Ms. Moriarty wants to save Beika Town today too.

Conan complained. There was only one other car besides theirs in the parking space next to the cliff guardrail.

Daoxie kindly helped Winnet open the car door. Although she didn't need his help, she still thanked him, walked out of the car, and stood in front of the guardrail where the sea breeze blew on her face.

The weather is clear and clear.

"Yuanzi, you really aren't going with us?" Xiaolan bent down towards the car window.

Just now in the car, Sonoko had already expressed that she wanted to rest in the car for a while.

"Yeah. I kept thinking about that guy in bed last night and couldn't sleep well. I want to sleep here for a while."

"Really? That's a pity."

After Yuanzi said this, Daoxie ran to the trunk and took out a small portable refrigerator. He got into the car and said to Yuanzi, "Yuanzi, I put a lot of drinks in the small refrigerator. If you are thirsty, just help yourself."

His thoughtfulness won Sonoko's favor.

"Thank you for being so thoughtful."

"Well, Sonoko, you should have a good rest. We'll be leaving first."

"Well, enjoy it."

Winnett was not so anxious, she walked slowly, observing Daoxie from behind. But he just leaned into the car and said something to Yuanzi, then locked the door from the outside.

The car door can be opened and the air conditioner is on, so it's not a big problem.

She regrouped, Xiao Ai glanced at her, and then caught up with Xiao Lan and Conan. A few seconds later, Daoxie also caught up. He introduced them:

“The seafood here is really delicious.”

Imperial cuisine? I really like this kind of exaggerated term.

"I wanted to let Yuanzi have a taste, too. What a pity," he said.

Xiaolan looked back at the car with a bit of uneasiness. "Is Sonoko okay? The car is still starting..."

"Don't worry, I turned on the air conditioner, everything will be fine."

Winette didn't ask him for confirmation. The air conditioner wasn't turned on very high, and there was a ventilation function. It wouldn't be a problem if she just slept in the car. It was just that the location was a bit bad. If a car hit it, it would definitely be pushed off the cliff. But it was still difficult for this kind of straight uphill road to happen. After all, no one would play racing on this kind of road.

Daoxie’s recommendation is not bad. The seafood set menu of this restaurant is indeed rich.

"Wow, that's really a generous portion. Is this really a single serving?"

Fish stew, two large lobsters, sushi rolls, sashimi, fried fish and side dishes.

“That’s the secret to the restaurant’s popularity,” he explained.

It was only ten o'clock in the morning, so it was a bit surprising to have a full meal at this time. But for Winnet, this amount was just enough to make her not hungry.

After the meal, he ordered some black tea as an after-meal drink.

"How about it? The food here is good, right?"

"Yes, it's delicious." Xiaolan said with a smile, "Thank you for treating me. I feel a little sorry for Sonoko."

Winnet followed suit and thanked him. From her perspective, Xiao Ai straightened her back after the meal, as if she was full from the meal in the middle of the day.

At this moment, a man walked out of the bathroom.

He came towards them, and Xiaolan spotted him immediately - the innkeeper. As for Winette, she had already spotted him, but she assumed he was following Yuanzi, so she didn't think it was strange. Although she had never experienced such a scene, this kind of sneaky tracking was not uncommon. Even in her old little church, there were little trackers who appeared before and after the service.

From her perspective, high school students are just kids.

However, Xiaolan was still quite surprised by her appearance. "You are not from the hotel... Do you often come to this restaurant?"

He sat in a single seat that was almost like a bar counter.

"No, today is my first time here," he said. "But where is that brunette girl? Why haven't I seen her for a long time?"

"It's obvious now." Xiao Ai took a sip of red tea.

Winette also looked at him with interest. In a sense, this situation was also a battle between rivals for love. This was much more interesting than the TV show.

"You're talking about Sonoko. She didn't sleep well last night and is now catching up on her sleep in the car outside."

While Xiaolan was talking, they looked out the window at the vehicles. However, an unexpected situation occurred, and the car was sliding forward.

Xiao Ai was shocked. She quickly looked at Winnet.

Conan asked: "Isn't that Mr. Daoxie's car?"

"How can the car move?" Daoxie slammed the table and stood up.

"Oh no, there's a cliff ahead!"

Conan yelled, and immediately broke into a sprint.

The car was moving... Winette was sure that she had seen Daoxie pull the handbrake. But what was going on? She frowned, and her body moved faster than her mind, running towards the car at high speed.

Fortunately, the car was just sliding, so it was not difficult to catch up. To her surprise, Xiaolan and Conan caught up quickly. Xiaolan was fine, but was Edogawa so fast because of the shoes given by the doctor?

Then--

She glanced inside the car and saw that the handbrake was indeed released.

"Trouble is, it's tempered glass." Winette started to have a headache.

Without any tools, it would be difficult to destroy it with human power alone. Moreover, the car was still accelerating, so even if I wanted to change its direction forcefully, there was no force point nearby.

