Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Chapter 350: The Mystery of Shengle Temple: The Amulet and the Legend of Red Lotus

When Yuanshan Heye heard this, she was stunned for a moment, her eyes quickly flushed, and tears of grievance rolled around in her eyes, and finally burst out. She choked and cried: "Xiaolan, why didn't you tell me? I was so worried about you, I thought something went wrong between you and Kudo."

Mao Lilan felt a little guilty when she saw her reaction, so she had to apologize first: "I'm sorry, He Ye, I was just thinking of finding a suitable time to tell you."

The next second, Toyama Kazuha burst into laughter as if the sky had cleared after the rain. She put her hands on Mao Lilan's shoulders and murmured with a smile: "That's great! Because you didn't mention Kudo at all, Xiaolan, I thought something bad had happened between you two, and I was so worried. It's really great!"

Mao Lilan was a little embarrassed, her face flushed, and she lowered her head slightly: "Thank you, although it has nothing to do with my matter, but this time Hattori followed you and Ye should be..."

Yuanshan Heye laughed and teased: "Xiaolan, your sixth sense of love has kicked in again. I told you not to do that."

"But, I also thought I was overthinking it. But I called Shinichi and asked him, and he said, 'If my reasoning is correct, Hattori must like Kazuha!' That's what he said."

"Really?" Yuanshan Heye's face suddenly turned red, and her heartbeat unconsciously quickened. She felt a little shy but also a little expectant.

"Well, it is said that there is only one truth." Mao Lilan seemed happy that she was able to help her friend do good things.

Conan's face flushed, he was at a loss, he murmured softly: "I didn't say that, why did Xiaolan add that line to my speech?"

He scratched his head helplessly, thinking: "What the hell is going on here? Why did the topic come to me? Although I have expressed such a guess, how did I become a witness to a love story again?"

Kudo Yuki found her brother's expression very funny, and immediately took a photo of Conan's embarrassed expression with her mobile phone and sent it to Yukiko. She also leaned close to Conan's ear and whispered: "Brother, your expression is so funny, I have to let mother see it too. Maybe she will laugh for a long time with this photo."

Conan glared at Kudo Yuki and whispered back, "Sister, what's so good about this?"

He tried to snatch his sister's phone to delete the photo, but Kudo Yuki was prepared and held the phone high so Conan couldn't reach it.

At this moment, Yuanshan Heye's crisp voice broke the playful atmosphere between the siblings, and made their eyes involuntarily turn to her.

"But, didn't you say before, Xiaolan, that neither Holmes nor Kudo knew anything about love?"

"That's the problem." Mao Lilan rubbed her chin with her right hand, frowned, and fell into thought.

Conan was complaining in his heart, secretly complaining: "Hey, why did Xiaolan drag me into this again! I was so focused on reasoning at the beginning that I didn't have time to think about love.

Besides, does that mean I still don't understand? I'm working hard to learn how to balance reasoning and emotion, so why am I always considered a love novice?

Really, she always brings up my past. What kind of weird image do I have in Xiaolan's mind? My elder sister is still watching from the side. I'm done for now. I'm sure she'll tease me for a while. ]

He curled his lips helplessly, holding the teacup with both hands and drinking tea, a hint of dissatisfaction and embarrassment in his eyes, and his cheeks flushed slightly. After all, being mentioned in person about his ignorance of love was always a bit embarrassing, and he wanted to find a place to hide.

Kudo Yuki's eyes were full of teasing, and the corners of her mouth were raised at just the right angle. She gently patted Conan's shoulder, and the action was somewhat intimate and teasing: "Conan, it seems that you left a deep impression on Xiaolan in the past."

Conan raised his head, his eyes filled with resentment, and muttered softly: "Sister, it's already this time, and you're still teasing me. Can't you help me block it? Why do you have to stand here and watch my joke?"

Kudo Yuki couldn't help but burst out laughing. She glanced at Conan meaningfully, her eyes revealing a hint of "I'll just watch your performance quietly", then turned to look at Mouri Ran.

