Chapter 357 Who is the hunter?

Chapter 363 Who is the Hunter?
After a scolding, Yuan Tai started to cry for the first time. I did not comfort him, but just stood beside him and watched him cry.

Just kidding, I have been training Ling and the others for so many years, but when have I ever comforted them? There have been times when I have beaten them. Although these children are all flowers in a greenhouse, if I train them once or twice occasionally, at least they will not lose their lives because of impulse. To be honest, as elementary school students, they should not be in danger of their lives because of the so-called detective team, but when Conan, the son of the god of death, joined the team, these children have encountered life-threatening things again and again. I don’t know how caring their parents are, and they still let them play with Conan. Well, since their parents don’t want to take care of them, I will help them. After Conan, the addition of me, the killer halo, and Shiho, the organization halo, will make them face more dangers in the future. If I can’t cultivate their caution and knowledge, physical fitness and judgment, I can’t guarantee that I can save them every time. It’s the same reason why I let Shiho learn simple fighting and gun skills from me in the organization. She may not be proficient, but when facing ordinary gangsters and fugitives, she must have the ability to protect herself. The same goes for the children. If they cannot do this, for their safety, it would be better for this dangerous detective team to disband as soon as possible.

After a long time, Yuantai's sobbing gradually slowed down. As a child, he would get tired of crying sooner or later. But he was smart enough not to turn around and run away. Instead, after crying, he stood in front of me with a wronged look, lowered his head and didn't say a word.

"Have you cried enough?" I asked calmly.

"Um..."

"Do you know why you are crying?"

"Because... I made a mistake." Yuantai's attitude of admitting his mistake was quite sincere, and it almost made me forget that this was inconsistent with his personality.

"What's wrong?"

"I shouldn't have acted on my own and ignored my own safety and the concerns of my companions." Yuan Tai said aggrievedly. "As the leader, I didn't put the team at the core, didn't consider everyone's feelings, and didn't think more about my companions."

"Yes, very good." I nodded. "This is how a leader should act. Remember, when you are in danger, you must protect yourself and stick with your companions. If necessary, you must keep your companions alive even if you suffer losses. I know this is a bit heavy for you. However, we are a detective team, and we are facing thieves, murderers and other opponents who can kill us at any time. For this reason, we must unite as one and strengthen ourselves to face dangers and difficulties again and again."

"Yeah." Yuan Tai wiped the tears from his face and nodded heavily. Seeing his sincere attitude, I didn't say anything more. I hope he can really learn his lesson.

"Okay, let's go back." I said. "You picked so many matsutake mushrooms, I guess the manager won't help you cook them, so you keep four for me and me, and I'll hide the rest for you and take it down the mountain. We'll camp tomorrow, and we can cook them into delicious dishes ourselves."

"Really, really?" When Yuantai heard that his achievements were not wasted and that he could eat a lot of Matsutake mushrooms, the tears in his eyes immediately turned into stars.

"Well, but you have to promise me not to forget what I just said."

"Yeah! Don't worry, I won't forget it!" Yuan Tai picked up all the pine mushrooms that fell on the ground with a smile, put them in a small basket, and then put them in the plastic bag I took out. In the end, he only kept four pine mushrooms that he thought were the best. And I threw the bag into the necklace. Of course, I did this when Yuan Tai couldn't see.

"Okay, let's go."

"Yeah. Hehe." Yuan Tai regained his former sunshine. "But, Xun.. can you promise me one more thing." On the way back. Yuan Tai spoke again. "Can you please not tell others about what happened just now."

"Oh?" I raised my eyebrows. This little guy looks big and strong, but he still cares about his reputation. "Don't worry, I'm not such a gossipy person. Just let this incident today stay in your heart forever. No one else will know..."

boom! ! !
Before I could finish my words, a gunshot suddenly rang in my ears from the other end of the barbed wire on my right side.

"Ah!!!" Yuan Tai was so scared that he almost fell to the ground again.

"Don't worry, they are just hunting." I scratched my ears. "Look, if you had just stepped into the next area, the gunshot might have been aimed at you. Look at your size, like a little bear. If you were picking pine mushrooms on the other side with your back to the hunter, you would have died without knowing how you died."

"I... I was wrong." Yuan Tai let out a long sigh, and seemed to realize that what he had done had brought great trouble to himself and everyone else. Thinking about it now, he felt a little scared.

boom! ! !
There was another gunshot.

"Tsk, this hunter's skills are average. It took such a long time for the second shot. Most prey would have run away long ago." I complained while continuing to walk forward with Yuantai.

