[5000-word chapter] Chapter 123 'Ogre Garden', Fujino's changes and Urazaburo
"knew."
Dongluo hung up the phone and stayed there for a while. After that, he said to the staff of the Special Investigation Section: "Book me a ticket to Dongdu."
"The next flight is in three hours," the staff member replied after checking the flight information: "Sir, we can definitely arrange a helicopter..."
"No need to waste it."
Dongluo thought for a while, "That's not a murderous monster."
After Dongluo left, the staff looked at her back and sighed: "It would be great if Master Dongluo couldn't change back... He's so gentle that he's not even like her."
"Everyone, please pay attention, there is a surprise!"
Standing in front of an apartment building in Nara, Shiratori distributed signed photos of national idol Makoto Karasawa to his colleagues in the Criminal Division one by one.
When handing it over to each person, Shiratori also read out Karasawa Makoto's message to each person,
"Anda Jun, I saw that you were chatting with a beautiful resident when you were on duty just now. It doesn't look like you were taking notes. You have to be more serious about your work."
"I didn't!" Adachi protested solemnly, "Shiratori Police Department, please tell me how on earth you slandered me in front of Karasawa Makoto!"
"I've said a lot of good things about you, but you really don't live up to your expectations. The next one is... the Holy Son. Tangze Xiaojie's message to the Holy Son is——
Miss Shengzi, you will definitely become the most powerful female detective in Lidu!"
"Thank you! I will try my best!"
"Tajima-kun, I heard that you love eating sweets. This habit is very bad for your health. You must find a way to get rid of it."
"Katsuda-kun, three packs a day is too addictive. Please stop smoking, please, and think more about yourself and your family's health~"
"I'll quit smoking tonight!"
Everyone in the criminal class, who had been tense due to the busyness and tragedy all night, burst out laughing during Shiratiao's graceful recitation, and their mood gradually relaxed.
"Everyone, please keep it a secret that Ms. Karasawa Makoto is staying at the Nara apartment tonight."
"Sir, we all understand this..."
There was laughter again.
"From now on,"
A colleague from the criminal department who accidentally watched a bad movie starring Karasawa Makoto in her early years and became a die-hard fan of her, and who followed her online and posted many negative posts, announced on the spot,
"I am Miss Makoto Karasawa's number one fan. I have to watch every movie of Miss Makoto Karasawa twenty times!"
"Cut~"
"Tsk tsk~"
“I emphasize again, in fact, the anti-fans are the true fans!
Among you so-called die-hard fans, which one of you has paid more for Karasawa than I have? I gave Makoto Karasawa's "Lito Love Story" at least 2,000 negative reviews in major forums, and I was banned countless times and still persisted.
Up to now, in order to make a black post, I have read all kinds of information about Ms. Karasawa countless times, and I have read all the video information. Which of you knows her better than me?"
"..."
"Dear Police Officer Shiratori! We have all sent out signed photos to all of us here. Why do you still have so many photos in your hand?"
"Haha, our beloved White Bird Police Department must have used public power for private use."
"You bastards,"
Shiratori cursed, "I begged Miss Karasawa to get these signed photos. Isn't it too much to keep a few more for myself?"
"certainly!"
"I strongly request to increase the quota for autographed photos. I also have a die-hard fan of Ms. Karasawa at home!"
"These are all photos of owners, so just go ahead and dream!"
"Oh... you are so stingy..."
"That's it for tonight!"
Shiratiao held the photo in his hand tightly and waved, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone, I will rest tomorrow morning and return to work later in the afternoon. I approve!"
"Long live!"
After the disbandment, it was about four o'clock in the morning, Gu Xing and Shengzi got into the same taxi...
"Gu Xingjun,"
The Holy Son sat in the back row, "I can do it myself, you really don't need to send me off."
Seeing the serious expression on Shengzi's face, Gu Xing became more and more certain that it was most likely a coincidence that Shengzi moved to the opposite door... Now the question came, how to explain this coincidence to Shengzi.
