Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before Dragon Slaying

"Is the count really correct?" The policeman rubbed his chin in distress. "This is strange. The evidence given by the shrine did show that there were only seventeen children sent here, but this girl named Songzi insisted that she was in ' Eighteen girls were seen at the Priestess Festival, who is lying? If no one is lying...then who is the extra girl?"

An inexplicable and strange emotion permeated the crowd. The priest and the old witch at the shrine did not seem to be lying, and the girl Songzi did not seem to be lying. So where did this extra girl come from?Could it be a ghost?
In the distant Edo period, there were similar rumors that the procession of the witches brought peace and health to their families and residents of the town, and at the same time carried some kind of magical power, which would attract people wandering in the mountains. These ghosts are transformed from resentment, because they were extremely unhappy in life, and longed for salvation after death, so the priestess festival is also a kind of soul-calling ceremony.

But even if these legends and ghost stories are true, these girls are just apprentice priestesses who have trained in the shrine for ten days. Can apprentice priestesses have such strong magic power to attract resentful souls from the deep mountains?What is the connection between this resentful soul and the recent frequent disappearances of girls?

The policeman shook his head, denying the ghosts and ghosts. He is a law enforcement officer of the Metropolitan Police Department. He pays attention to evidence and clues in the process of handling cases. The ghost who kidnapped the girl in the deep mountains... is really unscientific!

"There are still thirteen girls left here. Are there four or five missing girls?" The police officer in charge of the case asked another police officer in charge of investigating the parents, "What do the parents say?"

"A total of four pairs of parents claimed that their children were missing." The police officer in charge of investigating the parents said in a low voice, "They didn't find their children in the 'witch festival' team. Adding the missing children of these four parents, the number of girls should be 17."

"How did your police handle the case?" A man who lost his child stepped forward angrily, "What's the use of arguing about seventeen or eighteen people? Shouldn't the top priority now be to search for the children?"

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault! I said don't send a girl to this kind of mountain to participate in some witch training. You insist on sending her. Are you satisfied now? The children are gone!" a woman sobbed, While beating the shoulder of the man beside him, "If my daughter can't find it... If my daughter can't find it, don't go home tonight!"

"Your shrine should also be responsible!" A parent said to the palace secretary couple of Shikatori Shrine, "I paid you money, and I paid you a lot of money! You have the responsibility and obligation to take good care of my children. Now My child is lost, if I can't find my child, I will never let you go!"

The priest of the Shikatori Shrine and the elderly priestess looked at each other with ugly expressions as if they had just eaten two dead flies.

As a couple who have been living in the Shikatori Shrine, they certainly know what happened in the town these days. They pray to the gods every day for the town to return to peace. People are in a state of panic. They come back home after school all day long and close their doors. The travel agency in the town has also stopped accepting outsiders. It has been a long time since no one came to the Shikatori Shrine to pray. Such a situation has lasted for hundreds of years and the Shikatori Shrine will probably collapse in the near future.

The "Miko Festival" is a good opportunity. This is the most profitable day for the shrine throughout the year. The income from holding a "Miko Festival" can maintain the shrine's expenses for several months. It's not that the palace priests are not worried about these What accident happened to the girls from the city at the shrine, but the predicament of the shrine forced them to take the risk without telling the parents of these girls. The "sacrifice" was complete, and just when the ten-day fears of the palace officials and his wife were about to let go, an accident happened at the last moment.

"Then let's tentatively say there are seventeen girls in total." Under the pressure of the parents, the police had to compromise and give up the investigation on the number. "The missing girls are four, and they searched around the shrine. lock up."

"That..." Another girl interrupted suddenly, "Songzi must not have lied... It seems that the missing are really five girls."

"What?" The police officer in charge of the case frowned slightly. He looked at the girl who interrupted and asked urgently, "You said five girls were missing? What's going on? Do you know anything?"

"I seem to have seen... when the parade started, someone I didn't know got mixed into the line." The girl's voice was very small, and she seemed a little timid, "He was standing in front of me, wearing the same clothes as us ...he talked to me at first."

"Someone I don't know? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" The police officer was stunned, and he hurriedly asked, "What kind of person is he? What did you talk to him about? Describe his appearance!"

"I don't remember... I don't remember." The girl's thinking seemed to be a little chaotic, "I just remembered, it seems that there is such a person... But I really don't remember!"

"I don't even remember?" The police officer said with a puzzled face, "Isn't this what happened just now? How can I not remember? I don't remember the face and voice? I don't remember the content of the chat?"

"I don't remember." The girl shook her head truthfully.

"What about the gender?" This is an extremely important clue, and the policeman asked unwillingly, "Gender can always be judged, right? Is the person who sneaked in a man or a woman?"

"I don't remember... I really don't remember..." The girl shook her head in pain, and then suddenly became irritable.

The girl screamed like crazy, beat her head indiscriminately, and tore her hair, as if she had just woken up from a nightmare, and couldn't tell the difference between dreams and reality, which shocked the surrounding crowd

"Don't ask me any more, she's just a child!" The girl's mother stood up and shouted at the police officer, she hugged the girl into her arms, and softly comforted her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I just went through something like this , It’s raining again, scared you, you won’t be a witch anymore, we won’t be a witch anymore, I’ll take you home later, mom and dad will take you home now, we’ll never come to this shitty place again! "

The policeman's expression was also very perplexed, he had finally found a new insider, and he hoped to dig out some more clues from this girl, but this girl forgot all the most obvious features of the suspected suspect, it was really shocking. It's unbelievable. Judging by the mental state of the girl's words and the appearance of the parents protecting the calf, the police may find it difficult to ask any useful information from her.

