Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1481 1153. Takenaka Shigeharu

"Now, we at least know the source of the [residue] that makes people hang themselves. Very good, very good."

It was getting late, and Wuming was walking from the wild meadow to the road leading to the city gate, muttering in a low voice as if to comfort himself.

"Very good. Very good size!!"

But then, she couldn't hold herself any longer.

After a whole day of investigation, in addition to uncovering more and more abnormal massacres of families, it only made Lan En and Wu Ming even more frightened!

The [Remnant], which was originally not difficult to deal with and could dissipate even if left alone, has been entrenched near Iwamura Castle for at least ten years!

And one layer after another actually stacked up!

[Filth] harms people, and the victims form new [Filth], superimposed and spread out!

Wu Ming didn’t go to school, so he didn’t understand what this mode of communication meant.

But in Lan En's eyes, this is simply a huge infection rate! And a plague with an uncertain fatality rate!

And did this [residue] plague really originate from the purge of local wealthy families that started in Iwamura City more than ten years ago?

Although it was only a day's visit, Wu Ming and Lan En both felt that they were looking for a puzzle.

Two murder cases that seem unrelated and far apart in time may be connected in a longer timeline and in something less eye-catching.

Could it be that the "filth" in Iwamura Castle was also contaminated from other places?

There is simply no end to doubts like this.

Lan En also frowned seriously.

I thought it was just a "destruction" that affected a wide range, but after a round of investigation, I found that it not only affected a wide range, but also lasted for an unusually long time!

"Ahhh!" Wuming scratched her head frantically. Her originally pretty bob hair was scratched into a mess by herself, "What should I do?"

As a demon hunter possessed by a guardian spirit, Wu Ming prefers to directly find monsters and evil spirits, and then use real swords and guns to complete the 'exorcism'.

For this kind of investigation and analysis, just following Lan En for a day made her feel like her brain was running out!

I'm not stupid, but I really didn't go to school!

"Although it is troublesome, there is a way to investigate if we really want to."

Lan En sighed and said, and at the same time, he was getting used to the heat coming from the back of his neck at the same time.

Wu Ming turned around with a hint of surprise and looked at the demon hunter: "Really?"

The two of them walked onto the road leading to the city gate and were about to enter the city.

At this time, there were many farmers on the road who had finished their farm work for the day, carrying tools and carefully leading their buffalo pack horses, walking on the road like the two of them.

The farmers joked with each other, and sometimes made some vulgar jokes. The peasant women pretended to be shy, but in private they actually talked more than the men.

The emotional and interpersonal relationships among residents of this era are often messier and more complicated than a modern man like Lan En would imagine.

But this also made Iwamura Castle, a military fortress, full of popularity.

However, the two people who were able to move freely in the noisy castle town yesterday were looking at the sunset and the castle that had been shrouded in the shadow of the mountains, but they could only feel the black shadow of the mountains. .

It was as if the entire city was being swallowed up mercilessly.

"If there are relatively complete household registration records in Iwamura City, then I should be able to check all the household registrations for more than ten years in a few hours."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Lan En calmly said the words that made Wu Ming slowly open his mouth.

"Those death records in the household registration information are so far apart that no one thought they would be intrinsically connected. I can compare them one by one and find the commonalities."

Although he had never gone to school and did not know what the household registration records looked like, Wu Ming subconsciously felt that this should be a terrifying amount of work just by listening to it.

But for Lan En, even if he gave a few hours of time planning, most of the time would be just flipping through books and reading.

Enter these data into Mentos, and then the biochemical brain will naturally logically filter and organize the data.

Those secret connections that are buried in huge data and cannot be perceived by ordinary people will be unable to escape under the crushing force of violent computing power!

Eventually the clues will be locked into smaller and smaller areas until a root cause is found!

"Can you do this kind of thing?" Wu Ming was still shocked by this, "Are you serious?"

But soon, the practical side of the demon hunter took over, overpowering the shock.

Wu Ming smoothed the fur shawl on his body and said thoughtfully: "If this is really the case, then the first problem we have to face now is how to get the household registration record of Iwamura City."

"Although I don't know much about this, I think this thing should be very important to a city, right? Although you can be entertained in the castle tower, the city lord will really give you such an important thing. Do you want to see it?”

"You're right." Regarding Wu Ming's worries, Lan En nodded indifferently, "Household registration records involve taxes, military conscription, corvee, etc. This thing is not 'very important' to a city, but One of the 'most important' things."

"But since I said this, it means it's not impossible."

