"ah!!"
A horrified shout came from outside, instantly attracting the attention of everyone in the house.
Karasawa and others subconsciously looked out the window and found Inufushi Akira, who was supposed to be waiting for them next to the car, running away on the grass with a frightened look on his face.
And behind him is the flame demon dog they are looking for!
But this time, everyone in the wooden house saw that the demon dog covered in flames was constantly chasing the dog Fuzhihuang, as if he wanted to burn him to death.
"What!!"
Seeing this astonishing scene in front of them, Conan and Hattori Heiji subconsciously screamed, and Karasawa rushed out in a single step.
The others saw Tang Ze's back and quickly followed him.
Inufushi Akira was already some distance away from them, and the opponent was still on top of the slope. No matter how fast everyone was, they couldn't outrun the four-legged beast.
Before Karasawa could get closer, he saw the blazing demon dog behind Inufushi Akira pounce in the air, flashing brilliant fireworks, and directly throw the embarrassment-escaping Inufushi Akira to the ground.
"Ah!! Help!!"
After Inufushi Akira screamed and ran away, he was thrown to the ground by the flaming demon dog, and his screams became even more fierce. Because of the angle, they could no longer see the situation of Inufushi Akira who fell to the ground on the slope.
They could only hear the screams but could not see what happened. Everyone's hearts tightened unconsciously, and their footsteps soon became a little faster.
"Hey! Are you okay!!"
Everyone ran up the slope and found rows of flaming footprints spreading around Inufushi Akira, and the opponent's arms were also burning with flames like the ground.
But the target "Fire Demon Dog" has long disappeared.
"fire Fire!!"
Inufushi Akira shook his arms in fear, his face full of despair and fear.
"Don't move!!"
When Hattori Heiji saw the opponent's arm on fire, he immediately took off his coat and jumped forward to cover the opponent's arm with his coat on fire.
Because the flames were not very intense, Hattori Heiji put the clothes on his body and pressed him down, and the flames were quickly extinguished.
"Calm down!" Conan looked at Inufushi Akira who was still struggling and shouted: "The flame has been extinguished, don't move!"
"How's it going? Is your arm okay?" Inufushi Yukihime finally felt the pain and ran over to look at the panic on Inufushi Chiko's face.
"Don't panic, it's just some burns!"
Karasawa took Chiko Inufushi's hand and examined it: "The burn on the back of the hand is more serious, but the arm part is not too seriously burned because there is clothing as a barrier."
"Hey, you all saw it just now..."
Yamamura Cao looked at the flames burning on the ground, his face turned pale and he said: "That, that's...the devil dog..."
"Anyway, let's go back first. All the investigations that need to be investigated have been completed."
Karasawa helped Chihuang Inufuku, who was gradually calming down, up, looked at the pain on his face and said, "Mr. Chihuang's arm needs to be treated quickly."
"Let's go, let's go!" After hearing Karasawa's words, Yamamura Cao was the first to run towards the car, fearing that if he ran late, the demon dog with its body covered in flames would appear again.
The group of people drove back to the Inufushi family mansion and saw the embarrassed appearance of Inufushi Chiko. Inufukako and Inufuzhan were also shocked. They asked Inufushi Yukihime what happened.
Inubushi Yukihime recounted what happened before with a look of fear on her face. After hearing this, Inubushi Koko also had a look of disbelief on her face: "Did you say the "Demon Dog" appeared again?"
"It did appear. Counting this time, this devil dog has appeared three times tonight, right?" Tang Ze nodded.
"Real or false?" Inu Fuchen, who originally dismissed "devil dogs", also had a look of panic on his face when he heard this: "Is that dog really burning?"
"Yeah? Could it be used to deceive?" Inufukako also still doubted the existence of "magic dogs".
"That's what I originally thought, but no matter how you look at it, it's burning!" Yamamura said in horror, "And it even burned Mr. Chiko..."
"I also think that dog is really burning!"
Inubushi Yukihime also echoed: "Because we have all seen that his body is almost made of flames!
Not only that, it ran across the ground and left burning footprints..."
"Forgetting anything else, are you okay with shaking your hand?" Inufukako looked at the other party with concern and asked.
"Ah, fortunately, I have medical equipment in my bag, so I did emergency treatment."
