The Visible Falling Valley-kun

46

Fugu Zero has actually been aware of his physical problems for a while.

Before he came to Poirot to work, he would occasionally experience dizziness, shortness of breath, chest or heart pain, but these symptoms appeared for a short time, often passing within a few seconds.He also regarded it as an ordinary sequelae and didn't pay much attention to it.

The real realization that something was wrong was the last time I saw Akemi Miyano turned into a ghost in Poirot.

At that time, he watched the fox god use the golden light circle to trap Mingmei who had turned into a ghost and wanted to attack him.

He couldn't help but watch his childhood friend disappear again within his reach.

He wants to stop them.

Then a strange feeling spread from his heart, he suddenly felt that he could do it.

He cut off the golden thread flowing between him and the fox angel that was clearly presented for the first time in front of his eyes, making them disappear in place.

The side effects of that time were serious. If it hadn't been for his strong willpower, he might have fallen directly into Poirot's toilet.

It was also after that that he discovered that he could summon the fox god envoy with that feeling, but he was relatively more affected.So after using the envoy to dispel the ghosts on Matsuda Jinping, he never did it again.

But he can still clearly feel that his state is getting worse.

He began to suffer from insomnia, and even if he fell asleep, he would be awakened by ghosts.The amount of grievances that can be seen is also visible to the naked eye, not because they are increasing rapidly, but because his mental strength is declining, and he can no longer force himself to ignore the existence of these heresies.There was also some physical discomfort, but he had gotten used to it over the years.

Fox angels rarely appear. As long as he pays attention and is not attacked by ghosts or summoned by himself, even if the ghost is lying next to him, they will generally not appear.

Jiang Gu Ling knew that this was because his body might no longer be able to bear the price of the coming of the gods.

If the number of transactions with Inari God is not unlimited, it is estimated that the time for the suspension of the transaction is getting closer and closer.

Thinking of this, Toru Amuro, who was washing dishes in Café Poirot, gave a pause.

Recently, there have been some intriguing things in the organization.

Rum has not heard from him since the last time he was ordered to investigate Kudo Shinichi.

Belmode, whom he had mastered the secret, reminded him to pay attention to safety, and the storm was coming.

The Japanese public security has reached a cooperative relationship with various forces, and Furutani Rei is keenly aware that the final decisive battle is coming.

and so……

Hold on.

Amuro looked at his hands covered in foam and said in his heart.

You can't fall just yet.

The clock in the shop pointed to three o'clock in the afternoon, and Toru Amuro finished the work quickly, then took off the apron and hung it on the hook

"Ah, it's already three o'clock. Is Mr. Amuro going to deal with the commission?" Azusa Enomoto realized that it was this time when he noticed his movements.

"Yes, I'm going to trouble Miss Azusa next, I'm sorry, I've put so much burden on Miss Azusa all this time." Toru Amuro clasped his hands together and apologized.

Azusa Enomoto is an enthusiastic and cheerful girl. She waved her hand to tell Toru Amuro not to mind, "After all, Mr. Amuro's main job is a detective! If someone makes a commission, of course you have to go all out! Leave it to me! Mr. Amuro, don't worry!"

The cheerful female clerk made a vigorous gesture of cheering, and the smile on her face made people feel warm in their hearts unconsciously.

Toru Amuro also laughed, "I will work hard!"

After leaving Poirot, he walked to the nearby parking lot and got in his car. When the white Mazda passed by Poirot Cafe, a few elementary school students with their schoolbags on their backs were chatting happily while pushing open the store door.

Seeing Conan Edogawa, an elementary school student whose real identity is high school detective Shinichi Kudo, also entered the shop, Amuro Toru slowly let go of the tension that had been in his heart.

He also had no choice but to make such a bad move.

The first time I saw that little detective, Toru Amuro was amazed by his strong vitality that could infect others.Moreover, this little ghost has the ability to make ghosts disperse on their own. Toru Amuro has seen the murder scene more than once because of the existence of this little detective.This made him want to get closer to this little detective at first, so that he could feel the ordinary daily life that he hadn't seen for a long time.

Then he discovered that the opponent's "Hundred Ghosts Retreat" skill was ineffective against him, on the contrary, it had an unexpected bad effect.

Jiang Gu Ling has always speculated that his attraction to heretics has suddenly increased because of the deal with the gods. Now that he is with the little detective, the vitality of the other party can indeed infect him, but at the same time it also magnifies his attraction to ghosts force.On more than one occasion, Toru Amuro was confronted and killed by countless ordinary ghosts on the way to solve the case with the little detective. Even he who has been used to it for many years is not very acceptable.