...boom!!!!
"Hiss..." I didn't take the first two gunshots seriously, but the third one made me feel something was wrong. If there was really a bear in this forest, even if the two shots didn't kill it, it would have let it escape. But the third shot. The location of the gunshots didn't change, but there was such a long interval. Whether it was a bear, a rabbit, or a deer, it didn't seem right. Unless...

A sense of foreboding suddenly came over me, and I subconsciously took out my cell phone and dialed Shiho's number. However, all I heard was a series of beeps.

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"Xun, have you found Genta?" After hanging up the phone, I immediately called Conan again. Conan who answered the phone also asked the first question.

"Ah, we found it. Stay where we just climbed over the wall. We'll be there soon." Yuanta and I said as we walked. "By the way, use the glasses to see where Ai and Mitsuhiko are now. My call didn't go through just now."

"Oh, okay." After that, Conan was silent for a while, but soon a puzzled voice came. "Huh? Mitsuhiko's badge shows that they... entered the hunting area?"

"Is that so..."

"Hmm? What do you mean?" Conan didn't understand what I said.

"Just now I heard three strange gunshots between the two barbed wire areas, so I called Xiao Ai to ask if she was safe, but no one answered."

"this..."

"They may have gone there to look for someone, but that's not usually the case. Look along the wire fence to see if there's anything unusual."

"Yes, we passed by an open wire fence area when we were looking for someone. If..."

"Tsk... No wonder you went there without informing me." I frowned. I thought that Shiho knew Genta's personality and was afraid that he would get lost for the matsutake mushrooms and sneak into the hunting area. That's why she rushed over so eagerly that she even forgot to inform me. "Go back to the area where the barbed wire was broken. See you later." After saying that, I hung up the phone and hurried over with Genta.

Soon, we saw Conan and his group, and also saw the gap under the barbed wire.

"There are traces of someone crawling over there." I didn't have time to talk to Conan and the others, nor did I have time to listen to Conan scolding Genta again. I focused my attention directly on the gap below. "And it was a child. The knee marks are very delicate. It seems that they really went over there." I stretched out my hand and drew a circle along the traces on the ground.

"Mitsuhiko's badge hasn't moved for half a day, and I didn't see any reaction from Haibara Detective Badge." Conan reported.

"I took Lord Ai's badge for comparison and repair." The doctor reminded.

"That doesn't make sense..." I frowned. "I'll go over and take a look."

"Hey...don't..." Conan seemed to want to stop me.

"Don't worry. I'm good at this kind of thing." After saying that, I went towards the gap. "Doctor, take the children back to the hotel. We can't get embarrassed walking around anymore. I'll go find Mitsuhiko and Ai. You guys go back quickly."

"But, Xun, didn't you just tell me that we should unite? Why now..." Yuantai seemed to remember what I said to him not long ago, and was about to refute when I interrupted him.

"I'm glad you think so." I nodded to Yuan Tai through the wire fence. "But facing the hunters' bullets and the wild beasts in the jungle, no matter how many of us there are, we are just sending food. Compared to this, I will be safer alone. So, Yuan Tai, your task now is to bring the collected pine mushrooms back to the hotel with everyone. Let the hotel prepare the food and wait for our return."

"this..."

"Okay, be careful." Before Genta could react, Conan decisively agreed, threw his glasses over, and then led everyone back. Because he also knew that in this forest, I was scarier than a bear if I lost the clue of Shiho. Instead of letting the children get in the way, it would be better to take them back to a safe area.

I let out a sigh of relief as I watched the doctor and his friends leave. Then I put on Conan's glasses and turned on the tracking system. A red dot appeared before my eyes. Unfortunately, it showed no signs of moving.

Following the direction my glasses were tracking, I quickly found the badge that had fallen on the ground. After picking it up and confirming it, I took off my glasses and looked around.

"Two lines of footprints, very light and small, they belong to children, probably Shiho and the others." Soon, I found traces of traces around me. "Is this... a bullet hole?" I looked up and found a burnt bullet hole on a tree, which was obviously caused by a hunting rifle. Judging from the position, the direction of the gunshot was exactly the direction of the footprints.

"Treated as prey?" I frowned and thought, but quickly rejected my idea. "No, if the three shots just now were really aimed at prey, it should have been discovered after the second shot. If there was a third shot..." Thinking of this, I looked around again. Soon, I found a pool of blood that had seeped into the soil under a big tree. Seeing this pool of blood, my heart suddenly tightened, and I hurriedly looked around, but there was no other blood around, only this pool.

