cat blues

Chapter 224

In the end, they decided to turn this short-distance trip into a relaxing two-day and one-night trip, and see if they will meet people from that organization on the island by the way, but the latter one is really just a way, after all, no one will be on their own. A sign like "I am a member of a badass organization" is posted on the forehead, right?

Then they found themselves slapped in the face.

The three of them were going to pay homage, but when they were queuing up to receive the visa, they saw a man wearing black clothes and a black hat standing not far in front of them. A silver-haired man with a murderous look.

The man stood so arrogantly that he wanted to write the words "I'm not a good person" and stick it on his body.

Nakahara was simply amazed, he raised his hand, and took a picture of the man and several people around him with the mobile phone modified by Tian Shan Hanakou.His movements were extremely fast, and the mobile phone modified by Tian Shan Hanabu didn't make any sound, so even the man in black didn't realize that he was being slapped in the face just like that.

"The vigilance is too small, right? And since even this kind of enemy will wear such clothes, are they so not worried about their identities being exposed?" Verlaine marveled, and at the same time he didn't forget to put snacks in his mouth. He didn't He can dream and has no sense of taste, so even though Rimbaud has given him a lot of trust and affection for him, he still has a very clear feeling that he is being used.

However, ever since Virgil in his body was dragged away by Mr. Ghost Lamp, he suddenly had the real feeling of being a human being, no longer a so-called "personality device", but actually dreaming and feeling the beauty of life , can become a human being.

So since he was sent back to France and imprisoned, his attitude has become calmer, and he even has the idea of ​​​​self-reflection.

And what the ghost lamp said afterwards made him directly open the door to the new world, knowing that the reason why life is life is definitely not so complicated.

In the words of a senior researcher in hell, "Humans have not even invented artificial intelligence. What can those 3000 lines of code explain? You know, even if it is a robot, if you want to make it It needs more than that much code to be able to walk."

So now Verlaine lives very comfortably, and has acquired many habits that ordinary people have. He has begun to like eating various snacks, and even occasionally asks him to buy some overseas snacks on his behalf.

So this time he came to participate in the Dugong Festival, he naturally didn't forget to buy a bunch of various snacks in his hand.

As a result, he ate too fast, and he actually choked. Verlaine's coughing attracted the attention of many people around him, even the guy who looked like a bad guy no matter how he looked, glanced at him to confirm After being just an ordinary tourist, I don't bother to care about him anymore.

After coughing, Verlaine looked at Nakahara Chuya with some doubts, "Is that guy really a member of the mysterious organization you're looking for? Why do I think..." This guy looks like a fool?

Regardless of whether Verlaine himself wanted it or not, at least he once had the nickname "Assassination King" which was both secondary and simple enough.With such a nickname, he is naturally very familiar with things like murder.

But a qualified assassin, no matter what he does when he kills, at least don't give people the feeling of "I'm a bad guy, I may violently kill at any time" in daily life!No, it's not just a killer, it feels like a normal person wouldn't do this, right?

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked at the message sent by Tianshan flower bag in his hand, and finally nodded helplessly and said, "It seems to be, and it is said that you are a member of a fairly large organization. Haven't heard of it?"

"No, after all, I am an exclusive spy agent for France, and almost all of my missions are screened." Verlaine said very bluntly, his words were directly switched to French at the beginning, and his voice was very soft , "But more importantly, I used to choose to turn a blind eye to many things. From this perspective, I really can't blame other transcendents in France for treating me like they are looking at props."

Verlaine obviously realized that he was too self-righteous and separated himself from other people too much. He didn't treat himself as a human being, so naturally he couldn't completely blame others for what happened to him.

Ah, such a simple truth, he actually didn't want to understand it until after this.

Verlaine shook his head while speaking.

Rimbaud reached out and patted his forehead lightly, and answered Chuya's question by the way, "Chuya, the information you gave is too little, even when I was active in the world, I only relied on such a little information , and it is impossible to give any clues immediately."

"Sorry, but the information I have received from the Metropolitan Police Department is also very limited." Nakahara also scratched his head apologetically, "More importantly, neither Mr. Ranpo nor Dazai seems to have nothing against this organization. interest, so there are fewer clues."

