Nagai Hikaru's Ke Xuexing

Chapter 264 Mountain Fire

Haibara Ai huddled in the corner of the ranch office, trembling. She was having a panic attack.

She had seen lights in the forest earlier and was about to go over with Wakasa Rumi when she heard the sound of horse hooves.

Conan thought of the OK Ranch at the foot of the mountain, and quickly connected the black Porsche and Gin, and then asked Haibara Ai to hide immediately.

And Haibara Ai quickly understood what Conan meant. Did Gin... ride up the mountain? Did he find anything? Yes, Haba Shiro was also on the mountain...

The more she thought about it, the more panicked she became. Finally, she huddled in the corner next to the office window, trembling quietly.

Seeing this situation, Wakasa Rumi had no way of leaving to go to the forest to check on her own. She could only whisper to comfort Haibara Ai with Genta, trying to calm her emotions.

When the explosion sounded, everyone was caught off guard.

Fortunately, everyone was in the corner next to the window for Haibara Ai, and no one was hurt by the broken window and flying glass.

"Did the bomb... explode?" Yuanta looked in the direction of the woods. "Did that man drag everyone to death like Conan said? If we had gone over and told him the truth just now, would the result have been different?"

The sound was very soft, because everyone was still having tinnitus after the explosion, so they couldn't hear it clearly. Conan nervously asked the detective badge about the safety of several people, and Yuan Taimang obediently reported the news.

"It seems that the man has dragged the three suspects who deceived his brother to death." The voice of Haba Bai came from the detective badge, "Don't blame yourself, we don't have the ability to save everyone."

Wakasa Rumi's glasses reflected the light and she smiled. "Yes, we are not able to save them, but we will still try our best to rescue you. Now see if you can keep knocking on the door of the storage room. We will follow the sound to find you."

The explosion caused a forest fire. Fortunately, Wakasa Rumi and others found Conan and others who were trapped downstairs before the fire spread to the ranch and rescued them.

But unfortunately, no one cared about the body in the basement, and several adults ran away from the wildfire area with their children in their arms.

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"There's such a big fire on the mountain, will it burn down?" Suzuki Sonoko looked at the mountain in shock, biting the popsicle in her hand.

Karasuma Akimitsu looked at Gin.

Gin shook his head: "No, the wind is not blowing this way, and our horse farm is very large, with a natural firebreak around it."

Suzuki Sonoko nodded with relief: "I hope this wildfire won't spread too far."

"I remember the weather forecast said there is a 70% chance of rain the day after tomorrow, don't worry." Karasuma Akimitsu looked at Suzuki Sonoko, "You, you came back safely but didn't inform us, making us spend so much time looking for you in the mountains."

"Hahaha, my phone is out of battery. I was charging it when you called and didn't see it. By the way, it was Sally who brought me and the white liquor down here."

"Sally?"

"Yes, I got lost when we were in the mountains because White Liquor saw a big rooster. It was curious and followed it, but it deviated from the main road, and then I got lost. Then I met Sally, and Sally was so obedient. I told her that I was lost, and she just led me back by the reins." Suzuki Sonoko touched her head and smiled awkwardly, "Sally is so smart, she even took me to the freezer to find snacks when I came back."

"You didn't feed it?" Karasuma Akimitsu became nervous, and even Gin looked over.

"I gave you an ice cream, what's wrong?"

Gin held his forehead with his hand: "Sally's stomach is not very good. If she eats too cold, she will have diarrhea."

"Eh?!"

Karasuma Akimitsu looked at Sally, who was happily spinning around and rubbing her legs at his feet. He said, "Let's leave Sally at the stable tonight and pick her up tomorrow, so she doesn't get a stomachache on the way back."

"I'm so sorry..." Suzuki Sonoko blushed.

"It's not your problem. Sally asked you for the ice cream." Karasuma Mingguang pinched the bridge of his nose. "It's because the family didn't give it to it, so it learned its lesson."

Suzuki Mariko nodded and sighed, "Yes, it picked the flavor itself. I saw that it was so familiar with it, so I thought you fed it often."

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When the police and firefighters arrived, the two teachers, the children, and Hashira Yuba and others had already reached the foot of the mountain.

The firefighter looked at the fire on the mountain and said helplessly, "It's too dangerous to go up and put out the fire when it's so big. But there's a big horse farm nearby. They have special firebreaks in their horse racing areas and pastures, so it won't spread down the mountain. We're really lucky."

“And I remember that a golf course was going to be developed nearby.”

Takagi Shigeru took the notes and looked at Hashiro Haneba, then looked at Conan and the others, and finally walked to Yuya Kazami: "Um, can you explain in detail what happened? I heard from the police that there may be several dead people up there."

Conan came over and stood next to Yuya Kazami, and they talked about the results of their deductions.

"So I suspect that the explosion was caused by the younger brother of the Hatoyama ranch owner who committed suicide in order to avenge his brother, killing three possible suspects." Conan concluded.

Wakasa Rumi said hesitantly, "Well, there is a message. I remember that before the explosion, we heard the sound of horse hooves... It seemed that someone was riding a horse in the woods."

"The horse farm down there?" Takagi Shigeru pointed in the direction of the OK horse farm. "That's the horse farm. They may have some people riding horses or releasing horses up the mountain."

Yuba Bai asked with some concern: "Could there be people riding horses at the horse farm who saw the scene?"

