Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Nakai Funako got up and left the sliding door. She stood in the living room, curiously watching Chi Feichi and Conan looking for clues.

"Are there any unfinished bentos in the refrigerator?" Conan turned his head and looked around. His eyes quickly locked onto the trash can in the corner. He walked to the trash can and reached out to flip through the paper balls in the trash can. "If I can find the shopping receipt, I should be able to know when the bentos and cakes were bought..."

"Although I don't know when the things were bought, I looked at the refrigerator when I came here yesterday. At that time, there were unfinished bentos and cakes in the refrigerator. I think they should have been put in before Lord Hikone disappeared the day before yesterday!" Nakai Funako also walked to the trash can. Seeing Conan unfold two pieces of paper, she bent over and leaned over. "Huh? Is this a letter written by Lord Hikone?"

"No, it seems to be a crime story..." Conan put the paper ball into the trash can. In the bucket, he walked to the middle of the living room and looked up at the books on the bookshelf next to him. "There are also many books on writing on the bookshelf. Is Mr. Hikone a writer?"

"I don't know either... Wait!" Nakai Funako was refreshed and started to imagine again, "Could it be that the crime plan is actually just the work of Mr. Hikone? He is a hard-working novelist. The jewelry store's stocking situation and store layout are all imagined by him, so Funaqi can't find the jewelry store mentioned in the notebook. Ah... Mr. Hikone is really worthy of being able to imagine such real details of the event. He is simply the god of creation!"

"In fact, it's not certain now..."

Conan was interrupted by the ringing of the phone before he finished speaking.

"Dinglingling... Dinglingling..."

Conan walked to the desk, looked at the ringing landline phone, turned his head and looked at Chi Feichi who walked to the side, "Brother Chi..."

"You come to answer it." Chi Feichi said, and walked behind Conan and squatted down.

Conan nodded, picked up the receiver, and answered the phone, "Hello..."

"This is the monthly editorial department of Dianwen Publishing House," the man on the other end of the phone heard the voice of a child and asked politely, "Excuse me, is Mr. Hikone Kazuma here?"

Conan said in a cute childish voice, "He's not home now..."

"Are you his family?" The man on the other end of the phone continued, "The novel "Crime Plan" he submitted to the editorial department was well received at our editorial meeting. We decided to publish it in our monthly newspaper. He needs to come to the publishing house to discuss the specific details of the publication and remuneration. If Mr. Hikone goes home, please tell him "He said, let him contact us as soon as possible, okay?"

"Okay, I got it..."

"Then I won't bother you anymore."

After the call ended, Nakai Funako, who was listening nearby, smiled happily, "It's true! Funako was right, so Funako is also talented in being a detective, right? Now things have taken a magical turn. Mr. Hikone is actually an excellent novelist. His works will be published soon, and Funako is a detective girl with a strong sense of reasoning..."

Conan didn't listen to what Nakai Funako was mumbling. After putting the phone receiver back, he sorted out his thoughts absent-mindedly.

If the "Criminal Plan" was just a novel, then where did Mr. Hikone, who had been missing for two days, go... huh?

A hand was placed on Conan's shoulder, interrupting Conan's thoughts.

Chi Feichi was still squatting behind Conan, with his right hand on Conan's shoulder, his left hand around Conan, and he placed a small mirror between the landline phone and the printer in front of him, adjusted the angle of the mirror, and let the mirror reflect the wall on one side of the room, and whispered, "Do you see the crack on the wall?"

The mirror reflected a crack between the walls.

The crack was about ten centimeters long and one meter above the ground, which was higher than the height of the table in the room.

Fei Chi had crawled under the crack without knowing when, and supported his body on the floor, with his abdomen against the wall, trying to crawl along the wall to the crack above his head, but because the crack was some distance from the floor, Fei Chi slipped down before he could climb to the crack.

"That crack is connected to the next door," Chi Feichi reminded in a low voice, "The people next door can see the situation in this room through the crack."

"You mean, can we go to the neighbors next door to find out the situation? If there are people living next door, we do need to go to the neighbors to find out the situation, but normal people will not peek at their neighbors through the small hole in the wall, right? His neighbors may not be..."

Conan whispered, and suddenly felt that he was being stared at by a gaze. He was stunned for a moment, slightly turned his head, and looked at Nakai Funako who was still mumbling next to him. After confirming that it was not Nakai Funako who was staring at him, he frowned and whispered, "Brother Chi, did you feel it? It seems that someone was looking at us just now..."

They had just searched the house, and now there were only three of them in the house. Brother Chi squatted behind him and looked at the mirror in front of them. Miss Funaqi was looking at the floor and mumbling, but she didn't stare at him. So who did he feel the gaze from?

Is the neighbor next door really peeking at this room through the gap?

But that wasn't right. The crack was very narrow. If the neighbor next door wanted to peek into the room, he could only put his face against the wall and look through the crack. With the width of the crack, the neighbor could only see the table facing the crack, and there was no way he could see them...

"I feel it too," Chi Feichi responded in a low voice. After the feeling of being stared at disappeared, he adjusted the mirror in front of him with his hand and pointed the mirror to the wall on the other side. "The crack next to the cabinet also It is connected to the next door, about one meter sixty-seven meters above the ground, and the line of sight that looked at us just now must have come from there. "

Conan: "..."

Hey hey, what's going on with this house...

There is a crack in the wall on the left side of the room, which leads to the neighbor's house on the left. There is a crack in the wall on the right, which leads to the neighbor's house on the right. The neighbors on the left and right want to know what is going on in the house. They can see who lives in this house by lying on the wall. , is there any privacy at all?

The house is in such a dilapidated state, doesn't the owner plan to repair it?

Chi Feichi put away the mirror, did not stand up in a hurry, and continued to lower his voice to remind Conan, "On the table facing the gap in the wall on the left, there are traces of a laptop placed, but after we entered, the room The laptop was not found anywhere. If the laptop was not taken away by Mr. Hikone, then someone entered the house and took the computer."

Conan looked at the table and saw that there were indeed traces of a laptop on the table. He nodded and said softly, "The people next door may still be staring at this. Let's leave this room first."

"Just say you're hungry."

Chi Feichi whispered a word and stood up.

Conan immediately started acting, stretched out his hand to touch his stomach, turned to look at Chi Feichi, and said in a cute childish voice, "Brother Chi, I'm hungry, let's go eat first!"

After saying that, Conan walked up to Nakai Funako again, reached out and took Nakai Funako's hand and shook it, "Miss Funaiqi, I'm so hungry..."

"Ah?" Funako Nakai came back to her senses and looked at Conan blankly, "Are you hungry?"

"Since the crime plan is just a novel written by Mr. Hikone, we don't have to worry about him committing a crime. There are no signs of fighting in the house, and he is probably not kidnapped. Maybe he just went to a friend's house," Chi Feichi started. Walking towards the door, "We don't have to be too anxious to find him. We can go have lunch first and think about where to find him while eating."

"That's right!" Nakai Funako didn't think much. Seeing Chi Feichi and Conan walking out, she quickly followed, "To thank you two for helping me find Hikone-sama, I'll treat you two to dinner. Please treat both adults." You must give me this opportunity..."