Kitagawa Temple stared at his phone expressionlessly for about two or three minutes before leaving to make tea.

Originally, I wanted to take a break in the busyness, but since Kamiya was going to come over in the future, he had to do his duty as the master of the Beichuan family and entertain her well.

Besides, the reason why Kamiya came to come, Kitagawa Temple vaguely guessed some.

About a minute after Kitagawa Temple had brewed the tea, the energetic voice of Kamiya Mirai came from outside the gate of the temple.

"Temple-kun! Temple~! Temple - Jun. ”

She deliberately dragged out her voice, and didn't ring the doorbell, as if she was overdone.

Kitagawa Temple silently opened the door and welcomed Kamiya Mirai in.

"I'm interrupted, Si-kun." Mirai Kamiya blinked, changed his slippers, and came to Kitagawa Temple in three steps and two steps to sit down.

She also carried a large plastic bag in her hand, which seemed to be full of ingredients, and she seemed to have the feeling of a high school housewife.

In this regard, Beichuan Temple just took the teacup: "Tea." ”

"Si-kun is for the tea I just brewed—"

"I want to drink it myself."

Uh-

Kitagawa Temple's words made Kamiya Mirai swallow the words behind her, her fair face was choked and flushed, and finally sighed helplessly:

"Temple-kun... You can't do that to me! Do you know what I'm trying to do this time? ”

Hearing this, Beichuan Temple raised his head expressionlessly, raised his hand and sent the teacup to her a little more, and thanked her sincerely:

"Thank you, Kamiya."

His sincere but somewhat inexplicable words were like straight balls, and they hit Kamiya Miku at once, making her face more ruddy, she pulled her teacup in front of her, and took a shallow sip to calm her ups and downs before she opened her mouth and asked a little happily:

"Si-kun, you—have you guessed the purpose of my coming?"

"Guessed." Kitagawa Temple nodded: "You came here just to tell me about Miki's abandoned puppet factory." ”

Kitagawa Temple's angular face made Kamiya Miku's heart skip a beat, and only when she realized it did she cough dryly, and said with some complaint:

Sijun looks a little cold and dumbfounded, but in fact, as long as you understand a little bit, you know that Sijun is a very shrewd person at all. It's..."

She has no problem with this type of boy in Beichuan Temple, and she feels that her every move is all expected by Beichuan Temple.

But she doesn't hate Kitagawa Temple, she thinks such a boy is particularly attractive.

Kamiya Mirai took another sip of tea, and then his face straightened up, and he got to the point: "Yes, I came here this time to tell Sijun something that I have already investigated." ”

She put her small white satchel on the table, removed the wallet and keychain, took out the newspaper and notebook, and said clearly:

"In 1988, Miki Doll Factory was opened in Otakayama, a suburb of Tokyo, Japan, and the owner of the factory was a master of making dolls with exquisite craftsmanship, and many clothing stores asked him to make custom mannequins during the same period."

"At that time, the Miki Doll Abandoned Factory was indeed very famous, and apart from some purely malicious peer reviews, its reputation was exceptionally perfect."

As he spoke, Kamiya Mirai took out a newspaper, and there was no playful look on his delicate face: "This is the news at that time, Si-kun, you can also take a look." ”

Kitagawa Temple took the old newspaper in front of him and set his eyes on it.

'Miki Doll Factory! The doll is like a living soul! ’

Under this heading is an article that praises the master's craftsmanship.

Obviously, at the end of the eighties, this Miki puppet factory was really famous.

In addition, the business of the Miki Doll Factory is also very extensive, and the factory owner accepts not only the business of clothing stores, but also educational models, medical models, entertainment industry, etc. Even Beichuan Temple has seen some shadows of the adult industry.

It is conceivable that the original factory owner did make a lot of money-

This is undoubtedly an excellent piece of information, and Kitagawa Temple did not expect that Kamiya Future would be able to investigate what he wanted to know so reliably.

"But this has also caused disgust among peers." Kamiya Mirai blinked, and seemed to see what Kitagawa Temple was thinking: "The excessively inflated expansion made the Miki Doll Factory monopolize about a quarter of the doll factory market in Tokyo at that time, which naturally aroused the jealousy of others. ”

In a capitalist world, everything is backed by capital, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But behind the expansion of the Miki Doll Factory, I don't know how many factories in the same industry have gone bankrupt and closed down to sell factories.

