Manual of the Monster in City

31 The Missing Case

    People who have strong desires when they are dying, the "spirit" of powerful desires can make ghosts gain power, stay in the world, and become ghosts that are not seen or noticed.

    The three souls and seven souls slowly dissipated, the memory of the past became blurred, and the laws of the heavens were like a torrent, slowly grinding their consciousness out, unless...

    The strongest wish held in my heart became driftwood held tightly in the turbulence.

    Strong desires continue to give birth to "spirits", which become food that continuously strengthens themselves, and finally become "ghosts" that can be seen in their terrible appearance and can affect the world.

    When ghosts can affect the world without harming the people who saw him, it means that they still have unfulfilled wishes. They are waiting for the "manager" to find them, untie the "knot" that binds them, and get free.

    But when they start hurting others...

    (The above is Bai Ling's chanting)

    ————

    "Hey, are you awake?" When I woke up early in the morning, I saw Uncle Jia Shansheng appearing in the room. It was definitely a beeping thing.

    At least Jia Qingming thought so, especially with such lines.

    "I... slept for a long time?" Jia Qingming rubbed his eyes with a dazed expression.

    Such lines are usually prepared for people who are unconscious in movies and novels, right?

    "It's been a long time, it's time to get up."

    "Am I unconscious? One day?"

    "Uh, I don't think it's a coma, maybe more than three hours."

    More than three hours-six or seven hours, did you sleep for a long time? Jia Qingming looked at the fool's expression. At this moment, a loud noise came from the opposite room.

    "The other side of your room is being renovated! I'm afraid it will disturb you!" Uncle Jia said very intimately.

    "It's already noisy!"

    The noise from the decoration temporarily stopped for a while.

    Uncle Jia continued: "Actually, I mainly came to see if you were okay. I didn't see you back late yesterday."

    It's almost like the rhythm of parental questioning.

    "Ah, yesterday was a club activity, the activity is late."

    "Are you going out with a girl? Hehehe." Jia Shansheng suddenly squinted and smiled, and the beard and scum face moved towards him.

    Qingming suddenly remembered that this adult rock god once had many girls who were sent up to the mountain by villagers as the wife of the god who worshipped him in the temple!

    He blushed suddenly, "Nothing like this!"

    "I'm relieved if you are okay." The uncle straightened up and did a chest expansion exercise. "I read the newspaper in the morning and said someone from your school was missing. I thought it was you who lost it."

    "If I lost it, I guess it will take a long time for you to find out. It won't be so soon that someone calls the police!" Jia Qingming got out of bed with a yawn and picked up the dental bowl from the other side of the room to prepare to wash.

    "Yes, hahaha!" The uncle scratched his head and suddenly realized.

    However, someone from Shenting Middle School really disappeared, just last night.

    When Jia Qingming arrived in the classroom, the classmates were all talking about it, because the missing student was a celebrity among the students, and someone in police uniform came to the school to investigate and question several people.

    Speaking of it, Seimei did meet the missing student yesterday, but the meeting time was too short, and he was not the last person to see him, otherwise, he would also be called for questioning.

    The missing person is a repetitive and problem student from Class 34 of Senior High School, Zhang Liang, who is known as the "first brother" of Shenting Middle School.

    It is said that he never went home yesterday, so his family called the police——

    Although it is such a very ordinary bridge section, Jia Qingming still finds it amazing. Whether he went home or not, Uncle Rockery didn't notice. On the contrary, it was a problem that the student did not go home and was discovered in time by his family. For problem students, it’s normal not to go home...

    However, it is said that although Zhang Liang was domineering at school, he relied on one of his strong physiques, and the other was his parents’ status in Shenting County. Although in the rebellious period, he was obedient and respectful to his family. From the eyes of his busy parents, he is just a naughty child who doesn't work hard.

    So it can be discovered in time.

    "This matter... not easy!" Edogawa-san pushed his black-rimmed glasses. "There must be a big conspiracy behind this!"

    "No clues were found, and no whereabouts were found." Xiao Shanshan said, "In the morning, I cooperated with the investigation. After all, I was the president of the student council, so I also listened to some information. This matter is a bit strange!"

    "So you... let me skip the math class?"

    "I've taken leave of absence for the senior, and the reason seems to be... backache. Okay, well, anyway, the senior is a liberal arts student, and the math class is not available..."

    "It's because of the liberal arts, so mathematics is the subject that masters the power of life and death!" Jia Qingming wailed, "And if you are absent because of backache..."

    "The reason why everyone's wisdom is gathered is because this matter is related to our community." Xiao Shanshan became rare and serious. "I found some situations. This is not an ordinary incident... This is a monster or a supernatural incident. !"

    "It's qualitative so hasty!"

    "A big living person disappeared out of thin air, and no clue was found near the disappearance place." Edogawa pushed his glasses.

