Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 546: Second Disappearance
"Hey Yuantai! What are you doing? Do you know that everyone is worried about you?"

Nagano Forest.

After more than half an hour of searching by everyone, the missing person of the Junior Detective Team, Yuan Taixiao, finally returned to the collection area safely.

However, what greeted him was a triple scolding from Rei + Conan + Dr. Agasa.

Lie, who was never very serious, also acted like an elder at this time: "Little Yuantai, it's very dangerous for you to run away without saying anything! What if you get completely lost and starve to death in the forest? Eat mushrooms?"

"That's right, Yuantai, don't run around randomly from now on... and the hunting area over there is very dangerous!"

Dr. Agasa also followed up with a lecture.

Originally, Genta was a little unhappy after being lectured by Conan, but with two adults talking to him, Genta immediately became obedient, lowered his head obediently, and stared at the large basin of Matsutake mushrooms he had picked, "I, I get it... But, I just want to help everyone pick more Matsutake mushrooms..."

Yuantai’s reason is irrefutable.

However, Lie blinked and picked up a matsutake mushroom from Yuantai's mushroom basket, "Well, there are quite a lot~ but isn't it too much?"

There are rules for picking matsutake mushrooms here. Adults can pick three, and children can pick two. Based on their number of people, they can only pick 21 in total...

Ke Lie estimated Yuan Tai's basket and found that the number had exceeded twenty.

"Eh?"

Yuan Tai also blinked, then looked up at Lie innocently.

It seems that this child has completely forgotten the collection rules.

Yuan Tai returned to the team safely, and the matsutake mushrooms were all picked. Logically, they should be able to go down the mountain and return to the hotel happily, but -

"Strange... Why haven't Ai and Hiroki come back yet?" After finishing educating Genta, Dr. Agasa discovered the problem, "And Mr. Cangfeng."

After being delayed for so long, it’s time for him to come back, right?

"Let me see……"

Conan turned on his tracking glasses and looked at the coordinates of Hiroki's detective armband. "They are still on the other side of the barbed wire... Wait, at this distance, are they in the hunting area?"

Dr. Agasa's beard twitched. "What? They went to the hunting area?"

What if a hunter mistakes it for prey and shoots it?
He turned to look at Lie.

The latter put down the phone with a look of disappointment, "No, the signal here is not good, I can't get in touch with him at all, and I don't know where my brother Qian is~"

"This is troublesome..." Dr. Agasa had a headache.

"How about we go look for Ai and Hiroki first? I think Qian is lost. He doesn't have a good sense of direction, but he won't be in danger." Lie said with a smile.

Dr. Agasa reluctantly agreed, "That's the only way. What about the children..."

Mitsuhiko and Ayumi raised their hands again, and even Genta followed suit: "We can help! We will definitely not run around!"

Conan weakly raised his hand in response.

One person disappears every now and then, how long will it take for them to disappear? He was so tired... He really just wanted to ask Mr. Lin what he wanted to do by bringing Uncle Cang Feng here this time, but he didn't find a good opportunity, and now the other party is also missing...

Could he be doing something secretive?
Suspicious, so suspicious!
……

Deep in the forest, hunting area.

The barbed wire that served as the second line of defense had a hole in it for some unknown reason, making it easier for them to get through.

——They were, of course, Hiroki and Huihara Ai. After the two of them climbed into the hunting area, they found a nearby tree to lean against and rest for a while.

Huiyuan Ai took out her homework and checked it, then turned around and asked, "Did they find Yuanta?"

Hiroki nodded, "Noah just told me that they have reunited and are looking for us."

As he spoke, he also took out his laptop from his bag and checked the information that the omnipotent Noah sent him via the satellite network.

"That's good." After heaving a sigh of relief, Hui Yuan flipped through the notebook that was full of notes he had taken along the way, and put the notebook away with great satisfaction. Then he asked, "Come to think of it, what happened? And they deliberately asked us to delay Conan and the others' departure time."

Originally, Haibara Ai thought that they were just here to pick mushrooms. It was only when they went to look for Genta that Hiroki told her that their purpose was to delay time as much as possible.

So in fact, they didn't even look for Yuantai, they just came directly to the hunting area.

"...Well, I just found out that they didn't plan it this way before."

As Hiroki spoke, he turned the computer screen towards Haibara Ai so that she could see the contents clearly, and explained, "Uncle Jing originally planned to come to a certain place in Nagano to get information, and this time it was just a coincidence... That place is related to 'Night'. I wonder if you, Haibara sister, have heard of... 'Twilight Annex'?"

"Is it related to the organization?" Huiyuan Ai was slightly surprised, a little confused, "As for the Dusk Villa... I've only heard of it. Is that place right here?"

Hiroki scratched his cheek. "Well, it should be the mountainous area about ten kilometers from the hunting area... and there is no direct road from the Wood and Stone Forest. We have to go around it from the main county road."

Haibara Ai:"……"

That's quite remote.

and……

"More than ten kilometers...how long will it take us to delay?" Haibara Ai thought of this serious question, her expression a little solemn.

"Let me see..." Hiroki scrolled down the information Noah gave him, "Uncle Jing's idea is that we should just wait until the sun sets."

"…But the problem is, it's only one o'clock now." Haibara Ai looked at her watch.

The sun would set at six o'clock, right? They would be forced to get lost for another five hours?

Isn't it too deliberate and suspicious to be missing for so long?

Haibara Ai didn't ask Jing what she wanted to do there - anyway, her information query permissions were very advanced, and she would know everything as long as she asked Noah afterwards.

And it was really exciting when I secretly read the information behind Conan and Dr. Agasa's backs.

Hiroki also knew that it was a bit difficult to force himself to be lost for five hours, and he shrugged helplessly: "There's no other way, just try your best, just in case..." If a murder happened or something, he could reasonably delay the time.

"What if?" Haibara Ai turned her head with a puzzled look on her face.

"that is--"

'boom--! '

Just when Hiroki was about to explain Conan's "Death God Characteristics", a gunshot interrupted his words.

He exchanged a glance with the slightly surprised Haibara Ai, then put away his things and carefully moved along the bushes towards the source of the gunshot.

But just as they walked a little further, Huiyuan Ai quickly pulled Hiroki and silently pointed to the bushes on the side of them -

There, there was a body lying with a gunshot wound in the abdomen.

(End of this chapter)