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Chapter 1537 Another Legend

After hearing Karasawa's words, Sera Masumi and Conan both nodded silently, agreeing with him.

After all, not to mention that they did not have search authority, and the villagers would not cooperate with their investigation. Even Xiaolan and Yuanzi had no way to relocate them.

After all, it is really boring here and there is no place to play. If they go to investigate the case and leave the two of them here, let alone it would be unfair to the two of them, and there is no guarantee of safety.

After all, someone had just disappeared here. Even if Tangze and the others didn't believe in ghosts and gods, man-made disasters had to be guarded against.

If the two of them bump into something they shouldn't see while playing and are in danger, that would be troublesome.

It happens that this area falls under the jurisdiction of Nagano Prefecture, and Yamato Kansuke and Morofushi Takaaki are the only good criminals in various places, so it is safe to leave it to the two of them to investigate Karasawa.

So Tang Ze decided to notify the two of them to come over for preliminary investigation. If the murder was really discovered, it would not be too late for him to come here. If the village chief donated money and ran away, then there would be no need for him to come again.

After confirming the follow-up arrangements, everyone rested for a while after dinner and then wandered around again.

But this time there were far fewer people in the village looking for the village chief, and it was obvious that most of them had gone home to eat.

Everyone walked around the village again, during which Tang Ze and others also talked to the villagers they saw on the road to get to know each other, but still found nothing.

So Karasawa contacted Yamato Kansuke again, asking him to pay more attention to the missing village chief in this village, and then returned to Tokyo with a group of people.

After everyone went to eat Sukiyaki hot pot together, they returned home.

In the next few days, Sonoko and others also spent their spring break. Conan did not cause any trouble again, and Karaze was also paying attention to the case in his peaceful daily life these days.

During this period, Tangze also called to inquire about the case, but unfortunately he found nothing.

The village chief named Tetsuo Sato seemed to have been captured by a monster and disappeared, and he could not be found at all.

Even though Yamato Gansuke and Zhufu Gaoming took people to search the village, they could not find any trace of the prisoner.

As time passed until Saturday, Conan, who was concerned about this case, couldn't help but find Tang Ze, hoping to return to the village again to investigate.

To be honest, Tang Ze had the same idea. The two hit it off and drove off directly.

Of course, they did not forget to contact Sera Masumi, but the other party seemed to have more important things to do this weekend, so it was a pity that they could not go to investigate the case with them.

However, the two of them did not have any regrets, and were more relaxed.

After all, calling the other party was just to avoid the other party complaining later. Now that the other party actively refused, Tang Ze and the two were happy to have a more relaxed space to talk.

On the way, Conan told Karasawa that Sera Masumi deliberately let him see the photos.

"What do you think her purpose is?" Conan said, stroking his chin.

"Maybe it's a hint or conveying some kind of information to you." Tang Ze said: "This shows that the other party is still contacting you and wants to know you more deeply."

"But what matters to me is the child. Why would she let me see a child on purpose?" Conan said, touching his chin.

"Maybe it was someone important."

Tang Ze's eyes were deep, and he immediately changed his words and said: "In short, she shouldn't have any ill intentions, just continue to maintain such contact.

As for what she wants to show you, just accept it all and just act stupid.

The more information is exposed, the more likely it is that you can figure out the other party's intentions. "

"That's right." Conan nodded after hearing this and said, "After all, she doesn't seem to have any malicious intentions. We just need to figure out his identity and intentions."

"Yeah." Tang Ze nodded and stopped talking about this topic.

Although he knew Sera Masumi's identity and the camp to which the person behind her belonged, he had no intention of contacting her at all.

The organization he built was originally a hollow structure, but now he has already filled it with enough manpower. He is still afraid of a fight between the two sides. If he adds another one, he will really miss out.

And to be honest, Sera Masumi is just a high school student. He can't compare with them in terms of mental quality or combat effectiveness. Although the opponent's mother is good in strength, she herself is too defensive.

