Chapter 2215 The Mastermind Behind the Scenes

Due to Fangzheng's hurricane all the way, the group of them were basically the first to arrive at the Twilight Annex. In fact, when Kogoro carefully parked Fangzheng's car at the main entrance of the Twilight Annex, there was not a single car around.

"I wonder if these rich people are mentally ill."

After getting out of the car, Fangzheng shook his head looking at the Twilight Villa in front of him.

"Why do one, two, three or four like to build their houses in such an uninhabited place? It's not convenient to go out to buy things. If someone gets sick and waits to be sent to the hospital, they will probably miss the time. If something happens Bandits and robbers, they will give you a way out, and you won't have any reaction if you kill your whole family..."

"Who knows, rich people just think differently."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Kogoro Mori also complained. After all, he has experienced many similar cases. I have to admit that Fang Zheng is right. Every time there is a homicide in such a poor place, call the police. It's not easy to work, it's hard to find a doctor, and he doesn't understand what kind of brain circuit these rich people are.

Of course, if it is said to be clean, it is clean enough. If someone dies here for ten days and a half months, no one will find it.

Chatting nonsense, a group of people walked up the steps, and then Mori Kogoro knocked on the door, and soon a maid opened the door.

"Welcome, Mr. Mori and his party, right? I didn't expect you to come so early... Please come in."

"Are we the first to come here?"

Hearing the maid's words, Mori Kogoro was also refreshed, while Conan sighed helplessly watching this scene, he is no longer a child, why are he still fighting for the first place...

"Yes, you are the first guests I have seen since I came here, and the other guests have not come yet."

"Hahaha, that's how it is."

Hearing this, Mori Kogoro also laughed, and then walked into the annex, while Conan's eyes widened, and he displayed the Oscar winner skill he learned in Hawaii, looking at the maid.

"Big sister, I want to meet the owner here. It's rare for him to invite us to dine in such a luxurious place. I want to thank him."

"That's right, where is the owner of the mansion?"

Xiaolan also hurried up to cooperate at this moment—it seems that the husband and wife team really have a tacit understanding.

"this……………"

Facing the inquiries of the two, the maid showed embarrassment.

"Actually, I have never met the master."

"Hey?"

Hearing this, Mori Kogoro also asked curiously.

"Aren't you working here? How come you haven't seen anyone?"

"It's like this. In fact, I was hired here...so..."

"But there's always someone to interview."

"It's a bit strange to say."

Facing Kogoro Mori's question at this time, the maid also spoke suspiciously.

"I applied for the job after I saw the job advertisement in the newspaper. Because the conditions were very generous, many people signed up. But when I walked into the room, I didn't see the interviewer. I only saw an open There is also a guest list, but when I looked at the list, a line appeared on the computer, saying that I was admitted... "

"that's it?"

Mori Kogoro frowned, and Conan and Xiaolan listened carefully. After all, Mori Kogoro didn't know, but they knew that the mastermind behind this invitation was Belmode, the one who made Conan smaller. The organization in black may have some clues.

Moreover, this hide-and-show appearance does indeed resemble the black-clothed organization.

It's a pity that this maid is only a temporary one. I can't tell you what the place is or why the master asked them to come here. It's just that the master invited a few detectives to the dinner party. Before that, you can feel free to... ...

So everyone had no choice but to wander around in this annex.

And before anyone else came, Fangzheng also planned to vaccinate Xiaolan.

After all, no matter how good you are as a detective, you will still be afraid of ghosts if you are afraid of ghosts.

"By the way, since I'm idle and boring, why don't I tell you the story here first."

"Hey?"

Hearing Fang Zhengguo's words, Mori Kogoro, Conan and Xiaolan were also taken aback.

"Do you know where this is?"

"Of course, I wouldn't come here without doing some research beforehand... It's just that the information is really limited."

Speaking of this, Fangzheng also sighed. The Internet in Conan's era is not advanced enough, and a lot of information can't be found on the Internet. Instead of a place like the game world, Fangzheng directly used his personal terminal to hack into even his ancestor eighteen. Generations can be checked clearly, so... the necessity of digitization!

So Fangzheng had no choice but to send the intelligence department under Umbrella to use manpower to investigate. Of course, it was nothing more than making friends with government agencies, visiting nearby residents, investigating newspapers and magazines, and inquiring about some intelligence rumors...

This kind of efficiency is of course far worse than searching on the Internet. Fangzheng is used to the days when his personal terminal scans the genealogy of the eighteenth generation of other people's ancestors. The godfather, who is used to high school girls, suddenly travels back to the primitive era, where he doesn't even have to ride on dinosaurs and have to fight with saber-toothed tigers. That's depressing.

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper.

"According to the clues I have investigated, this annex belongs to a rich man named Renye Karasuma, who died half a century ago..."

