Chapter 213 Jumping off a cliff to decide the episode
A group of people divided the work.
Hattori Heiji will go to the fate master to inquire about the situation tomorrow, while Mao Lilan and the others will go to other islanders to inquire about Kaihara Nami's interpersonal relationships - maybe they can find a suspect who holds a grudge against the deceased.
As for Jiang Xia...coincidentally, he was assigned the task of "going to Menbe Saori to inquire about the news."
In this incident, Saori Kadowaki is a very key figure - she once said that "the mermaid wanted to kill her", and now, a murder has indeed occurred on the island, and the dead Nami Kaihara has been linked to "mermaid" in various forms.
Although there is no strong evidence to prove that the two incidents are related, several detectives intuitively feel that Saori Kadobe may have some clues that they don't know.
Because Hattori Heiji was too outspoken before, his first conversation with Kadowaki Saori was not very pleasant. Before on the boat, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Kadowaki Saori disliked Hattori Heiji, so Hattori Heiji was also very self-aware and had no intention of looking for her.
This "important clue" was handed over to Jiang Xia, who was very reliable in solving cases.
And when they were on the boat, the others noticed that Saori Kadowara looked at Jiang Xia several times with a slightly surprised look, and seemed very happy to meet him.
Although this may seem like tricking a companion into selling her body, in order to get clues... I can't care about that for now.
Jiang Xia did not refuse this arrangement.
On the one hand, there was no suitable excuse. On the other hand, this mission was easy to do - Kadowaki Saori was not on the island at the moment, so he only had to ask Kadowaki Saori's alcoholic father, and then go around to the neighbors to get the clue that "Kadowaki Saori often ran away from home", and then he could hang up freely.
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Nao Kuroe returned home and carefully took out the arrow she had just drawn at the Mermaid Festival and placed it at the head of the bed as close to her as possible.
She remembered that Kadowaki Saori had lost the dugong arrow a few days ago. This childhood friend would do anything when faced with a life-or-death situation - Kuroe Nao was really afraid that if she put the arrow too far away, Kadowaki Saori would steal it.
At this time, she also got the Dugong Arrow, and she understood more deeply the panic that Menba Saori felt when she lost the arrow.
The next day, Nao Kuroe dreamed of another childhood friend who died tragically on the waterfall.
She woke up from a nightmare, panicked for a while, but then felt fortunate - fortunately she did not run around relying on the dugong arrow, but waited until she got the arrow before she started thinking about the mermaid's tomb.
Nao Kuroe reached out to the pillow and happily picked up the dugong arrow she had drawn last night: With the dugong arrow in hand, she would surely be able to find it successfully...
The arrow was brought to my eyes, it was a little light.
When Nao Kuroe took a closer look, she saw the half-broken arrow, which almost made her heart stop.
When did it break? ! !
She jumped up from the bed. When she got it before, it was clearly a whole one...
Although the mermaids never said what kind of punishment would be given for damaging the dugong's arrow, even if they just lost the arrow, they would be punished...
Nao Kuroe suddenly lost her calm appearance. She took out her cell phone in panic and called Kimie Shimabukuro.
However, after she finished describing the situation, she only received a reply from the witch who hesitated but said, "I personally received the arrow from my grandmother. There is no problem. Did you accidentally press it down while you were sleeping..."
Nao Kuroe no longer has time to delve into the reasons why the Dugong's arrow broke. She just wants to find a remedy as soon as possible.
However, Shimabukuro Kimie said with difficulty that the festival was over and she could not be given a new Dugong Arrow.
After the call was hung up, Nao Kuroe was completely disheartened.
Just then, her cell phone suddenly vibrated.
Nao Kuroe picked up her phone numbly and saw an extra text message with the sender shown as "Saori".
After clicking it, a few lines of text appeared on the phone screen:
[I found it!]
The Tomb of the Mermaid!!]
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Jiang Xia drove the Mist Tengu's puppet and wandered on the deserted sea.
He sent the message using the phone that Kadowaki Saori had picked up earlier, then threw the phone into the sea and watched it disappear like its owner.
Afterwards, Jiang Xia dispersed the puppet and his consciousness returned to his body.
At this time, the main body is next to Saori Kadowaki's house.
Jiang Xia had just met Menze Saori's father. Menze's father was drunk and didn't care where his daughter was going - he had taken Menze Saori's arrows and sold them to tourists who came here, earning 1 million.
When he found out that Menbe Saori did not return home at night, he just thought that his possession of the arrow had been exposed.
It is not good to make family disgrace known to the public, so the father did not let Jiang Xia into the house and blocked the door and sent him away.
This actually saves a lot of trouble.
Jiang Xia looked at the closed door, and wrote down the clues related to Menlie's father with satisfaction. He planned to go to the neighbor's house next door to check in.
After that, he can enter free-range mode.
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At the same time, Hattori Heiji was already on his way to the back mountain, and Toyama Kazuha followed him.
Just now they went to find Ming Yang, but still got no reply - Ming Yang knew about the mermaid tomb, but refused to tell its location and warned the two young men not to set their sights on the mermaid tomb.
She said tremblingly that anyone who coveted the mermaid cemetery was cursed.
Hattori Heiji doesn't care about such superstitious words, but Toyama Kazuha cares a lot about it.
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Coming out of the shrine, the two happened to see a figure rushing towards the back mountain from a distance. They were startled and immediately followed.
The mountains are densely wooded, and once you enter the mountains, your visibility suddenly decreases.
Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha didn't find the person who went up the mountain first, so they shouted twice, but no one responded, so they had to follow their memory and chase after him.
Unexpectedly, after chasing for a while, I still didn't find anyone, but instead saw a simple grave.
The diameter of the tomb is less than half a meter. There is a cluster of fresh incense ash next to it and a round tombstone on top.
Hattori Heiji was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he could find the mermaid tomb so easily that the islanders had been unable to find.
He looked at the round tombstone on the ground, and while thinking, he touched it.
Yuanshan Heye has heard a lot of monster legends related to mermaids in the past few days. When he saw the tomb, he felt scared and looked around vigilantly.
She just saw a sign at her feet that said "Danger! Cliff ahead" and then she heard a series of rumbling sounds.
Toyama Kazuha turned around in confusion and saw that Hattori Heiji had accidentally pushed away someone's tombstone, and was now running after the stone with a guilty conscience.
The area in front of him covered with weeds was a steep cliff.
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Jiang Xia had just lit a ghost mint in the back mountain when he suddenly heard a scream.
The sound was far away and sounded a bit fuzzy, but it still sounded vaguely familiar, a bit like distant mountains and leaves.
(End of this chapter)
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