Before the candlelight came on, Shiraishi had already retreated behind the shower curtain.

At this moment, the candlelight suddenly appeared in front of him, giving Sijing Lihua an illusion that she was about to be rescued.

She looked at the light source excitedly, but when she saw clearly behind the flame, Yaeko's smiling face suddenly froze, as if she fell into an ice cave.

The Qiwei family has served the Sijing family for generations, and Yaeko, Qiwei, grew up with Sijing Rika, and is considered one of the few friends of Sijing Rika.

If it were a few years ago, when I saw Qitao Yaeko in a dilemma, Rika Shii would be ecstatic, instead of feeling scared when she looked at her more.

All changes originated from the storm two years ago.

Sijing Lihua was in a bad mood that day. After going to the island, she found that the others were chatting happily. No one noticed her abnormality, so she walked away alone angrily.

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

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

Rika Shiyi caught a life-saving straw. After Yaeko Shinoi helped her put on her life jacket, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could finish her sigh, another orange tint gradually drifted closer and closer under the sway.

The two turned their heads and saw Yuji Nikaido holding a leaking rubber raft and leaning towards this side with difficulty.

Nikaido came to sea fishing today. His small raft was unable to withstand the storm. Like a kayak driven by the Qi-Tai Yaeko, it had been almost scrapped by the waves.

They are all members of the yacht club. After Nikaido approached, Yaeko Shinoi pulled him to the top of the island. However, the "top of the mountain" was only a few meters of clearings left and would soon be submerged.

Nikaido was very grateful, but when he found that the sea surface was rising more and more vigorously and would soon flood the entire island, he looked at the life jackets on the two girls and started to think about it.

At the beginning, because he appreciated the character of Qiwei Yaeko and a little bit of subtle hatred for the rich, he targeted the one on Shijing Rika.

However, Nikaido's robbery was resisted - Rika Shiyi was already scared, but Qi-tailed Yaeko was particularly angry. After being beaten by her a few times, Nikaido Yuji was both anxious and annoyed, and began to turn the fire and snatch her from it.

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 to knocking Yaeko out of her way into the water, Nikaido also paid attention to Rika Shiyi, worried that she would harass her like Yaeko just now, but it didn't.

Rika Shiyi was just trembling and watching his actions. If she hadn't screamed when the 7-tailed Yaeko fell into the water, Nikaido would have almost thought she would have fainted.

In the past, this proud and indifferent young lady had never shown this side in front of him.

This made Yuji Nikaido, who originally wanted to silence her, hesitate for a moment.

...If you can use this incident as a threat and let Sijing Lihua marry him, he can inherit the Sijing family's property effortlessly, which is much more cost-effective than killing her.

People with this personality are not difficult to control. While Yuji Nikaido put on a life jacket belonging to Yaeko, he tried to threaten Rika Shiyi, and he got a very satisfactory result.

The storm lasted for half a day. After half a day, although the island was still submerged under the water, the sea surface gradually calmed down.

Nikaido, who survived on his life jacket, breathed a sigh of relief.

After wiping the sea water on his face, seeing the cruise ship coming to look for someone, Nikaido squeezed the wrist of Siyi Lihua next to him:

"Don't show that expression, remember, you haven't seen Yaeko in Qitao today, I saved you.

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

The beautiful flowers in the Sijing floated in the cold sea water, their minds were blank.

The shallow dark clouds were gradually blown away by the wind. When the first ray of sunshine in the afternoon broke through the clouds, she followed Nikaido to raise her hand, waved at the person on the yacht, and curled her lips stiffly.

...

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

Yaeko Nishita lay beside the bathtub, with one hand on the edge of the bathtub, and raised her hand to touch Lihua Si's face like the pastry crumbs that had been used to help Lihua Si's face.

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

Through the gradually rising bathtub water, her voice became even more vague, and Shiraishi couldn't understand what she was saying.

Yaeko Nishita 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 flowing out of her eyes.

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

Yaeko, Qitail, approached her, and looked at the red eyes of Mikari Shiyi, and said warmly:

"I understand that you are not the perpetrator and did not kill me. You just chose to watch when I was killed."

“——Just like me now.”

