178 Forgotten words
In the "McCroft Hotel", in the early hours of the morning, Fujisawa Toshiaki, who couldn't wait any longer, got up angrily, tore up the questionnaire he had filled out irritably, and shouted in his mouth:
"Damn! I also spent the whole day writing this test! ”
"Mr. ......"
Seeing this, looking at Toshiaki Fujisawa, who was already a little out of control, the waitress Hitomi Iwai couldn't help but step forward to dissuade him, but it was too late, he had already completely torn the questionnaire in his hand into pieces, and it was impossible to put it together.
In this regard, Maria Toda on the side was not quite in the right mood, and she propped her hand on the table with a slightly low voice, and muttered:
"It seems that the rumors are true. People say that sending the first version is a big scam. Every time, he deliberately made the topic difficult so that everyone couldn't get it all right, but the real purpose was just to gather Sherlock Holmes fans here to show off that he had the book......"
Saying that, Maria Toda also didn't want to go, got up and said angrily:
"But I didn't expect it to be a mess before the question was written this time. Sorry, I'm going to sleep! ”
"Me ...... too"
Hearing what Maria Toda said, Ikuo Kawazu also got up slightly disappointed, and he didn't plan to continue to spend here.
At the same time, Nanako Shimizu was silent, and simply followed the few people who didn't plan to stay here, and also went back to the room to sleep together.
In this regard, seeing that the gang was almost gone, Kogoro, who was already not interested in the activities of this journey, got up a little sleepily and complained:
"It's ridiculous! I'm going to sleep too! ”
After saying that, Kogoro didn't wait for Conan and Xiaolan, and went back to the room alone.
Seeing this, seeing that it was too late at this time, Xiaolan gently asked Conan:
"What about you, Conan? Why don't you go to bed too? ”
"I'm here to stay."
However, Conan was clearly reluctant to go back and wanted to stay here.
So, there was no way, Xiaolan had no choice but to accompany Conan to continue to wait in the restaurant-
At this time, the guests who are still in the restaurant, in addition to Conan and Xiaolan, are only Hattori Heiji, as well as Kento Toba and Ayako Oki, a total of five people, as for the waitress Iwai Hitomi, since the guests are still in the restaurant, she has to stay here all the time and continue to do her hospitality work.
However, even so, until three o'clock in the morning, the innkeeper Hiroyuki Kanaya never appeared, and everyone in the restaurant couldn't help but show fatigue.
Among them, Hattori Heiji, who was already bored, yawned even more and leaned his head on the hand propped up on the table depressedly-
"No, I'm almost at my limit...... The innkeeper doesn't have to wait so long, right? ”
Thinking helplessly, Hattori Heiji thought so, and at the same time, subconsciously, at this time of boredom, he seemed to remember that before coming here, when Takato told himself that he couldn't come, he seemed to have mentioned the organizer of this tour group related things-
"What is it?"
Since he didn't see Kudo Shinichi after coming here, the disappointed Hattori Heiji didn't care about what Takato said at the time, and it wasn't until now, after the innkeeper Hiroyuki Kanaya made this strange behavior that hadn't happened until now, that Hattori Heiji remembered this slightly.
But unfortunately, because of staying up all night, the very sleepy Hattori Heiji didn't want to think about it anymore......
"Yanren, let's go back to the room too, shall we?"
At this time, Ayako Oki, who was wearing a burgundy dress, looked at this point in time, and could only feel helpless, and put her hands on Kento Toba's shoulders, as if coquettish to persuade her.
"Wait, it's time like this, the one who leaves first loses first......"
Kento Toba, who was leaning against the window, couldn't help but say with a smile on the corner of his mouth when he saw Ayako Oki looking so impatient.
However, at the same time as he said this, through the window of the inn, through the light outside the hotel, he saw a business vehicle driving slowly on the field outside the hotel-
"What's that? Didn't we take the bus when we came? ”
Seeing this, Kento Toba said with some surprise.
"Who could it be so late?"
Hearing Kento Toba's words, Ayako Oki also came up, and she couldn't help but be surprised when she saw the vehicles driving there.
At the same time, after hearing the conversation between the two at this time, Conan and Heiji Hattori on the side also followed to the window and looked curiously at the scene outside the window.
And through the silhouette of the car window, everyone in front of the window saw the figure sitting in the cab of the car, it was the obese innkeeper Hiroyuki Kanaya wearing a stand-up collar trench coat and a deer hunting hat-
"It's the innkeeper! Is the innkeeper driving? ”
After seeing the figure in the car, Ayako Oki couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that such a long wait was not in vain, and put one hand on Kento Toba's shoulder, and said with a smile.
"Look! As I expected, it looks like the reasoning Q&A is finally about to begin! ”
In this regard, Kento Toba said with a slight expression.
"It's better for you!"
Oki Ayako leaned into Kento Toba's ear and praised him very delicately.
But just as the two of them were saying this, watching the slow-moving vehicle gradually drive towards the cliff by the sea, without any intention to stop, Conan and Hattori Heiji looked slightly wrinkled, and felt that the situation was not good-
"Wait......"
The same should come over, and Oki Ayako, who felt that something was not quite right, said in a panic when she saw this.
"There's a cliff over there!"
As if he was frightened, Toba Kento froze in place and said in surprise.
In the face of such a situation, as a detective's intuition, Conan and Hattori Heiji couldn't take care of it anymore, so they directly opened the window, climbed out of the window together, and ran to chase the vehicle that was driving towards the edge of the cliff.
But at this moment, when the vehicle drove from the gentle cement road to the unpaved dirt road on the edge of the cliff, the vehicle suddenly accelerated, so that Conan and Hattori could only continue to speed up their pace, and finally caught up with the vehicle was barely -
"Uncle! What are you doing! ”
Caught up to the position of the vehicle's rearview mirror, but the speed was still getting faster, and as a last resort, Conan jumped up, grabbed the vehicle's rearview mirror, hung himself next to the vehicle, and shouted towards the locked window-
"Stop! Otherwise, you'll fall! ”
And Hattori Heiji was still trying his best to catch up, trying his best to get to the front window, knocking the window, shouting anxiously, trying to make Hiroyuki Kanaya stop the car in the car.
However, even under the shouts of the two, the figure of Hiroyuki Kanaya in the car was completely unmoved, and continued to maintain an accelerating posture, allowing the car to continue to drive ahead-
"Blanket on the dashboard? And, what kind of sound is that? It's not the engine ......"
Seeing that the car had come to the edge of the cliff and was about to fall into the cliff, at the last moment, Conan looked into the car, and saw that the dashboard inside the car was covered with blankets, and at the same time, the sound of the car was other than the sound of the engine.
But at this point, it is impossible to stop the car by manpower outside the car in any case.
So, Conan and Hattori could only stop at the edge of the cliff, watching the vehicle just fall under the cliff and crash into the erected reef on the sea below the cliff-
With a "boom", with the explosion of the vehicle, the car was destroyed and people died!
And looking at this scene, when he was already convinced that the innkeeper would not survive, Hattori Heiji, who was more than shocked, recalled what Gao Yuan said to him before-
"Keep an eye on the organizers of this event!"