Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1481 1153. Takenaka Shigeharu

"Now, we at least know the source of the [residue] that makes people hang themselves. Very good, very good."

It was getting late, and Wuming was walking from the wild meadow to the road leading to the city gate, muttering in a low voice as if to comfort himself.

"Very good. Very good size!!!"

But then, she couldn't hold herself any longer.

After a whole day of investigation, in addition to uncovering more and more abnormal massacres of families, it only made Lan En and Wu Ming even more frightened!

The [Remnant], which was originally not difficult to deal with and could dissipate even if left alone, has been entrenched near Iwamura Castle for at least ten years!

And one layer after another actually stacked up!

[Filth] harms people, and the victims form new [Filth], which are superimposed and spread out!

Wu Ming didn’t go to school, so he didn’t understand what this mode of communication meant.

But in Lan En's eyes, this is simply a huge infection rate! And a plague with an uncertain fatality rate!

And did this [residue] plague really originate from the purge of local wealthy families that started in Iwamura City more than ten years ago?

Although it was only a day's visit, Wu Ming and Lan En both felt that they were looking for a puzzle.

Two murder cases that seem unrelated and far apart in time may be connected in a longer timeline and in something less eye-catching.

Could it be that the "filth" in Iwamura Castle was also contaminated from other places?

There is simply no end to doubts like this.

Lan En also frowned seriously.

I thought it was just a "destruction" that affected a wide range, but after a round of investigation, I found that it not only affected a wide range, but also lasted for an unusually long time!

"Ahhh!" Wu Ming scratched her head frantically, her originally pretty bob hair being scratched into a mess by herself, "What should I do?"

As a demon hunter possessed by a guardian spirit, Wu Ming prefers to directly find monsters and evil spirits, and then use real swords and guns to complete the 'exorcism'.

For this kind of investigation and analysis, just following Lan En for a day made her feel like her brain was running out!

I'm not stupid, but I really didn't go to school!

"Although it is troublesome, there is a way to investigate if we really want to."

Lan En sighed and said, and at the same time, he was getting used to the heat coming from the back of his neck at the same time.

Wu Ming turned around with a hint of surprise and looked at the demon hunter: "Really?"

The two of them walked onto the road leading to the city gate and were about to enter the city.

At this time, there were many farmers on the road who had finished their farm work for the day, carrying tools and carefully leading their buffalo pack horses, walking on the road like the two of them.

The farmers joked with each other, and sometimes made some vulgar jokes. The peasant women pretended to be shy, but in private they actually talked more than the men.

The emotional and interpersonal relationships among residents of this era are often messier and more complicated than a modern man like Lan En would imagine.

But this also made Iwamura Castle, a military fortress, full of popularity.

However, the two people who were able to move freely in the noisy castle town yesterday were looking at the sunset and the castle that had been shrouded in the shadow of the mountains, but they could only feel the black shadow of the mountains. .

It was as if the entire city was being swallowed up mercilessly.

"If there are relatively complete household registration records in Iwamura City, then I should be able to check all the household registrations for more than ten years in a few hours."

Lan En calmly said the words that made Wu Ming slowly open his mouth.

"Those death records in the household registration information are so far apart that no one thought they would be intrinsically connected. I can compare them one by one and find the commonalities."

Although he had never gone to school and did not know what the household registration records looked like, Wu Ming subconsciously felt that this should be a terrifying amount of work just by listening to it.

But for Lan En, even if he gave a few hours of time planning, most of the time would be just flipping through books and reading.

Enter these data into Mentos, and then the biochemical brain will naturally logically filter and organize the data.

Those secret connections that are buried in huge data and cannot be perceived by ordinary people will be unable to escape under the crushing force of violent computing power!

Eventually the clues will be locked into smaller and smaller areas until a root cause is found!

"Can you do this kind of thing?" Wu Ming was still shocked by this, "Are you serious?"

But soon, the practical side of the demon hunter took over, overpowering the shock.

Wu Ming smoothed the fur shawl on his body and said thoughtfully: "If this is really the case, then the first problem we have to face now is how to get the household registration record of Iwamura City."

"Although I don't know much about this, I think this thing should be very important to a city, right? Although you can be entertained in the castle tower, the city lord will really give you such an important thing. Do you see it?”

"You're right." Regarding Wu Ming's worries, Lan En nodded indifferently, "Household registration records involve taxation, military conscription, corvee, etc. This thing is not 'very important' to a city, but One of the 'most important' things."

