statement is obviously contradictory, but no one wants to dwell on it. It is easy to relate to what Yukari Mimura said.

"rustle……".

Suddenly, there was a sound of something approaching, and everyone became alert immediately. However, with so many people gathered together, they were not scared to the point of peeing their pants.

"It appeared! The big one is coming!"

Sera Masumi opened his eyes wide, wanting to see what the legendary snake demon was!

The next second, everyone saw that the person coming was not a snake demon, but a young man.

The young man was holding a bottle of wine, stumbling as he walked, reeking of alcohol and burping. He was none other than Liang Yi, the son of Grandmaster Liang Zang.

"Mr. Liangyi?" Everyone was stunned.

Liang Yi approached drunkenly and asked in confusion: "What are you all doing outside? Having a meeting?"

"Mr. Ryoichi! Mr. Yagura and Ms. Mimura were looking for the snake demon just now..."

Yuanzi enthusiastically recounted the whole story. Liangyi was stunned after listening to it, and even dropped the wine bottle to the ground.

"R, Rie! Is that you? Rie?" He was distraught. Rie's death dealt him a great blow, so he drank to drown his sorrows.

Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something and asked Liang Yi: "Mr. Liang Yi, where is your father?"

"My dad? How should I know!" Ryoichi seemed to have a deep resentment towards his father. He felt that it was his father who killed Rie. If his father had not opposed his marriage to Rie, Rie would never have chosen to commit suicide.

"That's strange?" When Lin Xiao came out, he passed by Liang Zang's room and found it empty. "The nanny also said that Master Liang Zang went to look for you."

"Hehehe...my dad still has the nerve to look for me? He forced my lover to death!" Liang Yi said angrily.

"That's strange. Where did Master Liang Zang go?"

Lin Xiao stroked his chin and analyzed, the nanny was doing housework, Suzuki Tomoko was sleeping, and everyone else was here, so where did Master Liang Zang go?

Ryoichi suddenly thought of something and laughed: "Maybe my dad was eaten by Rie who turned into a snake demon. Haha! This is retribution."

Hearing this, everyone felt very uneasy.

"Oh no! Could it be..."

Everyone thought of Qingming Lake at the same time.

A snake demon lurks in Qingming Lake, and the target of its revenge is Liang Zang.

Except for Yukari Mimura who was too scared and went back to her room to rest, everyone else picked up flashlights and moved towards Qingming Lake in the mountains.

Qingming Lake is not far from the tea garden, and with people familiar with the road, they quickly arrived at their destination.

The sharp-eyed Sera Masumi soon spotted a shadow on the lake and immediately pulled Lin Xiao's arm: "Master, look! There is a person on the lake!"

"Uh...it's true!" Lin Xiao looked over and saw that there was indeed a person floating on the lake. Obviously, it was not a living person, but a corpse.

"That looks like Grandmaster Liang Zang!" Yuanzi cried out in horror.

"I'll call the police right now." Xiaolan took out her cell phone and called the police. She was the one who called the police every time and was quite skilled at it.

"That's definitely my father." Ryoichi clenched his fists, the smell of alcohol dissipated a little, and he felt a little bit hard to accept. Although he had a conflict with his father because of Rie's matter, Ryozo was his father after all, and he didn't really want his father to have any accidents.

"I can't just leave my father's body there. I have to fish it out."

Liang Yi was about to take off his clothes and go down to the lake to fish out the body, but he was stopped by Lin Xiao.

"Mr. Liangyi, don't act rashly. Not only will you be in danger, but you will also damage the body and hinder the police from reporting the case."

"So we're just going to leave it alone?"

"Not really. We can let the body float over here first and see what happens."

"How to do it?"

“Like throwing rocks into the lake.”

As long as you throw a stone fire in the center of the lake to create ripples, the corpse will naturally drift slowly to the shore.

Everyone thought this was a good idea, so they picked up pebbles from the shore and threw them into the center of the lake. Ripples appeared in the center of the lake, and the body slowly floated over.

When the corpse came closer and everyone saw its horrific condition, they were so frightened that their pupils suddenly shrank. It was too exaggerated.

"What a hell!"

Ryozo's body was covered in mucus, as if it was covered in nasal mucus. The exposed skin on his body was also melted, and the epidermis disappeared. The dermis, muscles, blood vessels, and part of the bones could be seen.

"It's as if his flesh was melted by something." Sera Masumi frowned.

"My father, how could it become like this?" Liangyi was devastated. He lost two of his closest people in one day.

Yagura Morio was so frightened that he fell to the ground. Seeing this, he shouted in fear: "Yes! It's a snake demon! The snake demon swallowed up Teacher Ryozo and spit it out!"

Yuanzi trembled and said to himself: "I saw a movie in which someone was eaten by a mite snake, and was vomited out by a python halfway through digestion. It was like this..."