"I knew it..."
After searching for a while and finding nothing, he returned to the villa. After receiving the latest news, Takuya Mifune slapped his forehead and made a funny expression to Karasawa, as if saying "I told you it would be like this."
Such a group of people may look quite impressive when they act together, but they are nothing when thrown into the mountains and forests, not to mention that they include several young masters who have almost no knowledge of survival in the wild.
Looking for someone? If they don’t get themselves lost, they are considered quite capable.
"Anyway, you're saying that Nikaidou got lost while he was looking for him?"
"I separated from him." Gojo Osamu shook his head. "I had a quarrel with him for a few words, and I turned around and didn't see him anymore."
He knew the detective's purpose in asking such questions, so he felt very wronged.
He and Nikaidou Yuji were acting together. After they separated, not only was Nikaidou left alone, but he was also left alone. The danger they faced was obviously the same. Don't act as if he had lost Nikaidou?
"I didn't deliberately provoke him. Instead, he kept yelling, saying that the marriage candidate had already been decided, and it was him or something..." Gojo Osamu pursed his lips speechlessly, "Who knows why he suddenly went crazy?"
The quarrel itself is not surprising. Everyone has been fighting for Sijing Lihua for a long time, so it is normal for the relationship to be strained.

But in such a complicated place, where if you get lost you might never be found again, he could still be so tough and just turn around and leave in anger, which really shocked Gojo Osamu.
"He might be telling the truth." In response, Ichieda Takashi simply said calmly, "Have you forgotten what happened to Yaeko two years ago? Nikaidou can be considered her savior. Of course, if she was not saved by Nikaidou, but actually by Yaeko, then the relationship between the two of them would only be closer."
This was a rather impolite remark, and it quieted down the noisy and anxious crowd.
If what they said at the beginning was true, then it was only natural that Nikaido Yuji, who successfully saved Yotsugu Reika, would become the marriage candidate out of gratitude. As for the latter, it means that they both bear the same life, and this common secret that cannot be told out loud will indeed bind their future lives together.
"Your accusation is unnecessary..." Rokuda Masashi interrupted the atmosphere and kept an eye on the door.
There, Grandma Mi was holding the hot water she had prepared and handing wet towels to the people who walked in so that they could wipe off the mud on their bodies.
Yaeko's full name is Nanao Yaeko, and she is the granddaughter of Granny Mi.
Others may not know this, but Masashi Rokuda, who has close ties with the Yotsuui family, certainly knows it.
"It's not very developed," Rokuda Masaji replied. "This is the land that the Shijing Group bought a few years ago. They're going to build a holiday estate here, and they're also planning to build a resort there. There are a lot of dangers in the woods."
"Well, no matter what you guys think, I think the most urgent thing is to contact the Shijing family and let them contact a reliable rescue organization as soon as possible. It's difficult to find Miss Shijing with just our manpower." Maori Kogoro said calmly, "It's starting to rain outside, and the weather is getting worse. Miss Shijing Rika took the initiative to enter the woods in front of all of us. Now she's missing. No matter what, we have to give an explanation to President Shijing. What do you think?"
His words were meant to tell these people to stop dwelling on those trivial matters. If Sijing Lihua were really gone, President Sijing would have no place to vent his anger.
Now I am worried about angering him because of the disappearance of his only daughter. If it is considered as delaying the rescue, there will be no room for maneuver...
"You're right. I'll go contact the president." Masashi Rokuda immediately took out his cell phone.
"Then I'll contact someone at home who has experience in this area." Gojo Osamu also reacted quickly and started to take out his phone. "The terrain of the mountains and forests here is complicated. We need a professional rescue team..."
"I think we can all be more optimistic." Mifune Takuya put his hands in his pockets, not even bothering to take them out, and said casually, "At least Lihua chose to run into the forest on her own, which means there are no human factors involved. Even if something goes wrong, it can't be blamed on others."
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Not long after dawn, Takuya Mifune was quickly slapped in the face as the rescue team arrived in time and brought back news of Yotsugu Reika.
"Well, you can call it a human factor..." Looking at the bodies of Yotsuga Reika and Nikaido Yuji who were carried back together, Mifune Takuya laughed dryly, "Fortunately, the human factor itself is gone, otherwise, it would be really dangerous."
Anyone with eyes can see the meaning of this sentence.

