"If the 'bandage freak' sneaks in from the outside and takes Miss Chikako away, then there should be water and mud stains in this room!"

Conan said with a serious expression:

"Come to think of it, it was raining outside, and it was a muddy field of woods outside, and if he really came in from outside, he would have at least left some traces here, but ......"

As he was talking, Conan looked at Gao Yuan's flat expression, couldn't help but pause, and then showed a clear smile:

"I see, Mr. Wise has already seen it!"

"Yes."

Gao Yuan just said lightly, "Regarding what you said, I found out when I first came in."

"In other words, the 'bandage freak' may have been hiding in this villa from the beginning......"

Conan couldn't help but say solemnly.

However, Gao Yuan's next words poured cold water on Conan:

"But if you think about it, when we came back from outside in our slippers, we had already changed our slippers that were stained with mud in the entrance so as not to dirty the floor of the villa. In that case, the 'bandage freak' who came in from the outside may have changed his shoes before sneaking in! ”

Gao Yuan said:

"So what you just said doesn't prove that the 'bandage freak' must not be someone from the outside."

In this regard, Conan couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't rule out this possibility at all, and only felt that there were more problems encountered, so he continued to ask:

But what was his purpose in doing so? If the 'bandage freak' who came in from the outside would deliberately take off his shoes to cover up the signs of his coming in from the outside, why would he do it! ”

Unrelenting, Conan asked Takato more deeply.

And Gao Yuan faced Conan's question, but his face was full of helplessness-

"I'm just suggesting a possibility. If I have to say, there are still a lot of things I haven't figured out about this incident. ”

- I have always thought that the person pretending to be the "bandage weirdo" should be someone in this party, but because of Xiao Ai's disappearance, I almost denied this conjecture.

Although I don't want to admit it, when I was looking for Xiao Ai's location through the "stars", no one else disappeared in the hall, but Xiao Ai's location kept moving.

If it was just Xiao Ai who disappeared in the hall, and then searched for it, and finally found Xiao Ai in the warehouse, then he still had reason to suspect that someone in the hall at the time used some means to realize the illusion that an outsider had taken Xiao Ai away from the hall-

For example, first use drugs to make Xiao Ai fall asleep, and then when the lights go out, someone in the hall hides Xiao Ai in a corner of the villa, and when everyone starts to look for Xiao Ai separately, that person takes Xiao Ai to the warehouse, pretending that there is an outsider taking Xiao Ai away.

However, for Xiao Ai's disappearance, he used the "stars" to observe Xiao Ai's location in real time, so that this kind of means was completely untenable, and someone must have taken Xiao Ai all the way from the villa to the warehouse.

As for whether someone will use the special effects of "stars" and "lovers" to deliberately create this kind of illusion for Gao Yuan, it is completely fantastical.

Not to mention that the "lover" has the effect of positioning, only Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai know, and the "lover" worn on Xiao Ai's hand can only be taken off by Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai, and it is impossible for others to take it away from Xiao Ai's hand.

Therefore, because of this, Gao Yuan's long-standing belief that the prisoner might be someone in the hall at that time is not valid at all!

In other words, it is possible that the "bandage man" is a man who hides in the woods, looking for an opportunity to kill Chikako Ikeda.

Thinking like this, Gao Yuan got up and was about to leave here first, but when he saw Xiao Ai at this moment, he lay down and got under the bed, leaving only a pair of snow-white calves wearing white socks, which were still exposed on the edge of the bed-

"Little mourning?"

Seeing this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but wonder, and then also leaned down and looked under the bed.

And just at this time, Xiao Ai had already taken the thing under the bed, reached out and grabbed it, and then dragged it out from under the bed.

Looking closely, Gao Yuan and Conan found that what was placed under the bed was actually a shoulder bag with a large capacity, but at the moment it was empty.

"Why is there an empty shoulder bag under the bed?"

Gao Yuan took the shoulder bag from Xiao Ai's hand, thoroughly checked the inside and out of the bag, and after being sure that there was nothing in it, he couldn't help but say suspiciously, and then looked at the garden that was still outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and asked:

"Miss Yuanzi, is this your thing?"

"Probably not......

Seeing this, the very tired Yuan Zi couldn't help but walk in through the floor-to-ceiling window, took the shoulder bag and looked at it, "We shouldn't have this kind of bag at home, and there is no reason to put it under the bed." ”

"Could it be that this is also Miss Chikako's?"

Conan suggested a possibility.

"Maybe."

Yuan Zi couldn't help but say.

"But why put it under the bed?"

Gao Yuan wondered.

"Alright, Mr. Wise, I really can't hold on......"

At this time, even the yawning garden could not help but speak, walked to the door of the room, reached out and turned the doorknob, and then heard the sound of the lock opening:

"I'm really going to sleep."

So saying, the garden pushed the door open and went out from here, and then went straight back to his room, ready to rest.

Seeing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but walk in, took Conan's hand, and said softly:

"Alright, Conan, let's go back to sleep too! It's late now! ”

Conan hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement, and followed Xiaolan back to the room next door where the two of them lived.

"Gray Plains, you can go back to sleep too."

Seeing that everyone had gone back to the house to sleep, Gao Yuan couldn't help but say to Xiao Wai beside him.

"What about you?"

There was no one around, and Xiao Ai asked Gao Yuan in an adult's tone.

"I can't sleep for a while, and I want to do some more research."

There is nothing to hide, Gao Yuan said frankly.

"Honestly, do you think the prisoner isn't actually dead at all?"

Hearing this, Xiao Ai couldn't help but ask seriously.

"Actually, I can't say anything about that."

Gao Yuan shook his head, his thoughts like a mess:

"When I first ran after the Bandage Freek, I was pretty sure that the Bandage Freak at the time must have been a living, athletic man who was very familiar with the terrain of the woods. And, until I crossed the bushes in front of the cliff, the 'bandage freak' never left my sight. But ......"

Saying that, Gao Yuan paused:

"Almost for a moment...... The figure disappeared before my eyes for a moment only as it crossed the bushes, and by the time I had crossed the bushes, I had already seen the figure fall into the air of the cliff...... Such a short period of time, in that case, if it was really a means used to deceive me, it would be ......"

"It's like a movie stunt."

Indifferent, Xiao Ai added with appropriate words.