Takahashi Ryo was half kneeling on the ground, groping with his hands on the ground, and quickly grabbed a dead branch.
He picked up the sharp branch and fixed his eyes fiercely on the long-haired girl with tears in her eyes.
He did have no grudges against Mao Lilan, but unfortunately, when he was changing clothes today, the other party entered his room by mistake and saw his true figure.
——He is actually not as fat as he looks, nor does he have a beer belly.
In Takahashi Ryoichi's murder plan, once this is exposed, his carefully designed trap will most likely be seen through.
In order not to expose myself... I can only silence her!
Mao Lilan was originally frightened by the appearance of the bandaged man. Now that she saw the other party raising a weapon, she was even more frightened. She hugged Suzuki Sonoko tremblingly, her legs going weak.
Conan quickly stepped in front of them and raised his wrist.
Mao Lilan didn't know that his watch had an offensive effect. She only saw Conan getting within the attack range of the bandaged man. This move frightened her out of her wits, and her desire for protection surged.
Takahashi Ryoichi was about to hit him with a stick, but suddenly he saw Mao Lilan closing her eyes, yelling angrily, and raising her leg to kick him.
Girls with petite strength have no offensive power at all - this is what Takahashi Ryoichi originally thought.
But just when he wanted to grab Mao Lilan's ankle and throw her to the ground, something similar to a sixth sense made him give up the idea, and he suddenly turned sideways.
boom--
The girl's heel scraped against his black robe and dug heavily into the tree next to him. With a click, a deep hole was kicked out of the tree that no one could hold.
A gust of mountain wind blew by, and Takahashi Ryoichi watched with a blank face as the tree broke in the middle and slowly tilted to the side: "..."
After Mao Lilan kicked out this kick, he finally couldn't hold on anymore and sat down on the ground in fear, thinking desperately that it was over.
However, after waiting for a while, the bandaged man did not continue to attack.
Mao Lilan plucked up the courage to look up and saw the bandaged man throwing away the branch, turning around and running away, quickly escaping into the darkness ahead.
"...Eh?" Mao Lilan didn't know what happened. She looked at Lingzuki Garden, and Lingzuki Garden also looked at her. Both of them had the joy of surviving the disaster in their eyes.
At this time, Conan had already shouted "Stop!" and quickly chased after him.
"Conan! Wait!" Mao Lilan shouted, but of course he didn't stop.
Worried that the child was in danger, she stood up and ran after Conan.
Conan has great motor skills, but given his height, he couldn't outrun the frightened Ryoichi Takahashi. He could only watch as the other party fled towards the villa, and the distance between the two sides continued to widen.
Taking advantage of the occasional flash of lightning, Conan gritted his teeth and chased the prisoner's figure. However, when passing by a thick bush of weeds, he tripped over something unprepared and fell into the soil with dead leaves.
Conan got up in pain, adjusted his glasses, turned around and looked at the grass behind him.
Just as a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, the flash of lightning illuminated a figure in the grass. The figure was lying motionless on the ground, as quiet as if he was dead.
Mao Lilan, who was chasing after him, happened to see this scene.
She stayed for two seconds, and there was a buzz in her head... Yes, there is a dead person!
"--ah!!!"
Suzuki Sonoko ran over and shone her flashlight on the figure on the ground, causing a sudden scream in the woods.
Conan also looked solemn.
Although I don’t know why there are dead people in the woods, it looks like a premeditated murder - the dead body is actually wrapped in a layer of plastic wrap. I don’t know if it is to facilitate the transfer of the body, or to confuse the time of death.
So...the murderer is the bandaged man from before?
Did the Bandage Man attack them because they thought they had seen the murder scene and wanted to kill them and silence them?
A series of self-supporting hypotheses quickly popped into Conan's mind, and then he squatted down, turned on the flashlight on his watch, and examined it closer.
Conan was slightly startled when he saw the "dead man" illuminated by the beam. He was actually an acquaintance?
"...My discipline!!!"
Next to her, Suzuki Sonoko held her face in her hands and let out a heartbroken scream. Tears welled up in her eyes. Then she threw herself on Shiraishi like a heroine in a tragic movie, and cried for a while.
After a few seconds, she raised her head in confusion and pressed her hand twice on Bai Shi's chest: "Why does it seem like... there's a heartbeat?"
"!?"
Conan was shocked. He hurriedly knelt down, peeled off the plastic wrap, reached out and pressed Shiraishi's neck.
The blood vessels are beating very energetically...she is really alive!
And when I looked closer, I realized that what Shiraishi was wearing didn't seem to be plastic wrap - it had openings specifically for the face, as well as sleeves and hem. This was... a simple disposable raincoat?
Conan finally realized belatedly that his imagination seemed to be limited by inertial thinking and he had made wrong judgments.
He silently raised the flashlight and looked around again, and found that Bai Shi's body was also quite clean, with no blood at all and no external injuries.
"He is indeed still alive...it is possible that he fell here because of a sudden illness. Don't press him, as it may cause secondary damage."
Conan adjusted his glasses awkwardly and pulled Suzuki Sonoko up, "Anyway, let's move the people back first."
…
He took the person back to the villa and threw him on the sofa. A group of people gathered around and studied for a while, but still couldn't find any wounds and couldn't wake him up.
"I just fell asleep normally." Suzuki Ayako brought a towel, put it on Shiraishi's face and rubbed it twice, wiping off the rainwater without taking it seriously:
"Shiraishi often fell asleep during class. The professor would try to wake him up at first, but he couldn't wake him up. Later, the old gentleman checked the information and said it might be some kind of rare disease, so he stopped caring about him.
"
"Is there still such a disease?" Chikako Ikeda muttered secretly, "Your professor just thinks that students sleeping during class make him very embarrassed, so he found a way out for himself."
Conan listened silently, and he agreed more with Suzuki Ayako's statement.
If this is really the case, there will be an explanation for Shiraishi suddenly falling asleep in the middle of the living room that day at Okino Yoko's house.