The daily life of the famous detective: the undead

Chapter 71 The Curse of the Mermaid
When Song Pingfeng arrived at Huanlaoyuan's house, Conan and others hadn't come yet, so he stood outside and waited.

Everyone in the town heard the news of Ebihara Shoumi's death, and rushed to help with the funeral.

After a while, Conan and his group walked over from a distance, greeted Matsudaira Feng, and walked in together.

After registering their names, everyone entered Ebihara's house. Ebihara Sumi's father was busy, and it was Jun Hui who came to greet them.

"You guys are here too." Jun Hui greeted reluctantly with a smile.

"Well, Miss Junhui is here too, doesn't the shrine need to deal with the aftermath?" Hattori Heiji asked.

"It's okay to leave those things to tomorrow, Shoumei's side is more important." Jun Hui shook her head and said.

"By the way, why didn't you see Ms. Naoko? She clearly saw her name on the roster." Conan asked suspiciously.

"Huh? Is she here too? I didn't see her." Jun Hui asked suspiciously.

"I just saw Ms. Naoko's name on the roster." Conan said affirmatively.

"Well, maybe I went to the bathroom." Jun Hui thought for a while and said.

"Then let's go and have a look." He Ye suggested, pulling Mo Lilan to find Naoko.

Song Pingfeng stood aside and looked at the room. Since it was already midnight, there weren't too many people who came, and they were busy in twos and threes.

"Isn't that man Saori's father? He's here too." Hattori Heiji pointed to a unique figure drinking.

"Well, the door assistant uncle just arrived." Jun Hui replied.

"He really can handle it. His daughter disappeared for three days, and now this kind of thing happened again, and he still has the desire to drink." Mori Kogoro said, looking at Saori's father.

"Uh……"

"what!!!"

Jun Hui wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a sudden scream, it was the voices of He Ye and Mao Lilan!

Conan and Hattori Heiji glanced at each other, and hurriedly followed the sound, Mouri Kogoro and Junhui followed closely behind, and Matsudaira followed with a frown.

Another homicide...

The deceased was exactly the Miss Naoko that Mao Lilan and the others were looking for. She was found not far from the sea in the backyard of Ebihara's house. She was strangled to death and then tied to a fishing net. Her death was extremely miserable.

Mao Lilan and the two were terrified, because there was a footprint where Naoko Heijiang died, pointing directly to the sea, and there were fish scales next to the footprint, as if killed by a mermaid...

Then Mori Kogoro and Hattori Heiji skillfully maintained the scene, checked briefly, and found something.

"This is?" Conan looked at something near the footprints on the beach, the trace of an arrow on the sand.

"Arrow of Dugong?" Hattori Heiji said in surprise.

Mori Kogoro also came over to take a look, and said, "It seems that the murderer came for the arrow of the dugong. After killing Miss Naoko, he took the arrow of the dugong."

"For now, that's right." Hattori Heiji nodded while touching his chin.

During this period, Matsudaira didn't interrupt, he was just observing with a frown. Seeing this, Conan asked curiously: "Did you find anything?"

"No." Song Pingfeng shook his head without explaining.He didn't pay attention to the case at all, he just wondered why he had to write down the island in his notebook.So far, he hasn't found anything that makes him care.

Conan glanced at him and said nothing.

Song Pingfeng frowned and walked aside, muttering: "Mermaid Island, Longevity Woman, Mermaid...Longevity?!"

Song Pingfeng's eyes lit up, and he felt that he had grasped the key point. The purpose of the winery seemed to be to pursue longevity.

But where is the connection point?I haven't seen anyone from a suspected winery show up...

Song Pingfeng couldn't figure it out, shook his head and didn't think about it, it would always appear when it should appear.

At this time, Conan and others over there made a new discovery.

"You mean you saw Miss Saori this morning?" Mori Kogoro asked in surprise.

A middle-aged woman replied: "Yes, I saw Sazhi from a distance this morning, so it is impossible for her to be killed."

It turned out that Hattori Heiji speculated that the murderer had already attacked Saori who lost the dugong arrow, so some people were refuting.

"It's strange, since she's in the town, why doesn't she come out to meet us? It's impossible for us to come to the town without seeing such a large group of people." Conan said with a serious face.

"Are you sure what you saw was really Saori?" Hattori Heiji asked.

"There's no mistake. Saori has dyed her hair and wears glasses. It's easy to recognize. We won't admit it." A middle-aged man said.

Hattori Heiji lowered his head and thought, "So, is Miss Saori trying to avoid someone's pursuit? That's why she didn't dare to show up."

"Mr. Menxie, do you know why?" Mori Kogoro asked Saori's father.

"Who knows, that child usually refuses to tell me anything, I hope she doesn't become a mermaid like that girl." Menxie Benzang's face was flushed with drunkenness, casually Said.

What he said stunned everyone. There is also this kind of father who doesn't care about his child's life or death at all.

Then Conan proposed to take a look at the roster of people who bought the number plate before, Jun Hui readily agreed, and they diverted to the shrine.

A few people came to the warehouse of the shrine, waiting for Junhui to find the roster Puzi this time.

"Strange, I put it here, why is it missing?" Jun Hui rummaged through the cabinet strangely, but couldn't find it.

"Is the roster missing?" Hattori Heiji asked.

"Yes, only this year's is missing." Jun Hui replied.

"Does anyone else know this place besides Ms. Junhui?" Conan asked suspiciously, why it just disappeared at this time.

"Everyone in the town knows this." Jun Hui said, "Maybe I misplaced it. I'll look for it in other rooms."

