Chapter 2310 2322 [Anonymous Business]
Yoshida Ayumi suddenly discovered something. She jumped off the stool and trotted to another table. She looked down and suddenly felt a pang in her heart: "Several dolls are missing."
As she spoke, she carefully recalled the people to whom the puppets corresponded: "The puppets that disappeared were those of Sanmachime's classmates! ... Mr. Kaibu's puppet is also missing!"
Conan was stunned, vaguely feeling a sense of déjà vu: the people and the puppets disappeared at the same time, why did this look so much like the scene in "And Then There Were None"?
...A horror mystery story has come into reality?
No, even if it really came true, it must be because someone was imitating the crime behind the scenes.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Ayumi Yoshida obviously thought of this as well, their faces turned pale: "Could it be..."
"Did they abandon us and sneak back home with the puppets?" Kojima Genta waved his fist in dissatisfaction, "How cunning, they are so lazy! In fact, I don't want to rehearse anymore, I should have said I would go with them!"
Conan: “…” This optimism is really enviable.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was no longer available to supervise. He smiled dryly and looked outside the door where visibility was getting worse and worse: "You went home at this time without saying hello to us? Do you think this might be..."
Before he finished speaking, like a chicken with its neck strangled, all sounds stopped abruptly: outside the glass door, in the dim light, a blurry figure flashed from left to right.
"There's someone!" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya jumped up, thinking of that strange figure, he added seriously, "It could also be a ghost!"
Of course Conan didn't believe in ghosts. The brave elementary school student stood up and rushed to the door, pushing it open with a clang.
There was dead silence outside the house, only thick fog surrounding it, and no one in sight.
Seeing him charging, the other kids from the Junior Detective League instinctively followed him out. As soon as they got out, they regretted it and squeezed next to Conan and muttered, "We can't see anything clearly outside, let's go back."
Conan shook his head, signaling them to stay calm. He asked Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya about the location where the figure appeared and disappeared, then walked over and looked carefully at the mud.
"There was indeed someone here just now." He pointed to the ground, where there was a shoe print left by an adult.
After hearing these words, the three children trembled even more. They ignored Conan's solemn expression and grabbed him, dragging him back to the house.
Detective Conan's momentum was completely destroyed. He sighed and was about to teach those naughty kids to stay calm. However, at this moment, his eyes fell on the empty room.
"Why are all those classmates who were in the room just now gone?! We are the only ones left here..." Yoshida Ayumi also noticed the problem. Then she remembered something and rushed to the table with the doll.
After taking a closer look, her face turned pale: "Puppet, puppet also..."
Conan followed behind and asked calmly: "The corresponding puppet is missing?"
Yoshida Ayumi nodded repeatedly, hesitated for a moment and said, "But there is one more!"
Conan was stunned: "One more?"
...This seems to be different from the script of And Then There Were None? The number of porcelain people who survived should be decreasing, but why is it that the number of them has increased? It can't be that the dead have been resurrected!
Although Yoshida Ayumi's brain was not working so quickly, she instinctively sensed the weirdness of the extra puppet. She shrank back, not daring to touch it, but...
She couldn't help but look at the doll twice more and whispered, "It's quite cute..."
Conan had already strode over. He looked past Yoshida Ayumi and towards the strange glove puppet that had appeared. He saw that it was a Q-version cat that was completely black except for two white paws.
Conan: “?”
Why does it look so familiar?
And I always feel that its material seems to be different from other puppets...
He carefully reached out his hand, wanting to pick it up for a closer look. However, before he could do that, another hand reached out, picked up the stuffed cat before him, and put it on his hand.
"Stop it, what if there's poison hidden inside or a poison needle stuck in it!" Conan thought that the kids from the Junior Detective League were trying to snatch the doll from him, so he quickly stopped them.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he looked up and saw who had taken the doll. He choked and said, "Why is it you?!"
Opposite him, a little boy of about his age stood quietly holding the stuffed cat. The weather was not cold, but the boy had a long scarf wrapped around his neck.
Although the outfit is a little out of season, with that delicate face like a mini idol, this problem is immediately ignored - what's wrong with wearing something a little weird? This is called fashion!
Yoshida Ayumi's eyes lit up: "I think I've seen you somewhere."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya came to his senses and he also felt that the little boy looked familiar. He must have met him somewhere before, but it didn't matter.
He took a step forward, opened his hand and stood between the two of them, then turned to Yoshida Ayumi and said in a deep voice: "This person's appearance is too strange, maybe he is the culprit who caused the disappearance of Mr. Kaibu and the others, don't take it lightly!"
The flower protector was particularly brave at this time, but the defense he built was very fragile, and Yoshida Ayumi bypassed him: "No. The footprints we saw outside the door just now were left by adults, and he is just a child like us."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "..."
How come you suddenly become able to reason at a time like this!
Yoshida Ayumi had been in the villa for a day. She was very much in the spirit of the owner. She greeted the boy of the same age who suddenly appeared in a gentle voice: "Are you here for tourism?"
Jiang Xia was using Xiaobai's vest, playing with the cat puppet he had just made in his hand. He flexed his fingers and nodded with it: "..." Fortunately, as more leg-grabbing shikigami were picked up, the quality of the puppet clay had improved, otherwise he would not be able to make such a "puppet", and it would not be able to perfectly integrate into this comfortable atmosphere.
...The only problem is that the material of this "cat doll" is always somewhat different from real cloth.
He lowered his head and fiddled with the cat puppet, whose disguise was not very successful, wondering how to make it more realistic. Before he could come up with an idea, a hand grabbed him and pulled him aside.
Conan lowered his voice: "Why are you here!"
Jiang Xia glanced at his hand, thoughtfully.
"!" Conan looked at the child who had pricked him with anesthetic needles countless times. Some painful memories came to his mind belatedly, and he retracted his hand in an instant.
However, he still stubbornly asked, "Since you've shown up... is there going to be trouble here next?"
In Conan's impression, Anonymous seems to have helped solve the crises of high school detectives several times... Now their business has finally expanded to rescuing elementary school students?
(End of this chapter)
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