Back at Wakura's house, the old maid quickly laid out a table of sumptuous dishes.
Chi Feichi and Conan fell into a pit and were covered in dust. However, they did not plan to take a shower and change clothes first. Others also persuaded them to deal with this first. Otherwise, they might wait until midnight after they took a shower and changed clothes. Dinner can't be served until around twelve o'clock.
When it came time to eat, the three brothers and sisters He Cang had no appetite. They discussed in low voices how to tell their father about the death of their eldest brother, and started to sigh as they talked.
Tian Tian Qinghua thought of four friends entering the village and now she was the only one left. No matter how resentful she was before, she still felt a little melancholy and sighed.
Yuantai slowly ate his food and sighed, "When I came back, I felt like I was starving. I thought I would have to eat three big bowls of rice when I came back, but now I have no appetite at all..."
"I'm too hungry." Chi Feichi ate slowly.
When you are with Conan, especially when an incident is suspected or has already occurred, you must remember not to treat your stomach badly and eat as much as you can.
This is the experience he summed up.
This is not the first time for the rest of the Young Detective Team to encounter this situation. It’s such a painful realization, why don’t they remember a lesson?
"Maybe I'm too tired." Haiyuan Ai looked like he had no energy.
She also had no appetite and ate slowly just to save her life.
Today they climbed the mountain, went down the mountain, entered the village, ran in the village, and ran into the woods. There was no time to rest. She didn't feel it when they were running outside before, but now they suddenly had no time. She was so tired that she felt a little dazed.
The five children didn't eat much. They went to the room arranged by the Wakura family and washed up casually in the bathroom. Then they went out and said good night, closed the door and went to sleep. They didn't even visit the large rock bath that Misa Wakura mentioned. go.
Dr. A Li was not in the mood to bother. After watching the children sleeping, he also returned to the room.
Just as Fei Yingli was about to close the door to the room, she found Chi Feichi holding a yukata and preparing to go downstairs. She was a little surprised, "Fei Chi, are you going to the big rock bath?"
Tiantian Qinghua, who heard the noise, opened the door to the room and looked at the back of Chi Feichi's bandaged hand, "Is your hand okay?"
"It's okay," Chi Feichi said calmly, "It's just a scratch on the skin, so even taking a bath won't be a problem."
"Can you go alone?" Fei Yingli was worried. "The murderer's method of committing the crime this time is very strange. It is not safe to act alone. If you want to go, you can ask Mr. Ryoji to come with you."
"Forget it, I guess he's not in the mood to go," Chi Fei walked downstairs late, "I'm not used to taking baths with people I don't know well either."
Tiantian Qinghua hesitated for a moment, but still didn't say the words "I'll go with you."
During dinner, she heard Wakura Misa say that it was an open-air bath among the rocks behind the villa. Although the men's and women's baths were separated by the rocks, it seemed a bit strange that the lonely men and women would go to the outdoor bathing place together to take a bath.
Fei Yingli watched Chi Feichi go downstairs, turned to Tiantang Qinghua and said, "You should also go and have a rest. If your friends don't come back tomorrow, go look for them again."
Tiantang Qinghua nodded, thinking about the strangeness of this village, the two consecutive murders, and her companions who were dead or missing, and felt chills in her heart.
Fei Yingli saw that Tiantian Qinghua was in a low mood and comforted her slowly, "I'm right next door to you. If you can't sleep at night, you can come to me. My daughter is only a few years younger than you, so you don't have to feel restricted."
"Thank you." Tiantang Qinghua thanked her sincerely and gave Feiying a stack of good person cards in her heart.
Seeing Tian Tian Qinghua still paying attention to the stairs, Fei Yingli laughed and said, "You don't have to worry about Fei Chi. He is very skilled and can handle troubles. By the way, have you and him been classmates since elementary school?"
"Yeah, but we don't have much interaction," Tian Tian Qinghua paused, "We're not from the same world."
"Huh?" Fei Yingli was surprised and confused.
