However, Kuzuha Masumi’s target is not Miss Rika, and the current development is unpredictable.

“Maybe because I was too tired today, so I fell asleep in my room?”

A few seconds after Winnett made her inference, the lights in most rooms in the villa were turned on. Everyone could hear the four men shouting “Miss Reika”. I’m afraid that Shii Reika is not in the room. In this case, it really becomes a matter of life and death. This makes Winnett care about Maori Kogoro. It seems that as long as he is present, the case will definitely happen. And Conan, what happened in the amusement park also impressed Winnett. She thought it might be the chemical reaction produced by the combination of the two detectives.

After all, detectives are prestigious and influential beings in this world, and are roles comparable to lawyers and police officers.

Kogoro yawned and said casually, “What on earth is going on? Could he have disappeared?”

As if it were a crow’s mouth, no one answered him, and the calls in the house gradually stopped.

“It seems you are right.”

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Xiao Ai replied coldly.

Conan also complained in his heart: Uncle is such a bad person.

After a while, the four people who were looking for Miss Lihua and Aunt Mi returned to the banquet hall.

Nikaidou muttered, “That’s weird, why can’t I find it anywhere?”

Yizhi Long speculated, “Could it be that she walked into the woods by herself and got lost in it?”

At this time, Maori Kogoro was also completely awake. If someone around him disappeared, it was most likely a bad thing. His detective intuition was guiding him. He felt that waiting like this was not a solution, so he said to everyone:

“Then let’s all split up and go look for it in the forest together.”

“Really, this young lady is really good at causing trouble!”

Mifune stood up unhappily.

Sophia also said to Winnet and Xiao Ai: “I feel like I can drive now, it’s almost time for us to go back.”

Winnet nodded perfunctorily. If Shii Reika was really killed by someone, according to Conan’s description of the flat tire incident, their tires had also flattened. Thinking from the perspective of the criminal, she knew that this was to prevent the remaining people from leaving the scene, which meant that the murderer had not yet finished committing the crime. This was also the most common Blizzard Villa model in detective novels.

Judging from the fact that Maori Kogoro and Sofia’s car was intact at first, the murderer wanted them to leave, but the crime had already begun and now they had no chance to leave. But she was not worried about the safety of her group, because generally speaking, criminals would not harm irrelevant people unless they were of special use – under this premise, the murderer would also let irrelevant witnesses live to provide him with misleading testimony.

But at the moment, she is not very sure.

At the suggestion of Kogoro Mori, everyone was divided into four groups, each with three people.

They and the Mori family each have three people, one group is Ichieda Takashi, Nikaidou, and Aunt Yone, and the other group is Rokuda Masashi, Mifune, Gojo Osamu, and Kuba Masumi.

When they walked out of the villa, they could see the surroundings more clearly. It was completely surrounded by forest. The forest was made up of densely growing cypress and pine trees, with thick bushes growing below. In addition, it was night, so the visibility was very poor.

Ai held Winnet’s hand and followed Sophia closely with her eyes.

Sophia looked around and said, “I hope we can find her quickly, and then we can go back immediately.”

Xiao Ai replied: “I think it’s unlikely.”

“what?”

“Didn’t they just say that their car and Shijing Lihua’s car had their tires blown out by someone? This means that someone doesn’t want them to go down the mountain, and the signal in this mountain villa is very poor…”

When Xiao Ai looked at Winnet’s cell phone, she confirmed that the signal bars were almost zero. She estimated that the telephone line in the villa had also been cut off.

“Could it be…”

Having experienced the tragedy on the ship, Sophia naturally thought of the possibility that someone had planned the crime.

“It’s hard to say right now.”

Sophia sighed and looked at Winnett: “Is this how you spend your days with kids like this? It’s amazing that you can persist.”

Xiao Ai felt offended after hearing this.

