He Ma took a closer look at this modern replica of the turtle back card, but there was nothing to see from the front.

So he asked Ota, "Do you have gloves?" ”

"Yes, yes! I went into the mountains to prevent cuts, and I always wore gloves on my hands, and I brought you a few spare. ”

So saying, the priest got up and went into the back room, and after a short rummaging he came out with a brand new pair of gloves.

Kazuma found that the gloves had the words "Sumii Machinery" on them.

"What's the situation with this Chengjing Machinery?"

"Oh, this is where my son worked in town when he was in high school. He always wanted to buy a motorcycle, and I had enough money to save money for his college tuition at a rural shrine like mine, so he had to work on his own to buy it. ”

Kazuma then remembered that he still had to take the driver's license test for a motorcycle, learn to shoot and get a driver's license, these things that he had wanted to do for a long time have not been done until now, and Akito Anno did not show up.

But in the end, there is probably no problem with this, and they should still be brainstorming while consuming investors' investments.

"Then this glove was used by Childe?"

"No, no, Chengjing-san will issue a new pair of gloves to employees every year to replace the worn old gloves, but most people will not change the gloves after a year, they will wait for the old gloves to be broken and can no longer be used, and the new gloves will be saved."

Kazuma nodded, took the glove and took a closer look.

This is a coarse cloth glove that is sewn quite carefully, a bit similar to the labor protection gloves he was familiar with in his previous life, there are no burrs in the stitching place, and there is no dust accumulation, and it looks like a new glove that has not been used once.

"Isn't it good for me to use these new gloves?"

"It's useless for me to keep this, seeing it will only increase my thoughts." Lord Ota smiled lonely, "I've been asking that rabbit cub to write to me more, but he didn't write once because he was troublesome. When Vice Minister Hantian was promoting the tourism industry here, he also installed a phone number for the social office of this shrine, and I asked someone to tell the kid the number, but he didn't call back once. ”

Kazuma's face was a little hot when he heard this.

Because he was also such a rabbit cub when he was in college in his last life.

Naturally, the letter was not written, and the reason was very good: who still writes in the 21st century.

And the phone call will only be made when you want living expenses - later He Ma earned his living expenses part-time, and he didn't even make this call.

Later, WeChat popularized, and my parents were pulled into the network society by scientific and technological progress, and Ma Cai reconnected with his parents through the circle of friends.

And immediately in every circle of friends in his life, the first person to like it must be his father or mother.

Because of the experience in his previous life, the traveler and the horse said to Lord Ota in a sincere tone, "Why don't I go to Tokyo to find him and persuade him to come back and have a look?" ”

"Don't bother you, when he's tired, he'll probably be back." Ota-san smiled bitterly, "It's like 'crazy A-in'." ”

"The Story of Injiro" is worthy of being a Japanese national comedy, and even in this kind of ravine, people know Ain.

Kazuma asked, "There is no movie theater in this hot spring street, what do you think of Injiro?" ”

He really just asked casually, after all, Japan is still a modern developed country, even the villages and towns in this kind of ravines are far more advanced than the villages of China at the same time, there is no cinema, but there should still be a machine to play video tapes, it is estimated that it is in the civic activity center of the village office.

But Ota-san paused, very imperceptibly.

The "future old detective" Kiryu and Ma did not let go of this detail.

Although he didn't know what the significance of this detail was, he still carefully kept it in his mind.

He Ma remembers that in a Japanese drama called "Machine Search 404" that he watched in his previous life, the old criminal policeman said that "99% of what the criminal police do is useless, but the remaining 1% is the key to solving the case".

In order to catch that one percent, one has to write down everything that could be that one percent.

The police manual exists for this purpose, and every thing that could be a clue is written down on it.

Kazuma is not investigating the case now and can't take a notebook, but he believes in his memory.

After this imperceptible pause, Ota-san replied to Kazuma's question: "The village office has a video recorder, and it often plays the videotapes sent from outside, and every year after the screening schedule of Injiro, the videotapes are sent to us, which is a welfare for remote areas promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture." ”

It sounds a bit like a movie from the previous life going to the countryside.

