Chapter 553 - The Intruder

"I always feel that something is wrong, don't you think?" Qian Yu, who was playing 21 points with the rest of the detective team, pulled a card out of the library and placed it next to one of his open cards and a hidden card, and then wondered about the gray plain beside him.

"If it's Sister Xiaolan, yes." Gray Yuan glanced at Qianyu's two cards, and then signaled to everyone that he did not plan to continue to draw cards.

"Sister Xiaolan?" Conan, who was sitting on the other side of the thousand feathers, frowned, and then looked at Mao Lilan, who had just returned to the observation hall. "What's wrong with Sister Xiaolan?"

"See for yourself," after glancing at Mao Lilan, who was sitting alone at a table, and after confirming that her current demeanor was not quite right, Chiba looked back at Mitsuhiko, who was thinking about whether to touch the cards. "I describe this thing to you as much paler than you look yourself."

"But......" Conan's helpless voice came after Mitsuhiko touched a card and then said in frustration that his card had exploded. I don't see anything wrong......"

"Huh?" Chiba and Gray Hara both looked at Conan with ghostly expressions, and then at Mao Lilan.

It was clear that Maoliran was in a preoccupied state right now, and his eyes were slightly swollen.

"Her eyes are swollen," Chiba replied. "The eyelid tissue is slightly congested when she cries, and although it's not noticeable, her eyes are a little more swollen now than they were when we saw her in the morning. And don't you think that Sister Xiaolan rarely sits alone like she does now? ”

But to be honest, this detail that Chiba saw was indeed a little too difficult for Conan - seeing the slight congestion of the eyelids at this distance did require very good eyesight.

"I just saw her putting on makeup on her eyes, obviously crying, and a fool can tell that her mood is not right now." Gray Plains faintly made up for Conan. "If she's really okay, she's either chatting with Sister Yuanzi or doing something else now, and she definitely won't sit like she is now."

"Huh?" Only then did Conan look closely at Maolilan. "Uh...... It does seem that something is wrong. ”

"You're too insensitive, too," Gray Plains glanced at Conan. "It's like a piece of wood."

"Got it," Conan said with a somewhat unrelieved expression. "But it's really strange that Sister Xiaolan is unhappy! She should be very optimistic. ”

"......" Qian Yu didn't speak, because he was studying the expression of Mao Lilan that he had just intercepted—he read the loss.

At this point, everyone had finished drawing, and Gray's 21 became the biggest of all.

"Otherwise, let's let Sister Xiaolan accompany us on this airship expedition, right?" Ayumi proposed. "We haven't seen this airship systematically before!"

"Haven't you taken a closer look at this airship?" Qian Yu raised an eyebrow before reacting. "Wait a minute, you don't want to go to the power zone, do you?"

"That's right!" Ayumi nodded. "It was all locked down before, so we couldn't get through! But today I went to see it, and it wasn't blocked over there! ”

"You go and ask her," Gray Plains said lightly. "I guess Sister Xiaolan should agree."

Actually, that's also Chiha's opinion - although Maoliran doesn't seem happy right now, if she is allowed to accompany them, she should be able to turn her attention to them, and then somewhat ignore the worries that she is thinking about now.

As for whether Sister Xiaolan will agree...... There is an element of helpfulness in her character, and this level of demand will certainly satisfy them.

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"What's this trap up ahead?" Motota pointed to a trapdoor at the top of the ladder not far away that could be pushed open. "Is it a storage room or something? Can we go up? ”

"No," Maolilan looked at the words on it, and immediately dismissed his thoughts. "That's the way to get out of the airship and get to the airbag area that connects with the outside world, and now we're in the air, so it's dangerous to get out!"

"Uh......" Genta looked confused. It's better not to climb out......"

"If I go out now, I'll probably be reprimanded," Qian Yu said, looking at the board. "Look at the latch on the movable board - the latch on this top is not locked, which means that there are probably staff working outside, and if you go out, you will probably be blocked by the staff head-on and scolded back.

"Let's go somewhere else......" Mitsuhiko suggested. It doesn't seem like a good place to explore, does it? ”

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In the bathroom of the TV room, Gray Yuan Ai is sitting on the sink, touching up the makeup of the half-squatting Maolilan.

"Hey, Xiao Ai, you seem to be really good at makeup, don't you?" Looking at Gray Yuan's rather steady hand, Mao Lilan was so surprised. "It's so much better than the one I just drew."

"Sister Xiaolan, did you cry just now?" Gray Yuan asked her as he painted. "This makeup looks like a crying flower, huh?"

"It's okay, it's just that I thought of something sad." Maoriran smiled like a formula, standard smile - the kind of rigid smile that someone who was not a child in Gray Plains looked like he could see at a glance that something was on his mind. "By the way, what about the kids?"

"I guess it's in the observation hall," Gray Plains said lightly. "It's supposed to be walking around the astronomical telescope or the jewelry booth right now, but Tachibana and Edogawa are here anyway, so there shouldn't be any trouble."

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At the same time, Chiba sighed and walked behind Mitsuhiko, Motota, and Ayumi, looking at the movable door not far away.

"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" Qian Yu sighed and looked at Yuan Tai and the others, who seemed to be extremely excited. "You deliberately got rid of Sister Xiaolan and then used the hide-and-seek interface to shake off Conan or something, you didn't plan to go out through that activity door, right?"

"We just saw a staff member coming out of there, so there should be no one over there!" Mitsuhiko said proudly. "Trust me, there's no one over there!"

"Are you sure there's no one over there?" Qian Yu frowned and looked at the trapdoor. "Maybe there are some other work partners or something out there, right? Are you really going to risk being reprimanded to show up? ”

"It's really dangerous to go out......" Chiba sighed.

Just as Qian Yu sighed, the trapdoor opened, and a man dressed in black ignored the ladder next to him and jumped directly from the trapdoor more than two meters high.

It's strange to jump down instead of climbing a ladder, and what Chiba can't figure out is another thing - what kind of staff in Japan can hold a submachine gun and wear a combat suit.