"Do you have to go above the Mermaid Falls?" Shimabukuro Kimie opened the sliding door leading to the courtyard, glanced at the rain curtain that had been woven into a curtain, and said worriedly, "The rain is too heavy, and it is not safe to run to the mountains now." ”

"Well, I think maybe I'll be able to find some clues there." Hattori nodded affirmatively, "For no reason, Tang Ze won't run to that position." ”

"The unconscious child? However, as you said before, it is likely that he was originally unconscious and was carried to that position. Shimabukuro Kimi-e persuaded again, "Even if there is really any mark, it will be difficult to see the original situation when the rain falls like this." ”

It's not that she's afraid of being found out of the truth because of her weak heart, but she really does have good intentions and doesn't want this child to put himself in danger.

How did Tang Ze get there...... Even if she is indeed the murderer herself, it is in the clouds.

Even if the child regained consciousness, it would be impossible to identify her as the real murderer, let alone just go to the mountains to search, and it would be impossible to find any clues pointing to her.

"It's still necessary to go up and check it out." Heiji Hattori insisted, "I'll be on the safe side." ”

"Okay." Shimabukuro Kimie stretched out the umbrella in his hand, looked at the distant mountains and leaves that followed him, and shook his head slightly, "If you just go upstream and have a look...... Please also do not go into the woodland, it is dangerous. ”

"No problem!"

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"Therefore, the number of arrows drawn is not really random at all, it is just written by the old woman herself, not ......"

"What are you muttering about, boy?" Maori Kogoro looked at Conan, who was pulling the hem of his daughter's clothes and chanting words under the umbrella, "I have to go to the wake at night, and it's not polite to ask questions at such a time." ”

"Attending a wake ceremony? I think you want to have a drink with them......" Conan patted his head, "It's been this time, and I'm still thinking about this......"

"What do you mean by 'a time like this'?" Mao Lilan, who was holding an umbrella for Conan beside him, looked down at him in confusion, "It's as if something dangerous has happened."

Conan looked at the rain curtain outside the umbrella and replied casually, "It's just that I have a very bad feeling, maybe things can't be so simple to end." ”

"Stinky boy, give me an intuition at this time, right?" Mori Kogoro wanted to reach out and knock Conan twice on the head, but after a glance at the heavy rain outside the umbrella, he hesitated for a moment, but he didn't make a move.

The rain was too heavy, and there was a feeling that the umbrella was getting wet at all.

"This weather is really dangerous." He looked at the buildings on both sides of the road, completely painted by heavy rain, and genuinely worried, "The rain shows no signs of stopping, and if it continues like this, it will be a matter of time before the flood happens." ”

With his previous field experience, he has not been on duty in extreme weather, and he has also done things to track down against typhoons when he was on duty in extreme weather.

This increasing amount of precipitation is still terrifying to watch.

"Okay, let's go back to the hotel and clean up, it's still too late to think about flood prevention...... Well? Turning the corner, Maolilan saw the scene in front of the hotel, and his face changed suddenly.

Without thinking about it, she threw the umbrella in her hand and sprinted in the direction of the door.

"Let go of him, who are you!"

At the front of the inn stood several people, all dressed in fishermen's hats, in an arc, surrounding the entrance of the inn.

Through this layer of human wall, you can see that several other people are walking out of the hotel, and in the hands of these people, it is Tang Ze who should have been lying in the room.

He was wearing a new yukata that they had given him yesterday, and he was struggling, but he didn't seem to have any strength, and four or five people dragged him hand and foot, and some people covered his mouth, almost lifting him outward.

Mao Lilan shouted angrily, raised his leg and kicked at the person standing in front of him, his apricot eyes full of rage.

These inexplicable islanders almost killed Tang Ze in the mountains and forests, and now they actually broke into the hotel directly, wanting to rob people directly!

With a "bang", Maolilan's kick hit the back of the person in front of him, who shook twice, and instead of falling to the ground directly from her attack, he turned around and glanced at her from under the hat.

Mao Lilan, who thought he would see the face of a certain islander, found that under the other party's hat, there was actually a ghost face buckled on his face, with a hideous and white color, and in the dark and damp rainstorm, the people's hearts were cold.

The person who was hit muttered something, and before she could understand, he suddenly turned around and ran in the other direction.

The rest of the people surrounding the hotel also ran to the other side of the street as if they had been awakened by the attack.

"These guys ......" Mao Lilan gritted his teeth, glanced at Tang Ze who fell in front of the door, and couldn't really chase after him, wiped the rain on his face, and hurriedly went over to check Tang Ze's situation.