    "Hahaha! It's finally the sacred moment of our agency's appearance! Unexpectedly, our Monster Incident Investigation Agency will officially begin to solve the big crisis that looms over this school on the second day of its establishment!" Xiao Shanshan pushed. Open the door of the club room and walk in.

    There are three people in the classroom. Two of them were seen by Jia Qingming yesterday. They were bullying Li Guisheng along with Zhang Liang. The two of them were no longer arrogant and trembling with fear.

    What they were afraid of was probably the remaining person. He was leaning on the balcony next to him with his arms in his arms, his expressionless face but it made people look terrifying. Obviously, it was Yuan Boyang "Yuan Mu-mutu", but he didn't expect his expressionless appearance to be completely used as a "psychological tactic".

    "Don't tell me honestly! What happened yesterday!"

    Xiao Shanshan stepped on a stool aggressively, and an aura burst out in an instant. In fact, she doesn't need psychological warfare and is not afraid of these problematic students at all, because she is the student council president, and she is a beautiful student council president. Provoking such a student council president will arouse public anger.

    "We...we all said..."

    "Are there any other details?"

    "It's really gone... We've all said... I've been questioned many times! There really is nothing else."

    "Then tell me again! Say it well, and don't leave a single detail!"

    "Ok... Ok..." A questioned student trembled with fright.

    "It's like this... Last night, there was really no fun. The boss read a post about our school on the Internet... Said that there were various haunted incidents in the school... So he took the two of us to go together. ." Question Student A said.

    "How did you get into school?" Xiao Shanshan asked, and gave Edogawa a wink. He immediately took out his pen and started to remember.

    This is simply the feeling of setting up a private court!

    "I entered from the classroom window on the east side of the first floor. The guardrail over there was broken, just enough to get in."

    "What about the time?"

    "It's about nine o'clock..." Question student B added.

    "What did you see? Did you find anything unusual?"

    "No..." Question Student A said.

    "Really not, it was calm along the way. The boss was too boring, so he said he was going to the classroom to fetch cigarettes. He said that the cigarettes had fallen in the classroom. It was second to come to see ghosts. This kind of thing did not exist in the first place."

    "Then he went back to the classroom?"

    "Ok."

    "After that, I disappeared, right?"

    "Yes... we went to the 14th class to find the boss, but we didn't see any figure... and heard weird sounds... we thought it was a little weird... so... we ran away." Question Student A continued. "We really don't know more..."

    "Why didn't you follow?" Jia Qingming said.

    "It's mainly... the third child..." Jia hesitated.

    "Yes... mainly because of me... I'm a little scared, saying that the number of class 14 is a homonym for death... The boss also laughed at me, saying that he has been in that class and nothing happened... just... This way." Question student B hesitated and said.

    "It's all useless clues..." Jia Qingming sighed.

    "No...I think there is a problem." Edogawa lowered his head slightly, the lens reflected light. "The door of Class 14 was locked yesterday?"

    That's right. There are clues suddenly connected together in my mind-

    "No lock...We opened the doorknob as soon as we pressed the doorknob, but no one in the classroom... Then I heard strange noises..."

    The locked door.

    Li Guisheng also mysteriously disappeared yesterday, also near Class 14... At that time, Edogawa looked for all the classrooms there, but because the doors were locked, he had to end up in the end.

    Could it be... a ghost prank?

    Like Li Guisheng, he could still come out inexplicably later.

    "The situation is almost the same as last night. I also heard a strange sound over there. It's just...the door was locked at that time." Edogawa analyzed.

    "Could it be... an endless corridor..." Jia Qingming muttered.

    There is indeed such a situation. There are always such legends in the countryside. In fact, Shenting Middle School also has the same legend, which is the so-called "ghost hitting the wall". If a person falls into the "ghost hitting the wall" situation, it will naturally be like disappearing.

    "Do not rule out such a situation. It can be assumed that what I hear is the sound they make. And the strange sound they hear is actually the sound I made." Edogawa analyzed, "Although space is folded, the sound passed to the other side in a vague manner."

    "But this is just an analysis... In short, you two should go first. There is nothing wrong with you here." Xiao Shanshan said, "We should go to Class 14 to investigate."

    "But now in class..."

    "It's okay after class is over. Then it will be fine to enter the classroom in the name of inspection and hygiene. I am the best at this kind of thing." Xiao Shanshan said naturally and normally.

    Hey, is it really good for the student council president to abuse his power like this? !

    "By the way, where is Li Guisheng?" Jia Qingming asked.

    Yuan Mumu did not answer but pointed to the cabinet over there.

    "Well, let him stay inside."

    "Have you given up on pulling others out of the closet?" Xiao Shanshan smiled.

    "Don't use such misleading rhetoric!"

    When the bell rang after class, the four of them rushed to the westernmost side of the second floor to check the sanitation in Class 34. When they were approaching the door of the classroom, they suddenly heard a scream.

Something happened.