Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

"call!"

In Kitazawa Village at night, the snow flakes fell like goose feathers, getting bigger and bigger, and the lights of the snow field became foggy.

In the forest area outside the ski resort, a snowmobile swayed to a stop.

"Brother Kido," Mitsuhiko looked at the snowmobile that had turned off again in front of him, and Gaocheng who was lying on the side studying, "Can you really repair cars?"

Motota and Ayumi next to him also looked worried.

Because he had so much fun, Gao Cheng rode the snowmobile out of the venue and into the woods, but when he planned to return, he seemed to have lost his way. What's worse, the bike was broken now.

"Strange," Gao Cheng got out from under the car, and wiped his sweat off the track under the car, "It doesn't look the same as a motorcycle, I'll try again."

Mitsuhiko's face turned completely pale.

For the first time, Gao Cheng felt unreliable.

"Too bad, I thought I would be fine if I followed Brother Kido, what should I do now? I will be scolded again when I go back." Ayumi said worriedly.

"That's not right," Yuan Tai said in a daze, "We came out with Brother Chenghu, who scolded us?"

Ayumi suddenly realized, "That's right, Brother Kido is here..."

Mitsuhiko sighed, and looked at the surrounding snow-covered forest in distress, "Let's forget about other things, the key now is how to go back?"

Gao Cheng heard a few children muttering, coughed lightly and said, "It's not a big problem, the engine should be overheated just now, it will be fine after cooling down for a while."

"But what about the way back? And the headlights seem to be broken..."

"There is no way to go back the same way, but as long as you go down the slope, there should be a road, and you can go back to the village directly from the road."

"It's illegal to ride on the road..." Mitsuhiko said weakly.

Gao Cheng felt that the trust of these little devils in him had loosened, and he quickly looked around carefully and said, "Don't worry about it so much at this time, and there will be no cars on the road at night... Anyway, let's go back to the village first. The snow doesn't seem to stop easily."

I don't know how to explain it when I go back... When nothing happened?

After a while,

The snowmobile engine finally returned to normal, only the headlights still did not respond, so Gao Cheng had no choice but to drive Ayumi and the others back on the road with the weak light of the watch flashlight, and drove straight along the ramp to the road.

He was also relieved to see Gao Cheng.

The roads around the village are not complicated, and you should be able to reach the village along the road.

I have to go back quickly, it doesn't matter if I get into trouble, if I miss the party of Muto and those people, I will be in trouble...

"Toot!"

A car was coming from the front, and the short-haired young driver noticed Gao Cheng and the others, and honked the horn in surprise.

"Isn't this the ski motorcycle in the village? Where are you going?"

"We are going back to the village." Guang Yan replied.

"Go back to the village? I'm going to the village now," the young man looked around, "Are you going the wrong way? This is far from the village."

"..."

The hotel lobby.

Takagi, Uncle Mori and his party had already contacted Hikawa and the others first, and were waiting for Muto to arrive.

"So you are Muto." Gao Cheng unexpectedly looked at the young driver who led the way back.

"Yeah," the young driver nodded, "I built a hut on the other side of Lake Sawajiri, where I usually carve wooden owl sculptures. You are lucky. If I hadn't made an appointment with Mizuki and the others to meet here, it would have been so late. You won't meet me either."

"Strange," said the young man with glasses, Glacier in surprise, "How did Detective Kido and you two meet?"

"It's a long story."

Muto didn't seem to want to talk to Hikawa, so he took off his coat and went straight to the central sofa to sit down.

Sitting on the sofa together were Hikawa and another young man named Yamao, as well as two women, one of whom was Mizuki Tono at the front desk, and the other was Fuyumi Tachihara, a nurse at the clinic.

Hikawa didn't care about Muto's attitude, and stood up to meet Gao Chengdao, "Detective Kido, let me introduce you. You have met Yamao, Muto, and these two ladies are Mizuki Tono and Fuyumi Tachihara. We are all from the former Kitanosawa Village, and we are also elementary school classmates, so this time can be regarded as an elementary school reunion."