"What's going on with all these people on the island?" Maori Kogoro, who was a little slower, also scolded, and walked over to help his daughter help Tang Ze, who seemed to be out of strength on the ground, up, "Let's go, hurry up and get in." I can't leave this kid alone anymore. ”

Conan, who ran over with Maolilan's umbrella, looked at the crowd of people who were so fast that they didn't look like humans and had quickly disappeared into the corner of the street, his brows furrowed for a moment, and he glanced at the roof on the other side of the house consciously.

There were more than a dozen people in the group, and they were just three unarmed tourists, one of whom was a schoolboy of seven or eight years old.

On the premise of not knowing the combat effectiveness of Xiaolan and Uncle Maori, they have such a huge numerical advantage, how do you think they should also come forward and try to fight directly.

Therefore, it must not be the three of them who "scared these people away".

As far as his line of sight could observe, several red, black, and white figures, under the cover of the rain, crossed the bulging roof and chased in the direction of those people fleeing.

And so it was......

Therefore, they have no time to take care of Tang Ze's situation these days, is it because they are busy with the strength they need to fight?

After a startling glance, Conan stopped trying to track the movements of the strange thieves, and walked over to assist the two of them, helping Tang Ze, who didn't seem to have much strength to stand up straight.

"What happened, and why did those people come running to get you?" Maori Kogoro slapped the water stains on Tang Ze's body, helped him walk towards the hotel, frowned and asked, "Has their unfriendliness reached this level?" ”

Tang Ze, who staggered and looked like he had been dropped, followed their support back to the tea room on the second floor in a daze, slumped at the table, and gasped for breath for a while.

"I don't know......" Taking the water handed by Mao Lilan, Tang Ze took two sips and replied in a dumb voice, "After I woke up, I found that I had returned to the hotel, and I couldn't see any of you, so I wanted to go downstairs to have a look...... Then the group burst in. ”

What else could it be? Because the impression space tank is cracked, cough.

The speed of fusion on both sides is accelerating, and the water gushing out of the tank is not only a torrential rain in the sky, but also an hourglass that represents the countdown to complete integration.

The shadowy group of islanders had begun to take on the characteristics of the shadow of the temple, dressed uniformly, wearing masks on their faces, and showing active hostility towards the group of strange thieves who had aroused high vigilance.

As the first thief leader to increase the alert value, Tang Ze bore the brunt of it and became the target of their attack.

Tang Ze, who hadn't eaten for two days, didn't pay attention and really caught these shadows, he was about to resist, and he ripped them off or something, Mao Lilan's ripples, oh no, Mao Lilan's attack has come up.

He had no choice but to continue pretending to be blind, waiting for his teammates who rushed out to drive the group away.

No matter how they merge, no matter how much they look like shadows, they are also human beings with entities in reality, and it really hurts to be beaten by monster thieves.

Mori Kogoro recalled the situation just now with a serious face, and touched his chin: "So, did you encounter a similar situation two days ago?" Someone took advantage of your departure from the room and took you straight away? ”

Although the front desk of the inn insisted that it was not seen when Tang Ze left, looking at the style of the aborigines just now, the testimony of the hotel staff became less credible.

They were all residents of the island, and even if they weren't the part of Tang Ze that was inexplicably hostile, between outsiders and locals, they would definitely be inclined to shield the locals.

Well, I can't stay in the hotel anymore......

"You haven't eaten in days, you can't eat too much at once."

"Thanks, I know." Tang Ze took the bread handed over by Mao Lilan and took a bite, feeling the taste of the food he had not seen for a long time, and replied vaguely, "No, I did leave by myself two days ago." ”

“…… Did you really run into the mountains on your own? Mori Kogoro's eyes widened in disbelief, "You don't look like such an imprudent person, do you?" ”

After clearly knowing that there were unfriendly people on the island, according to Tang Ze's cautious style, he would only consider avoiding everyone's eyes and trying not to cause too much trouble.

After all, this is someone else's territory, and as outsiders, it is very unwise for them to rush into a confrontation head-on.

"I can't help it." Rubbing his head in annoyance, Tang Ze said in a shocking voice, "Miss Naoko Kuroe, and, Ebihara Sumi?" Is that the name? In short, it's the ones who have a good relationship with Saori Menrib and Kimie Shimabukuro. The two of them seemed to believe inexplicably that I could find them the location of the mermaid's grave.

She said hysterically that if I didn't look for them, they would die, and that they would just pull a few people into the water before they died...... Ah, it turned out that the forest, as soon as I entered, I really couldn't find a way out, I went around and around, but almost fell off the cliff, and finally found a route that seemed to be able to leave, and ran into the two of them again, holding a knife and looking crazy......"

With a wrinkled face that was indescribable, Tang Ze said the content of this paragraph that was definitely not a lie.

He didn't want to play such a big game, after all, Shimabukuro Junhui is already in this state, is he a fork, the fate of this island is not much better.

