The monster of lighthouse island

Eighty-eight stones of hell

There is an S fishing port at the southern tip of Izu Peninsula, and steamboats between Kanto and Kansai will pass through the nearby waters. The waters in that area are all bare rocks, and shipwrecks have often occurred since ancient times.

It is said that there are eighty-eight rocks there, so local residents call this area "eighty-eight rocks in hell".

The reason why people call Na Pianhai domain this way is that when the sea water flows near Rock 88, it will stir up a strong vortex. If passing ships are caught in the whirlpool, they will collide with protruding rocks, leading to the accident of hull disintegration.

It is necessary to build a lighthouse because shipwrecks are prone to occur in this area.

The lighthouse is the navigation index of the boatman; Especially for ships sailing in dangerous waters, it is like a noble protector.

There is a lighthouse on an island outside the fishing port S, which is located about 500 meters above the tip of the gutter nose point on the west side of the fishing port S.

Because the island is shaped like a handful of four fans, local residents call it "Tuanfan Island" or "Fan Island".

However, after the lighthouse was built, the elephant renamed it "Lighthouse Island".

The following story is a bizarre event that happened on Lighthouse Island.

One afternoon in late July of Showa 26, Shimazaki, who was guarding the lighthouse, saw a fishing boat coming from the fishing port S to the lighthouse when he was patrolling the nearby waters with a telescope on the observation deck on the lighthouse.

Besides the helmsman and fisherman, there is a short man in a white coat, slacks and an old Panama hat on his head, and a teenager who looks like a junior high school student.

"Hey? Are those people coming to the lighthouse? "

Shimazaki muttered, aiming the telescope at the face of the man in the white coat.

The next second, he was surprised and cried:

"ah! Isn't that Mr Jin Tianyi? Well (expressing hesitation, etc.) ... Yes, Mr. Jin Tianyi, hello, hello! Mr. Jin Tianyi ... "

Shimazaki leaned out of the observation deck and kept waving to the fishing boat.

At this time, the people on the fishing boat also saw Shimazaki, only the man in the white coat took off his hat and waved his hat at him with a smile.

"ah! It's great that Mr. Jin Tianyi came at the right time. As long as you ask him for help, everything can be solved smoothly. "

With that, Shimazaki hurried down the stairs of the lighthouse.

There is a tower keeper's dormitory opposite the lighthouse. When Daoxia came out of the main entrance of the lighthouse, she happened to meet Gu He, the deputy tower keeper who came out of the dormitory.

"What's the matter, Mr. Shimazaki?"

Shimazaki excitedly patted the ancient river on the shoulder and said:

"It's Mr. Jin Tianyi ... I told you that Mr. Jin Tianyi is here. As long as he appears, there is nothing that cannot be solved. "

Shimazaki left such a sentence and hurried to the dock.

Disappearing traveler

The "Mr. Jin Tianyi" in the gap is the famous private detective-Jin Tianyi Kosuke. As for the boy standing next to him, his name is Li Huazi, and he is the assistant of Jin Tianyi Gongfu.

Last summer, Jin Tianyi Xiaosuke came to S fishing village in Izu Peninsula for the summer. He lives in Shanhai Temple and is devoted to the monks in the temple. He lived for more than two weeks.

He also visited the lighthouse at that time. So I met the administrator-Shimazaki.

Shosuke went to Shanhai Temple again this year, and Li, a colleague, also wanted to see what the lighthouse looked like, so he came here immediately.

"Welcome! Welcome! "

Shimazaki brought cold wheat tea to the two guests and grinned.

"Wait a minute. I'll show you two around the lighthouse. Mr. Jin Tianyi, you can stay with us tonight! "

He appeared to want something.

"Don't bother. I'm going to live in Shanhai Temple this time. I'll come and trouble you when I come back."

"No, no ... I really hope you can stay with us tonight. A strange thing happened here, but the ancient river who guarded the lighthouse with me said I was crazy ... "

Shimazaki looked back at the administrator-the ancient river.

