Acting Tips for Conan World

"Saori?"

The resident uncle scratched his head and looked around. "I saw her before... I don't know where she went. If you want to find Saori, go to the Mermaid Festival tonight. Saori was hit by the dugong arrow, so she will not miss the blessing given by the longevity lady during the Mermaid Festival tonight. You will naturally be able to find Saori then!"

At night...

Conan looked down at his watch and saw that it was just past noon.

It would be too long to wait until night.

He pinched his throat and asked, "So, where is Sister Shoumei? Uncle, do you know where Sister Shoumei went?"

The resident uncle was amused: "Sumi and Saori are very good friends. I saw Sumi and Saori walking together a few hours ago."

Conan was a little dumbfounded, "Then, then..."

"You still want to ask Heijiang, right?" The resident uncle smiled and learned to answer quickly, "Because the three of them have similar personalities and usually play together. She didn't go out with Saori Sumi and the others. I just saw her at the reception desk. She may have gone home now."

“It’s the little white house.”

"Thanks, uncle!"

Hattori Heiji thanked the uncle carelessly, and the group walked to Kuroe's door and knocked.

"Dong dong dong."

After waiting for several minutes, Hattori Heiji couldn't help knocking a few more times. No one answered, "Not home?"

The neighbor's aunt leaned out because of the sound of him knocking on the door, "Stop knocking! Heijiang just went out!"

Hattori Heiji

Asked: "How long have you been out?"

"Hmm... ten minutes?"

Who would remember when they met their neighbors? The neighbor lady thought about it and only gave an approximate number.

In short, we should leave within half an hour.

As the only adult in the group, Kogoro Mouri bore the most fire from the neighbor aunt. After apologizing profusely to the neighbor aunt and swearing to discipline the brat and never let him knock on the door so loudly and disturb others again, he angrily scolded Hattori Heiji.

Hattori Heiji let the information go in one ear and out the other, stroked his chin and spread out the map of Mermaid Island, thinking: "Where do you want to go when you leave in such a hurry..."

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Heijiang stood on the edge of the cliff, panting, and gave a sneer.

"found it……"

The mermaid's tombstone!

She originally wanted to wait for Saori at the reception desk to touch her dugong arrow, but she waited for a long time but Saori never came. After returning home, she became more and more angry, holding a shovel and climbing up the mountain: "Junhui is the same, he gave the dugong arrow to Saori but not to me!"

She put the shovel aside and raised her hand to move the round stone that served as a tombstone on the mermaid's tomb to the side to make it easier to dig the soil.

But the stone was too round, and Heijiang pushed the egg-shaped stone without paying attention. His hands, which were supporting the stone, were empty, and he fell forward.

"Ah ah!"

She screamed, her eyes wide open in horror: What's behind that is——

She missed a step and fell off the cliff screaming madly.

There was a river flowing into the sea below the cliff, but unfortunately it was just a narrow and shallow stream. Heijiang couldn't even struggle after falling into the stream. His head hit the rocks on the river bank and he died on the spot.

The body rolled into the river and floated into the sea along the current.

The blood in the river was washed away in an instant, leaving only dark red marks on the stones on the shore, proving that a tragedy had occurred here.

In the shrine.

"Hey yo, hey yo!"

Kimie took the brush, dipped it into the special liquid in the bucket, and wrote two numbers that she particularly liked on the gate of the shrine.

Then I checked the two fire extinguishers by the door to make sure they were working properly. This way, I wouldn't be afraid of burning the whole shrine when I accidentally burned the characters at night.

After finishing the preparations, Jun Hui wiped the sweat off her face and heard the cheerful chirping of birds on the branches outside.

She walked to the front yard with joy and looked up, "Oh, it turned out to be the magpie calling."

Chapter 148 The Detectives' Suspicion

Hattori Heiji and his team were busy for the entire afternoon but gained nothing.

When the sun sets and a bonfire is lit in front of the shrine, they return to the shrine to participate in the mermaid festival at night.

“It’s really amazing…”

Xiaolan looked at the short old lady waving a torch and presiding over the ceremony. She tried to imagine how she walked on her knees and couldn't help but sigh.

