The area where the cordon was cordoned off has been set up, and the people from the third division of the investigation team have taken over the area and are closely investigating everything at the crime scene.
On the street two streets away from the cordon, a young man wearing slippers walked in front. His face in his thirties was full of traces of alcoholism and staying up late. His clothes were sloppy and his face was full of impatience.
Behind him was an old woman in her fifties, wearing a shabby singlet in the cold wind of late autumn, mumbling something.
"I'm so annoyed! Shut up!!!"
Suddenly, the sloppy young man suddenly turned around and roared with an angry expression like a ferocious beast: "How many times have I told you to take out your pension and help me pay back the money first? Can't you let those who collect debts?"
Are you happy just by forcing your only son to look like a shady mouse? Is there a mother like you in the world?"
The old woman was yelled at for a while and said cautiously, "That pension is the money your father spent in hospital. Mrs. Long, mother must... must make money as soon as possible to help you pay off your gambling debt."
As she said that, she lowered her head and took out an old wallet from her pocket, and took out more than two thousand yen here and there, with a look of guilt and apology on her face.
"Mom is old and has no education. This is the money mom earned from working in a izakaya this week. You can use it first. When the weather gets cold, eat something hot at night. You can't eat cold food all the time because of your bad gastrointestinal condition. Don't go there again.
It’s a casino.”
The young man grabbed the money, counted it in his hands deftly, clapped his hands and stuffed it into his pocket. He sneered and said: "Ha... If you don't give it a try, how can I pay you back? It's all up to you.
Washing dishes in an izakaya? It will take you eight lifetimes to repay the debt! Haven’t you seen how fierce those debt collectors are?"
"I think you just hope that I won't be beaten to death on the street so that you can be relieved as soon as possible!" At the end of his sentence, his tone was full of incompetent and furious resentment!
Bad luck, bad luck!
Forget about bad luck!
My family is still busy and I can't help at all.
Life is so unlucky!
As he turned around and left, he became more and more angry as he thought about it, and kicked over the trash can on the roadside with a bang.
Behind him, the old woman stood there blankly, with a lonely face and opened her mouth to explain something.
But in the face of the reality of having no money,
They all seemed so pale and weak.
But the next second, there seemed to be screams from other pedestrians on the roadside.
I saw the young man walking in front who was full of resentment, and at some point his face suddenly became a little dull.
The sign in front of him was illuminated with a dazzling red light, and he just walked onto the road. A moving truck was speeding towards him on the road behind the corner of the street ramen shop.
The moment she heard the exclamation, the old woman raised her head with difficulty, and her cloudy pupils suddenly lost focus.
"Ryuta!!!"
Bang-!
At the next brake, the screeching sound of the brakes and the sound of the front of the car hitting a heavy object sounded almost simultaneously.
call-!
As if he had escaped from a nightmare, the young man stumbled suddenly and hit the red light pole on the opposite side of the road. Before he could recover, an unknown fire suddenly burst into his heart!
"Which bastard dares to..."
He was about to yell something, but stopped suddenly when he turned his head.
His whole body froze in place as if struck by lightning, his mouth opened involuntarily, and he swallowed two or three mouthfuls of saliva, as if his throat was dry. The exclamations of passers-by around him and the words the moving truck driver said to him after he hurriedly got off all disappeared.
By the ear.
In a pool of blood on the roadside under the setting sun, an old woman with a stooped figure was lying on the ground, her eyes closed tightly, and the gurgling red blood on the back of her neck dyed her gray hair red in an instant.
In a flash, he realized what had just happened - the moment he was hit by the speeding moving truck,
There is a person,
Pushed himself from behind.
"mom..."
He opened his mouth like a fish dying of thirst, but found that he couldn't even shout out the simplest syllable, and his eye circles instantly turned red.
...
Diagonally across the road, among the crowd of onlookers.
"What a pity."
Wearing a gray mask, Snake Ghoguigo watched all this silently, and made a secret inquiry in his heart.
"The Holy Lord should prefer young souls and blood, but at this time, we can no longer pursue perfection. It will be good if it can meet the needs of pregnancy."
Thinking of this, Snake Ghoguigo stared again at the pool of blood on the roadside that was gilded with a dark golden color by the setting sun.
The old and frail woman just now was obviously just an ordinary person, but she was able to burst out with thrilling speed and power in that moment.
Such blood food...
The Holy Lord should also be satisfied, right?
