"There's a guy... Is it a corpse? ”

Standing in this cold cave, listening to these cold words, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Motota couldn't help but tremble.

"Yes, is it a zombie?!"

The imaginative Motota and Mitsuhiko managed to scare themselves by themselves.

Miss Ayumi was even more frightened and pale, chilling all over, and subconsciously wanted to hug Conan's arm next to her to keep warm.

But Conan-san is very agile.

He squatted down, and while inadvertently dodging Ayumi's pounce, he pointed to the footprints on the ground and said:

"Of course it won't be a zombie!"

"It's humans, but there may be corpses in those humans."

Conan said his speculation in a serious tone:

"Look at the footprints on the dirt floor:"

"First of all, you can tell from the different lines on the soles that these footprints were left by two adult men."

"One of them is in front and one is behind."

"The man in front walked backwards, his steps were shorter, his body was leaning back, and his heels were indented."

"The person in the back has a longer stride length, and the pressure is mainly exerted on the forefoot, and the forefoot is more heavily indented."

This footprint pattern indicates:"

"Those two men were carrying something heavy one after the other."

"The person in front of him holds on to one end of the heavy object and walks backwards, and the person in the back carries the other end of the heavy object forward, leaving such footprints."

"This...", the friends were all confused.

Fortunately, Mitsuhiko's mind is far better than that of his peers.

He can not only understand Conan's reasoning, but also question and give Conan, a famous detective, a "compliment":

"Wait, Conan."

"Didn't you say that there were only two people's footprints on this dirt floor?"

"How can you say that there are three or four people?"

"There are indeed only two people's footprints that can be directly observed on the ground." Conan methodically gives the answer: "But..."

"But we haven't gone deeper into the cave now, but we've walked a little deeper into it, to a position where there is no light."

"The ground is rugged at this location, with protruding rocks everywhere."

"If you don't walk with light on the ground under your feet, you can only grope your way forward cautiously, and you don't dare to take such a big step."

"Although the footprints of these two people are restrained by carrying heavy loads, their steps are still relatively steady, and there are no signs of pause or hesitation due to the lack of light and rough road conditions."

"So, although no traces of the corresponding have been found."

"But I still have reason to believe that in addition to the two people who were carrying the heavy load, there was a third person following alongside."

"The third person is the one responsible for lighting the road with a flashlight."

"It's just that he didn't step on the mud, but kept walking on the bare rock formations, so he didn't leave any visible footprints."

Conan confidently stated his conclusions.

He used his reasoning to deduce that there were 3 people in the cave at that time, 2 were carrying heavy objects, and 1 was lighting with a flashlight.

"What about the 4th person?"

"Where did the fourth person come from?"

Mitsuhiko asked with a puzzled expression.

"The fourth person is—" Conan's tone seemed to become a little more gloomy: "It's the heavy objects they carry!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the mud footprints on the ground that had not yet dried up and shaped:

"See?"

"The man who was carrying things in front weighed heavier."

"He stepped into the mud and let the mud rise high from the edge of his footprints."

"And the strange thing is that the edges of these upturned mud are all deformed and tilted in the same direction forward"

"It's like being swept forward by a broom."

Conan paused slightly, emphasizing:

"How can there be a broom between two people who are moving things one after the other, and gently caress the ground while they move forward?"

"Obviously, this so-called broom is..."

"Falling clothes."

"They were moving a corpse."

"It was the hem of the corpse's shirt that fell down and brushed the ground as they went, so that it could be traced."

Speaking of this, Conan's expression still became very solemn:

"In this kind of deserted cave, there is still a sign at the door that it is dangerous not to enter, and ordinary people will not enter at all."

"No one will use this wet cave as a warehouse, carrying some heavy objects into it for storage."

"So, just think about it..."

"Criminals bringing in corpses and discarding them is the most reasonable answer."

"Hmm..."Everyone realized the seriousness of the matter.

And the clever Mitsuhiko frowned, and he actually found something wrong from Conan's reasoning:

"Wait... Conan. ”

"According to your reasoning, it seems that you can only infer that those two men were moving one person at the time."

"That person doesn't have to be a corpse, right?"

"He may still be alive, but he has lost the ability to resist... Perhaps, the victim can still be saved? ”

"Uh—" Conan's face froze.

He was stopped by a schoolboy.

If you think about it, it's possible that it was still a living person, not a corpse.

Merely...

Because he has never experienced a few cases of no dead people since he was a child, he subconsciously feels that this may be another life.

"Ahem... Mitsuhiko was right. ”

Conan's face flushed and he admitted his mistake in front of his elementary school classmates:

"That victim is indeed still alive."