"Forget it, don't worry about him. Anyway, the photo was taken, and I will take it to the Metropolitan Police Department." Nakahara Zhong also put away his mobile phone, and decided to go back and check the signature form registered before the shrine visit. There are about seven to eight people in front of me and others, so I should be able to register him, no, find out the names of all the people they registered.

Nakahara Nakaya sharply saw another woman with flaxen hair next to the man with long silver hair. Even when she came out to visit the shrine, she still wore a long white coat on her body. Somewhat like a researcher.

When so many people were far away from that person, only this woman took the initiative to approach him, who would believe that they were not in the same group?

However, it is not his job to arrest people anyway, but more importantly, I am afraid that even if they are arrested, it will be useless, right?He has no evidence against this man.What's more, in the past two years, they also rescued a public security undercover in a mysterious organization, and it is said that they even took a quite high position at one point.At that time, the public security police did not have the awareness of taking action against this inexplicable organization. I am afraid that this inexplicable organization is definitely involved in more than that.

That is to say, the focus of solving this organization is not to catch one or two people.

Zhong Yuanzhong also thought about it, and finally decided to let things go as they should. Anyway, they came to the American Island because he was just out of personal curiosity and wanted to investigate what the people in black were doing here. Since everyone came here Shrines, then treat them as simply seeking longevity.

Putting the matter of the black organization behind him, Zhong Yuanzhong also decided to ignore them and continue his little trip.

Although Edogawa Ranpo said that everything on this American island is just a gimmick, but seeing that the islanders are preparing for these sacrificial activities so seriously, Nakahara also decided to take part in it with peace of mind.

"Wow, Zhongye, there are a lot of people in front." Because it was almost September, Rimbaud wrapped himself tightly in his clothes, but now there were so many people that they were even rubbing shoulders. Feeling quite warm.

"Hey, what's the matter with the old lady?" Verlaine yelled a little. He looked at the old lady sitting behind a few wooden doors of the shrine. The old lady was short, only about 1.4 meters tall. The thick white powder was rubbed on her face and hands so that her original skin color could not be seen at all. She raised a torch tremblingly in her hand, and burned a few numbers on the wooden door like writing.

These numbers correspond to the lottery numbers drawn by all the people who came in. Those with the same lottery number can wait until the end of the ceremony and go to the old lady to ask for the arrow of the dugong.

Verlaine's reaction really made Nakahara Chuya and Rimbaud couldn't help turning their faces away. They didn't want to pay attention to this guy who deliberately made a big fuss. He had obviously said before that the old lady was pretending to be someone, and he acted like this on purpose. strangeness.

"Well, ah, I've won." Verlaine waved his hand, the lottery that he went to collect for fun was actually won, he felt that his luck today was very good.

Zhong Yuan, who was not drawn, exchanged glances with Rimbaud, and decided to give Verlaine a good meal after returning.The festival of the Dugong Shrine does not end here, but the burning of lottery is the most important part.

After the whole ceremony was over, Chuya and Rimbaud accompanied Verlaine to the main hall of the shrine over there.But they were only halfway there, and all three of them were keenly aware of the unusual black-clothed man they had seen before. They walked over curiously, and saw the gap between the man before and the girl following him. , There is actually one more person.

From the back, the man should be a woman. The woman kept her back to them. After saying something to the two of them, she left quickly.

Central Plains had no interest in catching up, so they let them leave.But because of this incident, the three of them deviated from their original direction, and when they continued to walk, they detoured to some remote places.The three people present are all people with a good sense of space, so there is no need to worry about not being able to get out.However, when they walked a certain distance, they suddenly heard a group of people talking together.

Verlaine raised his eyebrows. His five senses were the strongest. He pointed at the few people who were there and said, "They were talking about setting fire to the shrine in the past."

Zhong Ye was taken aback for a moment, then frowned tightly. He raised his hand and raised the phone in his hand, and turned on the recording function for the few people over there.

Soon, he recorded all the conversations of those people. The content was probably that they complained to each other about not getting the Dugong Arrow this year, but the topic mentioned "burning down the warehouse of the shrine" several times. , "I saw the old woman enter the warehouse, but she appeared in front of people the next day safe and sound, she must have eaten mermaid meat", "The charred corpse inside must belong to the mermaid".