In addition, the MI6 he belongs to has not revealed much, and Tangze cannot guarantee that the force behind the other party is trustworthy.

Therefore, Karasawa still maintains a dissociated attitude towards Sera Masumi and the forces behind him.

And if he really needs the other party's cooperation, he can also indirectly cooperate with the other party through Akai Shuichi.

So he has no plans to contact him for the time being.

The two chatted like this, and soon returned to the village they arrived at a week ago.

After the two parked the car, they first went to the local criminal stationed in the village to investigate.

After showing the criminal evidence, Tang Ze asked about the whereabouts of acquaintances.

But it is a pity that today is not a coincidence. Although Yamato Gansuke and Morofuku Gaoming have been investigating for a few days, because there is no clue at all, and there are a lot of things for them to deal with at the Nagano Police Station, so today the two No one came to the village.

However, when Karasawa and Conan came here, it was considered a "seamless connection" to ensure that there were criminals with good reasoning skills present in this case from the beginning of the search.

Tangze also learned the inside story of this week's search from the criminal stationed there.

Although the search has not been given up, no clues have been found for a week, and the local criminal police are obviously tired.

During the conversation with Tangze, the other party made no secret of it, revealing that this might become an unsolved missing case, and the final result would be that the other party's identity would be included in the missing person's information.

Then one day after discovering the remains of unknown identities, we might be able to make a comparison.

Of course, there is a high chance that it will become the base data of missing persons in the database and become a cold number.

After talking with the criminal stationed in the village, Tang Ze and the other two left without looking back, even rejecting the other party's request to be their guide.

No way, after this conversation, apart from knowing that Yamato and the two were not in the village, they didn't get any useful information. The rest was the other party's negative emotions that they had no hope for this case.

That's why neither Karasawa nor Conan wants to take the other one with them.

"Where are we going now?"

Conan put his head in his hands and asked: "I believe Yamato Criminal and Zhufu Criminal have done everything they should, but they still haven't found any clues about the disappearance of the village chief.

So I'm afraid that using ordinary investigation methods is just a useless effort. "

"Let's go to the shrine on the mountain." Karasawa said.

"A shrine?" Conan thought about the weird shrine and couldn't help but said, "Do you think there is something wrong with that shrine?"

"I don't know." Facing the difficult question, Tang Ze shook his head, and his answer made Conan stunned: "I thought you had some ideas or discoveries."

"How can it be."

Tangze said helplessly: "But there is no connection in reality, but I feel that there is some connection in mysticism."

"I almost don't understand what you're saying." Hearing Tangze's words, Conan frowned and said, "Speak more clearly, don't talk too much."

"To put it simply, on a practical level, I cannot confirm that the disappearance of the village chief is related to the shrine, but metaphysically speaking, this shrine seems to be the only existence that has been connected with the gods of this village from ancient times to the present."

Tangze looked at Conan and said, "And now that the village chief is missing, it seems like something that has happened since ancient times has happened again.

We all know that Shenyin does not exist, so it is only possible that someone took advantage of this legend and caused the village chief to disappear.

That's the only connection I'm talking about. "

"Has anyone borrowed this feudal superstitious legend as a crime tactic?"

Conan put his head in his hands and followed behind Karasawa: "This is quite reasonable, but in this case, the shrine is just a background setting."

"So I said I don't know." Tang Ze shrugged.

Of course, that's what I said, but Karasawa still had some judgments that he couldn't explain in detail to Conan.

From the perspective of "Ke Xue", this case involves Shenyin, so it is very reasonable for the shrine to occupy a large part of the presence in the reasoning case.

Of course, it is not absolute. After all, the shrine may just be a simple background of the case.

Whether it was related to the case or not, he couldn't determine.

But now they don't have any clues, so they can only try their luck at the shrine.

Thinking of this, Tang Ze glanced down at Conan next to him and had high hopes for this.

