Model worker and his little darling

Over the weekend, Hirai and Professor Agasa took five children to the forest.

“We’ll set up the stove and tents here. You guys go and gather some firewood from the neighborhood.”

"it is good."

And so, Conan led the three little ones into the forest, with Hirai helping Professor Agasa with his work.

The firewood gathering went relatively smoothly, and Conan felt he had gathered enough, so he prepared to call the three of them to go back together, just then—

"Come quick, I've found something interesting!"

Upon hearing Mitsuhiko's call, the three of them immediately ran over.

Conan looked at the large cave, which seemed bottomless, but there was nothing strange about it. "It's just a stalactite cave."

"It also says 'Danger, Do Not Enter' on it."

Seeing that Ayumi and Conan hadn't noticed the important point, Mitsuhiko pointed to the stone tablet and said, "This is what caught my attention. Look at these words on the stone."

"Proceed towards the path of the auspicious dragon, and Heaven will surely bestow blessings and glory upon you."

After the three children translated, they came to an exciting discovery: "There's treasure here!"

Conan also became interested, looking at the hiragana 'to' engraved on the stone tablet, feeling that it was somewhat similar to the codes he had seen before.

When Conan came to his senses, he found that his side was empty. The three little ones had already entered the cave impatiently, and Conan had no choice but to follow them.

Using the light from the watch-shaped flashlight, the group walked deeper into the area.

Not long after, Conan found a cigarette butt; the filter was still slightly damp. Could there be someone else here besides them?

The four walked for a while longer, and suddenly a light came from the depths of the dark cave.

"There seem to be other people in the cave."

"Could it be that those people have already discovered the treasure before us?"

Upon hearing Ayumi's words, Genta rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the light. "Damn it, if we had come in sooner, we would have been the ones who found the treasure."

Unfortunately, what they saw after turning the corner was not treasure.

The scene that came into view consisted of four men, three of whom were carrying another man with a large bullet hole in his forehead, who appeared to be dead. This was clearly a body disposal scene.

Yuan Tai turned pale with fright, let out a scream, and scrambled back.

There is... a corpse.

The commotion alerted the three people, and before the detective team could react, one of the men gritted his teeth, pulled out a pistol, and fired at the children.

Conan reacted quickly, immediately leading the Detective Team in a lunge, shouting, "It's a gun, get down!"

Led by Conan, the three children ran into the darkness.

The remaining two rushed over upon hearing the gunshot, asking, "What's going on?"

“The little devils saw me. I saw four little devils coming.”

After a quick exchange, one of the three gripped his pistol tightly. "Find those brats. I'm going to rip a hole in their heads and leave them lying in this dark cave forever."

The three's conversation was overheard by Conan and his friends who were hiding nearby, and they were so frightened that they trembled.

As the three began searching for someone in the cave, Conan took the opportunity to call Ai Haibara using his detective badge, but unfortunately, he received no response.

The three little ones had no choice but to look at Conan, only to find that Conan was covered in sweat and clutching his waist. It turned out that the bullet had hit Conan earlier.

"Conan, we have to get out of here quickly, or those bad guys will come soon."

"Don't get excited. As long as we don't go back, Haibara will definitely come back to find us, as our brother Pingqing is waiting for us outside. But they know nothing about what happened in the cave, so we have to find a way to inform them."

Conan then took out a transmitter and instructed the three children to do as he said.

After setting everything up, Genta carried Conan on his back, and the four of them walked deeper into the cave in the darkness.

As they walked, the three little ones felt guilty and began to admit their mistakes.

“Fool, thanks to the three of you entering this stalactite cave, a murder case that was originally unsolvable has a chance of being solved. As long as we get rid of those big bad guys, we can have a barbecue. We need to face the current situation with a positive attitude.”

After receiving some heartwarming encouragement from Conan, the three little ones regained their enthusiasm.

After walking for a while, the detective team came to a fork in the road. By this time, Conan was already very weak.

Looking at the sky, Haibara frowned slightly. "They've been gone for far too long. Even if they were on an expedition, they should be back by now."

Ping Qing didn't care at all; they were all prone to accidents, so no matter who got into trouble, they wouldn't.

"Let's go look for it."

Seeing Haibara looking over, Taira nods, leaving Professor Agasa alone to guard the headquarters.

After circling the area for a while, he found nothing. He walked a little further and saw the cave. Upon seeing the shell on the stone tablet, Ping Qing's lips twitched.

"They probably went in to look for treasure."

Haibara nodded. "The firewood they gathered is here too. Let's go in and take a look."

The two walked into the cave and soon spotted Conan's glasses. Haibara tested the eye-tracking function.

"It seems they dropped something; there are quite a few around here."

Pingqing looked around and found several transmitters.

Wearing glasses, Haibara did some work and then saw the number 110.

"110! They're in danger!"

Hearing Haibara's exclamation, Taira Kiyoya put on his glasses and looked, and sure enough, 110 appeared.

"Go out and call the police first, and ask Professor Agasa where the cave exit is. I'll go in and find them."

"Okay, be careful." After saying that, Haibara walked outside.

Ping Qing hummed in agreement and slowly walked inside. After only a few steps, he saw bloodstains on the ground.

Hmm? Someone's injured? Could it be Conan?

He then checked Conan's location on the system map; he wasn't far away. Anyway, Conan wouldn't die, so getting injured would teach him a lesson.

With that in mind, Pingqing wasn't in a hurry at all. He returned to the cave entrance, picked out a piece of wood that he liked, and then headed towards Conan's location.

Not long after, Pingqing saw a man sitting on a rock after turning a corner, with a cigarette in his mouth and a gun in his hand.

Oh my, there really are people inside, and guns too. He originally thought they were knives or something.

I glanced over and saw that Conan was in one of the caves behind the man.

Ping Qing stretched his wrists, quieted down, and walked behind the man, stick in hand.

"duang~"

The man fell to the ground.

Looking at the large bump on the man's head, Ping Qing curled her lips, feeling quite pleased.

The three little ones inside also saw Pingqing's actions and instantly became excited.

"It's Brother Pingqing! Brother Pingqing has come to save us!"

Just then, the sound of bullets whistling through the air rang out. Ping Qing quickly dodged and glanced around, only to see two men emerge from another cave.