Conan's Corpse Picker

Wu Tiangou suddenly patted her wings.

Due to the large contact area, it is not painful, but the force is not small.

Koizumi Hongzi sprained her feet and staggered to the side. A strong wind blew up around her for a moment, and Wutengu waved its wings and went straight up into the sky.

Almost at the same time, a large-caliber sniper rifle brushed against Jiang Xia's leg, stirred up a few pieces of clothes, and spun and chiseled them on the wall of one tower.

A huge deep pit was dug into the solid concrete wall, and several pieces of rubble fell onto Koizumi Hongzi's skirt.

Koizumi Hongzi stared blankly at this scene, and after a few seconds, her face gradually turned to panic, what is aunt doing? !This... This is different from the previously discussed plan!

Jiang Xia continued to rise, and changed direction once on the way, dodging another bullet that followed.

He looked down at the collapsed wall below, and then at Koizumi Hongzi who was still sitting dazed.Finding that the witch who was raised and able to extract magic power was still alive, she looked away with confidence and turned to look in the direction of the bullet.

Neither he nor the ghost felt any murderous intent over there, nor did they discover magic power.

...The worker sniper targeting Kidd?

Or the helper Koizumi Hongzi found?

Jiang Xia thought of the bullet that went on the rampage just now and didn't deliberately avoid Koizumi Hongzi, and felt that no matter what the situation was, it didn't make much sense to take Koizumi Hongzi away as a hostage.

So instead of going back down to hug the person, he flew towards the direction where the bullet came from, wanting to see who was sneakily firing the black gun.

Chapter 455

However, the place where Jiang Xia is currently located is, after all, a fairly prosperous business district.Outside the area cordoned off by the police, a large area was full of people.It is not easy to find a sneaky sniper without magic power and murderous positioning.

Jiang Xiatie took a look in the hidden part of the building, but he didn't see the legendary "beck" reflection, nor did he see any suspicious figures, so it was hard to have a clue.

He quickly thought of another thing, so he temporarily gave up looking for the person who fired the shot, and instead flew in a certain direction with a clear target.

——When Hongko Koizumi was pretending to be Kidd, behind her was a illusory line stretching into the distance.

And after the magical power she wrapped in for camouflage was sucked dry by Jiang Xia's shikigami, the line disappeared.

At this time, Jiang Xia felt that the magic power line was more valuable than looking for a person without murderous intent and magic power among a large group of people.

After all, he remembered the last time, when Koizumi Hongzi cursed Kidd, there was a similar black line between Koizumi Hongzi and Kidd.

That is to say, if you go along the direction where the line extends, you may be able to find someone who hides in the dark and provides Koizumi Hongzi with magic power—for example, you can find Kidd who is suspected of being tied up as a magic battery.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia didn't stop in this place where there are too many policemen and ordinary citizens.

He conveniently repaired the puppet that was scratched by the sniper rifle just now, and left quickly in the direction of the magic power line.

……

In the crowd, a woman wearing a peaked cap and a plain coat looked up at the blurred and distant dots in the sky, and breathed out silently.

Minamoto carefully suppressed her magic power, touched the binoculars in her bag, remembered the scene she saw just now, and frowned slightly.

That monster really has a lot of secrets.

Fortunately, this time, she was more cautious...

She left the crowd, walked easily outside the blocked area, and finally stopped at a square where people were coming and going.

This is the pre-arranged meeting place between her and Koizumi Hongzi.

——Before coming here, Minamoto Kona checked some information, but was unable to find any images of Kiritengu haunting anywhere.Only in the Shanni Temple suicide incident a while ago, a traveler passed through the jungle late at night and took a photo of a suspected "foggy dog".But that photo was also very blurry, and it was hard to tell whether it was a person or a bird.

In short, this makes Minamoto feel that Wutengu will consciously avoid leaving traces in front of the public.

So she and Koizumi Hongzi made an appointment to meet in the square, and it was safer to have ordinary people passing by as cover.

Minamoto leaned on the bench and waited.

After a while, a female high school student slapped the dust on her body, and under the secret gaze of many male passers-by, she ran closer in a little embarrassment.

Koizumi Hongko came to Minamoto's side and asked in a low voice, "You lied to me?!"

Yuan Hongnai sat up straight slowly, raised her eyes and glanced at her: "Don't speak to me in that tone of scolding a servant."

The aura is compelling.

However, as a witch, Hongzi Koizumi is very familiar with this way of putting on airs.

She ignored it, and continued to ask in a low voice: "What's the matter with that inferior magic circle? And the sniper rifle behind it, you arranged it—what if it really hits?!"

Yuan Hongna snorted softly: "The clothes I gave you can not only attach magic power, but also block a certain degree of physical damage - and that ugly thing is very accurate with marksmanship, so you don't have to worry about being accidentally injured."

As she spoke, she crossed her arms around her chest, leaned back on the bench chair, and said calmly: "I didn't tell you the plan in advance because I think it will be more smoothly implemented."

"?" Koizumi Hongzi didn't expect her aunt to deceive people so confidently, she stared at her speechlessly for a while.

