Chapter 575: Will explode at one glance
"If the mermaid thing is false, how can we explain the incident three years ago?" Ebihara Hisumi, who refused to let go of this topic, refused to let go. "Haven't you all seen the body of a mermaid?"
"Ah, when you say that, it feels like you have seen it on the news somewhere." Mouri Kogoro touched it thoughtfully Holding her chin, "I found a strange charred corpse in the warehouse or something..."
Shimabukuro Kimie took a breath and quickly showed a peaceful helpless smile: "That's because the media likes it too much. It’s exaggerated, it’s so mysterious.”
“What are you talking about, Junhui, didn’t you see the shape of the broken bones?” Ebihara Hisumi tilted her head. , that sense of ignorant fanaticism appeared on her face again, "To be honest, I almost thought that it was the mermaid's secretly hidden in your family..."
Shimabukuro Kimie's hand holding the imperial coin suddenly tightened.
Kangze, who felt like there was another earthquake somewhere: "..."
Stop talking, although I understand your desire to go there quickly, but don't bother me Others want to live...
"Shut up, Sumi." The dark-skinned man stepped forward and stopped Ebihara Sumi's words, "Why are you talking to these outsiders?"
" Rokuro..." Ebihara Hisumi glanced at the hand he put on her shoulder, curling her lips, and finally stopped talking.
"If you are friends from outside Saori Island, why don't you just go to her house to find her?" After suppressing Hisumi Ebihara, Fukuyama Rokuro looked back at the group of people standing in front of Shimabukuro Kimie, "But, if she If your drunkard dad doesn’t welcome you, then there’s nothing we can do.”
After that, he winked at Shimabukuro Kime, grabbed Ebihara Hisumi, and left forcefully.
"Is that person also a resident of your island?" Frowning at his attitude of holding a gun and a stick, Hattori Heiji turned to Shimabukuro Kimie and asked.
"Well, Fukuyama Rokuro was also our childhood friend, and now he is working as a fisherman on the island." Shimabukuro Kimie, who was in a slightly better mood, smiled again, "I'm really sorry, he is so sorry for Shimabukuro. The tourism industry in the past few years has not been very popular.”
“This is understandable, but since Saori Kadori grew up with you, why is she not even a worried person? No." Hattori Heiji adjusted his baseball cap and looked away at Fukuyama Rokuro's back, once again feeling violated by the strange interpersonal relationship.
"...Because Saori's character is like this. She has a very bad relationship with her father. It is very common for her to run away from home after a quarrel and then run to the island alone." Shimabukuro Kimie's expression was a little subtle, but she still explained.
Tang Ze couldn't help but look sideways when he heard this.
This is too euphemistic. I have to say that the past few years as a miko have really polished Shimabukuro Kime's ability to deal with people, and she speaks with a lot of emotional intelligence.
To put it bluntly, Kadori Saori is the kind of little girl whose original family was unfortunate and therefore went astray. She has an extreme and sensitive personality and often conflicts with others, so she is not popular on the island. .
This is not Tang Ze's conjecture. These are all the information collected by his team members on the island after landing on the island because they were unable to freely enter and exit the other world.
It's true to think about it. If he hadn't always been such a troublemaker, would a normal person, even if he was drunk, lock a living person in a house and burn it just to see if the so-called immortality was true or false?
This kind of pure, unthinking evil is like a long-term inertia. It is really unrealistic for a person who behaves like this to think that she is a good person who is kind to others.
"I still have some things to do at the festival. Do you have any questions?" Seeing that the questions of these guests finally came to an end, Shimabukuro Kimie smiled and picked up the broom placed aside. , "The festival is almost here, the shrine is very busy, and I still have some things to do. If you want to find Saori's home, you can go to the east coast, the one closest to the beach is the one."< br>
"I'm really sorry to bother you. Thank you for your help." Mouri Kogoro, who understood that she was driving away guests, bowed lightly to her and left the shrine with a large group of people behind him.
Mourilan, leaning against the distant mountains and leaves all the way, looked up at the plaque above when walking out of the torii gate, and couldn't help but whisper: "Oh, every time I go to an island like this, I have a strange feeling. An indescribable feeling.”
"Do you think this kind of atmosphere with familiar people everywhere is more exclusive?" Yuan Shan and Ye, who didn't quite understand what she meant, asked curiously in a low voice.
"It's not..." Mao Lilan struggled for a while and reluctantly described, "I can't say. Obviously in small places like these with a small population, everyone is a neighbor who knows each other well, and the relationship should be very close. Close. But they always have a more conservative relationship than their neighbors in the city, as if they are afraid of getting involved in right and wrong..."
The same is true on Yueying Island.
The Aso family was obviously killed by the village chief and others who were engaged in illegal industry. As a result, the people on the island did not know whether they were really unaware or pretending not to be aware. Not only did they not delve into this strange matter, Suicide, on the contrary, linked the piano with the curse and spread it into a strange rumor. In fact, it fueled the murderers' arrogance.