"Son……"
"Um."
"There is something I think it would be better to tell you earlier."
"Um?"
"It seems like we two are going to be neighbors again..."
"ah!"
In the front row, Eijiro Kita tilted his head slightly and glanced over.
There was some very restrained surprise on the face of the Holy Son.
Zao Hui, who was sitting on the other side, was still looking lovingly at Gu Xing, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Eijiro turned on the radio, and Kenshi Yonezu's fireworks sounded in the car——
"きっとまだEnd(お)わらない夏(なつ)が
It must be the time when summer is not over yet
Ambiguous(あいまい)な心(こころ)を解(と)かして性(つな)いだ
Untie the ambiguous knots and connect them tightly again
この夜(よる)が続(つづ)いてdesire(ほ)しかった
May this night never end like this
「あと多(なんど)君(きみ)と同(おな)じ花火(はなび)を见(み)られるかな」って
How many times can I watch fireworks like this with you~"
Under the bright moonlight, a taxi drove toward the end of the street.
On the roof of the car, Fujino and Kita Yosuke sat back to back, looking at the bright moon above their heads...
"Good night!"
"See you tomorrow!"
After sending the Holy Son home, Gu Xing returned to his house.
As soon as he opened the door, in the chaos of darkness, Nobuhiko Kumada, with his mouth cut to the base of his ear, rushed forward.
His big mouth swallowed Gu Xing's head, but after swallowing it, it had no effect.
Pounce again... still the same...
Gu Xing ignored him and snatched the newly released "Collection of Strange Stories about Cannibalism by Kumada Nobuhiko, the Cannibal in the Ghost Mist" from Fujino's hand.
The title of the book that others can see is "The Garden of Ogres", a work by French writer Leila Slimani. Gu Xing read this book when he was in college.
Gu Xing still remembers what Adele's husband said to her in the book -
"You should know that you are just as mediocre as us. If one day you can accept such mediocrity, you will be much happier than you are now."
At this time, Gu Xing felt that being mediocre was not scary, but numbness was fatal. That would make a person's life be led by a string like a puppet. For example, he himself - if he could not be alert at all times, he might be led by a small hole.
Holding on to the rope, he walked into hell step by step. Gu Xing would never give up.
"I suddenly thought of a question,"
Gu Xing looked at a book on the bookshelf and said to Xiaodong:
"Look at the names of these books, Grandma's "Grandma Ji Chun", Fujino's "Dark Gold Choujima-kun", Eijiro's "The Speed of Life and Death", Yosuke's "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", Haye's "Don't Talk to Me"
"Stranger Speaks," and "The Garden of Ogres," which came out tonight, are these books too closely related to their grotesque counterparts?"
[Are you afraid of what someone will think of after seeing it? 】
"When the red shirt came last time, I was a little worried,"
Gu Xing said, "Fortunately she just came to drink."
[What are you afraid of? With such a beautiful bookshelf and so many collections with a great sense of accomplishment, it would be a pity that only you can see it, right? 】
"While we're moving, let's make this bookshelf invisible to others,"
Gu Xing decided directly, "I know that I can do it as long as I pay a little life span, right?"
【snort】
【I won't】
After a while, the bookshelf turned into a state of transparent nothingness. The small hole clearly told Gu Xing that only he could see it now.
Invite Anda to sit at home another day and see if he can see it. Gu Xing thought.
The preface of Nobuhiko Kumada's "Collection of Weird Stories" contains his weird rules——
This is a foggy weirdness of indiscriminate killing.
1. Every once in a while, he will appear in a popular apartment with his own ghost mist. All creatures wrapped in the ghost mist will be difficult to escape (E-) - this is what Eijiro can take away
Because of Kotake Rila, the rules for trapping people in the ghost mist are only E-.
This also shows how helpless the weird investigators who cannot master the power of rules are. Even if they only need to master the rules of E-, they can hope to lead the residents to escape the ghost fog, but this is a chasm.