"That magic circle is indeed not used to trap Wutiangu, it's just a pure accumulation of magic power."

Yuan Hongnai raised her fingertips and gestured: "You can understand it as a gas filled with stable magic power. These magic powers are useless and of low quality. The only advantage is that they are extremely stable - it is actually The teaching aids commonly used by magicians in the world can be combined with dyeing magic to demonstrate the operation of magic power to some magicians with poor talents. After it is made, it will not be broken for a few years...

"—But just now, after that monster fell into the formation, the magic power disappeared immediately."

"..."

Koizumi Hongzi understood the meaning of her aunt's words, and felt that her girlish heart had been stabbed severely by an arrow.

——The magic power that was stable to that extent suddenly disappeared... Judging from the current situation, there is only one truth: Wutiangu can really absorb magic power in a certain way.

...so he really just came to cheat on magic power?

That piece of chocolate that she made for a long time was just eaten as a "food" in the ordinary sense?

Koizumi Hongzi stared blankly for a while.

Then she suddenly remembered what Yuan Hongna said just yesterday, and looked at her aunt again: "...Didn't you say that our magic is perfect, and it is impossible to be easily eaten by monsters?"

Yuan Hongna raised her hand to support her chin, and said as a matter of course: "Magic power is our greatest reliance—if I told you in advance that Wutengu can devour magic power, would you still have the courage to draw him out so naturally and confirm his recipe. "

"..."

Koizumi Hongzi clenched her knuckles with a crisp sound, and her fist hardened.

However, feeling those admiring gazes looking at her from time to time in the distance, she was very burdened and couldn't punch anymore.

…Hand-to-hand combat is too inconsistent with the image of an elegant and mysterious witch.

But she couldn't use magic yet.

... bastard monster, cheating on her magic power.

What's even more exaggerated is that he left after cheating without leaving a single feather...

Minamoto Kona didn't care about Koizumi Hongko's complicated mood, and muttered to herself:

"Now I can be sure - he can really devour magic power, and the speed is not slow. I am afraid that your magic before did not work on him at all...

"Fortunately, it seems that the firearms are still effective.

"It's just that he moves very fast. After being alert, it's not easy to plot against him like this. Moreover, if it is broken, the research value will plummet... Tsk, this method of physical capture, It’s better to put it at the end. Let’s try other methods first.”

As she spoke, she glanced to the side.

On the side of the bench, in the shadow cast by the branches, there was a servant who was about the same height as the bench but muscular.

The servant was wearing a tailored suit, and his hair was combed neatly back.

There is a heavy gun bag on the back, and the overall style of painting is a bit weird.

Yuan Hongna glanced at the servant, and frowned because of his ugly appearance, she turned her eyes away and looked at Koizumi Hongko in front of her.

The words were still addressed to the servant: "Have you got it?"

Chapter 456 Kidd Battery

The servant was the sniper who shot secretly just now.

The master wants to give priority to catching the living Wutiangou, so when he shoots, he naturally has no killing intent.

As for the magic power, he himself has low magic power, and he was privately ordered by Yuan Hongna before, consciously avoiding releasing magic power.Therefore, he successfully avoided Jiang Xia's hasty search.

Minamoto recalled that when he communicated with the radio just now, the servant said that although the shot he fired did not cause fatal damage to Kiritengu, it did graze the monster's leg.

Regardless of whether it is clothing fragments or blood, they are all excellent materials for divination or cursing.Yuan Hongnai specially asked him to keep it and take it back.

however……

"Sorry, I couldn't find it." The servant bowed humbly, and his already short height became even lower:

"After Miss Hongzi left, I immediately went to the roof to search, but I couldn't find any pieces of clothes that he dropped, nor did I see any blood or minced meat."

Yuan Hongnai was startled, suddenly thought of something, her face changed suddenly, she stood up abruptly: "...you really searched carefully?!"

……

A deep forest on the outskirts of Tokyo.

An ancient castle stands quietly.

In the corner room, Kidd was lying on the cold floor, still trying to destroy the magic circle below him, trying to add obstacles to the two witches who were trapping the foggy dog.

In the beginning, he couldn't move an inch except for opening his eyes once in a while.

But being idle is idle anyway, so Kidd would try to move his fingers as soon as he recovered from extreme exhaustion.

After an unknown period of time, he vaguely felt that an indescribable force gradually emerged from his body.

That force is very weak, but like water in a closed pool, it keeps dripping and slowly increasing.

Kidd felt the changes in his body suspiciously.

After watching for a while, he tried to use his mind to concentrate the weak force on his fingertips.

The originally cold fingers slowly recovered a little temperature.The frozen joints also showed signs of relaxation.

With a clear goal, the light in Kidd's eyes came back a little.

He stared intently at his hand, and moved it to the nearest magic circle pattern with great effort.

As soon as I touched it, there was a sudden bang sound of the window opening behind me.A shadow followed from the window, and under the projection of the wall lamp, it enveloped most of the room.

——The window was broken, someone flew in with a strong wind, and landed directly next to him with a clear target.

The magic circle pressing on Kidd loosened instantly, and the invisible restraint seemed to be pulled away by something quickly and weakened rapidly.