"Xiao Hui, let me tell you, I suddenly have something to do this Saturday and Sunday, but I happen to be on duty to go to school to feed the rabbits. Can I exchange it with you?"
In a high-end apartment, Yoshida Ayumi held the microphone and called a classmate with whom she was close.
The other party on the phone readily agreed, but I didn't know what this Xiao Hui said. Suddenly, Yoshida Ayumi's face turned red, and her big bright eyes turned into beady eyes.
"Okay, okay, if there is any case, I will definitely tell you..."
After hanging up the phone, Ayumi's face still blushed and she muttered in a low voice: "Really Xiaohui, isn't it normal to go camping with Conan?"
Ayumi was about to put the address book back to its original position when she suddenly saw that only Haihara Ai's name seemed to be different from the other names on this page.
She thought for a while and seemed to have made up her mind.
If you are a friend, you should treat them equally!
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"Hey, doctor, what are you doing? It's already past the departure time..."
The three boys from the Young Detective Team stood at the door of Dr. Ali's house urging him.
"Sorry, sorry, it took me a while to prepare things..."
The doctor walked out of the room with an apologetic smile on his face, a large travel bag slung over his shoulder.
However, he seemed to remember that there was something he had not taken, and hurried back into the house.
"Let me tell you, these guys really like camping... Although I don't mean to say that camping is bad. As a teacher, I still support students in extracurricular activities..."
Yuan Huaiyu leaned against the gate of Dr. A Li's house and looked in the direction of the door of Dr. A Li's house.
Conan stood beside him, his eyes twitching as he responded: "Ah...yes, children just like this kind of activity."
Yuanhuaiyu glanced at Conan and said to himself, I don't mean camping too frequently, but I mean you are always there every time during these frequent camping...
Taking you camping together means that another case will happen, and there is a high probability that it will be a vicious incident such as a murder case.
"I wonder which lucky person will die today..."
"Huh?" Conan heard Yuan Huaiyu say something softly, but the voice was too low to hear clearly. He turned to look at him and asked: "Teacher Yuan, did you say something?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Speaking of which, I heard that before the guy from the headquarters returned to Osaka, you also solved a serial arson case?"
Yuan Huaiyu naturally changed the topic. He knew that although Conan had already understood the situation and had basically managed not to cause any trouble, in this situation he would probably still show off to himself the major case he had just solved.
of.
As expected, Conan suddenly became excited when he heard Yuan Huaiyu mention the case he had solved: "Yes, Mr. Yuan, did you know that the murderer planned a series of arson cases based on Agatha Christie's ABC Murders..."
Yuan Huaiyu smiled and listened to Conan's narration of the case. At this time, Haiyuan Ai, who was a little bored waiting in the car, yawned and walked up to the two of them, glanced sideways at them, and then looked forward.
"Dr. A Li is not feeling well yet?"
Perhaps her words had an effect. Dr. Ali soon walked out of the room, locked the door, and walked toward the three people standing surrounded by three little animals.
"Ah, sorry, sorry, let's go..."
Dr. A Li rubbed the back of his head and said.
"Doctor, did you just clean up in a hurry before going out? It's true... the garbage can easily pile up if you don't pay attention..."
Haiyuan raised his head and glanced at Dr. A Li.
"Ah, little, little, little..."
Ayumi looked at Haihara Ai and wanted to use a more intimate name, but the word "Xiao Ai" couldn't be said.
"Huh?" Hui Yuan Ai looked at her sleepily.
"Oh, Haibara, you still look sleepy..." Ayumi opened her mouth, but she just greeted her subconsciously.
Huihara Ai yawned again: "Well, because I am a nocturnal animal."
"Xiao Ai is just like a cat." Yuan Huaiyu added with a smile.
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"Speaking of cats... When I was studying Mr. Itakura's diary, I found that there seemed to be some content at the back of the diary that we had missed."
Dr. A Li said while sitting in the passenger seat.
"It said, 'After she finished speaking, the meowing on the phone became louder and louder, and then she hung up the phone anxiously...'"
Yuan Huaiyu stared straight ahead and drove the car steadily, when he heard Conan speaking from behind.
