Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

In the evening, when Hai Laoyuan's family held a funeral, most of the islanders came in all black clothes to pay homage, and the atmosphere was solemn and somewhat heavy.

Gao Cheng also changed into a borrowed suit, and brought Hui Yuan into the venue with Uncle Mao Li and his party.

Although I am used to seeing death in this world, I have not attended funerals a few times. The last time seemed to be during the Moon Shadow Island incident, and I was just watching as a passer-by, far less heavy than being a party involved.

At the entrance, Uncle Mori took the lead in signing at the registration office, followed by Hattori and Kazuha wearing student uniforms.

"It's a good thing we brought our uniforms, right Kazuha?" Hattori rejoiced looking at Gao Cheng's borrowed suit.

"Isn't that good?" He Ye whispered, "We will disturb others..."

"You think too much, we can just take this opportunity to find out more about things on the island."

"Hey, hey," Gao Cheng reminded from behind, "Hattori, don't mutter, you are keeping vigil for Miss Shoumei right now."

Attending the funeral with a student uniform... Could it be that Hattori was mentally prepared before coming to Mermaid Island?

Walking into the inner hall of the vigil, several people were already kneeling on the futons inside, including Junhui Shimashiro, Rokuro Fukuyama, and even the alcoholic father of Saori...

"Mr. Mori?" Junhui Shimashiro stood up in surprise, "Are you here too?"

"Yeah," Uncle Mori nodded with a smile, looked around suspiciously and said, "Huh? Why didn't you see Ms. Naoko? Her name is on the roster."

Shimashiro Junhui said unexpectedly: "Is Naoko here? But she didn't notice..."

"Did you go back again?" The uncle scratched his hair, didn't care too much, and then knelt down on the futon.

Gao Cheng didn't sit down, but looked around with a sullen face, and slammed open the wooden door leading to the corridor yard.

On a stretched fishing net in the dark night, Naoko was entangled horribly in the net like a dried fish, and the sand was full of messy footprints.

it's too late...

Gao Cheng narrowed his eyes, turned on the flashlight, and walked to the corpse with Hattori and others amidst the exclamations of everyone in the mourning hall.

While taking pictures to store evidence, while checking the scene.

"The time of death was less than an hour...the cause of death was suffocation caused by strangulation..." Gao Cheng said after seeing the corpse.

"The footprints left on the sand are slippers and boots," Hattori also squatted down to check, "Miss Naoko who was killed was wearing the slippers here, so these boots should belong to the murderer..."

"Look here," Conan shouted when he found an arrow mark next to the footprints, "this one here should be the mark of stepping on a dugong's arrow, right?"

"Indeed," Hattori thought, "judging from the traces of the slippers, the dugong arrow may have fallen when Miss Naoko had a dispute with the murderer, and was stepped on again... So the murderer's goal is Dugong Arrow?"

Uncle Mao Li lifted the fishing net surrounding the courtyard and followed the footprints: "In short, if you follow the footprints of the boots, you should be able to know the murderer's escape route..."

Gao Cheng stood aside with his hands intertwined, his eyes followed the footprints of his boots on the sand, and looked straight at the undulating beach not far away.

He had already seen it the first time. These footprints stretched all the way into the sea, and there was no way to pursue them...

There's nothing to be gained by continuing to investigate.

The most important thing now is the connection between the serial killings. I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the five people who were killed turned out to be all 5 people from Fa Xiaozhong, and they all seemed to have drawn the arrow of the dugong.

The first is Kadowaki Saori who lost the Dugong Arrow and is afraid of revenge, then Ebihara Sumi who is likely to draw the Dugong Arrow, and finally Naoko who has been robbed of the Dugong Arrow...

The beginning of the incident flashed through Gao Cheng's mind, everyone's words flew past his ears, and the picture was frozen on the trembling Changshou Po.

"It depends on the situation," Changshou Po grinned, "I sometimes use the numbers drawn by horse races, haha."

"There are a lot of number cards in a big box, and everyone queues up to draw, one for each... Then the old lady will pick three of these numbers during the festival..."

"Later, because tourists kept hearing about the mermaid's tomb, they came to rob the tomb. Last year, my grandma asked someone to secretly move the tomb to this forest..."

"As long as the longevity woman knows where the mermaid tomb is..."

"By the way, do you want to try your luck too?" Junhui Shimashiro took out two number plates and asked Xiaolan and Heye, "It happened that an old couple temporarily returned the number plates this morning, so I Here are two more..."

...

All the information gathers together and turns into beams of light.