"Damn it, running like this doesn't really use any strength at all!" Xiaolan, who followed, tried to knock on the glass.

If Winnet had time to prepare, she would have done the same thing. Hitting the weak point with full strength could indeed destroy it with one strike. But -

"Conan! Miss Winnett! Stay away from the car!"

"Ok?"

To Winnet's shock, Xiaolan grabbed the roof railing, raised her legs and stood up like a gymnast, then bent her knees in the air to gather strength, and used her whole body weight to kneel down on the rear window.

boom!

The car windows were shattered.

The small pieces of tempered glass blew onto Winnet's face. The shards of this special glass are not easy to hurt people, so she was not scratched. But Xiaolan's move really shocked her. She was indeed a strong woman who could break a telephone pole with her bare hands.

In terms of destructive power alone, she may not be able to compare to Xiaolan.

Winnet is better at using cleverness to break through force. Her attitude towards kicking is to disrupt the enemy's balance and look for opportunities, while Xiaolan in front of her will use her strength to the extreme; although this kind of technique is not easy to use in actual combat and mostly appears in martial arts performances, it has to be admitted that it is indeed the best solution in this situation.

Although it is also thanks to the roof rails of this model.

"Well, let her take care of this. There's no chance for me to appear."

Winnett saw Xiaolan open the door from the inside and handed her hand to Sonoko, giving up her original plan - to take out the iron needle she carried with her - to chisel out a crack and then break the glass at the weak point.

Winnet simply let go and jumped to the railing to relieve the force.

As for Conan next to her, he could only roll on the ground. Logically, he would have been scratched and injured, but he seemed to be fine.

Before the vehicle rushed off the cliff, Xiaolan held Sonoko in her arms and used her body to cushion her.

……

423 Two Trackers

"Hey, is everything okay?" Daoxie ran over shouting.

When he and another small hotel owner rushed out of the restaurant, they were stopped by the waiter at the door. The full-speed running posture could easily be mistaken for guests who wanted to eat a free meal and escape. The waiter's obstruction and explanation delayed their arrival. When they arrived, Xiaolan had already rescued Yuanzi safely.

"Fortunately, everyone is fine." Xiaolan glanced at Conan and Winnet, and smiled relaxedly after the tension.

The Taoist Association who arrived later was a little embarrassed, but still followed the atmosphere.

"It was a close call, luckily you guys were saved."

As soon as he finished speaking, the hotel owner grabbed his shoulder and questioned him. "I'm asking you! Why didn't you pull the handbrake?" His tone was full of suppressed anger, as if he would punch the other party in the face if the answer did not satisfy him.

The scolded Daoxie replied angrily, "Stop talking nonsense. Of course I pulled the handbrake! If I hadn't pulled the handbrake, the car would have slid off the cliff."

He was right. They had been dining for more than an hour. If the handbrake had not been released, it would not have happened until now. Winette was very cautious beforehand and noticed the position of the handbrake, but there was no problem at the time. Although Daoxie was the last to move away from the car, it was difficult to make a delay device with about ten seconds. Besides, he had no reason to hurt Yuanzi.

Even if he maliciously equates him with the thief from last night, he should be able to dispel his doubts after seeing the photos of Yuanzi.

Speaking of which——

"Just now, someone released the handbrake." Conan suddenly spoke. He explained in a tense and serious tone: "According to my judgment, that person used the tool for unlocking the car to pry open the car door. And this person is the guy who tried to murder Sister Sonoko." His tone was confident, not from the perspective of reasoning.

Winette thought he had found something when he was pulling at the window frame and came to this conclusion. But she still had doubts. Whether it was prying open the car door or releasing the handbrake, the noise was not small. Although Sonoko was sleeping, she was very nervous about what happened last night. Under this psychological influence, she couldn't sleep too soundly.

"I've called the police." Xiao Ai came to Winnet's side.

She witnessed the scene just now. Even now, her eyes still glanced at Xiaolan from time to time. "I didn't expect that when you were helpless, the girl would stand up." She smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, "Her performance was very eye-catching and handsome. Risking her life to save her best friend - the situation just now was almost the same."

Winette recalled the scene. "It was indeed an exaggerated scene. If it were me, I might not be able to break the tempered glass with my knee. In that short moment, courage, determination and performance were all indispensable. Just before that, I thought she had no practical ability."

Ai's frown appeared in her peripheral vision. "What do you think of Edogawa's statement? Do you also think that someone pried open the car door and released the handbrake?"

She didn't nod but didn't deny it either. "He must have discovered something. But if there was any tampering with the handbrake, there's no way to get evidence now."

"The entire crime scene fell into the sea... What a good plan."

"There's no point in salvaging it. It hit a reef before falling into the sea. I heard an explosion. The car is probably deformed and broken now."

