detective world detective

Chapter 1538 The sudden appearance of a corpse

After talking with the old man, the two had a better understanding of the legend of the hidden gods passed down in this village.

However, nothing was found about the missing village chief.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to pay homage, Karasawa also took a closer look at the shrine, and found that the space inside was clearly visible, and there was nothing else except the mask.

The super sense of smell was also turned on, but just like last time, there was no smell of corpses in the shrine.

It can be said that the two of them have found nothing since they arrived here, as if the village chief has really disappeared.

"Let's go and eat."

Watching the crowds of people leaving the shrine after paying homage, Karasawa took Conan to the villagers' home for dinner again.

"There's no clue at all." Conan sighed and said, "I'm starting to wonder if the village chief really ran away."

"According to Yamato Criminal Investigation, the other party plans to sell the collective land in the village, and the contract has been signed."

Tangze said: "And the village chief disappeared before the news was announced. Now the opposition in the village, faced with the contract to acquire the company, said that the village chief disappeared and did not acknowledge the contract at all.

The other party felt that the other party took the money and ran away, and naturally had to fulfill the contract since it was in hand. Both parties argued endlessly. "

"Do you think it was the opposition who killed the village chief and created Shenyin?" Conan couldn't help but guess.

"This speculation is not only suspected by you and me, but also by Zhu Fu and others." Tang Ze said: "But without any clues and no body, we have no way to find the murderer."

"It's troublesome." Conan also had a headache. "There are more than 500 people in this village, and there are too many suspects."

"Let's rest for now." Tang Ze sighed: "We will visit the opposition in the afternoon to see if we can find anything."

At this point, Tangze couldn't help but start to wonder if there were only so many clues in this case.

After finishing the meal, looking at the gradually thinning crowd in the village, Tangze planned to take Conan to the car to rest.

After all, the villagers were all resting at home after lunch. Not many people in the village were outside, so there was no need for them to stay outside.

After getting in the car, the two frowned and pondered, but there was no good solution. They simply rested in the car to recuperate so that they could better cope with the afternoon investigation.

While the two were resting, suddenly the panicked shouts of villagers came from outside the car.

"Come.Village.Criminal"

In the silence, a faint voice suddenly sounded, and even though it was far away, it caught the attention of the two people in the car.

"Someone seems to be shouting something outside." Conan opened his eyes and said.

"What happened?" Tang Ze opened the car door and said, "Go down and take a look at the situation."

The two people gradually approached following the faint shouting, and soon they heard clearly what the shouting person was shouting, and their expressions immediately changed.

"Someone is coming!! The village chief is dead!!"

"Mr. Criminal, come quickly!!"

Panicked shouts rang out, and Tang Ze and the others quickly ran towards the direction of the shouter.

And soon the two of them found the source of the sound, which was a dark-skinned boy who looked to be in his teens.

"What happened!"

After stopping the other party, Tang Ze asked quickly.

"The village chief." The boy stuttered with a horrified expression: "The village chief is dead."

"Don't panic, take a deep breath and calm down." Conan comforted the other party and asked, "Where did you see the village chief?"

Although the two of them were not acquaintances in the village, it seemed that because Conan was both a child, the other didn't have much caution.

"Yes, it's at the shrine. I went there to play. As a result," the boy's tone was trembling, as if he thought of some terrible scene, and he couldn't say the next words.

"What!?"

After hearing the boy's words, both of them had expressions of disbelief on their faces, because they had been to the shrine in person in the morning and did not see the body at all.

‘Did someone carry the body to the shrine? ’

After the two heard the boy's words, this idea flashed through their minds.

However, Tangze quickly suppressed his thoughts, and after asking the other party where the local criminals were stationed, he asked him to report the news.

The two of them ran towards the shrine.

After arriving at the platform, the two of them scanned the place and found no bodies, so they focused on the shrine building itself.

After all, if no body was found on the platform, the body the boy found should be inside the shrine.

After the two approached the shrine, they tried to open the door, but found that the door of the shrine was still closed.

There was no other way, so the two of them checked through the gap in the shrine window.

Although they already knew from the boy that the corpse of the village chief was at the shrine, the two of them were still horrified when they saw the corpse in the shrine.

Because the corpse was not dumped casually in the shrine, but was fixed in the shrine!
  At this moment, what appeared in front of their eyes was a human head and hands that suddenly appeared on the wall!
  Instead of just lying in a shrine room, he was stuck on the wall!

That's right, the village chief's body was completely embedded in the wall in front of the shrine, with only his face and hands exposed. It seems that just as the old man said, when he returned as an evil ghost, he was blocked by the mask and failed to return to the world!

"How can this be!?"

Conan looked at the corpses on the wall of the shrine and said in disbelief: "When we came to worship in the morning, there were obviously no corpses!"

"Although it is unbelievable, the facts are already before us."

Tang Ze looked at the horrific corpse embedded in the wall and said calmly: "And this is a good thing. If the corpse is not discovered, we will not even make any progress.

But now the body has turned up, and no matter how it was found, it will give us clues. "

"That's right. It's better to find a body than to go missing without any clues."

Hearing Karasawa's words, Conan nodded, looked at the corpses inside the shrine and asked, "What should we do now?"

"Wait." Karasawa said: "We are outsiders to the village. If we open the shrine rashly without being sure of their attitude towards the shrine, there is a risk of being ostracized even if I show my identity later.

So we waited for the local police to come and communicate with the villagers, and then followed the formal procedures to open the shrine door.

In this way, even if the villagers are dissatisfied, they will only be dissatisfied with the Metropolitan Police Department as a whole and will not be targeted at us personally. "

"Indeed, in this superstitious countryside, it's better to be cautious." After hearing Tang Ze's words, Conan nodded in agreement with Tang Ze's statement.

