The third day of the Mermaid Event.

Gao Cheng and Gray Yuan stood together in front of the smoky shrine warehouse, silently watching the firefighters on the island busy.

By the time he arrived, the fire had been unstoppable, and the warehouse had burned all night, all the same as it had been three years earlier, and it was all charred and in ruins.

A charred corpse was also found......

"It's a little burnt," said the firefighter at the Shimashiro house, with a tired face, "but you can barely tell that you're wearing glasses and blue clothes...... Probably the corpse of Saori, whose whereabouts are unknown......"

"But, but ......" He Ye and Xiaolan said in shock, "The person we saw in the courtyard...... Could it be a ghost? ”

The longevity woman walked to the side of the corridor courtyard tremblingly, and didn't pay attention to everyone, just kept shouting in a hoarse voice in the house: "Junhui! Where are you, Junhui? ”

Hattori watched the old man walk by, and said strangely, "Hasn't Miss Junhui come back yet?" ”

"Well," Kazuha looked at the lonely longevity woman and said worriedly, "I'd better follow the old woman to have a look......

"I'll go too."

He Ye and Xiaolan hurriedly ran away, keeping up with the longevity woman who disappeared around the corner, Conan, who was watching this scene, had a serious face and said softly: "Hey, Hattori, I remember that Miss Junhui said that she had only seen a dentist before, right?" If you ask by her name, you should know which dentist it is right away......"

Hattori's face stiffened, and he said with a slight paleness: "You stupid...... What the hell are you talking about? It's hard to ......"

"Don't pretend to be garlic!" Conan said in a deep voice, "You should have thought of it the same way I did by now, right?" I have a ...... Foreboding ......"

Gao Cheng came back to his senses, withdrew his gaze from the ruins, walked to the edge of the courtyard and looked at Conan and the two, and did not speak.

Outside the bedroom of the longevity mother-in-law, he Ye and Xiaolan went to the wooden door in one breath, still with a worried look between their eyebrows.

"How?" Gao Cheng asked, "What about the longevity woman?" ”

"I'm asleep for the time being, but I'm still talking about Miss Junhui......"

Xiaolan was worried: "Could something happen to Miss Junhui?" ”

Gao Cheng chuckled and comforted: "Don't worry, Miss Junhui will be fine." ”

Of course it's going to be fine, and it's still alive and well, right under my nose......

Gao Cheng calmly looked at the bedroom of his mother-in-law.

After the whole incident became clear and all the impossibilities were removed, the final truth had been put in front of him, no matter how unexpected it was, the facts were the facts, and the longevity woman should be Shimashiro June.

Only one last message is missing......

At noon, a phone call came to the shrine, and Uncle Mori answered the phone and announced to everyone in a deep voice, "After comparing the tooth shape of the corpse with the records left by Miss Kimie during treatment...... The information is exactly the same......"

"What?"

"How is this possible?"

Hattori swallowed dryly and clenched his teeth: "Damn! If we had been more cautious yesterday......"

"Miss Junhui......" Xiaolan wiped her tears, "Such a good Miss Junhui is actually ......"

He Ye directly whimpered and cried: "Miss Junhui was still with us last night, woo woo woo ......"

Hattori looked at Kazuha, who was crying bitterly, and said with a tight gaze: "No matter who this murderer is, one thing is certain, and that is that he must not be allowed to continue to go unpunished...... He's simply a murderer who doesn't take human life seriously! ”

"But why did the murderer kill Miss Junhui? The first few times it was for the Dugong Arrow, right? ”

Uncle Maori wondered, "And why did Miss Junhui dress up as a yarn weaver?" ”

"I'm afraid I was bumped into something by Miss Kimi, and after killing Miss Kimi, I tried to confuse the public," Hattori pondered, "There was a glass door in the hallway that was broken last night, and it seems that someone came to steal the autograph book...... That Uncle Kadowaki was very suspicious, and I heard that his fingerprints were also found on the lifebuoy, but now the police can't find anyone else......"

After a pause, Hattori subconsciously wanted to call Kudo, and when he met Conan's gaze, he changed his words in time: "That's it, Joto, uncle, after seeing the longevity woman, let's go out together to find out and find ......"

