Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"Then you should come and check to see if your sister is with me!" Dago Miura seemed to be a little annoyed by the suspicion, he pushed the door behind him completely, and said to Chi Feichi seriously, "Mr. Chi, Please come and check it out, and then I will go to the stage to give my own rating, this game is very important to me, I don’t want the game to be affected in any way.”

There are no windows or other exits in the lounge, and the ventilation relies on narrow vents at the top, which even small children may not be able to crawl into.

The room is also very simple, with only a desk, a row of bookshelves and two single sofas, there is no place to hide an adult woman at all.

Just to be on the safe side, Chi Feichi went in and checked around, and after confirming that there was no mechanism or place to hide people in the room, he turned and walked out of the lounge, "Mr. Miura, did you see when Ms. Hualian left here?" In which direction did she go?"

Shou Meimei followed into the lounge to check, but she couldn't find Shou Hualian, and she didn't have the nerve to talk anymore.

"No, she closed the door for me when she left, so I didn't see which direction I was going," Daigo Miura glanced at Shou Meimei's worried and disappointed expression, and his tone eased, "But listen to her footsteps , she was probably walking towards the contestants lounge."

Shou Meimei was about to speak when she heard the phone ringing, she quickly took out her phone and answered the call.

"Mom, it's me...Huh? Did the first round of wedding dresses be taken off and placed on the bed in her room? Then, what about the dresses I wore for self-introduction and talent show?...Is it...missing? ...Is the belt under the dress gone too? ...Yes... I see, I'll ask the others..."

After hanging up the phone, Shou Meimei explained the situation to Chi Feichi.

Before receiving a call from Mao Lilan, Shou Meimei didn't think that Shou Hualian might have gone back to her room, so she called Shou Meiling while rushing to the bathroom.

And Shou Meiling called just now, saying that she was in the room on the 20th floor and found the wedding dress on Shou Hualian's bed. At the same time, Shou Meiling also found a dust bag in the room, which originally contained Shou Hualian The gown to be worn in the second round, now the gown and the belt in the gown have been removed, only the bag remains in the room.

"That is to say, after Ms. Hualian and us arrived at the contestants' lounge, she told us that she was going to take a shower," Sonoko Suzuki stroked his chin to organize his thoughts, "After we got rid of Xiaolan and us, she came out of the bathroom and arrived at Mr. Miura. I want Mr. Miura to help create an opportunity to get in touch with Brother Feichi. The conversation will take at least two or three minutes. Therefore, when she leaves Mr. Miura's room, Xiaolan and I should still be changing in the locker room. , she didn't greet us, took the dress that she took to the bathroom before, and went upstairs to change in her room..."

"No one saw her leave, which means she intentionally avoided other people, right?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked, "But why did she avoid us and go upstairs to change clothes by herself?"

"Could it be that she wants to prepare secretly in order to surprise everyone in the second round?" Daigo Miura speculated.

"The second round of exhibition will start in less than five minutes... Anyway, I'll look elsewhere!" After Miura's lounge, Shou Mimi anxiously searched around the stage.

"Really, I didn't even say 'I'm sorry'," Daigo Miura looked at Shou Meimei's back and complained in a low voice, "But Miss Hualian is really pitiful, just like a marionette, her life has been interfered by her mother and sister Now, I guess Miss Hua Lian has had enough of them."

Seeing that Yueshui Nanatsuki and Mao Lilan had already followed, Chi Feichi was not in a hurry to leave. He looked at Shou Meimei's back and said, "Miss Meimei doesn't look like a strong person."

"But their mothers are." Dago Miura shared the information with Chi Feichi with emotion on his face, "Mrs. Miss has grown up a bit, and she has continued to achieve good results since she debuted, until now."

"Will Miss Meimei be jealous of Miss Hualian?" Chi Feichi asked suddenly.

"Then I don't know," Miura Dago thought, "but Miss Meimei has always been very kind to Miss Hualian..."

Chi Feichi saw that Miura Dawu was unable to provide new clues here, so he offered to leave, "I'll go and see if they can find Miss Hualian."

"Then I'll prepare the statistics and announce the scores first," Dago Miura said with a smile on his face, "Please don't worry too much, if Miss Hualian left by herself, then she will definitely be there before the start of the second round. If she comes back by herself, she will not give up the championship of the Miss Hefeng Contest."

Chi Feichi nodded perfunctorily, and chased after the girls in the direction they left.

Backstage, Shou Meimei found Shoichi Amano's lounge, and had an argument with Shoichi Amano again.

"Hey, is it possible that you suspect me because I know how to use a marionette?" Shoichi Amano declared anxiously, "Although I was indeed dumped by Hua Lian, I won't either. Stupid enough to write such a threatening letter!"

"Hmph," Shou Meimei's face was as cold as a layer of frost, "who knows?"

Amano Shouyi looked at Shou Meimei, his eyes were a little more lonely, "Are you already so distrustful of me?"

"Of course, do you think you are worthy of my trust?" Shou Meimei asked resentfully, seeing Chi Feichi walked to the door, turned and walked out of the room, "Mr. You took it lightly!"

