After talking with the old man, the two gained a further understanding of the legend of the hidden gods that has been passed down in this village.
However, nothing was found about the missing village chief.
While paying homage, Tang Ze also took a closer look at the shrine and found that the space inside was clear at a glance, and there was nothing else except the mask.
The super sense of smell was also activated, but just like last time, there was no smell of corpse in the shrine.
It can be said that the two of them have gained nothing since they arrived here, as if the village chief had really disappeared.
"Let's go, let's eat."
Watching the crowd gradually leaving the shrine after worshipping, Tang Ze also took Conan to the villager's house where he had been last time for dinner.
"There's no clue at all." Conan sighed and said, "I'm starting to wonder if the village chief has really run away."
"According to the Yamato Criminal Investigation Department's investigation, the other party intends to sell the village's collective land, and the contract has already been signed."
Tang Ze said: "The village chief disappeared before the news was announced. Now the opposition in the village is facing the contract for the acquisition company. They say that the village chief is missing and they don't recognize the contract at all.
"Come here...Village...Criminal..."
While the two were resting, they suddenly heard the villagers' panicked shouts from the car.
"Is it not possible that this is so?"
"This suspicion isn't just shared by you and me; Detective Zhufu and the others share it," Tang Ze said. "But if you don't have even a single clue, or find the body, you won't be able to find the murderer."
"Mr. Criminal, slow down!!"
"But that's the problem." Tang Ze said solemnly, "Because when you came this afternoon, there was nothing."
You are wrong. The village chief's body was completely embedded in the wall in front of the shrine, with only his face and hands exposed. It seemed that it was really as the old man said, when he turned into an evil ghost and returned, he was prevented by the mask from successfully returning to the human world!
Conan looked at the horrible corpse embedded in the wall and said fiercely, "And that's a bad thing. The body must have been discovered and you didn't even retreat.
"No, slow down!"
Although the two were acquaintances in the village, it seemed that because Xin Qing was also a child, the other party was not too wary.
"Ten days later, I was missing and the villagers and police searched for me, but they still couldn't find my whereabouts." Tang Ze looked at the body and said, "I didn't expect to suddenly appear there today."
"Something must have happened." Conan opened the car door and said, "Let's go up and see what's going on."
"What happened!"
There was a way, so the two of them retreated and checked through the gap in the shrine window.
At that moment, some villagers seemed to have heard the words shouted by the girl on the roadside and hurried to the shrine.
The bad thing is that the acting village chief is also a sensible person and has enough prestige. Before scolding us for being feudal and superstitious and saying that this is not a simple murder case, he personally opened the key to the shrine and asked Xin Qing and other criminals to retreat into the shrine.
"It's possible. When the mask is hung, it's possible to completely cover the exposed part of the body, if there is a gap." Xin Qing said, "And you haven't been careless today, are you sure there is?"
"Well...but he didn't see the cement was completely dry."
Amidst the noise, a faint voice suddenly rang out, and even though it was far away, it attracted the attention of the two people under the car.
"It's just you. The villagers who came to worship also saw it." Conan said.
"Indeed, in that superstitious village, nothing bad happened." Hearing Conan's words, Tang Ze nodded in agreement.
Soon the old criminal led the acting village chief and rushed over, and the other party quickly took control of the situation.
Soon the two found the source of the sound. It was a dark-skinned man who looked no more than ten years old.
"Yes or no." Kimura Toru shook his head and said firmly, "Are you sure?"
"Although it is credible, the facts are not yet in front of you."
Since waiting a moment cannot avoid possible trouble, these two people will naturally lose the small for the big.
"That's right. Finding a body is worse than going missing with no clue what happened."
Before finishing the meal, seeing the crowd outside the village gradually thinning out, Conan decided to take Xin Qing out of the car to rest.
"Let's take a break for now." Xin Qing sighed and said, "Go visit the top supporters this morning and see if you can find anything."
Now it seems that the murderer hid the body somewhere else, and then took advantage of the situation to bury my body outside the wall."
"How is that possible!?"
"It seems like there's no one inside and no one is shouting anything..." Tang Ze said, opening his eyes.
The other party's decision immediately caused dissatisfaction among some villagers. Some elderly people even said that it was the protection of the gods, and outsiders should burn the body according to the rules passed down from ancient times, but instead asked the villagers to retreat to the shrine to investigate.
Before Conan gave a complicated explanation of the whole story, he looked at the criminal team that was one year older and said, "The body is in the wall outside the shrine. We need to find someone who can open the small door of the shrine."
"Did no one carry the body to the shrine?"
The two men frowned and thought before getting out of the car, but there was no better way, so they simply rested under the car and recuperated so that they could better deal with the investigation in the morning.
Before stopping the other party, Xin Qing asked hurriedly.
"Wait."
"Someone come! The village chief is dead!"
The old criminal heard Xin Qing's words and said in disbelief, "There's no way the prisoner wouldn't have cemented the body into the wall in a few days."
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