In the Shimashiro house, an old mansion, Gao Cheng and his party sat around the guest room, and it gradually rained heavily.

"Look at this, the police don't expect to come tomorrow......"

Gao Cheng stood at the door and looked at the dark night in the rain, and then looked in the direction of the end of the corridor: "And that old grandmother, why didn't you come after waiting so long......"

Xiaolan smiled: "Miss Junhui just said that she would try to call her great-grandmother, but grandma is already very tired because of today's festival, so there may be no way to call us." ”

"Huh?" Gao Cheng brought the door and sat down at the stove table, "Do you know how those number plates are selected?" ”

"Well, I've heard from the people on the island, it's like putting a lot of number plates in a big box, and everyone is lining up to draw them, one for each person," Xiaolan replied, "One hundred and eight number plates, until all of them are drawn, and then the old lady will pick out three of these numbers at the festival." ”

"One hundred and eight pumping three ......" Gao Cheng propped up his chin and suddenly heard a knock on the floor from the corridor outside.

"Huh?"

"Is it just that you guys are looking for me?" The wooden door opened, and an old woman with a wrinkled face and a cane appeared in front of everyone, her voice was hoarse and her face was pale, and she looked like a mountain demon mother-in-law.

Conan was startled, swallowed his spit and asked, "Please, excuse me...... Old woman, how did you decide the number of the dugong arrows drawn? ”

The longevity woman stared at the people in the house for a while, and suddenly said with a smile: "It depends on the situation, I sometimes use the numbers drawn by horse races, haha." ”

"In that case," Hattori said with a dry smile, "why only send three a year and sell more?" ”

"That's impossible," said the longevity woman, pinching a gray hair, regretfully, "and the hair I can use to tie those arrows is limited......

"Great-grandmother!" Kimie Shimashiro shouted on the other side, "I've already put the bathwater for you!" ”

Changshou heard the shout and walked away: "I'm sorry, if you don't have anything important, I'm going to take a bath and sleep......"

Conan said anxiously, "But I still have something to ask......"

"Also," the longevity woman paused and looked at Kazuha in the house, "that little girl over there who tied her hair, the dugong arrow was originally an arrow to exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits, if you let it go away, the monster will build a nest on you, if it is a man, it will go into the earth and become a hungry ghost without a heart, if it is a woman, it will enter the water and become a mermaid who cannot speak!"

"I advise you to take it with you for a moment."

"Really, I didn't ask too much about it...... Gao Cheng leaned to the door, and watched the chattering longevity woman leave, and was suddenly stunned.

"Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Conan wondered, "Brother Joto, is there any problem?" ”

"Ah, no."

Gao Cheng retracted his gaze, paused, and said to the anxious Heye: "That longevity woman doesn't see anything special at all, don't take the monster or anything to heart." ”

"But," Kazuha clutched the dugong's arrow, "Isn't Miss Saori missing because she lost her arrow?" I'm sure I've become a mermaid......"

"Please," Hattori said angrily, "that old woman herself doesn't seem to have long to live, what kind of mermaid revenge, do you really believe it?" ”

The next day, the sky was still not better, the sky was cloudy, and thunder rumbled.

Gao Cheng borrowed an umbrella, asked the villagers for the location, and rushed to Mowaki's house with Gray Yuan, but there was no response after pressing the doorbell several times.

"Strange, isn't that uncle at home?"

"What now?" Gray Yuan said lightly with his hands behind his back, "Do you want to go back?" ”

"How is it possible to go back now? It's just right that the uncle is not there......"

Gao Cheng looked left and right, and his eyes fell on the few potted plants placed at the door.

"Usually this kind of person has a chance to hide a spare key outside...... Pregnant. ”

I picked up a few potted plants one after another, and there was a key under the potted plant on the side.

Gao Cheng grinned: "Look." ”

Gray Yuan's little face fell: "You don't want to invade, do you?" ”

"Just take a look, it's okay......"

"Hey!" Rokuro Fukuyama passed by the door and saw Gao Cheng open the door with the key, shouting, "What are you doing?" ”

"Huh?" Gao Cheng's body froze, turned his head with a dry smile, scratched the back of his head and said, "It's Mr. Lulang, haha, we originally wanted to find Mr. Kadowaki, but he doesn't seem to be at home......"

Fukuyama Rokuro said coldly: "If you want to look for him, he went to the izakaya to drink last night and didn't come back all night." ”

"Yes, yes?" Gao Cheng took the key, left or stayed, and smiled awkwardly, "That, it's actually nothing, we just want to investigate Miss Saori's room, maybe we can find clues to this case......"

Fukuyama Rokuro glanced at Gao Cheng closely, took the lead and walked into the door of the house and said, "If it's just to investigate Saori's room, hurry up, your troubles will be when his drunken father comes back." ”

"That," Gao Cheng was stunned, and said after the young man, "Was there anything unusual before Miss Saori disappeared?" ”

Fukuyama Rokuro said calmly: "Even the wind and waves at sea are a little bigger, she is scared to death, saying that the mermaid will seek revenge on her...... Well, this is Saori's room. ”

"Thank you."

Gao Cheng quickly glanced at the room, bookcases, lockers, tables, beds, floor-to-ceiling windows...... It looks clear at a glance, clean and tidy and not cluttered at all, but it doesn't look like a girl's room except for some puppet ornaments, because it's quite neutral, and there are even fanatical fighting game posters.

Gao Cheng walked straight to the side of the bed and opened the duffel bag placed at the head of the bed.

"Headache medicine, toothbrush...... Saori seems to have prepared a lot of things......"

"That's standard equipment when Saori runs away from home." Ryoshi Fukuyama explained.

"These things are left here," Gao Cheng looked through his luggage, his eyes tightened slightly, "that is, Miss Saori didn't go anywhere, but something happened......"

"It's hard to say this," Fukuyama hesitated, "Because she almost always goes to Junhui's house every time she runs away from home, so it seems that Junhui's family has a change of clothes or even backup glasses." ”

"But there's no one at Miss Junhui's house, is there?"

Gao Cheng poured out all the contents of the bag.

"And even if you go to the main island, you won't even bring a single document, right? Deposit book, ATM card, seal, driver's license...... Even the passport was in the bag...... Do ordinary people leave these behind when they run away from home?

"Perhaps, something unexpected happened to her before she was ready to run away from home......"

"Unexpected?" Rokuro Fukuyama's lips were dry.

"Maybe it's the worst."

Gao Cheng put down his documents in a deep voice, continued to check in the room, and found a photo album from the cabinet.

Judging from the photos, most of them are group photos of 5 hair-haired children, and Saori Kadowaki seems to be a short-haired girl with brown hair wearing glasses inside.

Rokuro Fukuyama said with some nostalgia, "These photos were taken when we were shooting the movie "The Tale of the Bhikshuni" when we were in college, and we also won a gold medal for Saori's special photography and Junhui's special makeup......"

"Yes......"

Gao Cheng snapped the photo album shut, with a thoughtful look on his face.