At the door, Shou Meimei explained to Chi Feichi, Yueshui Nanatsuki, Mao Lilan, and Suzuki Sonoko who were waiting outside, "He was dumped by Hualian before, and I thought he might hide Hualian, so he insisted on it." Go into his living room and have a look..."

Chi Feichi looked past Shou Meimei and looked at Amano Shoichi who was standing in the room.

Just now Sho Amano looked at Su Meimei's eyes very strangely, and Shou Meimei also had an indescribable resentment towards Shoichi Amano, so these two people won't have emotional entanglements, right?

The relationship between these people is really complicated.

As soon as Amano Xiang walked towards the door, he greeted Chi Feichi aloud, "Mr. Chi, after the current cello performance is over, my puppet show will start. I'm really sorry, I'm sorry."

"I want to go to the stage lift." Shou Meimei also walked towards the back of the stage anxiously. "In the second round, Hua Lian will use the wire to slowly lift herself from the stage lift, imitating the appearance of an angel." In the scene where she was alive, maybe she ran over by herself to prepare."

"Is that why you mentioned the belt when you and Mrs. Meiling were on the phone?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked.

"Yes, that belt is used to link her and Wia," Shou Meimei walked quickly to the lift platform, with a face of disapproval, "It was actually my mother's idea, she was in Las Vegas I have seen similar performances, although I thought it would be dangerous to hang them with a wire, and tried to stop them from thinking this way, but my mother thought that only in this way can I open up the gap with other people as soon as possible, and I didn’t listen to my advice at all... Huh?"

Next to the stage lift stood a huge wooden box, big enough to hold a young girl.

"That's the box I used to put the puppets in." Shoichi Amano walked up to the wooden box, probed into the wooden box, and reached out to hug the puppet inside.

The light near the elevator was dim, Koshimizu Nanatsuki saw Shoichi Amano suddenly stop, walked forward, took the opportunity to look into the wooden box, "Mr. Amano, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, it's just that the strings of the mechanical puppet are entangled with other puppets..."

Shoichi Amano smiled wryly, carried the female marionette out of the wooden box, manipulated the marionette and bowed gracefully to the girls, "How is it? Isn't it cute?"

"Yeah," Mao Lilan stared at the puppet and exclaimed, "It's as flexible as a real person."

Suzuki Sonoko nodded again and again, "It looks cute!"

"I want you all to relax a little bit..." Shoichi Amano said, seeing Shou Meimei looking at the other side with a cold face, he was stunned, "Aren't you interested..."

"Huh?" Mao Lilan heard Amano Shoichi's murmur, and looked up at Amano Shoichi suspiciously.

"It's nothing, it's my turn to perform, excuse me."

Sho Amano boarded the elevator with the puppet in his arms, and was sent to the stage by the elevator together with the big wooden box.

Suzuki Sonoko heard warm applause coming from the direction of the venue, and couldn't help but sighed, "Mr. Amano is very popular!"

Yueshui Nanatsuki returned to Chi Feichi's side, thinking, "I took the opportunity to look at the wooden box just now. There are indeed many puppets inside, and it is full of puppets. There should be no way to hide an adult woman..."

Chi Feichi looked at Shou Meimei who was looking around, "I'm more curious about who exactly Mr. Amano likes."

Shou Meimei's face changed slightly, and her movements of looking around and searching froze.

"Huh?" Suzuki Sonoko looked puzzled, "Ms. Meimei said just now that Mr. Amano was dumped by Ms. Hualian, and there should be no one else he likes besides Ms. Hualian, right?"

"Yes, there will be no one else except Hua Lian," Shou Meimei's eyes flashed a trace of resentment, she quickly cleared up her mood, and suggested to others, "After Mr. Amano's performance is over, it is time to announce The time for the first round of scoring and the official start of the second round of presentations, although Hua Lian ranked third, and there are two people in front of her who will introduce themselves and show their talents, but there is still not much time left for us, so we will split up and start again. Go find it!"

There is not much time left, so it is indeed a good way to search separately.

Nanatsuki Koshimi planned to walk the route from the backstage to Shou Hualian's room on the 20th floor. Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko, and Shou Meimei stayed in the backstage to continue searching. As for Chi Feichi, he was responsible for returning to the venue and going from the venue to the 20th floor. Find the past.

In the venue outside, for the puppet show's performance, the lighting in the venue was turned off a lot, and the stage was only illuminated by spotlights, making the place under the stage even darker.

The three children sat in the dark, watching the puppet show on the stage without blinking their eyes.

Dr. Ali was restless, and kept glancing at the small door that could lead to the backstage. He felt someone behind him touch his shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw Kudo Shinichi, who was wearing a top hat, put his hands on his shoulders and looked at him with a smile. , Surprised, "New..."

"Hush..." Kudo Shinichi squatted down, completely hidden in the dark shadows by Dr. Ali's body and the white round tablecloth, and reminded in a low voice, "Doctor, the soundtrack of the puppet show is not loud, and you Be quiet."

Dr. Ali looked nervously at the side door leading to the stage, and also lowered his voice, "Xinyi, why did you come here? Where's Ai? Have you got what you want?"