Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"But gradually, even the adults in Egamibara began to call her that," Miura Joji said with a helpless expression, "more and more people call her that, and many children will think that if they accidentally meet her on the road Some children were so scared that they cried in the street, and one day another incident happened, a boy with handicapped legs suddenly disappeared, and then the children thought it was Sofia who did it, and this incident caused a lot of trouble.”

"What?!"

Mumu Shisan and the others widened their eyes.

Conan couldn't help looking at Miura Joji seriously, wanting to confirm an answer.

Of course he hoped that this was not done by Miss Sophia, and that everyone found out the truth and cleared up the suspicion for Miss Sophia, but Mr. Miura said before that this was a disgrace to Egamihara. Combined with the situation back then, he thought of a not so good good result……

"Because of this incident, even the calm adults became hysterical out of sympathy for the missing child, and regarded her as a prisoner, denouncing and condemning her one after another," Miura Takeuji sighed, "No matter what Ms. Elizabeth does She appealed for grievances, but Sophia never spoke up to defend herself, and except for Ms. Elizabeth, no one else was willing to speak out for her, let alone testify for her. Soon, their family was isolated by the people of Jiang Shenyuan. Several boys, in order to investigate the evidence of Sophia's murder, spontaneously formed the Boys' Detective Team."

"Boy detective team?"

The three children were a little surprised, even Huiyuan Ai was interested, and had the illusion of being named.

"Yeah," Miura Joji nodded and continued, "Shortly after that, I remember that it was a dark and windy night, and a fire suddenly ignited in Fisoya's house, and it burned very quickly. The strong wind set the house on fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger during the night. She and her child were trapped in the house and burned to death. I think it must be because some people say that the witch The ability will disappear, so the murderer will choose such a night."

Mu Mu Thirteen sighed softly, and the others also quieted down...

In the silence, Conan couldn't help confirming, "So, did someone set the fire on purpose?"

"At that time, the war was not over yet, and the police were seriously understaffed. The cause of the fire was not even investigated clearly, and it was not known whether it was intentional arson, an accident, or suicide. After that, the police stopped investigating, and this incident has not been obtained yet. An accurate answer, Ms. Elizabeth cried for a whole year before she cheered up," Joji Miura paused, "and there is more to this matter, probably three years after the end of the war, one day in Jiang Shenyuan River When the excavation was carried out at the end, the body of a boy who had turned into white bones was found. Since this body did not have the part below the knee of the right leg, everyone soon found out that this was the boy who disappeared that year. The boy liked fishing very much. Judging from the fishing line wrapped around his bones, it was deduced that he went fishing alone, slipped and slipped from the river embankment accidentally, and drowned in the river. The autopsy results also proved this Presumably, there are no traces of homicide."

"What?" Mu Mu Shisan's eyes widened again.

Miura Jozo lowered his head and said with difficulty, "It seems that the child's parents remind him every day that the river bank there is made of clay and is easy to slip, so he must never go fishing alone, but he often hides it He followed his parents and sneaked there to fish alone, as his friend later testified to the police.”

Koshimizu Nanatsuki frowned and asked, "That means Miss Sophia has nothing to do with the boy's disappearance, right?"

"It's too inappropriate!"

Genta and Mitsuhiko also frowned regretfully.

"Why didn't Jiang Shenyuan's youth detective team discover this at the time?"

"It wasn't just the children's fault. The adults in Egamihara knew they were wrong at the time, but at that moment, a rumor spread among the children," Miura Joji said, his face turning pale. , her body trembled slightly, "Listen, I heard that when Sophia's house was on fire, she once shouted in the fire, 'I will definitely resurrect and take revenge on those who burned me'..."

Mu Mu Thirteen said with a sullen face, "This is really ridiculous!"

"Because of this legend, Egamihara's children are more afraid of her than when she was alive," Joji Miura said with fear and guilt, "because every child thinks that they have done too much to her, They all thought that she would come back from the grave and take revenge on everyone, so I was really scared from the bottom of my heart. Later, some children actually said that he saw Miss Sophia using spells in the forest, picking poisonous herbs, and The child said that she saw her casting a spell on the long-dead wolf bone on a full moon night, bringing the wolf back to life, and riding on the wolf's back, running around the streets, trying to find out who set fire to her house... ..."

Chi Feichi threw the burnt cigarette butt under his feet and stomped it out, turned around and leaned against the window, looking at a group of people thoughtfully.

At that time, his scope of activities was only in the herbal medicine hall, and it was obviously impossible for people to talk about such things near Elizabeth's herbal medicine hall, so both he and Hongzi only heard the truth about the missing boy, and the children of Jiang Shenyuan were afraid , I don't know there are such rumors.

resurrection……

We're going to reverse the flow of time and bring the dead back to life...

The organization has existed for more than half a century. If you hear such rumors, it is very likely that you will send someone to Jiangshenyuan to find out the situation.

