Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

Last night, because Lu Ren got lost several times and had a flat tire, when he got out of the car to change the tire for the second time, Dr. Agasa felt bad and suggested that they rest there.

There happened to be a wooden house nearby.

There was a light on in the wooden house, and it was obvious that someone was living there.

Dr. Agasa thought that they could try to ask the owner of the house to let them stay here for one night.

However, this proposal aroused resistance from the three people in the 500-character group.

They must have watched some TV show recently and thought that a troll might live in the cabin.

The mountain demon granny, also known as the mountain urchin, is one of the supernatural legends in Japan. It is a demon that lives in the deep mountains and looks like an old woman.

Legend has it that in those lonely huts deep in the mountains, there are often mountain bastards living there. They will provide accommodation and food to travelers who are lost in the mountains, but will devour them after the travelers go to sleep.

When the car had a flat tire yesterday, we were lost + deep in the mountains + in a lonely hut, the elements could be said to be quite complete.

This also made the three people in Wubaizi extremely nervous.

Especially at that time, Haibara Ai suddenly showed her evil nature and deliberately did bad things to scare the three people.

Thinking back on it now, their conversation at that time still seems very interesting. It is one of the few interesting memories in this boring and terrible trip.

After Dr. Agasa proposed to stay overnight, Huihara Ai looked at the wooden house in the distance and said, "It's as if that house is waving at us, saying 'Come here, come here'."

After five hundred words, the three people were immediately more frightened.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was the first to muster up the courage: "I will protect Haibara and Ayumi even if it costs my life."

However, Ai Ehuihara was not moved by the elementary school student's words. Instead, she continued to tease him, "Really? Then can you be eaten instead of me?"

"Uh." The courage that Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya had finally mustered disappeared without a trace. He began to think seriously about the question raised by Haibara and tried to give his own answer.

"The mountain demon grandmother also thinks that Yuan Tai has more oil and tastes better."

Then it’s time for Genta Kojima and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya to argue with each other.

Yuantai: "You can also use it to make soup."

Mitsuhiko: "All you do is eat all day long. You are no different from a mountain goblin."

Of course, after finally changing the tire and seeing that it was still early, Lu Ren finally decided to drive to the reserved camping site instead of staying there.

There is no need to ask others for help if you can do it yourself.

I just didn’t expect that after so many twists and turns, I would end up back here today.

At six o'clock in the morning, Lu Ren and his team officially arrived at the mountain cabin and greeted the local police chief Yamamura Cao.

Yamamura Cao rubbed his sleepy eyes, and when he saw that the person who came was definitely not the Mori Kogoro he was thinking about, the spirit he had just raised fell again.

Yawning, he told Lu Ren and the others the details of the case.

At around four o'clock this morning, the police received a report that a woman had died on the mountain.

There was a murder in the area, so of course he couldn't continue sleeping. After receiving the notification, Yamamura Cao got up from the bed and went to the scene of the crime with several subordinates.

It would be five o'clock in the morning, an hour earlier than Lu Ren and his friends.

As for the police cars that Lu Ren met at the foot of the mountain, they were the support called for by Shancun after the military operation.

As for Lu Ren and others, they are unexpected foreign aid.

At the time of the incident, there were three other people living in the cabin in addition to the deceased who was already lying dead.

The owner of the cabin, a 70-year-old woman named Tanaka Iwae, was also the one who called the police.

The other two were companions of the deceased, Andaraito and Kohara Fuma.

The deceased was named Akane Ota, 25 years old, the daughter of the chairman of a financial company.

Because she got lost and ran out of fuel last night, she and her two companions chose to stay in this cabin for one night.

As a result, at about four o'clock this morning, screams were heard outside the door. The three rushed out of the cabin and found the deceased lying on the ground. Her carotid artery was cut and she died on the spot due to heavy bleeding.

The first person to discover the case was Andarai, and then Fuma Kohara arrived at the scene.

"Wait a minute. Officer Shancun, please wait a moment." Lu Ren interrupted Shancuncao's story and pointed at his notebook. "Why is there a note behind the names of these two people, with pseudonyms written on them?"

"Because these two are gigolos in the store. Andaraito and Xiangyuan Fuga are both stage names." Shancun Cao pointed at the two young men at the door with the pen in his hand.

"The one with the big eyes is Xiangyuan Fuga, and the one with the beard next to him is Andarai. But just when I was about to ask them in detail, Xiangyuan Fuga suddenly became very excited and said that I was treating him as a suspect. He refused to accept such slander and interrogation. So I don't know their real names."

"..."

Lu Ren looked over and found that the man's eyes were indeed not small, but why did this man seem to have no brains?

Now a murder has occurred, and the companions who came with them died here.

There were only three of them at the crime scene. If they were not suspects, then who were the suspects?

He still refuses to cooperate, it seems he really wants to go to jail.

"Officer Yamamura, you have to be tougher. This is a case involving human lives. You can't just follow his words."

"I want to do that, too." Shancuncao sighed, "but the higher-ups suddenly started asking for 'flexible law enforcement'. I don't know what to do now."

"..."

This matter seemed to have something to do with him. However, considering Shancuncao's intelligence, it seemed that he was not deliberately trying to seduce him.

