No, not people.

Hu Shengxing Luo pricked up his phantom ears and then slowly lowered them. He turned his face and looked outside the convenience store.

It is dusk, or there are other terms in Japan, the time of encountering magic.

Legend has it that this time is a cursed time, and monsters and ghosts can walk freely in the world.

He even forgot that this city is no longer just a place for human beings to live.

Soft laughter and slow da, da, da footsteps are approaching, and the wind is blowing on the street, which is invisible to the eyes of ordinary people.

Husheng Xingluo slowly cleaned up the goods he needed, paid and left, and when he was walking on this street, he said very softly:

"roll."

The white mist quietly spread from his footsteps, and in an instant, all the laughter and footsteps disappeared without a trace.

Back home, Husheng Xingluo found that Xiao Ai was still sitting next to the chessboard. After he came in, he stared at him silently but urgently, with faint excitement in his eyes.

"Have you figured out a countermeasure?" Hu Shengxing Luo was a little surprised. Originally, he estimated that it would take another night for Xiao Ai to figure it out.

Xiao Ai nodded, Hu Sheng sat down again, and started another round.

There is no difficulty in playing backgammon, and soon Husheng Xingluo was about to connect five pieces again. At this time, Xiao Ai suddenly turned over all the chess pieces of Husheng Xingluo.

Backgammon chess pieces can be used on both black and white sides. Xiao Ai holds black, and Hu Sheng Xing Luo holds white. After Xiao Ai turns them over, there are only black pieces left on the board.

She didn't move the opponent's or her own chess pieces without authorization, but just turned the chess pieces over.

"Xiao Ai is awesome~" Hu Sheng Xingluo messed up Xiao Ai's hairstyle, and gave praise without hesitation.

Even if it's just a small game, even playing this game with anyone else, this winning method may not have a way for them to admit it.

It doesn't matter, Hu Shengxing Luo taught Xiao Ai this is not just for a simple game.

This is a way of thinking, or enlightenment is also possible, the purpose is just to let Xiao Ai know that if the world is regarded as a game, then there are many, many ways to succeed.

If she is not strong, then at least she can choose other paths, and when Husheng Xingluo can still bring people by her side, she will try her best to teach her what she is good at.

As for how to choose in the future, it is up to her.

At the same time, thinking of a little episode when I went out today, Husheng Xingluo patted Xiao Ai's head to distract himself, the monsters who were looking for the feast of [Awe] came faster than he imagined.

The city is going to be buzzing again.

……

Somewhere in Yokohama, in an ordinary school.

Oda Reika once again rejected the invitation to play Bixian at the same table, and declined the front row to let herself try the discussion of Hell Girl, packed her schoolbag and prepared to go home.

Recently, there has been a wave of advocating urban legends and monsters in schools, just like a new trend in magazines, and it has become a topic of discussion among most students. After all, such exciting and slightly scary rumors have never obsolete.

It's just that it's probably because of all kinds of illusory rumors and photos that have been circulating on the Internet recently, the wind is a bit strong, and it has been captured by the most sensitive young people, becoming a hot topic nowadays.

But Reika Oda...became an exception.

She never discusses the topic of monsters, never participates in any courage test or any pen fairy game, which makes people who know her very surprised.

"Didn't you like this kind of thing very much before? You must play fox divination every day. Everyone says you are very accurate in divination."

"I'm a little tired recently." Reika Oda just replied embarrassingly.

Not long ago, she was a well-known 'witch' in her class because she was very popular among the girls because she knew all kinds of divination, and many students from the next class came to ask her to divination about love luck and so on.

However, only they know about their own family affairs, and the fox fairy's divination is not as effective as they imagined.

Oda Lihua transferred here halfway. When she transferred, most of the classes already had their own small circles and small groups, and it was difficult to integrate into them.

Just when she was at a loss and was thinking hard about how to integrate into the atmosphere of this class, she discovered that Tarot divination was very popular outside the school, and sometimes the queue could be very far.

Therefore, Oda Lihua taught herself the fox fairy divination.

The so-called divination by the fox fairy is actually to write a few hiragana characters on the paper, then put a coin on it, ask the fox fairy a question, and then the coin will move by itself to give the answer.

She inadvertently gave divination to a classmate who lost her key, and she succeeded in finding the lost property, which made her famous.

But in fact, she just happened to see that girl often forgot the keys in the locker room, and of course the coins moved by themselves. This is the truth of the fox fairy's divination.

Then, she successfully used this 'technique' to become the most popular person in the class.

If it continues like this until graduation, it will probably leave a pretty good high school memory.

Oda Lihua originally thought so, until one morning, when she performed a fox fairy divination for herself on a whim, she asked with a smile if there were really ghosts in the world, and then the coin moved by itself.

It actually moved by itself... Can you understand the horror, it's like you and yourself in the mirror are playing a game of chess, and then you win.

Oda Lihua still remembers that the blood in her whole body was rushing upwards, her fingers trembled, her body seemed to lose control, and she watched the coins move her fingers on the paper one after another on the paper.