Generally speaking, for normal cases, they can get clues as long as they see the case. No matter how weird the method is, as long as there is a scene, they can't be troubled.

And this is why the duo from Nagano Prefecture still made no progress after investigating for about a week.

The main reason is the lack of "variables" or crime scenes. If there was a scene, the case might have been solved long ago, and there would be no way to wait for Karasawa and Conan to come again.

With Conan, I hope to rely on his death physique to see if any variables can be triggered.

After all, this is the walking "God of Death", and his words may be able to promote new progress in the case.

Of course, if there is no progress, it means that the clues to this case may really be here, and the rest will have to be solved by themselves.

Since it was not their first time, the two arrived at the shrine quickly.

But what they didn't expect was that today the shrine was not empty, but there were many old people paying homage here.

"There are so many people." Looking at the crowd in front of the shrine, Conan couldn't help but said, "What happened?"

"I saw an acquaintance, so I went over to ask about him."

Tangze glanced around the crowd and the old man wearing glasses whom he met last time was also among them, and then walked over.

"Young people, it's you." The old man saw the two of them and said with a smile, "Why are you back again?"

Because there were very few people in the village, the arrival of the two people actually attracted a lot of attention. However, when they saw the old man wearing glasses talking to the two people, they all looked away.

They probably regarded them as relatives or friends of the old man or something like that.

"We came to do some errands and just passed by." Tang Ze smiled and said: "Speaking of which, old man, is today a festival? Why do so many people come to the shrine?"

"Well, it's not because of the disappearance of the village chief." Hearing Tangze's words, the old man couldn't help but sigh: "So many villagers come to the shrine to pay homage."

"It seems that the village chief is very respected by everyone." Hearing this, Tangze looked at the people worshiping in front of the shrine: "There are so many people who hope that he can come back safely."

"What are you talking about? This is not a prayer that he can come back safely." The old man heard Conan's words: "This is a prayer that he will not be able to come back!"

"Eh?" Conan looked surprised when he heard this: "But when we came to the village before, we met the brother holding the mask, and that's what he told us."

"That's just a rhetoric that was changed for the development of the village as the times progressed and the phenomenon of hidden gods has not happened again in the past few decades."

Speaking of this, the old man sighed, "But unfortunately, it still cannot restore the village's continuous population loss. In addition, there is no good scenery around, so there are no guests coming to the village."

"Then let me ask Grandpa, what is the original legend about the shrine?" Conan asked sweetly.

"The original legend is completely contrary to what you heard."

When the old man said this, he looked at the shrine with a little fear on his face: "Actually, the masks are enshrined in the shrine not to pray for the return of the hidden people, but to pray for the dead not to come back!
  People who ascend to heaven generally don't come back, but if they come back accidentally, they will pass through the walls of this shrine and turn into terrifying ghosts and return here.

After turning into ghosts, they go on a killing spree.

That's why we hang masks on the wall to tell them, "You are dead and there is no way to come back."

In this way, even if a "ghost" accidentally comes back, it will be stuck on the wall and unable to move. "

"It sounds much scarier than the previous version." Conan couldn't help but say after hearing what the old man said.

"Not only that, but also much crueler and bloody."

Karasawa looked at the shrine and said, "Didn't you notice? There is no warmth or good hope in this version of rhetoric.

It's like not having any expectations for those who have disappeared, acquiescing to their death, and at the same time fearing that they will turn into ghosts and come back to seek revenge on them after death. "

"It's true what you said."

Conan couldn't help but echoed after hearing this: "Generally normal prayers are to hope that the deceased relatives can come back, just like the previous statement.

But the latter nature does not seem to be directed at relatives at all, but rather as if it is directed at enemies. I hope that the other party will not come out to cause trouble. Obviously we are all from the same village.

Grandpa, do you know why this is? "

"I don't know if this legend has been passed down since ancient times."

The old man on the side just sighed and shook his head when he heard this. Apparently he didn't know why there was such a legend in the village.

(End of this chapter)