When Fang Zheng and Conan arrived at the Yodaimiya family’s villa, it was already evening.
"I still don’t get why every rich person likes to build villas in these godforsaken places."
Fang Zheng got out of the car, glanced at the villa in front of him, which was already dilapidated and could be used to shoot a horror film without makeup, and sighed helplessly.
"Is there really a clue here?"
Conan got out of the car dizzily, barely suppressing the turmoil in his stomach. He had long known that taking a ride with Fang Zheng wasn’t a good idea, but he had no other choice.
"I don’t know, I can only say we’ll see. If there is a clue, great, if not... there’s nothing I can do."
Fang Zheng took a deep breath and looked at the house in front of him.
"They also said they’d send someone to tidy up, but it seems I really shouldn’t expect much from real estate developers. But honestly, I don’t want to live in this house... never mind, let’s deal with it later. However, come to think of it......"
Looking at the villa’s large door, Fang Zheng remained silent.
"This looks really familiar......"
"Familiar?"
Hearing Fang Zheng’s muttering, Conan stepped forward for a look.
"Have you been here before?"
"How could I? But this...... I’ve seen it too many times."
While speaking, Fang Zheng shook the flashlight, shining it on the villa’s large door. Fang Zheng didn’t have the slightest impression of the villa itself, but this door was different. An oval double door with two torches on either side. Fang Zheng stepped forward, took out a lighter, lit the torches, then stepped back a few paces, satisfied with the view of the door illuminated by the torches.
The next moment, this door would creak open, and from the darkness inside, the title of something like "XXXXX Murder Case!" would appear.
Seeing this door alone, Fang Zheng knew he had found the right place.
After all, in the past, every episode of the animation had shown it two or three times at least.
"Alright, let’s go in and take a look......."
While speaking, Fang Zheng reached out his hand, but before he could touch the door, the double door suddenly creaked open on its own.
"..........."
"............"
Staring at the automatically opening door, Fang Zheng and Conan fell silent for a moment before the latter turned to look at Fang Zheng.
"Did you open it?"
"I swear, I haven’t even inserted the key yet."
Fang Zheng raised the key in his hand and replied helplessly.
"What should we do? This feels like the opening scene of a horror movie."
"Maybe there’s some sort of mechanism."
Conan looked up and glanced at the torches on the walls.
"Just now, after you lit the two torches, the door opened. I think there must be some mechanism."
As expected from a Conanologist, impressive.
Fang Zheng gave him a silent thumbs up, not wanting to consider whether this was a coincidence, a mechanism, or a ghost. But for Conan, he seemed to not even include "ghost" in his options.
That’s just as well.
"Whew..........!!"
However, before the two could move, a sudden gust of wind blew from the door, directly towards them. The wind was as strong as a category eighteen typhoon. Even Fang Zheng squinted and shielded himself with his hand, while Conan exclaimed and was blown backward. Fortunately, Fang Zheng quickly grabbed him.
But before either could react, the wind that had been blowing outward suddenly reversed into a suction, and caught off guard, Fang Zheng and Conan were both sucked into the pitch-black shadow of the door. In the next instant, the door slammed shut with a clang like a scene transition in an animation, leaving only the torches flickering and illuminating the surrounding darkness.
"............."
After an unknown amount of time, Fang Zheng slowly regained consciousness. He shook his head, stood up, opened his eyes, and saw a stretch of azure ocean. The mechanical noise and swaying beneath confirmed that they were on a ship.
Fang Zheng looked away, focusing on his surroundings. They were in a cabin, and not far away, Conan was sprawled on the ground, sound asleep. He walked over and gave Conan’s head a tap, waking him.
"Ugh...... huh?"
Feeling Fang Zheng’s tap, Conan murmured and then lifted his head, looking around in surprise.
"Wait, where are we? What happened?"
"We’re on a ship now."
"A ship?"
Conan immediately moved to the porthole to examine the outside carefully, then turned around to assess their surroundings, just like Fang Zheng.
"Wait, how did we end up on a ship? Could it be that organization knew we were coming and set a trap to knock us out and bring us here?"
"I don’t know at the moment, but......"
Fang Zheng reached for his gun tucked in his coat.
