Chapter 306

In the evening, hailaoyuan's family had a funeral. Most of the islanders came to hang a memorial ceremony in black. The atmosphere was solemn and heavy.

Gao Cheng also changed into a borrowed suit and took Huiyuan to follow uncle Maori and his party into the meeting.

Although we are used to seeing death in this world, we seldom attend funerals. It seems that the last time was when the moon shadow Island incident happened, and we just looked on as passers-by, far less heavy as the party concerned.

At the entrance of the gate, uncle Maori took the lead in signing at the registration office, and the uniform department and Heye followed behind in their student uniforms.

"Fortunately, we brought our uniform here, didn't we, Heye?" The service department looks at Gao Cheng's borrowed suit and says happily.

"Isn't that good?" He Ye whispered, "we will disturb others when we come here..."

"You think too much. We can just take this opportunity to inquire more about the island."

"Hello," Gao Cheng reminded him at the back, "service department, don't make a fuss. Now you are on a vigil for miss Shoumei."

Take the student uniform to the funeral... Isn't this guy from the uniform Department psychologically prepared before he came to Mermaid island?

Walking into the inner hall of the wake, there are already several people kneeling on the futon inside. Junhui shimadai, Lulang Fukuyama, and even the gauze drunkard dad are there

"Mr. Maori?" Shimadzu stood up in surprise, "are you here, too?"

"Yes," Uncle Maori nodded with a smile and looked around in doubt. "Eh? Why didn't you see Miss naixuzi? There's her name on the roll

Shimadai Junhui said, "naixuzi, is she here? But I didn't notice... "

"Did you go back?" Uncle scratched his hair and didn't care too much. He knelt down on the futon.

Gao Cheng didn't sit down. He had a bad feeling in his heart. He looked around and pulled open the wooden door leading to the corridor yard.

The courtyard is surrounded by fishing nets directly. In the night, on the open fishing net, naixuzi's face is wrapped on the net like a fish trunk, and the sand is full of messy footprints.

It's too late

Gao Cheng shrinks his eyes, turns on the flashlight, and walks to the corpse with the shouts of the people in the mourning hall. He takes photos and checks the scene.

"The time of death is less than an hour... The cause of death is strangling the neck, causing suffocation..." Gao Cheng said after seeing the body.

"What's left in the sand are the footprints of slippers and boots," the clothing department also squatted to check. "The murdered miss naixuzi was wearing slippers here, so these boots should belong to the murderer..."

"Look here," Conan cried, finding an arrow mark beside his footprints. "This one here should be the mark of stepping on dugong's arrow?"

"Indeed," he said, "judging from the marks of slippers, the dugong's arrow may have fallen when miss naixuzi had an argument with the murderer, and was stepped on again... So the murderer's target is the dugong's arrow?"

Uncle Maori lifted the fishing net around the yard, followed the footprints and said, "in a word, if you follow the footprints of boots, you should know the route of the killer's escape..."

Gao Cheng stood aside with both hands, his eyes following the footprints of boots on the sand, looking straight at the undulating beach not far away.

He had seen it for the first time. These footprints extended to the sea, and there was no way to pursue them

There's nothing to be gained by continuing to investigate.

Now the most important thing is the connection between the serial murders. I don't know if it's a coincidence that all the people who were killed were five middle-aged people, and it seems that they all drew the arrow of dugong.

First of all, the gauze weave of the door which is afraid of revenge after losing the dugong's arrow, then Hai laoyuan Shoumei, who is likely to draw the dugong's arrow, and finally naixuzi, who was robbed of the dugong's arrow

Gao Cheng's mind flashed scenes of the beginning of the event, and all the people's words flashed by his ears, and the picture was fixed on the trembling longevity woman.

"It depends on the situation," she said with a grin. "I sometimes use the number I picked from the horse racing, ha ha."

"There are many number cards in a big box. Everyone goes in line to draw one... Then the old lady will pick out three of these numbers during the ceremony..."

"Later, because tourists have heard about the mermaid's grave, they came to steal it. My grandparents asked someone to move it to this forest secretly last year..."

"As long as Changshou granny knows where the mermaid tomb is..."

"By the way, do you want to try your luck?" Shimadai Junhui took out two number cards and asked Xiaolan and Heye, "this morning, an old couple temporarily returned the number cards, so I have two more..."

