Chapter 1750 Rumors of the resurrection of the dead
"But gradually, even the adults in Egamihara began to call her that," Miura Joji looked helpless. "More and more people are calling her that. Many children will also call her that if they accidentally meet her on the street.
They felt scared, and some children were so frightened that they cried in the street, and one day something happened, a boy with handicapped legs and feet suddenly disappeared, and then the children all thought it was Sophia who did it, and this matter caused a big fuss."
"What?!"
Mumu Thirteen and others' eyes widened.
Conan couldn't help but look at Miura Joji seriously, wanting to confirm an answer.
Of course he hoped that this was not done by Miss Sophia, and that everyone discovered the truth and cleared Miss Sophia's suspicion. However, Mr. Miura said before that this was Egamihara's shame. Combined with the situation back then, it made him think of a not-so-good thing.
good result……
"Because of this incident, even calm adults became hysterical because of their sympathy for the missing child. They regarded her as a criminal and denounced and condemned her," Miura Joji sighed. "No matter what Ms. Elizabeth did for
She complained, but Sophia never said a word to defend herself, and except for Ms. Elizabeth, no one else was willing to speak up for her, let alone testify for her. Soon, their family was isolated by the people of Jiangshenyuan. At that time, there were
Several boys spontaneously formed a juvenile detective team in order to investigate the evidence of Sophia's murder."
"Young Detective Team?"
The three children were a little surprised. Even Haihara Ai was interested and had the illusion of being named.
"Yes," Miura Joji nodded and continued, "Shortly after that, I remember it was a dark and windy night, and a fire suddenly broke out in Fisoya's house, and it burned very quickly.
Strong winds and fire burned the house. The fire got bigger and bigger at night. She and her children were trapped in the house and burned to death. I think it was because some people said that at night when the moon cannot be seen, the witch
The ability will disappear, so the murderer would choose such a night."
Mumu Shisan sighed softly, and everyone else also became quiet...
In the silence, Conan couldn't help but confirm aloud, "So, did someone set the fire deliberately?"
"The war was not over yet, and the police were severely understaffed. They did not even investigate the cause of the fire, and they did not know whether it was intentional arson, an accident, or suicide. After that, the police stopped investigating, and this incident has never been investigated.
An accurate answer. Ms. Elizabeth cried for a whole year before she cheered up." Miura Joji paused, "And there is more to this matter. It was probably three years after the end of the war, one day on the Egamihara River.
During the excavation work at the bottom of the city, they discovered the body of a boy who had turned into bones. Since the body had no right leg below the knee, everyone quickly found out that this was the boy who disappeared that year. In fact,
The boy loved fishing. Judging from the fishing line wrapped around his bones, it was inferred that he went fishing alone. He accidentally slipped from the embankment and drowned in the river. Later, the autopsy results also proved this.
Presumably, there are no signs of homicide."
"What?" Mumu Shisan's eyes widened again.
Miura Jozo lowered his head and said with difficulty, "It seems that the child's parents remind him every day that the river bank there is made of clay and is easy to slip, so he must not go fishing alone, but he often hides it.
With his parents, he secretly went there to fish, which is what his friend later testified to the police."
Koshimizu Nanatsuki frowned and asked, "That means that Miss Sophia has nothing to do with the boy's disappearance, right?"
"This is so inappropriate!"
Genta and Mitsuhiko also frowned with regret.
"Why didn't Jiang Shenyuan's young detective team discover this at that time?"
"This is not just the fault of the children. At that time, the adults in Egamihara also knew that they were wrong, but at that time, a rumor spread among the children," Miura Joji said, his face turned pale.
, the body was trembling slightly, "Listen, I heard that when a fire broke out in Sophia's house, she shouted in the fire, 'I will definitely come back to life and take revenge on those guys who burned me to death'..."
Mumu Shisan said solemnly, "This is really ridiculous!"
"It is precisely because of this legend that the children of Egamihara are more afraid of her than when she was alive," Miura Joji said with fear and guilt, "because every child thinks that he has done something excessive to her.
Everyone thought that she would come back from the grave to take revenge on everyone, so they were really scared from the bottom of their hearts. Later, a child actually said that he saw Miss Sophia using magic spells in the forest, picking poisonous herbs, and
The child said that he saw her casting a spell on a long-dead wolf bone to revive the wolf on a full moon night, and riding on the back of the wolf, running around on the street, trying to find the person who set fire to her house...
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Chi Feichi threw the burnt cigarette butt under his feet and stamped it out, turned around and leaned against the window, looking at the group of people thoughtfully.
At that time, his scope of activities was only in the herbal medicine shop, and it was obviously impossible for people to say such things near Elizabeth's herbal medicine shop, so he and Hongzi only heard the truth about the missing boy, and the other thing was that the children of Jiang Shenyuan were afraid
, I didn’t know there were such rumors.
resurrection……
We must reverse the flow of time and bring the dead back to life...
