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

Kudo Shinichi ran to Mingyue and tried his best, but the door of the cold storage did not move at all. Banging on the door hard, hoping someone outside could hear.

[The link has been disconnected, the emergency preparation plan has been activated, life protection has been activated, and the signal has begun to be strengthened...] The voice of the prototype appeared in Mingyue's mind.

Mingyue took out her mobile phone, and sure enough, there was no signal at all. The moon ornament on the mobile phone keeps flashing purple light.

The black Porsche was speeding in the afterglow of the setting sun. Gin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, lit a cigarette with a cigarette lighter, slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and looked at the sudden red message on his phone with a gloomy expression.

Vodka, who was driving, felt that the atmosphere in the car seemed not right, and quickly asked: "What's wrong? Brother?"

After Gin sent a text message, he put away his phone and said, "Hurry up and finish this task. I have other things to deal with."

Vodka seemed to understand something. He stepped on the accelerator and the black Porsche sped down the road like an arrow from the string.

The sky outside the car window turned crimson. The sun had not yet set, but the white moon was already hanging in the sky.

In the cold storage, Mingyue stopped Kudo Shinichi from continuing to slap the door.

"Save your strength, are you clear-headed?" Mingyue looked at Kudou Shinichi's hands. His hands were red, and he didn't know whether it was from the cold or from being beaten.

Kudo Shinichi shuddered and took out his cell phone to call the police, but found that there was no signal on the cell phone at all, even if he was close to the door, there was no signal.

"If we can't leave here early, we will die from hypothermia sooner or later!" Kudo Shinichi found that Mingyue was also looking at her mobile phone and continued, "And there is no signal here at all, so we have no way to call for help."

Mingyue looked at the information on her phone and then at the cold storage door. There was no keyhole in the door, and the opening and closing valves were outside the door. The heavy door blocked out sound and most signals.

But fortunately, the space here is large enough and the air is enough for two people, so they will not die from lack of oxygen. However, the ambient temperature was too low, and the two of them had no clothing to keep out the cold. If they didn't go out early, they might freeze to death.

The sky is getting darker and there are more and more pedestrians on the road.

The floats are parading, and the streets are full of people coming and going. They are wearing various yukatas, some wearing fox masks, and some waving their round fans.

They danced slowly near the float, moving slowly to the beat of the musical instruments on the float.

Mao Lilan carried Suzuki Sonoko on her back and walked quickly through the crowd.

"Sorry, sorry..."

"Please give me some permission, thank you..."

A drop of liquid fell on Yuanzi's arm, and Yuanzi saw Mao Lilan's forehead, which was covered with big beads of sweat.

Yuanzi said weakly: "Xiaolan, don't be so anxious, I think I'm fine."

Mao Lilan glanced at Yuanzi, who was lying very weak on her shoulder, "Yuanzi, do you know? After I heard that you were kidnapped that day, I was very scared and afraid of losing you as a friend. I also regretted it very much. I regretted that I Not by your side..."

Yuanzi stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat off Mao Lilan's forehead, "Xiaolan, that's all in the past tense. You are my very important friend."

"Yuanzi, I will protect you." Mao Lilan's eyes were firm and she looked into the distance. She knew that the hospital was right in front, but several floats blocked the road. The crowd sang and danced around the floats, very happy.

Want to go around? That would take a long detour, could Yuanzi persist?

Mao Lilan clenched her molars.

At this time Yuanzi said weakly: "Xiaolan, I believe you, we have been friends since childhood."

"Yuanzi, hold me tight." Mao Lilan ignited her fighting spirit.

Yuanzi hugged Mao Lilan's neck. Mao Lilan's back was warm and safe.

I heard exclamations, the sound of the wind, the sound of the music being interrupted, the sound of Mao Lilan's apology, and the sound of the crowd and the music gradually fading away.

On the float behind Mao Lilan, the colorful neon lights were still flashing. Men and women in yukata slowly danced around the float. People laughed and sang, looking forward to the fireworks blooming in the sky.

Mao Lilan finally broke through the crowd, and the hospital was right in front.

The crowd behind them was noisy and lively, but it had nothing to do with them.

