Conan's other self

"Hey, Conan, do you have a cold?"

Hearing the sound of sneezing, Ayumi looked at Conan with concern.

"Uncle Kogoro kept coughing last night," Conan pinched his nose, "Maybe he was infected."

"Please don't infect me. By the way," Fengyuan said, "I remember there are a few masks in my schoolbag...but I can't give them to you now..."

"Hey, hey, it's not that easy to get infected..."

"Wait, I brought cold medicine." Haiyuan Ai looked away from the window and took out an exquisite small medicine box from her new Fusha bag, "Don't forget to wear a mask after taking the medicine. …”

"I know, I won't infect Fengyuan..."

Haiyuan Ai handed the small pill to Fengyuan angrily, and Fengyuan handed it to Conan angrily.

Conan took the cold medicine and hesitated, "But there is no water in the car..."

"Wouldn't it be better if you just swallow it?" Feng Yuan replied.

"Ah, I brought a water glass..." Ayumi said and handed over the water glass in her hand.

"Thanks, Ayumi -" Conan said, and quickly changed his words after feeling two dangerous looks, "Uh, but no need, it feels good to swallow the medicine directly once in a while..."

Conan immediately popped the pill into his mouth.

…

The camping location is in Gunma Prefecture, where there is a large shared campsite.

They found a good location.

But soon, Yuantai, who helped move things from the doctor's car, discovered something that shocked him.

After a while.

"It's true," Genta couldn't help complaining as he looked in the direction the doctor was leaving, "I'm obviously here for camping, but I forgot to bring my lunch box."

"Okay, doctor, Maplehara and Haibara have already gone to the store near the campground to buy some. Hurry up and help."

"I just bought a few lunch boxes, why are there so many people there..."

"Because I forgot to bring rice..."

"Have you forgotten rice?" Genta looked back at Mitsuhiko with a look of disbelief on his face.

"Yes, didn't you say that? Ah, by the way, Genta, you couldn't listen to anything else after you realized you didn't bring a lunch box..."

"How could you forget to bring the most important rice!"

"Stop complaining! Come and put up the tent quickly..."

Now only Ayumi was busy beside the tent. Mitsuhiko urged Genta and walked over to help.

"Hey! Conan, come here to help!" Genta shouted.

"I know..." Conan, who was wearing a mask, put the bench to the table and weakly replied, "Come here..."

Really, I also want to go shopping...

However, you and Fengyuan can't follow the doctor to buy it. Otherwise, the others will have no fighting power, which makes people feel uneasy. So after Maplehara suggested it, Conan chose to stay at the campsite.

After all, trouble does often arise when camping...

Although my foot strength-enhancing shoes are out of battery, at least I still have an anesthesia watch, which provides some protection...

And if he and Haiyuan follow the doctor...

Haha, even more impossible...

"ah!"

Just as Conan was thinking about it, he heard Genta shout. He turned around and saw Genta picking up a branch and walking to a young man.

The other party was holding a stool and was about to place it on the ground.

"After this line is our territory!" Yuantai gestured with a branch against a line he had drawn on the ground, "Don't just come in casually!"

"Yuta..." Ayumi followed up to persuade him, "The camping ground is shared by everyone, so you have to get along well with others!"

"hehe…"

Conan held a hammer and hammered nails with an expressionless expression.

After setting up the tent, they naturally went to the forest to collect scattered branches for firewood.

Just like when they were camping before, the primary school students walked deeper and deeper. Conan followed behind holding firewood and noticed a wooden sign stuck on the ground.

"Hey, we can't go any further, Genta!"

"Ah?" Yuantai turned back to look at Conan.

"There is a sign here that says [Beware of Snakes]!"

"Snake!" Ayumi was a little scared.

"I've gathered enough firewood, go back to the tent quickly!" Mitsuhiko also advised.

"Oh!" Yuantai was about to turn around, and then he heard something strange, "Huh? Hey, come and take a look! There seems to be the sound of digging a hole!"

"Hole?"

"Is it a treasure?"

"You'll know if you go and see it."

Ayumi and Mitsuhiko looked happy, and quickly put down the firewood they were holding and followed Genta. Conan also put down the firewood and followed, and then found the elementary school students stunned between two trees.

Conan followed their gaze and looked over.

Just a few steps in front of them, a man in his thirties was shoveling the earth with a shovel. At his feet was a shallow pit, and in the pit was the corpse of a woman who was still alive.

"Corpse, corpse..."

"Burying bodies..."

The panicked voices of the primary school students made the man who was also stunned come back to his senses. Seeing this, Conan quickly raised his anesthesia needle watch and opened the cover.

Then…

"H-Run!"

…

some time ago.

There was a convenience store open near the campsite. The doctor parked his car in the small parking lot in front of the store, and then walked into the store with Maplehara and Haibara.

After walking around, the doctor found what they came to buy in the corner.

"Oh, I found it!" The doctor picked up the lunch box and looked at it. "It's a store next to the campsite. It has all kinds of camping tools!"

"The rice is here too," Fengyuan picked up a bag of rice not far away and looked at the weight on the sign, "Well... one bag, two bags, three bags..."