2. He likes to walk up and down the apartment, eating a random household on each floor. All humans who see his face will be eaten by him one bite at a time (C)
3. He exudes an attraction from the soul. As long as you get close to a certain distance around him, you will look at him unconsciously (E).
4. Don’t step on his bloody footprints (C-)…
5. People who walk out of the corridor without permission...
6.……
Gu Xing finally understood that every weird thing was actually a permutation and combination of a complex set of rules. The closer the coordination between the rules, the harder it would be to find loopholes in the rules.
When the weird people complete the rules, they are actually constantly optimizing and improving the power of these permutations and combinations.
Turning to the main text of the book, the first half records the past of three people, Nobuhiko Kumada, Yuki Hanaoka and Hitoko Obayashi, who investigated bizarre cases together. To be honest, this is a sad story.
Gu Xing couldn't bear to see the end. The book also recorded something that maybe even Dalin Tongzi didn't know -
In fact, both Kumada Nobuhiko and Hanaoka Yuki deeply liked Obayashi Hitomi, and it was not an ordinary liking. Gu Xing even felt that this kind of liking could rise to the level of love.
Obayashi Hitoko didn't know it. But Kumada Nobuhiko and Hanaoka Yuki actually knew the identities of each other's opposite-sex love rivals.
This can also explain why Kumada Nobuhiko sacrificed his life several times to save him, why Hanaoka Yuki sacrificed his life for Obayashi Hitoko before dying, and why Obayashi Hitoko became the only investigator who could walk freely in the ghost mist of Kumada Nobuhiko.
.
The three of them jointly investigated many bizarre incidents. They are all people with a strong sense of justice and a deep love for life, but in the end they ended up with this result, which is really regrettable.
[Needless to say...according to your personality, it is most likely impossible to release Kumada Nobuhiko...]
Of course.
Gu Xing looked at Nobuhiko Kumada, who was sitting on his knees by the floor-to-ceiling window of the apartment, holding his chin, staring blankly at the bright moon in the sky - after swallowing Gu Xing dozens of times in succession to no avail, Nobuhiko Kumada finally accepted his fate.
.
The floor-to-ceiling windows of Gu Xing's new home are really big, and the scenery outside the windows is unobstructed.
The look of the ogre sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, wrapped in the silver moonlight, has a desolate and beautiful artistic conception, like a painting.
However, Gu Xing's original plan was to make the balcony in front of the floor-to-ceiling window a tea table for himself to drink tea and make coffee... Now it is occupied by the ogre with a slit mouth, and he really doesn't have the appetite to drink to Kumada Nobuhiko
Coffee and snacks... Asshole, this guy, will he be nailed to the balcony from now on...
[By the way, I think you can put Nobuhiko Kumada in a prison, especially a prison that holds serious criminals... Wow, that kind of scene is very exciting just thinking about it... let him eat murderers, this should be
Is it more in line with your values?】
It seems possible, but not necessary.
In a situation where weird things are rampant, almost all serious criminals have signed trial and error contracts with special investigation departments in various places. Let them try and make mistakes. It is more valuable to reduce the casualty rate of assistants and ordinary people in weird incidents.
.
[Anyway...as long as it's a grotesque thing that kills people randomly, it can't be released, right? Gu Xing, you're really good at it...]
In any case, Nobuhiko Kumada was also the first C-class monster that Gu Xing took in.
The loopholes in his own rules are actually quite large, but in Gu Xing's hands, combined with Fujino, Eijiro, Haye, and Dark Crow, he can exert greater and more complete power. This can be slowly tried to be optimized in the future.
combination.
After closing the book, Gu Xing looked at Fujino's book again. After opening it, he found that the rules in the preface were garbled——
"Is this a rule upgrade?"
[Almost, it seems that after devouring Kumada, Fujino will also reach C]
"Well, then please look forward to it."