He thought so.
...
Three minutes later...
The blocked intersection in Kurebetsu Town.
The captain of the third division, Sentetsu Nishirin, received the notice, and his expression suddenly darkened.
When he was surveying the scene at the tram intersection, he never thought that even though the tram was out of service, such an accident would happen under their noses two streets away.
"Damn it! These bastards are so arrogant!"
"Are you provoking us?"
"..."
The faces of everyone in the third division were also not good-looking.
Although from the news that came back, it seems that a mother and son had an argument on the road and the son ran away in anger. When he was hit by a car and was pushed away by the mother, the mother was killed.
It sounds like it's just a tragedy caused by a traffic accident, but everyone present is a superpower, so they naturally know that there is definitely something behind this series of coincidences that is not that simple.
At this time, the silent Nishirin Chitetsu was thinking about the same question as Higashinohara.
Planning a fake suicide case.
From the previous two or three incidents a year, now there have been three incidents within three days... These guys seem to be getting more and more anxious, as if they are approaching some kind of goal.
But their purpose...
What exactly is it?
Xilin Qiantetsu couldn't figure it out and felt a little depressed. He always felt that something was about to happen, and it would probably happen under his nose.
But I just can't figure it out at all.
At this time, cumulonimbus clouds that looked like rolling mountains appeared overhead. Occasionally, pale electric pythons passed through the dark clouds, and there was faint thunder in the distant sky.
"What should we do next?" Vice Captain Ogami Yu couldn't help but stepped forward and asked.
After Chitetsu Nishirin pondered for a moment, he looked at the blooming cherry blossoms around the train crossing in Kubetsu Town. They might be about to wither after this autumn rain. He frowned and said:
"The murderers behind the forged suicide cases have placed their location at this intersection for such a long time. Even when they committed crimes again after the intersection was blocked by us, they chose a location not far away...
Do you really think this is a provocation?"
Vice-captain Ogami Yuu was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, "If it's not a provocation, it means that this intersection has some special significance to the murderer behind the scenes, but what could it be?"
"I don't know."
Xilin Qiante shook his head, narrowed his eyes and said:
"But judging from the eagerness of the murderer, it may not be long before we know the truth. Today, the entire Third Division is working overtime to guard this intersection."
Having said this, he paused, looked at the media reporters not far away who were watching the flying guns and cannons, frowned and said, "Inform the colleagues in the Search Section 1 to seal off the surrounding area tonight and not allow any pedestrians to approach, especially
They are those reporters who are afraid that the world will not be in chaos."
"It's the captain!"
Ogami Yu responded.
...
Just when the third team was determined to wait and see tonight, the reporters who were originally at the tram intersection had immediately arrived at the scene of the latest "traffic accident" two streets away, and rushed to start reporting.
"Death's scythe falls again! Horrifying car accident outside Death Cross!"
"A young man attempted suicide and his mother died, and the God of Death reappeared after Sakura fell in the town of Kubetsu!"
"Exclusive reveal! The hidden truth behind the continuous traffic accidents."
"..."
When Higashinohara saw the news, he immediately realized that Aragaki Satoru's inference was stuck in a fixed mindset.
Because in the past few years, accidents in Mubetsu Town have occurred at that tram intersection and people committed suicide by jumping off the rails. After the tram stopped running today, they subconsciously thought that at least nothing would happen again today.
But they ignored one thing.
traffic suicide accident,
A tram is not necessarily needed.
Thinking of this, Higashinohara quickly rushed back to the apartment with the two Kodachi swords he had just bought, wanting to call Aragaki Satoru and Charlie who were with him today.
But when he arrived at the Aragaki Detective Office on the third floor, he found that the door was closed and the van downstairs was missing.
After thinking about it, Higashinohara realized that the two of them had probably rushed to the scene after seeing the news and seeing that he was not around. Then he would probably have to take a few more train stops to get to the scene.
These two are unreliable!
Do you want to go and see it yourself?
Higashinohara vaguely felt that something was probably going to happen tonight, even if it wasn't Shikame Ryoka's request, he was already ready to move after the experience of converting sin points into free attribute points last time.
Must go tonight!
Higashinohara made his decision and no longer hesitated.
When he was going downstairs, he didn't forget to go back and change his clothes, and he also put on the dark gold dragonfly mask he brought back from the dinner at Odaiba Villa in the rain that night.
