Returning from the abyss

247 Mist
Unlike Carl, who was inquiring while having fun, the other groups basically asked the residents in the town who could chat as quickly as possible, but the most common result was that there was no information about the devil.

Including the mayor visited by Shen Lishu, most people in the town knew the story of the witch very well, and some even showed a secretive attitude. However, when talking about the devil, everyone seemed very at a loss.

"They obviously know what's going on and don't know why." Ye Chuqing, who had been accompanying Shen Lishu all the time, was a little helpless. "We used many methods to formulate words, and the conclusion is that they really don't know. The mayor knows how to prevent it." The witch is resurrected, but when I asked him how to talk about resurrection because the witch did not die in the legend, the mayor was not too clear."

"Who told him to prevent the resurrection of the witch?" Asayama Kiyotaro asked.

"He said it was passed down from his ancestors." Ye Chuqing sighed.

Lu Ning suddenly said, "Compared to this... How old is the mayor and what does he look like? What is your initial impression of him?"

"That's right." Carl snapped his fingers, "According to our inference, if you really want to know the inside story, that person must be quite old, so if the mayor is just a young man, he probably doesn't know what happened before. .”

Shen Lishu nodded: "The mayor is in his early forties, he is a very capable person, but he may still be too young for his age."

"Yes, I think it's about looking for someone of the same age as Professor Shen." Lu Ning said, "How old is the person you met in Qianshan?"

"He's retired and he's nearly 60 years old, but he doesn't know about it." Asayama Kiyotaro was a little annoyed, "He did invite us here because of the witch's recovery, but the main reason was that some animals appeared in the forest. The corpse, and the scars are very strange, he asked us to investigate because he was worried about his son who took over his position, and he doesn’t know much about the witches than other townspeople.”

"Speaking of which..." Carl suddenly remembered something again, "I remember we have a Miss Detective here? Now that I have been awarded this position, I guess I can see more things than us? Are there any doubts?"

His words immediately made everyone's eyes focus on Fujii Xueyin who was leaning against the corner of the wall.

However, Fujii Yukine didn't care about everyone's gaze at all, and just stared at Karl with cold eyes.

This stare at each other seemed to last for a long time, and neither of them backed down. In the end, Fujii Yukine slowly adjusted from the posture leaning against the wall back to an upright position.

"There are... a lot."

"Oh? That's really good, what can you tell us?" Carl still smiled.

"No."

"Hey, this is not teamwork!" Pan Haishu, one of the four brothers, couldn't help but said, "We don't want you to reveal the secret, but just tell you the clues you found, or even us to be in charge of the investigation. What is the difficulty?"

"...No." Fujii Xueyin glanced at Pan Haishu, "I want to investigate myself."

Kiyotaro Asayama quickly stood up to smooth things over: "Fujii didn't even tell us, maybe she has her own considerations. This scene is not that simple, and everyone has secrets..."

"Secrets are one thing, keeping everything secret is another!" Another young man, Peng Morong, was also a little dissatisfied, "I have experienced a lot of secret scenes, and I have never heard that everything is secret. It's a secret! This is hunting! If you were attacked by a demon, would you still carry the secret into the coffin?"

"I have the confidence to guarantee my safety." Fujii Xueyin said a few more words this time.

"This is ridiculous. Although the difficulty of hunting targets is relatively low, it is not something that one person can handle by chance." Yiluo shook his head, "Even if it is an unimportant clue, I hope to hear it from you." A little bit of reality, otherwise I will think you are playing tricks."

Fujii Xueyin still flatly refused: "What do you think is all your business, I have clues, I won't tell, that's it."

"Have you confirmed anything?"

Lu Ning suddenly spoke.

The dialogue between the two people in this scene unfolded so suddenly.

"I have had a similar experience. I know something that cannot be said. I need to confirm certain clues. Language and behavior are also temptations. Observe everyone's reaction and demeanor... I don't need clues, you just need to tell me if you are Confirmed what?"

"Yes." Fujii Xueyin nodded, "but it's just a preliminary."

"I understand, it's still a matter of secrets." Shen Lishu laughed after hearing this, "I see, you are a detective...you are a detective!"

