The Magician of Conan's World

When Bai Ye and Yumi arrived outside, they found that the residents were gathered by the river, because the conditions were relatively backward and there were no street lights, so everyone was flashlights.

Approaching the crowd, Bai Ye learned that it turned out that the mayor of Hachibei was dead, and his body was found by residents in the river. This incident was undoubtedly a bombshell for Iwami Town, and everyone’s face was full of horror.

“Let one go!” Bai Ye squeezed through the crowd, and Xiao Mo also squeezed in with the advantage of his size.

During the day, Mayor Hachibei was still talking and laughing, but now he was fished up from the river and lay on the bank, completely lifeless. Bai Ye reached out to check the stiffness of the corpse, and said to himself: “More than nine hours of death…”

No, no, the mayor was in the villa with him seven hours ago, which means that he died for no longer than seven hours.

“The actual time of death is about five to seven hours, but someone has warmed the body, causing the corpse to be all over the body early.” White Night re-analyzed.

There was no soul breath around, which meant that the place where the mayor was killed was not within a mile.

“Why would the prisoner do this?” Little mourning was surprised. Usually the time of death is created for alibi, but turning five hours into more than nine hours is completely overdone, right?

Looking at the mayor lying straight on the ground, Bai Ye couldn’t help frowning slightly. The body lay too straight, and if it had either just been fished out of the water and forcibly changed its posture, it was immobilized by the murderer before the corpse froze.

“Who just got him out of the water?” Bai Ye turned back to the crowd and asked.

A sturdy old man walked out and said with a local accent: “I caught him.” ”

“Did you put him like this?” White Night asked.

“No, it was like this when he was in the water, he was already stiff, and his hands couldn’t move.” The old man replied.

If the old man did not lie, it was the murderer who fixed him in such a position.

Everyone turned their heads and whispered, “It’s really Lord Water Ghost, right?” ”

“That’s right, because I was caught by Lord Water Ghost, my body can’t move, just like that college student in the early years.”

The oppressive atmosphere spread out with everyone’s communication, Bai Ye thoughtfully, did the college student who drowned in earlier years also maintain the same posture? So it seems that this may be the purpose of the murderer…

“Let’s go! Let’s let one! ”

While Bai Ye was thinking, Officer Suzuki ran over with a group of patrolmen, accompanied by a doctor in a white coat and glasses, about fifty or sixty years old.

As soon as the doctor arrived, the residents began to say, “Dr. Sakurai is finally here.” ”

“The priest and witch are also here!”

The crowd began to shout to make way, and men and women in strange costumes left, and the woman was none other than the witch Suzuki Misa that Bai Ye had seen in the afternoon. Next to Misa Suzuki is a big man, wearing a black top hat, apparently the shrine’s priest Onimon Daisuke.

Dr. Sakurai was the only division in town, so Officer Suzuki temporarily invited him to come and examine the body. Bai Ye didn’t want to contradict him, so he gave way.

I saw Dr. Sakurai put on gloves, opened the deceased’s mouth to examine with a tongue depressor and flashlight, and then examined the skin of the deceased, and then said: “Just like nine years ago, the deceased had sand in his mouth, obviously drowned. But there was no trace of struggle on his body, as if he was tied by a rope, but there was no sign of the rope being tied…”

His words immediately caused panic among the residents, “Sure enough, it must be Lord Water Ghost who caught him.” ”

“Look! It was definitely the mayor of the town who approved of the plan of the tourist area that angered Lord Water Ghost! ”

“Nope! We can’t let this plan continue, or we’ll all die!” ”

“Yes, stop the tourist area plan!”

“Against Hiromi Yamazaki! Sacrifice her, a sinner, to Lord Water Ghost! ”

Yumi in the crowd suddenly changed her face when she heard these words, and when she came back to her senses, she found that the residents surrounded her like an evil spirit. Officer Suzuki immediately shouted, “What are you doing? Stop it! With that, he ran over to protect Yumi.

Although Officer Suzuki’s wife is a witch, he is still a policeman himself after all, and it is impossible to allow such a thing as human sacrifice to happen. Seeing his actions, Xiao Wei whispered to Bai Ye: “This person doesn’t seem to have been brainwashed by the shrine. ”

Bai Ye nodded slightly, “Perhaps he is our biggest reliance on solving the case.” ”

Stopped by Officer Suzuki, the resident shouted, “Suzuki! Are you from Iwami Town after all? ”

“Exactly! Don’t you know the authenticity of Lord Water Ghost better than anyone? ”

Thinking of his son, who was killed by a water ghost, Suzuki clenched his fists. He really wanted to shout out loud and tell them that he didn’t believe in some shit water ghost at all, and there must be another explanation for his son’s death! But he did not dare to say it, because he knew that the consequences of some words were not something he could bear …

The witch Misa walked up to Haruki Suzuki and said to everyone: “Well, Haruki, he is not suspicious of the existence of Lord Water Oni, but he is still carrying the duties of a police officer, so he is struggling in pain.” ”

“The witch is right.” The priest Onimon Daisuke also walked over, “The existence of Lord Water Ghost is obvious to all. ”

Bai Ye scanned the crowd and found that each of them was convinced of the water ghost, and couldn’t help but be curious, and asked without any taboo: “That–priest, you have been bitten by the water ghost before, right?” ”

Everyone was annoyed by Bai Ye’s disrespect, but the priest waved his hand to show that it was okay, and then looked at Bai Ye: “You are right.” ”

“If it’s convenient, can you show me the wound?” White Night Request.

“Nothing inconvenient.” The priest directly agreed. Completely different from the image Bai Ye expected, Bai Ye originally thought that he was a conspirator, but now he seems to be an honest person.

Onimon Daisuke lifted his trouser legs in public and showed the wound in front of everyone.

Bai Ye squatted down with a flashlight, carefully examined it by the light, and couldn’t help frowning.

It was an old wound, and although it was not very obvious because of time, it was still clearly visible – it was a human tooth mark. The scar has not disappeared until now, which shows how hard this bite was at that time.

“It was late at night, everything was quiet, and there was no one else in the river.” Onimon Daisuke said to himself, “Dr. Sakurai can prove that my wound is not fake.” ”

Bai Ye asked thoughtfully, “Who proposed the establishment of that shrine?” ”

“It’s me.” Dr. Sakurai next to the body stood up and sighed, “At first I thought Daisuke was talking nonsense, until things happened one after another, and finally even my granddaughter… I realized that there were really water ghosts in the river, so I proposed that everyone work together to build a shrine to pray for peace. “_

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