"Maybe it was the woman's cat that was clamoring for her to play with, so she hung up the phone in a hurry... Of course, it's also possible that she was allergic to cats."
"I quite like cats. I even thought about raising a cat to accompany me... When I see a cute cat, I always feel that my soul is healed..."
Yuan Huaiyu said with a smile.
Conan remembered what Yuan Huaiyu said before getting in the car, and glanced at Haihara Ai, who was sitting next to him and didn't seem to pay attention to their conversation.
"Speaking of which, Doctor, you should know that Haibara's father, Miyano Atsushi, is a scientist, right?"
The vehicle that the group rented for camping this time had a total of three rows of seats. Yuan Huaiyu was driving, behind him was Haibara Ai, and on the other side were Dr. Ali in the passenger seat and Conan in the back.
As for the three little ones, they were happily chatting and playing in the last row, completely unaware of the situation of the four people in front. Besides, they couldn't understand the content of the conversation, so Conan just lowered the volume slightly.
"Hmm? I know Dr. Miyano... I met him two or three times at the launch of inventions."
Haiyuan Ai was still looking out the window, but her ears perked up.
"I think Dr. Miyano is a very easy-going person, and he quite appreciates my inventions... I even had a great conversation with him at one invention meeting."
Having said this, Dr. Ali couldn't help but look at Yuanhuaiyu: "...that time, besides me and Dr. Miyano, there was another person, who was also a scholar with unconstrained creativity..."
What he didn't say was that the feeling of discussing with that person was inexplicably similar to Yuan Huaiyu.
【Probably just a coincidence.】
"It's just that Dr. Miyano never seemed to say what research he was doing..."
Just as Dr. Ali was recalling several meetings with Miyano Atsushi, he found Yuan Huaiyu slowly stopping the car.
"Huh? This is..."
Just in front of their field of vision, a distinctive car almost completely blocked the already narrow road.
"Wow! What is this?"
"What a big car..."
"It looks like it's an RV specially used for camping..."
The voices of three little ones came from behind.
Soon, the curious three people got out of the car and surrounded the RV in front of them to take a look.
The four people sitting in front also got out of the car one after another, keeping an eye on the children in case they didn't notice the passing vehicles.
"Hey, kid! What are you doing?"
"That's our good friend's car!"
Just as the three little ones were curiously looking left and right, a shout came from the woods nearby.
When the group of people heard the sound and went away, they saw a man and a woman with blond hair looking towards them with frowns.
"It's okay, it's okay. If you just touch it, I think the uncle who lent me the car won't be angry..."
A woman with long straight black hair came from behind the two of them and gently stopped them.
"You are really gentle to the little devils, but you hated me to death when I smoked in the car." The blond man turned back and looked at Hei Changzhi.
"That's because you smoked too much, okay?"
"Hey! Come here! I think it's almost done!"
There were shouts from the woods not far away.
"Do you want to come together?" Hei Changzhi looked at the children with a smile.
"Okay!" The three little ones raised their arms and cheered.
Walking through the path in the woods, a group of people followed the three people who were obviously traveling together and saw a barbecue grill standing in an open space, and a young man wearing a hat was waving to them.
The barbecue table is not small, and everyone is sitting around it. The barbecue on the table is already sizzling, and the aroma is emitting an appetite-stimulating aroma.
In addition to barbecue, there are also all kinds of greedy food that are also grilled on it.
"Wow! It looks delicious!" Yuantai looked at so much food, and stars seemed to be jumping out of his eyes.
"These are all very high-quality meat!" Mitsuhiko praised.
"Do you want to eat together? There's still a lot of meat anyway..."
After the brief introduction just now, Yuanhuaiyu and his party learned that the name of the talking blonde female college student is Baiteng Yasumi.
The blond man's name is Fukuura Reiji.
The fan in the hat hesitated: "Ah, is that what we want to eat in the evening?"
"Don't be so poor, okay? If you don't have enough to eat, why don't you just borrow money from Miss Qinghua and go to the supermarket at the foot of the mountain to buy it? Isn't that right, Miss Qinghua?"