"Human blood, this amount of blood should be killed with one shot, there is no need for three shots. And this blood is closer than the gun hole just now, and the distance deviation is also large. Three shots are wrong anyway." Could it be that they were chased after seeing someone killing someone? Or were they blocking the gun? With doubts, I began to search around. Soon, in a very remote place, I found a body buried under dead branches and leaves. It was the body of an adult male. I think the blood just now should be his. Not far from this person, I also found another stone mound with a shot bear cub lying inside.

"Hiss..." Faced with this situation, I had an idea about Shiho's missing. She must have really encountered a murder case. The reason why she didn't contact me was either because she didn't get rid of me, or... she couldn't reply. "Send the police to search the mountain?" I thought about it. "That's too slow. The two children don't have the physical strength to escape the pursuit like this." After thinking about it, I decided to give up notifying anyone and find Shiho and the others first.

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

Having lost the last clue, the only thing that could help me was my intuition. I returned to the place where the footprints first appeared and walked in the direction. During this time, I did not forget to continue calling Shiho, but unfortunately, the call never went through.

"Hey, kid, what are you doing here! This is not a place for a kid like you to be!" As I was walking on the road, I heard a roar from not far away. Looking around, I saw a hunter with a hunting rifle on his back, wearing a yellow vest, and he looked about 40 years old.

"Hunter?" I frowned and moved closer. "Uncle, I got lost from my family and don't know how to get back."

"Really? What kind of adult is so careless as to bring a child here?" The man in the yellow vest scratched his head. "In that case, I'll take you down the mountain first. It's too dangerous for you to stay here alone... What!"

"Bang!" I got close to him, jumped up and hit him in the chin with my knee. He fainted immediately.

"Sorry, whether you are the murderer or not, I can't let you draw your gun at this time." After saying that, I picked up his gun and hung it around his neck. I took out the iron wire from the necklace, wrapped it around a few times, and tied it to a stone. I threw it towards a tall pine tree, tied the other end to his belt, and took the end of the stone to hang him up. Five meters above the ground, at this height, no creature in this hunting jungle should be able to touch him, unless someone shoots at him.

After finishing everything, I didn't care too much and continued to move deeper into the jungle. Unfortunately, the footprints had become blurred since the beginning, and disappeared after walking for a while. Looking around, they should have chosen to walk on the grass instead of the main road.

"The boy in front, why are you here... Uh!"

Bang.

The one who fell into my hands this time was a young man in green clothes, also a hunter.

"Poor guy." I shook my head. But just as I was about to hang him up, a danger signal surged in my mind, and I subconsciously rolled to the side. I heard a gunshot and a bullet whizzed past me.

"Who is it!" I subconsciously looked into the distance and saw an old man with a long mustache pointing a gun at me.

"Kid! What are you doing!?"

"Fuck you, old man, you're blind and you're just shooting!" The old man's behavior made me furious. I rushed towards him like the wind. The shotgun can only fire two shots at a time. Sure enough, when he saw me rushing towards him, the old man pulled the trigger again. However, this did not have any effect on me. I kicked my foot and dodged, and then continued to move forward.

"You little brat, if you come any closer I won't be polite!" The old man subconsciously took a step back. Even when facing the wild beasts in the jungle, he probably had never seen one so fast.

"Don't you think I've never seen a hunting rifle?" I ignored the words of the old man who was shooting randomly, and punched him in the heart. The old man staggered. Before he could react, I jumped up and kicked him down.

"This old man is very evil." I complained unhappily after landing. Then I quickly hung him on the tree, along with the young hunter in green.

"There are three of us now. If I can't find Shiho and the others, I'm going to have to kill all the hunters in this forest." Looking at the lush trees around me, I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed. "I've prepared the wire, but why didn't I prepare a signal gun? Yes, a signal gun!" Thinking of this, I took out a pistol from my necklace and fired it into the air.

Bang, bang, bang, bang! Six shots in a row, six bullets. Unlike a shotgun, other people may not be able to distinguish these six shots, but for Shiho, as long as she heard it, she would definitely know that I was sending her a signal, because Shiho was very familiar with the gun I just took out. The name of the gun was Magnum. It was the gun I gave her that accompanied her for many years.

Sure enough, I soon heard Mitsuhiko's shouting from the northwest. It was them, but they were not in good condition at the moment. Mitsuhiko was fine, but Shiho had one hand on Mitsuhiko's shoulder and the other hand holding one of her shoes. Her foot was also tied with something like a bandage, and it looked like she was injured while running away.