Lu Ren finally chose to bring up the topic.

"Then let me do it. Xiangyuan Fuma won't cooperate, and that Andala won't cooperate either?"

Yamamura thought for a while, "He seemed to be ready to answer the question. But Xiangyuan Fuga was very excited and interrupted me. I didn't ask any more questions later."

"OK." Lu Ren walked to Andala, ready to use him as the entry point for the case.

Since the three of them came here together, they should know each other some basic information.

After revealing his identity, the man was very cooperative and told her all his information.

His real name is Inoue Toshihiro, 29 years old, and he is the top performer in a male escort club in Kabukicho, Tokyo. His stage name is Andaraito.

Yesterday, he and another top star in the store, Xiangyuan Fuga, accompanied a client, the deceased Akane Ohba, to travel to Gunma Prefecture, and ended up staying in this cabin temporarily because they got lost.

"Wait a minute, Xiangyuan Fuma is probably also a stage name. What's his real name?"

Inoue Toshihiro shook his head: "I don't know. We usually address each other by our stage names, and no one mentions their real names."

The stage name is used interchangeably and the real name is not mentioned.

Why does this feel a bit like a winery?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 476: Bow to Life

No, what was he thinking.

Lu Ren quickly drove this absurd idea out of his mind.

"continue."

"Ah."

Inoue Toshihiro continued to narrate what happened last night.

The owner of the cabin was an old lady, and she agreed to let the three of them stay for one night.

But their attitude was very bad and they made it clear that they had to leave early the next morning.

Akane Ota was quite dissatisfied with this, and the two of them tried to persuade her for a long time.

After dinner, when they were ready to go to bed, the old woman took them to the second floor and arranged for them to sleep in different rooms.

Among them, Fuma Kahara slept in the room on the far left, Inoue Toshihiro slept on the far right, and Akane Oba and the old lady slept in the same room.

Akane Ota expressed her dissatisfaction with this arrangement for the second time, saying that she wanted to sleep with the two gigolos.

The old woman's attitude was even worse this time, accusing her of being an unmarried woman and being so indecent...

Then he started to scold her for a while.

Lu Ren held the small notebook in his hand, and the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong.

If what Inoue Toshihiro said is true, then it feels like the old woman should have died last night.

It is the deceased's freedom to sleep with whomever she chooses.

After all, people paid money and they are enjoying the service.

Judging from the testimony of Inoue Toshihiro, this old lady was a bit unreasonable and forcibly interfered in other people's private affairs.

In a science fiction drama, this is pure death. You can only live for one episode at most, and then you'll be dead in the second episode.

In the end it was the young lady who died.

Could it be that the eldest daughter was so angry that she wanted to kill the old woman, but was killed instead?

This is no joke...

If that was the case, wouldn't it be more convenient for them to just sleep in the same room? Why bother running out in the heavy rain?

The police received the report at four o'clock. Lu Ren remembered very clearly that it was raining heavily outside at that time.

Who would run out for no reason? Someone must have asked her out and killed her outside the cabin.

"Okay, that's all for now. Thank you for your cooperation."

Lu Ren walked back to Shancuncao and handed him the information he had collected.

"Thank you so much." Yamamura Cao copied the documents while talking about their current progress.

It is now certain that the victim's carotid artery was cut by a sharp weapon. He has organized people to search for the murder weapon in the cabin and the surrounding forests.

Lu Ren nodded, and then asked: "By the way, where is the body?"

It was said that the deceased died outside the cabin, but there was no body outside.

Speaking of this, Shancuncao sighed heavily. He put down his pen and looked like he had a headache. "They moved the body into the house."

"What?! They moved the body without permission and destroyed the crime scene? Who did it?"

"The two companions of the deceased. Their reason was that they thought the deceased might still be saved, so they brought her back for rescue."

Thinking of what happened at that time, Shancuncao looked embarrassed. "When we arrived, we found that the corridor inside the house was filled with blood and muddy footprints. Now it can be said to be a mess."

"..."

Not only Shancuncao has a headache, Lu Ren also has a headache now.

This is all some bullshit.

The body was moved without permission and the crime scene was destroyed.

I had originally thought that the deceased must have died outside the cabin, but now that has become uncertain.

Maybe he was injured inside the house and died when he ran outside.

"Officer Yamamura, take me to see the body."

"Ah."

The two men walked into the cabin one after the other, and everything was just as Shancuncao said.

There were both footprints and bloodstains, and in many places the two were mixed together.

Carefully avoiding these traces, Lu Ren followed Shancuncao into the living room.

The deceased, Akane Ohba, was lying on the floor with her back facing up.

After observing carefully for a while, Lu Ren breathed a sigh of relief. The situation was not particularly bad.

This wooden house has wooden floors and the living habits here in Japan.

You have to take off your shoes when you enter the house. Lu Ren had just left his shoes at the entrance and changed into the slippers prepared by the police.

However, the deceased Akane Ota was wearing shoes.

This means that the victim had at least walked to the entrance and changed her shoes before she was killed. The murderer must have made an appointment with her to go out together.

So there are only two possible locations where the murderer could have committed the crime. Either he killed someone at the entrance near the door, or he killed someone outside the house.