The two drowned people were in a state of being inseparably entangled with each other. Since they had not been dead for a long time, their bodies were still in the changing stage. Neither the police nor the rescue workers could completely separate the two bodies for the time being.
It did not take a detective to conclude that one of them must have drowned and the other had been dragged down with him.
"It seems more like Miss Shioi drowned, and Mr. Nikaidou jumped into the water to save her, but was hugged by the drowning Miss Shioi, which led to his drowning as well." The head of the rescue team covered the room with a white cloth and said to Rokuta Masashi, the oldest person on the scene who looked more like the one in charge.
He has extensive experience in rescue and salvage, so he is very confident when he comes to this preliminary conclusion.
A person who is drowning or suffocating must be in a very agitated state. The pain caused by suffocation and the panic caused by drowning, plus the effect of water on a person's five senses, make it almost impossible to communicate.
They will desperately grab onto anything that may help them escape. There are many cases where people with no rescue experience have been dragged into the water and drowned, including some excellent swimmers.
Human beings are like this, seeking benefits and avoiding harm is an eternal instinct.
When she was alive, Yotsuba Rika was considered a very selfish individual among humans. It is unrealistic to expect her to remain calm and handle the situation at this critical moment of life and death.
"Even if it means death, I'll drag one person down with me. This fits my imagination of Lihua." It was not easy to complain about the dead person in person, so Takuya Mifune could only whisper this to Tang Ze in a low voice.
Tang Ze twitched the corners of his mouth, knowing that he was facing a corpse, so he controlled his smile.
Coincidentally, Conan put down his hands that were pulling the white cloth, turned his head and looked at him inquiringly.
This half-smile expression was fully reflected in Conan's eyes.
Given their domineering personalities and unscrupulous behavior, the deaths of these two people are not surprising.
But this frustrates Conan, who is always on guard against whether Goro Akechi has other purposes.
It is an indisputable conclusion that both Yotsugu Rika and Nikaido Yuji died of drowning. Even if Goro Akechi was very capable, a search and rescue team temporarily contacted by the victims' families would never need to assist him in making smoke bombs.
After he went forward to check, he further confirmed that the time of death of the two people was around 12 o'clock in the evening.
At that time, Goro Akechi had just returned to the villa with Takashi Ichieda and Takuya Mifune.
Even if the situation is a bit extreme, Ichieda Takashi and Mifune Takuya are both involved with the organization like the Yotsubi Group, and can be considered his disguised subordinates who obey his orders. On their way back, they also met the lone Gojo Osamu and Mori Kogoro and Rokuta Masashi who were searching in a team. There were other witnesses.
The marks on the deceased's body were also very natural, with the wrinkles and tears on the clothes corresponding to the bruises that were beginning to appear on the skin.
Some tiny scars that are not so easy to find during life will become more obvious some time after death as the blood coagulates. However, after studying it for a long time, Conan still couldn't figure out the possibility of killing the deceased first and then creating such a scene.
But it is true that Yotsui Reika met with Akechi Goro alone before her death...
After Shijing Lihua ran out, everyone else anxiously climbed out the window to chase after her, but it was true that only Akechi Goro leisurely pulled the two of them and changed direction to chase after them through the main gate...
Suspicious, but no evidence can be found at this stage.
Even if there might have been some evidence in the pool where they drowned, it would have been destroyed beyond recognition due to the extensive searching and salvaging by the search and rescue teams.
Is it really just a coincidence and an accident, and has nothing to do with Goro Akechi? Should we go to the scene and take a look?
While Conan was thinking with his head down, the leader of the search and rescue team exchanged a few words with the team members behind him, then walked over with something.
"Mr. Sijing, who paid us, already knows the situation. He wants to find out the true circumstances of the two people's deaths. This is what we found not far from the scene where they drowned. I hope you will join us in making an identification."
Since he said that, he must have checked what was inside.

This is the first move to pass the buck, a disclaimer to express that we deeply regret your daughter's death, but that every wrong has its perpetrator, and it is not shameful for us to take your money.
Although they knew what was going on, everyone nodded in agreement.
"This is Nikaidou's camera." Gojo Osamu looked at the device that they had wrapped in a plastic bag, and he still had time to give a new clue, "Nikaidou is not a complete photography enthusiast, but he likes to take pictures. He brought this camera and said he wanted to record Miss Reika's birthday party as a souvenir."
