Chapter 645: As expected, it's the same old formula.

"I mean..."

Conan looked up and saw that Qianzhu's eyes were glistening with tears, and he was stunned for a moment.

Qianzhu wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at him with a puzzled expression. "Hmm?"

"Uh, are you alright?" Conan asked hesitantly.

"Hmm?" Qianzhu seemed even more confused, then realized what she meant and smiled helplessly, "I'm fine. I was just putting in eye drops. Come in first and we'll talk."

He opened the door a little wider to let Conan in.

Conan coughed twice after entering the room and watched as Chizuru closed the door.

"Alright, continue with what you were saying." Qianzhu turned to look at him and smiled slightly.

"Ah, okay." Conan paused for a moment, then continued to tell Chizuru his thoughts.

After he finished speaking, Qianzhu raised an eyebrow slightly. "So you think one of them might be planning something?"

Conan nodded slightly. "But this is just my guess. After all, it's impossible for a murder to happen every time we go out to play, hahaha... cough cough..."

Qianzhu's smile remained unchanged.

Be confident, detective; your guess is correct.

"By the way, I heard from Professor Agasa that Ran is suspecting your identity again?" He suddenly bent down slightly, leaned closer to Conan, and asked in a low voice.

When this was mentioned, Conan chuckled a few times, feeling rather embarrassed. "It's because Ran is just too smart, but in the end, I did manage to find a way to dispel her suspicions."

"I see..." Qianzhu's voice trailed off slightly, her eyes flickered, and she whispered a reminder to him, "You should still be careful. Xiaolan is so smart. Even if you dispel her suspicions this time, she will still suspect you if you slip up again in the future. After all, there aren't that many ways for you to get away with things."

He was right, and Conan knew it himself, so he nodded and said, "I will."

Qianzhu smiled at him, then straightened up and pushed Conan out of the room. After patting his head, she instructed, "Alright, you're still sick, so don't run around. It would be terrible if Ran found out. Go back and rest."

Okay.

Conan was slightly annoyed that Qianzhu treated him like a child even though she knew his identity, but he still obediently went back to his room.

But at this time, he didn't want to just lie in bed doing nothing, so he sat by the window and stared at the snow scene outside with a bored expression through the glass.

But just then, Conan noticed a plume of black smoke rising in the distance. His pupils constricted, and he got up and ran out of the room to find Kogoro Mouri.

"Uncle! There's a fire outside!"

"What did you say!?"

Kogoro Mouri, who was watching TV in the living room, suddenly stood up, put on his shoes, and ran out of the villa towards the source of the smoke. He then discovered that the bridge he had to cross had been burned down.

Qianzhu lifted the curtains on the window and looked over, shaking her head slightly. "It's the same old trick."

After saying that, he ignored her, sat back down on the bed, and then turned on the system's 'live stream'.

At this very moment, an uninvited guest appeared at the Chino residence in 2-chome, Beika City.

He carefully disguised himself and sneaked into the room when no one was there.

While trying to find useful clues, he heard the sound of a lock being opened in the front door.

His eyelids twitched slightly; it might be too late to leave now.

So he immediately hid.

The person who opened the door called out as soon as they entered the house, "Little Black, Little White, where are you? I've come to feed you."

The voice wasn't Qianzhu's, and the person hiding inside the house breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Strange, have those two little ones gone out to play again?"

A questioning voice came again, and a black-haired young man stood in the living room with his hands on his hips, looking around the room.

"Maybe he really isn't here." Liu Qingyao spread her hands and looked up helplessly. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard a cat meow.

Someone who was hiding glanced back.

He then saw a black cat lying behind him.

A black cat lay behind him.

She lay down behind him.

Behind him.

"..."

The black cat opened its mouth and yawned, glancing at him with its golden-green eyes before leisurely trotting to the living room.

For some reason, he felt he saw contempt in the cat's eyes.

"..."

"Ah, so you're here, Little Black. Where's Little White?"

Liu Qingyao suppressed a laugh, squatted down, and patted the black cat's head.

The black cat meowed loudly at him, clearly indicating that it didn't like the name, and then meowed casually, indicating that it didn't know where that stupid pigeon had gone.

"Looks like Xiaobai went off to play again. I'll prepare some cat food for you first."

Picking up the black cat, Liu Qingyao went to the kitchen cabinet and found some cat food, then poured it into the black cat's special little bowl.

After finishing the task of feeding the kittens, Liu Qingyao prepared to leave. Before leaving, he didn't forget to ask the black cat, "By the way, Little Black, are you planning to stay here and continue sleeping or go out?"

Meow~

The black cat, having eaten its fill, habitually jumped onto the sofa and lay down, answering Liu Qingyao's question with its actions.

"Alright then." Liu Qingyao shrugged, closed the door, and left.

Not long after he left, the people hiding inside the house also prepared to leave.

After all, they hadn't found any useful clues.

Inside a villa nestled in the mountains.

After glancing at the person's search activity through the system, Qianzhu turned off the 'live stream'.

He was just an ordinary composer; how could there possibly be anything dangerous in his house?

Soon, the unimportant butler prepared lunch.

After lunch, everyone was in high spirits, and someone suggested playing some games.

However, Qianzhu wasn't interested in these things. She originally wanted to find an excuse to leave, but she was persuaded to stay and was responsible for distributing cards to them.

Skip over unimportant things.

After dinner that day, everyone rested for a while before preparing to soak in the hot springs.

The biggest attraction of this villa is its own natural hot spring.

Chizuru silently declined Shinnosuke Furuya's invitation, and after watching them leave, she returned to her room by herself.

In the hot spring.

Conan soaked in the water, watching several men chatting in front of him, while the occasional laughter of women next to him drifted over.

His mouth was submerged in water, and he blew a few bubbles with his half-moon eyes.

As they were about to leave, Shinnosuke Furuya, who was lagging behind, suddenly immersed himself in the water, then popped his head out to indicate that they should go first, as he wanted to stay in the water a little longer.

Before leaving, Okazaki Naganobu kindly reminded him, "Be careful not to soak for too long."