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

Kudo Shinichi was suddenly grabbed by someone's shoulders and was startled. Then he was pulled by those hands and turned around. In front of him was the woman looking for her son. But compared to what he saw yesterday, his eyes were more bloodshot, and there were tears on his face. He must have cried before.

"Hug, I'm sorry." Eguchi Saori's hand slowly let go, hanging down weakly, her voice was slightly sad, "I thought you were my son Dahe, and you look very similar to him. I'm sorry for scaring you. ”

Eguchi Saori slowly turned around and was about to leave, but she seemed to be unwilling to give up and asked: "Have you seen Dahe?"

Kudo Shinichi shook his head and Mingyue remained silent.

"Auntie Eguchi, have you found everything around here?" Kudo Shinichi asked.

Eguchi Saori looked at Shinichi blankly, and said slowly: "I've searched, but I can't find Dahe. I've been looking for him for a long time, but I don't know where he went." There was sadness between her eyebrows and her eyes were red. Red.

"Sorry, Aunt Eguchi, can you tell us where your son often plays? Can you tell us what happened to your son recently? Maybe I can find something from it, and my father is very powerful. Mystery novelist." Kudo Shinichi looked at Saori Eguchi confidently and seriously with a smile.

Saori Eguchi carefully looked at this boy who was about the same age as her own son and slightly similar in appearance. She lowered her head and saw the football shoes Kudo Shinichi was wearing, and spoke slowly, but her eyes never left the football shoes.

"Dahe is a very well-behaved child. He is in Class C of the first year of Didan Middle School and will be Class C of the second year next semester. He studies very hard and the teachers and classmates in the school also like him very much.

"Dahe's father died of illness a month ago. The sudden illness left the family heavily in debt. In the end, I sold the house in the seventh-chome. On the one hand, in order to pay off the debt, on the other hand, if the other party still lived there, I would often Thinking of Dahe’s father.”

When talking about the latter part, Eguchi Saori's voice trembled, and then she covered her face and cried bitterly. It seemed that the couple was very much in love.

Monáe Mingyue handed a pack of tissues to Eguchi Saori, who took it and thanked her, wiped her tears, and continued:

"Because the house was sold, Dahe and I moved to Mima Manor. The landlords of Mima Manor, Mr. and Mrs. Sugiura, took good care of us. Dahe often played with their son Sugiura, and Miss Green often brought ice cream. Give it to them, as I can’t bear to buy such good ice cream for my children.”

Saori Eguchi thought of her son Dahe, sobbed a few more times, wiped her tears, and continued: "Now I just want to raise Dahe by myself, so that I can be worthy of my dead husband. Not long ago I I found a job as a maid, but the wealthy family didn’t want the maid to bring their children to work, so I let Dahe stay at home or go out to play with friends.”

"Do you know who Dahe's friends are? Will he stay at a friend's house?" Kudo Shinichi made a guess, but his brows were still furrowed and he felt uneasy.

In case it was just an overnight stay, it's not the worst outcome I thought. I hope he just forgot to contact his family.

Kudo Shin clenched his fists and stared at Eguchi Saori.

Eguchi Saori lowered her eyes and stared at the pair of football shoes. She shook her head slowly and said, "I have asked and looked for it. My friend who often plays with Dahe said that he didn't watch it three days ago." It’s his turn, and Dahe never stays up at night.”

When Kudo Shinichi heard this, his brows furrowed into a knot, and his clenched fists slowly unclenched, thinking: No, if it was just a staycation, he would have contacted his family after seeing the missing person notice in the newspaper.

Mingyue asked: "When was the last time you saw Dahe?"

Kudo Shinichi looked at Mingyue and thought: How could I forget this question? If my father were here, he would ask this question.

"The day before yesterday, I made breakfast and lunch for Dahe before going out. He was still sleeping at that time, so I went out. When I came home at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, I found that the curtains at home were not opened because Dahe He always likes to stand in front of the window and wait for me to come back. When I opened the door, I really didn’t see Dahe. I originally thought that Dahe was playing outside, so I would wait at home, but I didn’t come back until very late. Around nine o’clock in the evening I went out and looked for it, but couldn't find it.

"I asked for leave from my employer that night. I spent all yesterday looking for Dahe. This morning I went to my employer's house to resign because I have no intention of working now. The employer is still very nice. The employer's wife told me that I had found the child. Just let me come back early and continue working. But where is Dahe?"

Eguchi Saori cried very sadly. First her husband died of illness, and then her son disappeared. Kudo Shinichi frowned, looked at Mingyue and asked: "Mingyue, do you think Dahe was kidnapped?"

