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Takako Toda was carried into the ambulance and her fiancé followed anxiously.
The medical staff did not leave in a hurry, but asked the crowd: "Who said they saw a sea snake just now?"
Mao Lilan quickly raised her hand.
The medical staff looked serious: "Do you remember what kind of sea snake it was?"
Mao Lilan blinked: "I remember it, but I don't recognize it..."
Jiang Xia: "When Xiaolan said there was a snake just now, I took a look too. Although it was a bit far away, it looked like a semi-ringed flat-tailed sea snake."
He took out his phone and searched for pictures, then showed them to Mao Lilan: "Is this the one?"
"That's right!" Mao Lilan nodded. She was frightened by the snake just now, so she had a deep impression of it. "I can be sure that it is this kind of snake."
"Half-ringed flat-tailed sea snake?" The medical staff was a little puzzled. "Strange, this kind of snake almost never bites people... I'll ask the doctor to find the corresponding serum first. If you find anything else, feel free to contact the hospital."
The ambulance whirred away.
The person in charge of the beach was also nearby. When he heard that a sea snake had bitten someone, he quickly explained: "Although there are indeed half-ringed flat-tailed sea snakes here, this kind of snake usually only eats small fish and shrimps. It has a gentle temperament and is very timid. It wants to run away when it encounters the slightest disturbance, and its movements are also slow when attacking.
"This beach has been open for more than 20 years, and no tourist has ever been bitten by it. The only incident involving it in the vicinity involved a fisherman who accidentally caught it while casting his net. He accidentally touched the frightened snake with his hands and was bitten... How could this snake suddenly bite someone?"
Suzuki Sonoko turned to him and said sympathetically, "You don't understand this - in fact, it was because its jaw was knocked off by a coral, and it was in a bad mood at the time. Miss Takako happened to bump into it and was bitten by it."
Beach manager: “?”
Mao Lilan was still concentrating on reading the encyclopedia about the sea snake. After a while, she couldn't help but wonder, "Speaking of which, are there any mutated species of this sea snake, such as one with a pair of small wings growing on its back?"
Beach manager: “???”
He didn't say anything and seemed very confused about the train of thought and thinking of contemporary female high school students.
But since the guest asked, he could only answer honestly: "I have never heard of a snake with wings... Maybe you can go and read some mythology?"
Mao Lilan scratched her head: "But I clearly remember that there were two small transparent wings on the back of the snake near its head, a few centimeters long... Could it be an unshed shell?"
A voice interrupted from the side. The two college students who were unable to go to the hospital with the car came over. The short-haired girl guessed, "Maybe it was caught on seaweed. Guihezi's snorkeling location is close to the edge of the beach, where the seaweed is more lush."
Maori Kogoro and Kisaki Eri also came over. Maori Kogoro obviously didn't care about these details. He slapped his daughter on the shoulder and said, "A good father will have a good son. You remembered so many details after just one look. You are worthy of being my daughter!"
Before Mao Lilan could be modest, Kisaki Eri also praised: "Yes, unlike some detectives who claim to have strong observation skills, they don't even know whether their wives are wearing rings on their hands."
When Maori Kogoro heard her voice, he remembered the ring in his pocket that he had finally found with the help of a kind-hearted street cat after going through so much hardship. He wanted to return it but couldn't bring himself to do it, so he pretended not to hear clearly: "What did you say?"
Kisaki Eri snorted, "Nothing. I was just wondering, even though we're all detectives, why are there so many differences between us?"
She turned to Jiang Xia next to her. Seeing this child who took the initiative to call her "Sister Yingli" instead of "Aunt Yingli" when they met on the road, Fei Yingli's expression softened, and she really smiled like a gentle big sister: "How about it, what do you think about this accident?"
Conan looked up at her, and thought about the scary neighbor aunt who often scolded him when he was a child, and shuddered: "..." Is this really the same person? Could Aunt Eri be possessed by a ghost?
Jiang Xia seemed to have seen this state of Kisaki Eri before. When he heard her question, he answered in a low voice as usual: "Although the saying 'biting coral dislocated its jaw and went crazy biting people' is very novel, I think it is more like someone grabbed the snake's head, forced its mouth open, and used its fangs to pierce the back of Toda Takako's hand. Otherwise, with the size of the sea snake's mouth, it is difficult to bite a place like the back of the hand."
"Yeah." Hibiki Eri seemed to have the same idea. She glanced at the two college students on the other side of the room and the school idol of Kuwamu High School, and also lowered her voice, "So the murderer should be one of the people who went into the sea to rescue. But when you all ran over, no one was holding a snake in their hands. And for an experienced diver like Toda Takako, drowning while snorkeling in a place like this is a very difficult thing to predict, and it is impossible to prepare a weapon in advance..."
As she spoke, Kisaki Eri became a little confused: "Could it be that when they were rescuing someone, a sea snake happened to swim by and was seen by someone who deeply hated Toda Takako, so that person quickly grabbed the snake and used it as a murder weapon? If that's the case, it would be troublesome - the murder weapon would have already flowed into the sea with the current, and the traces of contact with the snake on the hands would have been washed away by the sea water, and there would be no evidence to prove that the person committed the murder."
Conan heard someone reasoning next to him, and finally gradually put other things aside. He overcame his fear of being scolded by his aunt since childhood and focused his energy on the main business.
He interjected, “It’s possible that the cause and effect were reversed. Someone stabbed Toda Takako with a sea snake, causing her limbs to become paralyzed, which is why she drowned in such a shallow place.
"If that's the case, then the high school idol who arrived first is very suspicious. He had left the group and acted alone before, and no one knew where he was. Maybe he was hiding in the water near Toda Takako, waiting for an opportunity to stab her with the sea snake."
Kisaki Eri had already seen the wonderful qualities of this child, and it seemed that the child was a relative of Kudo Yusaku, so it was normal for him to be smart.
So she didn't sigh like other passers-by, "How do you know so much?", but just said normally: "But they are a high school student and a college student, they should not know each other at all, how can there be such a big hatred? And even if it was really him who did it, as I said just now, the murder weapon is hidden deep in the sea and there is no trace. It may be difficult to close the case."
As she spoke, Kisaki Eri pushed up her metal-rimmed glasses and looked at Jiang Xia. There was a hint of worry in her rational tone: "You are a celebrity now. Don't loudly identify others as murderers like some unreliable adult detectives. If you meet someone who is more serious, they will sue you, and this will affect your reputation. If the murder weapon really can't be found in this case, you should not intervene. Leave everything to the adults."
(End of this chapter)
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