Conan: Begins to collaborate with Miss Bayonetta and become famous

Chapter 763 Avalanche is coming

Yamato and Yui tumbled down the steep slope and curled up in the snow, seemingly buried.

"Uehara...are you okay?" Yamato turned his head and asked with concern, "Yeah, I'm fine." Yui said as she half sat up.

Thanks to the cushion of snow, neither of them was injured.

"We have to find a place to take shelter." Yui supported Yamato's body as he tried to stand up, and looked around.

Although it was dangerous to walk in the dark, I would surely freeze to death if I stayed here any longer.

The two of them stood up together and started walking in the falling snow.

After walking for a while, I saw a faint light in the distance. It was a small wooden house standing quietly on the snowy field.

There is also a charcoal kiln next to it, covered with a tin-shaped triangular roof, and a sign with the word "Bupa" hanging on the small wooden house with bright light shining through it.

"Sorry, we are the police!" Not knowing whether the owner was away or not, the door showed no signs of opening, so Youyi gently opened the sliding door.

In the center of the plain-floor room, which was about six tatami mats in size, there was a large wood-burning stove, and a U-shaped bench against the wall was covered with cushions and quilts.

“Is no one home…” Yui murmured after looking around the room, and Yamato came in and closed the sliding door.

Yui asked, "Is there a P3?"

(Police-only data terminal.)

(Short for Polystrypleye)

Yamato said, "I just lost mine."

Yui replied: "But, there is no signal here."

Yamato thought of a countermeasure: "If it's an emergency call, there's a chance it will get through."

"Really?" Yui took out the P3 terminal from her pocket and pressed the emergency button on the screen.

Suddenly, the sliding door at the entrance was yanked open, and a howling wind and snow rushed in instantly.

Yui and Yamato looked back and saw a man standing at the door holding something that looked like a rifle.

Kogoro, Takaaki, Sato, and Takagi have just entered the entrance hall of the Nagano Prefectural Government Building.

Suddenly an emergency in-house broadcast began to play.

"The police radio just received an emergency call. The radio ID found that the caller was Yui Uehara of the Investigation Division. The GPS location information shows that the call was sent from the charcoal-burning hut at the fifth station of Mt. Miho-dake. "Bupa, repeat it————"

After listening to the broadcast, Gao Ming said to Kogoro beside him, "Let's go."

"Ah."

Just as Kogoro and the others were about to leave, Conan came down from the rooftop: "You stay here!"

Conan, who was stopped by Kogoro, let out a slight click of the tongue. At the same time, the cell phone in his pocket vibrated.

It was a text message from Huihara.

What! Lan and the others?!

After reading the text message, Conan ran to a place away from people, grabbed the collar of his shirt, and put the bug attached there close to his mouth: "Mr. Kazami. My partner was attacked by a gunman in the mountains."

Ran brought Genta and Mitsuhiko back to the villa and told Dr. Agasa about their accidental encounter with a man with a gun.

Mitsuhiko also wanted to show Haibara and Ayumi the photos of the criminal that he took with his mobile phone, so he clicked on the photo folder icon on his mobile phone.

"what?"

I saw that all the photos taken were shaky and blurry, and the key points were not captured at all.

“There’s not a single clear photo. Oh, this shouldn’t be like this…” Mitsuhiko was frustrated.

Next to Mitsuhiko who tilted his head in confusion, Genta has been paying attention to his big teeth since the beginning and keeps picking them with his fingers.

A group of people were waiting for Ochi's car in front of the villa.

"Anyway, I'll be relieved if you guys can come back safely."

Hearing what Dr. Agasa said, Lan nodded slightly.

Not long after, a station wagon drove up.

"Oh, it seems to be coming." said the doctor.

The station wagon stopped in front of the villa. The window on the driver's side rolled down, revealing Ochi's face: "Really, things are getting serious."

Kogoro and the others soon arrived at the charcoal-burning hut that sent out the emergency signal. After slowly approaching the hut with the light on, Takagi opened the sliding door in one breath.

Sato immediately rushed in and raised his gun.

"Huh?" Sato, holding the gun, opened his mouth in a daze.

After Yui and Yamato sent out the emergency signal, they sat around the wood stove and drank tea.

"It seems that the emergency signal sent out has been received." Yamato said slowly after seeing Sato and Takagi standing at the door.

Opposite Yamato and Yui sat a man, his figure blocked by the cabinet in front of them.

Gao Mu who entered the room couldn't help but exclaimed "Wow!"

At this time, Yui stood up and introduced the man to everyone: "This is the owner of the cabin. He saved both of us."

"Ah, my name is Otomo Takashi. Oh...yeah, sorry."

The man, who had a long beard from the corners of his mouth to his chin and looked very strong, shrank back and lowered his head.

Kogoro, who came in a little later, looked around the room in surprise. Gao Ming stood at the door and looked at Otomo's face and asked, "This charcoal grill house... was it opened recently?"

"No, I did it here five years ago."

"Five years ago..." At this time, Gao Ming saw something that looked like a rifle standing in the corner of the room.

On the other side, Conan got in Kazami's car and headed for the villa where Xiaolan and others were. After the car stopped a little away from the villa, Conan got out of the car and walked towards the entrance of the villa.

At this time, Professor Agasa, Ochi, Ran and the children gathered at the entrance of the villa.

Ochi said: "Because of the shooting, the police seem to have ordered everyone not to leave the mountain without permission."

"So, are we staying here tonight?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Hmm..." Ochi looked embarrassed: "But since there was no such plan originally, no room was arranged."

"Hey - what should I do then?"

“Want to live in the car?”

Genta and Ayumi were talking when the door at the entrance opened and Conan walked in: "In that case, let's go to the charcoal grill hut nearby. Uncle Kogoro and the others should be there too."

Kogoro and the others were sitting on a U-shaped bench at this time. Sato, who was sitting at the innermost part of the room around the wood stove, noticed something that looked like a rifle hanging on the wall: "What a strange gun."

"No, it doesn't look like a gun." Yamato said.

At this time, Otomo, who was standing in front of everyone, explained: "This is a sound device. It is made into the shape of a gun just for fun..."

"Due to the shape of the mountain, avalanches can occur from the north and west. This place is right at the intersection of avalanches, so before a big avalanche occurs, I will deliberately create small avalanches from time to time."

As Otomo explained, he looked at the rifle-shaped sound device leaning against the wall. "As long as you use this sound device to aim at the speakers set up in advance at the place where you want to trigger an avalanche, the speakers will emit a burst of sound, thus triggering an avalanche. This is a way to control the scale of an avalanche."

"I already understand about the avalanche." Kogoro stopped Otomo, who was explaining with a stiff and strong face, halfway through listening with a reluctant look on his face.

Then, he looked at Yamato and Yui: "So, the criminal who attacked you - did you see his face?"

"No, he had a hood on... you couldn't see his face."

Yamato answered, and Yui beside him recalled the testimony of the observatory researcher Maru Maru.

————No, I think it’s because he’s wearing a hood…

The person who attacked Madoka was also wearing a hood.

Although he did not carry a rifle.

But there are people with similar figures appearing nearby...