"Is the shrine over there?" Reiji Fukuura took the camera and headed over there, "Then I have to go there and take a photo!"
"Wait!" Master Issei said hurriedly, "Recently, the village is preparing for a festival that happens every three hundred years. If you go there now..."
"It's okay, I won't disturb them!" Fukuura Reiji didn't look back, waved his hand, and quickly disappeared around the corner at the end of the road.
"Hey! But..." Master Issei wanted to catch up, but turned to look at the group of people who were still playing next to the God's Tree, and finally gave up.
"Aren't outsiders welcome here?" Conan asked.
"Everyone doesn't want their peaceful life to be disturbed. It's okay to come here for fun, but if you take photos, the priest here will not agree. And because President Wakura bought most of the land here to carry out construction, in order to facilitate his own driving The road was specially widened when traveling, which destroyed the environment here. Many villagers have opinions about the Hecang family. You are here to take pictures casually, then..." Tushi Issei sighed, and quickly He cheered up again and said with a smile, "But you don't have to worry. At most, everyone just stopped him from taking pictures and wanted to expel him from leaving."
Conan laughed dryly, isn't expulsion serious enough?
"Police officer, are there any festivals here recently?" Fei Yingli came from behind.
"That's right, it's a festival that only happens once in three hundred years. It will be held in three days," Tushi Issei said enthusiastically. "You can still see the national treasure-level mirror then. If the lawyer has time, you can keep it. Participate in the celebration and then leave in three days."
"Ah, no," Fei Yingli refused with a polite smile, "I still have things to deal with, I'm afraid I can't stay until then."
"It's a festival that happens once every three hundred years. It would be a shame not to watch it!" Mitsuhiko came up and joined the chat group.
Yuantai looked forward to it, "There should be a lot of delicious food then, right?"
"Mr. Police Officer, what does that magical mirror look like?" Ayumi was more interested in the magical mirror, "Could it be a big crystal mirror?"
"There will be some special delicacies in the celebration," Tu Shi Isheng answered the question in a good-tempered manner, "But I don't know about the mirror. After all, it only comes out once every three hundred years. Before the festival begins, it is collected by the priest. It is kept in a safe place, but I heard it is a dark and shiny mirror."
"A dark and shiny mirror?" Conan asked doubtfully, "Aren't ancient mirrors generally bronze mirrors?"
"I don't know about this, but it is indeed true in the rumors," Tushi Issei said, "I heard that the mirror can resonate with the sacrificial tree, and then incredible phenomena will occur, causing a total solar eclipse. .”
Chi Feichi was smoking a cigarette and listening quietly.
There is no mobile phone signal here, the suspension bridge is the only way and is easily destroyed, and there is a festival in three days. It looks like the rhythm of a serial murder case.
But he really had no impression of this case, not at all.
Now that Reiji Fukuura is acting alone, he won't be the first sacrifice, right?
In broad daylight, there should be a lot of people at the shrine, most likely not...right?
"I remember it was said on the news," Mitsuhiko recalled, "the next time Japan can see a total solar eclipse will be in 2035, right?"
"I don't know if there will be a total solar eclipse then, but..." Conan looked at Chi Feichi, "There should be a connection between Fifteen Nights Village and Mesoamerican civilization."
"Huh?" Bumei looked at Chi Feichi curiously.
"In the Mesoamerican civilization, the sun god Huitzilopochtli was the god who broke the night and brought daily light to people. The light can bring about the ripening of grains and also symbolizes the harvest, so among the gods Among them, the sun god has a high status, and the enemy is Disktripoca, the god of darkness," Chi Feichi explained. "People are worried that Huitzilopochtli will lose to Disktripoca. Worried that the world would never see the sunrise again and be ruled by darkness, they offered the human heart that the Sun God was rumored to like as a sacrifice to him. In civilizations such as the Mayan civilization and the Aztec civilization, people worshiped the Sun God. They all have the tradition of living sacrifices. In the Aztec city, the king would summon six priests, five of whom would hold down the hands, feet and head of the sacrifice, and the remaining priest would cut open the chest of the sacrifice, take out the heart, and return it to the sacrifice. The beating heart is dedicated to the sun..."
Ayumi shuddered and silently hugged Haihara Ai's arm.
Haiyuan Ai was also a little speechless. Hearing Brother Fei Chi say this in his usual tone without any emotion, it was like a narration in a historical scroll, or like a god whispering to the world. It felt weird.
"Those sacrifices were all prisoners of war. In order to offer more hearts to the Sun God, the Aztecs launched wars again and again, confiscating wealth, territory, and prisoners of war. They believed that as long as they continued to offer hearts, the Sun God would be able to make more hearts. Strong, defeating darkness," Chi Feichi paused and commented, "Stupid."
The surroundings fell into silence at some point. Conan came back to his senses and broke the strange silence. "Ahem, the god of darkness Disk Tripoca is also known as the 'Mirror of Smoke'. Legend has it that he was devoured in a battle with the earth giant. He lost his left leg, so he used an obsidian mirror to replace his left leg. The dark and shiny mirror that the civil engineer officer mentioned just now should be an obsidian mirror."
Mitsuhiko looked serious, "Does that mean that this village is probably enshrining Disktripoka, the god of darkness?"
