Conan: The Heart Thief

Next, the uncle led the group to the forest and explained again, "Although you can pick matsutake mushrooms, you can't just pick them casually. Adults can pick three and children can pick two. After you pick them and bring them back to the hotel, I will help you cook them."

"Cooking..." Ayumi tilted her head and thought for a while, then turned to look at Genta.

Yuantai turned to look at Mitsuhiko, hmm, it seemed like they had the same idea.

Mitsuhiko turned to look at Conan.

Conan: "..."

Forget it, he turned to look at Huibara Ai.

Huihara Ai looked up at Dr. Agasa, then quickly lowered her head: "It's no use looking at the doctor."

Dr. Agasa scratched his head in confusion, "What's wrong with you?"

Mitsuhiko: “Hehe…”

Ayumi: “Hehe…”

Yuanta: “Ha…haha?”

Conan's equally smiling expression froze, and his half-moon eyes complained, "Yuanta, that's enough... again!"

“What’s wrong with me…” Yuan Tai scratched his head.

Huiyuan Ai explained to Dr. Agasa: "When it comes to cooking, Sister Yukiko's cooking skills are very good. You can wait for her to come..."

Dr. Agasa was sweating and laughed, "So that's what you were thinking about...

Speaking of which, the last time I visited Kudo's house, Yukiko's cooking skills were amazing.

Yukiko and I are old friends, and since Yusaku Kudo is not at home, I just want to get closer to her."

"Dr. Agasa, don't think too much. It's not your turn." Xiao Ai poured cold water on Dr. Agasa without any hesitation. Yukiko is a legendary star in Japan. There is an endless line of men who want to cuckold Kudo Yusaku. There is no way that it will be the turn of Dr. Agasa, a bald old man.

Dr. Agasa coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, and then said: "After crossing the two barbed wire fences, it is the hunting area. You must not go over there. From now on, you are free to move around."

So, a group of children began to happily look for Matsutake mushrooms.

Yuantai lay on the ground, buried his head in the fallen pine leaves, rummaging here and there, raising a lot of dust, "Really! The uncle at the hotel said it seemed like there were a lot of matsutake mushrooms, but in the end I couldn't find a single one!"

"Well——" Dr. Agasa laughed dryly.

It's not translated like this...

"Okay, Genta," Ayumi said to the complaining Genta, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to pick matsutake mushrooms? I originally wanted to pick apples..."

"But matsutake is the king of autumn food!" Yuan Tai retorted, "It's much more expensive than apples."

"However, apples are forbidden fruits. Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden to the human world because they ate them secretly," Huiyuan Ai walked out from behind the tree, "so it is the 'fruit of knowledge that distinguishes right from wrong', which is much more mysterious than Matsutake."

"If that's true, Yuanta, you should eat more!" Ayumi teased with a smile.

"What do you care?" Yuan Tai was a little angry and embarrassed.

Conan said, "Genta, be polite."

"However, there is a saying about apples," Dr. Agasa asked Huihara Ai, "Is it in the Old Testament?"

"No," Huihara Ai explained coldly, "In fact, calling that kind of fruit an apple is just a folk saying."

Next to him, Mitsuhiko kept looking at Haibara Ai, his face slowly turning red.

"Huh..." Conan noticed and was a little confused, "Mitsuhiko, why do you look so weird?"

"No," Mitsuhiko quickly retracted his gaze, hesitated for a moment, and looked at Huihara Ai again, "I was just concentrating on looking at her..."

"Are you referring to Haibara?" Conan looked in the direction Mitsuhiko was looking.

"Yes, although Huihara-san seems aloof, I find that she is very knowledgeable and behaves very steadily," Mitsuhiko looked like a fangirl. "Don't you think she gives people a mysterious feeling?"

Conan's dead fish eyes expression: "I don't think so..."

"Conan, don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything special by saying this!" Mitsuhiko quickly explained with an embarrassed smile.

Could this little trick be hidden from Conan?

"Mitsuhiko, listen to me. I don't want to pour cold water on you, but I advise you to give up." Conan turned around, put his hands on Mitsuhiko's shoulders, lowered his head, and looked serious. When Mitsuhiko was stunned, he raised his half-moon eyes and teased, "She is definitely not someone you can pursue."

"Don't give me that... Conan, you must like Haibara-san too, so you are deliberately pouring cold water on me. I won't give up." Mitsuhiko said seriously.

Conan was speechless. How come kids these days are so precocious? It's so uncomfortable not being able to communicate...

After searching for a while, Ayumi discovered a poisonous mushroom called Tengu mushroom, and Genta finally couldn't help complaining about not having any Matsutake mushrooms.

Conan began to teach people how to find matsutake mushrooms, and found them at the foot of a pine tree with yellow needles. A group of children happily searched for matsutake mushrooms.

"My mission has been completed." Huibara Ai leisurely shook the bag in her hand.

"Eh?" Dr. Agasa suddenly realized something was wrong and turned around to count. One child, two children...

There is one less?

"Where did Yuanta go?"

"Hey?"

The others realized that they seemed to have lost Yuan Tai...

A group of people searched along the road and found that Yuan Tai might have gone to the hunting area behind the barbed wire.

Yuan Tai's detective badge was being repaired these two days, so we couldn't get in touch with him, and we couldn't track him with the tracking glasses. So we had no choice but to go deep into the forest to find Yuan Tai's whereabouts.

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Chapter 199 Yukiko reveals her love affair

Deep in the forest.

