At this time, Meimei was obviously a little surprised to see Amano appear.
"Sorry, I'm rude!"
Meimei said, without waiting for Amano to come over, she ran straight to the wooden box, stuck her head in, and carefully checked the contents of the wooden box.
"What's wrong? Did you find anything?"
Amano sighed helplessly and couldn't help but ask.
But Meimei seemed to find nothing, and then Amano also came over, stuck his head into the box, took out a puppet, and raised his head——
"How's it going? It's cute, isn't it?"
Shinichi saw that the puppet in Amano's hand was the long-haired puppet with very beautiful eyes that he saw during the rehearsal.
Then, I saw Amano holding the puppet's control board and waving it a few times, and the puppet bowed gracefully to Meimei.
But Meimei turned her back.
"Aren't you interested...forget it. It's my turn to perform, so I'll excuse you."
Amano climbed onto the platform of the elevator, and the elevator began to rise slowly.
At the same time that Amano ascended from the lifting platform to the stage, the applause from the other side of the venue also reached its climax.
“It’s so popular!”
Shinichi couldn't help but wonder.
"seems like it."
Meimei responded with an indifferent look.
"After Mr. Amano's performance, it was the self-introduction and talent show of Nos. 1 and 2. After that, it was Miss Hualien's turn to take the stage. She should have climbed onto the lift from here, and then was threatened
You can lift yourself up and fly into the air, right?"
Shinichi asked Meimei while looking up at the ceiling.
"Yes. This kind of performance was the idea of my mother. She said that she had seen a similar performance when she was in Las Vegas. Although I also thought it was dangerous and tried to stop it, Hualian also felt that she wanted to
If other players widen the gap, they can only do this and completely ignore my advice."
Meimei said with some dissatisfaction on her face.
"It turns out it was your mother who came up with the idea."
Shinichi's tone was full of curiosity and he couldn't help but say.
"Um."
Meimei nodded and checked Amano's wooden box again.
Shinichi was also looking inside.
"Come to think of it, even though it's just an ordinary puppet, it can do somersaults and come down the stairs on its own. Isn't it awesome? Ah, that puppet over there is a puppet with a ball."
Looking at the puppets in the wooden box, Shinichi still vividly remembered the rehearsal just now, and couldn't help but explain excitedly.
"Um……"
Meimei may have lost interest immediately after confirming that Hualian was not inside, and started looking around again.
"Don't you think the puppet Mr. Amano is holding looks a bit like Miss Hualien?"
At this time, Shinichi suddenly said this.
"looks like?"
Meimei showed no interest in these words, but at this time, the art director ran over in a panic:
"Miss Meimei, haven't you found Miss Hualian yet?"
"I'm very sorry, I couldn't find her anywhere."
Meimei also said in a panic.
"This... what should I do? There are less than fifteen minutes left before Miss Hualien comes on stage! If this continues, the director will definitely kill me!"
The art director looked at his watch with a sad face and was at a loss what to do.
"I will definitely find her, please wait a little longer."
Meimei bowed and apologized with a sad face.
"Then I'll leave it to you. Miss Hualian is the most powerful contender for the championship. I hope she can appear no matter what, so as to make the atmosphere at the scene even higher. Otherwise we will be in a very difficult position."
The art director left this sentence and ran back from the direction he came from.
"Um, Mr. Detective Maori's assistant? Could you please go to Hualien's room and check it carefully? Maybe she has gone back to the lounge. This is the room key."
Meimei said, handed the room card to Shinichi, and then said:
"I'm going to check the other contestants' rooms one by one."
"I see."
Xinyi nodded, took the room card and ran to the elevator...
…
"I can't find the pastry chef anywhere..."
In the corridor of the hotel, Dr. Ari also felt very embarrassed and said to Shiho next to him.
"Yes. Maybe because they have finished their work for today, they may have left work early."
With an indifferent expression, Shiho mentioned a possibility, and then couldn't help but say:
"Doctor, if we keep searching like we have no clue, I'm afraid there will be no results. Otherwise..."
"Xiao Ai, how about we go to the kitchen again? Maybe the pastry chef has returned to the kitchen now!"
With a pleading tone, Dr. Ali could only say this in the end.
In response, Shiho couldn't help but sigh helplessly and said expressionlessly:
"I'm afraid that continuing to search will be in vain. Moreover, according to the lady, the cakes made with that recipe will be sold in Yamate's pastry shop under the name of Hualien in the near future. Then we will go directly to buy some samples and come back.
That’s it.”
"Ah! That's right!"
Hearing what Shiho said, Dr. Ari couldn't help but said:
"There is also a way to get cake samples directly! Hey, it's a pity that I didn't find a way to keep some cakes at Miss Hualian's place before..."
"You're not a doctor yet, you've eaten too much, only a few pieces in total..."
Giving Dr. Ari a blank look, Shiho couldn't help but said:
"Besides, if you don't control your diet properly, your health will be very worrying."
In response, Dr. Ali smiled bitterly, scratched his head, and said with a helpless smile:
"Ah... this... yes, that's right! When we left, I remembered there were a few pieces of cake left, otherwise..."
As he said that, Dr. Ali couldn't help but change the topic, and then Shiho looked at Dr. Ali's expression coldly. In the end, he could only sigh helplessly and turned around:
"Okay, then doctor, you can continue to search in the kitchen to see if you can find the pastry chef. I'll go back to Miss Hualian upstairs to see if I can find the remaining cake samples."
"Ah good."
With a wry smile and looking at Shiho's leaving figure, Dr. Ari responded, and then continued walking towards the kitchen.
Shiho, who finally found a way to leave Dr. Agasa, pretended to be nonchalant and came to the entrance of this safe passage.
After pushing the door open and entering, Shiho was about to run towards the B3 floor downstairs——
Then, just as Shiho entered the safe passage and closed the door of the passage, a small hand suddenly reached Shiho's right hand from behind the door on one side and gently pulled Shiho's right hand.
This situation suddenly startled Shiho, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble——
"Hey! Where are you going!"
A somewhat anxious tone, a slightly childish voice, came from Shiho's side, and the words were a bit serious.
After hearing this voice, Shiho, who was a little frightened, couldn't help but froze for a moment, lowered his head and looked at the owner of the small hand that suddenly appeared——
Through the faint light in the emergency passage, I saw a somewhat familiar long-haired little girl wearing a children's dress looking up at me with a serious face.
And why does the white children's dress on this little girl look... so familiar!