"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 one of the steps in front of the villa and pushed away the weeds. "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 travelers saw a big villa here and wanted to take pictures or take shelter from the rain. It doesn't mean that there are really people living in it. By the way, we have to check whether the door lock has been picked. , this is the key to explaining the problem.”
With that said, 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? What does this mean? His goal is the villa! And if you look at that place again, there are obviously fewer weeds than next to it? Can you vaguely see that it is a road? It is a road left by people passing there for a long time! "
"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. A Li was reminded by him and noticed that the place where the footprints were found was indeed different. "So there are really people living here?"
"However, the door lock does not seem to have been damaged." Hoshino Sora's voice came over.
Dr. A Li took out the key, walked up the steps, and said, "Just go in and take a look and you will know."
While talking, there was a creaking sound and the door of the villa was 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 it's inhabited!"
Dr. Ali opened the door completely and let the light in. Looking at the dusty scene inside, he shook his head.
Such a dusty place doesn't look like anyone would live there.
Kudo Shinichi didn't 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.
Mao Lilan was deeply attracted by the way Shinichi investigated. She always felt that serious Shinichi was handsome.
Hoshino Sora and Dr. Ari 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.
"That's right, there are indeed people living here!" Kudo Shinichi didn't know when he took out a flashlight and was lying on the floor illuminating the floor. "Although there is dust everywhere on the floor, it is because of this that it is proved 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, you can still see them clearly, right?"
"It's true..." Mao Lilan was happy at first, and then she didn't know what horror movie plot she thought of. She looked around, swallowed, approached Kudo Shinichi, and said nervously, "Shinichi, you Could this be...??"
"What kind of mess is there in this world? Really, you have to believe in science!" Kudo Shinichi rolled 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? An ordinary room? It's strange. The footprints obviously came here, but why did they disappear?" Kudo Shinichi frowned and fell into thought.
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, as if a flash of lightning flashed across his mind, and he quickly asked Hoshino Sora: "What rat?"
"Oh, I just 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 the person has left. , the other is that people are still here!”
Dr. A Li was confused, "Here? How is it possible? Apart from a few of us, is there anyone else here?"
Hearing this, Mao Lilan said fearfully: "Xinyi, don't scare me. You said you didn't have it just now?"
"What are you thinking about? Can you stop thinking about things that are impossible to happen?" Kudo Shinichi raised an index finger, pointed at the ceiling, and said with an expression of complete control, "If this room is still Is there a darkroom? For example, on the ceiling! Have you noticed that there is less dust here than in other places, forming a rectangle."
There were strange marks on the dusty floor near the window, which were indeed rectangular marks as Kudo Shinichi said.
"Use your imagination, what could cause such marks?"
Mao Lilan and Xing Yekong thought hard and couldn't think of a reason.
However, Dr. Ali thought for a while and said hesitantly: "I heard from my aunt that my uncle likes mechanical dolls very much. Could it be that... there is still a mechanism hidden here?"
"That's right!" Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently, and then shouted loudly, "Mr. Qingshan, we know you are up there, please come down. We were entrusted by Aunt Tateko to come to you."
Dr. A Li also quickly shouted: "Mr. Qingshan, I am Dr. A Li, 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.
"Bang~" There was a loud noise, and everyone was shocked to see the ceiling crack, and then a staircase was lowered from it.
"Da da da~" As the stairs were lowered, an old man with gray sideburns, gray beard, and long black hair came down the stairs.
The old man was very thin, with a delicate face, but his eyes were unusually bright, as if he could speak. He walked down slowly step by step, his eyes scanning the people below.
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