Conan’s brow twitched involuntarily, while Ran nodded and said, “Shinichi hasn’t been to school in a while either.”
“He’s not even going to school?” Heiji Hattori exclaimed in surprise, inexplicably feeling a little envious. “Is he tied up with some case?”
Heiji’s father was a policeman, with strict parenting. He could solve cases, but he absolutely couldn’t neglect his studies…
“Heh… That’s right, who is this older brother?” Conan chuckled awkwardly, shifting his gaze to Robert, attempting to change the subject.
“Oh! Little brother, I’m Robert, and I’m also going to visit the Takeda family.” Robert said with a smile.
He casually explained his connection to the Takeda family.
It was a very cliché story. When Robert was traveling here, he accidentally fell off a mountain and was rescued by the daughter of the Takeda family. He stayed at the Takeda family’s home for a while.
This time, he also wanted to see his savior from back then.
“Since you lived here for a few months, you must be familiar with this area, right?” Yuquan suddenly said.
“Ah? Well… pretty well.” Robert was a little taken aback, subconsciously nodding.
“Then, that location, about a hundred meters away… do you have any impression? Just a general description will do.”
Yuquan suddenly slowed down the car and pointed to the location in front of them.
As he spoke, Yuquan inconspicuously took out a talisman from his system space and pasted it on the car.
“There…” Robert subconsciously looked over there, his pupils constricting.
He tried to sound calm as he said, “If nothing has changed in the past two years, there should be a lake there. Three years ago, it looked about forty to fifty square meters, I don’t know how it looks now.”
Noticing Robert’s reaction through the rearview mirror, Yuquan tapped his fingers on the steering wheel.
Just a lake shouldn’t cause Robert to react like this. There might be something Robert cares about there.
Most importantly, Yuquan sensed energy fluctuations coming from that direction.
“Is there something wrong over there?” Kazuha, looking a little curious, glanced at Yuquan.
“Maybe there’s a spider spirit living there.” Yuquan said, half-jokingly and half-seriously. Then, his tone instantly became serious, “Hold on tight!”
“Ah?” Ran and the others were confused, but they instinctively grabbed the handrail next to them or the seat belt in front of them.
“What…?” Before Heiji could finish his words, Yuquan’s car jolted violently.
“Bang—!”
The sound wasn’t too loud, but the people in the car felt as if they had been hit by another car. They all swayed.
Everyone else was fine, but Conan was too small and his head bumped against the front seat. A big bump instantly appeared.
Unseen by others, something like a golden energy shield flashed outside the car.
Then, a sharp scream rang out, “Ah—!”
Yuquan retracted his gaze from outside the car. Tsk! It was pretty fast.
If he wasn’t driving and there weren’t a bunch of people in the car, Yuquan would have just chased after it.
It wouldn’t be a big problem. He would meet that… spider spirit sooner or later when they went to the Takeda family!
It was indeed a spider spirit.
When he sensed the energy from that side approaching, Yuquan directly activated his celestial eye.
Although the other party was very fast, those eight furry legs… were definitely not something easily ignored!
“What… what was that sound?” Kogoro Mori’s face turned pale, “Could it be that we hit someone?”
Just as Yuquan stopped the car, Conan and Heiji rushed out and ran to check the front of the car.
“Conan.”
“Heiji.”
Ran and Kazuha couldn’t help but frown.
“Let’s go take a look.” Yuquan directly unbuckled his seatbelt.
“Little brat, did you hit something?” Kogoro Mori asked with a serious tone.
“Strange, there’s no one there at all. There are no marks on the front of the car either…” Heiji stroked his chin, as if talking to himself.
“There’s no one nearby either, but we definitely heard a scream.” Conan also emerged from the woods next to him, frowning.
Yuquan didn’t pay attention to the two detectives, but his eyes scanned the surroundings.
Conan and Heiji, as ordinary people, couldn’t see it, but within Yuquan’s celestial eye, there was quite a lot of energy left around.
However, it wasn’t like the resentment of the old man Sagayama at the Mifa Shrine.
It was… like incense smoke, which was within Yuquan’s expectations.
After all, the spider spirit was also worshipped by the people of Spider Ridge. But—
Considering the spider spirit’s location, as well as the things that had happened to the Takeda family over the years, the spider spirit’s origin became even more interesting.
The most important thing was that according to feedback from the system, the spider spirit’s energy was something the system could absorb!
“Could it be that someone got hit and ran away?” Kogoro Mori touched his head.
Heiji couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth. He looked at Kogoro Mori speechlessly and said, “Uncle, are you alright?”
“Leaving aside the fact that if someone was hit, why would they run, even if someone was really hit… It’s impossible to leave no trace at all!”