Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Dr. Agasa also followed the fisherman on the boat and left the embankment. However, because he suddenly had to go home for an urgent matter, he had to leave Maori and his group to the care of the fat uncle with glasses.

Maori quietly packed up his fishing gear and found a place to sit down.

Since there are so many fish, I can catch some anyway...

Fishing is an activity that requires a lot of patience. The few children who were thought to be impatient actually quietly chose a spot nearby and started fishing seriously. Yuantai, who had been shouting all the time, also quickly got into the mood, staring at the water with his big eyes.

Maori smiled, but his face soon turned dark. He just watched the kids catch fish one after another. The atmosphere suddenly became heated. The unreliable Yuantai looked calm, and even had the temperament and demeanor of a master and a general.

Maori frowned and pulled up the fishing line, but still found nothing.

Fishing still seems difficult...

Conan also caught some fish, although not many. But after comparing them with Maori, he still smiled subtly without saying anything.

The doctor didn't come back the whole afternoon, but the kids seemed to have forgotten about him and were immersed in the joy of fishing. They caught more than twenty fish in just one afternoon.

Maori only caught one fish, a juvenile, which was eventually released.

"It's more than enough for dinner!" Mitsuhiko looked at the buckets of fresh fish with joy. He felt that it was more exciting than eating at a high-end sushi restaurant. After all, he caught the fish himself.

"However, Yuantai is really amazing. He caught another black sea bream. Even if we don't eat it, we can sell it for a lot of money..."

"Can we call a fishing expert now?"

Ayumi and the others praised Yuanta a few times, and the originally calm little fat boy immediately blushed and said embarrassedly: "Actually, I wanted to catch eels, but I caught the wrong one..."

"Conan caught an eel."

"Ha ha……"

Conan looked at Genta's shining eyes and his mouth twitched slightly.

Is there nothing else on this guy's mind except eel rice?

"Okay, everyone, pack up your tools and get ready to go home."

The fat uncle also came over with a bucket of fish. In order to take care of the children, he didn't fish seriously, but he still had a small catch. When he passed by Mao Li, he asked, "How is it, Detective Mao Li? Did you catch anything?"

"It's okay..."

Maori actually wanted to continue fishing, but it was getting late and the pick-up boat had already arrived. The sound could be heard from far away on the embankment, so he had no choice but to pack up his fishing gear.

Maybe my aura is too strong, so the fish don't dare to approach...

Just as Maori was muttering to himself as he was trying to find a ladder to get down, the ship was gradually approaching the embankment.

"Well, Jingtian, see you later!" The fat uncle stayed on the embankment, waved to everyone, and watched the cruise ship leave.

"See you later."

The cruise ship gradually sailed away from the breakwater.

The setting sun is like a big disc standing on the sea, bright and dazzling but also visible. It feels particularly good when you look at it from a ship.

The world is so big, and I am so small...

A black sharp corner in front of the sunset in the sea caught everyone's attention. It seemed not too far from the cruise ship, which made people curious. Yuantai and the others immediately thought of the existence of monsters.

"That's the One-horned Rock," the fisherman explained. "In the past, there was a sea dragon with a long horn. Legend has it that the dragon was furious because its child was fished away by a fisherman. Until now, its horn has been exposed on the sea surface to protect its habitat. It is also said that any fishing boat that approaches there will sink immediately, and everyone can only worship it from afar..."

"Really?" Several children were attracted by the fisherman's words. They looked at the black sharp corners on the sea and found them a little different, as if there really was a unicorn in the sea.

“Why don’t we go take a look?” The fisherman smiled. “It’s easy for the boat to get close to that rock, and we can see the sunset more clearly there.”

"But...won't it sink?"

"It doesn't matter. The unicorn loves children very much. There is also a legend that children who get close to it will gain the power of the sea, learn to swim, and swim very well..."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Ayumi was in high spirits.

"hehe."

Maori twitched his mouth and looked at the excited Ayumi and the others.

Children really believe everything...

However, he always felt that this kind of place was unlucky...

Maori glanced toward the pointy rock.

The One-Corner Rock is not small but not too big either. The part exposed above the sea is only more than ten meters high, and the radius of the bottom is also very small. It takes about one minute to go around it in a circle.

"This is the Ikkaku Rock that belongs to the children," the fisherman Iida looked at the Ikkaku Rock with nostalgia, "I only dared to come here because I followed you. I don't usually come here..."

"Hey!" A ship passed by nearby, and someone on the bow shouted over here, "What are you doing over there?! That's a horn rock. If you get close, you will be cursed by the dragon and the ship will sink!!"

