In the flames, three burning numbers appeared one after another on the paper.
Three, one hundred seventeen, eighteen...
Behind him, Ebihara's life spanned with joy, "Great!"
"Xiao, Xiaolan!" Next to him, Yuan Shan and Ye also clenched the sign excitedly, "I won the prize!"
As the longevity woman entered the house, not long after the door was closed, Shimabukuro Kime came out and said seriously, "Then, everyone will go to the Mermaid Falls, where dugong arrows will be distributed."
…
after an hour.
On the rocky beach in front of the Mermaid Falls, four torches were lit in a stand.
"Weren't there two torches last year?"
"Uh... are you afraid that the torch will go out?"
"What do you know? Changshou Po was showing her magic power to everyone before!"
Listening to the whispers of the people around him, Toyama Kazuyo was nervous and excited. He clenched the wooden sign in his hand and said, "Heiji, does it really have any magical power? Such a big flame, even if the wind blows over it, it will be gone."
It won’t be extinguished, right? But it was completely extinguished just now..."
"Idiot!" Hattori Heiji said with a blank expression, "How could there be any magical power? I think it is probably done in advance, just like the burning words on the door. If some chemicals are added, it can be done.
!”
"Is that so..." Yuan Shan and Ye hesitated on their faces, but they already believed it in their hearts.
"Of course!" Hattori Heiji suddenly thought of something and smiled at Chi Fei Chi, "Rather than thinking about some magical power, it's better to think that Fei Chi's eyes are too cold and the flames are almost extinguished by freezing!"
"You are too dark. Only the whites of your eyes can be seen in the dark. The fire was extinguished by you." Chi Feichi retorted in a calm tone.
Hattori Heiji:"……"
Listen, listen! Is this human talk?
Conan snickered on the sidelines. Don't look at Chi Feichi who is usually serious and talk about things. Don't think that people won't criticize others. Is a certain black man suffering a loss?
"Then, please come forward to the three people who won the numbers." Shimabukuro Kimie stood in the middle of the torch and spoke.
"Ah, okay," Yuan Shan and Ye smiled and said hello after getting in and pulling up the string, "I'm going to get it!"
On the side, a short-haired woman with a cold face also pulled the cord and walked over with her hands in her pockets.
"Huh?" Shimabukuro Kimie looked at it and asked loudly, "There is one more person. Isn't the last one here?"
Kadowaki Benzo pulled the string and walked in, his face still drunk, "It's me!"
"Eh?" Hattori Heiji was confused, "That's weird, I thought that Sumi got the draw."
Conan looked around, "There is no sign of her around."
"That uncle is Miss Kadowaki's father." Chi Feichi looked at the scene.
After the three dugong arrows were distributed, some villagers lit fireworks.
Fireworks rose into the sky, illuminating the waterfall that fell vertically, and also illuminated Hisumi Ebihara, who was hung in the waterfall and washed by the water like a mermaid swimming upstream.
Conan was startled, and immediately stepped forward, grabbing the sleeve of Shimabukuro Kime's miko uniform, "Sister, you are very familiar with the environment in this mountain, right? Can you take us there?"
"Ah, please wait a moment..." The short-haired woman who had drawn the dugong arrow also followed.
"Kunhui, what happened?" Fukuyama Rokuro in the crowd also asked.
In the end, the people who went to the forest above the waterfall were not only Conan, Heiji Hattori, and Kogoro Mori, but also three locals: Kimie Shimabukuro, Rokuro Fukuyama, and Naoko Kuroe, a short-haired woman.
Chi Fei didn't go, stood aside and lit a cigarette, took out his mobile phone and looked down at it.
"Huh?" Yuan Shan and Ye then noticed that Chi Feichi was still standing nearby, "Brother Feichi, don't you go and take a look?"
"They will move the body down anyway." Chi Feichi said, silently searching for reports from three years ago.
Although he remembered who the murderer was, he still had to refine some details in his mind. For example, he really couldn't remember the specific techniques.
When Mao Lilan came back from calling the police, she suddenly remembered the incident involving Ye Caisan last time and said with a smile, "Actually, Brother Chi can just say it directly. He Ye and I didn't dare to follow to see the body. We were worried that everyone would be gone and we would feel
I was scared, so I stayed with us specially. Shinichi once said that there will be many clues left at the first scene, right?"
Yuan Shan and Ye were stunned and looked at Chi Feichi, "Is that so?"
"Xiaolan, when did you become so fond of telling people apart?" Chi Feichi said without even looking up.
Mao Lilan smiled and said, "For people like Brother Chi, I must expose you decisively and directly!"
Yuan Shan and Ye were touched and a little embarrassed, "Thank you, Brother Chi, but if you want to go, just follow me and have a look. I know Aikido, and Xiaolan is also a master of karate. I will never be bullied.
!”
"If this will affect Hattori's status in your heart, I will follow him immediately." Chi Feichi took a cursory look at the report. There wasn't much of value, so he simply put away his phone.
He just felt that it would not be good to leave two girls to face a large group of strangers after an acquaintance, and someone had just died. He could make them feel at ease here to some extent.
This is from the perspective of a friend, and he doesn't want to keep up with it. If it affects the relationship between lovers and enemies, he will definitely keep distance in the future.
After all, Hattori Heiji and Conan Kid are also his friends.
If no girl likes him, why would he poach his friends?
