The sky was overcast and overcast, and a steamer was moving on the sea.

The azure sea stretches as far as the eye can see, with the occasional few seagulls flying over above. Conan and Hattori Heiji leaned against the railing of the deck, and Mori Kogoro was smoking a cigarette on the side, a little unpleasant.

"So why did I come to Fukui with you?"

"What's the matter, anyway, I'll pay for the travel expenses, uncle, you should be a tourist!" Hattori smiled and stroked Conan's head, "And I think Conan should want to play." ”

"Okay, which island are we going to now?"

Heiji Hattori looked at a small island in the middle of the sea from afar, "It's called American Island." Although it is a small isolated island, the people in this vicinity call it another name - Mermaid Island. That is, the small island inhabited by mermaids. ”

"An island inhabited by merfolk?"

"Yes, I also heard that there is an old lady on that island who eats mermaid meat for a living."

Hearing what Hattori said, Xiaolan immediately remembered the relevant information, "I've heard of this too, you're talking about the old lady who caused a topic on TV because of her immortality!" ”

"That's right, I just want to be young and beautiful forever like her, and I'll come with me this time." He Ye held Xiaolan's shoulders and was in a happy mood.

"Brother Pingji, who is the person who entrusted you to come here?"

"Could it be that I want to entrust you with some mermaid?" Kogoro Mori thinks this is very likely.

"No, there are only a few simple sentences written on the commission letter. It can be seen that it was written in a hurry, and it reads: [The mermaid is about to be killed, save her!] 】”

"The merfolk... Someone about to be killed? Mori Kogoro was shocked, this kind of anecdote can always give people goosebumps inadvertently.

Conan yawned boredly.

"How can there be a mermaid in the world, a mermaid is about to be killed or something, only a fool would believe it."

Hattori picked up Conan and stepped aside, "Actually, I don't believe in the idea that there are mermaids, but there is one thing that makes me strange." The letter sent by the client, although my name was written on the envelope, but the words "Hello Kudo Shinichi" were written at the beginning of the envelope. ”

"You have to thank me! I guess this commission may have something to do with you, so I brought you here. ”

Conan frowned, and suddenly put aside such a trivial matter as being picked up, "Then have you called the client and admitted to this matter?" ”

"Yes. The sender left a mobile phone number on it, and the phone was hung up as soon as it was connected when I first contacted it, but I always remember the voice from the other end very clearly. In addition to the sound of the waves, it was the moaning of a woman. ”

"After that, no matter how much I called, the call didn't go through......"

......

There are many tourists on Mermaid Island, and Kamikawa Instant and Sonoko walk on this seaside street.

He looked up at the sky, the overcast sky was covered with dark clouds, and the sound of waves crashing against the reef? The sea breeze blowing from the ocean makes people feel a little cold.

"Looks like it's going to rain."

"Won't the dugong celebration be held that night?" The garden felt a little pity. When she came to the island, she knew that there was a celebration, and she really wanted to participate.

"Not necessarily, the weather at the beach is always unpredictable. The last second was cloudy? It is also possible that the sky will be clear in the next second. "Kamikawa looked around instantly? The lively crowd was completely unaffected by the cloudy weather, "We were in time?" It coincides with the island's annual celebration. This festival is held once a year, and even if it rains, it will be held as usual. ”

"But there are so many mermaid products on this island!" The garden picks up a cute mermaid keychain from a roadside bunk? "You just wanted to eat seafood at first? I didn't expect the mermaid products here to be so popular. ”

"Oh? Didn't you do your homework before you came? ”

Did Kamikawa check the information about this island before he came? There was even a hint of something extraordinary on this island.

Whether it is the legend of the mermaid that has been widely circulated, or the greed for immortality, it is a very interesting thing.

The garden shook her head awkwardly. She just wanted to change the topic at that time, and just heard her family mention that the seafood on American Island is good? Just said it in passing? I don't know much about the island itself.

Apparently she was invited, but when she arrived on the island, it was Kamikawa who was working as a guide, and she didn't know anything about the legends and stories of the island.

Kamikawa instantly told her the legend of this island, "Legend has it that there is a longevity woman on this island who eats mermaid meat and lives forever? During the annual celebration, the longevity woman will use the hair grown by her telekinesis to make three dugong arrows? Legend has it that those who use the arrows of the dugong will live forever. ”

"What an old-fashioned legend...... "If anyone who gets the arrow can live forever, then how many people will be immortal after so many years of celebrations?"

The two walked to a stall, and Shangchuan instantly picked up an amulet embroidered with a mermaid to indicate immortality, shook it in front of her eyes, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to live forever?" ”

"I don't want to." Yuan Zi replied crisply.

"Oh?"

"What does it mean to be immortal, to be immortal yourself, and then to watch your friends, relatives and lovers die of aging one by one, and living alone in this world, I don't want this kind of immortality at all."

This sense of loneliness, in which the bond with the world disappears little by little, makes me feel sad when I think about it.

Kamikawa bent his eyebrows slightly, and put the talisman back in place. Looking at the tourists coming and going, his tone was quite emotional, "But even so, there are still many people flocking to it......"

Even, in order to achieve this goal, the organization does not know how much manpower and material resources have been deployed. What is hidden in the shadows, no one knows what kind of hideous beast it is until it is really revealed.

"Hehe, it's none of our business! Immortality is something that older people crave, and when we are young, we probably don't have that feeling of longing for life. ”

The garden picked and chose from the stalls and took a number of mermaid-related specialties, "These will go back to Xiaolan and them as gifts for travel." ”

"If you don't say it, I'll forget." Kamikawa instantly picked up a number of talismans that heralded peace on the stall, and counted the people he could give, "These should be enough." ”

Yuan Zi tilted his head, "Why do you only take the amulet?" ”

"Because I don't know what they're going to like, I'll just send the amulet, which means peace."

Amuro gave one to each of them, which can be regarded as a special product that came out to play and brought them on a trip.

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