Chapter 581 Van Helsing and Hotel Transylvania
Chapter 581 Van Helsing and Hotel Transylvania
I saw Martin yawned on the road and now he has a new look.
Today, it was another European and American with a resolute face, wearing a black cowboy hat and a black leather trench coat that reached his ankles. The coat was open, and underneath he was wearing a black leather vest, breeches and riding boots, and black leather gloves on his hands.
Except for his white face, he looks more like the Black Organization than the others.
Conan looked at Martin and asked, "Who did you transform into today? You look very powerful."
"Well, let me see..." Martin checked himself and found a silver crossbow with a mechanism similar to the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles on it.
"Well, I seem to have some impression. It seems that I changed into this person once three or four years ago... Yes, it was Van Helsing, the famous vampire hunter who appears in various vampire stories."
"Vampire hunter..." Conan was stunned when he heard this: "That means, according to today's setting, there are still vampires and other dark monsters in this world? Werewolves, banshees, Frankenstein..."
"Although it's not 100%, the probability is not low." Martin nodded, and then thought divergently: "Are you worried that Vermouth will become a vampire again? Well... then she must be dead by now, so let's just accept her condolences."
However, Conan's thinking is more divergent than his: "Xiaolan is on a ghost ship used for Halloween parties!"
Although Conan kept in touch with Hattori Heiji, he knew that the incident on the ship would have been settled before they fought Vermouth. According to the time, the ghost ship that left the port had already docked, and Uncle and Xiaolan were already on their way home.
……
That's how it was.
Since the person who solved the case was Hattori Heiji, it was also Hattori Heiji who was taken away by the Shizuoka Prefecture police for questioning. Maori Kogoro and his group were rarely passers-by. They said hello to Officer Yokomizo and went back.
Just like when they came, Kogoro Mouri was driving the car with Ran, Sonoko, Miyano Akemi and a little rabbit in it. Because of the accident on the boat, they didn't even take off their makeup. Kogoro Mouri was still dressed as a vampire, and the three girls and one rabbit, who were collectively made up as "little ghosts", simply tore off the white sheets and took off the hoods of their tights - except for the rabbit, who was not wearing a tights.
Xiaolan looked a little discouraged. After all, this trip was a fruitless one for her. She neither prevented the incident from happening, nor saved the person whose death was predicted in the invitation letter, nor did she meet Vermouth.
And why did Hattori Heiji appear here? After thinking about it for a while, she realized that it was Shinichi's double-headed arrangement. She believed that Shinichi and Martin were fighting against the Black Organization in Tokyo at this time.
Unable to tell Sonoko and her father about this depression, Xiaolan could only be emo by herself.
Miyano Akemi patted Xiaolan's shoulder gently, but because there were other people around, she could only use a smile instead of words of comfort.
In fact, she and Rabbit noticed that Vermouth had sent a zombie on board. When Hattori Heiji showed up under the name of Kudo Shinichi and was reasoning about the case, one man and one rabbit broke away from the team and attacked the zombie.
Unfortunately, some accidents and mistakes happened, and finally the corpse man was kicked into the vast ocean by Rabbit. Only his phone was seized. However, there was no other clue in the phone except a phone number that would soon be abandoned by Vermouth. Miyano Akemi did not tell Xiaolan about this.
On the way back, Kogoro Mouri felt something was wrong while driving.
"Why is there such a thick fog... I can't even see the road ahead." Kogoro Mori muttered.
When they passed a forest halfway through the journey, thick fog drifted out of the forest. It was still early morning, so it was normal to have heavy fog in the forest. They thought that everything would be fine after they passed the forest. However, after driving at a low speed for more than ten minutes, Kogoro Maori found that he was still in a thick fog with visibility less than ten meters. He could basically only see what was directly in front of his wheels.
"Little rabbit, are you cold?" Miyano Akemi noticed that the rabbit beside her was curled up with his arms folded, and the expression on his face was also very uncomfortable. (>﹏<)
Rabbit shook its head but had no way to express its feelings. Just as it was dancing and chirping, the distressed Miyano Akemi suddenly slapped her head and remembered that the doctor's animal language translator already had the first generation product.