"That's what it means," Muto explained, crossing his arms. "Because of our village branch school, there are only five of us in the entire grade."

"Only 5 people?" Genta and Conan leaned over.

"Yeah, that's right," Bing Chuan sat down and said, "So we have a very good relationship after graduating from elementary school, but as of today, we haven't seen each other for 8 years."

Conan is very sensitive to "8 years", and asked after hearing the words, "Didn't meet each other in these 8 years? Why?"

"It's not because of Yamao. Eight years ago, he lived in Tokyo and drove back to the old village where his grandmother lived alone. As a result, he hit and killed a girl on the road."

Hikawa took out the news clippings in his notebook from his pocket. It was a news about Yamao's hit and run in Kitanosawa Village.

"That's it. This guy was terrified at the time. He abandoned the girl's body and fled back to the village. After a few hours, he finally figured it out and turned himself in to the police."

The moment Yamao saw the newspaper clipping, his face was extremely ugly, and he turned his head and explained, "After all, the car hit like that, I don't think I can get away with it."

"Huh," Bing Chuan laughed, "At that time, he owed a whole lot of gambling debts to an underground bank, and his life was in a mess. Wake up, finally regained freedom this summer."

"So that's what happened," Takagi sighed. "The two unfortunate car accidents on the same day that year were all about this."

Another unfortunate Tachihara Touma's mother, Tachihara Toumi, happened to be here too, so we really caught up.

"What's even more unfortunate," Hikawa continued, "is that the girl Yamao hit and killed was actually Mizuki's younger sister Natsuki who was only 18 years old at the time."

The atmosphere at the scene fell into a heavy atmosphere. Seeing this, Takagi quickly changed the subject and asked, "Then, that's why Yamao returned to the village this time..."

"Yeah, when Yamao was serving his sentence, he just decided to build a reservoir, and the entire village was flooded by the reservoir, including the old house of Yamao's family, of course."

Muto answered, seemingly complaining about the reservoir, and while speaking, looked dissatisfied at the glacier.

"Speaking of this, Glacier, when the reservoir was said to be built, your family immediately agreed with it, sold the replacement land at a high price, and moved to Tokyo without attachment. I really can't forgive your family! You were the one who encouraged it. My parents, right? Do you know that you are selling out your precious hometown?!"

"Hey, Muto," Bingchuan said with a helpless smile, spreading his hands. "To be a man, you have to be more flexible. Who doesn't like a good life? Isn't the village very good now?"

Uncle Mao Li looked at the few people who fell into silence and felt that the atmosphere was very strange, so he took the initiative to say, "Okay, you guys talk slowly, we still don't bother you, and we will go back to the room first."

"it is good."

After returning to the guest room, Gao Cheng opened his laptop to search.

"Kisuke Yamao..."

The atmosphere among those few people was a bit stiff, and the reunion after 8 years seemed unsatisfactory, but these had nothing to do with him, and there was nothing to feel good about.

It is worth noting those two incidents that year.

What a coincidence.

The case that happened 8 years ago, plus the reunion 8 years later... If there is no accident, it should have something to do with this case.

"Kiroto," Takagi approached and said, "I asked, and the incident with Tachihara Touma seems to be an accident. According to the police investigation, that cliff is near Lake Sawajiri, and Tachihara Touma likes to see it. Swan, and when he was found, he also had a telescope hanging around his neck, presumably slipped down accidentally."

"He's going alone?" Gao Cheng turned around.

"Yeah, Tachihara Toumi was working in the hospital at the foot of the mountain at the time, and there was no one else at home because there was an emergency wounded person called there," Takagi said looking at the note in his hand, "The one who found Tachihara Touma was the one he usually loves very much. The puppy next door... What's strange is that the time and location of the two incidents are very close..."

"That's right," Gao Cheng said with a complex expression, "there must be some connection between them. Let's go to Li Yuan's house tomorrow to have a look."