"My gun is still here, and so are my credentials. If those guys did take us, they wouldn’t be foolish enough to leave those behind."
While talking, Fang Zheng took out his gun, proficiently chambered a round, inserted a magazine, and switched the safety.
"See, everything’s fine."
"This is bizarre."
Conan was also at a loss at this moment, but he soon ran to the cabin door with his little short legs and then stretched out his hand to push the door open.
"The door isn’t locked."
"Let’s go out and have a look."
Fang Zheng put the gun back into his arms and then followed Conan out of the cabin, carefully walking towards the outside.
"Creak."
However, as soon as they left the cabin, they saw a woman with long golden hair approaching. Seeing them, she paused for a moment and then hurriedly lowered her head.
"Ah, hello, Mr. Fang Zheng, have you woken up?"
"Ah, hmm..."
"That’s great, we’re about to arrive at Rokugashima, and I was wondering if I should wake you... by the way, have you seen Maria?"
"No."
Fang Zheng shook his head, and the woman sighed, forcing a smile as she nodded to Fang Zheng.
"Thank you, I’ll go look for the child again."
After saying this, the woman turned and left, while Fang Zheng and Conan watched her back in silence. After a moment, Conan reached out and tugged on Fang Zheng’s coat.
"Hey, what’s going on? You know each other?"
"I know her, but she shouldn’t know me."
"What do you mean?"
"It’s simple."
Fang Zheng quietly took out an envelope from his arms, opened it, and then removed a photo to hand to Conan.
"She’s already dead."
Conan took the photo, looked at it carefully, and then flipped it over.
"Louza Yodaimiya?"
"That’s right, the second daughter of the Yodaimiya Clan and one of the victims of the Rokugashima mysterious murder case. Both she and her daughter Maria died on Rokugashima."
"But... what’s going on?"
Holding the photo, Conan was also puzzled.
Fang Zheng appeared quite composed in response.
"Do you remember the VR game you played before? The one set in 19th century London?"
"So, you mean..."
Upon hearing this, Conan immediately understood.
"That’s right, I suspect we’re currently in a similar environment."
Fang Zheng seemed to be quite calm. He had approximately guessed that he might have triggered another "instance," but this didn’t need any explanation for Conan.
"Just as you said, it’s likely that some mechanism in the Yodaimiya mansion was activated, bringing us into this world... It’s likely the ’game’ aims to have us solve the mystery of the Rokugashima murder case and uncover the truth, so..."
While speaking, Fang Zheng patted Conan on the shoulder.
"It’s up to you, Detective."
Sure enough, when the two walked out of the cabin, they immediately saw people from the Yodaimiya Clan. Familiar with this kind of "unexplained time travel," Fang Zheng quickly figured out his identity after chatting with them for a while. Just like in the "real world," Fang Zheng held a public position in this world. He came mainly to notarize because the Yodaimiya family was planning to divide the inheritance, distributing their father’s assets among them, so they invited Fang Zheng along.
As for Conan, he was viewed as Fang Zheng’s child.
Although on the surface everyone was all smiles and laughter, displaying harmony, Fang Zheng knew well based on records that only Ehua Yodaimiya survived in the end, while everyone else died unnaturally. Regarding the cause of death and who the culprit was, it remains unclear. To be honest, finding the perpetrator in this situation was indeed a difficult task for Fang Zheng.
"Who do you think is the most suspicious?"
After discussing and confirming their identities, Fang Zheng and Conan gathered together and began talking about how to "pass the instance."
"I still think Ehua Yodaimiya is the most suspicious."
Conan first proposed his idea.
"After all, from the data you brought, after returning from Rokugashima, she inherited the Yodaimiya family’s wealth and adopted Enju Yodaimiya, who lost her parents. This could very well be a form of atonement..."
"So you’re saying Ehua Yodaimiya killed everyone on the island?"
"Perhaps her husband was an accomplice... but..."
Conan hesitated as he spoke.
"We need more clues."
Fang Zheng wasn’t in a hurry; he simply reached out and patted Conan on the little head.
"Keep watching, and you’ll find out."
"Woo-woo————!"
At that moment, accompanied by the sound of a whistle, a small island appeared in front of everyone.
Rokugashima had arrived.

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