Chapter 582 Tangze: The big one is coming!
"Strange, is it an earthquake?" Mouri Kogoro on the side also whispered, touching his neck and looking around.
"...Is there any?" Shimabukuro Kimie looked around blankly, then looked at the crowd. He saw the same surprise and fear on the faces of some tourists. After thinking about it, he shook his head and said, " Maybe. The island here is like this sometimes.”
The shaking feeling lasted for two or three minutes before it finally disappeared. Mouri Kogoro moved his neck twice and felt a little relieved. Some.
For people who have long been accustomed to frequent earthquakes, mild earthquakes are not a problem. Several people returned their attention to the scene.
"Anyway, you still have to go upstream and take a look." Mouri Kogoro emphasized, "No matter you do such a thing, it will inevitably leave traces."
He said, stepping on two Standing on the soft soil ground, he said firmly: "It must be muddy in the forest, right?"
"It has rained on the island for several days, as if it has entered the flood season, and the water in the upper reaches is very fast. . Maybe the two of them were rushed into the water and encountered an accident." Fukuyama Rokuro, who did not agree with the conclusion of the murder, explained, "You also said that the man was missing for two days, and maybe Shoumei bumped into him in the mountains. She wanted to rescue him, but she might have been rushed down."
"Then she also needs to explain why she entered the mountain at this time." Mouri Kogoro glanced. At first glance, he didn't quite believe this statement, "Tangze's disappearance was most likely caused by man-made causes. The kidnapper himself is more likely to encounter his people than to rescue him."
" What else could it be because of? They want to find the Mermaid Tomb." Fukuyama Rokuro pursed his lips, "They have been looking for that place and they are going crazy."
"Mermaid Tomb?" The topic came back to the mermaid, and Mao Lilan concentrated her attention, "What is it, an attraction on the island?"
"You have to say that." Fukuyama Rokuro stared at it. Ebihara's father, who arrived late, struggled to get through the crowd, stood up from the ground, and made room for him. He lowered his voice and said, "Actually, it was the body that was found in the fire three years ago. The corpse. Because there were several large pillars in the warehouse, even the bones of the charred corpse were smashed to pieces from the waist down... It looked like it had no legs."
In his solemn explanation. , Ebihara's father rushed forward and tremblingly picked up the wet and cold human body on the ground. He cried for Shou Mei and hugged his dead daughter to his chest. The cry continued to echo in the enclosed open space.
Rokuro Fukuyama looked at the grieving middle-aged man and sighed.
"...Actually, the first thing that became famous was not that there was a long-lived goddess on the island." Kimi Shimabukuro, who closed his eyes and lowered his head in silence, said, "The first thing they reported in a big way was in A mermaid corpse appeared on the island. It was after that that my grandmother became famous, and everyone said... that she could only eat mermaid meat..."
Her voice became softer and softer, and then became deeper and deeper. An uncontrollable sadness that had been accumulated for a long time filled her whole heart.
Her mother, as if she had been completely sacrificed to this island, disappeared silently into the lively celebrations.
Before she died, she had given up everything she was, acting like an senile person day after day, devoting all her energy to this island.
Now, even after death, she cannot have her own name. She can only erect an unnamed solitary tomb in the mountains. With her own death, she made the Dugong Festival famous...
"The police believe that tourists who did not get the arrows may have slipped into the warehouse and accidentally knocked over the candles, causing the fire." Fukuyama Rokuro continued, "Except that the deceased was a middle-aged woman, the police could not give any explanation. We couldn't find out who the deceased was, so we had to bury her a year later. However, as the legend of mermaid meat and the story of mermaid corpses spread further and further, some people began to rob the tomb..."
Under the pitiful wails and the cold sea breeze, Mao Lilan, who had already hugged herself, shivered: "They, did they, put those bones..."
"Immortality It's an elixir, right?" When Fukuyama Rokuro said this, he looked at Ebihara Hisumi who was lying on the ground with a sinister expression, and Kuroe Naoko who was standing aside, still chuckling inexplicably, and shook his head
This fanatical celebration started three years ago and has never stopped.
After hearing the whole reason, the faces of several tourists present turned blue and white. They were obviously disgusted by the speculation that followed.
That is extremely possible. Bone fragments from a human corpse. Someone can actually...
"After that, my grandmother and I moved the tomb deeper into the mountain forest to prevent a similar situation from happening again." Shimabukuro Kimie closed her eyes and finished her final conclusion, "She, Shoumei, may want to enter the forest." Shan, find this place."
Mao Lilan looked at the troubled and sad look on her face, and was about to say something when she suddenly felt a chill on her cheeks.
She raised her hand and touched a few crystal drops of water, as if tears fell on her face at the right moment.
"Hey, it's raining..." She raised her head and observed for a while, then whispered, "Should we change to another place..."
"The police said, outside now The wind and waves are so strong that they can't sail for the time being, and they can't get through now." Hattori Heiji, who was wrapped in a blanket, put down his cell phone and walked over.
