Ming Ke: When the villain accidentally mixes into the protagonist group

A human figure swayed in the wind.

When Mao Lilan saw clearly, a shrill scream came into the villa from the open door, and the sleeping Arisa Shiina was awakened and shuddered.

"Yiji!" Shiina Arisa pounced and protected Mingyue under her body. She looked around with frightened eyes, but there was no one around. In the empty hall, the orange-red flames in the fireplace were chewing on the firewood, making crackling sounds.

Mingyue gently stroked Shiina Arisa's back, feeling her pounding heart and disordered breathing, and suggested softly: "Kudo and Maori are outside the villa, should we go out and take a look?"

Shiina Arisa's chest stopped heaving violently, and her emotions calmed down a little. She looked at Mingyue and nodded heavily.

The two of them wrapped themselves in thick blankets, walked out of the unclosed door, and left the villa.

The cold wind was howling outside the villa, and it felt like a sharp blade when it blew on people.

Shiina Arisa wanted to walk in front to help Mingyue block the wind, but was pulled behind by Mingyue.

The two came under the cypress tree and saw Kudo Shinichi performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Yamada Haruki, but it seemed too late.

Bai Huan's girlfriend, Yamada Harume, died.

"How could this happen?!" Mao Lilan covered her mouth in surprise, turned around and ran into the snow.

"Mr. Maori!" Mingyue tried to call out to Maori Ran.

However, Mao Lilan still rushed into the snow regardless, "I'll go call mom back."

"Mouri! You'll catch a cold if you keep doing this!" Shiina Arisa shouted, "Come back soon!" After that, she wanted to chase Mouri Ran, but she started coughing violently after only two steps.

"Ran!" Shinichi looked at Yamada Harume, who was still warm and lying in the snow, and then looked at Mao Li Ran who was running away, feeling very anxious.

Mingyue gently stroked Shiina Arisa's back and looked at Kudo Shinichi, "I'm here, you go after Mori."

Shinichi Kudo looked at the corpse at his feet, not knowing what to do for a moment.

"Cough cough cough... What are you waiting for? She was your childhood friend... cough cough cough... We don't know the surrounding environment, it's so dark, what if something happens to her? Cough cough cough..." Shiina Arisa looked at Kudo Shinichi. Her violent coughing made her cheeks abnormally red.

Kudo Shinichi took a deep breath, and the cold air filled his chest, calming him down. "I'm going to chase Mouri Ran, you two be careful." After saying that, he tightened the blanket around himself and followed Ran's footprints.

Arisa Shiina watched Kudo Shinichi's figure disappear on the snow, turned her head to look at Mingyue who was examining the corpse, and saw Yamada Harume, who had been helping everyone bake clothes, now lying on the cold snow. She couldn't help but feel sad and coughed a few times.

Mingyue checked the grooves on Yamada Harume's neck, which were in an unintersecting shape, a typical case of hanging in the right position. Looking up at the tree branch above, there was a skirt hanging on it, swaying in the wind. The snow on the tree branch was probably shaken off because of the struggle.

Looking at the tree trunk next to it, it is estimated that Kudo Shinichi climbed up to save people, causing the original traces to be covered or destroyed.

For a moment, Mingyue couldn't tell whether this was a suicide or a carefully planned murder.

After all, the branch above his head was not very high, and there was a tree trunk next to it that was strong enough to support the weight of two or three adults. It was not impossible to knock Yamada Harukei unconscious and then hang her there.

There were traces of scratches from the bark on the back of Yamada Harume's hands from the struggle, and there were also scattered small branches around.

At this moment, Mingyue faces a choice: should she leave the villa and investigate somewhere else, or continue to stay in this villa full of mechanisms and secret passages?

"Ahem, what should we do?" Shiina Arisa tightened the blanket around her body, "I'm so scared, Suzumiya-sensei hasn't come back yet, and there's no signal on my phone. I wonder how Iji is doing..."

Shiina Arisa suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing, and quickly covered her mouth, looking around with a look of horror.

"Except for the two of us, there should be no living people around. You should go back to the hall first. It's cold outside. You already have a cold and a fever. Don't make it worse." Mingyue squatted beside Yamada Harume's body and turned to look at Shiina Arisa who was standing beside her.

Shiina Arisa shook her head and refused seriously: "No, I want to be with you, I will protect you."

Mingyue paused while examining the body, chuckled and said, "I'm not your childhood friend."

"I know you're very capable. You can handle anything calmly and you don't need anyone's help." Shiina Arisa lowered her head, moved her lips a few times, and continued, "But, but you got involved here because of Iki's matter..."

Mingyue exhaled a large cloud of white mist from her mouth, and the cold wind condensed the white mist into fine frost, hanging on the soft blanket. Yes, this is an unfair deal. Why did I agree to it at that time? Mingyue's eyes appeared the thin back of Baosheng Yiji's adoptive mother, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: She looks a lot like Aunt Eguchi Saori.

"Don't worry, I've got some clues about the treasure, and it should be solved soon." After saying that, Mingyue continued to look through the things on the corpse.

Shiina Arisa lowered her head, then raised it again, looked at Mingyue with a serious expression, and said solemnly: "Whether you are Yiji or Mona, I will protect you! This is not acting, I am serious!"

However, Mingyue glanced at Shiina Arisa and smiled slightly. She naturally knew that Shiina Arisa was not acting. After all, Shiina Arisa treated her as another Hosou Ikihime.

I pretended to be a stand-in in the organization, but one day I became someone else's stand-in.

Mingyue looked at Shiina Arisa's serious expression and chuckled. Holding a very worn diary found on Yamada Harume, she said helplessly, "Let's go back to the hall and wait for them. It's too cold outside. It won't be good if you have a fever again."

"I will take good care of myself!" Arisa Shiina looked serious and solemn.

The two returned to the hall and closed the door, keeping out the severe cold.

Mingyue glanced at the alcove at the entrance, picked up a copy of "The Disappearing Conductor", and prepared to read it while sitting in front of the fireplace.

Arisa Shiina looked back out the window. There was a dark night sky, pure white snow, and the villa was so quiet that it was suffocating. She even breathed carefully for fear of making a sound and waking up the devil hiding in the corner.

The lights in the hall of the villa were bright, and the orange-red flames were dancing in the fireplace, wrapping the two people in warmth again.

After moving away from the villa, darkness swept over my whole body and the scenery in front of me became blurred. Except for the white snow under my feet that still reflected the faint light, the surroundings were pitch black, without stars or moon. The thick clouds and the howling cold wind seemed to foreshadow the coming blizzard.

"Ran!" Kudo Shinichi called out to Mouri Ran, but there was only the whistling sound of the wind in his ears and messy footprints on the ground. In the dim night, the surroundings were a grayish-white world, and there was no trace of Mouri Ran.

The ears, nose and cheeks felt tingling, as if being pricked by invisible needles.

Kudo Shinichi tried hard to wrap the blanket tightly and lowered his head to find the footprints belonging to Mao Lilan among the intricate footprints, but it was simply impossible. He could only follow similar footprints to a small wooden house.