Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

A rich lady...

He couldn't help but think of Yuanzi, but when he went out to play with Yuanzi, no one seemed to let Yuanzi pay, and most of the expenses outside were shared equally.

"Uncle," Conan didn't move his chopsticks much, and didn't seem very happy, "Is this really okay?"

"what?"

"Xiaolan never asks for Yuanzi's money just because Yuanzi is rich. I think this is what true good friends do..."

Conan looked at the college students who were talking and laughing across from him.

"But these people... went out of their way to flatter the young lady and spend other people's money without thinking it's their fault. Are they really friends?"

"Ah."

Maori picked up the Coke next to him.

Sonoko and Xiaolan are indeed a very special pair of friends. One is carefree and has no airs of a spoiled young lady, while the other is very sincere to her friends.

"Why are you suddenly worrying about this? Not everyone can be like Sonoko and Ran."

Maori drank his Coke calmly.

In this world, let alone friendship, even family relationships are very complicated. He sees this very clearly after handling a series of cases.

In the evening, it got dark and Yuanta, who had been playing for the whole afternoon, started to feel hungry again. Under Ai's silent gaze, Maori had to help prepare curry rice for dinner.

He didn't have any feelings about the camping, but the kids and college students had a lot of fun, especially Ayumi, who took a lot of photos. The most important thing was that they didn't get into any trouble.

"call."

Maori stood at the edge of the camp and breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the cooked curry.

“Taking care of children is so tiring…”

"Really?" Ai stirred the curry with a spoon and looked at Maori with drooping eyelids. "Besides setting up the tent, you just helped move some things..."

"Ugh, I'm tired."

After a while, Ayumi called over a few college students as a reward for the previous barbecue. Although it didn't feel like barbecue, the curry cooked by Ai also smelled particularly fragrant.

Yuan Tai touched his stomach and leaned closer and said, "Let me try the taste..."

"No," Mitsuhiko stopped Yuan Tai and said, "If Yuan Tai tries it, he will definitely lose half of it in one go!"

"what!"

"Oh?" Lingzhi bent down and smelled it, and said in surprise, "This curry smells really good. Is it really made by you little brats?"

Ayumi explained: "Yes, because Uncle Maori doesn't know how to cook..."

Mao Li was full of black lines, but he really couldn't refute it...

"But where's your classmate with permed hair? Why didn't he come over?"

"Are you talking about Taimei?" Fatty Fanhe looked around in confusion, "Strange, I haven't seen her since a while ago..."

"By the way, the portable bicycle in the car is also missing. Did she ride it away?"

"If I go shopping by bicycle, this place is too far from the foot of the mountain..."

The fat man looked at his watch and said, "Maybe he went to that place. It's not far from here."

"That place?" Maori had just taken a few bites of curry rice when his eyelids twitched slightly. He silently raised his head and looked at the college students.

"Well, there is a very special scenic spot about 5 minutes' drive up the mountain from here. We just happened to find it..."

Several people looked towards the hilltop in the night.

"It's about that time now. Why don't you go check it out together? Maybe Taimei is there."

"Okay, okay," Ayumi looked at Maori expectantly, "Uncle Maori, can we go over too?"

"Then let's go together," Tiantang Qinghua said with a gentle smile, "Do you want to try riding in that camper van?"

"Is it really possible?"

Maori frowned slightly.

Someone is missing at this time...

The night was quiet. The camper van drove up the winding mountain road with its headlights on. The cabin, which looked like a luxury hotel, completely shocked everyone.

There are sofas, TVs, toilets, bathrooms...all the facilities are available. Looking through the window at the mountains outside bathed in moonlight, it feels really good.

Mao Li looked quietly outside the car amid Ayumi's excited voices, and vaguely heard the sound of fireworks.

"what is this?"

"It looks like it has already started," the fat man said with a smile, "Every year at this time, there is a fireworks display at the foot of the mountain, and the scenic spot we are talking about is the place with the best view..."

“Yeah,” Tencho Haruka called out to Reiji who was driving in front of her, “Reiji, please, let’s just do the same as last year.”

"it is good."

Lingzhi pressed a button casually, and the car sunroof opened automatically, and suddenly a cool evening breeze blew on everyone's faces.

"The skylight is open..."

"What's the same as last year?"

"Because we can see part of the fireworks from here," the fat man picked up Bu Mei and lifted her up to the skylight, "Look, it's already started, right?"

"It's really fireworks! So beautiful!"

"Ah," Yuan Tai followed up, "I want to see it too, brother, hug me!"

The fat man looked at Yuan Tai, the little fat boy: "Uh..."

"No, Genta," Ayumi said disappointedly, "We can't see it now because of the mountain."

"Then we can go back..."

"It doesn't matter," Lingzhi said with a smile, "You'll be able to see clearly when you reach the top of the mountain. Soon..."

The camper van turned a bend and suddenly slammed on the brakes. The whole car went sideways and everyone screamed as they crashed into each other.

"what happened?"

"Reiji, what are you doing? This is too dangerous!!"

"I..." Lingzhi looked horrified, "I think I knocked something away!"

"what?!"

"Cough cough!" Maori climbed up with the help of the table, looked depressedly at Conan who had bumped into him just now, and turned his gaze to the outside of the camper van.

