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

As Mao Lilan's thoughts drifted away, a dusty past was slowly unfolded by the system.

In the afternoon, the sun shines.

Kudo Shinichi took a quick run-up and volleyed the ball. The football was carried by a strong wind and hit a water pipe in the distance with a "bang", startling the sparrows on the lawn.

Water splashed everywhere and Mao Lilan screamed.

Kudo Shinichi covered the water pipe in panic, and this scene woke up Shu Shu who was staring at the screen.

Shushu rushed to the screen, its big fluffy tail sweeping across the tabletop. Its nose was almost touching the screen, and its whole body was filled with anticipation for the plot, immersed in the "big show" that was about to take place.

"The way Shinichi got into trouble is exactly the same as it is now." Kudo Yuki chuckled as she stared at the screen, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the corner of her clothes, letting her memories churn.

Kudo Shinichi rushed forward and held the gushing water with both hands. The impact of the water was so strong that his palms went numb and water kept splashing between his fingers.

Mao Lilan's eyes were red, tears were rolling in her eyes, like pearls that were about to fall, she cried: "It's all Shinichi's fault for kicking in a strange place!"

"Don't cry, Xiaolan, it's okay!" Kudo Shinichi was busy blocking the water and comforting her anxiously.

With a "splash", the water pipe suddenly burst, and a huge curtain of water gushed out instantly.

The two were soaked and stood there at a loss as to what to do.

Hagiwara Kenji appeared leisurely in the uniform of a police academy student with a smile on his face. He raised his hand and gently stroked Mao Lilan's head, and said to Kudo Shinban jokingly: "Hey, kid, how can you make your girl cry."

"Huh?" Kudo Shinichi's face was full of confusion, his eyes were wide open, as if he was wondering why this person suddenly appeared and said such strange words.

"Please make way." Hagiwara Kenji still had a warm smile on his face. He stood up and walked steadily towards the water pipe. He took out a baseball from his baseball glove, aimed accurately at the broken water pipe, and pushed the baseball in with a flick of his wrist.

The originally turbulent water flow suddenly became much smaller, leaving only a few drops of water flowing slowly along the edge of the baseball.

Kudo Shinichi's eyes flashed with surprise, and he stared at the blocked water pipe in surprise and admiration, thinking: "This guy is really good!"

Mao Lilan's tear-stained face instantly broke into a smile, her mouth raised high, her eyes full of gratitude towards Hagiwara Kenji, "Big brother, thank you so much!"

Date Kou, Morobushi Kagemitsu and Matsuda Jinpei hurried over.

Matsuda Jinpei put his hands on his hips, leaned forward slightly, and shouted: "Hagi, what are you doing?"

The sound caught the attention of the three people.

"Zhenping, call the water company." Kenji Hagiwara didn't even turn his head, his eyes fixed on the water pipe, fearing that something might happen.

"why?"

Hagiwara Kenji retracted his gaze and instead stroked Kudo Shinichi's head with a smile on his face: "This kid got into some trouble."

Date Kou took a step forward and looked at Kudo Shinichi: "Do you know this kid?"

Hagiwara Kenji smiled and murmured, "I don't know him."

Mao Lilan's eyes were full of expectation, and she suggested: "Shinichi, why don't you ask them? These policemen may be able to help us solve it."

Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly, thinking to himself: "I can only rely on myself when my elder sister is not around. Only Xiaolan and I know about this, so I can't tell anyone easily."

Matsuda Jinpei smiled and strode up to the two men. "What's bothering you? Just tell me, the police can handle anything."

"No way, you're not real police officers. Real police officers don't play netball while on duty. You're either role players, stuntmen, or students from the police academy."

Kudo Shinichi counted on his fingers and spoke very clearly.

The four of them were dumbfounded and looked at each other. Their minds went blank for a moment and they didn't know how to respond to him.

Kudo Shinichi said firmly: "In principle, the police do not intervene in civil disputes, and it is useless to discuss it with you."

Matsuda Jinpei's smile was filled with a bit of anger after being exposed: "Hey, hey, you little brat, if you don't tell me how you know if it's useless!"

Fūya Rei walked over steadily with his phone in hand and reminded him, "What's the matter? The break time is over. If you don't go back early..."

Zhu Fu Jingguang turned his head and his eyes fell on the phone in Furuya Ling's hand, "Zero, huh? You have a phone?"

"I have to go out for business, and I have permission." Furuya Rei walked forward, and when he saw Kudo Shinichi, his steps paused slightly, and the face of Kudo Yuki flashed through his mind. He quickly came back to his senses: "Who are these two children?"

Ida Hang stepped forward and said, "Something's going on."

