As the hot water gradually submerged his chest, Kogoro Aoyama, who had a white towel on his head, couldn't help but close his eyes and let out a comfortable moan.
Leaning on the edge of the hot spring, he raised his head and said happily.
"Huh, it's really nice to take a vacation like this once in a while. I feel like I'm relaxing all over."
"You think so, Isshin?"
"Issin?"
After a while, Kogoro Aoyama noticed that there was no response and felt something was wrong. He immediately opened his eyes and looked at Isshin's position next to him.
However, to his surprise, Isshin was still staying beside him at this moment, holding his little head and staring intently at the blue curtain at the entrance of the hot spring.
Seeing this, Kogoro Aoyama couldn't help but feel a little confused and asked.
"Isshin, what are you looking at?"
"Dad, have we been hanging out for ten minutes, right?" Yixin's expression was very serious.
"Ah, yes, it's almost ten minutes."
Looking at the other party's serious expression, Aoyama Kogoro was even more confused and wondered.
"What, is there anything you are anxious to do?"
"I've been soaking for ten minutes."
Yixin sighed quietly, looking at the door curtain with resentment in his eyes.
"Why, no beautiful big sister has come in to join us in the hot spring?"
Well?
Kogoro Aoyama was startled when he heard this, and then he couldn't help laughing.
"Haha, what are you talking about? The bathhouses here are separated for men and women, not mixed bathing."
"And even if it's a mixed bath, the only people who will come are some old ladies. How could there be any beautiful sisters appearing? Unless it's a movie and that's possible - "
Suddenly, his laughter stopped, as if he realized something, his face darkened.
The casserole-sized fists immediately clenched tightly, grinding back and forth on the top of Isshin's head like a drill, and asked.
"You brat, tell me the truth. Did you peek at the video tape I rented while I was away?"
"Well, I, I don't, dad, stop it, it hurts, it hurts... people are dying, they are going to die!"
Under Kogoro Aoyama's drill attack, Isshin couldn't resist it at all and screamed in pain.
Kogoro Aoyama, on the other hand, looked like he had no intention of sparing his opponent, and Drill's attack became more and more fierce.
"Huh? You've learned how to lie, right? I wonder if I won't teach you a lesson today -"
"ah--!"
Suddenly, a high-decibel scream came from behind them.
This sound was like a pair of sharp scissors, tearing the calm night in half, and it stung a little in the ears.
The moment he heard this voice, Aoyama Kogoro's men couldn't help but slow down a bit.
However, he was not frightened by the scream.
But because the detective intuition developed over many years told him that this was not an ordinary scream, but an almost instinctive cry that tried his best to express his fear!
And sounds like this were not unfamiliar to him.
Because when ordinary people find a corpse at a crime scene, they often make sounds like this!
The moment he reacted, Aoyama Kogoro suddenly stood up from the hot spring, grabbed a yukata and put it on, and hurried out.
Walking through the corridor of the hotel, I came to the place where the scream had just come out, and I saw a hotel maid who had fallen to the ground, her arms supported behind her, and her body was still shaking.
Seeing this, Kogoro Aoyama quickly stepped forward to help him up and asked.
"Are you okay? What's wrong? What happened?"
"That...there..."
The waitress trembled with her pale lips, stretched out a finger, and pointed to a room with a half-open door in front of her.
Subconsciously, Aoyama Kogoro looked in the direction pointed by the other party.
In an instant, his vision suddenly froze, and his pupils couldn't help but dilate to the limit.
In the room, two figures fell to the ground, looking unconscious.
Under them, there was still a large amount of dried and black blood, seeping along the ground into the gaps in the floor.
At this moment, the hotel maid pointed at the two figures tremblingly, with an expression on her face full of fear.
"They...they..."
"Dead...dead!"
...
An hour and a half later.
Continuous flashes of red and blue light covered the entire exterior wall of the hotel.
At this moment, a policeman walked into the hotel room. As the inspection director, Nishikata Wataru quickly stepped forward and reported to the policeman.
"Heiwu Police Department, the case has been basically investigated. The victims this time are a pair of siblings. The elder sister's name is Uchimura Yoko, and the younger brother's name is Uchimura Bunta. They sneaked out without telling their family."
"After the prisoner focused on the siblings, he committed the crime in this room. As for the crime method, it was exactly the same as those in previous cases."
"However, fortunately, they were discovered in time this time. The siblings were treated after being sent to the hospital and are now out of danger."
