Conan: The man who rejected the criminal department

Chapter 359 358. This village chief, you don't want America Island to return to abject poverty overnight, do you?

Early the next morning, Zong Takuya took Amuro Toru and a large number of police officers to the American Island.

As the mermaid festival approaches, the number of tourists on the American island is gradually increasing.

Every year during the Mermaid Festival, it is the busiest time for the villagers on the American island.

American Island is a village that has transformed from the fishing industry to the tourism industry. It can be said that most people in the village rely on this period of time to enrich their pockets.

A small number of people in the entire village inherited their ancestral business and made a living by fishing, while a larger part was doing supporting work for the Mermaid Festival.

For example, there are hotels everywhere on the island and restaurants with mermaid elements everywhere.

The meals are still those that can be seen everywhere in Tokyo, but the price can be a little more expensive after adding the mermaid element.

Anyway, American Island is just a small isolated island in Wakasa Bay. As long as the price on the island is the same, these tourists who come here can only pinch their noses to recognize it.

Except for Zong Takuya and Amuro Toru, the rest of Zong Takuya and his party were broken up by the police officers of the Metropolitan Police Department as soon as they came to the island and blended in with the tourists.

With the Mermaid Festival approaching, the number of new faces on the island increased again, and the addition of these police officers was not unexpected.

Of course they came on the Metropolitan Police Department's own ship.

Otherwise, if a group of people in suits and leather shoes who looked very difficult to provoke suddenly gathered on a boat, everyone would feel that something was wrong.

This scene is as rough as a boat of small flat-headed fishermen speaking with a Sichuan accent.

"So we're going to the Mermaid Shrine first?"

"No, let's go to the village office here first." Zong Takuya rejected Amuro Toru's proposal, looking at the map of the island of America that he just bought, and said:

"I am a little concerned about the mermaid skeleton that was found on this island three years ago.

I think the village head here will be able to explain my doubts for me. "

When Zong Takuya and Amuro Toru came to the village office, all the staff inside were busy.

With the approach of the Mermaid Festival and the increase of tourists on the island, the usually leisurely staff became busy.

Although these people are busy, they have no complaints.

Everyone is a native of the American island, and the busier they are, the better life for the family members on the island.

So even though everyone basically keeps their feet off the ground, everyone is happy with it.

"Village Chief, these two are tourists from Tokyo, I hope to see you."

Under the guidance of the staff, Zong Takuya and Amuro Toru met the village head of American Island smoothly.

From the outside, the head of the American island village is about 60 years old, and he is almost reaching the age of retirement.

Although he looks old, the village chief looks very energetic.

"It turned out to be two guests who came from afar. Welcome." The village chief welcomed Zong Tuozai and the two, and then asked them why they came to find him.

"We want to know what happened to the mermaid skeleton three years ago, can you help us solve the confusion, village chief?" After Zong Tuozai said his intentions unceremoniously, the atmosphere in the village chief's office Visibly froze up.

After hearing Zong Takuya's question, the head of American Shimamura immediately withdrew the smile on his face and responded to Zong Takuya with a calm face:

"That's just a false legend. In fact, there is no mermaid skeleton at all. If you just want to inquire about the mermaid legend, then you have come to the wrong place.

I think the villagers on the island are more willing to talk about these things with you.

I still have a job. If there are no other questions, please feel free to both of you. "

After the chatter, the village head closed the door to see off the guests, and the staff who had been waiting for the village head's order at the door were ready to come in and invite Zong Takuya and Amuro Toru out.

Just when the staff was about to make a move, Toru Amuro took a step forward and forced the staff at the door back.

And Zong Takuya took out his ID and threw it in front of the head of American Shimamura.

"I'm not interested in asking those villagers to listen to the urban legends that have been perfected over the years. The incident three years ago is likely to be related to the case I'm investigating now.

Village Chief, I hope you can be more serious. "

Seeing Zong Takuya's police officer ID being thrown in front of Zong Takuya, Murakami subconsciously picked it up and took a look, then was surprised.

The village head, who had worked as a grassroots civil servant in the United States Island all his life, could never have imagined that Zong Takuya, who was so young, was already a police officer of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Replaced in the government system, Zong Tuozai can also be called a high-ranking official for the village chief.

But soon, the village head of American Island calmed down.

Due to the proliferation of rice flower murders and detectives in the world of Ke Xue, the public and grassroots civil servants like the head of the village of the United States naturally lack the awe of the criminal police.

As the saying goes, the sense of distance will create awe, but the criminal police of the Metropolitan Police Department are hanged and beaten by detectives every day, how can this make people feel awe?

Considering Zong Takuya's current age, although his position is frighteningly high, the head of American Shimamura is also a person who is about to retire.

As long as Wu doesn't want to mention the sub-subject, I'm the right person in the unit. This sentence is suitable for the village chief.

To the extent that the village head has no desires or desires. The ID Zong Tuozai threw over really didn't scare the village head who was about to retire.

"Zong Jingshi is really good at joking, isn't it the people from your Metropolitan Police Department who came to investigate the incident three years ago?"

American Shimamura pushed the documents back in front of Zong Takuya and said indifferently: "If you really have any doubts, you can go back to the Metropolitan Police Department and retrieve the original files yourself.

I'm just an old man who is about to retire, and my memory is getting worse as I get older.

Sorry, I can't help you much. "

There are thorns everywhere in the words of the village head of the United States, and they are simply outstanding representatives of hidden needles in the cotton.

Zong Tuozai smiled contemptuously in front of the village chief who was about to make a fool of himself—hehe, no one can make a fool of himself so easily in front of him.

"Of course I checked the files of the Metropolitan Police Department.

After forensic examination, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged woman. At that time, the police judged that the tourists who did not get the dugong arrows had a grudge and sneaked into the warehouse late at night.

As a result, a fire was accidentally caused, and the beams of the warehouse were blown, and they were trapped in the warehouse and could not escape.”

The village head nodded repeatedly after hearing this, saying that there was nothing wrong with what Zong Tuoya said, and this was the conclusion of the police investigation at that time.

"But don't you find it strange, village chief?"

"what?"

"Perhaps the number of homicides in Fukui Prefecture is not large, but it is not particularly unusual to see such unexpected homicides in the whole of Japan, especially in Tokyo's Mihua Town."

"Since it's not unusual, why did the media suddenly start reporting it?"

Zong Takuya sat on the chair opposite to the village head, leaned back relaxedly on the back of the chair, and said playfully to the head of the American island in front of him: "Perhaps the media that reported on the mermaid are following suit.

But I really want to know, those media who were the first to report this accident on mermaid legend from the very beginning"

"Did they think of mermaid legends in their own thinking, or did someone deliberately manage them to influence their reporting direction?"

"Village Chief, once this matter is exposed, I don't think you want to see the tourism industry of American Island suffer a major blow, and the village return to what it used to be, right?"

(End of this chapter)