Mingyue glanced at Saori Eguchi, who was crying very sadly, and said, "Auntie, have you received any strange calls?"

Eguchi Saori shook her head and cried: "Even if I kidnap my child, I don't have the money to ransom him, and I still owe a lot of money."

I didn't receive a kidnapping call, which is not good news.

Mingyue continued to ask: "Did the police intervene?"

Eguchi Saori nodded and said: "They asked me to wait for news, but how could I wait any longer? I walked around the place where Dahe often played. I really hoped that he would just sleep during hide-and-seek like last time. It’s burning.”

Kudo Shinichi and Mingyue suddenly remembered that Green had said something like this before, and they both felt that there was something wrong with it.

Shinichi's eyes were bright, he seemed to have found the direction, and he quickly asked: "Can you tell me about what happened last time?"

Eguchi Saori thought about it seriously and said: "A week ago, Dahe played hide-and-seek with Yamada and Ishikawa. When the sun went down, they still couldn't find Dahe, so Yamada found the wooden horse village. When he found me, I We were also shocked, but in the end we found Dahe who had fallen asleep in a tree hole near the park."

"Asleep?" Shinichi asked.

"Yes, he was sleeping soundly, and it was Ishikawa who climbed up the tree to find him. The tree was very thick, and the leaves were very dense. There was no tree hole that could accommodate people from below."

Mingyue frowned, "Didn't you call his name when you were looking for him?"

Kudo Shinichi looked at Ming Yue, who frowned slightly, and said: "I seem to know which day it was, it was seven days ago. My father said that day that the surroundings were very noisy before I went back, but I went to watch a movie with others that day. You came home very late, I guess you had already found Dahe by then. But then again, why didn’t you wake him up since you were so noisy? "

"No, my friend climbed up and shook him for a long time before he woke up. Even when he climbed down the tree, Dahe felt in a trance."

After Mingyue heard about Dahe's condition, she was shocked. Did she eat that kind of candy? But have those people changed their goals now?

When Shinichi saw Ming Yue's unhappy face, he comforted him: "Don't worry too much, we can find him. We will definitely be able to. Detectives exist to find out the truth."

Mingyue pursed her lips and said nothing, not looking at Kudou Shinichi, thinking secretly in her heart.

"By the way, Auntie Eguchi, who told me that a child came to my house yesterday afternoon?"

"It's Dahe's friend Yamada. He also lives nearby. The night before yesterday, I thought they were playing hide-and-seek again, so I contacted them. They were also worried and helped to find them. Ishikawa and Yamada thought Dahe was in the tree again. When I fell asleep, I climbed up the big trees one by one to take a look. Yamada told me that he saw a new girl going to Kudo's house. Because there have been cases of missing girls before, I doubted whether a girl abducted a boy. "

The bright moon and half-moon eyes are speechless.

Kudo Shinichi also had half-moon eyes and said, "This reason is too far-fetched, but where did Yamada go?"

"Yamada was in a hurry to ask you about your situation. He didn't pay attention to his steps when he climbed down. He missed his step and broke his leg. He was admitted to the hospital. Now Ishikawa is also taking care of him in the hospital. I also want to take care of him, but I’m still looking for Dahe.”

Mingyue sighed, speechless, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Kudo Shinichi also looked embarrassed, so he had to change the subject and said, "How about we help you look for it? Can you take us to the place where Dahe often goes?"

Eguchi Saori nodded.

Mingyue's gate was also repaired. Before leaving, the workers wished Jiangguchi Shazhi that she could find her son Dahe as soon as possible.

Eguchi Saori led the two of them along the street. Shinichi took Dahe's photo and asked Mingyue at the shops along the street, but unfortunately found nothing.

The three of them walked to the park, and Eguchi Saori told Kudo Shinichi and Mingyue that this was where Dahe often played hide-and-seek with his friends.

Behind the park is a forest filled with towering trees. It is indeed a good place for hide-and-seek. The chirping of cicadas is like waves, sweeping through everyone's ears one after another.

Sure enough, summer is here.

"Bamboo cage eyes ~ bamboo cage eyes..."

The young children's voices echoed in the woods, and the bright moon felt vaguely familiar.

The sunlight cannot penetrate the dense branches and leaves, and even if it does, it will only cast a few mottled light and shadows.

The sound of cicadas is so harsh.

"Bamboo cage eye~Bamboo cage eye~The little bird in the cage~When will it come out..."

Mingyue Xunxun looked over, and a group of children formed a circle. There was a squatting child in the circle. The nursery rhyme should have been sung by that group of children.

