Chapter 401: The Truth Comes Out
What Mrs. Kitajima said was very bizarre, but Qin Hu thought what she said was true. This is a task background setting, no matter how bizarre it is, as long as the logic is reasonable, it is normal.
"Then there's only one last question, where did Risa Kitajima go?"
Mrs. Kitajima shook her head: "I don't know. One thing you said was wrong, I put Risa in that cave, it wasn't my own idea, but the suggestion of the three ghosts, and I think it was the third ghost who took her away in the end. ”
Qin Hu frowned: "Why didn't he pick up people directly at the beach?" ”
Mrs. Kitajima shook her head: "I don't know about this, he asked him to do it." He assured me that he and his son would never bully Risa, and with the fear of his parents, I had to agree. ”
Qin Hu covered his head, this is not like Mrs. Kitajima made it up temporarily, but if this is the case, Kitajima Risa still fell into the hands of the kraken, and it was completely absent from before.
At this time, the mystery had been removed from the spatial isolation, and the nightmare people came back from outside, and when they saw Qin Hu and Mrs. Beidao, they were a little puzzled: "What are you doing?" ”
Qin Hu shook his head: "It's okay, let's go back and talk about it." Mrs. Kitajima, according to you, you have fulfilled your promise for your parents, and I hope that you will cooperate with us to get Kitajima Risa back. ”
Mrs. Kitajima thought for a moment and nodded: "Speaking from my heart, I don't want Risa to be with someone who has never been in contact with a kraken, I will do my best." Also, please don't tell me about it, please. ”
Qin Hu let out an "um" and walked upstairs.
In the room, Nightmare begins to compile information from the outing, most of which is information that has become useless due to Mrs. Kitajima's confession.
"That's all there is to Mrs. Kitajima, and now that Mrs. Kitajima has admitted it, this information is of little use." After finishing Mrs. Kitajima's message, Nightmare added, "While we were inquiring with nearby residents, we overheard the news that the morning after the disappearance of Risa Kitajima, a fishing boat returning from the sea found a fire that had just been extinguished on a small island twenty nautical miles off the coast. ”
"Although Kitajima Risa has the blood of a kraken, it is only a quarter, and she has been brought up as a human since she was a child, so her physique should be closer to that of a human. Soaking in water for a long time should be unhealthy for her, so the Kraken will find a place to dry her. It is likely that this fire was left behind by him, because ordinary fishermen have spare clothes and towels on the boat, and there is no need to go to the island to light a fire. Qin Hu thought for a while and arranged: "Meng Meng and Qianhe will continue to stay in the hotel to see if there are any clues, and the others will go to sea with me to find this island." Nightmare, do you know the route? ”
Nightmare nodded: "I asked the fishermen to help me locate the location on my phone, and I can contact the fishing boat to go to sea now if necessary." ”
Qin Hu nodded: "Arrange it immediately, and set off immediately." ”
Half an hour later, a fishing boat hired by Qin Hu and others at a high price sailed to the sea, and after an hour of sailing, they came to a small island.
It is a very small island, with a total area estimated to be no more than 300 square meters, and according to fishermen, the island is flooded at high tide at night, so it is not suitable for settling, and there is no firewood on the island that can be lit.
Qin Hu jumped onto the island and stepped on the beach, obviously a little wet. No wonder fishermen are surprised by the presence of fires on the island early in the morning.
There were some messy footprints in the sand, which looked like they should have been stepped on barefoot, and judging by the size, they should be a man and a woman.
There was a pile of ash remains in the middle of the island, Qin Hu twisted the ashes and said, "It should be wood, but it's strange that it burns cleanly, is there dry wood?" ”
Nightmare shaved the ashes a little, grabbed a handful of sand underneath it, looked at it, rubbed his fingers, and said, "Gasoline, it must have been poured with gasoline to help burn." ”
Qin Hu said: "The question now is, where did she go?" ”
"There's something here." Meng Fei's eyes sharpened and pulled out a rag from the sand next to the ash pile.
