Unlike Carl who was enjoying and inquiring at the same time, the other groups basically asked the residents in the town who could chat as quickly as possible, but the most common result was that there was no information about the demon.
Including the mayor Shen Lishu visited, most people in the town knew the story of the witch very well, and some even kept it secret. However, when talking about the witch, everyone seemed at a loss.
"They obviously knew what was going on and didn't know why." Ye Chuqing, who had been accompanying Shen Lishu, was a little helpless. "We used many methods to make excuses, but the conclusion is that they really don't know. The mayor knows how to prevent it. The witch was resurrected, but when I asked him that the witch was not dead in the legend, so how could she be resurrected, the mayor was not sure."
"Then who told him to prevent the witch from resurrecting?" Asama Seitaro asked.
"He said it was passed down from ancestors." Ye Chuqing sighed.
Lu Ning suddenly spoke: "Compared to this...how old is the mayor and what is his appearance? What is your initial impression of him?"
"That's right." Karl snapped his fingers, "According to our inference, if we really want to know the inside story, that person must be quite old, so if the mayor is just a young man, he probably doesn't know what happened before. .”
Shen Lishu nodded: "The mayor is about forty years old. He is a very capable man, but he may still be too young for his age."
"Yes, I think we need to find someone similar to Professor Shen's age." Lu Ning said, "How old is the person you met, Qianshan?"
"He is retired and is nearly sixty years old, but he doesn't know about it." Asayama Seitaro was a little worried. "He did invite us here because of the witch's resurrection, but mainly because some animals appeared in the forest. The corpse has very strange injuries. He asked us to investigate because he was worried about his son who would take over his position. As for the witch-related things, he doesn’t know much more than other townspeople."
"Speaking of which..." Karl suddenly remembered something again, "I remember we have a detective lady here? Since you have been given this position, you can probably see more than us, right? Are there any doubts?"
His words immediately focused everyone's attention on Fujii Yukine, who was leaning against the corner.
However, Fujii Yukine didn't care about the attention of everyone at all, and just stared at Karl with cold eyes.
This stare seemed to last for a long time, and neither of them gave in. Finally, Fujii Yukine slowly adjusted from the posture leaning against the wall back to an upright position.
"There are...many."
"Oh? This is really good. Is there anything you can tell us?" Karl still smiled.
"No."
"Hey, this is not teamwork!" Pan Haishu, one of the four brothers, couldn't help but said, "We are not asking you to reveal the secret, we are just asking you to tell the clues you found. We can even be responsible for the investigation. This is What difficulty?"
"...No." Fujii Yukiyin glanced at Pan Haishu, "I want to investigate it myself."
Seitaro Asama quickly stepped forward to smooth things over: "Fujii didn't even tell us. She probably has her own considerations. This scene is not that simple. Everyone also has secrets..."
"Secrets are one thing, but holding them all back is another thing!" Another young man Peng Morong was also a little dissatisfied, "I have experienced a lot of secret scenes, and I have never heard that everything is secret. It’s secret! This is hunting! If you were attacked by a demon, would you still have to carry the secret into the coffin?”
"I am confident in ensuring my own safety." Fujii Yukine said a few more words this time.
"This is ridiculous. Although the difficulty of hunting targets is low, it is not something that one person can handle by chance." Iroh shook his head, "Even if it is an unimportant clue, I hope to hear it from you. If it is realistic at all, otherwise I will think you are being mysterious."
Fujii Yukine simply refused: "What you think is all your business. I have clues and I won't tell. That's it."
"Did you confirm anything?"
Lu Ning suddenly spoke.
The conversation between the two people in this scene suddenly started.
"I have had a similar experience. I know some things that cannot be said. I need to confirm certain clues. Language and behavior are also tests. Observe everyone's reaction and expression... I don't need clues, you just need to tell me whether you are What was confirmed?”
"Yes." Fujii Yukine nodded, "But it's only preliminary."
"I understand, it's still a matter of secrets." Shen Lishu laughed after hearing this, "I see, you are a detective... you are a detective!"
"If you understand, it's better to keep it in your heart, because this is a matter of life." Although Fujii Yukine was cold, he still maintained basic courtesy. Shen Lishu also nodded to her: "Then it's best not to be in the same room with Miss Detective now. Chu Qing... help me upstairs."
