Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Although she is also an expert in using guns, it takes at least 2 seconds to change the magazine. If it were her, she would never give the enemy such a chance.

"why?"

Pu Siqinglan looked fiercely at Mao Li who was bathed in the light outside, "It's ok that your broken umbrella can be bulletproof, but why were you able to dodge my bullets in the first place?!"

Mao Li stood opposite Pu Siqinglan: "Isn't this very simple? Your eyes, wrist, fingers and gun muzzle... none of them can escape my eyes."

"What a joke!" Pu Siqinglan clenched her teeth.

"Is there a joke you can try?"

Mao Li continued to move forward with a black umbrella, approaching step by step, waiting for the moment when Pu Siqinglan would shoot.

But at this moment——

"dad?"

Xiaolan appeared at the entrance of the aisle. She was stunned when she saw Maoli and said happily, "The police will be here soon. Where is that Scout soldier?"

Mao Li paused: "Why are you back?"

"Ah? Those kids seem to have fallen into the castle mechanism. Let me see if there's a ladder...eh?"

Xiaolan quickly adjusted to the dimness and saw Pu Siqinglan and the black muzzle of the gun in her hand. Her face changed instantly, "Ms. Qinglan? Could it be that Miss Qinglan is Shi Kaobing?"

"Humph."

Pu Siqinglan chuckled and pointed the gun at Xiaolan behind him, "Detective, it seems that I am the winner in the end. Your precious daughter came at the wrong time."

"Not the right time?"

Maori sneered, "You really underestimate Xiaolan..."

"Humph! You're just pretending to be a high school girl!"

Pu Siqinglan narrowed her eyes and pressed the trigger hard.

"goodbye!"

"biu!"

"boom!"

The bullet brushed past Xiaolan's ear, passed through her flowing long hair and hit the wall behind her. Pu Si Qinglan's pupils dilated, and her entire field of vision was occupied by the rushing Xiaolan and Maori, the father and daughter.

"How can it be……"

The pistol flew out of his hand, and Pu Si Qinglan himself was hit hard in the abdomen and crashed into the armor of the knight next to him. He could no longer muster any strength. In his blurred consciousness, he only saw Maori walking towards him.

"What's going on between you and your daughter..."

Pu Siqinglan looked terrified.

"I'm just an ordinary Tokyo citizen who knows a little bit about self-defense."

Mao Li put away the black umbrella and tapped Pu Siqinglan's arm with the umbrella cap. A grenade fell off and rolled to the side, and the safety pin was almost pulled off.

Just like her code name "Sikaobing" (Poison Scorpion), Pu Siqinglan is definitely a dangerous woman at any time. Fortunately, she didn't have time to use this grenade in the secret passage...

"What a pity for your beautiful legs. Are you going to spend the rest of your life riding a tricycle in prison?"

"Dad! What are you thinking about?"

Xiaolan suddenly grabbed Maoli's waist from behind and said unhappily, "She's a criminal..."

"Hiss—you're right! This prisoner is really white. No, this leg is really disgusting!"

……

Outside the Kosaka family castle, the sky had already fallen completely dark. In the night, several police cars stopped in front of the villa to take away Pu Si Qinglan, but the hero Mao Li was nowhere to be seen, and also missing was Officer Shiratori who helped find the second egg of memory.

"Strange," Officer Megure wondered as he waited by the police car, "Where on earth did they go?"

"Maybe there's something wrong."

Xiaolan and Yuanzi looked at Pu Siqinglan being taken into the police car with mixed feelings: "Miss Qinglan, I didn't expect it to be Shi Kaobing..."

"In fact, if you rearrange the name Pu Siqinglan, it will become Rasputin," Conan said, "Scooping must be the descendant of Rasputin."

"Is this so..."

Xiaolan and the other person's attention was quickly diverted.

……

On the other side of the castle, Maori stood behind Officer Shiratori, still blown by the mountain breeze.

"You hid really well, kid," Maori said in a deep voice, "If you hadn't stolen the Suzuki family's egg of memory, I really wouldn't have known that you were disguised as Officer Shiratori, and actually went around in circles to board the Elizabeth through Officer Megure..."