However, this island of strong negative emotions has a sudden increase in neuropathy as the combination of shadows and individuals in reality increases.

Kuroe Naoko went directly to Tang Ze, and in front of him, who was talking to Shimabukuro Kimihui, he began to say that he was going to find a mermaid tomb, and he was going to swallow the bones and ashes, "You must find it, if you don't look for it, you won't survive" and so on......

I can only say that the guy who can make a simple arson and burn the goddess to try it, the shadow is not a normal thing, and the circuit is so strange.

Almost as soon as she said the words, Tang Ze felt the crack directly overwhelmed the "horn", and hurriedly dizzed her, by the way, to appease Shimabukuro Junhui, lest people directly dissolve their anger and kill them all.

Although they are all the same amount of water, turning into rainwater and slowly falling to the ground, and directly backing up seawater, are two different things.

"So, you went into the mountain under their coercion and had to find that tomb......" Conan looked at Karasawa in surprise and muttered, "No, then why, Ebihara Shoumi ......"

He glanced at Tang Ze's face, which was still bloodless and had two shallow scars, and the next words were blocked in his throat and he couldn't continue.

He wanted to say if it could be that Ebihara Shomi bumped into Tang Ze, who was lost in the mountains, and then Tang Ze was angry and killed someone in the scuffle or something......

Although if you think about it, this situation seems to be considered as justifiable defense, but if it develops to the point of directly strangling someone, it will definitely be treated as excessive.

"Is she dead?" Tang Ze blinked, "So, is it Naoko Kuroe who is finally completely crazy......"

"Huh? Do you mean that Naoko Kuroe killed Ebihara Sumi? The unbelievable Mori Kogoro had a shocked expression on his face, "Why, aren't they targeting you together?" ”

"I don't know...... But anyway, it can't be normal to tie a rope on me and force me to go into the water to catch something, right? Tang Ze, who had told the truth again, shook his head indescribably, "That current is very fast, it is a narrow position, I have reiterated to them again and again, this level of flow speed will really be washed away." ”

"Well, the two of them ......"

"Ebihara Shoumi said, then tie a rope to you so that you won't be washed away." Tang Ze scratched his face and threw out another big truth.

This wave really can't blame him for playing too well, it can only be said that neurological patients have a wide range of ideas, and mentally handicapped children have a lot of fun.

There is one thing to say, in their state, that is, Shimabukuro Kimie desperately wants revenge, wants to hear apologies and repentance from their mouths, or rather, let them feel the pain that their mother experienced in her life, otherwise, with their ability to die, they should not live to see the day when the impression space washes away the island.

The other three people, you look at me, I look at you, and they all look at each other a little.

Tang Ze's answer was really very surprising, from his point of view, it was even possible that the self-defeating Ebihara Shoumi had killed herself, and Tang Ze had to jump into the river with a rope, and then somehow he couldn't hold it, but wrapped it around his neck and smacked himself off......

It's not that it's impossible, it's really a bit of a test of imagination, and it's an extremely difficult suicide method.

"Ah, speaking of which, what about Hattori and Toyama?" In their shocked silence, Tang Ze finished eating the bread in his mouth, looked left and right, and asked.

"That kid from Hattori insisted on investigating the upstream location of the waterfall and finding the first scene of Ebihara Sumi's death...... In this case, he probably didn't need to go. Maori Kogoro patted the back of his head, thinking of the thrilling scene just now when Tang Ze was almost gone, and took the case, "Let's not talk about this first, let's pack up our things first and move to the shrine." ”

"Is this the time?" Mao Lilan glanced at his watch and asked uncertainly, "At this point, they haven't finished arranging the wake yet......

"I can't care about it so much, it's not safe for Tang Ze to stay in the town now." Mori Kogoro said with a straight face, "The Shimabukuro family is a shrine maiden who has been passed down from generation to generation on the island, and in the case of the shrine, those people will not dare to break in indiscriminately." ”

Just as they were talking, the sound of rain outside the window suddenly intensified, and the rain that hit the window heavily smashed the momentum of hail, and the sound almost drowned out the sound of several people's conversations.

"It's bigger again. In that case, isn't it very unsafe for Hattori to be in the mountains? Moriran pursed her lips and stood up uncomfortably, "We should hurry to the shrine, Miss Shimabukuro, maybe we will find them in time." ”

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"Let's go back quickly." Yuan Shan and Ye tightly grasped the handle of the umbrella in their hands, felt the force of the heavy knock on the umbrella surface, shrunk their necks, and said timidly, "This rain, it's so terrifying......"

"Okay, I'll ...... after taking the photo" Hattori Heiji stood up, wiped a handful of water from his face, turned his head, and saw a figure again, "Wait a minute, that's ......"

(End of chapter)