"Then how long will it take them to arrive?" Realizing the possible antagonism of the islanders, Maori Kogoro frowned deeply.
Even if the identity of their detective is revealed, it may still be difficult to convince the islanders to cooperate with the investigation.
“We don’t know yet.” Hattori Heiji said in a deep voice, “They also have to depend on the weather conditions in the past two days.”
“Can’t we call in a helicopter?” Mouri Kogoro His eyebrows tightened, "I don't think many people can accept the conclusion of homicide."
The terrain in the mountain forest is complex, and Ebihara Hisumi herself behaves very strangely. This bizarre arrangement technique, Rather than murder, it was more likely to be a strange coincidence caused by an accident.
Judging from the current state of the islanders and the current state of Ebihara Hisumi's father, by the time the police arrive on the island and conduct autopsies, they will probably all be buried.
If you want to open the coffin at that time, the difficulty level will rise sharply.
"There is nothing we can do..." Hattori Heiji turned around and glanced at Karasawa lying on the ground, "First of all, there is a storm on the sea now, and against the thunderstorm, even if it is a police helicopter, they I don’t dare to call it casually. Secondly, we can’t give a definite guarantee now, can we?”
The guy who is most likely to understand the situation cannot give a clear answer now. It's not that simple to use "a possible homicide" to convince the police to invest more.
"I mean, if you take him with you, you may encounter a case...but this is not the kind of case you are talking about." At the end, Hattori Heiji patted his head and said with lingering fear.
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As the most likely witness and the most likely murder weapon, Tangze still didn’t wake up until noon the next day after being carried back to the hotel.
"There are many scratches and bruises on the body, especially on the feet..." Hattori Heiji closed the door, walked outside, and exhaled, "This guy really looks like It looked like he had been walking in the forest for two days."
During the search for people, he was particularly suspicious of the islanders' activities, except for Kadori Saori, who had disappeared. , did not find the second person who had been out of sight for a long time.
This is a time of year when income skyrockets, just like the harvest season on the island. No one is willing to give up the opportunity to generate income at this time, which made him think for a time that Karasawa might have been raped. Someone was tied up and locked up at home for two days.
After confirming Tangze's condition, he couldn't take any chances.
"...The kidnapper is always active in the field of vision, and there is another possibility." Conan, who was sitting at the table, said solemnly with a solemn face, "TA believes that it is impossible for Tang Ze to come back alive. ”
If their guess is true, a certain resident used some tricks to lure away Tangze who was staying in the hotel, but did not show any similar state of a kidnapper in the next two days...
Then Tangze's survival may be an accident.
"So, it is very possible that Karasawa was aimless in the mountains and survived in the wilderness for two days?" After imagining this scene, Hattori Heiji pursed his lips tighter.
If you are really kidnapped, if the kidnappers have any demands, they must at least ensure the survival of the hostages. Wanting to murder outright is another matter.
“It’s a mess.” Conan, who had been writing and drawing on the paper for a while, exhaled and simply stood up, “Let’s go to the shrine and ask about the old woman’s condition. "
"In other words, the police's actions are too slow..."
"The rain on the island is getting heavier, and the situation at sea is even worse. We can still keep communication open. , are all very good situations.”
"The Ebihara family is planning to hold a funeral?"
"Yeah, it will be held at the shrine..."
"Tsk, if the corpse has been collected, a lot of evidence will be irreversibly destroyed. "The ground was destroyed."
"A few of us foreign tourists spoke softly, but the family members of the deceased insisted, what can be done..."
The movements of the two detectives became farther and farther away, and the clouds shrouded them. Next, there was no light in the room, and it slowly became completely silent.
Tangze, who was lying flat on the bed, finally opened his eyes.
“You can come out now.” He coughed twice in a hoarse voice, sat up from the bed and leaned against the wall behind him, “Don’t you think it’s boring to stay in the cupboard all morning? "
The closet on the side slowly opened, and three heads popped out one after another. After confirming the situation, they stood in the room again.
After being carried back last night, in order not to disturb his rest, Hattori Heiji hugged the quilt and went to squeeze into a room with Mori Kogoro. Karasawa had this bedroom to himself. Several members of the Phantom Thieves, after all, There is no need to sleep in the cupboard.
But since the morning, people have been coming to check on Tang Ze's status. If it weren't for the investigation of the case, there might still be people guarding the room and refusing to leave.
"There's nothing we can do. It's the peak tourist season and the wind and waves are so strong that we can't leave the island at all." Asai Narimi stretched his sore back and stood up straight, "You can't just knock yourself out just to find a place to stay." Are you just a tourist occupying someone else’s room?”
Although they are now a gang of robbers appointed by Kidd, they can’t really act like gangsters.
"It'll only take a day or two. But you, do you really don't need to eat something?" Miyano Akemi looked at Karasawa who was leaning against the wall, looking like he didn't want to talk, "You're already two I haven't eaten anything since."
