I had a lot of time searching for information in the library, and when I was about to leave, An Yizhi happened to notice the nursery rhyme picture books on the bookshelf next door. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The opening CG is undoubtedly the first and most important clue for players to enter the dungeon.

Not only does the opening CG describe a nursery rhyme, but the BGM is also a nursery rhyme, does this imply that there is a secret hidden in the nursery rhyme?

Some people may think that nursery rhymes, myths, and the like are all made up to scare people, but strictly speaking, it is not wrong to think so. But all such things actually have historical prototypes, but they have been distorted, exaggerated, or even changed in the process of dissemination, similar to the shock department of a certain website.

In other words, even if you catch the wind and catch the shadow, you must have the wind and the shadow to catch it.

Flipping through the nursery rhyme, Ann made sure that his hunch was correct, and that some of the nursery rhymes overlapped with the city's history.

One of the nursery rhymes tells that Kobo Zen Master brought the tengu to the land and was warmly welcomed by the local villagers. Deeply moved, Kobo Zen Master poured the seeds of the harvest into the spring to make the surrounding land fertile. The villagers thanked him for making the site Tengu Town.

Another nursery rhyme mentions the Great Flood, in which the local Nagata temple presiding a stone dragon was carved to drink from the overflowing river to protect the surrounding villagers from the flood.

Both nursery rhymes overlap with the records in the history books, but there is no mention of the Zen master and the stone dragon drinking water in the history books.

The last suspicious nursery rhyme is similar to the opening CG and the storyline is almost identical, but its illustrations are unpleasant, and it's hard to imagine that this is a picture book for small children.

Suddenly, it was like a flash of inspiration.

Fairy tale...... It seems to be very similar to the situation of Hazuki's disappearance!

He was taken away by Lord Salas and became a family member of Lord Salas. Thereof What is this Salas?

This question was considered by An Yizhi at the beginning of the mission, after all, almost all fairy tales use familiar monsters as villains in order to scare children, but the story that is obviously set in Japan has a Westernized name like Salas-sama......

In other words, 'Lord Salas' is not a product of the locality, but the result of the fusion of foreign cultures or is an outsider in itself.

So when did it appear?

Ann unconsciously tapped his fingers, trying to string together the clues he could find. Lin Linglin saw that he was thoughtful, and did not disturb him, and picked up a children's book and flipped through it.

According to the history books, the time when a large number of outsiders integrated into the city is that the mayor of Tengu Town, the Ijin clan, merged several villages into a city. Did the so-called Lord Salas also enter at the same time?

If it really had entered the city since then, the timeline seemed to make sense, after all, it was only after the disappearance of the Ijin clan that the disappearance of the Igami clan had caused more disappearances in the seven-chome.

But......

An Yi pointed and looked at his phone, the year and month on it said 2010, and the disappearance of Yishen was 2000, which was only 10 years in between, and then looked at the nursery rhyme, its publication date was 1995. Obviously, the nursery rhyme had been around since before the Ishen disappeared or even longer, so 'Lord Salas' could not have been the city that had only been entered when several villages merged.

So, when did it appear?

I thought back to the content of the history book and pushed forward little by little. Eventually, An Yizhi found a very suspicious key point.

Kobo Zen Master.

He is not recorded in the history books, because the people who wrote the history may not find evidence of his existence, but there is a record of him in the nursery rhymes, and his actions are very suspicious.

Plunge the seeds of the harvest into the spring.

The so-called spring water refers to the spring water flowing from Tengu Town, and in the oldest map that can be found, the current part of the 7-chome was originally a swamp, and the location of Hazuki's disappearance was also in this swamp. The former mayor, Ijin, had ordered the swamp to be filled in before his disappearance, and then disappeared after losing the election.

It can be said that the disappearances all revolved around this original swamp, and when you think about it, the so-called harvest seeds that Kobo Zen Master threw into the spring water are probably not a good thing.

Is it 'Lord Salas'?

If it's true, if you want to save Hazuki, you have to find its location, but where would such a supernatural creature hide? It can't be a sewer again, right? That's too low.

The library obviously can't provide more clues, there is a story about 'Lord Salas' that only exists in nursery rhymes, and if they want to know more about it, they need to find someone who is proficient in this kind of thing, coincidentally, the nursery rhyme mentions that there is a local story of a stone dragon drinking water in Nagata Temple, and this Nagata Temple is still preserved to this day, and when you go to the police station, the next target is it.

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An Yizhi and Lin Linglin came to the police station by car, and at this time, the entrance of the police station was particularly lively, and a large number of people surrounded the police station, as if they were going to attack the government office without saying a word.

They shouted slogans on banners to the effect that the police were not doing anything to search for the missing in a serious way. They are supposed to be family members of people whose whereabouts are unknown.

In the crowd, there was a female reporter who ran around with the whole interview team, but she was not likable and spoke in a way that was too bad.

"Excuse me, how are you feeling right now?"

Nima, if you ask the families of the victims like this, it's okay if they don't beat you. The crowd that came to demonstrate did not look favorably towards her, ignoring her interviews.

Ann glanced at her badge, which read Mustang Deer.

Why don't you call a red deer like that......

Well, it's definitely not the other party's big chest that gives him a second glance.

The two quietly entered the police station, and the atmosphere inside the police station was not good, and the police officers were filled with anxiety and irritability. It was already a headache for the families of the victims to demonstrate outside, and with a reporter who did not relentlessly chase after the interview, the police have been very hard recently.

Among this group of people, the two players who chatted with happy expressions were very conspicuous, and it was the grass that left the original and the brave was invincible.

But the brave invincible is still followed by a teenage girl, for some reason.

