You chose a seat far away from the red-eyed real wine, and Matsuda and Xiao Jingguang sat next to you. In front of each seat was a large steak pasta with a knife and fork next to it.

Mr. Yamada is dining with you. He first says a welcome speech, then smilingly suggests that everyone make a brief self-introduction and get to know each other.

The man and woman turned out to be brother and sister, and they opened a small supermarket together. You always thought they were a couple... The brother's name is Takano Muneki, and the sister's name is Takano Mie.

Meihui smiled sweetly: "Nice to meet you. I have been looking forward to the snow scene here for a long time."

"You brought a whole bag of clothes." Takano Souji complained.

You're only going out for three days, and you're bringing so many clothes. You thought to yourself. I only seem to have prepared a few pairs of underwear...

"How can there be so many?" Meihui looked at him unhappily. "Brother, you don't understand. Different scenery requires different clothes. Speaking of this, I have to talk about you. If we put our clothes in one bag, whose room will we put them in?"

"Take out what you want to wear one day in advance and keep it in my room." Zong Shu shook his head, "It's mainly because it's inconvenient to pack it separately..."

"Are all these single rooms?" you asked curiously.

"Oh, yes, there is only one bed in each room..." Boss Yamada smiled innocently, "But an adult and a child can sleep in it."

"Then Conan, sleep with me~" Xiaolan looked at Conan with a smile.

"Ah...oh...ok." Conan blushed and shrank his neck.

You (dead fish eyesjpg.): “…”

The foreigner took out the cigar from his mouth, blew out a puff of smoke and said, "My name is Paul Kripke. I came here mainly to look for inspiration. As you know, game scene design is very much about inspiration. I don't like being disturbed. Don't come to me if you don't have anything to do. I don't really want to participate in group games, so don't bother me, boss."

You're not sociable when we just met. You see that Mr. Yamada looks a little embarrassed, and he says, "Ah, it's all right."

Then he explained to everyone: "Because Mr. Paul came the earliest, I wanted to discuss our collective activities with him... Hey, participation is voluntary, not forced - you can continue."

Hongmu Zhenjiu had already started eating. He didn't even need to use a knife to cut the steak. He just used a fork to pick up a large piece of steak. His sharp teeth cut every piece of meat perfectly. He answered without even looking up: "Kitagawa Zhenjiu, don't bother me if you have nothing to do."

"..." You even wonder if his teeth are made of iron. Anyway, he looks very attractive.

Beichuan is really a mustard.

You muttered to yourself. It was probably a fake name—you didn’t know what the other person was doing here.

"Jinpei Matsuda, I'm here for vacation." Matsuda's reply was also simple, and he did not explain his occupation.

"Hello, my name is Jiang Lai, and I'm looking forward to a pleasant vacation." You said with a smile.

"Hello brothers and sisters, my name is Jiang Jing~" Little Jingguang looked up and smiled, "Let's build a snowman together~"

"What a cute child." Meihui covered her mouth and smiled.

The next one was the Mori family. As soon as Kogoro Mori finished reading his name, Boss Yamada said, "Ah! It's the famous Detective Mori!"

"Is it the sleeping Maori Kogoro?" Takano Muneki looked a little surprised, "I didn't expect you to come here for vacation."

"Ahahaha," Uncle Maori laughed, "I'm just an average person, not that famous."

"Can you give me an autograph?" Meihui took out a notebook and a pen from her messenger bag and handed them over.

"Of course! Of course!" Uncle Maori looked very happy.

Conan had a "haha" expression on his face.

Paul didn't react, just chuckled and continued smoking. Kitagawa Makoto seemed to be cut off from the world, still eating with a blank expression.

You pick up your knife and fork to eat, but you hear the sound of a text message.

[Are you in Blue Snow Villa? ]

Who is this? You look at the number, an unfamiliar one. Could it be a sushi customer? But how does he know where he is...

You still reply: [Yes, dear, the owner is on vacation~ Temporarily closed, will open next Monday~]

Soon I received a reply: [You still owe me a reward. ]

Shuichi Akai? You finally understand who the other person is after reading this sentence.

【How do you have my phone number? 】

[The bus incident, I saw this while taking notes.]

"..." Ah, the same answer as when you asked yourself how you knew his name. You touch your nose.

[Uh, so... do you want me to bring you some local specialties? Or do you want to come to my store to get sushi?] You were a little suspicious whether it was Akai Shuichi in front of you. He didn't seem like someone who would eat snacks.

【No.】

The other party responded quickly.

【I want you to take a picture. 】

Photograph……?

You raised your eyebrows and replied: [What photo? ]

【Single photo of each person present. No need to take a frontal photo.】

You: “…”Brother, you want to kill me.

As far as you know, there is real wine here!

You typed "This is not an equal reward" on your phone, thought for a moment, and deleted the words one by one.

No, you can't reply like that, you think. Because you shouldn't know that there is real wine present.