He probably felt a little embarrassed, and then raised his gray head.

"What exactly is the' strange thing' you said?"

"The thing is ..."

So Shimazaki began to explain this strange thing.

One night seven days ago, a traveler came here by boat from S fishing village and said he wanted to visit the lighthouse.

But just as the travelers were visiting the lighthouse music, the weather suddenly turned bad.

"Everyone knows that the waters in this area are very dangerous. Even on sunny days, once the sun sets to sea level, fishermen dare not go fishing again.

It looked windy that day, so the traveler came back to stay with us for one night. His name is Ito Noguchi and he is about 35 or 6 years old. "

"Is something wrong with that man?"

"Well, he disappeared from this island that night."

"Disappeared from the island ..."

"Yes, it was very windy that night, and we didn't sleep a wink, so we couldn't get up at all the next morning. The storm didn't stop until dawn that night, and it was sunny the next day. I thought Noguchi was probably still sleeping, so I didn't wake him up.

Until about ten o'clock in the morning, ships in S fishing village usually carry more than twenty passengers to visit the lighthouse. I was in charge of showing you around. I was so busy going in and out that I completely forgot whether Noguchi was still sleeping.

The tour group visited here for about an hour, and then returned to S fishing village. When they came back, I remembered Noguchi and thought it was time to wake him up. But he's not in bed at all. I can't find him anywhere. "

"hmm ... will he go back with the tourists of the tour group?"

Jin Tianyi work interface put forward this view, next to the ancient river immediately said sadly:

"You see, Mr. Jin Tianyi agrees with me."

"It's possible! But in any case, it is too strange that he left without even saying hello, and I personally sent the tourists of the tour group aboard, and the young man named Noguchi was obviously not in the tour group! "

"So that's it. If noguchi didn't go back with the tourists of the tour group, would he ... "

"Impossible! Mr. Jin Tianyi, as I said just now, the storm that night was very heavy, and he shouldn't go back despite the wind and rain. What's more, Noguchi's boat has already sailed back, and our motorboat has been at the dock. "

"Well, what happened to him? Did it fall into the sea ... "

"I thought so at first, but then I thought about the storm and that night, behind the island ... Mr. Jin Tianyi should also know that there is a cave called Longkou by local residents! At night, the cliff above Longkou collapsed and blocked the whole hole. I don't know if Noguchi went into the hole and was blocked by the collapsed earth and stone. "

The ancient river heard here, endure not burst out laughing.

"Mr. Jin Tianyi, Shimazaki likes thinking too much. Later, we sent someone to dig a cave and searched it carefully. Noguchi was not there at all! "

"But how to explain the voice? Mr. Jin Tianyi, since Noguchi disappeared, I sometimes hear a very strange voice ... "

"Ha ha ha! You're crazy again. Actually, those are all your own hallucinations. There is no sound at all. I think all you hear is the sound of the waves. "

Furukawa pushed back to Shimazaki's statement in one sentence.

However, Jin Tianyi raised a question about this:

"What kind of noise do you hear?"

"It sounds as if coming from deep underground. I can't hear you clearly because of the noise during the day, but at night, the sound will come intermittently ... Maybe Noguchi is still somewhere on this island, such as underground ... "

Hearing Shimazaki's words, A Zi was afraid from the bottom of his heart.

The sound from underground

That night, A Zi and Jin Tianyi stayed at Lighthouse Island, but he couldn't sleep.

After listening to Shimazaki's detailed introduction, A Zi learned a lot about the lighthouse.

For example, the light source of the lighthouse comes from a petroleum single tube lamp, surrounded by a large lens, which can project the light of 600,000 candles far away.

This lens weighs about two tons, running around the circle, and lights can be seen in all directions.

In addition, the heavy lens must be driven by many gears, one of which is wound with a steel cable with a sub-code hanging at one end. The symbol code falls due to gravity, so it rotates with the lens. A Zi was interested in Shimazaki's explanation.

But now he is sleeping alone in the lighthouse keeper's dormitory. His mind is not on how the lighthouse works, but on the whereabouts of Ito Noguchi.

