“When the tide comes in, the island sinks under the sea. One of us drove a rubber boat to rescue Miss Lihua.”

“Half a day later, Miss Reika and Nikaidou were on the rubber boat that went forward, but their companions who went to rescue them were gone.”

“Three days later, her body was found floating in the sea.”

After hearing the story, Kogoro asked, “So, who is this dead person?”

“She is my granddaughter, Yaeko.”

Aunt Mi, who was distributing the coffee cups, answered.

“Aunt Mi…”

“She sacrificed her life to save the young lady’s. I think this is what she hoped for,” she said. “Come on, the coffee is ready.”

Witnessing Aunt Mi’s loss, Maori Kogoro stopped talking about this topic. He picked up his coffee cup and said, “In short, we have to find Miss Lihua first. Let’s split into two groups and patrol every room… However, the murderer may be among us, so everyone should be careful and never be left alone.”

“That’s true. If we just keep an eye on each other, it won’t be that dangerous.”

Yizhi Long affirmed.

“Okay, drink your coffee and then I’ll go find it.”

Not long after drinking the coffee, Xiaolan began to yawn and rubbed her eyelids with her hands.

“Why are you yawning all of a sudden?”

Kogoro asked.

“Sorry, I suddenly feel very sleepy.”

Aunt Mi was concerned about Xiaolan and said, “After so many things happened, you must feel tired. Just lie down on the sofa and take a nap. Come on!”

Seeing this, Winette took the initiative to come to Aunt Mi. “In this case, I will stay and take care of Xiaolan.” She said. After all, she couldn’t help much if she followed the search with her “blind eyesight”, and according to Xiaoai’s opinion, it would be better for her to stay here. Maori Kogoro said yes, and immediately took Conan to act. They divided the villa into two halves based on the floor, and began to explore the interior separately.

About half an hour later, Kogoro Mouri had almost finished searching his room, but he did not find any clues about Miss Rika.

This made him a little impatient, and he even opened the microwave and shouted into it.

Conan looked at his actions and thought to himself that he was such an unreliable adult.

“It seems there is nothing here either…”

Kogoro Mouri walked out of the room muttering to himself, and Conan followed closely behind him.

Ai also acts with Conan.

As soon as she left the room, she reminded Conan, “Don’t you think that your girlfriend’s sleepiness rate is abnormal?”

After hearing what Ai said, Conan really felt it. Not long ago, Xiaolan was still very energetic and followed Aunt Mi to make coffee, but after drinking the coffee, she became even more sleepy.

“You mean…”

“Yes, I think it’s very likely… someone spiked the coffee with sleeping pills.”

Ai analyzed that this was the main reason why she allowed Winnet to stay. With Winnet around, Mao Lilan would at least not be harmed by the murderer.

“But Xiaolan should have nothing to do with this matter.”

“I can’t figure this out either.” Xiao Ai said, “Also, I don’t know how the murderer made her drink it exactly, or in other words, the murderer actually wanted someone else to drink it, and your girlfriend happened to drink the drugged coffee.”

After hearing what Huiyuan Ai said, Conan suddenly became a little worried. However, she was not worried about the murderer attacking Xiaolan, but that Winette and Xiaolan were alone in the room at the moment. With Huiyuan’s previous reminder, he thought it would be better to reduce Xiaolan’s meeting with the pastor as much as possible.

“It shouldn’t be. The murderer has no reason to attack Xiaolan.”

Judging from the current situation, he always believed that this matter was related to the incident two years ago. The victim Nikaido and the missing Yotsugu Reika were both important persons involved in that incident.

In other words, the murderer’s motive was most likely that incident.

“But even if it is, it doesn’t matter. In the lighted room, she can vaguely see something… Based on her skills, it shouldn’t be difficult for her to protect your girlfriend.”

Conan also thought of the calluses on Winnet’s hands and her explanation of “practicing martial arts”.

At this time, Ichieda Takashi, who was lagging behind, also caught up. He stopped talking with Huihara and followed Kogoro to continue searching. After a careful check, he still did not find Shii Reika.

“We have searched the first floor thoroughly.”

“So, she is still in the forest.”

As soon as Yizhi Long finished speaking, the lights in the corridor dimmed immediately and he looked a little flustered.

“The power is out… Could something have happened upstairs?”

Maori Kogoro asked him: “Where is the main power switch?”

“Just across from the kitchen.”

After getting the answer, they immediately ran. As the corridor was dark, Conan could hardly see anything, and soon he bumped into something. At this time, the power of the villa was restored, and the weak lights came on again. Conan realized that the people standing in front of the switch were the group of people searching on the second floor.

“It seems that they came downstairs immediately to find here.”

Xiao Ai judged that it was because the stairs were not far away.

“Who turned off the light?”

Mifune asked Kogoro and his group directly because they were in charge of the search on the first floor.

Yizhi Long replied, “There shouldn’t be anyone there. We just looked for them.”

“That’s the murderer!” Kogoro suddenly said, his expression very confident, “Because we are now going to search this villa carefully, the murderer feels that there is no way to escape, so he wants to take this opportunity to escape.”

“In other words, the murderer is not someone in the villa?”

Sofia asked, taking a step forward.

“Very likely!”

Maori Kogoro stretched out his hand and pointed at the window on the right with his thumb. The recognizable sound in the darkness just now was the sound of the window next to him being broken.

“This window was broken by him.”

“Damn it, where are you going to escape to?”

When Mifune learned that the murderer had escaped through the window, he was impatient and chased after him.

