Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Just build the framework first, right?"

Maori also took a closer look at the snowman.

"Are you going to be a monster?"

"Yes, the name is 'Sigh of the Snowman'. It's still a long way from the final official work..."

"The general feeling of the head has come out, but the body has not yet taken shape. I can only do it slowly..."

"You're still taking your time?" The female college student raised her eyes and shouted at the bad-tempered girl, "Aren't we going back the day after tomorrow? If we don't finish it soon..."

"Don't say that, Sako. Itabashi has been here all this time for us."

"Hmph, let me make it clear first, it was your idea for four people to work together to complete the work, I didn't..."

The female college student with droopy eyes named Sakuko seemed to be in a bad mood. Her unhappy expression made people feel unpleasant. The key point was that she was not pretty at all, especially compared with another cute girl with brown hair.

"Alright, alright," the brown-haired girl said with a smile to ease the atmosphere, "This is the last winter break of my college life..."

"Yeah, the four of us should get along well until the end. After graduation, we might not have the chance to see each other again..."

“Really?” Sako looked at the others who agreed with the brown-haired girl and said with a sarcastic smile, “Then on this last day, let the four of us say goodbye with a peaceful night skiing… Oh, I almost forgot, it’s impossible for four people…”

"Hey, Sakuko!"

The faces of several college students changed, and the brown-haired girl froze.

"Ma Hua..." The companion called the brown-haired girl worriedly.

"It's okay," the brown-haired girl said with a bit of sadness, pretending to be calm, "I've made up my mind... Then, Banqiao, I'll stay in the hotel. Call me when the snowman is formed."

"it is good……"

Several college students returned to the hotel one after another, leaving only Shoe Horn Face outside to continue studying the snowman.

"call--!"

Maori stood by the side with his hands in his arms. Suddenly he felt the wind getting stronger. He looked up at the sky and it looked like a blizzard was coming.

Sometimes heavy snow doesn’t give people a very good feeling. It seems that something will happen every time it snows...

……

At the ski resort hotel, Maori returned to the hotel with a group of playful children. After a while, a heavy snowstorm started, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The wind and snow kept hitting the glass windows, and the sound of the wind like the howling of ghosts could be heard outside.

Maori looked out the window and saw nothing but white, unable to see anything clearly.

Such heavy snow can't even be seen in Tokyo.

“I wonder what those college students are doing now…”

"Uncle, are you still worried?" Xiao Ai rolled her eyes at Mao Li and looked at the children who were making a fuss by the window. "Instead of worrying about those college students, you might as well think about how to manage them."

"Uh……"

"Hate it," Ayumi looked at Blizzard in distress, "Is the snowman behind me okay?"

"Could it be blown down?"

At around 1:00 p.m., everyone went to the hotel restaurant for dinner. Everyone had a portion of curry rice and a glass of juice.

A blizzard was still raging outside and the restaurant was packed with people. Maori attracted a lot of attention because he had a child with him. Finally, he and Ayumi and the others squeezed into a seat near the corner with great difficulty.

"Curry rice is still the best! Especially after sweating all over the snowy mountains!" Ayumi and the others said happily.

"Yes!"

"Hey, you just built a snowman..."

Maori also brought a plate of curry rice. It wasn’t that he was stingy, but the only thing available in the restaurant at the moment was curry rice, which the kids happened to like.

For some reason, he felt like eating instant noodles. In such cold weather, a cup of instant noodles would make him extremely happy.

"Isn't there?" Several college students suddenly appeared at the door of the noisy restaurant, looking very anxious.

"Could she have gone skiing alone and got lost in the snow?"

"Hey, hey, that shouldn't be the case. It's snowing so heavily..."

Mao Li quickly finished his curry rice, wiped his mouth and walked towards the college students: "What happened?"

"It's the one who just took the child..."

The idiots all looked at Mao Li and said, "Wait, you are not the one..."

"Ok?"

"Ah, nothing, maybe I recognized the wrong person," Shoe Horn Face paused and explained, "Actually, Sako who was with us didn't come to dinner, and when we went to call her, we found that she was not in the room..."

"We've searched the entire hotel. Could he really have left?"

"What should I do..." The brown-haired girl was at a loss.

Mao Li looked at the panicked people and felt his scalp tingling for a moment: "In this case, let's split up and look for it. I'll look behind the hotel, and you guys look in front of the hotel. Be careful and don't get separated."

"It can only be this way……"

"Thank you so much. By the way, I don't know your name yet." The brown-haired girls looked at Maori with gratitude.

"I'm Maori, Maori Kogoro."

Behind the hotel, Maori went out wearing thick clothes. The snowstorm was still continuing and visibility was low, so Maori didn't want to take a group of children with him.

"You guys stay here for now. It will be troublesome if you get lost..."

"No, Uncle Maori, we will be obedient!"

"That is to say, we won't cause any trouble."

"...Then you all should keep up and don't fall behind."

The wind and snow were so strong that the whole world was covered in white. The dazzling white reflection made it difficult for people to tell the direction, forming the milky white sky phenomenon that often appears in the polar regions.

"Ms. Sakuko!"

"Where is it, Ms. Sakuko?"

"Big sister with droopy eyes!"

