"The police outside can't get in temporarily because of the storm, so the murderer here can't escape either."

After such a tragedy happened during the festival, everyone returned to the shrine room. Yin Jiu was very considerate and poured drinks for the unlucky gods and asked everyone to sit around the table.

"Brother Yinjiu, where is Brother Amuro?" After Conan investigated, he found that there was someone missing from Yinjiu's side, and his alarm bells immediately rang.

"He should have gone to the bathroom." Yin Jiu subconsciously covered for his younger brother, then he looked around and frowned.

The mission of this operation was to search for all relevant traces of Yin Shuli on Mermaid Island. Bourbon, as his deputy, left the team without informing him.

This seems a little hard to justify.

Yin Jiu took out his cell phone, tapped his finger, and the call was connected after a few seconds.

"In the bathroom, I'll be right back."

The voice on the other end of the phone was accompanied by the sound of running water. Bourbon placed the phone on the edge of the sink and quickly washed off the dust that had just stuck to his fingers.

He originally came out to investigate the case, but accidentally heard the rumor about the mermaid's tomb.

Assuming that the organization's second inspection of Mermaid Island was aimed at the mermaid bones, then the "Mermaid Tomb Robbery Incident" might also be the work of the organization.

“…” Thinking of this, Toru Amuro tried hard to ignore the scene of Gin digging a grave in his mind.

Given Gin's level of caution, those traces back then may have been completely wiped out, and the only remaining record is probably the list of participants in the festival. . . .

In other words, as long as he could see the name above, he would be able to find out the real name of the research team member who was working with Gin and the others.

When the second investigation was conducted, Yin Shuli had been missing for two years. Could the researcher who followed him be Grunfiddi?

Toru Amuro bit the flashlight and walked through the dark corridor, muttering to himself.

It's really strange. There is an elderly "witch lady" living in this shrine, but the design of every place is not suitable for elderly people to move around.

It can't be that he is an immortal monster, right?

Amuro Toru had a hunch that the witch was also hiding some secrets, so he put on his gloves again and stirred the wet wire in the cabinet lock a few times.

"Click."

With a barely perceptible sound, Toru Amuro opened the cabinet door.

"Brother Tou is so slow." The phone on Yin Jiu's end was on loudspeaker mode until he hung up. It sounded like Bourbon was indeed in the bathroom.

I'm afraid it might have fallen down?

"Maybe he's lost. After all, there are so many rooms in the shrine." Toyama Kazuha and Mao Li Ran could sense Yin Jiu's worry, and immediately came over from the left and right.

"Yeah, I think so too. Maybe he is asking for directions now." Yin Jiu regretted not leaving clues on Bourbon, otherwise he could directly predict Bourbon's specific location. "Brother Tou is an adult male after all. He shouldn't be in danger for a while."

But if we let these villains from the Black Organization roam around, it will be very dangerous for others!!

The silence in Conan's heart was deafening. After a while, he resigned himself to opening the door and planned to go out to find someone under the pretext of going to the toilet.

Unexpectedly, I almost bumped into the old lady at the door.

"Ah, you are... the witch?"

"It's me." The old lady priest removed her makeup and revealed her true face. It was a face full of age spots and wrinkles, and when she smiled it looked like a wrinkled apple.

"I heard you have something to talk to me about?"

"Oh, yes," Conan stopped immediately, almost forgetting that the murder case had not been solved yet. They had made an appointment with the witch to ask some questions.

"We want to ask, how did you decide the winning number for the Dugong's Arrow?"

"I just picked it randomly..." The witch held her cane with both hands, looking as if it was a matter of course, "Sometimes I also use winning numbers from horse racing."

Conan: “…”

"Then why only send three a year? Why not just make more Dugong Swords?" Hattori Heiji still refused to give up.

"That's because I have limited hair to tie on the arrows." The witch touched her hair.

Yin Jiu had been watching silently from the side. Judging from her appearance, it was hard to tell that this witch was actually a young girl in disguise.

He thought that when Toru Amuro went out alone, he would intercept the witch and ask her questions clearly.

But if Bourbon wasn't investigating the witch, where would he be?

-

Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Toru Amuro quietly opened the door of Yin Jiu's room.

"Brother Tou, you're back."

There was no light in the room. Yin Jiu just sat on the bed. The light from the computer screen in front of him shone on his face in the blue light, making him look a little eerie.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Amuro Toru was stunned for a moment and put the flashlight on the table as if nothing had happened.

"You went to check the record books of previous years." Yin Jiu used an affirmative sentence.

The passengers haven't left at this critical juncture, and there are not many clues. If he were Bourbon, he would understand that given the organization's style, the evidence from the previous two searches might have been completely destroyed.

The only thing that may have survived is the record book used to register the people who participated in the annual festival.

Yin Jiu’s idea was actually the same as Bourbon’s—he must find a chance to see the name of the organization member who was traveling with Yin Shuli.

Unexpectedly, Toru Amuro took the lead and went to look for it.

As expected of an investigation team, Yin Jiu’s eyelashes drooped, but he did not feel much approval in his heart.

The records of the organization and personnel of Mermaid Island include not only Yin Shuli and Nabo, but also Gin and Shirley’s secondary exploration.

Bourbon went there alone on his own initiative. Which group was he looking at? If it was the latter, whose real name did he want to know?

Yin Jiu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, pretending to be curious, "Did you see the people who were traveling with my mother?"

"I see, it's Sharon Wynyard." Toru Amuro did not hide it from Yin Jiu. Although he knew that this person was most likely Vermouth herself, in the eyes of Roe Deer, Vermouth's biological mother Sharon Wynyard might have died long ago.

In addition, it seemed that Vermouth did not want Yin Jiu to continue investigating, so Bourbon thought it might be a good idea to push the ball to Vermouth.

"Her." Yin Jiu's pupils shrank for a moment, and the fingers behind the screen curled up slightly.

"It should be Vermouth's mother. You know her too." Bourbon pretended to be completely unaware of Vermouth's private affairs. He folded his gloves and mask in half and placed them on the table. "It's written in the records that one of the people who drew the dugong arrow at the festival was your mother. When this investigation is over, you can ask Vermouth. Maybe she has the thing."

"That's true. Did you see Hei Ze's name?" Yin Jiu casually tried to find a topic. "Didn't he come here once later? Did he draw the Dugong Arrow?"

"I'm not sure about that." Amuro Toru paused, "There are too many books in the cabinet. Gin's book should be locked in another cabinet."

I mean I'm too lazy to open the cabinet.

"In fact, we should take a look. Maybe we'll find something unexpected." Yin Jiu looked like he was just chatting. "After all, Chris looks so young. Let's quietly see who the other people coming over are. What if there are particularly young people among them? Maybe that proves that eternal youth is real?"

"If that's the case, then the Dugong Arrow must have been snatched away by the enemy." Amuro Toru didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He finally took off the last piece of equipment on his body and put it in the drawer. Then he went to the inner room. "Okay, let's go to sleep quickly. After something like this happened, the police will come to the island to solve the case tomorrow. By then, many evidences will be collected and checked. We must stay alert and make a quick decision."

"Yeah." Yin Jiu lay on the bed obediently, his eyes cold and distracted.

Amuro Toru also lay down, frowning with a depressed heart. In the thick notebook, on the same page as Yin Shuli's name, he saw a very familiar name - Fūya Masaaki

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