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Chapter 716: Is the murder rate of people with this surname so high?

"Well--"

Nagaoka slowly opened his eyes and stretched on the sofa.

The psychiatrist's office was very quiet, and Miss Saotome was still sitting opposite him.

"You're awake."

"Well...how long have I slept, Miss Saotome?"

"Don't worry, there will be no charge for the extra time this time."

"Thank you."

After Nagaoka finished recounting the experiences in high school that left him with psychological trauma, he actually fell asleep on the sofa without noticing.

Maybe it's because the sofas here are so soft.

It may also be because I felt really relaxed during the conversation with Ms. Saotome.

Nagaoka, who had been completely immersed in anxiety and uneasiness these days, had a rare good sleep.

Saotome put away her notebook and stood up from her seat. "Mr. Nagaoka, go home and get some sleep. You seem to need some rest. I hope today's conversation will be helpful to you."

"I will."

Nagaoka also stood up.

Psychological counseling is charged by the hour, and now that the time limit has expired, he can't stay any longer.

As for the matter of "Jiangchuan and Qingliu".

Nagaoka just needs to tell others about those things.

After saying it, I seemed to feel a lot better.

When Nagaoka Kazuhiko left, Saotome Ai was left alone.

She sat down on the sofa again and flipped through the notebook that actually did not record anything related to psychotherapy. After a long while, she suddenly spoke to the empty office without any warning:
"Taki, did you hear what I just said? Is what that man said what you have been looking for?"

No one answered.

But under the sofa opposite her, something slowly crawled out.

It was a little man woven from dry straw, about the size of two palms.

The scarecrow climbed up the sofa with great effort, until he climbed onto the soft cushion and sat down upright like a lady.

There are two buttons of different sizes on its face that serve as eyes, and the mouth is sewn with several thin threads.

The straw man was lying on his back, and his two button eyes, one big and one small, seemed to be looking at Saotome.

But it still didn't reply.

This scarecrow couldn't speak in the first place.

However, the mouth of the little man, which was sewn with thin threads, slowly "opened".

A long black nail was slowly pushed out from the dry straw below...

The black nail fell on the sofa and rolled to the ground.

After a crisp sound, it broke into several pieces like a fragile object.

Saotome glanced at the broken nails on the ground, remained silent at first, then sighed heavily with a frown: "Then what should we do, Taki? You said that Omatoki wanted you to die..."

……

the next day.

After receiving psychological treatment and having a good sleep at night, Nagaoka went back to work at the company early in the morning.

He walked into the office and sat down at his workstation.

Before he went on leave to see a psychiatrist yesterday afternoon, several documents were piled on his desk. He had originally planned to finish the few tasks on hand when he returned today.

"Eh?"

But as soon as he sat down, Nagaoka felt confused.

Several documents on the desk have all disappeared, even though they were clearly arranged and placed on the corner of the desk yesterday.

As luck would have it, the section chief walked past Nagaoka at this moment. Nagaoka, who was a little confused, asked, "Section Chief Masui, the report you gave me the day before yesterday..."

"Well," said Section Chief Masui, stopping in his tracks, "it's already been completed."

"Done? Then the contract..."

"The parts of the contract that needed to be revised have already been revised." Section Chief Masui further explained, "Weren't you on vacation yesterday afternoon? And your work was done by other colleagues."

"Other colleagues?"

Nagaoka still couldn't understand.

All the colleagues in the department are extremely busy. Who has the time to finish the tasks at hand?
Besides, leaving aside the matter of filling out forms, Nagaoka was the one who handled the contract.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. This is a new colleague who just reported in yesterday. Nagaoka, you should say hello to him too." Section Chief Masui waved behind Nagaoka, "Hey, Aoyagi-san. This is Nagaoka. You didn't meet yesterday afternoon..."

Nagaoka stared at the opening and closing of Section Chief Masui's lips in astonishment. After hearing the last name "Aoyagi", he was completely stunned. As for what the Section Chief said next, he couldn't hear it clearly.

