Chapter 3184 3196 [Modified Script]

Jiang Xia seemed to have thought of something and patted Conan: "Where is the person the murderer really wants to kill now?"

"Still in the villa, just now Hattori and I..." Conan said halfway, his face suddenly changed, "Oh no!"

He jumped up and ran quickly towards the villa.

Hearing the rustling sound in the bushes, Hattori Heiji was delighted at first, thinking that the fish he was fishing had finally taken the bait.

However, when he glanced over there, he found that the people standing up from the bushes were not the murderer they wanted to catch, but a few acquaintances.

Hattori Heiji: "..."

What is this guy doing! What if he scares the murderer away? However, speaking of the murderer who hasn't come yet...

The uneasiness caused by the deviating from the script made Hattori Heiji suddenly think of a possibility after seeing this unusual phenomenon.

Those students suddenly stood up and ran, making a lot of noise, which might easily scare away the murderer - and Jiang Xia and Conan could not have failed to think of this kind of thing.

In other words, there must be a reason why they don't care about these things...

All kinds of thoughts were intertwined, and Hattori Heiji's heart suddenly skipped a beat, just like Conan's. He immediately no longer cared about being bait, and threw down the screen in his hand and quickly chased after Jiang Xia and the others.

…

After all, the island was not big, and it didn't take long for the group to get back to the villa.

Conan pushed open the door and rushed towards the room where the yellow-haired man was hiding, but before he arrived, they saw a person pushing the door open in the corridor.

The fake elementary school student who braked suddenly: "..."

The deputy captain who just walked out of the door: "..."

After a brief look at each other, Conan rushed over and pushed the door open. The next moment, a pair of dangling legs appeared in front of him - the yellow-haired man who had just been knocked unconscious by them was now hanging on the exposed steel bars on the roof.

And on the wall behind him, there were a few rough big words written, "I am the messenger from the underworld."

…

A few minutes later.

A group of people hurriedly put the yellow-haired man down. His body was still warm, but when they touched his breath, it seemed to have cooled down.

"You..." Conan raised his head angrily, staring at the deputy captain, "You killed him?!"

The deputy captain shrugged and said, "Little boy, you must be mistaken. Didn't the dark detective ask us to look for Kumi? I just suddenly remembered that Kumi might have played a trick and pretended to escape and then returned to the villa, so I came back to look for him."

He pointed to the room where the yellow-haired man had just been hanging. "It's just a pity that when I got here, he was already dead. I was about to go out and tell you when I saw you guys running back."

After a pause, the deputy captain faced the two detectives' angry gazes and shook his head, saying, "If you think I'm the murderer just because I appeared at the door of the room, that's really arbitrary. You've all watched TV dramas, right? There are always some passersby who find a body and go close to investigate, and then get bloody hands and are wrongly accused of being the murderer. Now, I'm that unlucky character."

Seeing his nonchalant look, Hattori Heiji could not help but rush up and grab his collar: "Stop pretending! The murderer is you - four years ago, a gang of robbers stole the golden screen from the mayor's house, and the three people you killed were members of that gang!"

"You're talking nonsense again." The second captain slapped his hand away:

"Let's not talk about the fact that the three people were so different, how could they be the same gang of robbers? Just look at the first one who died, Miss Taira. Didn't you say that the tide was rising here not long before the body was found?

"If 'I am a messenger from the underworld' was written on the beach next to the corpse's head in advance, it would be washed away by the rising tide. So the string of words must have been written after the tide receded, that is, not long before the corpse was discovered."

"During that time, the rest of us were on the boat on the other side of the island and had no time to go over there to set up the scene."

As he spoke, the deputy captain looked at Jiang Xia and said, "You also saw the situation at that time, why don't you give us your opinion?"

Jiang Xia glanced at him and said, "In theory, that's true, but in reality, you just cunningly took advantage of one thing and made the audience misjudge the high tide line at that time.

“After arriving on the island, when we were exploring the villa with the program director, the captain kept driving the boat back and forth in that sea area.

"The ships approaching the coast will push the waves to places that they normally cannot reach. So a large area of ​​the beach is extra wet.

“After you killed Miss Pingliang, you moved the body to the wet beach and wrote those words.

"No matter how the sea water naturally rises and falls, it can't cover the writing. When other people see the wet marks on the beach, they will naturally mistakenly think that it is the marks left by the high tide and low tide."

The deputy captain's face changed: this Tokyo detective had been silent, and he thought that this guy hadn't figured out the situation yet and could help him argue with the Osaka detective, but who knew... this guy actually reasoned as if he had seen everything.

After a brief silence, the deputy captain wiped away the strange feeling in his heart and deliberately laughed twice: "That makes sense, but it's just your guess. The tide should have risen again now. Why don't we go to the beach again to see if the words have disappeared."

Hattori Heiji snorted: "Those words have been erased by you."

The deputy captain's expression relaxed: "What else is there to say?"

Conan: "But, although the words have been erased, the footprints I left barefoot next to the slippers after I handed them to Hattori-san are still there - that footprint was also photographed at the time, and a quick comparison will show that it has not been erased by the high tide."

Vice Captain: “…”

Curacao: “…” In terms of insidiousness, this smaller guy is indeed more cunning.

The two high school girls listened to all this in shock. Suzuki Sonoko suddenly remembered something: "But why did the dead captain cooperate with him and sail back and forth in that sea area? Could it be that they were accomplices, but later turned against each other?"

Jiang Xia shook his head: "The captain is patrolling back and forth in that area not to create waves, but to use the detector to find something on the seabed."

The deputy captain raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Really? So that's how it is. What is he looking for?"

"You should have known this a long time ago." Jiang Xia looked at him. "What he is looking for is, of course, the 'princess' who was tied to the anchor and sank to the bottom of the sea four years ago - that is, the princess in the inscription 'The princess sleeps here, it is A, not B' next to the mysterious corpse a year ago."

(End of this chapter)