Shiratou Taimei turned to look at Hei Changzhi.
"Well..." Hei Changzhi Tiantian Qinghua smiled a little reluctantly.
While eating, the two groups of people they met by chance also started chatting, and the atmosphere at the barbecue table became increasingly lively.
"Oh - you are in the same university club..."
Dr. Ali looked at the four college students traveling together.
"We often go to the beach, mountains, and even went to Hawaii together!"
Shiratou Taimei said it in a show-off manner to the group of people she had just met in front of her, but her eyes unconsciously drifted in the direction of Yuanhuaiyu.
Haiyuan Ai, who was eating meat quietly at first, frowned slightly when he saw the blond female college student's eyes almost glued to Yuan Huaiyu.
"This is all thanks to Miss Qinghua's sponsorship!"
Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on her, Tendo Qinghua looked at Shiratou Taimi with some embarrassment.
"No... Taimei is very good at cooking, Reiji is good at driving, and Igo is good at picking wild vegetables and fishing. Compared to me, I have no expertise at all... All I can do is give money."
"Ah! I am a young lady who doesn't know anything. I can only provide money..."
Shiratou Yasumi imitated Tendo Haruka's tone and said with a smile: "I really want to talk about this!"
"It's such a pity that Miss Qinghua is paired with the playboy Reiji!"
"It's so noisy, you're really verbose!" The blond man looked at the noisy Shiratou Taimi with disgust.
Conan watched the scene of these people getting along with cold eyes, and memories of high school flashed through his mind.
"Are you feeling unwell?" Haiyuan Ai held a can of juice and glanced at Conan, who was holding up his chopsticks, "I see you've been dazed for a while..."
"No..." Conan said vaguely, "I just feel..."
"I think their way of getting along is a bit strange, don't you?"
Yuan Huaiyu's voice sounded from the right side of Hui Yuan Ai.
He didn't deliberately lower his voice, and everyone at the barbecue table heard what he said.
"Huh? This... er, Mr. Yuan, what do you mean by this?" Baiteng Taimei frowned and stared at Yuan Huaiyu's face.
"nothing……"
Yuan Huaiyu picked up a piece of barbecue and put it into his mouth, smiling and shaking his head.
If he guessed correctly, according to the usual practice, the most dancing Miss Bai Teng Taimei will most likely be the lucky one chosen by the God of Death today...
But Shiratou Taimei didn't know what he meant, so she asked reluctantly:
"Please tell me more clearly, what's going on with our relationship? Miss Qinghua, Reiji and Iigai, they are all my good friends!"
She was a little happy in her heart. Although it was in this form, she had now attracted this handsome guy's attention very well...
Yuan Huaiyu picked up the drink in front of him and took a sip. Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, the three little ones saw that the object of their admiration seemed to be targeted, and they were already full of energy and eager to jump out.
He shrugged and said calmly:
"A good friend? Not necessarily?"
"If you are really a good friend that you recognize in your heart, if you really regard him as an important person..."
"Then your so-called good friend is really cheap."
Yuan Huaiyu's eyes gradually became sharper.
"Do you really regard this Miss Qinghua as a friend? I don't think so..."
Tiantian Qinghua's face turned pale when she heard such straightforward words.
But Taimi Shiratou's face turned red and white, and she looked like she was about to jump.
"What did you say?" Her voice was high-pitched, as if she had been stabbed in some painful spot.
"I said, you just regard Miss Qinghua as a piggy bank and a money tree. You talk about it like a young lady. I don't think you regard Miss Qinghua as a friend, but as a money tree."
Just treat them as friends, right?"
"In this case, I think it's better not to use the word insulting friends."
Haiyuan Ai looked at the man next to him in surprise.
In her impression, Yuan Huaiyu is usually restrained and gentle, and rarely makes such sharp comments as he does now.
Just look at Shiratou Yasumi's expression as if she had eaten a fly, and you will know how devastating these words are to her.
Only Yuan Huaiyu sighed deeply in his heart.
Only he knew that this seemed to be aimed at Yasumi Shiratou, whom he had just met, but in fact he was trying to save a life that was being targeted by death.