Sijing Lihua was stunned for a moment. She opened her eyes wide and stopped all movements. Her tears mixed with the water in the bathtub and fell.

In the bathtub, the waterline is thrown in a slow rise.

Shiraishi was standing next to him, feeling very complicated. This was the first time he saw someone die in front of him in the present-day movement.

Having said that, how many tokens are there in Qitaile Yaeko? If there is only one, is it considered a violation now?

There is also a mission to save the young man. If Lihua Sijing drowned here, the mission will definitely fail...

Thinking of this, Shiraishi was going to check whether the Qiwei Yaeko had a certificate first, and then consider whether to fish out the people in the bathtub at the discretion.

But at this moment, a tear sound came from the side.

Shiraishi turned his head in confusion, and through the gap in the shower curtain, he saw that Yaeko Nishita tore off the tape on Shiyi Rika's body.

"No matter what, I have to thank you for keeping my grandma when the President of Sijing wanted to fire her."

Qitail Yaezi has another "token" in his hand.

She smiled and stuffed the sign into Sijing Lihua's heart: "You have helped her for two years, and now, I will give you another 730 days."

When the tokens were all immersed in Lihua Siyi's body, Shiraishi saw that the toes of Qitail Yaeko began to fade, and his hands must be in similar condition.

Yaeko Shirak lowered her eyes and looked at her hands, removed the other tape a few times, and unplugged the plug at the bottom of the bathtub.

Standing up, she looked at Sijing Lihua for a last moment, quickly turned around and floated out of the bathroom.

The two tasks were completed at the same time. Bai Shi glanced at the screen, put away the extinguished Huangquan Candle, and left in the dark.

When he walked to the door, he heard a crying sound from behind: "...I'm sorry."

...

"Thank you tonight."

Yaeko Nanai smiled and looked at Shiraishi with a relaxed expression, "I have all my wishes come true, so I can leave with confidence."

"A good journey." Shiraishi waved her hand.

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

Don’t find out any strange shadows during the autopsy or physical examination, and then start re-checking the suspect...

Yaeko Nai misunderstood what he meant, thinking he was asking about the token on Shiyi Rika, and explained:

"That is indeed a sign of death, but in addition to the number of days, it is also related to other elements. It will be activated the next time Miss Sijing does something bad - boom!"

Yaeko suddenly gestured an explosive move, then closed her hands and put them on the side of her face and smiled sweetly: "Then send her to see me directly."

"..." Don't say such a cruel thing with such a cute face! Shiraishi silently left her half a step away.

"Of course." Yaeko Shinoi slowly put down her hand and walked to the window. She looked at the fountain outside the corridor and sighed, "I still hope that today will be our last meeting."

...

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

When Yizhilong, who was gradually awakening, saw her, his mind buzzed, unwilling to accept it and frightened.

However, Rika Shiyi always lowered her head and did not mention anything that was attacked. Under the questioning of Takuya Mifun, she admitted that she killed Yuji Nikaido.

Yizhilong touched his neck and chin that was aching, and suspected that he was still awake in his dream.

After finally confirming that this is reality, he suspected that Lihua Sijing wanted to be imprisoned in this way and escape the fate of being killed.

Just as he was angrily trying to rush over, an anesthesia needle flew over next to him, causing him to fall asleep again.

Shiraishi waited until the buff of the sleeping pill disappeared before returning to her body.

Although Conan felt that the case was full of suspicious points, the suspicious items at the scene were only a ball of tape stained with fingerprints in the bathroom, and those fingerprints were not in line with the fingerprints of anyone on the scene.

In the end, he could only stand side by side with Yizhitou when the police car arrived in the morning, watching Sijing Rika being taken into the car in great confusion.

...

Early the next morning, just as the sky was dawn, Bai Shi was awakened by a knock on the door.

The person who came knocked on his back door.

Shiraishi lifted the quilt, yawned to the door, and looked out from the cat's eyes, and no one was there.

But the knock on the door continued.

After reacting for two seconds, he understood.

When he opened the door, Conan was standing at the door with a serious look on his face: "The autopsy result of Nikaido Yuji has come out. Do you know what the cause of his death is?"

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

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

"Although he doesn't look like he's infected with this disease at all, the test results are indeed like this."
To be continued...