During the experience of landing on the island, I did not feel the simple folk customs, but the exclusive and secretive experience was very rich.
The only person who showed goodwill to them, even if the purpose may be to get outsiders like them to prove their alibi, turned out to be Naomi Asai who harbored hatred and wanted to kill people...
This is the interpersonal relationship on the island. Environment?
"It's not surprising, Mr. Lan." Karasawa, who heard her thoughts, said, "An environment where the economic structure is too fragile and weak is indeed easy to create this kind of atmosphere. If you leave here, maybe you can still Because of the same identity tag, we stay together, but when we return to this closed environment, we will return to the closed atmosphere."
"Is that so?" Mao Lilan looked at the sunset in the distance, no. She wondered with certainty, "That would be too ironic."
She recalled the way Asai Narumi told them with a smile that she still preferred the quiet living environment on the island to Tokyo, and couldn't help but Feeling emotional.
Karasawa twitched his lips and looked back at the torii behind him again.
Human nature is such a complex thing. After a group's thoughts and consensus are formed, anything that wants to break it, whether it is good or bad, will be hostile and excluded.
Neither Asai Narumi nor Shimabukuro Kimie may have ever felt a sense of acceptance and belonging in their hometowns.
It is hard to imagine how many huge emotions they suppressed in their hearts as they walked on thin ice on this tiny land with doubts and heavy burdens on their shoulders.
No wonder one and two of them have the boss temperament of being able to tear apart great gods...
Thinking of this, Tang Ze blinked, ready to risk opening his third eye to take a look at the situation here.
To be on the safe side, he first raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose and narrowed his eyes.
Even if he is soaked in water, at least hold on for a few more seconds to let him take a look at the situation.
A faint red light flashed from Tang Ze's eyes, and a patch of blue quickly covered his vision.
"Hiss..." Tang Ze immediately closed his vision in the next second and cursed softly.
Originally wanting to join Hattori Heiji's discussion, Conan, who heard Karasawa muttering something in a low voice, raised his head and glanced at Karasawa's expression.
Then he was surprised to find faint tears shining in his eyes.
What's going on? Did you hear something touching, or was it because you were sleepy and yawned?
Tangze pressed his eyes, his expression returned to its original state, and he slapped Conan on top of his head, blocking his gaze.
What else could it be? It was washed away by the sea.
As expected, the huge pressure almost pushed water into his respiratory tract almost instantly. Even if he was prepared, the salty and complex solution of seawater still stung his eyes.
Your American island is so lethal that it will explode just by looking at it.
However, during this short gap, he still caught an unusual sign.
——The bright light, refracted by the overlapping sea water, filled his field of vision.
“It’s interesting.” Tang Ze said softly.
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“It’s interesting, these people.”
Unexpectedly, he was kicked out of Saori Kadori’s house and separated from the people who were going to go shopping in the night market. Hattori Heiji took Conan and Karasawa on the completely darkened path and sighed.
"You think something is wrong, too? Everyone on this island seems to be secretive." Conan crossed his arms, thinking about the information provided by joker, with a gloomy expression.
"Well, there's not even anyone willing to report missing." Hattori Heiji, whose proposal was flatly rejected by Saori Kadori's father, silently turned the baseball cap on his head to the front, "And those few None of Saori's friends, including Shimabukuro Kimie, seemed willing to accept the police's intervention... even if she might be in danger. "There is no police station on this island, no, not even the police. "That's weird too," Conan added.
Even on Yueying Island, there is at least one old policeman responsible for patrolling.
Although his age and ability may not play a decisive role in public security, it is very intriguing that he does not even have this position.
This is an island where tourism has developed, and it is not a real small mountain village.
"It's best for you not to reveal your identity as a detective." Tangze put his hands in his pockets and said calmly, "Some truths are destined to be unpopular."
If it is revealed that they are detectives from Tokyo, the resistance to the investigation on the island will become even greater.
A group of islanders pretending to be confused, but in fact they don’t want many old stories to surface.
Awakened from his thoughts by Karasawa's voice, Hattori Heiji glanced at Karasawa's side face and coughed a little embarrassedly.
Oops, they seemed to have agreed at the beginning to use the commission as a reason to take Tangze out on a trip to relax.
As a result, after landing on the island, they were quickly attracted by the many mysteries surrounding the island, and slowly fell into the rhythm of the investigation, completely ignoring the matter.
"Well, if we really can't find Saori Kadori, then we can only call the police later and ask police from other places to come and investigate. If the client can't be found, where can we investigate the request?" Hattori Heiji expressed his attitude. , trying to lighten the atmosphere.
The investigation is currently very confusing. You can’t delay your travel just because you want to find out the whole story.
Not to mention anything else, as an island whose current pillar industry lies in tourism, the island's service to tourists is still good, and it is indeed a place suitable for leisure and relaxation.
"If you want to call the police, I advise you to do so after the festival." Although he did not understand Hattori Heiji's thoughts, Karasawa reminded him kindly, "These people on the island We regard this festival that attracts many tourists as our lifeblood. If we interrupt the festival, no matter what the reason is, we will not be able to tolerate it.”
