Looking at the human body swaying in the water of the waterfall, Kimie Shimabukuro's eyes widened.

How, how could it be this child, they clearly said yes......

She tilted her head blankly, looking at the figure reflected by the bright flames, and before she could come back to her senses, the two figures had already crossed the isolation rope one after another and rushed to her side.

"Miss Shimabukuro!" Conan grabbed Kimie Shimabukuro's wrist, "You're familiar with the environment here, aren't you, take us over there!" ”

He had no time to pay attention to his overly mature tone, and only felt his heart tightening.

Calm down, calm down ......!

From here, it is not clear to see the specific situation above, and it is not yet the time to despair, perhaps, Tang Ze has just lost consciousness, he has not yet ......

Looking at the slippery rock walls on both sides of the waterfall, and the moss and vines crawling all over the stone crevices, Hattori Heiji resisted the urge to rush closer, tried to maintain his composure, and urged with a clear expression: "Quick, Miss Miko, I remember you had a ladder to ...... yesterday."

However, his words were quickly interrupted by the next movement.

I don't know if it's the water flow or the effect of other things, Tang Ze's body hanging in mid-air, in their line of sight, slowly slid down, and the expressions of the two anxious detectives changed at the same time.

Didn't he be hanged on, oh no, fixed above......

Before the two of them could react, as the shaking intensified, Tang Ze's body slipped out another section, and then the speed gradually increased, and with the things involved above, it fell down the waterhole below with the water flow of the waterfall.

“…… The waterhole here is connected to an underground cave, so it will be washed into the sea by the undercurrent! The conditioned reflex is average, Shimabukuro Junhui reminded loudly.

But in fact, there was no need for her to remind them, and the two detectives were already rushing towards the waterhole like arrows from the string.

Tang Ze, who looked unresponsive, fell straight down, smashing the pool below the waterfall into a high splash, directly wetting the clothes of the two detectives who ran to the edge of the pool.

Then there was another bigger wave, splashing.

At the other end of the rope, what was brought down by Tang Ze also smashed down.

At a glance, Conan felt that it was also a human body......

"Tang Ze! Karasawa! Hattori Heiji, who shouted loudly twice and didn't get any response, jumped down without hesitation and stabbed down towards the place where Tang Ze fell.

At this time, several other people who had been greatly shocked and finally came back to their senses also ran to the waterhole.

Mao Lilan grabbed Conan, who also wanted to follow, and shook his head vigorously: "A person who falls into the water unconsciously, but not a child's strength can pull him up." Don't go down and make trouble for Hattori! ”

With her backhand, she grabbed the distant mountains and leaves that looked at Hattori Heiji's clothes completely submerged into the water, and she also wanted to step on them, she pulled the two people, approached the edge of the pool, and anxiously looked down at the top of a white wave, and couldn't see the water surface of the situation clearly.

Although the reaction is not as timely as the detectives, since Tang Ze's disappearance yesterday, Mao Lilan, who has been suffering in anxiety for a long time, and even fantasized about many bad endings, has rehearsed many plans in his heart at this moment, as if it was suddenly put to use, and his physical control played well.

Mori Kogoro had a straight face and looked at Kimie Shimabukuro who was hiding his mouth and stunned in place: "Miss Junhui, can you please find a few more people to take a look, if Hattori can't pull Karasawa up......"

"Oh, good, good!" Shimabukuro-kune nodded hurriedly, turning her head to look at the islanders in the crowd.

The inhabitants of the area once made a living from fishing, and most of them, especially the fishermen, were very good at the water, and certainly more familiar with the water than the young man on the island who jumped in.

So she immediately scanned the crowd twice, trying to find a few suitable rescuers.

However, it was only at this glance that she clearly noticed the abnormality of the islanders.

With the appearance of hanging people in the waterfall, the whole scene of the award ceremony fell into a noisy and chaotic scene.

Some people are screaming, some people are reflexively calling for help or calling the police, and some people have inexplicable excitement on their faces, raising their cameras and mobile phones to take pictures.

