I'm writing a novel in Ming Ke, if you mess with me, you'll be the heroine

When Hattori heard what Chu Ming said, he leaned over and started looking at the list.

Chu Ming handed him the list, moved closer to Conan, and used the system to take a picture of the page in his hand. Apart from anything else, Vodka's handwriting was quite cute.

Just now, Shimabukuro Kimie didn't find the roster in the room, so she said she would go to the warehouse to look for it. After the three of them finished flipping through the two books in their hands, they waited in the room for Shimabukuro Kimie to bring the latest roster. Unfortunately, she didn't wait for her, but instead heard Xiaolan and Kazuha screaming again.

"Sister Xiaolan, what's wrong?" Conan ran out of the door as soon as he heard the voice. Looking at Xiaolan standing at the door and leaning closely on Kazuha, he asked nervously.

Hattori also quickly ran to Kazuha's side.

"Heiji, just now, there was a woman with brown hair and glasses hiding behind a tree and staring at us!!!" When Kazuha saw Hattori coming, she quickly held his hand and pointed behind the tree in panic.

"Wearing glasses? Could it be Ms. Saori? Did you see Ms. Shimabukuro come back?"

Xiaolan pointed to the back of the shrine: "No, Miss Shimabukuro said she wanted to look for something in the newly built warehouse at the back. That's where it is - Hey, why is it so bright there all of a sudden?"

Several people hurried over there, and after bypassing the shrine, they saw the warehouse burning with a raging fire, with flames shooting up into the sky.

"Hurry up and call the people on the island to put out the fire!!!" Hattori and Conan ran over there first, and Xiaolan and Kazuha also hurried to call for help.

However, because the fire was so large, water guns could not put it out. The fire burned all night until the entire warehouse was completely burned out and turned to ashes. Finally, the police found a charred body in the warehouse.

"I asked. Although the body was burned, it can still be seen that the victim was wearing glasses and blue clothes. It should be Miss Saori..."

After Hattori went to the scene to inquire, he came back to discuss with Conan and Chu Ming.

Chu Ming frowned: "But where did Miss Shimabukuro go? Didn't she say she went to the warehouse? How come Miss Saori's body suddenly appeared there?"

Conan looked at the two of them: "I suddenly have a bad feeling. Miss Shimabukuro said before that she had gone for dental treatment, right..."

Hattori understood what he meant immediately: "You don't mean to say..."

Chu Ming immediately stood up and went to find Maori Kogoro. It would be better for Maori Kogoro to ask for this kind of information, as the police would give him some face.

"Okay, thank you for calling to let me know." Maori Kogoro put down the receiver with a serious expression. "The police have investigated and found that the tooth shape of the charred corpse in the warehouse is consistent with the tooth shape left by Miss Shimabukuro when she went to the dentist."

“…How could this happen? How could this happen…” Xiaolan’s eyes were a little red.

"Should we inform Grandma Changshou about this news... After all, his granddaughter..." He Ye pursed his lips and there was a hint of tears in his voice.

Several people nodded, but after searching the entire shrine, they couldn't find the figure of the Longevity Lady.

"Damn it! Where on earth could an old man who can't walk very well go? Tell the police to keep looking for him! And ask the islanders if they have seen any trace of him."

Hattori was a little anxious. After all, the man was over a hundred years old and had difficulty walking. The shrine was close to the sea. What if something went wrong?

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"Have you seen the longevity lady? Well, I won't hide it from you, Jun Hui is gone, so how can there be a longevity lady..."

Hearing the three people's questions, an islander stopped what he was doing, looking very haggard.

"What do you mean?" Conan asked quickly.

"In fact, we, the older generation of islanders, all know that there is no such thing as a longevity lady. This is played by Junhui's mother and Junhui. When the warehouse caught fire three years ago, we all assumed that the longevity lady would never appear again, and we all decided not to hold the Dugong Festival from then on. But the next day, we saw Junhui dressed as a longevity lady and appeared at the entrance of the shrine, so we were naturally willing to cooperate with her."

The islander heaved a long sigh.

Conan was stunned: "So the longevity lady and Miss Jun Hui are the same person? The corpse from three years ago was actually the corpse of Miss Jun Hui's mother?"

They asked a few more people, and indeed, the older islanders basically knew about this. The island originally made money by attracting tourists through the dugong festival. Since Shimabukuro Kimie was willing to continue to play the role of the longevity lady, why would they be unwilling?

"When we first arrived on the island, we met Ms. Sumi, Naoko, and even Ms. Saori who had disappeared before. The three of them had one thing in common, which was that they firmly believed in the existence of mermaids. They even thought that the bones of mermaids had magical powers and could make people immortal. Especially Ms. Sumi was still looking for the tomb of mermaids..."

After a pause, Conan continued: "Since we now know that the tomb of the mermaid is the tomb of Miss Junhui's mother, is there a possibility... Miss Junhui is the real murderer who did all this?"

Hattori refuted without thinking: "But we have confirmed that the tooth marks on the charred corpse match the tooth marks that Miss Junhui saw when she went to the dentist."

"Hattori, think about it. Miss Kimie also said that it was Saori who accompanied her to the dentist. What if it wasn't Miss Kimie who actually saw the dentist?"

"You mean..." Hattori understood what Conan wanted to say, but he was reluctant to believe it. "If it is really as you guessed, then where is Miss Shimabukuro now? Shouldn't she appear as a longevity woman? After all, she doesn't know that others have already known the truth. If it is really as you said, the longevity woman should not disappear."

“That’s what I’m considering now.”

Seeing that the two could not come to a conclusion after discussion, Chu Ming took out his phone and said, "Guessing is just guessing after all. We will know after verifying it. We just need to confirm who saw the dentist that day. Let's call the dentist's office and ask."

Chu Ming directly called the dentist's clinic and asked which of the two girls who had visited the dentist a month ago had their teeth checked.

The dentist on the other end of the phone answered affirmatively that it was the long-haired, gentle-looking girl.

After hanging up the phone, Conan fell into deep thought again. So, the body in the warehouse must be Shimabukuro Kimie's...

Chu Ming looked at Conan's thoughtful profile and silently took back his phone. All the evidence and clues related to him had been arranged. Shimabukuro Kimie had also been taken off the island last night and changed her appearance.

Xiaolan suddenly ran out of the shrine and said that the shrine had just received a strange phone call, saying that the dugong arrow bought for 100 million was very useful and his son's surgery was no longer dangerous. The man who sold him the arrow was tall and had an untidy beard.

Hattori immediately identified the murderer. He thought that the murderer must be the drunkard Mr. Menxie, who was also Menxie Saori's father. The arrow he sold must be the dugong arrow that Saori lost. Maybe because he tasted the sweetness of this, he killed the other two winners and prepared to sell the arrows.

However, Conan felt that since the murderer was not Shimabukuro Kimie, it was most likely Saori who had written a letter to Hattori before. Neither of them could convince the other.

In the end, the two decided to act separately. Conan continued to look for evidence of Saori's murder, while Hattori took Kazuha and followed the police to the mountains to search for Mr. Menkyo.

Seeing that the two of them decided on their action target in a blink of an eye, Chu Ming was stunned: "Then I will continue to be a scoundrel?"