A few days after astronomical observation activity.

"What?" Qian Yu was stunned. "You mean...... Haunted? ”

"Uh-huh!" Mitsuhiko nodded. "That's why we proposed to go to Hokkaido!"

"I thought you wanted to go over there for the summer......" Chiba said halfway through when she was interrupted.

"We've been in such a cold environment for so long, do we still want to continue to escape the heat?" Gray Plains, who was sitting next to him, glanced at him and asked.

"That's just as well," the corners of Chiha's mouth twitched. "To be honest, especially when I was in the Observation Hall at the end, I had already avoided all the heat I wanted to avoid this summer."

According to Jiroyoshi Suzuki, the temperature in the observation hall had dropped to about 5 degrees Celsius after a long period of cooling, and although Conan had given him and Ashbara a coat, it was only warm for a minute or two. For a while later, both of them were choked by the cold.

"But then again, the first few days were fine, but the last period was really boring," Motota suddenly breathed. "What used to be interesting suddenly feels boring."

"That's why I'm agreeing to your request," Dr. Asasa sighed, who was sitting next to him. "It's Mr. Yusaku who reminded me, let me take you to relax."

"Doctor, do you mean that handsome uncle?" Ayumi asked. "I've heard about the specific process, that uncle is really amazing!"

"It must be amazing," Conan nodded. "After all, he is a master of reasoning with a high reputation all over the world, and it must be quite easy to face a petty thief like the strange thief Kidd."

"What I'm concerned about is, isn't Mr. Yusaku asking us to take a break?" Qian Yu asked. "But...... Is going to a place where there are rumors of hauntings really considered a distraction? ”

"It was Mr. Yusaku who told us about this case," Dr. Asasa said, spreading his hands. "He said he heard an interesting rumor that seemed to be happening in Hokkaido, and then thought that your boy detective group would be interested in the rumor - by the way, this is a place where quite interesting horror movies have been filmed! I also brought the tape with me, and if it was connected to the TV in the room here, it could be played. ”

"It's really well-equipped," Qian Yu shrugged as she glanced at the video projector embedded in the wall next to her, and then turned her gaze away from the window. "Should I say, is it worthy of the SA1 charter cabin of the Big Dipper train?"

Outside the window, the scenery is picturesque.

……

"Zombies?" In the cabin, where the lights had been turned off and the curtains had been drawn, Chiba sat in an armchair, holding a small flashlight and looking at the rather neat summary page of the notes provided by Dr. Asasa, muttering after reading the contents. "This ...... Isn't that a little too bizarre? ”

"yes," Gray Hara, who was sitting next to him and was also looking at the summary page, nodded. "It's a bit too ...... It's not materialistic anymore. ”

The whole thing happened about 30-15 days ago and consisted of a series of events that took place in the same dense forest. First, on June 30, there were rumors that a family of three had seen suspicious figures while exploring the forest near the villa where the movie was filmed. On July 4th, a clerk at a nearby convenience store was on his way home from work at night when he encountered someone approaching him with a low scream, and he fled in a car without looking at the other person's appearance because he was afraid. The latest situation is that on July 11th, when a couple who were on their way to the filming location were camping in the forest, the male companion who left the tent encountered a lot of low-growling, disheveled humanoid monsters in the forest, and it was very similar to the zombies in the "Biohazard"-themed haunted house he encountered in American Street when he was traveling in Osaka before, so he spread the news of the zombies here.

"......" Qian Yu frowned, because he felt something strange about this, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. In a word...... The content on this summary page is always a little unconvincing.

At this moment, Chiba's gaze shifted to the TV screen, which was playing the contents of the videotape, and the picture showed the panorama of the filming location: a two-story villa on a hill surrounded by forests on three sides, presumably due to the cinematography and subsequent special effects, this villa can make people feel a terrifying atmosphere entrenched in the vicinity just by looking at it.

"Why would anyone go hunting in such a place?" Gray Yuan asked with some confusion. "This place is inevitably too remote, I don't particularly understand the thoughts of a family of three, why would they come here to do such a thing as camping?"

"Maybe there's something special about this?" Chiba speculated. "Could it be that one of my parents is also a fan of this movie?"

"Perhaps," Gray Hara shrugged. "If that's the case, they're unlucky enough, and they just happened to meet—" As he said this, Gray Yuan Wai suddenly remembered something. "By the way, what the hell are those? I don't think that thing is going to be a zombie or anything like that. ”

"I don't know," Chiba shook her head. "I don't think there's really a living dead like the one in the haunted house brochure, because it's not evolutionary, it's biological, it's not even thermodynamics."

"Has anyone been drugged?" Gray Yuan looked at the scenery on the screen and speculated. "If it's Cuban voodoo powder, it can really create a situation that makes people delirious and reduced to the walking dead."

"But it still can't explain a very important question," Qian Yu asked. "If that is the condition of the walking dead, they must theoretically be under strict guard, and people can only be seen saying that the walking dead have escaped from the custody of the custodians, and the number of living people in the custody must be far greater than the number of living people in the custody of the conservators, so that they cannot complete the recovery mission. But in this case, there is another problem - they are only walking dead, not the living dead, so they also have to eat. ”

"In such a situation, how do they feed these walking dead? Especially after the convenience store clerk is already scared, he will definitely pay attention to anything suspicious. If there really were people who provided resources for so many walking dead, why didn't the convenience store clerk mention anything about any sightings of the vehicles that drove the supplies to the mountains? ”