Conan Rick's Investigator

The zipper of the half-closed tent was opened with a slap, and the two were dumbfounded.

The tent was empty except for the sleeping bag lying limply on the ground.

"Why is there no one?"

The bald hunter was wondering when the spectacled hunter got into the tent first. He was already freezing and just wanted to find a warm place.

"Hey! Are you coming in?"

"If you don't come in, I'll zip you up!"

There was no other choice, the bald hunter could only crawl into the tent to soothe his cold feet.

With the tent, the two men's body temperature recovered a little and began to think about what to do next.

"Damn it! If that damn detective hadn't discovered the videotape, we wouldn't have ended up like this!"

The bald hunter rubbed his feet with his hands and cursed.

"What should we do now? Why not stay in the tent until daybreak?"

"No!" The bald hunter shook his head. "When daybreak comes, the people in the villa will definitely come out to look for us, and the police will also arrive."

"By that time, we'll really be finished."

The glasses hunter frowned. "So you mean to go find the videotape now?"

"Of course!"

Hearing the bald hunter's words, the bespectacled hunter was frightened and shook his head quickly, "No, go by yourself if you want to go. At least you're wearing a coat. If I go out again, I'll freeze to death..."

Upon hearing this, the bald hunter angrily grabbed the glasses hunter's collar and said viciously, "You have to go. I can't be the only one looking for the videotape!"

"But I will freeze to death!" The bespectacled hunter shook his head tremblingly.

"If you don't go, I'll kill you right now!"

The bald hunter threatened the spectacled hunter with words, and his raised fist was about to burst the other's glasses, making the relationship between the two look like that of Fat Tiger and Nobita.

At this moment, he no longer cared about so many things. In such an extreme environment, the friendship between his companions had long since disappeared.

The bald hunter had already made up his mind. If the videotape could not be found, he would let the spectacled hunter freeze to death in the wild, and then he would turn himself in to the police and put the main blame on the spectacled hunter.

Anyway, there is no evidence since the dead have no evidence, the faces of the two people were not directly recorded in the videotape, and the eyewitness Eryuan is also dead, so you can say whatever you want.

Under the threat of the bald hunter, the eyed hunter could only reluctantly walk out of the tent and put on the sleeping bag. Although it looked a little funny, he didn't care about his image for the sake of warmth.

"First, find where the body is!"

"Maybe the videotape was also found by the person who took the body away."

At the bald hunter's suggestion, the two began searching around the big rock.

The body's dragging marks were around the big rock, but the two of them each searched around the rock for half a circle, and no one could find the body.

"Could it be buried?"

The bald hunter shook his head, rejecting the glasses hunter's idea. "The soil underneath is frozen solid. It's impossible to bury it so easily."

"Let's go look for it again..."

The two of them searched carefully along the stone again and found that the dragging traces suddenly disappeared at the edge of the big stone.

Relying on their intuition, the two guessed that there should be a secret passage near the big rock.

After carefully feeling around up and down the big rock, the bespectacled hunter touched a stone protruding from the ground under the edge of the big rock.

He lay on the ground and pressed hard with his hands, and the back half of the boulder suddenly cracked.

The originally solid rock split into two, opening to both sides like a sliding door, revealing a cave leading to the ground below.

Perhaps it was the presence of wind and snow that caused the two of them to not even hear the sound of mechanical transmission.

"This, this is..."

The two looked at each other in disbelief, and then looked at the pitch-black cave together.

At this moment, curiosity and thirst for knowledge overshadowed everything, and the two hunters carefully walked down the steps and into the cave.

In the darkness, the bald hunter walked in front, holding a lighter picked up from the tent.

The dim light from the lighter had a limited illumination range and nothing could be seen beyond three meters. The two could only walk forward slowly and tentatively.

I don’t know how far I walked in the dark corridor, but the surroundings suddenly became clear.

This is an underground space of over a hundred square meters. The ground is flat and solid. The light green light emitted from nowhere makes the visibility here very impressive.

All around the underground space, there are various strange instruments with bizarre shapes.

The two of them felt as if they had walked into Frankenstein's laboratory or Alice's Wonderland.

But what caught their eyes the most was a gray operating table in the middle of the underground space.

The operating table was tilted at a moderate angle, and Eryuan Jiagui's body was placed on it.

"The body is there!"

The bald hunter shouted and rushed over to check.

The corpse's clothes were stripped clean, the wound on the head seemed to have been treated, and the whole person was extremely clean.

"This... what on earth is..."

The bald hunter opened his eyes wide, unable to believe what he saw, and muttered in surprise.

But before he could finish his words, the bespectacled hunter beside him screamed in terror.

