Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 99 Tracking
As the sun set and disappeared below the horizon, night began to slowly descend on the island.

In the American shrine, there are already two rows of big drums on the square at this moment. A group of middle-aged villagers are standing in front of the big drums, wearing uniform attire, and beating the drums rhythmically.In front of the central gate of the shrine, there are three shelves with burning firewood, illuminating the square of the shrine.

At this time, tourists and villagers gradually poured into the shrine, standing on the square of the shrine one after another, surrounded by the fence that had been set up in front of the shrine.

The Dugong celebration was held as scheduled.

Counting the time, Miyano Shiho also came to the square at this moment, ready to see the true face of the legendary long-lived woman, but since just now, the gin and vodka that had been accompanying him did not know where to go.

Miyano Shiho knew that they should have done something while most of the people on the island were gathering at the celebration.But this has nothing to do with me, on the contrary, because the two of them are not around, they can breathe a sigh of relief.

Moreover, that person should be here too!
Thinking of this, Miyano Shiho began to look around the crowd, trying to find someone inside, but unfortunately, it was too difficult to find someone in this dark crowd.

Soon, the ceremony officially began.

Two women in Japanese-style white clothes and blue skirts walked to the gate of the shrine, opened the middle door to both sides, and you could see that in the middle of the shrine, a woman with long white hair and wearing a The woman in the priestess costume was kneeling in the lobby of the shrine with her back to the crowd.

In the lobby, there was another shelf with a bamboo pole about a person's height placed on the shelf, with something wrapped in cloth at one end of the bamboo pole.

I saw that shortly after the door of the shrine opened, the woman who was kneeling there stretched out her hand to hold the bamboo pole, and then slowly turned around to face the people in the square.

"It's Longevity Woman! Longevity Woman has finally appeared!"

In the crowd, someone uttered such admiration, and then the crowd began to cheer.

Miyano Shiho was drawn back by the words, and stopped trying to find possible figures in the crowd, but began to stare carefully at the woman who turned around in the shrine.

"This is, the longevity lady?"

Somewhat surprised, Miyano Shiho said silently.

What I saw in front of me was a very short old woman with heavy white makeup on her face, but it still couldn't cover the age spots on her face.

It is rumored that the longevity woman who ate mermaid meat and lived for more than 100 years has such a face.

Miyano Shiho was a little disappointed, this kind of respect is indeed what an elderly person should look like, but it is still unbelievable to say that she has lived for more than 100 years - sure enough, compared with the longevity woman, it is still the skeleton of the mermaid, It's even more interesting.

I saw that at this time, Longevity Lady slowly came to the gate of the shrine, put the cloth-wrapped end of the bamboo pole in her hand on the middle fire frame in front of the gate of the shrine, lit the cloth bag on the bamboo pole with fire, and then used The lighted bamboo pole is placed on the paper window of the nearby shrine, and the flame instantly ignites on the paper window.

But the flame did not completely ignite the window, but was controlled by something, and a number written in Chinese characters was burned on it: 43.

The tourists and villagers who saw this began to make surprised sounds.

Immediately afterwards, in the same way, Changshou Po continued to light two paper windows, and two new numbers appeared: 44 and ninety.

"So that's it, the ones burned on it are the winning numbers."

Miyano Shiho understood what was going on, and then sneered—this is just a trick to deceive children, and it can attract so many people flocking to it.

Thinking of this, Longevity Lady walked back to the shrine and disappeared from everyone's sight.The crowd present, a little anxious at the moment, compared the number plate in their hands with the number on the paper window.

"Oh my god! It's actually true! I hit it!"

Not far from Miyano Shiho, a woman's cheers attracted Miyano Shiho's attention.

Turning around, she found a woman in her twenties with short hair and a pair of glasses, cheering with a number plate in her hand. Naturally, she was Saori Kadowaki.

It was nothing at first, but just following this line of sight, Miyano Shiho saw the man in the blue windbreaker beside the woman wearing glasses——Wise and lofty!
At this moment, two women in Japanese-style white clothes and blue skirts reappeared in front of the shrine, holding a fire extinguisher, and extinguished the burning numbers on the paper window.Then in the shrine, a woman in her 20s wearing a priestess costume, Junhui Shimabukuro walked to the gate of the shrine and began to announce:

"Everyone, please listen carefully. We will officially issue the Dugong Arrow in an hour. Please prepare to gather at the Mermaid Waterfall immediately!"

After finishing speaking, the crowd began to disperse slowly, moving in the direction of Mermaid Waterfall in unison.

At this time, Miyano Shiho, who was also planning to move with the crowd, paid special attention to Akechi Takato in his line of sight.Because of this, she saw that, from the crowd, she was wise and lofty, but sneaked out!

If I remember correctly, the name of No. 44 is Zhizhi Gaoyuan!In other words, he also drew the arrow of the dugong!

So why is he leaving?

The conversation was divided into two parts. Gao Yuan saw that the lottery meeting was over, and everyone walked towards the mermaid waterfall in unison. At this moment, Gao Yuan immediately left the crowd, walked into the woods, and left here.

Just now, Gao Yuan confirmed one thing with Kadowaki Saori, that is, Kadowaki Saori and her father are here to participate in the celebration at the moment, in other words, there is no one in Kadowaki Saori's house at this time !
Just before, Takato guessed through the conversation between Saori Kadowaki and Junhui Shimabukuro in the shrine.After the fisherman who found the "red-faced mermaid" at sea was probably Saori Kadowaki's father, he began to investigate the time when Saori Kadowaki's father left the island for the mainland.

Then it was discovered that the time when Saori Kadowaki arrived in the mainland was very consistent with the time when Kaito Kuroba found out that the gem mortgage company got the news, so the possibility of this guess was greatly increased.

Therefore, Gao Yuan contacted Kaito Kuroba, told him the news, and asked him to investigate carefully. What exactly did this gang of criminal groups pretending to be gem mortgage companies want to do in the American island? Zang came to the United States Island to be in charge of the "red-faced mermaid", what exactly is it referring to.

Then, not long ago, Gao Yuan received a reply - the other party planned to steal the gems directly!Moreover, Kaito Kuroba confirmed that the fisherman who was the source of the news was indeed named Kadowaki!
After getting such an answer, Gao Yuan had an idea - now, he doesn't know where the other party is, but he knows who their target person is, so he just needs to wait and see.

So the question now is, when will they act?
Reminiscent of the Dugong celebration to be held tonight, Gao Yuan understood: Is there any better time than most of the island going to participate in the Dugong celebration?

So, after confirming at the ceremony that there was no one in Kadowaki Saori's house at this time, Gao Yuan left the crowd and prepared to take a path through the woods and go around to the Kadowaki Saori's house by the sea.

However, along the way, Gao Yuan didn't realize that there was always someone following him behind him!
(End of this chapter)