Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 300: Conan refuses to change his bad habits, and conducts a super-scientific experiment!

Kyogoku Makoto fixed his body on the rock wall and asked Xiaolan to loosen half of the rope in her hand and swing it towards Takahashi Ryoichi's body.

The fog rolled in, but there was no obstruction.

No!

Really do not have!

Even though the three of them were strong-willed people, seeing a corpse floating helplessly in the mist still made their pupils tremble and they were filled with shock and doubt.

Could it be that this world is not purely technological, but that mysterious forces really exist? !
“It doesn’t have to be a corpse!”

Conan swallowed and said in a dry voice: "He is in the fog, we can't see clearly, it is possible that he is just a balloon dummy. Kaito Kid often uses this trick. Who knows if the real murderer wants to use this method to scare us."

Xiaolan thought this was possible, and just as she was about to speak, she heard Megure Jusan's urgent call from the ray of light at the top of the cliff.

"Conan! Xiaolan! Mr. Kyogoku! Are you all okay?!"

"We're fine!"

Xiaolan quickly replied loudly, knowing that she had just broken the rope used by Kyogoku Makoto, and there would definitely be some feedback from above, so she was worried that an accident might have happened.

After shouting a few more times to ask the people above not to worry, Xiaolan asked them to throw down the other half of the rope used by Kyogoku Makoto, and she caught it, firmly connected it to the end of the rope she was using, and leaned her body down a little more.

After checking that the arc was right, Xiaolan stepped heavily on the cliff with her toes. The rope swung and she swung towards the corpse in the mist in the center of the cliff.

Kyogoku Makoto was lying on the cliff, watching Xiaolan's actions with admiration in his eyes.

Maori is truly a female hero.

Conan, who was lying on Kyogoku Makoto's back, had simpler thoughts, but his eyes were quite complicated.

Xiaolan suddenly became very handsome.

Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with me anymore.

Snapped--!
Xiaolan grabbed the corpse's right leg in mid-air, her eyes changed slightly, and as she used up all her strength, her whole body began to sway.

The toes touch the rock wall first to relieve the force and land smoothly.

“It’s a real corpse.”

Xiaolan looked at the two people below and said.

Conan already knew the answer when he saw the corpse dangling in the air, but when he heard Xiaolan confirm it herself, his expression was still quite complicated.

What exactly is going on?

Xiaolan threw the body over her shoulder and began to climb up the rope.

The extended rope had actually fallen next to Kyogoku Makoto, but to prevent the rope from breaking, he still lay on the rock wall, just looking up at Xiaolan.

After a while, he suddenly said, "Don't you think Maori-san is afraid?"

Conan also looked up and saw Xiaolan running from the darkness to the light with a complicated look in her eyes.

“Maybe there are more important beliefs.”

In the past, Xiaolan would scream every time she saw a corpse and call the police at the fastest speed.

Why, in just two weeks, everything changed?
Not only the courage and character, but also the observation and logical thinking abilities are all different from the past.

Why did all the changes happen after he left?
"You know what, little detective."

Kyogoku Makoto smiled and said, "In the Blue Castle before, Maori-san also helped the police. He even stood at the front when exploring the secret passage."

Except for a cheerful and reckless guy, who excitedly ran to the front as soon as he entered the secret passage, and then jumped into Maori's arms when he saw the corpse.

When Kyogoku Makoto thought of this, his expression suddenly became quite complicated, and he recalled the scene he saw after he rushed in eagerly.

In front of the corpse that had already turned into bones, under the dim light, Sonoko's eyes flashed a trace of confusion, and she wrapped her arms around Xiaolan's neck.

Xiaolan tilted her head slightly, and Sonoko's lips pressed against her cheek, and there was silence all around.

If last night could be covered up by drunkenness, then the scene that happened in the secret passage in front of everyone undoubtedly explained a problem.

So Kyogoku Makoto quietly retreated, and out of some conflicted feelings, he said those words to Hotaru.

He didn't explain it in detail, but he felt that Yingsheng must know it, after all, there were many other people who knew about it.

But Yingsheng didn't care about it at all. Time passed and it is now.

"Eh?"

Conan's eyes lit up: "Kyogoku brother, did you guys also encounter a case at the Blue Castle? Have you solved it?"

"It's been solved. It was Mizuki who accidentally passed by there during morning exercise."

Xiaolan's figure had disappeared at the end of the light, and she shouted to the bottom. Kyogoku Makoto pulled the rope and climbed up while telling Conan what had happened before.

