When Miss Zefeng came on stage from behind, Chi Feichi didn't pay attention anymore and just chatted with other people on her mobile phone.
After all eighteen contestants took the stage, there was a half-hour break, and the stage was followed by singing, dancing, magic and other performances.
Taking advantage of this period of time, Miura, the main judge, temporarily went to the backstage lounge to give scores. The other two judges would come on stage midway through the performance to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants from various angles, and the staff at the venue would also take the Ballot boxes collect voting tickets from the audience at the venue.
When the staff walked up to Chi Feichi, Chi Feichi simply said "abstain". The three children and Dr. Ali divided the votes and cast two votes each for Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko.
The performances on the stage were going on one after another, and the people in the audience were sitting in the dark venue, eating the meals prepared by the hotel, and discussing the contestants of this competition.
The three children had eaten earlier. While Dr. Ali and Chi Feichi were eating, they also ate snacks and watched the show. As they watched, they yawned.
Dr. Agasa counted the time and felt that Kudo Shinichi and Miyano Shiho had already obtained the cake recipe. He immediately smiled at the three children and said, "If you feel sleepy, I will send you to sleep in the hotel room over there." .”
He sent the children to the hotel to rest, and he could also meet up with Shinichi and Xiao Ai!
Ayumi rubbed her eyes and suppressed her sleepiness and said, "But the second round is about to begin. I want to at least watch the second round before going back to sleep..."
"Buzz..."
Chi Feichi was just about to urge his three children to go to bed when he noticed the cell phone in his hand vibrating. He glanced at the number and answered the call.
"Crossing the water?"
"Mr. Chi, Miss Hualian is missing!"
"where are you?"
"Backstage, outside Mr. Miura's lounge, Miss Meimei said someone saw Miss Hualien going to Mr. Miura's lounge. We just arrived here..."
"Wait until I get there."
Chi Feichi hung up the phone, stood up and said to Dr. A Li, who was looking at him inquiringly, "Doctor, you take them to rest, and I'll go backstage."
"Did something happen?" Dr. Ali quickly stood up.
"It's nothing. Mr. Miura suddenly came to me to tell me something."
Chi Feichi said a word, stood up, walked through the round tables, and went to the backstage through the side door next to the stage.
In addition to the stage lifting platform and the arrangement of equipment and equipment lines, the backstage also has a prop room, a studio, a temporary lounge for the judges, and a lounge shared by the contestants, which are connected by a long and wide corridor.
In the corridor, various equipment lines were messily gathered together against the wall. There were also cardboard boxes piled up in many places. Several large background boards were also placed in the corridor. Fortunately, the corridor was relatively spacious and would not affect people's movement.
When Chi Feichi rushed all the way to the judges' lounge, there were many staff on the road busy carrying background boards and props that would be used next. The on-site supervisor stood at the door of the studio and shouted. A group of people looked like they were on a battlefield. Busy as hell.
After passing through the noisiest area, it was much quieter in front of the judges' lounge. Koshimizu Nanatsuki, Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko and Kotobuki Meimei stood outside Miura's lounge.
Miura Daigo stood at the door with a helpless expression. When he saw Chi Feichi, he felt like he was waiting for a savior. "Mr. Chi is here too. If you still suspect that I have hidden Miss Hualien, he can come and check it out." Take a moment and see if Miss Hualian is in my lounge!"
"Don't act stupid, someone saw my sister walking in!" Shou Meimei said, pointing to the two girls standing in the corner, the same two girls who had been to Shou Hualian's room before.
"What's going on?" Chi Fei came up late and didn't rush to ask Shou Meimei and others. He cast his eyes on Mao Lilan, Koshisui Nanatsuki, and Suzuki Sonoko, "Why is Miss Hualien missing?"
"I'm sorry, Brother Chi." Mao Lilan was anxious, but she still allowed herself to explain the situation as carefully as possible. "When we were about to change into the second dress in the dressing room, Miss Hualian said she was going to the bathroom over there. She asked me to avoid taking a shower and wait for her to change into a dress before looking for her, so after I sent her to the bathroom, I went back to the lounge by myself, and Sonoko and I changed into dresses in the dressing room of the lounge, and then waited again. She didn't come back for more than ten minutes. Yuanzi and I went to the bathroom to look for her, only to find that she was not in the bathroom at all..."
"After the game, I heard that they were going to change clothes, so I went to check if there was anyone suspicious among the staff," Koshimizu Nanatsuki also said about his movements, "After that, I went to the door leading to the stairs. Check the door lock at the back door. Not long after I arrived there, Xiaolan called me and asked me if I had seen Miss Hualian, and then I realized that Miss Hualian was missing..."
"Did you call her at that time?" Chi Feichi looked at Mao Lilan and asked.
"Yes!" Mao Lilan nodded immediately, "After seeing the bathroom, I called her cell phone, but she couldn't get through twice in a row, so I called Sister Nanatsuki and Miss Meimei and waited for them to arrive in the bathroom. After that, we searched in the bathroom, corridor, and lounge, and finally Miss Meimei said that Miss Sumika and Miss Kagami saw Miss Hualien entering Mr. Miura's lounge, and we rushed over again."
