"Hmph, that's interesting...... Standing in the heart of the community activity with his arms crossed, looking at the cartoonish three windows in front of him, Tang Ze let out two nasal sounds and showed a somewhat gloomy smile.

"What's wrong?" The other three people who were observing the environment were stunned.

In this activity center, islanders are lined up in front of each of the three windows, each with a picture drawn on it, plus a person's name.

"Looks like you're running for village chief?" Akemi Miyano guessed and said, "The crown pattern in the middle, 'Kuroiwa Tatsuji', this should be the original village chief?" ”

"This pattern is more straightforward, directly in the shape of a coin." Hoshikawa Teru pointed to the one in front of him, "This should be a rich businessman or something, 'Hideo Kawashima'." ”

"Then this 'Shimizu Masato' who drew a leaf is an environmentalist?" Noah speculated as if he didn't understand, "This kind of thing is generally more popular with the locals, right?" Island dwellers are generally closed and conservative? There are still more people who advocate cultivation and fishing. ”

"yes, of course it's okay for you to interpret it that way." Tang Ze swept over the three names one by one and laughed coldly, "But if I tell you that these three people are all involved in drug dealers in the trafficking and transportation chain, how would you understand these three patterns?" ”

“…… Yes? Teru Hoshikawa and Akemi Miyano were dumbfounded, and their gazes at the three windows were also slightly frightened.

The implication in Tang Ze's words is obvious, he is saying that the islanders of this island are well aware of this industry, so they are choosing not only the village chief who will lead the island from the management side, but also the next industry talker......

"Is that an exaggeration?" With an uncontrollable dryness in her throat, Akemi Miyano muttered to herself, "What the hell is wrong with this world?" ”

"It should be said that this kind of agglomeration is the norm in this kind of industry." Tang Zepi pulled the corners of his mouth with a smile, "They are all people who have been involved in it for a long time, and the huge profits of this kind of industry, guess why they are willing to live on such a relatively backward island?" There's always some reason for that. ”

The other three looked at the long queue in front of them, throwing their ballots into the ballot box, and they couldn't help but lose their words for a moment.

"It's no wonder that an independent impression space is generated here." Teru Hoshikawa also commented with difficulty, "This is really, beyond imagination. ”

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"The three candidates are in the activity center, and if you go, you might be able to meet them again." After giving the three of them a friendly briefing on the situation, Narumi Asai smiled, "Today happens to be the second anniversary of the death of the former village chief, and they will have a memorial event over there. ”

“…… The second anniversary of his death. Glancing at the envelope in his hand, Mori Kogoro only felt that the things in his hands were getting hotter and hotter.

He's here to solve the case, how can he talk about it more and more like some kind of urban legend......

"What a strange island." Bidding farewell to the rare friendly and amiable female doctor, the three of them followed the path she showed to the activity center, and Mao Lilan shrunk his shoulders, "Is it because the interpersonal relationships on the island are relatively simple?" Why do you use public space to do things? ”

"It's also strange that this dead man sent a letter." Once again, he took out the letter in the envelope and read it carefully, and Maori Kogoro also frowned, "If it's the 'second anniversary', then the former village chief almost died on the night of the full moon?" ”

"It's definitely impossible for a dead man to write to you, uncle, this is probably a friend of Keiji Aso or something, I think his death is strange, so please ask you to investigate, right?" Conan used his brain to guess, "After all, it's really strange to be a good person, and suddenly self-immolation or something......"

"Down with the current village chief's atrocities!"

"No further encroachment on land is allowed!"

"Give me back the clean fishing grounds!"

"Against the conversion of ships! Oppose the expansion of the dock! ”

As they approached the direction of the community center, the shouts of the islanders holding colorful slogans in their hands became clearer and clearer in their ears.

"A village chief election is quite lively." Maori Kogoro, who had his hands in his pockets, snorted irritably, "Do the residents of this island care so much about the selection of the village chief?" ”

"Because, it's really in their interests......" Mao Lilan looked at the bright and glaring cards in their hands, and his brow furrowed.

From all angles, it's a bit of a deformed environment.

Could it be that this is the characteristic of the island? After all, this kind of place is always inevitably folk customs, legends, and conservative culture......

Conan thought uncertainly.

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"It's really, very much in line with my stereotype of a closed island." With his arms wrapped around his chest, Tang Ze looked at the strangely shaped gate in front of him, and commented sharply, "It's very tasteful." ”

"What is this?" Frowning and observing these things for a while, Hoshikawa asked, "I finally have a little taste of impression space." ”

They had already walked around the island for a while, and as Karasawa said, it was like a map designed by a business simulation game, with slow-paced islanders, traditional lifestyles, simple interpersonal relationships, conservative and friendly, and nothing to do with the Moon Shadow Island they were going to investigate.

At this moment, standing in front of the only slightly higher hill on the island, they finally found something that matched the distorted concept.

Just in front of me, on the hill, a structure coiled by a vermilion twisted column rested silently.

The red color is a bit like the red of the common torii gate, and the cylinder also has a bit of the flavor of the torii gate, but it is only staggered and twisted with each other, and the shape cannot be distinguished for a while.

Behind these red pillars, however, were not the hills and woods that should have appeared there, but the dark and deep passages that could not be seen, and they did not know where they were going.

"There are ten." Akemi Miyano, who had been observing for a while, said aloud, "There are also some overlapping crossovers...... So is it for us to tell which entrance to enter? ”

"That must be in the middle." Tang Ze pointed to the mouth in the center, "If you have this shape...... Have you ever heard of the 'Fox's Window'? ”

As he spoke, Tang Ze demonstrated in style.

He first put the middle finger and ring finger of both hands together, touched the thumb, made a "fox" gesture, then flipped his wrist outward with his left hand and inward with his right hand, then straightened his middle finger and ring finger, and then clasped it with his thumb.

"Look," Tang Ze maintained this gesture and raised his hands flatly, "Is it exactly the same?" ”

"Again, is this the content of some strange legend?" Akemi Miyano compared the state of Tang Ze's hands with the structure of the column in front of him, and nodded affirmatively, "That's exactly what it looks like." Is there any meaning to this gesture? ”

"Hmm...... Through this window made of fingers, humans can see through the true bodies of various ghosts. Tang Ze said, raising his hand in front of him, through the gap formed by the crossing of his hands, and looking at the red pillar in front of him, "It seems that the truth is about to be revealed in front of you." Let's go and see the true face of this island together. ”

(End of chapter)