A horrific scarecrow massacre occurred at the entrance to the small town of Terlingua?!
Conan choked for a moment.
If this had happened before, he would have suspected that this was a smoke bomb released by the murderer. After all, there are no monsters in the world.
How could a scarecrow come to life and kill so many people in one go?
Anyway, if it were the original, Conan would never believe it at all.
However, the situation is different now. After changing to a new world, there are real supernatural powers beyond people's imagination.
And the one who said this conclusion was the mysterious god in front of him, so Conan couldn't help but not believe it!
This kind of thing that is beyond the scope of reasoning is simply too uncomfortable.
"Damn it, scarecrow..."
"Is this a code name, or is it true that the scarecrow came to life, or something..."
Conan's mind was in a mess.
He didn't know anything about the supernatural, so he couldn't figure out what Frogzi was talking about about the demon.
What’s up with the so-called smell of fear?!
"I said, Detective, are you okay?"
Xiao Ai looked at Conan a little worried.
She was afraid that the great detective would get into trouble and not find the murderer, which would destroy her mentality.
After all, the current situation is different from the reasoning of previous cases. You can't use common sense to think about monsters killing people.
This is not a logical thing in the first place, how can it be deduced?
"No, I'm fine, I was just thinking..."
Conan just wanted to tell Xiao Ai that he was thinking about the connection between the scarecrow and the crow.
Suddenly, he seemed to have a flash of inspiration.
"Wait, Scarecrow?!"
"I've seen scarecrows before!!"
Conan remembered.
Isn't the reason why he got involved with Boss Charlie because of... Scarecrow?!
In the hotel where they were staying, when Conan went out to find Xiao Ai at noon, he met two gangsters from the Bosozoku clan.
One of the men with a pockmarked face had a conflict with Boss Charlie over something, and was punished by having his legs broken.
At that time, the lame man drank too much and was sitting alone on the stairs on the third floor of the hotel.
In his hand, he was holding a little straw man with a red rope tied around his neck, and he was chanting that he wanted Boss Charlie to die.
"I'm worried that there is a real murder, so I want to go to Boss Charlie to make some innuendo."
"But before I could say a few words, someone broke in and said there was a massacre at the entrance to the town."
"Then, I hurried over!"
"It can't be such a coincidence..."
Conan told Haiyuan Ai what he had seen in the hotel before.
Xiao Ai was also stunned.
She didn't expect that Conan would encounter such a situation. Shouldn't he be worthy of being a detective?!
I can always encounter cases in all kinds of strange places, and then connect all kinds of strange clues.
"You mean there's something wrong with that man's scarecrow?!"
"Voodoo doll?!"
Xiao Ai thought for a while and expressed her guess.
Regarding the supernatural world, Xiao Ai doesn’t know the specifics.
But if you talk about scarecrows, curses, resentments, etc., you can think of these.
"I don't know, but I don't think it's such a coincidence."
"If there really is a monster, it's really a scarecrow killing people!!"
"Then, the scarecrow I saw before must be an important clue."
Conan said, his eyes gradually brightened.
The great detective once again found confidence that even if it is a supernatural event, there must be something necessary hidden in it.
Once these key points of information are connected in series, even if there is a demon, it will definitely appear.
"What should we do now?!"
"Go back, or just stay here and guard the scene?!"
Xiao Lai sighed, Kudo's detective spirit has increased again, and now no one can persuade him.
But let him go.
It would actually be good if we really found this murderous scarecrow.
According to the Lord God, this is a demon. The demon hiding in the dark is still the murderer. It is really scary to think about it.
"The doctor will stay at the hotel by himself. We will go back to find him."
"And, that scarecrow!"
Conan made up his mind to return to the hotel first and find the lame man.
Especially the scarecrow in his hand, he wanted to see if the scarecrow could come back to life.
After Conan and Haihara Ai finished speaking, they turned around and walked towards the town.
"Alas!!"
"Are you going back?! Take my car."
"Quickly, get in the car and we'll take you back."
