After breaking through the water, the dark light around him became brighter again. Hattori Heiji felt the breeze passing by and looked at a few acquaintances on the shore, and his heartbeat slightly calmed down.

He took a deep breath, pierced back into the water, and looked again in the direction where he had just seen the mermaid. However, this time, it was empty and there was no one there.

“…I must have read it wrong.”

After a brief chaotic moment, Hattori Heiji nodded slightly and concluded with a firm conclusion: "How could there be people in the water? There will be no monsters with human heads and fish bodies in the world. This is unscientific - it must be the refraction of light under the water, and the shapes of various debris, coupled with the shaking water plants, which made me hallucinate."

Abandoning distracting thoughts, he looked in that direction again, then calmed down, holding Conan's watch as a searchlight, and continued to look for what he was looking for.

After diving forward along the steep seabed for a while, Hattori Heiji's eyes stopped - what appeared in front of him was a heavy anchor embedded in the seabed.

He was about to take a closer look, but at this moment, a rapid current suddenly surged from his side and quickly rolled him out.

...

With a rush.

Hattori Heiji broke out of water.

After a few breaths, he came to his senses and looked down suspiciously at the water surface: I wonder if it was an illusion, when he was swept by the rapids and couldn't open his eyes, he always felt as if something slapped him mercilessly and slapped him back to the water surface.

"... Could it be that the large tract of water plants that were also swept away by the rapids happened to hit me when I passed by?"

He touched his back, which was so painful that he was patted, and looked left and right but could not see anything abnormal.

"Hatsuke!" Everyone on the shore trotted and chased after him. Suzuki Yuanko waved at him from afar, interrupting his thoughts, "You swim too fast, it actually popped up from there in the blink of an eye - but there is a saying that drowning people are all watery, so come up quickly and stop swimming!"

Hattori Heiji's eyes twitched: "You guy really don't have a good word. Also, what does it mean to swim fast? The world champion can't swim at this speed even if he comes - I was obviously washed here by water!"

That's it, but he wiped his face, hesitated for a while, and finally gave up on continuing to explore and swam back to the shore.

He climbed ashore and took the clothes he had just left behind from the show director to put them on. At this time, Ran Maori remembered what he had said just now, and realized: "Do you know there is a rapid in the water?"

"Of course, didn't the deputy captain just say that he came to catch horse mackerel near this island." Hattori Heiji pointed to the middle-aged man next to him:

"The horse mackerel is a migratory fish that likes to move in rapids. Moreover, the entire island is the most common in this sea. They should be guarding here to catch fish. In this way, there are probably rapids below."

Jiang Xia's voice came from the side: "I found that Miss Pingliang had not boarded the boat for a long time. Do you think she might have had something happened while diving, so she was anxious to come to find her?"

"Yes...Jiangxia?!" Hattori Heiji instinctively thudded, "Didn't you go to move the body?"

Jiang Xia pointed to the two boatmen next to him who were carrying the corpses: "We have been moving all the time, but unfortunately we are not as fast as you walk - but then again, even if there are clues about the murder below, it would be too dangerous for you to do this."

Hattori Heiji snorted guiltily: "Of course, the sooner the case is solved, the better."

"That's right." Conan was also shocked by Hattori Heiji's sudden diving just now. Seeing this Osaka classmate safely leaking from the water, he couldn't help but say sarcastically, "Hattori Brother just wanted to avenge the victim as soon as possible - it was not to win over Brother Jiangxia tomorrow, so he tried his best to collect all possible clues."

Hattori Heiji: "..."Which side of you are from? Didn't we just form a front to resist the Jiangxia together?

The two detectives confronted fiercely with their eyes.

Next to it, it was not until this time that the director of the program team finally completely regained his reason. He looked at the falling sunset and shivered in the sea breeze: "The details of the case will be communicated when you go back--there is no temporary base station yet, there is no signal on this island, so we have to go back to the town to call the police first."

The deputy captain who had been looking at the sea suddenly spoke up and heard this: "How can I go back?"

"How do you go back?" The director of the show was puzzled, "Of course I went back by boat."

When everyone mentioned the boat, they were stunned and realized something later.

——Hatsuke Heiji was rushed out for a long distance, and after others chased him, this place was no longer directly opposite the dock, but obliquely.

From this position, you can clearly see the trest bridge extending far away. The end of the trest bridge was empty - the ship carrying them was actually gone.

Curacao: "..." The ship is gone and there is no signal, so now, is this an isolated island?

She felt that she should have paniced here, but soon, the excellent intelligence officer discovered that she had no similar emotions at all.

——To be precise, the next moment when she stepped on the island and found that there was no signal here, she unconsciously foreseeed the current situation.

"The only thing I did was that I thought the ship would suddenly explode and turn into a firework, announcing the official opening of the deserted island's survival... But in fact, the ship just disappeared in a low-key manner."

"But that's right. It's not too far from the town. If there really is a big explosion that can make a ship, you will definitely find it on the shore. By then, the survival of the desert island will be over again as soon as it opens."

"Same, because this place is not too far from the town, even if something really happens, I can still swim all the way back."

Thinking of the distance between the two sides, Curacao felt slightly calmer. She pushed the flat glasses on her nose, continued to hide herself in a low-key manner, and tried to be a spectator who would not end.

"This... where is our boat?" Next to it, Suzuki Yuanko didn't think so much in an instant like her.

The simple high school girl's mind was blank. After several seconds, she stared at the empty place and guessed: "The captain is not here either. Did he be so scared that he drove away in the boat when he heard about the murder?"

"No, right." The male sailor with long hair and shoulders frowned, "A murder suddenly occurred beside him. Normal people should try their best to stay among the crowd. How could they escape by sailing alone? Unless..."
Chapter completed!