……

All the information comes together and turns into light.

Gao Cheng opened his eyes, his eyes slightly tightened.

The key to the case is the longevity woman

"Why?" The service department, who was searching with a flashlight, suddenly called out, "there seems to be something shiny around these footprints... Are they fish scales?"

Like Gao Cheng, Conan stayed beside the corpse and heard the voice of the Ministry of clothing follow: "if it's really fish scales, there are two or three pieces on miss naixuzi's clothes!"

"You guys!" At this time, a group of policemen with flashlights came to the other side, shouting, "what are you doing there?"

"What? Of course, it's investigating cases... "

"That's the job of the police in Fukui County!"

"Well."

Uncle Maori and the Ministry of kimono bitterly follow Gao Cheng back to the side of the hall, and the police take over the scene investigation.

Waiting in the corridor, people, especially Xiaolan and Heye, asked in a hurry: "did the murderer's footprints really disappear by the sea?"

"Well... At present, the police are comparing the footprints and heel styles of those boots," the service department said, looking at the busy police identification personnel, "walking along those footprints, there are still some fish scales on the ground..."

"Fish, scales?"

He hugged ye and Xiaolan in horror.

"Is... The killer a man or a mermaid?"

"Fool, how can a mermaid wear boots?" I think the killer may have come all the way along the coastline and met next to the fishing net that he had arranged to meet with Miss naixuzi. After the attack, he walked back along the coastline and his footprints were washed away by the waves. It looks like this... "

"But then again," asked Uncle Maori, "did anyone see Miss naixuzi leave the hall?"

Shimadai Junhui shook her head and said, "I don't know... When I came, she was no longer in this room..."

"How about you, Mr. munjo? Your name is on the back of miss naixuzi... "

"I didn't see it."

There was a hiccup at the side of the bearded door.

"When I came in, I was the only one who came to hang the sacrifice..."

"So," thought uncle Maori, touching his chin, "miss naixuzi arrived here first, and then she went to the net?"

Conan stood quietly on the side without interrupting, just looking at Gao Cheng who was also silent: "Chenghu, what's the matter?"

"Nothing."

Gao Cheng shook his head and ate the chocolate.

There are still some things that need to be clarified

Conan mouth slightly pumping: "need to come out every time with chocolate?"

"Oh, well, it's better to have strawberry milk, but it's not easy to take," Gao Cheng handed Conan the chocolate box. "Do you want it? I can only take one pill... "

Huiyuan turned around and laughed.

……

In the living room of hailaoyuan's house, the guests who came to watch the night gather for dinner. The police of Fukui county also took the opportunity to conduct a search to see if the murderer who robbed the arrow of naixuzi dugong was among the people who came to hang the sacrifice. However, the only people who had the arrow on them were the menxia and Heye.

Gao Cheng doesn't think such an investigation is useful, but some of the islanders' opinions are rather strange.

Someone saw the missing Shazhi appear near the mermaid waterfall during the ceremony

"Is it really miss Shazhi herself?" The service department doubts a way.

"Absolutely not," the Islander affirmed, "because we only have her hair dyed brown and wearing glasses on this island, and Shazhi always wears blue clothes..."

"If it's true," the clothing department sat down at the table and said in a deep voice, "Miss Shazhi should be trying to avoid something, so she can't show up in front of you... Chenghu, do you see anything?"

Conan ate sushi and said: "there's no clue at all. Only miss Shoumei, who was killed at the beginning, miss naixuzi and miss Shazhi, whose whereabouts are unknown this time, can be determined now... Everyone believes in the power of the longevity woman who has eaten human flesh and fish, and they are all very committed to the arrow of dugong..."

"Yes," the clothing department looked at Shazhi's father, who was drinking in the opposite direction. "I also think that the three of them were killed or fled around because they were involved in dugong's arrow... If only we could know the number of miss Shoumei last night..."

Shimadai Junhui just sat next to him and said with a smile, "it's very easy, because I will mark everyone with each number on the list. Do you want to go and see that list now? Because of these things, I haven't checked them yet... "

"Of course "It's so wonderful," he said

"Roster..." Gao Cheng's hand moves slightly.

