Chapter 18: Nightmares
The sound of the dripping rain continued, and the bleak wind whirled around the villa, and Gao Cheng curled up in the quilt, his brows furrowed tightly.
The strange man with a bandage on his face as if he was a ghost appeared in the cold wind with a penetrating gaze, the rain turned blood-red, and Zhijiazi's blood-stained head was suspended in the air, staring straight at Gao Cheng with wide eyes in horror......
"Boom!" With a burst of lightning and thunder, Gao Cheng sat up from the bed suddenly, gasping for breath, his forehead covered with sweat.
How could you have such a horrible nightmare......
Wiping the sweat from the corners of his eyes, Gao Cheng looked out the window at the balcony.
The forest in the heavy rain is calm, but looking at him, Tomokako's head always comes to mind.
Jiao Gu on a bed next to him was sleeping soundly......
Shaking his head, he got up and closed the curtains, and went back to bed to lie down, but he couldn't sleep, although he knew that there was nothing to be afraid of, but he couldn't control the nightmares.
"It's terrible."
Gao Cheng sighed, summoned the wooden knife Dongye Lake from the system and hugged it into his arms, and his mind calmed down in an instant.
Speaking of which, this wooden knife seems to really have the ability to calm people, and it was the same last time when he faced the powerful Italian group, if it was before the crossing, he would not be so calm.
"That way you should be able to get a good night's sleep."
Gao Cheng put the quilt back on, relying on his confidence in his own strength, no matter what it is, there is no need to be afraid, if that bandage freak dares to come out, he will wait for him to clean it up.
In any case, the system does not stipulate whether the case is solved by reason or force.
"Huh?" Gao Cheng closed his eyes and prepared to fall asleep, but after a while, he suddenly opened his eyes again, and the sleepiness disappeared in an instant.
"What's wrong? This smell of danger ......"
"Ah——!h
In the sound of the rain, Conan's huge shout suddenly rang out, followed by a scream that pierced the night sky.
"What's going on?"
Gao Cheng jumped out of bed and rushed to the next room with his hand in his hand, only to see a back leaving through the window.
"Don't run!" Glancing over the frightened Maolilan and Conan, who seemed to be injured, Gao Cheng chased out of the window and balcony, but there was no half a figure outside the rainy night, and there was no trace left outside the villa.
Gao Cheng stood on the edge of the balcony and looked down suspiciously, and then looked at the other rooms connected to the balcony.
The balconies of the villa are all connected, and the weirdos just now may have jumped off the building or run into other rooms, and there is no way to suspect those classmates of Ayako Suzuki
"What's wrong?"
At this time, the people in the entire villa were awakened by the scream, and they all gathered in the Maolilan room, and none of them could see anything abnormal.
"What? Miss Xiaolan has been attacked again?! ”
"Is it a bandage freak again?"
"That's right," Gao Cheng crouched to the window, "and cut a hole in the glass." ”
Until now, he still doesn't understand, there shouldn't be such an indiscriminate murderer in Conan, right, how could Maolilan be attacked, and it was two times in a row?
I wanted to ask Conan, but found that Conan had twisted his foot, and was painfully and happily accepted Maolilan's bandage.
"It's the second floor, how did that guy climb up?" Katsu Ota and Kakuko walked over Takasei to the balcony outside.
"I guess I came up through a tree."
"Trees?" Hearing the conversation of several people, Gao Cheng looked carefully outside.
Isn't the bandage freak unrelated to the people in the villa?
"Hey, what is this? Wooden knives? Suzuki Sonoko noticed the wooden knife that Gao Cheng was carrying, and leaned in front of Gao Cheng suspiciously, "What are you doing?" You don't want to use this little kid's thing against that horrible bandage freak, do you? ”
Gao Cheng smelled the faint aroma and said, "Poor, almost." ”
"Hmph, really," Yuan Zi looked at the dark villa with a worried expression, and turned to Maori Lando, "Xiaolan, when you were attacked, why didn't you fight back with karate, it doesn't look like you at all!" ”
Mao Lilan's face flushed, and he said helplessly: "I can't ...... monsters or something."
