Due to Fangzheng's driving all the way, they were basically the first to arrive at Hun Mansion. In fact, when Kogoro carefully parked Fangzheng's car at the main entrance of Hun Mansion, there was not a single car around.
"I just don't understand why these rich people are so stupid."
After getting out of the car, Fangzheng shook his head as he looked at the Hun Mansion in front of him.
"Why does one, two, three, four, all like to build their houses in places where there are no people around? It's inconvenient to go out and buy things. If someone gets sick, it'll be too late to send them to the hospital. If you provoke some bandits, they'll just block your way out and kill your whole family without any repercussions …. "
"Who knows? Rich people's way of thinking is different."
Hearing Fangzheng's words, Maori Kogoro also complained. After all, he had experienced many similar cases. He had to admit that Fangzheng was right. Every time there was a murder in such a shabby place, it was not easy to call the police, and it was not easy to find a doctor. He did not understand what was going on in the minds of these rich people.
Of course, it was quiet enough. If someone died here, no one would find out for ten days or half a month.
While chatting, the group walked up the steps. Then, Maori Kogoro went up and knocked on the door. Soon, a maid opened the door.
"Welcome, Mr. Maori and his party, right? I didn't expect you to come so early …. Please come in."
"Are we the first to arrive here?"
Hearing the maid's words, Maori Kogoro's spirit was lifted. Conan sighed helplessly when he saw this scene. They're not children anymore. Why are they still fighting for first place ….
"Yes, you're the first guests I've seen since I came here. The other guests haven't arrived yet."
"Hahaha, I see."
Hearing this, Mouri Kogoro also laughed and then walked into the guesthouse. Conan, on the other hand, widened his eyes and displayed the Oscar -winning skills he learned in Hawaii, looking at the maid.
"Big sister, I want to meet the owner of this mansion. It's rare for him to invite us to such a luxurious place for dinner. I want to thank him."
"That's true. May I ask where the owner of the mansion is now?"
Lan also hurriedly came up to cooperate — — It seemed that this couple really had a tacit understanding.
"This …"
Faced with the two's questions, the female servant showed a troubled expression.
"Actually, I've never met Master."
"Eh?"
Hearing this, Mouri Kogoro also asked curiously.
"Don't you work here? How come I don't see anyone? "
"It's like this. Actually, I was just hired here.... so...."
"But there are always people who want to interview."
"Speaking of which, it's a little strange."
At this time, facing Mouri Kogoro's question, the maid also said doubtfully.
"I came to apply because I saw the recruitment advertisement in the newspaper. Because the conditions are very good, many people signed up. But when I walked into the room, I didn't see the interviewer. I only saw an open computer and a guest list. But when I looked at the list, a line of words appeared on the computer, saying that I've been hired … "
"That's it?"
Mouri Kogoro frowned. Conan and Lan also listened carefully. After all, Mouri Kogoro did not know, but the two of them knew that the mastermind behind this invitation was Belmond, the Black Man organization that shrunk Conan. Maybe there were some clues.
Moreover, the way they hid their heads and showed their tails was indeed quite similar to the Black Man organization.
Unfortunately, this maid was only a temporary one. She did not know where this place was or why the owner called them here. She only said that the owner had invited several detectives to attend a banquet, so before that, they could do as they pleased ….
So, they had no choice but to wander around in this mansion.
While the others had not arrived yet, Fangzheng also planned to give Lan a heads-up.
After all, no matter how good a detective was, they would still be afraid of ghosts.
"By the way, since you're bored, why don't I tell you a story about this place first."
"Huh?"
Hearing Fangzheng's words, Mouri Kogoro, Conan, and Lan were also taken aback.
"Do you know what this place is?"
"Of course, I won't come here without doing some prior research …. It's just that the information I have is limited."
Fangzheng sighed. In Conan's era, the Internet was not advanced enough. A lot of information could not be found on the Internet at all. If it was in a place like the game world, Fangzheng could directly hack into it with his personal terminal. He could even check eighteen generations of Conan's ancestors. That was why … digitization was necessary!
Therefore, Fangzheng had no choice but to send the intelligence department under Umbrella to investigate. Of course, it was nothing more than getting close to the government agencies, visiting nearby residents, investigating newspapers and magazines, and inquiring about some information and rumors ….
This kind of efficiency was, of course, far inferior to looking up information on the Internet. Fangzheng had already gotten used to the days when his personal terminal could scan the genealogy of eighteen generations of other people's ancestors. Suddenly encountering this kind of thing made him very depressed. It was like a godfather who was used to riding in a Mercedes-Benz and a female high school student suddenly time-traveled back to the primitive era. He did not even have a dinosaur to ride in, nor did he have shoes to wear, and he had to fight a saber-toothed tiger.
As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper.
"According to the clues I've found, this guesthouse used to belong to a tycoon named Umaru Renya. He died half a century ago …."
