"Did you two really win?" Mouri Kogoro asked in disbelief. This is too weird. Ye Siyu said everything, and then his eyes fell on the number plates in the hands of the two women. .
Sure enough, the numbers above were exactly the burning Shiba and Sishiyi on the paper door.
This made Mouri Kogoro couldn't help but open his mouth. He was completely shocked by the scene in front of him, as were Conan and Hattori Heiji on the side.
Although Ye Siyu said that Xiaolan, Yuanshan and Ye would win the lottery before, in their opinion, it was just words to make people happy. It is indeed possible for one person to win the lottery, but the possibility of two people winning the lottery together is almost zero. Now it is really true. It was so unexpected that I won.
Suddenly, Hattori Heiji seemed to have thought of something and said: "You won't discuss it with that old lady, will you?"
"So that's it."
As soon as these words came out, Conan and Mouri Kogoro's faces showed enlightenment.
Yes, why didn't they think of this possibility.
Now this is said to be a lottery, but after seeing the lottery method, the three of them knew very well that the so-called winning numbers were entirely determined by Shimabukuro Granny and other shrine staff.
You must know that Grandma Shimabukuro's granddaughter Shimabukuro June was the one who gave the number plates to Xiaolan, Toyama and Ye. She knew exactly what their numbers were. If Ye Siyu found Shimabukuro during the time he left, Junhui and Granny Shimabukuro, then it is possible for Xiaolan, Toyama and Ye to win the prize.
"What's going on?" Xiaolan and the other two looked at the three of them in confusion and asked.
"Kazuha, you were deceived by this kid. He must have colluded with Granny Shimabukuro to be so sure that you won the lottery. Otherwise, it would be just a coincidence." Hattori Heiji immediately explained.
Although Xiaolan, Toyama and Ye are not detectives, they spend all day with detectives such as Conan and Hattori Heiji. Their analytical skills are also very strong under the influence of their ears and eyes. Now after hearing Hattori Heiji's explanation, They also roughly came up with something.
But the reactions of the next two people made Hattori Heiji dumbfounded.
"Of course we know it's fake."
"You don't think this is true, do you?"
Xiaolan, Toyama and Ye looked at Hattori Heiji like fools and said, they are indeed naive, but they are not naive enough to think that Ye Siyu really has any magic power. Even Xiaolan, who has seen the magic of Ye Siyu, does not think so. Ye Siyu really sees the future.
Moreover, as the audience of Ye Siyu's magic show, the most common sentence they heard was that all magic is fake.
Ye Siyu does want to use his extraordinary ability to attract the extraordinary powers of this world to come to him, but that does not mean that he will show off his abilities unscrupulously. It is more about showing his differences in a subtle way rather than making a big show of it. He talks about his superpowers, but on the surface he still summarizes the magic he performs as a deception.
"This..." The reactions of Toyama and Ye made Hattori Heiji extremely depressed. He thought that after he exposed Ye Siyu's true face, Toyama and Ye would praise him or something.
"Really, all the atmosphere has been ruined by you Heiji." Toyama and Ye said with bulging mouths. After Hattori Heiji made such a fuss, the excitement just caused by Ye Siyu's words subsided a lot.
While everyone was discussing the matter of winning the lottery, Shimabukuro Kimie, disguised as her great-grandmother, stood there in a daze before lighting the paper gate in front of the shrine, watching blankly as the shrine staff put the number on the paper gate. extinguished.
"Grandma Shimabukuro, can we start the next ceremony?" A staff member who was putting out the fire asked in a low voice when he saw that Shimabukuro Kimie did not go back as originally planned.
As soon as the shrine staff said these words, Shimabukuro Kimie woke up immediately, and then slowly walked back to the shrine.
It's just that the deep doubt has been lingering in her heart and hasn't gone away.
The paper door number was specially chosen by her for her revenge plan. In order to ensure the success of the plan, she confirmed it before the celebration started, but now there were unexpected changes, which had to surprise her.
After thinking about it, she couldn't figure out what was going on.
