Xiaolan's legs were still shaking.

Although she was just lining up on the stage in her wedding dress, the dazzling spotlights on the stage and the flashes from the many media cameras in the audience still left an afterimage in her eyes, still flickering.

"It's great that Shinichi is here."

returned to the garden under the stage with Xiaolan, held Xiaolan's hand tightly, and smiled happily.

"Yes."

Xiaolan couldn't help but nodded.

"However, Miss Hua Lian has been unscathed so far. It must have been a prank. ”

Yuan Zi said with a sigh of relief.

"yes."

Xiaolan also agrees with the idea of the garden.

"In that case, try to let Shinichi appreciate Xiaolan's beauty. In this case, you will definitely be able to cure his bad problem of running around, and he will stay with you for the rest of the year! ”

Yuan Zi said with a grin.

"Will it?"

Xiaolan said with some unconfidence.

"Yes! Have faith! Xiaolan, you're really beautiful. ”

Yuanzi put her face in front of Xiaolan, and her expression was serious to help her muster up her courage.

Seeing that the garden was so gentle, Xiaolan couldn't help but smile happily and nodded, and even her feet, which had been trembling, stopped unconsciously.

……

At the same time, Shinichi was walking down the road from the back of the hotel to the lounge.

When I was about to see the door of the lounge, I saw the on-site director reprimanding the art supervisor in front of the door:

"Bastard! There are only two minutes left! This is a live broadcast, you give me some serious work! ”

"Yes!"

The art supervisor who was reprimanded could only bow his head and respond.

And beside him, many staff in charge of props are constantly moving a lot of stage equipment to the backstage, and they are busy as if they are on the battlefield. For this reason, the entrance door has been kept wide open.

Shinichi picked up a large cardboard box placed next to the hallway with both hands, covered his upper body with the cardboard box, and just like that, he blended in with the staff and walked in.

After being separated from the rest of the staff backstage, Shinichi walked deeper into the hallway.

As I went deeper, looking at the various rooms in the hallway, there was a note on the door that said "Judge's Room".

When Shinichi was about to put the cardboard box he was holding on the ground, he heard a sharp knock on the door in the deepest part of the corridor.

In this regard, Shinichi, who was a little concerned, couldn't help but walk over there, and saw Hua Lian's sister, Meimei, constantly knocking on the door.

"What's wrong?"

There was an angry shout in the room, and then Daigo Miura, the organizer of the tournament, opened the door and poked his head out.

"Hua Lian is in there, right?"

Meimei stared straight at Miura and asked with some eagerness.

"What a joke. Now that the review of the wedding dress has just ended, I still have to rate it, don't bother me at this time! ”

Miura said unhappily and was about to close the door, but Meimei said unrelentingly:

"Don't play stupid, someone saw my sister inside!"

Meimei said, pointing to Kagami Kawada and Sumika Abe standing in the corner, the two of them were the two people who had been scolded by Hua Lian just now.

"You see?"

Miura stared at Kagami and Sumika in surprise and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, you can see it clearly. Mr. Miura too, and so does Hua Lian. is ashamed to say that he wants to use his strength to get the throne of the queen, but secretly tries to use his beauty to win, it's too hateful! ”

The two seemed to be very unwilling, and tearfully accused.

"Well, this is a misunderstanding. Hua Lian did come here just now, but she just said 'please take care of me', and then left. It's true, trust me. ”

Miura said in a panicked defense.

"Liar! You lie! ”

Meimei didn't believe the other party's defense at all and shouted loudly.

"I didn't lie to you. Didn't I, like you and your mother, ask Mr. Maori to be her bodyguard because I was worried about Hua Lian's safety? ”

Miura said eagerly.

"Those are two different things. Don't think I don't know, you have always had ill intentions towards Hua Lian! ”

"This ......"

In the face of Meimei's point-to-point accusation, Sanpu was speechless for a while.

"Did something happen?"

Faced with the situation in front of him, Shinichi decisively stepped forward and asked.

"Who are you?"

Seeing Shinichi who suddenly appeared, Miura felt a little inexplicable.

And Meimei also looked at him suspiciously after seeing Shinichi.

"It's a detective."

At this moment, before Shinichi could answer, such a voice came from behind him.

Shinichi looked back and saw Xiaolan, who was still wearing a wedding dress, standing there.

"Such a young detective?"

Miura mocked without thinking.

"I'm Kogoro Mori's assistant."

Shinichi said and winked at Xiaolan, who immediately understood and answered:

"Well, well...... Yes, he was my dad's assistant. ”

"What? That Maori Kogoro's ......"

Listening to Xiaolan's words, Miura instantly changed his expression and became serious all of a sudden.

"That's right. So, what do you want to ask me? ”

Miura was a little helpless, so he could only say that.

"Is Miss Hua Lian missing?"

Shinichi asked again.

"Seems like so."

Miura turned his face sideways and replied coldly.

"It's almost time for my sister's self-introduction and talent show, but I can't find anyone from her."

Meimei said, so anxious that she was about to cry.

