In a blink of an eye, it was 3:25 pm.
Inside the forest, next to where Haibara Ai and Dr. A Li are.
Conan, Ayumi, Kindaichi, and Mochizuki Mikako all stood in front of Loli Ai with small baskets on their shoulders, looking around impatiently.
Conan raised his hand and looked at his watch, frowned and said, "Really, what are Genta and Mitsuhiko doing? Didn't they agree to meet here in twenty minutes? It's already five minutes overdue..."
"Perhaps you went too far to collect more pine mushrooms?" Loli'ai smiled slightly and teased Conan, "Children, like detectives, are very competitive."
"Uh..." Listening to Loli'ai's words, Conan rolled his eyes inwardly, while Dr. Ali asked worriedly:
"Speaking of which, they haven't come back yet. Did something happen? For example, they accidentally sprained their ankle or something..."
After Dr. Agasa finished speaking, Ayumi immediately said: "Then how about we use the detective badge to contact them and ask about the situation?"
Haibara said "Hmm", turned to look at Conan, and said with a curl of his lips: "Ayumi, have you forgotten? When we played hide and seek in the morning, in order to prevent Conan from cheating, everyone used his tracking glasses to find us, so they all put their detective badges on I put it in the room and didn’t take it with me..."
"Yes! What should we do?" Ayumi looked worried. Conan complained in his heart, "God is cheating by playing hide and seek." Then he looked at Ayumi and said:
"No way, let's go look for them together... Ayumi, where was the last place you saw them? Can you take me to see them?"
"Of course, you come with me."
Ayumi nodded cutely, and then took small steps to bring Conan, Loli Ai, and Kindaichi, Two and Three to a place, and said: "The three of us were scattered here looking for pine mushrooms. And then I can’t find them anymore…”
Conan said "Huh" when he heard this, looked at the surrounding environment, said "Ah" after seeing the nearby barbed wire fence, walked over quickly, and then said helplessly:
"I think the two of them probably climbed over the barbed wire fence and went inside to pick mushrooms..."
"What? Really?" Ayumi was a little surprised, while Loli'ai leaned in front of the barbed wire and looked at it, then said casually:
"What Conan said should be true. Look at the barbed wire fence here. There is some dirt in some of the holes on it. You can tell that it was newly stepped on, and the wires in the holes are not deformed. It is very likely that children were there. There are many red pine trees with yellow-green leaves over there..."
Loli said "Bala, bala" and said her speculation, while Conan said "uh" and rolled his eyes at Haiyuan, which was a bit unpleasant——
By the way, Haiyuan, why are you like the Soul Exterminator, starting to steal my lines?
The lines of reasoning should obviously be our fault?
If you do this, won’t your conscience feel painful?
Conan complained in his mind, and Ayumi said "ah" again: "Then what should we do?"
"What else can we do? Of course we need to find these two naughty guys!~" Conan glanced at the people around him, "Then we divided into two groups and climbed over the barbed wire fence to look for them. , if you still can’t find him after twenty minutes, then ask the staff here to help search. In addition, Dr. Ali, please go back to where we gathered. After all, they may come back by themselves during this period. …”
"Okay!" Everyone nodded, and then Kindaichi pointed at Conan and said, "Let me state in advance that Mikako doesn't want to practice courage anymore, so Mikako and I will never be in the same group with you!"
Go to hell with your uncle's courage! I don’t even want to be in the same group as you!
Conan felt depressed and wanted to vomit blood, while Loli Ai chuckled lightly, and then said, "Okay, then I'll be in a group with the two of you."
"What you said is fine." Kindaichi nodded and said yes. Conan curled his lips and then said: "Then I will team up with Ayumi. By the way, Haibara, you must take good care of them both. If you encounter Yuantai and the others, call the doctor's cell phone to report that they are safe."
"Okay." Loli'ai nodded, then took out her phone from her trouser pocket and looked at it, frowning.
Conan was stunned when he saw this, and asked strangely: "What's wrong with you?"
"Well, it's nothing." Loli lamented the phone in her hand, "It's just that the phone is almost out of battery. But I think it won't be a problem to hold on for a while..."
…
At 3:30 in the afternoon, on the way back to the hotel from the village.
Mihara Koko was driving in the driver's seat, and Shu Yunwen and Tsukamoto Sumi were sitting in the back seat of the car chatting.
Suddenly, there was a "bang" sound coming from the car, and then the front hood started to smoke, and the car slowed down.
In the back seat of the car, Shu Yunwen and Tsukamoto Sumi were both stunned. They both looked at Mihara Koko and said, "Teacher Mihara, what's going on?"
"Uh...I'm not sure, but it feels like there's something wrong with the engine..." Mihara Koko said, opened the door and got out of the car.
Shu Yunwen and Tsukamoto Sumei also got out of the car one after another. Looking at the smoking car, Sumei said "ah" and said, "What should we do?"
Yonehara Koko said helplessly: "Looking at the situation, this car cannot be driven. I will call the hotel right now and ask Masao to come pick us up. Please wait a moment."
After finishing speaking, Yonehara Koko took out her mobile phone and called the hotel.
Shu Yunwen and Tsukamoto Sumi stood boredly on the side of the road, looking at the scenery outside the guardrail. Not long after, Yonehara Koko finished the phone call and walked back to Shu Yunwen and the others:
"Sir Yunwen, classmate Shumei, I have already told Zhengnan that he will be here in about fifteen minutes."
"Fifteen minutes!" Shu Yunwen raised his hand and looked at his watch, "Then just wait a while!~"
…
Three forty in the afternoon, in the woods.
In the isolation area between the two barbed wire fences, Loli Ai called out the names of Genta and Mitsuhiko while looking around.
Suddenly, Mikako Mochizuki said "Ah", and Loli Ai and Kindaichi Ersan turned their heads and looked over: "Mikako, have you noticed them?"
"Uh... no." Mikako shook her head timidly, then stretched out her right hand and pointed at the barbed wire in front of her and said, "... there is a hole in that barbed wire!"
"What?"
Loli Ai and Kindaichi Ersan looked where Mikako pointed, and sure enough they saw a hole at the bottom of the barbed wire that could allow a child to pass through.
Kindaichi was stunned for a moment, looked at the other side of the barbed wire fence and said, "Who made this hole? Can you return to the safe area by crawling through here?"
"No, I'm afraid not." Loli'ai raised her hand and looked at her watch, observed the position of the hands of the watch and the sun, and said:
"...Going from here, it should be a hunting area!"
