Stay away from Conan.

For the real Gao Yuan, because he discovered that Vermouth seemed to be coming to the Rice Flower Hotel, he took advantage of the convenience of his current disguised identity and chose to go directly to the Rice Flower Hotel and stay in the Rice Flower Hotel under a disguised identity so as to secretly observe what Vermouth was going to do.

As a result, Gao Yuan had just completed the check-in formalities with this identity, and unexpectedly met Miyano Akemi, who was now acting as "Gao Yuan"——

Originally, this was not a problem. After all, I had returned to Beika Town, and it would not be strange to meet any acquaintances here. Moreover, even Ai and Miyano Akemi were unaware of my disguised appearance. They only knew that I had changed my identity and went abroad. As for what the specific identity was and what my appearance was, they had never seen it.

So, in this case, even if you meet them face to face, you are the only one who knows them, but they don’t know you.

But now, the situation is different——

It can be seen that Akemi Miyano used her identity to find the hotel staff and explained to them that a murder had occurred in the hotel, and asked the hotel to seal off the entrances and exits as soon as possible and wait for the police to come immediately...

Such a situation made Gao Yuan's heart subconsciously jump. What should he do if the police come and cordon off the scene and check everyone?

This creates the possibility that your disguise will be exposed.

However, I have already checked in and want to leave now...

He couldn't leave. In order to avoid being suspected, Gao Yuan could only act as an ordinary guest staying in the hotel and hope that when the police arrived, they would not investigate him as someone who had just entered the hotel.

So, thinking this way, Gao Yuan could only pretend that nothing had happened. He took the room card with the registered number and carried his luggage to the room.

Although Gao Yuan was very concerned about what happened in the hotel, it was obviously not something he should do in his current capacity.

I can only hope that the police can handle the incident as soon as possible...

Moreover, Miyano Akemi, who was pretending to be herself, actually took the initiative to deal with matters related to the case. It seems...

It feels like there are other people I know at the scene?

Like Conan and the others?

If that's the case, maybe the incident can be resolved quickly...

But, could this incident be related to the actions of Vermouth and the others?

After all, as far as I know, Vermouth should be dealing with something at the Beika Hotel. Could it be related to the current incident?

……

"Damn it! After entering the pipeline, the signal can't be sent out at all. It seems that I have to act alone here now, and I can't ask people outside to cooperate with me...

"In that case, we must at least know which exit the criminal will escape from, otherwise it will be impossible to catch him!"

At this time, just as everyone outside was taking action, Conan, who had already crawled into the ventilation duct, realized that the signal could not be transmitted in this duct. In this way, he could not get Uncle Maori and others outside to cooperate with him so that they could go to some ventilation exits to block the criminal. Everything depended on himself.

Then, we must have some results. Otherwise, if the criminal just runs out of the ventilation duct, there will be no clues about him. Even if the police surround the hotel and check the identities of all the hotel staff one by one, they may not be able to find out the other party's identity. Therefore, thinking of this, Conan sensed the movement coming from the duct and began to speed up to chase the source of the movement, hoping to successfully catch up with the other party.

Just like that, after Conan quickly passed a section of the pipeline, he came across a fork in the road. However, after listening carefully, Conan discovered the direction the other party was heading, and then he followed the direction of the noise.

In this way, it went very smoothly. After passing several forks in the road, Conan was able to detect the path taken by the other party in this way. His movements became faster and faster, and Conan was anxious to catch up with the other party as soon as possible.

However, it was under such circumstances, after several choices at the crossroads, that Conan suddenly discovered something -

Every time when he came to a fork in the road, the path the prisoner chose was to turn to the right.

Suddenly, when Conan realized this, he was stunned for a moment -

"Not good! It's a trap!"

Subconsciously, Conan thought of something, but before he could remember what he was thinking, suddenly, Conan keenly sensed something. His small body could move easily in the ventilation duct, but he turned around and moved half of his body away. Then, Conan felt something flying past his side and hit the wall of the ventilation duct in front of him, making a crisp sound of metal collision!

That's a dagger!

By using the flashlight on his watch to shine forward, Conan saw clearly what the flying object was. It turned out to be a dagger!

Moreover, looking at the appearance of the dagger, it is exactly the same as the dagger that killed the person in the bathroom!

So, it's the murderer!

He is actually behind me now!

At this moment, Conan finally figured out what the problem was.

Obviously, the prisoner also sensed that he was also chasing him in the ventilation duct. In order to confirm his identity, he chose to go to the right every time he came to a fork in the road. In this way, he completely circled within a certain area in the ventilation duct, so that the prisoner could go around behind him!

After realizing this, Conan also felt someone coming towards him quickly from behind him——

The other party must have sensed where he was and threw the dagger at him, trying to kill him in this narrow space.

In this case, I can only say that it is fortunate that I only have the body of a child, so I still have room to move around in this tube. If I were an adult, I would probably not be able to dodge at all!

This was also the reason why the prisoner chose to go around in a circle to block him, because the other party's adult body could not turn around in this pipe...

But, what to do now?

In this narrow space, the dagger thrown by the opponent was very powerful. It was obvious that the opponent had specially practiced throwing weapons such as flying knives.

Originally, I thought that the dagger that killed the deceased looked a bit special, but now it seems that the dagger's special style must have been specially designed for throwing and hurting people!

From this point of view, my original guess is becoming more and more correct——

Specially designed weapons, obviously the opponent is most likely a professional killer! (End of this chapter)