The Corpse Collector In Conan Chapter 73: The vest seems to have wings

This temple does not seem to have a "don't say anything" rule.

A few young monks chatted quickly, and the topic unknowingly turned to an ancient legend - the legend of the foggy dog.

In fact, it is not "unconsciously".

The location of Shanni Temple is too remote and there are few tourists. Every time there is a guest staying, the old abbot secretly leads the topic to "Fog Tengu", which is the selling point of their remote temple.

In this area, there has always been a legend of "Fog Tengu", but what really made it a topic of conversation was a murder case two years ago.

——Two years ago, the monk Zhongnian in the temple was suspected of being killed by Wutiangu. After this incident was published in the newspapers, tourists visiting the temple exploded for a while, bringing in a lot of money.

Now that the heat has passed, there have been fewer tourists, but there are still people who are attracted by the foggy dog ​​every now and then.

Some of these guests came from reading old newspapers, while others heard people who lived in the temple say these things and passed it on by word of mouth.

The old abbot had a guilty conscience on the matter of "Wutiangou murder" - in fact, it was not Wutiangou who killed Zhongnian, but him.

But his conscience can't be eaten, so he chose to increase his popularity without hesitation.

The old abbot said to the two new tourists in a somber tone:

"Misttengu is an ancient monster that can fly. They sneak into the village like fog on rainy nights, break through the walls, kidnap the good people, and then hang the corpses of their prey on a high place. to eat."

Speaking of this, the old host wanted to suddenly take a terrifying turn and lean over to scare the two guests on the opposite side.

But at this time, he suddenly felt that he couldn't intuitively feel that if he really scared people, he would immediately be slapped on the head and slapped into the vegetable soup.

...and it's not interesting to scare two big men.

The abbot hesitated for a moment, and finally just stroked his beard, skipped the scary steps, and said the conclusion: "But don't worry, this is just a legend when technology was underdeveloped."

"...But, it's not necessarily a legend." The third child in the temple was not very good-looking, and he muttered nervously, "Didn't something very similar happen two years ago, Senior Brother Zhongnian... "

"Mu Nian!" Senior Brother frowned and interrupted him, "Don't tell the guests about this kind of thing."

"It's alright, talk about it." Jiang Xia seemed very interested, so he didn't eat, and looked up at them, "We are detectives, and we are best at answering strange things."

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Four little monks, plus an abbot, five exclamation marks seem to appear above the heads of the five people, but the meanings are different.

The four monks looked at Jiang Xia, and the youngest hesitated: "Actually, I wanted to say it for a long time. You look a little familiar. It's the one who suddenly became popular recently... Jiang Xia? Is that the surname?"

"Oh, I've heard of it! I went shopping in the city a few days ago, and when I was queuing, I happened to hear the girl next to me discussing this person." The third child also remembered, and he said excitedly, "Since I was in line. He's a detective, maybe he can really solve the mystery - just two years ago..."

"Shut up!"

The old host slapped the table and interrupted the apprentice.

His face was extremely ugly, and he stared at the four apprentices: "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to mention this matter?! Well, after the meal time is over, let me go back to rest!"

Then the old abbot turned to Jiang Xia and Anshitou, his tone was much stiffer than before: "This is an internal matter of our temple, so don't ask any more questions."

After speaking, he stood up and left with a sullen face.

He literally wrote the words "guilty of being a thief" on his face.

…

The old monk was very unfriendly, but fortunately his apprentices were still very service-minded.

After a few little monks cleaned up the restaurant, they brought Jiang Xia and the others to the guest room, found a clean bedding, and even found two disposable toothbrushes and razors out of nowhere.

Jiang Xia packed up early, pretended to fall asleep, and was ready to pick up ghosts.

Amuro Toru seemed to be a little curious about what happened "two years ago", but he didn't ask too much - detectives in this world seem to have the attribute of "never ask questions when someone sells them off". Perhaps this is some kind of intuitive professionalism born in order not to lose a job...