"I didn't expect that you could really catch Scoobing, uncle," Shiratori smiled softly, "The shrunk detective should have told you that Mr. Kiichi just divided the real egg of memories into two parts, one hidden in the underground secret room, and the other in the castle. But somehow it fell into the hands of the Suzuki family."

"So what?" Maori's expression remained unchanged.

"Uncle, you are such a prestigious detective, and you have a good relationship with President Suzuki, right?" Shiratori disguised himself as Kid in the smoke with a bang. "Could you please talk to President Suzuki and give the Egg of Memories to Miss Xia Mei? After all, it is her grandfather's relic..."

"I know that without you telling me. Besides, haven't you already handed the Egg of Memory to Miss Xia Mei?"

Maori glared at Kidd, who was dressed ostentatiously. "I just wanted to scold you for being nosy and stirring up trouble. You blew up a substation this time. Do you know how much trouble this will bring to the people of Osaka?"

"Oh, this is indeed my fault. I will take care of it and will never use this method again next time."

Kidd walked to the edge of the cliff and looked back at Maori: "But, there is one thing I don't quite understand. Seeing you like this, uncle, you have already..."

"There is a student named Kuroba Kaito in Class 2B of Ekoda High School. His childhood sweetheart is Nakamori Aoko, the daughter of my acquaintance, Officer Nakamori."

"Ah, you're amazing, great detective. You've figured out everything..."

Kidd scratched his head in pain, then grinned, jumped off the cliff, spread his glider and flew into the night: "If you are interested, I can tell you my story next time."

Looking at Kidd who was gradually flying away, Maori curled his lips speechlessly: "Your story? Isn't it just the same as Conan's, fighting wits and courage with a mysterious organization? A clichéd boy's comic plot..."

……

At the Maori Detective Agency, a week has passed since the incident of the Egg of Memory.

Under his lobbying, President Suzuki finally gave the Suzuki Group's Egg of Memories to Natsumi Kosaka. In return, the latter gave the Yokosuka Castle to the Suzuki Group to develop as a tourist attraction. Although the wealthy Suzuki Group did not care about this kind of return at all, Natsumi Kosaka's character of not taking advantage and repaying kindness was still appreciated by everyone. Sonoko and Xiaolan even became her best friends.

Of course, Mao Li also gained a lot this time - the 1500 million commission fee was the largest sum of money he had received since he started working in the detective industry. With this income, he can now start to buy the "Twilight Villa" that he had been dreaming of for a long time.

Chapter 83: Signing a time contract with others in the Conan world is so exciting

I have to say that Maori still admires this kid Kaito very much. Not to mention his extraordinary courage when he goes out as Kaito Kid, he is also top-notch in daily intelligence.

For example, this time he was going to purchase the "Twilight Villa". No one knew where this guy got the news from, but he wanted to show his goodwill to Mao Li, so he directly sent an email to the office's mailbox.

Of course, in order to prevent Mao Li from missing the email due to not checking emails regularly, this guy also specially put a card with his special signature on it in the "Nikkei Shimbun" that Mao Li subscribed to every day.

"Please check your email, Uncle Detective, Kaito Kid is here to help."

"When did this kid..."

Mao Li was speechless, but he still turned on the computer.

A new email from an unknown source appeared in the originally empty mailbox. The words "Twilight Villa" in the title made Maori's eyes shrink involuntarily.

To be honest, with the funds he had prepared, Dusk Annex was not the best choice, but Maori secretly heard that this annex seemed to hide the secret of treasure, so he paid special attention to it and listed it as the first choice - considering the strong intelligence channels shown by Kaito in the previous Egg of Memories and the magic fan murder case, Maori was looking forward to what valuable clues he could bring to him in this email.

Maori clicked the email with his mouse, and after a short wait, a photo of a magnificent villa located on the top of a mountain appeared in front of him, along with relevant information about the Dusk Villa.

Renye Karasuma, a millionaire half a century ago, was also the original owner of the Twilight Annex.

It is said that more than 40 years ago, a large auction was held in the Twilight Annex to commemorate the death of Karasuma Renya. Well-known politicians and businessmen from all walks of life who were invited to the auction died tragically in the annex, and their blood was left in every corner of the annex...