An elderly hunter noticed something was wrong and immediately pointed his gun towards the bushes. That direction was behind where Conan and his group were, and it looked like he was pointing his gun at Conan and his group.

Dr. Agasa was startled, and quickly walked in front of Conan and the other children, and whispered to Conan, "Shinichi, the other party has a gun, use the anesthetic needle quickly!"

"Huh?" Ayumi heard a rustling sound behind her and turned her head in confusion.

"No, no, the old man is not targeting us." Conan still looked at the old hunter's reasoning confidently.

"What?" The three hunters looked over in confusion.

"Roar!" A crescent bear jumped out of the bushes, roaring, revealing its sharp white teeth.

Haibara Ai and Mitsuhiko, who were lying quietly in the bushes opposite, were both startled.

The body length of a crescent bear is generally 1.5 to 1.7 meters. This crescent bear is a female bear, which is more than 2 meters long. When standing upright, it is taller than a human. Coupled with its very strong physique, it is like a small mountain, which is indeed very oppressive.

A young hunter wearing a hat just raised his gun and was about to aim when a crescent bear rushed in front of him and slapped his gun away.

The shotgun fell to the ground, and the barrel was completely twisted by Jubei's palm.

Yuan Tai saw the gun barrel falling to the side, turned around and ran with a look of horror, then suddenly felt something grabbing his collar, tears burst out, closed his eyes and struggled desperately, trying to run forward, "No, let me go! Let me go..."

There was sudden silence.

The three hunters looked at the young man who suddenly appeared with astonishment.

However, the young man stood next to the Crescent Bear, pulling the fat boy's collar calmly, and he didn't look scared at all. The Crescent Bear seemed to calm down suddenly.

"Help! Don't eat me! Wuuuuu..." Yuantai was still digging forward using his hands and feet.

“If you encounter a bear, you can’t run with your back to it.” Lin Xiao picked up Yuan Tai and turned him around so that he was facing the Crescent Bear.

"Hey? It's Brother Lin Xiao." Yuan Tai found the voice familiar. He looked up and stared at Lin Xiao, forgetting even to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Lin Xiao let go of Yuan Tai and looked at the woman next to him who was wearing a grey cap and yellow casual clothes. She had a beautiful face, an impeccable figure, and was sunny and beautiful.

"Yukiko, send its baby over here."

"What a pity! I wanted to play with this little bear for a while longer."

As she spoke, Yukiko put the little crescent bear down. When the little crescent bear saw the mother crescent bear, it immediately ran towards the mother crescent bear happily.

The mother crescent bear seemed to see the little crescent bear coming and glanced at Lin Xiao. The natural instinct of wild animals made it feel scared, so it ran away with the little crescent bear.

The three hunters looked at each other.

"Thank you, young man, that bear's name is Jubei, and I really don't want to be its enemy if I can help it.

"Wait..." The middle-aged hunter next to him looked at the old hunter, "Didn't you say that you blinded Jubei's eye?"

"That's right. I blinded Jubei's eye," the old hunter lowered his head. "It was because of that eye that I was able to survive."

Dr. Agasa was puzzled: "Exchange?"

"About twenty years ago, I went to the mountains to hunt spring bears when the snow was still deep..."

The old hunter talked about what happened twenty years ago.

"I accidentally fell and slid dozens of meters. Both my legs were completely broken. When I couldn't make a sound and couldn't move, it suddenly appeared in front of me. I thought I was going to be eaten. I closed my eyes in despair and waited for death to come. As a result, I felt something warm on my face. I opened my eyes and saw that it had retracted the barbs on its tongue. It licked my wound again and again. After licking it roughly, it fell asleep next to me...

I'm not sure whether it wanted to eat me after waking up, or whether it thought I was one of its own kind because I was wrapped in fur. But at that time, I felt really comfortable, safe, and warm. I even forgot the pain in my leg...

Later, a gunshot was heard, and it was shot in the left eye and ran away from me. It turned out that a hunter who was following its footprints found it near me and mistakenly thought it was going to eat me, so he shot and injured it. In other words, thanks to Jubei's discovery of me, I was saved before I froze to death. From then on, I went to the mountains every day, and once I found Jubei, I shot it and drove it into the deep mountains where there were few people. "

After hearing this, Lin Xiao said, "So, when I passed by earlier, I saw a hunter being killed in the forest. It was you who did it."

The old hunter nodded and said, "I did this to save Jubei!"

The young hunter next to the old hunter was shocked: "You actually killed someone for such a thing... It's normal for hunters to hunt bears, but you were shot dead by your own kind..."

"Humph! Bears are gifts from God. We hunters shouldn't treat them as enemies," the old hunter retorted. "Besides, if it was unfortunately discovered and hunted, that was its fate. I just pretended I didn't see it. But that man deviated from the norm..."

"What are you talking about?" The young hunter was puzzled. "Seeing this kind of prey, any hunter would feel..."

"It's a bait," Lin Xiao said, "I think the hunter used the little bear as bait to lure Jubei."

The young hunter was shocked. "What?"

"That's right. That man killed Jubei's other child and used him as bait," the old hunter said in a deep voice. "He hung the bear's body on a tree and pointed his gun at Jubei who was trying hard to save the bear. In comparison, he looked more like a wild beast!"

A group of people fell silent...

An hour later, the police arrived and took the old hunter away.

The group returned to the hotel as planned.

Seeing Yukiko and Lin Xiao sitting side by side, Conan couldn't help but complain: "Sister Yukiko, you're outside now, please be careful. Although I can't control you, but at least keep your distance from Lin Xiao outside."