"The brave. She was? ”

"Ah, her name is Muyue, and it's my ....... uh, a friend I met recently."

No matter how you look at her, she is an NPC, and she is quite recognizable, seeing An Yizhi and Lin Linglin coming, she hurriedly hid behind the invincible brave, only revealing a smooth forehead.

"Are you sure you take her with you?"

For a high-risk side quest like this, bringing an NPC with little combat effectiveness is only a hindrance.

The girl grabbed the invincible sleeve of the brave man and did not let go, for fear that she would be thrown away.

An pointed at the expression of the goods and knew what he thought, and took out the water stain sample he had collected before and threw it to the brave invincible:

"Take it for testing, and you can figure out the rest."

Everyone has their own behavior pattern, An Yizhi is too lazy to express his opinion on the invincible bad character of the brave, it doesn't matter if he really takes Muyue to take risks in the end, anyway, he will definitely not care about Muyue's life or death.

After the brave invincible and the moon left, An Yizhi pointed to the grass on the left plain and said:

"Do you know who to talk to about the disappearance?"

"Probably the Criminal Division, I'll lead you to find it, it's weird to say, it seems that many police officers in this copy know me and that idiot"

Unlike street magicians who have almost no interpersonal contact, both of them are police officers, and it is really unscientific that they don't know anyone in the workplace, and the system also fabricates a memory about them when arranging their identities in order to ensure a sense of substitution.

The three of them came to the criminal department, there were almost no police officers in it, and they all went out to solve the case, and when they were worried about who to find, a man's voice came from behind:

"Oh? Who are they? Divorced from your friends? ”

Turning his head, a middle-aged detective with the image of an uncle was standing there, about 50 years old and older, with a tired face, and the nameplate on his chest read Sanyougoro.

"Well, by the way, they want to come and ask about the disappearance case a few days ago"

"It's missing again......"

The third criminal policeman muttered in annoyance, and then said:

"I shouldn't have said it, but...... For the sake of the departed friend's face, I'll just say a few words, you come with me."

It seems that the step of waiting for them to come to the police station to meet again is the right step, if it is not separated from the original grass grass and their relationship, I am afraid it will be very difficult to ask for some information from the police station.

Several people walked through the corridor to the Life Safety Section opposite the Criminal Division.

Isn't the missing person under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Division? But isn't disappearance a criminal matter?

"What's the name of the missing person?"

"Hazuki, Tonari Hazuki, disappeared a week ago the night"

"Oh, who's that, bring the investigation data of Tonari Hazuki"

The prestige of the three criminal police in the police station is quite high, and soon someone came over with a stack of materials.

"The last witnesses were An Yizhi and Ling Weizhi ......"

"That's who we are"

“…… Little brother, it's a shame that you can come back safely."

“？？？”

What does this mean?

The three detectives looked left and right, realized that this was not the place to talk, and led them into the smoking room next door.

He lit a cigarette and said:

"Many witnesses to the disappearance will also disappear within a few days, and I have been following this up, but I have never had a clue"

The third detective took a deep breath of smoke, and when he exhaled it, he seemed to want to spit out the boring breath together.

"Since the past, almost all disappearances have occurred in 7-chome, which is too unnatural in terms of probability"

"Before? How long ago was that? ”

"I didn't have it when I joined the company, until the disappearance of the former mayor Ijin, but I heard from my predecessors that he had encountered a lot of them, and as for the things that happened earlier, there was no way to investigate, so I can't imagine that there have been since ancient times."

Sure enough, the disappearance did not begin with the disappearance of the Ijin clan, but occurred much earlier, but stopped for a while.

"Even though it's not good to say this as a police officer, I hope you don't continue to pursue this matter"

"Why?"

"All the disappearances are a little weird, no, it's not to the extent of that"

Lighting a cigarette again, the three criminal policemen said:

"This fact further confirms the strangeness of the disappearance, that is, the last witness was not arrested, and the girl disappeared a little bit of attention, who would believe that?"

"Uh......"

Although An Yizhi and Lin Linglin have not made a record, a week has passed, and this kind of thing must have been arranged by the system.

It is indeed very strange to make such an incredible testimony, and the last eyewitness is very suspicious in terms of common sense, right?

"I know it's rude, but it's the most likely explanation, compared to Kami-hidden."

For a violent agency like the police, suspicion is enough for them to make an arrest.

But why did the bureau easily believe such testimony? If it were me, I would interrogate the person who said such a thing."

The oppressive gaze of the three criminal policemen swept over, and then returned to his previous lazy appearance:

"But we didn't do that, the bureau planned to deal with the disappearance as if it hadn't happened, and only kept the necessary file information, and even the department in charge was a department that had nothing to do with criminal incidents, such as the Life Safety Section."

"Don't the police want to investigate?"

"Personally, I want to find out the truth, but ......"

The criminal policeman shook his head helplessly, and An Yizhi immediately realized that the police senior management had ordered no search.

At this time, the phone rang, and when he took it out, he saw that it was a text message, because he was sitting facing each other, and An Yizhi couldn't see the content of the text message.

"I have other jobs, you can take these materials"

He stood up and was about to open the door of the smoking room:

"It's just my own words, and I can't help anyone who hears it, right?"

Players look at each other, and the other party is about to give clues!

"When I was a child, I heard my mother tell me that this area was inhabited by Lord Salas, and he would go to arrest people to accompany him, so when this kind of thing happened, it was good to hide in Nagata Temple, of course, it was just a superstitious legend in the countryside."

With that, he opened the door and walked out.

The next target of the investigation is Nagata Temple.

Coincidentally, An Yizhi also thought so.