Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 160 The Dark Shadow Approaching Huiyuan's Secret (Part 6)

[Entomologist: Is this going to get out of hand?]

[Reporter: Little Alice, how are things going over there?]

[Little girl: I'm actually fine, but everyone else was choked by the smoke.]

[Novelist: Can fire harm you?]

[Little girl: Psychologically, I'm a little scared, but I don't think it feels hot at all.]

[Composer: Little Alice was born from Orpheus's burned memories, so she's unlikely to be harmed by fire.]

[Dancing Girl: It sounds like a fairy born from the flames...]

[Explorer: Don’t you have a “Ghostly Flame” skin, with a background of feathers emerging from flames?]

[Crying Clown: How are we going to proceed with the next part of the story? We circus performers have already appeared before Conan.]

[Acrobat: Then disband the current circus.]

[Savage: Mike?]

[Acrobat: I know, I can accept that...]

[Spider: Violetta knows that the audience is unsympathetic, but she feels a little sorry for Mr. Jeffrey, as he helped take care of those animals...]

[Lame Sheep: It's okay, Valletta. I never appeared in front of them. I'm happy to have a quiet place where I can take good care of the animals.]

[Gardener: So, according to the script, Margaretha and Michael will go to the Golden Rose Troupe after the circus disbands, and Jack and Murrow will go to the Crystal Palace, right?]

[Noise: When everything is over, it will be the final performance of "Noise".]

[Crazy Eyes: Well, the Golden Rose Theatre needs to "tour" after all, so they can't build a theater.]

[Photographer: Incidentally, the Melody family is the largest shareholder in the theater.]

[Mercenary: Good fellows, you guys started preparing so early?]

[Explorer: You can't just stay in the Black Organization and do nothing, right? Aesop is working hard on developing "Eternal Beauty."]

[Prophet: There's nothing I can do. Naib is completely clueless about potions.]

[Composer: But I've found a good way to give the Black Organization a hard time.]

[Gravekeeper: What is it?]

[Madam Red: Actually, it's the gem of the Clayburg family. I intend to use my "death" to increase the popularity of this gem and reveal a little secret behind it.]

[Red Butterfly: That "blue hope"? That's the most precious thing you two have, right?]

[Composer: Thank you Mr. Campbell for your sponsorship. The one I have is a replica. The real one is in my manor.]

[Explorer: This kind of work is too easy for me. Oh, and I'll give you a 12% discount if you know me.]

[First Mate: Good fellow.]

Thick smoke was billowing inside the cabin. While everyone else was covering their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs and trying to breathe some fresh air by the crack in the open door, only the little girl was still pacing around the cabin, trying to get a signal on her cell phone.

Huiyuan coughed and reminded, "Alice, come over here quickly! Don't count on that phone getting a signal, you'll be choked to death by the smoke!"

Seeing this, Genta and Mitsuhiko left the door, went over and pulled the little girl to the door, and Ayumi kindly handed the little girl a handkerchief.

The little girl's mental state seemed unstable at this moment: "Grayfield, the fire, it's a fire, what should we do? Whether it's the nightingale and the raven, the bees and the mice, even the white horse, they will all be buried in the sea of ​​fire. Don't do this, I don't want this..."

The three little ones didn't understand what the little girl meant. They only knew that the little girl was probably really scared by the fire: "It's okay, Alice, we will be saved."

Huiyuan also reminded: "Everyone keep your body low and be careful not to be choked by the smoke."

Based on the little girl's words, Huiyuan began to think: Alice didn't seem like an ordinary clone. If she had really been cloned at this age, without the experience of childhood, why would she be so afraid of fire? Could a person's genes record their greatest fears and pass them on to their clones? This was obviously impossible. The only possibility was that someone had deliberately transferred these memories to Alice.

But under the influence of high temperature and thick smoke, Huiyuan had no time to think so much. He could only ask the little girl this question later.

Mitsuhiko and Genta, who were squeezed in front of the door, tried hard to look outside.

"When will someone come to rescue us?"

Mitsuhiko noticed something was wrong: "Ah, there's smoke rising from the other side too. Could that be a campfire?"

Ayumi was anxious: "No way, no one will notice our cigarettes then?"

Huiyuan secretly made up her mind and prepared to take the antidote and return to her original form to solve the problem. The little girl lay beside Ayumi and tried to dial the phone.

On Conan's side, Officer Yamamura checked the shoe prints of the three men and found that they were all 26 centimeters, which made Conan puzzled.

Dr. Agasa was a little worried: "This is bad. The children don't have their detective badges with them. It's better for us to search the mountain ourselves."

Shira stopped him. "Wandering around in the dark mountains will only get you lost. If we need to search, it's better to leave it to a search party that's familiar with the mountain roads."

"But now, the sun has set, and even the shadows are starting to get longer."

When the shadow was mentioned, Conan and Sera were stunned for a moment, and then they figured out what the corpse's gesture meant.

Just as Conan was about to reveal the truth, the entomologist's cell phone rang like a death warrant.

"Hello? What? Little Alice, how are you?" The entomologist was shocked and immediately turned on the speaker mode of his phone.

Then the phone was snatched away by the novelist: "Alice, how are you? Where are you now?"

The weak voice of a little girl came from the phone: "Ophi, save me... The forest is on fire, the fire is burning..."

Before the novelist could ask for more details, the call was terminated due to poor signal.

At the same time, a police officer nearby brought the latest progress of the search team: "Officer Shancun, it's bad! The search team said the forest is on fire. We need to notify the fire department immediately!"

Conan saw the novelist's monocle shatter with a click, and a purple light flashed in the brown eyes behind the lens in an instant. The novelist threw away the troublesome glasses and ran into the mountains without looking back, regardless of the entomologist's obstruction.

"Orpheus, come back!" The entomologist stood there, stamping his feet in anger. "What's the point of him rushing in alone without knowing the exact location?"

At this time, the three suspects heard that a forest fire had occurred and immediately wanted to leave in a hurry, but were stopped by Conan and Sera.

Officer Yamamura informed them about the case, but they didn't take it seriously.

"Are you kidding me? Even if there's been a murder, there's a fire. Are you going to let the fire burn us before you leave?"

"Um, well..." Police Officer Yamamura was also a little helpless. After all, given the current situation, he seemed to have no reason to stop these three from leaving.

"It's okay, as long as we catch the murderer now, the others can leave, right, Conan." Sera smiled confidently. "It will take a while for the fire to reach here."