Winnet leaned over to Sofia’s ear and whispered, “Children from unfortunate families are more or less different from ordinary children. It is our job to guide them correctly. As for Ai, she is just more mature. She is a good child.”

Sofia didn’t take it seriously and just continued to search around the forest, taking the barely visible girl and the little girl with her, she wasn’t in the mood to venture deep into the forest to look for an unrelated woman.

The partner she wanted was the chairman of the Sijing Group, and she didn’t need to deliberately please his daughter.

But soon, the weather turned bad. After they had been searching for about ten minutes, raindrops began to fall from the sky. In a moment, the rain became so heavy that it wet their shoulders.

“Let’s go back first. It’s not convenient to move in this kind of clothes.”

Sophia suggested that she had just seen other people coming over here to look for Shii Reika, and it seemed that no one was deliberately doing what the great detective had said, but rather they were conducting a more scattered search with the goal of “finding Miss Reika”.

As soon as they approached the villa, they heard a loud scream from Xiaolan.

Not only them, but everyone else also rushed back to the vicinity of the villa after the rain. Coupled with Xiaolan’s penetrating shout, everyone naturally gathered together.

The man who was talking so eloquently before, Nikaidou, was now lying on the ground. They moved closer, and the others had already surrounded him.

Among them, Mifune, who had a more radical personality, hugged his body and shook it hard while calling his name, but he didn’t get any response.

Maori Kogoro, who had checked the body as soon as possible, said regretfully: “It’s useless, he’s dead.”

“What did you say!?”

Everyone who heard his words widened their eyes.

Winnet was covering Ai’s eyes, but Ai grabbed her wrist and let her go. She and Conan looked at the body.

I’m afraid…

At the same time, Kogoro Mori stood up straight and looked at the ordinary stone-based fountain standing in front of the villa.

“He died of drowning. From the looks of it, it seems likely that the murderer forced him into the fountain.”

“How can this be?”

Mifune began to panic.

Ichieda Takashi said anxiously, “But Nikaidou was clearly still alive just now.”

“Have you been together during the search?”

“That’s not the case… After we started looking for Miss Lihua, we gradually separated…”

Rokuda Masashi also jumped out to explain: “It is difficult to act together in a dense forest, and… everyone wants to find Miss Lihua first.”

The same applies to him. As long as he finds Miss Lihua first, he will definitely gain a lot of favor.

“That’s right, he was killed just now, and it was someone near this villa who killed him!”

Kogoro Mori asserted.

Xiaolan hunched her shoulders nervously, clenched her hands around her collar, and said in a low voice, “This is so terrible. Who on earth would do such a thing?”

“Maybe one of us did it.”

After breaking free from Winnet’s restraints, Ai directly pointed out Kogoro’s meaning.

“There is one person who is the most suspicious right now…”

Mifune said maliciously, “That’s Miss Reika who’s been missing.”

Aunt Mi immediately refuted him after hearing this: “How could Miss Lihua do such a thing?”

Kogoro did not continue to argue about this matter. When everyone came over, it was raining heavily. There was no point in checking whether everyone’s hands were wet. He took off his coat and covered Nikaidou with it. He concluded: “In short, call the police immediately and wait for the police to arrive before making any decisions.”

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As Winnet expected, when they arrived at the room, they found that the villa’s telephone line had been cut off.

Yizhi Long took out the mobile phone in his pocket and said, “In that case, I’ll use the mobile phone to call.”

“It’s no use. The signal reception in this place is very poor. I can’t make a call.”

Rokuda Masashi interrupted his actions.

Mifune, who had wanted to borrow Kogoro’s car at first, immediately thought of it.

“There is no other way now except to use Mr. Maori and Miss Sophia’s car.”

Gojo Osamu nodded in agreement. “That’s right. I’ll drive down now and call the police.”

Maori Kogoro and Sophia also thought of what they said. After Winnett reminded her, Sophia checked her car immediately – the tire had been blown out.