Smiling, he narrated, "Xiao Lan, you don't know that my brother once asked me for advice on how to improve his relationship with the girl he had a crush on for many years. He looked so adorable when he was so cautious and nervous."

Conan almost choked on the tea in his mouth when he heard it. He stared at Kudo Yuki with eyes wide open, full of fear and helplessness, as if to say: "Sister, you are pushing me into the fire pit."

Mao Lilan showed a hint of surprise on her face, and then a slightly mischievous smile: "Oh? Really? Shinichi will be like this again."

At this time, Hattori Heiji and Mori Kogoro were shirtless, with towels draped around their necks, wiping the water stains on their hair. It was obvious that the two had just come out of a hot shower.

Hattori Heiji asked as he wiped it: "What are you talking about secretly?"

Kudo Yuki added tea to her cup and said without even looking up, "We were talking about girls."

She didn't even notice that Hattori Heiji and Mori Kogoro were shirtless.

But Toyama Kazuha and Mao Li Ran saw it and showed expressions of surprise and shyness on their faces.

"Hei-Heiji! Why are you shirtless?"

"You too, Dad."

Hattori Heiji and Mori Kogoro answered with indignation on their faces.

"Then what can be done?"

"We both got soaked without an umbrella, and our clothes are in the dryer now."

Kudo Yuki calmly took a sip of tea and said, "I advise you two to change your clothes. It is very rude to be shirtless in front of a woman. The clothes should be dried by now."

After hearing this, Hattori Heiji and Mori Kogoro both scratched their heads embarrassedly and were about to turn around to get the dried clothes.

The fat monk Dunzhe came over with a basket in both hands, with a kind smile on his face: "The clothes have been dried."

Maori Kogoro hurried forward and said politely: "Oh, I'm so sorry."

Hattori Heiji also said: "Thank you."

After saying that, the two of them took the clothes from the basket and put them on.

After getting dressed, Hattori Heiji subconsciously fumbled with his pockets. Suddenly, he frowned and muttered in confusion, "Huh? Isn't my amulet in there?"

When the fat monk Dunzhe heard this, he quickly put the basket on the ground and began to search carefully, saying, "I put everything in the basket, so there shouldn't be anything missing."

Conan was squatting beside him, staring at the basket. After hearing what Hattori Heiji said, he looked up and asked him, "Did you put the amulet in to dry?"

Hattori Heiji shrugged helplessly: "Because it was wet too, I thought I would just dry them together, but who knew I couldn't find them now."

When Yuanshan Heye heard this, he quickly bent down and looked into the basket, his face full of worry, muttering: "This will be punished, the amulet can't be left lying around."

Maori Kogoro casually put the towel on his head, wiping his hair which was not yet completely dry, while guessing: "Did it fall on the road when I brought it here?"

The fat monk Dunzhe frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and whispered softly: "Maybe..."

He didn't say anything else, but there was a hint of guilt in his eyes. This subtle change was noticed by Kudo Yuki, but she didn't expose his guilty behavior on the spot. She just observed the reactions of the people around her.

At this moment, the abbot of Shengle Temple, Monk Zhejin, walked slowly towards them with steady steps.

When Mao Lilan saw it, she hurried forward and asked, "Has the abbot seen it? It's a talisman. It belongs to Heiji, but it can't be found now."

Monk Zhejin was slightly stunned, then turned to the disciple beside him and asked: "Xianzhe, have you seen the amulet that fell out?"

The thin monk Xianzhe hurriedly shook his head: "No, I haven't seen it."

After hearing this, Kudo Xue still didn't say much, but just stood quietly by the side.

But Conan seemed to have noticed some key clues, and said surprisingly: "Then let's ask another person! There should be another person in this temple, right?"

After he said this, the three monks looked at him in surprise, their eyes full of confusion.

Conan was a little confused when he saw this: "Huh?"

The fat monk Dunzhe asked directly: "How did you know?"

Conan pointed to the wash basin not far away where they borrowed the towels. "Because there are four sets of toothbrushes and cups in the wash basin where we borrowed the towels. Normally, we only see three masters. If there is an extra set, there must be another person in this temple."

