Stay away from Conan

Chapter 441 Hua Lian is missing and Gao Yuan is cautious

Xiaolan's legs were still trembling.

Although she was just queuing up on stage in her wedding dress, the dazzling spotlights on the stage and the flashes from numerous media cameras below the stage still left afterimages in her eyes, still flickering.

"It's great that Shinichi is here."

He returned to the garden with Xiaolan, held Xiaolan's hand tightly, and smiled happily.

"kindness."

Xiaolan couldn't help but nodded.

"However, Miss Hualian is still unscathed so far. It seems it must have been just a prank."

Sonoko said with a sigh of relief.

"yes."

Xiaolan also agreed with Yuanzi's idea.

"In that case, let Xinyi appreciate your beauty as much as possible, Xiaolan. In this case, his bad habit of running around will definitely be cured, and he will always stay by your side from now on!"

Sonoko said with a smile.

"can you?"

Xiaolan said somewhat unconfidently.

"Yes! You have to have confidence! Xiaolan, you are really beautiful."

Yuanzi put her face in front of Xiaolan, with a serious expression on her face to help her gather courage.

Seeing Yuanzi being so gentle, Xiaolan couldn't help but smile happily and nod her head. Even her trembling feet stopped unconsciously.

…

At the same time, Shinichi was walking on the road leading from the back of the hotel to the lounge.

When I was about to see the door to the lounge, I saw the on-site director scolding the art director in front of the door:

"Asshole! There are only two minutes left! This is a live broadcast, please work harder!"

"yes!"

After being scolded, the art director could only lower his head and responded like this.

Beside him, many staff in charge of props were constantly moving a lot of stage equipment backstage, as busy as if they were on a battlefield. Therefore, the door at the entrance has always been kept wide open.

Shinichi picked up a large cardboard box placed next to the corridor with both hands, covered his upper body with the cardboard box, and just like that, he blended in among the staff and walked in.

After separating from other staff backstage, Shinichi walked deeper into the corridor.

As we went deeper and looked at the various rooms in the corridor, there was a door with a note saying "Judges' Room" on it.

Just when Shinichi was about to put the cardboard box he was holding on the ground, he heard a rapid knock on the door at the far end of the corridor.

Xinyi, who was a little concerned about this, couldn't help but walk over there, and saw Hualian's sister, Meimei, knocking on the door.

"What's wrong?"

Angry shouts rang out in the room, and then the tournament organizer Daigo Miura opened the door and stuck his head out.

"Hua Lian is in there, right?"

Meimei stared at Miura and asked eagerly.

"Are you kidding? The review of the wedding dress has just ended, and I still have to do the scoring. Don't bother me at this time!"

Miura said unhappily and was about to close the door, but Meimei said reluctantly:

"Don't act stupid, someone saw my sister go in there!"

Meimei said, pointing to Kagami Kawada and Sumika Abe who were standing in the corner. They were the two people who were scolded by Hualien just now.

"Did you see it?"

Miura stared at Kagami and Sumika in surprise and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, I can see it clearly. The same goes for Mr. Miura, and so does Hua Lian. He brazenly claims that he will use his strength to win the queen's throne, but secretly he tries to use his beauty to win. It's so abominable!"

The two of them seemed to be unwilling to do so and accused with tears in their eyes.

"This, this is a misunderstanding. Hua Lian did come here just now, but she just said, 'Please take care of me', and then left. It's true, please believe me."

Miura hurriedly defended.

"Liar! You lie!"

Meimei didn't believe the other party's excuse at all and shouted loudly.

"I didn't lie to you. Didn't I, like you and your mother, ask Mr. Maori to be her bodyguard because I was worried about Hualian's safety?"

Miura said urgently.

"Those are two different things. Don't think that I don't know that you have always had evil intentions towards Hualian!"

"this……"

Faced with Meimei's pointed accusation, Sanpu was speechless for a while.

"Did something happen?"

Faced with the situation in front of him, Shinichi stepped forward decisively and asked.

"who are you?"

Miura felt a little baffled when he saw Shinichi suddenly appearing.

Meimei also looked at him doubtfully after seeing Shinichi.

"He's a detective."

At this moment, before Shinichi could answer, such a voice came from behind him.

Shinichi looked back and saw Xiaolan, still wearing a wedding dress, standing there.

"Such a young detective?"

Miura mocked without thinking.

"I am Kogoro Mori's assistant."

Shinichi said and blinked at Xiaolan. Xiaolan immediately understood and answered:

"Well, well...yes, he is my father's assistant."

"What? That Mouri Kogoro's..."

After listening to Xiaolan's words, Miura changed his expression instantly and became serious.

"That's right. So, what do you want to ask me?"

Miura was a little helpless and could only say this.

"Is Miss Hualian missing?"

Shinichi asked again.

"seems like it."

Miura turned his face sideways and replied coldly.

"It's going to be time for my sister's self-introduction and talent show, but she can't be found."

Meimei said, so anxious that she almost cried.

