However, no one could have predicted that what would have been an uneventful matsutake picking operation would come unexpectedly.

"You're saying we couldn't find Motota because he ran to the barbed wire?" Qian Yu frowned, and glanced at the barbed wire fence that Conan had been paying attention to just now—there were no holes in it that could allow a little fat man like Motota to get through. "Ah...... Well, it's possible, so what do we do? ”

Looking at the few dirt marks on the barbed wire that were evenly spaced at longitudinal angles, Chiba realized that Conan was right.

"How could this guy do such a dangerous thing," Mitsuhiko pouted. "It's not like it's all said that you can't turn it over......"

"It's not a big deal if you just turn it over, after all, there should be more matsutake mushrooms over there, and the key is why he hasn't come back yet." Chiba checked the climbing marks on the barbed wire, confirming that there was only one climb and the soil left behind - if Genta had indeed climbed back from here, it should have been visible in other parts of the barbed wire in the vicinity.

"Do we need to go find him?" Dr. Asasa worried. "What if he goes too deep and then loses his direction and crosses over to the other side?"

"Did he have an armband?" Conan suddenly remembered this, but realized that it was not feasible. "Ah, yes...... He broke it when he was playing in the water and put it in the camp......"

"It seems that Mitsuhiko and Conan are wearing armbands now, and I and Gray Hara's armbands are both ...... in the hotel," the corners of Chiha's mouth twitched.

"You don't use armbands much anymore," Mitsuhiko pouted. "Really, I really want a mobile phone!"

"Cell phone...... It's still quite expensive, and your parents won't necessarily buy it for you. Conan sighed. Anyway, if that's the case...... We'll probably have to go in and find him, if he does climb over the second set of barbed wire, the joke will be too big. ”

"Won't it?" Qian Yu frowned. "This ...... Don't you have a sense of direction? At the very least, you should have the ability to tell which direction you're coming from, right? ”

"The shade coverage in this area is too high, and Yuan Tai doesn't have a map, so I don't know which direction to go." Conan broke Chiba's overestimation of Motota. "Once he gets lost, it's almost impossible for him to re-determine which side is the right path by any means of positioning."

"Do we need to go in and search for him?" Qian Yu clasped his hands to his chest with a speechless expression. "If he goes all the way, I'm afraid it's going to be a very large amount of searching."

"And it's dangerous," Conan said, looking over at the barbed wire. "We need to hurry...... It's best to go over and find it together - but the Doctor should stay here for now. ”

"Why?" Dr. Asasa was surprised.

"Doctor, you can't turn your size over at all," Conan glared at his belly with dissatisfaction. "Now it's me and Chiba, the two of you have mobile phones, and Mitsuhiko and I have armbands...... If the armband is used as an intermediary, only two squads can be divided. And if you use mobile phones as a communication intermediary, you can form three teams. ”

"In that case, Tsuburaya and I'm in a group, after all, he doesn't have a cell phone, and I'm a girl," Gray Yuan said suddenly. "Edogawa and Tachibana went it alone, and they contacted each other as soon as they found Motota."

"......" Qianyu didn't say anything, but directly let the auxiliary unit unfold the signal network.

Then he noticed that there were several other signals in the jungle besides them, and from the direction, several of them were further down, maybe even in the bear zone.

This is...... Hunters?

Bear hunting, which is another famous part of the forest in addition to matsutake mushrooms, is actually the main business of the people who come here - most of the people who usually pick matsutake mushrooms here are also professional hunters.

Unlike most other hunting areas in Japan, the wild forest they came to today is infested with a fairly steady population of black bears – in fact, there are not so many bears here that they have to be erected to the extent that barbed wire fences have to be erected to keep the inns and the side where the people are located – and in this case, there will be quite a few hunters in the area who will try to hunt the native Japanese black bears.

Maybe it's going to have to be sooner, but Motota doesn't have a guard-colored vest or anything else that can identify him as a human, in case he gets used as a bear by the hunters......

No, maybe the bigger danger comes from the bears, because humans don't shoot what they say. And...... If Chiba remembers correctly, Motota had just eaten a lot of doughnuts before she came out to pick matsutake mushrooms, and she had a similar taste left on her body.

The taste of this stuff is a favorite of black bears – they are in the midst of a pre-hibernation nutrient stockpile, and they will never turn down high-calorie donuts.

Really, it would be nice if you brought a drone...... It's a pity that now I can only explain the unfortunate fact that these things are lying at home and eating ashes.

Thinking like this, Qian Yu could only sigh. I really hope that this little fat man can obediently keep some bottom lines - I don't expect him to be able to restrain his behavior, I just hope that I can keep some IQ bottom lines, don't treat the barbed wire fence in the hunting area as the barbed wire in the safe area, and then happily look for them on the other side under the watchful eye of the bear - if this worst thing really happens, then I'm afraid the final result must be that after calling the police, a temporary search team composed of him and Conan will go there to search first.

Of course, it's not crazy for them.

For example, the Kodiak brown bear shot by JC Durman in 1894 in the English Bay of Kodiak Island can reach a body length of 4.1 meters (46 centimeters of ball width) and weigh more than 750 kilograms. In the face of such an opponent, anyone must be equipped with powerful guns and lead enough men to prevent their adventure from becoming Don Quixote's mantis arm to challenge the windmill.

In addition to such freaks, brown bears in Hokkaido can generally reach the level of 250 kg for males and 150 kg for females, and they have an overwhelming advantage over humans, especially children.

But if we return to the only bear species that their forest might have, the Asiatic black bear, the problem is a different matter.

At 80 kilograms, this is the normal weight of a male Asiatic black bear in its heyday, while female black bears often weigh even less than 50 kilograms. Compared to those big bears, black bears are really some pocket-sized creatures, even a child like Qianyu may be able to resist one or two with the help of the Traceless Umbrella.

Just as Chiba pondered whether he really had the ability to enter the hunting area, gunshots rang out without warning.

"Smack!"