Facing a lot of questions thrown by Dr. Agasa, Kudo Shinichi answered them one by one with a smile, "Although we couldn't get the recipe and cake residue, we went to the kitchen to find the ingredients we used today. Haibara has already
After calculating the formula, she is now helping me out at the door..."
Dr. A Li turned to look at the door of the banquet hall. As expected, he saw the figure wearing a work uniform and a baseball cap, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, doctor, has something happened to Miss Hualien?" Kudo Shinichi squatted at the table, frowning and thinking, "Haihara and I initially thought of finding a room on the 19th floor and staying in the room to wait.
The Miss Japanese style contest is over. However, when we arrived at the 19th floor, we found Mrs. Mei Ling hurriedly getting out of the elevator in front of the elevator. When we got near the exit of the emergency passage, we saw Sister Nanatsuki walking up the stairs. If
Nothing happened to Miss Hualian. The two of them shouldn't be running around, right? That's why I wanted to sneak into the banquet hall and have a look..."
"Did something happen to Ms. Hualien?" Dr. Ali looked towards the backstage in surprise and whispered, "Feichi did receive a call from Nanatsuki before, and then he went backstage. He said it was Mr. Miura.
When I told him something, I thought it wouldn't be that simple."
Kudo Shinichi didn't expect Dr. Agasa to be more surprised than him, and asked with half-moon eyes, "So, doctor, you don't know what happened, right?"
"There's nothing I can do," Dr. Ali smiled dryly, looked up at the three children who were focusing on the stage performance, and lowered his voice, "The children wanted to follow them secretly to the backstage, but there were always people on the stage.
During a performance, we can't just rush to the stage and then go backstage, right? The side door next to the stage needs to be opened by swiping an employee card. If Fei Chi goes to the backstage from there, we don't have an employee card, so we can only
I came back to continue watching the show, and I think it’s better not to let the children cause trouble..."
Kudo Shinichi could understand that it was not easy for Dr. Agasa to raise three naughty children by himself. He stopped teasing Dr. Agasa and looked at the closed side door next to the stage. He murmured thoughtfully, "That door actually requires employees."
Do you have a card? It seems like not many people would go through that door. It seems impossible to sneak in with the staff, so the only option is to find a way to get an employee card. I wonder if Haiyuan found the set in the laundry room.
When you were putting on your work uniform, did you find your employee card..."
"I advise you to give up this idea."
The cold and serious voice of Miyano Shiho came from behind Dr. Agasa, startling Dr. Agasa and Kudo Shinichi who were squatting at the table.
Miyano Shiho stood behind Dr. Agasa, still wearing a dark blue work uniform, with the brim of his baseball cap pushed very low. He looked down at Kudo Shinichi who was squatting on the ground, his face completely hidden in the shadows, "If Hua
If something really happens to Miss Lian, Brother Chi and the others will definitely search the backstage for anyone suspicious. Even if you go to the backstage, you still have to hide around. It is difficult to let go of the investigation.
Such a person wandering around disrupted the direction of Fei Chi's investigation and made things more troublesome."
Kudo Shinichi knew that Miyano Shiho's idea was correct, but he was still unwilling to wait like this, "But..."
Miyano Shiho was always paying attention to the direction of the side door. When he saw the door open and Chi Feichi walking out, his expression changed instantly and interrupted Kudo Shinichi's words, "Kudo, Feichi is coming out! Hurry up!
Let’s first…”
Kudo Shinichi pulled back the white tablecloth of the round table and ducked under the table, "Sorry, Haibara, I still want to know what happened backstage!"
"You..." Miyano Shiho was so angry that he almost smiled bitterly.
She knew that a certain detective would not make people worry!
"Xiaolan and the others are still backstage," Kudo Shinichi poked his head out from under the table, looked up at Miyano Shiho who was standing in front, with a firm expression but a little gentleness, and smiled, "If I can help, I will
I also want to do my part to help them.”
Miyano Shiho choked, and she felt a little uneasy thinking about it. She noticed that Chi Feichi was coming over and looking at her, so she had to avoid Chi Feichi first, and walked towards the long table with food on the side of the court.
He said, "Doctor, Kudo, I would like you to take care of it. I'll avoid it for a while."
Dr. A Li wanted to nod or respond, but when he saw that Chi Feichi had already walked to the front, he forcibly resisted the movement of nodding.
While Chi Feichi walked towards Dr. Ali, he also turned his head to pay attention to the people passing by him.
He had just seen the man standing behind Dr. Ali. This man was wearing a baseball cap in the banquet hall, which was very strange in itself.
Unfortunately, the venue was dimly lit and from a distance, it was difficult to see the other person's appearance and features, and even the gender was difficult to identify.
After getting closer, he could tell from the general outline of the body that the other person was a woman, but the other person was not tall to begin with. She was wearing a baseball cap on her head and walked past him. He could only see the hat.
