Chapter 49: Footprints
As the innkeeper narrates, Kiyosuke also hears another version of the hostel murder from his mouth.
According to the files uploaded by the team members, there was nothing unusual about the hostel at that time, it was just an ordinary murder scene that could no longer be ordinary, but there were more broken corpses.
But in the mouth of the innkeeper, it turned into a case of a female ghost looking for revenge.
It turned out that there had been a murder in the area more than a month ago.
The protagonist of the incident was a beautiful female tourist who had rented his inn for two days, so he was very impressed.
But a few days after checking out, the body of the female tourist was found at the top of the island's highest peak, and according to a forensic examination, she had been brutally abused before her death.
After the death of this female tourist, strange things gradually began to appear in the village.
In the first two days, a strange bloodstained footprint appeared in the home of a villager, extending from the hot spring to the door of the house, and then disappeared.
At first, it was thought that this might be a prank by some people, but a few days later, the footprints reappeared in the village.
It's just that the place where it appears this time is the hot spring inn where Kiyosuke is staying now.
"Early that morning, when I got up and went downstairs, I found a series of blood-red footprints stretching from the female soup all the way to the entrance,"
As he spoke, the innkeeper pointed to the entrance not far from Kiyosuke, signaling that the footprints would stop at that point.
Kiyosuke frowned, leaned over to take a closer look, and found no trace of bloodstained footprints.
"The footprints disappeared when the sun came out, and only I knew about it." The innkeeper looked sad, lit a cigarette and continued to talk to Kiyosuke about the strange events that followed.
The day after the footprints appeared in the hostel, a villager's dog was gone, and only blood and dog hair were scattered in the yard.
In the days that followed, many villagers began to lose all kinds of domestic animals and pets, such as cats and dogs.
"What did she kill these cats and dogs for?" Kiyosuke's brows furrowed deeply, feeling a little strange, he had never seen a strange incident of slaughtering cats and dogs.
In other words, if it is just cats and dogs being slaughtered, it will not be possible to form a strange story at all.
According to the boss, if there really is such a female ghost in the village for revenge, then she may have a certain self-awareness, rather than a simple mechanical relapse of strange stories.
Looking at Kiyosuke, who was squatting on the ground and frowning, the innkeeper spat out a puff of cigarette and sighed silently.
"And then?" Kiyosuke asked, standing up.
Although no traces can be seen with the naked eye, after Kiyosuke's spiritual power sweeps, he still found a trace of strange existence.
From the perspective of the 'gods', there were indeed a large number of pale blood-colored footprints on the ground, but they did not stop in front of the entrance, as the innkeeper said
But... Stopping in front of the front desk where he was now, the owner of the footprints seemed to be a little tangled, and still circled around the front desk.
"I'm afraid, this innkeeper still has something to hide from me." Kiyosuke said secretly in his heart.
If it weren't for the innkeeper's reminder, Kiyosuke wouldn't have known about the footprints, let alone investigated the footprints so quickly.
But the direction of the footprints is the opposite of what the boss said, and it is obvious that either the innkeeper didn't see it clearly, or the innkeeper was lying to him.
"Then the village was quiet for a few days, and no cats or dogs were missing, and no footprints appeared." The innkeeper took a deep breath and snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray.
The last time the footprints appeared was in the hotel where the accident occurred, and it didn't cause much panic that day, many people saw the footprints, and some people even took photos, but when the police investigated afterwards, they found that there was nothing in the photos.
The day after the footprints appeared, there was a horrific murder and mutilation case, and more than 20 passengers in the entire hostel, plus the boss's family, were all chopped into pieces and soaked in women's soup.
The whole soup was soaked in a sticky blood red, and when the forensic doctor came to the scene, there was nowhere to start, and there was no way to piece together any complete corpse, let alone check the cause of death.
At this point, the incident was basically the same as the file that Kiyosuke knew, and he also read the forensic examination report, and the most complete part of the body was an arm, and the cause of death could not be analyzed at all.
After talking about the incident, the innkeeper sighed and said, "Little brother, if you can, I advise you not to stay on the island, it's not been peaceful recently." ”
"Thanks for your information, I'll take care of myself."
"I'm going to rent the room for a few more days, it's rent." Kiyosuke smiled slightly, took out a few bills from his wallet, and put them on the front desk.
After saying that, Kiyosuke turned around and left the hostel, and the smile on his face gradually retracted
"The owner of this hostel is lying." A glint flashed in Kiyosuke's eyes.
If it was just the hovering footprints just now, he wasn't sure that the innkeeper was lying to him, but when his mental power swept over the innkeeper's body, he found a subtle aura.
The breath was exactly the same as the smell of the footprints, indicating that the innkeeper must have been the owner who had been in contact with the footprints, but Kiyosuke couldn't figure out why the innkeeper wanted to lie to him.
If the innkeeper doesn't want him to know about it, it might as well not tell him that the footprints have been in the hostel.
"No, you can't judge the problem of the innkeeper so simply, it's too easy for the monster to hide the sight of ordinary people."
Kiyosuke shook his head, he couldn't make a decision so simply, maybe the innkeeper really didn't know, it was possible.
After leaving the hostel, Kiyosuke did not go straight to the scene of the killing, but walked around the village along the main road.
If the innkeeper's words are true, then he should be able to check for a lot of blood footprints on the island.
The village is not big, and it took Seisuke less than two hours to visit all the roads in the entire village, and his mental power has always been maintained at about five meters around his body.
In addition to the footprints in the hostel, the innkeeper did not lie to him, and several families in the village did have traces of blood-colored footprints, and there were quite a few of them.
It's just that the direction of the footprints is very strange, it seems that they all walked out of the villagers' houses, and then went around in a circle and went back.
"What's the point of her doing that?" Standing under the torii gate of the village shrine, Kiyosuke frowned deeply.
According to the current information, it can probably be assumed that the owner of the blood-colored footprints is conscious, but what is the significance of her going around and going back to these villagers' houses?
Looking at the mountain peaks in the distance, Kiyosuke's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light.
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