"If you understand, it's better to keep it in your heart, because this is a matter of life." Although Fujii Xueyin was indifferent, he still maintained the basic politeness.Shen Lishu also nodded to her: "Then it's better for this old man not to be in the same room with Miss Detective, Chuqing... help me upstairs."

After finishing speaking, Shen Lishu and Yi Luo walked out of the restaurant with Ye Chuqing's support.

With this move, everyone fell into thinking.

Under the guise, it should convey some meaning. Everyone present is not a novice anymore, and they have made some considerations based on their own experience.

"Please allow me to ask one more question... Then Miss Detective wants to investigate alone?" Carl spoke again, this time he bit the "alone" sound very strongly.

"I will still act with the team for the time being, but please don't be surprised that I leave suddenly at any time, that is a normal phenomenon."

"In my principle, doctors, professors and detectives are the first line of protection." Carl slowly leaned back in the chair, "because these people are easy to die, especially in a scene that requires a lot of investigation. It's a pity Miss, since you have declared that you have the clues, I can't let you take risks at will."

"Even if you lose the advantage of clues?"

"A living person is more important than a few clues." Carl responded calmly, "If you regard your leaving as a normal action, then I may take some secret actions to confirm your safety."

"Please." Fujii Xueyin didn't care about the implication in Carl's words, "You have your freedom."

The ending this time was a little less cheerful.Everyone was thinking, whether it was the conversation between Lu Ning and Fujii Xueyin, or what Shen Lishu said when he left, they all had to figure out what the meaning was.

Lu Ning didn't care, she was free to investigate for a period of time at noon, and it happened to confirm some things.

This is the only hotel in Baihu Town, so she doesn't need to consider other investigation routes, first ask the boss to confirm whether the Lima mentioned in her mission has ever lived here.

After showing a little evidence of the relationship between the two of them, the boss quickly found Lima's check-in record from the registration book.

Checked in about a month and a half ago, left half a month ago.

"Has anyone lived in his room?" Lu Ning asked.

"Well... it's still empty, because the passenger flow has been relatively small these days, and a lot of people came suddenly until yesterday."

"Give me that room." Lu Ning said immediately.

After getting the key, Lu Ning immediately set off to find the room, feeling a little anxious.The duration of this mission is fourteen days, two weeks can only be said to be a moderate length, and it is obvious that some people have already begun to contact clues that only belong to them.

Every tourist here should not be underestimated.

On the second floor, in Room [-] at the end of the corridor, Lu Ning quickly opened the door and walked in.Due to frequent cleaning, there is no dusty smell in the room. The windows are opened to let the sunlight shine in directly, which adds a lot of brightness to the dark interior.

A bed, a set of tables and chairs, a wardrobe, hangers, and a potted plant in the corner, the furnishings of the entire room can be said to be simple, but for such a hotel, it is already an acceptable standard.There is no toilet, which is an inconvenience of hotels in this era, but it also saves a lot of search space for Lu Ning.

Sheets and bedding will be changed and washed without careful inspection. The focus is on wardrobes, tables, chairs, beds, potted plants and corners.Soon, Lu Ning dug out a round wax ball the size of a ping-pong ball from under the slightly loose soil of the potted plant.

Lu Ning immediately locked the door, then sat on the head of the bed and pinched the wax ball open.

Inside were two dark seeds and a rolled-up note.

This kind of thing often doesn't mean anything good, but Lu Ning still opened it to look at the contents.

[The heart has dried up, so its value is no different from a piece of garbage.

I must head to the lake and reconfigure my fresh heart in that cabin.

But I have a hunch, just in case, anyone with my autograph, goes to the grocery store in town to retrieve my research notes, and make them public if I disappear or die.

Lima Tutmoney]

This note is not very big, so many words and the last signature are already full. Lu Ning folded it carefully and put it in her pocket, then looked at the two seeds.

They did show the appearance of a heart, but the outer skin was shriveled, wrapped in an unknown substance, very hard to touch, and much heavier compared to this size.And with the eyes of Lu Ning's pharmacology, he couldn't recognize the names of these two seeds.

"No accident, this is the seed of the witch's heart... It's just that the seeds don't seem to be directly used as medicine." Lu Ning put the hand holding the seeds in her pocket, "If Lima is dead, it is really good news for my mission. Is it better to store his research notes in the grocery store for the time being, or take them out now?"

