Truth
When Conan woke from his groggy stupor, his head still throbbed. But as his awareness gradually returned, he jolted awake at once.
Oh no!
I must have been captured!
He then discovered that he had been completely tied up.
Conversation drifted in from the room next door. Besides that woman, there was now another man.
I'm done for. I'm done for.
The sound he made upon waking seemed to have alerted the people next door, who appeared ready to come check on him. He quickly lay back down and pretended to be unconscious again.
"Looks like the drug is still working. He's only a child, after all."
The mysterious man's voice made Conan relax slightly, but his mind immediately began racing.
The only thing he could be thankful for was that he had already told Sato Xu Yue about the situation. Given his abilities and authority, once he took it seriously, he might be able to help at any time.
Unfortunately, he had left him far too few clues.
While he admitted that Sato Xu Yue possessed outstanding deductive skills and was exceptional in every regard, finding him without enough clues would still take quite a long time.
There was no telling whether he could hold out until then. He had to find a way to save himself!
He used a shard from a broken wine bottle to cut through the ropes, then staged the scene to make it look as though he had jumped from the second floor into the snow. He himself hid in the underground wine cellar.
He had successfully bought himself another round. Only after hearing the mysterious man and the woman leave did he finally emerge again with a sigh of relief.
Then, from the traces they had left behind, he learned about Beika