I'm really unnerved in Tokyo

Chapter 1016
Moving the man's body away, Tokimoto Ichiro directly kicked the bookshelf in front of him...

"boom."

The exquisite inch-strength technique, coupled with the strange power of the Hundred Battles Bronze Corpse, pierced the bookshelf and the rear wall with a hole.

"It really is a dark room."

Then, Tokimoto Ichiro got into the dusty hole without stopping.

"Hey, wait for me...it's so wide inside?"

Immediately after Motoichiro entered the entrance of the cave, Araki Sousuke appeared in front of a closed room the size of a basketball court.

"These ones are test tubes?"

Several rows of glass tubes of different heights and sizes stand neatly in the dark room.

"When the old man was young, he had a lot of friendship with that girl's parents. Her father Mochizuki Teruji once mentioned that not everyone in the Mochizuki clan can inherit the 'bloodline of heaven and man' and become a spirit remover..."

"As the patriarch, Koji Mochizuki, although he failed to inherit the 'blood of heaven and man', he has made great achievements in 'supernatural scientific research'. The supernatural research institute he presided over has made a breakthrough in the artificial manufacturing and storage of 'spirituality' since 20 years ago. "Power" technology, after creating the "Spirit Detective" series of equipment in one fell swoop, it has been highly valued by the royal family."

Tokimoto Ichiro, who entered first, walked quickly among these test tubes while talking.

"However, according to Kotomine Jiro, the research institute's preliminary evaluation of grievances, analysis of the characteristics of ghosts and spirit bodies, and the innovation of the spirit detection series equipment are all just cover... What Mochizuki Koji has been secretly studying is actually called' The subject of supernatural evolution' aims to find a way for the perfect integration of humans and ghosts."

"Over the past ten years, Kotomine Jiro has manipulated the Aum Shinri Society to continuously sacrifice to the Hyakki Escroll, and provided Koji Mochizuki with many ghost limbs, organs, and ghostly human bodies as living materials for 'experiments.'"

"These culture fluids contain a large amount of artificial spiritual power of the same origin as the 'Spirit Detective' series of equipment. If you guess correctly, they should be used to 'seal' those 'materials'."

At this moment, all the test tubes in the dark room were smashed to pieces, and there was nothing inside, only the dark green culture fluid flowing all over the place.

"There is no 'material' left, the cleaning is too clean!"

He took out the "Yin-Yang Sixiang Celestial Disk" from his arms and took a look, Tokimoto Ichiro shook his head: "No matter who did all of this, it's as if it was premeditated."

"You mean, Koji Mochizuki knew in advance that Kotomine Jiro might confess himself, so he murdered the staff of the research institute, destroyed the stolen experimental materials, and then ran away with Ayano?"

Stepping on the green culture fluid and walking past the fragmented instruments on the other side, Sousuke Araki couldn't see anything.

"This possibility is very high... Mochizuki Koji deliberately lent the Taketori picture scroll back then, to some extent he knew about your ability to turn ghosts into Buddhas..."

"However, it would be a bit too much to say that the confidence in Aum Shinrikai's 'Hyakki Night Festival' is so low that we leave a day early...or is it that there are other forces spying on the research institute's technology and taking advantage of the chaos to raid here?"

The chaotic situation in front of him made the experienced Tokimoto Ichiro a little uncertain.

"Hey, do these traces look familiar?"

At the same time, the dragging black marks on the wall attracted Araki Sousuke's attention.

"The ghost who killed those people outside came to this room... So, there are no footprints on the ground, is it eliminated by the spiritual power in the culture fluid?"

Sousuke Araki stretched out his hand along the direction where the mark was dragging...

"Is this where the imprint was made?"

Following his keen intuition, he suddenly raised his hand and punched hard on the wall.

A sliding door that was integrated with the wall without even a gap fell down.

"A darkroom within a darkroom... Matryoshka?"

After the sliding door collapsed, a relatively small and private office was revealed, which was filled with messy books, several computer instruments and some daily necessities.

"Wait, there's someone inside!"

On the office chair in front of the desk, a thin figure in a white coat sat there motionless with his back to the two of them.

After giving Tokimoto Ichiro a wink, Araki Sousuke cautiously stepped forward and turned the office chair towards him...

"He's... Mochizuki Koji?!"

What appeared in front of his eyes was Koji Mochizuki, the director of the Supernatural Research Institute who was suspected by the two of them of "selling the stolen goods and running away".

At this time, the old, wrinkled director of the research institute seemed to be falling asleep due to overtime fatigue, with his head bowed and curled up in the large office chair.

"Dead...dead."

Araki Sousuke stretched out his hand to test the opponent's breath and pulse, and suddenly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his mind went blank.

"Boy Araki, you come out first and let the old man check it out."

"Oh, good."

Because he was afraid of being "accidentally become a Buddha" by someone in a small room, Tokimoto Ichiro, who could only watch from a distance outside the door, woke him up from the "petrification" in a low voice.

"Judging from the physical signs, Mochizuki Koji didn't have any scars on his body, and he didn't sense any 'supernatural' aura in his body. It looks like he died from natural aging. Although at his age, this cause of death is quite normal..."

Five minutes later, Tokimoto Ichiro wiped the blood on his hands, and walked out of the office frowning: "But it happened to be this day, and this 'massacre' in the research institute is really too strange gone."

Obviously, the "temporary autopsy" just now failed to give him any useful clues.

"Old man Shiben, what should we do now?"

Outside the door, Sousuke Araki was pacing back and forth a little anxiously: "Koji Mochizuki died here. It is possible that someone else killed the entire research institute and took away Mochizuki and the research materials..."

Right now, the Supernatural Research Institute has become a bloody grave, but Mochizuki Ayano and Taketori Emaki are still missing, and the member of "Evil Flower" Koji Mochizuki, who was finally identified, is left with a cold corpse...

The facts that became clear because of Kotomine Jiro's "confession" seemed to be shrouded in a new fog.

"Leave this to the police... The situation is too complicated right now. Let Wu Jiang and that one come to the association to meet with us and discuss it. After all, the fewer people who know about the 'Evil Flower', the safer it will be."

Over the rows of broken test tubes, Ichiro Tokimoto walked outside calmly: "No matter who is the murderer behind the scenes, at least we know that 'he' took away Taketori Escroll and Mochizuki girl... as long as you follow the vines to find it, everything will always end. It will come to light."

"Old man Shiben, wait for me... Now that all the stolen goods have been sold, there is no proof of death, and all the clues have been cut off, what kind of vines should I follow, what kind of melons should I touch?"

Hearing the other party's determined tone, Araki Sousuke, who followed quickly behind, became more and more confused.

"Shanren has his own tricks, so don't panic... As long as the kite is pulled by a cable, no matter how high the kite flies, it won't escape..."

Walking outside the gate of the research institute, he took out the old feng shui compass from his pocket, and Ichiro Tokimoto smiled confidently: "Let me see, where does that 'behind the scene' want to take "Taketori Painting Scroll"? "

"what?"

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(End of this chapter)