Chapter 3177 3189 [Hattori Heiji's Waterloo]

The long-haired man's words made everyone look at each other in panic.

After a brief moment of confusion, Jiang Xia walked towards the boat: "If they really came to silence us, they should have come down by now, but there has been no movement... Let's go over and take a look first."

As soon as he left, several people followed him, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

The two or three crew members who stayed there looked left and right, shivered in the sea breeze, and had no choice but to follow suit, forming a large and impressive-looking group.

The further we walked along the pier, the clearer we could see the ship. There was indeed something wrong with it - it was not docked at the pier normally, but had actually crashed into it, with the bow of the ship knocking down a section of the pier.

"No one is coming down." Mao Lilan clenched her fists and whispered to Jiang Xia, "Does he want to wait for us to go up and then attack us?"

"Humph, maybe they are too timid to come out." Hattori Heiji waved the flashlight and shone it casually on the ship. Suddenly he blinked his eyes: "Hmm? I think I saw something strange just now..."

"ah!!!"

As he shone the flashlight back, the two female high school students trembled all over and suddenly let out a very terrified scream.

Even Hattori Heiji, who was used to seeing corpses, couldn't help but stare at the place illuminated by the aperture and was stunned for a moment.

——A corpse hanging from the railing suddenly appeared in the center of the beam of light.

The unscrupulous captain who was suspected of killing Miss Taira and then driving away the ship was now hanging by a rope around his neck, like a long life buoy, hanging on the wall of the ship with his eyes open.

His feet drooped and fell into the sea, his head and body were stained with blood, and on the hull to his right, there were several large bloody words written.

——"I am a messenger from the underworld."

…

Unlike Miss Taira who died peacefully on the beach before, the captain in front of him died more than ten times more miserably.

Therefore, although the same words were written next to their bodies, the two gave people completely different feelings. An indescribable panic gradually spread in everyone's hearts.

But no matter what, the corpse is right in front of us, and we can't just stand there and watch.

Soon, everyone boarded the boat carefully and found that the murderer was not hiding in the boat. They breathed a sigh of relief, untied the miserable-looking corpse and placed it on the pier.

"So much blood." Hattori Heiji leaned over, scooped up a handful of sea water and washed his hands. He couldn't help but sigh, "And this doesn't look like a wound caused by a knife, nor does it look like a wound left when he was alive. It should be that after he died, the murderer used a weapon like a steel pipe to beat him hard many times."

"Whip the corpse after death?" Suzuki Sonoko shuddered, "What a huge vengeance that would be."

Huang Mao looked at the empty sea with a pale face: "The ship is parked here, and the murderer who killed the captain must not be able to leave... In addition to us, there must be a demon hiding on this island who enjoys killing people!"

"Yes." The second captain thought, "We got out right after the ship hit the pier. The murderer couldn't escape on the ship. He must have sneaked ashore before we got close."

The long-haired man was anxious for a moment, then suddenly thought of something and became happy: "But this is also good - sneaking away means that the murderer is afraid of us! As long as we all get together, no one will be killed next time!"

"That's not necessarily true." Jiang Xia walked around the boat, came back and leaned against the railing, looking at the three imaginative crew members:

"I just went to the wheelhouse and took a look. The plotter next to the driver's seat showed the previous path of the ship. After leaving the dock, it made a relatively regular circle on the sea and then returned here."

Several crew members took a while to react and realized what was happening. The long-haired man shuddered: "You mean, this ship uses an autopilot system?"

If this was the case, then the murderer didn't need to get on board at all - he only needed to kill the captain on board when everyone's attention was distracted by Miss Taira's body, then turn on the autopilot system and let the ship sail away.

The deputy captain thought more: "In theory, this is indeed feasible, but in reality, there are strong undercurrents in this area. Even if the autopilot is used, it is impossible to accurately make the ship hit the pier after one circle."

"If we were driving purely on the sea, there would indeed be errors, but this is a small island." Jiang Xia looked at him, "Autonomous driving will indeed be affected by the tide and cause errors, but the error range is not too large, usually less than a hundred meters."

"In other words, the murderer didn't need to make the boat hit the pier accurately. He only needed to make the boat return to the vicinity of the island and sail closer to the inside. In this way, the course of the boat would be diverted by the coral reefs around the island, and eventually it would stick to the edge of the island and reach the pier."

Curacao took a look at the hull. Sure enough, the area near the water was broken and full of scratches, which was evidence that the ship had been forced to change its course by the coral reef.

And if the murderer used this method to drive the boat, then this also means...

Jiang Xia looked at the crew members who had already guessed it but were unwilling to believe it, and said slowly: "The murderer could be anyone on this island, including ourselves."

Hattori Heiji added bluntly: "Strictly speaking, we are excluded from our own people - the murderer killed the captain when we found that Miss Taira did not get on the ship, so we ran off the ship to look for her on the other side of the island."

"We were the first ones to leave. After Miss Pingliang's body was found, it took some time for you locals to come here. You all had time to commit the crime."

Huang Mao said in panic: "I didn't kill anyone! And when I got off the boat to look for you, there were still people on the boat!"

Long-haired man: "Me too! When I left, the director, the captain, and the vice captain didn't leave at all!"

The captain was dead. The director looked at the deputy captain and took a step back in horror.

"What are those looks on your faces?" The second captain said in dissatisfaction, "I was indeed the last one to leave, but I didn't kill anyone. Besides, who knows if you three really left at that time, or if you quietly hid in the woods after getting off the ship, and then came back and killed people on the ship after I left?"

"in addition……"

The deputy captain suddenly remembered something and looked at Hattori Heiji: "I remember that when Miss Taira's body was found, you said that her body had just been placed on the beach not long ago. And those of us who have been on the boat all the time had no time to commit the crime?"

Hattori Heiji: "..."

(End of this chapter)