"You took too much, didn't you?" Haiyuan Ai stood next to Fengyuan with a few bags of spices, "Even if you want to stock up, there is no need to buy it here, right? This kind of store will be more expensive..."

"It's not about stocking up, Yuan Tai always complains about not having enough food..."

"Huh? Every meal on the island is more than ten bowls of rice. If this continues, the doctor will no longer be the heaviest among us..."

"Ha, haha..." The doctor touched his head in embarrassment.

"It's not too different," Fengyuan said, "It's better not to make Genta hungry when camping..."

"That's right!" The doctor expressed his support cautiously, "So you should also buy a larger lunch box, right?"

"Yes, yes..."

"It's up to me to serve the doctor's food!" Haihara Ai emphasized to the doctor with one hand on his hip.

"Then, forget it..."

"Speaking of which, can you carry it? There are so many things..."

As Hui Yuan Ai said, he glanced at their hands. She took the condiments herself, the doctor took the lunch box, and Maplehara also took several bags of rice. Although the car was parked outside the store, it was quite difficult just to take it to check out...

"It doesn't matter, someone will help get it..." Feng Yuan looked to the side, "right, Sister Sera?"

"Eh?" The doctor and Huihara Ai were both stunned for a moment.

Then they noticed a familiar-looking high school student standing just a few steps away. On the night he rescued Conan, this man's somewhat extreme behavior impressed them all.

"Oh! It turns out we've been discovered!" Sera Masumi had a bright smile on her face, showing her little fangs, "Seeing how happily you were chatting, I thought you didn't notice me!"

"When I got out of the car, I happened to see you, Sister Sera, in the rearview mirror," Fengyuan asked, "Are you here to see Conan?"

"Wha, why did you come to see Conan! It was just a coincidence! I planned to see the cherry blossoms in Gunma Prefecture. When I passed by on my motorcycle, I happened to be hungry and came in to take a look."

"oh…"

Feng Yuan did not hide his expression.

Sera Masumi could tell at a glance that the other party didn't believe her lies, but to be honest, she couldn't be said to be here for Conan, so she didn't feel burdened by lying.

"So you are Dr. Agasa, right? This is the first time we meet! My name is Sera Masumi!"

"Ah...h-hello."

"Are you Haiyuan?" Shiliang Zhenshun looked at Haiyuan Ai, who was half-hiding behind Fengyuan and looking at him, "Hello!"

Haiyuan Ai glanced at Fengyuan, and then stretched out his hand to Sera Masumi, "Hello."

Her behavior was a bit beyond Sera Masumi's expectations, and she was stunned for a moment. Sera Masumi hurriedly put the things in her hands into the shopping basket, then reached out and gently shook Haibara Ai's hand.

This kid…

He must be the one who followed Maplehara in London...

They must have been to London, but they were not on the plane's passenger list...

It’s really strange, and the child looks a bit like his mother...

"However," Dr. Agasa's voice interrupted Sera Masumi's complicated thoughts, "you really bought a lot."

The basket she was carrying was filled with drinks and bread.

"Today's lunch and dinner, and tomorrow's breakfast! Because you must not have prepared my portion, right?"

"That's not necessarily the case..." Haiyuan Ai glanced at the bags of rice in Fengyuan's hand, and Fengyuan handed one of the bags to Sera Masumi without ceremony.

"ah?"

"Oh, just now we were wondering if we bought too much..." The doctor picked up another lunch box, "You didn't bring a lunch box, right?"

"Hmm...actually I prefer bread to rice..." Masumi Sera replied, "But eating with everyone is also very exciting!"

As she spoke, she helped put the lunch box in the doctor's hand into her own basket, and then quietly glanced at Feng Yuan.

Is it so obvious that I want to go camping with you?

If I really want to say it, I must have asked Xiaolan yesterday what Conan was going to do today...

Then, Yusera Masumi helped move the things to the doctor's car, and they set off back to the campsite.

Masumi Sera followed the doctor's car on a motorcycle.

The distance was not far, and they arrived soon, but Conan and the others were not there.

"Strange, why aren't you here?"

"Did you go to collect firewood?" Masumi Sera looked around.

"It's also possible that he went on another adventure somewhere..." Haiyuan Ai said.

"Yeah...it's better to give Conan a call..."

Maplehara took out his mobile phone from his pocket, called Conan under the watchful eyes of Sera Masumi, and put the phone down after a while.

"What's wrong?"

"It's turned off. Based on my understanding of Conan, I think his phone is probably out of battery."

Feng Yuan couldn't help but complain to Conan in his heart. This guy always knows how to recharge all kinds of props after they run out of power, not only the mobile phone, but also the detective props given to him by the doctor.

The key thing is that he always encounters situations where the props are urgently needed when they are out of power.

Feng Yuan was used to this.

"The signal around here doesn't seem to be very good..." The doctor got into the tent and took a look, "Their detective badges are also in the tent..."

"Yoshida and Tsuburaya's cell phones are also left here," Haibara Ai looked back at Maplehara, "Can you get through Kojima's cell phone?"

"He didn't bring it with him at all. He said so when we were at the doctor's house."

