An hour later, everyone came to the Mermaid Waterfall, and Miss Jun Hui, dressed as a witch, was already waiting there. When she saw everyone was there, she spoke hurriedly.
"Now, please invite tonight's three lucky guests to come to the front."
"Here it comes! Here it comes!"
He Ye held up his number tag and ran to Miss Jun Hui, jumping and skipping. Soon two more people followed him, one of whom looked like a tourist from out of town, and the other was a drunk uncle.
"Then please accept the light of bliss now."
Following Jun Hui's voice, the villagers who had been prepared for a long time also hurriedly set off fireworks. Fireworks flew into the sky and then bloomed. Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but sigh. No matter what, even if they couldn't get the dugong arrow, it was obviously very interesting for them to come to this place to experience the unique customs and practices.
However, at this moment, a tourist suddenly pointed behind him.
"Hey, look what that is?!"
"What's wrong?"
Hearing his shout, everyone looked over and saw, under the light of the fireworks, a large dark shadow suddenly falling down from the top of the waterfall. Then, with a "plop" sound, the next moment this huge black shadow fell into the lake along with the water gushing down from the waterfall.
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but gather around, and as they watched, they saw the black shadow that had originally fallen into the lake gradually emerge, revealing its true face in front of everyone - there were three dead people entangled together, with livid faces!
"ah--!!"
Xiaolan and Heye's double screams came to his ears, and Fang Zheng was completely speechless looking at these three faces that were neither familiar nor unfamiliar...
With three detectives, Hattori Heiji, Maori Kogoro and Conan, the three bodies were naturally fished out immediately. It must be said that compared to ordinary drowned bodies, the three bodies in front of us are indeed quite terrifying. From the appearance, the three bodies seem to be hugging each other and forming a ball, or as if the three of them are holding each other and trying their best to prevent each other from asking for help.
All in all, this strange corpse made everyone present change their expressions, even Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows. He was sure that when he killed people, he threw the three bodies separately, and tied their hands and feet to avoid accidents. But now not only the rope tied to the feet is gone, but also the stone... Well, this is really a bit weird.
Kogoro Mori examined the body and quickly came to a conclusion.
"From the surface of the bodies, it seems that these three people have been dead for several days. The exact time can only be determined after the police conduct an autopsy."
“…”
Fang Zheng said he would just watch and not say anything.
"The cause of death appears to have been a blow to the head."
Hattori Heiji also gave his own thoughts.
"Judging from the wound, it is possible that it was caused by some large, heavy weapon, most likely a stone."
“…”
Fang Zheng said I continued to watch and didn't say anything.
"No, I don't think so."
Conan shook his head.
"Hattori, look carefully. The skulls of these three people have been shattered, but their skin is almost intact, with no signs of serious injury. Generally speaking, an attack that can shatter the skull is enough to completely smash their heads into pieces..."
“…”
Fang Zheng said that you have science and I have martial arts, we are both equally capable, so who is afraid of who?
"Mr. Fang Zheng, what do you think?"
Xiaolan now looked at Fangzheng and asked, but Fangzheng shrugged.
"I don't have any opinion. Reasoning and autopsy are not my strong points. I'm not good at this."
"Huh? Is that so? I thought you were a detective too."
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, He Ye was shocked. She originally thought that Hattori Heiji had specially called Fang Zheng because the other party should also be a detective, but she didn't expect Fang Zheng to deny it himself?
"Mr. Fang Zheng is a very good expert in micro-expressions."
Fang Zheng didn't say anything, but Xiaolan hurriedly explained to He Ye.
"Even if others don't say anything, he can see through their expressions and thoughts. This is the most amazing thing. Moreover, Mr. Fang Zheng's skills are quite good. He has even knocked down armed gangsters with his bare hands several times. There are even international assassins among them."
“Ah, I see…”
Hearing this, He Ye nodded immediately, and looked at Fang Zheng with eyes full of curiosity.
"Then Mr. Fang Zheng, can you see through what I am thinking now?"
"Of course."
Fang Zheng glanced at He Ye.
"What you're thinking now is, 'That idiot Heiji left me behind to look after the case again. Which is more important, me or the case? When will he finally realize my feelings for me? But he looks so handsome when he solves the case...'"
However, before Fang Zheng could finish his words, He Ye covered his mouth with his hand with a red face.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, you can't be a mind reader, can you?"
"I'm just guessing. After all, your thinking circuit is not much different from Xiaolan's."
"Well……"
Hearing this, Xiaolan, who was watching the fun nearby, blushed. And Heye turned around, glared at Xiaolan, and then pounced on her.
