Chapter 581 Victim
How, how could it be this child? They clearly agreed...
She raised her head blankly, looking at the figure reflected in the bright flames, and she hadn't turned around yet. God, two figures had climbed over the isolation rope one after another and rushed to her side.
“Miss Shimabukuro!” Conan grabbed Shimabukuro Kime’s wrist, “You are very familiar with the environment here, right? Take us there!”
He had no time to care about his overly mature tone, he could only feel his heart tightening.
Calm down, calm down...!
It is impossible to see the specific situation above from here, and it is not yet time to despair. Maybe Tang Ze has just lost consciousness, he has not yet...
Looking at both sides of the waterfall The slippery rock walls, as well as the moss and vines covering the cracks in the rocks, Hattori Heiji resisted the urge to rush closer, tried to stay calm, and urged clearly: "Hurry, Miss Miko, I remember you. Yesterday, there was a ladder that could..."
However, his words were quickly interrupted by the next movement.
I don't know if it was the effect of the water flow or something else. Tangze's body hanging in mid-air slowly slid downwards in their sights, and the expressions of the two anxious detectives changed.
Could it be that he was hanged, oh no, fixed above...
Before the two of them could react, as the shaking intensified, Tangze's body He slipped down for another section, then gradually increased his speed, and along with the things pulled above him, he fell down towards the pool below along with the current of the waterfall.
"...The water pool here is connected to the underground cave, so it will be washed into the sea by the undercurrent!" As a conditioned reflex, Shimabukuro Kimie reminded loudly.
But she didn't need to remind her. The two detectives were already rushing towards the pool like arrows.
Tang Ze, who seemed to be unresponsive, fell straight down, sending a spray of water into the pool below the waterfall, which directly wet the clothes of the two detectives who ran to the pool.
Then there was another bigger wave, splashing.
At the other end of the rope, the things that Karasawa brought down were also smashed down.
At a glance, Conan felt that it looked like a human body...
"Karasawa! Karasawa!" Hattori shouted twice, but received no response. Heiji jumped down without hesitation and plunged towards the position where Karasawa fell.
By this time, several other people who had been greatly shocked and finally came to their senses also ran to the pool.
Mao Lilan grabbed Conan, who wanted to follow him, and shook his head vigorously: "A person who fell into the water unconsciously cannot be pulled up with the strength of a child. Don't go down and help him. Hattori is causing trouble!”
She grabbed Toyama Kazuha, who was looking at Hattori Heiji’s clothes completely submerged in the water, and wanted to step on them. She pulled the two of them and approached the pool, anxiously. Looking down at the top of the white waves, it was impossible to see the situation clearly on the water.
Although the reaction was not as timely as that of the detectives, Mao Lilan, who had been suffering from anxiety for a long time since Tangze disappeared yesterday, and even fantasized about many bad endings, the plan that had been rehearsed many times in her mind seemed to suddenly come out of nowhere. When put to use, one-hand physical control works well.
With a straight face, Mouri Kogoro looked at Shimabukuro Kimie, who covered his mouth and froze in place: "Miss Kimie, can you please find a few more people to take a look? If Hattori can't help, If Tang Ze pulls up..."
"Oh, okay, okay!" Shimabukuro Kimie nodded hurriedly and turned to look at the islanders in the crowd.
The residents here once made a living by fishing. Most people, especially the fishermen, have excellent water skills, and they are definitely more familiar with the sea than the young man from the island who jumped off. environment.
So she immediately scanned the crowd twice, trying to identify a few suitable rescue candidates.
However, with this look, she clearly realized that there was something strange about the islanders.
As hanging people appeared in the waterfall, the entire ceremony was plunged into noise and chaos.
Some people were screaming, some were calling the rescue phone or calling the police reflexively, and some people had inexplicable excitement on their faces and raised their cameras and mobile phones to take pictures. Shimabukuro Kimie, who was standing in the center, looked at her like this, It is completely a noisy and real appearance of sentient beings.
