Zongman: Starting as a Prop Master

"Uh!"

Mao Lilan awkwardly put down the car door that she had accidentally pulled off, and asked with a smile:

"Yuanzi, where are they?"

As she spoke, Mao Lilan suddenly froze for a moment, and a trace of confusion flashed across her violet eyes.

"Yuanzi, do you smell anything?"

As she spoke, Mao Lilan slightly flapped her nostrils, trying to find the source of the odor.

Sniffing and mumbling to himself,

"Could it be that the car is leaking oil?"

Hearing what Mao Lilan said, Suzuki Sonoko also came over nervously and shouted,

"No, no, what smell are you talking about?"

As she spoke, Suzuki Sonoko also gently raised her nose, trying to capture the strange smell that Mouri Ran mentioned.

"Sniff sniff!"

Suzuki Sonoko wrinkled her nose and looked at the car in deep thought. After a while, she was a little confused, but still responded with certainty:

"Don't worry, it's not the smell of gasoline, so don't worry about a fire."

After that, Suzuki Sonoko seemed to be asking and answering her own questions, and said strangely:

"Hmm, what exactly is that smell? And where are they? They disappeared in the blink of an eye."

After circling the car a few times, Mao Lilan rested her chin on her index finger and tilted her head to look inside the car in confusion, with doubts all over her face.

"Strange, there's no one inside, how did the car start just now?"

I thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.

So, she turned her doubtful eyes to Suzuki Sonoko who arrived first.

"Hey, Sonoko, did you see Xiaoyi and Xiaoai just now~‖ ?"

Facing the innocent gaze of Mao Lilan, the scene just now lingered in my mind,

I was about to explain, but when the words came to my lips, I didn't know why I kept it secret.

He avoided her gaze, not daring to look into Mao Lilan's eyes, and laughed in a vague tone.

"I…I didn't see it either."

Mao Lilan is just simple, not simple-minded.

"Really?"

With violet eyes, she looked suspiciously at Suzuki Sonoko, who didn't dare to look her in the eye. Ran Mouri felt that her best friend seemed to be hiding something from her.

"Of course."

Suzuki Sonoko couldn't stop talking, but she pretended to be angry, stiffened her neck and changed the subject.

"Maybe they escaped before."

"is it?"

Looking at Suzuki Sonoko suspiciously, Mao Lilan remembered the irregular shaking of the car before.

After a long time of trying to figure it out, she could only believe Suzuki Sonoko's lies for the time being.

"Well, let's find them quickly. It would be bad if they get hurt."

Eager to find someone, Mouri Ran stopped pestering them and turned around to look around for Ichinosuke and Haibara Ai.

"call!"

behind,

Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she found out that her "honest" best friend was fooled by her.

She didn't know whether she was bewitched by a ghost, or blinded by a ghost, or whether she had her own ulterior motives. She chose to help "Haibara Ai" cover up the truth.

Seeing that Ran Mouri had turned her back, Suzuki Sonoko patted her trembling chest, suppressed her inner panic, and then she had the mind to check the situation in the car.

"Ain must have escaped, but what about Xiaoyi? I haven't seen him yet."

Thinking back on everything she had seen before, Suzuki Sonoko found that she had only seen Haibara Ai from beginning to end and never saw Ichinosuke.

"Isn't Xiaoyi in the car?"

"Or did he really escape early?"

Muttering, Suzuki Sonoko leaned half of her body out and looked inside the car.

Upon looking, there was indeed no one there.

But Suzuki Sonoko did not give up and continued to carefully observe every inch of the car.

Upon taking a look, she quickly discovered something unusual inside the car.

Although there was no one in the cab, there were many marks left on the seat cushion.

"Hey, what is this?"

Looking at the strange pattern on the car seat, the great detective Suzuki Sonoko pinched her chin and fell into reasoning mode.

"This bigger dent must have been caused by Ai sitting on it, but what's with the deeper dent in the middle one that's several sizes smaller?"

