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With tears in her eyes, Yuanzi rushed over and hugged Xiaolan and cried loudly: "Wuwuwu, that's great, Xiaolan, it's great that you finally recovered, wuwuwu..."

Vermouth looked at the rejuvenated Xiaolan behind her and smiled with satisfaction, but then she became a little worried about whether Conan's acting skills just now could deceive Granburch. No, she had to think of a way to send Granburch to do the mission recently...

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"Where should I go, American Island in Fukui? What a strange name?" Chu Ming was lying on the sofa with the speakerphone on, gnawing on a chicken leg while answering the phone, his legs half hanging on the backrest.

"In addition to this name, the locals also call it Mermaid Island, which is the island where mermaids appeared and there is a legend of immortality." Vermouth chuckled, "Three years ago, all the media were saying that there was an immortal mermaid on the island. A year ago, Gin and his friends took Shirley there once and brought back some of the so-called mermaid's bones, but Shirley was very resistant to studying this at the time and never started this research. Potter wanted to do research recently but couldn't find the mermaid bones he brought back, so I hope you can go again..."

"I'm not interested in helping Potter. He still owes me a few conditions from last time. I won't go."

"The boss has suddenly placed high hopes on the experiment recently. Only a few core members of the action team know that the organization has conducted research in this area. But Gin, you also know how busy he is. Lafitte was tricked by you last time and now he refuses to move on the pretext of recuperating. I am now being watched by that woman from the FBI and can only stay in Tokyo. You are the only one who can go, sweetheart."

"...Bourbon is okay?" Chu Ming struggled desperately.

"No, sweetheart, this involves the secrets of the organization, which is not something Bourbon can get involved in. After all, it was Gin who did this mission back then. Think about it, what is Gin's identity? He is the leader of the action team. If you go now..." Vermouth accurately grasped Chu Ming's thoughts.

“Oh my gosh! Don’t let anyone snatch it from me. I’m going to dig up the entire tomb and bring everything out!!” Chu Ming didn’t want to eat the chicken leg anymore and jumped up from the sofa.

"Okay sweetheart, I'll wait for your good news~"

Vermouth hung up the phone and let out a long sigh. She had to separate Granburr and Conan for a few days. Granburr had already begun to doubt Conan. Fortunately, he still needed Kogoro Mouri's current identity to cover him, so he did not take action immediately.

Otherwise, given his personality, he would have taken action as soon as he began to doubt.

However, what Vermouth didn't know was that the next second after Chu Ming hung up the phone, he called Conan and said that the annual Dugong Ceremony on the American Island was about to begin, and asked him to go to the American Island to play together.

You must bring Conan with you when you go out to play, so that you can have more magnetic field. He went out for a walk seven or eight times a few days ago. The legendary rice flower with the reputation of the murderer's big stage was surprisingly safe!!! I didn't hear a scream! Not to mention the magnetic field.

Conan readily accepted Chu Ming's invitation and told him that Hattori had also contacted Maori Kogoro, saying that he had received a letter for help before, and the address happened to be the American Island.

All three Death Gods are going? ヾ(??▽?)ノIs there such a good thing?

Chapter 262 Scam

As soon as they arrived on the island, Hattori Conan, Kogoro Mori and others were busy searching for the missing Saori Monkyou, but Chu Ming didn't want to look for the missing person, nor did he want to help Vermouth dig a grave.

He knew that Vermouth arranged him here just to separate him from Conan, but he didn't know how Vermouth would feel when she found out that Chu Ming actually came out with Conan.

Moreover, when Vermouth mentioned the American Island before, Chu Ming may not have had any impression, but when Vermouth mentioned the Mermaid Island, Chu Ming's impression of this episode immediately emerged.

The so-called mermaid skeleton is actually the skeleton of the mother of Shimabukuro Kimie, the shrine maiden on the island.

The last longevity woman was Shimabukuro Kimie's mother. Three years ago, several young people in the village locked the longevity woman pretending to be Kimie's mother in a warehouse and set it on fire in order to verify whether the longevity woman was really immortal. Before she was burned to death, she called Kimie and asked her to continue pretending to be the longevity woman. After the fire was put out, people found a body without the lower body. The reason was that the load-bearing column collapsed and crushed it, but after media reports, it was said that the body of a mermaid was found.

So is there any need to dig up the grave? Not at all. He just needs to have fun for a few days, follow Conan to get some attention, and then throw the report that the mermaid incident is fake in front of Vermouth.

But... Gin and his friends have been here before, so there's no reason for them not to know that the so-called immortality is a scam.

Moreover, the news of immortality came out three years ago, so why did the organization only send people there a year ago? The organization shouldn't be so out of touch with the news...

Chu Ming felt that this mermaid island might be hiding some secret of the organization, or that Gin didn’t come here for the mermaids a year ago.

"Brother Chu Ming, we are going to visit the American Shrine. Do you want to come with us?" Conan tugged at the corner of Chu Ming's clothes, trying to wake up the dazed Chu Ming.