"How can there be..." Yuan Shan and Ye said with a blushing face, "That guy has no status in my heart at all, and I don't want you to lose to him, look at his stinking fart!"
Mao Lilan chuckled, "He Ye, all your thoughts are written on your face..."
"No!" Yuan Shan and Ye Shanann retorted, "How can I compare with you and your family?"
Chi Feichi did not join in the fight between the two girls and smoked silently.
He also considered the feelings of the two of them, but they still killed the dog in front of him, without such...
Sure enough, it is better for one's physical and mental health to stay with Toru Amuro and Gin, at least they are both single on the surface.
In fact, White Horse Detective will also work.
…
Nearly two hours later, Ebihara Hisumi's body was carried down by Fukuyama Rokuro.
Shimabukuro Kimie, Kuroe Naoko, and Mouri Kogoro followed, but Hattori Heiji and Conan were not seen.
A man rushed towards Ebihara Hisumi's body and cried bitterly. From the whispers of the people around him, he could tell that it was Ebihara Hisumi's father.
"Xiaolan, did you call the police?" Mouri Kogoro asked seriously, "What did the police say?"
Mao Lilan hurriedly stepped forward and said, "They said the waves on the sea were too strong and the ships couldn't sail, so they couldn't come over for the time being."
Over there, Hattori Heiji was holding a swimming ring and walking back with Conan contentedly.
OK, we got a key clue!
Conan sorted out his thoughts, raised his eyes, and saw Chi Feichi standing with Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye. He was stunned for a moment and stopped, "Well... Hattori..."
"Huh?" Hattori Heiji was confused and stopped, "What's wrong?"
"That guy Chi Feichi didn't follow him just now, right?" Seeing that Hattori Heiji was still confused, Conan simply said clearly, "I think he was worried that Xiaolan and Kazuha would be scared if they stayed down there, so he stayed here specially.
Coming down…”
"Really? Brother Feichi is really considerate!" Hattori Heiji sighed.
Conan: "..."
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Isn't this guy Hattori too nervous?
Aren't you worried that your girl will be abducted by Chi Feichi?
Anyway, he is quite worried, because...if he were a girl, he would probably think that Chi Feichi is a very reliable, gentle and considerate person, and is a good choice...
But when he saw the corpse, he couldn't control himself.
It probably doesn't matter when you are Conan, you can be more willful, but when you change back later, you must be careful...!
However, the crisis still needs to be resolved.
"He Ye was very touched, and then decided..." Conan did not say it clearly, but reminded quietly.
Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, understood, and turned to look at Chi Feichi.
Chi Feichi noticed someone staring at him, turned around and saw the two people looking at him, and walked over on his own initiative.
Hattori Heiji waited for Chi Feichi to come to the side, and then tightened the swimming ring in his arms. He looked awkward, but still looked directly at Chi Feichi, "Um...Brother Feichi, you can't like Kazuye!"
"
"If you misunderstand, I will go with you from now on and will not stay." Chi Feichi said.
"Uh..." Hattori Heiji was stunned, and understood what Chi Feichi meant. He held the swimming ring in one hand and used his right hand to scratch his head in embarrassment, "That's not what I meant. In fact, it's good for you to stay..."
Conan had nothing to say. He had already asked Chi Feichi and confirmed that Chi Feichi didn't mean that. It was all the uneasiness caused by his own guilt. He shouldn't have approached Chi Feichi... He was guilty and he repented.
However, since everyone is male and easier to talk to, he can't go to Mao Lilan and say, "You're not allowed to fall in love with someone else, and you're not allowed to like Chi Feichi." It's quite embarrassing...
"So, how is the investigation going?" Chi Feichi returned to the topic.
Speaking of the case, Hattori Heiji looked serious, "Ms. Ebihara was strangled with a rope, compressing her neck and questioning her death. One end of the rope was tied around her neck, and the other end was tied to the stake of the rope pulled up by the river bank to prevent people from falling into the water.
Uncle Maori thinks it was Miss Shoumei who fell into the water in the dark..."
"Teacher's reasoning... no, no need to mention speculation." Chi Feichi interrupted.
Conan immediately laughed dryly. Behind his back, Chi Feichi was so realistic that he didn't give him any face.
Hattori Heiji's expression was also complicated. He seemed to want to laugh, but seemed speechless. He paused for a moment and felt that it was useless to express his uncle's guess. "Ms. Kuroe Naoko guessed that the reason why Miss Sumi went to such a dark forest was
, I was looking for the mermaid grave. Three years ago, there was a fire in the shrine's warehouse. After the police removed the collapsed pillars, they found a corpse. Because it was pressed by two or three collapsed pillars, the bones of the corpse were crushed to pieces, and
Surprisingly, the body had no legs!"
Conan retracted his thoughts and said seriously, "The police's judgment is that it is the body of a middle-aged woman, and there are traces of burning candles. The police's judgment is that after the festival, someone did not draw a dugong.
Arrow, I wanted to secretly go to the warehouse to find out if there were any dugong arrows in the warehouse, but the candle lit the warehouse and caused a fire."
"But it's really weird that the bones don't have any legs," Hattori Heiji thought thoughtfully. "Originally, the bones were collected and buried, but some tourists went to dig the tomb and tried to steal the bones. They thought they had eaten the bones and flesh of the mermaid.
It can also lead to immortality, so Changshou Po entrusted a trustworthy person to move the bones to the forest. Miss Jun Hui doesn't know where exactly."