The two of them resisted the idea of ​​checking the body and waited patiently for the arrival of the police stationed there.

Because when they came, the boy who found the body had already informed the police stationed there, so it was estimated that the police officer should be on his way here.

Since waiting a moment can avoid possible trouble, the two of them will naturally not lose the big for the small.

"This is it, hurry up!"

Accompanied by the children's cries, chaotic and hurried footsteps sounded on the steps not far away. After a while, two panting criminals came to the platform of the shrine.

"Karasawa Criminal?"

Because Tang Ze had visited their residence before and asked if there was any latest progress in the disappearance case, the other party naturally knew Tang Ze.

"We heard the child screaming in the car and went over to check on the situation and then found out about the body."

After Karasawa briefly explained the ins and outs, he looked at the criminal group from a year ago and said: "The body is in the wall inside the shrine. We need to find someone who can handle it to open the shrine door."

"Understood, I'll go find the acting village chief." When the old criminal heard what Tang Ze said, he understood the concerns in Tang Ze's words and hurried to find the village chief.

And at this moment, some villagers seemed to have heard the words shouted by the boy on the road, and hurried to the shrine.

When they saw the corpse in the shrine, each of them reacted extremely strongly.

The younger ones were okay, they were just shocked by the horrific death of the village chief in the shrine, but as the elderly people arrived one after another, they even knelt down in front of the shrine when they saw this scene and began to kneel down and pray.

Fortunately, the young criminal was still familiar to the villagers, and he managed to maintain order, not letting them get too close to the shrine, and preventing them from opening the door without permission.

Soon the old criminal led the acting village chief over, and the other party quickly took control of the situation.

In addition to telling the elderly to stop praying, he also announced in public that he would open the door of the shrine to allow criminal investigation.

The other party's decision immediately aroused dissatisfaction among some villagers, especially some elderly people who bluntly said that this was the protection of the gods. The villagers should burn the corpse according to the rules passed down from ancient times, rather than allowing outsiders to enter the shrine to investigate.

Fortunately, the acting village chief was also a sensible person and had enough prestige. After scolding them for being feudal and superstitious and this being a simple murder, he personally opened the key to the shrine and invited Karasawa and the other criminals to enter the shrine.

Don't look at this matter, it is easy to explain it to the other party, but this is because the other party has enough prestige and is the acting village chief to solve it so easily.

If Karasawa and the others had opened the door of the shrine without permission before, they might have been expelled directly by those superstitious guys without waiting for the acting village chief to arrive.

After all, the people here seem to be afraid that the Shenyin Man will return again, or the appearance of a corpse in the shrine is already an ominous sign to them.

With the support of the acting village chief, even if some people did not buy it, they were all suppressed by the other party.

Only then did Tangze and others enter the shrine.

There is no charge in the dark shrine, so the dim environment after entering it makes people feel a little depressed.

Especially on the wall facing the door, in addition to the masks with different facial features, there is now a real corpse. The terrifying picture has brought a huge impact to people's psychology.

The young criminal's face soon became ugly, and he was comforted by the old criminal and stood there no longer approaching, while Tang Ze and Conan had already arrived in front of the corpse.

"Acting Village Chief, please confirm the identity of the body." Tang Ze looked at the middle-aged man and said.

"It's the mayor of our village, Tetsuo Sato." The acting village chief suppressed his nausea and fear and looked at the face of the corpse before nodding.

"Ten days ago, he was searched by the villagers and the police because of his disappearance, but his whereabouts were still not found." Conan looked at the body and said, "I didn't expect that he would suddenly appear here today."

"Although the cause of death cannot be determined until the body is taken out from the wall, judging from the visible surface of the body, it seems that it has been about a week since the death."

After looking at the corpse, Karasawa said, "Do you still remember the first time we came? At that time, the village chief had just disappeared, and we had been to the shrine, but we didn't find anything."

"According to our visits, it seems that someone has seen the deceased walking in the direction of the shrine where he disappeared."

The old criminal said: "We also focused on investigating the shrine later, and even borrowed the key to enter it, but we also found nothing.

It now appears that the murderer hid the body somewhere else and then buried his body in the wall when no one was around. "

"But that's the problem." Conan said solemnly: "Because there was nothing when we came in the morning."

"what?"

The old criminal was horrified when he heard Conan's words: "You guys said there was no body in the morning, but how is this possible!?"

"Not only us, but also many villagers who came to pay homage also saw it." Tang Ze said.

"But you see the cement has completely dried."

The old criminal heard Tang Ze's words and said in disbelief: "That means the prisoner would have embedded the body in the wall with cement a few days ago."

"Is that possible?"

The young criminal on the side couldn't help but said: "You see, most of the body is embedded in cement, only the hands and face are missing.

If the murderer hung a mask where the body was exposed on the wall, and the light inside the shrine is dim, we wouldn't be able to tell it from the front. "

"Impossible. It is impossible to completely cover the exposed parts of the body when the mask is hung. There will definitely be gaps left." Conan said, "And we took a closer look today to make sure there are no gaps."

While Conan was talking, Karasawa also saw a young man with a pothead standing among the crowd outside the shrine, so he stepped forward and called him over: "We meet again, I remember you came to the shrine a week ago. He’s wearing the village chief’s mask, right?”

"Yes." The Jarhead man nodded: "The acting village chief asked me to prepare it."

"It's Toru Kimura." The acting village chief nodded and said, "Yes, I asked him to put up the mask. After all, the village chief had been missing for three days at that time. According to the rules, he must put it up."

"That's right." The old criminal nodded and looked at Kimura Toru and asked, "Then when you entered the shrine, did you see the corpse?"

"No." Toru Kimura shook his head and said firmly: "I'm sure not."

(End of this chapter)