Fatty Fanhe had already gotten out of the car with a flashlight to check, trembling with fear and almost unable to speak.

"How, how is it, Fanhe?"

"Could it be Taimi?" Lingzhi broke out in a cold sweat.

"No," the man in front seemed relieved, "It's just a piece of wood. It seems that the wooden fence has rotted and fallen from above..."

"I'm so scared. Let's go up early. The fireworks display is almost over."

"okay."

The campervan set off again, climbed a slope again and stopped at a platform on the top of the mountain. It was surrounded by wooden fences and seemed to be an observation tower. From there, one could clearly see the fireworks rising above the town below the mountain.

Maori did not follow everyone to watch the fireworks, but walked straight to a fence with Conan.

The wooden fence was broken in a section, and there were traces of bicycle tires in front of it. It looked like someone had crashed into it on a bicycle...

I looked down and saw that it was the section of road where I had just discovered the wooden block.

Maori frowned slightly, feeling the night wind was a little chilly.

There were no other problems when we came up except for the wooden block in the middle of the road...

"By the way," several college students looked around, "Why can't we see Taimei? The bicycle is not here either..."

"Could she have really gone down the mountain?"

The fat man said worriedly: "It's too bad, the phone can't be reached..."

Maori squatted beside the gap in the wooden fence and watched for a while, then stood up and returned to the group: "Did Taimei disappear without telling you?"

"She used to do this too. Last year, she rode her bike here before us and even boasted about being the first one up."

"Let's go back and look for it again."

"what?"

Several college students looked at each other.

"Did something happen to Taimei?"

"Maybe she's joking again..."

"Buzz!" The camper van set off again, leaving the lookout tower and going down the mountain gently along the road. However, unlike the previous brisk pace, the atmosphere was a bit tense because of the Maori relationship.

"Um," Reiji couldn't help but say, "I just felt that you looked familiar. Could you be the famous detective Kogoro Akechi from the Heisei era?"

Before Mao Li could respond, Ayumi and the others said in dissatisfaction: "You just knew that Uncle Mao Li is a famous detective?!"

"I thought it would be more stylish," Reiji said, a little embarrassed, "Uh, Taimi should be fine, right? Maybe she just got lost somewhere..."

"I've checked it just now. There's a gap in the wooden fence that seems to have been broken by a bicycle. There are also traces of bicycle tires on the ground..."

Maori stood beside the driver's seat and looked outside for clues. Suddenly he noticed a figure reflected in the headlights of the car, lying in the middle of the road with a horrible and grim face.

"parking!!"

Chapter 161 The Body Left Behind

"Woo——"

On the winding mountain highway, several police cars were parked on the roadside and forensic personnel began collecting evidence at the scene.

Officer Megure, with a serious face, got out of the car with Detective Takagi, and held down his hat that was almost blown away by the wind. When he saw Mori's figure, his whole fat face trembled.

"It's you again, Maori brother..."

"Officer Megure."

Maori looked at the cold body lying in the middle of the road and did not try to get close to Inspector Megure.

"The deceased is named Shirafuji Taimi, 22 years old, a college student..."

"Judging from the bleeding on his head, he may have died from a strong blow to the head..."

"Hmm," Officer Megure squatted next to the forensic doctor examining the body and looked up at the winding mountain road above, "Did he fall to his death from above?"

"There are fallen branches around the body, so that should be it... But after so much blood was shed, there is no blood on the ground, which is really strange..."

"Indeed... What about the time of death?"

"Between 5 and 6 in the evening," Maori approached and said, "The strangest thing is, when we passed by here just now, there was no body. It was only after we came down the mountain a while later that we found her lying here..."

"Is this true?" Inspector Megure asked seriously.

"Yes," Reiji looked at Taimi's tragic death, sweat on his forehead, "When I drove past here, the fireworks display had already started, so it should have been around 7 o'clock, and then I probably drove on the mountain for a few minutes before coming down... Oh, at the beginning, I was still on the upper road and encountered a piece of wooden fence that fell in the middle of the road..."

"A wooden fence?"

"It was the fence at the lookout on the mountain. You can see it from here. That's where we watched the fireworks. Part of the fence fell off and landed on the road below. I thought I had hit Taimei."

Reiji pointed to the mountain and turned to the fat man next to him: "Right, Fanhe?"

"Well, I got off the bike to check," Fatty Fanhe nodded and answered honestly, "but it doesn't look like it fell off, it looks more like it was damaged by someone. We were worried that Taimei might have accidentally rushed out of the fence while riding a bicycle, but we didn't see any bicycles on the road..."

After asking the questions, Officer Megure decided to take everyone to the top of the mountain to check the scene. Before leaving, he looked at Maori in confusion and instructed a police officer to take good care of Ayumi and the children.

"Really, Maori brother, why are you in a place like this?"

"I just happened to run into these students from the university's outdoor club while camping," Maori wiped his nose, "But Officer Megure, I think this is most likely a murder case..."

"Murder case?" Officer Megure looked helpless. "Who asked you to take care of the children? Why do you always let the children encounter dead people... Forget it, if it is really a murder, I will ask you for help again this time."

"It has nothing to do with me..."

Maori looked back with some depression at Conan, Ayumi and others who were approaching the corpse.