Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 440 Standalone Puppet

   took Koizumi Hongzi around for a few laps, but without squeezing out any more magic power, Jiang Xia sighed suddenly.

   This witch seems to have been squeezed to the limit.

   However, today's harvest is already rich enough...

   Thinking so, Jiang Xia brought Koizumi Hongzi down, planning to find a place to put her down, and come back to her when she recovers.

   In the process of slowly falling, Koizumi Koizumi, who had no love for her, moved her ears and heard the servant's magic message.

"Lord Hongzi, I just found out the legend about that tengu." There was the sound of clattering through the newspaper from the servant's side - Koizumi Hongzi just saw the misty tengu, and felt new to this unseen monster, so The summons sent people to investigate, and now the results have finally been found out.

  The servant obviously didn't know anything about Koizumi Koizumi's current situation. He focused on the newspaper and helped the witch to investigate the feasibility and difficulty of raising a foggy tengu at home:

"The legend of the foggy dog ​​has always been popular in the area of ​​Banmaru Mountain, but it really became famous two years ago-two years ago, in the Shanni Temple over there, a young monk 'hanged himself'; a while ago , their abbot also 'hanged'.

"The places where the two were hanged were on the roof of a very high confinement room. No one knows how they climbed up without leaving a trace. It looked as if someone flew them up. In addition, when the young monk died, , and a huge gap was knocked into the wall of the confinement room... These characteristics are completely consistent with the cannibalism of the local 'Misttengu'."

"……eat human?"

  …and it sounds like two people have died for this reason?

Koizumi Koizumi groaned in her heart, and it was difficult to maintain the state of lying dead for a while—although she had already experienced impressive fear and exhaustion when she was thrown around in mid-air, but this instinctive fear of weightlessness, And some kind of terrifying fear, but not quite the same thing.

   When the servant heard Koizumi Koizumi's words repeated in a low voice, he responded:

"That's right. It is said that the foggy tengu will sneak into the village like fog in the middle of the night, break through the walls, take away the food they fancy, and then hang the corpse of the prey on a high place for food - yes, I heard that they like young people the most. pretty girl.

   "But don't worry, Koko-sama, your noble and pure magic power is enough to suppress this kind of monster.

   "It's just that if you want to breed, you must prepare a cage that is difficult to break through, so that he doesn't run out and endanger the surrounding residents. In addition, you may also prepare human flesh as rations, but this is illegal, so..."

  “…”

   Koizumi Hongko originally wanted to secretly ask the servant for help, but was blocked by the phrase "noble and pure magic", and it was difficult to speak for a while.

   When she finally finished the struggle, gritted her teeth, and wanted to throw her face away to save her life, she saw Wu Tiangu glanced at her ear with a knowing look.

   Followed closely, Koizumi Hongzi found that she could no longer hear the unpleasant voice of the servant.

   Her pupils shrank—it didn't seem to be an illusion, this monster actually seemed to have a way to block her magic power!

  ...Why do the ancient books at home never record that there are living monsters in the world? Why hasn't this terrible natural enemy been mentioned? ?

   Koizumi Koizumi remembered the news brought by the servant just now, especially the words "human flesh" and "prey" in it, and thinking about her own situation, she felt uncontrollable fear.

   At the same time, she also had a whole new understanding of how Wutengou played with her just now.

  ——Since the foggy dog ​​likes to hang the carcass of its prey on a high place to eat. Just now, the foggy dog ​​threw her from the top down, perhaps trying to take aim and stab her on some tall object.

   It was only because she always instinctively floated in the air with the help of magic power, which caused the trajectory to deviate, and the foggy dog ​​felt that it was not accurate, so she was dissatisfied and brought her up again and threw it again...

  ...In this case, even if you can't use your magic power to float and escape, at least try to change the direction of your fall. You can't just wait to die like that!

  The unknown makes people afraid and dare not resist.

   But once he found out the other party's behavior pattern, Koizumi Hongko's remaining desire to survive was squeezed out again.

   She waited with bated breath for the next time the misty dog ​​threw her. This time, she will no longer maintain a floating state, but will only shift herself a little for a short time. In this way, the mist tengu who insisted on hanging its prey on the tree to eat will not kill her immediately... By delaying the time, the servant may be able to find out that something is wrong and come to save the person!

   After having a rough countermeasure, Koizumi Hongko gritted her teeth, forced herself to calm down, and was ready for the next wave of being thrown.

   However, unlike what she thought, the fog tengu did not take her to the sky again, but descended all the way, and finally came to the woods and fell to a tree that was not low.

   Koizumi Hongzi looked at the spooky tree with many branches, and in her mind, the servant's popular science just kept echoing - Wutiangu likes to hang the corpse of its prey on a high place for consumption...

  High...

  Reserve to eat…

   In her mind, the **** strips of fresh human flesh hung on the tree, and the tragic state of being cut open, rolled her eyes, exhausted to escape reality, and fell into a coma.

  “…”

   Jiang Xia fell on the tree and patted Koizumi Hongzi.

   found that she seemed to be really dizzy, and then fell to the ground again.

   There seems to be some kind of connection between Koizumi Koizumi and her servant. Jiang Xia tugged at the magic thread on Koizumi Hongzi's body, and after a while, the servant would come to pick her up.

   He put down people and left with a rich harvest.

  …

   Late at night, Rice Flower Town.

  Jiang Xia opened his eyes in the quilt, and coughed twice according to the print on his heart.

   I choked a little after eating so many energy cores.

   But he didn't feel tired at all, and he didn't know when Koizumi Hongko would recover. He already wanted to make an appointment for the next visit...

  Jiang Xia, like Koizumi Hongzi just now, lay down for a while and slowly digested the energy core she had just stored up.

After    digested it, he lifted the quilt and sat up, letting a large piece of shikigami flow out of the print on his heart.

The    shikigami quickly gathered in the center of the room and piled up into puppet clay.

   Jiang Xia picked up the nearest ghost and threw it in.

The next second, a slender figure in black condensed and formed in front of him—a woman who appeared out of thin air was wearing a solemn long black dress, with a black wide-brimmed sun hat on her head, the brim of the hat was low, and the skirt was dotted with dark silver. fringe.

   - Miyano Akemi.

   In other words, Miss Anonymous.

   o(╥﹏╥)o

   (end of this chapter)