Chapter 49 Mr. Asano Is Missing

Sonoko, Mao Lilan, and Ota Katsuki walked around the forest for a long time, but they didn't wait for Xinfan to come.

"Ah, Mr. Asano likes to be late like you, Ran?" Sonoko complained. The date she's been thinking about so much is about to go to waste!

Mao Lilan was helpless: "Mr. Asano may be delayed by something, or he couldn't find us when he went out."

"That's right. Let's go back to the villa. It's time for dinner." Yuanzi quickly chose to compromise.

Anyway, I can see Nobushige Asano when I go back, and it will be nice to sit and eat together then?

"You are finally back, and dinner is ready." Suzuki Ayako waited at the entrance of the villa, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Sonoko, "It's just a few of you who ran out in such heavy rain."

Sonoko ran up the steps and ran to his sister: "Mr. Asano is back as expected!"

Unexpectedly, Suzuki Ayako frowned after hearing her words: "Isn't Mr. Asano with you?"

"Ah?" Yuanzi was stunned, "Has he not come back yet?"

Mao Lilan looked at the sky and said worriedly: "It's already so late, isn't Mr. Asano still looking for us in the woods?"

"Then call Mr. Asano." Masaru Ota reminded, "Tell him that we are all back, and let him go back to the villa for dinner."

"Yes!" Mao Lilan took out her mobile phone, but her expression became very bad, "No, the mobile phone has no signal!"

"There is still a signal in the afternoon..."

"Ah! Could it be because of the thunder just now?" Suzuki Ayako picked up the handset of the landline, "Sure enough, the landline can't make calls either."

Sonoko said worriedly, "It's raining so hard outside, and the sky is so dark, what if Mr. Asano gets lost?"

"No, won't it?" Mao Lilan comforted, "Mr. Asano is very smart. He drove me and Conan when we came here. It should, shouldn't be so easy to get lost."

Although he said so, Mao Lilan himself was not very sure. After all, it's in the mountains and outskirts here, if you lose your way in the woods, it's really hard to get out.

"There is no way to be anxious here." Suzuki Ayako said, "Let's go to dinner first. If Mr. Asano hasn't come back later, we can go out to look for it together, which is safer."

Mao Lilan and the others had no choice but to go to the restaurant and wait for someone.

Conan was sitting by the window holding a glass of juice and biting a straw. The "Blue Kingdom" was placed on the table in front of him. Looking at the opened position, he knew that a certain fake child had read more than half of it in one go.

He knew that Mao Lilan had returned to the villa, but it was not until she sat next to him that Conan realized: "Sister Xiaolan, where is Brother Asano? I think he is right, this "Blue Kingdom" is really good gone."

Mao Lilan sighed: "Mr. Asano hasn't come back yet, he may still be looking for us in the woods."

"Eh?" Conan was taken aback, "Did you get separated?"

"That's right. Mr. Ota and I ran into him and Sonoko on the way. Mr. Asano said that he would go back to the villa to get his cell phone, so he separated from us. But it's been so long now, and I still haven't seen him."

"Go back to the villa to get the phone??" Conan's expression changed suddenly, "But brother Asano hasn't come back since he left!"

Sonoko glanced at him: "Mr. Asano won't lie to us. Is it because you are so engrossed in reading that you didn't see anything?"

"My position is facing the door. If someone comes in, you can see it at a glance, and you won't miss it."

"Then..." Mao Lilan thought of a terrible possibility, "Did Mr. Asano get lost on the way back to the villa?"

"Could it be that someone attacked you?" Ota Katsuki said jokingly, leaning back on the chair.

His words immediately attracted the attention of several others: "Assault, attack?"

"Who was attacked?"

"It's Mr. Asano who came with Miss Xiaolan. He has been missing for almost two hours."

"Nonsense!" Sonoko stood up and retorted, "There are only a few of us here, who would attack Mr. Asano?!"

"Ah..." Mao Lilan's face suddenly turned pale, and she said tremblingly, "Could it be the bandaged weirdo we saw when we came here??"

Yuanzi was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "It's the bandage weirdo you mentioned, how could it be possible? Could it be that you misread, there are only one or two unoccupied villas near my villa, if you want to see Other residents will have to climb over the mountain behind."

At this time, Conan was still in the mood to sigh secretly: Mr. Asano was really right, there is a road leading to the outside behind the villa.

"Wait." Ryoichi Takahashi suddenly asked, "Is that bandage guy you're talking about a guy who covers himself in a black cloak, and the only exposed face is still covered with bandages?"

Mao Lilan: "Yes, Conan also saw it at the time, right?"

"Um."

As soon as Conan nodded, Ota Katsuki said, "If that's the case, I saw him on the way here too. Because his behavior is so weird, I took a second look."

Kakutani Hiroki also immediately added: "I saw it too. At that time, I thought it was a nearby resident, but since Ms. Sonoko said so, then... they came here specifically for us??"

"Ahh!!" Takahashi Ryoichi suddenly broke down and yelled, "It must be that weird bandage man who attacked Mr. Asano! I don't want to stay here any longer!! I want to leave!!!"

While shouting, he ran out of the villa recklessly.

Kakutani Hiroki immediately chased after him. Conan and the others also followed with some concern.

Ryoichi Takahashi ran all the way to the suspension bridge, but couldn't go any further. His eyes were full of horror: "The bridge, the bridge is broken??"

"It was intentionally destroyed!" Conan pointed out sharply, "Look at the post where the rope is tied, there are knife marks on it."

"T-really." Mao Lilan flinched back. Encountering such a weird situation in this kind of place, she was a little scared.

"It must be the bandage monster!!" Takahashi Ryoichi tried to draw everyone's attention to a non-existent character.

However, since Nobushige’s disappearance has not yet been concluded, his abnormal words were immediately refuted by Ikeda Chikako: "What are you talking about? How can there be a bandage weirdo? The guy who did such a thing must be hiding beside us, maybe it is Nobushige Asano is playing tricks on himself."

"Why is this so?" Sonoko complained in a low voice, "Mr. Asano has disappeared, and now his life and death are unknown, yet Ms. Ikeda still slanders him."