I'm in Detective Conan, and I start with the Grand Theft Auto system.

Lin Shen and Xiao Lan had just reached the fork in the road in the center of the town, and before they could turn onto the road up the hillside, they were stopped by several townspeople living nearby.

The leader was a man who looked to be in his fifties, wearing a gray short-sleeved shirt and holding a palm-leaf fan. His expression carried an indescribable excitement.

He reached out and blocked Lin Shen and Xiao Lan's path, his tone half-warning and half-dissuading: "Hey, you two are tourists from out of town, right?"

"Don't go that way, there's big trouble there."

"I advise you not to go and join the fun!"

Xiaolan explained anxiously, "We saw a fire over there and wanted to see if we could help..."

Another plump woman standing nearby chimed in, her tone laced with undisguised schadenfreude: "Help? Help with what?"

"You outsiders don't know, that Black Rock Village Chief—he's no good!"

Xiaolan was clearly taken aback by this answer, her expression showing a visibly surprised: "Huh? What does that mean?"

A middle-aged man in a work vest chimed in, "That's right, that's right!"

"That guy is ostensibly the village chief, but over the years he's secretly done a lot of shady things!"

"I heard—he also deals drugs!"

Xiaolan's face changed; she clearly hadn't expected to hear such information on the street: "Drug trafficking...drug trafficking? Is that true?"

The man with the palm-leaf fan nodded emphatically: "Of course it's true! Everyone on the island knows it, but nobody dares to say it!"

"Now look what happened! We don't even know who did it, their house is on fire!"

"That guy finally got his comeuppance! Haha!"

As he spoke, he actually burst into laughter, a hearty laugh, as if he had been holding his breath for a long time and finally let it out.

Then, as if infected, several residents nearby also started laughing.

"Absolutely! If Blackrock had been burned to death in this fire, life would be so much easier for Moonshadow Island from now on! Hahaha!"

"Good job burning him! It would be even better if his whole family were burned to the ground! Hahahaha!"

The laughter of several people echoed through the quiet street, growing louder and louder.

An elderly woman who looked to be in her sixties even clapped her hands, as if celebrating some kind of festival.

Lin Shen stood to the side, his expression unchanged, but inwardly he was starting to think it was a bit outrageous.

He knew that Kuroiwa Tatsuji had a bad reputation on the island, but weren't you locals being a little too blatant in showing that "it's great that the village chief is dead" right in front of two outsiders?

Xiaolan was also a little frightened by this atmosphere.

She instinctively shrank behind Lin Shen, her fingers gently tugging at the sleeve of his yukata, and whispered, "President... don't you think... something's... off about them?"

Lin Shen nodded, his gaze sweeping over the residents who were still laughing, and whispered, "Something is definitely not right."

"Being happy is fine, but is it to the point of dancing around with joy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, one of the people started gesturing wildly.

The middle-aged man in the work vest laughed and spun around in place, waving his arms wildly and humming an off-key tune.

The atmosphere was so eerie, like attending a celebration that everyone had been secretly anticipating.

Xiaolan sniffed, then suddenly frowned and whispered, "President, do you smell anything strange?"

She sniffed twice. "It smells awful... like burnt plastic, but also a bit like something has gone sour, and it's a little bit stinky..."

After hearing what Xiao Lan said, Lin Shen also took a careful sniff of the air.

Indeed, in addition to the smell of sea breeze and burning vegetation, there was a very strange and pungent odor in the air.

It has a pungent smell, with a slightly sour and sweet taste, and a faint smell of burnt rubber. The combination makes the nasal cavity feel uncomfortable.

Looking at the raging fire on the hillside, which was growing ever stronger, he said in surprise, "That does seem a bit strange."

"Does Chief Heiyan have a lot of plastic bottles hoarded at home? His family isn't poor!"

Then he paused.

A terrible thought flashed through his mind like lightning!

wrong!

wrong!!

This doesn't smell like burnt plastic.

This is the smell of burning drugs.

Lin Shen's mind went blank.

He finally realized what had happened.

Kuroiwa Tatsuji was the biggest drug dealer on Tsukikage Island, and the amount of drugs he had stockpiled in his house was no small amount. The fire that Asai Narumi set just happened to set the entire mansion on fire, along with the large amount of drugs hidden inside.

The white powder burned at high temperatures, releasing toxic gases. The smoke, containing a large amount of drug components, was blown by the night wind to the town at the foot of the mountain, where it was inhaled by the town's residents!

The entire Moonshadow Island is now passively inhaling toxic gas collectively through breathing!

Lin Shen immediately understood why those residents had been behaving so strangely!

They weren't simply happy because Kuroiwa Tatsuji was dead, but because they were being affected by the toxic fumes drifting down from the mountainside, and their whole being was in a state of uncontrollable excitement.

He had seen similar news reports; when the anti-drug department in India destroyed drugs, they burned them directly outside a village.

This resulted in the entire village going into a high fever!

Lin Shen never expected that this mess would actually happen to him, right before his eyes!

Holy shit! !

Asai Narumi, you idiot!!

If you're going to die, then die. Why did you have to set a fire?

Now look what's happened, you've killed everyone on the island!

Lin Shen cursed Asai Narumi in his mind!

He turned around abruptly and shouted at Xiaolan, "Oh no! Xiaolan! The air is poisonous! Don't breathe!"

But it was too late when he shouted those words.

When he looked at Xiaolan, he noticed that her eyes had changed.

Her gaze began to wander, an unnatural smile played on her lips, and she swayed gently from side to side as if she were drunk, emitting intermittent "hehe" laughs.

Those eyes, which usually looked big and bright, were now veiled with a hazy luster.

"President... how come you... have two heads... hehe..."

Lin Shen cursed inwardly, said no more nonsense, bent down and picked Xiao Lan up in his arms, then turned and ran towards the hotel.

All he wanted to do now was to drag the little girl who had inhaled the toxic gas away from the area as quickly as possible so she could breathe clean air.

He carried Xiaolan in his arms and ran wildly in the hotel slippers, the sound of the slippers hitting the pavement echoing far and wide in the empty streets.

The fire on the hillside behind them was still raging, turning the entire night sky into an ominous dark red.