But if nothing unexpected happens, Shimabukuro-kun will wait until the festival starts. It’s time for Megumi to go on a killing spree.
At that time, there is no need to use such irrelevant reasons as disappearance. When the body is exposed to the eyes of many tourists, no matter how much the people on the island try to cover it up, it is impossible not to alert the police.
Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other and nodded.
In short, what they are facing now is actually a time-limited task.
If they cannot find out the news about Saori Monori, or cannot discover the deeper truth before the festival begins, then they will have no reason to intervene on the island.
"Well, let's all work hard, everyone." Tangze tilted his head and said with a pun, "Time waits for no one."
According to the current development trend, when Shimabukuro Kimie discovered that all the residents of the island, except for a few younger generations who did not understand the real situation of the Shimabukuro family, actually knew about her mother's death, and she also felt her pain. When he could see everything he had done and sacrificed, but he was still dumbfounded and pretending to be stupid...
He was really afraid that by then the barriers between reality and the cognitive world would completely disappear, and the two would merge together, and the world-destroying flood would directly destroy the island. It’s gone.
It’s really scary, you islands are like crouching tigers, hidden dragons.
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“Oh, that’s it. So, we can get two number plates?”
"Yes, a couple who had originally booked canceled their trip at short notice..." Shimabukuro Kime smiled and handed the wooden sign in his hand to the pretty and cute girl in front of him, "divination words cannot be trusted, but just in case, Is this really a blessing that can keep people young forever? "
"Well, so the festival is actually a lottery?" Mao Lilan took it. Thing, exchanged an excited look with Yuan Shan and Ye.
Originally, I followed them to inquire about the client, but unexpectedly I got acquainted with a miko and got such an opportunity...
I was really lucky.
“Yes, in order to enrich the activities, everyone has also prepared fireworks and performances, as well as markets that last for several days. However, the festival itself is just for grandma and grandma to draw numbers. Just match the sign with If the numbers are the same, you can get the Dugong Arrow. It's good to try your luck, isn't it?" Shimabukuro Kime looked at the two girls each picking up a sign and smiled gently.
In this case, the conditions are met.
"...Actually, the festival is quite boring." Looking at the smiles on their faces, Shimabukuro Kimie sighed softly, "Our island used to be quite poor, so visiting here is not very interesting. , right? If you feel unhappy on the island and don’t want to participate in the festival, you don’t have to feel sorry for the things I gave you.”
Shimabukuro Kime clasped her fingers tightly in her sleeves. The lining of the cuffs was tightened to suppress the coldness and trembling of the fingertips.
She knew that she had no time to look forward or backward, the signal of the dike breaking had been sent out, and the overwhelming flood was about to overwhelm her spiritual defense line.
She can only continue and persevere, otherwise, where will her resentment pour out, drowning herself?
But she still struggled.
A few days ago, these people, these familiar faces, were still her friends, and they were one of the motivations that supported her to swallow the bitterness and work hard to survive until today.
To raise a butcher's knife against them, even if she deeply believed that her idea was correct, the tearing and pain involved cannot be summed up in a simple sentence of revenge.
…How wonderful it would be if I didn’t know the truth.
Sometimes, Shimabukuro Kime is like this, fantasizing in vain.
"Thank you." Yuan Shan and Ye thanked her sincerely and put the sign in her arms. "I heard that the quota needs to be reserved in advance. I was upset for a while, thinking that I would miss it. You are so busy, how can you still do it? It's so troublesome to think of us. Thank you for your hard work, Miss Shimabukuro."
As she spoke, she patted her pocket quickly, remembering something, and quickly took something out of her pocket, seriously. He handed it to Shimabukuro Kimie as a thank you for the gift.
Shimabukuro Kime looked down.
A small Ema with a dolphin painted on it was held by Toyama and Ye with both hands and handed to her.
Looking at Toyama Kazuha’s smiling face, Shimabukuro Kimie slowly smiled too.
The sincere kindness of strangers is sometimes unexpectedly warm.
The painful and mournful voice seemed to be slightly relieved at this moment and became less noisy.
"God will bless you, kind child." Taking what she handed over, Shimabukuro Kime tapped his forehead with his fingertips, then raised his hand and tapped the distant mountains. Between Kazuye's brows, he took the blank Ema with body temperature into his hand and said goodbye to them with a smile.
Watching the excited and chattering girls leave, she brushed the broken hair around her ears, turned around and walked through the alley at the corner, heading towards the shrine.
It was getting late and she still had some preparations to do.
A voice came at this moment.
"Miss Shimabukuro Kimie...is that right? A shrine maiden from the island shrine."
Shimabukuro Kimie stopped and looked in the direction of the sound.
A handsome man with long hair shawl, leaning in the shadow deep in the alley.
A pair of golden eyes stared at her steadily.
"I've finally waited for you. When we first meet, my name is Asai Narumi, and I am... your kind."
(End of this chapter)