Ayumi walked in the snow against the wind, holding on to her furry hat, her feet making crunching sounds in the snow.

Seeing that the figures of the people in front were blocked by the heavy snow, Ayumi hurriedly quickened her pace, but accidentally fell in the snow.

The others didn't notice what was happening, and seemed not to even hear the sound, and they disappeared in an instant.

"Hey! Wait... don't leave me..."

It seemed as if she was the only one left in the white world. She cried in despair, "Where are you?!"

Mao Li picked up Ayumi who was sitting in the snow in confusion: "So I said you guys shouldn't follow me..."

"It's snowing too hard," Conan followed Maori to protect his heat and shouted to the side, "Is everyone else here?"

"Yes!" Mitsuhiko approached and said, "I'm holding Huibara-san's hand tightly..."

"Eh..." Ai calmly emerged from behind Maori with her hands behind her back, "Are you talking about me?"

"Eh?"

"It's my hand!" Yuan Tai pulled his hand back angrily, "It's so disgusting!"

"I just want to ensure safety, okay? And you caught it first!"

"But," Ai avoided the oncoming snowstorm and glanced at Mao Li who was hugging Ayumi, "In this kind of weather, isn't it too dangerous to continue searching?"

"I remember there was a steep cliff ahead..."

"Then let's go back and wait for the blizzard to stop." Maori sighed lightly.

To be honest, if Sako was still outside in this situation, she would probably be in great danger.

"Uncle Maori!" Yuantai suddenly shouted, "In front!"

"what happened?"

"Our snowman's head was blown off!"

"No way?"

Everyone crowded forward and found that only the lower half of the snowman was left. The props that served as hands were still intact, but only one glove was left, swaying in the wind and snow. The bucket that served as a hat fell on the snow next to it, along with the fruits that served as a nose, eyes and mouth.

"It must have been blown by the strong wind..."

"And one of the gloves was blown away to who knows where..."

"Let's wait until the snow stops. There's a cliff ahead. If we're not careful, we'll fall down."

Maori crouched down next to the snowman and silently examined the small snow piles where the fruit was scattered.

It's okay for the bucket to be blown away, but it's too strange that the snowman's head was blown like this.

Besides, the bucket is right next to the snowman, which shows that the wind force is still limited. Based on Maori's many years of experience in solving cases, both the shapeless snow pile and the fruit on it are quite incongruous.

In other words, it is very likely man-made.

But who would destroy a child's snowman in a snowstorm for no reason? It didn't make sense.

Mao Li stood up again and looked at the unfinished "snow men" of several college students on the other side.

The snow man was still standing there, without much change. If there was anything wrong, it was that the snow man's head felt weird.

The wind and snow gradually subsided, and Ayumi and the others looked towards the cliff ahead worriedly.

"Could that older sister have accidentally fallen while skiing? There's so much snow that we can't see anything..."

"That shouldn't be the case. Anyone who knew there were cliffs here wouldn't come here to ski during a blizzard."

Conan's face was heavy. Maori also looked at the cliff that was revealed as the wind and snow died down. He took a deep breath and said, "Under normal circumstances, no one would come here in this kind of weather. But if this is murder..."

Chapter 172: Every time I meet Shancuncao

"quack……"

There is a pond under the cliff behind the hotel. After the wind and snow completely stopped, a group of policemen gathered there. Officer Yamamura Cao from the Gunma Prefectural Police Station was also present. Although he was wearing a lot of clothes, he was still shivering and sneezing.

I entered the police force because I watched Yukiko's detective TV show, but the reality is not that exciting. It is true that I always have to watch some scary corpses.

He was always bullied in the police station, but he was lucky enough to become a police inspector...

It's not that there aren't some exciting moments, such as when you get to see the legendary mystery tellers, especially Kogoro Akechi from the Heisei era.

"Ah!"

Shancuncao wiped his nose and pulled his clothes tighter uncomfortably.

"Didn't they say Detective Maori is here?"

"Uncle Maori has gone upstairs to investigate." Ayumi and the others looked at Yamamura Cao suspiciously.

"Officer Yamamura," Mao Li walked down the cliff with drooping eyelids, "What a coincidence."

"The victim was Ogura Sakuko, 22 years old..."

The wet body of the female college student with droopy eyes was placed by the pond. A police officer checked the student's testimony and said, "A fourth-year student from the University of Fine Arts, she was found floating in the middle of the pond. The cause of death should be drowning... Let's send her to the judiciary first, Officer Yamamura."

"Well, let's do this."

Shancun sighed as he looked at the body that was fished ashore, feeling very unlucky. He had to go back to get rid of the bad luck again. If he continued like this, he would have to find a psychiatrist sooner or later.

“Is this female student traveling alone?”

"I came here with three classmates from the Fine Arts University. They are..."

The police officer pointed to several college students standing nearby.

"The one on the far right is Mr. Motoyama Kazuji, followed by Ms. Onoue Maka, and Mr. Itabashi Kazuya..."

"Three people," Shancun perked up and looked at the three people, "Well, from the time Miss Sakuko disappeared to the time her body was found, could you please explain to me in detail what happened?"

"Ah, okay..."

"The last time I saw Sako was in the hotel lobby. It seemed to be around 12 o'clock, and Sako went back to her room by herself..."