"The car..." With Qianyu's murmur, the group reacted quickly and waved on the side of the road, attracting the attention of the car. Sure enough, the SUV saw them and slowly stopped beside them. It is an off-road vehicle with two rows of seats and a trunk, and the words "Kubo Ryokan" are written on the side.

"Kubo Ryokan?" Chiba raised an eyebrow. There are such words that indicate that the car is the vehicle of this hostel. The presence of the inn car here is a clear indication that the Kubo inn is likely located at the end of the road.

"Need help?" A skinny man rolled down the window and looked at a few people on the side of the road. "Hmm... Your feet, old sir? ”

"Our car broke down because we ran out of fuel, so we walked forward together to find out if there was anyone to spend the night or refill the fuel, and he sprained his foot." Chiba explained.

"In terms of oil, I don't have pumping equipment here, and I don't have oil reserves, so I can't provide it. But... Overnight? The man got out of the car and came to Dr. Asasa. Then take my car, there is a Kubo inn a few kilometers ahead, the service is very good, how about taking my car there to rest? ”

"Yes," Qian Yu agreed directly - if he didn't agree, the possibility of the other side refusing to carry also existed. "But can you help us get the doctor into the car?"

"Okay." The man nodded, wrapping Dr. Asasa's hand around the back of his neck and holding him up. "Everybody, put all your stuff in the trunk."

"I think... After putting his things in the trunk, Chiba frowned as he looked at Dr. Asasa who was struggling to move forward with his support. "That's not the way to go, I'm afraid you need to do a bandage."

"No conditions," Conan shook his head. "There's no strip of cloth here, and we can't bandage it. Keeping the doctor's feet in the air should be the best we can do at the moment. ”

"This car isn't big, there's no room for the doctor's feet to hang over... Thousand feathers spread their hands. "Oh yes, if the doctor was half-lying in his seat, maybe ... We can sit directly in the storage area at the back. ”

"There's plenty of space in the storage area, but there's still more than ten minutes to get to the hotel, can you hold on?" The man was a little embarrassed.

"Yes!" Then, he was answered by the children's cries in unison.

。。。

On dirt roads, off-road vehicles are speeding up.

"Thank you for your help—" Conan was about to thank him, but suddenly remembered something. "Brother, what's your name?"

"Tadao Umesaki, 26 years old... "The man asked curiously, introducing himself. "Why are you here? Isn't this a convenient place with convenient transportation in all directions? Why did you drive here? ”

"We originally came from Tokyo to catch stag beetles in the mountains," Conan explained with some helplessness. "I don't know why, but when I came back, I drove here."

"To catch stag beetles?" The man was stunned for a moment before he said. "Then you're going the other way around... Here is the way to a small mountain village... If you want to go back to Tokyo, you should take another route. ”

"Brother, what is your profession?" Qian Yu asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Tadao was slightly stunned. "What's wrong?"

"Isn't Brother Tadao a staff member at the Kubo Ryokan?" Mitsuhiko asked in some surprise.

"The staff at the Kubo ryokan? Ha ha... Tadao pauses slightly, then laughs. Not really! I'm a treasure hunter by profession! ”

"I see... Under Conan's slightly stunned gaze, Chiba quietly put a small cylinder with a metallic head and a red body back into a sack in the storage area - if he wasn't a treasure hunter, a profession that usually applies for a shotgun license, I'm afraid the two of them would have sounded the red alarm on Tadao as soon as possible. Because this small cylinder is actually a standard shotgun bullet, the metallic color is actually the warhead part, and the red is the cartridge case.

"It's here," Tadao reminded everyone to look at him. "Heiyuan Village Hot Spring Township."

In everyone's field of vision, a village lined with buildings on both sides of the road appeared.

Ghost town, this is the first impression that appeared in Chiba's mind, just like Pripyat (the town next to Chernobyl, which can be understood as the family town of Chernobyl workers, and was evacuated by the Soviet military shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear accident), but it is a ghost town with many buildings but no one else. Because although the buildings in this village are lined up one after another, there is not a single person to be seen...

Wait a minute... Pripyat... Qianyu's expression was a little subtle. If there is ever ...

。。。 Recall...

A checkpoint near Pripyat, 28 December 1993.

“Thank-you，my-friend.” Dressed in a black three-defense suit, Qian Yu thanked him in English through the walkie-talkie on the chemical protection suit, and handed two rolls of dollars to the two Ukrainian soldiers in front of him - after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the complementary economic systems of the various republics were destroyed, and the economies fell into a deep recession. At such times, a wad of $10,000 bills is everything for impoverished Ukrainian soldiers.

“Good-luck.” A Ukrainian soldier blessed after kissing the banknote. Military personnel patrolling here who may appear at any time will definitely give the infiltrator in front of them a drink.

"Let's go." Qian Yu walked out of the checkpoint and said to another man wearing a full three-defense suit.

"It's finally done... The man moved his muscles and bones for a moment, and sighed to Qian Yu who came out. "Go to the city, go to the city, I'm going to play here!"

"Hurry up," Chiba frowned. "We didn't have enough to eat, we only had two days of water. Hurry up and get the job done! ”

"I know," the man said solemnly, putting away his playful tone. "We're on a mission to investigate the buildings here, right?"

"It's not just the buildings here, but the civil air defense works underground and the coffin." Chiba replied. "You and I have radiation readings on our bodies, and if you walk around here, you can measure and record nuclear radiation data."

"Is your mission to determine the nuclear capabilities of various buildings?" The man raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Hey..." Chiha's tone became serious. "The mission needs to be kept secret, and while it doesn't matter if I tell you anything in theory, I'd be derelict in my duties. So, don't ask this kind of question again. ”

"Champs-Élysées."