This is a very necessary barrier and protection for him, whose current real strength is not enough to deal with the secret hostility. So far, only the deceased Nishimaru Miri seems to know his true identity.
Just as Higashinohara was rushing to the scene of the crime, there was also a woman riding a motorcycle wearing a black leather jacket and a helmet, speeding through the crowded streets of Shinjuku District.
At some point, raindrops fell, and the woman felt a slight chill between her charming brows. She raised her hand and put down the mask in front of her helmet, but her eyes were always staring ahead.
There are some errors.
Once is enough.
Snake Ghoul Saori thought to herself.
...
The sky is getting dark.
The lights on the roadside are on.
Near the Kubetsucho Tram Crossing, the honking of cars and the noise of pedestrians have all disappeared.
In fact, based on what we learned this afternoon, and with the cooperation of the people from the Traffic Division, several streets around the Kuribetsu Tram Crossing have been blocked tonight.
Although the onlookers smelled something special from the Metropolitan Police Department's actions, Xi Linqianqianzhi forcefully ordered them all to be dispersed, leaving only a few stragglers from small newspapers standing on the road in the late autumn night rain.
Rubbing hands under the eaves of a side shop and enjoying the heat.
Damn it!
Are these police officers just trying to be mysterious?
I miss my bed at home so much!
But there seems to be big news about a promotion and a salary increase.
...
Under the cherry blossom trees at the crossroads.
Xilin Qiantie stood upright in the drizzle with an umbrella, his thick eyebrows drooping slightly, as if the old monk was in trance and didn't know what he was thinking.
"Captain Xi Lin! Have a cup of hot drink."
At this time, deputy captain Oda Yuu ran over with a large bag of milk tea and gave each of his colleagues on duty a cup in the rain on the roadside.
Oda Yu put on the straw and said with a smile, "Tsk tsk, the world's economy is in recession now, Yakuza has gone to change careers. When I just bought milk tea, I realized that the owner of the milk tea shop was actually taught by me before.
Guy."
"Many times, it's not that people can't take the right path, they just need to experience enough lessons."
Xilin Qiante said this after being silent for a moment. What came to mind was that slovenly young man who cried heartbrokenly on the roadside in the afternoon.
The drizzle of rain is getting heavier and heavier. The black ripples on the road surface reflect the yellow street lamps overhead. The late autumn night wind blows through the cherry blossom trees and a burst of fallen cherry blossoms. This rare quiet intersection in the busy city becomes more and more quiet and deep.
.
"Captain, do you think there will be something going on here tonight?" Oda Yu suddenly asked uneasily.
Xilin Qiantie said calmly, "If there is, I hope there is not; if there is not, I hope there is, otherwise we may have to stay here tomorrow night."
Oda Yu was stunned when he heard this, and said angrily, "That seems to be the truth. It seems like it's not a good thing to have it or not, eh? Why is that girl over there still there?"
Xilin Qiantie looked around after hearing this, and suddenly couldn't help but frown.
He remembered that the petite girl wearing a black high school uniform but about the same height as an elementary school student was the family member of the victim who he saw worshiping the portrait of the deceased in the alley next door when he drove over in the afternoon.
Haven't left yet?
This is not a nice place.
Xilin Qiante sighed and waved to the girl.
...
In the rain at night, Shikame Ryoka, who was covering herself with a big black umbrella, noticed Sairin Chitetsu's gesture. She was timid by nature and couldn't help but stiffen. She nervously held the long knife at her waist under the big umbrella.
Walked over step by step.
However, just when Shikame Ryoka stepped on the zebra crossing and reached the middle of the road.
Without warning!
A strong night wind blew through the streets.
Several blooming October cherry trees at the intersection suddenly swayed violently, and large swaths of flying cherry blossoms rushed towards Shikame Ryoka who was holding a big black umbrella at the intersection like a surging pink wave.
Shikame Ryoka hurriedly squatted down, holding the big black umbrella in her arms tightly with her delicate little arms. She waited until the night wind passed before standing up again.
But when she looked back at Xilin Qiantetsu across the road, she found that the latter's eyes and attention were no longer on her.
At this moment,
Everyone around them turned their attention away from her.
A crossroads of cherry blossoms in the rainy night.
At some point, a group of strangers wearing white long-eared rabbit masks appeared in groups from the darkness in all directions like ghosts at night.
The one who walks in the front,
It was a middle-aged man wearing a gray mask.
...
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._