Chapter 36

This small room is obviously a small kitchen with many Kitchenware and instruments.

With the help of the faint candlelight of the candlestick in the room, Bai yanzhenyu saw a woman dressed strangely, concentrating on cooking food and adding some ingredients to it from time to time, but the other party didn't find Bai yanzhenyu's arrival.

"Wait, this visual sense seems to be an event in the original..."

After seeing the strange woman's face, Bai yanzhenyu found that she was very similar to the hostess in the family photo of the original resident found in her bedroom. She thought hard for a long time and finally remembered a plot in the original book.

According to the original book, the eccentric woman is the mistress of the house.

Five years ago, her son Zhaofu accidentally killed her father. In order to prevent her son from leaving a criminal record, she disguised the crime scene as the scene of robber robbery and murder, and locked her son who was going to turn himself in a dungeon in the basement, ready to release her son after the retroactive period expired.

After finding out the situation of the haunted house, Bai yanzhenyu quietly evacuated from the small kitchen. After Guangyan came out of the bathroom, he took him back to the place where Conan and others were.

"This is the end of the expedition. Keep quiet and leave with me." Bai yanzhenyu doesn't want to scare the children of the juvenile detective team. He is ready to send them out of the haunted house and come back to deal with the case.

"Eh? Are you going back now?" the three excited Yuantai looked at Bai Yan Zhenyu, who became more serious, and reluctantly said, "brother Zhenyu... There are still many rooms that haven't been explored?"

"I just found something in the haunted house. If you keep it here, it may be dangerous, so don't waste time. Leave with me first."

Baiyan Zhenyu worried that the people would be found by the strange woman, whispered and urged him. At the same time, he gave Conan a look and motioned him to help persuade others.

"Well, brother Zhenyu won't hurt us. In case there are evil spirits here, we will be in danger." Conan understood Bai Yan Zhenyu's meaning, threatened Mrs. yuan with ghost words, and crept to the stairs.

Under Conan's action of setting an example, the three of Yuantai didn't insist on continuing their exploration. They honestly followed Baiyan Zhenyu to leave the haunted house and return to their homes.

After sending Yuantai three people home, Baiyan Zhenyu took Conan to the haunted house again and told Conan what he had seen before.

After hearing Bai Yan Zhenyu's story, Conan suddenly flashed a lot of ideas in his heart. A moment later, he reconfirmed: "brother Zhenyu, are you right? Is it really the wife of the original owner?"

"How can you read it wrong," Bai yanzhenyu nodded and replied with certainty: "although she is older than the family photo, her face has not changed."

"In this way, she may have something to do with the murder case five years ago that Bu Meizhi had visited." Conan's intuition in solving the case is extremely sharp, and he infers some of the truth with only a little clue.

"Well, you're right, but what does it matter? Let's go and find out and follow me." although Bai Yan Zhenyu knew the truth, it was inconvenient to tell Conan, so he had to take Conan to solve the incident himself.

After sneaking into the haunted house again, Bai yanzhenyu took Conan to the small kitchen on the second floor and found that the strange woman had left. It was obvious that she had cooked food.

Baiyan Zhenyu didn't worry about each other's leaving. He illuminated the ground with a flashlight, pointed to the footprints and wheel marks in the dust on the floor and said, "Conan, we follow the footprints and ruts. You are responsible for guarding against the direction behind."

"I see." Conan nodded, turned to guard the dark corridor behind him, and walked forward with Baiyan Zhenyu who slowed down in a backward way.

The rutted footprints on the ground extended from the small kitchen to the smooth stairs on the other side of the second floor of the haunted house, and finally disappeared into a secret house behind the first floor.

"Conan, get ready to go in. Be careful."

After Bai yanzhenyu reminded Conan, he slowly approached the door and looked inside from the gap. As a result, he found an empty household food cart in the corner of the room, and the woman was not in the room.

"Safe, come in." Bai yanzhenyu knew that the other party should have entered the basement. He immediately gently pushed open the door and took Conan into the room.

Conan's nose was slightly agitated, went to the food cart, reached out and touched it, whispered, "the cart is still warm, and the room is filled with meat smell. It seems that the woman you said hasn't left for too long."

Baiyan Zhenyu pretended to think for a while, and then 'reasoned' and said: "a luxury house like this should build a basement. If I guessed right, she should hide in the basement, and this room is likely to have an entrance to the basement."

Just as they were about to look for the entrance to the basement, there was a sound like roaring and wailing under the ground not far from the cart.

Conan used a flashlight to shine there and found a device similar to a door handle on the floor. He quickly reminded him, "brother Zhenyu, look there."

"This is a secret door. It seems that my guess is right. Conan, let me open it."

Different from the original work, Baiyan Zhenyu's power is far more powerful than Conan. Naturally, it is very easy to open the secret door and reveal the stairs leading to the basement.

"Let's go."

Bai yanzhenyu, a daring artist, walked down the stairs and found a half closed wooden door at the end of the stairs.

The dazzling light was transmitted from the basement behind the wooden door. At the same time, the quarrel of a man and a woman came out.

"My poor child, you must have had another nightmare. It's been five years. Don't you forget it? No matter how painful you are, the dead can't come back. Well, eat quickly."

"Ah, I don't want to eat, I don't want to eat anything, let me out, let me out..."

"Zhaofu, the reason why I'm here for you is not to make you miserable. I'm for your future. As long as the retroactive period of the case expires, I'll release you. So before that, please be patient."

"Mom, please, let me go. I can't stand this torture..."

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After listening to their real quarrel, Bai yanzhenyu sighed that maternal love is indeed the most selfless and greatest love in the world.

However, although he expressed his understanding emotionally, Bai yanzhenyu disagreed with her. He was ready to help Zhaofu free himself from his inner torture, so he opened the wooden door and went in.

"Who are you?"

The strange woman was startled by the sudden stranger. Then she reacted and took out a knife with a ferocious face to kill Bai Yan Zhenyu.

Strange woman is just an ordinary person. It's OK to deal with primary school students like Conan, but it's not enough to see Bai yanzhenyu with strong force. Bai yanzhenyu easily grabbed the knife and controlled it.

"Madam, the murderer who killed your husband five years ago is the man who has been imprisoned for five years, that is, your son..."

Seeing that Bai yanzhenyu controlled the situation, Conan reasoned out the truth of the incident five years ago through the previous clues and the dialogue he had just heard.

After Conan's reasoning, Bai yanzhenyu sighed and said sincerely, "madam, although your practice can exempt him from legal sanctions, do you have the heart to let him be condemned by conscience all his life?"

When the secret was exposed, her son's painful persuasion became the last straw to crush her, and the old lady burst into tears. Finally, she decided to respect her son's choice and go to the police station with her son to confess her guilt.