"America? What are we going to do in America - Oh, the shrine, go go go, I want to go too." Chu Ming just came back to his senses and didn't react for a moment.

At the American Shrine, everyone met Shimabukuro Kimie and asked about the news. Xiaolan and Kazuha also took a number ticket to draw the Dugong Arrow.

"Brother Chu Ming, the celebration won't start until the evening. Do you want to go to the island with us in the afternoon?" Xiaolan stretched out her hand to greet Chu Ming. Conan and Hattori were busy looking for clues. Maori Kogoro was going there too, but he found a tavern on the way and was toasting with people inside.

"You guys go shopping, I'll just walk around." Chu Mingwan declined Xiaolan's invitation. It was nothing for a grown man like him to mingle between two girls. Conan and Hattori would be jealous.

After everyone had gone far away, Chu Ming took out his cell phone and sent a message to Gin. He always asked questions on the spot and never put them off until the next day.

"Brother, what on earth were you doing on Mermaid Island a year ago? - Granburch"

As soon as the message was sent, Chu Ming's phone started vibrating before he could even put it in his pocket.

——Gin called.

Could it be that Gin thought it was too troublesome to type too many words so he just called directly? Chu Ming was a little curious and answered the phone.

"Big brother?"

"Why do you suddenly ask this?"

Chu Ming heard an uncontrollable groan of pain in the background of Gin's voice. He couldn't help but take out his phone and look at it carefully. It was indeed Gin's number, but... this...

He couldn't help but ask cautiously: "Uh, brother, if it's not convenient for you now, you don't have to answer my call. I can wait..."

Gin glanced at the FBI who was being interrogated until he was on the verge of death, with his hands and legs cut open until only bones were left, then looked at Lafitte, whose cheeks were covered in blood and eyes were full of madness, and turned around and left the interrogation room: "It's not inconvenient, Lafitte is interrogating the FBI, he has been like crazy these days, I don't know what's wrong with him. Are you on Mermaid Island now?"

It turned out to be an interrogation...

"Yes, the dugong festival here is about to begin. I came here for fun. Porter heard that there were some mermaid bones here, so he insisted that I bring some back for his experiments." Chu Ming said half-truthfully.

"It's fake. It's a woman's bone. And there's no such thing as a longevity lady. They're all fake."

"Oh, okay, didn't brother come here to check a year ago?" Chu Ming asked tentatively.

"No, the organization has long known that there are no mermaid corpses. A year ago, I went to the island mainly to contact the bigwigs who used to dominate Japanese political affairs, to win over Japanese political leaders and economic giants, and to put the organization above Japan's rules. Those old guys all want to live longer. The organization has been studying nothing but these things for half a century."

“Then the organization is now…” Chu Ming was a little surprised. He didn’t think the organization was so powerful in the animation. He didn’t expect that it had such a close connection with the political and business circles. They had woven a complex network of relationships, making the entire organization bizarre and mysterious. No wonder there were so many undercover agents. Was it possible that… the undercover agents were ostensibly there to infiltrate the organization to check on its movements, but were actually sent in by various forces to inquire about the anti-aging drug?

Chu Ming felt that he might have revealed the truth, so he did not continue talking. Instead, he changed the subject and chatted with Gin for a while. Gin, who could no longer bear it, hung up the phone.

After Chu Ming harassed Gin, he harassed Bourbon, then he went to tease Porter. Later, when he remembered that there was still Vodka to harass, he found that Vodka actually dared to hang up on him?

It must be Gin who gave him courage!

This is too much. He just wanted to find someone to chat with and kill time. How could you treat him like this!

When Chu Ming finally harassed his colleagues enough, it was already dark. All the dugong arrows had been drawn. Those who had drawn the arrows were ready to wait at the waterfall. Chu Ming followed the sound and walked towards the waterfall.

"Brother Chu Ming, you're back? What were you doing this afternoon? I didn't see you for a long time." Hattori asked curiously.

"I went for a walk around the neighborhood. By the way, where's He Ye? Why don't I see He Ye with you? Aren't you two always inseparable?"

Hattori smiled widely and nodded at the girl with a bright smile in the middle of the crowd: "She is over there. She got lucky today and drew the dugong arrow."

Chu Ming stretched out his hand and shrugged at Hattori: "Do you have a plan? Kudo has already confessed his love, what about you? Could it be that Kudo's children will be soy sauce in the future, and you haven't told Kazuha yet?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Hattori's face should have been flushed, because he looked embarrassed, but because his skin was too dark, it was completely invisible.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Conan was also a little embarrassed. How could they have a child...it couldn't be so fast...he just confessed his love and hadn't proposed yet.

Chapter 263 Falling in love?

Just as a few people were laughing and joking, the dugong's arrow had already hit the last person, who turned out to be Monkyo Saori's drunken father.