"what?"

Maori was still looking at the corner rock. When he heard the shout, he looked back, but the boat sailed away again after just one shout.

"It's the divers diving nearby," the fisherman driving the boat said with an unhappy expression, "Recently, some divers have started diving nearby to curry favor with a certain company president's daughter, making it inconvenient for us to fish. Although the sea belongs to everyone, they should at least think about us fishermen..."

Maori didn't pay much attention to the departing ship. After everyone got off the ship, he finally took Xiao Ai's hand and stepped onto the corner rock.

It seems to be just an ordinary rock protruding from the sea surface. The edges have been severely eroded by the sea water and are bumpy. The so-called shipwreck legend is probably due to accidentally hitting the rocks.

"Let's take a picture before the sunset!" Ayumi's heart melted when she saw the sunset, and she couldn't wait to pull Conan and the others to her side.

Maori tactfully took pictures of everyone with his mobile phone. Just as he was about to ask everyone to pose, he was suddenly blocked by Conan.

"Ok?"

"Uncle! It looks like someone has carved something here!"

"Huh? Let me take a look."

Maori moved closer to the rock wall and looked closely at the carvings on it.

The carvings were new, with "mackerel, carp, sea bream, flounder" written in Japanese.

"What is this?" Ayumi and the others also looked at the rock wall. "Did someone carve the name of the fish they caught here as a souvenir?"

"It's so bad to do such a thing..."

"No," Maori frowned, "The carvings are quite neat, they were not made by a child, but fishermen generally don't come to such places, let alone carve words, and..."

Maori walked to the side and pulled out a diving suit fin from the crevice of the rock. It was still brand new.

"If it was a prank, you wouldn't deliberately put such new flippers in a place like this..."

Conan's expression changed slightly, and he ran forward without saying a word. On the other side of the rock corner, there was a young woman in a diving suit leaning against the rock wall. She looked like she was asleep, with an oxygen tank next to her.

Conan checked the woman's condition with a heavy expression and stopped several children who were running after her.

"He's dead..."

"what?!"

Mitsuhiko was shocked and asked, "How could it be?"

Maori also found this place and followed Conan to examine the woman's body.

The time of death was probably a few hours ago, the cause of death was dehydration, he was trapped to death in such a place...

"How pitiful," Mitsuhiko said sadly as he looked at the woman's body, "She must have been trapped here by accident. This is a rocky corner where the ship would sink, so not many people would come here..."

"It's not an accident. I'm afraid someone deliberately abandoned it here," Mao Li interrupted, "Call the police first."

"Eh?"

"Normally, people don't wear lipstick when diving, otherwise it will dirty the mouthpiece, but the mouthpiece of this oxygen tank is very clean, without any lipstick on it... Someone must have come here after her death and replaced the oxygen tank for some purpose."

Maori's mind flashed back to the group of diving enthusiasts he had just seen.

These guys are suspicious...

What a shame! I thought it was going to be a peaceful day, but right when I was about to leave, I encountered a murder in the sea.

In any case, the possibility of murder was quite high, not only because of the oxygen tank mouthpiece, but also because of the scratches on the other side of the corner rock and the flippers stuck in the cracks of the rock.

Each strip in each of the different rock cracks should belong to this barefoot young woman.

There were traces of barefoot walking on the soles of the woman's feet. The reason for making these arrangements was probably because they knew that the criminal would come to check afterwards, and they wanted to avoid the criminal's suspicion while alerting other people who discovered it.

At least if the police come, they might be able to tell it wasn’t an accident…

His eyes swept across the traces of a watch on the woman's left wrist, and Maori began to search nearby. Because the area was not large, he soon found a hidden diving watch.

The edge of the diving watch was badly worn, and the width was just enough to fit the text marks.

There is the abbreviation "HA" on the back of the watch, surrounded by the English words "AKAMINE ANGEL...CLUB". The letters behind "ANGEL" have been worn off and cannot be seen clearly, but we can barely tell that it is probably some diving club, and it is very likely the companions of those diving enthusiasts.

Seeing those people rushing around, as if they were looking for something, this woman...

"Uncle, she should be the only daughter of President Akamine, who has recently become the chairman of a financial company in Kanagawa Prefecture," Conan came over and said, "I asked Uncle Ida, she often takes a few young men to dive nearby, her name is Akamine Mitsuri, the abbreviation is HA."

Maori glanced at Conan, who was getting into the state and looked confident.

