I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

The structure of the villa is actually a bit similar to the Chinese courtyard house, with four buildings surrounding a courtyard in the middle, but the gate of the courtyard house is in the southeast corner, while the gate of this European-style villa is located in the south.

Kogoro Mouri brought them to a place that looked like a chess and card lounge on the second floor. When they pushed the door open, there were already several people sitting inside.

Some were playing cards, some were playing chess, and some were even playing with birds.

Kogoro Maori introduced them one by one.

He first pointed to the sixty-year-old lady who looked the oldest among everyone present and was playing chess.

"This is Detective Chiken."

After saying that, he turned to a dashing middle-aged man who was dressed and looked like he ran from the set of Cowboy Bebop.

"This is Detective Mogi."

Then there was the big sister with big wavy long legs wearing a high slit dress.

"This is Detective Gunda."

Finally, there is a handsome brown-haired boy who is teasing the bald eagle perched on his arm.

"And this is Superintendent Hakuba's son, Detective Hakuba, a high school detective... and Detective Ogami, who is busy in the kitchen now because the chef in charge of dinner didn't show up today, so he went to take care of dinner himself."

After a round of introductions, Serabelle had a general understanding of the other five detectives who came this time.

At this moment, Bai Ma raised the falcon on his hand and gestured with a smile.

"Mr. Maori forgot to introduce it, so I will introduce it myself. It is also my partner. His name is Watson."

Watson?

Serabelle raised her brow.

Although Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes series is generally called Watson in the world, his real name is actually Watson, which means Watson.

Especially considering that ninety-nine out of a hundred detective enthusiasts in the world know Sherlock Holmes, it doesn't seem so incomprehensible to name your pet eagle Watson.

Too lazy to make a lengthy self-introduction, Serabelle simply leaned her cane in front of her and placed her hands on the top of the cane.

"My name is Serabelle, please advise me, detectives."

Chapter 261 Let’s fight again

The first person to speak to Serabelle was Detective Mogi, who looked and was dressed like someone from the set of Cowboy Bebop next door.

Before this, he had been with his sister, Detective Qiangtian, who had long legs, a thin waist and a high slit. Seeing that there was finally another person coming, he turned around, put one hand on the back of the chair and waved the playing cards in his hand.

"Hey, new guy, how about this, do you want to join us?"

Ok……

Serabelle did not answer immediately, but stared at the playing cards in Mogi's hand for a while.

To be honest, he was not very interested in playing cards as a form of entertainment, and in terms of personality, Serabelle was not the type of person who would force himself to play a game he didn't like just to please others.

But although Detective Mogi said he was playing cards, it looked like he had other intentions.

After a little thought, Serabelle nodded.

"Okay."

So the number of people playing cards increased from two to three, which was just enough people to play Landlord.

As soon as Serabelle sat down, the long-legged queen detective sitting next to her came over and blew gently into her earlobe.

"Come on, little detective. Friendly reminder, this guy is really shady when it comes to playing cards, be careful not to get tricked by him~"

"Hello..."

Mogi couldn't help feeling helpless as he was told this before the first game even started.

Serabel didn't care about these things. Just when Ikumi Gunda came over to talk, he suddenly felt a gaze from somewhere else falling on his back.

He instinctively looked back in the direction of his gaze, and the only person he saw in the corresponding direction was Yukiko teasing Conan.

The older girl seemed to know nothing about it until Serabelle stared at her for three full seconds before she came to her senses, turned her head, blinked, and returned the inquiring look.

The meaning can be roughly translated as - What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?

At the same time, Mogi Harushi's voice came from the front.

"Hey, brother, stop daydreaming. I'm going to start dealing the cards. Miss Gunda also said that if you don't look carefully, I'll cheat you."

"……fine."

Serabell shook her head and looked away, then turned to the table in front of her and began to watch Mogi deal the cards one by one.

Mogi's card-dealing technique was quite fluent. He used his thumb to move the direction of the cards, switching them among the three people quickly and accurately. Basically, the next card was already dealt and flying in the air before the previous card landed on the table.

Even so, it still takes about ten seconds to deal all the cards.

Taking advantage of this time, Mogi was the first to break the silence, and the cigarette in his lips swayed up and down slightly with the opening and closing of his lips and teeth.

"In fact, it was me, Qiangtian, and Miss Lan with horns on her head who were playing cards together. But Miss Lan got so scared that she didn't dare to play before she even finished a hand."

"But it's still okay..."

Serabelle shook her head, and the tip of her left index finger fell on the pile of playing cards scattered on the table in front of her.

Gently move the top few cards aside, and you can clearly see a pool of dark brown substance solidified on the back of one of the cards below.

Based on Serabelle's many years of criminal investigation experience, this dark brown substance is formed by blood drying up, and it must have taken a very long time, measured in years.

But this is a chess and card room. What kind of situation would allow someone to splatter blood on the cards?

It's hard to say about Serabelle.

But at least from the time he entered the door until now, he had seen old bloodstains appear in this Dusk Villa more than once.

Including but not limited to the handles on the inside of the main entrance, the handrails on the stairs from the first floor to the second floor, etc. It is hard to imagine what happened in this villa.

