Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 455 The Fog Tengu Capture Plan

   However, where Jiangxia is currently located is, after all, a fairly prosperous business district. Outside the area blocked by the police, a large area is full of people. In the absence of magic and murderous positioning, it is not easy to find a sneaky sniper.

  Jiang Xia posted it in the hidden part of the building and looked at it. He didn't see the legendary "snack" reflection, and he didn't see any suspicious figures, so he had no clue.

   He quickly thought of another thing, so he temporarily gave up looking for the person who fired the cold shot, and instead flew in a certain direction with a clear goal.

  ——When Koizumi Koizumi was pretending to be Kid, behind her, there was always a phantom line extending into the distance.

   And after the layer of magic power she was wearing for disguise was sucked up by Jiang Xia's shikigami, that line disappeared.

   At this time, Jiang Xia felt that the magic line was more valuable than looking for a person with no murderous aura and no magic power among a large group of people.

   After all, he remembered the last time, when Koizumi Koizumi cursed Kidd, there was a similar black line between Koizumi Koizumi and Kidd.

   In other words, if you follow the direction of that line, you might be able to find someone who is hiding in the dark and provides Koizumi with magic power—for example, Kidd, who is suspected to be tied and used as a magic battery.

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia no longer stopped in this place with too many police and ordinary citizens.

   He repaired the puppet that had just been wiped by the sniper rifle, and left quickly in the direction of the magic line.

  …

   In the crowd, a woman with a peaked cap and a plain coat looked up at the blurred dot in the sky, and breathed out silently.

  Yuan Hongnai carefully suppressed her magic power, touched the telescope in her bag, remembered the scene she just saw, and frowned slightly.

   That youkai really has a lot of secrets.

   Fortunately, this time, she is more cautious...

   She left the crowd, walked easily outside the blocked area, and finally stopped in a square where people came and went.

   This is the pre-determined meeting place for her and Koizumi Koriko.

  ——Before coming here, Yuan Hongnai checked some information, but couldn't find any images of foggy dogs anywhere. Only in the previous Shanni Temple suicide incident, a traveler passed through the jungle late at night and took a photo of a suspected "Fog Tengu". But the photo was actually so blurry that it was hard to tell whether it was a human or a bird.

   In short, this makes Yuan Hongna feel that the fog tengu will consciously avoid leaving traces in public.

   So she and Koizumi Hongzi made an appointment to meet at the square. It was safer with ordinary people passing by to cover.

  Yuan Hongna leaned on the bench and waited.

   After a while, a female high school student slapped the dust on her body and ran up a little embarrassedly under the secret attention of many male passers-by.

   Koizumi Hongko came to Yuan Hongnai and asked in a low voice, "You lied to me?!"

  Yuan Hongnai sat up slowly and looked up at her: "Don't speak to me in the tone of reprimanding a servant."

  The aura is compelling.

   However, as a witch, Koizumi Hongko is very familiar with this way of putting on airs.

   She ignored it, and continued to ask in a low voice: "What's going on with that inferior magic circle? And the sniper rifle at the back, you arranged it - what if it really hits?!"

  Yuan Hongnai snorted softly: "The clothes I gave you can not only rely on magic power, but also block a certain degree of physical damage - and that ugly thing is very accurate, you don't have to worry about being accidentally injured."

   As she said, she crossed her arms around her chest, leaned back on the back of the bench, and said calmly, "The plan was not told to you in advance, because I think it can be implemented more smoothly."

  "?" Koizumi Hongzi didn't expect her aunt to be so arrogant, she stared at her for a while and was speechless.

   "That magic circle is indeed not used to trap the mist tengu, it's just a simple accumulation of magic power."

Yuan Hongnai raised her fingertips and gestured: "You can think of it as a mass of gas filled with stable magic power. These magic powers are useless and of low quality. The only advantage is that it is extremely stable - it is actually the The teaching aids commonly used by the magicians of the past can be combined with dyeing magic to demonstrate the operation of magic power to some magicians with poor talent. After it is made, it will not be damaged for a few years...

   "—But just now, after that youkai fell into the formation, the magic power disappeared immediately."

  “…”

   Koizumi Hongko understood the meaning of her aunt's words, and felt that her young girl's heart had been stabbed by an arrow.

  ——The magic power that was stable to that extent suddenly disappeared... Judging from the current situation, there is only one truth: the fog tengu can really absorb magic power in some way.

  ...So he really just came to trick the magic?

   That piece of chocolate that she made for a long time was only eaten as "food" in the ordinary sense?

   Koizumi Hongko stared straight for a while.

   Then she suddenly remembered what Yuan Hongnai said just yesterday, and looked at her aunt again: "...Didn't you say that our magic tends to be perfect, and it can't be easily eaten by monsters?"

Yuan Hongnai raised her hand and supported her chin, and said as a matter of course: "Magic power is our biggest reliance - if we told you in advance that Wutiangu can devour magic power, would you still have the courage to lead him out so naturally and confirm his recipe? "

  “…”

   Koizumi Hongzi's knuckles creaked with a crisp sound, and her fist became hard.

   However, feeling the admiring gazes looking at her from time to time in the distance, she was too burdened to throw a punch.

  ... Beating people by hand-to-hand combat is too incompatible with the image of an elegant and mysterious witch.

   But she can't use magic yet.

  ...A **** youkai, cheating on her magic.

   What's even more extreme is that he left after cheating without leaving a single feather...

  Yuan Hongna didn't care about Koizumi's complicated feelings, and pondered alone:

   "It can be confirmed now - he can really devour magic power, and the speed is not slow. I am afraid that your magic before did not work on him at all...

   "Fortunately, firearms are still effective.

"It's just that he moves very fast. After being alert, it's not easy to think about plotting against him like this, and if it is broken, the research value will plummet... Tsk, this kind of physical capture method, It's better to put it last. Let's try another method first."

   said, she glanced aside.

  On one side of the bench, in the shadow cast by the branches, there was a servant who was almost as tall as the bench, but with strong muscles.

  The servant was wearing a tailored suit, his hair neatly combed back.

   has a heavy gun bag on his back, and the overall style is a bit weird.

   Yuan Hongna glanced at the servant, frowned at his ugly appearance, she turned her eyes away, and looked at Koizumi Hongko in front of her.

The words    were still addressed to the servant: "Have you got it?"

   (end of this chapter)