Nakahara Chuya frowned suddenly.

The three of them left there quietly, and Nakahara sent the words back to the detective agency without hesitation, and at the same time asked Edogawa Ranpo for help. It is very difficult to settle on these few people.

After all, it was a case a few years ago. Although the matter is very clear, it is difficult to find clues. Even Edogawa Ranpo will be difficult to deal with, so he also asked Tianshan Hanamou to see if it can be done here. Find other evidence.

Edogawa Ranpo was not here, so he had to instruct him to go around and broadcast him live to see if there was any evidence to identify them.

Because their live broadcast mode of solving crimes is quite interesting, Dazai Osamu on the side also became interested and joined in. Then when they were looking around, Dazai Osamu suddenly said to Nakahara Chuya, "We found it, the witness."

Osamu Dazai pointed to one of the drunken middle-aged men and said: "This guy should have witnessed the whole process of those young people setting fire, but he didn't say what relationship he should have with one of those young people. "

In terms of pure reasoning, no one is a match for Ranpo Edogawa, but if it is just about spying on people's hearts, then no one is a match for Osamu Dazai.

Zhongyuanzhong also walked over suspiciously, and got the whole story from the man without much effort.It turned out that this middle-aged man was the father of a girl in the group of young people. He did see the whole process of those young people committing the crime that day. He even took pictures of all the scenes in order to blackmail his daughter.It's just that I didn't post it on the Internet because I didn't know how to operate a computer.

Hearing this, the entire group was speechless. Although they knew that this guy was not a good guy, the amount of rubbish was really outrageous.

Zhong Yuanzhong would not be used to him, he directly dragged him away and then walked to the police station on the small island.

Tian Shan Hanabou, who was online the whole time, immediately found all the videos of that time from this person's computer. With this evidence, those young people will never escape legal sanctions.

By the way, so is this alcoholic.

This American island is one of the Izu Islands, and it is administratively under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, so he not only took people to the police station on the small island, but also sent police officers to the Tokyo police station because he was worried that there might be mutual protection among the islanders. Hall made a phone call.

The name of the Armed Detective Agency is particularly useful in this kind of place, and the Metropolitan Police Department immediately announced that someone would set off to the island.

And after Zhongyuan Zhongye sent him to the police station on the island, he suddenly discovered something even weirder.The police officers on the island, after hearing that the group of young people set fire to kill people, turned out to be an abnormal expression of "ah, it's finally exposed".

The three of them looked at each other, and they were just worried that the islanders might cover each other because they all grew up together, so Chuya called the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in advance, and Verlaine and Rimbaud Then he smelled an even more incredible breath from it.

Verlaine said immediately: "I only saw this scene because I was walking with him. Now that the police gentlemen have controlled this, uh, blackmailer, there are others who set off to find those young men who made a big mistake. Man, can I leave as an unrelated person?" He said and took out the lottery he had drawn and shook it, "It's getting late, and I have to continue to find the maiden from the Dugong Shrine to exchange for my dugongs." As for the arrow, after a while, the shrine will probably be closed, and that young lady is so old, I don’t want to trouble her to wait for me for too long.”

Hearing this, the police officer on the island nodded knowingly, "Okay, that, do you need us to take you there?"

"No need, I can go there by myself." After Verlaine finished speaking, he waved to Chuya and the others, "I'll go to the shrine first, and then I'll wait for you at the hotel."

After saying that, he turned and left.

"Is he your brother? His luck is really good." The not-so-young police officer couldn't help but said.

"No, not brother, we just happen to look alike." Zhong also said calmly, he stretched out his fingers and tapped on the table, "Do you need to start making transcripts?"

"Ah, okay, in short, please tell me your identity first." The policeman had a look of not knowing what to say, and began to take out a pen and paper, and began to write on the note paper. Akira looked like he was not good at using computers.

Zhong also didn't mind, he answered the question of the opposite person casually, and when some noisy voices came from outside, he turned his head and looked at Rimbaud, saw Rimbaud nodded to him, and then He began to ask rhetorically, "Those young people clearly knew that there were people in the warehouse, but still set fire to them and killed them. They will be sent to Tokyo and dealt with as intentional murder, right?"