"Is it the luckiest thing in misfortune..."
Hearing this, the solemn brows of the Heiwu Police Department relaxed a little, but then they frowned again and whispered.
"Anyway, let's block the news for now."
"If such a thing were to be known to the public, it would cause large-scale panic and riots."
"Yes, sir."
Nishikata saluted and responded solemnly.
The Heiwu Police Department nodded, looked through the case information in his hands, and continued to ask.
"So, where is the person who called the police? I want to find out something from him."
"Ah, he's right next door. I'm going to call him over right now."
Nishikata Wataru trotted out quickly and came back with Aoyama Kogoro after a while.
However, the moment he saw Kogoro Aoyama, the Black Crow Police Department's eyes suddenly straightened, and he slowly opened his mouth wide and said in surprise.
"You, you are... Detective Aoyama!?"
"Eh? Black Police Department, do you know him?" Nishikata Wataru looked at the other party with some doubts.
The Kuroka Police Department glared at Nishikata Wataru, pointed at Kogoro Aoyama and extended his hand to introduce.
"Idiot, open your eyes and take a good look. This man is the 'Comatose Aoyama Kogoro'. His deeds are well known in the police community!"
"Haha, I didn't expect my reputation to be so famous in Hokkaido."
Hearing the reputation of the Black Police Department in front of him, Kogoro Aoyama couldn't help but feel a little ecstatic for a moment.
He straightened the hem of his suit and said in a deep voice.
"Then, please allow me to reintroduce myself. When we meet for the first time, I am the famous detective known as the 'Heisei Sherlock Holmes', Kogoro Aoyama."
"You actually said we met for the first time... Could it be that Detective Aoyama doesn't remember me? It's me, Kuroka Renshiro!"
Kuroka Renshiro pointed at his face in embarrassment.
"Didn't the Metropolitan Police Department collaborate on a case last year? I had a chance encounter with Detective Aoyama at that time."
"Oh, I remember, was it the police officer at that time?" Looking at the face in front of him, Aoyama Kogoro suddenly remembered.
"Haha, thanks to you, I have been promoted to the police department now." Heiwu Renshiro smiled and nodded, and then said with emotion.
"I didn't expect Detective Aoyama to be at the crime scene this time. Is this the so-called intuition of a famous detective? It really makes me admire..."
Hearing this, Nishikata Wataru, who was thinking hard at the side, suddenly remembered something and interrupted excitedly.
"I see, he is the man you said in the police department that cases will happen wherever he goes, and he is like the god of death?"
"Ah, today is really an eye-opener. I didn't expect that what the police department said was true..."
You guy, don't you know how to read the atmosphere when you say something?
Listening to Nishiyama Wataru's words, the smile on Kuroka Renshiro's face couldn't help but froze, and he turned his head and glared at him fiercely.
Before Kogoro Aoyama could react, he quickly changed the topic and his expression became serious.
"But I think that since Detective Qingshan will appear here, it must not be a coincidence. To be honest, our police station has been extremely busy from top to bottom because of this series of cases, but the progress of the case has not advanced at all.
"
"Perhaps, only Detective Aoyama's reasoning can save us now."
"A series of cases?"
Hearing this keyword, Aoyama Kogoro couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Heiwu Police Department, are you saying that the prisoner has committed multiple crimes?"
"Yes, this is the fifth case this month." Heiwu Renshiro said helplessly.
"In addition to massive blood loss, the victims of these cases also have a unified feature, which is that the tissues and organs in the body have been removed, some are kidneys, some are livers, and some are gallbladders and spleens...
..”
"And even this pair of siblings is no exception. According to the examination report just sent by the hospital, it was found that the appendix of sister Yoko Uchimura disappeared from the body, and the tonsils of younger brother Uchimura Bunta also disappeared."
Well?
Hearing this, Kogoro Aoyama couldn't help but feel a little confused on his face for a moment.
"Heiwu Police Department, I can understand what you said before, but the appendix and tonsils are too strange, right?"
"Does such an organ mean anything to the prisoner?"
"I don't know the specific meaning. Maybe the prisoners are provoking us, the police, saying that we are as useless as these things."
Kuroka Renshiro smiled bitterly.
He did not continue the conversation on this topic, but asked.
"So, did Detective Qingshan make any key discoveries at the scene?"
"If it's Detective Aoyama's reasoning, he should have caught the criminal's tail, right?"
Under the expectant gaze of the other party, Aoyama Kogoro awkwardly scratched his head and laughed.