Matsuda Jinpei didn't have that much patience and went straight to the point: "Okay, confess quickly! It will be easy once you tell me everything."

Under everyone's questioning, Kudo Shinichi and Mao Li Ran roughly explained the whole story.

The expressions on the faces of the five policemen froze instantly, their faces filled with shock, and they said in unison: "Haunted house!"

"Yeah." Mao Lilan spread her hands and said in horror, "There were a lot of burning fish in the pool, the flames were flickering, and there were big black snakes crawling out of the smoke. Shinichi and I were so scared that we ran away."

Kudo Shinichi added: "Also, the old man who lives in the house took a photo. In the photo, there is a huge ghost face with green face and fangs behind Xiaolan and me. The old man warned us that the monsters that saw fish and snakes were because of this ghost, and asked us not to come again."

Fūya Rei's eyes sparkled: "Can you show us that photo? Maybe we can find some clues from it."

Kudo Shinichi took a half step back, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing the seam of his pants, and glanced at everyone vigilantly: "No, that photo was taken by that uncle's own phone, we can't get it at all."

He pursed his lips, raised his chin slightly, and stretched his neck straight, as if building an invisible line of defense.

Date Kou and Hagiwara Kenji looked at the two children who were nervous and serious, and teased Mouri Ran and Kudo Shinichi with a smile, trying to ease the tense atmosphere.

"That's all we can do to help you!

"Excuse me, both of you."

"Ah?" Mao Lilan looked disappointed.

Seeing this, Jinpei Matsuda deliberately joked: "The police can't control ghost matters. But we can definitely find out the truth."

Kudo Shinichi frowned, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to the five policemen, his eyes shining: "I picked this up in the yard. The price of plums is 6000 yen per gram. The normal price can't be so outrageous. I guess it may be related to the monster in the haunted house."

Jinpei Matsuda, Kou Date, Keimitsu Morobushi, and Kenji Hagiwara gathered together, staring at the piece of paper and analyzing it.

“Indeed, plums are also known as fantastic fruits.”

"But even so, 250 grams is only 1000 yen at most."

"Roughly speaking, it's about 1500 times."

"It should be very delicious, and perhaps extremely addictive."

Fūya Ling touched his chin and changed his mind immediately: "Our original plan has been cancelled and the break time has been extended. Can you take us to that house? Maybe we can uncover the secret."

When Kudo Shinichi heard that Furuya Rei was willing to help, his eyes lit up and he quickly nodded in agreement.

Mao Lilan was pointing the way ahead, looking back from time to time to confirm whether the five people were following.

Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara saw that Kudo Shinichi and Kudo Yuki looked similar, so they wanted to tease them.

"Why did you come to that kind of house?"

"You don't understand this, Zhen Ping."

"Maybe he asked out a girl he liked to test his courage."

"You want her to scream 'Wow' and rush over to you and hug you, right?"

"No way!" Kudo Shinichi retorted with a red face, quickly organizing his thoughts, "It was midsummer and the windows were closed. No one was in the house but the air conditioner was on, and the uncle was frequently moving cardboard boxes. I suspected that there was feed in the boxes and that there were large animals hiding in the house, so I went to investigate - I am a detective in training."

Idahang touched his head and teased with a smile: "Don't be a detective, being a policeman is not bad either!"

Kudo Shinichi rolled his eyes in his heart and muttered to himself: "Please, I'm not interested in being a policeman. I just like being a detective and using reasoning to find the truth. How cool! It's much better than being a policeman and handling things step by step. 】

Mao Lilan looked at Furuya Rei and Morobushi Keimitsu and asked: "You actually brought this 'plum' note to us and wanted to discuss it with us, right?"

Fūya Rei corrected him: "That shouldn't be what Li Zi meant."

Zhu Fujingguang had a faint smile on his face: "Maybe it's a code that we haven't deciphered yet."

Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi led the five policemen to the destination. The dilapidated house had most of its mottled walls peeled off and the broken glass whimpered in the wind.

Matsuda Jinpei was extremely depressed: "Is this the haunted house?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang was surprised: "It's really shabby."

Idahang looked at the fence not far away: "The railings are rotten."

Matsuda Jinpei looked around and said, "It doesn't work at all, but there's a high-end imported car parked here."

Hagiwara Kenji's eyes sparkled: "Isn't this a Ferrari?"

He stared at the car and couldn't move his eyes away.

Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara surrounded the Ferrari, looking excited and reluctant to leave.

Zhu Fu Jingguang felt something was wrong: "This is really weird."

"Yes." Yi Dahang agreed.

Furuya Rei leaned forward slightly. "Can you tell me where something is? First of all, there are fish that are swimming while burning."

