Chapter 3172 3184 [Heart-beating Memories of Curacao]
"Hehe." Suzuki Sonoko smiled proudly and clapped her hands, "You too, Xiaolan!"
"What is it?" Hattori Heiji interrupted the two Tokyo female classmates who were immersed in praising each other speechlessly:
"I haven't finished yet. The anchor is covered with shells and seaweed. It can't grow in just one year. It has been sunk there for at least four or five years."
"Four or five years ago?" The long-haired man was startled, as if he was touched by this critical time point. He looked at the yellow-haired man, "Come to think of it, didn't the mayor of Jincheng Town have a lot of bad luck at that time?"
Huangmao nodded.
Curacao pricked up her ears silently: it had begun, as expected. But this time, she was no longer just a listener who knew nothing about the background of the matter - she had also heard about this incident four or five years ago.
But she wasn't the audience, there were plenty of people who were, Conan asked curiously: "What are you talking about?"
The long-haired man was worried about who to talk to. When he heard someone asking, he immediately told everyone what he knew, as if this would help him share his fear with others:
“Five years ago, the mayor’s only daughter, Miss Xiaodu, was kidnapped by a group of thugs who came from nowhere, and she has not been seen since.
"About a year later, another group of robbers broke into the mayor's house. They stole the mayor's treasure, a folding screen embroidered with gold thread."
"The mayor and his housekeeper at the time received a call from the kidnappers. According to them, the kidnappers and robbers who appeared one year apart were actually the same group of people."
"Robbery is fine, but kidnapping a young woman is unforgivable." Mao Lilan couldn't help but clench her fists and asked anxiously, "What happened next? Were the criminals caught? Was Miss Xiaodu rescued?"
Huang Mao sighed and shook his head. “I heard that when the kidnappers kidnapped Miss Xiaodu and later stole the golden screen, they asked the mayor of Jincheng for a ransom, hoping that this rich man would spend money to redeem the people and the things...but the mayor refused.”
"Because he refused to pay, he lost the bargaining chip with the robbers, and it was very difficult for the police to catch him. In the end, both the person and the property disappeared from then on."
The program director also knew about this. To be precise, in this area, the series of misfortunes in the mayor's family in Jincheng Town were almost known to everyone. He said helplessly:
"So, the mayor of Jincheng was really unlucky - when his daughter was kidnapped, his wife had just passed away. A year later, when the robbers went to steal the golden screen, they killed one of his maids.
"His housekeeper was so frightened by the misfortunes that happened one after another that he resigned. Later, a rumor spread that the mayor was unwilling to pay the ransom for his own daughter, and his reputation became much worse.
"Then there's the corpse that appeared on this island a year ago, the mysterious words on the back of the corpse, and now there's Miss Taira who was killed by someone unknown... Although I'm a materialist, I have to say that Mayor Kanejo seems to be possessed by something from the underworld."
"..." Curacao wanted to look at Jiang Xia again, but she took a deep breath, lowered her head and stared at her hands under the table, and forced herself to hold back.
However, she had barely endured it for a second when a hand suddenly reached out from the side and poked her.
“?!!”
Curacao was caught off guard and both he and the stool were moved backwards a long distance.
The others were startled and looked at her suddenly: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing..." Curacao's eyes twitched slightly, and he wished he could immediately take out the disinfectant and spray his hands back and forth a hundred or eighty times.
However, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, she could only give up all her personal hobbies and rationally find an excuse for her previous loss of composure: "I just suddenly remembered the words written on the back of the corpse a year ago - the princess is sleeping here, it is A, not B."
The others came back to their senses in shock, and looked at her suspiciously, as if to say, "Are you also possessed, so you jumped around suddenly just now?" They asked, "So what?"
Curacao secretly rubbed his hands on the edge of the table, trying to use physical means to remove some puppet threads and auras that he didn't know existed: "So I was wondering, the 'princess' in that sentence, could it be the mayor's daughter?"
"What?!" Mao Lilan's eyes widened with fear. "Could it be that the mayor's daughter has been killed and is now buried somewhere on this island, and the victim from a year ago found her?"
Suzuki Sonoko also looked as if she had suddenly realized something. She remembered more: "When Miss Taira was killed, there was a message on the sand beside her saying 'I am a messenger from the underworld' - could this messenger be the wronged spirit that Miss Kotobuki turned into after her death?"
bass--!
The second captain stuck a knife into the table, interrupting the increasingly spooky and mysterious atmosphere.
"You outsiders, your words are really scary." This middle-aged tough guy who has experienced a lot of hardships snorted:
"The Grim Reaper is a legend that has existed in Okinawa for a long time. How could a little girl who died a few years ago turn into it? As for the message next to the corpse..."
He pointed to the knife on the table and said, "If you are afraid of the messenger of the underworld, take this knife with you. According to the ancient legend, if a woman weaving at night does not want her soul to be sucked away by ghosts, she must hold a knife in her mouth.
"This way they can seal their mouths with a knife to prevent the underworld messenger from sucking their souls out of their mouths - of course, it sounds very realistic, but it's just superstition. But if you are really scared, this is also a way to relieve tension."
As he spoke, the second captain also relieved the tension in his own way. He lit a cigarette, opened the cupboard and looked for an ashtray in a very polite manner.
"Hmm?" The deputy captain sneered after taking a look in the cupboard. "Interesting."
Jiang Xia looked at the cupboard: "What's wrong?"
The second captain picked up a wide-mouthed ceramic cup from the cabinet and placed it on the table. Everyone looked down and saw that there was actually half a cup of water in the cup, and eight or nine cigarette butts were soaked in the water.
"It looks like someone used this cup as an ashtray." The second captain held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the mess of cigarette butts inside. "There are all kinds of cigarettes... and the water inside hasn't even dried up yet."
"Let me see." Hattori Heiji took the cup and looked at it with a handkerchief. He frowned and said, "That is to say, before we landed on the island, a group of people gathered here to discuss something?"
(End of this chapter)
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