Chapter 12: Reason and the Snake
Compared to ghosts, ghosts, or monsters, the most sinister thing is the human heart.
Who knows what kind of evil Fu Jixian has created, isn't he here to help explore the forest and eliminate weirdness based on the principle of helpfulness, but who would have thought that the black gun from behind would be fired like that......
It's even seven in a row.
In the smoke caused by the gunpowder, just like the corpse just now, Fu Ji Xianli's body also fell to the ground with a thud. At the same time, the "black loach" that had just been controlled by him also lost control and fell to the ground.
"Ryoko ......"
After shooting and killing, Takeuchi had a slight tremor in his voice, he slipped his shoulder and unloaded the hiking bag behind his back, and threw the shotgun with the barrel still warm to the side, and then he ran a few steps forward, and then the whole person fell to the ground, his hands trembled and carefully picked up the "loach".
After confirming that the "loach" was still alive, he crawled all the way to the corpse on his knees, ignoring the black stains on the ground, and kept calling the name "Ryoko" in his mouth.
What was not previously stated was that the body was a female corpse.
Takeuchi held the "loach" while trying to lift the female corpse up, as if thinking that she was just asleep and not dead...... Needless to say, this is a bad enough sleep look.
Of course, the corpse would not respond to Takeuchi's call, but someone else answered him.
"A corpse should be left well alone, that's a pretty sister's quote, Mr. Takeuchi, haven't you heard of it?"
Fu Jixianli patted the dust and filth on his body as he slowly stood up.
"You...... Why are you still alive? ”
Takeuchi's gaze at Fu Ji Xianli finally became frightened, which was beyond his understanding.
His first instinct was to continue attacking, but the gun had been tossed aside.
"How can I say it, if I were a human being, of course I would be dead......" After saying that, Fu Jixian realized that there seemed to be something wrong with it, "I mean, if I were an 'ordinary person'. ”
His attitude looked the same as just now, still polite, but there was already a calm in his eyes that was almost cold.
"Isn't it easy for a person to turn into a 40-centimeter-thick steel plate in the face of extreme anger, and to block a bullet."
As if to make a more vivid explanation of his words, a big tree behind Fu Jixian that was hugged by at least four people suddenly broke at a height of one meter, and then the heavy trunk fell to the ground after squeezing several big trees behind him.
The fracture of the tree was uneven, as if it had been broken by some irresistible force...... It's a bit like a broken sugar cane.
Don't look at Fu Jixianli's calmness, but in fact, when the other party suddenly fired, he had no way to determine whether his ability could offset the kinetic energy of the shotgun - as far as the result was concerned, he was not killed, but he was almost scared to death.
"The actions are clean and neat, not a word of nonsense, this kind of approach that goes straight to the goal without dragging the mud and water, I honestly don't hate it, and I am even full of appreciation...... Even if it's a crime. ”
Compared with the villain who always speaks cruelly and is then overturned, of course, the villain who does it directly is more attractive.
Mr. Takeuchi looked haggard, scruffy, and gloomy, but who would have thought that he would be so decisive when he fired.
"But alas, you should confirm my death first...... In fact, you didn't even notice that I wasn't bleeding at all after I was shot. ”
On the one hand, it is because Takeuchi cares about chaos, and on the other hand, because his profession is a ranger rather than a professional killer - even if he is a professional killer, he will probably subconsciously believe that the person who has been hit by seven shotguns in a row is dead.
"It seems that you have been wary of me for a long time...... Why? ”
"Quite simply, when I came to your house that day, you explained to me two things - the appearance of the monster and the disappearance of your daughter, and although you made a far-fetched connection between these two events, in reality there was still a serious lack of connection between them.
But your underlying meaning is that solving the weirdness is equivalent to getting your daughter back, which is too strange...... On what basis did you make this judgment?
The reason you give is 'intuition', but it is as if you know some kind of 'fact'.
Of course, there are more direct reasons.
One is that the day before yesterday, when I was reading the local news, I learned about an unfortunate news more than a month ago...... A female high school student fell to her death from a high altitude, and the high school student's name was Ryoko Takeuchi.
The second is ...... Shoe.
The shoes on the monster's feet, though very dirty, were faintly recognizable - they were the same as the one your daughter was wearing in the photo, the one you had in the living room.
So, when I saw that monster, I almost figured out what was going on.
You asked someone like me to come here in order to strip the 'black mud' from your daughter's corpse, which you can't do on your own. ”
The man had actually spotted some clues before he set off, but he didn't show anything along the way...... In a sense, Fu Jixian is also quite "insidious".
"It is worthy of the young master of Fu Jixian's family, and he actually noticed the problem from the beginning......
“……
Do you know who I am? ”
"Although it is not so famous now, for the old Yamanashi people, there is probably no one who does not know Fu Jixian...... I know you're not from Tokyo. ”
This involves Fu Jixianli's knowledge blind spot, so far, he has never realized that he was born in a "famous family", so he has actually revealed his identity when he reported his family.
"I think...... Everything is negotiable, and since I've helped, you shouldn't kill me without saying a word. ”
"Because what I want to do, no one like you will allow it anyway."
Takeuchi bowed his head.
He still has a basic view of right and wrong, at least he can understand that he should not kill the other party's behavior at every turn.
"Well, I see......"
“?” Takeuchi looked up again.
"Why did your daughter who fell to her death appear in the depths of Mt. Fuji? Why does it look like an evil man and a monster?
Why do we pass by a ritual totem or sacrificial ground that looks like a ghostly talisman?
There is a very absurd answer to all this......
You seem to want your daughter back from the dead? ”
Fu Jixian himself felt that his conclusion was a bit outrageous, but it seemed to be the truth.
The story of Takeuchi was reversed, not that his daughter disappeared after seeing a monster in the forest, but that after his daughter died, he took her body into the forest, and then performed some kind of ritual and turned it into a monster.
What "the voice of the head" is nothing but a lie, and Takeuchi's emaciation is due to the death of his daughter and the fact that he turned her into a monster after death.
Judging from the speculation, there may be something wrong with the ceremony, so Takeuchi actually didn't get the desired result.
And now, it seems, he wants to try again.
For this reason, he even did not hesitate to shoot a well-wisher in the head.