In the first half of the sentence, Lan En still lowered his head and spoke to Wu Ming walking beside him. In the second half of the sentence, he turned around and spoke to a samurai who was riding a horse leisurely, as if he was just passing by them.

"Your Excellency, what do you think?" The warrior rode a horse and blended in with the crowd entering the city at sunset.

He didn't look too anxious, so he didn't arrogantly push away the civilians who dared to block his way.

The samurai wore a curtained bamboo hat and a raincoat to keep away dust when traveling.

Just as Japanese people in this world have generally grown taller, Japanese horses have become more majestic in this world of extraordinary power.

Except for the horse on his crotch and the sword on his waist, there is really nothing identifiable about this person.

So after Lan En turned his head, Wu Ming was shocked to realize that the knight on horseback had been walking beside them for four or five minutes.

It's just that the man's horse was riding fast and slow, forward and backward beside them, as if he was being pushed forward by the flow of people entering the city in the evening, so Wu Ming didn't feel anything unusual at all.

After Lan En made it clear, the man on the horse was a little stiff at first, but he quickly recovered.

Wu Ming frowned at the man. First of all, he was eavesdropped, and no one would be in a good mood if he encountered him.

Secondly, the "Zandi" they investigated this time is really not an ordinary thing. It is difficult to say whether this person will be involved in the same way just by hearing about it, and then expand the "Zindi".

But the warrior, whose face could not be seen clearly due to the veil hanging under his hat, seemed much calmer.

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He lowered his head and took off his mask, revealing a handsome face that was young.

It's similar to Mamoru Ando, ​​with an upturned ponytail and some bangs in front of his forehead.

"I heard that there are strange people in Yancun City recently, and because I miss my father-in-law, I came here to visit."

The young man spoke with excuses that neither he nor Lan En believed, but he bowed slightly on the horse with a normal expression.

At the same time, he pulled the reins and jumped off the horse.

"When I saw him today, he certainly lived up to his reputation."

The samurai spoke to the two of them calmly and meaningfully.

And at this moment, a faint wave that ordinary people couldn't hear appeared around him and Wu Ming at the same time.

"Wow~"*2

In a burst of dreamy brilliance, the guardian spirit of ignorance [Eight Hundred Waves Princess] appeared naturally as if it was stimulated or induced.

And behind the warrior, a bearded goat wearing a light green robe, fairy-like ribbons undulating behind his back, and a pair of small round eyes hanging on the bridge of his nose, who looked exactly like an old scholar, also appeared in front of the warrior. behind.

"The family crest of [Nine Bamboo Leaves]." When the samurai in front of him got off the horse, Lan En saw the emblem on the feather fabric under the raincoat from his shaking, and asked, "Is it the Takenaka clan?"

"Admirable eyesight." The samurai seemed to be a gentle man, with a peaceful smile hanging on his lips all the time, "Shitake Naka Shigeharu."

After introducing himself with complete etiquette, he opened his mouth to express his apology.

"I'm sorry, you two. I wasn't eavesdropping on purpose just now. I actually heard something that made people care about me halfway, and then I couldn't help but let my thoughts catch up."

"Care?" Wu Ming said in a bad tone, "What do you have to care about?"

Lan En waved his hand at the demon hunter: "You can't say that, Takenaka Shigeharu. I remember correctly, he should be the son-in-law of the city lord?"

"Eh?!"

Wu Ming once again let out Japanese doubts while looking up and down at the young samurai and the old scholar goat behind him.

"Judging from this guardian spirit, it really doesn't look like a warrior who fights and kills."

"Haha, people should not be judged by their appearance." Takenaka Shigeharu smiled gently, "A warrior is not only about fighting and killing, but also about etiquette, knowledge, and strategy. Confucius said that a gentleman has six skills. In fact, I have always held myself to this standard. ”

The guardian spirits of the two appeared in response to each other when they met, but then disappeared again.

"Isn't this just right!" Wuming clapped his hands, "Zhuzhong, can you tell your father-in-law? You heard it just now, right? The situation is very serious!"

Wu Ming does not understand the Six Arts of the Gentleman, or the standards of a warrior. She just wanted to quickly find out the source and cut it off before the "filth" that frightened her started to develop into something more terrifying!

Demon hunters' persistence in this thankless profession mostly comes from their resentment towards monsters and evil spirits.

But along with this resentment, there is also naturally compassion and concern for ordinary people.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this psychological convergence hidden under the surface that Wu Ming and Lan En naturally became familiar with each other after meeting yesterday.