However, she did not put too much thought on this, because she still needed to continue the celebration, otherwise it would cause others to misunderstand. At the same time, no matter what went wrong, she would continue with her revenge plan.
After a while, the door of the shrine opened again, and Shimabukuro Kimie came out and announced: "Everyone, listen carefully. We will officially award the Dugong Arrow in an hour. Please prepare to gather at the Mermaid Falls immediately."
Upon hearing this, everyone, whether they were winners or not, moved towards the fish-man waterfall, and Ye Siyu and others were no exception.
The American Island is not big, and the journey from the shrine to Mermaid Falls is not far, and it only takes a few words.
When Ye Siyu arrived at the Fishman Waterfall, he suddenly frowned. He found that there was something wrong with the water in the Mermaid Waterfall. It contained extremely weak energy. It was so weak that Ye Siyu wouldn't have been able to detect it if the water hadn't splashed on him.
Ye Siyu, who discovered that there was something strange in the Fishman Waterfall, immediately mobilized all his mental power to investigate the reason for the energy contained in it. As soon as his mental power covered it, Ye Siyu discovered a corpse, which was the woman who cheered for the first time at the celebration.
However, Ye Siyu, who had already known the plot, did not pay much attention to the other party, but continued to explore the secret of the Fish-Man Waterfall.
At this glance, Ye Siyu discovered that there was a secret passage in the rocks behind the fish-man waterfall that was so narrow that it could only accommodate one person. The energy contained in the water of the waterfall was radiated from the entrance of the cave.
Ye Siyu tried to observe further, but when he stretched his mental power to the limit of nearly 40 meters, he could not reach the end of the passage. It seemed that he needed to go in personally to investigate the specific source of the energy.
Ye Siyu is not in a hurry about this, and it won't be too late to go in after the things here are over.
After a while, Shimabukuro Kime arrived, and then started calling the winner to get the Dugong Arrow just like Ye Siyu remembered.
"Okay, we'll be here right away!"
Xiaolan, Toyama and Ye immediately held hands and went to Shimabukuro Kimie.
"Is it you?"
Looking at Xiaolan and Toyama Kazuha in front of her, Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned. She didn't expect that the other two winners were Xiaoran and Toyama Kazuha.
Although the number plates in their hands were given to them by her, she did not remember what their numbers were. Now that she saw the two of them appearing, she couldn't help but wonder if the numbers on the paper door would change if they were made by the other party. .
"Miss Shimabukuro, what's wrong?" Seeing Shimabukuro Kimie staring at the two of them, Xiaolan asked in confusion.
"No, it's nothing." Shimabukuro Kimie shook his head, then looked at the islanders and tourists around him and said, "Who is the other one? Has the other one arrived too?"
Following Shimabukuro Kimie's shout, a drunken middle-aged man came out.
The appearance of this man made Shimabukuro June stunned again. In her original plan, no one should have appeared. Then she announced that the third person could not get the Dugong Arrow. Now that such a man suddenly appeared, this was once again disrupted. her revenge plan.
"Weird, this is not right. I thought it was the young lady who won the lottery just now." Hattori Heiji said in surprise. When the winning numbers were announced, he noticed that the remaining winner was a woman, not the current winner. year man.
"Yeah, why didn't anyone see her?" Conan looked around and asked.
As for the woman who won the lottery, Conan still remembered who it was very clearly. Based on her previous performance, he could tell that the other woman believed in the mermaid very much. Even if she didn't win the dugong arrow, she would definitely go to the scene to watch, but he looked around , neither found the other party's figure, which was really weird.
"Now please three of you, accept the baptism of the light of bliss."
On the other side, Shimabukuro Kimie had already awarded the Dugong Arrow to Xiaolan and the others, and then gestured to two villagers not far away. Two people could be seen tinkering with a firework.
A few seconds later, the two villagers covered their ears, and a white light shot out from the fireworks tube and shot away into the sky.
"Bang!"
Following a burst of explosions, brilliant fireworks bloomed in the sky, illuminating the originally dim fish-man waterfall.
"Look, what is that?"
"What? What? Where?"
