Before the candles were lit, Shiraishi had already retreated behind the shower curtain.

At this moment, the candlelight that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes gave Sijing Reika an illusion that she was about to be rescued.

She looked at the light source excitedly, but when she saw the smiling face of Yaeko Nanao behind the flame, she froze suddenly, like falling into an ice cave.

The Nanao family has served the Yotsui family for generations, and Yaeko Nanao grew up with Reika Yotsui since childhood, and is considered a rare friend of Reika Yotsui.

If it were a few years ago, seeing Nanao Yaeko in a predicament, Yotsui Reika would have been ecstatic, instead of being afraid to look at it more than she is now.

All the changes stemmed from the storm two years ago.

Shijing Lihua was in a bad mood that day. After she went to the island, she found that several other people were chatting happily. No one noticed her abnormality, so she walked away angrily and alone.

Later, the weather changed suddenly, and Shijing Lihua was just angry and felt that her luck was too bad. She didn't expect that the storm would bring such serious consequences.

The tide rose and spread rapidly, and Reika Sijing rolled and crawled to the highest point of the island. When she looked at the roaring waves around her and realized desperately that she might die here today, Yaeko Nanao was wearing a life jacket and carrying another The piece suddenly appeared from the waves.

Yotsui Reika caught a life-saving straw. After Nanao Yaeko helped her put on the life jacket, she finally escaped with a sigh of relief, but before she could finish her sigh, another bit of orange gradually drifted closer and closer under the slap of the waves.

The two of them turned their heads and saw Yuji Nikaidou grabbing a leaking rubber raft and leaning over with difficulty.

Nikaidou came to sea fishing today, and his small raft was unable to withstand the storm at all. Like the kayak from Yaeko Nanao, it was almost scrapped by the waves.

They are all members of the yacht club. After Nikaidou approached, Nanao Yaeko pulled him to the top of the island. It's just that this "top of the mountain" has only a few meters of open space left, and it will soon be submerged.

Nikaidou was very grateful, but when he found that the sea surface was rising more and more violently, and the whole island would soon be submerged, he looked at the life jackets on the two girls and moved his mind.

In the beginning, because he admired Yaeko Nanao's character more, and a little bit of hatred for the rich, he aimed at the one on Yotsui Reika's body.

However, Nikaidou's **** action was resisted - Yotsui Reika was already frightened, but Nanao Yaeko was particularly angry. After being beaten a few times by her, Nikaidou Yuji was anxious and annoyed, and began to turn the fire from **** on her.

A healthy young and middle-aged man has no difficulty in dealing with a girl who has not experienced martial arts training.

On the way of knocking Nanao Yaeko into the water, Nikaidou also watched Yotsui Reika vigilantly, worried that she would harass her like Nanao Yaeko just now, but she didn't.

Shijing Lihua always just watched his actions tremblingly, if it wasn't for her screaming when Nanao Yaeko fell into the water, Erkaidou almost thought she fainted.

Before, this proud and indifferent eldest lady had never shown this side in front of him.

This made Yuji Nikaidou, who originally wanted to silence her, hesitate for a while.

...If he can use this as a threat and let Yotsui Reika marry him, he can inherit the family property of the Yotsui family effortlessly, which is much more cost-effective than killing her.

This type of person is not difficult to control. Nikaidou Yuji tried to threaten Yotsui Reika while putting on the life jacket belonging to Yaeko Nanao, and he got a very satisfactory result.

The storm lasted for a short while, and after half a day, although the island was still submerged under water, the sea has gradually calmed down.

Nikaidou, who survived with a life jacket, breathed a sigh of relief.

After wiping the sea water on his face, after seeing the cruise ship that came to find people, Nikaidou squeezed the wrist of Lihua Sijing next to him:

"Don't put on that expression, remember, you haven't seen Nanao Yaeko today, I saved you.

"And don't forget, she came here because you were on the island. After all, today's matter - you are the real murderer."

