Mori Kogoro pulled up Conan, who was sitting on the ground, and looked around, and found that there were many people in the two groups who searched the villa, all gathered here.

Takuya Mifune's face was bruised, because he didn't see the road clearly just now and hit the door frame.

The grumpy old brother pressed the bruise unhappily, glared at Maori Kogoro and the others, and asked the teacher, "Who turned off the light?!" ”

"Apparently we didn't close it." , Bai Shu felt that this question was not nutritious, glanced at him, and helped him finish the second half of the sentence, "Look at your reaction, it's not your fault, right?" ”

Rokuta Shoji nodded, and his eyes fell on the smashed window next to the electric switch:

"It seems that there is someone else hiding in this villa besides us, and just now while we were searching the room, he ran here to cut off the power, broke the windows, and fled into the forest."

For a moment, no one asked why the man didn't open the window and slipped away, instead of breaking the window with great fanfare.

All they remember was that the window was shattered, just a few seconds before the lights came on - the person who broke the glass must not have run far!

Takuya Mifune rolled up his sleeves, scolded the bastard who caused his temporary disfigurement, jumped out of the window and chased after him into the woods.

The others pulled him, but they didn't hold him, so they had to look at his back, torn between following and not following.

It was at this moment that Ichichi Ryu rushed out, and he shouted anxiously, "It's too dangerous to be alone, wait for me!" ”

Someone took the lead, and the others immediately chased into the forest.

Bai Shu ran quite far forward at first, and then gradually released the water, and when the people behind him overtook him one by one, he stopped.

Just as he was about to walk back, he saw a figure that had just reached his waist passing by, and when he ran to him, the man stopped slightly.

Granny Mi patted his hand and said kindly, "Good boy, go back to the villa quickly, this forest is easy to get lost, I'll show them the way." ”

“…… Okay, come on. With a little subtle admiration, Bai Shu watched her slowly run away, and he turned his head back to the villa.

When he returned the same way, Bai Shu's eyes drooped slightly, and he found that the window edges were a little dirtier than when he left, and it looked like muddy water had rubbed against them, and they had been hastily erased.

It seems that the murderer has returned to the villa.

Shiraki looked away, lifted his legs over the not wide windowsill, and landed in the hallway.

He looked left and right, and instead of going to the living room where Xiaolan was resting, he turned around and went to the kitchen.

Seven or eight meters away, I heard the sound of water flowing into the tank.

Bai Shu didn't rush in, he cleared his throat as he walked, raised his voice and asked, "Granny Mi, can you help make some hot tea?" ”

There was a flustered thud at the door, and a few seconds later, another sound: the man inside had left through the back door of the kitchen.

Bai Shu pushed the door in, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the wide sink was filled with water, and Xiaolan was lying in front of the sink, her face buried in the water, her hands and feet fluttering weakly, trying to stand up.

Shiraki stepped forward quickly, picked her up from the sink, and laid her flat on the ground.

Xiaolan coughed twice, not too violently, it seemed that she was still conscious when she was pressed into the water just now, and she held her breath for a while.

Her eyes were hazy, and she couldn't see who the person next to her was, only vaguely knowing that it was not the murderer who forced her into the water just now.

So she used all her strength, barely grabbed Bai Shu's sleeve, and whispered like a dream, "Fierce...... Murderer ......"

Bai Shu didn't answer, pulled her face to observe for a while, and found that she was just sleepy because of anesthetics and didn't choke on water, so he patted her face with relief, "Sleep, he can't run." ”

Xiaolan muttered something in a daze, and before she finished speaking, her hand fell to the ground and she closed her eyes.

Bai Shu got up and turned off the faucet that was still bubbling with water, and almost at the same time, a roar sounded in the corridor, from far and near, "Xiaolan! Where are you? Answer me, Lan!! ”

As he shouted, Conan's diminutive figure flickered past the doorway.

"......", Bai Shu didn't call him, he leaned over and picked Xiaolan up from the cold ground.

As soon as he stood up straight, he saw Conan, who had just rushed over, swooping back again, braking sharply at the door, grabbing the door frame, and panting and looking into the room.

He looked at Lan's soaked blouse slightly in confusion, and then his gaze slid over the water-filled sink.

Combined with the Nikaido who died tragically in the fountain at the door, Conan quickly made up what had just happened, "Why are you ......"

"I chased Mifune Takuya halfway through, accidentally broke my foot, so I came back early, and as soon as I entered the window, I heard the kitchen fill with water, and then I heard someone slip out of the back door, and when I opened the door again, I saw Xiaolan lying next to the pool, and finally you came over - is there any problem?"

"......", Conan didn't say anything for a few seconds after being blocked, and after a while, he finally found the point, "...... Xiaolan is fine. ”

"You should call Sister Xiaolan." , Bai Shuping took two steps forward with Xiaolan in his arms, and suddenly reacted that his posture was wrong, and quickly raised one foot slightly in Conan's suspicious eyes, and limped towards the reception room.

He jumped and jumped, and Xiaolan in his arms couldn't help but bump up and down, Conan looked at this scene with a toothache, and he felt sorry for Xiaolan.

After walking a few steps like this, he suddenly became alert, "Wait a minute, why are you walking so unsteadily, Xiaolan hasn't woken up yet, what's wrong with her?!" ”

"I fell asleep, maybe there was something in the coffee before. She was already like this before we searched the room, have you forgotten? ”

Bai Shu coped with the nervous children all the way, and finally managed to jump into the living room.

He put Ran back on the couch, then went to the bedroom not far away on crutches and pulled out a clean T-shirt and threw it to Conan.

"What for?" , Conan hugged the T-shirt, puzzled.

"Change it for Xiaolan, the clothes are too wet and easy to catch a cold."

“……”

Looking at Conan's instantly flushed face, Bai Shu leaned back comfortably on the sofa and unceremoniously continued to instruct the child laborers, "After changing, go to the kettle of water and make some black tea - my foot is broken, and it is inconvenient to move around." ”

……

After Maori Kogoro and the others returned to the villa one after another under the leadership of Granny Mi, all they saw was a tray of steaming black tea and Xiaolan resting on the sofa wrapped in a blanket.

Before a few big men with rough nerves found out that something was wrong, Conan had already begun to report, "Uncle Maori, Sister Xiaolan was attacked just now!" ”

"What?!" , Maori Kogoro immediately looked at his daughter nervously, fortunately, except that his hair was a little wet and his clothes seemed to have changed, there was nothing else wrong.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and looked away from the little broken boy and looked at the assistant next to him who seemed to be more reliable, "What's going on?" ”

Bai Shu put down the empty teacup, and while refilling the cup for himself, he played back the details like a situation explainer:

"Chronologically—presumably the killer drugged her in the coffee to put her to sleep, then somehow turned off the power to the villa, broke the windows, and led us into the forest, and finally he took the opportunity to return to the villa and take her to the kitchen in an attempt to drown her."

"The coffee was made by Granny Mi and Xiaolan, but when Xiaolan was attacked, Granny Mi was next to me, so she was not the murderer who attacked Xiaolan."

Mori Kogoro tugged at his mustache and tried to analyze it, and then came to the conclusion, "Except for Granny Mi, several others are suspicious!" ”

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