Chapter 21 Please Let Go, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket ()
Borrowing the ghost fetus's vision is equivalent to having night vision.
Jiang Xia walked into the dark exhibition hall, passed a group of strangely shaped sculptures, and headed towards the deepest part.
The smell of blood became stronger and stronger.
At the end of the room, I looked to the left and saw a huge oil painting hanging on the wall. In the painting, a demon was nailed to death on a cliff by a knight's sword.
Looking to the right, there was a fat middle-aged man hanging on the wall, nailed to the wall in the "same devil posture". The wall was splattered with blood, which was flowing down the wall. A pool of blood had gathered at the base of the wall.
Jiang Xia's eyes swept over the middle-aged man's body and quickly fixed on his calf.
There was a fresh soul being picked up there. It was the size of a palm, like a shikigami cut out of a piece of white paper.
Jiang Xia had just seen a similar one in the morning, but he didn't expect to see another one when he went out for a walk in the afternoon.
…
According to the classification of psychics, when a person dies, some souls will dissipate directly, while some with special talents can become ghost fetuses.
There is another type that is in between the two.
——It’s this kind of paper shikigami-like thing.
Ghost fetuses usually have a stronger sense of self and remember some things from their previous lives. They are the most difficult to kidnap, but also the most useful.
And this kind of leg-grabbing Shikigami in front of him... doesn't have much consciousness, but it has a very strong obsession.
They mostly act on instinct.
After being generated, some will cling to their own corpses nearby, while others will float towards the murderer and cling to the murderer's legs.
Although the ghost baby's vision was borrowed, its other senses were still there.
It felt the breath of the Leg-Plucking God and couldn't help but move closer, stretching out its little hand, trying to pull it down and bring it to Jiang Xia.
…
Jiang Xia stood a few steps away and watched for a while.
The leg-picking god was trembling because of the approach of the ghost baby, but he still held it tightly.
The ghost baby exerted force and accidentally tore it a little.
It froze for a moment, loosened its grip, and secretly ironed the wrinkles.
Jiang Xia looked at this scene and sighed in his heart.
...Sure enough, it can't be torn off violently.
We still have to go through the process, send the murderer away first, let the soul eliminate its obsession and fall off the murderer's legs on its own.
…
As a "prophet", Jiang Xia certainly remembered this case in the exhibition hall.
——The reason was that the owner of the exhibition hall went bankrupt, so he sold the exhibition hall to Mr. Manaka.
And Boss Manaka is the unlucky uncle nailed to the wall in front of Jiang Xia.
——He died after buying the exhibition hall. He felt that art was all scrap metal and wanted to convert the exhibition hall into a restaurant.
Director Ochiai, who was in charge of the exhibition hall and had worked here for decades, was extremely angry when he learned about the situation and wanted to kill the new boss.
So this afternoon, Director Ochiai was waiting in this hell exhibition hall, wearing knight armor that did not reveal his face.
He asked Boss Manaka to come over and nailed him to the wall.
…
While Jiang Xia was recalling what happened before, he was looking at the bloodstains all over the room and felt that this case would not be difficult to solve.
Of course, the first step is to call the police.
Jiang Xia took out his cell phone and was about to dial 110.
But suddenly I heard some noise coming from the corridor.
——Several people walked towards the exhibition hall while chatting.
Jiang Xia listened carefully and found the voices quite familiar - they sounded like his two classmates, Mao Li Ran and Suzuki Sonoko.
"..." Jiang Xia paused for a moment while pressing the phone, and silently glanced at the horrible corpse next to him and the sword on the corpse.
Then I realized that if I didn't want to hear the screaming duo, it would be best not to let them in...
…
The other side.
In the corridor outside the Hell exhibition hall.
Mao Lilan stopped hesitantly.
She looked at the passage leading to the "Hell Hall" and tilted her head in confusion: "I remember there was a 'No Trespassing' sign here just now?"
Suzuki Sonoko came up to her and pretended to think for a moment: "Maybe an exhibit was under repair just now, and it's fixed now?"
The two looked at the dark exhibition hall curiously, and when they looked at each other, they remembered the purpose of coming here today.
Recently, there has been a scary rumor in the neighborhood.
——Late at night, the knight armor in this "Rice Flower Medieval Exhibition Hall" will come alive and move around the exhibition hall.
So the two of them came here with the idea of "visiting a haunted house".
I also brought a Conan with me to give me courage.
…
However, after walking around for an entire afternoon, I still didn’t encounter the “Ghost Rider”.
Now, they have visited the entire museum, except for the "Hell Exhibition Hall", which they have not yet entered.
At this time, seeing that the "No Trespassing" sign was gone, Suzuki Sonoko was immediately moved:
"Now that we're here, let's go in and take a look. Maybe the mysterious armor is hidden in this exhibition hall!"
At their feet, Conan, with a pair of dead fish eyes, said tiredly: "Forget it, we have been walking around for most of the day, aren't you tired?"
His feeble protests were completely ignored.
The two girls looked at each other, nodded, plucked up their courage, and dragged him into the exhibition hall.
Conan sighed and struggled to stand up straight.