Chi Feichi took out his notepad, opened it, took out a pen and wrote down the general process, then looked at the two girls in the corner, "When did you see Miss Hualian enter Mr. Miura's lounge?"
The long-haired girl timidly turned her head and looked at the contestants' lounge, "It's... when we are getting ready to change into the dress for the next round..."
"We had an argument with Hualian and we were not in the same lounge as her. The lounge we were in only had two dressing rooms, so Sumika and I planned to wait for the other two girls to change into their dresses before we went there together. We planned to walk around in the corridor casually," the short-haired girl was obviously much calmer and answered Chi Feichi's questions seriously, "but when we walked around here, we saw Hualian entering Mr. Miura's lounge. As for the time... It must have been about ten minutes after the end of the first round. At that time, there was a magic show going on on the stage in front of me, and I heard applause and the host shouting 'flowers in bloom'."
"It's eight forty-seven in the evening," Chi Feichi recorded the time in his notebook and asked Mao Lilan, "Xiaolan, do you still remember the specific time when you and Miss Hualian separated?"
"We went back to the lounge after watching the last contestant take the stage. Not long after, Miss Hualian asked to take a shower..." Mao Lilan recalled, "The time we separated was about 8:45 p.m. Let’s divide it up.”
"Two minutes... If these two ladies are not lying, Miss Hualian didn't take a shower at all. After she was separated from you, she came out of the bathroom and went to Mr. Miura's lounge," Chi Feichi recorded what Mao Lilan said At the same time, he looked at Miura Daigo and asked, "Has Miss Hualien come to see you?"
Although Chi Feichi's expression was calm from beginning to end, the calmer Chi Feichi was, the more it made others feel as if their hearts were stuffed with cotton. It was not heavy, but it made people feel suffocated.
Miura Daigo wiped the sweat from his head and nodded honestly, "Yes, she came to see me, but she...she just said a few words to me and left quickly."
"You have always had evil intentions towards Hualian, and I have known about this for a long time," Shou Meimei stared at Miura Daigo and asked in a dissatisfied tone, "She specially sent Miss Xiaolan and others away to come to you, how could it be just To say a few words to you?"
To put it this way, it is almost questioning that the two of them have an improper relationship.
Chi Feichi couldn't help but notice Shou Meimei's angry look, "Miss Meimei, you are Miss Hualian's sister. Wouldn't it be bad to doubt her like this before you figure it out?"
"Hua Lian is not that confident. Before every competition, she has to look in front of the mirror until her mother says she is perfect before she can rest assured." There was no guilt on Shou Meimei's face, her brows were furrowed, looking both dissatisfied and worried, "I I am very worried, worried that she will do something to win that I will regret later. Of course, I will also feel angry. She has always said that she must rely on strength to win, and I believe her so much. I didn’t expect that she would come secretly behind everyone’s back. Mr. Miura..."
"Mr. Miura," Chi Feichi asked again, "What is the purpose of Miss Hualian looking for you? What did she say?"
"Actually, she..." Miura Daigo paused with a tangled look on his face, stepped forward and leaned into Chi Feichi's ear, and whispered, "Her target is you."
Chi Feichi nodded and looked at the beautiful girl. "Her family is very worried. If you are not discussing something shameful, it would be better for you to tell her directly."
"Yes..." Miura Daigo himself knew that it would be better to speak out. When faced with other people's questioning, the reason why he remained vague until now was because he wanted to get Chi Feichi to say, "You can just say it." Chi Feichi couldn't blame him for what Fei Chi felt embarrassed, "I admit, I wanted Miss Hualian to date me after the game, and Miss Hualian did come to my lounge just now to look for me. , I felt very happy when I saw her coming and thought she was going to agree to me. However, she rejected me again. She said that she hoped that I could organize a celebration banquet after the game and asked me to find a way to invite Mr. Chi to attend. Dinner..."
quiet.
Shou Meimei looked at Chi Feichi in surprise. After guessing Shou Hualian's thoughts, she suddenly became embarrassed and her confidence in speaking was not so strong. "Does Hualian want to..."
"She likes Mr. Chi, so she wants you to help create opportunities so that she can have more contact with Mr. Chi," Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked bluntly, "Is that so, Mr. Miura?"
"That's right," Daigo Miura saw that Chi Feichi's face was still not embarrassed or happy at all, and he admired Chi Feichi's mentality in his heart, "That's what she meant."
"Then did you agree to her?" Suzuki Sonoko asked curiously.
"I just said to think about it," Miura Daigo smiled awkwardly, "After all, I can't guarantee that Mr. Chi will agree to the invitation."
Shou Meimei looked at Miura Daigo with doubt in her eyes, "Is it because you were unhappy because Hua Lian rejected you and asked you to help her create opportunities to get along with other men, so you locked her up?"
(End of chapter)