"This... time is tight. In fact, I haven't had time to start reasoning yet..."
Suddenly, Kogoro Aoyama's eyes suddenly froze, and he felt that the vision in front of him was inexplicably darkened.
Immediately afterwards, his body was uncontrollable again and began to stretch wildly like a dance, spinning, staggering and falling backwards.
Seeing this scene, Kuroka Renshiro and Nishikata Wataru's eyes shone with surprise.
Coming, coming!
It’s the unconscious Kogoro Aoyama!
But what they failed to see was that after Kogoro Aoyama's body fell to the ground, a weak white light emerged from his body as if his soul had left his body, and gradually transformed into Kogoro Aoyama's appearance.
Looking at his unconscious body behind him, Kogoro Aoyama, who was in a spiritual state, couldn't help but feel a little confused, and immediately communicated with Isshin in his mind.
"Yixin, why did you suddenly use your ability? Did you discover anything?"
However, unlike before, this time Yixin did not respond to him, and his mind was silent.
Puzzled, Kogoro Aoyama couldn't help but continue calling in his heart.
"Isshin? Isshin, are you there?"
"Hello?"
"You brat, you're not still angry because of what happened just now. Tell me, what exactly did you find?"
Suddenly, Kogoro Aoyama's whole body trembled, and he felt as if his tongue was knotted and frozen in his mouth.
Even though he was in the state of a spirit body, he felt a coldness that was like a substance slowly sliding across his skin, like a long black snake representing death, slowly crawling around him.
But at the same time, he also understood what he wanted to convey to him.
Because at this moment, there is another figure in this room.
His body was hidden under a dark cloak, and he was standing on top of the black blood in the room, as if he had emerged from the darkness.
The blurred face was shrouded in black mist, and strands of it were floating in the air, exuding a strange aura.
This image is just like what is depicted in myths and legends.
Yes, it's the God of Death.
Suddenly, the figure seemed to notice something, turned its head, and met the eyes of Kogoro Aoyama who was in the spirit state.
For a moment, he couldn't help but have a look of confusion in his eyes, and then he came over here and tentatively stretched out his arm, as if to confirm if there was anyone here.
In an instant, Kogoro Aoyama felt as if his scalp was going to explode. A strong sense of fear surged into his heart, and even goosebumps appeared on his spiritual body.
But even so, he still covered his mouth tightly and watched the other person approaching him, not daring to move for fear of being discovered by the other person.
However, just when the other party was about to touch him, a huge suction force came from behind.
The next moment, Kogoro Aoyama, who was lying on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes.
Seeing this, Kuroka Renshiro and Nishikata Wataru surrounded him one after another, expressing concern.
"Detective Aoyama, are you awake?"
"How is the reasoning going? Have you got any key clues?"
"What reasoning? Did I just reason?"
Aoyama Kogoro immediately interrupted the two of them and declared loudly at the same time.
"Don't get me wrong. I just soaked in too many hot springs. I just got excited and accidentally fainted from the heat."
"Really, I came here because I heard it was a mixed bathing hot spring, but I couldn't wait until I almost fainted. Isn't this a clear attempt to deceive consumers?"
He shook his waist, walked out between Kuroka Renshiro and Nishikata Wataru, and sighed.
"Oh, no, I'm not in the mood to reason at all now, so let's go outside to get some fresh air first."
"Damn it, I really want to take a mixed bath with a pretty girl..."
Looking at the figure of Kogoro Aoyama who left complaining, Kurokaru Renshiro and Nishikata Wataru looked at each other, and both saw the confused expression on the other's face.
After going around a few corners and confirming that no one was following him, Kogoro Aoyama gradually walked faster and faster.
In the end, he started running like a wild dog.
While running, I took out my mobile phone from my trouser pocket, dialed a certain number and put it to my ear. I kept praying in my heart, answer it quickly, answer it quickly.
Suddenly, a soft beeping sound came from the receiver.
Hearing this voice, a big stone suddenly fell to the ground in Kogoro Aoyama's heart.
He didn't even have time to swallow his saliva before he spoke excitedly.
"Hey, Detective Yagami, it's me, Kogoro Aoyama!"
"Yes, I have something to tell you. It's important. Please believe me!"
"It's the God of Death, I saw the God of Death!"
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Thanks to the Dragon King for the 300 starting coins rewarded by Dou Luo today!
I'm really sorry for so few updates, and I apologize to everyone!