"Then let's go look for it?" Sera Masumi suggested, "I know where I can pick up firewood."

The woods were right next to the campsite, so they walked into the woods and started looking.

After a while.

"I see," Sera Masumi said, "You always encounter all kinds of things when you go camping..."

"Yes, yes..." The doctor nodded.

"But it's no wonder, after all, detectives and cases always attract each other," Sera Masumi glanced at Maplehara, "I sometimes feel that there are too many events!"

"Conan, Ayumi, Genta, Mitsuhiko! Where are you? Answer what you hear!"

The voice of shouting came, and the conversation between Sera Masumi and the doctor was interrupted again.

In front of them, Feng Yuan was holding up his mobile phone. His cell phone emitted recorded sounds every few seconds, and the group of people walked in the forest, searching and chatting.

"You are really lazy..." Taking advantage of the gap between the next recorded sounds, Haiyuan Ai said to Fengyuan.

"That's what technology is for...wait a minute."

"What's wrong?" Sera Masumi looked over. Feng Yuan's final voice was louder, and he was obviously speaking to her and the doctor.

Fengyuan did not reply, but paused the recording and walked not far away. Sensing something unusual, Haibara Ai and Sera Masumi hurried over and saw him pick up a ring from the ground.

"Pass for the mysterious train..." Haiyuan Ai's face changed slightly.

Falling here means...

"There are some piles of firewood here!" The doctor was a few steps away, "They should have put them here..."

"Is there any accident?" Sera Masumi also became worried.

Feng Yuan put the ring back in his pocket and walked forward past a sign reminding him of a snake.

There were inconspicuous small mounds of turned-over soil there, which seemed to be traces of excavation. Others quickly followed, and then discovered the half-buried, dead female body.

"Corpse, corpse..." The doctor's expression suddenly changed.

"Doctor, call the police!"

Haihara Ai quickly reminded the doctor. Although she can also call the police herself, it is obviously more convincing for an adult to call the police.

"Also, ask them to send a search team over."

"Ah good…"

The doctor quickly took out his mobile phone and started to make a call. The signal here was not very good, but he managed to get through successfully after trying.

"The time of death was not long..."

Fengyuan stood at the edge of the pit and glanced at the body, "The murderer probably killed her somewhere else and brought her directly here. He thought that this is a place with snakes and no one will come in, so he buried her here..."

"There are footprints here," Sera Masumi looked at the traces on the scene. "Judging from the size, these are the footprints of an adult male. There is only one..."

"That is to say..." Haibara Ai concluded, "There was a man burying a body here, but Edogawa and the others discovered it, and then they were chased by that man?"

"Yeah..." Fengyuan looked at the direction of the footprints, "He threw the shovel here halfway and ran in this direction..."

"But isn't this strange?" Haibara Ai was a little puzzled. "If there is only one person on the other side, Edogawa should be able to deal with it. There is no need to run...unless..."

Hui Yuan Ai's face changed slightly, "Gun?"

"But the deceased was chopped to death with an axe..." Sera Masumi looked at the wounds on the body.

"Well...he only has an anesthesia needle watch on him today that can be used...I guess he needed to avoid something or was pulled when he was preparing to use the anesthesia needle watch, so he missed the shot..."

"Eh?" Hui Yuan Ai was a little confused.

"Look, there are traces of slippage here..." Fengyuan pointed to a trace between two trees, "This should be Conan's footprints. Judging from the direction of dragging on the ground, he seemed to be being pulled away. …”

Although it is not obvious, it is another self after all, and the shoes he wears are also the same type of foot strength-enhancing shoes, so this footprint can almost be said to be his own, and it is not difficult for Maplehara to identify it.

He half-dangled his right foot and compared it with the mark. They were completely consistent. "There is no reason why Conan would react slower than Ayumi and the others, so I guess he was suddenly pulled away when he was doing something..."

"…Then the anesthesia needle went wrong."

"Yeah...that's why Conan had to run..." Maplehara raised his anesthesia needle watch again and gestured towards the spot where the prisoner dropped the shovel, then looked back at the doctor who had finished the call, "Doctor, you are right here Wait for the police to come! Haiyuan and I will go find them!"

"Ah good."

"Hey, searching without a clue will only lead to getting lost in the forest!" Masumi Sera objected, "Should the search be left to a search team that is more familiar with this mountain?"

"I'm not clueless."

"Yes, tracking glasses!" The doctor looked happy, but then his face fell again, "It's broken. I took your tracking glasses to increase the night vision function, and I haven't returned them to you yet..."

"It's okay, doctor, I can find them." The doctor looked a little annoyed, and Fengyuan quickly comforted, "And Haiyuan and I both have mobile phones and detective team badges, so we won't get lost."

"Then I will come too..." Sera Masumi said.

"No, you have to stay here with the Doctor."

"Ah? Why?"

"After Haiyuan and I leave, if the prisoner returns here, it will be very dangerous for the doctor to stay here alone. Sister Sera, you know Jeet Kune Do, right?"

"What about you?" Sera Masumi questioned, "If you meet a prisoner, you two kids..."

"It doesn't matter, I wish I could meet him right away..."