The last trace of red in the sky faded, and darkness fell.

In the cold storage, Shinichi couldn't help but shudder a few times.

"It's so cold, it's really freezing to death!" Shinichi complained as he stomped his feet, looking for an exit.

"We won't die so soon. Do you still have that goldfish with you?" Mingyue rubbed her exposed skin, her fingers a little red from the cold.

Shinichi lifted the goldfish bag up, but the water hadn't frozen yet.

Mingyue glanced at the goldfish, "We won't die until all this water freezes, but you, the fish, may not live long."

A thin little goldfish swam slowly in the transparent bag, seemingly unaware that it was about to die. But maybe it felt the cold, and it swam very slowly, very slowly.

Shinichi looked at the goldfish in the bag and shuddered. Isn't he now the same as the goldfish in the bag?

Looking around, there are mountains of ice cream, and you can smell the fragrance of the ice cream if you take a light sniff. The air is mixed with the sweetness of strawberries and the fragrance of vanilla. Surrounded by sweetness, I feel the loneliness of death.

He slowly exhaled a white breath and rubbed his exposed arms.

Thinking about being frozen to death in the hot summer is such a fantastic thing, but in this scenario it seems to become a reality.

Waves of chills rushed down the spine and rushed to the brain. At this time, the brain was extremely clear, and it seemed that anything could be figured out quickly.

On the wall of the cold storage, the two saw the floor plan of the cold storage and felt that something was not right.

Kudo Shinichi looked at his knuckles, which were already a little red from the cold. He put them to his mouth and breathed lightly, rubbing his hands back and forth, hoping to warm them up a little.

The two walked quickly through the cold storage, with high shelves on both sides and piles of ice cream on the shelves.

Suddenly Shinichi said, "By the way, if Xiaolan finds out that we haven't gone back, she will probably come to us."

Mingyue looked at the shelves around her, "That's not necessarily true. Gelin would say that after we delivered the things, we separated from her. She sorted them out alone, while we went back to find Maoli and the others, or watch the fireworks show. Anyway, on the way back. At that time, we did not go with Green. After all, there was no one in the factory at this time. No one saw us coming in, and no one saw us going out."

Kudo Shinichi was also searching in the cold storage. Logically speaking, such a large cold storage should have a drainage outlet, but there was no drainage outlet on the floor plan. Shinichi is not very familiar with the structure and principles of cold storage, and does not know where the drainage outlet will be designed.

He looked down at the goldfish in his hand. It sank to the bottom of the bag and stopped swimming around. The water in the bag seemed to have tiny ice crystals.

I poked the goldfish at the bottom of the bag with my finger. The goldfish struggled to swim twice and sank back to the bottom of the bag.

"Ah sneeze~"

Kudo Shinichi sniffed and sneezed. The hot air sprayed from his nostrils condensed into frost flowers, hanging on his eyelashes and hair tips.

"Then Mingyue, you said that Gelin should go to Xiaolan and the others, but Xiaolan and Yuanzi didn't see us. They knew that we helped deliver ice cream here. Now that we have lost contact, wouldn't they call the police?"

"First of all, Gelin may go to Maoli, but when will she go? What if she doesn't go? Then when do you think Maoli will find out that we have lost contact? After an hour? After half a day? Or a day later?"

Kudo Shinichi scratched his head a little irritably, grabbing some frost flowers from his hair, "If Xiaolan finds out, she should come here soon." This sentence seemed like what Kudo Shinichi said to himself, but also like It was said to Mingyue.

Mingyue looked at Shinichi, "You should have noticed the words 'No unauthorized persons allowed to enter' at the door of the cold storage."

Kudo Shinichi nodded and sneezed.

Mingyue continued: "According to the rules and regulations, we can't come in, so Green has more reason to say that we handed her the ice cream at the door of the cold storage, and then we left directly without entering the cold storage. She finished packing and went Watch the fireworks display, or go meet Maori and the others. Later she found out that we were missing. Even if our bodies were found in the cold storage, she would say it was an accident. She thought we were curious and entered the cold storage when she wasn't paying attention. , was imprisoned here.”