Soon, Eijiro Kita presented today's latest "Proposal" to take away.
Gu Xing took it and looked through it. The name of the protagonist of the proposal was——
【Uragisaburo】
"Not enough, not enough, far from enough."
"It's too far off."
"We have to make this bastard a little more miserable, a little more miserable."
Gu Xing said, took the proposal to his desk and rewrote it himself——
[Uragisaburo's nightmare will begin from this moment...]
Behind Gu Xing, Eijiro, Haye, Fujino, Yosuke, and the new Kumada Nobuhiko gathered around, stretched their necks, and looked at Gu Xing's rewritten proposal.
"Such a scumbag must have done something ungrateful, right?"
Eijiro nodded repeatedly.
"You must have beaten your girlfriend, right?"
Zaoe gave him a look of affirmation.
"Isn't it too much to borrow a little loan shark interest?"
Fujino adjusted his sunglasses.
"It's normal to have your head eaten, right?"
Nobuhiko Kumada split his mouth open and reached the base of his ears.
Only Satomi's grandma was sitting on the sofa she moved from the basement, knitting a sweater and watching the old TV. At this moment, "The Grudge" was playing on the TV——
Kayako, with disheveled hair and blood on his face, climbed down the stairs. The heroine looked at her through the gap between the wooden ladder and the wall. The gloomy background music...
Kayako crawled closer and closer, and the blood on his face suddenly disappeared...
"I really don't understand,"
Saburo Uragawa threw the remote control aside, "A crude horror movie like "The Grudge" can actually scare people. Are all the people watching the movie elementary school students? I'm really drunk."
Uragusaburo, who was alone in his mansion, hadn't gone out for a while.
Ever since Chiharu Ishizaki's incident began to spread on the Internet, Saburo Uragagi was banned from home by his mother.
Until now, Uragusaburo couldn't understand it - to be honest, it wasn't the first time that Uragusaburo threw a girl he couldn't handle into the sewers of Lito City, but he had never been grounded for this kind of thing before.
Even if something really happened, his father and mother would always find a way for him to get through the police investigation safely. In fact, this is not too difficult. The most important thing is to use a large amount of cash to knock the victim's family out and give up the investigation.
The persistence of truth.
Since the victims’ families will no longer pursue the remaining matters, the police will not be too harsh on people like them. Any trouble that can be solved with money cannot be called trouble. No matter how correct this sentence is
but.
So this time, Uragusaburo was very uncomfortable with it. Things had already happened, the scapegoat had been found, and the police had identified him, so why should he be imprisoned in a boring bedroom? It was because the family was not doing well.
, isn’t the cash provided enough? Then go earn money... I really don’t understand what my parents are thinking. I’ve watched these horror movies countless times, and they are really not scary anymore, okay?
"It's really rubbish."
Uragusaburo pressed the stop button, got up from the sofa, and walked to the bathroom, "These movie artists must have their minds filled with water. They keep filming routines that they have seen a thousand times, and they still think they are very good."
Gao Ming, can’t you have something fresh?”
This afternoon, Uragisaburo's good friend Kubo Shoichi will come to visit, which is also approved by his mother. Kubo Shoichi claims that he will definitely bring a very obedient, young and beautiful girl over. However, his mother repeatedly warned,
Cases like Chiharu Ishizaki must never happen again...
To be honest, in recent years, Uragusaburo has not been very interested in girls who are very obedient. Only girls like Ishizaki Chiharu who are particularly pure, who resist fiercely, and who are very real are interesting.
However, given Uragisaburo's current situation, he can only make do with it.
Come with whatever you have, those who are more obedient, and have the fun of being obedient. The worst thing is, wait until you go out... then find some girls who already have boyfriends and really like their boyfriends, like Chiharu.
, can definitely bring a different sense of excitement.
Entering the bathroom, Uragazaburo finished urinating and went to clean the sink. He raised his head and saw in the mirror that there was the face of Ishizaki Chiharu on his neck...