After saying that, Shen Lishu walked out of the restaurant with Yi Luo, supported by Ye Chuqing.
Following this move, everyone fell into thinking.
Under the disguise, it should convey some meaning. Everyone present is no longer a novice and has some considerations based on their own experience.
"Please allow me to ask one more question...Do you want Miss Detective to investigate alone?" Karl spoke again, this time he emphasized the word "alone" very hard.
"I will continue to operate with the team for the time being, but please don't be surprised if I suddenly leave at any time. That is normal."
"In my principles, doctors, professors and detectives are the first order of protection." Karl slowly leaned on the chair, "Because these people are easy to die, especially in a scene that requires a lot of investigation. It's a pity. , Miss, since you declared that you have the clues, I can't let you take risks at will."
"Even if it loses the advantage provided by clues?"
"A living person is more important than a few clues." Karl responded calmly, "If you regard your departure as a normal behavior, then I may take some covert actions to confirm your safety."
"Please do it." Fujii Yukine didn't care about the implications of Karl's words, "You have your freedom."
The ending this time was a little less cheerful. Everyone is thinking, whether it is the conversation between Lu Ning and Fujii Xueyin, or what Shen Lishu said when he left, they all have to figure out the meaning of it.
Lu Ning didn't care. She could investigate freely during the noon period and just confirmed some things.
There was only this one hotel in Baihu Town, so she didn't need to consider other lines of investigation. She first asked her boss to confirm whether the Lima mentioned in her mission had ever stayed here.
After showing some evidence of their friendship, the boss quickly found Lima's check-in record from the registration book.
Checked in about a month and a half ago and left about a month and a half ago.
"Has anyone lived in his room?" Lu Ning asked.
"Well...it's still empty, because the passenger flow has been relatively small these days, and it wasn't until yesterday that many people suddenly came."
"Give me that room." Lu Ning said immediately.
After getting the key, Lu Ning immediately set off to find the room. It could be said that she was a little anxious. The duration of this mission is fourteen days. Two weeks can only be said to be a moderate length, and it is obvious that some people have begun to come into contact with clues that belong only to them.
Every visitor here cannot be underestimated.
On the second floor, in room 10 at the end of the corridor, Lu Ning quickly opened the door and walked in. Due to frequent cleaning, there was no smell of dust in the room. The windows were opened to allow direct sunlight to shine in, adding a lot of brightness to the somewhat dark interior.
There is a bed, a set of tables and chairs, a wardrobe, clothes racks, and a pot of plants in the corner. The furnishings of the entire room can be said to be simple, but for such a hotel, it is already an acceptable level. There is no bathroom, which is an inconvenience of hotels in this era, but it also saves Lu Ning a lot of space for searching.
There is no need to check carefully the sheets and bedding that will be changed and washed. The focus is on the wardrobe, under the table, chair and bed, as well as potted plants and corners. Soon, Lu Ning dug out a round wax ball the size of a table tennis ball from under the slightly loose soil of the plant.
Lu Ning immediately locked the door, then sat on the bedside and pinched the wax ball open.
Inside were two dark seeds and a rolled up note.
This kind of thing usually doesn't mean anything good, but Lu Ning still opened it and took a look at the contents.
[The heart has dried up, so its value is no different than a piece of garbage.
I had to head to the lake and reconfigure my fresh heart at that cabin.
But I had a hunch, just in case, to take my signature and whoever it was, go to the grocery store in town and pick up my research notes, and make them public if I disappeared or died.
Lima Tutmones]
The note was not very big. It was filled with so many words and the last signature. Lu Ning carefully folded it and put it in his pocket, then looked at the two seeds.
They indeed looked like hearts, but the outer skin was shriveled and covered with an unknown substance inside. They were very hard to the touch and much heavier for this size. Even with Lu Ning's pharmacological perspective, he couldn't identify the names of these two seeds.
"As expected, this is the seed of the Witch's Heart...but it seems that the seeds cannot be used directly as medicine." Lu Ning put the hand holding the seed into his pocket, "If Lima is dead, it will indeed be good news for my mission. Should he store his research notes in the grocery store for now or take them out now?"
A clue is not the most important thing. Since the distribution center will not let the death of one or two people block everyone's tasks, there is nothing wrong with not disclosing this clue. What's more, she dared to say that everyone was hiding something that she only knew about and was hiding it.