I'm here

Oda Lihua didn't quite remember what she was thinking at the time, her mind went blank, and she couldn't help shivering. The only thing she remembered was to follow the original process to send the fox fairy away.

After that, Oda Lihua changed her mind and vowed to stay away from these feudal superstitions.

Now looking at those peers in the class who were excitedly discussing monsters and urban legends, Oda Reika saw that each of them looked like a group of stupid protagonists in a horror movie, and sighed deeply.

Why do you want to die? Isn't it good to live?

Study hard and make progress every day, love science and stay away from superstition.Oda Lihua silently recited the formula that has become her motto, left the classroom and walked out of the school.

On the way home, she saw a child on the side of the road happily stepping on the shadow, but the shadow dodged to prevent him from stepping on it, out of sight and out of mind, and resolutely refused to take any dark alleys that were the shortcut to go home. It's the same with a hand inside who made an invitation to her, and never paid attention to the vague voice behind her that made her turn back.

Huh, this shitty city is getting more and more magical. Sooner or later, she will go to university and leave here.

Since playing the Fox Fairy game that day, she found herself noticing all kinds of unusual things in the dark corners of the city more and more frequently, but her classmates seemed to have never noticed, and they were keen to play the dead side in horror movies.

She won't be the kind of 3-minute lunch box, just ignore it, don't meddle in other people's business, don't watch or listen...

Huh?

Oda Reika was attracted by the scenery in the next window, and stopped unconsciously. There were several gorgeous dolls in the window, which looked a bit like the ones she used to play with at her grandma's house in the country.

As soon as she showed a nostalgic smile, she saw the doll's eyes turn and meet her gaze.

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Oda Lihua lowered her head abruptly, pretending that nothing happened, and hurriedly left the scene.

Meet the line of sight, meet the line of sight, meet the line of sight!

It's over, it won't follow.

Oda Lihua returned to her home with a fluke mentality, closed the door, and everything was as usual, as if this door isolated all monsters and ghosts from the outside world, and heaved a sigh of relief.

The phone rang suddenly!

Oda Lihua had a bad premonition in her heart, and looked at the call reminder, it was an unknown number.

She connected with trembling fingers, and the next second there was a voice on the phone asking her to fall into the ice cave.

"Hi, hello, I'm Mary, and I'll come to you."

Mary doll's phone...

As a former witch, Oda Reika instantly came up with this urban legend in her mind. Every time she answered the phone, Mary would get closer, and when she made the last call, she would find that Mary had come behind her...

As for what happened after that, no one knows.

over over over over over over over

Oda Lihua's mind went blank, and with her last desire to survive, she immediately called the police station for help: "Uncle policeman, help me!!!"

"Uh, hello, what help do you need? What happened?"

"I, I met a Mary doll... Ah bah." Oda Lihua subconsciously wanted to slap herself, idiot, isn't this the operation of the protagonist group in horror movies, who would believe this, definitely would It was treated as a prank call, "Whoa, please don't hang up, give me a chance to reorganize the language..."

Just as she was racking her brains to think whether it was a burglary or a stalker, the female voice on the other side of the phone gradually became serious: "Did you encounter a supernatural event? Do you need help? Where is your current address? If you encounter danger, we will The nearest personnel will be notified immediately to come and check.”

"Ah, yes, yes, I'm at home. My home is at xxx Apartment No. 309. I need help. Please come quickly!" Oda Lihua finished speaking quickly, fearing that the other party would hang up the phone.

Ten minutes later, Oda Lihua had already received a call from the third Mary doll, saying that she had arrived on the second floor.

However, this time Mary hadn't finished speaking, when suddenly there were bullets and screams on the phone, Oda Lihua shivered under the blanket with tears in her eyes, and there was still a piece of paper used for divination by the fox fairy in front of her.

She planned to summon a fox fairy if the police didn't arrive in time, and maybe they could start a fight.

Fortunately, she didn't have to face such a terrible scene, because it was the police who opened the door.

……

The police station was as busy as ever, no, even busier than the Hell Girl case before.

Because their target has changed from social cases to high-risk terrorists trying to affect social safety, even a high-ranking official organization like the Supernatural Secret Service has to go all out, how can the police department not act.

What's more, now all kinds of traces are showing that this is not a joke, but the imminent future, which can be seen from the number of reports that are twice as many as usual.

And this kind of report is not the routine one, but where there are supernatural events happening, for example, two students in this school disappeared when they summoned the pen fairy, for example, a man met a woman with a gaping mouth on the road, and then For example, the rumored weird Mary doll.

If in the past, no one would take this kind of prank call seriously, but now every clerk will take it seriously, and write down the address of the caller, and after confirming that he really needs help, send community service personnel or The nearest patrolling policeman visits, and if an injury incident really occurs, it will be handled by the criminal policeman.

It was all due to the vigilance of Anwu and his superiors, so far no casualties have been caused, but it has made some policemen truly realize the other side of the world.

