Chapter 583 Heavy Rain
"Are you sure you want to go to the top of the Mermaid Falls?" Shimabukuro Kimie opened the sliding door leading to the yard and took a look at the rain curtain that had been woven into a curtain. He said worriedly, "The rain is really heavy. It's not safe to run into the mountains now."
"Well, I think we might be able to find some clues there." Hattori Heiji nodded affirmatively, "For no reason, Karasawa will not run to that position."
"The unconscious child? But, you also said before, he was probably unconscious and was transported to That location." Shimabukuro Kime advised again, "Even if there is any mark, it's hard to see the original situation when the rain is like this."
She didn't mean it because. He felt guilty and was afraid of being discovered, but he really had good intentions and didn't want the child to put himself in danger.
How did Tang Ze get up there... Even if she was indeed the murderer, it was still a mystery.
Even if the child regains consciousness, it is impossible to identify her as the real culprit. What's more, just by searching in the mountains, it is impossible to find any clues pointing to her.
"It is still necessary to go up and check." Hattori Heiji insisted, "I will pay attention to safety."
"Okay." Shimabukuro Kimie opened the umbrella in his hand, He glanced at Toyama Kazuye who was following him, and shook his head slightly, "If you just go upstream to take a look... please don't go deep into the forest casually, it's very dangerous."
"No problem. ! ”
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“So, the number of arrows drawn is not really random at all, it is just written by the old woman herself, well...”
“What are you mumbling about? What about the boy?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Conan who was tugging at the hem of his daughter's clothes and mumbling under the umbrella, "I have to attend the wake ceremony at night. It's not polite to ask questions at this time."
"Attending the wake ceremony? I think you want to have a drink with them..." Conan patted his forehead, "It's such a time, and you're still thinking about this..."
"What? Called 'this time'?" Mao Lilan, who was holding an umbrella for Conan next to him, lowered his head and glanced at him in confusion, "It sounds like something dangerous has happened.
Conan looked at the rain curtain outside the umbrella and replied casually: "I just have a very bad feeling. Maybe things will not end so easily."
"Bad boy, give me some intuition at this time. Is this the way it is?" Mouri Kogoro wanted to reach out and hit Conan on the head twice, but after looking at the heavy rain outside the umbrella, he hesitated and did not take action.
The rain was so heavy that I felt like I would get soaked even if I took out my umbrella.
“This weather is really dangerous.” He looked at the buildings on both sides of the road that were completely painted shiny by the heavy rain, and he became truly worried, “The rain is not going to stop at all. If the situation continues like this, floods will happen sooner or later.”
Based on his previous field experience, it is not like he has never been on duty in extreme weather and went out to investigate in the face of typhoons. Did.
The increasing amount of precipitation is still frightening to watch.
"Okay, let's go back to the hotel to clean up first. It's still too late to think about flood prevention... huh?" Turning the corner, Mao Lilan saw the scene in front of the hotel, and her expression suddenly changed.
Without thinking, she threw the umbrella in her hand and sprinted towards the door.
"Let him go, who are you!"
There were several people standing in front of the hotel, all dressed in fisherman's hats, forming an arc, surrounding the entrance of the hotel With.
Through this human wall, one could see several other people walking out of the hotel, and in the hands of these people, being dragged in an awkward manner was Tang, who was supposed to be lying in the room. Ze.
He was wearing a new yukata they gave him yesterday. He was struggling hard, but he seemed to have no strength. There were four or five people dragging his hands and feet, and some people covered his mouth. It was almost lifting his whole body outward.
Mao Lilan shouted angrily, raised her leg and kicked the person in front of her, her almond-shaped eyes filled with blazing anger.
This group of inexplicable islanders almost killed Karasawa in the forest, and now they actually broke into the hotel and tried to rob someone!
With a "bang" sound, Mao Lilan's kick hit the person in front of her on the back. The person shook twice, but did not fall directly to the ground because of her attack. Instead, he turned around. , glanced at her from under the bamboo hat.
Mao Lilan, who expected to see the face of a certain islander, discovered that under the man's bamboo hat, there was actually a ghostly face clasped on his face. It was a ferocious pale color. In the dark and humid rainstorm, the person's heart felt cold when he saw it.
The person who was hit muttered something vaguely, and before she could understand it, he suddenly turned around and started running in the other direction.
Other people surrounding the hotel seemed to be awakened by the attack, and ran towards the other side of the street like a tide.
"These guys..." Mao Lilan gritted her teeth and glanced at Tang Ze who fell in front of the door. It was impossible to really chase him. She wiped the rain from her face and hurriedly Go over and check on Karasawa.
