Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 299 Conan gets bored and starts a horror movie
Conan was stunned and said nothing.

After tying the knot, Xiaolan carried him on her back and climbed up the cliff.

Putting Conan in front of Megure Juzo, Xiaolan seriously explained the danger of Conan's previous reckless behavior.

Megure Jusan inexplicably felt a sense of déjà vu as if a child had made a mistake at school and he, as a parent, was called over by the class teacher to be criticized, so he nodded nervously.

"You can't ignore it, Conan-kun."

Xiaolan ruffled Conan's hair, tied the vine to a stone, and threw it across the cliff.

Megure Jusan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and looked at Conan sideways.

Conan sighed speechlessly: "I know."

It's not like I'm really arrogant and reckless, I just haven't adapted to the body of a child yet.

The sound of the wooden bridge swaying came from under the cliff. Kyogoku Makoto was standing on the edge of the cliff opposite, holding the vines with both hands and dragging them backwards.

The police officers were watching with fear, fearing that Kyogoku Shin might lose his balance and fall off the cliff.

But Kyogoku Makoto's figure was like an eternal boulder, not shaking at all.

The last wooden board of the broken bridge touched the other side of the cliff. Kyogoku Makoto pulled it up a little more and quickly wrapped the end of the vine around a big tree at the edge of the forest.

Xiaolan was the first to cross the bridge. She arrived at the other side of the cliff smoothly and turned back to make an OK gesture to everyone.

Conan took a step forward, wanting to be the second one to rush over, but was caught by Megure Jusan.

"That won't do, Conan. I was just taught a lesson."

"...A wooden pile on the other side of the bridge fell down, and I just wanted to get over there as quickly as possible to see the traces."

"Then I'll walk faster than your short legs can run."

"........."

Conan felt more and more uncomfortable with his body getting smaller. Even though Inspector Megure knew that he was not a real child, he still subconsciously worried that he had no freedom at all.

Megure Jusan quickly crossed the bridge and placed Conan at the end of the bridge.

Conan squatted down and carefully examined the marks on the wooden stake and the soil that was blown away when the stake fell, and finally came to a conclusion that made him feel relieved.

"This is someone deliberately pretending to be attacked by a wild animal. It should have happened after the rain stopped early this morning. The traces he left behind are barely passable, but the rain did not penetrate the wood enough. You can see it if you pinch the wood deeper with your fingernails."

Unlike Conan who was happy to hear about the case, Megure Jusan looked solemn after hearing this.

If there are human factors, it is definitely not an ordinary missing case. The two missing persons may have been killed.

Two police officers were assigned to search for clues nearby, while Megure Juzo and his group continued to head towards the villa under the leadership of Suzuki Sonoko.

Soon, they met Suzuki Ayako and two other people who were waiting for the police at the door of the villa.

After the few people greeted each other, they quickly entered the questioning session.

Suzuki Ayako acted calmly and knew nothing about anything. She only said that it rained last night and they all went to bed early. They only discovered that two people were missing when they were having breakfast after daybreak.

The other two men were mostly silent, and only agreed occasionally, which made Xiaolan and Conan, who were watching, look suspicious.

"Mr. Ota, have you been staying in the villa?"

Conan noticed that there were no mud prints on the shoes of the long-haired handsome boy. Logically, after they found someone missing this morning, they would search in the forest, but because of the heavy rain last night, the forest ground was quite muddy at this time.

It would be normal for the other two people to have mud marks on their shoes, but even if there was someone staying at the villa, it should be Suzuki Ayako, a woman.

"Ota was feeling a little under the weather this morning."

Suzuki Ayako glanced at the pretty boy who had a hint of panic on his face, and said calmly.

The pretty boy nodded quickly but did not open his mouth to agree, as he was worried that he might say something wrong.

However, his actions were so suspicious that even the police, who had always been in the background, could not hide it.

Megure Jusan's eyes became serious and he was about to step forward to ask questions.

"Let's ask her individually. Miss Ayako will be the last one."

Xiaolan spoke and gave Sonoko an apologetic look.

Sonoko opened her mouth but no words came out. She looked at her sister, but Suzuki Ayako just looked calmly somewhere in the forest and didn't even look back at her.

Megure Juzo followed Suzuki Ayako's line of sight and saw nothing in the forest. Perhaps because the treetops were too dense, it seemed a bit eerie.

Megure Juzo looked down at Conan again, and Conan nodded while stroking his chin in thought.