You re-enter: [No. As a good and law-abiding young person, you cannot infringe on other people's privacy.]

After clicking send, you stare at the screen, but the other party takes a long time to reply to your next text message.

"Jiang Lai?" Matsuda called you, "Hey, stop playing with your phone. You'll get cold if you don't eat."

“Oh, okay.” You smiled and put your phone away.

Everyone enjoyed the meal very much. Mr. Yamada was very good at livening up the atmosphere. Except for Kitagawa Makoto, everyone else chatted to some extent.

Through the window, Xiaolan could see that it was snowing heavily again. She sighed, "It's snowing heavily again. There will be a lot of snow on the ground tomorrow."

"You can now play with your snowman." Matsuda touched little Jingguang's head.

“Great~”

You looked down at your phone again. There were no text messages, and the signal indicator had turned into a cross.

"..." The signal is really bad. You put your phone away.

"The characteristic of this place is that it often snows heavily in winter. The snow on the ground can bury half a person." Boss Yamada introduced. Seeing that everyone had finished eating, he took everyone to the leisure room to play around - because it was the first day, it was already mid-afternoon after dinner, and there was still heavy snow, so they simply did not go out.

Dinner was simple, and after everyone had finished, he suggested: "After dinner, I'll take you to visit the rooms."

There are rooms on the first and second floors. Each room has a silicone mannequin wearing a blue floral kimono. Boss Yamada said this is an advertisement for a certain clothing store. If anyone likes this blue floral kimono, they can call the phone number on the card hanging on the side of the clothes.

The distance from the first floor floor to the ceiling is relatively small, only slightly higher than a person's height. If there is a longer chandelier, it might hit a person's head.

"This is too short." Uncle Maori complained.

"Haha," Boss Yamada said, shaking his head in embarrassment, "Considering that the hotel is located in a remote area, rescue would be slow in the event of a fire, so we only built two floors, and they are relatively low, so that people can escape by jumping out of the window."

"We are just sleeping in the house anyway, so it doesn't matter." Zong Shu said.

The rooms on the second floor are similar to those on the first floor, but the innermost one has two windows, one in the front and one on the side wall.

"This room has a view of the distant scenery, including the rift valley - because it is built next to the edge." Boss Yamada said, pushing open the side window, "Look."

You lean over to take a look. It is night time now and there is no light outside, so it is quite dark. Looking out through this window, it is pitch black, with only the cold wind that hurts your face, mixed with large flakes of snow hitting your face.

"Well...it's dark at night, it's fine during the day." Boss Yamada slapped his face a little embarrassedly.

"Then I want this one, which is conducive to the development of my inspiration." Paul said.

"Sure." Boss Yamada took out a key from a bunch of keys and gave it to him, then turned to look at the others, "Do you have a room you want?"

"It doesn't matter. Just divide it randomly, as long as people we know sit together." Meihui said while curling her hair with her fingers.

The others nodded in agreement.

The final room allocations are:

First floor: Kitagawa Makoto, Matsuda Jinpei, you and Xiao Jingguang, Xiaolan and Conan

Second floor: Maori Kogoro, Kono Muneki, Kono Mie, Paul Kripke

Kogoro Mori himself likes the second floor (he thinks the ceiling of the first floor is too low), so he did not exchange rooms with Maaki Kitagawa.

After the rooms were assigned, everyone went back to their own rooms to pack their things. Takano Souji and Boss Yamada seemed to get along very well, and they happily agreed to have a drink together later. Souji said he would go downstairs to find him after he had packed his things.

You went back to your room and simply made the bed. Xiao Jingguang lay on the window sill to watch the snow. He turned around and said to you, "Brother Jiang, the snow is so heavy. I have never seen such heavy snow before."

You walk over to look and see that there is a thick layer of snow on the ground outside the window (you can see through the big tree opposite that part of the tree trunk is already buried in the snow), and the north wind is howling, making a sound like a bellows.

"I guess the snow will be thick enough tomorrow after one night," you sighed.

At this time, you heard the sound of incoming text messages again.

Oh, there's a signal?

You took out your phone and found a reply from Shuichi Akai. It only had one simple line of words:

【Delete the record, keep silent.】

You: “…” You raised your hand to delete the text messages between you and Shuichi Akai, but paused for a moment, saved the phone number in your address book, and then deleted the text messages.

As for the name note... you hesitated and didn't save the real name, but the code name was too difficult to think of, so you simply entered his subsequent nickname "Cat Brother".

It's easy to remember, you won't forget it, and others won't recognize it. You take back your phone with satisfaction.

The author has something to say:

This chapter has a lot of foreshadowing, and next chapter will see 233 deaths (I'm so exhausted from thinking about the methods of the case... I'll just fall to the ground, I'll try to make it more reasonable~)

By the way, it is easy to owe debts but difficult to pay them back~~

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