Kazuma laughed, "I see, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture has done a good job so that people in remote areas can enjoy the latest cultural products." ”

"Yes, yes, I didn't say good things about the shrine because it was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture, they really did a lot of things."

At this time, Yuzao reminded: "Aren't you going to look at the turtle back card?" ”

"Oh yes." Kazuma quickly put on his gloves and flipped over the turtle back card that might have been a piece of evidence.

There is a strange pattern on the back.,And Ma always thinks this pattern is a little familiar - he frowned slightly and remembered.,It seems to be in Osamu Tezuka's "Three-Eyed Prodigy",The spear that the male protagonist will summon when he reveals his third eye has similar words on it!

Yuzao shook his head: "This text is wrong, it seems to be made up by modern enthusiasts." ”

He Ma took Yuzao's words: "This should be based on the 'ancient characters' on the gun of Shule." ”

"Writing Raku......" Tamamo tilted his head, "Uh, Osamu Tezuka's manga?" ”

"Yes."

Tamamo immediately showed his disdain for this turtle back card: "It's too unprofessional, and I'm disqualified as a supernatural enthusiast." If you don't understand the symbols of the Yayoi period, you can follow the Chinese oracle bone inscription, at least like it, or use the Nordic rune rune. ”

"What, it's too nondescript to use Rune Runes, isn't it?"

And the horse complained.

Lord Ota interjected into the conversation: "Wait, what are you talking about?" Is this symbol drawn on a comic? ”

"yes, something made by a completely layman......" Kazuma suddenly stopped, "Wait a minute, does this hot spring street sell manga weekly?" ”

"Yes, convenience stores will buy it, but only tourists will buy it."

Kazuma picked up the fake turtle back tag with his gloved hand: "In this case, this is not made by local residents, and the three-eyed eye prodigy is a juvenile-oriented comic, and I like to read young people......"

In Japan in 1981, manga covered all ages, and it was common to see people reading manga magazines on the subway.

The Japanese manga industry has made market segments for people of different ages, and manga for teenagers are generally published in various weekly magazines, so these weekly magazines are often named "Weekly Shonen XXX".

Cartoons for young people are published in monthly and semi-monthly magazines.

There is a clear distinction between the two.

Juvenile-oriented comics often have a royal bloody system, emphasizing bloody friendship and victory, and the love theme is basically a sweet and youthful beautiful youth fairy tale, and occasionally a little criminal investigation theme is generally a shallow response to social problems like "Conan".

But youth comics are completely different, covering a wide range of themes, including the "Island Farming" series of workplace dramas for adults, as well as "Monsters" and "Medical Dragons" that directly hit the dark side of society and human nature, and the themes involving love are also full of elements of the adult world: splitting legs, extramarital affairs, etc.

Shonen Xiang manga is usually adapted into animation, while Youth Xiang is generally changed into live-action drama or live-action movie. It wasn't until 2010 that this began to change, and the Shonen Direction Rogue Kenshin was also changed to a live-action movie, while the Youth Xiang's Symphonic Lover's Dream had a cartoon.

However, it is now 1981, and the distinction between juvenile manga and youth manga is still clear.

An adult in a suit and leather shoes will be criticized by his boss for being too naïve and not growing up if he takes a copy of "Weekly Youth XXXX" in the company.

On the other hand, if a child holds a youth-oriented monthly or semi-monthly magazine, he will also be scolded by his parents.

Therefore, it is likely that the person who made this turtleback card was a college student standing at the tail of the age who could still read the weekly XXXX openly.

Kazuma raised his gaze from the turtle back card and looked at Lord Ota, "Aside from the group of students from the Meiji University Fantasy Biology Research Association last year, have there been any other groups of young people in this place in recent years?" ”

Lord Ota replied in seconds: "And you." ”

"Except for us."

"Then there is none. Young people are definitely more willing to go to the beach, and last year I heard Watanabe-kun say that many of my college classmates go on vacation to Hawaii. ”

Kazuma thought to himself, isn't this nonsense, how normal it is for a family who can afford Meiji University tuition to go on a vacation to Hawaii.

