An hour later, everyone arrived at the Mermaid Waterfall. At this moment, Miss Jun Hui, who was dressed as a witch, was already waiting there. When she saw that everyone had arrived, she hurriedly spoke.
"Now, let's invite tonight's three lucky guests to come to the front."
"Coming, coming! Coming! "
He Ye held his number tag high and jumped up to Miss Jun Hui. Then, two people followed. One of them looked like a tourist from another city, and the other was a drunk uncle.
"Now, let's invite the three of you to receive the Light of Bliss."
Along with Jun Hui's voice, the villagers who were already prepared hurriedly released fireworks. Streaks of fireworks flew into the sky and then bloomed. Seeing this scene, the crowd could not help but feel emotional. In any case, even if they could not obtain the Dugong's Arrow, in their opinion, it was obviously very interesting to come to this place and experience the unique customs.
However, at this moment, suddenly, a tourist pointed behind him.
"Hey, look, what's that?!!"
"What's wrong?"
Hearing his shout, everyone looked over. Under the light of the fireworks, they could see a large dark shadow suddenly falling down from the top of the waterfall. Then, accompanied by a "splash", the huge shadow fell into the lake along with the gushing water of the waterfall.
Seeing this scene, everyone could not help but gather around. Under their gazes, the shadow that originally fell into the lake gradually emerged, revealing its true appearance in front of everyone — — it was three dead people entangled together, their faces ashen!
"Ahhh — — —!!"
Xiao Lan's and He Ye's screams reached his ears, and Fangzheng was completely speechless as he looked at the three unfamiliar faces …
With the three detectives Hattori Heitji, Mouri Kogoro, and Conan around, the three bodies were naturally retrieved immediately. It had to be said that compared to the ordinary drowned bodies, the three bodies in front of them gave off a rather terrifying feeling. From the outside, the three bodies seemed to be hugging each other and curling into a ball. It also seemed like the three of them were grabbing each other, trying to prevent each other from crying for help.
All in all, this strange corpse made everyone's expression change. Even Fangzheng raised his eyebrows. He was sure that when he killed them, the three corpses were thrown separately, and their hands and feet were tied to avoid accidents. But now, not only was the rope binding his feet gone, so was the stone.... Hmm, this was really strange.
Mouri Kogoro examined the body and quickly came to a conclusion.
"From the surface of the corpses, these three people have probably been dead for a few days. As for the exact time, we can only be sure after the police conduct an autopsy."
"…"
Fangzheng indicated that he would just watch without saying a word.
"The cause of death seems to be a heavy blow to the head."
Hattori Heiji also gave his opinion.
"Judging from the wound, it could be some kind of heavy weapon, probably a rock."
"…"
Fangzheng indicated that he would continue watching without saying a word.
"No, I don't think so."
Conan shook his head.
"Hattori, look carefully. The skulls of these three people have been shattered, but their skin is almost intact. There are no signs of serious injury. Generally speaking, an attack that can shatter the skull is enough to completely smash their heads into pieces...."
"…"
Fangzheng indicated that you have the science, and I have the martial arts. We're about the same, so who's afraid of who?
"Mr. Fangzheng, what do you think?"
Lan also looked at Fangzheng and asked. Fangzheng just shrugged.
"I don't have any opinion. Reasoning and autopsy are not my strengths. I'm not good at it."
"Huh? Is that so? I thought you were a detective too. "
Hearing Fangzheng's answer, He Ye was shocked. She originally thought that Hattori Heiji deliberately called Fangzheng because he was also a detective. She did not expect Fangzheng to deny it himself.
"Mr. Fangzheng is a very good expert in micro-expressions."
Fangzheng did not say anything, but Lan hurriedly explained to He Ye.
"Even if others don't speak, he can see through their expressions and thoughts. That's the most amazing thing about him. And Mr. Fangzheng's skills are quite good. He even beat down armed criminals with his bare hands several times. There are even international assassins among them. "
"Ah, I see …"
Upon hearing that, He Ye immediately nodded. The way he looked at Fangzheng was filled with curiosity.
"Mr. Fangzheng, can you see through what I'm thinking now?"
"Of course not."
Fangzheng glanced at He Ye.
"What you're thinking now is, 'Heiji, that idiot, left me behind to look at the case again. Is I more important or is the case more important? When will he realize what I'm thinking? But the way he solves the case is really cool …"
However, before Fangzheng could finish his sentence, He Ye covered his mouth with her blushing face.
"F- Mr. Fangzheng, don't tell me you can read minds …"
"I'm just guessing. After all, your thinking circuit is not much different from Lan's."
