Chapter 235: Returning to the Hometown “Hurry up and apologize to the ashes, Xiao Ke…
in the forest.
Yuantai carefully lay down on the ground, holding the insect net with his chubby fingers, and slowly approached the mantis standing in the grass.
He whispered, "Three, two, one..."
Ayumi and Mitsuhiko looked at him nervously from the side.
With a "snap", Yuantai's insect net fell to the ground.
"Did you catch it? Did you catch it?" Ayumi came over and asked.
Yuantai looked around and saw only an empty net.
He suddenly became frustrated and lay on the ground with his back to the sky, complaining to the shadow of the tree, "I haven't caught any yet... Why are mantises so alert? I finally found one, but I don't know where it went."
Dr. Agasa smiled and comforted him: "Oh, it's okay. Look! Ai has already taken the photo."
Haibara Ai reached out and showed him the photos she had taken.
Several new photos include a close-up of a mantis in the grass, a picture of Yuan Tai cautiously approaching the mantis with his butt sticking out, and a picture of Yuan Tai lying on his back.
"Oh, can you delete the last picture?" A blush appeared on Yuan Tai's dark face.
"No." Haibara Ai rejected him coldly and ruthlessly, glancing behind her.
In just a short while, Sister Lin and Edogawa disappeared together, and no one knew where they went.
Of course, before leaving, I sent her a message saying that I saw a rare bird, so I ran after the bird and took Edogawa with me.
Huh… using bird watching as an excuse to brush her off again. How can I go bird watching without even a camera? Something must have happened again to draw her away.
And he didn't even ask her to come along, instead he brought Edogawa along.
Black gas began to emerge from behind her, which scared Yuantai.
"Well, let's keep it then." He picked up the net from the ground. "Well, let's find another insect!"
Then he went to Ayumi and Mitsuhiko and whispered, "Why does Haibara look so unhappy today?"
"I guess," Ayumi whispered, "it's because Conan left and won't be traveling with us anymore."
"Every time Conan-kun is with Xiaolan-nee and doesn't play with us, I feel unhappy too."
Haibara Ai, who heard everything they said, snorted coldly, and the black energy became even thicker.
How could it be because of Edogawa?
Dr. Agasa laughed dryly: "Let's continue catching bugs, kids?"
Oh, Miss Lin, it’s hard to coax Xiao Ai when she’s angry.
No matter what you are doing, you must come back early with Shinichi.
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"Is it really okay to sneak away like this?" Conan looked behind him.
The figures of the group could no longer be seen, and only a few small dots could be vaguely seen through the dense forest.
Lin Xi held his hand and said, "I can't believe you would ask me such a question, Xiao Ke. Aren't you the one running around everywhere? You always give Miss Lan a headache."
Conan protested: "Sister Lin has no right to say that to me! As far as I know, you've already run away several times!"
"I have something important to do."
"The real thing is to leave us alone and go see the scenery with Mr. Amuro?"
He was referring to what happened last time on Moonshadow Island.
"..." Lin Xi was speechless, "Children should stay out of the adult business."
"Sister Lin." Conan curled his lips and began to test her casually: "What is your relationship with Mr. Amuro? Why do I feel that he cares about you so much?"
"Please don't speak in such a tone that could easily be misunderstood." Lin Xi said unhappily, "Mr. Amuro is a good man, a kind-hearted man with a good family background. He cares about everyone. Even if you harass Conan every day, isn't he very good to you?"
"He's really a good man, someone you can trust, Conan. If you encounter any difficulties, ask him for help. I believe he will definitely help you."
Conan's half-moon eyes.
Come on, how can anyone who has connections with the organization be a good person?
I was just pretending to be enthusiastic and creating a persona to make myself popular. If I really revealed my identity in front of him and was found to be the Kudo Shinichi who should be killed by the organization... I would definitely die a miserable death.
"I might as well come to you, Sister Lin," Conan muttered softly, "if I need any help."
Lin Xi's footsteps suddenly stopped.
She narrowed her eyes: "Do you really think so?"
The sunlight shone through the gaps in the leaves onto her face. Conan looked up at her and felt that her expression had become very dark and unclear.
The pair of honey-colored eyes that always brought warmth to people no longer looked warm from this angle. Instead, they looked inorganic and temperatureless. Their sharpness reminded Conan of Gin's cold green eyes when he was knocked unconscious and drugged in the amusement park.
——It’s so strange, why do I suddenly feel like we’re alike?
Could it be that because Sister Lin is always smiling, and even when she is calm there is always a faint smile on her face, so now that she suddenly stops smiling, he feels scared?
Before Conan knew it, a thin layer of cold sweat had appeared on his back.
A cool mountain breeze blew over him, and the coolness of the evaporating sweat made him shiver slightly.
"Hmm..." He answered unconsciously, "If, if, I must ask someone for help, I will definitely choose you, Sister Lin..."