Nightmare said, "It should have been left by Risa Kitajima." ”
Qin Hu thought about it and said: "I asked Meng Meng to confirm a little to Mrs. Kitajima before, Risa Kitajima does not have the ability to breathe underwater, and her physique is similar to that of ordinary people. In this case, unless the Kraken has a boat to carry her, the Kraken will at most carry her around. In this case, it is likely that you will need to stop at the island along the way to warm up and replenish water. This is different from the previous sacrifices, where there were many krakens, and they could drive large ships, and it was difficult to supervise. But now, he only has one or two people in control of the ship, and his identity is still problematic, so he can't drive far at all. So I think they should be wandering, and they will definitely find clues on the desert island along the way. ”
Nightmare took out his mobile phone to open the map and handed it to Qin Hu, Qin Hu thought about it and said: "Mrs. Kitajima said that this group of krakens was originally active in eastern Hokkaido, and the location we are now near Sapporo, that is, in the western part of Hokkaido, is not an active area for krakens. He would probably choose to take Kitajima Risa back, so he would either head north through the Soya Strait or south through the Tsugaru Strait. In contrast, the northbound is more sparsely populated, easy to hide, and our current direction is originally northerly, so we only need to sail along the desert islands in the north to have a chance of catching up with Kitajima Risa and the Kraken. ”
The crowd had no objections, returned to the ship, and sailed north according to the map. Two hours later, traces of human activity were found on another small island, and after landing on the island, they found rags of the same material as on the previous desert island in a rock crevice, proving that they were pursuing in the right direction.
The fishing boat continued its voyage, heading north along a string of deserted islands.
At the same time, in Tokyo, inside Nezu Shrine, Kim Ke of the South Korean team finally found one of the surviving retired traffic police officers who dealt with the car accident three years ago, this person gave Jin Ke a box and told Jin Ke that the detailed file about the car accident was in this box, but it was a safe with a self-destruct function, which could only be opened by getting the key from another survivor, brute force cracking, and the information inside would be destroyed by the explosion caused by the chemicals sprayed out by the mechanism.
Jin Ke immediately contacted the other teams, but the news was that there was no one else to be found, and everyone had to meet to protect the box before discussing the next move.
Kobe, Sayuri Fujii's house.
"I'm back." Sayuri's voice came from outside the door.
Luo Han turned his head and glanced at it, it was the three girls who came back from school, and said casually: "It's quite early after school, didn't you participate in club activities?" ”
Sayuri said: "Because I care about the affairs of the resentful spirits, I came back early." Wind Master, are there any catches? ”
What's the catch? The culprit behind the scenes has been killed. However, having said that, Luo Han had no reason to stay here, so he lied: "I found an onmyoji, and after analyzing it, I think he came for something that your great-grandfather obtained, and you may be in danger before you get it." ”
Sayuri was surprised: "Great-grandfather's things? What is it? Why did that Onmyoji want this? ”
Luo Han shook his head: "I also analyzed it from a few letters in the book upstairs, I don't know what it is, I only know that it is a painting." Personally, I think that only by finding this painting can we really solve this problem from the source. ”
Sayuri looked confused: "But I don't remember what paintings my great-grandfather left behind." And why would this Onmyoji want his great-grandfather's things? ”
Luo Han said: "Do you know that your great-grandfather used to be an onmyoji? ”
Sayuri shook her head: "When I was born, he himself passed away for many years, and I rarely heard my father mention it. When I was a kid, I asked about the books upstairs, and my dad only said that they were things that my grandfather had collected, and that he was particularly interested in them. I remember when I was younger, my dad used to lock himself in the second floor for a whole day, but then he barely went up to the second floor. By the way, I remember that my dad didn't go up to the second floor much after he got rich. ”
Luo Han immediately thought of a possibility: "Did your father send it suddenly?" ”
Sayuri shook her head: "That's not the case, my family was originally well-off, and it was considered middle-class." Later, my father nested on the second floor all day, and my grandfather couldn't look past it, so he scolded him severely, and he began to do business, and slowly developed. ”
It's a real headache, according to Sayuri, her father should have found out about it by accident, and wanted to find this thing, either for his own use, or to sell it to the Onmyoji, and gave up after being taught by Sayuri's grandfather. Apparently Sayuri's father didn't know where the painting was. And Grandpa Sayuri, who is most likely to know the location of this painting, did not stop Sayuri's father at the beginning, until Sayuri's father did not do his job, and then came forward to reprimand, does it mean that Sayuri's grandfather did not find this painting, otherwise he would not let his son look for it for so long?
