“！！！” Qian Yu was taken aback, and quickly curled up and hid in the corner, which was a fairly safe hiding place for people who didn't immediately look at the corners on the left and right sides after going out. Considering that there are no lights here, even if the other party really has this habit, it is difficult to notice himself in black in the dark.

The door opened, and a tall figure in heavy plate armor walked in front of Qian Yu.

“！！！” Qian Yu curled up almost in horror, looking at this terrifying opponent who didn't notice him.

The panic was not due to the fear of the plate armor that walked at night, but because the auxiliary unit had completed the mapping of the left view of the entire plate armor and the estimated strength analysis, but Chiba did not have any real feasible combat plan at hand.

Despite being a side drawing made in poor optical conditions, Chiba could still tell that the opponent was wearing a heavy full-body plate armor from the very late Middle Ages, which was immune to almost all the attacks that the Traceless Umbrella could provide - probably only the two openings in the eyes were worth trying, but there was not even a chance to try this in this direction.

But wearing such heavy plate armor, I probably won't waste time retrieving the places where everyone is hiding, right? After all, walking in a suit of thirty or fifty kilograms is not an easy task.

Qian Yu hid in the corner, listening to the heavy footsteps fade away, and suddenly disappeared after the sound of the door clattering.

At this moment, Chiba's auxiliary unit picked up the sound of burning from the Hell. “？”

What's there...... Is it set on fire?

And the next moment, a terrible wail sounded behind the door. "Ah!!h

Taken aback, Qian Yu hurriedly opened the door, and what appeared in front of him was a sharp sword nailed to the wall by a sharp sword piercing his neck, and it was burning......

Chiba's gaze was fixed on the two demonic horns above the head of the burning humanoid.

This...... It's just a human with demonic horns, right?

……

Five minutes later.

"I persuaded the security guard who was hiding in the duty room and didn't dare to come out to send them back," Gray Yuan Ai walked into the hell. "This thing...... Has it been burning since you texted me just now? ”

"yes, that's why I asked you to come over," Qian Yu turned his head and glanced at Gray Yuan Ai with a rather complicated expression. "Come and see this corpse."

"Is there anything special?" Gray Yuan was not aware of the anomaly at first, but was taken aback when he really saw the appearance of the corpse nailed to the wall. "This!"

On the skull of a corpse that had been burned with almost all the human tissues burned, and only bones remained, the roots of the black horns seemed to grow out of nowhere, just above the forehead.

"That's ......," said Gray Plains, whose face was full of horror and panic. Human horns? ”

"Yes," Chiba nodded. "If it was a decoration like a plastic corner, it should have melted by now......"

At this moment, the body tissue of the corpse in the neck had been completely destroyed, and the steel sword that had been inserted in the neck muscle could no longer hold the corpse in place, causing the entire corpse to suddenly fall from the sword and collapse into a pile like a mess of mud.

The pair of demonic horns at the top of the skull spun in the air half a circle due to the collision with the steel sword, and inserted into the remaining flesh of the abdomen, making a greasy sound of chopsticks stirring the meat filling.

"Hmm!" Gray Plains Mourning has taken on obvious disgust.

"Tsk!" Qian Yu only raised an eyebrow. "It looks like the body can't be preserved, so let's find a way to put out the fire first?"

With that, he lifted the carbon dioxide fire extinguisher that he had been holding beside him.

……

An hour later.

"Why are you here?" Standing in the middle of the hell that had been illuminated by the searchlights, Officer Shiratori looked at Chiba, who was looking at the corpses that had been rearranged by the police with a solemn expression. "Could it be that you are the one who reported the crime?"

"Strictly speaking, it's Gray Plains, but in short, we're right......" Chiba nodded, and then motioned for Officer Shiratori to pay attention to the corpse. This one was supposed to be lit by fire, but we extinguished it. ”

"It's good to put it out, maybe the forensic personnel will-" Shiratori turned his gaze to the corpse, and then was startled by the corpse. "This guy...... Hey, what kind of refractory ornament should be on the head, right? ”

"No, in my own judgment......" the forensic officer shook his head. At least to the touch and appearance, it should be real bones. ”

"This man has horns?" Shiratori Ren Saburo showed a rather surprised expression. "Wait, can you be sure of his identity? If it's someone who puts such a strange thing on their head, I don't think it's hard to ......"

"There's nothing meaningful left on him, maybe what we can do is check the teeth and see if we can identify them with dental records or something, or look in Mr. Gregory's hospital system to see if there's any ......"

As the forensic officer said this, Shiratori, Chiba, and the others turned their gaze in the direction he was pointing in.

It was a short blackened strip lined up in a line.

"What part of the body is this, and why is it here?" Shiratori frowned.

"I'm not sure, but judging from the content of the electives I've taken before," the forensic officer's expression was wonderful. "I think it's like...... Like a tail. ”

"Tail?" Shiratori's face changed immediately. "It's like...... A devil's tail? ”

"Well, that's the point," the forensic officer said with a hesitant expression, and finally slurred. "Although there is really no evidence to refute such speculation, I think such speculation may not be in line with the position of a materialistic detective, so we will ...... first I mean, at least let's not think about this really weird thing for a moment, and focus on the cause of his death itself. Based on the description, I think he was supposed to have been killed before the children entered—which would explain why they didn't hear the screams of being killed—and then set his body on fire when they arrived nearby. ”

"Okay...... Anyway, let's clean up the body first, and then take it back," Shiratori Renzaburo's face was still a little pale. "I'll leave it to you for on-site forensics, I may need to ...... Ask the guards and see if there's any news to dig up. ”