The mastermind behind this started by creating a strange story

Following the explanation on the phone, Uehara Ye had no choice but to take on the case. Even though the credit would be great after solving the case, the risks involved were certainly not small.

After a moment, the call ended.

After hanging up the phone, Uehara took out a cigarette from the cigarette box with melancholy, put it in his mouth, lit it, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled the smoke.

The fire flickered in the air, and the cigarette became shorter as time passed. Uehara's thoughts also became active in this short period of time, and he thought a lot.

"Wealth and honor are sought in danger, so why be afraid of a ghost!"

Shangyuanye threw the burned cigarette butt to the ground fiercely, then stepped on it and crushed it hard. The burning cigarette butt was extinguished and flattened the moment it was stepped on by the sole of his shoe.

"Whoo~"

After calming down his complicated emotions, Uehara picked up the cigarette butt that was crushed by the sole of his shoe, wrapped it with toilet paper in his pocket, and threw it into the trash can next to him.

Nicotine made his anxious mood a little better. Now that he was responsible for the case, he had no choice but to take it on.

Besides, they have supernatural help here. The Sengen Taisha Shrine with miracles is right here. When there is really no other way, can't they just go to the Sengen Taisha Shrine for help?

A place where gods clearly manifest themselves cannot be just an ordinary shrine.

"Since I'm in charge, I must be fully prepared!"

After encouraging himself, Ueharano felt that the smell of smoke on his body had almost dissipated, so he walked into the room next to him.

He had wanted to take a look at the analysis results of the black shadow, and thought about reporting it to the Sixth Lesson before entering the room. However, he did not expect that after this report, the case would fall directly on his head. What else could he say? He could only accept it.

"How is the analysis result of the black shadow?"

Walking towards the technician sitting next to the computer, Ueharano asked, it would have been so long, the analysis results should have come out long ago.

As he expected, the analysis results had indeed come out a long time ago, but the technicians did not report it to him in time. They were looking for the identity of the black shadow.

By extracting frames from the video, we extract the clearest picture, and then continue to refine it, and a picture that can roughly show the face will appear.

In the picture, the shape of the black shadow can be clearly seen as a human figure. Although the face is not particularly clear and is still black, the outline of the human figure can be clearly seen.

By comparing and searching identity files, we found that there were only two or three people whose similarity was over 90%.

"It's him!"

Uehara looked at the information displayed on the computer, and one person's information caught his attention. The ID photo showed a middle-aged man in his thirties, an ordinary man who would be forgotten in the crowd.

But the most important thing is the marital status column, which says he is married, and his current wife is Nami Ishikawa.

"Is he the deceased's husband? Oshima Sho, his name is so ordinary, why is that black shadow more than 90% similar to him?"

Looking at the nondescript face in the ID photo, Ueharano felt that this case was definitely related to him. The question now was, where was Oshima Sho?

"Tsk, contact his company for me, and then investigate the surveillance footage from the past few days and find his whereabouts for me."

"As long as this person is still active in this society, his traces will never disappear. It is impossible for someone to hide himself in modern society!"

"Hmm... Let's investigate other people who are similar to the black shadow and sort out their movements in the past few days."

Looking at the suspects who had been sorted out, Ueharano issued orders in an orderly manner.

Investigation is so troublesome, you have to follow one line to another, and then search along these lines to eventually find the source of these lines.

………………

At the same time, in the Shushinkan of the Kendo Dojo.

"Mr. Machii Isao, you also don't have any feelings about this knife?"

Ichiro Kamiki looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with a frown. Even the master of Iaijutsu, Machii Isao, who was known as the contemporary swordsman, was unable to use the power of the Demon Sword.

What are the conditions for this demon sword to recognize its master?

It was clear that Konohana Sakuyahime had only two conditions at the beginning: one was a strong will, and the other was someone who had achieved success in kendo.

No matter how you look at it, this master of Iaijutsu who is known as a modern samurai cannot fail to meet the requirements.

"I'm really sorry, I really didn't sense any power from the knife."

