Stay away from Conan

Chapter 99 Tracking

The sun sets and disappears below the horizon, and night begins to slowly descend on the island.

In the American Shrine, there are two rows of drums in the square. A group of middle-aged villagers are standing in front of the drums, wearing uniform clothes, beating the drums rhythmically. In front of the central gate of the shrine, there are three shelves burning firewood, lighting up the shrine square.

At this time, tourists and villagers began to gradually pour into the shrine and stood in the square of the shrine, surrounded by the fence that had been set up in front of the shrine.

The dugong celebration was held on time.

Counting the time, Miyano Shiho also came to the square at this moment, preparing to see the true face of the legendary longevity woman, but from now on, the gin and vodka that had been accompanying him had disappeared.

Miyano Shiho knew that they should take advantage of the opportunity when most people on the island gathered at the celebration to do something. But this has nothing to do with him. On the contrary, because the two of them are not around, he can breathe a sigh of relief.

Moreover, that person should be here too!

Thinking like this, Miyano Shiho began to look around the crowd, trying to find someone inside, but unfortunately, it was too difficult to find someone in this dark crowd.

Soon, the festival officially began.

Two women wearing Japanese-style white clothes and blue skirts walked to the gate of the shrine and opened the middle door to both sides. You can see that in the middle of the shrine, a woman with long white hair and wearing a The woman in miko uniform was sitting on her knees in the lobby of the shrine with her back to everyone.

In the lobby, there is a shelf with a bamboo pole about the height of a person, with something wrapped in cloth at one end.

Not long after the door of the shrine opened, the woman sitting there on her knees stretched out her hand to pick up the bamboo pole, then slowly turned around and faced the people in the square.

"It's Changshou Po! Changshou Po finally appears!"

Someone in the crowd made such an exclamation, and then the crowd began to cheer.

Miyano Shiho was drawn back by these words. He no longer tried to find the possible person in the crowd, but began to carefully stare at the woman who turned around in the shrine.

"Is this the longevity woman?"

Somewhat surprised, Miyano Shiho thought to himself.

What I saw in front of me was a very short old woman with heavy white makeup on her face, but it still couldn't cover the age spots on her face.

It is said that the longevity woman who ate mermaid meat and lived for more than a hundred years actually had such a face.

Miyano Shiho was a little disappointed. Such a distinguished appearance was indeed what an elderly person should look like, but it was still a bit unbelievable to say that she had lived for more than a hundred years. Sure enough, compared to the longevity woman, it was still the bones of that mermaid. , which makes people care more.

At this time, Changshou Po slowly came to the door of the shrine, put the cloth-wrapped end of the bamboo pole in her hand on the fire rack in the middle of the shrine door, lit the cloth bag on the bamboo pole with fire, and then used The lit bamboo pole was placed on the paper window of the nearby shrine, and the paper window instantly burst into flames.

But the flame did not completely ignite the window. Instead, it seemed to be controlled by something, and a number written in Chinese characters was burned on it: forty-three.

The tourists and villagers who saw this began to make surprised sounds.

Then, following the same pattern, Changshou Po continued to light two paper windows, and two new numbers appeared: forty-four and ninety.

"So that's it, the winning number burned on it is the winning number."

Miyano Shiho understood what was going on, and then sneered - this was just a trick to deceive children, but it actually attracted so many people to flock to it.

With this thought in mind, Changshou Po walked back to the shrine and disappeared from everyone's sight. The people present were a little anxious at the moment, comparing the number plates in their hands with the numbers on the paper window.

"Oh my God! It's true! I'm hit!"

Not far from Miyano Shiho, a woman's cheers attracted Miyano Shiho's attention.

Turning around, I saw a woman in her twenties with short hair and glasses, holding a number plate in her hand and cheering. Naturally, she was Kadowaki Saori.

Originally, this was nothing, but just following this line of sight, Miyano Shiho saw the man wearing a blue trench coat next to the woman wearing glasses - Akechi Takato!

At this time, two women wearing Japanese-style white clothes and blue skirts appeared in front of the shrine again, holding fire extinguishers and dousing the burning numbers on the paper windows. Then in the shrine, Shimabukuro Kimie, a woman in her twenties wearing a shrine maiden costume, walked to the gate of the shrine and began to announce:

"Everyone, please listen carefully. We will officially award the Dugong Arrow in an hour. Please prepare to gather at the Mermaid Falls immediately!"

After saying that, the crowd began to slowly disperse, moving uniformly towards the Mermaid Falls.

At this time, Miyano Shiho, who was also planning to follow the crowd, paid special attention to Akechi Takato in his sight. Because of this, she saw that she was wise and lofty among the crowd, but she sneaked out!

If I remember correctly, the name of No. 44 is Mingzhi Gaoyuan! In other words, he also hit the dugong arrow!

So why did he leave?

The words were divided into two parts. When Gao Yuan saw that the lottery meeting was over, everyone was walking towards the Mermaid Falls. At this moment, Gao Yuan immediately left the crowd, went around into the woods, and left here.

Just now, Gao Yuan confirmed one thing with Kadowaki Saori, that is, Kadowaki Saori and her father are here to participate in the celebration at this moment. In other words, no one is at Kadowaki Saori's home at this time. !

Just before, Takato guessed it through the conversation between Kadowaki Saori and Shimabukuro Kime at the shrine. After the fisherman who found the "red-faced mermaid" at sea was probably Kadowaki Saori's father, he began to investigate the time when Kadowaki Saori's father left the island for the mainland.

Then it was discovered that the time Kadowaki Saori arrived in the mainland was very consistent with the time Kuroba Kaito found out that the gem mortgage company got the news, so the possibility of this guess was greatly increased.

Therefore, Gao Yuan contacted Kuroba Kaito, informed him of the news, and asked him to investigate carefully to find out what this criminal group disguised as a gem mortgage company wanted to do in the United States Island, so that Nakagawa Dai Zang came to the United States Island to take charge of the "red-faced mermaid" matter. What exactly was he referring to?

Then, not long ago, Gao Yuan received a reply - the other party planned to steal the gem directly! Moreover, Kuroba Kaito confirmed that the fisherman who came from the source was indeed Kadowaki!

After getting such an answer, Gao Yuan had an idea - now, he didn't know where the other party was, but he knew who their target was, so he just had to wait and see.

So the question now is, when will they act?

Thinking of the Dugong Festival to be held tonight, Gao Yuan understood: What better time than when most of the island goes to participate in the Dugong Festival?

So, after confirming that no one was at Kadowaki Saori's house at the celebration, Takato left the crowd and prepared to take a path through the woods and go around to Kadowaki Saori's house on the seaside.

However, Gao Yuan didn't realize that there was someone following him along the way!