Moreover, he has not been in a good state recently, so he had to find a reason to hide from the other party and rest for a few days before showing up again.

Waiting for the gap between the traffic lights, the mobile phone rang, indicating an incoming call.Toru Amuro parked the car on the side of the road and pressed the switch. The other party was Kogoro Mori of the Mori Detective Agency, who was also the daughter of his teacher in name, Ran Mori.

"Moshi Moshi, I'm Amuro."

"Hello, Mr. Amuro! I'm Mori Ran, sorry to bother you!"

"No, is Miss Lan looking for me for something?"

"Well, it's like this. My father received a commission from Nagano County. The other party asked him to leave for the agreed place in Nagano tomorrow morning. The time is two days and one night."

"The other party asked that there must be four people. It was originally my father, Conan, and Yuanzi. But Yuanzi suddenly had a fever this afternoon, and it may not be better tomorrow. I need to stay and take care of her, but in this way, Dad Commissioned by..."

"So Miss Lan wants to ask me to go with Teacher Maori?"

Toru Amuro silently calculated in his heart that there will be public security work and a lot of documents to be processed in the next two days, not to mention that the little detective who gave him the passive debuff will go with him, and he wants to refuse.

As if aware of his embarrassment, the considerate Mao Lilan didn't continue to say, "It doesn't matter if Mr. Amuro has something to do these two days, then I'll ask Mr. Okiya. Wakita-san from the Iroha sushi restaurant who said he was happy before can also gather four people!"

Amuro was stunned for a moment. The sushi shop clerk next door to Poirot Cafe, Wakita Kennori, knew about it. As Kogoro Mori's second disciple, the two had never spoken directly.But the two stores are close to each other, Toru Amuro occasionally saw each other a few times while sweeping the floor in front of the store.

That guy gave him a very bad feeling, and the resentment on his body was only a lot more than that of gin.Amuro suspects that he is also a member of the organization, and his status is not low.

How could such a person be allowed to travel with innocent people!

The ghost of the waitress who died before his eyes appeared in his mind again.

"Miss Lan, I just checked again. I have nothing to do tomorrow and the next two days, so let me accompany Mori-sensei to Nagano! It is my greatest honor as a disciple to witness the reasoning show of the sleeping Kogoro!"

47

In the gray car driving on the road, the atmosphere of three adult men and a primary school boy is very happy.

Mori Kogoro was sitting in the co-pilot seat. At this moment, he was crooked and stretched out his hand to reach one of the two cards in the hands of Edogawa Conan who was sitting in the back seat and tried to sullenly.

After Mori Kogoro drew for the Nth time and finished playing the cards in his hand, Edogawa Conan finally couldn't hold back, he fell back on the seat in frustration and shut himself up.

Mori Kogoro laughed triumphantly.

"As expected of Mr. Mori, he has the eyes of a detective and can see through the other person's heart!" Toru Amuro, who was driving, looked directly at the road ahead and boasted with a smile.

"I'm really good at this!" Mori Kogoro scratched his forehead happily, "I can always avoid the turtles and draw other safe cards!"

"It would be even better if you can directly see which card has a problem!" Toru Amuro answered.

"No, no, no!" said Kanezuri Wakita, who was sitting in the back seat with Conan. The middle-aged chef with a slightly rugged appearance and one eye with a blindfold looked up and looked straight at the driver through the rearview mirror. A blond young man, he said: "It is also very good to have the ability of elimination like Master Kogoro!"

"Can't you know who the person who betrayed you is?"

"For example, which unscrupulous wholesaler sold me stale fish at a high price."

Facing Ruoyou's stare, Amuro Toru smiled nonchalantly, "Mr. Wakita really deserves to be a sushi chef!"

"I'm right!" Wakita Kanezuri also laughed.

The atmosphere that had been frozen for a few seconds between the two suddenly dissipated.

Four people are now sitting in a car bound for Nagano Prefecture.Just as Mao Lilan called him yesterday, Kogoro Mori received a commission from Yasuo Hihara, who wanted to ask Kogoro to investigate the incident of a friend who hanged himself to death in an abandoned church.According to the consignor, there was also a piece of paper that was placed at the feet of the deceased at the time with the letter, with 36 and grids drawn on it, and the grids were filled with incomprehensible code words.

The client firmly believed that the truth of his friend's suicide could be known only by unlocking the code on the paper, so he asked them to meet directly in the abandoned church in the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture.

For the rest of the journey, the three of them continued to play the game of drawing turtles, and Toru Amuro also concentrated on driving.