Jiang Xia was not curious.

After all, he is a "prophet" who knows a lot.

Two years ago, the monk Zhongnian in this temple "hanged himself".

But in fact, he was killed by the old abbot.

The old abbot wanted his granddaughter to marry the heir of a large monastery, but the granddaughter fell in love with Zhongnian and even wanted to run away.

The old abbot worried about this for a long time, but could not convince his granddaughter. Finally, he had an idea, and suddenly thought that as long as the loyalty is gone, of course, the granddaughter will not be able to elope any more.

So the old host took advantage of the terrain in the temple, combined with the legends around here, and came up with a murder method.

——In Shanni Temple, there is a narrow confinement room about 10 meters high. There is a window at the top of the confinement room near the waterfall, and the quality of the confinement room is very good and does not seep water.

Two years ago, after the old monk killed Zhongnian, he sealed the doors and windows below with tape, and then used wooden boards to introduce water into the confinement room, floated the body to the top, and hung the body from the beam at the top . After that, the old abbot returned to the outside, smashed the wall below, and the water flowed out instantly.

In this way, since there is no sign of climbing on the top of the dusty beam, it looks like the corpse was carried by the fog tengu and flew up.

Of course, the police couldn't use the "Fog Tiangou murder" to close the case, so in the end they had to treat it as suicide.

Jiang Xia didn't think much about the case.

I just felt that the old monk was really able to toss. According to the average level of police handling cases here, maybe the abbot directly hanged people back then, and it could be regarded as suicide.

However, none of this has anything to do with Jiang Xia. Right now, he only has the new ghost child in his heart...

The rooms are large and all have tatami mats.

Jiang Xia dragged the bedding towards the door and lay down.

After the little monks almost all fell asleep and Amuro Toru stopped making noise, Jiang Xia let a few shikigami fly into the corridor from the crack of the door, ready to build a puppet.

However, before the puppet took shape, Jiang Xia suddenly felt that something was approaching outside the door.

Jiang Xia paused the puppet assembly, shifted her vision to Miyano Akemi, and asked her to go through the door to see the situation.

I saw the new ghost fetus running all the way, looking very anxious~IndoMTL.com~ as if looking for someone for help.

Jiang Xia's eyes lit up.

He took back his eyesight, went to the bathroom under the guise of going to the corridor, and communicated with the new ghost.

The new ghost has something to ask for. It can be seen that it is still panicked when facing Jiang Xia, but it is not hiding from him like before.

As they got closer, Jiang Xia discovered that the extra bulge on the back of the new ghost fetus was shaped like a pair of wings.

Jiang Xia took the ghost to the empty bathroom and held it politely for two seconds. After all, he couldn't hold back. Under the trembling gaze of the new ghost, he stretched out his hand and pinched the tips of its wings.

With a little force, Jiang Xia stretched the wings. The new ghost fluttered in panic.

Jiang Xia let go of his hand, and Xin Gui swishly hid behind the hand sanitizer, put away his wings bitterly, and smoothed the pinched feathers.

Jiang Xia watched from the side, feeling very miraculous.

The appearance of the ghost child is actually the product of the Q version of the real person.

But when the monk ghost died, it must have been a normal human figure, not dead with wings on its back--otherwise, the murder of the misty dog ​​two years ago would not have been so low-profile.

Many of the rules of this world are different from what Jiang Xia was familiar with before.

He can only guess based on those messy principles that the sudden mutation of this new ghost is related to the legend of Wutiangu murdering - that legend was widely popular in this area, and it may be these words that affected the monk ghost form.

I don't know if the wings are just a decoration, or they can really fly...

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia tentatively poked the ghost in front of him, and the monk ghost ducked to the side.

But soon, it remembered that it still had something to ask the psychic in front of him, so it stood stiffly in place, letting Jiang Xia poking around.

Because the ghost was too calm, Jiang Xia couldn't test it out.