Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"Really?" Conan ran across the rows of bookshelves, took the initiative to meet Chi Feichi, and was panting all the time, but after a while, he immediately whispered seriously, "I am Mr. Isesakiri. In the ward where I was, I found a newspaper on June 1, 1944 on his bedside table, which was before and after Sofia’s accident, so I was thinking that he must have participated in the incident back then, so he cared so much about keeping it. A newspaper."

Chi Feichi nodded, took the notebook, and took Conan to the reading area.

Dashan Ya and the bodyguard also gained.

On June 1, 1944, as Conan said, the newspaper reported the disappearance of a boy named "Hong Kong Wusi", that is, the disappearance of Sophia being wronged as a prisoner.

And less than three months after that, a newspaper reported a fire in Sophia's house, which mentioned that "the house of a foreign woman who lived with her youngest son was burned."

At the end of the report, there is this passage:

'According to eyewitnesses to the fire, as the flames intensified, several teenage children took advantage of the chaos and fled, and people who lived nearby at the time saw this scene. '

"A child in his teens..." Conan frowned...

Calculating their ages, Toda Jiro, Motomachi Kiyozo, and Isesaki Riki should have been in their teens at that time. Could there be other secrets behind the fire? And this time, is the root cause of Elizabeth's will, or revenge because of Sophia?

"Didi... Didi..."

The detective armband Ayumi gave Chi Feichi rang at the same time as the detective armband on Conan.

Conan saw that Chi Feichi took out the detective armband, so he didn't take the one in his pocket, and leaned over to listen.

"Brother Feichi..." Hui Yuan's mournful voice came from over there, as well as some noisy noises.

"Where are you guys? Didn't you say you went to the herbal medicine shop?" Conan said, "Brother Chi and I have already met in the library..."

"We are still in the herbal medicine hall," Haibara Ai explained the matter as concisely and clearly as possible, "That Isesaki Masahide went to the herbal medicine hall to make a big noise, and even gathered fans who read his website and nearby neighbors to surround the herbal medicine hall, saying He wants to find out the proof that Ms. Tsurumi is a witch, and the doctor and the children are here now."

"What?" Conan's face changed, and he asked loudly, "How is your situation? No one was injured, right?"

"We are still in the herbal medicine hall, and we haven't confronted them directly yet, but we are not sure if there will be a physical conflict in a while. Sister Nanatsuki is already calling the police." Hui Yuanai remained calm, "We have already After discussing it, Mr. Dashan doesn’t seem to like that Masahide Isesaki, and so do we all. If there is a fight, we will aim at Masaki Isesaki and beat him hard..."

Conan, who had already set off to run outside the door, staggered and almost fell to the ground. Speechlessly, he shouted at the detective armband in Chi Feichi's hand, "Hey, hey, don't mess around, no matter who is injured, it's not What a good thing!"

"The question now is whether they will mess around. When you come over, you may meet the police just in time. Don't forget to tell them that we are in self-defense..." Hui Yuanai said, "That's it anyway, don't be caught We are in a hurry, and we don't want to hurt anyone, we will talk about the rest when you arrive."

"drop."

Detective armband communications cut.

Dashan Mi and the bodyguard followed the two of them and ran out of the door. After listening to the whole conversation, they couldn't help but sigh, "Consultant, Miss Ai and you are really similar. It's hard for anyone to believe that they are not brothers and sisters..."

Conan Half Moon Eyes.

Yeah yeah, there could be a fight over there at any time, Huihara contacted them with this attitude of 'don't worry, calm down, our side is sure to win, and we have already discussed who to fight' attitude, really following a certain guy... …

...

It was past ten o'clock in the morning, and the fog in Jiangshenyuan still persisted.

It is not far from the library to the Herbal Medicine Museum in the area of ​​the foreigner’s mansion. It takes more than 20 minutes to walk, and it takes less than 10 minutes to get there by taxi.

It's a pity that there were no taxis operating in the dense fog. Chi Feichi, Conan, Dashanmi and the bodyguard ran over the ramp all the way, and Wuming followed in the direction of the herbal medicine shop in the fog.

About fifteen minutes later, four people and one cat ran outside the herbal medicine hall. Seeing the courtyard door open and the courtyard was quiet, Wuming was stunned for a moment, and jumped over the courtyard wall, "Master, let me first... meow ?!"

In the white mist, there was a shrill meow that was very scary, even the noise in the yard disappeared in an instant, and soon there was the sound of something heavy hitting the ground.

Conan's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran into the yard and squeezed through the crowd. Seeing that there was no trace of a group fight, he heaved a long sigh of relief, and looked towards the courtyard wall, looking for an unknown figure.

Although Ms. Tsurumi looked devastated, it looked like no one was hurt.

Why is Wuming so miserable? Was it stuck by a branch or something while jumping in?

After Chi Fei entered the courtyard late, he slowed down his pace, did not keep up with Dashan Mi, Conan and the others, and stopped behind the crowd, staring straight at the depths of the courtyard with gloomy eyes.