Gao Cheng interrupted: "Let me come here from the longevity woman...... Xiao Ai and I stayed behind to take care of the old woman. ”

Hattori looked at Gao Cheng strangely, confused why Gao Cheng was not in a hurry to solve the case.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you here."

……

Outside the bedroom of the longevity woman, Uncle Maori, Hattori, and Ye left the Shimashiro family shrine together, while Gao Cheng and the others stayed, kneeling at the door in silence, and reluctantly said about the charred corpses in the warehouse.

"Really? Junhui is also gone......" The old man lay in the quilt with a pale and lifeless face, as if he could close his eyes forever at any time.

Xiaolan blamed herself with tears in her eyes: "It's all because we didn't follow Miss Junhui, if we didn't let Miss Junhui go to the warehouse alone......"

The old man's voice was tired: "The young lives are gone one by one, but I continue to drag this body to survive...... I'm sorry, but can you leave me alone? ”

"Old woman," Conan asked anxiously, "I heard that the old woman asked someone to move the mermaid's grave to the mountain two years ago, who did you ask to go there at that time?" ”

"What's the use of asking?" The old man shook his head slightly, closed his eyes and said sadly, "Because even that person left me first......

"That's right."

"Alright, Conan, don't ask so much at this time."

The guilty Xiaolan pulled Conan away, but Gao Cheng did not move, but stayed with Gray Yuan.

The longevity woman opened her eyes consciously and saw Gao Cheng leaning quietly against the door, and said weakly: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Old woman...... Or should I call you Miss Junhui? ”

Gao Cheng asked calmly, seeing that the old man's face had not changed, he continued: "The police have begun to search for Mr. Kadowaki, and I believe it will not be long before they will be found." ”

"Really?" The old man's eyes were gloomy, "When did you find out?" ”

"It felt a little incongruous at the beginning, but Miss Junhui's makeup skills are really amazing, and I never thought that the longevity woman who lived for 130 years was actually a disguised ...... by Miss Junhui."

Gao Cheng hugged his arm and said lightly: "The first case is that Miss Sumi was hung on the mermaid waterfall, the second case is that Miss Naoko was strangled and hung on a fishing net, and then the third case, 'Miss Junhui' was burned to death in the warehouse......

"If it's just a single case, it doesn't necessarily determine the murderer, but when it comes together, it solves all the puzzles, Miss Shoumi and Miss Naoko draw the Dugong Arrow is the key to the case, Miss Junhui, you planned everything in advance, right?"

Looking at the silent old man, Gao Cheng continued: "The reason why Miss Shoumei was disguised as an accidental death was to prevent the police from investigating him for killing him, so that he could kill Miss Naoko later, and it happened that the weather was bad that day, and the police couldn't come over, your plan was going well, and then took advantage of the police's attention attracted by the footprints, and deliberately said that he wanted to come back to check the roster, and burned Miss Junhui in the warehouse under the pretext of getting rid of Xiaolan and them......

"However, the charred corpse was actually Saori Kadowaki who had been killed several days ago, and the so-called tooth shape was just a trap...... That's right, in fact, it was Miss Saori who went to the dentist before, stole her insurance card, and lent her her own insurance card so that she could be treated as you......

"Even Miss Saori that Xiaolan and the others saw was dressed up by you, right? Because Miss Saori often runs away from home, spare clothes and glasses are left here......"

Gao Cheng paused, didn't continue, listened to the sound of the waves outside the shrine and asked, "Is there the sea behind this?" ”

"That's right," the old man said as he looked at the blue sky, "the sea is behind ......the shrine."

"Hattori called Miss Saori, and the first time I heard the sound of the waves...... Woman's sobs ......"

Gao Cheng stood up straight with his back to the bedroom, just inserted his hands like this, and took a deep breath and said, "You were crying at that time, right?" Right there in the warehouse, next to Miss Saori's corpse...... Miss Junhui, just now, Xiaolan and the others were still sad about your death, and they didn't believe that the kind-hearted Miss Junhui would be killed......"

"Really?" The old man turned his head and choked up.

"Go and turn yourself in," Gao Cheng owed, and pulled Ash Yuan and left directly, "I won't tell anyone else." ”