"Wait, Ren Karasuma?!"

Hearing the name, Xiaolan didn't respond, but Mori Kogoro called out, and Conan frowned.

"Well, at least it once belonged to him..."

Holding the report in front of him, Fang Zheng continued to speak.

"Everything in this annex was custom-made by Karasuma Renya... In short, as I said, rich people have money and willfulness, and their brain circuits are different from others, but what I will say next Things are going to be a little scary... Well, Xiaolan, you should be mentally prepared first."

"Huh? Is it scary?"

Hearing this, Xiao Lan couldn't help but tighten her body, and Fang Zheng nodded.

"According to rumors, there was a tragic incident in this annex 40 years ago. At that time, this annex once gathered celebrities from all walks of life in finance and economics. Of course, on the surface, it was to commemorate the ninety-nine-year-old The dead millionaire is actually an auction for the works of art collected by Renye Karasuma during his lifetime."

Having said this, Fangzheng glanced around.

"At that time, the auction was expected to last for three days and three nights. As a result, on the second night, on a rainy night, two uninvited guests came to the door of the annex. They claimed to be lost travelers and hoped to stay here for a night. Of course, the person in charge of the annex refused at first, but when the other party gave him a cigarette, he suddenly changed his mind and let the two of them enter the annex."

"........."

Hearing this, Mori Kogoro, Xiaolan and Conan all gasped, while Fang Zheng continued on.

"After that, other guests were also bewitched by these two people. At first, some people argued endlessly about these two uninvited guests, but then a strange scene happened. One of the guests who participated in the auction seemed to have met Like a ghost, she threw away her lot and ran wildly, while a woman cried bitterly as if she was begging someone for forgiveness, and someone stabbed herself excitedly. Afterwards, the whole venue became a hell. Everyone They all began to snatch the auctioned artworks, and even killed each other because of it. In the end, after one night, only eight corpses and a dozen unconscious guests were left in the annex, and the two mysterious The people disappeared together with the auction items."

“…………This, this is just a story, right?”

"Not really."

Xiao Lan asked tremblingly, while Fang Zheng shook his head.

"In fact, from the moment I entered this annex, I could smell a strong smell of blood."

"Have it?!"

"My nose is relatively sharp, and most people probably can't smell it."

Fangzheng waved his hand and continued talking.

"At least from the previous point of view, the gate, the corridor, the living room, the playroom, all the places we passed along the way were covered with blood, and the amount of far more than eight people, it is estimated that more than eight people died at that time...... ..."

"I'll go out and smoke a cigarette to calm down."

Mori Kogoro also felt chills all over his body at the moment, and he didn't feel too good looking at the empty playroom, so he hurriedly found an excuse to sneak out to relax, and Xiaolan wanted to leave at first, but was beaten by Fang Zheng. Gesture, and then took Conan to sit on the sofa next to him.

"What do you think?"

Fangzheng asked in a low voice while pretending to play chess with Conan.

"From the current point of view, I think the person who invited us this time should have nothing to do with the Black Organization."

Conan also turned his head and gave his own guess.

"The signing of the invitation letter this time is a play on words. It was converted to Kaitou Kidd, but..."

"If Kidd had the guts to appear in front of me, I would have killed him long ago."

That's right, as Fang Zheng said, Kidd didn't have the courage to send letters to him and Conan. If Fang Zheng was provoked, Kidd would die without knowing how.

"So the inviter this time is probably disguised as Kaitou Kidd, trying to attract the attention of us detectives."

"The reason why Belmode tampered with this letter may be because she found out that this letter would be sent to Kogoro Mouri. After all, in her capacity, it would be too careless to contact you directly. .”

Fang Zheng didn't believe that Belmode was really that stupid.

"So this letter should have nothing to do with the Black Organization, but the clues contained in this letter should have something to do with the Black Organization, so Belmode wrote down his name on purpose."

Conan also understood now, and Xiaolan also raised her own doubts.

"Then could it be that the sponsor has something to do with the Black Organization?"

"Impossible, if the person who invited us to the banquet has something to do with the Black Organization, then Belmode's leaving his name on it is courting death. As long as some of us are idle and have nothing to do, ask the organizer why the above There will be Belmode's signature, and she's pretty much done."

Fangzheng shook his head.

"In contrast, I pay more attention to Renye Karasuma."

"You mean the rich man?"

"That's right."

Fangzheng nodded.

"After you told me that Belmode's signature was left on this letter, I sent someone to conduct a series of investigations on the Twilight Annex. This guy named Renye Karasuma is indeed suspicious, and what I told you before The story of . . . I have an idea."

Having said this, Fangzheng narrowed his eyes.

"Maybe Karasuma Renya is cheating her death."

"So you mean that the rich man didn't die at all, but pretended to be dead, and then sent someone to take away the things in his annex?"