Gao Cheng opened his eyes, and his eyes tightened slightly.

The key to the case lies in the longevity woman...

"Huh?" Hattori, who was searching with a flashlight, suddenly called out, "There seems to be something shiny next to these footprints... Are they fish scales?"

Conan stayed beside the corpse like Gaocheng, and heard Hattori's voice and said, "If it's really fish scales, Miss Naoko's clothes are also stained with two or three pieces!"

"You guys!!" At this moment, a group of police officers with flashlights suddenly ran up from the other side, shouting loudly, "What are you doing there?"

"What? Of course it's investigating a case..."

"That's the job of our Fukui prefectural police!"

"Uh."

Uncle Mao Li and Hattori followed Gao Cheng back to the mourning hall angrily, and the police took over the on-site investigation.

The people waiting by the corridor, especially Xiao Lan and He Ye hurriedly asked: "Did the murderer's footprints really disappear by the sea?"

"Well... the police are currently comparing the footprints and styles of the pair of boots," Hattori looked at the busy police forensic personnel, "walking along those footprints, there are still some fish scales on the ground..."

"Fish, fish scales?!"

He and Ye and Xiaolan hugged each other in horror.

"Could it be... is the murderer a human or a mermaid?"

"Fool, how could a mermaid wear boots?" Hattori said speechlessly, "This is just a small gesture to mislead everyone. I think the murderer may have walked all the way along the coastline and made an appointment with Miss Naoko when he arrived. I met next to the fishing nets, and after the murder, I walked back along the coastline, and the footprints were washed away by the waves, and it looked like this..."

"But having said that," Uncle Mori asked, "Did anyone see Miss Naoko leave the mourning hall?"

Shimashiro Junhui shook his head and said: "I don't know... When I came, she was no longer in this room..."

"Mr. Kadowaki, what about you? Your name is signed on the back of Ms. Naoko..."

"I did not see."

The unshaven Kadowaki belched.

"When I came in, I was the only guest who came to pay homage..."

"So," Uncle Mori rubbed his chin and thought, "Miss Naoko arrived here first, and then she went to the net?"

Conan stood quietly by the side without interjecting, but looked strangely at Gao Cheng who was also silent: "Kiroto, what's wrong?"

"nothing."

Gao Cheng shook his head and ate the chocolate casually.

There are a few more things to figure out...

The corner of Conan's mouth twitched slightly: "Do I need to bring chocolate with me every time I come out?"

"Oh, this, of course it would be better to have strawberry milk or something, but it's not easy to bring." Gao Cheng handed the chocolate box to Conan, "Do you want it? I can only eat one..."

Haibara turned around and smiled softly beside him.

...

In the living room of Ebihara's house, the guests who came to watch the night gathered for a meal. The Fukui prefectural police also took the opportunity to conduct a search to see if the murderer who snatched Naoko's dugong arrow was among the crowd who came to pay homage. The only ones with arrows are Kadowaki and Waha, who were obtained at the festival.

Gao Cheng didn't think such an investigation was useful, but some of the islanders' statements were quite strange.

Someone saw the missing Saori appear near Mermaid Waterfall during the festival...

"Is it really Miss Saori herself?" Hattori asked suspiciously.

"It can't be wrong," the islander affirmed, "because she is the only one on our island who has dyed brown hair and wears glasses, and Saori always wears blue clothes..."

"If it's true," Hattori sat down at the dining table, and said in a deep voice, "Miss Saori must be hiding from something, so she couldn't show herself in front of everyone...Kito, do you see anything? "

Conan ate the sushi and said, "I have no clue at all. The only ones who can be sure are Miss Sumi who was killed in the first place, Miss Naoko this time, and Miss Saori whose whereabouts are unknown... Everyone believes that they have eaten mermaid meat. The strength of the long-lived lady, and they are all obsessed with that dugong arrow..."

"Yeah," Hattori looked at Saori's dad who was drinking on the opposite side, "I also think that the three of them were killed or fled around because they were involved in the Dugong Arrow... If we could know Miss Sumi's last night Just what number is your number plate..."

Shimashiro Junhui happened to be sitting next to him, and he said with a smile: "This is very easy, because I will indicate everyone with each number on the roster, why don't you go and see the roster now? Because what happened Things, I haven't checked..."

"Of course!" Hattori said in surprise, "It's really great!"

"Roster..." Gao Cheng paused slightly.

"Ah? Going to Miss Jun Hui's house?" Uncle Mao Li was so drunk that he had to be supported by Hattori to barely stop when he was found.