That person asked abnormally this time, "Do you want Gin to accompany you?" Could it be because the organization left some traces at that time, and that traces could not be known to him, or he shouldn't know it for the time being?

Let Gin follow him in order not to let the situation of something get out of control.

The truth about the missing boy was found out in the winter of 1948, after which Egamihara's children exaggerated and spread rumors to each other, it must have been the year after that.

According to the communication at that time, the way the rumor spread out of Jiang Shenyuan was probably that the merchants heard the legend from here, and then mentioned it in other places by telling stories. The speed of transmission was very slow, so the time when the rumor spread to Jiang Shenyuan , no matter how soon it will take a year or two, legends are everywhere, if you want people to act, you should hear it more than once, that is about two years later.

If that person, for a certain purpose, sent someone to Jiang Shenyuan to investigate immediately after hearing the rumors, it would probably be in 1952 to 1953.

His grandmother came to Jiangshenyuan with her husband in 1952. He must have heard that there is a magical herbal doctor here for the genetic diseases of the children. The year before that, he also started to invest in genes and medicine because of genetic diseases. After the research on medicine back then, it seemed that they only asked Elizabeth for those ancestral herbal formulas.

From the age of 'Karasuma Renye', Karasuma Renye seems to have passed away around that time.

That one knows the Field's family very well. Could it be that the two sides met in Jiangshenyuan? And what has been involved since then?

It's possible, but hard to check.

The organization is secretive, and that one is planning to let Gin stare at him; the three members of the Field family who came here back then, his grandfather and grandmother passed away more than ten years ago, and his third uncle Mitchell was earlier, probably She committed suicide more than forty years ago; Elizabeth, who had contact with the Field family, also died a few days ago, and if there were any secrets between the organization and the Field family, it is unlikely that outsiders would know.

Currently there are two directions:

1. Gin should be an insider, more or less aware of some of the events of the year, but Gin is very strict, so don't expect trickery or torture to be useful.

2. In the library of Jiang Shenyuan, there are about half a century of newspapers, ancient books, and celebrity notes. There are also many libraries here in the hotel. He can dig out clues for books and newspapers around 1952, as long as there is a little clue , He can judge many things from this, but it is still unknown whether he can get clues.

In short, it is more hopeful to go to the library than to start from Qinjiu. He is in Jiangshenyuan, so it is better to investigate.

Although people in the organization who secretly investigate some secrets, and those who inadvertently learn some secrets that they shouldn't know, will end badly, but he said he came to Jiang Shenyuan, and that person didn't say that random investigations are not allowed, right?

...

While Chi Feichi was sorting out his thoughts, Joji Miura finished Sophia's story.

"Every year at this time, small cream-colored flowers bloom on the elderberry in Sophia's yard, the kind of flower with illusory and short-lived beauty, just like her smiling face when she was young, and she also likes this kind of flower very much. When she passed, the air was often accompanied by the smell of elderflowers, but the children said it was the smell of the witch, and often held their breath before her..."

"Mr. Miura," Mori Kogoro asked, "Is it because you have such memories in your childhood that you are so afraid of this witch incident?"

Joji Miura nodded quickly, "Yes, I am still worried that Sophia will retaliate against everyone after her resurrection. Although the resurrection is ridiculous, everyone said everything back then, and some of them were justified, as if it was true , I think maybe someone really discovered something.”

"But I always feel that this is not the work of the witch, it is obviously a murder committed by someone," Mori Kogoro reassured, "Don't worry, I, Mori Kogoro, will definitely..."

After listening to Joji Miura's words, Conan felt chills all over his body, and he didn't pay much attention to Kogoro Mori's guarantee.

He didn't believe in the resurrection of some witch, but felt that people's hearts and rumors were terrible.

A person who did not kill or harm anyone, because everyone thought she did, and had been wronged for three years. After she died, she finally cleared her suspicions and became the person everyone was sorry for. But because of all kinds of absurd According to the rumors, she is obviously a wronged woman, but even more sadly, she has become the psychological shadow of other people's childhood, a witch who is still afraid of her when she is sixty or seventy years old...

Thinking about it, Conan was stunned, and slowly raised his head in horror, looking at Chi Feichi standing beside him, what Chi Feichi said in the herbal medicine hall flashed in his mind.

'A lot of words make gold, accumulate ruins and destroy bones... Rumors are terrifying, they can turn right and wrong, and put people to death! '

Is Chi Feichi really talking about Ms. Elizabeth's reputation?

Ms. Elizabeth is dead, and if she has to say it, those words are more like talking about Sophia.

Why did Chi Feichi say such things? Combined with Chi Feichi's sudden attack tonight, does that mean that the real murderer was in the herbal medicine hall?

If this is the case, it means that Chi Feichi was already testing the murderer when he was in the herbal medicine hall.