The Heisei swordsman Machii Isao slowly placed the demon sword in his hand into the rectangular box in front of him where the demon swords were placed.

He was indeed not talking nonsense. No matter how he felt the knife, it felt like just an ordinary, heavier sword.

"Phew, I understand." Kamiki Ichiro sighed deeply, "Thank you for your help, Mr. Machii Isao."

"No trouble."

The middle-aged man in front of him looked apologetic, regretting that he could not use the power of the demon sword.

Upon seeing this, Ichiro Kamiki said a few polite words, then asked his subordinates to put away the box containing the demon sword and prepare to visit the next kendo master.

Machii Isao was only the first kendo master they visited. If you count carefully, there are quite a few kendo masters they can visit in their country.

However, the Heisei swordsman in front of them, who had learned kendo since childhood, began to learn Iaijutsu at the age of 19, and later became famous for his unparalleled Iai Slash, was unable to use the power of the Demon Sword. The remaining kendo masters had very slim chances of success.

Why is it so difficult to find someone who is compatible with the Demon Sword?

I still remember how happy they were when they got the magic sword that day, and how sad they are now.

I have a treasure chest full of treasures in my hand, but now I can't even find the key to it.

On the day they got the magic sword, they must have let their own people try first to see if they could become the master of the magic sword, but no matter who it was, no one reacted to the magic sword.

Seeing this, they could only give up this idea and turn to look for other compatible people, but the demon sword seemed to have lost its power and did not respond to anyone.

As a last resort, Kamiki Ichiro and his companions could only look for folk kendo masters. The first person they visited was Machii Isao, a master of Iaijutsu who was known as the contemporary sword saint.

To this end, he also turned down the supernatural case in Shizuoka Prefecture and let Uehara, who was in charge of the case, make the decision on his own in order to find the owner of the demon sword as soon as possible.

But if the most talented Batatsu-ryu kendo master has failed, how much chance do the remaining kendo masters have.

After walking out of the kendo hall, Kamiki Ichiro looked at the bright sun in the sky and asked his subordinates, "Who is the next kendo master to visit?"

"Report, it's the Shinjin Shinkage-ryu's kendo master. He is currently the head of a kendo gym in Aichi Prefecture and instructs his students."

"The largest faction in the history of kendo... I don't know if it will succeed."

"Let's go."

Chapter 198 The Dead

"died?!!"

Ueharano listened to the results of the investigation in doubt. It was already noon of the next day, and all the necessary information had naturally been investigated.

After all, according to the technology of human society, no matter what you do, you will leave traces, unless you are in the deep mountains where there is no one and you don’t have any technological products on you.

But this is impossible. As long as we live in human society, it is impossible to hide ourselves. After all, big data knows everything.

They worked in shifts throughout the night to search, even going to the door in the middle of the night. All the complete information of the suspects who resembled the black shadow was collected at this moment.

There was nothing special about the other information, but there was a problem with Oshima Sho's information.

The others had complete alibis when the shadow appeared, and their recent lives were regular, no different from usual.

But Oshima Sho disappeared the day before yesterday, and he has not appeared in the surveillance cameras in the past two days. Regarding this obvious big problem, Ueharano naturally has to investigate further.

But if we don't investigate, we won't know. Once we investigate, we find a big problem. Sho Oshima has not appeared since the night before yesterday until today.

Then they carefully checked the surveillance footage and went to Oshima Sho and the deceased's residence this morning to look for clues that they had overlooked the day before.

The dark blue car, which had already been roughly inspected, was found to have problems during another inspection that had not been discovered the day before.

But as they continued to investigate these clues, they came to a shocking conclusion: Sho Oshima was dead!

This is also the reason why Ueharano was puzzled. Why did Oshima Sho die and why did he die!

The final conclusion obtained after exhausting all search methods answered his question.

"So, it was his wife and that man who killed him together and dumped his body in the forest of Mount Fuji!"

Uehara looked at the final conclusion and was somewhat speechless. What was this? The wife teamed up with the mistress to kill the original wife, and then the mistress succeeded?