So the individual questioning began, and the first target was a pretty boy who looked like he had a normal mentality.

Megure Juzo did not enter the villa, but just pulled the person aside. Under Conan's repeated questioning, the handsome boy soon became at a loss, his face turned pale and he showed cold sweat.

It was much simpler than expected. Was it just an impulse murder?

Conan thought with some disappointment.

Finally, the handsome man's knees went weak and he fell to his knees in the mud, admitting that the broken bridge and some traces in the forest were caused by Suzuki Ayako and Kakutani Hiroki. He was a little timid in the morning and pretended to have a cold and did not go with them.

In fact, the two policemen who went into the forest to search for clues have not returned yet, and Conan has no idea what traces the pretty boy was talking about.

But roughly speaking, it is probably traces of wild animals in disguise, and possibly corpses of those who were attacked.

At this point, there is no need to search further for these traces. Just let the person involved take them there in person.

Megure Juzo immediately called the subordinates he had assigned earlier and asked them to come to the villa, while Conan continued to inquire about the real murderer and the motive for the murder.

Judging from the performance of the three of them before, Conan tends to believe that the main messenger is Suzuki Ayako.

Conan turned his head and found that Suzuki Ayako looked calm and Kakutani Hiroki looked pale, and he became more and more certain.

At the same time, he made a profile of Suzuki Ayako in his mind, probably...

A young lady who doesn't take human life seriously, even if she has been exposed, she thinks that with the support of the Suzuki Group behind her, nothing will happen.

Conan hated this kind of person very much, but Suzuki Ayako noticed his gaze and smiled at him.

hateful!

What a shameless criminal!

Conan became more and more annoyed and continued to question Hua Meinan. However, contrary to his expectation, even though Hua Meinan was almost mentally collapsed, he did not tell him what happened last night.

Conan thought that his intimidation was not enough, so he asked a young police officer with a naturally fierce look to play the villain.

As a result, the pretty boy's eyes rolled back and he fainted with a click, but he still didn't tell the truth.

The young police officer hurried forward to pinch the beautiful man's hair, and seeing this scene, Conan finally understood the meaning of Suzuki Ayako's smile.

She is fearless!
Even if the scene she faked was easily seen through, she was absolutely sure that these two people would not tell the truth!
Conan immediately clenched his fists, anger flashing in his eyes.

Megure Jusan also came to a similar conclusion and said with a dark face: "You were threatened by Suzuki Ayako. The Suzuki Group does have the ability to decide the life and death of ordinary people."

"We can definitely find out, it just takes some time." Conan looked at the beautiful boy who had just woken up, his eyes flickering, "Officer Megure, find a room in the villa. We need to block everyone's sight." Megure Jusan was startled and quickly dissuaded him, "Conan, torture is illegal."

"..."

Conan rolled his eyes. "I mean the prisoner's dilemma. They are most likely a gang, and there are threats and inducements. It is impossible for everyone to trust each other."

Megure Jusan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly did as he was told.

What was beyond their expectations was that even in this isolated and helpless situation, even though the police said they could provide shelter for them and their families, Hana Meinan and Hiroki Kadoya said nothing about what happened last night.

Even though the bad-cop police officer threatened that if the others confessed, they would be labeled as the main culprit and given a heavy sentence, they looked painful but remained silent.

"hateful!"

On the corridor on the second floor of the villa, Megure Jusan punched the wall heavily, his face livid: "They look like they are worried that they will die if they speak out. Suzuki Ayako, she has gone too far!"

Conan's eyes were also deep. Just now, he and Megure Jusan went to deceive Suzuki Ayako, saying that the pretty boy had confessed, and she would be sentenced heavily if she didn't confess.

However, Suzuki Ayako remained very calm and asked them, saying that the matter was over, so could she leave?
She is so arrogant and has no regard for the law at all. It seems that she is very confident in her threats.

"Conan."

Megure Jusan said in a deep voice: "In this situation, we can only say that they are very suspicious, but if we can't find solid evidence, we really can't convict them."

Conan naturally knew this and nodded: "Have the bodies of the missing people been found in the forest?"

"No, Takiya suspects they were thrown off the cliff."

"How deep is that cliff?"

"This……"

"Can you ask Xiaolan and Mr. Kyogoku to go down and search? They shouldn't be in danger."

