Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

? Above the waterfall is a dark forest, and the turbulent river falls straight down the edge of the cliff.

Gao Cheng flashed his watch and stood silently on the bank of the river, watching Hattori and the others pull the hanging female corpse up from the waterfall.

The deceased Ebihara Sumi, 27 years old, was the daughter of a net-weaving fisherman in the village and the fiancée of Fukuyama Rokuro. The cause of death was preliminarily determined to be that his neck was entangled with a rope tied to a stake...

"Hello!" Hattori looked at Gao Cheng who was watching with his hands on the sidelines, his eyelids drooped, "I said you can't help me?"

Gao Cheng said unhappily, "Don't you know that I hate touching dead bodies?"

Hattori's face turned even darker: "Why are you a detective who is afraid of death?! It's not like you haven't touched it before..."

"You are here now."

Gao Cheng glanced across the waterfall scene.

There are many wooden stakes nailed along the river, and there is also a warning sign that says "Danger". The rope around the neck of the deceased Shoumei was tied to the wooden stakes to prevent danger...

How could Ebihara Sumi come to such a place? Something happened...

"I can't see it wrong," Uncle Mao Li observed with a wooden stake, "Miss Shoumei may have fallen into this river in the dark. Although she was holding on to the rope, the wooden stake was also pulled up because of the strong current. She was struggling. When I was caught by the rope around my neck, I ended up falling into the waterfall in a hanging posture..."

Fukuyama Rokuro nodded lightly and said, "It's very possible, it has been raining here for the past week, the water level of the river has risen, and the ground is muddy everywhere, so the stakes are easier to loose..."

Gao Cheng shook his head helplessly, looked at Uncle Mao Li and said, "I said Uncle, don't you find it strange? The festival is clearly held by the pool under the waterfall, why is she running here at this time?"

The uncle's head was a little stuck: "Uh, this..."

"Could she be looking for the mermaid's cemetery?" Naoko, the gift shop clerk, answered, "The mermaid's cemetery is in this forest..."

"What?" Everyone was surprised when they heard this.

"On the day when the ceremony was held three years ago, the mermaid bones found when the shrine warehouse caught fire were buried in the tomb of that elder brother," Naoko said, "Is that right, Jun Hui?"

"what,

Yes," Shimashiro Junhui came back to his senses, "I just realized that Sumi seems to have always cared about that cemetery after hearing you say that..."

Gao Cheng looked at Fukuyama Rokuro, and asked, "Is it really a mermaid bone three years ago?"

"I'm not very clear," Shimashiro Junhui said uncertainly, "Although everyone on the island said so, the policeman from this island said it was the charred corpse of a middle-aged woman..."

"It's just nonsense!" Naoko reacted strongly, "That skeleton has all the bones below the waist, right?"

Everyone was stunned: "What happened below the waist?"

Fukuyama Rokuro stood up and explained: "Because two or three large pillars in the warehouse crushed the bones below the waist of the charred corpse. After removing the pillars, it was found that the charred corpse had no feet. That's why it was reported on TV that the body of the mermaid was found here... The longevity woman also became a celebrity overnight."

"Where's the police?" Gao Cheng continued to ask, "Didn't the police say it was a middle-aged woman's body? Didn't it find out who it was?"

Shimashiro Junhui lowered his head: "The police said that it might be tourists who didn't get the dugong arrows during the festival. They thought there were spare arrows in the warehouse, so they lit candles and slipped in to look for them, which caused a fire... because After a year, the identity of the deceased was still not found, so we just buried the skeleton...

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

Gao Cheng's eyes swept over the people present, and he had a panoramic view of the expressions on the faces of several people including Junhui Shimadai.

Whether it's the deceased Ebihara Sumi's fiancé Rokuro, or the young Naoko, they all seem quite calm.

Fukuyama Rokuro can be said to be indifferent, not at all sad because of the death of his fiancée, Naoko is more concerned about the mermaid, but Shimashiro Junhui's face is not very good, but it is also hard to say that there is no suspicion...

What a coincidence, the missing Saori Kadowaki, the murdered Ebihara Sumi, and these few people were all childhood friends.