Kogoro Mori also followed to confirm, and when he returned to the room, he happened to hear the conversation between Mifune and Gojo.

“I just went out to check, and the tires of the lady and I were also punctured,” he said with a serious expression, “which means that we are now trapped in this place by the murderer and there is no way out.”

“Damn it, how could this happen!”

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“Then we can only wait until daybreak when Miss Lihua’s driver comes to pick us up.”

Rokuda Masashi remained calm. He said to Aunt Mi, “Aunt Mi, could you please make some coffee for me?”

“Ok.”

Xiaolan felt uneasy because Aunt Mi was an old lady, so she quickly said, “I’ll help too.”

“I also……”

Winnet was interrupted by Xiao Ai halfway through her words.

“You’d better stay here. You can’t see anything in the dim environment, right?”

There were no lights in many corridors inside the villa. Although there were lights in the rooms, they would not stay on all the time. Xiao Ai knew that Winnet could make judgments in the dark with her extraordinary hearing, but Winnet was not so powerful in the eyes of others.

“It must be scary when something like this happens, right?”

Winnet knew what Ai meant, and she used the same method to make a fuss about the child’s identity. But she didn’t expect that Ai would actually cooperate.

“Yeah, I’m scared, so stay with me.”

At this moment, Winnet’s processor was a little down, and she nodded delayedly and stayed in the banquet hall.

The remaining men all asked to go to the toilet. Rokuda Masashi, who was relatively familiar with the villa, suggested bringing a few towels to provide for everyone who was wet by the rain.

Conan looked at Rokuda’s reaction and felt that he was too calm and too familiar with the environment here.

He pretended to be a child and made a “wow” sound.

“Uncle Rokuta, you are amazing! You know this place so well.”

“Because our group often comes here to gather!”

Conan was stunned when he got the reply. He thought, if so, those men were very familiar with this place, and the possibility of committing a crime was even higher. After all, it was basically impossible for a woman without special training to drown an adult man in a pool.

When they were the only ones left in the room, Xiao Ai quietly approached Conan and asked him, “How is it, Detective? Do you have any clues about the incident?”

Because of her preconceived notions, Ai was very suspicious of Masumi Kuzuha who was chatting with Sophia.

“Not yet, but I think the murderer should be among those suitors of Miss Lihua.”

“So, Miss Lihua is still alive? If she is the target of a forbidden love, she should not be killed. After all, if she dies, the money and status that are within easy reach will disappear without a trace.”

“It’s hard to say right now.”

Winnett thought that it took Xiaolan and the others a long time to make coffee, and that Rokuda Masashi hadn’t come back for a long time. When she was thinking this, Xiaolan walked into the room with coffee. She thought that it was probably because there were so many people.

At this moment when everyone was present, Conan spoke again because there was something that concerned him very much.

“Excuse me, did anything happen at the yacht club two years ago?”

Kogoro, who was wiping the rain with a towel, glanced at Conan and said, “Okay, let’s not talk about irrelevant things now, really…”

“But, that uncle Nikaidou said before he was killed that the young lady had already decided on her partner two years ago.”

“What did you say!?”

Kogoro Mori was shocked, as this sentence might very well mean the reason why he was killed.

“I was just thinking, that incident might have something to do with this one!”

Maori Kogoro was convinced. He turned around and looked at everyone and said, “Yes, it seems that we do need to talk about this matter… What happened two years ago?”

Several men looked reluctant to talk about it and were sweating from nervousness.

Finally, Masashi Rokuda stood up and said, “Actually, it was an unfortunate tragedy.”

He spoke eloquently.

“It was a typhoon day. One day two years ago, our group dropped anchor on a nearby island and then dispersed to play on the island. We had no idea that a storm was about to come. When the thunderstorm came, most of us ran to the yacht for shelter. Only Nikaidou, who had been fishing on the boat, and Miss Reika, who stayed alone on the island, did not come back.”