Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 443 Shiho's Excuse
At this moment, Meimei was obviously a little surprised to see Amano appearing inside.

"Sorry, I'm sorry!"

Meimei said, before Amano came over, she ran straight to the wooden box, stuck her head in, and carefully checked the contents of the wooden box.

"What's the matter? Did you find anything?"

Amano sighed helplessly and asked involuntarily.

And Meimei didn't seem to notice anything, then Amano also came over, poked his head into the box, hugged a puppet out, raised his head——

"How about it, isn't it cute?"

Shinichi saw that the puppet in Amano's hand was the long-haired puppet with beautiful eyes that he saw during the rehearsal.

Then, I saw Amano holding the control panel of the puppet, and waving it lightly a few times, the puppet bowed gracefully to Meimei.

But Meimei turned her back.

"Aren't you interested... Forget it. It's my turn to perform, so excuse me."

Amano boarded the platform of the elevator, and the lifting plate began to rise slowly.

At the same time that Amano ascended to the stage from the lifting platform, the applause from the other side of the venue also reached a climax.

"It's really welcome!"

Shinichi couldn't help it.

"seems like it."

Meimei responded with an indifferent look.

"After Mr. Amano's performance, it's No. 1 and No. 2's self-introduction and talent show. After the end, it's the turn of No. 3 Ms. Hua Lian to come on stage. She should have boarded the elevator platform from here, and then was threatened Ya hang up and fly into the air, right?"

Shinichi asked Mimi while looking up at the ceiling.

"Yes. This kind of performance was thought up by my mother. She said that she had seen a similar performance when she was in Las Vegas. Although I also felt that it was dangerous and tried to stop it, Hua Lian also felt that she had to fight with her. If other players widen the gap, they can only do so and don’t listen to my advice at all.”

Meimei said with some dissatisfaction on her face.

"So it was your mother's idea."

Xinyi's tone was full of curiosity, and he couldn't help but speak.

"Ah."

Meimei nodded and checked Amano's wooden box again.

And Shinichi was also looking in from the side.

"Speaking of which, even though it's just an ordinary puppet, it's capable of somersaulting down the stairs, isn't it amazing? Ah, that puppet over there is a puppet that steps on a ball."

Looking at the puppets in the wooden box, Xinyi still had some vivid memories of the rehearsal just now, so he couldn't help explaining with a little excitement.

"Um……"

And Meimei may have lost interest immediately after confirming that Hualian was not inside, and began to look around again.

"Don't you think the puppet Mr. Amano is holding looks a bit like Miss Hualian?"

At this time, Shinichi suddenly said this.

"looks like?"

Meimei didn't show interest at all about this, but at this moment, the art supervisor ran over in a panic:

"Miss Meimei, haven't you found Miss Hualian yet?"

"I'm very sorry, but I can't find her anywhere."

Meimei also said in a panic.

"What... what should I do! There are less than 15 minutes left before Miss Hualian's appearance! If this continues, the director will definitely kill me!"

The art supervisor looked at his watch with a sad face, anxious and at a loss.

"I will definitely find her out, please wait a little longer."

Meimei bowed and apologized with a sad face.

"Then please. Ms. Hua Lian is the most powerful contender for the championship. I hope she can appear on the stage anyway, so as to make the atmosphere of the scene even more exciting, otherwise we will be very embarrassed."

The art supervisor left such a sentence, and ran back from the direction he came from just now.

"Well, Mr. Maori Detective's assistant? Can I trouble you to go to Hua Lian's room to check again? Maybe she has gone back to the lounge. This is the room card."

Meimei said, handed the room card to Shinichi, and said:
"I'm going to check the rooms of the other contestants one by one."

"I see."

Xin nodded, took the room card and ran to the elevator...

……

"I can't find that pastry chef everywhere..."

In the corridor of the hotel, Dr. Ali also felt very embarrassed, and said to Shiho beside him.

"Yeah. Maybe because they have already finished today's work, they may have left work a long time ago."

With an indifferent expression, Zhibao mentioned a possibility, and then couldn't help saying:
"Doctor, if we search without a clue like us, I'm afraid there will be no results, or..."

"Xiao Ai, why don't we go to the kitchen again? Maybe the pastry chef has returned to the kitchen now!"

The tone was a bit pleading, and Dr. A Li could only say this in the end.

Regarding this, Shiho couldn't help but sighed helplessly, and said expressionlessly:

"I'm afraid that it will be futile to continue searching. Moreover, according to the lady, the cake made with that recipe will be sold in the pastry shop in Yamate under the name of Hualian in the near future. At that time, we will go directly to buy some samples and come back. That's it."

"Ah! That's right!"

Hearing what Shiho said, Dr. Ali couldn't help saying:

"There is also a way to get cake samples directly! Hey, it's a pity that I didn't think of a way to keep some cakes at Ms. Hualian's place..."

"It's not that you eat too much, doctor, it's only a few yuan in total..."

After giving Dr. Ali a blank look, Shiho couldn't help saying:

"Besides, if you don't control your diet well, your health will be very worrying."

Regarding this, Dr. Ali scratched his head with a wry smile, and said with a helpless smile:

"Ah... well... that's right, that's right! When we left, I remember there were still a few pieces of cake left, or..."

As he said that, Dr. Ali couldn't help but change the topic, and then Zhibao looked at Dr. Ali's expression coldly, and finally he could only sigh helplessly, and turned around:

"Okay, then, doctor, go ahead and look in the kitchen to see if you can find the pastry chef. I'll go back upstairs to Miss Hualian and see if I can find the remaining cake samples."

"Ah good."

With a wry smile, watching Shiho's leaving back, Dr. Ali responded, and then continued to walk towards the kitchen.

And Shiho, who finally managed to get away from Dr. Ari, pretended to be nonchalant, and came to the entrance of the safe passage on this floor.

After pushing the door and entering, Shiho was about to run towards the B3 floor downstairs——

Then, just after Zhiho entered the safe passage and closed the passage door, a small hand suddenly reached Zhiho's right hand from behind the door on one side, and gently grabbed Zhibao's right hand.

Such a situation suddenly startled Shiho, and he couldn't help trembling——

"Hey! Where are you going!"

A somewhat anxious tone, a slightly immature child's voice, came from Shiho's side, and the words were a bit serious.

After hearing this voice, Zhibao, who was a little frightened at first, couldn't help but froze for a moment, and lowered his head to look at the owner of this little hand who suddenly appeared——

Borrowing the dim light in the safe passage, I saw a somewhat familiar long-haired little girl wearing a children's dress, looking up at herself with a serious face.

And this little girl, why does that white children's dress on her body look... so familiar!
(End of this chapter)