"Wait, Umaru Renya?!"
Hearing this name, Xiao Lan didn't react, but Mao Li Kogoro shouted, and Conan also frowned.
"Well, at least it used to belong to him …."
Fangzheng took the report in front of him and continued.
"Everything in this guesthouse was specially customized by Umaru Renya …. Anyway, as I said, rich people are capricious. Their brain circuits are different from others. But what I'm going to say next is a little shocking …. Well, Lan, be mentally prepared."
"Huh? Is it scary? "
Upon hearing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but shrink her body. Fangzheng nodded.
"According to rumors, a tragic incident happened in this guesthouse forty years ago. At that time, this guesthouse gathered celebrities from all walks of life. Of course, on the surface, it was to mourn the death of a tycoon at the age of 99, but in fact, it was an auction for Umaru Renya's art collection. "
Having said that, Fangzheng scanned his surroundings.
"At that time, the auction was scheduled to last for three days and three nights. But on the second night, a stormy night, two uninvited guests came to the door of the guesthouse. They claimed to be lost travelers and hoped to stay here for the night. Of course, at first, the person in charge of the guesthouse refused, but when the other party gave him a cigarette, he suddenly changed his mind and let the two people into the guesthouse. "
"….."
Upon hearing this, Mouri Kogoro, Xiaolan, and Conan drew a gasp of cold air, while Fangzheng continued.
"After that, the other guests were also bewitched by the two people. At first, there were people arguing about the two uninvited guests, but then a strange scene happened. One of the guests who participated in the auction threw away his auction item and ran away as if he had seen a ghost, while a woman cried bitterly as if she was begging for someone's forgiveness. There was also someone who excitedly stabbed himself. Then, the whole venue turned into hell. Everyone began to fight for the auction items, and some even killed each other. In the end, after a night, there were only eight corpses and a dozen or so unconscious guests left in the guesthouse. The two mysterious people, along with the auction items, had disappeared without a trace. "
"….. This, this is just a story, right?"
"That's not entirely true."
Lan asked with a trembling voice, but Fangzheng shook his head.
"In fact, from the moment I entered this guesthouse, I smelled a strong smell of blood."
"Really?!"
"My nose is quite sharp. Ordinary people probably can't smell it."
Fangzheng waved his hand and continued.
"At least from what I saw, there were bloodstains at the door, the corridor, the living room, the amusement room, and all the places we passed along the way, and there were far more than eight people. I guess there were more than eight people who died at that time ….."
"I'm going out for a smoke to calm down."
Mao Li Kogoro also felt a chill all over his body at this moment. Looking at the empty amusement room, he felt uncomfortable, so he hurriedly found an excuse to sneak out to relax. Lan wanted to leave too, but Fangzheng gestured for her to sit on the sofa next to him with Conan.
"What do you guys think?"
Fangzheng asked in a low voice while pretending to play chess with Conan.
"For now, I don't think the person who invited us this time has anything to do with the Black Man Organization."
Conan also thought for a while and gave his own guess.
"The inscription on the invitation this time is a word game. It's Kidd the Monster Thief, but ….."
"If Kidd had the guts to appear in front of me, I would have killed him long ago."
That's right. As Fangzheng said, Kidd did not have the guts to send a letter to him and Conan. If he provoked Fangzheng, Kidd would not even know how he died.
"So, the person who invited us this time is probably Kidd disguised as the Monster Thief, trying to attract the attention of us detectives."
"The reason why Belmond tampered with this letter may be because she found out that this letter would be sent to Mao Li Kogoro. After all, with her identity, it would be too careless of her to contact you directly."
Fangzheng did not believe that Belmond was really that stupid.
"So, this letter should have nothing to do with the Black Man Organization, but the clues contained in this letter should be related to the Black Man Organization. That's why Belmond deliberately wrote his name."
Conan also understood at this moment, and Lan also raised her own doubts.
"Could it be that the organizer has something to do with the Black Man Organization?"
"Impossible. If the person who invited us to the banquet has something to do with the Black Man Organization, then Belmond would be courting death by leaving her name on it. When the time comes, as long as one of us has nothing better to do and asks the organizer why Belmond's signature is on it, she's basically done for."
Fangzheng shook his head.
"In contrast, I'm more concerned about Urumaru Renzo."
"You mean that tycoon?"
"That's right."
Fangzheng nodded.
"After you told me that this letter was signed by Belmond, I sent someone to conduct a series of investigations on the Dusk Mansion. This guy named Urumaru Renzo is indeed very suspicious, and the story I told you before ….. I have an idea."
Speaking of this, Fangzheng squinted his eyes.
"Maybe Urumaru Renzo faked his death."
"So you're saying that the tycoon didn't die at all, but pretended to be dead, and then sent someone to take away the things in his mansion?"
Conan frowned and thought for a moment.
