Conan: Another Famous Detective

At night, inside the hotel.

"I'm so full!" Hattori Heiji rubbed his belly with a satisfied look on his face and exhaled softly.

"Yeah! The braised chicken pot is really great!" Xiaolan couldn't help but sigh.

"It seems that the business of this hotel was indeed booming in the past." Yu Gongming said with a smile: "The village elder's cooking skills are really unexpected."

"What the hell! Thank you for your praise!" The village chief smiled and put a steamer on the table.

Open the lid and the aroma of rice hits your face.

"Okay!" the village chief said with a smile: "Just add the rice to the hot pot, and then pour the beaten eggs along the edge of the pot..."

The village chief said as he poured eggs and rice into the already boiling hot pot on the table.

At this time, Heye picked up the serving chopsticks enthusiastically, put it into the hot pot and started stirring: "Just stir like this for a while, and the chowder porridge is ready!"

Xiaolan looked at her with some confusion: "Eh? Do you still need to stir? If you just cover the pot and simmer for a while, the eggs will be softer, right?"

He Ye turned around and smiled: "After stirring, the whole pot will have the aroma of eggs, which will make it more delicious!"

"Hmm..." Xiaolan thought for two seconds and said nothing more.

She thinks this should also be the difference between Kanto and Kansai, right? Although she is more accustomed to stewing it directly, it is also good to try Heye's method.

On the other side, Hattori Heiji didn't care much about this. He looked at the "youkai reporter" who called himself Tsurumi and asked: "What is the legend about youkai that you didn't finish just now?"

"That thing!" Tsurumi seemed to be very happy to talk about it and said enthusiastically: "It is said that in the excavation team, there was a foreigner who could only speak a few words of Japanese. His name was Charles Abel. "

"Although the foreigner suffered a landslide accident, it is said that he was actually still alive when other team members arrived! He was caught between the piles of rocks and seemed to want to say something."

"So his teammates asked him if he had found anything. But the foreigner seemed to have injured his throat and couldn't make a sound for a long time. One of the team members handed him the notepad."

"Then, Charles, who accepted the notepad, slowly and carefully wrote three English letters on the notepad. Then, his teammates who saw the piece of paper were so frightened that they became stiff. Do you know why? "

"Why?" Hattori Heiji asked subconsciously.

"Because..." Tsurumi's expression became a little sinister: "Because what is written on that piece of paper is the word [nue]!"

"Nuo!?" Xiaolan and Ye both exclaimed at the same time!

"That Nue..." Xiaolan's face was full of horror.

"It can't be what we often see in folklore..." Kazuye's voice also trembled.

"That's right." Hattori Heiji said calmly: "It has the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the limbs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake. When it appears, it will be accompanied by black smoke and make a terrifying scream. It is said that it will bring disaster. An ancient monster!"

"You mean, that monster is in that cave?" Hattori Heiji asked in a deep voice.

"Yes! That's all I can think of!" After Tsurumi said this, he suddenly stood up, with a hint of excitement on his face:

"This is also the reason why I was found here. I want to prove to the world that the demon that pushed the excavation team into the abyss of terror is real!"

Snapped!

A crisp slap stopped Tsurumi's words.

Tsurumi covered his face and looked at the person who just hit him with half anger and half confusion.

It was the middle-aged woman wearing glasses who spoke that ballad this afternoon, a novelist named Zeng Zi Shi Hui.

Zengzi Shi Hui said coldly: "Don't gloat here about other people's misfortunes. You've ruined a good chowder!"

Saying that, Zeng Zi Shi Hui sat back down in his seat unhappily.

"But why do I feel that your novel is about the same as his?" Archaeologist Michiki Danzawa, an old man in his sixties, said in a subtle tone.

"That's right!" Kokaku Somechi, a historical researcher who previously introduced the history of the Tokugawa family, echoed: "The words just now do not seem to come from the mouth of a writer who always uses grotesque expressions to describe the horrors of demons devouring people. .”

Hearing this, Zeng Zi Shi Hui pushed up his glasses calmly: "I said, shouldn't it be better for me to go back?"

"Okay, okay!" Upon seeing this, the village chief hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Everyone should get along well with each other. Let's have a good sleep tonight and go to the cave at the excavation site early tomorrow morning... huh?"

While the village chief was speaking, a sharp and strange sound suddenly came from the surroundings.

"This kind of sound makes people's hair stand on end..." Heye's voice trembled a little,

Woof woof woof!

The big yellow dog that was temporarily tied aside turned to look out the window uneasily and barked urgently.

"Oh my! How strange!" Zeng Zi was not nervous at all.

"This forest..." Tsurumi seemed to know something.

"Is there even one?" Randikonke laughed.

"What's there?" Conan couldn't help but ask, what riddles are these guys playing?

"That's the chirping sound." Danzawa Michiki said.

"Chirping sound?" Hattori Heiji was startled.

"Yes... Nue's cry!" Danzawa Michiki said quietly.

"Nue!?" Xiaolan and Ye exclaimed at the same time.

"Is it that...the one in folklore..." Xiaolan asked tentatively.

"This should be the cry of some kind of bird, right?" Yu Gongming suddenly said.

Danzawa Michiki looked at him in surprise: "Oh? Brother, you are quite knowledgeable, right?"

"What kind of bird is it?" Hattori Heiji asked confused.

Michiki Danzawa explained: "There is a bird called the tiger thrush that likes to live in broad-leaved forests in hilly areas and low-altitude mountains. In the past, people called it Nue."

"It is said that the monster that appeared in The Tale of the Heike was named Nue because its cry was similar to this bird."

"Is...is that so?" Heye relaxed a little when he heard it was just a bird.

Danzawa Michiki frowned slightly: "However, I originally thought that there were no tiger thrushes living in this area. It's really strange!"

"As for the foreigner who was unfortunately killed in the landslide just mentioned, he must have seen that kind of bird at that time, right? After all, before he died, that foreigner only wrote [nue] on his notepad. Three letters.”

"Are you kidding!" Tsurumi immediately retorted: "That foreigner, how could it be a bird that he saw in the cave at the excavation site? It must be real! In that cave, there must be The legendary demon Nue exists!"

"I said..." Akira Hanomiya knocked on the table lightly and looked at Tsurumi with a caring look: "Although it's already night, it's not time to dream yet. Can you please clear your mind? ?”

"What did you say?" Tsurumi looked over immediately.