Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

Chapter 245: Hase Family's Commission - The Windru Case

Early in the morning, Maori and his group were woken up. After eating the breakfast prepared by the servants, they came to the garden where they had gathered yesterday.

At this moment, some people had already stood in the garden. The white horse detective who had arrived earlier was feeding the eagle standing on the branch with a piece of minced meat. The detectives that Conan met yesterday were also sitting or standing at this moment, with serious expressions and no communication.

However, the mysterious detective that Conan was particularly concerned about did not appear here.

Hattori Heiji squatted down and whispered in Conan's ear: "Kudo, the detective you saw yesterday doesn't seem to have arrived yet."

Conan: "Wait a little longer, he worries me a little."

Hattori Heiji nodded: "Yeah."

However, after waiting for another ten minutes, when the seventh detective arrived at the scene, the old butler finally began to speak: "Everyone, please follow me."

Then he would lead everyone in another direction.

"that--"

A young boy's voice interrupted him.

The old butler looked over.

"Are there only seven detectives today?" Hattori Heiji glanced at the detectives around him.

Because the commission was special, Ran Mouri and Kazuha Toyama stayed where they lived and did not follow along. Conan had already acted with Heiji Hattori in advance, so Kogoro Mouri did not bother with him.

So, the people present today, besides the old butler, were seven detectives and a primary school student.

The young man that the old butler brought alone yesterday was not among them.

The old butler took a look and then understood: "You must have seen another detective here yesterday, right?"

Hattori Heiji nodded frankly: "Yes, I thought he would be in the team today as well."

The old butler said: "He has gone there in advance and should be waiting for us at the destination now."

The other detectives all frowned.

Went there early?

Everyone here is a competitor, and now one guy actually takes the lead?

Jackson, who had ridiculed Maori Kogoro and his group yesterday, sneered and said sarcastically, "This guy is really special. I didn't see him yesterday, and he doesn't even want to join us today. I guess he's a very powerful character, right?"

His eyes fell on Bai Ma Tan in front of him. "Our young master Bai Ma is still here, yet he's not receiving any preferential treatment from your Chang Gu family. I'm really curious, who is that guy? Why are you so unwilling to offend us and give him special treatment?"

The old butler's eyebrows twitched, and he was a little displeased.

Bai Ma Tan spoke first: "You can say whatever you want, but don't bring me along. I'm not interested in any of this."

He touched Watson on the shoulder and said confidently and calmly: "Only those who have no strength will care about these trivial matters."

Jackson choked.

The old butler also looked around at the detectives around him and explained calmly, "We naturally offer the highest courtesy to all guests and will do our best to meet everyone's requests. At the same time, we will naturally give special treatment to guests with abilities."

Everyone's expression changed.

Does the old butler mean to admit that the detective is very strong and special?

Even Bai Ba Tan, who had originally shown no interest, raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh? That's interesting."

So the group held their breath and followed the old butler to their destination.

The destination is located in the back mountain, where there is a separate villa.

What is horrifying is that this villa is exactly the same as the villa where the case happened nine years ago!

Conan looked at the villa gate in front of him, which was almost a one-to-one replica, and his pupils shrank slightly.

——The Windru case, the beginning of everything.

Nine years ago, a brutal murder occurred in a villa in Kyoto. The villa owner's family of five, including other servants in the villa, were killed in the house, and blood flowed like a river.

The owner of this villa is none other than Hayato Sawaguchi, the president of the Windru Group.

The Windru Group is not a particularly large group in the whole of Sakura, but it is also well-known. It was listed not long ago, and the president is at the peak of his career. No one could have imagined that overnight, all five members of the family died, and the fatal injuries were all on the neck. The heads were almost separated from the bodies, and blood splattered everywhere. The scene can be described as hell on earth.

This incident caused panic among the people, and the police quickly intervened to investigate as a homicide case.

However, after the police's round-the-clock investigation, they did not find any clues about the murderer. Instead, they found evidence that the Windru Group colluded with politicians to manipulate the stock market and profited from it.

Perhaps because Sawaguchi Hayato died too suddenly, the evidence was not contained at all. The police investigated the economic crime chain thoroughly without much effort, including evidence of the then Prime Minister, Hase Hitoshi.

This chain of evidence was so complete and clear that it could almost be submitted directly to the court. Hasase Jin had no room for rebuttal and became a target of public condemnation. He was forced to step down in disgrace and then committed suicide in prison.

Unfortunately, although the whole case was called the Windru case and many officials were implicated, the murderer was never found in the end.

At that time, everyone's attention was on Hase Jin, and almost everyone forgot the existence of the murderer.

When they investigated again later, the police found that the case was too "clean", as if it was done by a professional killer, with almost no clues left, so it was finally shelved as an unsolved case, and it remains a mystery until now.

The villa at that time naturally became a haunted house. It was said that it was later bought by a developer and razed to the ground, completely disappearing from everyone's sight.

By the way, the company responsible for the leveling seems to be Linlu Construction.

All in all, this villa should have disappeared long ago.

But now it reappears in front of everyone!

The detectives, who had already done their homework, almost gasped.

The Hase family actually replicated the villa from that year and placed it behind the manor... They're not afraid of being creepy.

And since the outside is restored one to one, then the inside should be...

The old butler pushed open the door with a calm expression and bowed to invite everyone in: "Detectives, please come in--"

Jackson was the first to walk in. He looked at the layout of the villa with a complicated expression. The other strange detective who followed him in felt nauseous at the first sight and vomited with a "wow".

The old housekeeper's expression immediately panicked: "Don't ruin the scene! Please get out!"

The detective's face turned red and white, and finally he walked out covering his mouth.

It looks like he won't be coming back.

Suddenly the team became six people (plus one child).

The scene was still emitting the stench of vomit, coupled with the bloody murder scene in the villa. Although everyone knew that this was all fake, they couldn't help but swallow a little more to calm their nausea.

The only female detective left was the female novelist, Kato Sakurako, whom Toyama Kazuha introduced to Mouri Ran yesterday. Faced with such a scene, the woman seemed to have anticipated it and quickly took out a mask and put it on.

Next to her was Takada Ichido, a lawyer who had changed his profession. He also wrinkled his nose, glanced at the woman next to him, hesitated, but still did not raise his hand to cover his nose.

The rest of Conan and his group remained relatively calm. They looked around with bated breath, their gazes passing over the bloodstained hall and falling on the "corpse" at the stairs.

The Hase family really spent a lot of money. Just restoring the "corpse" took a lot of effort.

And since they dared to bring them here for investigation, it means that no matter the condition of the "corpse", the placement of objects at the scene, or even the bloodstains on the wall, they were all carefully restored based on the scene.

This alone shows how extensive the Hase family's network of connections is.

The old butler went out to give some instructions, and soon a servant came in. He cleaned up the scene expressionlessly, then used a hair dryer to carefully restore the previous appearance, and finally carefully left.

Obviously, the old butler was unwilling to change even the slightest clue at the scene, for fear of affecting the detectives' judgment.

Naturally, everyone is happy to see this happen.

Jackson glanced at the scene and suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Huh? That's strange, where's the guy who came first?"