The elderberry in the depths of the yard had fallen aside, the middle of the tree was smooth, and some slender branches that hadn't grown for a long time were broken, and the leaves and small cream-colored flowers fell messily on the ground.

And Isesaki Masahide was standing beside him holding a chainsaw, probably because Wuming was too cruel just now, at this moment Isesaki Masahide's face was the same as everyone else's, stunned and confused.

After Wuming passed, he stood blankly by the courtyard wall, looking at the sawn elderberry.

This guy actually sawed off the elderberry that his big demon master likes...

This guy actually saw off the elderberry that the witch Hongzi likes...

So the question is, how will this guy die?

Ying Mugong arrived one step later and was running in a hurry. After feeling the cold breath from Chi Feichi at the end of the crowd, he was forced to stop by the suffocation and looked sideways at the quiet crowd in the yard.

After being frightened by the meowing, the crowd began to whisper in panic because they could not see the unknown figure in the white mist.

"Is that the cat meowing just now?"

"What, what's going on? Why is the cat barking so terribly..."

cat?

Sakuragi Gong saw Wuming by the wall, dispelled the guess of 'Wuming was killed' in his heart, and looked in the direction Chi Feichi was looking at. After seeing the fallen elder tree, he felt a thump in his heart, and soon understood What was going on with Chi Feichi's face and meowing?

Ever since Chi Feichi and that Miss Hongzi arrived in Jiangshenyuan, they stayed under the elder tree except for talking to Elizabeth. No matter how stupid he was, he knew that the elder tree meant a lot to Chi Feichi.

The cat made strange noises that scared everyone, and Chi Feichi's face was frighteningly gloomy, all because the elder tree was sawed off.

He remembered that when he was in Europe, he heard a ridiculous legend that the members of the Montgomery family who were rejected by everyone were all dryads...

When he was young, some bad children even teased him: Will you grow leaves? Will you bear fruit?

He's a real person, and so are the rest of the Montgomery family, not a dryad at all, he's never seen one, just like the other 'Mongomarie's who curse people in the middle of the night' , it’s no different, so you will get used to it after listening too much, and you can completely ignore it later.

But the source of this legend is that "the Montgomery family has a tree demon" or "the Montgomery family has a tree-loving family" What about demons?

This is a chilling conjecture.

Just thinking of what he saw in the cemetery in the morning, thinking of Elizabeth's attitude towards Chi Feichi like a junior, thinking of Chi Feichi's "unworthy descendants" remarks, thinking of his mother Sophia or his grandmother who seemed to like it very much. Elderberry...

That bizarre conjecture doesn't seem so strange anymore.

"You..." Yingmu Gong had too many questions in his heart, which drove him to overcome the dull suffocation in his heart, and whispered to Chi Feichi, "Are you all right?"

Chi Feichi suppressed the murderous intent in his eyes, his expression returned to normal, and he asked softly, "What can I do?"

Yingmu Gong felt the atmosphere around him relax, he was relieved, and hesitantly looked at the miserable-looking elder tree in the depths of the yard, "The elder tree was sawn off, I heard some things like Montgomery and Dryad when I was in Europe. legend……"

"You think I'm a tree demon?" Chi Feichi looked sideways at the wrinkled Yingmu Gong, and said speechlessly, "It's just that your ancestors thought I liked elderberries."

Isao Sakuragi said dryly, "I...my ancestor?"

Chi Feichi lowered his eyes to look at the priest's robe on Yingmu Gong, and lowered his voice, "The power of the Holy See spreads all over the world. Sometimes knowing too much may not be a good thing. You'd better forget what I said. , otherwise I don't guarantee that someone will find you, or your daughter."

Isao Sakuragi looked at Tsurumi Yoko who was in the crowd with a look of grief and indignation, and his expression froze, "I understand."

"But you don't have to worry, Elizabeth has already returned the most fundamental things to me," Chi Feichi looked at the crowd, and said softly, "She tacitly agreed that the Montgomery family will no longer be passed on, the contract between me and the Montgomery family This is the end, as long as you don't talk nonsense, even if you have trouble in the future, it has nothing to do with you."

"Is this Elizabeth's decision..." Isao Sakuragi couldn't help asking, "Although I don't know what the so-called contract is, but since the contract has ended, you are in the cemetery in the morning, why... I thought you will expose me..."

Chi Feichi answered very straightforwardly in a low voice, and did not give Sakuragi Gong a lot of face, "You were born under my watch, every time you were brought to Elizabeth, I always looked at you, now I see you, I I will also think of the way you cried when you were a baby lying on the bed after wetting the bed, so I don’t want to expose you, but don’t be too happy, there is more than one detective here.”

When Yingmu Gong heard 'bed-wetting', the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and then he tried to understand the logic, but he still didn't understand whether Chi Feichi didn't expose him because of his 'old love', or because he felt that he was not a threat, "Then if I... ..."

"Hmph, it's just meowing!"

In the crowd, after Isesaki Masahide came back to his senses, he yelled again with an upright face, "I have already cut down this tree, and no bad luck has befallen me. Look, I am still alive and well. ?”