However, at this moment, the force pulling him suddenly disappeared.
——Ran Maoli and Suzuki Sonoko stopped walking. Not only did they not move forward, but they also took a step back, huddling together and trembling.
Conan was startled, raised his head alertly and looked forward.
In the dim exhibition hall, I saw a gloomy figure walking out of the darkness step by step.
Conan was shocked: "!"
...But soon, he discovered that the so-called "gloomy" was just an illusion caused by the dim light.
In fact, the person who came out of the exhibition hall was walking normally, with normal posture and pace, and even looked a little familiar.
Conan: “…” Hmm?
……look familiar?
…
Jiang Xia walked out of the exhibition hall from the darkness, leaned against the door, and looked at Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko who were shivering and hugging each other, a little confused: "...Are you cold?"
"No, no." When Mao Lilan saw Jiang Xia, she breathed a sigh of relief with disappointment and relief.
Disappointed that I didn't encounter any ghosts.
Fortunately...well, I didn't encounter any ghosts.
Next to her, Suzuki Sonoko's mental journey was completely different from hers.
"Jiang Xia?" She skipped the disappointment stage and immediately doubled her joy, enthusiastically greeting the handsome boy in front of her, "You also came to see the moving armor?"
As she spoke, she pointed to the darkness behind Jiang Xia and said, "Is it in this exhibition hall?"
Although, after various attempts before, Suzuki Sonoko basically determined that the difficulty of Jiang Xia's strategy was SSS level and extremely difficult to obtain.
But this doesn't stop her from liking to look at faces.
For a veteran beauty lover, as long as Jiang Xia appears in front of her, Suzuki Sonoko's mood will soar as if she had taken hormones.
And if you look at it a few more times, you can also maintain your high standards when flirting with men, which is very practical...
As Suzuki Sonoko spoke, she wanted to pull Mouri Ran into the exhibition hall to have a look.
Jiang Xia is here, and he will definitely be much better at boosting courage than Conan.
…
However, the two girls took only one step when they were blocked by Conan in front of their legs.
The two of them looked down in confusion and found that the child's eyes were a little complicated.
Conan looked at Jiang Xia with a serious expression: "...Why is there blood on your shoes?"
The others were startled and all looked down at Jiang Xia's shoes.
Including Jiang Xia himself.
Jiang Xia was wearing a pair of black sneakers today. The uppers were very clean, with only a little fresh dust on the edges.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran breathed a sigh of relief, suspecting that this was a prank by the naughty kid.
However, at this moment, Jiang Xia on the opposite side looked down at the ground, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and took a half step back.
As soon as he took his foot away, a very shallow bloody shoe print was left where he had just stepped.
"Ah." Jiang Xia was a little embarrassed. He simply took another step back and returned to the carpeted exhibition hall. He said apologetically, "I didn't pay attention and stepped on it."
As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief and squatted down, as if he wanted to wipe off the bloodstains on the ground.
Conan: “…”
He rushed over to stop Jiang Xia, stopping this move that looked like "destroying evidence" no matter how you looked at it:
"Where did this blood come from?!"
Conan has strong observation skills and is short in stature.
As soon as Jiang Xia approached, he noticed that the carpet Jiang Xia had stepped on was subtly different in color.
After confirming that it was blood, Conan initially suspected that his neighbor was hiding and cutting himself again because he had seen similar things before.
But after a closer look, he found that Jiang Xia looked very good, his movements were normal, and there were no strange wet marks on the black wristband on his left hand.
…
However, judging from the fact that Jiang Xia walked all the way on the carpet, there was still a little blood on his shoes...
The amount of blood he stepped on just now was definitely huge...it was very likely that someone had died here!
…
Unlike Conan, Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko's observation skills are not that strong, so it is a blessing in disguise that they are not nervous at all.
They just thought that Jiang Xia accidentally stepped on the red paint left by the staff - after all, this exhibition hall previously had a "No Entry" sign hanging on it, and it was suspected to be under repair.
At this time, Jiang Xia was stopped by the naughty kid while wiping the "paint".
They also took out their handkerchiefs, walked over, and tried to help Jiang Xia wipe off the footprints.
When I got closer, I realized that the color of the footprints really looked like blood.
The two nodded secretly in their hearts: Well, it is worthy of being the Hell Exhibition Hall, the paint used is so unique...
Suzuki Sonoko asked curiously as she wiped it: "What did you step on? Paint? Pigment?"
Jiang Xia apologized, "A pool of blood."
"Oh, blood..." Suzuki Sonoko paused and suddenly raised her voice, "Pond of blood?!!"
She looked up in shock.
Jiang Xia squatted on the edge of the scarlet carpet, watching her mopping the floor while pointing into the exhibition hall: "Someone is dead, nailed to the wall, you..."
Jiang Xia was just about to say, "You'd better not go in, it's a bit scary."
Before he could finish his words, Conan rushed past him and into the exhibition hall.
At the same time, Conan pressed his wrist and turned on the flashlight attached to the universal watch.
——The first batch of equipment that the doctor made for him has arrived.
(End of this chapter)
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