The very enthusiastic gangster boy stopped in front of Conan and Haibara Ai, and his attitude was very polite.
These guys didn't leave, they seemed to be waiting for this opportunity.
"Detective, it seems like your Uncle Charlie is very useful?!"
Xiao Ai almost laughed out loud.
It's rare to see Kudo Shinichi being embarrassed, which is really interesting.
"It's better than walking back by ourselves."
"Get in the car, get in the car!"
At this moment, all Conan was thinking about was the palm-sized straw man.
There was no need to choose whether it was faster to walk back or to go back by car. Conan took the lead and jumped directly onto a motorcycle, then called Haiyuan to hurry up.
"Then let's..."
Xiao Ai turned to look for Frogzi. Recently, her behavior pattern has been consistent with that of God.
This will help them get along better with each other.
"Oh oh oh!!"
"Human transportation, rush!!"
Frogzi found a random motorcycle and jumped on it, cheering excitedly.
Lord Kami's little face was flushed red, and the little eyes on his hat were blinking, and he seemed to be in a good mood.
"Okay, just be happy."
Xiao Ai shrugged his shoulders, hugged his small bag, and found a white motorcycle. The driver was a black girl.
"How about, want to go for a ride?!"
"I can take you to drift."
This member of the Bosozoku clan, a black girl with dreadlocks, smiled with big white teeth at Xiao Ai.
The attitude can be described as very enthusiastic, but Xiao Ai refused!!
"Sorry, we still can't. Just take us back to the hotel."
"Mainly that boy!"
Xiao Ai said, pointing to Conan on the other motorcycle.
"He misses his Uncle Charlie!"
…
The town of Terlingua is still too small, or the permanent population is too small.
The police station here is basically a decoration. There are only two police officers inside. Now that a massacre with such a huge death toll has occurred, if you want to solve this problem, you must notify the higher-ups for support.
To be more precise, it should be the Texas Department of Safety, who will assist the small town police department in solving the problem.
However, it will take some time until they arrive.
Before that, the residents of the town spontaneously did something, such as finding some wooden frames and sealing the site at the entrance of the town.
Firstly, to ensure the integrity of the crime scene. Secondly, the bloody scene is too scary to watch, so it is best to seal it temporarily.
The members of the Bosozoku also retreated to the hotel, and their boss Charlie was a little stimulated.
Moreover, when people from the Texas Department of Security arrive, gang members like them may also be involved.
Then...it will be difficult to think of doing something.
Therefore, Boss Charlie convened a meeting with his confidants to prepare to strike first, and his first target was the most suspicious circus!!
In this way, on the surface, the town of Terlingua became quiet again, while the day in the town passed.
When night fell, it was in the hotel where Conan and his party were temporarily staying.
"Dingle bell!"
Pushing open the hotel door, a lame man walked in.
"Hey, lame, where have you been today?!"
"I heard you were drunk at noon."
"I thought you were dead?!"
As this man entered the door, the bosozoku who were still in the hotel lobby immediately started yelling at him.
It doesn't matter what this man's name was before. His current nickname among these gangsters seems to be Cripple.
"..."
The lame man was silent. He didn't say anything and walked straight upstairs.
He has his own room in this hotel.
It is conceivable that he had some status in the Bosozoku clan before, at least he was not the lowest-level younger brother.
But that was what happened before. After he offended Boss Charlie and had a leg broken, he seemed to be unable to survive in this gangster group.
Limping, I climbed up the spiral staircase of the hotel, and the sound of discussion came from behind me.
"That guy is useless!"
"What the hell, just hang out with the boss and you're done. She's just a woman."
"By the way, I heard that there is also a broken brand. I really don't know what is there to grab."
"You deserve it. Boss Charlie didn't give you compensation. If you give me so much money, one leg is nothing."
"It's enough to eat some meat, but I won't be satisfied at all."
"Tch, drink, drink, tell me what that cripple is doing!!"
"That's right, I thought it was before. He might have died at some point."
"Talk too much, bad luck!!"
The sounds downstairs gradually became quieter, and the lame man staggered upstairs.