"What's going on with these people on the island?" Mouri Kogoro, who was a little slower, also scolded him and walked over to help his daughter lift up Karasawa who seemed to be lying on the ground. "Let's go, hurry up. Go in. We can’t leave this guy alone anymore.”
Conan, who ran over grabbing Mao Lilan's umbrella, looked at the crowd of people who had quickly disappeared around the corner of the street with movements that were too quick to be human. He frowned for a moment and looked at the rooftops on the other side thoughtfully. Take a look.
At a glance, there were more than a dozen people in this group. They were just three unarmed tourists, one of whom was a seven or eight-year-old primary school student.
Under the premise of not knowing the fighting power of Xiaolan and Uncle Maori, they have such a huge numerical advantage. No matter what, they should come forward and try to fight directly.
So, it was definitely not the three of them who "scared" these people away.
At the limit of what he could see, several red and black figures, covered by the rain curtain, crossed the bulging roof and chased after those people in the direction of escape.
Sure enough...
So, they have no time to take care of Tangze's condition these days, is it because they are busy with the power they need to fight against?
After a startling glance, Conan stopped trying to track the movements of the gang of phantom thieves and walked over to help the two of them, helping Karasawa, who seemed to have little strength to stand upright.
"What happened? Why did those people come to arrest you?" Mouri Kogoro patted the water stains on Karasawa's body, helped him walk towards the hotel, and asked with a frown, "Have their unfriendliness reached this level?"
Staggering, Tang Ze, who looked like he had been thrown to pieces, followed their help back to the tea room on the second floor in confusion. , slumped down at the table, panting for a while.
"I don't know either..." Taking the water from Mao Lilan, Tang Ze took two sips and replied in a hoarse voice, "After I woke up, I found that I was back in the hotel and there was no trace of you. I just wanted to go downstairs and take a look...and then this group of people suddenly broke in."
What else could it be? Because the impression space tank is broken, cough.
The integration speed of both sides is accelerating. The water pouring out from the water tank is not only the torrential rain from the sky, but also the hourglass representing the countdown to complete integration.
This group of island residents with shadows have gradually begun to show the characteristics of the shadows of the palace, wearing uniforms and masks, and showing active hostility towards the Phantom Thieves who have triggered high alert.
As the leader of the thieves who was the first to raise the alert level, Tangze bore the brunt and became the target they needed to attack. Tangze, who had not eaten for two days, was actually caught by these shadows without paying attention. He was about to resist and skinned them, but Mao Lilan's ripples, oh no, Mao Lilan's attack had already come up. .
He had no choice but to keep pretending and wait for his teammates who rushed out to drive these guys away.
No matter how fused they are, no matter how much they look like shadows, they are still human beings with physical entities in reality. Being beaten up by the Phantom Thieves will really hurt.
Moori Kogoro recalled the situation with a serious face and touched his chin: "So, did you encounter a similar situation two days ago? Someone took advantage of you to leave the room and put you Taken away directly?”
Although the front desk of the hotel insisted that he did not see when Tang Ze left, but looking at the style of the aborigines just now, the testimony of the hotel employees changed. Not so believable anymore.
They are all residents of the island. Even if they are not those who have inexplicable hostility towards Karasawa, they will definitely tend to protect the locals between outsiders and locals.
Well, we can’t stay in the hotel anymore...
“You haven’t eaten for several days, so you can’t eat too full all at once.”
“Thank you, I I know." Tang Ze took a bite of the bread handed over by Mao Lilan, feeling the taste of the long-lost food, and replied vaguely, "No, I did leave by myself two days ago."
"...You really ran into the mountains by yourself?" Mouri Kogoro's eyes widened in disbelief, "You don't seem to be such a careless person?"
After knowing clearly that there were unfriendly people on the island, according to Karasawa's cautious style, he would only consider avoiding everyone's sight and try not to cause too much trouble.
After all, this is on someone else's territory. As outsiders, it would be unwise for them to have a head-on conflict.
“There’s no way.” Rubbing his head in distress, Karasawa said in surprise, “Miss Kuroe Naoko, and, Ebihara Hisumi? Is that the name? In short, it’s Kamonrasa. Ori and those who are close to Shimabukuro Kimie seem to believe that I can find the location of the mermaid's tomb for them.
" She said hysterically, if I don't. If we go looking for them, they will die. We might as well drag a few people into the water before they die... Ah, it turned out that once I entered the forest, I couldn't find a way out. I walked around and almost fell off the cliff. I finally found a route that seemed to be able to leave, and bumped into the two of them again, holding the knife like crazy..."
Wrinkling his face with difficulty, Tang Ze said this content that was definitely not a lie. out.
He originally didn't want to play such a big game. After all, Shimabukuro Kime was already in this state. If he had strayed, the fate of the island would not be much better.
