The fat and ugly man was undoubtedly the weakest among the three. He was out of breath before he ran very far.
"How the hell do I know that!" The long-haired man glanced behind him in panic to confirm that the monster had not followed.
Today's experience was so bizarre for these three people that they all suspected that they were dreaming.
Although that guy looks human, he is 10,000% not a normal human being.
How can a normal person be shot so many times and still act like nothing happened!
The violent running movements made their throats and lungs feel burning, but they did not dare to stop at all and could only keep running forward.
After running for who knows how long, their eyes suddenly opened up. It was no longer a narrow and cramped cave passage, but a bifurcated road like a hall appeared.
"Here, what should I do? Which way is the exit?"
The thin and ugly man looked at the five forked roads in front of him and was a little confused for a moment.
Hesitation made the three of them stop. The long-haired man first glanced behind him warily, and found that there was no sound of running behind him. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the center of the forked road.
There, there stood a stone platform that was obviously artificially made. On the stone platform was a stone egg as big as a human head.
"Look, there are words here!"
The fat and ugly man walked to the stone platform to check it out, and immediately found something.
"Those who are lost in the darkness, please step towards the path of the dragon, and the light of bliss will shine on you... Huh? What is under here?"
If the Young Detective Team were here, they would immediately recognize that this is what is carved on the stone at the entrance of the cave, and it is almost exactly the same.
Even the enigmatic words are exactly the same.
It's just that the stone outside has experienced wind and rain, and the carvings are blurred, but the stone in the cave is well preserved.
"Looking at the meaning above, it seems that one of the five forked roads is the exit..."
The long-haired man was indeed the brains among the three, and he quickly understood the meaning.
"And the correct path has been hinted in these few lines of text..."
Fat Chou and Shou Chou were confused:
"What is the path of the dragon?"
"Yes, yes, boss, what does this mean?"
The long-haired man thought hard for a while, but he couldn't think of a reason and pulled his hair irritably.
"You know what it means..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard faint human voices coming from the direction of the forked roads. No, in their eyes, they should say they were ghost voices.
"I...of course...know..."
The hair on the hair of the three people stood up. They were squatting to study the words on the stone. At the same time, they fell three feet high and saw the monster coming from a certain crossroad.
That bloody face was the most terrifying nightmare in their hearts.
"ah!"
The monster stood not far away and looked at them, while they froze in place and faced it.
The first person to react was the long-haired man: "What are you doing standing there, run away!"
The exit was blocked by the monster, and they were about to run in the direction they came from when they suddenly heard countless tiny flapping wings overhead.
They unconsciously looked back and saw that a large group of bats originally hanging on the rock wall were flying in mid-air at the same time, surrounding the monster like a guard.
Generally, he stared at them with scarlet eyes.
Seeing this unusual scene, the three of them were so shocked that they completely lost their voices. The panic and fear in their hearts reached an unparalleled level.
In their opinion, the sight of a group of bats as companions was really too shocking, just like a demon descending from the earth.
Seeing the devil chasing after them, they fled to the intersection ahead in a panic. However, none of the three people noticed that due to the complex terrain, they did not follow the original road at a certain intersection, but came to a brand new road.
fork in the road.
That was of course, because Yuanhuaiyu had already blocked the original road when they caught up, leaving only a wrong road.
"Go to hell... scum..."
Seeing the three people in front of them moving forward as expected, a smile appeared on Yuan Huaiyu's face, which had been made up to look terrible.
Being familiar with the structure of this cave, he knew very well that there was a real dead end ahead - it was a low cliff with no protection at all, but if he fell down without paying attention...
Within a few minutes, he heard three shrill and desperate screams coming from ahead.
…
After confirming that the three people were dead, Yuanhuaiyu quickly removed the traces of his past in the cave and placed the body of the poor man on the edge of the cliff, pretending that the three people accidentally fell off the cliff and died tragically.
After doing all this, he estimated the time.
"Well...it seems like it's been a while. I have to get out quickly."
More than twenty minutes had passed from the time he entered the cave to the completion of the finishing touches. It was estimated that the police were almost there.
Walking out of the cave entrance leisurely, his sharp eyes immediately saw Edogawa Conan hiding in the tree, looking towards him.
Conan on the tree was already in deep surprise and doubt.
Teacher Yuan, who is a member of the organization, walked into the cave alone and stayed there for nearly half an hour.
During this period, other members of the Junior Detective Team reported to him that they had called the police and that the police would be here soon.
Conan asked them to stay in a safe place and not come over - he also wanted to see what Mr. Yuan wanted to do!
Through his glasses with telephoto function, he saw that Yuanhuaiyu seemed to be the same as when he entered, except that he seemed to have changed into a newer coat.
[Could it be that something happened inside and there was blood splattered on the clothes?]
Soon, sirens rang in the distance, and the police finally arrived, led by a group of young detectives and headed here.
He quickly jumped down from the tree and blended into the crowd in advance to prevent Yuan Huaiyu from discovering the clues. Little did he know that Yuan Huaiyu had already discovered him just now.
After the police conducted a detailed search of the entire cave, they finally found the body of the man who had been shot in the forehead on the edge of the cliff.
...and the three gangsters who fell to pieces at the bottom of the cliff.
Even though they were somewhat deformed, the policemen led by the Megu Police Department quickly recognized them. These three people seemed to have criminal records.
Combined with the bank robbery that occurred not long ago, they quickly concluded that this should be the robbery gang that lost their footing and fell off the cliff while trying to kill and dump the body.
Judging from the situation at the scene, this was an accidental death.
Only Conan stared deeply at Yuan Huaiyu who was standing aside with a smile.
He understood that the deaths of these three people were most likely inseparable from him, Teacher Yuan!