He only felt dizzy and had severe tinnitus in his ears.

no no.

Is it just a coincidence that we have the same last name?
Even though the surname "Qingliu" is not very common, there are always people with this surname.

Don't scare yourself, Qingliu has died a long time ago.

With such a thought in mind, Nagaoka turned his head abruptly.

Behind him, a figure appeared at some point, only two or three meters away from him.

"you you……"

The moment he saw the man's face clearly, Nagaoka's pupils dilated and his chest heaved violently.

Fear mixed with dizziness and a strong feeling of nausea rose in my throat.

That face...

Although it is slightly different from high school and a bit more mature.

But that gentle, harmless, polite smiling face.

Nagaoka was very familiar with this and would never forget it in his life.

He is Qingliu for sure!
"What's wrong, Nagaoka-kun?"

Aoyagi looked at Nagaoka with a smile, his expression was natural, and both his tone and demeanor were exactly the same as the deceased in his memory.

"Don't, don't come here!"

Nagaoka stepped back in panic, his lower back slamming hard into his desk.

File boxes, staplers, and a pair of scissors for opening envelopes all fell to the ground with a clatter.

The scissors trembled on the cold floor, and the blade reflected the cold light of the incandescent lamp falling from the ceiling.

"monster!"

Nagaoka screamed.

……

Countermeasures Office Building, Tokyo.

Kamiyagawa walked into Yusaka Shinkenyu's office with ease, and did not treat himself as an outsider. He sat down casually on a chair and said, "What happened? Why are you calling me here in such a hurry?"

Uncle Yusei had been on a business trip with Nagatomo Masao not long ago, and they just came back this past week.

And Kamiya came to the countermeasures room today because he contacted him on his own initiative.

Generally speaking, only when something major happens, or when he feels that Shen Gu might be interested in something, will Jie Cheng personally call this ghost disciple over.

This time is no exception.

"Hmm... look at this."

Jiecheng handed over a stack of information.

Kamiyagawa opened it and found that it was a file of some murder cases that had occurred in recent years.

The locations of the cases are scattered, and the motives for the murders are varied: revenge, love, murder for money, or simply murder in passion under certain specific conditions.

Moreover, the case was classified by various places as having nothing to do with supernatural events.

One of them was specially marked.

The nature of this murder is extremely evil and the details of the case are horrifying.

It happened ten years ago in a middle school near Nagoya.

The assailant and the victim were both students of the same school.

The murderer cut the victim's neck and opened his abdomen in front of the whole class.

After a quick review, we can quickly notice that the various cases in this file have one thing in common. That is, the victims have the same last name:

"Qingliu?"

Kamiya was a little surprised.

He had a deep impression of this surname.

He also knew a "Qingliu".

Because Qingliu had suffered from the village's eight divisions, he turned to the god Anyu Jiamei for help in desperation. He finally completed the Choushi worship and made a set of sub-boxes, cursing all the living things in Xiaobinze.

This has also meant that the Xiaobinze area remains a wasteland to this day, and has been erased from the administrative map since then.

Wow.

Kamiya continued to flip through the files, comparing the information of the deceased recorded in those cases.

The murdered Qing Liu had the same surname but a different first name.

And the ages are also different, there are students, young and middle-aged people, and even the elderly.

Gender also includes male and female.

As for the appearance of the deceased...

By looking at some of the victims' photos included in the information, it can be seen that these deceased people have an eerie similarity in appearance.

They all look gentle, weak and polite.

What is more worth mentioning is their eyebrows and eyes, which are delicate and soft, and their eyes are clear and deep. No matter whether they are old or young, male or female... even if you only look at a simple photo, you will have a strange feeling that they are the same person.

"These are all information from police stations in various places, right? The earliest case here occurred more than ten years ago, and the most recent one happened this year. The locations of the incidents seem to be irregular and very scattered. How did you suddenly think of gathering these incidents together?" Kamiyagawa put down the information in his hand.

