"How long are we going to stay here?" Looking at the convenience store in front of him, Qian Yu asked. "I mean on this mountain."

"What's wrong?" Conan asked.

"It's just a little tangled," Qian Yu shrugged. "If anyone really wants to do something on this mountain...... Don't you think it's stupid for us to stay here for so long? ”

"Then we might really have to stay for a while," Dr. Asa replied. "Yusaku has entrusted us to investigate all the conditions here, and we will ask to leave tomorrow at noon or after finding out the truth."

"Tsk," the corners of Chiha's mouth twitched. "The news...... I was a little worried, especially before figuring out what was going on. ”

"Don't worry, we're in the room," Conan didn't feel particularly nervous. "If it's really the kind of voodoo powder you are talking about, those people are only intimidating at best, and we only have to deal with the instigators who manipulate them. What's more, we are in the room, and if we are a little vigilant, at least we will not be directly attacked. ”

"Don't we need to explore in the forest?" Qian Yu asked again. "If we don't search the forest, we're going to have a hard time finding anything. But if we search the forest, this behavior is a bit dangerous. ”

"There's a collaborator there's already in place," Dr. Asasa glanced at Chiha, then relieved. "Don't worry, we've agreed to do a search during the daylight the next day—Ben...... Originally, I was going to search today, but considering that we were delayed today, it would be better to start the search tomorrow. ”

"Who are you?" Just then, the door of the convenience store was opened - already a clerk had seen them and walked out curiously. "Is there anything I need to buy?"

"Ahh "Well, we want to investigate the rumors of zombies on the mountains here...... Do any of you know about this? ”

"Why do you ask this?" The clerk frowned. "I'm the one who saw the zombies......"

"Is all this true?" Conan was taken aback. "Did you really see zombies?"

"yes," the clerk nodded. "I saw the zombies coming towards me."

"How?" Conan's enthusiasm was much higher than before, and he hurriedly asked. "What did you see?"

"I saw ......," the clerk replied after a moment's thought. The zombie's head has been broken to the side, and if you count the head, it may be about 1.9 meters tall, which is a sturdy body. Walks with a limp, and drags one leg when walking. ”

"How do you drag a leg?" Conan asked again. "Is it a simple limp, or is it simply a normal way to land on one leg?"

Beasts that only have instinct can also limp because the pain restricts their fluid movements. But if you can barely walk with your balance when you have one leg and land on the ground in a way that is not normal, it's not something only instinctive walking dead can do – especially for bipedal humans.

"Limp," the clerk replied. "The way the leg hits the ground may be normal, but it's still dragging a leg."

"......" Conan fell into deep thought.

"Can they do such a thing?" Qian Yu asked in a low voice to the gray plain next to him.

"I haven't tried," Gray Plains shrugged. "But if you are trained, you may be able to barely maintain walking, but ......"

"No one wastes time on this kind of thing, does they?" Qian Yu nodded. "If you really want to use it as the walking dead, you shouldn't waste so much time on one person, and if you put them back anyway, it would be a lot of problems, so you might as well slaughter them all...... Then again, is it really okay for us to stay here in the face of such a crazy murderer? When I think about these things, I am even more worried! ”

"Let's take our time, you and I shouldn't have much trouble anyway." Gray Yuan said lightly. "Of all of them, you, me, and Conan should be the most combative"

"Why?" Thousand Feathers raised an eyebrow. "Yuan Tai is not weak in theory, right?"

"I brought what you gave me," Gray Plains said lightly. "And you brought those things with you, didn't you? We have no reason to worry at all. ”

The thing she was referring to was the Knuckle Tiger that Chiba had given her earlier, and if she had it, she would at least have the ability to inflict serious damage on the Walking Dead and the Manipulators. And the things that Qian Yu brought with him are other special items, and they are also quite available here.

……

After getting back into the car and heading in the direction of the villa on the hill, Conan's expression was rather bad.

"What's wrong?" Ayumi asked. "Conan, are you worried about anything?"

"Yes," Conan nodded solemnly. "To be honest, I thought it was some kind of hype, because if there were, there's no reason why we haven't heard of it at all — at least the local press here would have pulled it out and covered it a long time ago. But now...... If a clerk did see a zombie, the incident would be quite subtle. Especially considering the amount of pork that was lost before, it was obviously a fairly large group of people who needed to eat so much pork. ”

"Smoke?" Qian Yu suddenly remembered something and said. "Wait a minute, if they need to cook, they definitely need to have a place to do the cooking task, and it must be big enough."

"Considering that this is completely forest, there is almost no possibility of underground excavation, so the whole cooking must have been done above ground, at most in some naturally formed cave or some building that has already stood in the forest. There is no doubt that such a place must be quite conspicuous, and we will be able to see it whenever we are in the vicinity. ”

"Then let's go see it tomorrow," Mitsuhiko said. "Let's get things ready today—"

"No, we'll go today," Conan said. "Before night falls, search a little bit of the forest, and then we'll do the rest tomorrow."

Just as their vehicle had just driven past the woods on the side of the road, a bush suddenly shook.

Then, a scarred, hideous-looking man stood up—his head bent at an odd angle, and his eyes empty except for a cloud.

"Roar—" He let out a low growl.