Conan Moslin

"The innkeeper is dead?"

"Yes, just now, right in front of me, both the man and the car fell into the sea."

"Boss, how could this happen..."

Under the starlight, the long rut in front of us led straight to the abyss.

There were whispers behind them, whether they were discussing whether the innkeeper committed suicide or was murdered, or beginning to speculate on the possible murderer and method of committing the crime, as if they were all out of it.

Probably, apart from the hotel clerk Ms. Iwai and Fujisawa Toshiaki, who had some friendship with Kanaya, no one else was sad about his death.

Li An followed the tire tracks to the edge of the cliff. Although he did not see the explosion, the billowing black smoke rising from the bottom of the cliff could not be faked.

After all, Hiroyuki Kanaya is not the real Sherlock Holmes, and he is not as lucky as Sherlock Holmes. He fell off a cliff but was lucky enough to climb onto the moss-covered ledge, and then stumbled and survived after falling down the narrow path.

Seeing her staring at the diffuse black smoke in a daze, Conan in the crowd suddenly remembered that Kuroba Kuriyasu's father was in a similar situation, desperately rushing towards the abyss of death.

- When she was studying magic, did she ever want to recreate her father's escape magic?

maybe.

Li An didn't know what Conan was thinking, but she was not in a daze. She just suddenly discovered that there was a signal here.

This is outrageous. It's really dangerous here, right?

As he thought about this, Li An watched helplessly as several rocks at the tip of the cliff in front of him gradually loosened and fell into the smoke and dust below the cliff.

She took a few steps back very cautiously, and when she found that there was still a signal, she quickly flipped through the latest messages and soon saw a missed call from Xiaolan in the early morning.

The call came so late, it must be an urgent matter, right?

For some reason, Li An suddenly remembered that Conan had said before that Xiaolan and Uncle Maori were going to a class reunion.

So isn't Conan here today? Something happened over there too?

It looked like she had to reassess the danger of Uncle Maori.

"Sister Li An."

Li An, who was concentrating on browsing the messages with her head down, heard a familiar voice calling her. When she looked down, she saw Xiao Ai tugging at her clothes with a look of disapproval in her eyes.

"Aren't you afraid of falling from such a high place?"

Li An put the phone back into his pocket and pushed the child towards the hotel.

"Yeah, I'm pretty scared. You go back first, I'll be there soon."

Isn’t that too perfunctory?

Xiao Ai, who was gently pushed and walked a few steps, continued to look back and stare at her.

Li An was helpless.

In fact, Li An is not afraid of heights. After all, she has worn Crow's dark clothes and has used a hang glider before.

However, this kind of iconic costume is definitely not allowed to appear now - unless she wants to be recognized as Kaito Kid.

Or a crow?

In short, the only difference between falling into the sea from this height and falling onto the ground is whether the dead body will be soaked and rotten.

But forget it.

"Okay, okay, how about we go check out the garage? I don't think anyone's checking there."

Miss Iwai took Mr. Fujisawa, Mr. Kawazu and Mr. Toba to open the door of the store manager Kanaya and find a phone to call the police. The remaining women were still discussing there and no one was running anywhere else.

Xiao Ai: "Okay."

……

Seeing Li An leaving the cliff, Conan felt relieved and lay on the ground to look for what he wanted.

He heard a sound of wind that was not from the engine from the car that drove into the cliff, and at some point it suddenly accelerated.

The wind noise might be the car air conditioner not being turned off, but if that was the case, there should be water dripping on the road where the car passed.

Conan was carefully examining the marks on the ground and accidentally bumped into a hard head.

"Ouch!"

"It hurts!"

"Are you guys okay?"

There were concerned inquiries coming from all around.

Hattori Heiji rubbed his aching head, his tone was certainly not that happy: "I was just checking if there was really air conditioning! This is very helpful in solving the case! And it turned out to be with this little brat..."

？ ！！

Strange, with him again...? He remembered that it seemed like this last time...

This child, him?

He turned to look at Conan in shock, but only heard the slightly depressed voice of a child.

"But it's too dark, I can't see clearly..."

"Conan, your watch doesn't work?"

Soon, the voice of Li An, who had returned from the garage, was heard faintly.

Conan slapped his forehead, he had forgotten about it.

He was about to turn on the flashlight on his watch when he heard the sound of an ignition coming from another direction behind him.

Turning to look behind him.

The flickering firelight revealed a beautiful face. The young lady in a dark red dress bent slightly and asked with a smile to the two people squatting on the ground.

"Is this all right, young detectives?"

“…Thank you, thank you.”

Seeing that the two seemed to have finished the inspection, Oki Ayako stood up, held the flame and lit a cigarette.

"Does Miss Ohki smoke often?"

"Not often, do you want one?" Ooki Ayako blew out a smoke ring and glanced at Li An who asked her, "Forget it, you don't look like you would smoke."

This magician, who is not much younger than her, looks like a good girl, very different from her.

Li An smiled at her and refused by default.

However, looking at the lighter she put away, Li An still reminded her softly: "If Ms. Ohki wants to smoke outside, please don't go near the garage. I just checked and the gas tank of the remaining car is punctured. It's very dangerous."

She smelled a strong smell of gasoline from outside the garage, so she just did a quick check and quickly left with Ai.

"Thanks, I understand."

Ooki Ayako nodded.

Li An looked at Hattori again: "It's probably impossible to go down the mountain for the time being. Have you found anything?"

Hattori Heiji had just confirmed from Kuriyasu that the fuel tank was damaged, and replied, "Not yet."

However, this is not a problem at this time, because it means that the air conditioning is not turned on in the car at all.

Conan was originally planning to answer, but he swallowed the words back.

So what was that sound he heard?

While the two of them were thinking with their heads down, Iwai and his companions came running into the inn, breathlessly bringing back another piece of news.

"In Manager Kanaya's room... the phone... the phone is destroyed!"

……

The telephone in the room was thrown on the ground and smashed into pieces. When the mobile phone box in the drawer was turned over, all the mobile phones were broken.

The interior was a complete mess.

If Li An's cell phone has no signal, then this place without contact with the outside world will become a completely isolated island.

"how so……"

Miss Nanako, Maria and others who had never been to this room before were a little bit unbelievable.

They soon discovered that the safe in the room had also been violently opened and someone had been looking for something.

Then, I heard Ms. Iwai say—

The first edition of A Study in Scarlet has disappeared.