In the dark haunted house, Kato Megumi pulled the corner of Xia Yan's clothes, leaned close to his ear, then raised her left hand to cover her face, and spoke to him in a low voice with a breath as sweet as orchid.

"..."

Xia Yan, whose ears were a little itchy from the hot breath exhaled by Kato Megumi, rarely denied it stubbornly. He just took out his mobile phone and checked the time without giving any face to the mummy staff who suddenly hung upside down in front of him.

16:15

"Well, that's fine too."

Xia Yan said softly without any surprise, "Then let's go play another project. When the time is almost up, let's have dinner and then go back."

As he spoke, Xia Yan reached out and held the delicate hand of Kato Megumi who was pulling at the corner of his clothes, avoiding the man in front of him who seemed to be emitting the aura of "dog couple, not only ignoring my professional ethics, but also forcing me to eat a lot of dog food"... Mr. Mummy.

The two walked out of the haunted house hand in hand. No one noticed anything was wrong. After strolling around leisurely for a while, they went to play the Sky Flyer as usual...

No, no, no, this is not good.

A drop of cold sweat slid down Xia Yan's forehead, and he immediately grabbed Kato Megumi, who had already lifted up her calf under her skirt and was about to walk into the roller coaster seat.

At this moment, he saw that not far away from the next door, a promising young girl was having a fierce argument with a high school detective who had a face that he often saw on TV news.

"That's almost enough, you mystery freak!!"

All I could hear was Tou Jiao Zhengrong… ah, no, it was Mao Lilan yelling at the boy beside her: "We finally get to hang out together, and you're either distracted or mumbling about something! Something!"

"Sorry, sorry, because Inspector Megure pushed a very important case on me, because the situation... no, the time is a bit tight, so I have been thinking about that case."

Kudo Shinichi also quickly raised his hands in front of him and apologized in surrender.

However, when he thought of the bloody and cruel photos of the scene in that case, which were still clearly visible even after being processed, his expression became heavy.

And Xia Yan... no longer had any interest in listening.

Kudo Shinichi, amusement park, roller coaster.

With so many factors coming together, if he still can't remember it, then he really doesn't deserve to be called a person who has watched a thousand episodes of Conan.

No wonder the name of this amusement park sounds so familiar, it turns out this is the place where “(death) dreams (gods) begin”!

You should know that the work "Detective Conan" has not yet completely turned into a work for all ages in the early days.

The bloodiness of some of the early cases was no less than that of the group of tough boxing men in Quanyuan next door.

Especially the roller coaster and the bandaged man incident at the villa. Watching it live without the holy light and the dark side is definitely a childhood nightmare... No, teenagers, young adults, and middle-aged people will all be traumatized after watching it.

He himself didn't care, but he couldn't let Kato Megumi, who was standing next to him, see that scene, let alone sit in the same car and experience the scene of flying heads and fountains of blood.

"Cough cough~"

So he quickly coughed twice in a fake way and said to Kato Megumi, "Sorry, Megumi, I feel a little unwell. How about we not ride this roller coaster?"

Kato Hui gave him a strange look, but she didn't doubt it. After explaining the situation to the staff on the other side, she came over and supported Xia Yan's arm: "Yan Jun, how are you? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

"No, no need. Let's just go outside and rest for a while."

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't escape the pursuit of the god of death. At the moment when he just walked out of the entrance of the building where the roller coaster was located, Xia Yan suddenly had an idea and slightly activated the gods and demons.

As his brain's information processing speed increased, he focused his attention on hearing. After realizing from the sound that the roller coaster on the overhead track had entered the tunnel, he immediately covered Kato Megumi's eyes.

"laugh!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Immediately, with the accompaniment of a soprano voice, Xia Yan, relying on the perspective of the divine and demonic state, as if watching a slow-motion camera, saw very clearly how the human body, without a head, relied on the pressure of the carotid artery to spray out a fountain of blood more than one meter high.

Looking at this bloody scene, he suddenly felt a little emotional - do I have a special affinity with headless corpses recently?

Chapter 40: Uh, Miss Murderer, did you use the wrong adjective?

"What happened?"

Fortunately, Kato Megumi was very well-behaved. Even when Xia Yan suddenly covered her eyes, she did not struggle in resistance, nor did she want to see what was happening in front of her out of curiosity.

She just asked softly, and subconsciously grabbed Xia Yan's strong arms with both hands.

"Well, how should I put it?"

After confirming that the roller coaster had disappeared from the track above, presumably returning to its starting point, Xia Yan lowered his right hand that was covering Kato Megumi's eyes and said with a bit of pain, "There was a murder just now. The scene was too bloody. Let's get going."