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When they were all about to leave after the party, they discovered that their vehicle had been damaged, and were then forced to stay in the lounge by Rika Yotsuba on the pretext of changing clothes.
Until Shijing Lihua jumped off the building in despair and escaped, they did not find a suitable time to wash up. The guest rooms were assigned after the people went missing and the search was unsuccessful.
Thinking about it this way, it seems to explain why Nikaidou never found a chance to put down his camera and always carried it with him.
"Oh, I see."
The head of the rescue team opened the plastic bag in front of them, walked into the villa with a few people, and connected the camera, which had obviously been washed by rain for a long time, to the TV.
Soon, the content inside was played out.
Perhaps due to rain erosion, the originally smooth and coherent images in the camera showed many signs of discontinuity and interference, and there were not many watchable clips.
"This is the downside of digital products." Maori Kogoro curled his lips, "If this were replaced with film..."
"Even Nikaidou can't carry that camera." Conan said calmly, "This is not a camera. Film cameras are huge."
"Tsk, you're so long-winded..."
While the two were talking, the screen quickly skipped over the footage of Rika Shii moving around at the banquet and moved on to the main event.
At the beginning, it was obvious that the camera was held in someone's hand and there was very noticeable shaking. After a brief focus, the lens was aimed at Yotsuba Reika.
At this moment, she had not fallen into the water, but her nightgown was wet by the rain and her hair was stuck to her face.
She glared at the man holding the camera and let out a roar that was familiar to everyone present: "You're blaming me now?! What's wrong, are you regretting saving me now?! Why didn't you regret it when you threatened to be my boyfriend!"
“Isn’t it all your fault that we are in this situation?!” Nikaidou’s voice was louder and closer than hers. It seemed that the person holding the camera was Nikaidou Yuji himself. “It was you who killed Yaeko in the first place!”
"Huh?! Me?! She already said that she could give the life jacket to me and let you get on the kayak and keep your balance yourself. It's you who was afraid of death and thought that the kayak could not go back, so you insisted on snatching her life jacket..."
"Didn't you give the order at that time?! Wasn't it your request?!"
"When did I...! You ungrateful bastard, I shouldn't have given up on Yaeko back then, I should have just let you die!"
"What did you say!"
Although the previous footage was damaged, apart from a few shots swaying in the woods, it was impossible to tell the reason, and no one knew why the two missing persons would inexplicably stand by the pond, arguing about the events of two years ago, but the attention of others had been quickly attracted by the amount of information in their words, and they had no time to consider such simple logical problems for the time being.
These two people have implicitly admitted that they killed Nanao Yaeko, and the quarrel between the couple continues to escalate.
After this scene, there is another series of damaged images, and one can only vaguely see that the conflict between the two people has escalated to the physical level.
When the picture became clear again, the entire picture had rotated 90 degrees.
That is to say, the person who was originally holding the camera threw it on the ground, and the picture completely changed from handheld to fixed camera.

At the same time as this scene, Shii Rika, who was originally shaky at the edge of the pond due to the quarrel and roar, lost her balance and fell down.
Judging from his physical condition and expression, it was even recommended by Nikaido Yuji.
However, just as Takuya Mifune complained, Yotsuba Reika is the kind of person who will drag someone down with her until death.
The terrified expression on her face had not completely disappeared, but a hint of malicious intent had already gathered on it. Her white hands, which were covered with tiny scratches and seemed to have been wandering in the forest for a long time, tightly grasped Nikaidou Yuji's tie.
The tie that Nikaido Yuji bought must have been priced well, and it turns out that you get what you pay for.
Caught off guard, Nikaidou Yuji was dragged into the water.
All the people wearing ties present, except Tang Ze and Ichieda Takashi, raised their hands and loosened their ties at the same time.
It’s not that Ichiji Takashi didn’t feel phantom pain in his neck, he was just so shocked that he didn’t have time to react.
He stared at Tang Ze blankly, tears of admiration flashing in his eyes.
The detective who listened to his desire not only fulfilled his wish, but also did not let any karma be tainted on him.
No matter how Goro Akechi did it, the scene was perfect and anyone could easily tell that the two of them died in a dog-eat-dog fight.
More importantly, he made the two real villains confess their crimes before they died, and brought justice to Yaeko who died inexplicably...
Yizhi Long raised his hand, took off his glasses awkwardly, and covered his eyes which were getting hot and about to shed tears.
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