He struggled to open his eyes and stared at the endless blue sky. He was stunned for two seconds. Suddenly he smelled a burning smell and sat up.
I saw that I had been transferred to a familiar lifeboat. One end of the lifeboat was tied to the barren trees on the edge of the island, and most of it was floating in the sea.
His teammate was sitting on the bow of the boat, carrying a fried fish, his eyes vacant, as if he was thinking about life.
"...What are you doing?" Toru Amuro looked at the remains of the fish in Matsuda's hand and understood why he heard the explosion just now.
However, Matsuda looked back at him and did not explain about the fish: "You are right what you said before, there is something wrong with this island - not long after I took you away, the hotel was burned down."
"Really..." Toru Amuro is not too surprised. The closed environment can indeed easily nourish some people with weak legal awareness.
Now it seems that the power of local snakes cannot be underestimated. Maybe Kawashima Hideo has been asking the hotel to pay attention to the outsiders in black, and this time they underestimated the enemy.
Toru Amuro quickly recognized that the location where the two of them were now was on the other side of the island.
An island that can be inhabited for a long period of time and will not be submerged by sea water at high tide cannot be too small no matter how small it is - the same is true for Yueying Island, which leaves some undeveloped areas.
Last night, they landed in this area.
Lifeboats are usually equipped with fresh water and food. It is normal for Matsuda to think of this place after hearing the reminder.
but……
"So... what were you doing just now?" Toru Amuro couldn't help but asked again.
Although Matsuda had already answered this question just now, Toru Amuro really didn't understand the relationship between the burning of the hotel and Matsuda's persecution of sea fish.
He saw Matsuda throw the fish away, pick up a branch used as a fishing rod, and put something that was probably a micro bomb on the end of the fishing line - Toru Amuro had seen him use similar bombs to explode locks before.
After Matsuda finished fiddling with the props, he took the time to say, "You said you shouldn't touch the drinking water on the island."
"..." Toru Amuro finally understood.
Matsuda wanted to catch fish for food, but he didn't have any good bait or hooks, or simply couldn't catch them due to technical problems, so he used bombs.
but……
He lowered his head and looked at the food on the lifeboat that was placed in his hand. It was probably the food on the lifeboat that Matsuda dug out for him for breakfast, and then looked at the backpack on the boat.
——The bags have been brought out, and Matsuda’s nutritional ointment must be still there. Is there any need to go fishing?
After thinking about it carefully again, Toru Amuro suddenly realized.
Matsuda must have had nothing to do and wanted to go fishing. He happened to mention that there was a problem with the food on the island, so he had a legitimate excuse to fry fish.
Amuro looked back at the woods and felt that it was quite far away from the town. No one should be able to hear the underwater explosion, so she was a little relieved.
Then he sorted out his thoughts and felt that he couldn't just go back and had to go to the island to explore the situation first.
Yesterday, you were unprepared and you were accidentally tricked. Today, as long as you are careful enough, you can avoid danger and get the information you want.
From now on, all residents on the island must be regarded as enemies.
Shiraishi saw Toru Amuro sitting in deep thought for a while, and then suddenly started looking for clothes in his bag.
This man's clothes are no better than Belmode's, but they are very different from the simple gin and vodka. Maybe this is the difference between the backbone of the organization and the traitor undercover.
Shiraishi took another look at himself. Very good. Putting aside his true identity, at least Ma Jia maintained a high degree of consistency with his leadership. He was a qualified salary fraud... undercover agent.
After a while, Toru Amuro changed her outfit and covered it up slightly with a mask and hat. She looked very different from yesterday.
Of course, the face is still that of Akai Shuichi, so that even if he is seen, he can avoid a lot of trouble in the future and leave the blame to the FBI.
After Amuro Toru walked through the woods and went to the island to explore, Shiraishi found an empty mobile phone, took out the high-tech USB flash drive that had been inserted into Hideo Kawashima's phone yesterday, and inserted it into this phone again.
Kawashima Hideo's mobile phone was almost burned to ashes. After all, the fire was most intense where the drug dealers stayed.
Originally, Shiraishi planned to hand over the information directly.
But now, since Toru Amuro has no doubts about him, he can leave the potion to the islanders. Regarding the information, a little extra work is also required.
After the information was transferred, Shiraishi fiddled with his phone for a while, then left the ship and followed it into the island.
…
Toru Amuro took a cursory look around the island and realized that Matsuda's judgment was wrong - the building on fire was not the hotel where they lived yesterday, but the community activity center.
Looking from the direction of the woods, the two buildings are indeed almost on a line.
——It was so far away that it was difficult to judge the distance. In addition, he was drugged in the hotel yesterday. Matsuda may have been misled by this incident. He saw the fire in the distance and thought there was something wrong with the hotel.
At this time, it was discovered that the community activity center was on fire. For a moment, Toru Amuro suspected that this matter had something to do with Matsuda.
But when I think about it carefully, I feel that it is wrong.
Dealing with those drug dealers was originally their mission.
If Matsuda really took advantage of the chaos and set a fire last night, he would have told himself about it just now so that he could discuss the next plan instead of explaining seriously why he was fishing on the boat.
Moreover, if Matsuda was the one who set the fire, he would not mistakenly think that the hotel was on fire.
The story of the boy who cried wolf can actually be used in reverse. If a person who never seems to lie suddenly tells a lie, it will be difficult to be suspected when the evidence is not conclusive.
What's more, in Amuro Toru's eyes, Matsuda didn't have time to put sleeping pills in the coffee can. In other words, there was another force on the island that had malicious intentions towards them. Under this premise, the suspicion of an accomplice was naturally ruled out.
Already.
In short, Tohru Amuro never expected that he would be stabbed in the back by his teammates.
After taking a rough look at the condition of the hotel, he returned to the community activity center, knocked out a firefighter nearby, changed into the clothes of an unlucky passerby, and went to the fire scene to investigate.
This accident does look like an accident at first glance. The cause of the fire was an aging circuit.
However, Tohru Amuro found that, except for a few family members of the deceased, the onlookers were not very sad, and even some were gloating about the misfortune.
Looking at the name of the deceased, it becomes even more difficult to dismiss it as an accident.
——Hideo Kawashima, Tatsuji Kuroda, Ken Nishiki.
These three people happened to be the targets of their trip.
Thinking of this, the image of Matsuda holding a bomb appeared uncontrollably in Toru Amuro's mind again.
Then he gave me an X and firmly denied it.
After all, in addition to being the targets of their mission, these three people also have other identities that are easy to find resentment - drug dealers on the island.
Even the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled can escape from the fire. There is no reason why these three people can't run away. Therefore, there must be some factor that hindered their actions and forced them to stay in the fire.
Judging from the photos taken when several bodies were discovered, the locations where the three people were found were very scattered.
Although the people were burnt, judging from the remaining marks, there were no signs of being restrained on their hands and feet.
When Toru Amuro thought about his own experience, a key word came to his mind - sleeping pills.
In addition, according to eyewitnesses, the ritual was still in progress at the moment of the fire.
At that time, there were twenty or thirty people watching in the hall, and Matsuda was not a ghost and could not break in and drug people.
In other words, the person who administered the drug must have been an islander present at the venue.
And there were quite a few adult men in the venue. When the fire started, no one noticed the three drug dealers who were unable to move, and no one took them out...
As the information increased, Toru Amuro gradually began to make conjectures.
He looked back at the crowd. Except for the three dead people, the other islanders had their clothes and hair burned or stained with ashes, but they did not suffer any substantial damage.
All situations are very unreasonable, but there is one situation that can achieve the current result perfectly.
——This was an incident disguised as an accident...