"Ah."

Kato Megumi is still as well-behaved as ever, but unfortunately, some things cannot be avoided even if you want to.

The two had barely taken two steps when a staff member from the roller coaster station behind them ran out and shouted, "Wait! Please wait, you two guests, you can't leave yet. A murder just happened here..."

"I know."

Xia Yan interrupted the staff member and said, "I just witnessed it with my own eyes, but neither of us was on that roller coaster. This case should have nothing to do with us, right?"

"This……"

"Yes... huh... this gentleman..."

Just when the staff member was at a loss for words, Kudo Shinichi, who had asked him to come over and stop the people, also rushed over.

Half of his shirt and face were stained with the blood from the human head fountain, but he still hurried over, wiping the blood and sweat from his face with the back of his hand while explaining:

"Although you didn't ride that roller coaster, which largely eliminates you as a suspect in the murder, your sudden abandonment of the ride before it departed still raises certain questions. Furthermore, we cannot rule out the possibility that you knew beforehand that a murder would occur and that you were an accomplice."

"So no matter what, the police will ask you to come back to assist with the investigation afterwards. So to avoid future trouble, could you please spare a moment and return to the scene with us to wait for the police to arrive?"

What Kudo Shinichi said was quite polite and reasonable.

Xia Yan turned his head to look at Kato Megumi beside him. Seeing that she nodded in agreement without any objection, he also agreed to it.

"Don't worry, if you watch the news often, you should recognize me. I am the high school detective Kudo Shinichi."

As they walked back to the scene, Kudo Shinichi promised with the youthful energy that only a teenager could muster: "I will solve this case as quickly as possible and won't waste too much of your time."

Xia Yan's mouth twitched, as if he had heard some old joke.

In just a few steps, they returned to the crime scene.

Of course, they didn't go back to the roller coaster directly because there was still a headless corpse on the car that had not been removed. Several suspects who were riding on the same death coaster consciously left the place and came to the ticket check point.

The onlookers around also consciously circled the suspects and watched the excitement from the surrounding area.

Xia Yan looked around at the suspects in the circle. First was Gin, the hardworking brewery worker whose hair had not yet turned gray, and Vodka, his younger brother whose riding skills were probably at the C level.

The rest are three female extras who will only appear in one episode. One of them has wavy hair and wears a black sweater, one wears glasses and has a few freckles on her face, and the last one wears a blue skirt and jacket.

"Lady in blue, the murderer must be you." Before Kudo Shinichi could react, Xia Yan's spoiler voice came from beside him.

Everyone was very busy. Two men in black were busy extorting money, and two young men were busy finishing their dinner and then going back to practice martial arts.

Everyone is short on time, so let's get this over with quickly.

It just so happens that humans are most impressed by the [first] and the [last]. That's why Xia Yan happened to remember a little about the murderer and the killing method in the first episode of Conan, so he quickly gave away the spoiler.

"No... no, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. I was sitting in the first row of the roller coaster, and the victim was sitting in the third row. How could I have killed the victim in the back seat through the middle row?"

As for the murderer... Xia Yan forgot her name, the woman in blue, after a moment of panic when she was suddenly accused, began to dialectically refute the criminal's unique killing method.

"I just happened to overhear your conversation with the high school detective next to me. I remember you practiced gymnastics, right?"

Xia Yan began to lie with his eyes open. Since he knew the result in advance, his reasoning was indeed to shoot the arrow first and then draw the target.

The result was already determined. All he had to do was to use the familiar scene at the scene, recall the murderer's killing method which was already a little vague in his memory, and prove the killing process.

"You should put a bag behind your waist when the roller coaster's safety bar is lowered to increase the volume of your body. Then, when the vehicle starts moving, you can take off the bag and slide out through the added volume."

"Then you turn around in the car, climb to the top of the seat, hook your gymnastic legs around the roller coaster's safety bar, and then swing your body over the second row of passengers..."

As for the murderer, how could a woman keep her body steady and not fly up on a roller coaster that was flying up and down in winds of over 110 kilometers per hour, using only the strength of a pair of slender legs?

——Well, I can only talk about basic exercises, no 6, the human body is amazing, right? Science is also amazing, right?

"Finally, you throw a noose around the neck of the victim in the third row, then hook the steel hook at the other end of the rope to the track below the roller coaster. You can then use the speed and momentum of the roller coaster to strangle the victim's neck, causing his head to fly off. Am I right?"

"..."