After hearing this, Megure Jusan hesitated for a few seconds and felt that it was not a good idea to let irrelevant people participate in such a dangerous matter.

But after all, there was the performance of those two non-humans before, and the case was important, so he nodded and went to the lobby on the first floor to ask Xiaolan and Kyogoku Makoto for their opinions.

The two naturally agreed and went with the police to determine the route and set up safety ropes.

During this period, Conan and his men searched the villa inside and out and indeed found some suspicious traces.

But he didn't know what happened last night, after all, there was no way to compare them.

When Xiaolan and the other person put on high-intensity mining lamps and were about to fall down the cliff, Conan also rushed to the edge of the cliff and said that he wanted to go down too.

He was confident that his observation skills were better than those of these two people.

Megure Juzo hesitated for two seconds, and after obtaining Kyogoku Makoto's consent, he tied Conan to his back.

A burning smell of sweat hit Conan in the face, and he almost fainted. It took him a while to get used to it, and he looked eagerly at Xiaolan who was not far away.

If possible, he would certainly like to change someone else, because Xiaolan smells so good.

But at this time they were already twenty meters below the cliff, so of course there was no way to change.

Even the light in the sky has condensed into a line, and the birds under the clouds are dancing slowly, but they are gone in a flash.

Xiaolan and Kyogoku Makoto have turned on their miners' lamps and are looking down from time to time. Conan has been looking carefully, but all he sees is a deep darkness.

"The rope is almost gone."

When Xiaolan said this, Conan was surprised to find that there was still no bottom to be seen.

"The rope is eighty meters long. This mountain isn't that much higher in this area," Conan said in surprise.

Kyogoku Makoto looked downward, and under the illumination of the mining lamp, a thick layer of fog obscured everything.

He said: "Maybe we are about to reach the bottom, but we can't see it clearly."

“Don’t take unnecessary risks.”

Hearing some danger, Xiaolan quickly said: "Go up and connect the two ropes together, and then come down again."

Kyogoku Shintan inserted his hand into the rock wall easily, as if inserting tofu, and held it firmly.

"What do you say, little detective?"

"Time waits for no one, go down and take a look immediately!"

Conan really wanted to say that.

But when he noticed Xiaolan's stern look, and then looked at the bandage on Kyogoku Makoto's left arm with a few drops of blood oozing out, he finally became dejected.

"It's been a long time since the incident happened. We don't need to rush. Safety is more important."

"Conan-kun is so good."

Xiaolan laughed and started to climb up.

Conan rolled his eyes, and when he heard Kyogoku Shinya smile, his body began to rise and fall.

However, in a moment, Conan saw Kyogoku Makoto and Xiaolan turned around at the same time and shouted loudly.

"who!"

Conan felt a little confused and looked back. He saw a pale and swollen human figure rising and falling in the deep fog at the bottom of the cliff!

Chubby face, black-framed round glasses, blue jacket.

Conan's pupils suddenly shrank. This person was one of the missing persons, Takahashi Ryoichi!

Looking at his broken glasses, cloudy gray eyes, and countless wounds all over his body, it was obvious that he had been dead for a long time!

"We have really reached the bottom here."

A corpse would not float in the air, it must be supported by the ground. Kyogoku Makoto loosened the rope and jumped towards the corpse.

Xiaolan and Conan had the same idea and did not say anything to stop him. Seeing that Kyogoku Makoto's toes were about to touch the surface where the corpse was lying, Xiaolan was also ready to let go and jump.

However, the next moment, the three of them felt a tightness in their hearts.

The strong wind created by Kyogoku Makoto blew away some of the thick fog, but it was still deep and dark under his feet, and there was no ground at all!

"Xiaolan!"

Conan shouted instantly.

Boom——! ! !
The sound of the rope breaking was heard at the same time. Conan caught a glimpse of a gray snake shadow rushing towards him from the corner of his eye and quickly retracted his head.

Snapped--!
Kyogoku Makoto, who was trying to adjust his body in the air, grabbed the rope and followed the force of gravity. With a "bang", he crashed heavily into the cliff wall.

Kyogoku was hit sideways, and Conan was not beaten into a meat pie directly, but he still saw stars.

But he immediately shook his head, and with the help of the light from Xiaolan's mining lamp above, he looked at the body that was vaguely visible in the thick fog.

No, no support at all!
The body of Takahashi Ryoichi, who had been dead for who knows how long, was just suspended in the air like that!!!
(End of this chapter)