Inufushi showed his hand that was covered with bandages, then lowered his head and said sadly: "In addition, I also called the hospital and asked them to find someone to take over for me. Before, I just said that I might be late..."
"Mr. Chihuang, I remember you said you were very scared, so you had to wait in the car, right?"
Karasawa looked at Inufushi Chiaki, with a look of scrutiny in his sharp eyes: "If you had stayed in the car honestly at that time, even if the flame demon dog appeared, you wouldn't have been chased in such an embarrassing manner, right?"
"I, after I waited for you to leave, I suddenly found myself even more scared waiting there..." Inufushi Chiko explained awkwardly.
"What's more important now is the onion that fell next to Mr. Chihuang after being attacked by the devil dog." Yamamura Soo took out an evidence bag and showed it to everyone.
"It's actually spherical again..." Inufusen sighed after seeing the onions.
"What on earth is going on?" Inufukako asked blankly.
"Hey, Karasawa Criminal, I remember you said you smelled of rotten onions?" Hattori Heiji looked at Karasawa and asked.
"That's right." Tang Ze nodded and said, "But how it is related to the case, I don't have any clue at the moment."
"Those things are all gone!" Inufusen also interrupted Tang Ze: "What we are concerned about now is whether you have found the situation of the prisoner who controlled the "devil dog"?!"
"I'm tentatively planning to ask the forensics department to take a look at the cabin after dawn, but the clues inside may make it impossible to catch the murderer..." Yamamura said he was not confident.
"Why!"
Demonic dogs kept appearing, and people around him were injured one after another in the attacks. Dog Fuchan no longer had the calmness he had before.
Hearing the somewhat depressing news about Yamamura Cao, Inufuchen also asked questions even more urgently.
"I can't help it, the other party is a black magician who can use the curse to control the "Fire Demon Dog"!"
Yamamura Soo went berserk when asked, and even made a vivid metaphor: "We are like little white rabbits who accidentally entered the misty forest. How can we deal with such a being?"
To be honest, I really want to leave this place right now..."
Seeing Yamamura Soo's frightened face and even saying that he wanted to run away, the three "materialist warriors" of Karasawa were speechless.
After all, Yamamura Soo's reason for getting angry really felt unreliable. The key was that the other party seriously believed in the "feudal superstition" and even got angry because of it with a serious look on his face.
The criticisms are so full that Tang Ze doesn’t even know where to complain.
"What's going on with the magic mage?" Inufukako couldn't help but ask.
"We found a large number of books on black magic stored in the wooden house we found."
Tangze explained, and then asked again: "Also, let me ask, when we went to the swamp, did you two leave the mansion?"
"I have been contacting the hospital to pay attention to Miss Zuo Ji's condition."
Hearing this, Inufukako replied: "In addition, I also contacted the hospital over there to make arrangements for Mr. Shinichi if he really cannot wake up."
"I was chatting with my companions who were playing a survival game in the wild." Inufusen also followed closely.
"Survival in the wild?" Tang Ze said: "The kind of real-life shooting?"
"Well, because my job is to be an instructor at the campsite in this area, so I always ask my friends to come and play together."
"Oh?" Hattori Heiji raised his eyebrows when he heard this and said, "Then if it's you, you should be very familiar with the forest environment, right?"
"Well, let's forget it." Inufuchen also said this, looked at Inufushi Yukihime and smiled: "Of course it's still not as good as Yukihime who used to go to the mountains to collect medicine with Suochen's adoptive mother."
As for Inufusenya's little trick to deflect suspicion, Karasawa simply ignored it and had no intention of doubting the other party.
After all, Inubushi Yukihime was with them the entire evening, so the suspicion was almost cleared.
You must know that the Flame Demon Dog appeared three times in a row tonight. It’s okay to say that you didn’t notice it the first time. After all, the trick is not that easy to see through.
But if the other party plays tricks under their noses for the second or third time, and the three of them are not aware of it at all, then it is simply impossible.
So when faced with Inubushi Zenya's transfer of suspicion, Karasawa didn't even look back, because Inubushi Yukihime had already proven her innocence.
Of course, this does not mean that Inufuzanya's suspicion will increase. After all, people have a mentality of self-preservation.
