Although he learned about the behavior of a suspect, Ye Gengyi did not return to the hotel directly for investigation.

First of all, it is easy to meet Conan and the others when you go back there. Secondly, you are too arrogant and undesirable... because his current identity is not a cadre of an organization, but an expert from the police's technical association.

"However, there are still some differences in intelligence. Assuming that the three people have always lived in the village and it is impossible to engage in insurance work here. Moreover, based on the suspicion of the wild water tree, a hotel front desk staff member who is preparing for the "Snow Festival" should not have so much time to do these things."

Is it a co-conspirator... or is it hired someone... or is it not what they did?

Thoughts are in the air.

The leaves also seemed to sweep across the men and women around them casually.

Those who looked joyful and curious, you can see that they were tourists like him without asking.

Exclude these people from search.

I searched around for more than ten minutes.

Then, his eyes were fixed on a middle-aged man pulling a ski car and transporting goods.

Bent over and pick up a stone, the electric shock gloves are particles and covered with palms, and used nanorobots to mimic the external bones.

As the current flowed, the stones slammed steadily on the back of the opponent's hand with a momentum of breaking through the air.

The middle-aged man let go of his palm holding the traction rope.

The stones fell into the snow.

Next second.

The ski car and the goods on it also scattered all over the floor due to inertia.

When tourists turned to look at the noise when they heard the movement.

Ye Gengyi had already taken steps and walked forward to help organize it.

The middle-aged man took off his gloves and was checking the bruised and swollen skin. He noticed the young man beside him and hurriedly thanked him, not knowing that the enthusiastic young man in front of him was the initiator of all this.

"Thank you, young man, thank you so much. I don't know what was hit by..."

"You're welcome."

Ye Gengyi casually interrupted the other party's attempt to find the 'murder weapon', pointed to the objects in the box, and asked, "Are these souvenirs?"

"yes."

The middle-aged man restrained his thoughts and nodded, "The tourists who came to participate in the 'Snow Festival' this year exceeded expectations. I was about to send these goods to the hotel."

"That's how..."

Ye Gengyi deliberately said in a disappointed tone: "But I see that there are food items inside, these... should be bought from nearby counties, right?"

He wanted to use the provocation method to routinely trick this person responsible for purchasing.

I never thought that this middle-aged man admitted directly to thank him for his help:

"Who said no? The 'Snow Festival' in previous years was not so lively, and it made us old guys so tired..."

"Is that true..." Ye Gengyi was speechless.

What a simple villager, this environment is not suitable for him to start his work.

The middle-aged man in front of him can easily ask for information in another way, but relatively speaking, the more you explore a person with this personality, the more he may be more alert...

So he had to be more tactful in the routine. Thinking of it, he turned around and acted and wanted to leave.

If the other party doesn't stop calling himself and chatting for a few more words, then you can only create the next chance encounter, or try another target and continue to test.

"Hey, young man, wait..."

As expected, the middle-aged man called him with a straightforward personality, "You want to buy a souvenir to go back, right?"

"Yeah." Ye Geng nodded.

"If it is only available in our village, then I recommend you to buy 'owl wood carvings'." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Wood carving?" Ye Gengyi repeated the question without denying it.

“Yes,” the middle-aged man explained: “Although all souvenirs for this celebration can be purchased from outside, only the ‘owl wood carving’ is handmade by the villagers here. If you have time to go to the reservoir studio, you can also see the super-large ‘owl wood carving’.”

If the resentment of building a reservoir is not for money, it may be for beliefs like totem? Maybe it is a clue that can be investigated.

Ye Gengyi thought and asked, "Is the owl a symbol of Kitanozawa Village?"

"That's not enough," the middle-aged man waved his hand. "It's mainly because when I was in an old village, the wooden house I lived in was too dilapidated and would cause many mice to drill the warehouse to damage food, and owls could help catch mice, so the villagers were grateful to them."

"It is indeed a good thing that life can improve..."

Ye Gengyi followed the topic: "I also thank Mayor Asakura for his policy, which allows everyone to live in a new house."

"Well……"

Hearing Ye Gengyi say this, the expression on the middle-aged man's face became obviously strange.

"Sorry," Ye Gengyi captured the emotions well, and did not give the other party a buffer space, and said, "Did I say something wrong?"

"Ah...no, alas..."

The middle-aged man sighed and stopped and said, "Mayor Asakura is a good person, but not everyone agrees to the relocation of the village."

"Well, I've heard of it, too."

Ye Gengyi lowered his voice and arranged it: "I heard... there was a family who had a very unpleasant relationship with this incident."

He was not worried about guessing wrong. After all, people were opposed to moving the village, and the atmosphere would never be full of warm and happy...

"Well, it's not a secret."

The middle-aged man fell into memories and added this completely real message casually, "You are talking about the Muto family. His son Yue Yan still refuses to move to the new village. By the way, the owl wood carving I mentioned before was made by him. That kid is very handmade."

"Oh? It turned out to be him." Ye Gengyi pretended to be surprised.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man was stunned, "What? Do you know him?"

"No," Ye Gengyi frowned and recalled, "I seemed to have heard this name at the hotel's front desk, but forgot to mention who he was..."

"The front desk of the hotel?" said the middle-aged man: "It must be Mizuki. She and Muto are elementary school classmates."

No wonder they are the same age...

Ye Gengyi nodded slightly, "Speaking of this, does Muto Yuehiko do not live in the village? I am very interested in wood carvings. If possible, I want to meet him."

"Oh, he built a small house alone in the back mountain over there," the middle-aged man pointed in one direction. "Now, I should still be at home. If you need to drive the public office later, I can take you there. Just ask him if the owl wood carvings are still in stock."

Ye Gengyi: "That's convenient...thank you."

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