Sijing Lihua floated in the icy sea water, her mind was blank.

The shallow dark clouds were gradually blown away by the wind, and when the first ray of afternoon sun broke through the clouds, she followed Erjiadang and raised her hand, waved towards the people on the yacht, and the corners of her lips twitched stiffly.

…

The water in the bathtub was as cold as the sea that day.

Nanao Yaeko was lying on the side of the bathtub, with one hand on the edge of the bathtub, and raised her hand to touch Reika Yotsui's face like she used to wipe off the pastry crumbs on her face.

Sijing Lihua's mouth was sealed, she shook violently and screamed.

Across the rising bathtub water, her voice was even more indistinct, and Shiraishi couldn't understand what she was saying.

Nanao Yaeko didn't understand either. She supported her head and looked at the person in the bathtub: "Do you have something to say?"

Sijing Lihua nodded vigorously, tears welling up in her eyes.

"It's okay, there's no need to explain anything, I know it's not your fault."

Nanao Yaeko approached, she stared at Yotsui Reika's red eyes, and said warmly:

"I understand. You are not the perpetrator, and you didn't kill me. You just chose to watch on the sidelines when I was killed."

"—just like me now."

Shijing Reika was stunned for a moment, her eyes widened, she stopped all movements, tears mixed with the water in the bathtub and fell.

In the bathtub, the waterline was thrown in an unhurried rise.

Shiraishi stood beside him with a very complicated mood. This was the first time he saw someone die in front of him in present progressive style.

Speaking of which, how many tokens does Yaeko Nanao have? If there is only one piece, is this considered illegal now?

There is also the task of saving Leng Touqing. If Shijing Lihua drowns here, that task will fail.

Thinking of this, Shiraishi plans to first check whether Yaeko Nanao has a certificate, and then consider whether to fish out the person in the bathtub as appropriate.

But at this moment, there was a tearing sound from the side.

Shiraishi tilted his head suspiciously, and through the gap in the shower curtain, he saw Yaeko Nanao ripping off the tape from Reika Yotsui.

"Anyway, thank you for keeping my grandma when President Four Wells wanted to fire her."

Nanao Yaeko has another "token" in his hand.

She smiled and shoved the brand into Sijing Lihua's heart: "You helped her for two years, and now, I will give you another seven hundred and thirty days."

When all the tokens were submerged into Yotsui Reika's body, Shiraishi saw that Yaeko Nanao's toes began to blur, and her hands must be in a similar state.

Nanao Yaeko lowered her eyes and looked at her hands, removed other tapes a few times, and pulled out the stopper at the bottom of the bathtub.

Standing up, she looked at Shijing Lihua for the last time, turned around quickly, and floated out of the bathroom.

The two tasks were completed at the same time, Bai Shi glanced at the light screen, put away the yellow spring candle that had been extinguished, and left in the dark.

When he walked to the door, he heard a sobbing voice behind him: "...I'm sorry."

…

"Thank you for tonight."

Nanao Yaeko smiled and looked at Shiraishi with a relaxed expression, "My wish has been fulfilled, so I can leave with peace of mind."

"It's a smooth journey." Shiraishi waved to her.

However, because he was really curious about the structure of the two pieces of "tit for tat", Shiraishi asked again: "What is the effect of the token? How long will it last?"

Don't find any strange shadows during an autopsy or physical examination, and then start to re-examine the suspects...

Nanao Yaeko misunderstood what he meant, thinking that he was asking about the token on Yotsui Reika, and explained:

"That's indeed a death marker, but besides the number of days, it's also related to other factors. It will be activated the next time Yotsui-san does something bad-boom!"

Nanao Yaeko suddenly made an explosive gesture, and then put her hands together, put it on the side of her face and smiled sweetly: "Then send her directly to see me."

"..." Don't say such cruel things with such a cute face! Shiraishi silently took half a step away from her.