"Are you okay?" I quickly ran over to the two of them, and Mitsuhiko put Shiho down. "How did you get hurt?"

"I got hurt while running away." Shiho said while sitting on the ground in pain. "I sprained my foot. Thanks to Tsuburaya-san for helping me. He put this bandage on me temporarily."

"Hmm? You're good at it, Mitsuhiko, thank you very much!" Looking at the bandages made of towels and the way they were tied on Shiho's feet, I couldn't help but smile. This guy is quite reliable sometimes.

"Hey, hey, no problem. This is what I should do." Mitsuhiko said with a red face and a smile. At the same time, his eyes stayed on Shiho's face. "As long as I can help Huibara-san, it's fine."

"Hold on, I'll help you apply the medicine." Without paying attention to Mitsuhiko's little details, I slowly untied the towel on Shiho's feet, took out the special spray from the necklace under the cover of clothes, sprayed it on Shiho's ankle, which was already a little bruised, and then took out the bandage and wrapped it around.

"Xun...Xun-kun, do you usually carry these first aid items with you?" Mitsuhiko was surprised when he saw me take out bandages and spray from my arms.

"Ah, these special medicines are usually brought with them." Because I was treating the wound, I didn't pay much attention to Mitsuhiko's expression at the moment, and said directly. "Okay, take the things, I'll hold you." Then, after Shiho picked up her shoes and socks, I stretched out my arms to wrap around her jade back and knees and picked her up.

"There are people here, don't do this." Shiho's cheeks also felt a little hot due to my sudden action. She muttered softly in my arms.

"Hmm? Oh. I forgot." I turned around and looked at Mitsuhiko who seemed a little bewildered, but I had no intention of putting Shiho down. "Mitsuhiko, please scout the way ahead. The danger should have been eliminated by now."

"Oh, okay." Mitsuhiko, who was at a loss, immediately walked in front of me, and his steps became stiff as if he was stimulated by something.

"By the way, what's going on with you guys?" I asked in a low voice while falling behind.

"After we came in, we witnessed the whole process of a hunter killing someone. That's why we were being chased." Shiho no longer worried about my action of carrying her in a princess hug, and started to answer.

"Uh? Intentional murder? Do you remember what he looks like?"

"He looks like this." After saying that, Shiho pointed upwards. Following the direction of her finger, I saw the old man I had just hung up.

"Uh... is it such a coincidence?" The corners of my mouth twitched slightly. "Why didn't you answer my call?"

"It's broken." Shiho took out her phone from her pocket. "I accidentally fell when I was climbing a high ground, and both my phone and my ankle were broken."

"Stupid." I scolded with a smile. "By the way, what's going on between you and Mitsuhiko? Why do I feel like this guy seems to be interested in you?"

"Is this how you talk to your girlfriend?" Shiho saw that I was becoming unruly again and couldn't help but mock me. "It's the desire to know the opposite sex." Shiho looked down on Mitsuhiko who was walking in front of me. "Children of this age are usually like this."

"Yeah...that's right." I nodded.

"But this is also good." Shiho smiled faintly. "Having one more person chasing you can also make you, a playboy, feel a little more threatened."

"Hehe...hehe, if I were really jealous of a child, then I would be going backwards in life." The corners of my mouth twitched.

"Not necessarily." Shiho smiled slyly, "Yutani is still very gentle towards girls."

"Ok?"

"For example, just now, he confessed to me."

"Huh?! What are you confessing?!" My expression changed instantly when I heard such a sensitive word.

"I won't tell you. This is a secret between the two of us."

"Hey, what did you say? I care about it."

"Hmph~" Seeing me jumping up and down, Shiho's mouth curled up with a hint of cunning. It seemed that her tense spirit suddenly relaxed, and she leaned into my arms with tired eyes closed, and whispered softly.

"Happy April Fools' Day."

　Actually, I only wrote this part of the story just to make Mitsuhiko feel yearning and admiration for Shiho, but I never thought that this crappy storyline would be so boring and long. It's really enough. I really don't want to write anymore. These two paragraphs are not well written, and coupled with work... As a result, this month's update is monthly, please forgive me, here are 5 words and holiday wishes. I will try to return to weekly updates later. There is nothing good to give on April Fools' Day, so I will give you a blessing and a preview. Next, I will prepare to enter Theater 23333, and... I am preparing a big move, but whether it is true or not... Please refer to it for yourselves~ Good night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)