The sound of the door lock was crisp and decisive, as if cutting off all communication.
"Chikako..."
Suzuki Ayako stood outside the door, her heart full of worry.
She had a vague feeling that the note that Chikako had just received was definitely not an ordinary thing, but Chikako's reaction prevented her from asking more questions.
Ayako could only sigh and looked at the closed door with complicated eyes, with an ominous premonition rising in her heart.
……
In the restaurant, Xiaolan and Sonoko had already arranged all the tableware and dinner.
Xiaolan gently placed the last dish on the dining table. Suzuki Ayako slowly walked downstairs and saw this scene. She felt grateful in her heart.
She said softly, "Xiaolan, Sonoko, thank you so much for your help."
Xiaolan raised her head and responded with a smile: "It's okay, Sister Ayako. Everyone has worked hard. Eating early can also help you rest early."
Yuanzi also waved his hand playfully: "Yeah, in this kind of damn place, you need to eat enough to have the strength to run."
Ayako chuckled at Sonoko's amusement and was about to say something else when other people came out of the room one after another.
After a simple tidying up, their mood seemed to have recovered a little.
Everyone walked into the restaurant and found a seat to sit down. The aroma of food filled the air, which seemed to dispel some of the gloom of the villa.
Hiroki Kadaya glanced around casually, frowning slightly: "Hey, where's Chikako? Why didn't she come down to eat?"
A trace of uneasiness flashed across Suzuki Ayako's face, but she still smiled and explained: "She said she was a little tired and wanted to rest in the room."
Just as everyone was about to start eating, suddenly, Takahashi's voice came from the second floor, with obvious fear and panic: "Ah! There's someone outside the window! It looks like that bandaged weirdo!"
Everyone in the restaurant was stunned. Their hearts tightened and they stood up almost instinctively.
Mao Li frowned and walked up the stairs. The others followed closely behind him and quickly ran in the direction Takahashi pointed.
They came to the window and hurriedly opened it. The cold wind mixed with raindrops suddenly blew and hit their faces.
Thunder roared and lightning tore through the night sky, instantly illuminating the scene outside.
At the moment when the lightning illuminated, everyone widened their eyes and gasped.
Chapter 202: Maori's Inhuman Performance
In the forest outside the window, a strange man with bandages all over his body was passing by quickly, as if floating in the air. What was even more terrifying was that he was holding a person in his arms - that was Chikako Ikeda.
Chikako was held tightly in the arms of the bandaged monster, her eyes wide open in fear, her face pale, and she was completely at a loss.
Her body seemed to have completely lost the strength to resist, and like a puppet that had lost its consciousness, she was being carried by the monster and quickly flew through the woods.
"It's Chikako! She was kidnapped by that weirdo!"
Hiroki Kadaya shouted loudly, his voice filled with despair and fear.
The scene outside the window was like a nightmare. The strange man seemed to be unaffected by gravity and quickly disappeared into the dark forest. The figure of Chikako Ikeda disappeared with him.
"Damn it! Chase!"
Ota Katsu clenched his fists, turned around and ran towards the door downstairs, his eyes full of anger and determination.
However, he had just taken a few steps when he heard a slight noise suddenly coming from the window.
"Conan?!"
Xiaolan exclaimed, and watched in amazement as Conan actually bit the flashlight and jumped out of the second-floor window without hesitation.
Although the second floor of the villa is not very high, for a child, this action is undoubtedly extremely bold.
Conan was very agile. He rolled over after landing and stabilized his body at an astonishing speed. He then stumbled towards the forest and his figure gradually disappeared in the rain and fog.
"Conan?!"
Xiaolan still hasn't come to her senses, her eyes are wide open, obviously frightened by Conan's actions.
However, the next second, something even more shocking happened - right beside her, Maoli suddenly assumed a posture she had never seen before, leaned forward slightly, kicked his legs hard, and jumped out of the window like an arrow.
"father!"
Xiaolan screamed, and saw Maoli soar into the air, turn lightly in mid-air, and land precisely on the trunk of a big tree.
The tree trunk beneath him just trembled slightly, and then he made a few light leaps and chased after it like a ghost. His speed was so fast that it was hard to keep up, and he disappeared into the night and rain in the blink of an eye.
"I...what did I see?"
Sonoko was completely shocked by this scene, her mouth slightly open, staring blankly at the empty window. She turned to Xiaolan with a dull look and asked in a trembling voice: "Xiaolan, Uncle Maori... is he still an ordinary person?"
Xiaolan was also dumbfounded. She frowned slightly and tilted her head to think seriously, as if she was trying to recall when her father had demonstrated such skills.
After several seconds, she spread her hands helplessly and answered hesitantly: "Well... maybe?"
Her answer stunned everyone for a moment, and then they fell into stunned silence.
……
Conan was running in the storm, breathing heavily, and the rain blurred his vision.
At this moment, he inadvertently looked up at the treetops in front of him, and his eyes fixed - Maori was jumping between the trees at an astonishing speed, like a swift cheetah, quickly approaching the "bandage monster".
"Uncle Maori! Catch him!"
Conan shouted with all his might, his voice sounding extremely urgent in the wind and rain.
When Maori heard Conan's shout, he frowned, then snorted coldly and suddenly flew into the air without any hesitation.
His figure turned into a black shadow and pounced fiercely at the "bandage monster" in the air.
"drink!"
Maori let out a low roar and pinned down the strange man with incredible precision.
The two figures fell to the ground in an instant, and the rain splashed, making a low muffled sound.
However, as soon as Mao Li pinned the other person down, he immediately felt something was wrong.
The "bandage monster" under his command was abnormally light, as if it were an empty shell.