There was also the body of the nameless middle-aged woman who was regarded as a mermaid three years ago. It took the police a year to find the identity, which was too suspicious.

Unless you don't have family members or come here without telling your family members, it's impossible to find no clues...

This case is really full of mysteries.

"What's wrong?" Huiyuan returned to the festival site below the waterfall with Gao Cheng with his hands behind his back, "Are you helpless, too, the great detective?"

"How, how is it possible?!" Gao Cheng frowned, "My current detection rate is still 100%, and there is no case that cannot be solved... But then again, where did Hattori and Conan go?"

"Going to investigate," Huiyuan walked in front of Gao Cheng, "while you were in a daze."

"I'm not in a daze..."

Gao Cheng rolled his eyes and looked uncomfortable, and was one step slower than these two guys.

"Father!" Xiaolan rushed back to the scene with He Ye, "The police on this island said that the sea is too rough and the boat can't sail, so there is no way to come here for the time being..."

"Isn't that good?" Hattori appeared right after him, walking with Conan, "Because the murderer can't escape from this island..."

Uncle Mao Li slumped: "Don't say anything about the murderer, the murderer, it's not sure if he killed him..."

Hattori smiled and handed a swimming ring to the uncle: "Then look at this, this life buoy is me and Kudo... ah, I discovered it by accident, and it is hanging on the river from the waterfall pool to the sea..."

Conan stared at Hattori with a sulky face, and echoed: "Brother Heiji asked the people on the island, and they all said that they didn't see this thing during the day."

"That is to say," Hattori chuckled and turned his baseball cap straight, and said with blazing eyes, "If Miss Sumi dies on the waterfall, then puts a rope around her neck, and puts her on the lifebuoy to float, any Anyone can create the illusion of hanging himself...

"Besides, we saw Miss Sumi at the shrine, and it has been a long time since we found her body. Anyone can commit a crime, regardless of gender, anyone can do it... The murderer must still be on the island!"

Gao Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and silently turned to the other side, a bald bearded man who was crying bitterly while hugging the dead body of Ebihara Sumi.

The killing incident this time is probably not over yet, the motive is either for the fire 3 years ago, or for the arrow of the dugong...

Seeing people's enthusiasm for dugongs and mermaid graves, the latter is not impossible. After all, Saori Kadowaki and Ebihara Sumi this time both got the arrows of dugongs.

"Don't worry, Xiaolan," He Ye pulled Xiaolan and whispered, "The murderer will be arrested soon! Because every time Pingci puts his hat back on, it means that he has activated the switch and the engine is running at full speed Oh!"

Gao Cheng's face twitched: Don't subconsciously throw me aside, why must Hattori solve the case first?

"Cough!" Gao Cheng coughed heavily, and turned to the drunk who was still drinking, Kadowaki Saori's father.

"Mr. Kadowaki, may I ask you something?"

"Huh?" The drunkard put down the bottle, squinted at Gao Cheng drunkenly, and said in a dissatisfied tone, "What are you doing?"

Gao Cheng looked straight at him and said, "When I was at the shrine, Ms. Shoumei seemed to have drawn the arrow of the dugong, but now she is not only killed, but even her number plate is gone..."

"What's none of my business?" snorted the drunkard. "The number plate is mine! I don't know what happened to that woman!"

"Hey," Naoko looked at the drunkard staggering away, moved closer to Gaocheng, and whispered, "If you really want to say that Sumi was killed, you'd better keep an eye on this old drunkard. I think he stole Saori's dugong arrow..."

"Really?" Gao Cheng looked at the drunkard and shook his head secretly, "Miss Naoko, you should also be careful next time, and act with us if you can."

"Don't worry, I will pay attention," Naoko said with a smile, "and I have a dugong arrow to protect me."

Conan put his hands in his trouser pockets, stood quietly by the side, waited until Naoko walked away, and said to Gao Cheng: "What should we do now? Do you still want to ask about Miss Saori?"

"Looking at her father's appearance, I'm afraid she won't be able to ask anything." Gao Cheng said helplessly.

"Then let's go see the longevity woman," Conan suggested, "I have a lot to ask that old lady..."

"Oh? Do you want to go too?"