"A full set of acting." Touching the scratch on his face to confirm that it was still there and not healing smoothly, Tang Ze shook his head, "Some. Simple tricks cannot deceive these detectives who are in full condition. "
Friends traveling together encounter accidents and torture. This situation can fully ignite every detective, even Mouri Kogoro. The frequency of nonsense has been significantly reduced, and Tang Ze is advancing the investigation steps very seriously. Tangze, who fully understands their characters, certainly cannot make stupid plans to act out fake shows.
In order to make his next words powerful, Tang Ze was genuine, wearing thin clothes, running around in the mountains and wandering for two days.
The wounds all over his body, as well as the state of his face being pale from hunger, are all real and not fake at all. In order to prevent the mask from messing up his overly excellent physical fitness, he carefully selected from the Complete Book of Personality I found a small piece of low-level waste and took it out for use.
Who can see the level of professionalism in this wave of acting and not praise the veteran drama and craftsman spirit.
“We can hardly eat when you look like this.” After unpacking a sandwich, Hoshikawa Hui looked at the very weak Tang Ze, sighed, and quickly took a bite.
"I see you are very happy eating." Tang Ze, whose voice was always a little hoarse due to long-term lack of water, rolled his eyelids angrily.
"Who told you to make such a plan on your own, and you still refuse to listen?" Hoshikawa Teru glared at him, "I just want to plan the death of Hisumi Ebihara, how about going into battle in person like this?"
" It doesn't matter whether she dies or not. Shimabukuro Kime will have to be killed by her whether we come or not." Karasawa shrugged, "The main reason is that the location is so suitable. It would be a bit embarrassing if I didn't hang myself. Festival."
"To show the 'death of monsters' to those shadows?" Miyano Akemi, who didn't quite understand the principle, tilted her head.
"No, it's to tell them..." Tang Ze chuckled in a hoarse voice, "The cage has been broken, and the mermaid they kept in the water tank to watch... no longer exists. ”
Mermaid Falls, there is a relationship with mermaids, the reason is very complicated.
The first is the terrain. The mountains in the American Island have a large difference in height, and there is the gentlest place from high to low, so this exquisite waterfall is formed.
Then there is the appearance, the warm water curtain, coupled with the oval pool below, really looks like a silver-white fish tail, like a mermaid sitting in the mountains swaying its tail, very vivid.
Finally, it is its location relationship with the shrine that directly leads to its connection with the mermaid legend. Shimabukuro Kimi was able to reach the venue in front of the waterfall directly from the shrine faster than the tourists. It was definitely impossible for her to teleport.
Before, when she helped Conan and the others go directly to the woods to rescue Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha who seemed to be lost, she took the shortcut opened by the shrine because she could reach this location faster.
For Tangze, who is eager to change the deadlock, it would be too wasteful to display a hanged corpse for such a good opportunity. It is better to hang it for me.
He glanced at the staggered wounds on the back of his hands and clenched his fists confidently.
"Don't you think...the look of that place..." Tang Ze drew a square with his fingertips to indicate the shape of the water tank, "It looks very much like a corner is broken, and then the inside "Is it like something is dripping out?"
"Hmm..." Naomi Asai, whose mouth was filled with rice balls, nodded slowly while chewing and remembering, "Indeed, there is one It's a downward slope, so it collects rainwater from the mountains to form such a waterfall."
"So I said, this is an opportunity to further promote the situation." Tang Ze laughed. , not wanting to see his teammates continue to gobble in front of a man who had been hungry for two days, he slid a little further into the bed, looked at the baby with half of his head sticking out from the edge of the quilt, and stroked his furry head. , "Noah, how's the situation on that side?"
"The glass is breaking, leader." Since Karasawa's mobile phone was placed in the middle of the quilt, it took him a few minutes to finally crawl out from the quilt. The little rag doll fell on Tangze's pillow, took a breath, and replied, "I can't detect the change in the water level, but the cracks are starting to seep out."
"Thank you for your hard work." He patted the only teammate who could still travel between the two sides comfortingly. Tang Ze turned his head and looked at the window that was constantly being knocked by the rain. "Is the water seeping fast?"
"It wasn't very fast last night, but today, it has been accelerating non-stop." Noah, who felt that he could not convey the situation clearly, simply sent a photo directly on the APP, "Probably this Look like that.”
Taking out his phone, Tang Ze clicked on the photo.
The glass, which was covered with cracks like a spider web, had completely begun to collapse. Outside the glass, the shadows that had been clinging to it and staring at it had obviously felt the water that was slowly flooding up, and they were panicking. Seemingly running away in all directions.
"It seems that Shimabukuro Kime was irritated again. Today, Kuroe Naoko said some nonsense that made Shimabukuro Kime even more angry... That's not bad, then the only thing left is The last step.”
Determining that the cause of the change was probably Shimabukuro Kimie's murderous intention, Karasawa raised his weak hand, opened the gap in the wooden window, looked at the rain curtain that had been woven under the house, and smiled.
"I'm afraid this rain will only get worse. Come harder, she will show up."
(End of this chapter)