Truth is everywhere within range

In fact, simply seeing a person lying on the ground, Qiao Qiao would not immediately judge that the person was dead.

After all, it was possible that he had just passed out, or was simply taking a nap.

However, the state of the corpse in front of them, even the kindergarten children could tell that she was dead the first time they saw it.

After all, there should be no human being in this world who can survive with his head cut off from his neck.

At this moment, lying on the snowy grass in front of the three people was a headless corpse.

No, it's not just as simple as being headless.

The limbs of the corpse were removed like a doll and placed upright in the four corners.

The body is in the middle.

And the head is placed on top of the body.

I will never die with my eyes in peace.

Judging from the clothes, this seems to be a female student.

She was wearing the uniform of a public high school here in Ise, with short hair, and her blood melted in the snow.

On the ground, with her body as the center, a magic circle was drawn with blood.

On each node, there happened to be the remains of the girl.

It was almost like a sacrificial ritual to summon demons.

"Weird tricks, no, this is more like something that believers of the old gods would do."

Qiao Qiao subconsciously began to think.

And aside.

Seeing this cruel scene, Makoto Kuroda felt her stomach churn, and a feeling of nausea surged into her throat. Finally, she couldn't help it anymore, and held on to the tree next to her, and started vomiting like crazy, vomiting up all the breakfast and lunch she had eaten today. net.

As for Tanizaki Koji

"Ayako?"

His eyes widened with an expression of disbelief on his face, and he knelt down.

"Do you know anyone?"

Qiao Qiao felt that the problem was difficult.

"Impossible, Ayako should still be in school."

Tanizaki Koji subconsciously wanted to rush over, but was quickly held back by Qiao Qiao.

"You can't damage the scene. Call the police first."

While taking out his mobile phone.

"Ayako, Ayako, Ayako."

Tanizaki Koji's eyes were dull, as if it was not the girl who died, but himself.

"We obviously agreed to get together."

He looked at the corpse, completely exhausted.

Qiao Qiao had no time to comfort Tanizaki Koji. His eyes scanned the scene and could catch the strong Yin Qi spreading on the magic circle, but he did not find the girl's spirit.

Neither resentful spirits nor evil spirits exist.

Ten minutes later, the police arrived on Huwei Mountain on their scooters.

Because there are no cars on the roads here, it was a bit slow to get there.

During this period, Qiao Qiao took a brief look at the situation here.

The police immediately cordoned off the scene.

By the way, people from Ise Jingu Shrine came.

It's Jun Kuroda.

"Makoto!"

When she saw her sister, she walked over quickly and gently hugged Kuroda Makoto's trembling shoulders.

"Miko Kuroda, this feels like some kind of sacrificial ritual."

On the side, a policeman named Narita covered his nose with a handkerchief and said.

"The deceased is Kashiwagi Ayako, eighteen years old, a senior student at Uji Yamada High School in Mie Prefecture. Her parents have been notified, but do we really want them to see the scene?"

"We'll all find out in the end."

Kuroda Jun said calmly, and glanced at Tanizaki Koji who was collapsed aside.

"Tanizaki, do you know her?"

"We are dating"

Tanizaki Koji's voice was weak.

So she is Tanizaki Koji's girlfriend?

Qiao Qiao frowned slightly.

"The presumed time of death is between one and three hours, or even shorter. After all, the body remained warm in this cold weather. The prisoner may have committed the crime within this hour."

Hearing Officer Narita's words, Tanizaki Koji raised his head again.

"Within an hour?"

His eyes were red, and the nails on his clenched fists were embedded in the flesh, oozing blood.

Qiao Qiao could understand his thoughts.

Because Huwei Mountain is their patrol area, if the three of them choose to patrol here from the beginning, they might encounter criminals who are preparing to commit crimes, and even save Kashiwagi Ayako.

And it was Koji Tanizaki who suggested coming back here at the end.

In a sense, Tanizaki Koji's own choices led to his failure to save his girlfriend.

This is Tanizaki Koji's idea.

"Don't blame yourself, Tanizaki-san."

Qiao Qiao patted his shoulder.

"No, it's me, it's all my fault. If I had brought you here first"

Tanizaki Koji said hoarsely.

"No, it has nothing to do with this."

Qiao Qiao said.

"Whether we come here first or later, Ayako Kashiwagi will die."

"What did you say?"

Tanizaki Koji's eyes became a little angry when he looked at Qiao Qiao, and he grabbed Qiao Qiao's collar.

What is this guy talking about? Is he making sarcastic remarks?

Obviously if it had been earlier, Ayako would not have died.

"I mean, I just took the liberty of channeling something."

Qiao Qiao said.

"Psychic?"

After hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Kuroda Junya, who was investigating the scene, turned his head and looked over.

Because she also tried channeling just now, but there was no residual spirit on the corpse at all, and the situation was very strange.

"Well, around one o'clock today, a man wearing a black cloak and a Noh mask carried a black travel bag up the mountain. The bag contained the body of Kashiwagi Ayako. He spent ten minutes decorating it That’s it, then leave here.”

"And when we left Ise Shrine and headed here, it was already past two o'clock. In other words, Kashiwagi Ayako was dead before our patrol started, no, or earlier."

"Tanizaki-san, when was the last time you contacted Kashiwagi Ayako?"

"?"

Kuroda Jun's expression froze when he heard Qiao Qiao's words.

Is this really a psychic and not captured by some surveillance camera?

She even looked up and looked around, looking for the camera.

Channeling in Kuroda Jun's understanding is the process of communicating with the spirits of the dead and obtaining answers through questioning.

But Qiao Qiao is too detailed, right?

Wait, what kind of spirit does he have?

It's obvious that the spirits of the dead no longer exist.

"Qiao Sang, how did you become psychic?"

Kuroda Jun asked slightly suspiciously.

"I channeled this monument, and its range just covers the crime scene. What, is there any problem?"

Qiao Qiao replied.

"???"

Kuroda Jun really doesn’t understand.

Although all things are said to have animism, in theory, channeling can communicate with all things.

But that's just theory. In Kuroda Jun's knowledge, most spiritualists can only channel the dead, and a small number can channel the living without interfering with their cognition, and can communicate with animals. There are also spiritual masters.

As for those who can be psychic about monuments, bread, weeds everywhere and even telephone poles, probably only those geniuses can do it.

Ise Jingu Shrine has experienced a decline in talents in recent years. Except for Kitashirakawa Rika, the others are of average quality and cannot compare to the Gosan Family in Tokyo.

With this thought in mind, Kuroda's pure spiritual vision scanned the monument and tried to channel.

Snapped--

Like the television being suddenly turned off, the psychic picture was interrupted.

There is no way to channel spirits!

Kuroda Jun looked at Qiao Qiao again, his brows furrowed.

On the other side, after hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Tanizaki Koji let go of Qiao Qiao's collar and took two steps back.

"No, but I received a line from Ayako when I left the Shrine, saying that she wanted me to pick her up from school after my patrol. We even chatted for a while."

Tanizaki Koji took out his mobile phone and showed Qiao Qiao the somewhat sweet chat history between the two.

"terribly sorry."

Qiao Qiao looked away from the phone.

"The person who replied to your message at that time was probably the prisoner."