Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 440 Standalone Puppet

Flying around with Koizumi Hongzi for a few laps, Jiang Xia sighed suddenly when no magic power was squeezed out.

This witch seems to have been squeezed to the limit.

However, today's harvest is rich enough...

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia took Koizumi Hongzi down, planning to find a place to put her down, and come to her later when she recovers.

In the process of falling slowly, Koizumi Hongzi's ears twitched and heard the servant's magic message.

"Master Hongzi, I just found out the relevant legend about that tengu." There was a sound of flipping newspapers from the servant's side—after Koizumi Hongzi saw Wutengu just now, he was curious about this monster that he had never seen before, so The subpoena was sent to investigate, and the result was finally found out now.

The servant obviously didn't know anything about Koizumi Hongko's current situation. He read the newspaper intently, and helped Mrs. Witch examine the feasibility and difficulty of raising Wutengu at home:

"The legend of Wutengu has always been popular in the Banmaru Mountain area, but it really became famous two years ago-two years ago, in the Shanni Temple there, a young monk 'hanged himself'; a while ago , their abbot also 'hanged himself'.

"The place where these two hanged themselves was on the roof of the extremely high confinement room. No one knows how they climbed up without leaving a trace. It looked like someone took them to fly up. In addition, when the young monk died , A huge gap was knocked open on the wall of the confinement room... These characteristics are completely consistent with the cannibalism of the local 'foggy dog'."

"……eat human?"

...and it sounds like two people have died because of this?
Koizumi Hongzi thumped in her heart, and it was difficult to maintain the lying corpse state for a while—although she had already experienced impressive fear and exhaustion when she was thrown around in mid-air, but this instinctive fear of weightlessness, It's not exactly the same thing as some kind of thoughtful fear.

The servant heard the words Koizumi Hongzi repeated in a low voice, and responded:

"That's right. It is said that Wutiangu will sneak into the village like a fog in the middle of the night, smash through the walls, take away the food they want, and then hang the carcass of the prey on a high place for food-by the way, I heard that they like young people the most. beautiful girl.

"But you don't have to worry, Hongzi, your noble and pure magic power is enough to suppress this kind of monster.

"It's just that if you want to raise it, you must prepare a cage that is hard to break, lest he run out and endanger the surrounding residents. In addition, you may have to prepare human flesh as rations, but this is against the law, so..."

"..."

Koizumi Hongzi originally wanted to secretly ask the servant for help, but was blocked by the phrase "noble and pure magic power", and it was difficult to speak for a while.

When she finally finished struggling, she gritted her teeth and wanted to save her life, but Wu Tiangou glanced at her ear knowingly.

Immediately afterwards, Koizumi Hongzi found that she could no longer hear the noisy and unpleasant voice of the servant.

Her pupils shrunk—it didn't seem to be an illusion, this monster actually seemed to have a way to block her magic power!
...Why did the ancient books at home never record that there are living monsters in the world?Why no mention of this terrible natural enemy? ?
Koizumi Hongzi thought of the news brought by the servant just now, especially the words "human flesh" and "prey" in it, and then thought about her own situation, and felt uncontrollable fear.

At the same time, she also had a new understanding of how Wu Tiangou played with her just now.

——Since Wutiangou likes to hang the corpses of its prey on high places to eat.Just now, Wu Tiangou threw her from top to bottom, perhaps trying to aim and stab her to some very tall objects.

It's just because she always instinctively floats in the air with the help of magic power, which causes the trajectory to deviate. Wu Tiangou feels that the throw is not accurate, so he brings her up again dissatisfied, and throws it again...

...In this case, even if you can't use magic to float yourself away, at least try to change the direction of your fall.You can't just wait to die so willingly!

The unknown makes people fearful and dare not resist.

But once she figured out the other party's behavior pattern, Koizumi Hongzi's remaining desire to survive was squeezed out again.

She waited with bated breath for the next time Wutiangu threw her.This time, she will no longer maintain a floating state, but will only deflect herself a little for a short time.In this way, Wutiangou, who insisted on hanging the prey on the tree to eat, would not kill her immediately... In order to delay the time, the servant may find out that something is wrong and come to save her!

After having a rough countermeasure, Hongzi Koizumi gritted her teeth, forced herself to calm down, and was ready to be thrown in the next wave.

However, different from what she thought, Wutiangou didn't take her up into the sky again, but descended all the way, and finally came to the woods and landed on a tree that was not too low.

Koizumi Hongzi looked at the eerie tree with overgrown branches, and in his mind, the servant's science popularization just now kept echoing - Wutiangou likes to hang the corpses of its prey on high places for food...

high place...

Reserve to eat...

Scenes of the bloody fresh human flesh hanging on the tree and the tragic scene of her being cut open flashed through her mind. She rolled her eyes upwards, escaped from reality exhaustedly, and fell into a coma.

"..."

Jiang Xia landed on the tree and patted Koizumi Hongzi.

It was found that she seemed to be really dizzy, and then fell to the ground again.

There seems to be some kind of connection between Koizumi Hongko and her servant.Jiang Xia tugged the magic thread on Koizumi Hongzi's body, and after a while, the servants would come to pick her up.

He puts people down and leaves with a rich harvest.

……

Late at night, Mihua Town.

Jiang Xia opened her eyes under the quilt, and coughed twice according to the tattoo on her heart.

I choked on eating so many energy cores at once.

However, he didn't feel tired of eating at all, and he didn't know when Hongzi Koizumi would recover. He already wanted to make an appointment for the next visit...

Like Koizumi Hongzi just now, Jiang Xia lay down for a while, and slowly digested the energy core that had just been stored.

After digesting, he lifted the quilt and sat up, letting a large piece of Shikigami flow out from the print on his heart and mouth.

The shikigami quickly gathered in the center of the room, piling up into puppet clay.

Jiang Xia casually picked up the nearest ghost and threw it in.

In the next second, a slender figure in black condensed into shape in front of him—a woman who appeared out of thin air was wearing a solemn black long dress, with a black sun hat with a wide brim on her head, the brim of the hat drooped, and the skirt was dotted with dark silver. fringe.

——Akemi Miyano.

Or rather, Miss Anonymous.

(End of this chapter)