The sailing on the sea was boring, but fortunately, the waves were calm all the way. After a few hours of sailing, accompanied by the chirping of a large group of seagulls, the passenger ship finally slowly docked on the dock of Yueying Island.

The thick fog had dissipated unknowingly.

In summer, several people got off the boat, looked at the lush islands, felt the cool sea breeze, blue sky and white clouds, which made each of them feel refreshed.

"Wow~" Xiaolan said happily, "The scenery on this island is very good. We really came to the right place, right, Conan?"

"Yeah! That's right!" Conan nodded vigorously.

Kogoro rubbed his numb legs that had been sitting for a long time and looked around. The strange islands and unfamiliar environment made him not know where to go.

"There is a building in front of it, which seems to be the office of this island. Let's go there and take a look."

"Hey?" Xia Ri looked at Kogoro and said strangely, "At this time, shouldn't you contact the client named Keiji Aso first?"

Kogoro sighed: "I want to contact him, but I don't know where to find him."

"Did he leave you an address?"

Kogoro shook his head: "Don't tell the address anymore. Even if I called the phone back, his phone was always turned off."

Xia Ri raised her eyebrows and already vaguely felt this matter, which was probably even more complicated than he had expected.

Humph, it's interesting!

Several people carried their backpacks and followed the flow of people at the dock, walked out of the dock, and then walked through the cleaned streets, and came to the office of Yueying Island.

Unlike the tall buildings in the city, Yueying Island is a remote island at the village level. Its office is just a two-story building built next to the street. On both sides of the office, there are only a few loose houses surrounding it.

When I walked into the office, I found that it was different from the coolness of the outside streets in summer. The narrow hall of the office was already full of many elderly people. They were holding forms and obviously filling out something.

Xia Ri glanced at the table from afar, and from the above, it seemed like a vote to vote for elections.

Is this small town on the island going to start running for mayor?

Kogoro walked to the front desk and found a staff member. However, after some negotiations, the staff member shook his head helplessly.

"Keiji Aso!? I'm so sorry, there is no such person here."

"What! No!?" Kogoro was shocked, pointed to the resident book on the counter, took out his letter, and said dissatisfiedly, "How could there be no such person? Look! The letter in my hand was written to me by him, and I also received a call from him!"

"Please check it out again! Maybe you missed it!"

"But there is really no name in the island's residents' book!" The staff scratched their hair, "And I was just transferred here last month and don't know the residents of the island very much..."

No one expected that this would be the situation. However, when Kogoro was at a loss, a person wearing glasses and looking like a manager walked behind the staff.

"Is something going on?"

"That's right..." the staff member turned around and explained, "The gentleman said that there was a resident named Keiji Aso on the island who wrote a letter to entrust him to come here..."

"Ma...Keiji Aso!" However, before the staff finished speaking, the man wearing glasses had a look of horror on his face, and he suddenly interrupted him.

Xia Ri looked around and noticed that not only the person in front of him, but even the old people in the office looked like they had seen ghosts on their faces, and looked here in surprise.

"Huh? What's wrong with you?"

I realized that the atmosphere was not right. Not only in summer, Kogoro and the others, but even the interrupted staff were confused.

"No! This is impossible!" the man in glasses shouted, his face changed again and again, and he said gritted his teeth, "Because more than 10 years ago, Keiji Aso...he was already dead!!"

"What!?"

This time, it was Xia Ri's turn to show a shocked look.

"It was a full moon night in 12 years..." The man in glasses continued in a low voice. "The famous pianist Keiji Aso came home after attending the home recital held by the island residents at the community activity center. He didn't know why he locked the whole family in the house and set a fire..."

"The specific situation, according to the witnesses who went to rescue... Aso first used a knife to hand his wife and daughter, and then sat in front of the piano, playing the same song repeatedly seemed helplessly..."

"And that song is Beethoven's famous piano sonata - Moonlight!!"

After hearing this, Xia Ri and his friends realized that no wonder the name Keiji Aso was not found in the resident book. Since he had been dead for so many years, it was naturally impossible for him to appear on the resident book again.

"I've died 12 years ago?"

Kogoro looked down at the letter in his hand, muttering to himself, subconsciously shivering, feeling the air was filled with a biting coldness.

If the client died 12 years ago, who sent me this letter? Who called the phone number?

It's hard...Is there a ghost?

...

Walking out of the office gate, Kogoro stood on the street, feeling like a different life under the warm sunshine, and felt like he had heard a bizarre story just now.

"What should we do now?" Xiaolan asked.

Kogoro shook his head and was about to speak, but he saw Xia Ri beside him, looking thoughtful.

"Boy, what are you thinking?" Kogoro asked curiously.

Xia Ri glanced at Kogoro and said seriously: "Uncle, don't you think this matter is very strange?"

"Strange?" Kogoro snorted coldly, "It's not just strange, I feel terrified! A ghost can actually write to me and make phone calls. What else can be more strange and terrifying than this!"

A sigh came from Xia Ri's ears. Xia Ri looked down and it turned out that Conan was staring at Kogoro with a speechless look.

It seems that he is also sad about the circuit in Kogoro's mind.

"Dad!" Xiaolan said angrily, "Don't say so scary, let Brother Xia finish his words!"

Xia Ri coughed, cleared her throat, and said, "Since the client asked uncle, you came to this island to investigate the case, you will definitely understand that sooner or later, the real Keiji Aso had committed suicide more than ten years ago, so he would pay the expenses to your account before closing the case, in order to let you dispel your concerns and concentrate on investigating the case!"

"But why did he do this? Wouldn't it be better to just use his real name to find me?" Kogoro asked in confusion.

"It's not simple!" Xia Ri spread her hands, "This client must have a very close relationship with Keiji Aso, and it is not convenient to disclose it, so he used the name Keiji Aso!"

"And don't you find it strange? Why did a good pianist commit suicide after a recital in his hometown?"
Chapter completed!