Of course, in a few years' time, when the Plaza Accord was signed and Japan entered the bubble era, many Japanese people would suddenly find that they could afford to go to Hawaii, and Hawaii would be full of Japanese people during the tourist season.

Now it is certain that this turtle back card is the work of the people from the Meiji University Fantasy Biology Research Association.

However, it is normal for one or two of those who are interested in fantasy creatures to be interested in ancient divination?

Kazuma put down the turtle back card and said to Lord Ota: "This box of things, let's keep it first, it's too late today, I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to see if I can find any clues." ”

"Huh? Do you want to investigate? So this ......."

"No, I didn't suspect that he killed me, I just wanted to check out some of the things I cared about." Kazuma interrupted the priest and closed the box containing the bits and pieces, and stood up, "Then we will take our leave." ”

"Okay, get a good night's sleep." The Lord also stood up.

He waved his hand, turned and left the living room, and sat down in the hallway to change his shoes.

The priest followed: "I won't send it to the door of the shrine, be careful when you go down the stone steps, there will be people on the stone steps every year." ”

Kazuma: "When does the festival start?" ”

"In a week's time, tomorrow the people from the Tourism Promotion Association and the village office should come to the shrine to set up, and there will be many stalls in the shrine square."

Kazuma raised his eyebrows: "There are a lot of stalls?" I'm afraid that if the whole hot spring street is not set up by the whole hot spring street, will there still be people to play? Could it be that the stall owners are helping each other? ”

"There are tourists. In the past few years of tourism promotion, we still have a lot of people here in the peak season. ”

"So this festival really started after the start of tourism promotion?" Kazuma asked as he picked up the second shoe.

"No, there used to be, but there weren't as many people as there are now. People from several nearby villages and even towns would come to play at the previous festival. ”

"Eh, will you?"

"Yes, there are very few entertainment activities in this rural place." Lord Ota said in a self-deprecating tone, "Just like what is written in Lu Xun's "Social Drama", the people around will gather here. ”

Hema didn't expect to hear the name Lu Xun here, and immediately felt his DNA move: "If you don't notice the cold star, I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood." ”

"Oh, Lu Xun's poem to Xu Shouchang, worthy of being a student of the University of Tokyo, Chinese poems can be memorized."

And Ma only then found out that he was memorizing Chinese.

Then he reacted and looked back at Lord Ota: "The Lord is also very knowledgeable, and you know which one I memorize as soon as you hear it." ”

"It's just logical reasoning, I just mentioned Mr. Lu Xun, you immediately memorized a Chinese poem, then the eight achievements should be this one."

After thinking about it, there was really no problem with logic.

He stood up with his shoes on and looked at Tamamo.

Tamamo didn't sit down, but she changed her shoes.

"Let's go, goodbye Divine Lord San."

"Goodbye." Lord Ota waved his hand, "If you find anything, please tell me as soon as possible." ”

"I will." After talking to the horse, he went out the door.

He first glanced at the social office, Hiroko was no longer inside, the window for selling things was tightly closed, and the iron bar against theft was lowered.

He walked towards the torii gate at the entrance of the shrine, and the light footsteps of Tamamo followed behind him.

"What did you find?" Tamamo asked in a whisper.

"I ...... I don't know what it is yet, but something is wrong. I always felt that this Ota-san was not the "Tale of Injiro" that I watched at the village office. ”

"Something is wrong with this place?" Tamamo was shocked, "I think his pause was just a normal reaction when he encountered an unexpected problem." ”

"What do you think?"

Kazuma glanced back at Tamamo.

Tamamo has lived for so many years, and she also worked as a mother in Yoshiwara, so she must be quite good at seeing people's kung fu, and her opinion is undoubtedly worth referencing.

"Yes, when people encounter unexpected problems, they will be more or less stunned, but I support you to insist on your own judgment, I don't know how to solve cases, and I don't have the intuition of a criminal police."

"Don't say as if I have it."