"Shall we go and save him?"

Mitsuhiko, Ayumi, and Motota all had little stars in their eyes.

These children always have a heroic dream in their hearts, so that they are never aware of the risks.

"Uh...."Conan's little face sank:

If it had been before, he would definitely rush up and go to the most dangerous front line to investigate the situation.

But now, with Lin Xinyi's ideological education and Caesar's strong guardianship in the back, he will definitely not do this kind of death again.

And whether it was before or now, Conan would never agree to let these real schoolchildren run away and take risks.

"Let's get out first!"

"Tell Lin Xinyi about the matter and let him make the decision."

Conan said this, turning to leave.

At this time, Caesar, who had been silent for a while, began to bark wildly again.

This barking was much more intense than the previous one.

Caesar even wagged his tail violently, his hair exploded, and his white fangs flashed out, and he made the most nervous attack posture against the darkness deep in the cave.

"Let's go!!"

Conan read the message from Caesar:

Danger is coming!

The enemy may have heard them and come to their trouble!

Thinking of this, Conan hurriedly took a few companions of the Junior Detective Group, pulled Dr. Asasa, who couldn't run fast, and hurriedly ran out of the cave.

The group quickly ran out of the cave.

At this moment, there was a clearly recognizable sound of footsteps behind him.

"Someone chased it out!"

Conan still hasn't stopped:

"Quick, let's keep running to camp."

"Don't stop for a moment!!"

With that, they quickly ran in the direction of the camp and disappeared into the jungle.

At this time, the footsteps behind him became clearer and more messy, and it seemed very urgent.

"Damn it!"

"Someone saw us!"

There were cursing voices from several strange men in the cave.

And when the three of them ran out of the hole, all they could see was the fleeting backs of a few children in the shade of the trees.

"Abominable"

The long-haired man at the head was so angry that his expression was distorted.

They were actually a group of masked bank robbers, originally there were 4 of them.

But one of these four people unexpectedly showed his true face in front of the bank surveillance during the recent robbery.

In order to prevent this accomplice from being found by the police and then betraying everyone.

The three of them didn't do anything, they simply killed the accomplice whose identity had been exposed, and then moved the body here, ready to throw it into the cave to hide.

No one will enter this cave for many years.

If the corpse is hidden, then it is really impossible to see the dead and the corpse, and no one can find it.

However, I didn't expect...

They had just hidden the body in the depths of the cave and were about to come out of it when they heard a faint commotion coming from the entrance of the cave.

The three of them hurriedly chased out of the hole, only to find that the people who were in the way of accidentally visiting this place were actually a group of elementary school students.

In the face of these children, the long-haired man led by him did not have a trace of softness.

Seeing that these little ghosts were about to disappear, he immediately turned his head to look at the two little brothers beside him, a short-haired fat man and a watermelon-headed thin man:

"What are you doing? You've got your guns out, shoot! ”

"Huh?" The short-haired fat man was startled by the order.

But it was the thin man with a fierce face who made a decisive move.

He hurriedly stared at the small backs of those who had not entered the forest, and raised his hand to shoot it.

There was a bang.

Frightened countless birds.

But this shot failed to hit any of the targets as their boss had hoped.

Conan and the others had safely fled into the woods and disappeared for the time being.

"Boss, boss?!"

The chubby little brother next to him was already frightened by the long-haired man's decisive order.

And the thin man who hurriedly shot under the order was also a little puzzled:

"Big brother... Is it necessary for us to shoot those imps? ”

"How?"

The long-haired man spat angrily:

"Are you soft-hearted and don't dare to do anything to the imp?"

"No, no, no..."The short-haired fat man and the watermelon-headed thin man both shook their heads: "We mean..."

"Those little ghosts just went into the cave, and they didn't go inside, so they don't necessarily know what we're doing in there."

"In that case, let's just make up a random excuse to fool these imps and keep them out of the cave."

"Why shoot at them and make such a big deal out of it?"

The two younger brothers were a little unable to understand the boss's order.

"Idiot!"

"That's right, those little ghosts really didn't face us, they didn't see our faces..."

The long-haired man replied with a hideous face:

"But before we even showed up, before we spoke, they ran away like rabbits!"

"You think they don't know what we're doing in there?"

"If they don't know, why are they running so fast?"

"This..."The short-haired fat man and the watermelon-headed thin man looked at each other, and seemed to realize the seriousness of the problem:

"Boss, what are we going to do?"

The long-haired man didn't answer directly, but pulled out his gun with a gloomy face:

"This thing... Trouble. ”