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The deeper you go, the colder it gets, and almost the mountain wind seems a bit biting.

It was obviously daytime, but as soon as we entered the mountain, the light became even darker.

Li Yan gave the white coat on his body to Shiina Mashiro to keep warm, but Shiina Mashiro still held the wet clothes in his hands, and he himself suggested a warm vest and a shirt to protect against the coldness in the mountains. .

Mountain cold, like people's hearts.

Li Yan compared the printed color drawings.

When comparing the position where the Ugly Time's Daughter was standing in the picture, when he opened the dense green grass to look for some clues, as a result, under the dense woods and grasses, an even older slate wreckage was found. In the dark place, wax water is everywhere, scarecrows that have long been wet by rain, rusty iron nails scattered everywhere...

After investigating all three places, Li Yan's consciousness connected the three positions of the foot of the mountain, the middle of the mountain, and the top of the mountain into a line, which turned out to be the ancient staircase that actually leads to the shrine.

"...If you curse at the ugly time, between one o'clock and [-]:[-] is considered the best time to curse by the wizards, so we have been patiently waiting for us to disappear in this place where we can see the three candles above her head. As soon as we got to the shrine, we couldn't wait to start the curse ceremony, and unexpectedly, we still heard the sound of beating..."

Li Yan squatted on the ground and said to Shiina Mashiro.

He rubbed the wax water with his fingers and found that it was still going on these days, which completely cooled his mind.

If ordinary people knew that someone was cursing their best friend, they would probably laugh it off and never believe it.However, Li Yan, who had personally experienced the curse incident, was hanging in his heart...

He has investigated, although the "daughter of the ugly time" is defined as superstition, but there are indeed cases of successful curses. Since there are successful cases, it is a big problem.

The woman who had been cursing Spencer was genuine. She had been continuing the oldest staircase, cursing constantly. This persistence and resentment really shook his understanding of human nature.

【Swish...】

The surrounding woods swayed in the cold wind, looking down at the two intruders in white clothes like a devil. The trees were filled with water mist, and their clothes were a little wet, which made the cold brought by the cold wind penetrate even deeper. the minds of those present.

"Why... do such a thing?"

While listening to Li Yan analyzing scarecrows, iron nails and traces of wax water, Shiina Mashiro asked incomprehensibly.

"Resentment is the saddest emotion of human beings, and there is no way to get anything in return. If you simply send the other party to hell, everything in front of you is just darkness, and life becomes uninteresting..."

Li Yan was talking, and suddenly, in his memory, the girl in a kimono who was standing in the lanterns was hanging up the lantern, and the poignant girl who was wet with the black rain was smiling slightly... He could actually be sure, Sayuri would not be the daughter of Ugly Times, because her figure and voice were completely wrong, but she always felt that Sawamura Sayuri was staying in this specially cursed place, holding a religious ceremony that he could not find out. To clear the suspicion for Sawamura Sayuri, but for now, that night Sayuri did not have any intention of refuting, his eyes were full of hatred, and he had to make him think that Sayuri, who might be smart, would let her Being a "wedding dress", but there always seems to be something that doesn't conform to some logic...

Shiina Mashiro looked at Li Yan quietly, and suddenly, something caught in her vision range. When she raised her head to look, suddenly, in a dark green forest, there seemed to be a human face watching. here.

It's like the face she drew with a pencil last night...

Swish... As if the lens had snowflakes, that suspiciously blurred face suddenly disappeared.

"...?"

Shiina Mashiro was stunned for a moment, and didn't quite understand what happened, but didn't pay much attention to it.

……

After that, the two went up to the shrine, and a chilly atmosphere filled the dilapidated shrine. Zhenbai squatted in a corner and began to draw Li Yan's instructions for her to see suspicious things. At that time, the suspicious things that ordinary cameras could not find were captured through her zero-sighted eyes, and she painted along the way, but Li Yan did not know how many valuable paintings he had deceived from a world famous painter along the way. Sketch painting.

Unfortunately, they didn't find the Ugly Time's Daughter during the day.

Li Yan entered the interior of the shrine for the first time. It was completely empty, and there was nothing there.

"Ha..." Shiina Mashiro sighed and warmed his hand.

Shiina Mashiro, who is "Watson", wrapped her body tighter, and she suddenly felt a little colder. In the wet and cold mountains of water mist, the weather was a little colder every night, but at this moment, it was a little colder. This bone-chilling chill doesn't feel like a temperature issue.

"Wait a minute, Zhu...Hua Sheng, I'll turn on the heating for you after you go back, and there's one last place." Li Yan felt the coldness of his assistant, he stretched out his hands and put the hat of his real white coat on her, and said.

After walking around the entire mountain forest, and after he was basically familiar with the terrain here, Li Yan suddenly realized the most crucial thing. He and Zhen Bai strolled through the jungle area full of nailed scarecrows, through the vast grass. , a dim light appeared in front of his eyes again.

A gust of fresh wind blew towards him, just like last night. Once again, Li Yan came to the place where he met Sayuri Sawamura.

The lantern is still there, but Zhu Yan has changed it.

Li Yan understands one thing...

That is, Sawamura Sayuri, really lied, and it seems that she is indeed an acquaintance with that ugly girl...

Because when chasing the ugly girl to the second half of the road, you have already staggered the only old road that leads down the mountain. This downhill wooded area has dead ends on both sides and a steep mountain wall on the left. On the right, the rushing river flowing from the waterfall cuts off other paths. The only way to go down the mountain is through the open space where Sayuri is located...

"...Looks like I'm going to have a good chat with Sayuri."

Li Yan looked sadly at the lantern swaying in the wind and thought silently.

……

After walking down a mountain, after going down the mountain and returning to the town, it was already more than [-] o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Yan found a restaurant with a good environment, had a good dinner there, and deliberately let the exhausted assistant rest for a while. At seven o'clock in the evening, when night fell in this world of green mountains, Li Yan began to drive with Go back to Tokyo with Mashiro.

At this moment, the dark mountain road was completely devoid of any street lights.

In the vast night sky, the bright moon shuttled among the dark clouds, the damp and cold air made the visibility exceptionally clear, and the dark road twisted and stretched in the endless forest area.

"Sure enough, the detective game is not so easy to carry out, and the gains are indeed obtained, but it has developed in a bad direction... What should I do next? When I ask Sayuri, I really want to ask in the form of questioning. A result, what did she do there, why did she cover up the woman who cursed her family..."

Li Yan thought to himself.

He looked at Zhenbai, who was silent on the side. Under the lights in the car, she began to use her notebook to record her inspiration, and it seemed that she had begun to have a strong interest in some topics.

"... There are still some gains."

Li Yan changed his mood. Having fun in hardships has always been his way to relieve boredom. There is always a way to overcome some difficulties, and now is no exception.

【Boom boom boom...】