When Hattori Heiji was obviously suspicious, it was normal to subconsciously not want to be suspected, and the other party was indeed not talking nonsense. It seemed that Inubushi Yukihime was indeed more familiar with the forest.
"How is Grandma Suanchen's condition?" Conan on the side also made the same judgment, so he took a step forward and cleverly changed the topic.
"Well, she still sleeps in the room all the time." Inufukako said.
"Let's go back and rest first."
Seeing that everyone seemed to have no intention of talking, Tang Ze looked at the slightly aloof crowd and suggested: "It's just a matter of trouble for us to stay overnight."
"No problem!" Inufukako agreed readily: "Xingji, you and I will prepare accommodation for the guests later."
"I understand, Kauko-san." Inubushi Yukihime nodded when she heard this and agreed directly.
"Thank you very much." Tang Ze thanked the two of them.
"You're welcome. You came to help the Quanfu family, and you also saved Zuoji. It's us who should thank you."
Inufukako bowed slightly when he said this, and then left with Inubushi Yukihime.
"Okay, everyone has left, let's talk about our opinions." After everyone dispersed and Tang Ze made sure that no one was eavesdropping, he looked at the remaining three people and said.
"Say...what?" Yamamura Cao looked at the three people in front of him with confused faces, completely out of the situation.
"Of course it's the puzzle about the "Demon Dog"." Conan said with a smile.
"Karasawa Criminal said he smelled the smell of rotten onions, Conan heard the clicking sounds and jumping flames, and I observed that the distance of the flames was 20 meters every time..."
Hattori Heiji smiled and said: "Combining these three pieces of information, we can basically guess the method of the "burning footprints" phenomenon."
"Eh!?" Yamamura Cao was shocked when he heard this: "Why didn't I guess it at all?"
"Then think about it carefully."
Karasawa helplessly patted Yamamura on the shoulder, sighed, looked at the two of them and said, "But these alone cannot solve the mystery."
"Yeah, this is also the most nerve-wracking part."
Hattori Heiji touched his chin and pondered: "How did that burning body, the flame that could even burn Mr. Inu Fushiko, appear on that "devil dog"?
If you wrap the dog's body with a cloth and then light it on fire, there should be a burned dog corpse nearby."
"And if the prisoner used water or a fire extinguisher or something like that, there should be traces of residue nearby." Conan nodded in agreement.
"Of course, there is another possibility that the prisoner was waiting for the dog to come back in the pickup truck and extinguishing the fire in the car could eliminate the traces."
After Hattori Heiji reasoned, he rejected it again: "But I've seen it before, and there are no traces of tire pressure nearby.
In addition, there was no sound of car engines in the surrounding area."
"And more importantly, where did the dog go?"
Conan brought up a more critical point: "If it is in a burning state, it stands to reason that we should still be able to see the dog's figure when we run to Mr. Chihuang's side."
"But it turns out there was no trace of the dog!"
Yamamura Cao was scared and said: "It is indeed the "Devil Dog"! It must have been the black magician who summoned the "Devil Dog" back!"
"What are you thinking about!"
Tangze couldn't help but slapped Yamamura Cao on the back: "As your superior, although I am not directly under you, I still want to severely criticize this idea of yours.
You are a criminal, what you have to do is to find the truth, not to believe in superstitious illusions!"
"yes!"
Although Karasawa's tone was not harsh, the seriousness in those words still made Yamamura Soo straighten up subconsciously.
But after only two seconds of seriousness, Yamamura Cao became the same again, and even looked at Karasawa with an expression that he was hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong?" Tang Ze said angrily, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Hey, it's nothing else." Yamamura looked at Tang Ze with expectant eyes and said, "Both of them have finished explaining their reasoning.
So what do you think the truth about "Devil Dog" is, Karaze Criminal Justice?"
After the words fell, two pairs of twinkling eyes looked at Tang Ze in unison.
Obviously, these two people were also curious about Tangze's reasoning.
PS: I’m sorry, yesterday I had a fever and I worked up to 39.5 on the first day. Fortunately, I saved the manuscript just in case. I don’t know if I can continue it. Please forgive me for asking for leave later. (No money is required for this paragraph)
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This chapter has been completed!