When Conan learned about Hotaru's quick puzzle-solving speed, his eyes immediately dimmed.

Mizutsuki had previously said that she wasn’t good at reasoning, but it turns out she’s very good at it.

Then the probability that Moriarty is him has increased again.

"Tsk..."

In the darkness at the center of the cliff, Yingsheng sighed helplessly in his heart. How could Kyogoku Makoto, a top warrior, be chatting with a child?

And this kid doesn't look right either, he's too precocious. Megure Jusan also trusts him very much.

Big problem.

Could he be Megure Jusan’s illegitimate son?

Yingsheng was thoughtful and thought that there was a greater possibility, that this little ghost was actually a fake child who was transformed from an adult into a smaller one, just like Haibara Ai.

Megure Jusan trusted him so much, and his face seemed familiar.

As expected, the most likely person is Kudo.

Just as Nozomi said, Kudo Shinichi suffered a fatal injury yesterday evening, but Megure Juzo said he was fine.

If drug A brought him back to life and made him smaller, then everything would make sense.

It was just the winery that sniped him, so where did the A drug he took come from?

Toru Amuro?
Belmode?

Let’s ask Xiao Ai later.

By the way, isn’t it said that drug A can only be effective on the Miyano family’s bloodline? Could it be that Kudo and Ai are actually relatives?

Find an opportunity to draw a tube of his blood. If Conan's guess is true, this sample will definitely be helpful to the research on Drug A.

Kyogoku Makoto was about to reach the top of the cliff. Hotaru, who had been hanging bacon in the middle of the cliff for a long time, finally moved his hand and leaned towards the cliff where the police were.

If the sunlight in the sky were more vertical and stronger, you could see a translucent piano wire stretched tightly between the two sides of the cliff.

Fireflies move by hanging on it.

In fact, Xiaolan's mining lamp almost shone on him once, forcing him to quickly use his murderous intent to create optical camouflage, thus avoiding such an awkward encounter.

It was mostly dark below the cliff, and he blended perfectly into the background, and was ultimately not discovered.

The reason why Takahashi Ryoichi's body was suspended in the air was because he was hung in the air with piano wires and was covered by fog, making it even more difficult to find.

When Xiaolan came closer, Yingsheng naturally retracted the piano strings lightly.

The balloon dummy that Conan mentioned, Yingsheng had thought about it before, and the material was Takahashi Ryoichi's skin. But that was too troublesome, and Takahashi Ryoichi's body was covered with wounds from the revenge of the undead last night, and the airtightness was also average.

A few breaths later, listening to the exclamations of the police on the cliff, Yingsheng felt that his trick could probably get a passing score.

But if we investigate carefully, we may find clues on Takahashi Ryoichi's body.

So, Yingsheng still has one last step to take.

It should be time.

The temperature is enough.

Three, two, one.

There was a sudden commotion at the top of the cliff, and someone exclaimed, "The body is on fire."

Yingsheng's mouth curled slightly, his hand loosened and fell down.

The wind whistled in my ears and the distance of a hundred meters passed in a flash.

Yingsheng landed on the ground, cushioned, and unharmed.

The thing under his butt was quite elastic. It was a camping tent that he had collected from another villa.

In fact, just as Kyogoku Makoto had expected before, he was not far from the ground, at most twenty meters.

Yingsheng stood up and found a pile of kerosene and candles on the ground according to his previous arrangements.

This place was originally used for camping. I don’t know what original idea the garden had, but unfortunately the weather was not good and a heavy rain ruined the camping trip.

But this was convenient for Yingsheng, as he just happened to have an idea that could be verified by this.

Throwing a piece of pure cotton clothing on the ground, Yingsheng quickly poured out all the kerosene. The man above was not an idiot. It was just a phosphorescent fire and could be easily extinguished with soil. He had to hurry.

Lighting candles and adding kerosene, Yingsheng threw them all into a pile. The bottom of the cliff, which had never seen the sun, was finally bright.

But the flame was quite small, like a bonfire in a dark jungle, and could only illuminate a small area.

Thick fog rolled around, the dark black ground was covered with gray-brown lichens, and many centipedes and millipedes were fleeing at a rapid speed.

These light and heat are vital to human beings, but they always try to avoid them.

The temperature at the bottom of the cliff rose, and the cold air that had been deposited for a long time finally flowed slowly.

Yingsheng raised his hand and felt the air carefully. The fine hairs on the back of his hand were shaking slightly.

Following the direction of air flow, Yingsheng turned his wrist and drew a circle in the air.