"Ah? Going to miss Junhui's? " Uncle Maori was so drunk that when he was found, he had to be supported by the service department to stop.

Xiaolan was worried and helpless: "really, Dad, cheer up!"

"I didn't drink much wine..."

Taking uncle Maori to leave hailaoyuan's house, they go to daodaijia, where the shrine is located, through a forest full of strange sounds.

Huiyuan and Gao Cheng walked at the end with their hands on their back and whispered: "Miss Shazhi has no medical insurance card in her luggage, have you noticed? Did you find anything wrong? It's strange from the beginning... "" this serial killing seems to have been designed at the beginning. "Gao Cheng looks at the people leading the way," and there's something wrong with what Miss Shazhi witnessed. If it's to avoid anyone, it's too strange. I'm afraid... "" it's the murderer's disguise, right? " Huiyuan then said, "do you already know who the killer is?"“ It's a little bit close, "Gao Cheng said, slightly embarrassed," but there's already a little speculation. " Island generation home, island generation Junhui with a party to a room, looking through the cupboard roster“ Strange, I clearly remember that I should have put things here... "" can't you find the list? "“ Well, only this year's one is gone... "" could it be that old woman who took it away? " The service department helped to find the way. Shimadai Junhui shook her head and said, "it's impossible..." Conan then asked, "does anyone else know that you put your things here?"“ Almost all the people on the island know it, because people often look at the names of celebrities in the list, "Dai Junhui said helplessly," I'll go to other rooms to look for them... "" Miss Junhui, "Gao Cheng said," can I see the longevity woman? "“ "Ah?" Shimadai Junhui Leng way, "great grandmother should have gone to bed now, and I'll help you ask tomorrow, OK?"“ All right Gao Cheng doesn't insist. He just looks at shimadai Junhui, Xiaolan and Heye. After they go to other rooms to find the roster, they check other rosters. Each number corresponds to the name of the person, at a glance. If you have this list, it's easy for people to draw the arrow of dugong. It's not entirely coincidental or lucky for hailaoyuan Shoumei, naixuzi and even Heye to draw the arrow of dugong. As for the loss of the roster at this time... "Hmm?" Gao Cheng accidentally turns over a page of the list and notices that there is a name "Miyano Zhibao" on it. From the corner of his eye, Huiyuan glanced at the register: "it's just the same name, don't make a mistake." Gao Cheng wondered, "I haven't said anything yet..." "Miyano Zhibao?" Conan was curious and said, "it's really your real name, Huiyuan, but you don't look like the kind of person who would like to be young and beautiful forever, hehe..." Huiyuan said flatly: "compared with this, don't you think the roster might have been stolen by someone ahead of time? At the banquet, someone heard that you were going to check the register... "The service department put down another register:" do you mean Mr. menjo? I knew that I must be afraid that it was Miss Shoumei who really drew the dugong's arrow It's normal for Gao Cheng to put down the roster and the gangster to steal it. I don't know if it's a coincidence that the old drunkard became the biggest suspect in this incident because of the arrow of dugong. Once the roster is found, it may be arrested by the police as a murderer He Ye ran back to the room in a hurry and said anxiously, "just now we saw a woman with brown hair and glasses in the yard... Is that Miss Shazhi“ What? " "Where is she?" he said“ I don't know, because she ran away immediately... "" here we are again... "Gao Cheng frowned and walked out of the room, and saw that there were only Heye and Xiaolan in the corridor“ Strange, where is Miss Junhui? "“ She went out through the back door, "Xiao Lan said," because she said she was going to look over the rebuilt warehouse... "" she went alone? "“ Well, "he Ye nodded," originally we said we would go together, but she said we would come back soon. Let's go back here first... "Gao Cheng's face changed, and his thinking began to run rapidly again. All the clues connected in his mind:" where is the warehouse? "“ "Ah?" And leaf two startled, quickly pointed to the shrine outside the yard“ Well, it seems to be behind the Shrine... "Across the shrine, the sky on the other side has been illuminated by the fire, which is particularly eye-catching in the dark. Regardless of the explanation, Gao Cheng pulled open the glass doors and windows and ran to the shrine warehouse. No wonder at the beginning I felt a little strange that Shimadzu Junhui was the murderer. The puzzle has been solved