But that didn't include the islanders she knew.

The islanders, including Naoko Kuroe, who was holding the arrow broken in two, and the attendants who were standing around the shed to help her set off the fireworks, just stood straight in place, staring straight ahead, the movement around them could not alarm them at all, and in the boiling crowd, they seemed so out of place.

"Junhui!" Fortunately, not everyone was in such a state, and Fukuyama struggled to squeeze through the crowd facing forward, lifted the rope, and ran quickly, "What's going on!" ”

"Lu Lang, hurry, someone has fallen, they may be swept away by the current!" Kimie Shimabukuro grabbed his arm, "Go and help them!" ”

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The human body is slowly shaking under the washing of the water.

The sun rises and the moon sets, time passes slowly, and the people who are hanging there just follow the wind and water, slowly swinging and rotating, without the slightest trace of movement

Then it was dark again.

The faint light of the fire slowly ignited from below, and in the midst of jubilant celebration, the fireworks went up.

As the bright light rose into the sky, he could finally see the person who was hanging there under the reflection of the suddenly blooming fire tree.

Seeing the pair clearly, it was out of focus and cloudy, and it completely lost its vitality...... Blue eyes.

“！”

Hattori opened his eyes and sat up straight from the ground.

He woke up very suddenly, and his reaction was exaggerated, and he almost bumped into a worried crouch beside him, leaning over to observe his distant mountains and leaves.

"Hey, Pingji!" Narrowly and dangerously brushed shoulders with Hattori's forehead, Toyama Kazuha covered his eyebrows, and shouted fearfully, "I'm scared to death, you!" ”

"I, I'm ......" Hattori blinked his eyes twice before he slowly recovered from the outburst of fear, panic, and sadness, and saw his surroundings clearly.

He had just been lying on his back on the ground, set by the fire.

Not far away, the gargling water of the mermaid waterfall is still falling down unhurriedly, sparkling waves, and the delicate pool below, really like the tail of a mermaid, reflecting the brilliance of scales.

A little farther away, although there was a lot of commotion, it was repeatedly stopped by Mori Kogoro and others, so the tourists who did not get closer were still making noisy movements, and occasionally there were dazzling flashing lights, and they were brightened up without hesitation.

Oh yes, he just saw Tang Ze fall into the water, and then he followed without thinking......

"Before entering the water, at least take off the clothes that get in the way, and also observe the water environment!" Yuanshan and Ye shook off their hands that were red in order to wring out their coats, and reprimanded them dissatisfiedly, "If it weren't for Mr. Fukuyama's help, it would have been very likely that you wouldn't have the strength to completely float up just now, and it wouldn't be worth it if you ran to save people, and if you can't save yourself!" ”

"I ......" pulled the blanket on his body, feeling his underwear that was still damp, Hattori Heiji completely sobered up, looked around, and quickly found what he wanted to see.

The same pure white blanket was placed over the person at the other fire.

Tang Ze's eyes were closed, and his brown hair, which was wet with water, was still sticking to his cheeks, and he looked very embarrassed and pale.

After all, after all, they still couldn't save him......

Hattori froze for a few seconds, feeling a huge emotion rise up from the bottom of his heart, causing his throat to clog as if it had been silenced by something that filled his chest.

“…… When is the time of death? Hattori heard his own trembling voice, and seemed to be trying to maintain a clear articulation.

"What else can it be, it must have been half an hour to an hour ago......" Toyama Kazuha raised his head and looked strangely at Hattori Heiji, whose face was stiff, "Why are you shivering, is it cold?" Should I send you back for a change of clothes? ”

"What, an hour ago?" Hattori's voice suddenly became high, and even attracted the attention of Conan, who was gathered together on the other side and didn't know what he was studying, "Are you saying that the murderer kidnapped him for two days and killed him just now?" Isn't that our negligence ......?"

Yuan Shan and Ye were stunned to look at him who was about to cry for two seconds, and then followed his line of sight and glanced at Tang Ze, who fell to the ground peacefully.

