Coroner Coroner

"Forensic science is a subject that requires profound professional accumulation."

"We have to be a little more patient with students who are more retarded."

"Hmm..." Hattori Heiji admitted his mistake with shame on his face: "I'm sorry, teacher."

"I will directly criticize her for being stupid in the future, and I will not compare Miss Maori with her."

Yuan Shanhe Ye: "..."

She was choked up by the pair of master and apprentice, and her expression became even more aggrieved.

It wasn't until Belmod gave Lin Xin a somewhat complaining look, and then gently grabbed her arm to give comfort, that Miss Ye finally regained some energy.

"OK OK…"

"We're not going to talk about that."

Belmode reluctantly brought up this emotional topic:

"Tell me, how did you two come to this American island?"

Heiji Hattori's expression quickly turned serious as he chatted back to business:

"I came here because I received a strange commission."

"The entrustment says..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Xinyi tried to answer: "'Please save me, I will be killed by the mermaid'?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Mr. Lin, since you also know the content of this letter, that means..."

Hattori Heiji's eyes instantly became sharper:

"Sure enough, you also received this entrustment letter?"

"Sure enough?" Lin Xinyi heard some overtones: "You guessed beforehand that I might also receive this entrustment letter?"

"Yeah." Hattori Heiji nodded, and took out a piece of letter paper from his arms:

"Because the letter of entrustment that Miss Saori sent me was written as..."

"'Mr. Hayashi Shinichi's disciple, Mr. Hattori Heiji'."

The client wrote this on the title, clearly aiming at Lin Xinyi's name.

It seems that Ms. Kadowaki Saori must have believed in Shinichi Hayashi's ability as a "detective" to give him, and two of his students all sent commission letters.

"Since she will send a letter of entrustment to me, a 'student', because of your reputation, Mr. Lin."

"Then she has no reason not to invite the 'teacher' himself."

Hattori Heiji explained unhurriedly:

"But I think the content of this letter is quite strange. Teacher, you are an official police officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, so you should not be interested in this kind of 'spoofing' detective commission."

"That's why I didn't contact you. I brought He Ye over to investigate."

"I see…"

Lin Xinyi figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

Then he asked curiously: "Then Heiji, have you and Ms. Ye found any clues?"

"No." Hattori Heiji shook his head: "We also just came to this island, and we haven't officially started the investigation yet."

"Before I came, I tried to call the phone number left by Ms. Saori Kadowaki on the entrustment letter."

"But the phone has never been answered."

"After calling it a few times, it simply shut down completely."

"That's right." Yuan Shan and Ye also forgot to argue with their childhood sweethearts, and echoed with fear on their faces: "That Kadowaki Saori wrote a distress letter, but he didn't answer our calls."

"Maybe, she...she has already been killed by the 'mermaid'."

"There is no such thing as a mermaid in the world." Hattori Heiji rolled his eyes helplessly.

Compared with his partner, he is not so nervous:

"If you can't get through the phone, it doesn't necessarily mean you were killed."

"Actually, the way it stands now...it's more like a well-planned prank."

The entrustment letter arrived, but the phone couldn't be connected, and the content written on it was still an unimaginable strange legend like "mermaid".

It really looked like a prank.

If it weren't for the long vacation and the panic of being idle, Hattori Heiji would not have accepted such a strange commission.

If you can find something strange when you come here, it will be a surprise.

If it was found out to be a prank, then it would be considered a two-day trip to the island, not a trip for nothing.

This is Hattori Heiji's thoughts and guesses.

It is also the best inference result that can be drawn based on the existing clues.

But...Lin Xin took a look at Hattori Heiji, that face resembled Kudo Shinichi.

His mood was never relaxed:

"Is it a prank..."

"I hope so!"

..............................

After Hayashi Shinichi, Belmode, Hattori Heiji, Yuanshan and Ye met at the pier, the investigation finally officially started.

The first step in the investigation is naturally to find Saori Kadowaki, the client who sent the distress letter.

And the number left on the letter couldn't get through.

The only way is to find someone to ask Kadowaki Saori's whereabouts.

Fortunately, this American island is not too big. If Saori Kadowaki is a native of the American island, many people on the island should know her.

Although the idea is simple, the implementation encountered a little trouble.

Because today is the annual mermaid festival held on the island.

The pier was crowded with tourists who came from other places to pray for gods and worship Buddha. For a while, it was difficult to distinguish who was a local who knew the situation on the island and who was a newcomer.

"Longevity mother-in-law, longevity..."

"The attraction of these two words is really big enough."

Belmode looked at the enthusiastic tourists on their faces, and sighed softly in a way that others could not understand.

But this emotion quickly faded away, and she came back to her senses and offered advice for everyone:

"Come on, let's go to the gift shop in front."

"The clerks in the gift shop must be locals who know the local situation."

This is a good idea.

Lin Xinyi and the others quickly followed the surging crowd and squeezed into the popular gift shop.

Like this "mermaid island", the merchandise in this gift shop also contains mermaid elements everywhere.

Mermaid dolls, mermaid pillows, mermaid biscuits, mermaid steamed buns.

Of course, the best seller among tourists is the "Longevity Charm" which is said to be consecrated by the longevity mother-in-law herself.

"Heh." A sneer full of disgust emerged from the corner of Belmode's mouth.

People's frantic pursuit of longevity seems to make the air here a little disgusting.

But she quickly concealed her disgust, grabbed a passing female clerk, and asked for Lin Xinyi and others:

"Hello."

Belmode looked at the name written on the badge of the female clerk:

"Miss Kuroe Naoko."

"Can I ask you a question?"

The short-haired female clerk named Naoko Heijiang was slightly taken aback, and then asked in a very concise and capable tone: "Tell me."

"Saori Kadowaki, is there such a person on the island?"

"Saori?"

Heijiang Naoko opened her mouth wide in surprise:

"Are you Saori's friends?"

"Oh?" Everyone realized something: "Miss Heijiang, do you know Miss Kadowaki Saori?"

"Yes." Heijiang Naoko nodded: "Saori is a good friend who grew up with me, of course I know her."

"Why, what do you want to do with her?"

Speaking, before Belmod came up, she continued:

"By the way, no matter what you have to do with her, now is the wrong time..."

"Because Saori has been missing for three whole days, we can't contact her."

"What?" Everyone was shocked.

Hayashi Shinichi and Hattori Heiji sensed something was wrong immediately:

This Ms. Naoko Kuroe is a good friend of the client, Saori Kadowaki.

And since Saori Kadowaki has been missing for three days, why didn't she worry about her friend at all when she talked about it?

"Because it's normal."

"It's not the first time it's happened."

Heijiang Naoko introduced the situation with ease:

It turns out that Saori Kadowaki's father is an old alcoholic who likes domestic violence. He would run home and go mad at his daughter every day he drank it.