After visiting the lighthouse before, A Zi and Jin Tianyi Kosuke visited the lighthouse island together under the leadership of Shimazaki, and they also saw the collapsed cave.

This island is only 5000 ping, and the only flat place on the island is the lighthouse covering 500 ping. In addition, most of the lighthouse island is cliffs and valleys.

According to the island monster, the entrance to Longkou was completely blocked the day after the storm. He and the ancient river dug hard before they could barely get in and out of the cave.

From this point of view, when the island chair and the ancient river dig a hole, if Noguchi is no longer on the island, it is naturally impossible to enter the hole.

(If so, where did Ito Noguchi go?

Did he accidentally slip and fall into the sea, or did the tourists who had finished swimming go back to S fishing village?

In addition, how to explain the strange noise that Shimazaki heard later?

Is it really just Shimazaki's illusion or rough waves, as Furukawa said?

No ... things may be like what Shimazaki said, and Noguchi is still hiding somewhere on the island ...)

A Zi just kept thinking and thinking and couldn't sleep.

At that time, Jin Tianyi Gongjie was chatting with Shimazaki and Furukawa in the restaurant, and they chatted happily until 12 before returning to their rooms.

A Zi finally fell asleep after hearing them go back to the room.

I don't know how long it took, but A Zi suddenly opened his eyes, and the whole person sat up from the bed and listened firmly in the dark.

But the voice was too weak for him to hear clearly, so he jumped out of bed and put his ear to the floor to listen.

(Right, right ...)

Ah Zi did hear intermittent sounds, neither waves nor winds. He was sure that someone was shouting.

At first, A Zi thought the sound was coming from underground. It was gradual, and he felt the sound getting closer and closer. ...

Before long, he could even hear the voice clearly.

A Zi turned on the light switch, put on his clothes and rushed out of the room.

At the same time, Jin Tianyi, dressed in a white coat and slacks, rushed out of the next room.

"A Zi, did you hear that?"

"Yes, Mr. Jin Tianyi, that voice is not from underground. That man is still on this island. "

"Well, let's go and have a look."

When the two of them came to the inside of the dormitory door, Shimazaki and Furukawa also rushed out with flashlights.

"Mr. Jin Tianyi, indeed as expected ..."

"shh! Go this way. "

So a line of people held their breath and walked forward.

Strange sounds are getting closer and closer to them. It sounds like a crazy cry, but also like moaning and crying.

When they came to the porch, they heard someone open the door from the outside. Everyone looked at each other, and then they heard something fall.

On hearing the sound, everyone ran out of the porch and saw a man lying on the ground.

When Shimazaki and Furukawa shone their flashlights on the man's face, everyone shouted in panic.

"ah! It is Mr. Noguchi! "

Ito Noguchi's clothes were covered with mud, and his body was scarred and stained with blood.

I wonder where he has been these seven days.

When Jin Tianyi Gongjie picked him up, he seemed to have something to say, but he died before he could speak.

Tie Huan ci Qing

Ito Noguchi, who had been missing for seven days, suddenly appeared in front of everyone and died without leaving a word.

After dawn, Jin Tianyi's farming reminded me that Guhe had to go to the police station and doctor in S fishing village to report the case.

Qingshui patrol and police station doctors immediately followed the ancient river to lighthouse island.

After the inquest, the doctor thought that Ito Noguchi did not die of others, but because of fatigue and weakness.

Nevertheless, everyone is still interested in Ito Noguchi's whereabouts these days.

This island is only 5000 ping. During these seven days, Ito Noguchi could not hide anywhere on the island, avoiding the sight of island chairs and ancient rivers.

At this time, everyone's mind rang with voices from underground-

It seems that there must be other unknown underground caves on this lighthouse island.

Ito Noguchi may have accidentally broken into the cave, but he didn't know how to get out, so he spent seven terrible days in the cave.

Until the evening of the eighth day, he finally found the exit and returned to the dormitory of the tower keeper.

