Chiba and Ash Hara arrived together at Dr. Asasa's door, the tree was in the courtyard of Dr. Asasa's house.

"What?" From the intercom at the door came Dr. Asasa's stunned voice. "You said you found something strange in my tree?"

"Yes," Chiba nodded. "Can you let us in?"

"Okay!" With that, Dr. Asa hung up the walkie-talkie, opened the door, and walked out. "What do you see in the trees?"

"Wait a minute," Chiba reminisced about which tree it was in Dr. Asasa's house (unlike Tachibana House, there were many trees in Dr. Asasa's house), and walked briskly under the tree. "This should be the one..."

As she spoke, Chiba glanced at the small bumps in the bark, and then climbed up the trunk with the help of these bumps—the crow's nest was relatively high in the tree, and Dr. Kasa's ladder couldn't reach it.

After more than a minute of climbing, Chiba finally found a way through the dense branches and successfully reached the top of the tree, and also saw what he was looking for.

"Right here!" Qian Yu approached the nest, and sure enough, he saw the finger with the ring that the crow had placed here before, and he immediately told Gray Yuan Ai about it. "Found it!"

With that, Qian Yu began to observe the finger - the finger was the ring finger of the left hand, which seemed to have been out of the body for a while, and the blood inside had already been drained, and there were no skin injuries on it except for the marks of being pecked by birds.

As for the ring... Although Qian Yu does not recognize the brand, since it is worn on the ring finger of the left hand, it is already obvious what kind of ring it is (this indicates engagement or marriage), and the transparent gemstone on it proves that this is a diamond ring, and the price is quite expensive. If he really acted according to the traditional concept of "buying a wedding ring with three months' income", his family must be quite well-off.

"What do you see?" Under the tree, Dr. Asasa asked.

"Ahh "Okay, I'll bring the things down right away, but can you call the police first, Doctor?"

It is definitely not normal to find a finger in a crow's nest far from the crematorium in a country with a cremation system, after all, a human finger can only come from a person, and it is unlikely that a person will lose a finger for no reason, let alone be bitten into his nest by a crow for no reason.

……

"Just this one finger?" Officer Takagi looked at the bird's nest in front of him and said in astonishment.

"We can't expect a crow to bring a whole carcass back to its nest, can we?" Thousand feathers spread their hands. "Considering that the finger is still in good condition, perhaps the body retains sufficient autopsy value as well."

"But the problem is that we haven't received any reports of similar body findings, right?" Takagi said after thinking for a moment. "Especially if there is a corpse like this missing finger, we will definitely investigate it. In other words—"

"Apparently someone doesn't want us to find this body?" Qian Yu tilted his head. "I don't even suspect that the body still exists."

Theoretically, it wouldn't be difficult to get a living person to disappear given enough resources (after all, a dead person can't swallow APTX-4869). It's not particularly difficult to make the dead disappear, and it doesn't require any particularly difficult resources. At that time, the aftermath personnel of the organization were quite handy in dealing with these things.

"Put the body into pieces in a pressure cooker, then pour potassium hydroxide and water into it, and soak it in ultra-high temperature boiling water at the highest pressure setting for four hours, maybe even a one-ton fat man can be crushed with a blender and turned into a small bag of residue, and no one can find evidence of this person's existence when poured into the lake." Gray Plains agreed.

"Gree......" Officer Takagi's expression became very exciting as he looked at Ashbara. You ......"

"I'm kidding," Gray Hara rolled his eyes. "Anyway, there shouldn't be a single famous scholar in the world who has put forward such an interesting theory in a famous magazine. The probability of such a thing is obviously as small as time travel. ”

After Qian Yu heard this, he glanced at Gray Yuan Ai.

Just then, Officer Takagi's cell phone rang.

……

"We've been summoned by Officer Twilight again?" Sitting in the police car, Chiba asked Officer Takagi who was driving the car.

"Procedurally, yes." Officer Takagi, who was driving the vehicle, replied. "But from the very beginning, I suspect that this is not the case with the person who brought you there, because Officer Twilight has a completely different tone when he makes his own decisions and when he carries out someone else's decision, and today it is the latter."

"Sounds a little unsettling......" Qian Yu pursed her lips and sent a text message to Gray Yuan.

[The corpse disposal method you said can't be true, right?] 】

Chiba had mentioned Hiroki when he had told him about the auxiliary unit before, so he knew very well that for Ashbara, time travel was a 100% chance - in other words, that method would have a 100% chance of successfully disposing of the corpse - and that such a statement would be able to fool Officer Takagi if he told the truth.

[Of course it's true, potassium hydroxide with water, cooking at 150 degrees for 4 hours can steam the human body into the most primitive state, and it is extremely convenient to handle. Then you can do whatever you want, and if you're hungry, you can even wash the cooked corpses and eat them. 】

"Uh......" After seeing the text message, Qian Yu's brows twitched, and then he looked at the gray plain beside him, who had already shifted his gaze from the phone screen to him.

A smile appeared on her face, and then she smacked her lips and made an intoxicated expression that seemed to be reminiscent of the peerless deliciousness. “~”

"Shhhh It was a sense of vigilance in the face of a presence that had both good looks and dangerous manners.

"Ha~" Seeing Qianyu's reaction, the corners of Gray Yuan's mouth were slightly hooked.

"......" Qian Yu calmed himself down with the auxiliary unit, and then sighed. You're really getting ......."

"I used to be obsessed with the world of materialism," Gray Hara replied with a somewhat pleasing expression. "But now, after I'm back in this normal world, I find that I'm ignoring the beautiful part of this world – which is human nature. Then I realized how useful people can be to do things that are not objectively efficient, but that make people subjectively happy. ”

The Metropolitan Police Department building has appeared in the front window of the police car, and it is getting bigger and closer.