Next to him, the sound of doors opening and conversations could be heard in the yard of Zhukaku's house.
"Oh? Soga, you're already here!"
"yes."
"Then I'll go to the toilet first and then come out. You can start the car's engine and wait for me."
"No, if you want to drink, you have to walk there."
"I understand. This is a rare opportunity. Do you want to come with us?"
"No, I don't usually drink, and I also want to watch the late-night live broadcast of football, so I have to go to bed now."
"Really? That's really a pity..."
After a while, the male owner of the house and the Feng Shui master walked out to the street, arm-in-arm, laughing and chatting.
Hattori Heiji looked at the backs of the two people and sighed in his heart: The world of adults is really ironic.
Mouri Kogoro heard the ringtone of his cell phone, and when he took out his phone to answer it, Maori Lan's somewhat irritable voice came from over there:
"Dad, how long are you going to hang out outside? We have already prepared dinner, can you come back soon?"
Mouri Kogoro put his hands away from his ears, waited for Maori Lan to finish roaring, and then said to the other side of the phone, "Okay, I got it, we'll go back now."
After hanging up the phone, Mouri Kogoro said casually, "Really... Okay, let's go back. I think the arsonist would not choose this place to commit the crime. It must be the woman who is dealing with her husband and her lover. I was too nervous and misjudged the situation. There were no sneaky figures wandering around here."
Chi Feichi started the car, turned around and drove towards the street.
His teacher told him from personal experience: There are only zero or countless times for being slapped in the face for setting a flag.
The car turned around the intersection and drove along the road to the main driveway. As soon as it turned onto the main driveway, a fire truck with its siren honking came from the opposite direction and turned in the direction they came from.
"This, this is..." Hattori Heiji turned his head and looked out of the rear window, his expression changed drastically.
From the direction they came, fire lit up the night sky, and thick smoke billowed into the sky.
"Brother Chi, stop the car!" Conan shouted. When Chi Feichi stopped the car, he immediately opened the door and jumped out.
Hattori Heiji also got out of the car and ran towards the direction of the fire with Conan.
"Hey..." Mouri Kogoro had no time to stop him.
Chi Feichi said, "Teacher, help me close the car door..."
Mouri Kogoro hesitated for a moment, but chose to get out of the car.
Chi Feichi: "...I want to go back to eat."
Mouri Kogoro, who was about to close the car door, stared: "..."
This kid could bear to leave them behind and drive back to eat alone?
"I understand," Chi Feichi said, "I'll turn around at the intersection ahead."
"Okay, let me go see those two reckless brats first!" Mouri Kogoro nodded seriously and closed the car door.
Chi Feichi drove to the front street and made a U-turn, then turned back into the alley. Halfway through the car, he saw Conan, Hattori Heiji and Mouri Kogoro running towards the fire site and honked the horn.
The car did not slow down and drove past the three people. It only said a calm word:
"come on."
Conan stumbled while running and almost fell to the ground.
Mouri Kogoro choked, if he had known he would have been waiting for the ride.
Hattori Heiji stopped in stunned silence.
Brother Fei Chi actually didn't take them with him... Why don't you keep trying? Is this a joke?
…
Chi Feichi looked at the three stunned people in the rearview mirror, drove around the street, and the three figures disappeared in the rearview mirror.
Calculating, it takes about eight minutes to drive to the fire site, and it takes about three minutes for him to make a U-turn at the previous intersection. Even if he has to wait for a while at a traffic light or heavy traffic, he can reach the fire site within fifteen minutes.
And if you want to run there, there is no direct alley shortcut in this area, so you still have to run along the road, which takes about twenty-five minutes.
Why couldn't these three people calm down and accompany him to the intersection to make a U-turn?
Since you got out of the car in advance, let's run over.
When Conan and the other three ran out of breath, the Morokakus' house was still enveloped in fire, and firefighters were still putting out the fire.
Chi Feichi's car stopped at the street corner without driving past, but he had already arrived behind the crowd of onlookers.
"Huh..." Hattori Heiji ran to Chi Feichi, bent over, supported his knees with one hand, and asked with deep breaths, "Fei, Fei Chi, how is the situation?"
Conan and Mouri Kogoro ran closely behind, and Youyuan looked at Chi Feichi.
Someone actually watched them running over, ruthless!
"The fire is very big," Chi Feichi turned and walked away from the crowd of onlookers. "We are still controlling the fire to prevent it from spreading to nearby homes. It will probably take some time to completely extinguish the fire, and we are not sure if there is anyone inside."
"I remember..." Hattori Heiji looked at the fire that engulfed the house with an ugly face, "The mistress of that house didn't leave before we left, right?"
"Hmm..." Mouri Kogoro nodded seriously.
After watching for a while, Hattori Heiji came to his senses and called Toyama Kazuha to tell them that they could not go back.
Listening to Yuan Shan and Ye's questioning on the phone, Chi Feichi wanted to say that he wanted to go back, but he couldn't do it now.
They had gone into the Zhujiao family's yard to watch the affair, and their footprints must have been left in the yard.
If they had diverted back beforehand, they could have eaten first, waited for the police to investigate the footprints and contact them, and then explain to the police.
But now that they were here, it was best to wait for the police to arrive and explain the footprints.