How should I put it... It's really terrifying, and it makes people feel awe from the heart of the legend that has been passed down since ancient times.

Although Officer Jipu has tried his best to keep other policemen from understanding and superstition, he can't control people's hearts.

"Maybe our response method is wrong." Poe muttered while sitting next to Ranbu, "The direction of the police station has changed, which is why magicians have always acted mysteriously, monsters and magic spirits are very similar, more people know After killing monsters, they will instead become their source of power."

"Now it seems that we have dealt with many incidents that have not happened and extinguished the tragedy at the source, but in fact we are only increasing the source, because the more people know, the people will be unable to control their awe, and instead become more monsters hotbed of birth."

The Supernatural Secret Service Division had also inquired about the magic world before, and the answer they got was that they did know about monsters, and even the chaos in Kyoto before was caused by a monster with a feathered fox.

The officials are very annoyed why they didn't say it earlier, now that the reply from the magic world is innocent, the old men thought it was difficult for laymen to distinguish the difference between imaginary magic spirits and monsters, and the more people who know, the better it is for the monsters, So they simply concealed it and treated it as a curse spirit, and they could get some benefits by the way.

As for the opinion of Onmyoji?They were all beaten to the base camp, and in the end it was only the monsters who could win, and it would be shameless to say it out, they were happy to pretend that nothing happened, everything was the business of the magic spirits and magicians, and had nothing to do with them.

Of course, this is a matter of the old magic world, what does it have to do with their new magic world, if you want to find it, you can go to hell and ask the old men to take the blame.

This was the answer from the magic world, but the officials were so angry that they almost recited it.

Going back to the present, Poe turned his head as he spoke, as if he wanted to see what Ranbu thought about it, but he found that the other party seemed to be boneless and huddled in the chair, with his chin resting on his knees, as if he was thinking about something.

The hell girl incident has come to an end, as Kunikida said, there are no new victims, but it doesn't mean that this incident has no value to continue to investigate.

Anyone who walks will leave traces.

Ranpo found a very interesting thing after investigating the information of all the missing people, that is, the missing people are basically 'heinous' people.

Such as kidnappers, school bullying, domestic violence, stalkers... Most of them are people who cannot be tried by law or even if they are sentenced, they will be sentenced lightly.

Simply put, the act of letting them disappear reveals some thoughts of the people behind it, such as a sense of justice.

In criminal psychology, the criminal behavior itself will reveal some thoughts of the prisoner, such as bullying the weak, such as revenge, such as misogyny, or a thought criminal or a pleasure criminal.

That is to say, in the incident of the Angel of Cang, the prisoner believed that his actions were just.

So this behind-the-scenes murderer is a self-proclaimed 'justice messenger'?No, there are contradictions.

There is no doubt that many people who have no resistance will be involved in this feast of monsters, and according to Ango, there is nothing in the eyes he saw in the supernatural power. Undoubtedly represents 'evil'

From justice and evil, persistence and brutality, Ranpo can feel two completely different and contradictory thoughts and personalities. Which one is a disguise and which one is his real side?

"Random steps." Poe called him suddenly.

"Huh?" Luanbu came back to his senses and looked at him.

"It's the first time I've seen you so excited." Poe pointed at Luanbu's face.

Luanbu subconsciously touched his own face, only to realize that he was smiling. He freely admitted that he was very interested in this mystery.

"We are the ones who are closest to the answer, and also the closest to the abyss." Poe looked at Luanbu with eyes under his bangs, "You also want to understand him, the more you will become him."

"Of course I know!" Luanbu snorted, but brought up another point of view, "But when I become him, I can know who he really is."

He jumped off the chair: "There will be no other gains from staying here. From now on, I will find it myself."

Jipu just walked in, and was about to go out when he saw Luanbu excitedly, and asked suspiciously: "Have you found any clues, I will call people immediately."

"No, I have to go by myself!"

"Huh? Already have a goal?"

"Well, there are probably dozens of them."

"what?"

"I know the police station is understaffed right now, so you can call for help. You can ask Poe to help. I will find the real culprit by myself."

This is the optimal solution obtained by Ranpo. Yokohama is currently short of manpower in all aspects.

Officials such as the police are busy solving all kinds of supernatural events of the citizens, and the commissions of detective agencies are flying all over the place. Even Mafia, who lives in the dark, has to pick up a gun to collect protection fees from monsters, and try to maintain the order of the Yokohama underground as much as possible.

As for the murderer behind the scenes, he borrowed the resources of the police station, narrowed the scope as much as possible according to his own reasoning, and finally got about dozens of suspicious lists.

This is already the range that Ranpo can narrow down as much as possible through reasoning.

But despite this, the police don't have any extra manpower to track down or something, or even if they can spare their hands, if the opponent is a monster, they will just deliver food to him.

He believes that Dazai will definitely collect as much information as possible about youkai, so he can only narrow down the scope of the real culprit behind the scenes.

Find out the real criminal from these dozens of lists.

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