"Sir, you must be one of the two detectives I just mentioned, right?"
Now that the other party had seen that she was pretending to be dead, and directly pointed out that she had killed Saori Kadori, Shimabukuro Kime simply stopped covering up and took off the mask of her old face, revealing the one below.
She has a youthful and beautiful face, and her voice has also changed from that of an old person to that of a clear and young girl.
"No." Yuan Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, "But they should be able to discover the truth soon."
"After all, there is a flaw in your action, and that is that as long as you ask the dentist, you will know that it was not Shimabukuro Kime who left the dental records at that time, but the missing Kadori Saori.
"
"And knowing that Shimabukuro Kimie is not dead, suspicion will naturally turn towards her only relative, Shimabukuro Yakoto."
"What's more, most of the older people on the island know that Shimabukuro Yakoto has passed away long ago, and the fate now is that of you, Shimabukuro Kime, who 'died in fire'..."
"You're talking nonsense! How could..." Shimabukuro Kimie blurted out, with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Of course, they all know that the person who was burned to death in the warehouse three years ago was your mother. They were originally going to tell you to just stop holding the festival, but when they saw you trying to act like you were destined to appear in front of everyone, the villagers
We decided to help you behind the scenes without saying a word..."
Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned, and soon she began to choke.
"Why didn't they tell me earlier...why didn't they tell mom earlier..."
She recalled what happened to her family, and her tears fell as if they were broken.
"My mother was burned alive in the warehouse. Before she died, she called me and asked me not to let her life disappear..."
"And those three people, just because they failed to draw an arrow at the festival three years ago, were unwilling to accept it, so they got drunk and set fire to the warehouse..."
"They saw their mother pretending to be immortal walking into the warehouse, so they wanted to try it out to see if she was truly immortal."
"If Saori hadn't lost the arrow a week ago and revealed the incident in panic, I would never have thought that the person who killed my mother was actually my best friend since childhood...
…”
"So I killed them."
"It's easy to deceive them. They have been looking for the tomb of the [mermaid] bones that appeared in the fire three years ago. When I told them, as long as they can draw an arrow at the festival, I will tell them that
Where is the tomb..."
"Their eyes changed at that time. They will never know that that tomb belongs to my mother... my mother in heaven and I worked hard to maintain it..."
Yuan Huaiyu looked at the girl in front of him who had a tragic fate and was crying, and let out a long sigh.
"The temptation of immortality can make people crazy. It's time for the people on this island to wake up from the nightmare of immortality earlier..."
"Let me tell you a story too."
Shimabukuro Kimie wiped away her tears and looked at Yuanhuaiyu with a look of nostalgia.
Yuan Huaiyu said: "Fifty-three years ago, there was a family of fishermen on a certain island. Like other people on the island, this family has made a living by fishing for generations."
"The man and woman of this family were in their prime of life, and when they went fishing on a fairly ordinary day, they happened to have an unexpected harvest."
"It was this unexpected gain that changed the trajectory of historical development."
"It was a man wearing only a pair of swimming trunks. He got entangled in the fishing net and was fished out by them."
"At first, they thought it was a body and wanted to throw it back into the sea."
"But soon they discovered that the man seemed to be alive, but just passed out."
"They returned in a hurry and took the man home to try to treat him."
"Soon, the man woke up, but what the fishermen and his family didn't expect was that the man actually claimed that he had just fallen asleep."
"The fisherman's family naturally didn't believe his words at all - how could anyone sleep in the rough sea? Isn't that a long life?"
"The man did not try to prove his words. After taking a short rest, he quickly said goodbye to the family and left."
"But in order to thank the fisherman's family for their kindness in saving others, he picked up the tea cup at hand, cut his own skin and put a drop of blood into the tea."
"Then he gave the tea to the fishermen's family and told them that drinking this cup of tea would cure any illness."
"It happened that the mother of the fisherman who fished the man out was seriously ill at that time."
"When they doubtfully gave the old man a whole cup of tea, a miracle happened."
"The old man who was originally unable to get out of bed seemed to be reborn and rejuvenated in just a few breaths. He seemed to be more than ten years younger, and his illnesses seemed to have never appeared before."
"When the fisherman family realized that the other party was special and tried to find the mysterious man, the man had already disappeared without a trace."
"Later, the old man who drank that cup of tea had no pain for the rest of his life and lived to be more than a hundred years old. Even after her descendants, the fisherman couple, also passed away, she realized how serious her experience was at that time.
It’s bizarre how magical that cup of tea really is.”
"And her longevity also attracted the attention of other people on the island. As the news spread, people thought of the eight hundred nuns who also appeared in Wakasa. More and more people believed that her longevity was due to eating the legendary
The mermaid meat..."
"Countless tourists come here, including well-known dignitaries and celebrities from all walks of life. People on the island have also begun to transform the dividends of this flow of people into an increasingly developed local tourism industry."
"As for the old man who has been living on the island and has deep feelings for the island, he naturally acquiesces to this process and personally serves as the flag and benchmark of the island to become famous."
"Products related to mermaids and dugongs have achieved very good sales. The marketing of the longevity ceremony and the three 'dugong arrows' has made people crazy. Even the villagers on the island are selling the fish they catch nearby.
It’s three points higher than other places.”
Looking at Shimabukuro Kimie who was gradually falling into a state of sluggishness, Yuan Huaiyu's voice rose a few degrees:
"That's right...that lucky old man is your great-grandmother, Shimabukuro Yakoto."
"That fisherman couple are your grandfather and grandmother."
"And the man who was caught by your grandfather and grandmother with a fishing net, the guy who was originally drifting with the waves in his sleep..."