Manual of the Monster in City

47 Doubt!

There may be a ghost...

    A short sentence immediately made Jia Qingming clever all over.

    Ghosts, this kind of existence has always been the most sensitive to Jia Qingming. This is probably due to his feminine physique that attracts ghosts, and of course, the heavenly eyes that can see the existence of ghosts.

    "Ghost?" Jia Qingming asked him in a hollow voice.

    He retracted his hand subconsciously, but still couldn't help but stare at the dark tree hole: now it looked like a deep mouth as if there was a terrible ghost hidden in it.

    "It seems to be called the ghosts living in the trees." Edogawa said, "When I was a child, I heard the old people in the family say that they were a group of ghosts living in trees. Some places called them tree gods... In short, like In places like tree holes, even a finger can provoke this kind of ghost, let alone sticking your hand in..."

    "That's a folklore, right." Jia Qingming said sweatingly, always feeling as if what he had just received was just a false alarm.

    but--

    He stared at the source of discomfort again. Something in the deep tree hole seemed to disappear, like a ghost that disappeared immediately after being discovered. Waiting to reappear in another place and scary. .

    "Okay," he said.

    "Qingming is really timid." Xiaobai stretched out and roasted his paws by the fire. Jia Qingming felt that it was more appropriate to call it a paw scientifically.

    "Remember to dry the socks on the stone by the fire, otherwise, if the sweat is not dry, it will be easy to foam if you continue to walk the mountain road tomorrow." Yuan Boyang reminded.

    "It's already bubbling!" Xiao Shanshan pouted and stretched a pair of white bare feet over the fire to bake. She was wearing lace-up sandals without matching socks. It was not suitable for this kind of clothes. Shoes for local trekking.

    There were enough camping props in the bag, but it was Edogawa’s plan to remind her.

    Although the weather is not cold to that degree, it is still a bit too cool according to her dress, especially at night in such places-mountains and forests, and the night is extremely cold.

    However, her infinite vitality during the day can't tell that she is actually so reluctant. This guy……

    "Okay, okay, all go to sleep." Xiaobai akimbo, looking like the older sister among them, consciously taking on the role of parent among the bear children.

    "Good." A sparse response sounded.

    Jia Qingming looked at Xiaobai for a while, and there seemed to be something uneasy in his heart.

    "What's the matter Qingming? Are you afraid of ghosts?" Xiaobai covered her mouth with one hand as if she was whispering, but the volume could be heard by anyone!

    "If you are scared, do you want my sister to sleep with you?"

    Don't use such misleading lines! Jia Qingming stared at a pair of dead fish eyes and complained in his heart.

    "All right, don't worry. I'm here." Xiaobai said.

    In fact, Jia Qingming's most reassuring is Xiao Bai. He always remembered her face when she faced the little deer not long ago, like that, as if the predator met the prey.

    "Good night." Jia Qingming got into the tent.

    In fact, he couldn't fall asleep quickly when he lay down, just staring at the ceiling light in the tent in a daze. It's not tiring enough, mainly because he wants to calm down and think about some related things.

    The campfire made crackling wooden cracks. There was the wind blowing on the nylon surface of the tent, making noises.

    It seemed that it was windy outside, Jia Qingming wrapped his sleeping bag tightly around his shoulders, trying not to let the heat in the sleeping bag leak out.

    "Can't sleep?" Edogawa turned over and asked him.

    This tent is more than enough to put down two sleeping bags, presumably Edogawa was also prepared. But it still feels strange that the two boys are lying down and looking at each other.

    "I also think there is a problem with this matter." Edogawa continued. He suddenly remembered something, then he turned over and sat up, put the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose again, and rummaged in the next bag.

    What he found were some newspapers, which seemed to be relatively new. Jia Qingming glanced at the publication dates of the newspapers. It was indeed the two days, Shenting County Daily and Evening News.

    "Look at these reports," he said in a low voice, "do you think something is wrong?"

    Jia Qingming turned over and lay on his stomach, putting the newspaper in front of him, trying not to block his head from the light of the tent ceiling light.

    First, he roughly scanned the parts of these newspapers that Edogawa-san had shown him. This is a good habit, which can quickly filter out the key points of this information——

    Well, he admitted that this habit was taught by the English teacher.

    All reports are about one incident "the incident of a tiger wounding in the mountains and forests of Shenting County."

    There are a total of five reports, including three recent incidents of tiger wounding in the mountains and forests near Shenting County, two of which are follow-up reports.

    In fact, Jia Qingming did not know anything before. He was drawn to help find the missing Master Lin, but this incident happened to have something to do with the tiger wounding incident, not his main purpose, like a tiger. He really can't control things like cannibalism. It's a question of whether he can beat a tiger or not. After all, tigers are nationally protected animals.

    If it was Xiao Bai, there would probably be no problem. In the end, it would only be regarded as a matter of two beasts tearing each other and causing one of them to die.