A ray of sunlight passed through the layers of leaves, and by chance it shone on the squatting child.

The sun is so dazzling.

"The eyes of the bamboo cage~The eyes of the bamboo cage~The little bird in the cage~When will it come out~At dawn at night~The crane and the turtle slipped~Who is directly behind?"

Mingyue listened to this very familiar nursery rhyme and stared at the spot in the middle illuminated by the sun, her eyes dimming.

"Oops~ I didn't guess right!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"The eyes of the bamboo cage~The eyes of the bamboo cage~The little bird in the cage~When will it come out~At dawn at night~The crane and the turtle slipped~Who is directly behind?"

"What bad luck, you guessed it."

"Hurry up and be a ghost!"

"Hurry up~"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Bamboo cage eye~Bamboo cage eye~The little bird in the cage~When will it come out..."

Shinichi noticed that Mingyue was looking at the group of children in a daze, so he walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Mingyue took a deep breath and said, "Nothing, I just think the lyrics of this nursery rhyme are interesting."

Kudo Shinichi looked at the bright moon and the children playing in the distance, grinned and said: "This is a very old Japanese nursery rhyme. It is said that it started in the Edo period and was spread in the fields. Now. The children who play this are basically young. You may have never heard this song before when you lived in Europe.

"This nursery rhyme is sung while playing a game. The child squatting in the middle is pretending to be a ghost. He is blindfolded. A group of children surround the ghost and sing this nursery rhyme. After singing, if the child who is the ghost guesses Whoever faces him from behind will be the ghost, and the game will continue like this."

Kudo Shinichi found that Ming Yue was still looking at the group of children. He crossed his hands behind his head and said, "But the last sentence of this nursery rhyme, 'Who is directly behind you?', has a meaning, 'Whoever faces the ghost behind you at that moment will have to take his place. A caged bird is a scapegoat. This is well known to women and children in Japan, but you may not know it."

Mingyue looked at Kudo Shinichi with a smile and said, "Mr. Detective is so knowledgeable, he knows all this."

Kudo Shinichi blushed and said, "This is a children's song that everyone in Japan knows. You just haven't heard it and don't understand it." Then he walked away to look for clues about Dahe.

Mingyue suppressed her smile and looked at the group of children, hearing the familiar children's song.

No, Mr. Detective, I've heard it before, when I was little, and there were a bunch of kids that big playing this game, and I could only watch them play from the other side of the glass.

They did not have such sunny smiling faces. They were crying and sobbing, and all they heard were intermittent singing. Every child was afraid.

They looked at me with envy, hatred, anger, and some indescribable emotions in their eyes.

They're afraid of losing, they're afraid of being called names, they're afraid of being a caged bird, they're afraid of...

The light and shadow are mottled under the tree, and the bright moon turns and leaves.

They are probably no longer in this world.

Experimental Subject 237, you are the only one left now.

Mingyue walked absentmindedly deep into the woods, hearing the sound of insects in her ears. It was really noisy, and it made people upset.

"Mingyue! Mingyue!"

"Huh?" Mingyue heard Kudo Shinichi's voice, came back to her senses, and looked at Kudo Shinichi.

Kudo Shinichi had a slightly worried look on his face and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I just find this lyrics very uncomfortable. Who is behind you? When you face forward, how can you see the person behind you? How can a bird in a cage fly out?"

The bright moon looked up, and the blue sky and white clouds could not be seen. Everywhere she looked, there were intertwined branches and layers of leaves. The air seemed much duller.

"Those are just lyrics. The children's songs of that era seem to have a bit of a ghost character. You don't need to delve too deeply into the meaning." Kudo Shinichi tried to comfort Mingyue.

Mingyue smiled and seemed to let go.

The three walked out of the woods, left the park, walked through the bookstore, walked through the coffee shop, walked across a bridge, passed many people, and finally saw the huge cold storage of the ice cream factory.

Saori Eguchi said: "Gelin, I work here, and sometimes Dahe will come over and ask for ice cream from Gelin."

Shinichi looked at the cold storage, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and sighed: "It should be very comfortable to work in the cold storage in the summer. I'm sweating profusely after walking for so long."

"It's not necessarily all ice cream in the cold storage. There may also be body parts or corpses." The corners of Mingyue's lips curled up.

Kudo Shinichi's eyes widened and he shouted in disbelief: "Corpse! Corpse!"

"You...don't scare me..." Eguchi Saori was trembling.

Mingyue continued: "The slaughtered pigs, ducks, chickens, and salvaged fish will all be stored in the cold storage."