"There at the waterfall!"
"Human! It's human!"
The light from the fireworks made everyone realize that a female corpse was hanging in front of the fish-man waterfall. The originally brilliant light of the fireworks shone on her face, which was so pale and scary that it made the originally lively and cheerful atmosphere of the scene become depressing. , everyone had a look of fear on their faces.
It is extremely unlucky for those superstitious people to have such a thing happen at such a sacred celebration. Many people were so frightened that they left the scene and became riotous.
"Conan, go call the police." Mouri Kogoro said seriously, and then contacted the celebration staff to start handling the matter.
Not long after, everyone came to the top of the waterfall, pulled up the woman's body and confirmed the identity of the woman. It was the missing lottery winner.
"Sumei, could it be that she committed suicide? Or did someone kill her?" Shimabukuro Kimie, who came with him, asked in fear.
"No, neither of the two things you said are possible. The rope tied around Sumi's neck is a fixed rope specially set on the river bank to prevent danger." The villager who pulled the body up with Hattori Heiji picked up the The rope around Shou Mei's body explained.
"Is that so? I see, that means that Miss Shoumei walked to the river in the dark and then lost her balance and fell into the river. Although she grabbed the rope, the water flow was too fast and the wooden stake fell off. , which led to her being strangled to death by this rope on the way to the waterfall." Mouri Kogoro picked up the rope and started his simplest reasoning.
"Uncle, don't you think it's strange? The village celebration is obviously held under the waterfall. Why does she have to come to the forest at this time?" Hattori Heiji objected. He believed that this incident was full of doubts. , it is definitely not as simple as Mouri Kogoro said, there is definitely a secret in it that he and others don't know.
"She probably came to look for the mermaid's grave." At this time, Naoko Kuroe, a female employee of the souvenir shop who also came up with everyone, said.
"What?!" As soon as she said this, she immediately attracted the attention of Mouri Kogoro and others.
"Because the mermaid's grave is somewhere in this forest. After the shrine warehouse caught fire on the night of the celebration three years ago, the mermaid's bones were buried here instead." Naoko Kuroe analyzed and said. While walking to Shou Mei's body, he looked at the body with complicated eyes.
"That's possible. I know that Sumi has always cared about that matter." Shimabukuro Kime agreed. She wished others would think so.
"Wait a minute, you guys keep talking about mermaids. Are you sure that the bones are really those of mermaids?" Hattori Heiji interrupted, his head was dizzy from the chattering conversation between the two people.
"It's hard to say, that's what the villagers on the island said, but the police from the mainland believe that it's just the skeleton of a middle-aged woman." Shimabukuro Kimie explained. When she talked about the skeleton, there was a smile on her face. There was a trace of sadness on her face, because the woman was none other than her mother, and she had done so many things to avenge her mother.
"Stop talking nonsense! You can only say that if the bones below the waist of that skeleton are still there!" Kuroe Naoko suddenly and excitedly denied Shimabukuro Kimie's answer.
"Bones below the waist?" Mouri Kogoro asked with confusion on his face. He was also confused by the conversation between the two.
"Because a burned beam fell just near the waist of the skeleton. After the villagers removed the beam, they found that all the places where the foot bones should have been were smashed, so it was reported on TV The body of a mermaid appeared here.", the helping villager explained.
"No! That's the body of the mermaid!" Naoko Kuroe said still excitedly.
"Why are you so sure? Didn't the police say it was a middle-aged woman?" Conan frowned.
"Yes, they suspected that they were probably tourists who didn't draw the dugong arrow. They sneaked into the warehouse to look for backup arrows. The main reason for the fire in the warehouse was probably the disaster caused by lighting candles. Later, it turned out that I couldn't find out her identity even with my thoughts, so in the end she had to bury her bones at the shrine, but something happened again." Shimabukuro Kimie said, while looking into the depths of the forest, where her mother's grave is. .
"What happened?" Mouri Kogoro asked.
"Someone came to rob the tomb.", the villager explained.
"What?" Mouri Kogoro and others looked at each other in surprise.