Where will what has not been found by father and son for two generations be hidden? Luo Han was at an impasse.
Either the painting is no longer here at all, or it is hidden in a place where Fujii and his son would not have gone to find it. Kojima Heino even dug up the ground and couldn't find it, so where else could he hide the paintings?
Luo Han's eyes suddenly lit up, turned around and rushed to the courtyard, came to the ancient well, and plunged into the well water.
In the blink of an eye, he sank to the bottom of the well, Luo Han squatted and groped at the bottom of the well for a while, and suddenly punched the edge of the bottom of the well, and saw that the bottom of the well in the turbid well water had sunk by several centimeters, revealing a hole. Obviously, what Luo Han hit was only a stone slab that perfectly sealed the wellhead. Luo Han simply smashed the stone slab, and swam down a few meters to reach the bottom of the real well and touch a box.
Luo Han, who got the box, jumped out of the well, shook the water on his body, and looked at the box he found in the sun.
It was a long box, with steel on the outside, rusted into a lump.
The three daughters of Sayuri, who were watching by the well, were surprised: "Master Feng, what is this?" ”
Luo Han didn't hide it either: "If I'm not mistaken, this is what that Onmyoji wants, that is, what your father once tried to find." Unexpectedly, Master Fujii actually hid it in the well and added a perfect partition. If I hadn't subjectively excluded every inch of this yard, I wouldn't have imagined that there would be a compartment underneath the well. ”
Sayuri was surprised, "What the hell is this?" Why would an Onmyoji want it? ”
"According to the information I found on the second floor, it should be a painting, as for what is special, I don't know." Luo Han looked at the rusted iron lump carefully, and frowned: "This iron box should be sealed and welded, I don't know what the situation is inside, so I can only open it carefully." ”
Qi Tao picked up the iron lump and shook it twice: "It doesn't seem to be moving, it should be fixed." We can try to break from both ends, it should be easier. And if it's a painting, the scrolls at both ends shouldn't be very important. ”
Luo Han nodded, and Qi Tao was one by one, carefully cutting with a weapon.
It took more than ten minutes, and Qi Tao, who was accustomed to using short weapons, successfully broke through one end and pulled out a long ceramic pipe with two ends blocked by wooden stoppers from a pile of silk cloth.
"There's a lot of weird patterns on this tube." Qi Tao looked at it and tried to pull out the wooden plug that blocked the pipe, but saw that the pattern on the pipe lit up, and Qi Tao's strength was already inhuman, but he didn't move at all.
Luo Han glanced at the silk cloth and said in surprise: "There are words here." ”
One of the silk cloth was full of words, and Luo Han picked it up and read it out seriously: "The contemptible Fujii Flying Tiger accidentally obtained an ancient painting from an ancient shipwreck, in which a powerful demon was sealed. The contemptible people tried to tame, but they failed, but they were counterattacked, and the danger was controlled by them. It had to be sealed as a last resort, and because the descendants of the Fujii family withered, lest the descendants covet its powerful power and be controlled by it, resulting in extinction, so it was hidden at the bottom of the well, and the descendants of Fujii were forbidden to cultivate yin and yang. If a colleague finds it, be sure to do what you can. This thing has a contemptible person to set up a test, and those who pass the test normally have the slightest possibility of taming this type of demon, if they can't pass the test, they must not be forcibly opened. ”
Qi Tao smashed his mouth and said: "No wonder Master Fujii doesn't let his descendants become an onmyoji, so that even if the descendants find this thing by chance, they will weigh it if they lack strength." This glimmer of opportunity may really be a glimmer, after all, Master Fujii himself has never succeeded. But Captain, what to do with this thing? ”
Luo Han thought for a while and said to Sayuri: "We have an ancient Chinese saying that 'the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty', which means that a person will invite disaster because he has something he should not have, especially if you are not able to protect yourself, this kind of thing will only bring you destruction at your own risk." If you don't need it, we'll take it away so that no Onmyoji will do anything to your house for it in the future. You can call your father and talk about it. ”。
Sayuri had no choice but to dial her father's phone, and without saying a word, she handed the phone to Luo Han: "Master Feng, come and talk to my father." ”
Luo Han took the phone and said in a deep voice: "Hello Mr. Fujii, I am the Huaxia Heavenly Master who Sayuri invited to deal with the resentful spirit incident. ”