"Of course." Nanao Yaeko slowly put down his hand and walked to the window. She looked at the fountain outside the corridor and sighed, "I still hope that today will be the last time we meet."

…

The people who went to the forest to chase the "murderer" returned to the villa one after another, and then they saw Lihua Sijing sitting in the hall on the first floor covered in water.

When Ichiji Takashi, who gradually woke up, saw her, there was a buzzing sound in his head, unwilling and frightened.

However, Yotsui Reika kept her head down and didn't mention anything about being attacked. Under Mifune Takuya's questioning, she admitted that Nikaidou Yuji was killed by her.

Ichiro touched his aching neck and chin, suspecting that he was still awake from the dream.

After finally confirming that this is the reality, he suspects that Lihua Yotsui wants to be imprisoned in this way and escape the fate of being killed.

Just when he wanted to rush over in anger, an anesthesia needle flew by next to him, making him fall asleep again.

Shiraishi waited until the sleeping pill's buff disappeared before returning to his body.

Although Conan felt that the case was suspicious, the suspicious items at the scene were only a mass of tape in the bathroom with fingerprints, and those fingerprints did not match the fingerprints of anyone at the scene.

In the end, after the police car arrived in the morning, he could only watch Sijing Lihua being taken into the car. After hesitating for a long time, Yizhilong said a few words to the police and got into the police car together. I don’t know if he wanted to be a witness. Still intending to surrender for hurting innocent passers-by.

…

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as it was dawn, Bai Shi was woken up by a knock on the door.

The person knocked on the back door of his house.

Shiraishi lifted the quilt, walked to the door yawning, and looked out of the cat's eyes, there was no one there.

But the knocking continued.

After two seconds of reaction, he understood.

Opening the door, it turned out that Conan was standing at the door with a serious face: "The autopsy results of Yuji Nikaidou are out. Do you know what the cause of his death was?"

"Dry drowning?" Shiraishi was impressed by his popular science.

"No, it's rabies." Conan put his arms around his arms, and he walked around him naturally, walked into the room, pulled the chair in the study and sat up:

"While he didn't look like he had the disease at all, the test results did."

"The virus has mutated? Or is his physique special?" Thanks to the system, Shiraishi is now more and more able to accept these fantastic things~lightnovelpub.net~ I also think so, but some things are very wrong- Regarding this incident alone, it is obvious that Lihua Sijing is not the murderer, but the victim, but now she is hospitalized with pneumonia, and the hospital is surrounded by bodyguards of the Sijing family, and she can't find any news for a while. "

One of the victims was not dead, and kept his mouth shut, while the other died, but the way of death was a sudden illness... This kind of mystery but no solution, and even if it was solved, it could not be verified, which made Conan feel uncomfortable.

He put this matter aside for a moment, and wanted to verify another matter: "What are the fingerprints of the black cat?"

"He..." The mask is in shape, the gloves can't be taken off at all, and the fingerprints are not made up by himself.

Shiraishi stretched out his hand and looked at it, making a memory like: "Nine buckets, only the right thumb is a dustpan."

"Right thumb..." Conan stared at him for a while, "Oh, that's indeed different from the fingerprints on the tape." Now, he has some clues about the criminal's modus operandi, and guessed the situation of Yotsui Reika the night before.

He originally suspected that Shijing Lihua was released by the black cat, but now the fingerprints do not match, and the black cat has been wearing gloves. People who are so cautious in this regard are indeed unlikely to leave fingerprints on the tape.

Originally, combined with what happened later, Conan has almost restored the situation at the time of the crime and the method the murderer planned to take.

But because of the sudden appearance of the fingerprint master at the scene, everything became confusing again.

He was about to ask the owner of the fingerprint directly, but just as he opened his mouth, there was another knock on the door.

This time, there was a knock on the door leading to the cafe.

Butterfly Ninja raised his voice across the door and asked, "Boss, are you there?"