Chapter 655: A Ghost Exorcist
The buns were quickly eaten, and the group of people wiped their hands and prepared to work.
However, along the way, I didn’t see where the “front-falling ground-hidden treasure” was.
Although some detectives were sent to search for the missing treasure Nobita, they still had enough manpower to dig for the treasure - not to mention a few young and strong detectives, there were several curious employees in the hotel who were willing to help.
Relying on the large number of people, Shancuncao simply divided the team into two groups on the way here - according to Jiang Xia's two conjectures, after finding the "front-fallen Ksitigarbha", one group would dig eight meters away from the Ksitigarbha, and the other group would dig eight steps away from the Ksitigarbha with their toes touching their heels, so that they could verify the situation efficiently.
However, I continued walking along the path until I saw two cars crashing into each other in the distance...
Amuro Toru fell silent.
...Partly because his new car, which was in great condition, not only had a flat tire, but was also hit unexpectedly. The car behind him looked familiar... No wonder Maori Kogoro was so polite to him today.
The other half is because the place where he parked his car symbolizes some kind of symbol.
Toru Amuro called out to the police officers who were still moving forward with their heads down:
"Wait, we've passed it. Let's go back and look for it again. Yesterday, after our car had a flat tire, I encountered the fallen Jizo on the way from the car to the hotel. So it should be on the road we came from."
"Really?" Officer Shancun's suspicion flared up again. He looked around and felt that everything on this mountain road looked the same. "What if you mistook the stone on the roadside for a fallen buddhist tomb yesterday, and the real 'fallen buddhist tomb' is actually farther away? Just now, so many of us were staring at the bushes to look for it, but we couldn't find it. And yesterday evening, when the light was so dim, you and Jiang Xia actually saw it just by passing by. This doesn't make sense!"
"…Because when we passed by yesterday, it was lying on the road with its head out of the weeds." Amuro Toru said with a smile, "Then I was worried that it might trip pedestrians or puncture the tires of passing vehicles, so I picked it up."
Jiang Xia nodded, indicating that it was indeed the case.
"..." Shancuncao's whole body suddenly stopped.
"Lifted it up?!" After a moment, he howled, "--It is used to suppress the evil spirits in the Toushen Forest! No wonder someone died last night... You, you indirect murderer! Did you deliberately destroy the posture of Jizo-sama and want to use this to kill people? I have always felt that you are not a good person!"
Conan: “…”
He was observing Toru Amuro as usual.
At this moment, he could not help but glance at Yamamura So, feeling very complicated: his thoughts, to some extent, were in sync with the thoughts of this stupid policeman. His reasoning was not clean...
"I usually live in Tokyo, so I don't know the legend about the 'Falling Jizo' here." Amuro Toru was unusually calm, looking like a Jiang Xia who had received a commission. "Anyway, since I missed it, I can only go back and look for it."
Shancuncao's face turned pale. With the presence of Lord Jizo, he had some confidence when he came to this suicide holy place.
But now, Jizo has been helped up by the evil-minded boss of the detective agency...
Shancuncao didn't want to stay here for even a second.
Unfortunately, however, at this point, everyone else had already ignored him and, as the detective had said, turned back the way they had come to look for the "fallen Jizo" who had been helped up and had become less conspicuous.
“…”
A gust of cold mountain wind swirled by.
Shancuncao looked at the receding figures of the group, shuddered sadly, and quickly followed them.
…
On the way back, the enthusiastic police sent the "front-fallen ground-hidden" who was lying on the roadside back to the weeds last night. A group of people could only look at the weeds carefully, and even had to push away the lush grass.
Jiang Xia also picked up a stick and followed the group to poke here and there. But he knew very well that he would not be able to find the fallen tomb this way - yesterday, after he dug out the pottery jar containing 100 million yen, he moved the fallen tomb into the empty pit and filled it with soil. In this way, without a marker, the local police would spend more time looking for the stolen goods, and no one would care about them, the travelers passing by, so they could leave first and continue to the next place.
…
Ten minutes later, the shadow of Aoiya Hotel appeared in front of us. This meant that the road was about to end.
However, there was still no Ksitigarbha lying, standing or crawling in the grass.
A group of people stopped in confusion.
Jiang Xia looked back at the mountain road they had come from and speculated, "Could it be that the murderer also read the relevant information about the 'fallen Ksitigarbha' from the newspaper and thought that the Ksitigarbha was a key item, so he took it away?"
"If that's the case, the murderer must have died from the curse." Shancuncao crossed his arms, nodded seriously, and pondered, "How about this, we should withdraw the team first, go back and borrow some masters who are good at exorcism, and then come back. The people we brought this time are not professionally qualified..."
Just as I said this, a few people came running from the direction of the hotel.
They are some criminal police. Just now, Shancun Cao asked them to find Shenbao Daxiong - from the surveillance sent by "Passing Eyes", Shenbao Daxiong was the murderer who killed "Fake Jiang Xia". He disappeared since then and no one has seen him.
At this moment, seeing the detectives who were responsible for finding the person suddenly appear, Shancuncao became nervous: "Have you found his body?"
"...Ah?" The detectives didn't understand why he suddenly said this and were a little confused. "No, Shenbao is not in the hotel. He is not in any room. We asked other people and they all said they don't know."...What about the body?
“Haha, I see.”
Shancuncao had a look of "as expected" on his face, and his expression was slightly dazed: "We are in the wrong place. In fact, we shouldn't look in the hotel, we should go deeper into the woods - in that suicide sanctuary, there must be his figure hanging on the tree. Oh, who made some ignorant people move the fallen Jizo."
“…”
The main force in digging the pit last night, Jinpei Matsuda and Miss Spider couldn't help but float over and knock on his head.
Shancuncao shuddered: "Someone! Someone is touching my hair! The head god must be angry! Go back quickly and ask a ghost exorcist first... No, Lord Head God, I didn't mean to say that you are a ghost!"
Toru Amuro: "..."
He glanced at the criminal police standing nearby with embarrassed faces: "There should be a signal around here by now, send some people over to look for it. Those who are here should not be idle, divide into groups and go around nearby places where people may be hiding. The storm was so severe yesterday, the murderer may not choose to escape in the middle of the night. If he escaped after the rain, he would inevitably leave traces nearby."
(End of this chapter)
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