The whole case was complicated and confusing, and the police officer in charge of the case was almost desperate. Just as he was about to organize a group of police officers to search for clues in the shrine, a figure in a black windbreaker walked quickly to the center of the front yard of the shrine.

"Did you see your children in the parade when you passed the torii at the foot of the mountain?" The young man in the black windbreaker asked the parents of the missing children straight to the point.

The parents were all at a loss. No one knew who this handsome young man in a black trench coat who appeared out of nowhere was, nor did they know whether they should answer the other party's questions.

"Who are you? What are you doing at the shrine at this time?" The police officers surrounded him, staring at the young man in the black trench coat. In such a sensitive period, such an uninvited visitor at the shrine could not help but arouse suspicion.

The young man didn't talk nonsense with the police officers. He opened his windbreaker to reveal the lining embroidered with silver moon circles. He took out a black ID from the lining and showed it to the police officer in charge of the case.

"Executive Bureau?" The police officer looked at the ID shown to him by the young man, showing a surprised expression, "Are you the deputy director of the Executive Bureau?"

The Executive Bureau of Snake Bajia and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department often cooperate. Although the police officers do not know what kind of organization the Executive Bureau is, the sheriff of the Metropolitan Police Department has issued instructions. In this case, everything depends on the attitude of the law enforcement officers, and all police officers need to cooperate unconditionally.

In this case, the Executive Bureau and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department have notified in advance. The police officer in charge of the case knew that someone from the Executive Bureau would come, but he didn't know that it was the deputy director of the Executive Bureau who came, and the deputy director was actually Such a young man.

It is too much to say that it is a man, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a boy. He looks like he hasn't even graduated from middle school... However, although this man is young, the fierce aura on his body made the police officers in charge feel secretly frightened. The certificate cannot be forged, and this young man is indeed the deputy director of the executive bureau.

"Please cooperate and answer the question that this person just raised." The policeman said solemnly to the parents, "Whether your child can be found or not will largely depend on this person."

The parents looked at each other in blank dismay. No one knew the identity of this young man in a black windbreaker, but seeing the respectful attitude of the police officers towards him, everyone realized that this man had an extraordinary background.

"We didn't see it clearly." The parents said to Yuan Zhisheng, "We can't get too close to the parade during the 'Miko Festival'. It rained a lot today, and the children are all in uniform. The make-up was returned to the shrine, and after the children finished washing, the takeaway found that the children were missing."

Yuan Zhisheng pondered for a moment, then he looked at Songzi, the first girl who spoke: "When your team passed through the torii gate, did you count how many people were left in front of you?"

"I remember... I remember as if I was No. 13." Songzi said uncertainly.

"So, these girls disappeared before returning to the shrine." Yuan Zhisheng said, "They were taken away during the parade."

"During the parade?" The police officer was confused, "How is this possible? If several girls disappeared during the parade, wouldn't it be easy to be found?"

Yuan Zhisheng knew that this was possible. Because of the serial disappearances of the girls, no one in the town watched the "Witch Festival" parade tonight, so the only ones who could be witnesses were the girls in these parades. It is not impossible to steal the girls quietly during the parade.

"Then do you still remember, where was the last time you counted down to thirteen people in the team?" Yuan Zhisheng asked Song Zi.

"I don't remember...I don't remember." Song Zi's memory seemed to be confused, "I only remember the intersection to the west of the town, and there were eighteen people at that intersection."

Yuan Zhisheng was stunned, the intersection on the west side of the town, he entered the town from that road, he had passed through that fork road countless times in his past life... because the right side of the intersection is the town, and the left side of the intersection is him The boarding house since childhood.

If you ask this girl named Songzi again, you can't find anything. The key clue is still in the second girl who spoke. She has seen the suspect with her own eyes and communicated with her. She is the only witness. Beside the second girl, she knelt down slowly and asked softly, "Is there anything else you can think of? When did that person you don't know appear and when did he leave?"

The girl hadn't recovered from the emotional loss just now, when she heard Yuan Zhisheng's voice, she turned her head to look at Yuan Zhisheng... Then an unbelievable scene appeared.

"It's you...it's you!" The girl pointed at Yuan Zhisheng's face, her expression was as frightened as if she had seen a ghost, "I remembered!"

Everyone was shocked by the girl's reaction, and Yuan Zhisheng was also a little frightened, but he quickly calmed down, pressed the girl's shoulder and asked, "What do you mean me? The person who sneaked into the team is very similar to me." Is it?"

As if feeling the warmth of Yuan Zhisheng's palm, the girl's emotions gradually settled down. She looked at Yuan Zhisheng's face carefully, and then said in surprise: "Yes, you are very similar...but he seems to be more similar than you. A little boy, and a little deeper voice...I can't remember the rest."

"Hey, don't touch our child, didn't you see that she was frightened by you just now!" The girl's mother angrily slapped Yuan Zhisheng's hand away.

The police officers were still at a loss, no one knew what the girl meant, only Yuan Zhisheng's expression became more serious... A certain suspicion gradually rose in his heart.

"Do you have a clue?" The policeman stepped forward to ask Yuan Zhisheng, but the latter pushed him away.

Yuan Zhisheng almost ran down the mountain, he shuttled through the familiar streets of the town, the wind and rain whizzed past his ears... The criminal is a mixed race, but which half race would come to such a small town in the mountains? ?
An ominous premonition in Yuan Zhisheng's heart became more and more real, but he kept saying "impossible, impossible, impossible".

Running all the way to the west intersection of the town, Yuan Zhisheng saw a lantern on the side of the road.