"How could it be him? Miss Sumi was so excited when she saw the sign, I thought she got it..." Hattori whispered to Conan in confusion.

"I don't know, maybe I saw it wrong..."

After the dugong arrows were fired, fireworks began to be set off in the center of the venue. Amid the bright and dim fireworks, a figure was looming behind the waterfall.

At this time, a man pointed to the abnormality behind the waterfall and shouted in horror: "Look, there...is there a person hanging there?"

Following the direction of the man's finger, everyone turned their eyes and saw, as expected, a long-haired woman swaying in the middle of the rushing waterfall, like a mermaid swimming upstream.

“This…can this be a ghost…?” He Ye’s face turned pale with fear, and he and Xiao Lan hugged each other tremblingly.

"There are no ghosts. There are no ghosts in the world. Don't scare yourself." Hattori straightened his hat.

At this time, Kogoro Mori had already asked everyone to put the woman down.

"It's Sumi... How could it be... Did she commit suicide?"

"No, look at this!" Fukuyama Rokuro raised a wooden stick in his hand, and Conan and Hattori came forward to discuss the death of Miss Sumi.

Chu Ming did not go over to discuss with them, but instead observed Shimabukuro Kimie. She looked at Miss Sumi's body, her eyes full of struggle and pleasure.

This young lady is quite interesting.

She can disguise herself, fake her voice, is smart, and kills people without mercy, but she is a little stubborn. She is determined to fulfill her mother's last wish, and she is prepared to put on the vest of the longevity woman in her prime years.

Hiss, should we turn back? Or should we ask Vermouth if she wants an apprentice?

Chu Ming did it as soon as he thought of it. He immediately sent a message to Vermouth.

"I found a potential reserve, do you want it? Picture.jpg - Granburch"

Vermouth was trying to finish up Kudo Shinichi. When she heard the email notification and opened it, she just finished reading the text and subconsciously scrolled down when a large picture popped up and hit her eyes, making her stunned.

The little dwarf next to Shimabukuro Kimie who was looking up and talking to him, who else could it be but Conan?

What's going on? Why are you always holding me back? Is it easy for me to find a mission to send that crazy kid away? Why did you follow me again?

Why don't you just follow him? Why are you still jumping around in front of the crazy guy? Are you afraid that he won't see you?

Although Chu Ming didn't know how disappointed Belmode was in his heart, seeing that Belmode had not replied to his message, he couldn't help but urge her: "Hurry up and decide. If you like it, I will destroy the evidence and bring the person back for you. You can train him slowly. If you don't want it, I will leave it alone."

Vermouth's mind is full of her godson, so she has no time to care about the reserve forces.

"She's just a girl. She has some makeup skills but no other skills. She can't get ahead in the organization. And you can tell from her eyes that she can't stay in the organization. Don't worry about it. - Vermouth"

If Vermouth doesn't want it, then just don't want it. She actually dislikes him for meddling in her affairs!

"Sister, please help me find a new detective recently. I think that kid named Conan is still very suspicious. See if you can find a detective similar to Maori Kogoro who has some connection with the police. Once I get familiar with the new detective, I will take action against the Maori family, especially Conan. Once I catch him in the interrogation room, I must ask Lafitte to help me interrogate him. - Granburch"

Let Lafitte do the interrogation?

Vermouth thought of the several clean skeletons that were moved out of the interrogation room two days ago. The scene of her godson being turned into a skin Conan by Lafitte emerged in her mind, and she couldn't help but tighten her grip on the gun at her waist.

On one side was Granburch, whom she had watched grow up, and on the other side was her beloved godson. Seeing that the two were about to face off, Vermouth was in a state of confusion. Otherwise -

——Kill Lafitte first???

"Don't be impulsive for now. Maori Kogoro has close ties with the police. Once he or someone around him gets into trouble, the police will definitely conduct a thorough investigation. This may expose the existence of the organization, and it's not worth it for a child. If you are bored recently, wait until you return to Tokyo and your sister will ask someone to take you to do something exciting. - Vermouth"

"Okay~ I knew that sister is the best~" Chu Ming said happily without even adding a suffix to the last sentence.

Want something exciting? Maybe we can snipe Akai Shuichi together? He likes it!

Chu Ming was tapping on his phone while following Conan and the others.

"Brother Chu Ming, are you in love? Why are you always chatting? And you are smiling so charmingly." Hattori rushed up from behind and hugged Chu Ming's shoulders, "Hurry up, tell the truth."

"No, I was texting my sister." Chu Ming turned off his phone without changing his expression.

"What sister? Is Brother Chu Ming in a sister-brother relationship? Is that sister pretty? When did you start? How old is she older than you? How far is your relationship now?" Conan, who was originally concentrating on investigating the case, pricked up his ears when he heard Chu Ming and Hattori chatting, and he became a gossiper as soon as he opened his mouth.

“What are you talking about…” Chu Ming pushed the two gossipers away, “A sister who is several dozen years older than me!”