A clue is not the most important thing. Since the distribution center will not block everyone's missions with the death of one or two people, it is understandable for me not to disclose this clue.What's more, she dared to say that everyone was hiding something that she only knew about.

With limited cooperation, how long this team can last is a question.

Lu Ning left the room, planning to put the seeds back into the safe in her car.And just after she went downstairs, the door of room No. [-] next door was slightly opened, and a pair of eyes looked outside vigilantly.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Ning was studying the notes on the semi-finished medicine in the RV, and it was no problem to understand the notes with the knowledge forcibly given by the distribution center.But her concentration was soon interrupted by a knock on the car door.

"Is Ms. Lu there?"

This name, which she had never heard before, almost made Lu Ning spit out.

Re-recognizing the fact that she is 27 years old, Lu Ning walked to the door and opened the car door, and found that it was the two girls who were on the same team as Fujii Yukine. It is holding a little boy, and next to it is a panicked man and woman, who should be the boy's parents.

"What's up with him?"

"When I went out to visit the local area with the two ladies, I happened to pass by the medical center and encountered this." Li Chuanliang carefully moved the boy to his chest, and Lu Ning noticed that there were bruises on the boy's arms, chest and other places. Injuries, limbs are limp, and it seems that the condition is not good.

"Can't the doctors here treat him? Move him in, put him on the bed, and move him as gently as possible."

"Thank you Doctor Lu for your help."

Well, this title is much better than the one just now.

Lu Ning gave up his seat, and Li Chuanliang transported the boy to the car smoothly, and put him on the bed on his back.

"Leave one person, the others go out."

Li Chuanliang glanced at the flustered men and women behind him, shook his head and said to the two girls: "Sugiyama and Inawara, you two take them to the hotel to calm down for a while, Dr. Lu is very skilled, there will be no problem."

The two girls nodded quickly, trying to persuade the couple to enter the hotel. Lu Ning asked Li Chuanliang to close the door, reached out and unscrewed the hot water device to boil water, and then took out the scissors from the drawer to cut the boy's clothes.

The injuries under the clothes were simply shocking.

It looked as if someone had been beating it with a blunt instrument. The boy was bloody from his chest to his abdomen, and some of his clothes were even stuck together.There is no doubt that his limbs were broken, but fortunately, they did not reach the point of broken bones.Lu Ning checked the injury for a while, and then began emergency treatment.

"What's Dr. Lu's opinion?" Li Chuanliang asked, helping out.

"Blunt trauma, and at least fifty or sixty. Fortunately, it looked serious but did not cause internal bleeding. The more troublesome thing was the fracture."

"According to his parents, the child went out to play around nine in the morning, and his partner said that he ran into the woods on the east side to explore. Then he didn't return after noon, and the parents went out anxiously to look for it. Only then did they find him seriously injured and unconscious outside the woods. The strange thing is that no blunt instruments that make similar wounds have been found, except for the most common stones in the woods." Ryo Tachikawa said.

"Yeah." Lu Ning mixed the wound medicine and began to apply it to the boy, and slowly wrapped it in gauze, "But his injuries are only on the body and limbs, and the deadliest head is not even a trace of wound. The person who hurt him is not there. Going to kill him straight away."

"That's obvious. Didn't Dr. Lu see any other problems?"

"Don't test me, his injuries correspond to the story of being stoned to death, right? You want to ask me this?"

"The doctor is smart."

"Flaty words are useless to me. I know what you want to say. This may be done by the devil. Although the hidden purpose of not killing this child is puzzling, it may correspond to the devil's method of killing. Witch punishment ——I've been thinking in this direction."

Lichuan Liangliang nodded and stopped talking.

"You want to confirm your thinking with me? Well... Hanging, stoning, burning, and water torture, but this number is not right, there are six demons."

"The legend may have missed something."

"It makes sense, but if there is something missing, what's the use of us studying this?"

"Maybe we can deduce the identity of the devil from this. I think that the devil is hidden in the town, so it must be disguised as a human being. If we can find the connection between the two, it may help the mission."

Lu Ning carefully splinted and fixed the boy's limbs. After working for a long time, she finally completed most of the treatment.

"I don't recommend being limited by this idea."

(End of this chapter)