"You obviously have it, didn't the previous incidents be solved by this keenness?"

Kazuma looked at Tamamo again, and thought to himself that I had believed that those incidents were solved by me, but I am not sure if you say that! Isn't it really you who deliberately seduce me?

Could it be that I've been eating soft rice all the time? "Are you teaching me to do things"?

Tamamo looked at Kazuma's expression and chuckled: "Don't think too much of me, I still had a lot of things that I couldn't do with great power in the past, and now I'm just an 18-year-old girl with a little more knowledge and a slightly more mature mentality." ”

"You're a little bit, is it the scale of the universe?"

To the universe, 10,000 light-years is only an "insignificant" level.

Tamamo smiled even more.

By this time, they had already walked past the torii gate at the entrance of the shrine and began to descend the stone steps.

Tamamo patronized and smiled, and when she stepped on it, she didn't step steadily, her ankle was crooked, and her foot was broken.

He grabbed her who was about to fall, and pulled her into his arms.

To be honest, Kazuma was a little suspicious of this guy's intentionality, but looking at the way she grinned in pain, it was too embarrassing to ask "Did you mean it?" at this time.

So he asked with concern: "How is it, can you still go?" ”

"Well, it should be fine to walk...... But ......" Tamamo glanced at the long stone steps in front of him.

"I'll carry you down." Kazuma said, and then remembered that among the things he was carrying was the plaster he had just bought from the shrine, "Wait, I'll put the plaster on you." ”

Lord Ota said that this plaster is actually not that effective, but the herbs are mixed with peppermint and pasted on to relieve pain and have a placebo effect.

But it's also better than nothing.

Kazuma helped Tamamo to sit down, and then took off the shoes on the other side of her foot.

Tamamo's feet are small, white and smooth, and there is a little bit of pink, and her nails are beautifully rested.

The flesh on the soles of her feet was as soft as balls on a cat's paws, and it felt similar to the touch.

Foxes are supposed to be canines.

And the horse is like indulging in pinching the cat's paws in the cat café in the previous life.,Pinched Tamamo's feet.。

"It's itchy!" Tamamo patted the horse on the shoulder, "You care about the twisted ankle!" ”

Kazuma then turned his attention to his ankles.

He is a kendo practitioner, and he has a lot of experience in spraining joints, so check it out to know the general situation.

It doesn't look as serious as Mikako.,It's the kind that will greatly reduce the pain by itself no matter what it takes tomorrow.。

"It's nothing." He said, then took the plaster out of the bag, opened the package, tore off a piece, and carefully attached it to Tamamo's ankle.

Tamamo: "It's cool, it's really comfortable." No wonder the villagers think that this plaster is very powerful, relieving the pain plus the placebo effect, and after a few days the sprain heals naturally, they will sigh that the poultice of the god is really powerful, and the medicine will cure the disease. ”

Kazuma smiled, put away his things in his hand, and then turned and squatted down with his back to Tamamo.

Tamamo took off the shoe on the other foot, held it in his hand, and then put his arms around Kazuma's neck.

He confirmed that the man had been carried and stood up with all his might.

Tamamo suddenly laughed, and the wind that blew from her mouth caressed the horse's ear.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I suddenly remembered that when the university started, it was the first time I wore high heels, and I thought that if I broke my foot, it would be like a romantic comedy."

"Damn, you really did it on purpose, right?"

"No, I didn't. I wouldn't use this kind of cleverness to satisfy my own selfish desires. Be careful when you go down the stone steps, there may be some problems with the design of this stone steps, which makes it easy to break your feet. ”

Hema frowned: "Shouldn't you, as the Minister of the Supernatural, say that this staircase has a ground-bound spirit?" ”

"Most of the legends of the earthbound spirits have scientific explanations.

"For example, last month's supernatural magazine said that there was a resident of an old apartment who always heard children playing with glass balls upstairs, and he couldn't stand it and ran upstairs to protest, only to find that the apartment upstairs was empty, and the previous resident moved away after the child died, and no one lived in it again.