"Yeah." Mao Lilan pointed to a pond not far away, "It's right there! There are a lot of fish with fire on them swimming around on the surface of the water."

Furiya Rei asked: "Is that really a fish?"

Mao Lilan was a little unsure: "Because it was too scary, we didn't dare to get close. We are really not sure."

Idahang crossed his arms and guessed, "It could be a remote-controlled boat that's on fire, and someone is manipulating it to swim around."

Kudo Shinichi frowned, "That's impossible. There are more than ten of them, and they are all swimming erratically. They must only have their burning dorsal fins sticking out of the water."

Zhu Fujingguang squatted beside the pool: "More than ten of them really can't be controlled remotely."

"Hmm?" Jinpei Matsuda leaned in and put his finger into the water. "There's something white floating on the surface of the water, and it smells like insecticide. So where did the black snake come from?"

Kudo Shinichi pointed to the bushes next to him and said, "It crawled out from the bushes over there."

"Where, where?" Hagiwara Kenji walked to the bushes. "Huh? There are three circular marks between the bushes and the house! There are also black things falling around the circles."

He squatted down to pick it up, and it broke into pieces when he touched it. He leaned in and smelled it: "This thing tastes sweet, like toffee."

Date Kou looked at Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan and said, "Finally, where is the location of the photo you took of the ghost?"

Kudo Shinichi pointed to the lawn in front and said, "We were frightened by the burning fish and the black snake, so we ran towards the entrance. Suddenly, we were illuminated by a light and realized that the uncle in this house had taken a photo of us."

Fūya Rei pondered: "Did he set up his phone at the entrance, waiting for you to come, and then take pictures?"

Kudo Shinichi nodded: "Yeah, he said that if we do something bad, he will take the photos and call the police."

Zhu Fu Jingguang asked: "When the camera light came on, didn't you notice the bright light of the flash?"

"No." Kudo Shinichi shook his head.

Mao Lilan added: "I heard a shutter click."

"So that's how it is. It is indeed the case." Zhu Fu Jingguang stood up.

The five-man police team already knew what was going on.

Kudo Shinichi said: "And then? What do we do next?"

Yi Dahang smiled and said, "Is there any need to say this?"

Furuya Rei replied, "I'll call Instructor Onizuka to explain what's going on here, and maybe call for reinforcements."

Kenji Hagiwara, Keimitsu Morofushi, and Jinpei Matsuda automatically assigned tasks.

"I'll take this opportunity to borrow the instructor's car."

"I'll go buy materials nearby and look at how to restore the scene."

"The squad leader and I will stay here. If there is anyone else in the room, we will go and record a statement!"

Yi Dahang nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's get started."

Through the gap in the curtains, the two men in the room were talking in low voices.

"Why the hell did these little policemen suddenly appear?"

"Absolutely true, five of them!"

"It must be that the Ferrari was too eye-catching. I should have driven the original pickup truck. Now, trouble has come to my door."

"I just couldn't help it. That was the car I bought with great difficulty. Look, aren't those the two little devils who came last night?"

"Did they call the police?"

The man sitting in the back row sneered disdainfully: "So noisy, so annoying. I thought I could just scare people like before, how naive!"

The screen playback pauses here.

Shushu was still not satisfied after reading it: "Wow, I didn't expect there would be such a story during the police academy. I'm really looking forward to it!"

The corners of Kudo Yuki's mouth rose, and the image of Kudo Shinichi who was obsessed with his dream of becoming a detective emerged in her mind. She answered telepathically: "Yes, Shinichi at that time was already curious about any strange things."

Shushu jumped in front of her curiously, waving his little paws. "What happened next? Tell me quickly, did the five policemen solve the mystery of the haunted house?"

Kudo Yuki smiled and raised her hand to gently touch Shushu's little head: "Don't worry, the story will naturally have a sequel. The five policemen are not simple characters. Since they have discovered the abnormality of the haunted house, they will never let it go easily."

Just as Kudo Yuki and Shu Shu were immersed in a discussion of memories, a small "crisis" was unfolding in the Maori Detective Agency.

Mao Lilan's phone rang at this time: "The faucet handle fell off. Water gushed out, and now I'm trying to stop it with my hand. Will it arrive in 30 minutes? Got it, I'll wait."

Maori Kogoro was splashed with water from the hose. "Ms. Yoko, didn't you say that the Blu-ray disc of the TV series you ordered last time would be delivered today?"

Mao Lilan held the phone and said, "How should I know? Is this the time to talk about this?"

"I really care! Can you check the mailbox?"

Conan handed the football to his sister, "Sister Xue, you take it first, I'll go check the mailbox."

To be continued...