With limited cooperation, how long this team can maintain is a question.
Lu Ning left the room, preparing to put the seeds back into the safe in her car. And just after she walked downstairs, the door of room 8 next door opened slightly, and a pair of eyes looked out alertly.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Ning was studying the notebook on the semi-finished drug in the RV. It was no problem to understand the notebook with the knowledge forced by the distribution center. However, her concentration was quickly interrupted by a knock on the car door.
"Is Ms. Lu here?"
This never-heard title almost made Lu Ning spit out her words.
After re-recognizing the fact that she was twenty-seven years old, Lu Ning walked to the door and opened the car door. She found that it was the two girls who were on the same team as Fujii Yukine. Now the two girls looked anxious, and Tachikawa Ryo was behind them. He was carrying a little boy on his back, and next to him was a panicked man and woman, who should be the boy's parents.
"What's up with him?"
"When I went out to visit the local area with the two young ladies, I happened to pass by the hospital and came across this matter." Tachikawa Ryo carefully moved the boy to his chest. Only then did Lu Ning notice that there were bruises on the boy's arms, chest and other places. His limbs were injured and his limbs were limp, and he seemed to be in a bad condition.
"Can't the doctor here cure him? Move him in, put him on the bed, and try to be as gentle as possible."
"Thank you Dr. Lu for your help."
Okay, this title is much better than the previous one.
Lu Ning gave up her seat, and Tachikawa Ryo smoothly transported the boy to the car and placed him on the bed with his back.
"Leave one person alone and let everyone else go out."
Ryo Tachikawa glanced at the panicked man and woman behind him, shook his head and said to the two girls: "Sugiyama, Inahara, you two take them to the hotel to calm down for a while. Dr. Lu has excellent medical skills, there will be no problem."
The two girls nodded quickly and persuaded the couple to enter the hotel. Lu Ning asked Tachikawa Ryo to close the door, reached out and turned on the hot water device to boil water, then took out the scissors from the drawer and cut the boy's clothes directly.
The injuries underneath the clothes were simply shocking.
It looked like someone had been beaten repeatedly with a blunt object. The boy's flesh and blood were covered in blood from his chest to his abdomen, and some of it was even stuck to his clothes. His limbs were undoubtedly broken, but fortunately they were not broken into pieces. Lu Ning checked the injury briefly and started emergency treatment.
"What's Dr. Lu's opinion?" Ryo Tachikawa asked, helping.
"Blunt force injuries, and there were at least fifty or sixty injuries. Fortunately, they looked serious but did not cause internal bleeding. What is more troublesome are the fractures."
"According to his parents, the child went out to play around nine o'clock in the morning, and his partner said he ran into the woods on the east side to explore. Then he did not return after noon, and his parents anxiously went out to search, and then they found the seriously injured and unconscious man outside the woods. The strange thing is that no blunt objects were found to create similar wounds, except for the most common stones in the woods." Ryo Tachikawa said.
"Yes." Lu Ning mixed the wound medicine and began to apply it on the boy, then slowly wrapped it with gauze, "But his injuries were only on his body and limbs. There was no wound on the most fatal head, and the person who hurt him was not there. Plan to kill him directly."
"This is obvious. Didn't Dr. Lu see any other problems?"
"No need to test me. His injuries correspond to the story of being stoned to death, right? Is that what you want to ask me?"
"The doctor is smart."
"Flattery is of no use to me. I know what you want to say. This may be the work of the devil. Although the hidden purpose of not killing this child is puzzling, it may correspond to the devil's killing method. The Witch's Punishment ——I’m already thinking in this direction.”
Tachikawa nodded and stopped talking.
"You want to confirm your idea with me? Okay... hanging, stoning, burning, waterboarding, but the number is not right, there are six demons."
"The legend may have omitted something."
"That makes sense, but if something is omitted, what's the use of studying it?"
"Perhaps we can deduce the identity of the demon based on this. I believe that there is a demon hiding in the town, and he must be disguised as a human. If we can find a connection between the two, it may be helpful to the mission."
Lu Ning carefully splinted and fixed the boy's limbs. After being busy for a while, he finally completed most of the treatment.
"I don't recommend being limited by this idea."