She raised her hand, and a solid slap hit Hattori Heiji on the back, and Conan, who came over, seemed to hear the echo of his chest.

"What are you talking about? That's over there! The ruthless Yuanshan and Ye of the iron hand pointed to the place surrounded by everyone, "Tang Ze is still alive and well!" ”

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji, whose emotions had just climbed, were also stunned and looked towards the place she was pointing.

With her eyes wide open and a rough hemp rope wrapped around her neck, Ebihara Shomi is in the encirclement formed by Kimime Shimabukuro and others, and her pale face has already foreshadowed her fate.

Regardless of whether Tang Ze is alive or not, this woman must be dead.

Hattori exhaled and sat back down: "That's the case, I'm scared to death, that's good...... Uh, oh, it's not ......"

With a sigh of relief, he blurted out two sentences, and when he said it, he realized that someone was dead, and it was good for him to say it here, which sounded very wrong, and stopped his mouth in embarrassment.

"The rope on Brother Tang Ze's body is even on top of that." Conan pointed to the rope that stretched out along Ebihara Sumi's body and had been submerged under Karazawa's blanket, "So, Brother Karazawa, he was actually the one that was hung over there by Miss Ebihara's body just now, well, ......"

Imagine the eerie scene, Conan's features crumpled.

"So, Brother Tang Ze this time, he is, uh, probably, the murder weapon ......?"

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"Shoumi, how can you ......" Kimie Shimabukuro sat on her knees with her mouth covered, muttering in confusion.

She lowered her head and looked at Ebihara Sumi's frightened face, and then looked at Tang Ze, who had not woken up yet, but was indeed breathing smoothly and had normal vital signs, and wondered if it was genuine.

Is this what the thieves do?

Use a person as a counterweight and hang Shoumei, uh, how can you think about it......

"We might have to go up there and have a look." After looking at it for a while, Rokuro Fukuyama let go of Suomi Ebihara's stiff body with a solemn expression, "I'm not sure if Suzumi is fixed to it by something." Normally, she must be lighter than the boy, and if the two of them were connected together, they should have fallen off quickly. ”

"Anyway, um, sure, not suicide, right?" Maori Kogoro looked at Ebihara Shoumei, who was very sad in death, and then at Tang Ze, who was placed on the fire not far away, scratched his head, and held back a sentence.

Several people looked at him in unison, and their faces were very strange.

“…… That's true. "Suicide, well, it shouldn't be possible for someone to tie a rope around their neck, and then tie the rope to someone else, and then push the person down......"

Then the cost of this suicide method is inevitably a little too high......

"But since it's a murder...... The murderer can't be Tang Ze, right? Mori Kogoro crossed his arms and snorted, "This kid has been missing for two days." And jumping from the cliff to the waterfall by yourself, this method of killing is inevitably a little too dangerous. ”

"So, what the hell does the murderer think?" The murderer himself, Kimie Shimabukuro, made a heartfelt confused voice.

Yes, Suomi was indeed hanged by her own hands, and she can recall her desperate expression as she apologized frantically while only feeling the rope around her neck getting tighter and tighter

Although this was the second person she had strangled, she still couldn't get used to looking at a living body that slowly stopped moving in front of her.

But this did not prevent her from feeling from that desperate expression, that they were experiencing the experience of their mother's last moments before her death, that kind of oxygen was taken away little by little, and the feeling of watching the vitality exhaled by herself must be terrifying, right?

It's good to be terrible, terrible, it's enough to comfort my mother's soul in heaven.

But what did the thieves think?

Is this what they call a solution to the problem? By hanging a child who has been missing for two days in the waterfall and dragging Sumi's body down?

Ah, so, this boy named Tang Ze was kidnapped by them?

The incomprehensible Shimabukuro Junhui CPU was about to burn, and he looked back and forth at Tang Ze and Ebihara Sumi with a dull expression, and he didn't know how to continue to react for a while.