The air flow turned into a vortex, floating for a moment and was about to dissipate.

【Murderous Intent-1, Enlightenment! 】

The vortex that should have dissipated in the chaotic airflow suddenly took shape, stirring the surrounding air and lasting for a long time.

Yingsheng turned his palm upward, and the vortex of air continued to rotate in his palm.

The formation principle of a cyclone, or tornado, can be roughly summarized as follows: strong updrafts begin to rotate under the action of wind shear, and as the cyclone continues to develop, its rotation intensity gradually increases.

Among them, wind shear helps to rotate and strengthen the updrafts.

And updrafts, or hot air, are the food that keeps tornadoes growing and developing.

Yingsheng placed his hand on the not-so-big fire, and the whirlwind mixed with the hot updraft, expanding slightly in size.

The surrounding white mist and candle smoke gathered together, and the wind gradually took shape.

Yingsheng withdrew his hand, but the slightly grayish whirlwind remained in place, slowly growing stronger.

Yingsheng walked a little further away, raised his hands to hold the fire and the wind, his eyes becoming deeper and deeper.

【Murderous Intent-10, Enlightenment! 】

boom--! ! !
Flames and whirlwinds erupted instantly!
On the cliff, everyone was struggling to dig soil from the surrounding mud with their hands, trying to put out the raging flames on Takahashi Ryoichi's body.

Conan felt heavy in his heart at this moment. He was unwilling to believe that there was any mysterious power in this world. But everything that happened now showed him that the mastermind behind the scenes was very sophisticated and had completely tricked them.

Ryoichi Takahashi's body was coated with white phosphorus. He was fine because the temperature was low at the bottom of the cliff, but after he climbed up the cliff, the temperature rose and he started to burn. That should be how it happened.

But what about Takahashi Ryoichi's swollen body?

Is the burning at this time a deliberate catalysis of the "human candle" by the mastermind behind the scenes?

A human candle is a candle that, under special burning conditions, uses the clothes on the deceased's body as a wick and the subcutaneous fat layer as fuel, allowing the corpse to burn like a candle.

In order to make the fire on Takahashi Ryoichi's body bigger and better eliminate clues, Yingsheng would of course use this method.

But he knew that Takahashi Ryoichi was not fat and did not have enough fat, so he probably could not delay for too long.

The fact was just as he expected. With the concerted efforts of everyone on the cliff, even without suitable tools such as shovels, the fire on Takahashi Ryoichi's body showed signs of being extinguished.

And right now.

boom--! ! !
A loud bang was heard from under the cliff, and it kept echoing through the cliff, sounding like thunder in the sky, or the roar of some terrifying existence.

Conan quickly threw the dirt in his hands, ran to the edge of the cliff and looked down, only to see a fire dragon rising into the sky, about to come into his sight!
roar!

Devour!

He is about to die in flames!
boom--!
A pillar of fire rose up from in front of him, singeing his eyebrows and the hair on his forehead and making his mouth dry.

His sight suddenly flew backwards, and with a force coming from the back of his collar, Conan fell heavily to the ground, rolling several times in the mud, looking quite embarrassed.

But he didn't care about all that at the moment. He raised his head, wiped a handful of dirt on his face, and quickly looked towards the edge of the cliff.

In front of the vast pillar of fire, stood a rather tiny girl.

It's Xiaolan!
She saved herself again!
This thought flashed through Conan's mind subconsciously, and his thoughts became complicated for a moment, but he immediately focused all his attention on the pillar of fire that was slowly shrinking towards the center.

Xiaolan didn't even look at him. Like everyone else, she stared at the whirlwind that was becoming increasingly clear.

whirlwind?

tornado?
A sense of absurdity suddenly arose in everyone's heart. A fire tornado rose from the bottom of the cliff. What kind of outrageous situation was this? !

"!!!!!!"

It's even more outrageous than what is outrageous. Xiaolan, who has sharp eyes and ears and is closest to the cliff, was the first to discover the abnormality.

"There's someone in the fire tornado!"

Everyone felt their scalps tingling and looked intently. When the aftermath of the fire gradually subsided, they finally saw it.

A large black cloak was constantly rising and falling in the eye of the fire tornado!

To be precise, this is not a human.

But everyone present clearly felt a condescending gaze.

Xiaolan slowly took a step back.

All eyes immediately turned to her.

Xiaolan stopped immediately and kept thinking about how to get out of this situation.

And at this moment, everyone heard the man in the black cloak say something shocking.

"I like someone."

(End of this chapter)