Conan frowned and thought for a moment.

"But Renya Karasuma is already ninety-nine years old. You can fake other things, but you can't fake your age..."

"Are you sure? Think about Mermaid Island."

"…………………should?"

Thinking of the long-lived woman played by Junhui Shimabukuro, Conan's tone is not so sure.

"Even if it's true, it was half a century ago. I think Renye Karasuma should have died a long time ago."

"hehe."

Hearing Conan's deduction, Fangzheng chuckled and pointed at him.

"Have you forgotten how you became like this?"

"Of course it's because of the poison."

"Then who developed the poison?"

"The organization in black...... Wait, don't you want to say that the organization in black developed this drug to make Renye Karasuma rejuvenate!!"

Thinking of this, Conan was shocked, and Xiaolan was even more dumbfounded, feeling as if she was listening to a science fiction novel.

"How is it impossible? You always thought that the poison developed by the Black Organization is used to kill people, and the reduction in size is its side effect. Why don't you think about it the other way around? In fact, the drug developed by the Black Organization may itself be In order to rejuvenate people, dead people are its side effects——but because the side effects are too large, they cannot be marketed, and this kind of thing is actually very normal in the field of drug research and development.”

"But the premise is that Renye Karasuma is still alive, and now half a century has passed since his death!"

"In 1967, there was a rich man named James Bedford who was incurable due to advanced lung cancer. So he decided to cryogenically freeze himself, and hoped that one day in the future, medical technology would be developed enough to cure his disease. Wake up and go on living after lung cancer, this is the first person in the world to be treated with cryonics."

Fangzheng said something silently.

"Furthermore, the idea of ​​cryopreservation of life has been discussed in academic circles a century ago. Considering that Karasuma Renye is a rich man, it is only natural that he wants to live forever and be young. He is rich and self-willed. If you want to make it, can you control it?"

"........."

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Conan was speechless.

He really doesn't care!

"So what you mean is that Renye Karasuma secretly set up the Black Organization to study the drug in order to restore her youth, and announced that she was suspended animation to the outside world. In addition to researching drugs, the Black Organization has also penetrated into various fields. In order to let Karasuma Renya regain power after being 'resurrected'?"

"Probably."

Fangzheng nodded silently, but there were still some things he didn't tell Conan. According to what Xiao Ai and Ming Mei told him, the parents of the two sisters also studied this drug, but in the end the rebel organization burned all the research materials. Fangzheng suspected that they might have learned the truth and knew that their medicine was for Renye Karasuma, so they destroyed everything.

Moreover, since it is a drug, it must be tested before it can be used. Belmode may be the victim of this drug, and the real function of APTX4869 should actually be to restore youth to youth, and then maintain youth forever. This can also be seen from Belmode, she looks only in her thirties, but according to Fang Zheng's investigation, she is likely to be in her 60s or 70s.

That is to say, if Conan, Xiao Ai, and Belmod are taking the same drug, then they each embody the two characteristics of this drug.

One is rejuvenation, and the other is eternal youth.

It's just that this drug is obviously not stable enough. Considering Belmode's age, Xiao Ai and Mingmei were not born when she took the drug, so she should be taking the drug that their parents researched. Although this drug showed the property of "maintaining", it did not show the property of "restoring youth".

And after that, Mingmei and Xiaoai's parents may have actually researched the elixir of life in a sense, but after learning that the medicine was intended for the evil leader of the black organization, they naturally destroyed it.

Xiao Ai said that the drug she developed was based on part of the data left by her parents, so Fangzheng also had a deduction.

That is, Xiao Ai's parents had made two kinds of drugs back then, one was an incomplete drug A, and the other was a complete drug B.

Later, drug A was given to Belmode—it’s not surprising, you can’t cheapen the enemy with this kind of drug, like in American comics, you find a passerby to do the experiment, and then make a superhero come to you in turn Trouble, such a stupid thing is rejected by anyone with normal IQ.

Belmode is likely to be trusted by Renye Karasuma, so it is only natural for him to "test the poison" as a confidant.

It's a pity that the effect of medicine A is not complete, so the Miyano couple made a complete medicine B, but after that, they destroyed medicine B and the materials in order to prevent Renye Karasuma from resurrecting. And Xiao Ai obtained the residual information of her parents, which is likely to be the part of the complete "B" medicine, so the APTX4869 she made has the effect of "rejuvenating the old".

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why Belmode just didn't get old, while Xiao Ai and Conan got smaller.

"So what do we do now?"

"I don't care what the master wants to do, but there are likely to be some clues hidden in this annex. If we can find these clues, we may be able to discover Renye Karasuma's hiding place."

Having said this, Fangzheng stretched out his hand and patted Conan's shoulder.

"This task is entrusted to you, detective!"