The torch lit the paper door, but the entire door was not lit up. The moment the flame fell, it spread out in a regular pattern, forming three numbers on the door.

One eight, five eight, eight nine.

Each number represents Junhui's heartfelt wishes.

After the three lucky winners were chosen, the two residents who were assisting in the sacrificial ceremony immediately picked up the fire extinguisher and put out the blazing numbers on the door, leaving only black marks on the door.

After lighting the number, the longevity woman disappeared immediately. While everyone was discussing the lucky number, Jun Hui quickly walked into the small room in the shrine on her knees, untied the ropes tied around her legs, untied her knee pads, took off the longevity woman's clothes, put on a shrine maiden's costume, and after tidying herself up in front of the mirror, she appeared in front of everyone in the posture of a shrine maiden, holding the imperial coin.

"Everyone please gather at the Mermaid Falls immediately!"

Led by local residents, the tourists quickly arrived at the Mermaid Waterfall near the shrine.

After Jun Hui invited the three lucky audience members to come forward, he continued the ceremony with a solemn expression: "Now please three, accept the baptism of the light of bliss!"

A bunch of fireworks whooshed into the night sky, exploded, and burst into beautiful fireworks.

Everyone was looking up at the fireworks with a smile on their faces, except Jun Hui, who had a solemn expression on her face and was already rolling on the ground in shame.

What——Be baptized by the light of bliss!!

Ahhh, it's incredible that the person presiding over the festival can speak like this so seriously and even set off fireworks in front of so many tourists!

Fortunately, no classmates saw this scene, otherwise they would have been laughed at for a month!

She forced a smile and waited until the fireworks faded away, slowly presiding over the festival until eight o'clock in the evening, when the tourists who had participated in the festival gradually dispersed and returned to their hotels and B&Bs.

Hattori Heiji looked around and suddenly saw the resident uncle he had seen during the day. He quickly ran up to greet him, "Uncle! Have you seen Saori?"

"Oh, it's you."

The resident uncle was impressed by such a dark young man. He smiled heartily and said, "I have kept an eye out for you, but it is really strange. Saori, Sumi, Kuroe and the other three are devout believers in mermaids and never forget to participate in the festival every year, but this year none of them came."

As he spoke, the uncle also became worried: "Nothing will happen, right?"

"Then do you remember which direction Miss Saori and Miss Sumi went when you saw them in the afternoon?" Conan asked hurriedly.

"Well……"

The uncle scratched his head, thought hard, and pointed towards the pier: "Is he going that way? Maybe he wants to take a boat to Tokyo Port to buy something? Although we old people don't like to go there, young people are very keen on shopping at Tokyo Port!"

pier?

Going to sea?

Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other, their faces changed, and they ran towards the pier.

"I should have thought of that!"

Hattori Heiji blamed himself as he ran, "Those two women who were drowned by the waves when we came here by boat this morning!"

"It only takes one hour to get from Mermaid Island to Tokyo Port, and the only cruise ship that sends passengers is the one we are on. According to the time you estimated when we met Ms. Saori and Ms. Sumi on their way to the dock, we would have already departed from Tokyo Port. If they were taking a cruise to Tokyo Port, they would have to wait until we got off the ship at Mermaid Island before they could get on board!"

Conan's eyes were sharp as he continued to analyze: "That is to say, they probably went out to sea in a small boat, and then..."

There are dozens of large and small fishing boats parked at the dock.

An old man was sitting by the dock, fishing, holding a pipe in his mouth. He was the one who came to Mermaid Island to watch over the boats and prevent bad guys from stealing them. He was also a native of Mermaid Island, so he knew clearly which boat belonged to which family, and he could prevent strangers from sneaking in.

Seeing Conan and Hattori Heiji, the energetic old man immediately straightened up and shouted loudly, "These are all fishing boats owned by the residents of Mermaid Island. If you want to rent a boat to go out to sea, you need the consent of the boat owner!"

“We’re not here to rent a boat!”

Hattori Heiji was anxious to confirm his thoughts: "Excuse me, did Ms. Saori and Ms. Sumi come here this morning?"

The old man took a puff of his cigarette and said, "I don't know. There are a lot of people coming and going at the dock during the day, and everyone on the island can help watch it. I only come to check on the boat in the afternoon."

