"This footprint looks like it's been there for a while. Maybe it was left by a traveler who came here occasionally." Dr. A Li said.
Kudo Shinichi smiled and said, "Pay attention to the lines on these shoe prints. You can still see them clearly. Come here again."
He led everyone to the door of the villa. On one of the steps, he pushed aside the weeds and said, "Look, this shoe print is the same as the shoe print outside, indicating that the person came to the villa from outside."
Hoshino Sora said disapprovingly, "Maybe the travel friend saw There is a large villa here to take pictures or take shelter from the rain, but it doesn't mean that someone is really living in it. By the way, we have to check whether the door lock has been broken. This is the key to the problem. "
As he said that, he ran to check the door lock.
"Hey, I haven't finished speaking yet. The direction of the footprints here is the same as the direction of the footprints just discovered. They can be connected into a straight line. The direction of this straight line is the villa. What does this mean? It means that his goal is the villa. And if you look at that place again, there are obviously fewer weeds than next to it. You can faintly see that it is a road. That is the road left by people passing there for a long time."< /p>
“There are no roads in this world, but if you walk too much, they will naturally become roads. Do you understand? This means that it is not just occasional travelers who come here to take shelter from the rain or take photos, but that there are people who live here for a long time.”
Dr. Ali was reminded by him and noticed that the place where the footprints were found was indeed different, "So someone really lives here."
"But, this The door lock doesn't seem to have been broken." Hoshino Sora's voice came over.
Dr. Ali took out the key, walked up the steps, and said, "Just go in and take a look and you will know."
As he spoke, there was only a creaking sound, and the door of the villa was opened. opened. Suddenly, a blast of moldy, humid, and cold air hit his face, causing Dr. Ali to take a few steps back.
“This doesn’t look like someone is inhabited.”
Dr. Ali opened the door completely, and after the light shone completely in, he looked at the dusty scene inside. , he shook his head.
In such a dusty place, it doesn’t look like anyone would live there.
Kudo Shinichi did not pay attention to the environment in the villa. He walked in first and looked around, inspecting all the details inside. Mao Lilan followed closely behind, and was Shinichi's follower. Anyway, she would follow wherever Shinichi went without disturbing him, just quietly watching Shinichi investigate.
The way Shinichi investigated deeply attracted Mao Lilan. She always felt that the serious Shinichi was handsome.
Hoshino Sora and Dr. Ali entered together. The two looked around, and their observations were rough.
After everyone entered the villa, a young man wearing a dark blue coat quietly came to the outside of the villa and looked at the people inside through the glass window.
"Yes, there are indeed people living here" Kudo ArataI don't know when I took out a flashlight and was lying on the floor shining the floor. "Although there is dust everywhere on the floor, it is because of this that it proves that there are people living here."
Mao Lilan asked cooperatively, "Why?"
"Because of the footprints." Kudo Shinichi illuminated one of the floors with a light and said with a smile, "Look, although these footprints are covered with dust, Covered, but you can still see clearly, right?"
"It's true." Mao Lilan was overjoyed at first, and then she didn't know what horror movie plot she thought of. She looked around and swallowed. , approached Kudo Shinichi and said nervously, "Shinichi, do you think this could be..."
"What kind of mess is there in this world? Really, you have to believe in science." Kudo Shinichi Rolling his eyes, "Okay, let's follow this footprint. It will lead us to find the owner of the footprint."
So, everyone followed the footprints to a room on the second floor, and then The clue was broken, completely broken.
"No one is in an ordinary room. The footprints obviously came here, so why did they disappear?" Kudo Shinichi frowned and fell into thinking.
Hoshino Sora looked around, his ears twitched, he raised his head curiously and looked at the ceiling, muttering "Is it a mouse?"
Kudo Shinichi was suddenly startled, and something like There was a flash of lightning, and he quickly asked Hoshino Sora, "What rat?"
"Oh, I heard a sound on the ceiling, a bit like the sound of a mouse running." Hoshino Sora replied.
"I see, that's it, I understand." Kudo Shinichi showed a relieved smile, and explained himself when no one asked, "There are only two possibilities for the footprints to disappear here, One is that people have left, and the other is that people are still here."
Dr. Ali was confused, "How is it possible here? Apart from a few of us, there are no people here."
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Hearing this, Mao Lilan said fearfully, "Xinyi, don't scare me. Just now you said it didn't happen."
"What are you thinking about? Don't think about the impossible." Are you thinking about things?" Kudo Shinichi raised an index finger, pointed at the ceiling, and said with an expression of complete control, "What if there is a darkroom in this room? For example, have you noticed on the ceiling? There was less dust than other places, forming a rectangle."
There were strange marks on the dusty floor near the window. It was indeed a rectangle as Kudo Shinichi said. traces.
"Use your imagination to figure out what could cause such traces."
Mao Lilan and Hoshino Sora thought hard and couldn't think of a reason.
On the other hand, Dr. Ali thought for a while and said hesitantly, "I heard from my aunt that my uncle likes mechanical dolls very much. Could there be a mechanism hidden here?"
"No. Wrong." Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently, and then shouted loudly, "Mr. Qingshan, we knowYou are up there, please come down. We are here to find you on the entrustment of Aunt Dingzi.
Dr. Ali also quickly shouted, "Mr. Qingshan, I am Dr. Ali, aunt Dingzi's nephew. We have interpreted the letter you sent to your aunt." "
After a while, the whole room suddenly shook.
"Wow, is there an earthquake?" Hoshino Sora was shocked and wanted to pull everyone to jump out of the window and escape.
“No, the mechanism has been activated. "Although Kudo Shinichi was also surprised, he hesitated and panicked.
There was a loud "bang", and everyone was shocked to see that the ceiling cracked, and then a staircase was lowered from it.
"Da da da" As the stairs were lowered, an old man with gray sideburns and long black hair came down the stairs.
The old man was very thin, with a delicate face and unusual eyes. It was so bright that he seemed to be able to speak. He walked slowly down step by step, his eyes scanning the people below.