"Yeah, there's nothing we can do about it." The police officer seemed to feel that something was wrong with his statement, and quickly continued to add, "After all, they killed someone."

"But I heard them keep yelling, what did they say? Although they set fire to it, didn't the dugong maiden die?" Chuya looked at him with his arms folded, "According to the news, only one of them was burnt in the warehouse." It’s just a female corpse without a lower body. Isn’t that a mermaid’s?”

"Yes, yes..." The police officer's expression became even more strange. He subconsciously wanted to avoid Chuuya's gaze, but he moved back in the next second, as if to show that he was not lying, and deliberately looked at Chuya's eyes, "But mermaids don't actually exist, so there must be an outsider in the warehouse, after all, you see, the Dugong Festival is still very lively, maybe someone wants to go to the warehouse I searched for other dugong arrows or something, but unfortunately they were burned to death, right?"

"Isn't it reported that there is no lower body? Are you so sure that it is a foreign tourist?" Zhong also raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, yes, otherwise, who else could it be?" The policeman's expression was incomprehensible, but his eyes were full of tension.

Zhong also couldn't help but slammed his fist hard on the table, making a loud bang, which startled even the people outside.He walked out without hesitation, stood in the lobby of the small police station, and stared at those young people who were still yelling "We didn't kill anyone". A flock of quail.

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked at the people in the small police station. Most of the people who stayed and worked here were not young. There were only one or two young people who were also islanders.This island is located in a remote location. Although it is one of the Izu Islands, it does not have many characteristics. The American Island is finally famous for the legend of the Dugong Shrine. But even so, there are still young people who are willing to stay on the island to develop less than one generation.

He took a deep breath, and didn't bother to pay attention to the young people who reacted and were about to mutter, but he scanned all the people present with his sharp eyes, and then said sharply: "You people, you are actually very clear, right? The truth about the so-called dugong witch."

His words stopped the whole scene, and the police station fell silent.

"Not only you, I'm afraid the older people on the island should know that the so-called dugong priestess is just a lie that the people of the Shimabukuro family have been carefully maintaining. The real dugong priestess had died of illness a long time ago. In order to preserve the tourism resources of the American island, the people of the Shimabukuro family have been conscientiously pretending to be the dugong maiden." Chuya Nakahara's voice echoed clearly in everyone's ears, "so in order to let the dugong's The shrine continues, you pretend not to know that the woman who died in the warehouse is actually the mother of the current Miss Shimabukuro, and you pretend not to know that the missing lower body of the corpse is actually the result of the legs being tied and smashed by the beams. "

"No, I, we just..." A police officer subconsciously wanted to say something, but finally closed his mouth.

"You, what did you say?" The few young people who didn't know the inside story really panicked. Although they had always felt guilty about burning down the warehouse, they didn't feel that guilty. The biggest reason was that The dugong witch who should have been burned to death was actually not dead at all, and the weird corpse inside was always regarded as the corpse of a mermaid.

But now someone stood up and said that not only did they kill someone, but also the mother of someone they knew well. The young people immediately couldn't believe it.

"And it's not just you, right? Most of the elderly people on the island should know it, but no one is willing to tell Ms. Shimabukuro a word." Zhongya Nakahara looked at the islanders with disgust. , "It's really enough."

The police officer at the bottom was about to say something, but saw Junhui Shimabukuro, who was at the center of the topic, pushed open the door and walked in. Her face was full of tears, and she looked at the people around her as if they were looking at something terrible, " Detective, is what he said true?"

Everyone looked at the sad and crying young woman and didn't know what to say for a while.

When Shimabukuro Junhui arrived at this time, she still didn't understand the truth of Chuya's words just now, so she turned her head and ran out.Verlaine couldn't help sighing and chased after him. Is he working hard?Bringing people here is actually responsible for this kind of thing.

"Ranbo, let's go too." Nakahara really doesn't want to be with this group of guys who suck the blood of the Shimabukuro family anymore. If it's just to maintain the illusion of this hypocritical witch, he can't understand it, but In order to maintain this false appearance, even the lives of the Shimabukuro family can be covered up.

The island made him sick.