Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 425 The Window of the Fox (Addition to Bei Yimu)
"Hmph, it's really interesting..." Standing in the community activity center with arms folded, looking at the three cartoon windows in front of him, Tang Ze made two nasal sounds and showed a slightly gloomy smile.

"What's wrong?" The other three people who were observing the environment were all taken aback.

In this activity center, there are some islanders lined up in front of each of the three windows, and each window has a pattern drawn on it, plus a name.

"It seems that they are running for the village head election?" Miyano Akemi speculated, "The one with the crown pattern in the middle, 'Kuroiwa Tatsuji', should be the original village head?"

"This pattern is more straightforward, it is directly in the shape of a coin." Xing Chuanhui pointed to the one in front of him, "This one should be a wealthy businessman or something, 'Kawashima Hideo'."

"Then the 'Shimizu Masato' who drew a leaf is an environmentalist?" Noah speculated half-understood, "This kind of person is generally more popular with the locals, right? Island residents are generally closed and conservative. Some? There are more that promote planting and fishing."

"Yeah, of course it's okay for you to take it that way." Tang Ze scanned the three names one by one, and smiled coldly, "But if I tell you, these three people are related to For drug dealers in the transportation chain, how would you understand these three patterns?"

"...Huh?" Both Xing Chuanhui and Miyano Akemi were dumbfounded, and they looked at the three windows with a hint of horror.

The implication in Tang Ze's words is obvious. He is saying that the islanders on this island are well aware of this industry, so they are choosing not only the village chief who will lead the island in terms of management, but also the next one. Industry talker...

"Is it so exaggerated?" Miyano Akemi murmured to herself with an uncontrollable dryness in her throat, "What happened to this world?"

"It should be said that this kind of agglomeration is the normal state of this type of industry." Tang Zepi pulled the corner of his mouth with a smile, "They are all people who have been involved in it for a long time, and the huge profits of this industry, you guess Why are you willing to live on such a relatively backward isolated island? There are always some reasons."

The other three looked at the islanders who lined up in front of them and threw their ballots into the ballot box, and couldn't help but lose their voice for a moment.

"No wonder, an independent impression space will be generated here." Xing Chuanhui also commented with difficulty, "This is really, beyond imagination."

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"The three candidates are all in the activity center. If you go, you might meet them again." After introducing the situation to the three people friendly, Asai Chengmi smiled, "It just so happens today that they are the two of the former village head On the anniversary of the death, they will have a mourning event over there."

"...the second anniversary of death." Looking at the envelope in his hand, Mouri Kogoro felt that the thing in his hand was getting hotter.

He's here to solve the case, so the more he talks about it, the more it seems like some kind of urban legend...

"It's such a strange island." After bidding farewell to the rare and friendly female doctor, the three walked towards the activity center according to the path she instructed. Mao Lilan shrank her shoulders, "Is it because the relationship between people on the island is relatively simple? Why? Use public space to do things?"

"The letter from this dead man is also very strange." Once again he took out the letter in the envelope and read it carefully, Mouri Kogoro also frowned, "If it's the 'second anniversary', then the former village head died almost at the same time. On the night of the full moon?"

"It's definitely impossible for a dead person to write to you, uncle. This is probably Keiji Aso's friend or something. He thinks his death is strange, so please investigate it?" Conan used his brain to guess, "After all, it's very good. , Sudden self-immolation or something, is really strange..."

"Down with the atrocities of the current village chief!"

"Continuing land occupation is not allowed!"

"Give me back the fishing ground!"

"Against the reconstruction of ships! Against the expansion of the wharf!"

As they gradually approached the direction of the community activity center, the shouts of the islanders holding various slogans in their hands came to their ears more and more clearly.

"A village head election is quite lively." Kogoro Mori, with his hands in his pockets, clicked his tongue irritably, "Are the residents of this island so concerned about the election of the village head?"

"Because, it's really related to their interests..." Mao Lilan looked at the bright and dazzling cards in their hands, frowning tightly.

From various perspectives, it is a bit of a deformed environment.

Could it be that this is the characteristic of an isolated island?After all, this kind of place is always unavoidable with folk customs, legends, strange stories, conservative and autistic culture...

Conan thought uncertainly.

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"Really, it fits my stereotype of an isolated island." Arms folded around his chest, Tang Ze looked at the strangely shaped gate in front of him, and commented sharply, "It's very interesting."

"What's this?" Frowning for a while, Xing Chuanhui asked, after observing these few items that he couldn't tell what kind of material they were made of, "It finally smells like an impression space."

They have already walked around the island briefly. As Tang Ze said, this place is completely like a map designed by a business simulation game. The islanders live at a slow pace, with traditional life styles, simple interpersonal relationships, conservative, gentle and friendly, Nothing has anything to do with the Moon Shadow Island they want to investigate.

At this moment, they stood in front of the only slightly higher hill on the island, and finally found some scenes that fit the twisted concept.

On the hill ahead, a structure made of twisted vermilion cylinders stood quietly there.

That kind of red is a bit like the red of common torii gates, and the columns also have a bit of torii flavor, but they are intertwined and twisted, and the shape cannot be distinguished for a while.

But behind these red pillars, it is not the hills and woods that should have appeared there, but a dark and deep passage with no bottom, and no one knows where it is going.

"There are ten." Miyano Akemi said aloud after observing for a while, "There are still some overlapping intersections...so we need to distinguish which entrance to enter from?"

"It must be in the middle." Tang Ze pointed to the opening in the middle, "With this shape... have you heard of 'Fox Window'?"

With that said, Tang Ze started to demonstrate in a decent manner.

He first brought the middle fingers and ring fingers of both hands together and touched the thumbs, making a "fox" gesture, then turned the wrists with his left hand outwards and his right hand inwards, then straightened the middle fingers and ring fingers, and clasped them with his thumbs.

"Look," Tang Ze maintained the gesture and raised his hands flatly, "Are they exactly the same?"

"This is again, what is the content of the legend?" Miyano Akemi compared the state of Tang Ze's hands with the structure of the front cylinder, and nodded affirmatively, "It is indeed like this. Does this gesture have any meaning? "

"Well... Through this window made of fingers, human beings can see through the real bodies of all kinds of ghosts and monsters." Tang Ze said, raising his hand to his eyes, passing through the gap formed by his hands, looking at the red pillar ahead , "It seems that the truth is about to be revealed before our eyes. Let's go, let's see the true face of this island together."

(End of this chapter)