She no longer had the appetite to continue eating. Now she just wanted to find Xia Shu as soon as possible and talk to him about the next plan of action.

The two parties agreed to meet in a cafe.

"You won 7 million, and you still want me to treat you?" Hashimoto Yoko looked at Natsuki who was frowning while eating blueberry cheese tiramisu and asked, "Is it bad?"

"I don't like sweet things." Xia Shu nodded, but the small fork in his hand did not stop.

"You don't like sweets, but you ordered it?"

"Ah?" Xia Shu looked up blankly: "Aren't you treating me?"

I'm treating you, so you have to order something even if you don't like it, right?

Hashimoto Yuko felt that she and he were a little bit incompatible. This man was very handsome, but for some reason there seemed to be something wrong with his brain, and his thought process was different from that of normal people.

She had already mentioned this matter to the section chief when she came, so there was no problem in bringing Natsuki into the case as a "folklore consultant."

"A third decomposed body has been found."

Hashimoto Yoko said in a low voice: "I found that a very strange bee flew onto the victim, and then the victim fell to the ground and died, and the body rotted within a few minutes."

"Yeah" Natsuki picked up the coffee.

Although this shop is most famous for its civet coffee, for example, the cup that Hashimoto Yoko is drinking now is airlifted from the defecation of Indonesian civet cats, and it is said to retain a very rich flavor.

Natsuki glanced at Hashimoto Yuko's mouth, then lowered his head again.

"Is there anything you can do?"

"This is a headless case," Xia Shu interrupted Hashimoto Yoko and said, "Even if you put cameras in every corner of the world, you can't capture any key scenes. Even if I want to commit a murder, the police will never catch me."

Hashimoto Yuko stared at Natsuki for several times. She always felt that there was a hint of frankness in her previous words.

"Should we just keep looking at each other..."

"Your little boyfriend," Xia Shu said, "He is also a chosen child, isn't he?"

"No! Yuma must not get involved. This has nothing to do with him."

You vicious woman, it won’t be dangerous if I get involved?

Feeling a little embarrassed by Xia Shu's stare, Hashimoto Yuko coughed twice and said, "Is there any other way?"

"As long as they are contestants, they are targets..."

Is there no solution? Of course there is. Let Yuuma Ueda be the bait to lure out the others. Xia Shu reasonably suspected that the three dead people should all be "contestants" or qualified contestants.

But he didn't really want to share information with Hashimoto Yuko, because... he wanted to participate in the competition himself.

In fact, he will become a competitor of Hashimoto Yuko's boyfriend.

He changed the subject and said, "Before that, we can talk about the hiring fee first."

I don’t know how much I can get back from an investment of 20 million. I’d better find a place to buy a lucky bag later.

I heard that Kendonald's is releasing lucky bags again.

"Sister Yuzi!" A surprised voice suddenly came from the side.

The two turned around and found that Yuuma Uda walked in with two other girls.

He looked at Xia Shu, then at Hashimoto Yuko, his face flushed and ugly: "What is your relationship?!"

Xia Shu's head was full of question marks.

You brought your two younger sisters with you, and then came over to question what the relationship between us was.

You little brother, you are great.

Hashimoto Yuko's face didn't look good either: "Yuuma, President Yahiro and I have something important to discuss."

Chapter 169 Xia Shu is still on the way

Watching Natsuki leaving alone, Yuuma Uda took a deep breath to calm himself.

He is a very easy-going person with his friends and they usually have a good relationship, but he is very repulsive to Natsuki, an instinctive repulsion.

First of all, he is not a possessive person, but he felt uncomfortable when he found out that his childhood sweetheart was close to him. Recently, Yuuma Ueda went to the shrine from time to time just to improve his favorability... No... to discuss his own problems with Ichika Furudera, but unfortunately Ichika Furudera was very distant from him. Yuuma Ueda knew that it must be because of Natsuki's existence that the friendship he and his childhood sweetheart had cultivated since childhood was destroyed.

Even if it's just kindergarten friendship, it's still friendship.

Secondly, he was not a possessive person, but after seeing Xia Shu was with Sister Yuzi, who he should have no contact with, the powder keg in his heart was completely ignited. This playboy not only attacked his childhood sweetheart, but also attacked Sister Yuzi, who was as gentle as his sister! He had to protect her.

Finally, I am not a possessive person, I just can't stand his behavior.

Especially today, Yuuma Ueda found out that Celia, a girl who liked him, was also "forwarding Yahiro for good luck", which made him feel even more upset.

Looking at Uda Yuma who was accusing him of an offence, Hashimoto Yuko felt a little uncomfortable for some reason.

In the past, she thought it was cute when Yuma was jealous, but now she thinks he is a little confused about right and wrong. It involves the deaths of three people, and more people will die in the future. It is also related to Yuma himself. Yuma himself has no other way out, but he doesn't even allow himself to ask other people for help.

You are already 22 years old, why do you still look like a child?

"He is a very famous exorcist. I hope to work with him to solve a case, and that case may be related to the stigmata on your body." Hashimoto Yuko explained. On the emotional scale, goodwill still prevailed. "It was with his help that we were able to make further progress in the case at Kusatsu Onsen last time."

"Kusatsu Onsen?" Just as he was about to turn off the engine, Yuuma Ueda unconsciously raised his voice again: "Are you with him?"