Probably because after getting to know each other, she felt that Chi Feichi was an easy person to get along with. It was hard to imagine that one day someone would say such distant words as "not from the same world" from others, and that person would still be Chi Feichi. A former schoolmate.
This kind of evaluation seems to be coming from someone who is not familiar with Chi Feichi...
"Then please go to bed early and good night."
Tiantang Qinghua said good night to Fei Yingli, turned around and closed the door, breathed a long sigh of relief, closed her eyes and thought about the people she knew.
Some have bullied her, some have made fun of her, some have befriended her for money and plan to squeeze her out before abandoning her after learning the truth, some are as cheerful and lively and lovable as children, and some are like Fei Yingli. He is rational and shrewd but willing to release good intentions, but Chi Feichi is different from those people.
She knew why Fei Yingli was surprised just now, but Fei Yingli didn't understand her feelings.
She had been classmates for nine years and had little interaction with Chi Feichi. She was deeply impressed but did not understand much.
The first time I heard about such a person was from the girl who took the lead in bullying her when she was in junior high school.
The girl who showed off her power in front of her, her eyes shone when she talked about Chi Feichi with her little follower, but she was so timid that she didn't even have the courage to contact him.
She had heard too many rumors about Chi Feichi in those years - arrogant, withdrawn, unkind, and merciless to girls.
I also met Chi Feichi, but the two times that left the deepest impression on me were only two.
Once, the girl's junior follower asked her to go to the corridor of Class A. She saw the girl who took the lead in bullying her looking at the boy sitting in the classroom from a distance.
She looked over and saw that the young man sitting between the seats was tall and straight, with a cold face. He was just concentrating on the book in his hand and did not notice them in the distance.
When other people were teasing her to provoke Chi Feichi and want to see her laugh, the girl did not push her out with a smile for the first time. Instead, she glared at those people. Not only was there anger in her eyes, but also some words. He was unclearly solemn, as if he was worried about offending Chi Feichi.
She made a judgment at that time - that person should be a very scary person and should not be messed with.
The second time they met, the girls cut off her school uniform while laughing. When she was running awkwardly through the corridor, she happened to be bumped into by Chi Feichi who was passing by.
Chi Feichi's eyes with different colors were easy to identify. The other party seemed to glance at her twice, but she only dared to speed up her pace and ran over quickly.
It wasn't until this contact that she roughly understood how those classmates felt.
Chi Feichi didn't boss her around, didn't deliberately alienate her, didn't bully and tease her, and there was kindness. Yesterday, he took her for a drive and analyzed the friends around her. She could feel the kindness. It was a job without sweet words. , very real kindness, so even if Chi Feichi said, "I won't be friends with you", it was a bit hurtful, but after she figured it out, she was only grateful to Chi Feichi, and even felt that Chi Feichi was really good enough. candid.
Moreover, when entering the restaurant in the evening, Chi Feichi noticed her entering and stood at the door, considerately blocking the door for her, and then let go after she entered.
But no matter how considerate she is, she will still have a strong sense of distance.
Is this person candid? She seems to be frank and speaks so directly that people are speechless, but after getting along with this group of people, whether it is Dr. Ali, the children, or Fei Yingli, even if she cannot describe the characters of these people in a precise way, she has a general idea. Only Chi Feichi is different from the feeling.
She couldn't judge Chi Feichi's preferences or his mood. Fei Yingli said that Chi Feichi was interested in Mesoamerican civilization, and she felt it was no different from before.
And Chi Feichi was much better than the other people she came into contact with. Being too good would make people feel more distant. People are obviously next to her, but they seem to be thousands of miles away from her.
Her feelings towards Chi Feichi were very complicated. She was grateful, admired, and looked up to her, but it was difficult to get close to her and she couldn't get close to her at all. She also felt deeply uneasy about that elusive character... She was not from the same world. , this is the most appropriate expression she can think of.
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Tiannv Mountain is thousands of miles away.