"The name Fifteen Nights Village seems to have nothing to do with the Sun God," Ayumi thought, "it's more like the village of the God of Darkness."
"But at least you don't have to worry about someone having their heart sacrificed." Fei Yingli saw that these people were interested in this village and were in a good mood. She made a joke and turned to Chi Feichi and said, "Feichi, it's rare for you to be right. I am so interested in a certain place, would you like to..."
"Get out! Get out of here immediately!"
An angry voice interrupted Fei Yingli's words.
At the intersection ahead, an old woman who looked to be in her eighties or nineties was dressed in white and led a large group of villagers to drive away Fukuura Reiji aggressively, "We have always lived a peaceful life here, and I will not allow you people to destroy it. !”
"But..." Reiji Fukuura was about to explain when he was surrounded by villagers.
"Hand over your camera!"
"Keep the photo and get out!"
"You outsiders are not welcome here, get out!"
"Everyone!" Master Issei quickly stepped forward to stop it in order to avoid a bigger conflict. "Calm down..."
When Fukuura Reiji saw the police coming, he retorted, "What a stubborn old woman. I just wanted to take a photo. I have the right to report freely!"
Chi Feichi watched from a distance and had no intention of stepping forward to help.
People who have been living in big cities may not know that in some secluded and remote places, even if the number of police officers is not enough, they cannot stop the angry villagers.
Especially in places with special beliefs, the danger is even greater.
Smart people should just go sightseeing if they can't beat a group of people. If they violate other people's taboos, they should be nice and apologize, otherwise they will be beaten to death.
He doesn't like Fukuura Reiji...just kill him.
Sure enough, the next second, the old woman in white said angrily, "I am the priest here. If you disrespect me, you will be punished by God!"
The dispute escalated into a physical attack, with a group of villagers pushing and shoving Fukuura Reiji.
"Hey, everyone..." Issei, the local master, tried his best to block the crowd, but he was left alone. His thin body was not good enough in front of a group of strong villagers, and he was quickly swallowed up by the crowd.
Fei Yingli subconsciously asked for help from the only adult male she was familiar with, "Fei Chi..."
Chi Feichi looked at the crowd, well, with so many people here, he couldn't just watch Fukuura Reiji being beaten to death, but going up to stop him was not the best way, "Now we outsiders had better not step forward and follow Local villagers have physical contact, otherwise it will easily lead to large-scale fighting. First make some big noise to distract the crowd and calm down, and then let the local police officer communicate. He is a local..."
In the woods nearby, more than thirty birds suddenly flew into the sky with fluttering wings. The flapping of their wings was quite noisy, and soon, a louder sound came out, almost spreading throughout the entire village and mountains. .
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp—"
"Ah!" The three children Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko were startled and quickly covered their ears.
Fei Yingli also covered her ears to resist the sharp and high-pitched voice, and looked at Chi Feichi blankly.
Chi Feichi also covered his ears and shook his head.
The sound was too loud, let alone the town. If it was louder, they would all have tinnitus, but it really had nothing to do with him. He hadn't figured out how to make some noise in a 'friendly' way, which would not only make the rioting villagers They have a cooling-off period without being taken as a provocation.
Hammering down at least two trees won't do...
The sound didn't last long, it was like some kind of animal chirping in protest.
"It sounds very much like a Moxa..." Conan turned to look at Chi Feichi.
Chi Feichi was noncommittal.
Mouse, a genus of Thrush in the family Anseriformes, is generally black, dark brown, or dark brown in color, so it is also called a blackbird.
In addition to the blackbird, the Mouse also has many other names, such as black tit and mockingbird.
There is a poem about the cry of the Moxa: All the birds take advantage of the spring and kiss their babies, the forest is full of infinite cries in the new clear weather, among which the hundred tongues are the most meaningless, I can imitate the sounds of all the birds in my mouth.
This is a bird that can learn sounds. It is good at singing and imitating sounds. It is difficult to distinguish it from the call, but it does sing a series of notes like singing.
Just as Conan was about to continue, his gaze suddenly crossed Chi Feichi's sight and noticed the branches of the ancient tree behind him. His pupils shrank and his expression suddenly changed.
On the sharpened branch of the sacrificial tree, there was already a bloody corpse with its body pierced by the branches hanging on it. The branches extending from the abdomen were stained red with blood.
Shiratou Taimi looked like a rag doll hung on a branch, her head and upper body tilted forward slightly, her short blond hair hanging messily on the side of her face, covering most of her face, blood flowing through her abdomen and dripping continuously along her toes. into a pool of blood at her feet.
Chi Feichi turned around and looked over, silent.
This is the first teammate to be sacrificed to heaven.
Should he lament that "all lives are numbered", or should he consider how to deal with what appears to be a series of murders at first glance.
Gradually, other people also noticed Taimei Baiteng on the tree of sacrifice. After a moment of silence, someone unknown made a piercing scream that was as loud as the weird chirping just now.
Tushi Issei took out the wireless intercom, looked up and stared at the corpse on the tree, his hands were still trembling, and shouted to the other side, "This, this is the Tushi patrol of Fifteen Nights Village, there is an emergency! "