"All in all," Jiaogu said in a deep voice, "that guy might come and attack again, it's too dangerous for us to disperse, let's just gather in the restaurant and wait until dawn together." ”
"That's all there is to it."
……
In the restaurant on the first floor, all the people sat at the dining table, only Gao Cheng took the opportunity to go to the toilet and secretly searched the room of Ota Sheng, and then left from the back door with an umbrella to investigate around the villa.
His reasoning ability is far inferior to Conan, and the detective can't use it casually in the critical minute, so he has little to gain by staying by Conan's side, so he can only find more clues by himself.
But I searched everywhere, but I found nothing, and there was nothing hidden in the bandages in the people's rooms, nor was there anything outside the villa.
It's weird, if the bandage freak is someone from the villa, he will definitely hide the bandage cloak somewhere.
Could it really be someone outside the villa?
Walking to the bottom of the balcony on the second floor of the villa, Gao Cheng's heart moved, and he tried to climb the balcony with the help of the tree next to him, although he was a little struggling, he still managed to jump onto the balcony.
"Huh?" Picking up the umbrella that was the first to be thrown up, Gao Cheng was suddenly stunned.
His muddy footprints were clearly left on the floor, but he remembered that there were none, and if the weirdo came up like him, there was no reason not to leave footprints? Is it really a monster?
With his hands in his pockets, Gao Cheng continued to look along the balcony, and found nothing but some new-looking notches on the railing on the second floor of the restaurant.
These are undoubtedly clues......
Gao Cheng had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was happy to improve his observation power a lot, but he didn't know what the use of these clues was.
Observation can be improved with effort, but reasoning ...... He frankly admitted that he and the original owner were both reasoning idiots, so it was better to wait for as many clues as possible to find them and directly start the one-minute detective mode.
Gao Cheng thought about returning to the restaurant downstairs.
At this time, Conan seemed to have found a key clue, and when he saw Gao Cheng, he approached and said, "Brother Gao Cheng, have you found anything?" ”
Gao Cheng was still thinking hard, and subconsciously shook his head: "I feel that bandaged man is really like a ghost." ”
The corners of Conan's mouth twitched, and he felt that he couldn't understand Gao Cheng more and more.
Obviously, every time he reasoned so well, he was compared to the confused detective of Maori Kogoro.
"This guy can't do it on purpose, right?"
Conan muttered silently, discovering that Gao Cheng had begun to carefully examine the camera that Kakugu used to record the shooting.
The footage of the bandage freak taking Chikako away from the window was indeed captured on camera, and he had already seen it just now, and he also found an important suspicion.
Seeing that Gao Cheng finished watching the shooting picture, Conan reminded like a child: "Brother Gao Cheng, Sister Ayako said that she found Sister Zhijiazi's necklace in the entrance before, it's so strange, if that weird person kidnapped Sister Zhijiazi, shouldn't the necklace fall in the forest?" ”
"Chikako's Necklace ......"
Gao Cheng took a deep look at Conan, who was pretending to be an ordinary child, this guy was giving him a hint again, although he was helping, but he didn't know why it was unpleasant.
Squatting down, under Conan's puzzled gaze, Gao Cheng rubbed Conan's hair with concern and said, "Haha, Conan is very powerful, is there anything strange?" ”
The corners of Conan's mouth froze, and he smiled dryly: "No, it's all Sister Ayako told me, in the evening, Sister Zhijiazi seems to have read the note in the crack in the door, and then went out through the back door......"
"Note?"
Gao Cheng was stunned, didn't care about Conan, and thought about standing up and looking at everyone in the restaurant.
In the current situation, it seems that the murderer is likely to be the person in this villa, but how did he do it? When the bandage freak passed by the window, everyone was in the villa......
"Boom ——!" Suddenly, a thunderbolt fell to interrupt Gao Cheng's thoughts, and before he could recover from the loud noise, the house suddenly fell into darkness.