Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

In the bar on the ghost ship, all kinds of monsters sat together in twos and threes, drinking and chatting while waiting for the party to start.

Maori Kogoro looked around and couldn't help saying to Suzuki Sonoko: "There are so many people here today. By the way, that little monk with a Tang umbrella just now is a child, right? Is it really okay for a child to come to such a place? His parents actually allowed him to come and participate?"

The little monk with a Tang umbrella was small and obviously a little boy. It couldn't be an adult pretending to be him, right?

Suzuki Sonoko said nonchalantly: "The little boys nowadays are so powerful!" Conan's appearance emerged in her mind, "Maybe he likes this kind of exciting occasion and comes here without telling his parents?"

Maori Kogoro curled his lips in disdain. If that little boy was Conan, he would definitely throw him off the ship on the spot, but he couldn't care about other people's children, so he stopped paying attention to the little monster immediately.

Suddenly, the lights in the bar dimmed, and several candles were lit abruptly. The flickering candlelight added a mysterious and terrifying atmosphere to the dim bar.

"Is it finally starting?" Suzuki Sonoko looked over expectantly.

The candles were arranged in an orderly manner, forming a passage-like place, with a space left at the end.

Accompanied by a strange cry, the empty space suddenly sounded the sound of mechanical rotation, and a monster dressed as a pirate wearing a skull mask stood on the lift and slowly rose up.

"Wandering on the underworld, wandering demons and monsters! Welcome to this ghost ship - the Ghost of the Sea! I am the ghost captain of this ship, Captain God!

There is still an hour before the dinner, so please find someone with the same fate as you, and find the other six companions with the same imprint as you!"

Captain God said the opening lines loudly.

"The same imprint?" Maori Kogoro muttered in confusion.

"It's the tarot cards!" Suzuki Sonoko said, taking out a card from her pocket, "Everyone should have received one when they boarded the ship, so we should group people with the same cards together so that we can play the game more conveniently later?"

Mouri Kogoro suddenly realized, and took out a tarot card from his pocket, took a look and said, "It's the card with XV and a goat, right? So we are the goat team?"

Mouri Kogoro complained in his heart, what kind of strange team name is this?

"It's not the goat!" A monster wearing a hooded mask like a tengu, with wide wings hanging on his back and holding a round fan in his hand came over, walked up to him and showed his tarot card, which was the same as Mouri Kogoro's.

"XV is a Roman numeral, which means 15, and the name of this goat is Bafomei, one of the Christian demons. Look at the words THE DEVI written on the bottom of the card, right?"

"You are... Tengu?" Maori Kogoro was stunned, looked at the monster's costume, the round fan in his hand, the wooden sword hanging on his waist, and especially the wings behind him, "Aren't your wings heavy? But they look really realistic! Especially this mask!"

Tengu smiled and said in a slightly low voice: "Fortunately, this wing is made of very light material, and it doesn't feel like carrying it."

"Is that so..." Maori Kogoro replied in a daze, feeling that he was outshined all of a sudden!

It doesn't matter if you can't see his appearance, because everyone present is a monster now, but this outfit is carefully arranged, much better than the makeup that he hastily put on after choosing for a long time.

Suzuki Sonoko was even more so, she just changed into a shrine maiden's clothes and a broom.

But the wings of this Tengu were a little too wide, so no one could get too close.

"Besides, grouping guests is not just a game," Tengu said, looking at the monsters whose eyes were focused on Captain Gode, "This party is also a movie selection event."

"Selection?" Maori Kogoro and Suzuki Sonoko both showed confused expressions.

"Don't you know?" Tengu seemed a little surprised.

Both shook their heads.

Tengu sighed, but since these two were his next teammates, he could only explain patiently: "Then do you know that every summer there is a movie called The Voyage of the Ghost Captain?"

Maori Kogoro reacted after hearing this, he still knew this movie: "It's the movie where a ghost ship full of monsters will come to someone who does something bad? So this party is to select actors?"Suzuki Sonoko suddenly became excited: "If that's the case, if I perform well, I can also act in a movie?"

She has a strong interest in all kinds of novel things, and acting in a movie is such an interesting thing that attracted her at once.

"That's right." Tengu turned around, supported his wings behind him and sat on the stool, "The crew members will mix in with the guests every year to observe and select people who meet the requirements. Although they are just some supporting roles..."

Mouri Kogoro immediately understood: "Because the guests will play various monsters, it is convenient to group people for selection, right?"

Tengu nodded: "Yes, this party has been held for the fourth time. So you can see that those people are trying their best to show themselves. By the way, you come to this party without knowing anything?"

The two of them immediately showed embarrassed expressions.

Looking at the monsters again, they all looked up at the captain with burning eyes, and from time to time they behaved in accordance with their role settings.

For example, the werewolf actor was howling, and the howl was very lifelike; the actor who played the Hunchback of Notre Dame was as stiff as a robot, and the mummy was silent like his character; the zombie actor moved with his hands raised and jumped wherever he went...

"Bang! Bang!" The sound of a gong was heard.

Captain Gode raised his hands and shouted: "Come on, everyone, we will cross the cursed seven oceans and let those stupid and arrogant humans know how powerful we are!"

As soon as the words fell, the monsters responded with strange cries.

For a while, the whole bar seemed like a group of demons dancing, with crazy roaring monsters everywhere. If someone who didn't know the situation broke in, he would think he had come to hell.

At the same time, the sound of a whistle was heard outside.

Maori Kogoro showed a stunned expression: "Huh? Is this ship really going to start?"