Conan: Begins to collaborate with Miss Bayonetta and become famous

Chapter 764 What’s the injury on your arm?

In the van heading to the charcoal-burning hut, Conan carefully asked Mitsuhiko about what happened when he and his friends were attacked.

"Helmet?" Conan couldn't help but ask back.

Mitsuhiko, who was sitting in the middle of the back seat, answered, "Yes. It's the kind of full-body helmet that motorcycle riders wear that completely covers their entire head."

"By the way, does the other party have a gun?" Conan continued to ask.

"Yes! It's a gun this long!" Genta, who was sitting next to Mitsuhiko, opened his hands and gestured excitedly.

Haibara, who was sitting next to Conan, turned around and looked.

"It's about the size of a rifle, and there's a cover on the gun," Mitsuhiko added.

"Ah..." At this time, Lan, who was sitting in the front row, seemed to remember something and said, "The gun was indeed covered with a cover, but when I kicked the gun, I didn't feel anything."

At that time, Lan's heel clearly kicked the butt of the gun, but there seemed to be nothing under the cover, as if he had kicked nothing.

"Really..." Conan was very surprised by the unexpected fact he learned from Ran.

"So, were you shot by a rifle with a gun mask on it?" Takagi asked Yamato in the charcoal hut, and Yamato nodded and replied, "Yes."

Otomo, who was standing at the door, walked outside, and Takaaki, who was sitting next to Yui, looked at Yamato, "It's probably you who's being targeted, Gansuke."

Yamato nodded: "Maybe, the murderer is likely the man who appeared at the avalanche scene ten months ago."

"Well, I think you saw it at that time." Gao Ming said.

Yui, who was sitting between Takaaki and Yamato, added, "But Inspector Yamato doesn't have that memory!"

Kogoro, who was sitting opposite Yui and the others, crossed his arms and asked in confusion: "Looking at the current situation, the criminal may not know about this yet, right?"

"Or, you want to kill Inspector Yamato before he recovers his memory..." Sato, who was sitting at the innermost part of the room, proposed another possibility.

At this moment, the sliding door suddenly opened and Otomo's face was revealed: "Sorry, um, the police are here..."

A group of police officers dressed in winter gear lined up in front of the cabin. Standing in the front was Hasebe, wearing a suit and a plush down jacket.

"I'm not a policeman, I'm a prosecutor." Hasebe said in a very tough attitude with a group of police officers.

In the falling snow, the police climbed up the mountain road wearing headlamps and holding batons.

Hasebe, walking in the middle of the team, picked up a loudspeaker with one hand to encourage and mobilize the people.

"After receiving the emergency signal, the police from Nagano and Yamanashi prefectures immediately blocked the road at the foot of the mountain and began to conduct an inspection. This means! The criminal must be in this mountain!"

Among the police officers mobilized to hunt in the mountains were Nagano Prefectural Police Officer Takaaki and Yamanashi Prefectural Police Officer Hayashi.

Not only that, there are also Sato, Takagi and Kogoro.

"Why is even Mr. Mori, an ordinary citizen, here?" Sato, who was walking side by side with Takagi, whispered in disbelief.

"Well, after all, we have asked the local hunting club members to help." Takagi looked back at the hunting club members walking behind him.

Among them is Eizo Funakubo, who has a fierce look under his low hat.

Once they reached the charcoal hut, the children rushed inside, shouting, “Excuse me!”

"Wow—it's so warm!"

Ochi bowed and apologized to Otomo who was standing in front of the hut: "I'm sorry for disturbing you so suddenly."

"Please feel free to do as you please. I'll go back to the kiln first." After saying this, Otomo walked towards the kiln.

Yuan Tai looked around the narrow room and sat down on the bench: "This place looks like a secret base."

After saying that, Genta put his index finger into his mouth and started moving it. Ayumi and Mitsuhiko both looked at him in disbelief: "Genta, what have you been doing since just now? Is there something stuck between your teeth? Is it barbecue?"

"Ah, it's out!" Yuantai looked carefully at the index finger taken out of his mouth.

"What is this?" There was a small black fragment on Yuantai's fingertips.

Huihara walked over to Genta and took a closer look: "It looks like a piece of leather."

Huiyuan's words reminded Mitsuhiko of something: "This might be the criminal's gloves..."

Conan, Yui and Yamato all widened their eyes upon hearing this.

"By the way, I bit him at that time... How disgusting!" Yuantai frowned as he looked at the tip of his index finger and wanted to use his thumb to flick away the leather fragments.

"Wait, Genta! Don't move!" Conan hurriedly stopped him. Yui immediately ran to Genta and said, "Me! Leave this to me for safekeeping." Then she pressed Genta's fingertips with a handkerchief.

"I'll go get a plastic bag or something!" Conan said this to Yui and ran towards the door.

"Ah, you can't go alone!" Yui hurriedly stopped Conan who was about to go out, and then the two went to the charcoal kiln where Otomo was.

Next to the wooden house was a charcoal kiln covered with a triangular roof made of iron sheets. The kiln was filled with red-hot charcoal.

"We only have this kind here." Otomo handed the plastic bag he got from behind the kiln to Yui.

"Ah, thank you very much." Yui put the leather fragments wrapped in a handkerchief into the plastic bag.

"That's all." Yui finally breathed a sigh of relief and then turned her gaze towards the charcoal kiln.

The red flames were burning fiercely in the furnace in front, and the surrounding air was shaking and deforming like the sun. Even from a long distance, one could feel the heat blowing towards him.

"It's really hot." Yui sighed.

"The charcoal kiln is very hot, please don't get close to it," Otomo warned.

Just as Conan and the others were about to leave, Otomo, who couldn't stand the heat from the charcoal kiln, began to take off his shirt, revealing the sleeveless top underneath. He then stretched out his strong arms to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"Huh?" Conan happened to look back and found a bruise on Otomo's left forearm: "Uncle, what's with that bruise?"

Otomo felt a little guilty: "Hmm? This... maybe it was accidentally injured when I was cutting down trees for charcoal?"

"This is really hard work," Yui bowed slightly before returning to the rest hut.

Conan kept staring at Otomo, who hung his removed shirt on the wooden box, and muttered to himself: ...No, those are bruises caused by using a break-bullet rifle or a shotgun.

Break-action rifles and shotguns can be opened by breaking off the base of the gun body, so when loading bullets, place the gun body on the left forearm and break it.

In addition, Otomo also had similar bruises on his right arm.

That was also the scar caused by the recoil of the gunshot...

When you shoot a rifle or shotgun, the recoil forces your arm against the gun.

Gu Nan stood aside, staring intently at Dayou who was walking towards the kiln with a long iron rake in his hand.