The bloody expansion of capital has caused many people in this business to lose their jobs and even ruin their families.

Who wouldn't be jealous of such a Miki doll factory?

And that jealousy may be the most important reason for the fire at the Miki Doll Factory.

"These are all materials I found in my parents' study, and after that, I specially investigated the Otaka area, and I think there must be some clues in the local area for this kind of thing." Miku Kamiya said in an affirmative tone.

In addition to the fact that her way of speaking and personality are different from Beichuan Temple, her thinking circuit in this kind of thing is unexpectedly consistent with Beichuan Temple.

"I asked workers who used to work at the Miki doll factory... Most of those workers are now middle-aged and elderly. And for them, it was undoubtedly a particularly painful memory. ”

The voice was stunned.

"The working hours of the Miki Doll Factory were not short, but the most important thing was not that, according to the memories of several former workers, I wrote down the words that came to their mouths the most."

"The atmosphere is weird."

"Weird atmosphere?"

Kitagawa Temple repeated the words that Kamiya Mirai had said, looking up at her in confusion.

Kamiya Miku was obviously prepared, she took out the photo from the notebook very reliably, leaned in obediently leaning towards Kitagawa Temple, and said in a soft tone: "Look, Ji-kun, this is a photo of the puppet factory workshop at that time. ”

Kitagawa Temple finally understood why Kamiya Mirai meant by the phrase 'weird atmosphere'.

In the photo, the workers are immersed in hard work, converting molds, and smoothing and polishing some of the white joint surfaces of the dolls.

It seems like a normal workshop photo, but-

Dense dolls hang above the bright workshop.

Yes.

Overwhelming, densely packed.

The realistic human hands and feet that fall from the ceiling make your scalp tingle at a glance.

In the horrific scene of Shura's hell, the workers also look numb in their faces, and their eyes are full of dead silence, like walking corpses.

This whole photo exudes a chilling feeling in the bottom of the heart, and the so-called 'spirit photos' on the Internet are nothing compared to this one.

"It is also very normal for workers working in this environment to have visual and auditory hallucinations." Mirai Kamiya shrugged: "But at that time, the work conditions at the Miki doll factory were very good, so few workers thought about quitting. ”

"It's all about living." Kitagawa Temple spoke briefly.

Yes, it's all about living, and even more so for people who work in Tokyo. Many people think that it is a good way to live, but when they really devote themselves to it, they will find that all kinds of pressures come one after another.

Mortgages, car loans, and daily living expenses, overtime work that is so hard that I can't see tomorrow, and almost all of it has ended at the beginning of January, and the three-point one-line life that is almost visible -

Why do people living in the present have all kinds of strange mental illnesses, and everything is forced by pressure?

"After that, something happened that made me care, the case of the disappearance of a worker in an abandoned factory where Miki dolls were abandoned." Kamiya Mirai sighed: "It's just that the newspaper information at that time can't be found anymore, and after I asked the local residents..."

"Called Ryoko?" Beichuan Temple subconsciously communicated.

"Hmm-"

Kamiya Miku's eyes rolled, and he rubbed his palms a little crampedly: "I asked Sister Ryoko about the specific situation of the disappearance case, slightly... I borrowed a little bit of your relationship with the temple. ”

She overlapped her index finger with her thumb, emphasizing the inconsequential word 'slightly'.

Slightly borrowed from my relationship?

Kitagawa Temple looked at her with a strange expression, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "You and Ryoko said that you were my girlfriend?" ”

"Ahem... Actually, if you don't have such a relationship, you can ask it..."Kamiya Miku's voice gradually became smaller: "I—I just want to say that." ”

"Huh?" Kitagawa Temple gave her a strange look.

The little girl suddenly spoke so quietly that even he could only hear a few words.

Mirai Kamiya slapped the table in a panic:

"Nothing! It's just that Ryoko's sister told me that it wasn't a confidential case, and that I was in an izakaya—"

"You still went into the izakaya?" Beichuan Temple frowned, a little dumbfounded.

Minors are not allowed to enter places like izakayas.