The lady in blue… cough, the real murderer, Miss Xiaotong, suddenly grabbed the collar of her clothes and took two steps back. Then she faced Xia Yan, staring at the front as if she was looking at something terrible, but she still didn't intend to give up struggling: "You have..."

"You're going to say I have some evidence, right?"

Xia Yan interrupted calmly, "When I passed by just now, I saw you wearing a pearl necklace. Where is your necklace?"

Just when Xia Yan, who was full of lies, was about to say, "You just replaced the silk thread that strung the necklace with universal piano wire, and put it around the victim's neck as a weapon," he saw the woman in blue in front of him suddenly sit down limply on the ground, her eyes full of fear as if she was looking at something.

What else can Miss Xiaotong see?

Of course, he was looking at the expressionless man in front of him, as if he had witnessed the entire process of her crime with his own eyes, but he didn't care at all about what bloody method she used to create a headless corpse.

The boy was just staring and judging her with a cold and ruthless look (in fact, he was just a little tired today and planned to go home quickly after get off work).

"You...what the hell are you?!"

Uh, Ms. Murderer, did you use the wrong adjective?

Chapter 41: Kato Megumi is a little angry!

"Kang Dang~Kang Dang~"

At this time, Xia Yan and Kato Megumi were already on their way home, taking the tram as usual.

After he directly revealed the murderer's identity at the amusement park, he handed over the task of waiting for the police who were still on the way and explaining the case to them to Kudo Shinichi, who was stunned by the answer in the open book.

Kudo Shinichi actually wanted to keep Xia Yan and the others, after all, the people who solved the case also had to take statements and so on.

Then Xia Yan thought about pushing the credit of solving the case back to Kudo Shinichi.

After all, it was he who solved the case, and Xia Yan was just copying the answers, but... he ended up making the other party even angrier.

On the other hand, Kato Hui, who had been holding Xia Yan's arm, said something surprisingly calm and pointed at that time: "Since the case has been solved and it has been proven that it has nothing to do with us, we have no obligation to stay here to assist in the investigation. Sorry, my friend is feeling a little unwell, so I'll take my leave first."

His arguments were well-reasoned and his words were impeccable, completely defeating Kudo Shinichi and leaving him with no excuse to keep him.

In the end, Xia Yan had no idea what kind of aggrieved mood Kudo Shinichi was feeling after being retorted by Kato Megumi.

However, his female companion, Ran Mouri, who rarely saw him being humiliated, seemed quite happy.

The only thing that was a bit of a headache for Xia Yan now was that Kato Megumi seemed to have taken the excuse of feeling unwell that he had come up with seriously, and now she was even thinking about sending him home.

"Come to think of it, this is the first time I've seen Yan-kun like that." Kato Megumi suddenly spoke amid the sound of the tram's wheels.

"What does it look like?"

"Hmm~, how should I put it."

Kato Megumi pondered for a moment, "That cold look of hers, completely unconcerned with anything else but wanting to quickly nail the murderer and get her to confess... I was a bit surprised."

"No, no, no, I just want to leave quickly. After all, it's not a comfortable thing to always stay at a crime scene with a headless corpse. If I have to say it, it's all the fault of that stubborn detective Kudo Shinichi." Xia Yan hurriedly defended himself.

"but……"

Kato Megumi held her shoulder bag in both hands and placed it on the hem of her skirt. Only then did she say the unfinished words: "I don't hate it, after all, I can see another side of Yanjun that I have never seen before."

Hearing this, Xia Yan unconsciously turned his head to look at Kato Megumi beside him, and then saw her smiling face.

Seeing him looking at her, Kato Megumi's expression was so gentle that it seemed as if water was about to drip out. She said in a soft and gentle voice: "Yanjun, when you come to school at noon in the future, do you need me to prepare a lunch box for you? After all, it's not good to always eat lunch boxes from convenience stores..."

"Ah? That's not necessary. I was just about to tell you that I've been a little busy lately, so I might not be able to visit you often at noon."

Kato Megumi: "..."

——Xia Yan, the straight man who only wanted to fight, broke the flag without realizing it

……

……

Things eventually turned out that Xia Yan went to send Kato Megumi home.

He himself felt that he was a little too nervous, but he was still a little worried.

Xia Yan really wanted to convince himself that the reason why Kamishiro Rize targeted Eriri was probably just because of her special physique, which made her very delicious in the eyes of that kind of people, but... it always felt like it wasn't that simple.

but……

Xia Yan looked at Kato Megumi who had already walked home in the distance, and the panel in front of him -

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