"What's going on?"

Faced with the sudden lights out, and the subsequent sound of glass breaking, the people gathered around the table couldn't help but panic.

Then, there was a "boom" of thunder outside the house.

"Is there a power outage?"

The garden couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's possible that just the lightning broke the line!"

Ota Katsu said in a forced calm tone.

"But wasn't the window on the second floor broken just now?"

Hiroki Kakutani panicked.

"It must be him! That guy must have barged in! ”

His tone trembled, sounding very panicked, Ryoichi Takahashi shouted.

"Calm down!"

Gao Yuan shouted loudly in the dark, trying to calm everyone down:

"Stay where you are!"

As he spoke, Gao Yuan took out the mobile phone he was carrying, turned on the flashlight function, and Conan on the side also lit the flashlight on his watch-

For a moment, two beams of light lit up the surroundings, and while they weren't enough to illuminate the entire hall, they were at least enough to make it possible to see the surroundings roughly for the time being.

"Miss Suzuki, are there candles or anything like that in the villa?"

After looking around and making sure that everyone was still sitting at the table, Takato couldn't help but ask Ayako Suzuki.

"Yes! In the kitchen, I'm going to get it! ”

Ayako Suzuki said as she got up.

"Are you going to do it alone?"

Hiroki Kakutani said with a little worry.

"I'll go with you!"

Xiaolan volunteered at this time.

"I'll go too!"

Conan on the side showed off his flashing watch and couldn't help but say.

"Okay, Miss Xiaolan and Conan will go to the kitchen with Miss Suzuki to get candles, and the others will stay where they are with me, don't act without permission!"

Gao Yuan saw that Conan and Xiaolan were going to accompany Suzuki Ayako to get candles, so he couldn't help nodding in approval, and at the same time glanced at Xiaolan, and specially reminded:

"Miss Xiaolan, stay safe! Don't think too much about it at critical moments, believe in your instincts after practicing karate for so many years! ”

After speaking, Gao Yuan also glanced down at Conan, and Conan also nodded towards Gao Yuan, and after a tacit exchange, Suzuki Ayako walked to the kitchen with Xiaolan and Conan.

Watching them leave, Gao Yuan once again focused his attention on the people who were still at the table—

To be honest, for the "bandage monster" that appeared this time, rather than saying that the other party was hiding in the mountains near here for some reason, Gao Yuan was still more inclined to think that the other party was someone who came to the party together and pretended to be.

So in the face of the current power outage and even the broken glass of the windows upstairs, Gao Yuan still decided to put all the people present under his nose first, in case they would take advantage of the chaos to do something.

After all, there are many ways to make the villa lose power and break the window glass without being present.

Moreover, the broken window on the second floor is facing the top of the hall where everyone is now, and it is a place where you can look up and see directly, not the window of any room.

If it was really someone outside who broke through this window and broke in, then the figure of the person who broke in could be directly discovered by everyone present.

To sum up, Gao Yuan made a judgment and made a deployment just now-

Leave the suspects under their noses, then ask Ayako Suzuki to bring the candles, light the room thoroughly, and then check what caused the power outage and the shattered glass.

Under the light of the faint mobile phone flashlight, Seeing that everyone was frowning, Gao Yuan's nerves couldn't help but tense extremely tightly-

Speaking of which, Chikako Ikeda is still alone in the room, and if there is a "bandage weirdo" now, then her suspicion will not be able to get rid of it......

But, while in the woods, the "bandage freak" being able to wield the axe with one hand is clearly not something a woman can do.

What's more, now there is no way to go upstairs to find her immediately, so you can only wait for Xiaolan and them to get the candle back......

But fortunately, Xiaolan and the others quickly returned from the kitchen, holding a few candlesticks in their hands, and several candles were lit on the candlesticks, and the orange and warm candlelight soon completely illuminated the hall with the return of the three of them.

Looking at the candlelight that was now full of houses, everyone's originally slightly panicked hearts finally had a little comfort.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but take a candlestick from Xiaolan's hand, protect the burning flame with his hand, and prevent it from being extinguished, and then asked Suzuki Ayako:

"Miss Suzuki, where's the switch?"

"Right at the back door."

Ayako Suzuki replied, and then understood Takato's intentions, and said, "I'll take you there!" ”

In this regard, Gao Yuan nodded, so he instructed the people present:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please don't leave here until I return. Don't worry, it'll be fine. ”

In such an atmosphere, Gao Yuan comforted everyone so much, everyone looked at each other, and now that the hall was lit by candlelight, everyone couldn't help but nod silently in agreement.

So, Takato took a candlestick and followed Ayako Suzuki to the electric switch located at the back door-

"Tripped?"

When he came to the electric gate, he found that the electric gate was not opened, and after opening the electric gate, under the light of the candlelight, Gao Yuan did not see any traces of the mechanism here, so he couldn't help but say so.

Frowning slightly, Gao Yuan reached out and turned the tripping master switch back on, and then immediately, the lights of the villa came on again-

"Probably just a normal trip."

Regarding the current situation, Gao Yuan couldn't help but comfort Ayako Suzuki beside him-

If it is because of the line fault caused by the trip, then after the main switch is turned on again, the switch will still jump, but now that the switch can be successfully opened, it seems that the line is still normal, and the trip just now may just be an accident.

So, after hearing Takato's words, Ayako Suzuki couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the two began to return to the hall by the way-

But just as the two of them had just walked for a while, the lights that had been re-lit in the villa were extinguished again, and at the same time, an exclamation came from the hall—

"It's Xiaolan!"

Hearing the exclamation, Takato and Suzuki Ayako immediately judged the source of the exclamation, although I don't know why the electric switch jumped again, but Takato couldn't care so much, picked up the candlestick that was still burning, and ran towards the hall, Suzuki Ayako also followed very nervously-

"What's going on!"

Back in the hall, he saw Ota Katsu holding a lighter and relighting the candles on the candlestick, Gao Yuan couldn't help asking, and at the same time his eyes began to look around the people in the hall-

Xiaolan, Sonoko, Conan, Katsu Ota, Ryoichi Takahashi, Hiroki Kakutani, Atsuko Amamiya.

It's all there......

With a sigh, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel a little relieved, although he didn't know what happened just now, but as long as everyone was still here, at least ......

"Little mourning!"

In an instant, Gao Yuan noticed that Xiao Ai was not here, and immediately questioned the people present in a panic, and at the same time, inexplicable anger rose in his heart......