The four-hour drive is not difficult for him.And maybe because of the "rest" for a few days, even if the little detective sat behind him today, and it was such a relatively closed space in the car, he didn't attract a lot of ghosts, they were all little old men or newbies. ghost.This made him relax a lot.

But the chef named Wakita Kennori still cared a lot about what the chef said just now.

What is "a person who betrayed me"?

The obviously condescending tone and the indistinct attention paid to him.

Is it...

It was snowing heavily, and the four of them finally decided to drive up the mountain. Fortunately, there was a platform for parking beside the church, but it looked a bit dangerous.

It seemed that the church had been abandoned for a long time. They stood at the door for a while under the increasing wind and snow and did not see the client.

"Cough cough." Toru Amuro couldn't help coughing twice, the cold air traveled down the trachea to the lungs, and there was a dull pain in the chest cavity.

Mori Kogoro glanced at him and went straight to the church door and opened the door, "Yo Xi, the door is not locked, let's go in and wait!"

As soon as he stepped into the door of the church, Toru Amuro knew why this church gave him a strange sense of danger.

The door leading to the main hall was closed tightly, but strangely shaped tentacles made of black viscous liquid crawled all over the corridor from the crack of the double door, from the ceiling to the floor and the surrounding walls.

The sticky sound came from all directions, because they stood up from the squirming state one after another, and the amazingly large number of suckers on each tentacles moved slightly, as if they were happy to see strangers.

Amuro Toru's heart skipped a beat as if he had strayed into the snake den in the Amazon jungle.

The cold breath entered his body along his hands and feet, the dull pain in his chest became more obvious, and the irregular heartbeat sounded like a drum beating in his ears.

"Ugh! Cough cough cough cough..."

He bowed his body and covered his mouth, trying to hold back the cough that came out of his mouth, but the more he tried to stop it, the more he couldn't stop it.His face was flushed from coughing, his breathing became more and more rapid, and his whole body was on the verge of collapse.

"Hey, Amuro! Are you okay?" Mori Kogoro held his left arm and looked at him worriedly.

He did know that his eldest disciple seemed to be in poor health all along.

"Brother Anshi!"

Edogawa Conan was also standing in front of him. As he approached, the orange-yellow smoke from the little detective's body also floated in front of him. Although the symptoms did not change, at least he could breathe on his own.

Relying on these wisps of smoke, he took a few breaths in the palm of his hand and finally relieved the cough that could not stop the car.

"...Sorry, I was choked by the fresh air when I opened the door just now." His voice became a little hoarse due to coughing, and he wiped away the physiological tears coughed up from the corners of his eyes due to coughing, and explained to them with a gentle smile.

Seeing the blond young man's complexion much worse than when he set off in the morning, Kogoro Mori and Conan Edogawa both wanted to say something.But before they could open their mouths, Kenzo Wakita, who walked to the entrance of the main hall, pushed the door open.

"Ah, is there anyone?"

"You are?"

A strange male voice came from inside, and all three of them walked in.

Then the church welcomed three men and one woman, all young people.With their arrival, the high platform of the parking lot next to the church collapsed, and all the vehicles fell into the valley.Then there was an avalanche in the tunnel up the mountain, and they had to spend the night in the church until rescue arrived the next day.

This is not good news for anyone.

Especially Toru Amuro.

To spend the night here.

Toru Amuro took advantage of the time when everyone was introducing each other and scanned the main hall of the church as quickly as possible.

From the number of tentacles in the corridor, it can be guessed that the main hall, which is most likely the source of development, will only be worse.

On the podium in the main hall, a huge tentacle complex composed of black mucus that looks like a towering tree several hundred years old is standing there. It occupies the entire podium. Human heads are embedded in them, and they all open their mouths with only one hole and howl silently.

The liquid on its body has been flowing, and as far as the eye can see, the entire floor of the hall is covered with this dark, viscous, jelly-like liquid.Dozens of tentacles stretched from its direction to the passages leading to various places in the hall, and it didn't let go of the doors, windows or even holes.

On the high dome, a row of uncountable black chrysalis was suspended with jelly liquid, some were still struggling and shaking, and some were not moving at all.

Rather than saying that the church is its habitat, it is better to say that the whole church is its property.

There were nine of them in total, and Toru Amuro had already seen that the bodies of the two men, Wada Kohei and Kawasaki Yosuke, had obviously turned into completely black smoke.

This proves that their time of death is near.