But by this time, his body was quite weak and he died soon.

It is puzzling why Noguchi walked into that underground cave. How did he learn about this cave that he didn't even know about the island gorge where he lived for a long time?

Maybe after finding the cave and figuring out what's inside, we can naturally solve these doubts!

So, Jin Tianyi Xiaofu worked hard with everyone to find Lighthouse Island, but never found any other caves.

They had no choice but to check Ito Noguchi's personal clothes, only to find that he didn't carry any documents except a little cash.

Strangely, his left arm has a tattoo similar to the five rings on the Olympic flag, which seems to have any special significance.

In addition, they also found a strange piece of paper from Noguchi's wallet.

It's an ordinary drawing paper, 25cm long and15cm wide, with many irregular quadrangles cut on it.

"oh! What the hell is this? "

The Qingshui patrol expressed doubts about this.

But Jin Tianyi Gongjie opened his eyes and said:

"Mr. Shuiman, can I keep this paper?"

"Yes, it's just what's inside ..."

"Oh, nothing."

Jin Tianyi carefully took the paper and wrote it down in his notebook. The next step is how to deal with Ito Noguchi's body.

Because it was a hot summer, they decided to transport the body back to S fishing village for cremation, and then put the ashes in Shanhai Temple.

On the third night after Ito Noguchi's death, Jin Tianyi Kosuke, Shimizu Patrol Officer and Ewako, monks of Shanhai Temple, gathered in the monk's room, waiting for the arrival of lighthouse keeper Shimazaki.

Around six o'clock, Shimazaki hurried from Lighthouse Island.

"Sorry, I was about to leave when two tourists came to visit the lighthouse, so I came late."

Shimazaki sat down to explain why he was late.

After everyone arrived, they began to talk about the bizarre case of Ito Noguchi.

During the discussion, Jin Tianyi Gongjie suddenly thought of one thing and asked loudly:

"By the way, teacher, when I came here last year, I saw a very special plaque on the other side of the hall with some words like spells written on it ... where is the plaque? Why didn't you see it hanging in the four halls? "

Monks listen to Jin Tianyi male interface asked about this matter, can't help but frown and said:

"The plaque has been removed. Mr Jin Tianyi, why do you ask? But a strange thing did happen today ... "

"What's strange?"

"Just now, two guests came to the temple. When they asked about it, I took the plaque down and showed it to them."

"they asked about it ... what kind of person is that?"

"One person has a prosthetic leg on his right foot, and the other person has only one arm."

"What? The man with the prosthetic leg and the one-armed man … They are the two people who visited the lighthouse just now! Therefore, they should still be on lighthouse island now. "

Hearing this, everyone looked out of the door.

I saw the Ren Li Lighthouse on Lighthouse Island emitting strong light on the sinking sea surface and scanning the ocean regularly.

The secret of the plaque

Everyone stared at the lighthouse for a long time.

Then, the monk took a plaque and said:

"Mr. Jin Tianyi, this is the plaque you just mentioned. Is there anything special? "

A Zi looked at these four foreheads and felt puzzled.

I saw some difficult words written on a board 25 cm long and 15 cm wide with a pressure gauge.

Jin Tianyi Gongjie looked at the plaque for a long time, and then took out the paper found in Noguchi Ito's wallet from his pocket.

"Gold, if you put the money on this piece of paper, you can see the words in the small hole. Please read it later. "

"Mr. Jin Tianyi, is this a code word?"

"Yes, this is a sign. If you only see this plaque, you have no idea what it says. Only those who have this paper can understand the meaning of these words on the plaque. "

So A Zi trembled and put the paper that Jin Tianyi Gongjie gave him on the plaque, revealing the words on it.

"Push the rock at the bottom of the fan shaft to the west for three times ... ah! Mr. Jin Tianyi, is this the entrance to the cave? "

"Well, it must be so. Shimazaki, is there a' fan shaft rock' on Lighthouse Island? "

Shimazaki surprised to see Jin Tianyi, tone nervously said:

"Yes, yes, lighthouse island was originally called Tuan Fan Island or Fan Island. There is a big stone in the position equivalent to the fan shaft. Everyone calls that stone a' fan axis stone'. "

"In that case, it can't be wrong."

