Chapter 3171 3183 [Slander]

"You Tokyo people are crazy to go out and catch fish at night, especially fast-swimming fish."

Hattori Heiji raised his arm and smashed the coconut a few times with a stone he picked up from the woods. Then he shook his sore hand and muttered to Conan speechlessly, "Or maybe Jiang Xia didn't want to smash the coconuts, so he found an excuse to run away?"

"Jiang Xia is not that kind of person." Conan also held a coconut and studied it over and over again.

After chatting for a while, he glanced at the nearby "Miss Shirai" and lowered his voice: "Come to think of it, don't you find it strange that the suspicious woman didn't follow Jiang Xia, but stayed among us instead."

Hattori Heiji was also a little confused about this: "Yeah, before, she followed Jiang Xia wherever he went, why did she suddenly change her nature now?"

Conan touched his chin and said, "Maybe because there were so many people around before, her behavior was not obvious, but now, only Jiang Xia and Yuan Zi went to the beach. She was worried that following too closely would arouse Jiang Xia's vigilance, so she resisted the urge to follow and stayed here?"

Seven or eight meters away.

Curacao glanced at the two guys whispering to each other, pushed his glasses up, and pretended not to notice that they were discussing him.

Although the two people here are not good people either, but "on a dark and windy night", "with Uzo", "going to the beach to catch fish"... no matter which factor, it is enough to make Curacao alert.

And when the three of them were put together... the only image that came to her mind was a corpse falling helplessly into the sea, perhaps being eaten by fish, and dying a miserable death.

At this moment, there was a sudden click.

While chatting, he seemed to be more efficient at work - in the short moment when Hattori Heiji was distracted, he actually succeeded in cracking the coconut.

"Haha! I told you, coconuts are the best." Detective Osaka held the coconut he could finally drink in his hand as if he were holding a trophy. "What grilled fish? That's just ridiculous..."

He had just said half of his words when he looked up and saw Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko coming back.

Looking closely, one of the two men was holding two big, plump fish as long as his forearm.

Hattori Heiji: "???"

He was stunned for a moment, then turned around and grabbed the program director: "Is this the prop you hid on the island in advance?"

The program director was happy about having dinner today, but was stunned for a few seconds when he heard his words: "We are a detective program, how can we use this kind of thing as a prop! - Besides, aren't you a detective? Look carefully, these fish are still very fresh!"

Conan didn't expect that Jiang Xia would actually bring back a fish when he said he wanted to eat it. It was a big, plump fish that a fishing enthusiast could catch and circle the town three times. He asked in shock, "Where did the fish come from?"

"..." Jiang Xia looked down at the exaggerated harvest in his hand: he just asked the mermaid to throw a few fish ashore in the dark, who knew she would throw such big ones... Although he was quick-eyed and quick-footed, and quietly kicked a few fish of outrageous size back into the sea, he was not alone, and there was Suzuki Sonoko next to him - this high school girl also had good eyesight, and she finally found a few fish happily and had to bring them back.

As for Conan's question...

Jiang Xia told the truth: "I found it at the beach."

Conan: “?”

Hattori Heiji: "?"

Curacao: "..." Are you kidding me? These fish are not fools, how could they jump under your feet for no reason... Come to think of it, could it be that Wuzo has other helpers on the island? Did that helper secretly catch the fish and give it to him?

In an instant, an impressive image of a curly-haired man in a black suit emerged in Curacao's mind. She seemed to see the strange scene of that man, relying on his black body from head to toe, quietly blending into the night and paying tribute to his boss like a black actor in Kabuki.

"It's not easy to have a boss who does whatever he wants..."

Although he was also wary of Uzo's subordinate, Curacao couldn't help but sigh, feeling a sense of sympathy.

…

No matter how strange the origin of the fish was, dinner was finally successfully resolved.

I barely filled my stomach, but it was already completely dark.

Everyone looked far away in the direction of the town, and all they saw was still the dark sea, with no small boats coming towards them.

The program director sighed, "It's true that no one is willing to work overtime... It looks like no one will come to pick us up tonight."

The crew member with shoulder-length hair touched his exposed arms and shivered in the sea breeze: "Don't blow the wind on the shore, go hide in that villa - even if it's shabby like a haunted house, it can at least block the wind."

This time, the proposal to enter the villa was finally passed unanimously.

Jiang Xia walked up the creaking steps to the front door, pushed open the dilapidated door, and in front of him was a corridor with mottled walls.

As they walked forward, they looked at the rooms on both sides. Soon, they found a restaurant with tables and chairs and walked in.

What’s even more interesting is that there are candlesticks in the room.

Jiang Xia took out a lighter and lit the candles one by one. Mao Lilan looked at this scene and couldn't help but nodded quietly: Although smoking is not a good habit, it is quite useful to carry a lighter with you... Should she also carry one with her in the future?

With the light of candles, I no longer have to waste my phone’s battery.

Everyone turned off their flashlights, pulled over stools and sat down at the table.

Although there was some dust on the stool, no one cared. After resting for a while, Hattori Heiji suddenly said, "Today I found a sunken anchor at the bottom of the sea, in the same place where Miss Taira was diving."

Jiang Xia looked at him.

Hattori Heiji: "Its chain is broken and covered with rust. It must have been soaking in the seabed for some time."

Mao Lilan suddenly remembered something and shuddered: "I remember that mysterious body was found on the island a year ago, and he was suspected to have died in a typhoon... Could this anchor be torn off from that person's boat?"

"Definitely!" Suzuki Sonoko felt that her best friend was a genius, and of course, she was also:

"He must have been on a boat trip when the typhoon washed him to the vicinity of this island. In order to avoid this natural disaster, he quickly got off the boat and hid on the island, intending to wait until the storm was over before sailing away.

"But unfortunately, when the storm stopped and he planned to leave, he found that his boat was swept away by the wind and waves. So he was trapped here and eventually starved to death on the island."

"So that's it!" Suzuki Sonoko's reasoning came to an end, and Mao Lilan applauded, "Sonoko is so smart!"

(End of this chapter)