But it does not include the island residents she is familiar with.
The islanders, including Kuroe Naoko who was holding an arrow broken into two sections, and the attendants who were standing around the shed to help her set off fireworks, all just stood there. They stared straight ahead with expressionless faces, and the surrounding movements could not alarm them at all. They seemed so out of place in the boiling crowd.
"Kunhui!" Fortunately, not everyone was in such a state. Fukuyama Rokuro struggled to squeeze through the crowded crowd, lifted the rope, and ran over quickly, "It happened. What's going on!"
"Rokuro, hurry up, someone has fallen, they may be swept away by the current!" Shimabukuro Junhui grabbed his arm, "Go and help them!"
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The human body is slowly swaying under the wash of water.
The sun rises and the moon sets, and time passes slowly. The person hanging there just sways and rotates slowly with the wind and water, without any trace of movement
Then the day comes again Dark.
The faint fire light slowly ignited from below, and the fireworks rose amidst the joyous celebrations.
As the bright light rose into the sky, and reflected by the suddenly blooming fire trees, he could finally see clearly the person hanging there.
I saw clearly the pair of out-of-focus, cloudy, and completely lifeless... blue eyes.
“!”
Hattori Heiji suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight from the ground.
He woke up suddenly and his reaction was exaggerated. He almost bumped into Toyama Kazuyo who was squatting next to him worriedly, leaning over to observe him.
"Hey, Heiji!" He narrowly missed Hattori Heiji's forehead. Toyama Kazuha covered his eyebrows and shouted in fear, "You're so scary!"
"I, I am..." Hattori Heiji blinked twice before he slowly recovered from the burst of fear, panic and sadness, and saw the surrounding environment clearly.
He just lay on his back on the ground and was placed next to the fire.
Not far away, the rinsing water of the Mermaid Falls is still falling downwards slowly, with sparkling waves and a delicate pool below, just like the tail of a mermaid, reflecting the scales Such brilliance.
A little further away, although there was a lot of commotion, it was stopped by Mouri Kogoro and others, so the tourists who did not get closer were still making noisy noises, and occasionally there were dazzling flashes. , brighten up without any scruples.
Oh yes, he just saw Tangze fall into the water, and then he followed it without thinking...
"Before going into the water, at least take off the clothes that are in the way and observe the water. The environment!" Toyama and Ye shook their red hands from squeezing their coats and scolded them dissatisfiedly, "If it hadn't been for Mr. Fukuyama's help, you probably wouldn't have had the strength to come up completely just now and run away. It's not worth it to save someone if you can't save him!"
"I..." Pulling the blanket on his body and feeling his still wet underwear, Hattori Heiji came to his senses completely. After looking around, he quickly found what he wanted to see.
The same pure white blanket was covered on another person next to the fire.
Karasawa's eyes were closed tightly, and his brown hair wet with water was still stuck to his cheeks. He looked very embarrassed and pale.
After all, they still couldn't save him...
Hattori Heiji was stunned for a few seconds, feeling a huge emotion rising from the bottom of his heart, causing his throat to be blocked, as if he was being filled. It was as if he was silenced by some substance in his chest.
"...When is the time of death?" Hattori Heiji heard his trembling voice, as if he was trying his best to maintain a clear enunciation.
"When else could it be, it must have been half an hour to an hour ago..." Toyama Kazuha raised his head and looked at Hattori Heiji, who had a stiff face, strangely, "Why are you shivering? It's very cold. Should I send you back to change your clothes? ""What, an hour ago?" Hattori Heiji's voice suddenly became louder, even attracting the attention of Conan who was studying something on the other side." Are you saying that the murderer kidnapped him for two days but just killed him? Then, isn't our negligence..."
Yuan Shan and Ye stared blankly at him for two seconds, who was about to cry, and then followed his line of sight and glanced at Tang Ze, who was lying peacefully on the ground.