Jin Tianyi Gongjie shouted excitedly.

Shimizu patrol did not understand his request to move forward;

"But, why is there such a strange plaque here? Master, who donated this huge burden? "

"I was going to tell you this tonight ... Mr. Shimazaki, was that lighthouse built in the sixteenth year of Showa?"

"yes."

"So, it should have happened in the fifteenth year of Showa ... at that time, the tower had not yet been built on Lighthouse Island. One day. A fisherman in this fishing village was swept away by the waves. He drove all the way to the island, but found a man's body with a broken head.

This immediately caused a commotion. No one knew the victim. The police checked the victim's belongings and found no documents. So they sent the unknown body to the temple for cremation. The body's left arm has the same tattoo as Noguchi ... "

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.

"This matter in the past more than a year later, four people came to the temple. Because they are about to go to the battlefield, I don't know if they can come back safely. So they said to hang this plaque in the plaque hall, hoping that this plaque field would bless them. After donating this plaque and a large sum of money to the temple, they left first without leaving their names.

Before that, I had never associated this matter with the first man with a tattoo. I didn't think about it until I listened to Mr. Jin Tianyi.

The man named Noguchi, the man with prosthetic limbs, and the one-armed man who came to the temple today are all people who came to Shanhai Temple that year ... including the man who was killed in the fifteenth year of Showa, and there are five people in a well. Do the five-ring tattoos represent the five of them?

After listening to the monk's words, everyone present was silent.

At this moment, A Zi suddenly let out a cry:

"Ah ... Mr. Jin Tianyi and Mr. Shimazaki, the light source of the lighthouse rotates much faster than before!"

Everyone quickly turned to look at the direction of the lighthouse and found that the rotating speed of the lighthouse light source was indeed much faster than before.

"Mr. Jin Tianyi, let's hurry back and have a look. There must be something wrong with the lighthouse. "

Shimazaki stood up in a panic and said.

People die for money.

The light source in the lighthouse is driven by the weight on the steel cable. Once the weight of the weight changes, the speed will also change.

As soon as Shimazaki returned to Lighthouse Island, he rushed into the Lighthouse to check the weight.

When he entered the management room, the whole person suddenly froze in place.

I saw that the heavy object was still hanging in the mercury tank in the center of the longitudinal lighthouse, but there was a man tied to it and blood kept flowing out of him. ...

"ah! He is the man with a prosthetic leg. "

A man with a prosthetic limb may be shot first and then hung in the air with his original weight. The appearance of bloody people is really terrible.

A Zi trembled at the terrible sight.

"Mr. Jin Tianyi and Mr. Shimizu, please be very busy. Put down your bodies first and let the lighthouse return to normal speed."

When everyone photographed the body from the weight, Jin Tianyi Gong Jie examined the prosthetic man's left arm, and it did have a ring pattern.

"Yes, they are in the same group."

"Mr. Jin Tianyi, where is the ancient river?"

After Shimazaki said this, everyone noticed that Furukawa was not in the management room.

"Look for it first! Will he go to the lighthouse? "

So they climbed the spiral staircase and walked from the light source room surrounded by glass to the observation deck, but there was still no trace of the ancient river.

"oh! How stupid of me ... The one-armed man must have entered that cave. Maybe the ancient river is chasing him ... Shimazaki, where is the fan shaft rock you said? "

"This way."

The moonlight is bright tonight, so they can see the scenery without flashlights.

Soon, a group of people came to the low cliff on the outer edge of the island, and a sharp stone stood on the cliff.

"Mr Jin Tianyi, that's the fan shaft rock."

I saw a rock as big as an ox across the bottom of the fan shaft rock.

"Mr Shimazaki, Mr Shimizu, let's push this rock together."

The Qingshui patrol put his hand on the fan shaft rock and tried to push it three times.