After listening to Conan's reasoning, everyone suddenly understood.

“I see.” The abbot of Shengle Temple, Monk Zhejin, then began to explain: “In fact, there was a monk named Kanzhe in this temple, but he suddenly disappeared 5 days ago.

Because he smoked secretly, I put him in the confinement room. I thought he couldn't stand the training in the temple and ran away secretly. "

When the thin monk heard this, a look of fear instantly appeared on his face, and his body trembled unconsciously: "No, no. Didn't everyone see it?

After the soul climbed up the stairs leading to the confinement room, Kanzhe disappeared. Kanzhe must have been captured by the Red Lotus Skeleton! "

When Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha heard the words "Red Lotus Skull", they were so scared that they hugged each other and their faces turned pale.

Maori Kogoro, Hattori Heiji and Conan also opened their mouths in surprise, and the five of them said in unison: "Red, Red Lotus Skull!"

The abbot of Shengle Temple, Monk Zhejin, hurriedly explained: "It is a monster in the legend of Jiuxiong Mountain. It will appear with the soul, and after eating the soul of the evildoer, it will ignore the evildoer's body after losing the soul and leave.

But legends are just legends, and the lights we saw at that time might just be fireflies that strayed into the temple."

But the fat monk Dunzhe didn't think so. He emphasized with a serious face: "But some people have seen spirits in the forest, and there are actually corpses. This is not something that can be casually treated as if it didn't happen."

The abbot of Shengle Temple, Monk Zhejin, frowned and sternly shouted, "Okay, shut up! How could there be such a monster in the world? You should know when to stop joking. Go get some snacks to entertain the guests."

"Yes." After hearing the master's order, the fat and thin monks looked at each other helplessly, and did what they were told. They didn't dare to say anything more about the matter.

Kudo Yuki looked at the four people who were still in shock, and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and looked at them, with a hint of teasing in her tone: "Hey, hey, hey, it's just a story, why do you all have such expressions? You shouldn't be so scared, right?"

Maori Kogoro was the first to come to his senses. He cleared his throat and tried to calm himself down. "Although I know it might be a legend, it still sounds creepy. It's inevitable that people will think too much about it in this deep forest."

Kudo Yuki crossed her arms and looked at Maori Kogoro with a half-smile, "Mr. Maori, you are too timid. It's just a legendary monster. How can it really come out?"

Maori Kogoro smiled awkwardly: "Oh, you haven't experienced those strange cases. Sometimes these legends can really be related to reality."

Hattori Heiji also recovered and stroked his chin. "That's true, but the legend of the red lotus skull sounds quite weird. The person disappeared after the spirit climbed up the stairs. Could it be that there is some supernatural power at work?"

Conan rolled his eyes and thought to himself: "There is no such thing as supernatural. There must be someone behind this. These adults are frightened when they hear such legends."

But he didn't say it out loud, he just agreed: "Yes, it feels very mysterious, maybe we can investigate it."

Mao Lilan patted Conan's head gently and said, "Don't join in the fun. This kind of thing might just be a rumor. Let's not cause trouble for ourselves."

Toyama Kazuha also nodded in agreement with Mao Lilan's words, "Yes, Conan, just forget it. I feel scared just listening to it."

Not long after, the fat monk Dunzhe and the thin monk Xianzhe, who had gone to get some snacks, came over with trays containing several plates of exquisite snacks and several cups of steaming tea.

"Dear guests, please have some snacks and drink some tea to calm your nerves." said the fat monk Dunzhe.

Everyone sat together and started to taste the snacks.

The drizzle was like silk, falling from the sky, lingering and endless. The raindrops hit the blue tile eaves of the temple heavily, making a crisp and rhythmic dripping sound, echoing in the quiet ancient temple in the mountains.

Maori Kogoro stood up and walked towards the bathroom. As he walked, he muttered, "Huh, even the bathrooms in temples like this are western-style these days."

When he got to the bathroom, he washed his hands, dried them carefully with a handkerchief, and walked back.

When he came to the stairs of the confinement room, he suddenly heard the sound of a ball falling to the ground and rolling.

To be continued...