He reacted instantly, frowned, and turned over the strange man's clothes to check.
At this time, Conan ran over panting, rain running down his forehead, and he quickly bent over to check.
As soon as Maori lifted the black cloak on the monster, the scene in front of them made both of them open their eyes wide.
"what?!"
Conan gasped, and saw a head rolling out of the cloak, rolling along the ground, and finally stopped at their feet. The pale face was none other than Chikako Ikeda!
Conan's heart sank, and his breathing became rapid and heavy.
Maori was silent for a moment, his face suddenly turned cold. They quickly disassembled the "bandage man" and checked it thoroughly, and found that this so-called man was just a model used to create a terrifying effect, controlled by fine fishing lines, and seemed to be able to fly in the air.
"Ms. Ikeda..."
Conan murmured softly, his eyes fixed on the pale head in the model's arms.
Chikako Ikeda's head had completely lost its life force, and her face was frozen in horror.
Her body was nowhere to be found, only the head tightly held by the model remained here.
Just as Maori and Conan stood next to the shocking head, others followed closely.
Everyone's face was filled with unconcealable fear and anxiety.
Masaru Ota was running in the front, and as soon as he got closer, he saw Chikako Ikeda's head.
His footsteps suddenly stopped, and his face turned pale in an instant, "Oh my God...what on earth..."
Sonoko, Ayako, Takahashi and others also arrived one after another, and they could hardly believe what they were seeing.
Sonoko caught a glimpse of the familiar yet terrifying face on the ground and immediately covered her mouth with her hands, her voice trembling: "Sister Chikako...she..."
"She was dismembered!"
Hiroki Kadoya suddenly shouted. While he was running, he suddenly saw a piece of body stump on the ground, and his voice trembled with fear.
He pointed to a bush in the distance. Everyone followed his gaze and found a broken arm lying quietly in the mud, being washed by the rain.
"No... Impossible!" Suzuki Ayako covered her face, tears streaming down her cheeks. "How could Chikako..."
Before she finished speaking, Ota Katsu discovered another bloodstain, a bloody thigh, which was also cruelly abandoned on the ground. The rain washed the stump, and the blood mixed with the mud, with a disgusting fishy smell.
"She was really dismembered!"
Ota Katsu gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
His anger surged up in his heart along with a feeling of powerlessness.
Takahashi's face was pale, his whole body was shaking, he kept backing away, and he looked like he was about to collapse.
"This is impossible! It must have been done by the bandage guy! He can fly! He...he dismembered Chikako..."
Takahashi shouted incoherently, his eyes panicking as if he had lost his mind.
"Stop pretending, Takahashi Ryoichi."
At this moment, Maori turned around and looked at Takahashi with sharp eyes.
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Chapter 203: Solving the Case
Maori's voice was like a sharp blade, cutting through the rainy night.
Everyone couldn't help but shudder and looked at Takahashi Ryoichi who was standing aside and cowering.
Takahashi's face instantly showed a panic expression. He blinked, seemed a little overwhelmed, swallowed his saliva, and forced a smile: "Mr. Mao, Mr. Mao Li, what are you talking about? I... I don't understand at all."
Maori snorted coldly, his eyes as sharp as a hawk, staring at Takahashi, as if he wanted to tear his disguise apart completely.
He walked towards Gaoqiao step by step, and every step was full of pressure.
The others also gasped, took a step back, and looked at Takahashi in shock.
Suzuki Ayako even covered her mouth unconsciously, and Sonoko widened her eyes in astonishment. No one expected that Mori would actually point the finger at Takahashi, whom they had always thought was cowardly and incompetent.
"You are the bandaged monster who killed Chikako Ikeda and attacked Xiaolan and me."
Maori's tone was cold, and every word was sonorous.
This sentence was like a thunderclap, and everyone's eyes were instantly filled with shock and fear.
Everyone's breathing became rapid, and the tension in the air reached its peak in an instant.
"Ah... the bandage weirdo is Mr. Takahashi?!"
Xiaolan screamed and covered her mouth. She couldn't believe that this fat guy was the bandaged weirdo.
Conan stood aside, his brows furrowed, his heart filled with complicated feelings.
He had just seen the body of Chikako Ikeda and was still thinking about the murderer's modus operandi, but Mori had already identified the murderer?
"Do not make jokes!"
Takahashi suddenly shouted, his face was pale, cold sweat oozed from his forehead, and he looked extremely nervous, "Don't talk nonsense! I'm not the murderer! I didn't do these things at all!"
"Mr. Maori, could it be that you are seeing things?"
Ota Katsu looked at Takahashi Ryoichi, gritted his teeth and stood up and said, "We have all seen your skills. You said before that the bandage man is very fast. Takahashi is just a fat man. How can he be so fast?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Maori, even though Takahashi was walking ahead of us just now, his speed is really not fast."
Hiroki Kadoya also defended his friend.
"Mr. Maori..."
Suzuki Ayako looked at Maori worriedly. Maori snorted coldly, narrowed his eyes slightly, and sneered, "Do you think he is a fat man? A full 200 pounds?"
Everyone nodded in confusion. Maori walked calmly to Takahashi's side and slowly circled around him a few times, like a beast staring at its prey. His eyes swept back and forth over Takahashi's body, as if he was analyzing everything about him.
"Okay, then come with me and look at the evidence.
"First of all," Maori said in a low voice, pointing to the footprints behind Takahashi, "Your footprints have exposed you - when you walked, the depth of your footprints was extremely uneven, especially on the muddy ground. The heaviness of your footsteps seemed somewhat inconsistent with your body shape."
He continued his analysis: "On the surface, you are a fat person, but in actual actions, your pace and breathing are different from those of a normal fat person."
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