[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-in-the-world-of-conan-after-the-simulation-the-h":3,"chapter-in-the-world-of-conan-after-the-simulation-the-h-in-the-conan-world-after-simulation-the-female-c-chapter-48":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","In the Conan World: After Simulation, the Female Characters Collapse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1998069,2897,"Chapter 48","in-the-conan-world-after-simulation-the-female-c-chapter-48",48,"\u003Cp>“Ah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sudden scream caught Hoshino Ki’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that this villa really had ghosts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki didn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki walked in the direction of the scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Conan, I’m so scared!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ayumi, don’t make a sound, stay close to me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki walked to a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw two small figures hiding in the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Conan was here,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then that meant...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this was...?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the villa from the legendary Haunted House Murder Case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there were no ghosts here at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was caused by people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five years ago,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a happy family of three lived in this villa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the father severely scolded and criticized his son because he had failed his university entrance exams for three consecutive years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a fit of rage, the son killed his father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he realized what he had done,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the father’s body was already cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The son panicked, not knowing what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he decided to go to the police station to turn himself in,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his mother stopped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To help her son escape the responsibility of being a murderer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and to ensure her son’s future prospects remained unaffected,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she locked him in the dungeon in the basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been locked up for five years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sighing sounds heard in the villa every night\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were actually the son’s repentance and crying for accidentally killing his father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki understood everything now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this house really was a massive bargain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this villa didn’t even count as a haunted house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Hoshino Ki just needed to follow Conan,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and ensure Conan could successfully persuade the mother and son\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to turn themselves in.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki had truly secured this house...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this mother and son were truly immoral.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house wasn’t even theirs anymore,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet they kept lingering and refused to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staying in the basement and scaring people every day—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what was the point?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Conan, it’s a monster, right!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ayumi looked terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her two small hands were clutching Conan’s shirt tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shh! Don’t make a sound!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan shielded Ayumi behind him, hiding their bodies in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>an old woman pushing a cart emerged from around the corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman was dressed in black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was tall and gaunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her long white hair was draped over her shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked very terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on the cart the old woman was pushing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it looked like a plate of food was placed there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The food was on a plate,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>completely covered by a lid, making it impossible to see what was inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next to the plate was a candle holder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were three candles stuck in the holder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was likely for lighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid being discovered that people were still living in the villa,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the woman usually didn’t turn on the lights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reports of ghost fires passing through the villa\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were likely just the light from the candles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The electricity in the house was also in normal working order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This indicated that people had been living in the house all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki followed Conan and Ayumi,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all the way to the end of the path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, how did she disappear?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan rushed over anxiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He discovered that the old woman was nowhere to be seen at the end of the path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a lonely cart remained there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan searched all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I told you she was a monster! How could a human suddenly disappear!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ayumi was trembling in fear on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She held her hands in fists under her chin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her terrified eyes stared blankly at her surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How is that possible! That was clearly a person!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan was feeling around at the end of the path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a suspicious spot caught his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was a secret door leading to the basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the usual tropes of the wealthy,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there must be some mechanism nearby to open the underground passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki didn’t want Conan to use his telescopic suspenders to force the basement door open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan’s telescopic suspenders were one of Professor Agasa’s inventions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their tensile strength was powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could be used as a tool to bind criminals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This villa was already Hoshino Ki’s property.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using that kind of forceful method,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>heaven knows if it would damage the internal parts of the secret basement door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki walked in the shadows, avoiding the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gently felt along the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he found a protruding secret compartment on the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This compartment was clearly a notch higher than the surrounding area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki immediately pressed the compartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>463\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan had also just pressed the spring button on his belt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The basement door gradually opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah! Conan, you’re so amazing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ayumi looked at him with admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Conan didn’t care for the little girl’s admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was only interested in deducing and solving cases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, he wouldn’t have brought a little girl into this kind of basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not very gentlemanly at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki followed Conan and Ayumi into the basement with light steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And hid himself with extreme speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ensuring the four people present couldn’t detect him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s been five years, and you’re still like this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You need to let go; the dead will never come back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You need to look up and move forward.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahhhhhhh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dungeon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the son was frantically smashing the food on the plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The food was smashed and splattered everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I locked you here, not because I wanted you to keep dwelling on what happened back then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You need to pull yourself together!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman looked at her son in the dungeon with anxiety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She grabbed the bars of the cell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And shouted loudly at her son inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a broom next to Conan suddenly tilted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like it was about to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hiss!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan and Ayumi were both in a flurry of panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the broom landed on Conan’s leg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t make any sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rested his arm on an iron cabinet nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rumble!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron cabinet tilted and swayed due to Conan’s push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An iron bucket on the cabinet was about to roll off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoshino Ki watched all of this indifferently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t reach out to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a necessary step in the anime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan and Ayumi had to be discovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thump, thump, thump...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron bucket finally landed on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the empty basement,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it made a harsh sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiding would definitely lead to being discovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this also the protagonist’s halo?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, if the two had just hidden properly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they wouldn’t have made a single sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could only say Conan was too careless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who is it!? Come out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t expect there to be more than two rats breaking in.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman picked up a knife from the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pointed it in the direction where the bucket had fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, she was extremely fierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had completely lost the kindness and gentleness of a mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Put down the knife in your hand; I already know who you are.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The open window and the electricity in normal use prove that someone has been living here all along.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Although his appearance has changed,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“the mole on his face hasn’t.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are the mistress and the son of this house.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the one who killed the master of the house...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahhhhh, shut your mouth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conan really had no sense of self-preservation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he was in a child’s body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he insisted on showing off and provoking the mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a mother,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the most important thing is her son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that her son had become like this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was nothing more than his inability to accept the fact that he had killed his own father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, after five years of confinement...\u003C\u002Fp>",1322,"2026-06-15T14:30:30.301Z","2026-06-15T14:36:55.334Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8ef5230411adec3ea386d54cbec8891af0ff34c8da58fa0533d52424154e03af","in-the-conan-world-after-simulation-the-female-c-chapter-49","in-the-conan-world-after-simulation-the-female-c-chapter-47",260,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fin-the-conan-world-after-simulation-the-female-c-cover.jpg"]