    Thinking of this, he instantly made up for Xiao Bai to become a big dog. But it is obviously not as big as a tiger, right?

    Jia Qingming put his thoughts back on these newspapers. At first, he just flipped through them casually. Sometimes his attention was drawn to other news around him, such as hit and run, selling health products to fool the elderly. The drama performed in any city, but it is never tiresome...

    But soon, he discovered the problem, staring at the small print in every report, and gradually became unable to remove it.

    These three tiger wounding incidents... have a very strange thing in common. In each incident, only people were injured and no deaths were caused.

    Moreover, two of the three injured persons did not act to provoke tigers. One of them was indeed a poacher who deserved it, and he suffered the most serious injuries. One leg was directly torn off by the tiger...

    Just looking at the report, Jia Qingming felt that her legs were aching.

    But the strangest thing is that no one died.

    Jia Qingming is not a person who often watches natural science documentaries. Most of his spare time is lost in part-time jobs, and most of them are part-time jobs in catering, but he can roughly infer the cause of being attacked by a tiger.

    It is nothing more than angering the tiger, or the tiger itself is in a state of hunger, so humans are temporarily selected as hunting targets.

    But any of them is not the type that will give up easily, right?

    Especially when the poacher was scrapped with one leg, it can be said that he couldn't escape anymore. He was the only one without the assistance of his companions, but he still got his life back from the tiger's mouth.

    "I'm right." Edogawa said, pushing his black-rimmed glasses, "this matter is very problematic."

    "indeed……"

    "It's like an unexplainable monster event. It is for this reason that I decided to investigate it. Unfortunately, I was a step late and the forest boundary has been sealed off, otherwise, you will definitely be called to come together." The sentence seemed to explain something.

    "However, the news in the newspaper is too brief, and the important details are too few. There are no photos of the scene and the like, only the image of the wounded in bandages in the hospital..."

    "After all, this is not a murder case," Edogawa pointed out. "Such a tiger wounding incident can only be reported as an anecdote, and try not to cause any panic to everyone."

    "But even if it is a tiger spirit, there is no reason to let people go like this. It must be eaten so that there is no scum left. There is no way to find out if you disappeared directly." Jia Qingming said, suddenly thought One thing is... the disappearance of Forest Ranger Master Lin...

    Could he have been eaten?

    No... according to Miss Bai Ling's divination...

    There are still too few clues, maybe only after finding Master Lin can we find some clues. Jia Qingming began to feel a certain premonition as if the two events were closely connected in a certain sense, if he unlocked one of them, the other would also be solved.

    At the same time, Jia Qingming thought twice before sending a text message to Su Qiang.

    After all, Su Qiang is the daughter of Chief Su of the Shenting County Police Department, and she is also a girl who aspires to become a great female police officer. More importantly, it seems that as long as there is a strange case, she will definitely participate in the investigation... Although her father is obviously This kind of thing will not be allowed.

    But she can still get more information, especially the tiger wounding incident. If you don't observe carefully, it is difficult to realize the strangeness. It is easy to be simply treated like an infestation by a wild beast, and send someone to deal with it, such as publicizing the wounding tiger to death as a knot to comfort people.

    He thought she would realize the unusualness of this incident.

    Sure enough, Su Qiang returned a text message: "Are you also investigating that matter? The problem is very big, and I can't draw conclusions. But I have checked some details. If you also want to check this line, I can send it tomorrow. I sent you the picture, but I'm already ahead of you. I won't talk tonight."

    Then there was another text message: "You should know the hounds of Baskerville?"

    Jia Qing obviously didn't know. But he felt that it was too unskilled to reply directly to the question, so he asked Edogawa.

    "The Hound of Baskerville is a case in "Detective Sherlock Holmes" and the most classic case...but I haven't read it yet, I just heard about it..."

    "Aren't you a real fan?" Jia Qingming looked helpless.

    "I am a Conan fan and not a Sherlock Holmes fan."

    Jia Qingming decided to go out and blow the wind to calm down, and by the way, he relieved after a certain tree. Xiaobai and Yuan Mutai were still watching the night by the fire. Yuan Mutai was leaning against a tree and holding an arrow in his hand. He was very alert, almost like It's a scout. Xiao Bai was used to being lazy, holding a small grass stick in his mouth, like a cigarette.

    "I'll go to the toilet." He said.

    "Are you afraid of the dark? Don't you need me to accompany you?"

    "It's enough……"

    Jia Qingming walked through the low walls of two bushes until the firelight faded away. However, he suddenly discovered that in the other direction, a firelight faintly came from the gap between the branches and leaves.

    Is there anyone else here?

    He tiptoed close, making no noise as much as possible.

    But when he was about to get closer, the flame suddenly disappeared. It's like an illusion created by a ghost.

Next comes the complete darkness that covers everything.