The organization has existed for more than half a century. If they hear such rumors, they will most likely send someone to Guojiang Shenyuan to learn about the situation.
The person who abnormally asked, "Would you like Gin to accompany you?" could it be because the organization left some traces at that time, and that trace could not be known to him, or he should not know it for the time being?
The reason why Gin was asked to follow him was to prevent something from getting out of control.
The truth about the missing boy was investigated in the winter around 1948. After that, the children of Jiang Shenyuan spread exaggerated rumors to each other, and it must have been the year after that.
According to the communications at that time, the way for rumors to spread out of Jiang Shenyuan was probably that businessmen heard the legend here and told stories in other places. The spread speed was very slow, so the time it took for the rumor to spread out about Jiang Shenyuan was probably
, no matter how fast it is, it will still take a year or two. There are legends everywhere. If you want people to take action, you should hear it more than once, that is, about two years later.
If that person had some purpose and immediately sent people to Jiang Shen to investigate after hearing the rumors, it would probably be from 1952 to 1953.
It was also 1952 when his maternal grandmother came to Jiangshenyuan with her husband and children. She must have heard about the magical herbal doctor here and came to treat the children's genetic diseases. The year before that, she also started investing in genes and medicine because of genetic diseases.
After the medical research came, it seemed that they only asked Elizabeth for those ancestral herbal formulas.
Judging from the age of Karasuma Renya, it seems that Karasuma Renya died around that time.
That person knows the affairs of the Field family very well. Did the two parties meet in Jiangshenyuan? Was there any involvement from then on?
This is very possible, but difficult to verify.
The organization was secretive, and that person planned to let Gin keep an eye on him; the three people from the Field family who came here back then, his grandfather and grandmother passed away more than ten years ago, and his third uncle Mitchell was earlier, probably
He committed suicide more than 40 years ago; Elizabeth, who had contact with the Field family, also passed away a few days ago, and if there were any secrets between the organization and the Field family, it was unlikely that outsiders would learn about it.
There are currently two directions:
First, Gin is probably an insider and knows more or less what happened back then. However, Gin is very strict with his words, so there is no need to expect trickery or torture to be effective.
Second, Jiang Shenyuan's library contains about half a century of newspapers, ancient books, and celebrity notes. There are also many in the library in the hotel. He can dig for clues about books and newspapers around 1952, as long as there are a few clues.
, he can judge many things with this, but it is still unknown whether he can get clues.
In short, there is more hope to go to the library than to get it from Gin. They are in Egamihara, so you might as well go and investigate.
Although people in the organization who investigate secrets privately, or who inadvertently learn secrets they shouldn't know, will end up miserable, but when he said he came to Jiang Shenyuan, that person didn't say no random investigation was allowed, right?
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While Chi Feichi was sorting things out, Miura Joji finished telling Sophia's story.
"Every year at this time, small cream-colored flowers bloom on the elder trees in Sophia's yard. Flowers with illusory and short-lived beauty, just like her smile when she was young, and she also likes this kind of flower very much. Every time
When she passes by, the air is often accompanied by the scent of elderflowers, but the children say it is the smell of the witch and often hold their breath in front of her..."
"Mr. Miura," Mouri Kogoro asked, "are you so afraid of this witch incident because you had such memories in your childhood?"
Miura Joji nodded quickly, "Yes, I am still worried about Sophia's revenge on everyone after she is resurrected. Although the resurrection is really ridiculous, everyone said what they said back then, and some of them were well-founded and seemed to be true.
, I think maybe someone actually discovered something."
"But I always feel that this is not a witch, it is obviously a murder committed by someone," Mouri Kogoro reassured, "Don't worry, I, Moori Kogoro, will definitely..."
After listening to Miura Joji's words, Conan felt chills all over his body and didn't pay much attention to Mouri Kogoro's assurance.
He doesn't believe in the resurrection of a witch, but feels that people's hearts and rumors are scary.
A person who did not kill anyone, because everyone thought she did. She had been wronged for three years. After her death, she was finally cleared of suspicion and became the person everyone felt sorry for. However, because of all kinds of absurd
She was obviously a woman who had suffered a lot of wrongs, but she sadly became the psychological shadow of others in their childhood. Even when they were sixty or seventy years old, they were still afraid of her witch...
Thinking about this, Conan looked startled, and slowly raised his head in horror, looking at Chi Feichi standing next to him. What Chi Feichi said in the herbal medicine shop flashed in his mind.
'A lot of words make a fortune, but a lot of people can destroy bones...Rumors are terrible, they can confuse right and wrong and kill people!'
Is Chi Feichi really talking about Ms. Elizabeth's reputation?
Ms. Elizabeth is dead. If I have to say it, those words are more like talking about Sophia.
Why did Chi Feichi say this at that time? Combined with Chi Feichi's sudden attack tonight, does that mean that the real murderer was in the herbal medicine shop at that time?
If this is the case, it means that Chi Feichi was already testing the murderer when he was in the herbal medicine shop.