"Squeak-squeak-" With the extreme weight concentrated in an extremely limited area, each landing of Kudo Shinichi can cause a compression of the not very solid earth.

Fortunately, the soil conditions here are barely stable, and if this is a swamp or something, Chiba would never let his robot be so alone.

But then again, the place written in the letter is [Mountain Cottage of Acquaintance]......

Thinking so, Chiba read the cabin from the robot's viewfinder window.

This should be it, right?

......Thinking so, Kudo Shinichi walked into the mountain hut without closing the door, only to find that there didn't seem to be anyone inside—the owner of the house seemed to have left without locking the door. Excuse me, anyone? ”

But he didn't expect a response, because before he asked, he saw something that the average person didn't seem to use—on the table in the house, there was a working walkie-talkie.

"Is it Shinichi Kudo?" The voice of the voice changer came over the intercom - in every sense, this means that the other party is not good, otherwise the other party would not have to hide his voice.

"Yes, who are you?" Kudo Shinichi immediately responded—and at the same time, three drones (the other one was left in Chiba's hands for backup) that had formed in a fairly large gap over the cabin began to perform radio direction finding: the other party talking to him must be in this area, so as long as the direction finding was carried out through the three drones, it would be possible to ......

Then he discovered that there was no other source of signal other than the cabin he was in. “！？”

Then, through the rustle of the walkie-talkie, Kudo Shinichi noticed that someone seemed to be operating some kind of wooden rotating mechanism, which is more common in windows, but the house apparently only had a light window on a high level, and no normal window......

Then he suddenly realized that the lighting conditions in this room seemed to be a little worse.

Because one of the large windows of this room was nailed with nails and planks, and the other door that seemed to lead to the other rooms was also sealed.

The next moment, the room darkened even further - just as Kudo Shinichi was thinking about everything, the door was suddenly closed, followed by the sound of the latch being lowered: Kudo Shinichi had noticed that the door seemed to have a latch that could be locked from the outside, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

And now the purpose of this latch is obvious, that is, to lock him inside from the outside.

This is all OK, but when you consider the enemies you actually have to face, it's too ......

……

"Are you sure it's over here? Isn't that a bit ridiculous? Dr. Asasa asked, a little uneasy.

"I'm sure it's over here, because I see it." Qian Yu said with great confidence. "Hmm...... A few hundred meters further on. ”

Just then, someone walked briskly from behind them with a package.

"Little brother, is there anything going on ahead?" Dr. Asasa immediately stopped the young man on his bicycle.

"It seems that a high school student was salvaged from the water in front of me, and then he seemed to have amnesia, and I didn't know what his name was, so I just went home, at least find him a blanket to put on him to keep warm, and then go and call the police to come here to see what to do."

"By the way, this brother, how much do you know about the case of [Kudo Shinichi] who was here before against the death of the former village chief [Hihara Takitoku]'s family?"

On the way to the other side together, Qian Yu asked the young brother very casually.

"Shinichi Kudo?" The little brother's face changed suddenly, and he glanced at Qian Yu with an unhappy gaze, but then realized that it seemed a little inappropriate for him to be angry with an innocent child like this. "You...... How can this question be asked? ”

"Because we heard that he came here to solve a case before - we are detective fans, so we planned to come over and interview what happened at that time, and then our homeroom teacher recommended the case to us, but did not tell us why." Qian Yu immediately made up a reason.

"Your teacher assigned you?" A strange gaze flashed in the little brother's eyes. "Hmm...... If you look like this, your homeroom teacher may also be from us, otherwise he wouldn't have let you come here to investigate this case. ”

"What does that mean, please?" Dr. Asasa wondered. "Is there anything special about this case?"

"Because...... I don't know if that guy is a famous detective who was blown out in vain, but at least in this case, the reasoning he gave was simply wrong. When he said this, the little brother snorted impatiently.

"Hmm......" Qian Yu glanced at Conan thoughtfully, but did not get a meaningful response from the other party. So, what went wrong? ”

"When he reasoned at the time, the result was that the village chief could not accept the reality because he had been diagnosed with cancer, and finally forced his wife to commit suicide."

Chiba raised an eyebrow and looked at Conan.

"Take care of face—" And that's Conan's answer with lip language.

"Hmm......" Chiba nodded in understanding, and the little brother didn't seem to notice what was going on with them - he was now completely talking to Dr. Asasa with Chiba and Conan.

"However, the news that came out later was that the village chief knew that his cancer was only benign, and he seemed happy when he was told about it!" The little brother was dissatisfied. "This cancer can be cured, so the village chief doesn't need to choose to kill his wife because of this kind of thing!"

Yes, it seems that Conan's method of making up words is not as good as his reasoning skills.

"Oh, that's right......" Dr. Asa said he understood, nodding thoughtfully, but suddenly looked ahead. Not...... Is it the guy in front? ”

As they looked ahead of Dr. Asasa as they pointed out, they spotted a group of people surrounding a naked young man - a face they all looked familiar with from the back......

"......" Chiba and Conan exchanged a slightly sarcastic look, and then walked over with Dr. Asasa and the little brother who still didn't know what was going on.

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Such cases...... I don't even know how to make the design ideas of the original text work in this book...... Poor reliability and reliance on multiple low-probability events...... So it's better to let him explode directly