Chapter 274 Preliminary Speculation
Wu Sheng looked at the sea from afar and asked faintly, "Do you know the special forces?"
"Special attack team?" Youya frowned. "Are you talking about the special attack team during wartime? "Does it mean the kind of troops that risk their lives to attack and perish together with the enemy?"
Kirio nodded and said, "Most people know about the special attack that uses fighter jets to ram enemy ships, right? But this is different. It's not fighter jets but torpedoes."
"Torpedo?" Youye narrowed his eyes.
"Yes, men sit on torpedoes and attack ships from underwater."
"And the base here is the training base for the 'Human Torpedo Kaiten'. Countless young people boarded torpedoes and set off from here to attack the enemy fleet..."
“My son is among them…”
"..." Youya was silent for a moment, then asked, "So you live alone on this island, to accompany your son?"
Wu Sheng sighed.
At this moment, the sound coming from the sea suddenly changed, and the Siren's cry sounded slightly different.
"It has changed again..." Youye glanced at the sea.
Kirio forced a smile and said, "I'm going to catch some fish for dinner." Then he walked around Yuya and the other two and entered the hotel.
Youye looked at Wusheng's back thoughtfully, walked to the railing at the bridge head and looked down.
"She knows when to catch fish. It turns out that whether or not you can catch fish has a lot to do with the Siren's cry." Youye analyzed.
Miyano Shiho thought for a moment and said, "Could it be related to the ebb and flow of the sea water? Didn't you say that the cry of the sirens might be caused by the change in the air due to the ebb and flow of the sea water?"
Yuya's eyes lit up: "I see. When the tide is high, the sea water flows towards the land, and the fish are brought along with it, so we can catch fish; when the tide is low, the fish are carried away by the sea water, so we can't catch them."
Yuya kissed Miyano Shiho on the face and grinned, "You are so smart!"
Miyano Shiho said calmly: "Isn't this common sense? You just didn't think of it because you weren't paying attention." As she spoke, she raised her hand and wiped the saliva off her face with the back of her hand.
Yuya's face fell: "You dislike my saliva?"
Miyano Shiho paused and said calmly, "No, just spread it evenly."
Youya was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
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In the living room, Youya sat on the sofa, checking information on his phone.
Shiratori Renzaburo pushed the door and walked in.
"Inspector Shiratori, have you found anything?" Youya looked up and asked.
Shiratori Renzaburo shook his head: "I roughly checked a part of the area, but found no signs of human life."
I poured a glass of water and sat next to Youya. I glanced at his phone screen, which was filled with dense text. I couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking at?"
Yuya showed him the screen and said, "I checked the time of high and low tide in this sea area, and it's about what I expected."
Shiratori Renzaburo paused while drinking water and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Youye pointed to a text on the screen and said, "The tides here rise and fall very punctually, with a difference of less than half a minute. And 10 o'clock last night was exactly the time for low tide."
Shiratori Renzaburo was a little confused: "What does this mean?"
Yuya's lips curled up slightly: "Of course, this means that there was probably no one on the boat we saw last night!
If my guess is correct, the murderer should be someone who knows the time of high and low tide. He used this to set up a timed mechanism and took advantage of the low tide to kill Miss Han Ye at 10 o'clock!
This explains why the letter requires us to strictly abide by the time. If we go too early, the mechanism will fail and we may kill someone by mistake. If we go too late, Miss Han Ye will have been killed and we can't guarantee that everyone will be present. "
Shiratori Renzaburo's eyes widened slightly: "If you say so..."
"That's right," Youya nodded, "Plus, Inspector Shiratori, you didn't find any signs of other people's lives, so I suspect the murderer is among us!"
Shiratori Renzaburo quickly asked, "Do you have anyone you suspect?"
Youye was silent for a moment and said, "Except for the three of us, anyone else could be the murderer. But I don't dare to make any conclusions now because we don't have any evidence."
In fact, Yuya already has a suspect in his mind, and that is Fuda Natsumi.
When everyone gathered yesterday, the female tour guide Fengtian Xiajian seemed to have some grudge against those five people, and two of them had already died.
According to the Conan animations he had watched, such people were often the most suspicious.
But just as he said, he didn't have any evidence at the moment, so he didn't reveal his suspect and could only continue investigating.
"Let's go to the scene where Miss Hanye was killed and take another look." Youye said.
Shiratori Renzaburo nodded, and the two of them went to the salon together.
I checked the room first, but the result was the same as last night, nothing was found.
Youya sat on the chair where Hanye Mihu was killed. He compared Hanye Mihu's height in his mind, then adjusted his sitting position so that his head was about the same height as Hanye Mihu's at that time, and then looked out the window.
This time, I found something.
The starting point is the center of Han Ye Meihuo's eyebrows, the hole in the window glass is the middle point, and the end point is exactly on the railing outside.
If Han Ye Meihuo was really killed by someone using a timer mechanism, there would most likely be some traces left there.
Youya called out to Shiratori Renzaburo and the two of them came to the railing.
Youye searched carefully on the wooden railing and found a suspicious mark on it.
"Inspector Shiratori, look here." Youya touched the railing and found a vertical mark on it, which looked like it had been rubbed by something hard.
"This mark is still very new, it must have been left recently." Youye said.
Shiratori Renzaburo also looked at the marks, a serious expression on his face, took out his phone to take a picture of the marks, and then said: "It seems to be basically consistent with your guess."
Youye nodded slightly and looked under the wooden railing. The sea water had receded, revealing large pebbles on the ground.
"It was high tide when we came, and it was high tide by 10pm, and the sea had already spread down here."
"According to the information I have investigated, 10 o'clock is when the tide goes out."
Shiratori Renzaburo recalled what happened last night and nodded affirmatively.
He speculated: "So, the murderer should have parked the boat below, and then set up the mechanism, and finally took advantage of the low tide at 10 o'clock, when the boat moved away with the tide and activated the mechanism, killing Miss Han Ye."
Yuya nodded: "If possible, we'd better find the ship. There may be more information on it. Inspector Shiratori, didn't you see the ship just now?"
Shiratori Renzaburo shook his head.
Youye thought for a moment and said, "It's high tide now. Maybe the boat will be pushed ashore by the sea. Let's go to the shore and look for it."
"it is good."