Yizhi Long followed closely behind.

Maori Kogoro saw this and quickly said to the people around him: “Go and stop them!” Then he chased after them. Only Xiao Ai, Sophia, Aunt Mi and Kuba Masumi were left.

Xiao Ai, who was wary of Kuba Masumi, said, “Let’s follow them.”

Based on her understanding of Sofia, as long as she is not attacked by surprise, she should not be subdued by Kuba Masumi. In Ai’s opinion, Kuba is a gentle lady with a traditional personality. There is no sign of exercise on her appearance. Although she may be a hard-to-see type like Winnet, judging from her walking posture, this possibility is very low.

Preventing Jiuye from returning to the villa is also a means of restraining her from committing any criminal acts.

Aunt Mi also explained to them anxiously: “It is very easy to get lost in this forest. We must stop them quickly.”

She said “Wow” and chased after him. Xiao Ai and the other two nodded and moved forward together.

At the same time, Winette, who was staying in the banquet hall, had already noticed something was wrong – Mao Lilan was sleeping too deeply. In the situation where a murder had just happened, it was unusual to be sleepy, let alone sleep deeply. Could someone have added drugs to the coffee? But why was it Xiaolan? She thought, whether it was related to the incident two years ago or Jiuye Masumi, Xiaolan had nothing to do with these.

“Did you drink the wrong thing?”

“So, who was that cup of coffee originally for?”

“Or does it mean that it doesn’t matter who drinks it?”

Just as she was wondering, the lights in the room suddenly went out.

“Is the target actually Xiaolan?”

However, the murderer didn’t take her seriously. Perhaps he thought she was just a blind woman, so there was nothing to be wary of, so he lowered his guard. Winnet walked to the window and saw that the lights downstairs were not turned off, which meant that the murderer selectively turned off the power of the lights in the banquet hall.

He has a very good understanding of the structure of the villa.

It is impossible that it was done by Kujo Masumi.

Footsteps…

In this case, the murderer would not have given her the chance to call for help. She should have been the first person to be attacked… However, she did not need to call for help.

……

257 The Discovered Shii Reika

Winette stood beside Mao Lilan, on a wooden stool about half a meter away from the sofa.

The friction sound of the villa’s floor tiles was not obvious, and it was difficult to judge the distance under the influence of raindrops outside. The lights suddenly turned off, and Winnett reacted as usual, walked to the light switch to check, turned it on and off, and restarted it. At this moment, a hand hidden in the darkness approached from behind, towards her cheek.

Winnett reacted quickly and moved closer to the assassin, pressing her back against his arm, and using her elbow to strike him in the neck.

Novel 9⑧0

The moment she counterattacked, the opponent quickly made the right judgment, retreated, and rushed out without looking back.

“Give up decisively…”

Winnet murmured, but did not chase after him.

Although it was easy to catch the criminal, it would be very troublesome to explain, especially the fact that she could counterattack after being attacked in the dark. She still had to hide her identity.

A priest who knows some self-defense skills but is not particularly powerful, this is what she wanted.

Moreover, she cannot currently rule out the possibility that the other party has accomplices.

If someone takes advantage of this moment to harm Xiaolan, it will also make her lose credibility.

Since the famous detective Maori Kogoro and the shrunken famous detective Kudo Shinichi were there, she shouldn’t need to show up to arrest the criminal. Winette stood guard at the door of the banquet hall, pretending to be trembling with fear.

At this time, Conan, who had chased for a distance, also realized that something was wrong.

“uncle.”

“what happened?”

“It was pitch black in the corridor, right? So the person who broke the window might be among us.”

“You mean…”

“Only Miss Winnet and Xiaolan are in the villa now.”

As soon as Conan finished speaking, he immediately ran away and turned back towards the villa.

Kogoro Mori understood what he meant and followed suit.

Conan quickly crossed the corridor and saw that the lights in the kitchen, which should have been off, were on. He rushed in and saw Kuba Masumi lying right under the sink, looking like he had fainted.

Thinking of the drowned Nikaido, Conan quickly thought of the same development – the murderer pressed Kuba Masumi into the sink and attempted to drown her.

hateful!

He also had to confirm Xiaolan’s safety.

“Ms. Jiuye! Miss Jiuye, cheer up!”

Conan shook Kuba Masumi’s shoulders.

Jiuye, who was wet above his shoulders, coughed twice, spit out some water from his mouth, and opened his eyes weakly.

“Ms. Jiuye, what’s going on?”

“Someone knocked me unconscious from behind… and then forced me into the pool.”

Conan saw that Kuzuha Masumi had fainted again. He checked her and found that she was just asleep. She might have inhaled a lot of ether. He lifted the back of her head to let her breathe normally.

As he was about to run out of the room, he felt a surge of heat.

The source is a microwave oven that is clamped onto the cabinet.

Was it still in use not long ago?

He reached out and touched it, and made this judgment.

Before he could leave the room, Kogoro Mouri arrived.

“Uncle, please take care of Miss Jiuye.”

After Conan finished speaking, he rushed out again and came to the banquet hall. He found the door was closed and his heart immediately tightened.

While he was still outside, he confirmed that the lights in the banquet hall were off. A bad premonition brewed in his heart. He banged on the door, but unlike what he expected, the door was opened after two or three seconds. Through the dim light in the corridor, he could see Winnet’s cheek clearly.

“Is it Conan?”

Conan breathed a sigh of relief when he found Winnet there.

“Where’s Xiaolan… I mean, is Sister Xiaolan okay?”