Haihara Ai keenly captured this feeling of powerlessness as she watched hope pass her by.
So, just before the door crack was completely closed, he suddenly shouted:
"Wait a moment!"
She looked up at the middle-aged woman with a look of astonishment on her face:
"We want to play with Masao...is that okay?"
"Well, this..."
The middle-aged woman's heart skipped a beat, but she quickly controlled her emotions and said with a smile, "Sorry, we have to take this child out with us later..."
She can only try to delay as long as possible before getting the evidence of tax evasion.
"How about we play a game of solitaire together?"
Ayumi took out the flower cards from her pocket.
There are 96 such cards in total.
Among them, 48 cards have proverbs written in Hiragana, and the other 48 cards have pictures related to their content and the text corresponding to the beginning of each sentence.
The rules of the game are that during the preparation period, flower cards with corresponding content are randomly spread out, and then the 48 proverb cards are given to one person to read aloud. The participants grab the cards around these spread out cards, and finally get the cards. The side with more wins.
"If you grab cards, you can play at home." Mitsuhiko said.
"As long as this kid stops lying, I can still forgive him..."
Yuantai cooed in a low voice and agreed: "In that case, let's play together until it's time for you to go out."
After hearing these words, the fake mother's facial expression began to become unnatural, and she forced a smile and said:
"But this kid is not very good at playing card games..."
"No...I, I can play!"
Seizing the rare opportunity, Zhengnan hurriedly retorted: "I'm very good at playing poker, and I've never lost to anyone!"
"Massive man!"
The fake mother's eyebrows suddenly furrowed and she stared back with an extremely stern look. But before she could force the other party to change her words, Haiyuan Ai took the lead and walked in from the entrance:
"Then we won't bother you..."
"Excuse me~"
The three children followed closely behind, heading towards the living room.
Eh... Before the fake mother could stop her, suddenly the phone in her pocket vibrated several times.
She took it out and saw that it was her companion's number. She was slightly startled and pressed the answer button: "What's wrong?"
The man's deliberately lowered voice came from the receiver, "Your face has been stared at by those four brats for so long. Before 'that thing' is sent back, since they want to come and play, let them in..." "
"Well, that's true." The fake mother nodded.
...Indeed, if those four little guys stayed nearby and happened to meet someone who really knew the Urafune family, the two of them would be in a dangerous situation.
"Remember! Don't let Zhengnan talk nonsense. For safety reasons, don't hang up the phone." The man reminded.
"I understand, let's do it."
The fake mother put her mobile phone in her pocket and caught up with the children who had entered the living room. Her attitude changed 180 degrees and she said with a smile: "Then, before we go out, please play with the real man."
"Okay~"
Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta responded and ran to the carpet between the sofa and the TV to help sort out the toys scattered on the floor.
Haibara Ai took the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment.
Usually, the purpose of kidnapping is money, but...except for the toys, there are no signs of other items in the room being rummaged or messed up.
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These can be initially judged through dust and marks.
Even a criminal who is extremely demanding about details would not have predicted in advance that Masao would knock on their door, and that they would come to visit them.
No strong clues could be found.
Huihara Ai could only settle for the next best thing and focus back on Zhengnan.
To be honest, if it were her before, she would have been accustomed to being indifferent due to environmental factors, and she would not pay attention to this kind of thing.
And now...
She looked at the three children over there who were happily arranging flower cards, and then touched the watch-shaped tranquilizer gun and smoke bombs in her pocket. If she really ran into trouble, she could at least escape with a few of them. .
This side of the carpet.
The fake mother focused most of her attention on Masao, but Yuantai, who was careless and inattentive, went directly to the bathroom in the corridor to empty his stomach.
He turned the doorknob a few times, and the lock bolt swung and made a rattling sound.
Although the door did not open, it startled the curly-haired man inside.
"Hey! Little brother, what do you want to do?" The fake mother quickly turned around and shouted.
"This should be the bathroom, right?"
Yuantai asked in confusion: "Because the layout of your home and Ayumi's home are exactly the same."
The decorations of high-end apartments are all similar, and residents are generally not allowed to modify them at will. If you live with only one person, you can use another bedroom as a warehouse to store things, but this cannot be done in the bathroom. Otherwise, once the sewer pipes are blocked by unknown items, It will cause problems for the whole building.
"Well, yes, yes..."
The fake mother choked and almost lied because the bathroom door was locked. She forcefully swallowed the words "This is a warehouse" and pointed to the bedroom and said: "If you want to go to the bathroom, there is another room inside. My husband is here." Yes, he just had a bad stomach, and he still hasn’t come out..."
"So that's it."
Yuantai nodded in realization and shouted towards the toilet, "Sorry, uncle! I didn't know you were in there, and you kept twisting the door handle just now."
Even if there is no one inside, under normal circumstances, you should not randomly open a locked door in someone else's house...
The curly-haired man's forehead twitched slightly, and he responded loudly, "It doesn't matter," and then passed the dagger towards Zhengnan's mother's neck with a gloomy expression.
However, after Yuantai made such a fuss, he became more and more determined in his previous thoughts.
A restless kid like this is the most reassuring thing to watch under your nose!
The two kidnappers were nothing serious.
One was threatening the hostage in the bathroom, and the other was participating in the flower card game. The purpose was naturally to keep an eye on Masao and not to pass on information to these children.
Games start.
Several people played harmoniously, and the young detective team also grabbed several flower cards one after another.
Only Zhengnan stared nervously at the cards, not getting any of them.
"Hey, you kid, you can't do it either." Yuantai took the initiative to talk.
"I...I haven't entered the state yet."
Masao stared at the flower cards without raising his head.
There were a few opportunities, although he could directly grab the ta su ke te that represented 'help', but the female kidnapper behind him would definitely see it immediately. So he could only hide the distress message in the syllabary and create a code that could only be solved by an elementary school student who was not very good at writing Chinese characters and was learning hiragana.
The game continues.
Although there were some twists and turns in the process of grabbing the cards, Zhengnan still grabbed the four wanted cards and turned to the woman who was already impatient to play games with her children and said:
"Mom... Wei, bathroom..."
"Eh?"
The fake mother's heart tightened, "You...are you going to the bathroom now?"
"Yes, it's mom's bathroom!" Zhengnan repeated emphatically.
"If I really can't do anything to you, then I'll go with you..."
The fake mother always felt that something was not right, so she secretly put the mobile phone on the table while placing the cards, got up and dragged Zheng Nan out of the living room.
"Eh? Masao can't go to the bathroom alone?" Ayumi asked doubtfully.
"Yeah, this kid is claustrophobic."
The fake mother forcefully explained, pulling Masao towards the bathroom faster.
She was worried that the two boys among the four children would suddenly say something like, "How about we go with him"...
At this time, Masao suddenly said: "Mom, here's the towel!"