"Shinichi, I'm sorry. Miss Hua Lian said that she wanted to take a shower before changing into a dress, and asked me to avoid it. But after that, I never saw her again......"

Xiaolan said with some guilt.

"It must have been this person who brought Hua Lian to his room. He once told Hua Lian that if you want to win, you have to listen to him. But my sister was very reluctant. ”

Mimi glared at Miura Michi with hateful eyes.

"I've said it all, I don't know anything. If you really doubt me, you can only let this Mr. Detective clear my name! ”

After Miura finished speaking angrily, he immediately pushed open the door of his room with a "bang".

Shinichi looked inside, and it was empty, with only simple tables and lockers neatly arranged in the room, and there was no place for an adult woman to hide.

But for the sake of prudence, Shinichi still entered the room and carefully searched under the table and in the locker, but did not see Hua Lian at all.

"Not here, indeed."

Shinichi shook her head and said.

"Yes, yes...... Where the hell is it? ”

Meimei said, her expression becoming more anxious.

"I told you there wasn't one."

Miura said again very dissatisfied.

"Have you been to your sister's break room?"

Shinichi couldn't help asking

"Well, my mom is looking over there."

As she was talking, Meimei's mobile phone rang, and she hurriedly took it out of the pocket of her skirt-

"Hey! It's Mom! What! There were no signs of being turned over in the room, and the wedding dress that had been taken off was placed on the bed. And what about dresses? What kind of dress do you wear for self-introduction and talent shows? Is it? It's gone. The belt tied to the dress is also missing? That's ......."

"Tied to a belt inside?"

Shinichi suddenly interjected.

Meimei pressed the microphone of her phone, turned her head to Shinichi and said:

"When Hualian performs the talent, it will slowly rise from the elevator room of the stage like an angel, and the belt is used to connect Weiya who wants to hang his body into the air."

"That's right."

New nodded, and then Meimei began to talk to her mother on the phone again:

"Mom, there's not much time left for Hua Lian to appear, let's go find it somewhere else!"

After saying this, Meimei hung up the phone.

"Anyway, I'll keep looking for it until the official performance."

Meimei was about to leave here, and then she suddenly remembered something, and asked Xiaolan:

"That's right, Miss Lan, Mr. Detective. Can you also help me find Hua Lian...... And the detective from before, please contact him and ask him to help find Hua Lian! Please! ”

As she spoke, Meimei bowed deeply to Xiaolan and Shinichi.

"Okay, okay!"

Xiaolan nodded seriously, and then Meimei hurriedly ran away.

"Hmph, I didn't even say an apology."

Miura looked impatiently at the back of Meimei's departure, and couldn't help complaining:

"It's really pitiful, even if Hua Lian is like a marionette, she will definitely want to escape if she is interfered with by her mother and sister like this."

"Marionette?"

Hearing this word, Shinichi couldn't help but react and asked Miura.

"Hmm. Hua Lian's mother initially asked Meimei, who was her sister, to participate in various beauty contests, but she failed to achieve good results. But her sister Hua Lian has continued to achieve good results as soon as she debuted, and she has been doing so until now. ”

Miura replied.

"That's right......"

Shinichi nodded, thoughtful.

"yes. However, Hua Lian will definitely appear before the official competition. She's not a fool who will give up the 'Miss Zephyr' crown easily. Her goal is to compete in a more advanced world competition, so don't worry. ”

After saying that, Miura walked into his room with a smile and slammed the door very roughly.

"What to do, Shinichi?"

Xiaolan called Xinyi uneasily, and then took out her mobile phone:

"Anyway, let's inform Mr. Wise first......"

As she spoke, Xiaolan dialed the wise and far-reaching number, but there was a prompt sound that the other party's mobile phone had been turned off-

"Shinichi, what should I do? Mr. Wise can't be contacted! ”

Faced with such a situation, Xiaolan asked more anxiously.

"There's no time left, anyway, let's find out Miss Hua Lian first."

Shinichi thought for a moment and couldn't help but say:

"As for Mr. Wise...... He might be planning something...... Just like the school trip, don't worry about him. Xiaolan, I'll leave it to you in the venue. For some reason, it is inconvenient for me to appear in front of many people. ”

"yes, I see."

Xiaolan nodded, then turned around and ran towards the venue.

And Shinichi chased in the direction where Mimi left......

……

At the same time, in the safe passage on the twentieth floor, a thin child, wearing a white children's evening dress worn by a girl, was sneakily poking his head out from behind the door of the safe passage, observing the movement in the corridor on the twentieth floor of the hotel-

That's right, this child is Gao Yuan after his body has become smaller.

At this moment, he is wearing the clothes that Shiho took off, with a long wig on his head, and a very light makeup on his face-

In terms of appearance, no matter how you look at it, Xiao Gaoyuan at this moment is the appearance of a little girl.

In this way, wearing Xiao Wai's clothes, even if it is seen, absolutely no one will feel strange.

At this moment, after Xiao Gaoyuan made sure that no one was in the corridor on the twentieth floor, he cautiously walked towards the special suite of Shou Hualian and them......

(End of chapter)