Tuji liked the red bow, the same one as Conan's, very much as a gift and kept wearing it with him, but he didn't turn it on. Miyano Akemi quickly turned it on.
"Chichi... (There is a dangerous atmosphere here.)"
"【Danger, smell.】" The biggest problem with the translator at the moment is probably its limited vocabulary, which means sometimes the words don't express the meaning.
"Huh? Who's talking?" Kogoro Mouri was startled and turned around to look.
"Dad, watch the road." Xiaolan reminded.
Maori Kogoro turned his head back with dead eyes and said, "I can't see it anyway."
"Danger? Is there the smell of a wild animal?" Miyano Akemi looked out vigilantly.
But since Rabbit is so powerful, would he be afraid of the smell of wild animals? Could it be that he is suppressed by species like foxes or wolves?
"grumble……"
"【Do not know what is this?】"
"Does it mean that you don't know what that is, Rabbit?"
Rabbit nodded.
Yuan Zi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had also been looking out. She asked in confusion, "Did we pass by such a large forest when we came here?"
"Are we still in the woods?" Kogoro Mori was puzzled at first. At this time, a breeze blew, stirring the rolling mist, and the tall trees appeared and disappeared in the mist.
"Oh no..." Kogoro Mouri understood: "We lost our way in the fog and drove into the woods." The road they were supposed to take only passed outside the woods.
"Let's turn around and get out?"
"This road seems a bit narrow..." Maori Kogoro opened the car window and looked out, and found that he had driven the car onto a narrow road. If he turned around, he would have to drive the car off the road, and there was a risk of the wheels getting stuck in the ground. "Let's drive forward a little further. If that doesn't work, find a spacious place and turn around. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. All roads lead to Tokyo!"
I don’t know if it leads to Tokyo, but after driving for another ten minutes or so, the woods became increasingly darker and darker, and the car suddenly broke down.
"What's going on today? Why is everything going wrong?" Maori Kogoro slammed the hood of the car angrily, looked up and looked around: "I'm really in the middle of nowhere now."
I don't know if it's because the forest is growing thicker or the fog is getting thicker, but the surrounding environment has become dim. It's no longer possible to tell that it's eight o'clock in the morning. Instead, it seems like it's almost night, and the surroundings are gray with some dark green. "It's all because you didn't look at the road carefully." Xiaolan complained about Maori Kogoro: "You drove from the highway to the dirt road."
Miyano Akemi squatted on the ground and checked the road under her feet. After sweeping away the fallen leaves on the road, she found some traces printed on the soil: "There are horse hoof prints and parallel, narrow wheel prints... It should be a carriage, right? This is actually a carriage road."
"Hehe... a carriage road." Maori Kogoro looked a little embarrassed: "Are there still carriages in this era..."
"Maybe there's a wealthy family nearby." Suzuki Sonoko said, "It's rare to find someone who can use a horse-drawn carriage."
Due to the lack of horse breeds, horse-drawn carriages were not seen in Japan before the 17th century. After that, except for the imperial guards, there seemed to be no culture of using horse-drawn carriages. However, a few wealthy families would use horse-drawn carriages to imitate Western aristocrats. In Sonoko's impression, several of her business friends kept horses and carriages for use in their manors.
"Yoshi!" Maori Kogoro made a decision: "Let's go to that family and ask for help."
"You mean, we should keep going forward?" Xiaolan looked at the gloomy woods ahead and said reluctantly, "Let's go back to the road and ask passing vehicles for help."
In order to firmly support her proposal, Xiaolan immediately turned around and walked back the way she came. However, she found that the road behind her was also gloomy and no different from the one ahead.
"There's no signal at all." Yuanzi took out her phone and took a look, her eyes half-mooned and her hands on her hips: "I'm not surprised at all."
"It took me more than half an hour to drive in. It will take you at least an hour to walk out." Maori Kogoro insisted on moving forward: "Maybe if I just walk a few more steps, I can run into him."
"Be careful." Miyano Akemi reminded: "Little Rabbit always feels that there is danger here."
Maori Kogoro now knew that the extra sound was the rabbit talking, but he was a little disdainful of it: "It's just a rabbit, even if it grows a little bigger, it probably smelled the smell of some wild dog or fox and got scared, right?"