"But that Urumaru Renzo is already 99 years old. He can fake other things, but he can't fake his age ….."
"Are you sure? Think about Mermaid Island. "
"….. Probably?"
Thinking of the long-lived woman played by Kun Shimaduki, Conan's tone was not so sure.
"Even if it's true, that was half a century ago. I think that Urumaru Renzo should have died a long time ago."
"Haha."
Hearing Conan's deduction, Fangzheng chuckled and pointed at him.
"Have you forgotten how you became like this?"
"Of course it's because I took poison."
"Then who developed the poison?"
"The Black Man Organization ….. Wait, you're not going to say that the Black Man Organization developed this poison to make Urumaru Renzo rejuvenate, are you!!"
Thinking of this, Conan was shocked, and Lan was even more dumbfounded. She felt like she was listening to a science fiction story.
"Why not? You've always thought that the Black Man Organization developed this poison to kill people, and shrinking is its side effect. Why don't you think about it the other way around? In fact, the poison developed by the Black Man Organization itself may be to restore people's youth, and death is its side effect. But because the side effect is too big, it can't be put on the market. This kind of thing is actually very normal in the field of drug development. "
"But the premise is that Urumaru Renzo is still alive. It's been half a century since he died!"
"In 1967, there was a rich man named James Bedford who was incurable because of terminal lung cancer. So he decided to cryogenically freeze himself, hoping that one day in the future, medical technology would be developed enough to cure his lung cancer, and then he would wake up and continue living. This was the first person in the world to receive cryogenic treatment. "
Fangzheng said silently.
"Moreover, the idea of cryogenics to preserve life has been discussed in academia since a century ago. Considering that Umaru Renye is a millionaire, it is natural for him to want immortality and eternal youth. He is rich and capricious. If he wants to create something, what can you do?"
"… … …"
In the face of Fangzheng's question, Conan was speechless.
He really couldn't do anything about it!
"So what you mean is, in order to restore his youth, Urumaru Renzo secretly set up the Black Man Organization to study the drug, and announced to the public that he was faking his death. In addition to studying the drug, the Black Man Organization also infiltrated various fields, in order to let Urumaru Renzo return to the peak of power after 'resurrection'? "
"Very likely."
Fangzheng nodded silently, but he still had something he didn't tell Conan. According to what Xiao Ai and Ming Mei had told him, their parents had also researched this drug, but in the end, the rebel organization burned all the research materials. Fangzheng suspected that they might have already known the truth and knew that his drug was to be taken by Urumaru Renzo, so they destroyed everything.
Moreover, since it was a drug, it must have been tested before it could be used. Belmond might be the victim of this drug, and the real function of APTX4869 should actually be to restore people to their youth and then maintain their youth forever. This could also be seen from Belmond. She looked like she was only in her thirties, but according to Fangzheng's investigation, she was likely to be in her sixties or seventies.
In other words, if Conan, Xiao Ai, and Belmond took the same drug, it would mean that they each embodied two characteristics of the drug.
One was to restore youth, and the other was to maintain youth forever.
However, this drug was obviously not stable enough. Considering Belmond's age, Xiao Ai and Ming Mei were not born when she took the drug, so she should have taken the drug that their parents researched. Although this drug showed the characteristic of "maintaining", it did not show the characteristic of "restoring youth".
After that, it was very likely that Ming Mei and Xiao Ai's parents had really researched the true elixir of immortality. However, when they found out that this drug was to be taken by the evil leader of the Black Cloth Organization, they naturally destroyed it.
Xiao Ai had said that the drug she developed was based on some of the information left behind by her parents, so Fangzheng had a deduction.
Xiao Ai's parents had made two kinds of drugs back then. One was an incomplete drug, and the other was a complete drug.
Later, Belmond took drug A. This was not surprising. You could not let the enemy take advantage of this drug. Just like in American comics, you would find a passerby to experiment on and then create a superhero to cause trouble for you. Such a stupid thing would be rejected by anyone with a normal IQ.
It was very likely that Belmond was trusted by Urumaru Renzo.
Therefore, it was natural for him to 'test the poison' as a trusted aide.
Unfortunately, the effect of drug A was not complete, so the Miyano couple made the complete drug B. However, after that, in order to prevent Urumaru Renzo from resurrecting, they destroyed drug B and the information. Xiao Ai had obtained the remaining information of her parents. It was very likely that it was the complete "B" drug. That was why the APTX4869 she made had the effect of "rejuvenating youth".
Otherwise, there was no way to explain why Belmond did not age, while Xiao Ai and Conan became younger.
"So what should we do now?"
"I can't be bothered with what this master wants to do, but there might be some clues hidden in this villa. If we can find these clues, we might be able to find Urumaru Renzo's hiding place."
At this point, Fangzheng reached out and patted Conan on the shoulder.
"I'll leave this mission to you, detective!"
(End of this chapter)
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