The ghost of the murdered original wife lingers and turns into an evil ghost to claim her life?

"This... this may be the truth!" Ueharano suddenly realized.

This is a plot straight out of a melodramatic TV drama. If someone had told him a year ago that this would be the outcome of the case, he would probably have just smiled contemptuously and told the other person the address of the hospital.

But in this world, even gods have appeared, so what is impossible?

After being murdered, he turned into a demon and then went looking for the person who killed him to take his own life. This... this makes perfect sense!

Is this reasonable?

This makes perfect sense!

No wonder the female victim’s face was so terrified after death. How could she remain calm when the person she killed suddenly turned into an evil ghost and came back to claim her life?

"Huh~, how should this case be solved?"

After Ueharano had sorted out all the directions, he felt his head swelling up and down, just like a balloon being blown up, then deflated, then blown up again, and then deflated again, repeating this process.

But he is a policeman, he can't just relax like that, especially since this is a supernatural case!

"Let's go to Aokigahara Forest and look for Oshima Sho's body!"

According to general horror novels, or TV dramas about wronged souls seeking revenge, the corpses of ghosts like these that are transformed out of hatred usually play a decisive role!

Maybe the source of all this lies on the corpse of Oshima Sho!

Following Ueharano's order, police cars headed towards the Suicide Forest.

After a while, we were at the foot of Mount Fuji.

The police car stopped at the edge of Aokigahara Forest. Compared with yesterday, there were fewer tourists at this time.

How quickly it grew originally, how quickly it recedes now.

After Ueharano got out of the police car, he suddenly saw several other police cars not far from them.

Uehara: ???

Who were those police cars? Why did they arrive here before them? Did other police officers also discover Oshima Sho’s problem?

That's not right. It's impossible for anyone to be faster than them. Besides, this case is closely linked. It's impossible for anyone to think of this before them.

Uehara was completely confused and went up to ask, only to find out that they were from the police station near Mount Fuji, and they were there to search for missing persons.

"Our companion David has disappeared since yesterday. We thought he had sneaked off to play somewhere else, but he didn't come home last night, so we belatedly realized what was happening and called the police!"

A group of white people nearby explained in a panic that judging from their similar clothing, they were a tour group.

The police officer nearby also cooperated: "Yes, we are here to search for lost tourists. Through the surveillance playback, we found that the young man named David entered the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees at noon yesterday and has not come out since."

"Maybe... he's lost."

Listening to the euphemism of the police officer in front of him, Ueharano said nothing. As locals, they knew best what it meant to be lost.

Getting lost means death.

After talking to each other for a few words, Ueharaye separated from the other party. They each had their own tasks and naturally could not waste time.

Due to the special nature of the Aokigahara Forest, they can only search on the periphery at most. Going deep into the forest would be courting death.

However, there is a reason for searching on the periphery. After his death, Oshima Sho was taken to the Aokigahara Forest, and since those two people were able to leave safely, it is impossible for them to go deeper.

No one would be so stupid as to abandon a corpse and end up in a dead end.

Therefore, they only needed to search around the sea of ​​trees and look for the body based on the clothes that Oshima Sho wore the day before, so they would not be completely in the dark.

"Department Head, do we just need to search in this area?"

The police officer who came here with Ueharano drew a circle on the tree map in his hand and asked Ueharano who was on the squad.

"That's right, don't go too deep, put your own safety first!"

"Yes!"

Following an order from Ueharano, teams of three police officers walked towards the forest in different directions, with thin ropes tied around their bodies to prevent them from getting lost.

Of course, there will be no shortage of necessary weapons and equipment, after all, there are inherent dangers involved.

As the leader, Ueharaye would naturally not wait outside. He was also accompanied by two teammates and entered the forest together.

As the search progressed, they saw many corpses hanging in the periphery, and they didn't know whether it was a real suicide or a fake one.

Anyway, those who died here either committed suicide or were killed.

An hour later, the search was very slow because they had to keep in mind that they were getting lost.