[Really, is it so close?] 】

When Chiba locked on to the direction through the sound of the gun, and analyzed the approximate range of the distance according to the performance of the shotgun, this was his real first reaction.

Hunting a bear is not a simple task, because bears usually do not take the initiative to touch the moldy heads of people who are not panicked, so they tend to run away after spotting humans. In such a situation, it is difficult for a human who is not superior in observation to find an opportunity to close the opponent's range without the opponent noticing.

Although Chiba did not play any professional sports, his teachers in college had traveled to Canada for bear hunting, so he once vividly described how difficult it was to hunt a black bear in mobile combat mode - as a team led by professional hunters, they would choose to arrange ambushes on the bear's usual course of action.

Qianyu is now faced with a somewhat delicate choice: should she put aside the task of finding Genta and go to see the excitement, or continue to search for Genta?

Although they are a little sorry for Yuantai, even if they delay the progress in this area a little, they will eventually be able to find Yuantai no matter what. And if you give up this job to see the hunters handling the bears, I am afraid that it will be really difficult to find a second chance to witness such a grand scene.

Forget it, let's report to Gray Yuan first - Conan's side is forgotten, this matter just needs to be ......

It was only then that Chiba noticed something very serious: according to the direction finding analysis of the auxiliary unit, Ash Hara was now far closer to the place where the gun was fired than he and Conan had been, and had even approached the presumed distribution line of the hunting nets carved out of the barbed wire of the hunting area that he had occasionally seen. In other words, Gray Plains is now unusually close to the barbed wire fence in the hunting area, and may even be trying to pass through.

This guy, it's not like he's confused with the direction and thinks it's the direction of the safe zone, right? If that's the case, I'm afraid it's going to be a big deal......

[Call Outgoing - Gray Plains] Chiha's will was immediately sent to Gray Plains's mobile phone through the base station of the auxiliary unit. However, no one answered...... And at the same time, Chiba also found that the feedback results of the signal of Gray Yuan's mobile phone seemed to have remained stable, as if the other party had not moved at all.

【！！！？？？ Chiba was really worried now, and hurriedly began to contact Conan. Even if Ash Hara may not be able to answer the phone, maybe Mitsuhiko can still contact him through the armband, as long as he communicates with Conan on his mobile phone, and then asks him to contact Mitsuhiko......

"Smack!" At that moment, the second shot rang out without warning.

If the first shot could be considered a bear hunt, the second shot was a different story, especially the second shot half a minute after the first shot.

If it is a bear hunt, the second shot after 30 seconds is meaningless, because 30 seconds after hearing the gunshot, the bear has either fled far away, or the hunter has already been killed.

Unless...... Both the second and first shots were fired at not bears, but humans. And if Gray Plains' phone fell near there......

Qianyu's face had completely changed, and he rushed in the direction of the mobile phone signal with the traceless umbrella that had been unfolded into a battle form.

At this moment, his mood was very entangled—because he didn't want to hear the gunshots continue to go out, but he wanted to hear the gunshots continue to go out.

If the gunshot rang out, it means that the shot just now didn't hit, and the gray plain is still safe. But the shot itself could have hit her......

And just as he was almost halfway through, Conan's text reply came.

[Unreachable!! —Conan

Ashbara's cell phone didn't answer, and Mitsuhiko's detective armband didn't respond either.

What's going on???

With such concerns, Qian Yu finally arrived less than 5 meters away from Gray Yuan's mobile phone.

But he couldn't go any further, for he was already standing on the edge of the barbed wire—Grayplain's phone had landed on the ground on that side of the hunting area.

Without any hesitation, Chiba adjusted the perception function of the auxiliary unit to the highest power (after the high-intensity run, it re-provided sufficient energy space for the highest power perception), and began to climb the barbed wire fence separating the neutral zone and the hunting zone. And just as he was halfway up the climb, the fully opened auxiliary unit provided him with the first bad information.

He captured the scent molecules of blood.

……

Two minutes later.

"......" Qian Yu looked at the corpse in front of him in silence - it seemed that the smell of blood came from this thing.

It was the carcass of a bear lying on the ground in front of a ball of grass, with a rope cut in half around its neck - the stump of the rope hanging from a branch about two meters high directly above the bear seemed to have been hung by someone, but then cut and released.

However, this is not the time to think about this first, if there is a bear here, it means that there should be a mother bear, but the auxiliary unit has not detected any relevant information.

The bear cub of this size is probably less than a year old, why didn't the mother bear accompany it?

With this confusion in mind, Chiba carefully flipped the bear from a lying position to a lying position, examining the bear's body to check if there were any visible scars. Then he saw that the bear had a shotgun hole in his abdomen, which was apparently the cause of the bear's death.

From this point of view, the bear should be acting as a decoy - the only purpose of the hanging bear is probably to attract its mother and give the hunter a chance to carry out an ambush attack. Of course, judging by the fact that there are no hunters here who are happily examining the female bear that has been shot, the other side misses.

But the question is, why was this little bear put down? If Qianyu is a hunter, he can change places and continue to ambush, after all, the mother bear has a deep-rooted obsession with saving her child, as long as she controls the body of the little bear, the mother bear will eventually return.

Just as Chiba pondered the question of how this somewhat confused situation had come to be, a meaningful message came from the auxiliary unit.

“！？” Qian Yu turned and looked in the direction where the voice came from.

"Why are you here?" It was an elderly hunter who looked to be over 60 years old, and as he asked, he walked in his direction with a shotgun on his back.

[It shouldn't be a bad guy......] Qian Yu has already made this judgment in his heart: if the other party has bad intentions, as long as he shoots at himself at that distance, no matter how sophisticated his auxiliary unit is, it is impossible to capture the sound of preparation before shooting under the interference of the background noise of the forest.

[Maybe you can ask him, have you seen the gray plains? 】

With this in mind, Chiba put down the bear carcass on the edge of the grass and walked towards the old hunter.

But what he didn't know was that on the other side of the grass, the body of a man with a pierced abdomen was lying there.