"Anyway, they didn't drink!" Miku Kamiya's smug expression just now turned into a ball of deflated air.

It's really unproductive! Kamiya Miku! Si-kun just asks a little and you start to panic! You can't be like that! You should be stronger!

But when she thought about it, she was a little apprehensive.

If you enter an izakaya by yourself, you shouldn't be treated as a strange girl by Kitagawa Temple, right?

Fortunately, Beichuan Temple didn't seem to care about this kind of thing at all, he shook his head and said:

"It's okay, you continue."

Ryoko Okano is still as out of tune as ever.

Forget about taking him to an izakaya last time, and this time I'll also take the pink and tender Kamiya Miku into the kind of place where middle-aged greasy uncles haunt.

Kitagawa Temple estimated that if it weren't for Ryoko Gangno's work all the time, and there seemed to be some family police backgrounds in the family, it was estimated that he would have been fired early.

Kamiya Mirai breathed a big sigh of relief: "Anyway, Sister Ryoko told me about it while she was drinking." It is said that three workers disappeared in the Miki puppet factory. At that time, the case of missing persons was still under investigation, and the Miki doll factory was burned by a fire, and it is said that the original source of the fire was in the factory, but fortunately, the construction period was stopped that day, and there was only one factory owner in the factory. ”

"Three people are missing... Only one family in the factory...? Kitagawa Temple muttered to himself.

This feels like there is indeed a suspicion of malicious arson by the enemy, otherwise he would not have chosen such a tricky time to set fire.

But when you think about it, it's impossible to set a fire to a factory while the workers are coming and going.

So could the three missing people have anything to do with the whole incident?

"Not bad." Kamiya Miku's eyes sparkled, and he said with a little blushing: "She didn't tell me the names and home addresses of the three missing workers, because they belong to individuals, and I don't know much about what happened after that." ”

Kitagawa Temple simply said his evaluation: "Talking is always hanging, which is the style of Ryoko." ”

Kitagawa Temple remembered the private message sent to him by the man named 'Corpse Puppet'.

Could it be true that as the corpse puppet said, the original Miki puppet factory was viciously set on fire and burned?

"Either way, these two days have to be cleared up."

Including the matter of the white ball of Namori at the beginning.

Kitagawa Temple is in the heart by all means.

"Temple-kun, temple-kun."

Mirai Kamiya gently poked his shoulder with his white fingers.

"What's the matter?"

"Praise me."

"......" Kitagawa Temple.

Kitagawa Temple glanced at her.

The materials on the table were neat and concise, and the notebook was full of things that could be investigated and inferences about Kamiya's future.

I have to say that she is indeed very reliable.

Case.

"You're doing a great job, Kamiya, thank you for your great help."

Kitagawa Temple said frankly.

Thanking a person is not such a difficult thing.

In the end, Kitagawa Temple is just cold-hearted, but it is by no means a person who can't even say a word of thanks.

"Hey, hey, hey..." Kamiya Miku smirked and touched his little head, and an intoxicating blush appeared on his face as if he had drunk wine.

I don't know why, but she's just happy anyway.

I started to stay up late before the spring break.,After the spring break, I went to the Odaka Mountains to investigate for two days in a row.,It wasn't until this morning that all kinds of materials were prepared.,Now hearing the thanks of Beichuan Temple.,She only felt that the sourness in her eyes suddenly dissipated a lot-

It's gone a lot.

Mirai Kamiya felt as if his head was being squeezed.

"Close your eyes."

The breezy voice of Kitagawa Temple came.

Miku Kamiya subconsciously closed his eyes.

Cool air streams rushed overhead, slowly settling into her obscure eyes.

Kamiya Mirai's body couldn't help but relax.

Somewhat comfortable.

She muttered to herself.

After a while, Kitagawa Temple let go of his hand.

"That's it."

Hearing Kitagawa Temple's words, Kamiya Mirai obediently opened his eyes.

Eye... It was extremely refreshing, and the feeling of being moist made her blink.

"Temple-kun, just now—"

"I've treated you with death air."

Beichuan Temple took a sip of the tea at hand, and looked at her big eyes that regained their agility, and her heart was also a little satisfied.

He was satisfied with his Dead Air Branching Skill, which had increased some healing effects. 8)