"You didn't know from the beginning that there was a body here, did you?"

"How can it be……"

Conan's face darkened for a moment, and he looked at his diving watch and pondered, "But the problem is that the words carved on the rock should be the death message she left behind, but what does it mean?"

As a famous detective, Mao Li knew some wealthy people, but he was quite unfamiliar with the children of wealthy people. He had heard of Chifeng Financial Company, but he didn't know Chifeng Guangli who was killed in Ikkaku Rock.

If a rich girl was killed in a place like this, or was murdered in a planned way, it is very likely that someone close to her committed the crime. At least, this is the case with most of the rich girls that Maori has seen being murdered. One of the common points is that they all have bad personalities and are always surrounded by several men.

I don’t know what it’s like in Chifeng Guangli, but diving nearby with the divers who flatter me sounds very familiar…

A corner of rock stands in the middle of the sea, casting a long shadow on the sea surface at dusk, creating an eerie and ominous atmosphere.

After receiving the report, the Kanagawa Prefectural Police rushed to the scene by boat. Leading the team was Officer Yokomizo's younger brother, Shigeo Yokomizo, who worked at the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department and always had a serious face.

"Although it is impossible to say for sure without moving the body to land for a thorough investigation, judging from the stiffness of the screams and the turbidity of the cornea, the time of death should be 5 to 6 hours ago..."

"The mouth was very dry, the skin had no elasticity, and she died of dehydration... This means that the woman named Chifeng Guangli was trapped in this corner of the rock for more than three days without eating or drinking..."

Yokomizo Shigego, who looked like a muscular man, frowned and analyzed the body carefully, "He was wearing a diving suit and an oxygen tank... The general inference is that he encountered trouble while diving, and ended up struggling to get to this rock, but was not discovered..."

Yokomizo Shigego looked back at Maori with a stern expression: "I don't think so. Her lipstick didn't get on the mouthpiece, which means someone calculated the time of her death and secretly came back here to replace the oxygen cylinder. Although I don't know the reason for doing so, I can be sure that it must be a murder!"

"Hello..."

Maori looked speechlessly at Yokomizo Shigego in front of him, who was still serious but confident, as if waiting for his praise and compliments.

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The Yokomizo brothers are indeed similar, except that compared to the good-natured and funny older brother, the younger brother likes to act majestic and indifferent...

"It is indeed a murder case," Mao Li said, holding a diving watch with a handkerchief, "and the victim himself probably knew that the criminal would come back, so he left a cryptic message of death..."

"Death message?" Yokomizo Shigeo was stunned.

"The flippers were stuffed into the cracks of the rocks, and the diving watch was hidden away, all to alert the police without letting the criminals find out. That's also why we didn't leave the criminal's name directly..."

"But Uncle Maori," Mitsuhiko asked Maori who was thinking, "If the criminal comes again, maybe he wants to frame someone else..."

"It can't be a frame-up," Mao Li smiled after coming to his senses. "Disguising it as an accident is the best option. Even if they want to frame someone, there's no need to hide the diving watch alone. Besides, the criminal can't stay for too long when he comes back, especially when someone happens to be looking for the victim nearby..."

"what?"

"It's the ship from before..."

Maori looked at a yacht heading towards Ikko-no-Rock on the sea and saw two young men standing on the bow.

The people on the boat also noticed the situation of the Ichigo Rock. Without waiting for Maori to call out, they started to panic and hurriedly moved the ship closer to the rock.

"It's really Missy!"

"Disappeared three days ago?" Shigeo Yokomizo immediately found the three young men who had docked on the boat and confirmed that the three were the divers who were with the victim. He also learned that the victim had gone diving with them at noon three days ago and then disappeared. He only sent an email to a few people.

"After we returned to the boat, the young lady didn't come up for a long time. When we were about to dive down to look for her, I received an email from her on my phone, saying that the rest would be left to you..."

"Are you guys just going to stop searching and go back without even confirming it?" Yokomizo Shigego frowned.

"We can't help it, because similar things have happened before," the young man with a headscarf said helplessly, "When we were diving in early summer, the young lady didn't come up once. She just sent an email. We were so anxious that we looked for her everywhere and even called the police. As a result, she came back the next day with a smile on her face, saying that she happened to see a handsome guy on a passing yacht, so they went on board and drank together all night..."

"But I haven't heard of anyone reporting missing in the past two days."

"We didn't call the police this time because the eldest lady lost her temper last time, so we waited for a few days this time, and then came out to look for her because there was still no news..."