coobybook Chapter 138 Everyone was silent
Chapter 138 Everyone was silent
"Um, a pair of jacks, do you want them?"
After a fierce battle, Xiaolan, the landlord with a clean face, looked at the two people in front of her whose faces were covered with white paper strips, and picked up two tens from her hand and played them out with some embarrassment.
Sitting opposite her, Conan and Sonoko, farmers whose faces were almost covered with white paper strips, fell silent as they looked at the poker cards in their hands that had no human figure in them.
"Well, if you don't want it, I'll be done with it!"
Seeing that the two were silent, Xiaolan showed a subtle expression and revealed all the other cards in her hand: QKA2, four bombs, and a king bomb.
Looking at Xiaolan's hand, Sonoko threw away all the cards in her hand without playing any of them.
"Ahhh! Xiaolan! You're cheating! Why is it that your hand of cards looks like it hasn't been shuffled? All the good cards, all the big bombs are in your hand, but I don't have a single lead card in my hand!"
"Well, I do have someone, but my biggest card is Sister Xiaolan's smallest card."
Looking at the biggest pair of Js in his hand, Conan glanced at the somewhat crazy Sonoko beside him and said helplessly.
He already told me not to play poker with the European Emperor. Why doesn't Yuanzi, such a stubborn guy, believe it?
"But, whether it's shuffling or dealing the cards, isn't it you, Sonoko, who helps with that?"
Looking at the mad Yuanzi in front of her, Xiaolan said weakly, but the corners of her mouth rose slightly, revealing a smile.
"Hey, forget it, keep going! I just don't believe I can't beat you, Xiaolan!"
As she spoke, Sonoko picked up the cards and prepared to shuffle and deal them. But just then, Ayako suddenly walked in and interrupted them:
"You're all right..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw Sonoko and Conan in the house, with notes all over their faces. Her originally nervous voice instantly relaxed:
"I'm glad you're okay. When Ota came back just now, he said he met a masked man with an axe outside and he almost killed him. If he hadn't run fast, he probably wouldn't have come back."
"Eh?!"*3
Hearing this, the three people in the room all made sounds of surprise.
Conan was not pretending, he was really surprised. The police had obviously come to the vicinity of the villa and were still setting up defenses. How did Takahashi manage to appear as a bandaged monster and not be discovered by the police!
You know, the police were worried that he would threaten the safety of Sonoko and Ayako, so they even had snipers ready!
"Um, did he really meet the bandage guy?"
Considering that these people seemed to have some strange emotions when Ayako mentioned Atsuko before, and considering that he had the impression that there seemed to be some strange details in the comics of this case, he suddenly had a guess.
"I hope I'm wrong..."
Conan lowered his head and sighed in his heart.
Then, he looked up at Ayako:
"Sister Ayako, since someone is in danger, have you contacted the police officer?"
"Not yet. I was worried that you might be in danger, so I came up first."
Ayako narrowed her eyes and said with some relief:
"But it's okay. I've already told them the location of the phone. I'm sure they'll have contacted the police by the time we get down there."
"Is that so? Then let's go down now!"
As he said that, Conan tore off the strip on his face and stood beside Ayako.
Sonoko, who was about to say something, suddenly brightened up after seeing Conan's actions:
"Sister, wait a moment, I'll go with you."
As she spoke, she tore off the white strips on her face and walked towards Ayako.
"Huh? You guys?"
Seeing the two of them tearing away all the fruits of their victory so unconsciously, Xiaolan pouted and looked at them unhappily, but considering the current situation, she didn't say anything. After tidying up a little, she followed Ayako towards the hall.
"Eh? Ota, how's it going? The phone call..."
Arriving in the hall, looking at the four people with gloomy faces, Ayako asked curiously. However, she was interrupted before she could finish her words:
"No, it seems the phone lines have been cut. There's no way to get in touch with the outside world."
"that......"
When Conan wanted to say something, Takahashi said in a panic:
"It must have been that bandaged man! He must have broken the phone line! We've already discussed this. Whether it's me, Ota, or Kakutani, we all saw that bandaged weirdo! Ran, you were the last to come, so you should have seen it too!"
As he said that, he turned and looked at Xiaolan.
“That’s true, but…”
Before Xiaolan could finish her words, she was interrupted by Takahashi:
"Sure enough, it was that bandaged monster! He definitely did it! Whether it was cutting the phone line or threatening Ota, it was all his fault!"
After saying that, he lowered his head, screamed, and ran out of the house.
It’s no secret that the little fat guy’s acting skills are pretty good. If Conan hadn’t read the script, he would have almost been fooled by him.
However, although Takahashi's disguise was very good, Conan, who had long known that all this was a disguise, still found many flaws in him.
"Takahashi!"
Seeing Gaoqiao leaving, the others hurried to catch up. Finally, they found the suspension bridge that had been cut off by humans.
Naturally, when they saw the bridge this time, they all fell silent.
However, Takahashi, who originally wanted to intensify everyone's fear of this "isolated" villa, fell into deep thought as he looked at the scene across the bridge.
"Takahashi, how come...eh?"
Looking at the broken bridge, Kakutani, who was about to say something, was stunned when he saw a large group of police officers on the opposite side.
Are police response times so efficient these days? They just made a phone call... No.
They hadn't even made a phone call! How on earth did these police officers get here? And why so quickly? Did they fly in?
The most important thing is, how did they know that there was a dangerous situation here?
In short, looking at the group of policemen opposite, Kakutani's mind was confused.
Forget about him. Next, almost everyone who saw the group of police officers across the street was stunned. No, why were there so many police officers across the street?
"Ah, that, those policemen were the ones I asked Conan to notify after I encountered that masked weirdo on my way here. I didn't expect there would be so many of them. I guess I'll have to thank Inspector Megure when I get back!"
Looking at everyone's surprised expressions, Xiaolan said a little embarrassedly.