…
"Thank you Mr. Amano Shoichi for the wonderful performance! Next, is the long-awaited scoring session..."
As the host's voice sounded, the crystal chandeliers on the top of the venue lit up one after another, and the stage lighting also provided lighting for the stage again.
The moment the surroundings lit up, Miyano Shiho, who was wearing a dark blue work uniform, staggered away from Chao Zhao and Chi Feichi, and walked slowly to the sidelines step by step.
Chi Feichi turned to look behind him and saw a little brown hair faintly visible on the back of the opponent's head under his baseball cap.
Could it be Xiao Ai? Has she really changed back?
Dr. A Li watched the two people passing by, and Chi Feichi turned around to look. He was so nervous that he broke into a cold sweat. He showed a smile and said loudly to attract Chi Feichi's attention, "Feichi, you are back!"
Chi Feichi looked back and nodded to Dr. A Li.
Yuanta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko were concentrating on watching the performance before, and did not notice the people who quietly ran to Dr. Ali one by one. Even seeing Chi Fei come back late, the three children also looked forward to the announcement of the scores.
He just glanced at Chi Feichi briefly and quickly turned his attention back to the stage, staring excitedly at the electronic board on the stage and chattering.
"Brother Chi, you came back too late. The puppet show you just performed was not the one Mr. Amano rehearsed before..."
"Don't miss it anymore, the first round scores will be announced soon!"
"So nervous..."
Dr. Ali saw that the children were only looking at the stage, but Chi Feichi seemed to have no intention of sitting down. He stood up, looked around, and asked in a low voice, "Feichi, did something happen backstage?"
Chi Feichi glanced at the door of the banquet hall and the figures on the edge of the venue. He no longer concealed Dr. A Li, "Miss Hualian is missing."
"Wha, what?!"
Dr. A Li was so surprised that he lost his voice. When the three children looked at him curiously, he quickly put away the surprise on his face.
On the stage, the host announced all the scores of each contestant in the first round.
Shou Hualian has participated in more than one competition before and has more supporters. Coupled with her outstanding performance this time, she got the highest score so far.
Mao Lilan's score was slightly behind Shou Hualian. When the host announced the current ranking, the children no longer cared about Dr. A Li and sat beside them chattering and discussing their opinions on the ranking.
After the three children looked back at the stage, Dr. Ali asked aloud, "Fei Chi, then the current situation is..."
"The person hasn't been found yet. Yueshui and Xiaolan will start looking from the backstage to the room upstairs. I will be responsible for searching from the venue," Chi Feichi said. Hearing Feichi mutter under his clothes that there was someone under the table, he temporarily tolerated it.
He resisted the urge to lift the tablecloth and take a look, "Doctor, during the time you were here, did you see someone suspected of being Ms. Hualian coming out of the backstage?"
"No," Dr. Ali frowned and recalled, "After you entered through that side door, I have been paying attention to the movements there. Apart from you, only two staff members went in, and before you came out, that
No one has ever come out from behind the gate."
"Then I'll ask the person guarding the door again," Chi Feichi turned around and walked towards the door, whispering, "Doctor, if the children feel tired, you can take them back to sleep first without waiting for us."
"Ah good……"
Dr. Ali waited for Chi Feichi to leave, pretended to pick up something, squatted down by the table, and repeated the conversation between himself and Chi Feichi to Kudo Shinichi who was hiding under the table.
On the way to the entrance of the banquet hall, Chi Fei Chi listened to Fei Chi talking under his clothes.
"Master, judging from the size of the man under the table, he should be a high school boy. He doesn't have a knife or pistol on him, so he shouldn't be a dangerous person..."
Chi Feichi: "..."
High school boy? That should be... Kudo Shinichi?
Feichi did not dwell on the topic of 'people under the round table' for too long, and muttered, "But Master, when I was feeling sleepy just now, I seemed to smell a very light smell of blood..."
Chi Feichi stopped and asked, "The smell of blood?"
"Yes, it's right near the lift..." Fei Chi recalled, "But it seems to be some distance away from us, and the smell is very light. Maybe someone on the staff was accidentally injured."
Chi Feichi did not stay where he was and muttered to himself. As he walked towards the door of the banquet hall, he asked in a low voice, "Then did you see anything that looked like a human corpse nearby?"
"Mr. Amano's puppet box is there. The box is full of human-like puppets, and the temperature is very low. It looks like a lot of cold corpses piled in the box." Fei Chi said in a helpless tone, "And backstage
There were too many things that looked like human corpses. We passed by a group of workers moving cardboard boxes before. There were many dolls in the cardboard boxes in their hands, and there were also large cabinets of magic props that were sent back from the lift platform to the backstage.
There are still two people hiding. They probably stayed in the cabinet for too long and their clothes were too thin. Their body temperature is not very high. If they hadn't crawled out of the cabinet later, I almost would have warned you...
"
Chi Feichi: "..."
The person under the table, the humanoid prop in the box, the person in the cabinet...