Miss Moriarty wants to save Mihua Town today too

Like a crow's mouth, no one answered him, and the shouts in the room gradually stopped.

"It seems that you are right."

Xiao Ai replied calmly.

Conan also complained in his heart: Uncle is really a crow's mouth.

After a while, the group of four who were looking for Miss Lihua and Aunt Mi returned to the banquet hall.

Nikaido muttered: "Strange, why can't I find it anywhere?"

Ichiji Takashi made a conjecture and said, "Could it be that she would walk into the woods by herself and then get lost in it?"

At this time, Mori Kogoro was also completely awake. Once someone disappeared around him, it was probably more ominous, and his detective instinct was guiding him.He felt that there was no way to wait like this, so he told everyone:

"Then, let's all disperse and go to the forest to look for it together."

"Really, this eldest lady is really going to cause trouble!"

Mifune stood up unhappily.

Sophia also said to Winnet and Xiao Ai: "I feel that there is no problem with driving. It's almost time for us to go back."

Winnet nodded perfunctorily.If Lihua Sijing was really killed by someone, judging from the tire blowout incident that Conan said, their tires have also blown out now. Thinking from the perspective of a criminal, she knows that this is to prevent the remaining people from Leaving the scene means that the murderer's crime is not over yet. This is also the most common Blizzard Villa mode in mystery novels.

Judging from the fact that Mori Kogoro and Sofia's car was intact at the beginning, the murderer wanted them to leave at first, but the crime has already begun, and now they have no possibility of leaving.But she is not worried about the safety of her group, because generally speaking, perpetrators will not harm irrelevant personnel, unless there is a special use value-under this premise, the murderer will also let the unrelated personnel of the witnesses live, for He gave misleading testimony.

But right now, she's not sure.

Under Mori Kogoro's suggestion, everyone was divided into four groups of three people in each group.

They and the Mori family happen to be three people, a group of Takashi Ichieda, Nikaido, and Aunt Yone, and a group of Shoji Muta, Mifune, Ojo Gojo, and Masumi Kuye.

It was only when they walked out of the villa that they could see the surrounding situation better. It was completely surrounded by forests. The forest was composed of densely-grown cypresses and pine trees. good.

Xiao Ai held Winnet's hand, and followed Sophia closely.

Sophia looked around and said, "I hope to find her quickly, and then we will go back immediately."

Xiao Ai replied: "I think it is unlikely."

"what?"

"Didn't they just say that the tires of their and Lihua Sijing's cars were blown by someone, which means that someone doesn't want them to go down the mountain, and the signal in this mountain villa is very poor..."

When Xiao Ai looked at Winnet's phone, she confirmed that the signal grid was almost zero. She estimated that the telephone line in the villa was also cut off.

"Could it be..."

Sophia, who had experienced the tragedy on the ship, naturally thought of the possibility that someone designed the crime.

"It's hard to say right now."

Sophia sighed and looked at Winnet: "Is this the kind of kid you spend all day with? It's a good thing you can persevere."

Xiao Ai felt offended when she heard this.

Winnet leaned into Sophia's ear and whispered: "Children from unfortunate families are more or less different from ordinary children. It is our job to guide them correctly. Xiao Ai's words are just more mature, and she is a good child." .”

Sophia didn't take it seriously, and just continued to search around the forest, with girls and little girls who could barely see anything, she wasn't in the mood to venture deep and find an irrelevant woman.

The partner she wanted was the chairman of Sijing Group, and she didn't need to try to curry favor with his daughter.

But soon, the weather was not good, they searched for about ten minutes, the sky rained down, and in a short while, it became dense and wet their shoulders.

"Let's go back first, it's inconvenient to move around in this kind of clothes."

Sophia suggested that just now she saw other people who came here to look for Lihua Sijing. It seems that no one deliberately followed the big detective's intentions, but aimed to "find Miss Lihua" , for a more diffuse search.

As soon as they got near the villa, they heard Xiaolan screaming loudly.

It wasn't just them. After the rain, the others reacted by rushing back to the surrounding area of ​​the villa first. Coupled with Xiaolan's penetrating cry, everyone naturally gathered together.

Nikaido, the man who was talking so eloquently before, was lying on the ground, they leaned over, and others surrounded him who was lying on the ground.

Among them, Mifune, who has a more aggressive personality, even hugged his body and shook his body vigorously while calling his name, but did not get any feedback.

Mori Kogoro, who had inspected the corpse for the first time, said regretfully: "It's useless, he's already dead."

"What did you say!?"

Everyone who heard him widened their eyes.

Winnet was still covering Xiao Ai's eyes, but Xiao Ai grabbed her wrist and let it go.Both she and Conan looked at the condition of the corpse.

I'm afraid it's...

At the same time, Kogoro Mori stood up straight and glanced at the ordinary stone fountain standing in front of the villa.

"He died by drowning. From the looks of it, it's probably because the murderer forcefully forced him into the fountain."

"how can that be?"

Mifune started to panic.

Takashi Kazueda said anxiously, "But, just now, Nikaido was obviously still alive."

"During the process of searching, have you been together?"

"That's not the case... After we started looking for Miss Lihua, we gradually separated..."

General Liu Tian also jumped out to explain: "It is more difficult to move together in the dense forest, and...they all want to find Miss Lihua first."

This is the same for himself, as long as he finds Miss Lihua first, he will definitely gain a lot of favor.

"That's right, he was killed just now, and it was the people near this villa who killed him!"

Mori Kogoro asserted.

Xiaolan shrank her shoulders uneasily, put her hands close to her neckline, and said in a low voice, "It's really terrible. Who would do such a thing?"

