Truth is everywhere within range

Since Kuroda Jun's team was closest to the crime scene, she received the call.

The crime took place in a small hotel next to the Mandu Canteen.

The hotel only has four floors, and when we walked into the lobby, there were already police waiting for us.

"We meet again, Kuroda Miko. It's really hard to express."

Officer Narita from the Ise Police Station said with a wry smile.

"The first discoverer was a hotel staff member. Because there was a strong rancid smell coming from the room, he knocked on the door to inquire. After receiving no response, he asked the hotel owner to open the door together and discovered the deceased."

He explained as he walked upstairs.

"The deceased is Takashi Aoki, a reporter from the Waguo Mysterious Weekly. He was 41 years old and single. In order to collect information for the New Year Prayer Festival, did he come to Ise two days ago to ask for a mask?"

Officer Narita brought some masks.

"Because the smell is really strong."

Kuroda Jun said nothing, took the mask and put it on, and put on a thin layer of rubber gloves to prevent damage to the scene.

On the fourth floor, a room at the entrance to the elevator had been blocked by yellow cordon. Even from a long distance, Qiao Qiao could smell a strong rancid smell.

"Aokiki"

Qiao Qiao thought of the person he met at noon. It should be around 2:30 in the afternoon?

After that, Takashi Aoki returned to the hotel and died?

Then the time of death should be between two thirty and four o'clock.

Qiao Qiao followed Officer Narita, and when he saw the scene in the room, his thinking slowed down a little.

"Don't look."

Kuroda Jun held down Kuroda Makoto who stretched his head towards the room in time to keep his sister away from the crime scene.

Then, Jun Kuroda covered his masked mouth and retched twice.

Officer Narita’s face wrinkled into a bitter melon. In addition to the mask, he also covered his nose with a handkerchief.

Only Qiao Qiao, wearing only a thin mask, looked into the room.

If Ayako Kashiwagi died in a way that people could tell at a glance, then Taka Aoki did the same.

On the wall of the room, there is a painting.

The painting was composed of dark black, dark red, and dark brown, and was spread out on the wall like a painting that had been smudged by an abstract painter so that no one could understand it.

The four walls and ceiling of the entire room are all covered with similar marks.

Pigments are humans.

Takashi Aoki's broken head was scattered on the bed, his bones crushed by something and mixed in with flesh and internal organs.

The whole picture has an astonishing impact, as if it is the embodiment of some kind of evil reality, and it is definitely not something that humans can do.

At the same time, the flesh and blood exuded a foul smell of decay, and it could be seen that the color of many pieces of meat had become extremely dark, and maggots had even crawled out.

"So cruel."

Kitashirakawa Rika sighed softly.

"?"

Qiao Qiao felt a little confused.

Regardless of what killed Takashi Aoki, such a degree of corruption could not be achieved in a few hours.

The maggots, the spoiled meat, and the strong rancid smell all took a long time to become like this.

And it was clear that he had only met Taka Aoki a few hours ago.

"What? Did you see the deceased at two o'clock?"

After listening to Qiao Qiao and Kuroda Jun's explanations, Officer Narita's eyes widened.

"But according to preliminary test results, the body has been dead for at least more than a week."

He pulled out the notebook with the police badge on it.

"The "Japanese Weird Weekly" is not an official media, but an online media that mainly focuses on curious news. Aoki Takashi went out to collect information about ten days ago. Since then, he has had almost no contact with his colleagues. The receipt shows that he came the day before yesterday. Ise, the trajectory of actions earlier is uncertain.”

"Let's channel it first."

Kuroda Jun said. He wanted to extend his hand, but hesitated and looked at Qiao Qiao.

"Qiao Sang, you better do it."

Compared to his own, Qiao Qiao's psychic skills were more accurate and convenient.

Qiao Qiao nodded and found a piece of corpse.

The deceased does not necessarily retain a spirit body, especially one who was killed by extremely cruel means.

What's more, according to the forensic examination, the body has been dead for more than a week. Even if it is a normal death, the spirit body may not survive if there are no special circumstances.

After a brief channeling, Qiao Qiao confirmed that there was indeed no spirit body.

Shaking his head at Kuroda Jun, Qiao Qiao continued to channel.

This time the object is this room.

In the picture, at about three o'clock, a man wearing a dark windbreaker walked into the room. This was the Taka Aoki that Qiao Qiao and others saw.

He took off his clothes and sat on the bed.

At this time, the man's abdomen began to swell as if he was pregnant.

His face was detached from his bones and became very strange.

Bang——

The next moment, the man exploded, and his flesh and blood spattered on the walls and ceiling, turning into what Qiao Qiao and others saw now.

"Is this a living corpse?"

After listening to Qiao Qiao's words, Kuroda Jun thought for a moment and said.

"Living corpse?"

It's not that Qiao Qiao has never seen living corpses. On the flight to Hawaii, the living corpses almost turned the entire flight's passengers into zombies.

It was at that time that Qiao Qiao had a general understanding of the existence of magical manipulation of living corpses, and also the fact that some exorcists were not on the side of humans.

In other words, was it also the actions of those spiritual exterminators this time?

Qiao Qiao's spiritual vision is very keen, and he can almost detect most of the extremely small Yin Qi, but when he communicated with Aoki Taka just now, he did not find that the other party was dead.

It couldn't be that he was still alive at that time, and then returned to the hotel and died suddenly, and his body traveled directly through time and became corrupted to the current level.

"and"

Qiao Qiao discovered that in this room made of flesh and blood, blood vessels, internal organs, and bones seemed to form a pattern.

He recorded it and drew it. Kuroda Jun frowned slightly after seeing it.

"This pattern looks like some kind of Shinto magic structure, but I haven't seen it before."

she said.

"Compared to the one of Kashiwagi Ayako?"

Qiao Qiao asked again.

"Kashiwagi Ayako. No, the two are different. The one is more crude, has almost no theory, and is more like imitation, while this one obviously has a certain mystical significance. If the appropriate means are used, it can be activated."

Kuroda Jun fell into thinking.

"start up?"

"Yes, the essence of Shinto is spiritism, which is a spell to communicate with the gods. The spells used to remove spirits also borrow the power of the gods. After the corresponding magic circle is activated, it will naturally communicate with the gods, but"

Kuroda Jun looked into the room.

The god who communicated with such a blood sacrifice must not be a well-intentioned guy.

"Someone wants to summon the old gods in Ise?"

Qiao Qiao felt that things were serious.