And the man named Nishino Sumiya, who was a bartender by profession, was full of orange smoke, but since he entered the church, there was a male ghost with his neck twisted and wearing a baseball uniform who obviously died not long ago.

【no, do not want……】

[...to do...stupid...]

The male ghost kept repeating the same sentence intermittently.But before it finished speaking, Hengkong quickly extended a fat tentacle from the podium to hit its head.The male ghost's head, which was already crumbling because of the twisted neck, flew out and hit the window covered with viscous liquid.

The wind was suddenly violent, and the windows were shaken, and the people present were more or less startled.

Amuro Toru, on the other hand, looked at the headless male ghost lying on the ground with complicated emotions, after being stiff for a while, he stubbornly reached out and grabbed Nishino Sumiya's trouser leg.

【Silly...don't...do...】

The tentacles came down again, and the male ghost's calves were smashed to pieces, and the fresh blood clots were quickly absorbed by the mucus on the ground and disappeared without a trace.

The male ghost persistently switched back and forth between approaching Nishino Sumiya and being beaten by the tentacle.

This allowed Toru Amuro to have a rough guess about the identity of the male ghost and the five people present besides the four of them.

In fact, when it comes to the name Yasuo Niphara, Toru Amuro has a little impression.

A baseball game between Nagano Chuanchu High School and Shinano University Affiliated High School, which was directly published in the newspaper because of the sensation.Shinano University won five games and won an overwhelming victory.As the losing side or the side that made nine consecutive mistakes, Naganogawa Middle School also accepted the interview.At that time, Toru Amuro just glanced at the page before turning the page, but he remembered that the name of the pitcher at the Naganogawa Junior High School was Yasuo Hihara in his memory.

This is why Toru Amuro felt a little familiar when he learned the name of the client from Mori Kogoro.

Now, combining the clothes on the male ghost, and the more or less baseball-related traces and body memories of the four men, it seems that these people were the ones who lost the game.

But even if the male ghost has been trying to persuade Nishino Sumiya, there is also the black energy in the other two people...

It seems that the culprit is this Nishino Cheng. He is the one who brought them here. Most likely, what he wants to do is to kill the two men to avenge the death of Yasuo Nichihara.

Now that he knows who the murderer and the person who is about to become the dead are, Amuro Toru is much easier to handle.

He approached Nishino Sumiya, and asked hesitantly: "Mr. Nishino, I would like to ask, because you are so familiar, may I ask if your high school is in Naganogawa Junior High School?"

Nishino Chengya was already prepared to propose a method of drawing lots to search for churches, so that he could start to execute his first murder plan, but when asked by the blond brother, he got stuck in his mind and nodded in a daze, "Ah, that's it That's right."

"So that's it, I said you all look familiar!" The blond detective clasped his hands together, the expression on his face was suddenly enlightened, "Actually, I used to be a baseball fan, and I watched the game between your school and the high school attached to Shinano University. , although we lost, but your pitchers are really good! The balls you throw are steady, accurate and ruthless, very beautiful strength!"

"Ah! You're talking about the game where one side made nine mistakes in a row and the winning side went straight to the grand slam!" Mori Kogoro immediately echoed as if he couldn't understand the air as usual.

"Hey, hey! Uncle! What you said is too much!" Edogawa Conan stopped him in a low, embarrassed voice, but his eyes looked thoughtfully at the few people on the opposite side and Toru Amuro next to him.

Sure enough, at first Toru Amuro said a few words and several people were just flirting, but Kogoro Mori couldn't maintain his good face after saying a word.

"What are you talking about, uncle! That game... that game! If it weren't for these guys who maliciously leaked water to get into Shinano University, how could we have lost so badly!" Nishino Cheng was also the first to be nervous. Stopped, he pointed to a few classmates around him and shouted at Mouri Kogoro.

"Hey! Nishino, what are you talking about! When did we release the water maliciously!" Wada Xiaohei, who looked generous and honest, responded dissatisfied.

"If you hadn't released the water! We wouldn't have lost so badly! Ah Rita... Ah Rita wouldn't have made that choice!" Nishino Chengya burst into tears, his expression distorted Pointing at the three people, he gritted his teeth and cursed: "If it weren't for you three bastards who betrayed your brothers for the sake of your future! I will make you pay for him today!"

The emotional Nishino Cheng also spoke out his plan to kill them in one breath. He held his head and back in pain, and his mouth was either swearing or guilty for his absence to the dead Nichihara Yasuo.

Seeing him like this, the four people who were still very angry at first didn't know what to do, and finally Wada Xiaohei sighed and told the truth to Nishino Chengya.