Shinichi kept tapping his feet. They had already walked around the cold storage and returned to the location where the floor plan of the cold storage was posted.

"Why do you think Green did this? Why did he freeze us to death?" Shinichi looked at Mingyue beside him. Mingyue's gray hair was already covered with fine frost.

Mingyue looked at the floor plan and said, "I warned you to be careful about her."

"But I don't understand! Ah sneeze!" Shinichi was very upset and couldn't understand why Green, who had always been very kind to everyone, wanted to kill him and Mingyue. He looked at Mingyue. Wasn't Green making wine-flavored ice cream for Mingyue?

Is it possible that if we can’t make wine-flavored ice cream, we will kill Mingyue?

No, this reason is too strange.

Mingyue felt Shinichi's gaze and turned to look over. Kudo Shinichi's body was shivering due to the cold, his breathing rate was rapid, and his face was a little pale.

The blood vessels under the skin contract, right? Blood flows to the deeper layers of the body, reducing heat loss.

Looking at his exposed arms, he had a lot of goosebumps. The black clothes he wore next to his body continued to generate heat, but unfortunately the areas not covered by the clothes were still very cold.

I don’t know how long I have to wait here. What happened?

Mingyue sighed and said, "You like Maoli, why don't you tell Gelin clearly?"

Shinichi shuddered, "Ah sneeze~ You mean that Green likes me?! How is this possible? Xiaolan and I are childhood sweethearts, and Green knows it! Ah sneeze~"

Kudo Shinichi looked at Mingyue with an expression of disbelief. He did not notice that a thin layer of ice had formed on the water surface of the goldfish bag in his hand.

Mingyue looked around, except for the shelves, there was ice cream on the shelves, "Today you told me that yesterday you saw Gelin burning something, you should have deduced that the thing was an ice cream box."

Xinyi nodded, "The ice cream box is made of paper. Burning it will only leave some ashes."

"Do you still remember the ice cream that Green brought us? There was only one alcoholic ice cream that day, and it was only given to me. That ice cream was indeed prepared for me. In addition to high concentration of alcohol, the ice cream also contained There are drugs.”

After Kudo Shinichi heard this, his pupils shrank suddenly, he looked at Mingyue, and asked eagerly: "What?! Did you eat it?"

Mingyue nodded, "Although I don't know what it feels like to be drunk, I still know how it feels to be drugged."

"Then you were..." Shinichi couldn't imagine the situation Mingyue encountered at that time. He also didn't notice that his breathing rate was very fast at this time, and balls of white mist appeared in front of him.

"Gelin, the second time you came here was to see if I was drunk or unconscious, and then find an opportunity to take me away. Unfortunately, Yuanzi and I have already been taken away by another group of people."

White mist spat out from Xin's mouth in lumps and turned into frost, "Huh~huh~ That's why Green hurriedly destroyed the evidence." Xin took a big breath, "Huh~huh~ But why did she Are we going to attack you?"

"I don't know this either." Mingyue looked at the floor plan posted on the wall.

Kudo Shinichi shivered from the cold, "What have you been looking for? The drain?"

"No, but I found it!" Mingyue smiled, "Follow me."

In the corner of the cold storage, in an inconspicuous place, there seemed to be a secret door between two shelves. Mingyue tried hard to open the door, but unfortunately the force was too weak and the door did not move at all.

Kudo Shinichi rubbed his hands, and the two of them worked together, and the door opened.

The light from the incandescent lamp on the top of the cold storage shone inside, allowing the two to see clearly what was going on inside.

A chill rushed from the tailbone to the top of the head. Shinichi's eyes widened and he stood motionless, like an ice sculpture.

Mingyue pushed Xinyi, and Xinyi slowly came back to his senses. Their hands were red from the cold, and they kept tapping their feet, trying to keep themselves warm.

Behind the secret door seemed to be a small room that was partitioned off so delicately that it could not be discovered without careful observation. There were four cold corpses in this small room.

Three men and one woman.

There was a corpse that looked very familiar. The corpse was naked and had a smile on its face. It seemed that it died peacefully, and it looked like it was asleep, but there was a thick layer of frost on the pale skin. , indicating that he has been dead for a long time.