Every time he pushes, the fan shaft rocks will shake.

When he pushed hard for the third time, the rock of the fan shaft suddenly tilted twenty degrees to one side.

"Ah ... danger!"

Everyone was shocked when they saw it.

However, the fan wheel rock did not continue to lean to the side, but reached the balance point very skillfully, and the place where the bottom cracked was just the hole.

"ah! No wonder no one knows the secret of this cave ... after the big rock and the small rock were balanced, the hole was cleverly hidden. No one expected that such a big rock could move. This is a miracle. What's that noise? "

At this moment, a gunshot suddenly came from the cave.

"Oh, no! The man with only one hip must have fought the ancient river. Let's go in and have a look. "

Jin Tianyi Gongjie immediately turned on the flashlight, and the first one rushed into the cave, followed by three others.

There is a natural staircase in the cave. After Jin Tianyi Gongjie walked fifty steps, they came to a horizontal cave.

This horizontal hole is very long and winding. They fished about 500 meters and were instantly stunned by what they saw.

I saw the one-armed man and the ancient river lying on the ground with pistols. There is a big wooden box between them.

The one-armed man was shot in the chest and died on the spot, but Guhe was slightly injured.

When Shimazaki was looking at the injury of the ancient river, Jin Tianyi Gengdongli opened the board and took a flashlight inside the box.

In the next second, Jin Tianyi endure didn't shout out:

"ah! Mr Island gorge and Mr Shimizu, come and see, there are big nuggets in this box ... "

Hearing Jin Tianyi's cry, everyone was surprised to see the gold nuggets in the box.

Afterwards, the doctor rushed to lighthouse island to treat the injury of Guhe. After a while, he regained consciousness.

After listening to his confession, everyone finally understood the truth.

Guhe has a brother, Kenichi, who stayed in the south for many years. Showa returned to the mainland in fifteen years, and his whereabouts were unknown soon.

Guhe has been tracking down his brother's whereabouts. During this period, he was recruited by the army to fight in Myanmar. In the army, he met a soldier named Yamamoto, whose left hand was tattooed with an iron ring.

Furukawa knew that his brother had the same tattoo on his arm, so he asked Yamamoto about it.

Yamamoto didn't want to tell the ancient river about it, but later he was seriously injured in a battle and finally told the secret to the ancient river before he died.

It turned out that Coca's brothers-Kenichi, Yamamoto and three others-all had iron rings dug out of their arms. The five men brought back a gold nugget from the south and rushed into the cave on Fan Island.

This cave used to be a hiding place for pirates. After a long time, the world gradually faded away and was discovered by one of these five people.

However, the five men had an argument while hiding the gold bars, so they killed Qian Yi and dumped his body on Fan Island.

But they were afraid that they would forget how to open the cave in the future, so they made a plaque with a hidden code on it and gave it to Shanhai Temple before joining the army.

When Guhe knew what had happened, he returned to the mainland and tried to live on Lighthouse Island.

"At that time, Yamamoto died in the middle. I know there are gold nuggets hidden on this island, but I don't know where the cave is, and there are ways to open it ... I came to this island not to find gold nuggets, but to avenge my brother!

My brother advocated giving the gold bullion to the government, so he was killed by four other people. I think Yamamoto of these four people is dead, but the other three people may still be alive ... as long as they are alive, they will definitely come to this island to get back the gold nuggets, so I came to this island to wait for them to appear. "

Now, the purpose of the ancient river has finally been achieved.

Ito Noguchi died of exhaustion because he got lost in the cave, and the other two also died.

However, the prosthetic man was killed by a one-armed man, and the ancient river just put the body on a heavy object.

He did this to remind Shimazaki and Jin Tianyi Lighthouse Gongfu that something had happened here, so that he could go after the one-armed man alone.

The ancient river chased all the way into the cave, * * * fought with the one-armed man and finally avenged his brother.

Now the gold nuggets that caused the murder case have been handed over to the government and will be used for meaningful social welfare undertakings.