"what!"

The glasses hunter fell to the ground in fear, pointing with trembling fingers at the large wooden basin on the ground next to the operating table.

The bald hunter leaned over to take a look in the direction of the finger and could hardly believe his eyes.

Inside the wooden basin, there was a pile of body organs!

A large amount of offal, minced meat, bones, and brains that have been broken into pieces... are thrown away casually like the offal thrown away by fishermen when processing fish.

Pink lines squirmed in the two men's brains. Even though they were two experienced hunters, they had never seen such a cruel method of handling things.

The two men's Adam's apples moved a few times before they forced themselves to suppress the urge to vomit.

"This seems to be... human..."

Judging from the size of the organ, the bald hunter guessed that it could not have come from a small animal like a wolf.

The spectacled hunter remained silent, somewhat frightened.

As the two of them were concentrating on looking at the minced meat and offal in the wooden basin——

On the operating table next to him, Eryuan's body sat up calmly.

Chapter 700 The Legend of the Snowman

underground space.

The bald hunter was staring at the brutal scene in the big wooden tub when he suddenly noticed some changes in the scene at the edge of his vision.

When I turned around, I saw Eryuan's body sitting on the operating table.

"what!"

The bald hunter screamed in fright, which immediately caused the spectacled hunter to scream as well.

The two looked at Eryuan sitting on the operating table in disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice: "You, you, you are not dead..."

"Eryuan" on the operating table was naked and turned his head slowly.

His eyes were wide open, his face expressionless, and he stared at the two hunters stiffly, as if deathly pale.

"Buzz...you..."

"You...are not dead...buzz..."

Two words that sounded neither human nor inhuman came out of "Eryuan's" mouth, which made the two hunters dumbfounded. They couldn't figure out what was going on.

At this moment, "Eryuan" suddenly raised his hand, holding a black, knobby metal object the size of a door handle, and aimed it at the two of them.

Before the two could react, a ball of blue sparks shot out from the front of the metal object and directly hit the bespectacled hunter's body.

The bespectacled hunter who was hit immediately began to convulse violently, blue electricity ran rampant on his skin, and the smell of burning filled the air.

"what!"

The bald hunter was startled and was about to ask what was going on when he saw "Eryuan" holding up the mysterious metal object and aiming at him again.

The bald hunter instinctively turned around and ran out, but found that two people and a dog were standing behind him.

"Woo——"

The gray Husky bared its teeth at the bald hunter, obviously considering him an enemy and ready to pounce and bite him in the next second.

The bald hunter took a closer look and saw that the dog was...

"Saburo?"

The bald hunter couldn't understand when the dog from the villa appeared here. Could it be that the people from the villa got here first?

When he looked up again, the owners of the two figures next to him gradually shed the darkness on their bodies and revealed their true faces.

"Yes, it's you!"

"How can this be!"

"Didn't you die four years ago?"

The bald hunter screamed in disbelief.

The next second, miserable screams echoed in the underground space.

……

The next day, the wind and snow stopped.

The tunnel leading to the villa was cleared and the police arrived late.

Since this place is some distance away from Tokyo, the person in charge of this case is not Inspector Megure, but an unknown local policeman.

The case has been solved and the murderer Yazi was put on a silver bracelet.

Qin Zhibo and Maori Kogoro also told the police that there were two hunters still at large, who were probably the perpetrators of the accidental death in the avalanche four years ago.

As for the videotape that could serve as evidence, it was in the backpack that Yazi discarded.

The police decided to split into two groups, one to search for the two hunters while the other to take Yazi to find the abandoned backpack.

"The backpack was discarded not far from the body..."

……

Led by Ako, the group advanced into the forest.

But after searching for a long time, they still couldn't find Eryuan Jiagui's body.

"The body should be here..."

Ako looked confused, and her companion, Kogoro Mouri, also felt that the body was nearby.

"The body was sitting here, with its back against the tree, just like me..."

Kogoro Mouri sat under a big tree and personally demonstrated to the police what happened when the body was discovered.

If it is a reasoning segment, Kogoro Mouri's posture is just right for Conan to launch the anesthetic needle. He can just close his eyes and start reasoning directly.

But now the body cannot be found, Conan can only look around cautiously and recall the place where the body was found.

The body should be located nearby. The bare ground should be visible at a glance, but why can't it be found?

Could it have been blown down by last night's wind and then buried by the snow?

Kogoro Mouri quickly put forward a hypothesis that was consistent with Conan's idea, and the police adopted it and arranged for people to search carefully under every tree.

……

Time passed little by little and the search continued into the afternoon.