This body is none other than Jiangkou Dahe who has been looking for a long time.

"We will die like this too." Kudo Shinichi murmured.

Mingyue stepped forward to check the other three corpses, "Kudo-kun, do you think these dead men look somewhat similar to you?"

Kudo Shinichi shuddered. He recognized the other body as one he had seen in the missing person notice in the newspaper, but the other two corpses were not clear.

The missing person notice contained a photo of the corpse before it was alive. It was a young man who looked similar to Kudo Shinichi. His face was peaceful. There were no visible injuries on the surface of the corpse. It looked like he had been frozen to death.

The two peaceful corpses were like sleeping beauties. Time stood still on them, as if they were waiting to be awakened.

Kudo Shinichi wrapped his clothes tightly, but he still felt the biting cold. In the blink of an eye, Shinichi seemed to understand a lot of things.

"They were all killed by Green!"

Mingyue rolled her eyes at Shinichi, "Do you think there will be others?"

Kudo Shinichi shook his head, sneezed, stamped his feet next to the body, and rubbed his arms.

"The day you first moved here was also the day when Aunt Jiangguchi suddenly rang my doorbell. Gelin brought us ice cream. Gelin was not in a hurry to look for Jiangguchi Dahe because she knew that Jiangguchi Dahe was dead, and she was She was killed. So Mingyue, you think there is something wrong with her and remind me."

Mingyue tilted her head and looked at Jiangkou Dahe lying on the ground, "Not just that time, but later we met Aunt Jiangguchi. Aunt Jiangguchi said that Dahe once hid in a tree and was Dahe's friend. After climbing up the tree and shaking Dahe for a long time, Dahe finally woke up, and he was still in a trance."

Kudo Shinichi was startled and said quickly: "You mean Dahe has actually been drugged once, but if he has been drugged, he shouldn't be unwary of Gelin!"

"Gelin usually gave the ice cream to Maori before, but today is unusual. She has always asked you to distribute things to us. Have you ever thought about why?" Mingyue looked at Kudo Shinichi, who was breathing very quickly.

The goldfish sank crookedly at the bottom of the bag. Except for the two gills flapping one by one, the whole fish seemed to have no vitality. It looked like it wouldn't live for long.

Mingyue continued: "Because Gelin is observing the order in which you distribute things, because in most cases people will do certain things according to their own subconscious. Gelin should know you very well, she may guess that you distribute things will be in a certain order, or she will affect the order in which you distribute it under certain circumstances."

Kudo Shinichi shuddered, "The first time it was ice cream, but you refused. The second time was to give us drinks, and she specially waited for us at the backstage door. The third time was to share the food, and you suggested that we let Take it yourself. If Green drugged us, none of us would be separated, and neither you nor I would be stunned." The new side showed confusion, curled his fingers to his lips, breathed, hoping Can warm up.

"The first time you distributed the ice cream was a test, because it was all strawberry flavored ice cream, so you thought of Maori and me first, while Gelin gave the third and fourth portions to you and Sonoko. The second time you distributed them It’s a drink I don’t know the taste of, but after this first experience and being influenced by Green, I still gave the first two drinks to Mori and me, followed by Sonoko, and finally yourself. "

Kudo nodded, it seemed like this.

Mingyue continued: "So Maori and I are basically the first two, and Yuanzi is basically the third, so the last time Gelin put the medicine into the third food."

"You mean that Yuanzi was poisoned, but for the last time, Yuanzi chose it by himself."

"Every piece of food is different. She may have observed our preferences in the cake shop before, so the one she chose must be what Yuanzi likes. Even if you get the order wrong, Yuanzi will still get it. The people who get the part are exchanged. Do you still remember that detail? Originally, Green also chose that part."

Shinichi suddenly realized, "It's the same as the magician's choice. It seems to let us choose, but the choice has always been in Green's hands. But why poison Sonoko?" Shinichi lowered his head and pondered, and after a moment, he said, "I know, in order to separate us, her target has always been you and me."

Mingyue nodded.

The two men looked at the other two bodies that were not frozen to death.

