Stay away from Conan

Chapter 906 The first night of island investigation

"The legend of 'Giant Rock'?"

After listening to the village chief's words and looking at the direction the village chief was pointing, which happened to be the huge rock standing on the sea level that he and Xiao Ai had just stopped to inspect, Gao Yuan couldn't help but murmured -

Although on the way here, I heard the residents of the island mention that the underwater ruins seemed to be related to the huge rocks on the sea, but I had never heard of such a name as "Giant Rock" and there were legends about it. Pass.

So, after hearing the confusion in Gao Yuan's words, the village chief explained:

"This is also the legend we heard from Hai Po after the incident. Hai Po is the oldest elder on our island. Only she still knows some ancient legends about the island.

"'When the gaze is higher than the giants, the three giants merge into one, and when the east, west, and south giants move, the sealed mystery trophy will be unlocked, and the treasure will be unearthed.'"

Somewhat seriously, after the village chief told this ancient legend, he pointed to the huge rock that was still exposed and explained:

"'Giant' refers to the giant rock. There are also similar rocks exposed on the sea on the west and south coasts of the island. According to the ancient legend in the village, giants guard the ruins on the seabed, and everyone who approaches the ruins will be protected. The punishment of the giants in the ruins. Therefore, it is also said that the three missing divers offended the 'giants'..."

"giant?"

Listening to the village chief's words, Tokijin Junzai couldn't help but chuckle and said indifferently:

"They are just rocks, formed by coastal erosion. Then, if the so-called undersea ruins are related to these rocks, then it is possible that the undersea ruins are just huge rocks..."

Looking at the shape of the rock pointed by the village chief, Junya Tokizu analyzed it this way:

"After all, tens of thousands of years ago, it would have been impossible to build something this huge."

As for Tokatsu Junya's judgment, Hattori Heiji and Koshimizu Nanatsuki seemed to agree with his statement, and nodded slightly.

In this regard, the village chief could see the emotions expressed on everyone's faces, but he didn't say anything more. He just sighed:

"In short, there are only legends about the ruins on our island. This is the only one. There are no other related records on the island. Anyway, in the many years since the discovery of the underwater ruins, no one has ever solved the mystery of the legend. It was because of the rumors about the ruins that our already inaccessible island became lively...

"However, another disappearance occurred..."

"Did the three missing divers disappear together? I don't think there is any detail on this in the news."

Gao Yuan listened to the village chief's words and asked about it.

"no."

Shaking his head, the village chief replied:

"This is the total number of people who have disappeared in recent years...but I can't say what the specific situation is. After all, some divers come alone, and no one may care when they disappear. It's just that they haven't been found after a while, There was no corresponding record of the ship leaving the island, so we realized that someone seemed to be missing, but..."

As he spoke, the village chief's voice weakened, as if he couldn't continue.

"Well, indeed, if you come to this island alone without anyone you know, no one will know if you disappear..."

Listening to the village chief's words, Gao Yuan roughly understood what the other party meant——

But at the same time, after saying this, Gao Yuan suddenly felt a line of sight looking at him. Based on his feeling, he glanced down and saw Xiao Ai looking at him coldly at this moment, with an expression that seemed to say " Isn't this just like the situation before when you wanted to come here alone?"

At this time, looking at the current sky, I felt that the topic was a bit heavy. Mr. Obama on the side couldn't help but said:

"Looking at it, it's getting late now. How about you find a place to stay first? Anyway, the investigation is not in a hurry."

In response to Mr. Obama's suggestion, the village chief couldn't help but nodded and said that the accommodation for everyone had been arranged.

So, seeing that it was indeed getting late, everyone followed the village chief's arrangements and checked into a slightly larger hotel on the island——

This hotel is a traditional Japanese-style building built with a wooden structure. It has only a single floor, but because it covers a large area, it still looks very grand. This seems to be the best hotel on the island.

And it just so happened that the doors of the four rooms arranged by the village chief for Takato and Xiaoai, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, Koshimizu Nanatsuki, and Tokitsu Junya, happened to be in the same corridor——

There is a corridor with two rooms on each side, and the doors of the rooms are also side-pull Japanese wooden doors.

Therefore, faced with this arrangement, Takato, Xiaoai, Hattori Heiji, Toyama and Haha lived on the same side of the corridor, while Koshimizu Nanatsuki and Tokatsu Junya lived on the other side.

Among them, Koshimizu Nanatsuki chose the room that was directly opposite the door of Takato's room, so naturally, the room where Tokizu Junya lived was directly opposite the door of Hattori Heiji's room.

In this way, after everyone assigned their rooms, they tidied up a little, and soon it was night...

…

"You and Toyama-san took a rough look at the ruins when you went diving today, right? Do you think that thing that looks like a ruin is really a ruin?"

That night, after dinner, Gao Yuan didn't see anything outside. He walked out of the door at the back of the room, passed through the courtyard corridor outside the house, knocked on the back door of Hattori Heiji's room, and then asked Hattori Heiji like this.

In this regard, Hattori Heiji was a little surprised to see Gao Yuan asking him about the situation like this, and couldn't help but say:

"Brother Detective, it seems like we are having a reasoning showdown, right?"

"Really?"

Faced with Hattori Heiji's response, Takato couldn't help but said:

"After all, I don't know how to dive. I can't see the conditions on the seabed, so I can only come to you to ask about the situation. Is it possible that I can't share the information?"

Regarding this, seeing Takato's attitude, Hattori Heiji just smiled. It seemed that he did not intend to embarrass Takato too much, so he thought for a while and explained:

"Based on what Kazuha and I saw when we dived today, it's very likely that the large seabed area is just rocks. Just like what Junya Tokizu said, those rocks are very likely to be just rocks. Formed by coastal erosion.”

"That's it..."

Listening to Hattori Heiji's statement, Takato couldn't help but think for a moment and replied:

"That is to say, don't you think that the so-called ruins might be some kind of man-made building that was submerged in the sea?"

"You also said that it was submerged by the sea... I don't even know how many years ago it was. In those days, I don't think the people on this island had the skills and manpower to pile huge rocks into any special ruins. …After all, this is just a small island!”

In this regard, listening to Hattori Heiji's statement, Takato couldn't help but nodded seriously——

"Speaking of which, wouldn't it be bad if you... secretly exchange information?"

However, at this moment, Koshimizu Nanatsuki walked out of the back door of the room where Takato lived, but somehow, he walked out and looked at Takato and the others who were communicating in front of the back door of the room where Hattori Heiji lived...