At this time, seeing Amano appear inside, Meimei was obviously a little surprised.

"Sorry, it's rude!"

Meimei said, and without waiting for Amano to come, she ran straight to the wooden box, stuck her head in, and carefully examined the contents of the wooden box.

"What's wrong? What did you find? ”

Amano sighed helplessly and couldn't help asking.

And Mimi didn't seem to notice anything, and then Amano also came over, poked his head into the box, and took a puppet out, and looked up-

"How's that, it's cute, isn't it?"

Shinichi saw that the puppet in Amano's hand was the long-haired puppet with very beautiful eyes that he saw during rehearsal.

Then, I saw Amano holding the puppet's control board and waving it lightly a few times, and the puppet bowed gracefully to Meimei.

But Meimei turned her back.

"Aren't you interested...... Never mind. It's my turn to perform, and I'm out of company. ”

Amano boarded the platform of the lift, and the lift plate began to rise slowly.

At the same time that Amano ascended from the lifting platform to the stage, the applause that rang out from the other side of the venue also reached a climax.

"It's so popular!"

Shinichi couldn't help but say.

"Seems like so."

Meimei replied with an indifferent look.

"After Mr. Amano's performance, it was the self-introduction and talent show of No. 1 and No. 2. After the end, it was the turn of Miss Hua Lian on the 3rd to take the stage. She must have climbed the lift platform from here, and then was hoisted up by Wia and flew into the air, right? ”

Shinichi asked Meimei as he looked up at the ceiling.

"Yes. This kind of performance was conceived by my mother. She said she had seen similar performances when she was in Las Vegas. Although I also felt that it was dangerous to try to stop it, Hua Lian also felt that if she wanted to open up a gap with other players, she could only do so and did not listen to my advice at all. ”

Meimei said with some dissatisfaction on her face.

"Your mother came up with the idea."

Shinichi's tone was full of curiosity and couldn't help but say.

"Hmm."

Mimi nodded and checked Amano's wooden box again.

And Shinichi was also looking inside from the side.

"Speaking of which, it's just an ordinary puppet, but it's pretty awesome to be able to flip down the stairs on its own, right? Ah, that one over there is a puppet stepping on a ball. ”

Looking at the puppets in the wooden box, Shinichi still remembered the rehearsal just now, and couldn't help but explain a little excitedly.

"Hmmm......"

And Meimei may have lost interest immediately after confirming that Hua Lian was not inside, and began to look around again.

"Don't you think that puppet that Mr. Amano is holding looks a little similar to Miss Hua Lian?"

At this time, Shinichi suddenly said this.

"Like?"

Meimei didn't show any interest in this, and at this time, the art supervisor ran over in a panic:

"Miss Meimei, haven't you found Miss Hua Lian yet?"

"I'm so sorry I didn't find her anywhere."

Meimei also said in a panic.

"This ...... What should I do? There are less than fifteen minutes left before Miss Hua Lian plays! If this continues, the director will definitely kill me! ”

The art director looked at his watch with a sad face, anxious and at a loss.

"I'll definitely find her, please wait a little longer."

Meimei bowed with a sad face and apologized.

"Then please. Miss Hua Lian is the strongest contender for the win, and I hope she can play no matter what, so as to make the atmosphere more high, otherwise we will be very difficult. ”

The art supervisor left this sentence and ran back from the direction he had just come.

"That, Mr. Maori Detective's assistant? Can I trouble you and go to Hua Lian's room again to check it out? Maybe she's back in the break room. This is the key card. ”

Meimei said, handed the room card to Shinichi, and then said:

"I'm going to check the other contestants' rooms one by one."

"I see."

Xin nodded, took the room card and ran to the elevator......

……

"I can't find that pastry chef everywhere......"

In the corridor of the hotel, Dr. Asasa also felt very embarrassed and said to Shiho beside him.

"yes. Maybe people have already finished their work for the day, so they may have left work a long time ago. ”

Shiho's expression was indifferent, and he said a possibility, and then couldn't help but say:

"Doctor, if you look for us without a clue, I'm afraid there will be no result, or ......"

"Xiao Ai, why don't we go to the kitchen again? Maybe the pastry chef is back in the kitchen now! ”

The tone was somewhat pleading, and Dr. Asa could only say this in the end.

In this regard, Zhibao couldn't help but sigh helplessly, and said expressionlessly:

"I'm afraid it's futile to keep looking. Also, according to the lady, the cake made with that recipe will be sold at Yamate's confectionery shop in the near future under the name of Hua Lian, so let's just go and buy some samples and come back. ”

"Ahh That's right! ”

Hearing Shiho say this, Dr. Asasa couldn't help but say:

"There's also the way to get a cake sample! Hey, it's a pity that I didn't find a way to keep a little cake at Miss Hua Lian's place before......"

"It's not that you've eaten too much, Doctor, it's only a few pieces in total......"

Glancing at Dr. Asasa, Shiho couldn't help but say:

"And if you don't control your diet well, your health is very worrying."

In this regard, Dr. Asa scratched his head with a wry smile and smiled helplessly:

"Ahh......h What's this...... That's right, that's right! When we left, I remember a few pieces of cake left, or ......."

As he spoke, Dr. Asa couldn't help but open the topic, and then Shiho looked at Dr. Asasa coldly, and finally could only sigh helplessly, and couldn't help but turn around:

"Well, then Doctor, go ahead and look in the kitchen to see if you can find the pastry chef. I'll go upstairs to Miss Hua Lian's to see if I can find any samples of the cake left. ”

"Huh? Good. ”

With a wry smile and looking at Shiho's departing back, Dr. Asa responded, and continued walking in the direction of the kitchen.

And Shiho, who finally managed to leave Dr. Asasa's side, pretended to be nothing and came to the entrance of this safe passage.

After pushing the door in, Shiho was about to run in the direction of the B3 floor downstairs-

Then, just after waiting for Shiho to enter the safe passage and close the door of the passage, a small hand, suddenly from behind the door on one side, reached Shiho's right hand and gently grabbed Shiho's right hand.

Such a situation suddenly startled Zhibao, and the whole person couldn't help but tremble-

"Hey! Where are you going? ”

There was a somewhat anxious tone, a slightly immature child's voice, coming from Shiho's side, and the words were a little serious.

And after hearing this voice, Zhibao, who was originally a little frightened, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and lowered his head to look at the owner of the little hand that suddenly appeared-

Through the faint light in the safe passage, I saw a little girl with long hair who was wearing a children's dress with a familiar eye, looking up at herself with a serious face.

And why does this little girl, in that white children's dress, look ...... So familiar!

(End of chapter)