The authenticity of the rumor remains to be verified. Perhaps because the guests were all celebrities in the political and economic circles, the incident was not reported. Or perhaps it was just a lie and no one has verified the details.

Over the years, the Twilight Villa has passed through many hands until it was apparently bought by two detectives two years ago. Its current value is between 3 and 5 million...

"3 million to 5 million, it looks like I'm going to empty my family's nest egg this time..."

Mao Li looked at the content of the email and sighed.

Although Mao Li has become a famous detective and his income has increased greatly, taking out 300 to 500 million in one go is still almost equal to the entire savings of the agency.

Moreover, he might not be able to secure the price of 300 to 500 million, because these two detectives bought the villa two years ago and it seems that they are still looking for treasure.

Even if he could join by taking over this villa, he would definitely have to negotiate the profit sharing.

Maori looked at the smiling face signature of "Kaito Kid" and imagined the photo of Kuroba Kaito dressed as a woman in his mind.

I thought this guy could provide some confidential information, like clues to treasure, but this is all he could give...

"Forget it. A tall building is built from the ground up. You can only rely on yourself for everything!"

……

Tottori Prefecture, mountainous area.

Maori was driving on the Panshang Highway. The sky was gloomy and it seemed like it was going to rain.

Huiyuan, who was accompanying them on vacation, sat beside them with a map in hand and pointed ahead, saying softly, "According to this, there should be a gas station not far ahead."

"It's good to have a gas station. I'm afraid there won't be such service facilities nearby for a villa deep in the mountains like this."

Maori said with satisfaction.

Not only a gas station, after buying the Dusk Villa, Mao Li also plans to build a small power station himself, just in case.

Huibara glanced at Maori indifferently - she agreed with Maori's opinion, but compared to Maori himself, she felt that this "what if" was most likely to come from this plague detective himself.

The rain started to fall without warning, and thunder rumbled from time to time in the dark sky. Maori drove to the gas station at the intersection and asked the owner for directions.

……

At dusk, it was almost ten o'clock when Maori's rented car arrived in front of the villa. Fortunately, the lights in the villa were still on, so it was not a wasted trip.

"you are?"

The door of the villa opened, and a middle-aged man in a white suit with a mustache on both sides looked at Maori and Huiyuan with his hands behind his back warily, narrowed his eyes and said, "If I remember correctly, you are Maori Kogoro who has been very active recently, right?"

"Yes, it's me."

Mao Li also looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who looked more like a chef in a high-end restaurant because of his weight gain, "Excuse me, who are you?"

Huibara said softly, "Gourmet Detective, Ogami wishes you good luck, right?"

"Huh, this kid is quite clear about it," Okami Zhushan glanced at Huibara unexpectedly, and his eyes towards Maori were full of vigilance, "Why are you, a famous detective, running here instead of staying in Tokyo?"

"You've never been able to find the treasure here, right?"

Mao Li looked directly at Daikami and saw a moment of surprise on the other's face.

"H-How do you know?"

Okami tensed his body and stared at Maori.

"Don't worry, if I had any bad intentions, I wouldn't have brought the kids with me," Maori said with a grin as he folded up his umbrella, "Can you please let us in first? It's quite cold outside."

Okami's expression changed for a while, but he finally let Maoli into the villa gloomily: "Do you need anything to eat?"

"No."

Maoli shook his head - whether out of vigilance towards the great master Zhushan in front of him or personal habit, Maoli would not easily eat food from other people's homes.

……

"Crack!"

A flash of lightning tore through the night, and the Dusk Villa on the cliff looked even more eerie in the rainy night.

Maori and Haibara followed Okami into the magnificent hall. After closing the entrance door, they finally felt a little warmer.

But to be honest, before coming here, Maori had never expected that this European-style villa would look so much like the lair of the vampire family in film and television works.

Sure enough, no matter what kind of house it is, it needs people to live in it for a long time to maintain its popularity...

"Uncle,"

Huiyuan put her hand on the door, looked at the mottled stains near the door handle, and suddenly said, "This looks like blood."

"Yeah." Maori glanced at the old marks on the door and swept his eyes across other places.

It seems that something really happened more than 40 years ago, this mysterious villa with hidden treasures, and that auction...