The old miko wore a purple robe, put incense on the three statues in the shrine, turned to look at the dark night outside the window, and sighed.
She also calculated that the three evil forces of the 'Demon of Light', 'The Son of Nature' and the 'Crimson Witch' were about to gather in the Rain God Mountain.
Alas, I don't know if there is a reliable witch in the Rain God Mountain area who can take precautions in advance, but she can't control it, so she can only live in peace, don't go out recently, and pray silently for the unlucky people there.
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The area around Yushen Mountain.
Behind the Wakura family villa, the rock bathhouse is built between rock walls more than ten meters above the ground.
The clear moonlight shines on the rocks, on the hot spring water, and on the distant branches swaying in the night wind.
Chi Feichi closed his eyes and leaned against the rock that separated the men's and women's baths. He took off the bandage and placed his right hand on the edge of the bath. The battery-filled lantern beside his hand was not lit.
In the entire bathhouse, there was only the slight sound of Fei Chi occasionally touching the water with his tail.
Fei Chi felt that the water temperature was still too high for him, so he didn't dare to go into the water. He just patted the water with his tail and played with it. Occasionally, he turned his head to look at Chi Fei Chi, who seemed to be asleep.
"Wow!"
Chi Feichi suddenly stood up from the water, picked up the yukata lying aside and put it on, quickly packed it away, and squatted down to take something from the pocket of the clothes he had changed into.
Multifunctional saber, hemostatic bandage, wound medicine, ejection hook, black card, small glow stick...
Feichi looked at Chi Feichi hiding something under his bathrobe, and suddenly became more energetic, "Master, where are we going?"
"Looking for Birdman."
Chi Feichi put away his things and ignored the clothes on the ground. He picked up Feichi and walked down to the bathing place. He returned to the hole where he and Conan fell together. He still didn't stop and headed towards where the weird man left. Walking behind the tree, he bent the fingers of his left hand and hooked a silk thread in the sleeve of his bathrobe.
A small fluorescent stick that looked like a child's play slipped out of his sleeve and fell into Chi Feichi's hand. It was folded between two fingers and gradually lit up with a faint blue fluorescence.
Fei Chi poked his head out of the collar of his bathrobe, spit out the snake letter, and distinguished it carefully, "There is a familiar smell, I can't remember who it is..."
Chi Feichi knelt down and put Fei Chi on the ground, "Fei Chi, do you want to compete?"
"Am I following the master?" Feichi became interested. Chi Feichi and a group of people were running around during the day, but he had slept under Chi Feichi's clothes for a long time and was in high spirits now. "Compared to what?"
"Follow," Chi Feichi looked at the traces on the ground, "Follow the trajectory of that weirdo."
The fluorescent stick in his hand was not much brighter than the moonlight, but it was enough to illuminate the grass behind the tree. A blade of grass on the side of the tree was crushed and folded into a shallow arc.
This is the mark left by running forward and leaning forward.
It means that after the other party led them into the pothole, they didn't stop at all and ran away in a hurry.
Fei Chi spun around in circles while spitting out the snake letter, and jumped into the jungle, "Master, let me go first. I'll wait for you at the weirdo's place!"
It’s finally time for it to perform again!
It wants its owner to know that it can not only be used as a live eavesdropper and live detector, but can also be used for tracking!
"Be safe, and if you get lost, go to the rock baths to meet up."
Chi Feichi warned, got up and walked deeper into the woods.
When he climbed out of the pothole, he thought about following the strange man along the traces, but because of Conan's presence, he didn't want to expose too much of his abilities, so he gave up.
The crowds in the city are dense, and it is difficult to leave obvious traces on concrete floors and asphalt roads, but in the jungle, it is easy to track people who do not know how to cover up the traces of their movements.
As a hunter, you have to find ways to track your target in the city, not to mention in a place like this where it is easy to leave traces. It would be a pity not to pursue it.
As long as he takes action, that person cannot escape!