"But since I said this, it means it's not impossible."

In the first half of the sentence, Lan En still lowered his head and spoke to Wu Ming who was walking beside him. In the second half of the sentence, he turned his head and spoke to a samurai who was riding a horse leisurely and seemed to be just passing by them.

"Sir, what do you think?"

The samurai rode a horse and mixed in the crowd entering the city under the setting sun.

He didn't look too anxious, so he didn't domineeringly knock away the civilians who dared to block his way.

The samurai wore a bamboo hat with a curtain and a raincoat to keep out the dust on the road.

Just like the Japanese in this world are generally taller, Japanese horses in this world with extraordinary power are also more majestic than before.

And this person, except for the horse under his crotch and the sword on his waist, really has no recognition.

So after Lan En turned his head, Wu Ming was surprised to find that the samurai on horseback had been walking beside them for four or five minutes.

It was just that the man rode his horse at an irregular speed, moving in front of and behind them, as if he was really pushed by the crowds entering the city in the evening and couldn't move forward. Wuming didn't feel anything unusual at all.

After Lan En pointed it out, the man on the horse was a little stiff at first, but he recovered quickly.

Wuming frowned at the man. First of all, being eavesdropped on would make anyone feel bad.

Secondly, the [filth] they were investigating this time was really not ordinary stuff. It was hard to say whether this man would be involved in it just by hearing about it, and then expand the [filth].

But the warrior whose face could not be seen clearly because of the curtain hanging under the hat seemed much calmer.

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He lowered his head and took off the curtain hat, revealing a young and handsome face.

Similar to Ando Mamoru, he tied a ponytail hairstyle with a little bangs in front of his forehead.

"I heard that there are some strange people in Iwamura recently, and I miss my father-in-law, so I came to visit him."

The young man made excuses that neither he nor Lan En believed, but he bowed slightly on the horse with a normal expression.

At the same time, he pulled the reins and jumped off the horse.

"Today, I saw that he is indeed as famous as he is."

The warrior said to the two of them calmly and meaningfully.

And at this moment, a small wave that ordinary people could not hear appeared around him and Wuming at the same time.

"Wow~"*2

In a dreamy light, Wuming's guardian spirit [Yabohime] appeared naturally as if stimulated or sensed.

And behind the warrior, a long-bearded goat wearing a light green robe, with fairy-like ribbons undulating behind him, a pair of round-framed small glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose, and a look like an old scholar, also appeared behind the warrior.

"The family crest of [Nine Bamboo Leaves]," Lan En saw the emblem on the haori under the straw raincoat from his shaking when the samurai in front of him got off the horse, and asked, "Is it Takenaka?"

"Admirable vision." The samurai seemed to be a gentle person, with a peaceful smile on his lips all the time, "I am Takenaka Shigeharu."

After a well-mannered self-introduction, he expressed his apology.

"I'm sorry, both of you. I didn't eavesdrop on you just now. I heard something that made people concerned halfway, and then I couldn't help but let my thoughts follow."

"Concerned?" Wu Ming said in a bad tone, "What do you care about?"

Lan En waved his hand at the demon hunter: "You can't say that. Takenaka Shigeharu. If I remember correctly, he should be the son-in-law of the city lord?"

"Huh?!"

Wu Ming once again expressed Japanese doubts, while looking up and down at the young samurai and the old scholar goat behind him.

"From the perspective of this guardian spirit, it really doesn't look like a warrior who fights and kills."

"Haha, you can't judge a person by his appearance." Takenaka Shigeharu smiled gently, "A warrior is not only about fighting and killing, but also about etiquette, knowledge, and strategy. Confucius said that a gentleman has six arts, and I have always required myself to this standard."

The guardian spirits of the two people appeared in response when they met, but then disappeared again.

"Isn't this just right!" Wuming clapped his hands, "Takenaka, can you tell your father-in-law? You heard it just now, the situation is very serious!"

Wuming didn't understand the six arts of a gentleman, or the standards of a warrior. She just wanted to find out the source and cut it off before this [filth] that scared her began to develop into something more terrifying!

The obsession of the monster hunter for this thankless job mostly comes from the resentment of monsters and evil spirits.

But in addition to this resentment, it naturally brings pity and care for ordinary people.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this psychological similarity hidden beneath the surface that Wu Ming and Lan En naturally became more familiar with each other after they met yesterday.