It's just a story about three people deliberately throwing water and losing the game in order to keep the possibility of their friends' future dreams.

Nishino Cheng, who learned the truth, also cried with his head in his arms, and the male ghost beside him who had been trying to get close stopped at the moment he cried out, and was dragged into the podium by the tentacles without any struggle. Blend with them in the liquid.

It seems that Yasuo Niphara's suicide was not necessarily voluntary.Toru Amuro thought.

He directly watched the love-hate drama of five young people, and even made a trip to Nagano Prefecture in vain. Seeing that his client was about to enter the game at dawn, although he received the commission fee in advance, Mori Kogoro still Sorry no.

What's the matter!

"Brother Anshi! I'm talking to you, you can't fall asleep!"

Next to him, Edogawa Conan took off the hot towel on Toru Amuro's forehead and replaced it with a freshly wet towel, his tone was very anxious.

Kogoro Mori looked over, and Toru Amuro was leaning against the wall with a flushed face. The burnt person was visible to the naked eye. He was still covered with the coat that Kogoro Mori had taken off, but he didn't sweat at all.

Sighing inwardly, the big detective leaned over and touched the side of the blond young man's neck, his brows were furrowed by the beating that almost formed a line under his fingers.

"Hey! Amuro! Wake up! If you fall asleep here in this weather, you'll be done!" He patted the young man's hot cheek with a little force.

It was Edogawa Conan who first discovered Amuro Toru's situation.

After the matter of the five people over there was resolved, Nishino Cheng also ran directly to the corner and squatted, neither talking to them nor anyone else.The other four seemed to be surrounded by outsiders because of their black history, and they didn't want to get close to them, so they ran to the nun's room and stayed there.

It was at this time that Toru Amuro appeared abnormal. He staggered suddenly, and quickly supported the seat beside him so as not to fall to the ground.Then he coughed fiercely while clutching the clothes on his chest. Kogoro Mori went to help him and found out that the person's body temperature was abnormally high.

But now they are trapped in this abandoned church by the heavy snow, there is no medicine or medical treatment, and Toru Amuro doesn't look like a normal fever, but an old illness.Mori Kogoro could only call over and over again to urge the rescuers at the foot of the mountain to come up quickly.Fortunately, there were still five people providing pure water, and he and Edogawa Conan worked together to irrigate Amuro a lot.Things are barely as scary now as before.

As for Wakita Kennori who was with them...

To be honest, Edogawa Conan didn't have a particularly good impression of this person.

Although his reasoning ability is very strong, the little detective admits this.But he could clearly feel that the other party's targeting of Amuro Toru was always implicated in the words.

For example, when Toru Amuro was resting with his eyes closed, this person came up to them and said suddenly, "It seems that Mr. Amuro is very good at finding out the traitors in the group! Could it be that he himself is a traitor?"

Mori Kogoro immediately laid out the score of the master and gave a reprimand.Edogawa Conan was startled in his heart, he was wondering if this person might be a member of the organization, or just Rum?

However, there is currently too little information to complete the inference.

Mr. Amuro always refused to disclose any information to him, so he could only discuss it with Mr. Akai after he went out.

But the most important thing at the moment is to take care of Amuro, who is unwell.

After preventing the deaths of those two people, Jiang Gu Ling made preparations. He knew that the black smoke from the two people would wrap around him just like he did when he saved the same period. I have suffered a lot.And the coercion emanating from the weird tentacle ghosts entrenched in the entire church was also a blow.

But as long as he persists and does not lose consciousness, he thinks he can persist no matter how painful it is.

He doesn't regret his choice at all, and he will stop Nishino Sumiya from killing people countless times.

He didn't want to see any more people lose their lives because of his "could have saved".

So when he was entangled by the double shadow, Toru Amuro was already mentally prepared. Whether it was the heartbeat that was about to come out, or the pain in the chest that was about to explode, he endured it. Only the last thing left was the high fever, which took a long time efforts to persist.

Fortunately, although he was drifting, he did not lose consciousness.

After all, there is a member of the organization suspected of being Rum, how could he leave a room full of innocent people and get disconnected like this!

So when Mori Takaaki, who was informed by Kurodabei about the general situation of the camp here, came in with the rescue team, the blond young man whose fever was slowly receding leaned against Mori Kogoro and gave him a faint smile. eyes.

At that moment, Zhu Fu Gaoming seemed to see the little blond boy who would follow his younger brother Jing Guang to play in Nagano Prefecture on vacation since a long time ago, and always looked at him with admiration and awe.

Really long time no see.

Mr. Zero.

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TBC