"Could it be that……"

A light bulb suddenly lit up her mind, and Suzuki Sonoko felt as if she was possessed by Sherlock Holmes at this moment. She figured everything out in just a short moment.

"Could it be that Xiaoyi was sat on by Xiaoai, which left such marks?"

As she spoke, Suzuki Sonoko stretched out her arms and legs and gestured to the marks left on the cushion.

After a while, Suzuki Sonoko straightened up contentedly, muttering to herself:

"Sure enough, the outer circle is about the same thickness as my leg. I can't be wrong. This is the mark left by Ai."

"The one in the middle is only as thick as an arm. Judging from its size, if nothing unexpected happens, it should have been left by Xiaoyi. The mark is so deep that it could only have been caused by the weight of two people."

After some gestures, Suzuki Sonoko complacently deduced the whole truth.

"That's what I said. With so many traces, how could they escape the eyes of Detective Suzuki?"

Just as she was about to brag excitedly, Suzuki Sonoko's smiling face suddenly froze.

Imagining the scene in her mind, she felt as if she had discovered a huge secret.

After a while, he turned his neck stiffly with a mechanical creaking sound. His eyes widened as he looked at the marks on the cushion in disbelief.

"They won't..."

In an instant, countless 18+ images appeared in Suzuki Sonoko's mind.

"No way?"

The corners of my mouth couldn't help twitching.

I felt so embarrassed that a strange feeling slowly came over me.

"Gudu!"

Swallowing in disbelief, Suzuki Sonoko leaned over and began to carefully examine the details on the seat, trying to find more evidence.

Bending over and staring at the marks on the seat, Suzuki Sonoko began to fill in the truth of the incident and the cause of the accident in her mind.

"Could this be the way a car accident happens?"

Weird traces, panicked "Xiao Ai."

In an instant, Suzuki Sonoko had guessed the situation at that time almost exactly.

However, the more Suzuki Sonoko thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

Comparing Miyano Shiho's tall figure of about 1.7 meters in height with Ichinosuke's "small" stature, Suzuki Sonoko secretly smacked her lips.

"This ratio is quite different."

As Suzuki Sonoko ran her index finger over the dent on the seat, she became more and more suspicious.

"Xiaoyi, is it possible?"

"No matter how weird it is, he is just a five-year-old kid. Is it really possible for him to do this?"

Thinking about this, Suzuki Sonoko began to recall the scenes when they took a hot spring bath together.

However, no matter how hard she tried to recall, she still couldn't remember the scene.

At first, she just thought Ichinosuke was a little brat, and she was not a nympho, so how could she deliberately observe him?

"Damn it, if only I had taken it more seriously."

At this moment, Suzuki Sonoko regretted it. It would be great if she had hyperthymesia. Then, she would be able to remember everything clearly.

After a while, Suzuki Sonoko reluctantly withdrew her thoughts.

"Forget it. At worst, I'll just observe carefully later."

Fortunately, she was not the kind of person who liked to dwell on trivial matters. She threw that trace of regret out of her mind and began to check the "remains" in the car again.

However, despite saying this, Suzuki Sonoko's heart is still full of regrets.

"Next time, be sure to observe carefully."

While making up her mind, Suzuki Sonoko did not forget what was happening at the moment.

Filled with curiosity, Suzuki Sonoko felt that her current IQ had increased by at least 50%.

Soon, she discovered another abnormality.

"Hey, what's this? Did you accidentally spill the water?"

In the middle of the furry cushion, a few crystal clear water droplets rolled down in twos and threes.

It looks like the water was spilled.

The clear dewdrops, under the shining of the artificial sun, emit vivid light, like bright pearls transformed from mermaid's tears.

The fluff on the surface of the cushion is an excellent hydrophobic material. While isolating the fabric from absorbing water, it also gently holds up the dewdrops, making them more round and transparent.