"Oh, that's too bad." Lin Xi smiled and shrugged. "You've known me for such a long time, don't you realize how unreliable I am?"
"Don't trust me too much, Conan. It's bad enough that one person trusts me, but don't let another one."
"Oh." Conan was a little confused by the sudden relaxed atmosphere and responded blankly.
Lin Xi sighed and rubbed his head: "He's still a child."
Conan wanted to protest again.
If this body wasn't indeed that of a child, he would have really protested.
It was definitely not because Lin Xi’s expression just now scared him a little.
Now that I think about it, it was probably just an illusion caused by the light and angle...
"Look here, Xiao Ke." His thoughts were interrupted. He looked up and saw Lin Xi gently push away the branches blocking the way. What appeared before them was a rock wall. There was only a small path next to the rock wall, and below was a bottomless cliff.
The footprints spread onto the path and disappeared.
"It's so steep." Conan sighed subconsciously.
"It's really steep. We have to be careful on the way forward." Lin Xi reached out and pulled down the vines on the rock wall. The strong vines seemed to be pulled down effortlessly by her and were wrapped into natural, flexible vine ropes.
"However, the steeper the place, the safer it is for the target who is familiar with the terrain. This just proves that we have found the right place. Come up, Xiao Ke." Lin Xi squatted down and tied Conan to his back with a vine rope to prevent him from falling: "Hold on to me. I will take you to find the mysterious guy hiding in the forest."
Conan responded.
While wrapping his arms around Lin Xi's neck, he muttered silently in his heart:
Sister Lin is not an unreliable adult.
Obviously very reliable.
The narrow road was only wide enough for one person to walk forward, and there was a cliff thousands of feet high on the side. However, Lin Xi was agile and not at all panicked. He held Conan in one hand and grabbed the protruding rocks with the other hand and walked forward.
After walking about twenty or thirty steps, the vegetation on the rock wall became denser and denser, and finally under a thick green vine, they found what they were looking for.
Lin Xi reached out and pushed aside the hanging vegetation, revealing a natural cave hidden underneath.
Lin Xi took Conan into the cave.
The inside of the cave was very damp, and water was seeping out from the cracks in the rocks next to the cave, dripping onto the ground.
"It's all moss." Lin Xi put Conan down, turned on the flashlight, looked around, and touched the stone wall casually.
Conan:?
"Sister Lin, why did you bring a flashlight?"
"Ah, when I go out, I always try to be prepared." Lin Xi handed him the flashlight. "Here, take it. I have good eyesight and can see clearly without a flashlight."
"Oh, thank you Sister Lin."
The evidence that Sister Lin is a reliable adult has been further strengthened.
"There are signs of people living here." After a while, Conan, who had roughly scanned the interior space, said solemnly, "Sister Lin, look! Here are the ashes left by the burnt fire, and there are also animal bones next to them... No, there is more than that."
He dug out a skull from the pile of bones and held it in his hand with a serious expression: "Sister Lin, this is a human skull! Someone was murdered!"
Lin Xi looked at him and suddenly laughed.
Conan:?
"I'm not kidding!" He said angrily, "This is a real human skull, not a toy..."
"I know, I know." Lin Xi took out a tissue from her pocket and wiped Conan's nose: "It's just that Xiao Ke, your nose is stained with dust. You're standing there holding the skull like a serious little nose--oh, sorry, if this is really a skull, then the pile of dust might be someone's ashes."
"Hurry up and apologize to other people's ashes, Xiao Ke."
Conan's expression showed signs of cracking.
Sister Lin, it’s already this time, please stop telling such hellish jokes!
"We have to call the police, Sister Lin."
"Oh, what a shame. It's probably not possible now, Xiao Ke." Lin Xi showed him her flip phone. "There's no signal here. Let's gather evidence first, and then call the police when we have a signal."
Conan nodded, put the skull down, and continued to explore other parts of the cave.
Lin Xi watched with interest as he searched around with a flashlight in his mouth, like a police dog sniffing the scent of the murderer at the crime scene. He walked in the opposite direction and pulled out an umbrella from the corner.
She shook the dust off her umbrella, took the umbrella handle, and used the tip of the umbrella instead of her hand to rummage through the things in the corner.
An old piece of clothing. It's already torn, and both the material and the style are worthless, a typical street stall item.
A pair of worn-out shoes. Just like the clothes, they were from a street stall.
A strangely shaped metal bar. It had been burned, and not only was its shape distorted, but its color was also blackened.
A... striped outfit. Blue and white stripes. Cheap material, but not street vendor-quality. Not torn, but gray and stained with blood.
This style...
Lin Xi put the clothes aside.
That’s right, this is the prison uniform in Japanese prisons.
Interesting, the murderer who lives here is also a prisoner?
In this way, it is clear what the strange-shaped metal strip is.
That's what every captured prisoner carries in his hand.
——Handcuffs.
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