"Hahaha... I'm scared by you." Kudo Shinbanzuki looked at Mingyue.

After walking around for a while, I found nothing, and the sun began to set. As I walked on the road, the shadows of people were lengthened.

Eguchi Saori said that she would continue to search. Kudo Shinichi and Mingyue sent their blessings and said goodbye to Eguchi Saori.

Meng Nai Mingyue bought a lot of ice cream, and the store also gave Mingyue a thermal insulation bag.

Mingyue opened the thermal bag and let Kudo Shinichi choose.

Kudo Shinichi looked into the bag and saw that there were all kinds of flavors. Mingyue, you are going to buy some. He reached for the top one and asked curiously: "Why didn't you eat it when Sister Gelin gave it to you before? Now that I have bought so much, can you finish it by yourself?"

After Ming Yue rolled her eyes at Kudo Shinichi, she said, "Kudo-kun, we are not that familiar."

Kudo Shin put a handful of ice cream into his mouth and muttered: "Mingyue, what flavor of ice cream do you like?"

"Alcoholic ice cream." Mingyue said half-jokingly.

Kudo Shinichi opened Mingyue's insulated bag and rummaged through it, "Is there anything with that flavor? By the way, come to my house for dinner tonight. My mother made potato stew and beef."

"I need to clean up first, and after eating so much ice cream, I might not be able to eat at all." Mingyue tore open another ice cream package and put the ice cream in her mouth.

Kudo Shinichi also took an ice cream and said while eating: "Mingyue, you also ate too much. You didn't buy all the flavors."

"Yes, everyone wants to try it."

"You are really a foodie, be careful if you eat too much cold food, it will ruin your stomach."

"No, I know it well. Do you still want to eat it?" Mingyue took out another one from the thermal bag. Kudo Shinichi waved his hand and refused.

When the two of them were approaching the door of their home, they were stopped by Gelin, who was carrying an incubator behind her.

"Shinichi-kun, I brought ice cream. This is Ming Yue. I wonder if you like the ice cream I brought today?"

Today, Gelin was wearing a clean white shirt and a high ponytail. She looked like she had just gotten off work.

Mingyue said: "Sorry, I just bought a lot, so I won't eat."

"Yes, we went shopping today. Mingyue bought a lot of ice cream. We ate a lot, so we won't eat what my sister brought today."

Green looked at Mingyue and smiled and said, "Is my ice cream not delicious? You can tell me what flavor of ice cream you want to eat next time."

Before Ming Yue could answer, Kudo Shinichi said first, "She likes alcoholic ice cream. Does Sister Greene have that flavor? We tried many flavors today, but none of them have alcoholic ice cream."

Green seemed surprised by the answer: "Smell of alcohol? I'm going to look for this."

Mingyue looked at Gelin, and the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the white shirt red.

"Jiangkou Dahe, you should know me, right? What does the hide-and-seek I mentioned earlier mean?" Mingyue suddenly asked.

Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment, thinking, didn't Aunt Eguchi explain this matter? Why did you suddenly ask Sister Green? He frowned slightly, but said nothing, waiting for Green's reply.

Green tilted her head, as if she didn't expect Mingyue to ask this question, but she still replied: "Oh, that incident happened about seven days ago. Dahe was playing hide-and-seek with a few friends, and ended up behind the park. He fell asleep in the woods. I originally thought it would be the same this time, but I didn’t expect that I haven’t found him yet.”

Mingyue stared into Gelin's eyes and said, "You don't seem to be in a hurry?"

Green pursed her lips and said, "What's the use of being anxious? The police are also looking for him. Maybe he is hiding somewhere and watching us."

"Is that so?" Mingyue asked.

But at this time a young lady came over, grabbed Gelin and said, "Gelin, you are off work. Let's go look for her again. I'm very worried about Dahe."

"Lingzi, let's have some ice cream." Gelin handed an ice cream to Lingzi's hand.

"Thank you, let's look for it while we eat!" Lingzi pulled Gelin away, and Gelin could only wave to Kudo Shinichi.

Mingyue looked at the two people's retreating figures, and it was dark at this time.

Kudo Shinichi looked at Mingyue in confusion and expressed his thoughts: "Mingyue, why did you ask those questions? Is there anything wrong with Sister Green?"

Mingyue did not answer Shinichi's question, but asked another question: "Kudo-kun, what would you do if you wanted to kidnap someone?"

"Eh? Why do you ask this question suddenly?"

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Preview of the next chapter: Shinichi seems to have forgotten something, what will happen next?