The magazine's psychic writer insisted that this was the work of the earthbound spirits. And horse, what do you think is the truth? ”

Kazuma carefully descended the stone steps and replied, "Then the apartment is a reinforced concrete structure." ”

"That's right, Kiryu gets one point."

In reinforced concrete buildings, the internal steel materials will be elastically deformed due to thermal expansion and contraction, and then there will be this kind of sound like children playing with glass beads.

Before — no, 1981 was "now."

These are not considered in today's buildings, so there is basically a problem, especially at night when a large amount of heat absorbed by the building during the day is released.

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In the future, new buildings will consider these issues in conjunction with each other, leaving room for deformation, which is not obvious.

Tamamo whispered in Kazuma's ear, "Kazuma-kun, you are also one of the murderers of Zashiki Boy." ”

"It's dead, weird and really vulnerable." He Ma teased, "Is the reason why you still exist because everyone subconsciously still wants the white-haired big fox spirit to exist in the world?" ”

"Maybe."

The corners of the horse's mouth rose, and the steps down the stone steps became brisker.

Tamamo's whole body was completely lying on his back.

Unlike when I had just carried a monkey, this time every nerve in the horse's back was active, turning the soft touch into bioelectricity and chemicals between the synapses and transmitting them back to the brain.

Suddenly, Tamamo whispered in Kazuma's ear, "Kazuma, how does it feel to pinch my leg?" ”

"Why did you ask the same question as Mikako?"

"Ah, I'm being preempted, and Mikako can't be underestimated."

Kazuma smiled without saying a word, and the body of Tamamo in both hands pushed up.

After walking a few more steps, Tamamo said again: "If I suddenly appear in my original form now, you and the horse will be directly flattened." ”

"How much does your prototype weigh?"

"Hmm...... Probably a little lighter than a rat tank? ”

"That's too heavy, isn't it?" And Ma dutifully complained.

It can make Tamamo laugh like a silver bell, and there is no reason not to spit out in this tank.

The two of them were just talking about what they had and what they didn't have, as if the foggy incident of last year hadn't happened at all, and they were just two carefree college students who simply came to travel.

Walking down the last stone staircase, he and Ma Chang breathed a sigh of relief, and before he could speak, Tamamo slipped off his back by himself.

"I can carry you to the hotel." And the horse said.

Yuzao wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and said with a smile: "Forget it, you see that you are about to turn all the barley tea you drank at the god lord's side into sweat." This plaster worked more than I thought, and I could have gone on my own! ”

As he spoke, Tamamo threw the shoes he was carrying on the ground, held Wama's shoulders with one hand, and bent down to put on his shoes.

Kazuma looked at Tamamo, and now the front of her clothes was completely soaked with sweat, apparently it was Kazuma's sweat.

Through the dress that became translucent, Kazuma found the swimsuit that Tamamo was wearing underneath.

"You also want to climb the mountain to soak in the hot springs on the mountain, right?"

Tamamo smiled but said nothing.

Kazuma sighed: "Everyone has brought swimsuits, and we really have to give them a chance to wear them." Why don't we go to the mixed bath pool for a swimsuit party at night? If you put Hanayama-kun at the door of the bath and don't let anyone else enter the mixed bath......"

"And the horse, you are getting more and more used to calling Huashan-kun. But that doesn't seem like a bad thing. ”

As soon as Tamamo's words fell, Dvořák's new world rang out.

Kazuma looked up at the loudspeaker of the village hall where music was playing, and found that many crows had landed on the top of the horn, completely without taking off, as if he was used to the sound of the horn.

The particularly huge crow I saw before going to the shrine was not in the crow flock.

The horses turned their heads to look into the distance, the setting sun gilding the mountains with an orange-red color, and Dvořák's tunes echoing through the open fields.

The cicada song disappeared at some point.

Tamamo suddenly said, "At dusk, I used to call this time the time of the devil." ”

Kazuma: "Please, this scene is already very supernatural, you don't want to add any more supernatural elements." ”

If you add supernatural elements, Ma and I will have to copy the classic soundtrack of The X-Files!