However, in this island with strong negative emotions, as the combination of shadows and individuals in reality worsens, neurosis increases sharply.
Naoko Kuroe walked directly in front of Karasawa, and in front of him who was talking to Shimabukuro Kimie on the phone, she began to say that she was going to find the mermaid tomb, and that she wanted to crush the bones and throw away the ashes and swallow them. "You must be able to find it. If you don't find it, you won't be able to survive" and so on...
I can only say that it is not a normal thing to be able to create a guy who simply sets fire to the goddess. Son, the circuit is so strange.
Almost as soon as she said the words, Karasawa felt the crack snap and he hurriedly knocked her out and comforted Shimabukuro Kimie, lest he The people immediately became angry and killed them all.
Although the amount of water is the same, it turns into rainwater and slowly falls to the ground, and it is completely different from direct seawater pouring back.
"So, you went into the mountain under their coercion and had to find that tomb..." Conan looked at Karasawa in surprise and murmured, "That's wrong, then why, Hisumi Ebihara She..."
He glanced at Tang Ze's face, which was still bloodless and had two shallow scars. The next words were stuck in his throat and he couldn't continue.
He wanted to think about whether Ebihara Hisumi bumped into Karasawa who was lost in the mountains, and then Karasawa got angry and killed the person in the scuffle or something...
< br>Although if you think about it carefully, this situation seems to be regarded as self-defense, but if it develops to directly strangling someone, it must be treated as excessive.
"Is she dead?" Karasawa blinked, "So, is Kuroe Naoko finally completely crazy..."
"Huh? You mean Kuroe Naoko killed Ebihara Hisumi?" Mouri Kogoro looked shocked in disbelief, "Why, aren't they targeting you together?"
"I don't know very well...but anyway. , tied a rope to my body, and then forced me to go into the water to fish for something. This can't be normal, right?" Tang Ze said the truth again and shook his head, "The current is very fast, right? In a narrow bend, I have repeatedly reiterated to them that if the flow rate continues at this level, they will really be washed away."
"Then, the two of them..."
< br>"Sumi Ebihara said, tie a rope for you so that you won't be washed away." Karasawa scratched his face and told the truth again.
I really can't blame him for performing too well this time. I can only say that neurological patients have broad ideas and mentally retarded children have more fun.
One thing to say is that they are in this state, that is, Shimabukuro Kimie desperately wants revenge, and wants to hear apologies and confessions from them, or let them feel what their mother went through during her lifetime. Otherwise, with their ability to commit suicide, they probably would not survive the day when they see the impression space destroy the island.
The other three people looked at me and I looked at you, they all looked at each other a little bit.
The answer given by Karasawa is really surprising. From his point of view, it is even possible that Ebihara Hisumi, who overestimated his own capabilities, is seeking death, and Karasawa must tie the rope. Jump into the river, and then for some reason I can't hold myself back. Instead, it wraps around my neck and makes me fall...
It's not that it's impossible, it's really a test of imagination. It is an extremely difficult method of suicide.
"Ah, speaking of which, where are Hattori and Toyama?" In their shocked silence, Karasawa finished the bread in his mouth, looked around and asked.
"That boy Hattori insisted on investigating the upstream location of the waterfall to find the first scene of Hisumi Ebihara's death... From this point of view, he may not need to go." Kogoro Mouri patted him. On the back of my head, I thought of the thrilling scene where Karasawa almost lost his life just now, and he started to snap, "Let's not talk about this first, let's pack up our things and move to the shrine."
"Is this the time? ?" Mao Lilan looked at her watch and asked uncertainly, "At this moment, they haven't finished setting up the wake scene yet..."
"I can't care so much, Tang Ze is staying in the town now. It's not safe." Mouri Kogoro said seriously, "The Shimabukuro family is the shrine maiden passed down from generation to generation on the island. Those people would not dare to break into the shrine."
While they were talking, the sound of rain outside the window suddenly became louder. The rain hitting the window heavily had the force of hail, and the sound almost drowned out the conversations of several people.
"It's raining harder again. In this case, wouldn't it be very unsafe for Hattori and the others in the mountains?" Mao Lilan pursed her lips and stood up uneasily, "We should go to the shrine quickly, Miss Shimabukuro said , maybe there’s still time to find them.”
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“We should go back quickly.” Yuan Shan and Ye clutched the umbrella handles in their hands tightly. Feeling the force of the heavy blows on the umbrella, he shrank his neck and timidly said, "This rain is so scary..."
"Okay, I'll just finish taking the photo..." Hattori Heiji He stood up, wiped the water from his face, turned his head, and saw another figure, "Wait a minute, that's..."
(End of Chapter)