Rabbit shook its head vigorously: "[Strange, a lot.]" It wanted to say that it felt a very strange, unprecedented aura, and not just one, but many, many different individuals.
Miyano Akemi had no choice but to give a look to Xiaolan and Sonoko: This matter is not simple, maybe Martin has transformed into something strange and dangerous today.
But even if we knew there was danger, there was nothing we could do. We couldn't just stay in the car and wait for rescue, right? So we could only carry our luggage and move forward.
As he walked, Maori Kogoro vaguely saw some vague, square shadows in the mist ahead. The horizontal and vertical lines were definitely the work of humans: "There are buildings ahead! Let's go!"
Maori Kogoro quickened his pace and walked forward until he saw the shadows clearly. He screamed again and fell to the ground with a pale face: "Oh my God."
When the girls caught up, they were all pale. They saw that the dark square objects in front of them were all tombstones, some neatly arranged, some messy, some complete, some incomplete, some tidy, and some crooked.
The soil beneath the mossy tombstone was messy, as if it had been dug up not long ago, or something had crawled out of it.
"Calm down." Although he himself was not very courageous, as the parent of the group, Maori Kogoro forced himself to calm down and said, "The cemetery is also a sign of human life, which means we are very close to human habitation. Maybe we can find a church or a small village after passing through this cemetery."
Xiaolan's eyes were already filled with tears. Sonoko had been holding her hands with both hands to encourage her. Miyano Akemi looked at Usagi's condition, and then the group mustered up the courage to cross the cemetery.
The horse and cart tracks under their feet became clearer and clearer. There were many of them, coming from different directions, all converging under their feet and then extending forward.
Gradually, the fog became less dense and visibility improved. Maori Kogoro saw a rather large building not far ahead: "That looks like a castle? ... Ah, there is a road sign."
There was a tattered sign in front of him. Maori Kogoro moved closer and looked carefully before he could clearly see the words on it: "Hotel Transylvania...Is there a hotel in front?"
"Building a hotel in such a remote place, and will anyone live there?"
"Chijiji!" Tuji suddenly became anxious and pulled Miyano Akemi's arm and was about to run to the side of the road.
"[There is danger! Leave! There is danger! Leave!]"
Miyano Akemi followed the pull of the rabbit and ran into the forest. When Mouri Kogoro was confused, Xiaolan and Sonoko each pulled one of his arms and ran into the forest following the rabbit.
"What's going on? You'll get lost if you run around..." Before Kogoro Mouri could finish his words, he heard a suspicious sound, which Tuji had already heard.
“Woof woof woof, woof woof, woof woof, woof woof, woof woof—!”
Dogs barking, a lot of dogs barking, the barking of at least thirty dogs mixed together, going from vague to clear.
Kogoro Mori and others poked their heads out from behind the tree and looked out furtively, and found that there was indeed a large group of small dogs running from somewhere and running towards the direction of the castle, which was also the inn.
Behind the litter of puppies, there were two people chasing them - they looked like people. Judging from their clothes, they were a man and a woman. The man wore a clean but worn shirt and a tie, and the woman wore a very simple dress. But what made Maori Kogoro, who finally saw the "people", give up the idea of approaching to talk to them and ask for directions was that the heads of the two people were similar to dog heads... From common sense, they were probably wolf heads.
Behind the werewolf couple, other people appeared: a mummy wrapped in bandages; a tall Frankenstein with limbs and torso of uneven colors; and various monsters such as Gorgons and harpies.
"Are they... monsters?" Suzuki Sonoko expressed everyone's thoughts: "We just got off a ghost ship and ran into another monster house?"
"That's right!" Maori Kogoro suddenly realized, "Isn't that ghost ship used to audition actors for a horror movie? This should be their filming location, right?"
No...it must be true no matter how you look at it, right? Miyano Akemi complained in her mind.
"Yes, that should be it!" Unexpectedly, Xiaolan responded to Maori Kogoro's words, stood up and walked out from behind the tree: "Let's go find the film crew and ask them to help us!"
It’s just that Xiaolan’s expression looks a little unnatural no matter how you look at it.
Miyano Akemi: The two of them are...deceiving themselves.
Suzuki Sonoko: This father and daughter...is there any problem?
(End of this chapter)