Kensuke Yuki: "More than a month ago, someone anonymously delivered some information to the countermeasures office branches in different places. Well, it was about several Aoyagi murders in different places."

"These incidents, if scattered across the country, would not have attracted much attention locally, but when they were deliberately grouped together, they seemed a little strange."

"So, we reported this situation, along with the anonymous information, to our headquarters. Then our people started investigating this point... From the statistical data, things seem even more wrong."

Kamiyagawa: "What kind of data?"

Yusaka Shinkenyu: "Well, I counted the number of homicide cases in the past three years. In the past three years or so, there have been more than 3400 homicide cases in Japan... not including attempted homicides. Among them, there are 52 victims with the last name Aoyagi. These are only the cases that have been clearly recorded."

In the past three years or so, the police have recorded 52 cases of "Qingliu" being killed in homicide.

Compared with the base of 3400, the proportion is about 1.5%.

It may not seem like a big deal at first glance, but in fact, this data is very abnormal and can be called weird.

"If the last name of these 52 victims was 'Sato'... then it might not be surprising. But 'Aoyagi' is not a common last name with a large population," Uncle Yusei continued.

The Sato he mentioned is the surname with the highest proportion in the Japanese population.

It seems that some experts have said that if the custom of Japanese women changing their surnames to their husbands' after marriage is not changed, then according to formula calculations, in about 500 years, everyone in Japan will have the surname "Sato".

Even a big surname like "Sato" only accounts for about 1.6% in Japan.

In such a comparison, the frequency of murders of "Qingliu" people whose surnames are not too common seems a bit too high.

Or maybe people with this surname are inherently sarcastic.

Or... there is some strange force behind these murders.

Kensuke Yuki: "And you've also seen that by sorting out some of the information, you can see that these photos of the victims have a kind of... indescribable similarity."

Yes.

Even leaving aside the data.

The similarity between these murdered "Qingliu" in the photos taken during their lifetime is very telling.

"Kid, what do you think? Do you think this is some kind of curse?" Uncle Jiecheng rubbed his temple.

"Curse? You mean, you suspect there's a connection between these things and the Qing Liu from Xiao Binze?"

"maybe."

Xiao Binze's Qingliu lived quite a long time ago, so there are no photos of him left.

No one knew what he looked like.

Even before this, Kamiya Kawa learned about Aoyagi through the diary found in the Kazuki family. Until now, he only knew Aoyagi's last name, and didn't even know his name.

But this person is very important.

Not just because he made a cursed item box that could wipe out an entire area.

Moreover, Aoyagi is currently known to be the second person, besides the historical Princess Takiyasha, who may have successfully performed the "Ugly Hour Worship" ceremony.

That is to say, there is a high probability that Qingliu is related to the god Anyu and Mei.

The cursed dragon god and Kamiya Kawa have been in an irreconcilable relationship until now.

"Oh, yes, there is also this." Kensuke Yuu picked up another A4 paper from the table and handed it to Kamiya Kawa, "This paper was included in the anonymous package received by the Countermeasures Office branch below."

Kamiyagawa looked at the white paper.

There was only black print on it -

[The Qingliu are cursed creatures. They multiply themselves by being killed by others. They will only increase in number...]
"Who submitted this information? Have you found any clues?" Kamiyagawa's eyes fell on the paper.

"We don't know yet. The branch below hasn't found that person yet."

No matter who submitted the information to the Countermeasures Room, the other party seemed to know too much about the "Qingliu" matter.

Kamiyagawa quickly thought of something: "When the Taira Masakado incident happened before, there was also a mysterious person secretly assisting the Countermeasures Office."

"Yes." Jie Cheng nodded. "That time and this time, it is very likely that it was the same person, or the same group of people."

Taira no Masakado's affairs are also directly related to Anyu Kami.

Even the dragon god almost revived in Taira Masakado's body.

Therefore, the person behind these two incidents who was hiding and providing intelligence to the Countermeasures Office might really be the same person.

(End of this chapter)