After Jun Hui finished speaking, she went out, leaving Conan and others here.

"What are you looking at?" Conan saw that Matsudaira was looking at the roster, and he couldn't help asking after turning to a page for a long time.

Song Pingfeng came back to his senses, smiled at the corner of his mouth, pointed to the roster and said, "Look at this."

Conan stretched his head over to have a look, and was shocked: "This is, Hui Yuan's name?!"

Yes, the name "Miyano Shiho" actually appeared in this previous roster!
In this way, Song Pingfeng's doubts were finally resolved. It turned out that the connection point was here. It turned out that it wasn't that the winery didn't come, but that it had come to investigate a long time ago, and the person who came was still Hui Yuanai.

"What are you talking about?" Hattori Heiji asked strangely.

Conan looked at Mao Lilan and the others, the distance between them was still far away, so he quietly explained to Hattori Heiji.

"So, this island has been patronized by that organization?" Hattori Heiji asked.

"I probably came here after hearing the legend of this island." Conan said.

At this time, He Ye on the other side pulled Mao Lilan and said, "Hey, Xiaolan, can you go to the toilet with me?"

Mao Lilan looked at He Ye amusedly, it seemed that she was really frightened.

"Okay, I just want to go to the toilet too." Mao Lilan agreed.

Mori Kogoro yawned and leaned against the wall, seemingly about to fall asleep.

Matsudaira looked carefully at the roster in his hand, and took note of the two names next to the name of Miyano Shiho: Doi Na and Uozuka Saburo.If the winery and Hui Yuan Ai appear here together, then there is a high probability that these two people are from the winery, and they can't be wrong if they are written down.

"what!!"

At this time, the screams came again, and it was the voices of Mao Lilan and He Ye again.

Several people ran out, only to see Mao Lilan looking at the dark place in the yard in horror.

"What's wrong?" Hattori Heiji asked.

"Just now... there was a brown-haired woman staring at us." He Ye said, pointing to the dark place with horror on his face.

"A woman with brown hair?" Hattori Heiji was taken aback, then turned to look at the place Kazuba pointed to, but saw no one.

At this time, Song Pingfeng looked at the distance and frowned and asked, "Did you see where Miss Junhui went?"

Mao Lilan was taken aback, and then said: "She just said that she would go to another warehouse over there to look for the roster..."

Before Mao Lilan finished speaking, she saw the flames in the distance and stood there in a daze.

Song Pingfeng didn't answer, and ran directly to the fire, hoping to make it in time.

As a result, when they arrived, the warehouse was completely covered by the fire, and the wooden beams had collapsed, and even the fire could not be saved.

Then, while the people in the town were fighting the fire, Song Pingfeng and his party searched all over the shrine, but they didn't see Jun Hui, and they all looked ugly. Jun Hui might be killed...

The fire burned all night and almost burned the entire warehouse.Early the next morning, the police finally arrived late. After searching the scene, they found a charred black female body. After inspection, the body was wearing glasses and blue clothes before death.

"Miss Saori?" Conan asked in surprise, they all thought it was Jun Hui who died, but it turned out to be Miss Saori?
"The deceased was wearing glasses and blue clothes. It should be Miss Saori." The police said.

Conan bowed his head and didn't speak. It's just that it can't be concluded that it is Saori, and if it is Saori, where did Junhui go?
"Conan, didn't Ms. Jun Hui say that she had gone to a dentist and had her teeth extracted?" Song Pingfeng said suddenly, if it was a tooth, even a corpse could be used to verify her identity.

Then they contacted the police to provide this information. Half an hour later, the news came that the teeth on the corpse were completely consistent with the dentist's comparison...

Several people were silent and their identities were confirmed, but no one was happy.

"How could this be..." He Ye was sad and Mao Lilan looked sad.

"In this case, what should the old woman do? Junhui is the only family member left for her." Mao Lilan said worriedly.

"Looking at it now, the biggest suspect is Saori. Xiaolan and the others saw a person suspected of Saori appearing at the shrine last night, and then Miss Junhui was killed in the warehouse. And Miss Junhui was dressed as Saori. The appearance, maybe she wants to make us think that the one who died was Sazhi instead of Junhui, so that she can leave her hometown incognito." Song Pingfeng speculated.

"That's true, but the possibility that this is a trap set by the murderer cannot be ruled out. After all, no one has seen Saori at close range so far." Hattori Heiji nodded and said.

At this time, a middle-aged man came over and said: "I just received a call, saying that I am very grateful to the shrine the day before yesterday for transferring the Dugong Arrow at a price of 100 million. His son's surgery was successful."

"100 million?" Everyone was surprised.

"Did you ask that person who sold him the arrow?" Conan asked anxiously.

"He said he was a tall, middle-aged man with a beard."

"Mr. Menxie!" Song Pingfeng said affirmatively, this image is consistent with Menxie Benzang, and he also has doubts.

"Looks like I need to investigate Mr. Menshie. I'll go to Ebihara's house to ask about what happened last night. Mr. Menshie's house will ask you to work... Uncle Mori." Hattori Heiji couldn't wait to leave, with a winning ticket He Ye followed him and ran out.

"Then Maori detectives, go to Mr. Menxie's house to investigate. I'll wait here." Song Pingfeng thought for a while and said.Yuko Kimura should be awake and may come over in a while.

Then Mori Kogoro took Conan and Mori Ran to the door association's house, while Matsudaira stayed at the shrine to continue investigating...

(End of this chapter)