"Doyle isn't there at all," Ayumi pulled a small crack in the door of the Japanese room and peeked inside. "And the mat wasn't taken out."

"What?" Garner was also stunned. "Won't it?" With that, he also leaned over to Ayumi, looked inside, and sure enough, he found that the mat was still in good shape, and Doyle was not in it at all.

Pulling open the door, Ghana Teruya held a plate in one hand and led everyone in. I saw two blue mats and five coffee-colored mats stacked on top of each other, quite neat.

"Could it be that because the cushions are stacked on top of each other, Doyle can't pull out the blue cushions?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Before, the blue mat was often pressed in the middle," Teru Garner shook her head. "But if that's the case, Doyle can take the mat out with his mouth and sit on it."

"Do you want to go find Doyle?" Mr. Tsunashima asked. "What if something happened to it just now and it got stuck somewhere?"

"Then let's split up and look for it?" Dr. Asasa suggested. "Let's all look for where Doyle might go."

"Good!"

…………

Standing in the hallway, Chiba stood at the end of the hallway near the staircase leading to the second floor, staring at the floor of the hallway leading to the door in front of him, thinking.

Just now he and Gray Yuan Ai checked the two rooms they were in charge of, but they didn't find anything, so now he would stop here for a while, thinking if there was a more reliable way to find Doyle than directly looking for this stupid method.

Just now, Doyle was obviously attracted by the bell on the side of the Japanese room, so he jumped out of Gray Yuan's arms.

In other words, Doyle's planned route should be from the door to the Japanese room, and if nothing very special happens, Doyle, who disappeared from everyone's view at the corner of the corridor in front of him, should have run from that side. If there were no other accidents, Doyle should have run to the Japanese-style room next to him, ready to eat dessert.

Because everyone was at the door when Doyle came over, the human factor can be ruled out, and Doyle must have found something more important than eating dessert in his mind on the way here, so the act of going to the Japanese room was disturbed.

But the question is, what's stopping Doyle?

Qianyu's eyes focused on the doors on either side of the hallway.

Could it be that Doyle chose one of the doors on the way from the door to the Japanese-style room and got in?

However, with the exception of the Japanese-style room, which is a sliding door, the other doors have doorknobs, and even if Doyle can barely open the door of the Japanese-style room with his mouth and get in, this kind of room with doorknobs is not something that a dog like Doyle can do anyway.

Qian Yu suddenly thought of something, and then looked at the door of the living room.

But the door to the living room was open just now, and if Doyle wanted to get in, he could get in!

Walking to the door of the living room, Chiba looked at the scene inside the living room.

But is there anything here that would appeal to Doyle?

At this moment, almost the same as when Dr. Asa first arrived, the extremely hostile barking of the Shiba Inu came from the direction of the courtyard.

This was followed by the barking of the same hoarse, but distinctly belonging to a different type of dog.

“？” Qian Yu looked in the direction of the sound source with some confusion, and then walked out of the living room. "Brother Garner, what's going on?"

"It's Arthur," Teru Garner poked his head out of the hallway in the direction of the door. "But I don't know how it barks so much?"

"And Christie," Miss Renko said from beside him. "It's weird, Christie doesn't usually do that."

"It's the back door!" At this time, Conan ran down from the upper floor. "A thing that looks like a boiler is burning at the back door, and Arthur and Christie are yelling at this stove!"

"Back door?" Ghana was quick to react. "There's an incinerator over there, but it's been a long time since it's been used, right?"

"Let's go over and have a look!" Dr. Asa also came to Conan's side out of breath. "It's not normal for an incinerator to burn."

When the crowd ran to the back door, they found that the chimney of the incinerator was billowing smoke.

"Oh......" Qian Yu frowned. This ......"

"I'll take a look!" With that, Conan rushed to the incinerator, took the long clip hanging from the incinerator in his hand, and opened the door of the incinerator.

The orange-red flames slammed into everyone's eyes, and the heat wave, after being separated by Conan's body, also swept through everyone not far away.

"......" Qian Yu narrowed her eyes, which were quite uncomfortable from the heat wave, and then walked over to Gray Plains to help her resist the direct impact of the heat wave. Conan, is there something in there? ”

"I don't know," Conan squinted his eyes likewise, fumbling his way at the bottom of the furnace with a long clip. "But I haven't touched it at the moment — ah, it seems like there's something."

The long clip was retracted from the fire, with something resembling an untied collar at the end.

"This is Doyle's?" Qian Yu frowned.

"Doyle won't be ......," Ayumi was shocked. No way? ”

"Doyle......" Garner Zhao was also obviously aware of this possibility, and said in a trembling voice. Doyle ......"

"Calm down," Conan said in a deep voice, hearing that Teruya Garner behind him was not in the right condition. "There are no bones in this, and the temperature of the incinerator is unrealistic to burn Doyle's bones in such a short period of time, so Doyle must not have been stuffed into the furnace, at most someone just threw his collar here, trying to give us the illusion that Doyle was burned to death."

With that, Conan turned off the incinerator and closed the door, allowing the flame to extinguish itself.

"Hey, look over there," Mr. Tsunashima pointed to the back door next to him. "The door over there is open......"

The back door was opened with a small slit, and the back door looked out onto the wide street.

"......" Qianyu's eyes reopened as the incinerator door closed, and he took a deep breath. But the question is, why light the incinerator in that case? Objectively, we ran here precisely because the incinerator was burning, and then we saw the back door being opened. If he had run away without lighting the incinerator, it might have been a long time before we found out that the back door had been opened. ”

Other words...... Chiba raised an eyebrow, then looked at Miss Renko, Miss Tosabayashi, and Mr. Tsunashima beside her.

Did one of the three men hide Doyle and then falsify the traces that appear in the discovery to divert their attention?