She raised her hand and slapped Hattori Heiji firmly on the back. Conan, who was leaning over, seemed to hear the echo in his chest.
"What are you talking about! You're talking about that side!" The ruthless Toyama Heye pointed at the place surrounded by people, "Kang Ze is still alive and well!"
"Huh?" Hattori Heiji, who had just risen in emotion, was also stunned and looked towards the place she pointed.
Hisumi Ebihara, with her eyes wide open and a rough hemp rope wrapped around her neck, was surrounded by Shimabukuro Kimie and others. Her pale complexion already foreshadowed her fate.
Regardless of whether Karasawa was alive or not, this woman was definitely dead.
Hattori Heiji let out a breath and sat back exhausted: "That's right, it scared me to death, that's good... Uh, oh, it's not..."
Song After taking a breath, he blurted out a few words. After he finished speaking, he realized that someone had died. It was fine to just say it here. It sounded very wrong, so he stopped talking in embarrassment.
"The rope on Karasawa-nii's body is connected to that." Conan pointed to the rope extending from Ebihara Hisumi's body and submerged under Karasawa's blanket, "So, Karasawa-nii, he , it was actually Miss Ebihara's body, um, hanging over there..."
Imagining that weird scene, Conan's facial features wrinkled up.
"So, Brother Karasawa, he is, uh, probably the murder weapon this time...?"
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"Sumei, how could..." Shimabukuro Kimie He covered his mouth and knelt on the ground, muttering in confusion.
She lowered her head and looked at Ebihara Hisumi's extremely frightened face, and then looked at Karasawa who had not yet woken up, but his breathing was steady and his vital signs were normal, and she doubted whether the product was genuine.
Is this the method of those monster thieves?
Using one person as a counterweight to hang Shou Mei, well, no matter how you think about it...
"We may have to go up and take a look." Fukuyama Rokuro let go of Ebihara with a solemn expression after looking at it for a while. Shou Mei's body was stiff and cold, "It's not yet certain what Shou Mei is fixed on. Normally, she must be lighter than the boy. If the two were connected together, they would fall off quickly. "Yes."
"Anyway, um, it's definitely not suicide, right?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Ebihara Hisumi, who had a very sad death look, and then looked at Tang who was placed on the fire not far away. Ze, scratched his head and choked out a sentence.
Several people glanced at him with very strange expressions.
"...It's true." Mao Lilan added respectfully, "Suicide, well, it shouldn't be possible for someone to tie a rope around their own neck, then tie the rope to someone else, and then Push the person down..."
Then the cost of this suicide method is a bit too high...
"But since it is a murder...the murderer cannot be Karasawa, right?" Mouri Kogoro crossed his arms and clicked his tongue. , "This kid has been missing for two days. And jumping from the cliff into the waterfall is a bit too dangerous."
"Then, what did the murderer think?" I, Shimabukuro Kime, made a heartfelt voice of confusion.
Yes, it is true that Shou Mei hanged herself to death. She can still recall her desperate expression while apologizing frantically while feeling the rope around her neck getting tighter and tighter
Although this was the second person she had strangled to death, she still couldn't adapt to the feeling of looking at a living body and slowly stopped moving in front of her.
However, this did not prevent her from feeling from the desperate expression that they were experiencing the experience of their mother's last moments before her death. The feeling of oxygen being taken away bit by bit and watching the life being exhaled by herself must be very scary. Right?
It’s okay to be scary. It’s scary enough to comfort my mother’s spirit in heaven.
But what on earth do those gang of monster thieves think?
Is this what they call a solution to the problem? By hanging a child who had been missing for two days in a waterfall and dragging Shou Mei's body down?
Ah, so the boy named Tang Ze was kidnapped by them?
The puzzled Shimabukuro Kimie's CPU was about to burn. He looked back and forth between Karasawa and Ebihara Hisumi with a dull expression, and for a moment he didn't know how to continue to react.
