Conan: Developing business in Kexue World

Chapter 138 The Missing Mermaid
Ebihara Sumi said: "Your great-grandmother really has magical powers, and she did eat mermaid meat before. You also know that the mermaid corpse that appeared three years ago didn't you?"

Eh?Conan changed his voice in unison.

Heiji asked, "Is there a mermaid corpse here?"

Xiaolan said: "Could you be talking about the one that was broadcast on TV three years ago?"

Yuanzi also said: "I saw it with Xiaolan at the time. Is the mermaid corpse real?"

Junhui Shimabukuro smiled and said, "Actually, that time was just an exaggeration of the TV show."

"You're talking nonsense with your eyes open. You obviously saw it too..." The expression on Ebihara Sumi's face instantly became horrified, "The broken bones of that mermaid are simply too weird."

"Shoumei, stop talking." A man appeared behind Shoumei, stopping Shoumei from continuing.

Ebihara Sumi turned around: "Lu Lang?"

The man named Lu Lang said with a sullen face: "There are many things that are inconvenient to say in front of outsiders."

The man's name is Fukuyama Rokuro, and he is also the same age. He looks like 27 or 8, and now he is a fisherman.

He said to everyone: "If you are here looking for Saori, you should go to her house to understand the situation. However, the premise must be that her alcoholic father welcomes you first." After finishing speaking, he just left.

When Kenta came back, he happened to see this scene and asked, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

Sonoko replied: "No, I'm going to Saori's house next time."

Heiji complained on the side: "No one is worried about Saori's safety."

Junhui Shimabukuro explained: "This is because Saori used to quarrel with her father and run away from home."

Mori Kogoro said: "Can I trouble you to take us to Saori's house?"

Junhui Shimabukuro smiled and agreed: "Of course, I have time after the celebration."

Xiao Lan was very interested in the Dugong Festival and asked, "What do you do during the celebration?"

Shimabukuro Junhui said: "We will sell the number to the guests in advance. As long as the number is the same as that shown by my great-grandmother, you can get the Dugong Arrow. Well, to put it simply, it feels like a lottery contest."

Junhui Shimabukuro saw that Xiaolan and the others were very interested in the dugong festival, so she took out three plaques from the sleeve of the miko.

She showed the number plates to several girls, "If this is the case, do you want to try your luck too? Actually, the family of three just returned the number plates this morning, and I have three more here."

Xiaolan and the others looked at each other and smiled, and took the number plate from Jun Hui.

Xiaolan is number 41, He Ye is number 18, Yuanzi is number 9, and the three are numbers [-], [-], and [-] respectively.

Jun Hui continued: "Actually, it depends on a little bit of luck whether you win or not. Maybe this time, the three of you will be able to live forever and stay young like everyone said!"

Jun Hui, as the maiden of the Dugong Festival tonight, naturally couldn't chat with everyone all the time.She went to work, and the few of them wandered around the island.

The Dugong Festival is still very famous around Fukui Prefecture, and because the corpse of the mermaid was reported three years ago, the heat here is still there, and it has attracted tourists from Tokyo.

The island of America is close to Kansai, and they speak with some special accents, which can be easily recognized by outsiders from Tokyo.

Time passed, the sky darkened, torches were lit up around the shrine, and taiko drums were played.

Tourists on the island also began to gather and came towards the shrine.

Kenta and others also came to the square in front of the shrine, waiting for the moment when the number would be announced.

Xiao Lan said: "I suddenly feel very excited."

He agrees with Ye: "That's right."

Yuanzi was very happy when he fantasized about winning the lottery: "If I win at that time, am I going to live forever?"

Finally, the two priests opened the gate of the shrine, and a small witch appeared inside, with her back to everyone.

The miko took the long scepter in front of her and turned her head. She had an old face. This should be the long-lived woman—Mikoto Shimabukuro. According to her great-granddaughter, she is 130 years old.

"It's the longevity woman."

"The longevity lady finally appeared."

When the people on the island saw the longevity woman, they joined hands and bowed to each other.

"This, so small." Maori sighed.

Pingji complained in his heart, she was just an old woman with heavy makeup.

Changshoupo felt as tall as Conan. She moved her body slowly, came to the door, put the long cane in her hand into the fire at the door and lit it, and then moved the cane close to the paper doors on both sides.

Everyone was shocked when words appeared on the paper door.

They are Shen, Baiqi, Shiba, these three numbers.ginseng is three in Japanese.

"So that's it. It turns out that the winning numbers were burnt out on the paper door." Heiji was a little speechless.

"No, really, I won! I'm so lucky."

A woman's unbelievable voice came from behind Heiji's side. He looked over, and it seemed to be the long-haired beauty whom he had just met today, Ebihara Sumi.

On the other side, Yuanzi and Xiaolan looked at the cards in their hands disappointedly, but they didn't win.

