Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

After the doctor's rescue, Ebihara Sumi suddenly vomited water and then started coughing violently.

After vomiting the water, she opened her hazy eyes and saw the crowd around her.

"Where is this..." Ebihara Sumi asked hoarsely, her eyes blurred and out of focus.

She struggled to get up, and her twisted hand subconsciously supported on the ground. Before the doctor could stop her, she screamed in pain.

"Ah, it hurts! It hurts so much!...! Mermaid, it's a mermaid!"

Ebihara Sumi seemed to be frightened by something terrible. She screamed in fear at the doctor, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted with a click.

The doctor was stunned for a moment, but his good professional ethics made him calm down immediately. He lowered his head to check the situation and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, he just fainted due to the stimulation. But he needs to be sent to the hospital immediately, otherwise his arm will be useless."

He turned his head to look at the villagers and asked: "Where is the hospital on the island?"

A villager stood up: "There is only one small hospital on the island. It's okay to see a cold or fever, but I'm afraid there is no way to treat such injuries..."

The doctor frowned immediately: "In this case, we have to send him to Honshu Island immediately..."

"No," another villager said, "The waves here are very strong at night, and the boat can't sail. We have to wait until tomorrow morning."

In this way, the doctor had no choice but to say: "Then please help everyone to send him to the hospital on the island. I will do emergency treatment first, and then send him to the hospital on Honshu Island after dawn."

The villagers found a few thick branches, made a simple stretcher, and then carried Ebihara Sumi to the hospital.

Shimabukuro Kimie stood in the crowd, watching the whole process silently, not noticing that there was a person behind her.

"Miss Kimie, you seem to be very calm about your friend's death?" Yuya stood beside her and said in a voice that others could hardly hear.

Shimabukuro Kimie's heart skipped a beat and her pupils dilated slightly, but her excellent acting skills made her calm down immediately. She pretended to be sad and said, "I am also very sad, but I don't know medical skills and can't help, and I don't have much strength. If I go up rashly, I will only hinder you."

Yuya was silent for a while, with good reasons and couldn't find anything to refute.

So he looked at the river and said quietly, "I wonder if Miss Shoumei fell into the water accidentally or was pushed into the water by someone?"

Shimabukuro Kimie's face changed slightly.

Yuya said to himself: "Just now my friends and I heard screams coming from the mountain. When we came up to check, we didn't see anyone there - we didn't expect Miss Sumi to be hung by a rope in front of the waterfall, but..."

Shimabukuro Kimie subconsciously asked: "But what?"

Yuya narrowed his eyes, looked at Shimabukuro Kimie's profile and said slowly: "We found traces of heavy objects dragging on the ground on the shore, and some fish scales fell in the traces, just like..."

"There was a mermaid there - and then pushed Miss Sumi into the river."

Shimabukuro Kimie's body trembled uncontrollably, and her pupils suddenly shrank into a small dot.

Hattori Heiji touched his chin, looked at the rope on the ground and muttered in confusion: "Why did she come to the waterfall? The ceremony of awarding the dugong arrow is at the bottom, right?"

Conan touched his chin with the same action: "There are two possibilities. One is that she came here to find something, and the other is that someone asked her to come up there."

Hattori Heiji continued: "Then she accidentally fell into the water, or... was she pushed into the water?"

Yuya came over and interrupted: "It is impossible to judge this now. Judging from the way the rope is wrapped, it is more like Miss Sumi grabbed the safety rope after falling into the water, but because the water flow was too turbulent, she was tangled in the water."

Hattori Heiji and Conan nodded in agreement.

Hattori Heiji said: "Indeed, one thing is certain now, this rope should not be tied by the possible criminals. If the other party wants to use the rope to kill people, there is no need to tie the arms together and strangle the neck directly."

Conan also agreed: "Indeed, this river is not too deep, and it should not be possible for islanders near the sea to drown."

Yuye summarized: "In short, whether someone harmed her or she fell into the water accidentally, it will be clear after she wakes up."

Conan was silent for a while, lowered his voice and said: "What do you think of that thing? Is there any connection between the two?"

Hattori Heiji and Yuye looked at each other and fell silent.

It's not that they don't want to express their opinions, but they areThe dragging marks and fish scales seen before all pointed to one direction - a mermaid had appeared here.

But mermaids... that was a bit too absurd.

The three turned to look at the marks they had found before, but unfortunately, because of the incident with Sumi Ebihara, the place was trampled by the crowd and nothing could be distinguished.

The three detectives temporarily stopped reasoning, and Naoko Kuroe finally found an opportunity to express her opinion: "I think she might be looking for the tomb of the mermaid."

Shimabukuro Kimie's face suddenly became ugly.

The four girls also looked at Naoko Kuroe curiously. Aren't mermaids fake? How come there is another tomb of a mermaid?

The three detectives were thinking about the relationship between the marks and the mermaids, and suddenly heard the tomb of the mermaids, and looked at Naoko Kuroe at the same time.

Naoko Kuroe was startled, took a step back and asked in fear: "What, what happened?"

Yuya said: "It's okay, go on?"

Naoko Kuroe patted her chest and continued: "Three years ago, during the Mermaid Festival, the warehouse of the shrine caught fire and the mermaid's bones were reburied on this mountain."

Naoko Kuroe told a few outsiders the story of the mermaid's tomb with a pious face.

She didn't know that the person who was burned to death in the warehouse three years ago was actually a human.

The bones found at that time were smashed by a pillar from the waist down. When the pillar was removed, it was found that there were no bones where the feet should have been.

"Hey, hey, hey," Hattori Heiji's expression changed slightly, "How is this possible? What did the police say?"

Shimabukuro Kimie said: "The police said that it was the body of a middle-aged woman. They suspected that a tourist stole the dugong arrows when no one went to the warehouse, but the candle caused a fire."

"However, after a year, no one came to claim the body, and finally the shrine had to bury it."

"But then something happened..."

Hattori Heiji asked puzzledly: "What happened?"

Shimabukuro Kimie sighed and said: "Some tourists dug up the mermaid's tomb and wanted to steal the bones inside..."

Everyone showed expressions of pity and anger. Digging people's graves, how unscrupulous can this be?

Naoko Kuroe sneered, "They believe that mermaid bones, like mermaid meat, are also an elixir of immortality."

Kimi Shimabukuro sighed, and the sadness on her face did not seem fake: "That's why my great-grandmother had the grave moved to this mountain last year."

Hattori Heiji frowned: "Who was the person who moved the grave?"

Kimi Shimabukuro shook her head: "I don't know, my great-grandmother only said that it was a trustworthy person. I don't even know who it is or where the grave is."

Kimi Shimabukuro kept silent after she finished speaking. Everyone was thinking about their own things, and the scene suddenly became quiet.

Yuuya glanced at the time and said: "In short, whether Miss Sumi fell into the water accidentally or someone deliberately murdered her, everything will be clear when she wakes up. It's getting late, I think we should go back and rest first?"