The two corpses seemed to have been dead for a while. The male corpse had wide eyes and an expression of disbelief, which was completely different from the peaceful faces of the other two corpses.

There was a big hole in his chest, and his heart seemed to have been ripped out of his chest.

On the body of the only female, all parts visible to the naked eye were slashed with sharp knives, and there were wounds everywhere, especially on the face. Under some wounds, you could even see white bones.

Mingyue knelt down and looked carefully at the unrecognizable face, "Tsk, how much hatred is there!"

"Ah sneeze!" Kudo Shinichi sneezed and rubbed his nose, "I have never seen this girl on the missing person notice."

"She must have been dead for a while, but some of the wounds look fresh." Mingyue carefully observed the opened flesh.

Kudo Shinichi came over and also observed the marks on the corpse, "You won't let it go even if you die?"

The goldfish in the bag was dead. It lay on its side at the bottom of the bag, with a layer of ice forming on the water. Shinichi's face turned purple from the cold.

"Kudo-kun, do you remember that Green said she had a childhood sweetheart boyfriend?" Mingyue looked at the male corpse with his heart removed.

Xinyi nodded, "Remember, it was said that she fell in love with someone else and left Gelin. Then Gelin dropped out of school and went to work in an ice cream factory. If what Gelin said is true! Then she didn't drop out of school, but committed suicide. , hid the body in the ice cream factory, and then came to work in the ice cream factory!"

Mingyue shook her head, "No, dropping out of school is true. Coming to work in the ice cream factory should have happened before the incident."

Kudo Shinichi sniffed.

"Mr. Detective, after you kill someone, where will you hide the body? You usually choose a place where you can monitor it, so Green should have come to work in the ice cream factory first. After getting familiar with this place, something must have happened. Gelin killed these two people and hid their bodies here. Then Gelin, possibly for some reason, killed the boy who looked similar to her boyfriend."

"The reason may be that the confession was rejected, so that's why Green asked me if I liked her. If this is inferred, it stands to reason that she should only be targeting me," Shinichi looked at Mingyue and asked, "Why are you also involved? Come in?"

Ming Yue shrugged, "Gelin told Mao Li that Qingmei is no match for the sky. And she asked you whether you like me or Mao Li." Ming Yue sighed, "Oh~ you should have boldly admitted that at that time, you Love gross profit.”

"You saw this." Kudo Shinichi was a little embarrassed and glanced into the distance.

Mingyue rolled her eyes speechlessly, "It's obvious, okay." I'm not blind.

"So the girl whose face was slashed by Gelin with a knife must be Gelin's love rival. She will be disfigured even if she dies."

The ice cubes in the bag are getting bigger and bigger, and the fish has become motionless.

In the hospital, Yuanzi was lying on the bed receiving fluids, and a woman wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat and a floral dress hurriedly walked into the ward.

"How are you doing?"

Mao Lilan was sitting beside Yuanzi's bed. When she heard the sound, she turned to look at the door, "Eh? Shinichi's mother!"

Sonoko wanted to get up, but Yukiko stopped her.

"Xinyi's mother, why did you come here suddenly? Are you here to see Xinyi? He went to deliver things to Green. Originally, I wanted to tell him Sonoko's ward number, but his mobile phone has been unable to get through." Maoli Lan held the phone in her hand.

Yukiko hesitated for a moment, then said, "I just saw you carrying Sonoko in the crowd, so I came over to take a look."

At this time, the Suzuki family's housekeeper came with bodyguards, "Second Miss, we have sent a helicopter to pick you up."

Yuanzi looked at the housekeeper who was sweating profusely and said weakly: "I think I'm much better. I just ate bad food. I didn't expect my gastrointestinal condition to be so bad."

huh~

Bang!

A firework exploded in the sky outside the ward window.

In the cold storage, Mingyue and Shinichi hugged their arms tightly.

"Mingyue, let's get closer together, it will keep us warmer."

The two of them were leaning back to back, giving each other warmth and holding their hands on their chests.

Mingyue listened to Shinichi's breathing and asked, "If you died here, what would you regret most?"