At this time, He Ye stammered: "Xiaolan, Yuanzi, you, look at me, my number, I got it!"

"Huh?"*2
Yuanzi Xiaolan immediately surrounded Heye, looking at the sign in her hand, it was Shiba, "Really! Wow, Heye, you are so lucky."

"Hey." He Ye suddenly smirked.

"Huh?" Kenta glanced at He Ye, Xiao Lan, the Ou Huang, didn't win?
After the number was announced, the priest took out the fire extinguisher and extinguished the fire on the paper door.

At this time, Jun Hui came out and announced: "We will officially issue the Dugong Arrow in an hour. Please prepare to gather at the Mermaid Waterfall immediately."

Mermaid Falls.

An hour passed quickly.

At this time, Jun Hui was standing on the bank of the river, with the waterfall behind him, and two torches beside him provided light.

She said seriously: "Next, invite the three winners to come forward."

In the crowd, He Ye happily raised his hand, "Okay, I'll be there right away."

He Ye picked up the rope that separated the crowd and walked to the front.

Another woman also came up, and she turned out to be the short-haired, poisonous-tongued beauty I saw this afternoon, Naoko Heijiang.

Seeing that only two of them had arrived, Jun Hui turned around and asked, "Is the other one already here?"

A drunken man arrived, "It's me."

Heiji was taken aback, "Strange, no, I thought it was the girl from Ebihara who won the lottery just now."

Conan was also nearby at that time, looking around, he said strangely: "Yeah, why didn't anyone see her?"

Junhui distributed dugong arrows to three lucky guests.Then, continue to preside over the celebration.

She nodded to the staff on the side, and said: "Now invite the three of you to accept the light of bliss."

The staff pressed the device, whoosh~ a firework was lifted into the air, and pop~ the firework exploded.

"Wow--"

The onlookers chatted happily and enjoyed the fireworks show.

Suddenly, a man pointed to the distance, "Look, what is that?"

Everyone looked over, shocked.There was also a commotion among the crowd.

Fireworks lifted off one by one, and under the faint light, people could see that the shadow of a mermaid really appeared in the mermaid waterfall.

This woman with long hair in a shawl and her body slowly swaying from side to side looks like a mermaid swimming upstream in a waterfall.

The only difference is that her face is pale and frightening, just like the shocked people on the shore.

After a while, a few people came back to their senses. Under the guidance of the local people who met Fukuyama Rokuro this afternoon, the boys ran to the forest above the waterfall, while the three girls stayed below.

A river runs through the forest, and the figure is at the foot of the waterfall.

Mao Li and Kenta worked hard and finally pulled the man up.

Heiji and Fukuyama Rokuro carried the body to the shore.

Jun Hui covered her mouth: "Is it Shoumei? Could it be that she committed suicide? Or did someone else kill her?"

"No, the two things you said are impossible." Fukuyama Rokuro picked up the stake at the end of the rope wrapped around Shoumei's neck, and said: "The one around Shoumei's neck is to prevent danger. Fixed rope set on the bank of the river."

"What?" Mao Li stepped forward and took a look at the rope, and analyzed: "So, Miss Shoumei was in the dark, and her center of gravity was unstable when she walked to the river. Although she grabbed the rope, the current was too fast. , causing the stake to fall off, and she was forced to fall over the waterfall and strangled to death by the rope."

Heiji disagreed, "But, don't you find it strange? The celebration in the village is obviously held under the waterfall. Why does she have to go to the forest at this time?"

"She probably came to look for the mermaid's grave?" Heijiang Naoko said suddenly.

Jun Hui's color changed and her eyes widened.

"What?" Heiji and Mori turned their heads in surprise.

"Because the mermaid's grave is somewhere in this forest." Heijiang Naoko explained, "On the night of the celebration three years ago, after the shrine's warehouse caught fire, the mermaid's bones were buried here instead. .”

Jun Hui said: "It's possible to say that. I know Shoumei has always been very concerned about that matter."

"Wait a minute, you keep talking about mermaids and mermaids. Are you sure that the skeleton is really that of a mermaid?" Heiji obviously didn't believe it.

"It's hard to say. The villagers on the island said so." Jun Hui said, "But the police from the mainland think that it is the skeleton of a middle-aged woman."

"It's nonsense!" Heijiang Naoko reacted greatly, "That skeleton has all the bones below the waist, so you can say that."

"Below the waist?" Maori asked, a little hairy.

Fukuyama Lulang also suddenly said: "Because a burnt beam happened to fall near the waist of the skeleton, after the villagers removed the beam, they found that the place where the foot bone should have been was completely smashed." .”

Fukuyama Rokuro: "That's why it was reported on TV that the corpse of a mermaid appeared here."

Naoko Heijiang: "Longevity woman also became a celebrity overnight."

The two seemed a little proud of the affair.

(End of this chapter)