"Is the fishing boat of Miss Saori and Miss Sumi still there?" Conan asked again.

"trouble."

The old man stood up and walked along the dock. "Saori's fishing boat is gone. There's nothing wrong with that. Her fishing boat is fuel-intensive. You can't drive it away without the key. It must have been Saori or her father who drove it away."

...Now it can be confirmed.

The two women who were swept into the sea in the morning must be Saori and Sumi.

After leaving the dock, the two contacted the captain of the cruise ship.

Hattori Heiji made the call: "Yes, I would like to ask if those two people were found this morning."

"Are you still salvaging? Yes, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Hattori Heiji relayed to Conan: "The rescue ship is still searching, and we can't be sure that the two people are dead. They are still missing for the time being."

Conan suddenly said: "Isn't it too coincidental? The disappearance of those two people."

Hattori Heiji shook his head, "But the weather at sea cannot be controlled. Maybe it's just a coincidence? The most important thing now is to find Miss Kuroe and see if we can find evidence to reveal the truth of that year."

He sighed in annoyance, "But Miss Heijiang didn't come to the Mermaid Festival either."

Conan had a bad feeling in his heart.

The three people who killed Miss Junhui's mother disappeared one after another on the day of the Mermaid Festival... Is this really a coincidence?

"Because of the death of Miss Jun Hui's mother, they firmly believe in the magic of mermaids and frantically pursue the favor of mermaids in order to achieve immortality. I guess the two of them went out to sea to find mermaids."

Conan continued to analyze, "What about Miss Kuroe? Where would Miss Kuroe go if she wasn't with these two people?"

Hattori Heiji's face was as gloomy as water. "Eating the flesh of a mermaid can bring you immortality."

"——It is the grave of Miss Junhui's mother. They have always regarded it as the skeleton of a mermaid. Miss Heijiang's purpose must be this."

Crazy pursuit of immortality...they have already become possessed.

Chapter 149 Detectives doubt life

The sea breeze blows.

Conan was silent for a moment, then asked, "Then let's go ask Miss Jun Hui where her mother was buried?"

"Stop saying such stupid things. You've noticed that, right?"

Hattori Heiji crossed his arms and looked at Conan sideways: "The three people related to the death of Miss Kimie's mother disappeared on the day of the Mermaid Festival. It's too far-fetched to say it's a coincidence."

"Whatever the truth is, now that three people are missing, we cannot be too cautious."

Conan turned on the flashlight and walked into the mountain. "I guess Miss Jun Hui would bury her mother in the mountain to prevent those people who are fanatically superstitious about mermaids from destroying her mother's remains."

Hattori Heiji continued to reason, "Because Miss Kimie's mother loved this island before she died, Miss Kimie might have buried her mother's body in a relatively high place, so that her mother could always look at the island she loved the most."

The two of them kept walking up the mountain.

Although it was a small hill on an island, it was also a real mountain. It took the two of them more than ten minutes to climb to the top of the mountain.

The two of them searched separately, and soon, Hattori Heiji called out loudly, "Kudo, come quickly!"

The two of them had already left Kogoro Mori and his group to somewhere unknown, and Hattori Heiji was calling "Kudo Kudo" more and more unscrupulously.

Conan ran over immediately.

Hattori Heiji pointed to the grass on one side.

"Look here, there is a shovel, and there is a round indentation here, probably where some spherical stone was placed. Because I can't reveal my identity, I put a unique stone as a mark. Miss Junhui's mother's tomb should be here."

"This shovel..."

Conan's eyes revealed a trace of sadness, "It seems that what we thought was right... Miss Heijiang really wanted to dig up this tomb, find the so-called mermaid's bones, and eat them to achieve immortality."

Hattori Heiji carefully picked up the shovel and said, "Based on the marks under the shovel, this shovel should have been put down. There are no signs of fighting at the scene."

"If you want to talk about the most interesting trace..."

Conan stood in front of the sunken round hole, looking at the traces of something rolling out.

He followed the trail, pushed aside the dense grass and walked forward. His pupils suddenly contracted, and he shouted sternly to Hattori Heiji who was striding towards him: "Be careful - this is a cliff!"