After Kudo Shinichi thought for a long time, he exhaled a large cloud of white smoke, "Is it a pity? It's a pity that I didn't become a detective and didn't solve all the mysteries of the case. Instead, I was trapped here by the murderer, just like now. "

"Do you really want to be a detective? Wouldn't it be better to become a mystery novelist like Uncle Yusaku?"

"That's different. I want to be a detective like Sherlock Holmes. I hope Xiaolan can become my Watson."

Mingyue felt the shiver coming from her back, "Really? I heard that Maoli's father is a detective?"

"Ah," Shinichi sniffed, "Yes, when you and Sonoko were kidnapped, he contacted Xiaolan and led many detectives to look for you everywhere, although their investigation was not successful."

Mingyue thought for a while, "Maoli's father must be very powerful."

"I used to be a criminal police officer, and I worked as a colleague with Officer Megure. Mingyue, did you guess that Dahe was dead, so you asked Sonoko whether to choose a false sense of hope or complete despair? Reality."

"Yeah." Mingyue nodded.

"Actually, I wouldn't have believed that he was dead until I saw the body," Shinichi looked at the peaceful Dahe on the ground, "Aunt Eguchi would be so sad if he died."

I remembered seeing Aunt Eguchi with her hunched body, holding the photo of Dahe, asking everywhere if anyone had seen her son.

Her husband had just died, she had no money, she couldn't hire a private detective to help, and the police didn't seem to find any useful clues. Eguchi Saori has been searching everywhere alone.

"All prisoners should be severely punished, and all prisoners must be brought to justice. I must become a detective!" Shinichi clenched his fists.

After hearing this, Mingyue smiled, "Well, the ambition is very high. Mr. Detective, how do we escape from here now?"

Shinichi looked around with beady eyes, as if there was nothing he could do.

"Aren't you worried about what will happen to your parents after you die?" Mingyue rubbed her arms and looked at the door.

"Dad will take good care of mom." Shinichi sighed. Mom should be very sad, and she might shed tears like Aunt Eguchi. My parents will probably have another child, hoping it will be a girl, a girl like Mingyue, cute and well-behaved.

Shinichi secretly glanced at Mingyue, it seemed like it was a good thing to have such a sister. You can read mystery novels together, discuss puzzles together, and even tease or be teased a little.

Mingyue seemed to have thought of something bad, a little sad, a little sad, and said to herself: "Really? Parents are true love, children are accidents?" So my mother committed suicide after giving birth to me. Father is gone?

"Mingyue, if you die here, will you have any regrets?"

Mingyue rolled her eyes at Shinichi, raised the corners of her mouth, and said wickedly: "I won't die here even if you die here, so I won't let myself regret it."

Shinichi was stunned, thinking of what happened before coming here, "On the way here, you were looking at your phone. You couldn't have been sending text messages to my mother, right?"

Mingyue raised her eyebrows, "Maybe I'm sending it to Uncle Yuzu?"

"Dad, is he following us?" Shinichi's eyes lit up. Dad will definitely be able to find this place.

Mingyue shrugged, "I was originally following him, but he seemed to have lost track of me in the alley."

Shinichi stamped his feet in annoyance, "At that time, I just wanted to deliver the ice cream early and go back to look at the garden. I didn't pay that much attention. I lost to you again."

"Mr. Detective, haven't you noticed that Green took us around a lot of detours?"

"I thought it was because there were fewer people on the road and we could walk faster. Mingyue, you realized something was wrong very early, right? And that lost goldfish doll was just to show dad the way? But why hasn't dad done that yet? Come on, dad, he’s so slow!”

Shinichi looked at his phone, it must have been about an hour or so.

Mingyue frowned, "Maybe when we entered the park, the signal was not good and the text message was not sent, or Uncle Yuzu was delayed by something, or something unexpected happened, so Uncle Yuzu couldn't come over immediately. "

While the two were talking, the cold storage door slowly opened, but the person who appeared at the cold storage door made Mingyue's hair stand on end.

The person who came at this time was none other than Suzumiya Yoruichi.

The smiling eyes under the gold-rimmed glasses made Ming Yue feel a chill running down her spine.

Why is he here? !

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