"Xinyi, I'm sorry. Miss Hualien said she wanted to take a shower before changing into another dress, so I could avoid it. But then, I never saw her again..."

Xiaolan said a little guiltily.

"This man must have brought Hua Lian into his room. He once told Hua Lian that if she wanted to win, she had to listen to him. But my sister was very reluctant."

Meimei glared at Miura Road with hatred.

"I've told you, I don't know anything. If you really doubt me, you can only ask this detective to clear my name!"

After Miura finished speaking angrily, he immediately pushed open the door of his room with a bang.

Shinichi looked inside and saw that it was empty. There were only simple tables and lockers neatly arranged in the room. There was no place to hide an adult woman.

But for the sake of caution, Shinichi entered the room and carefully searched under the table and in the locker, but he didn't see Hua Lian at all.

"Indeed it's not here."

Shinichi shook his head beautifully and said.

"Y-yeah...where exactly is it?"

Meimei said, her expression became more anxious.

"I told you it's not in there."

Miura said again very dissatisfied.

"Have you been looking in your sister's lounge?"

Shinichi couldn't help but ask

"Well, my mother is looking over there."

Just as she was talking, Meimei's cell phone rang, and she quickly took it out of the pocket of her skirt——

"Hey! It's mom! What! There are no signs of being disturbed in the room, and the wedding dress that was taken off is placed on the bed. What about the dress? Where is the dress to be worn when introducing yourself and showing off your talents? Really? It's gone. The belt on the dress is also missing? Is that so..."

"With a belt inside?"

Shinichi suddenly interrupted.

Meimei held down the phone's receiver, turned her head and said to Shinichi:

"During Hualien's talent show, she will slowly rise from the lift room on the stage like an angel. The belt is used to connect the wires that will lift the body into the air."

"That's right."

Xinyi nodded, and then Meimei started talking to her mother on the phone again:

"Mom, there's not much time left before Hualien will appear. Let's go look elsewhere quickly!"

After saying this, Meimei hung up the phone.

"Anyway, I will keep looking for it before the official performance."

Meimei was about to leave here, and then suddenly remembered something and asked Xiaolan:

"By the way, Miss Xiaolan, Mr. Detective. Can you also help me find Hualian...and the detective from before, please contact him and ask him to help find Hualian! Please!"

With that said, Meimei bowed deeply to Xiaolan and Shinichi.

"Okay, okay!"

Xiaolan nodded seriously, and then Meimei ran away in a hurry.

"Humph, you didn't even say an apology."

Miura looked at Meimei's leaving figure impatiently and couldn't help complaining:

"It's really pitiful. Even Hua Lian, who is like a puppet on strings, would definitely want to escape if her mother and sister interfered like this..."

"Marionette?"

Upon hearing this word, Shinichi couldn't help but react and asked Miura.

"Yes. Hualian's mother initially asked her sister Meimei to participate in various beauty contests, but she failed to achieve very good results. But my younger sister Hualian has continued to achieve good results since her debut, until now."

Miura replied.

"That's right..."

Xinyi nodded, thoughtfully.

"Yes. But Hualien will definitely appear before the official competition. She is not a fool who will give up the title of 'Miss Zephyr' easily. Her goal is a more advanced world competition, don't worry."

After saying that, Miura walked into his room with a smile and slammed the door very roughly.

"What should I do, Shinichi?"

Xiaolan called Shinichi uneasily, and then took out her mobile phone:

"Anyway, let's inform Mr. Akechi first..."

With that said, Xiaolan dialed Mingzhi Gaoyuan's number, only to hear a notification that the other party's phone had been turned off——

"Shinichi, what should I do? Mr. Akechi can't be contacted!"

Faced with this situation, Xiaolan asked even more anxiously.

"There is no time. No matter what, let's find Miss Hualian first."

Shinichi thought for a while and couldn't help but said:

"As for Mr. Mingzhi... he may be planning something... just like the school trip. Anyway, don't worry about him. Xiaolan, I'll leave it to you at the venue. For some reason, it's not convenient for me to be in front of many people. Show up."

"Well, I understand."

After Xiaolan nodded, she turned around and ran towards the venue.

And Shinichi ran after Meimei in the direction she left...

…

At the same time, in the safety passage on the 20th floor, a thin child, wearing a white children's evening dress worn by girls, was sneaking out from behind the safety passage door. Turn around and observe the movement in the corridor on the 20th floor of the hotel——

Yes, this child is exactly what Gao Yuan became after his body became smaller.

At this moment, he was wearing Xiao Ai's clothes that Shiho had taken off, with a long wig on his head and very light makeup on his face——

In terms of appearance, no matter how you look at it, Xiao Gaoyuan looks like a little girl at this moment.

In this way, even if someone sees her wearing Xiao Ai's clothes, no one will find it strange.

At this moment, after making sure that no one was in the corridor on the 20th floor, Xiao Gaoyuan cautiously walked towards Shou Hualian's special suite...