"You too?!"
“I’m not!!”
The two girls ran away, playing and fighting, which somewhat diluted the solemn atmosphere. Hattori Heiji had already asked Shimabukuro Kimie to take a look and confirmed that the three bodies were her three missing friends. At this moment, Shimabukuro Kimie was pale and terrified - well, the way these three bodies appeared was really too dramatic.
Fang Zheng was indeed quite surprised at how the three bodies turned out, but he was immediately relieved after comparing the satellite cloud map and terrain here through his personal terminal. The place where Fang Zheng dumped the bodies was the most turbulent undercurrent on the island, and according to the results of geographical exploration, there is a hole inside the island. At present, it is very likely that after the bodies were thrown into the sea, they "broke away" the stones that Fang Zheng had tied them to under the influence of the turbulent undercurrent, and then collectively flowed into the island along the undercurrent. Because the bodies were relatively large, the speed of movement was also slow. It is very likely that they were stuck somewhere, and then the water level was raised and fell into the inner lake, and then followed the river in the forest all the way down to the waterfall.
As for why the body looked like that...it was probably just a coincidence.
Anyway, this is the world of science, so things that cannot be explained by science can be explained by science.
On this side, Kogoro Mori, Heiji Hattori and Conan were arguing about whether this was an accident or homicide.
Kogoro Mori felt that this was most likely an accident. It was very likely that the three girls went out to play somewhere together and accidentally fell into the water and drowned. As for their broken skulls, it was most likely the result of them hitting something under the impact of the ocean current after death.
It has to be said that Maori Kogoro is Maori Kogoro. This reasoning made Hattori Heiji and Conan speechless. Although they did not think it was an accident, they could not tell anything from the current body. After all, this is a small island surrounded by the sea, and there is a dense forest above the waterfall. It seems reasonable to say that three women went to play together and then accidentally died.
However……
"I don't think it's that simple. Didn't we hear from the people on the island that Miss Kadowaki Saori was in a panic because she lost the dugong arrow and was afraid that the mermaids would come to kill her. She even wrote me a letter asking for help. How could she be in the mood to go out and play?"
Hattori Heiji was the first to ask the question, followed by Conan.
"Besides, isn't Sister Jun Hui also a good friend who grew up with them? Since you are going, why don't you ask Sister Jun Hui to go with you?"
"Um……"
Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly clapped his hands.
"I understand what's going on!"
"Um?"
"Here's what happened."
Then, Kogoro Mouri proudly began to explain his reasoning to Hattori Heiji and Conan.
"Miss Kadowaki Saori lost her dugong arrow and was worried that the mermaid would come looking for her, so she found her two friends to discuss the situation. After all, even though she sent you a letter, she couldn't be sure that you would be there, so she had to find a solution on her own. Her two friends may have given Kadowaki Saori some ideas, hoping to calm the anger of the mermaid, so the three of them went to the forest together, encountered an accident on the way, and then accidentally died."
Hearing this, Hattori Heiji and Conan both rolled their eyes.
"Then why didn't they call Miss Kimie? Miss Kimie is the shrine maiden, okay? If something like this is to be done, Miss Kimie should definitely be called."
"Wrong, I think they deliberately didn't invite Miss Jun Hui."
"What do you mean?"
"It's very simple. Maybe Miss Jun Hui, a witch, would object to this method. If that's the case, then if they tell Miss Jun Hui, not only will they not get her help, but she might even stop them. So these three people didn't tell Miss Jun Hui anything and kept it a secret from her!"
As expected of Kogoro Mouri, his ability to make up stories is top-notch.
Listening to Kogoro Mori's smug reasoning, Fang Zheng silently gave him a thumbs up. This script was enough to be used in a thriller.
Although Hattori Heiji and Conan both felt that Kogoro Mori's reasoning was not very reliable, there was indeed no evidence to refute it. After all, after Fang Zheng killed the three people, he threw away all their belongings, smashed their cell phones and scattered them into the sea, leaving no clues at all. It was impossible to find any evidence from them.
The only thing that can be said now is that Kogoro Mouri's reasoning is just reasoning after all, and there is no evidence to prove it. So in the end everyone decided to go to Saori Kadowaki's house as planned to check the situation and then investigate the other two dead.
By the way, the best way is to have the police come to perform an autopsy to determine the cause and time of death. However, after making a phone call just now, they were told that the wind and waves were too strong and the police could not go out to sea for the time being...
There was no other way for everyone to deal with this, they could only wait patiently.
As for Fang Zheng...he just watched, of course.
He also wanted to see what these two famous detectives could find out from here.
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