"Ugh …"
Lan, who was watching from the side, also blushed when she heard this. He Ye also turned her head, glared at Lan, and pounced on Lin Sanjiu.
"Are you the same?!"
"I'm not!!!"
The two girls ran away noisily, more or less diluting the solemn atmosphere here. On the other side, Hattori Heitji had already asked Shimaduke to take a look and confirmed that the three corpses were her three missing friends. At this moment, Shimaduke's face was pale and terrified — well, the way the three corpses appeared was too dramatic.
Fangzheng was rather surprised that the three corpses would end up in such a state. However, after comparing the satellite cloud map and the terrain with his personal terminal, he immediately came to a realization. The place where Fangzheng dumped the corpses was where the undercurrent was the most turbulent on the island. According to the results of the geographical survey, there was a hollow inside the island. From the looks of it, after the corpses were thrown into the sea, they "broke free" from the rocks Fangzheng tied to them under the action of the turbulent undercurrent, then flowed into the island along the undercurrent. Because the corpses were relatively large, they moved slowly. They were probably stuck somewhere, then fell into the lake after the water level rose, then flowed all the way down to the waterfall.
As for why the corpses became like that … .it was probably a coincidence.
After all, this was Ke Xue's world. Things that could not be explained by science could be explained by Ke Xue.
Meanwhile, Mouri Kogoro, Hattori Heiji, and Conan were arguing about whether it was an accident or a homicide.
Mouri Kogoro felt that it was most likely an accident. It was likely that the three girls went somewhere to play together, then accidentally fell into the water and drowned. As for their skulls being smashed, it was most likely the result of hitting something under the impact of the current after they died.
It had to be said that Mouri Kogoro was indeed Mouri Kogoro. His reasoning left Hattori Heitji and Conan speechless. Although they didn't think it was an accident, they couldn't see anything from the current corpse. After all, this was a small island surrounded by the sea, and above the waterfall was a dense forest. It would make sense if the three girls went out to play together and accidentally got wiped out.
However ….
"I don't think it's that simple. Didn't we hear from the people on the island that Miss Menawaki was in a panic because she lost the Dugong's Arrow? She was afraid that the Merpeople would come and kill her. She even wrote me a letter asking for help. How could she be in the mood to go out and play?"
Hattori Heiji was the first to raise a question, followed by Conan.
"Moreover, isn't Big Sister Junhui their best friend since they were young? If she wanted to go, why didn't she ask Sister Junhui to go with her? "
"Hmm …."
Hearing this, Mouri Kogoro frowned and thought for a moment. Then, he suddenly clapped his hands.
"I understand what's going on!"
"Huh?"
"Here's what happened."
Mouri Kogoro proudly began to explain his reasoning to Hattori Heiji and Conan.
"Miss Menawaki lost her Dugong's Arrow and was worried that the Merpeople would come looking for her, so she found her two friends to discuss the situation. After all, although she sent you a letter, she wasn't sure that you would be there. She had to find a way herself. Her two friends might have given Menawaki an idea to calm the Merpeople's anger, so the three of them went to the forest together. On the way, they encountered an accident and accidentally died. "
Hearing this, Hattori Heiji and Conan rolled their eyes.
"Then why didn't they ask Miss Junhui to come? Miss Junhui is the shrine's miko. If they wanted to do this kind of thing, they should have asked Miss Junhui to come. "
"Wrong. I think they deliberately didn't ask Miss Junhui to come."
"Why do you say that?"
"It's simple. Maybe Miss Junhui, as a miko, would object to this method. If that's the case, not only would they not get her help if they told Miss Junhui, she might even stop them from doing it. So, the three of them didn't tell Miss Junhui anything and went on their own without telling her! "
As expected of Maori Kogoro, his ability to make up stories was top-notch.
Listening to Maori Kogoro's triumphant reasoning, Fangzheng silently gave him a thumbs up. This script was good enough to make a thriller.
Although both Hattori Heiji and Conan felt that Maori Kogoro's reasoning was not very reliable, there was no evidence to refute it. After all, after Fangzheng killed the three people, he threw away all their belongings. Their mobile phones were smashed and scattered into the sea, leaving no clues behind. It was impossible to find any evidence from them.
The only thing they could say now was that Maori Kogoro's reasoning was just that. There was no evidence to prove it. So, in the end, they decided to follow the original plan and go to Menawaki's house to check on the situation, then investigate the other two victims.
By the way, the best way was to let the police come and conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and time of death. But after making a phone call just now, they were told that the police could not go out to sea for the time being due to the strong wind and waves …
There was nothing they could do about it. They could only wait patiently.
As for Fangzheng … he just watched.
He also wanted to see what these two famous detectives could find out from this place.
(End of this chapter)
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