"Please have my condolences." It was obvious that her actions were understood to mean that she was temporarily hit by the loss of her friend and could not accept the reality. Mouri Kogoro sighed and said heavily, " We need to find out who did this. He not only killed people, but also kidnapped others and almost killed another person. This is such a dangerous person."
"Uh, well..." I feel. Unable to explain that she had nothing to do with Karasawa's disappearance, Shimabukuro Kimie lowered her head helplessly.
Hey, maybe this is one of the prices for cooperating with them, taking the blame or something.
Forget it, I am already such a despicable murderer, and adding a few more irrelevant charges seems like...
no! She kills for revenge, but she has no bad habit of implicating innocent people! This point still needs to be clarified!
Beside the corpse over there, the murderer himself clenched his fists and secretly gathered strength. Several people here surrounded the unconscious Tang Ze and studied it.
"The rope is tied under the armpits..." Pulling some of the blankets on Karasawa's body, Hattori Heiji stretched out his hand to pluck the knots on his body, "It's tied very tightly. From this Judging from the way the knot was tied, it should have been done by a right-hander without struggling."
"Otherwise, it couldn't have been done by Tangze himself, right?" Heye rolled his eyelids, took the blanket he lifted up, and held it there for them, waiting for the two of them to finish taking photos and collecting evidence.
Hattori Heiji, who zoomed in and took a few pictures, put down his mobile phone that was still working tenaciously after being soaked in water for a while. While untying the hemp rope for Karasawa, he sighed: "Fortunately, I was inspired to set out. I changed my phone before, but Tangze’s reminder is still effective.”
That's right, after Karasawa's strong recommendation, Hattori Heiji bought a new mobile phone on the way out, which was exactly the one used by the deceased who fell from the building the day before.
"As a detective, you will inevitably encounter situations where the photo location is tricky. If your phone is lost, your precious evidence will probably be lost."
Tangze did not take out Instead of that outrageous bullet-stopping theory, he put forward a very logical and realistic scenario, which instantly convinced the two detectives who intensively disrupted the evidence collection at the scene.
"The first time I used it after I bought it was to take pictures of Tangze himself, right?" Toyama and Ye, who were annoyed, raised their arms for Tangze and completely untied the rope, "Then you really I’m very grateful to him.”
Don’t say it, it’s true.
After thinking about this issue for a while, Hattori Heiji felt that the original soup should be used here. After thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, so he simply skipped the topic: "Well, take a picture of his clothes after unbuttoning them, and take a look at him. The scars on his body may make it easy to deduce how long he was tied up..."
"Speaking of which, is the bathrobe he is wearing also the work of the murderer?" Tintun looked around and looked around. Conan frowned for a while, "It looks like a hotel style. Was Karasawa taken away in a yukata?"
"I don't know, the hotel owner said that he didn't see him leave at all. "The first person who discovered the disappearance, Toyama Kazuki, shook his head, "It's probably because of this yukata, so someone just called him, 'Mermaid'?"
Indeed, because of this yukata on his body. Wearing a loose, aqua blue hotel yukata, when Karasawa was suspended in the waterfall, at first glance, he looked like a mermaid.
But no matter how you think about it, it is still very suspicious to call someone mermaid or something like that...
"When he wasn't wearing a yukata, weren't there people on the island who called him a mermaid? I remember..." Hattori Heiji shook his head and looked at the man standing not far away, still holding the broken arrow without saying a word. Naoko Kuroe.
What a coincidence, she seemed to have called her that before...
As if sensing his gaze, Kuroe Naoko raised her head and looked back silently with a pair of dead eyes. come over.
Then she paused for a moment, and slowly showed a weird smile.
"...Huh?" Mao Lilan, who was accompanying Mouri Kogoro to examine Ebihara Hisumi, frowned, raised his head suddenly, and looked around warily.
This slight shaking feeling...is there a small earthquake somewhere?
(End of this chapter)