Chapter 497: The Disappearance of Matsuda Kagen to the Leader [Key to the Realms]
After capturing the shikigami, Jiang Xia glanced to the side.
Seeing that Conan and Toru Amuro were not paying attention here, he pulled the shikigami out of the soil, folded them up and put them away.
Then continue digging down along this place.
I dug up another fresh Shikigami after digging the soil a few times. I continued to collect it.
…
The ghosts following Jiang Xia were floating around and digging everywhere as if they were treasure hunters.
"Silver Fox" is a veteran killer with many dead souls under his command, and of course he has quite a few shikigami hanging on his body. In addition, the robber who broke into the house also had two or three shikigami hanging on his body.
Just now, when the two people were rolled down by the earth and rocks, they couldn't withstand the erosion of the heavy mud and both died.
As soon as the murderer died, the shikigami on their bodies released their obsession and fell down one after another, crawling aimlessly in all directions.
...So we have to catch them one by one and put them away before they fly away.
In addition, we have to find out the murderous aura on Silver Fox and Hebian Huang - the two people died suddenly in an accident, and the murderous aura has completely fallen off, but it is still buried under the soil, and it will take some time to take it out.
While Toru Amuro and Conan were concentrating on finding the person who was swept away by the soil, Jiang Xia was concentrating on digging out the Shikigami and murderous aura.
Next to him, a Matsuda Jinpei floated over quietly - in the form of a ghost fetus.
It glanced at Jiang Xia's pocket containing the ghost mint, floated into Jiang Xia's field of vision, then fell down as if very tired.
Even after being strengthened, it is still a laborious task for the ghost fetus to personally drive the puppet.
...but it doesn't have to be that strenuous.
Jiang Xia ruthlessly picked up Matsuda Jinpei and shook it, making the paralyzed ghost round again, and threw it onto his shoulder.
Smoking ghost mint in front of active police officers always feels like it's easy to get a note in the notebook. It's better to wait until I dig up the rest of the murderous aura and divide the spoils after I get home.
Jinpei Matsuda failed to successfully eat the ghost mint and sighed.
It got up from its collapsed state and talked about business: the two bags had been hidden through mountains and rivers, totaling 100 million. During the transfer of the bags, they were wrapped with clay to prevent the smell from leaking out.
Jiang Xia nodded secretly. The new ghost was quite reliable.
Then, facing Matsuda Jinpei's expectant gaze, he told him that it was not convenient now, and that he would open a ghost mint to celebrate when there was no one around at night.
The mermaid had already floated over and was eavesdropping at Jiang Xia's feet.
Hearing this, she shook her tail with satisfaction, floated away again, and continued to search hard for the murderous aura and shikigami scattered everywhere.
…
Not long after, the fire department, police and the village's spontaneous search and rescue team arrived and joined the search.
After hearing the news, the son of the leader of the Danyuan Village gang also came to the scene and angrily looked for cash.
After working from early morning to afternoon, the bodies of Yinhu and Hebianhuang were found one after another, but the backpack containing 50 million in stolen money on Hebianhuang was never found.
in addition……
"We didn't find the person you mentioned." The search and rescue team found Amuro Toru. "We asked the mountain entry management office and checked the surveillance at the mountain entrance, but there was no trace of him. Um... please recall carefully, did you see it wrong?"
“…”
A few hours ago, if any stranger had stood on the rock, Amuro Toru would not have thought it was an illusion, because he was in a good mental state and the sky was bright at the time, so he should not have had any illusions.
But what he saw was a man who had died in the line of duty three years ago.
Now, the bodies of Yinhu and Hebian Akira were not far from each other. Logically, Matsuda Jinpei, who was washed away with them, would not be too far away. But in fact, after searching for such a long time, not to mention the person, not even a piece of Matsuda Jinpei's clothing could be found. There was no trace of this person's existence at all.
The amount of collapsed earth and rocks was not too large this time, and the police also brought a few clever police dogs. Except for occasionally jumping into an empty space where no one was, as if trying to catch something, they behaved very reliably at other times.
After arriving here, the police dogs quickly found Silver Fox and Hebianhuang, and even found a cave nearly a hundred meters away from here, and released the "real administrator" hidden inside by Silver Fox.
But Jinpei Matsuda was still not found.
The search and rescue teams have not left yet, and a big part of the reason is because Amuro Toru said that there were actually three people who were washed away by the mud and rocks, but the "third person" has never been found.
So now…
When Toru Amuro heard the search and rescue team’s conclusion that “no one was found”, he was silent for a moment.
...Could it be that I was really hallucinating, and there was actually no one standing on that rock at that time?
But why did he suddenly see hallucinations about Matsuda? If he saw such hallucinations while riding a Ferris wheel or defusing a bomb, it would be understandable. But in this desolate mountain, there was nothing that could be connected to Matsuda Jinpei... It couldn't be that Matsuda's death anniversary was approaching, and his old classmates were reminding him to burn incense on time.
Also, the missing bag is suspicious...
While he was deep in thought, the police officer next to him received a call on his cell phone.
Immediately afterwards, a small group of people nearby heard his voice: "The money in the rest stop is gone too?!"
Amuro Toru raised his eyes and looked over.
Two bags containing stolen money suddenly disappeared, and "Jinpei Matsuda" suddenly appeared. There was also an overlapping keyword "landslide" between the two... Is there any connection between them?
The specific connection is not difficult to assume, for example, "Jinpei Matsuda" took the money away...
But putting aside the question of why Matsuda wanted to get the stolen money, escaping from the landslide was a very difficult and almost impossible task in itself - the tattered remains of Silver Fox and the robber had proved this.
And Amuro Toru remembered that in the morning, when he saw Matsuda standing on the rock on the mountain, he didn't have a bag on his back...
In short, no matter from which perspective, the whole thing is bizarre and unbelievable. Maybe it is really like what the search and rescue team said, he saw it wrong, and Matsuda actually does not exist.
Compared to Matsuda Jinpei who disappeared in the landslide, the two missing bags are easier to explain - the son of the gang leader who was robbed led a group of gang cadres into the mountains in the early morning to search for the robbers. With so many people, it is possible that someone slipped away and took the stolen money.
The search went on until dark, but neither the missing "Jinpei Matsuda" nor the two missing bags were found.
The people who came to search left one after another.
The police stayed behind, they were also carrying a case of "burglary and murder", so they temporarily blocked Danyuan Mountain, trying to recover the stolen money. After all, 100 million yen is not a small amount, they have to do their best.
(End of this chapter)
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