"Oh~ I'm really looking forward to how things will develop next. Although it hasn't officially started yet, I feel like I'm getting goose bumps all over my body." Mogi laughed.

Time passed quickly as we played cards one by one. After playing two or three rounds of Landlord, a light and rhythmic knock on the door came from the chess and card room.

The next second, the door of the chess and card room was pushed open from the outside, and a maid who looked pretty and quiet appeared at the door.

The maid looked around at everyone in the room and bowed slightly.

"Everyone, Mr. Okami has prepared dinner. Please follow me to the restaurant."

It turned out to be dinner time.

……

The restaurant of the Dusk Villa is located on the first floor. When everyone followed the maid to the door of the restaurant on the first floor, the double doors of the restaurant were still tightly closed. A middle-aged man who looked quite wealthy and well-dressed was already waiting outside the door.

He saw the maid coming with a group of people behind her and nodded.

"Thank you for your hard work. Go directly to the kitchen to get the dishes. Remember to serve them in the order I told you."

"clear."

The maid nodded, then turned and left.

It seems that this person is the great master Zhu Shan...Serabel thought.

After watching the maid leave until her back disappeared around the corner, Dashang Zhushan turned to the rest of the people, a smile of harmony revealing on his wealthy face.

"Ah~ Sorry, sorry, I kept you waiting for so long. It was really hard for me to handle so many ingredients by myself, so it took me a little more effort."

"No, to be honest, I'm also looking forward to your culinary achievements as a food detective," complimented Kogoro Mouri.

"Oh? Then you'll have to enjoy it carefully later, Mr. Maori."

Da Shang Zhu Shan's eyes lit up slightly, and he spoke with a hint of pride in his tone.

"I have put a lot of effort into cooking to satisfy my picky taste...Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore. You can't enjoy the food just standing here."

As he said this, he turned to the restaurant door, put his hands on it and slowly pushed it open.

As the door opened, the scene before their eyes stunned everyone.

This is a restaurant that is as luxurious as a royal palace, with Persian carpets with mysterious patterns, murals on the walls, and a huge golden nanmu long table that runs through the front and back of the restaurant, all of which demonstrate the strong financial strength of the former owner of this Dusk Villa.

However, at the end of the long table, sitting on the main seat, there was a figure wearing a black cloak, even the head was covered.

To be honest, it looks a bit like the FF group, one of the four major cults in the two-dimensional world.

"Who... who is this person, Mr. Okami, do you know?" Kogoro Mouri's words were incoherent.

Da Shang Zhu Shan was also shocked and confused: "I, I don't know either. I was in the kitchen before and have never been to the restaurant here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cane flew out of the air, crossed the distance from the door to the end of the dining table, and accurately hit the black figure's head.

The figure fell to the ground.

Chapter 262 I asked her, she said it wasn't her

"What the hell is that..."

Mogi blinked twice in confusion, his mind still stuck on the moment he opened the door and saw the black-robed figure sitting on the main seat.

It's definitely not the case that I was scared.

As a tough guy who had just provoked local gangs in Chicago and had a fight with them last week and then returned to Japan in a cool manner, he has experienced too many ups and downs in his life.

The situation just now could at most be described as a prank.

The fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged detective, Gunda Ikumi, crossed her arms over her chest and raised her chin towards Serabell who had already walked in front of her.

"If you want to know, just follow and see~"

"……Too."

So they all entered the restaurant together and walked around the long table with name tags on it for each of them.

When I arrived at the main seat at the end of the long table, the black figure lying on the ground came into view again.

However, he looked a little different from the one who looked like the chief wizard of the FF group just now. Perhaps he accidentally scratched something when he fell, and the black pointed cloth bag on the human-shaped head was pulled up a little, revealing the handsome, dark but plastic-textured face underneath.

It is the plastic texture in the physical sense.

Yes, it's a mannequin.

"Fake... fake person?"

Mogi was even more confused.

The organizer invited so many detectives here, but they didn't show up or say why. Instead, they put such a cool Buddha statue in the restaurant.

What? Are you planning to scare them all to death with this?

Funny, right?

At the same time, Serabelle leaned over and grabbed the black pointed cloth bag hood that was half-covering the dummy's head, and pulled it off with a light lift.

Without the protection of the cloth bag, the dummy's face was completely exposed to everyone.

It was indeed the most common mannequin in clothing stores, except that the part from the root of its nose to the upper eye sockets was hollowed out and replaced with a loudspeaker.

"A dummy equipped with a loudspeaker..." Maori Kogoro stroked his chin and hissed, "So, the organizer is planning to use this dummy to communicate with us on his behalf, right?"

"It seems that's the case." Bai Ma Tan said calmly.

"Hmm~"

Serabel pondered for a moment, and after a brief pause of two seconds, he helped the dummy back to the chair, straightened the left leg of the dummy on the table, and put the right leg on the left side in a cross-legged posture. On the legs and knees, hands and fingers interlocked behind the head.

other people"……"

How should I put it, although it is less weird than before, it has become even more mischievous.

Does it really have to be like this?

Just as everyone was hesitating, the dummy on the main seat began to speak as if a program had been started and the sound it made had obviously been processed through a voice changer.

"I sincerely welcome the seven famous detectives who have been invited to this Twilight Annex. Okay, first of all, please take a seat."