Corpse collector in Conan

"alright!"

The old lady finally couldn't help interrupting: "The victims were all guests of my villa because there is only one villa nearby. Why don't you say that all the dead were people from the earth?"

She turned to the outspoken hiker with a serious expression: "Also, I've told you many times not to joke about such supernatural things. You see, the scratch on your hand yesterday must have been a warning from 'that thing'."

The young man laughed and waved his bandaged hand nonchalantly.

Although he was not superstitious, he often stayed at this villa. He didn't want to make things too awkward with the owner. Besides, he had already been frightened. So he changed his words:

"From a scientific point of view, that is, from the police's point of view, there was chocolate next to each of the bodies of the victims because in winter, the animals in the mountains were short of food, so when they were rummaging through the victims' packages, they accidentally took out the chocolate."

——Although this doesn’t explain why, apart from the chocolate, everything else on the victim was still stuffed in the bag…

He wanted to say something like this, but after a closer look, the two high school girls seemed to have been frightened to numbness, and there was no point in continuing to scare them - he would rather say this after he came back in the evening.

While looking forward to the evening's entertainment, he adjusted his goggles and said to the two women who had just sent him out, "I'm going to work. You guys can play with these new tourists."

As he said this, he waved his hand in a cool manner, then walked towards the forest with a small backpack on his back and a camera slung around his neck.

His girlfriend waved and wished, "Bon voyage! You will definitely be able to take pictures of what you want today!"

Another female friend frowned and said to his back: "It's good to be enthusiastic about work, but you've been a little too enthusiastic recently - come back early in the evening, don't be deceived by the snow girl and become the next person to get lost."

"You really underestimate me. If I really meet a snow girl..." The traveler had already walked away, but when he heard this, he turned back and hugged his girlfriend, "I will tell the snow girl that I am pregnant!"

As he said that, he gave his girlfriend a kiss.

Officer Shiratori: “…”

Officer Takagi: “…”

Calvados: “…”

How annoying! How can someone start showing affection before Valentine's Day? Doesn't he feel embarrassed? ?

Regardless of other people's reactions, the traveler was completely enjoying it. His girlfriend blushed and gently hit his shoulder: "What are you doing? There are so many people watching."

The three adult men looked at this scene, and a faint resentment seemed to rise from their bodies.

Perhaps sensing danger, the traveler who was planning to continue hanging around cleared his throat, reorganized his clothes and backpack, and walked toward the forest in a casual manner: "I'm off!"

This time he did not stop and his figure quickly disappeared into the woods.

"'That thing'?" Mao Lilan squeezed in between Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko tremblingly, but still felt a chill creeping up along the back of her feet. She asked in a low voice as if she was afraid of disturbing something, "Could it be that he, he wanted to take a picture of the snow woman who caused disaster in the woods?"

The female photographer was startled and burst into laughter. She waved her hand and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. There is no such thing as a snow girl in the world. What he wanted to photograph was actually some kind of animal - it's a pity that the animal has long been extinct and has become a legend. Judging from this point alone, it is no different from the snow girl. They are just invisible and intangible rumors."

...So it's still unclear what kind of animal it is.

Suzuki Sonoko came back to her senses from the shock of seeing a ghost and looked at the two riddlers speechlessly.

Just as I was about to ask further questions, a burly man wearing a fisherman's hat and carrying a shotgun walked out of the villa gate.

Hearing the discussion at the door, he stroked his beard and joined the conversation: "The 'animal' she was talking about is the Japanese wolf - according to records, the last surviving Japanese wolf was hunted in 1905.

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"No one has seen them since then, for more than a hundred years. Now they are on the list of extinct mammals."

"So that's how it is." Mao Lilan breathed a sigh of relief. Although the furry wolf was a little scary, it was a tangible entity after all, and was much better than a vague ghost.

But then she became a little worried. She looked at the hunting rifle on the bearded man's back and said, "Are you here to look for Japanese wolves as well? You're planning to hunt such a precious animal?"

"Of course not." The bearded man laughed and patted his old friend. "This gun is just to scare other wild wolves. Those guys are cunning and smart. They know very well that this is a weapon that can kill them."

"Well, it's getting late, I have to go into the mountains." He looked at his watch and said to the old lady beside him, "Grandma Yuasa, my friend will be here soon, remember to entertain him for me."

Under Calvados's gloomy gaze, he adjusted the gun on his back with a click and quickly walked into the woods.

"..." Calvados snorted in his heart: What's the point of cleaning up a broken shotgun?

"Humph." Someone nearby snorted. The old lady muttered in dissatisfaction, "These people are all obsessed with that wild wolf. They don't care about the dangers in the forest at all."

As she spoke, she also looked at the clock in the hall, and then said to the group of guests in front of her: "I have to go out for a while. The room key is at the front desk. You can go and get it. There are ingredients in the kitchen. You can make lunch yourself, or wait for me to come back to make it. By the way, if the friend of that person just now comes, you can just find an empty room and let him stay."