"The stalker didn't show up." She reminded Winnett that the man who had been following Daoxie didn't show up at the restaurant. But he was there when they had dinner last night, and he must have heard their conversation about coming to this restaurant. Based on this premise, it is the most reasonable judgment to assume that he was there. "If he is not in the store, Winnett, you know what I want to say, right?" She looked at her.

Winette nodded silently. It's not that he didn't show up, but he set his sights on the Daoxie car. "But he probably didn't expect Yuanzi to sleep in the car."

"Maybe," she said. "We're at an impasse."

"We were scheduled to leave today. What a coincidence."

"You're right. The scope has been further narrowed down. The two men present, the one following the Dokkyo Association, and the tourists who stayed in the same hotel as us and went to the fireworks display last night."

The people who knew the exact date of their stay and had mastered their action patterns were just as Xiao Ai had listed - that was all. Winnett thought to herself that since the other party didn't want to let them leave, he would definitely strike again today - until he succeeded. The key now was to protect Sonoko, stay by her side, and not give the murderer who was lurking in the dark a chance.

They waited there, and soon the police vehicle arrived, and the person coming down was, as expected, Yokomizo. He, who was familiar with Xiaolan, heard the whole incident and called divers to check the underwater vehicle. Combining Conan's findings with the situation at the scene, he summarized it.

"When Yuanzi was sleeping in the car, someone pried open the lock and then released the handbrake." He stood in front of the gap in the guardrail where the car rushed out and looked down. "In this way, the car can slowly slide down the slope to the bottom of the cliff."

As soon as he finished speaking, another police officer who was assisting him received a call. He relayed to Yokomizo, "According to the report of the divers, the parking brake of the car that fell into the sea was indeed not pulled up." Then, he took out a metal object in a storage bag from his pocket and showed it to Yokomizo. "We found this on the road," he said.

"This is a tool for unlocking a car," he said clearly. "The criminal is an expert."

Winnett was standing not far away and saw what was in the storage bag. It was a special metal product, which was either custom-made or specially distributed, and it was difficult to buy it on the market without connections.

"All the fingerprints were wiped clean," the police officer added.

"Besides this, are there any other clues?"

"No," he replied, "the only thing we found was a puddle of water from the car's air conditioner where the car was parked."

So Yokomizo focused his attention on Sonoko. "Sonoko, did you see any suspicious people wandering around the car?" he asked.

"No, because I didn't sleep well last night, so I slept soundly in the car." She shook her head, her eyes turned sideways as if to include the back, "To be honest, since we arrived in Izu, there has been someone who has inexplicably appeared beside us." She turned around to look at the hotel owner and said, "He is here now."

Winnet turned to him. She didn't think he was the one who did it, but she felt a little awkward about his clumsiness. This unabashed way of following was indeed a little childish. Even a 12 or 13-year-old boy who was just beginning to fall in love wouldn't make himself so conspicuous.

"She really doesn't have the ability to judge people."

"It's because of the Taoist Association." Winette defended Sonoko.

"I can understand him quite well. Don't you think that you two have a lot in common?"

Xiao Ai shrugged her shoulders and said to Winnett with a hint of sarcasm.

The client frowned. Was she so clumsy and insensitive? Winette could not deny it.

"I'm not that stupid, and..." She wanted to say something to prove it, but thinking of her past experience, she decided not to say anything irrelevant. Anyway, she couldn't possibly outwit Ai. If it were her, whether it was tracking or observing, she would never show her existence at all. However, if there was a guy like Daoxue around Ai, she would definitely not be at ease watching her travel with such people. From this point of view, she would act in a consistent manner.

If you keep trying to hide yourself, you may not be able to arrive in time at the critical moment. Just now, the waiter who stopped them was an unexpected factor. However, she didn't have such social scruples - if someone stopped her, she would just knock him down.

Yokogami came up to him and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"

He did not show any emotion for Sonoko's misunderstanding. "I am the waiter of the hotel where they are staying," he explained. "I came here today because the hotel's daytime work is not so busy, so I took some time to come here for a cup of tea."

Lame statement.

However, it is almost impossible for him to be the murderer. They all saw him in the hotel, and he came out of the bathroom at that time. This means that he was already there before they arrived at the hotel, otherwise they would not have been unaware of his entry into the hotel.

Winnet found it funny. This idea of ​​ambushing in advance was quite immature.

Similarly, the possibility of it being Dokkyo was also low. He was dining at the same table with them at the time, and it was impossible for him to get away and do all this. More importantly, he had no motive to murder Sonoko.

In this way, the person who followed Daoxie became deliberate. She thought, if this is the case, then the other party gave her an illusion. He only appeared when Daoxie appeared, which was a trick. In fact, his target was Yuanzi who was with Daoxie. It was not difficult to understand that he used the meeting between the two to determine Yuanzi's behavior pattern while the two were trying to get along.