"With such a big wildfire, you said those people might have been killed in the explosion, so it should have been burned beyond recognition. But the OK Ranch did not report any missing persons." Takagi Shigeru checked the alarm record on his mobile phone.

"I see." Hanaba Haku nodded.

The group was taken to the three-way intersection at the foot of the mountain. Sato Miwako asked them to wait there for a while. "I'm sorry that there are so many of you. We have been short of police cars since the Metropolitan Police Department incident. If we send someone to drive you back now, the police officers in the inspection department will have no cars to go back soon. We will call a taxi to take you home. Please wait here for a while."

"Okay." Several children nodded obediently.

"But..." Yuan Tai touched his stomach, "We haven't had dinner yet... I'm so hungry now."

Meiyuki put down her schoolbag and took out a bag of sliced ​​toast from it: "Yuanta, have some of this first."

"Ah! You actually brought this?" Yuan Tai rushed over happily.

"Don't eat it alone, Ayumi and Ai, you should also have one piece to fill your stomach." Himimi said with a smile.

"Great."

Watching Sato Miwako driving away in the red Mazda, Haneba Shiro paid attention to the three-way intersection.

Conan walked up to Hanabashiro and pointed in the direction of the road: "That's the OK Ranch, did you know that?"

"OK Ranch?"

"Karasuma's ranch, where there are Karasuma's horses, more than one. They seem to have been here today." Conan looked up at Hakari Haba, "Gin is here too."

Habashiro frowned.

"You follow Brother Karasuma, so you should have a code name, right? Just like Gin, what is your code name?" Conan suddenly asked with a smile.

Bai Yuba looked down at Conan, and Conan smiled brightly in return, with an expression that said, "I know a lot about your organization."

"I don't understand what you are saying." Bai Yuba looked at Conan calmly, and felt that the kid was becoming more and more bold.

"Are you friends with Mr. Amuro? Then do you know where Mr. Amuro has gone? The Poirot Café hasn't hired a new clerk yet, and we are all a little worried about him." Conan touched his head with an innocent look on his face.

"I don't know, maybe he is busy with something. If you have his number, you can call or email him, right?" Yuba Bai's expression remained unchanged.

"I see..." Conan nodded, "So what is Karasuma-nii busy with recently?"

"...Busy with school. He's already been in school for a week." Hashiro Hanabu then remembered that... Conan didn't know that Karasuma Akimitsu was already a student at the University of Tokyo.

"School? High school?"

"No, the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo."

"..." Conan's face was full of disbelief, "Todai!?"

The children who were carefully chewing the toast slices were attracted by the sound and asked, "Conan, what are you talking about?"

"Nothing." Habashiro said nonchalantly, "Let's talk about Mr. Karasuma again."

"What's wrong with Karasuma brother?" Himiko asked with concern.

"He's been taking classes recently. The University of East China has started."

"Todai?" Several children exclaimed in unison, "So Karasuma-san is a student at Todai! How cool!"

Haibara Ai looked at Conan, whose face was stiff, then turned her head and burst out laughing.

"He actually went to the University of Tokyo first..." Conan squatted aside and drew circles in frustration.

At this time, at the fork in the road, the sound of a dog barking was heard in the distance, and several people turned their heads to look.

A giant poodle wearing a pink French lace sunhat and a pink tutu came running from the end of the road, barking.

"Sally!?" Several people shouted in surprise at the same time.

"Woof woof woof!" Sally saw Bai Yuba as if she had seen a savior. She rushed towards Bai Yuba crying and threw herself on him, tears streaming down her face.

A white pickup truck drove up behind them and stopped. A middle-aged man dressed in cowboy clothes opened the door and ran over, panting and saying, "Thank you! Thank you for helping to stop it. The child thought the boss had abandoned him and ran out crying."

I cried and ran with diarrhea... Luckily I had just trimmed my butt hair...

Habashiro touched Sally's neck and calmed it down: "Is this Sally?"

"Ah? You know it? No wonder?" The middle-aged man awkwardly took out a large bag of wet tissues from his bag and came over to wipe Sally's butt. "It ate ice cream, so the boss didn't dare to take it in the car. We agreed to send Miss Suzuki back and then change the car to pick it up. But it started crying when the boss drove away, and just now it ran out when we weren't paying attention."

"BOSS?" Conan's face turned pale.

Fortunately, not much stuff was stuck to Sally's butt. Maybe the scene of her crying, running and defecating was too beautiful, the middle-aged man didn't want to recall it at all: "Ah, you guys..." They looked so familiar.

"Ah! It's Mr. Ohnan from OK Ranch!" Ayumi shouted first.

"Oh, you guys! You are the kids that the young lady brought here to ride horses!" The man named Danan finally remembered and put the waste tissues that Sally used to wipe her butt into the garbage bag. Then he half bent his knees and looked at Ayumi Mitsuhiko and the others: "Ah, you haven't come to play for a long time. By the way, Dorothy has grown a lot taller. She looks like a big horse now."

"Wow! I really want to see it!"

"Did Boss and the others just go back?" asked Bai Yuba while touching Sally.

"We've been walking for a while, and I told Sally to wait another hour or two and then come pick her up. What a shame." Danan exhaled and patted his chest. "Luckily you guys stopped us at this intersection. There's a wildfire up there. If Sally got lost, it would be a big problem."

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