Xiao Lan was both worried and helpless: "Really, Dad, cheer up!"

"I didn't drink much..."

Taking Uncle Mori with them, they stumbled away from Ebihara's house, and they went to the Shimashiro's house where the shrine was located through a forest full of strange noises.

Huiyuan walked with Gao Cheng at the end with his hands behind his back, and whispered behind everyone's back: "The only thing in Miss Saori's luggage is no insurance card for medical treatment, have you noticed that? Did you really find something wrong? Since just now strange……"

"This serial killing incident seems to have been planned from the beginning," Gao Cheng looked at the people leading the way, "and the fact that Miss Saori was witnessed is also very problematic. It would be too strange if it was to avoid someone. ,I am afraid……"

"It was the murderer in disguise, right?" Hui Yuan continued, "Do you already know who the murderer is?"

"It's still a little bit close," Gao Cheng said with a slightly embarrassed expression, "but I already have a little guess."

In Shimashiro's house, Shimashiro Junhui took a group of people to a room and flipped through the cabinets to find the roster.

"Strange, I clearly remember that I should store things here..."

"Can't find the roster?"

"Well, only this year's is missing..."

"Could it have been taken away by that old lady?" Hattori rummaged for help.

Shimashiro Junhui shook his head and said, "Impossible..."

Conan then asked, "Does anyone else know that you keep things here?"

"Almost everyone on the island knows it, because everyone often looks at the names of celebrities in the roster," Shimashiro Junhui said helplessly, "I will go to other rooms to look for it..."

"Miss Junhui," Gao Cheng said, "can you let me meet the longevity lady?"

"Ah?" Shimashiro Junhui was stunned, "Great-grandmother should be asleep now, can I ask for you tomorrow?"

"Ok."

Gao Cheng didn't force it, but just watched Shimashiro Junhui, Xiaolan and Heye go to other rooms to find the roster, and then checked the other rosters.

Each number corresponds to a person's name, which is clear at a glance.

If there is this roster, it will be easy for anyone to draw the Dugong Arrow, such as Ebihara Sumi, Naoko and even Kazuha, it is not entirely a coincidence or good luck to draw the Dugong Arrow.

As for the roster being lost at this point...

"Ok?"

Gao Cheng accidentally opened a page of the roster and noticed the name "Miyano Shiho" on it.

Huiyuan glanced at the roster out of the corner of his eye: "It's just the same name and surname, don't make a mistake."

Gao Cheng wondered, "I haven't said anything yet..."

"Miyano Shiho?" Conan came over curiously, and said unexpectedly, "It's indeed your real name, Haibara, but you don't look like the kind of person who wishes to be young and beautiful forever, hehe..."

Hui Yuan said calmly, "Compared to this, don't you think that the roster might have been stolen by someone earlier? At the banquet, someone heard that you were going to check the roster..."

Hattori put down the other book in his hand: "Are you talking about Mr. Kadowaki? I knew it. I must be afraid that the fact that it was Miss Sumi who actually drew the arrow of the dugong will be exposed!"

Gao Cheng put down the roster, it is normal for Kadowaki to steal the roster, the old drunkard is not sure if it was a coincidence in this incident, but he became the biggest suspect because of Dugong Arrow, once the roster is discovered, he may be regarded as a murderer by the police arrest……

"Pingji!"

He Ye hurried back to the room and said anxiously: "Just now we saw a woman with dyed brown hair and glasses in the yard... Could it be Miss Saori?"

"What?" Hattori asked in surprise, "Where is she?"

"I don't know, because she ran away immediately..."

"Here we go again..." Gao Cheng frowned and walked out of the room, only to see He Ye and Xiao Lan in the corridor.

"Strange, where is Miss Junhui?"

"She went out through the back door," Xiaolan said, "because she said she was going to look for it at the remodeled warehouse..."

"She goes alone?"

"Well," He Ye nodded and said, "We originally said we would go together, but she said she would be right back, let's go back here first..."

Gao Cheng's face changed, and his thinking began to run rapidly again, all the clues were connected into a line in his mind: "Where is that warehouse?"

"what?"

He and Ye were taken aback, and quickly pointed to the shrine outside the yard.

"Well, it seems to be behind that shrine..."

Across the shrine, the sky on the other side has been lit up by the fire, which is particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

Regardless of explaining, Gao Cheng opened the glass doors and windows, strode and ran towards the shrine warehouse.

No wonder I felt a little strange at the beginning, Shimashiro Kimie is the murderer.

The puzzle has been solved...

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