"Maybe someone between us did it, maybe."

Xiao Ai, who was freed from Winnet's shackles, pointed out what Kogoro meant.

"Now there is exactly one person who is the most suspicious..."

Mifune said maliciously, "That's Miss Lihua, whose whereabouts are unknown."

Aunt Mi immediately refuted him: "How could Miss Lihua do such a thing?"

Kogoro didn't continue to argue about this matter. When everyone came over, it was already raining heavily, and it was meaningless to check whether everyone's hands were wet.He took off his coat and covered Nikaido, and concluded: "In short, call the police immediately, and wait for the police to come before we talk."

……

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256 Approaching in the Darkness

As Winnet expected, when they arrived at the room, they found that the telephone line of the villa had been cut off.

Yizhilong took out the mobile phone in his arms and said, "In this case, I will use the mobile phone to make a call."

"It's useless, the reception in this place is quite poor, and I can't make a call."

Masahiro Muta interrupted his actions.

Mifune, who wanted to borrow Kogoro's car at first, immediately thought of it.

"Now there's nothing to do but to use Mr. Morley and Miss Sophia's car."

Gojo Xiu nodded in agreement, "That's right, I'll drive down now and call the police."

Kogoro Mori and Sophia also thought of what they said.Immediately after Winnett reminded her, Sophia checked her car - the tire had been blown.

Mori Kogoro also confirmed with him, and happened to hear the conversation between Mifune and Gojo when he returned to the room.

"I went out to see it just now, and the tires of that lady and I were also punctured," he said with a serious expression, "that is to say, we have been trapped in this place by the murderer and we can't get out at all."

"Damn, how could this be!"

"Then we can only wait until dawn, when Miss Lihua's driver will pick us up."

General Liutian remained calm, and he said to Aunt Mi, "Aunt Mi, could you please make some coffee?"

"Ok."

Seeing that Aunt Mi is an old man, Xiaolan felt uneasy, so she quickly said, "I'll help too."

"I also……"

Winnet was interrupted by Xiao Ai in the middle of her words.

"You'd better stay here, you can't see anything in the dim environment, right?"

There is no lighting in many places in the corridors inside the villa. Although there are lights in the room, it is impossible to stay on all the time.Xiao Ai knows that Winnet can make judgments with her extraordinary hearing in the dark, but Winnet is not so supernatural in the eyes of others.

"It must be terrible that this happened, right?"

Winnet knew what Xiao Ai meant, and at the same time used the same method in reverse to write an article about the identity of a child.But she didn't expect that Xiao Ai would really cooperate.

"Yeah, I'm scared, so stay with me."

At this moment, Winnet's processor went down a bit, she nodded after a while, and stayed in the banquet hall.

The rest of the men all asked to go to the toilet, and Masashi Muta, who knew the villa relatively well, asked to bring some towels for everyone who was drenched by the rain.

Looking at Liutian's reaction, Conan felt that he was too calm and too familiar with the environment here.

He pretended to be a child and made a "wow" sound.

"Uncle Liutian, you are amazing! You are very familiar with this place."

"Because our group of people often come to this place to gather!"

Conan was startled when he got the reply, he thought to himself, in this way, those men are very familiar with this place, and the possibility of committing a crime will be higher.After all, it is basically impossible for women without special training to drown a grown man in a pool.

When there were only a few of them left in the room, Xiao Ai quietly approached Conan and asked him, "How about the detective, do you have a clue about the incident?"

Due to preconceived ideas, Xiao Ai is very suspicious of Jiuye Masumi who is chatting with Sophia.

"Not yet, but I think the murderer should be among those suitors of Miss Lihua."

"So, that Miss Lihua is still alive? If she is regarded as a forbidden target, she should not be killed. After all, if she dies, the money and status that are at your fingertips will disappear. "

"It's hard to say right now."

Winnet felt that Xiaolan and the others took a long time to make coffee, and Masaki Muta didn't come back after a while.When she was thinking this way, Xiaolan walked into the room with a cup of coffee. She felt that it was probably due to the large number of people.

At this moment when everyone was present, Conan spoke again, because there was one more thing that concerned him very much.

"Excuse me, did something happen to the yacht club two years ago?"

Kogoro, who was wiping the rain with a towel, glanced at Conan, "Okay, don't mention irrelevant things now, really..."

"But, Uncle Nikaido, he said before he was killed that the lady's partner had been decided two years ago."

"What did you say!?"

Mori Kogoro was startled, this sentence probably meant the reason why he was killed.

"I was thinking, maybe that incident has something to do with this incident!"

Kogoro Mori was persuaded, he looked back at the crowd, and said, "Yes, it seems that there is indeed a need to talk about this matter... What happened two years ago?"

Several men looked unwilling to mention it, sweating from nervousness.

In the end, Masahiro Muta stood up and said, "Actually, it was an unfortunate tragedy."

He spoke eloquently.

"It was a typhoon day. One day two years ago, our group of people dispersed after anchoring on a nearby small island. We went to the small island to play. We didn't even know that a storm was coming soon. When the thunderstorm came, most of us took refuge on the yacht, only Nikaido, who had been fishing on the boat, and Ms. Lihua, who stayed alone on the island, did not come back.”

"When the tide is high, that small island will sink under the sea. At that time, one of us was driving a rubber boat to rescue Miss Lihua."

"Half a day later, Miss Lihua and Nikaido were sitting on the rubber boat going forward, but the companion who went to rescue them was gone."

"Three days later, her body was found floating on the surface of the sea."

After listening to the story, Kogoro asked: "So, who is this dead person?"

"She is my granddaughter, Yaeko."

Aunt Mi who distributed the coffee cups replied.