"Please mourn." Apparently interpreting her actions as a sign that she had been devastated by the loss of her friend and unable to accept the reality, Kogoro Mori sighed and said heavily, "We need to find out who did this." Not only did he kill people, but he kidnapped others, and almost killed another one, which is really a dangerous character. ”

"Uh, uh-huh......" Feeling that he couldn't tell that he had nothing to do with Tang Ze's disappearance, Shimabukuro Kimime lowered his head helplessly.

Hey, maybe that's one of the costs of cooperating with them, back to the pot or something.

Forget it, he is already such a despicable murderer, and it seems that a little more inconsequential charges will be ......

No way! She kills for revenge, but there is no evil habit that implicates innocents! This point must be clarified!

On the side of the corpse over there, the murderer himself clenched his fists and secretly gathered his strength, and several people here surrounded the unconscious Tang Ze and studied it.

"The rope is tied under the armpit......" Tearing open a little of the blanket on Tang Ze's body, Hattori Heiji reached out and pulled the knot on his body, "Tie it very tightly, judging from this knotting technique, it should be a right-handed hand, and he didn't struggle to tie it." ”

"Otherwise, it can't be Tang Ze's own knot, right?" Yuan Shan and Ye rolled their eyelids, took the blanket he lifted, and propped them up there, waiting for the two of them to crack and finish the work of taking pictures and collecting evidence.

Hattori Heiji, who zoomed in and out and took a few photos, put down his mobile phone that had been soaked in the water for a while and was still working tenaciously, and sighed while untying the hemp rope for Tang Ze: "Fortunately, I was inspired, and I changed my phone before leaving, and Tang Ze's reminder is still effective." ”

That's right, under Tang Ze's strong recommendation, Hattori Heiji still bought a new mobile phone on the way out, which was the one used by the deceased who fell from the building the day before yesterday.

"Detective, it is inevitable that you will encounter a tricky situation in the position of the photo, if you take off the phone, your precious evidence is likely to lose the archive."

Tang Ze did not come up with that outrageous bullet blocking theory, but proposed a very logical realistic scenario, which immediately convinced two detectives who disrupted the scene with high intensity.

"The first time I used it after I bought it, I was shooting Tang Ze himself, right?" Yuan Shan and Ye for Tang Ze, who were not angry, raised their arms and completely untied the rope, "Then you are really grateful to him." ”

Don't say it, it's true.

After thinking about this problem for a while, Hattori Heiji felt that it should be used here, and the original soup turned into raw food, and after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, so he simply skipped the topic: "Well, take a picture of the clothes untied, and take a look at the scars on his body, it may be convenient to infer how long he has been tied......"

"Speaking of which, the yukata he wears, is this also the murderer's handiwork?" Conan, who had been tinkering for a while, frowned, "It looks like an inn." Tang Ze was taken away in a yukata? ”

"I don't know, the innkeeper said that he didn't see him leave at all." The first discoverer of the disappearance, Yuanshan and Ye, shook their heads, "I guess it's the reason for this yukata, that's why someone called him just now, 'mermaid'?" ”

Indeed, because of the aqua blue hotel yukata that he was not wearing very tightly, when Tang Ze was hanging in the waterfall, at a glance, it smelled of a mermaid.

But no matter how you think about it, it's still very suspicious to call a mermaid or something......

"When he wasn't wearing a yukata, didn't some people on the island call him a mermaid? I remember, it's ......" Hattori shook his head and looked at Naoko Kuroe, who was standing not far away, still holding the broken arrow without saying a word.

Coincidentally, it seems that she called it that before......

As if sensing his gaze, Kuroe Naoko raised her head, a pair of dead eyes, and looked back silently.

Then, she paused for a moment, and slowly, with a little weird smile.

“…… Well? Mori Lan, who accompanied Mori Kogoro to inspect Ebihara Sumi, frowned, raised his head suddenly, and looked left and right vigilantly.

This slight vibration sensation...... Is there a small earthquake somewhere?

(End of chapter)