"An unexpected encounter" Hashimoto Yuko frowned. Normally, she would definitely use this topic to tease her little brother Yuma, teasing him and making him blush, which she would think is very cute. But now...

The other two girls were watching from the side, and the one named Sato Celia was still comforting her. As long as the energetic girl starts to be considerate, she can be very powerful.

The girl named Mikami Takeru frowned and listened to Hashimoto Yoko analyzing the whole case.

As a qualified police officer, Hashimoto Yoko still knows what can and cannot be said. However, there is nothing wrong with showing the interests involved.

In fact, she herself was also "violating the rules". The stigmata was a very important clue, but in order to protect Yuuma Uda's safety, she did not hand it over to the Metropolitan Police Department. Otherwise, by using Yuuma Uda as bait, she would definitely be able to catch the person she wanted.

Brother Yuma's safety is more important than anyone else's safety...right?

"If we really want to raise only one person alive like a Gu, the person with the stigmata will be very dangerous... You will be very dangerous!"

In the past, she only thought that the rotting corpse was someone using special methods to kill people. Later, even if she suspected it was a monster, she didn't think it was a big deal. But since she found out that the person who did it also had a stigmata, Hashimoto Yuko became worried.

Hashimoto Yoko also couldn't figure out the specific situation.

Since Yuuma Uda has the stigmata, he should also have the unique ability to kill people without them being seen. But now, apart from the fact that the location of the stigmata is cold, there is nothing special about him. He puts a hot pack on his body and wears a pair of gloves every day, and it doesn't seem to affect his normal life.

Others may rely on the holy marks to kill people everywhere.

There must be some steps missing here.

But no matter how much I worry about him, I can't protect him 24 hours a day, and I don't have the ability to protect him.

"I can ask Ichika for help. She has already helped a lot!" Yuuma Ueda said this righteously, not feeling that there was anything wrong with his words at all.

Instead, Hashimoto Yoko was choked by these words: I can't ask someone to save you, but you can find your childhood sweetheart, and bring two other girls with her.

What's more, Ichika Furudera and Natsuki Yahiro have a close relationship. Wouldn't it be better if the two of them worked together to help? Why must they exclude a big helper?

She lost interest in continuing the conversation. "If you feel in danger, be sure to contact me immediately. I have something to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department."

The cooperation with Xia Shu has been finalized for the time being, and she still has a lot to do.

Rather than following Yuuma Ueda and waiting for something to happen, it is safer to take the initiative and catch the mastermind. She is not someone who likes to passively defend.

Sato Celia, who was standing at the intersection next to the coffee shop, said, "Senior, don't worry, I will definitely be by your side all the time."

Sanshenzhu nodded: "Me too."

However, Sanshintake's gaze was on the street connecting the sky and the ground. Her right hand clenched and unclenched unconsciously. Hashimoto Yuko's words just now gave her a lot of ideas.

To protect Yuma!

……

Inside the Metropolitan Police Department.

Hashimoto Yuko was flipping through the information. Ever since she had a chat with Natsuki, she had turned her attention to more "metaphysical" things.

Judging from their identity information alone, the three deceased people do have nothing in common, but what if the three of them had some kind of "qualification"? From another perspective, the three of them seem to have a significant connection.

"Age, name, gender, job, home address, mobile phone number, hobbies, awards received..." She compared them one by one, no longer trying to find similarities like connecting the dots, but looking for parts that might be connected.

It wasn't until 17:40 in the afternoon that she finally got something.

"single!"

The deceased was single, which is the only "similar" yet completely "unsimilar" point.

Some have been single since birth, while others have experienced emotional trauma.

"Can you die if you fall in love?"

Just as she was thinking about it, the phone suddenly rang. She flipped open the phone on the table and took a look. The caller ID was Yahiro Natsuki.

"Hey?"

"I want to ask you about someone." Xia Shu's voice came immediately: "I sent you a picture, do you recognize this person?"

A photo came to my phone.

It looked like a screenshot from a TV report.

A handsome looking young policeman.

Hashimoto Yuko thought about it and seemed like he was sitting next to her when she was having lunch and watching a variety show at noon today. They chatted for a while at that time, and she comforted him not to worry too much, saying that newcomers also have the opportunity to participate in big cases.

"A new guy. What happened to him?"

She felt uneasy and jumped up from her chair.

She hadn't noticed it just now, but now she realized that she didn't hear any noisy noise outside.

She subconsciously pushed the door open and walked out of the archive room.

It was quiet outside, the sky was half dark, the setting sun burned yellow against the west window, and the darkness from the east rushed in again.

There was no one in the office area and the lights were not on.

The silence was like the hunting ground in a horror movie where evil spirits were about to start a slaughter, as if something dressed in red with bared fangs and claws would pounce on them at the next moment.

The air was so quiet that it was a bit uncomfortable.

It was like she had suddenly fallen into a nightmare, and only the voice on the other end of the phone gave her a glimmer of reality.

"He also has a stigmata," Xia Shu said, "I just got the news that he performed some kind of summoning ritual on a nearby river a few days ago, and it seems to have been successful."

There was also a woman's voice on the other end of the phone, seemingly recounting their initial encounter, but she couldn't hear it clearly.

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