"..."
His fists were clenched tightly, and although he didn't speak, his expression was gradually distorting.
The lame man himself knew that he should indeed be content.
You know, Boss Charlie is not a kind person. To put it bluntly, he should be a scumbag.
At that time, if there weren't too many younger brothers present, he might have been beaten to death on the spot. It would not have been as simple as just breaking a leg.
"Click!"
Arriving on the third floor, the room door opened.
After the lame man entered the room, he closed the door and fell down against the door.
He felt that his life was over.
The reason why Boss Charlie hasn't killed him yet is because he still has his room in this hotel because he wants to show it to his younger brother below.
Showing his magnanimity as a boss, it turns out that the Bosozoku boys below still do this.
"How ridiculous!"
"I, do I still want to thank him?!"
The man gritted his teeth and looked at his broken leg, his body, his woman, and the brand that should belong to him.
What's the use of that little money?!
It's gone, everything is gone.
"Click!"
He took out an old-fashioned revolver from his pocket, with only one bullet in it, which he found with great difficulty.
Boss Charlie is not stupid and would not leave such a estranged brother waiting for a rebellion that might happen at any time.
So this man's firearms had long been taken away.
As for other tools that can kill people, come on, a cripple, he can't even get close to the fifth floor where Boss Charlie lives.
Yes, that’s right!
Even if he saw the right time, in the afternoon when everyone in the town was attracted by the massacre, he found a revolver and the only bullets.
But, even so, he was able to limp up to the fifth floor, break through Boss Charlie's gatekeeper, and then shoot him dead?!
This is simply a daydream, completely impossible to achieve!
"..."
Looking at the revolver in his hand, he suddenly realized that his hard work all day was in vain.
The only effect of this bullet is to send yourself on your way better.
Rather than waiting for Boss Charlie to kill him, it would be more convenient to do it himself.
However……
"I, I am not willing to accept it!!"
He was not willing to die like this.
A palm-sized scarecrow was taken out from his pocket, and the man carefully touched the red rope tied to the scarecrow.
He got this from a remote town, and at the same time, he learned a legend.
"The wandering shadow of sin!"
"A sad fate, a lost road, two mirrors shattered by hatred and being hated, are double shackles."
"Reappearing in the intertwined time and darkness, your resentment will be eliminated for you!!"
Untie the red thread on the scarecrow, and the person you hate will go to hell!!
I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but in that small town, such words were spread in every corner.
"hell……"
The man muttered, and then his expression gradually became ferocious.
That's right, guys like this who ruined their lives deserve to go to hell.
"If there really is a hell."
"Let the old cat Charlie and the mouse Henry all die!!"
smoke!!
The red rope was untied and fell to the ground.
The room was quiet for a moment, and the man waited nervously for what would happen next, but... nothing happened.
The room was still the same room, he was still the same lame good-for-nothing, and Boss Charlie was still drinking and eating meat upstairs, nothing had changed.
"Woooo!!"
"Is it really a lie?!"
The man cried with his head in his arms, relying on legends and stories to no avail. He was completely desperate.
"Da da da!"
The clock in the room was clicking. I didn’t know how long I had been crying, and I felt like a man who was dizzy from crying.
Suddenly, he noticed something strange. He was no longer the only one in this room!!
"ah……"
He looked up in horror and saw the girl standing in front of him!
Her black hair, which looked like thick ink, hung down to her waist. She seemed to be wearing some kind of student uniform, and the most attractive thing was her eyes, which were red and bright red, like blood.
A mysterious girl appeared strangely in the closed room, standing in front of the lame man.
"Who are you……"
The tone of disbelief, is that legend true?!
The man wanted to stand up in excitement, but he stumbled a few times and fell to the ground. Looking at his pitiful state, he could do anything for revenge.
Even if it's a deal with hell.
"Don't be surprised."
"It was you who called me."
With a cold voice and a delicate and expressionless face, she is like a puppet that has been completed as a tool. She is an emotionless existence.
With fluttering black hair, the girl from hell looked at the miserable man and spoke slowly.