Forget it, he can still buy lunch...
"Ryoko! Ryoko!"
In the crowd, the man of the Morokaku family rushed forward and was stopped by a firefighter.
Ryoko Morokaku was brought out by the firefighters, but she was already a corpse.
The male master of the Morokaku family threw himself in front of the stretcher, with tears on his face and a sad voice, "Ryoko——!"
The Feng Shui master named 'Soga' was by his side, reaching out to support the male owner's shoulders, looking at the corpse with a look of relief on his face.
The onlookers were also moved by the sadness, except...
Chi Feichi observed the expressions of the two people and felt a little emotional.
There are many people in this world who are good at acting. They shed tears whenever they want, and even their expressions are spot on.
"It seems that the lady did not escape." Mouri Kogoro said solemnly.
Hattori Heiji had already hung up the phone to Toyama Kazuha, and said angrily, "Damn it, if we had stayed here, this wouldn't have happened."
"But don't you think it's strange?" Conan looked at the crying male master of the Morokaku family, "Didn't those two people go out to drink? It was less than an hour before they went out, so why did they come back again?"
"Yes." Hattori Heiji also felt abnormal.
"Maybe it's the husband's sixth sense," Mouri Kogoro guessed. "Maybe someone discovered the fire and ran to notify them."
"Mom, look, am I right?" In the crowd behind, a little boy looked up at his mother, "The red horse who set fire is here again."
Hattori Heiji was stunned, and quickly stepped forward, knelt down and asked, "Kid, how do you know that Akama has been here?"
Conan followed suit.
Maybe this is an eyewitness!
"Because I saw it with my own eyes!" said the little boy.
"When? Where?" Conan asked quickly.
The little boy's mother quickly protected the little boy behind her, "Hey, what on earth do you want to do?"
Hattori Heiji used provocation, "Kid, did you really see it? You can't be lying, right?"
"I'm not lying!" The little boy looked out from behind his mother and said seriously, "Although it was just a shadow, I was watching the "Masked Superman" cartoon in the living room, and when the theme song started to play, It suddenly became bright outside, and I looked out the window and was shocked to see that there was a shadow of such a big horse on the curtains of my house!"
As he said that, the little boy opened his hands and made a big circle, "But my mother came in quickly and said that she couldn't watch TV in the dark room. She turned on the light, and the shadow disappeared immediately."
"Where is your home?" Conan turned to look at the houses near the fire, "On the left or on the right?"
"The house on the right side of the burning house!" The little boy pointed to his own house, and Hattori Heiji and Conan immediately ran over.
"Wait, wait a minute!" The little boy's mother had no time to stop her and watched the two people climb over the fence and run into their yard.
Chi Feichi turned around and glanced, but did not follow.
There must be a red horse toy at the scene of the fire. The flames of the fire cast the horse's shadow on the curtains of the little boy's house. The premiere time of "Masked Superman" was 7:30 in the evening. If the little boy found out outside The time it lit up happened to be when the opening song of "Masked Superman" started, so the fire should have started around 7:30.
But he remembered that the method of this case was to use light bulbs, toilet paper and matches...
In the crowd behind, a hand slowly reached for Chi Feichi's shoulder.
The second before the hand touched Chi Feichi's shoulder, Chi Feichi turned sideways and moved a step to the left. While avoiding the hand, he also turned around to look at the owner of the hand.
Xuantian Longde clapped his hands in the air and stopped in the air. He looked up and saw Chi Feichi staring at him. More cold sweat broke out on his already sweaty forehead, "Chi, Mr. Chi, I... …I just want to talk to you…”
Chi Feichi nodded, "You lead the way."
Xuantian Longde breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, walked towards the street, stopped under the wall away from the crowd, turned around and looked at Chi Feichi who was following him, wiped the sweat from his head, and stopped talking. ,"I……"
Chi Feichi waited for Xuantian Longde to continue.
"I..." Xuantian Longde quietly glanced at Chi Feichi's cold expression, raised his hand that he had just put down, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Chi Feichi: "..."
Xuenta Longde took a deep breath, looked up at the young man in black who was much taller than him, met the overly calm gaze, sweated, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped his face.
Chi Feichi had a black line on his head. He wiped his head and face, and then wiped it again. Did Xuantian Lunde want to wipe his hands, arms, and legs again?
"As a grown man, can you not be sarcastic in what you say and do?"
"Ah, yes!" Xuantian Longde quickly stood up and put down the handkerchief, "H-I'm sorry, I just want to ask you, can you give me back the keychain I gave you today? That...that was supposed to be a sign. Lucky Cat’s keychain, but..."
Chi Feichi took out the small box from his pants pocket, opened it, and looked at the key ring inside.
The key ring has a toy pendant of Guan Yu riding a red rabbit horse. The man, Qinglong Yanyue Sword and horse are all red, small and exquisite, and even the thin lines on the armor and horse's reins are clearly outlined.
Fei Chi poked his head from the collar and stared at the key ring, unable to take his eyes away. "Master, Master, this toy is so beautifully made, and it also has a key ring. You don't need to tie it up when hanging on the wall!"
"Ah!" Xuantian Longde was startled by Feichi who suddenly poked his head out, and took a step back in a hurry, "Snake...snake..."
