Chapter 812: Constant Trouble

For Duanmu Ai, the biggest advantage of cleaning this time is that she made a friend. At least in her opinion, Fang Zexia is a pretty interesting girl. At least she won't gossip like the idiots in her class. I heard that Fang Zexia Kasumi is also a gymnast and is busy training every day.

Well, Duanmu Ai is once again convinced that the main reason for bullying is lack of homework.

We should really increase the amount of homework for all students so that they can't sleep before twelve o'clock, so they won't have time to bully others.

 However, Duanmu Ai's luck seems to have ended here.

She had just returned to the office, and before her **** was even warmed up in the chair, the phone rang, and then Dot's voice appeared on the other side of the phone.

 “Quick, Duanmu, there’s a case!”

“You at least let me drink some water before I picked up the trash from that **** park!”

 “Homicide.”

"almost there."

Originally, Duanmu Ai planned to complain a few words, but when she heard about the murder, she immediately retracted her words, and then left the office without even bothering to drink the coffee brought by Lumière.

 After all, murder cases are very troublesome no matter where they are.

 Furthermore, murder cases that require your own help are usually related to electronic demons.

　　When Duanmu Ai arrived at the scene, a police cordon had been set up and there were onlookers everywhere. The police turned their backs to the scene and stared at the onlookers. Duanmu Ai took out her ID and showed it to the police officer on duty outside. The latter took her into the crime scene, and Duanmu Ai saw it at a glance...

"Wow."

 Looking at the telephone pole in front of him, Duanmu Ai was speechless.

“Although I admit that electronic demons are quite creative in killing people, this is too creative, isn’t it?”

No wonder Duanmu Ai sighed like this. Above the telegraph pole in front of him, he saw a corpse hanging head down on it. The corpse's arms were spread out, as if wrapped around the wires, and the legs were widely separated. That's it. He maintained an upside-down position with his head down and his legs up, and his whole body was in a mess, as if he had been scratched by some large animal.

 “Yo, you’re here.”

At this moment, Dot also came over. He deliberately avoided the **** telegraph pole and watched a few electronic demons carefully tearing the body off the telegraph pole... Well, this thing The child is basically rotten.

"what's the situation?"

“It’s not clear yet, but all we know is that the victim died a horrific death.”

 “You don’t need to say this.”

Duanmu Ai complained.

“Say something useful, like, why did you call me here?”

 “Do you look familiar to that outfit?”

Dote pointed to the corpse, and then pointed to the uniform on Duanmu Ai. The latter raised his head and looked back and forth between the corpse and himself several times.

 “Don’t tell me that this is Xiu Jin’s student?”

  “Sorry, I guessed it right.”

As he spoke, Dot handed over a blood-stained student ID card.

"The deceased's name is Konishi Saaki, a third-year student at Xiujin. We have just contacted her family, who didn't even know she was missing. According to them, Konishi Saaki went home normally last night, and there was no Nothing unusual. When the family got up this morning, they found that she was not in the bedroom, but they didn’t pay attention because she said yesterday that she was going to the park for cleaning at school. They thought that Xiaoxi Zaoji was just participating in the school’s social activities.”

 “That idiot principal will be happy to hear that.”

Duanmu Ai complained silently, and then glanced around.

“Isn’t this a new development? So someone captured Xiaoxi Saki in the middle of the night, killed her and put her here? Or did they kill her directly here?”

 The so-called redevelopment zone is a description of the urban fringe area. After all, due to the Doomsday, the human population in this world has shrunk significantly. A city can accommodate millions of people, and now the population here is only a few hundred thousand at most. In this case, large areas of abandoned urban areas were temporarily closed for development and transfer when the population increased in the future.

 Because of this, there is almost no human habitation here, which may be why it has not been discovered until now.

“Wait, who called the police?”

“Over there, just ask yourself.”

Dot pursed her lips towards the river. Duanmuai turned around and saw in the river not far away, several girls with long dark green hair were scratching on the rocks in the water, staring at this side uneasily. The fish tails of their lower bodies flapped on the water, drifting with the current.

　　…“…Mermaid.”

Duanmu Ai sighed silently, then stood up and came to the shore. Seeing her appearance, the mermaids also came over like carps.

“Did you call the police?”

Looking at the mermaid in front of him, Duanmu Ai asked - the reason why electronic demons are called electronic demons is because the forms in which these electronic demons appear in the world are almost the same as monsters in myths and legends. I don't know if they can only form this form, or if they are like this themselves. Of course, this is a matter for electronic demon experts to study, and Duanmu Ai doesn't care about this.

Mermaids are relatively easy to get along with among the electronic demons. They are relatively kind and do not kill people at will. Most of the time it's pretty safe.

Well, of course, this is the conclusion you draw after comparing leopards and lions.

“Yes, yes.” Hearing Duanmu Ai’s question, the leading mermaid nodded timidly.

 “Can you tell me how it happened?”

"sure……"

The leading mermaid glanced at her companions, then looked at Duanmu Ai and said.

"Actually, it's nothing serious. Last night, our sisters went to sing in the nearby river..."

"Um………"

 It’s not a big deal that mermaids like to sing, but the problem is that they can’t be heard. There are stories in history about sailors who were fascinated by the mermaid’s singing and then the ship was destroyed. In reality, this group of electronic demons also reproduced this classic. The mermaid's singing is beautiful, but it depends on whether you have the life to listen to it.

Therefore, mermaids are strictly prohibited from singing in human gathering places. If you want to sing, you can find a deserted place in the wilderness and dance by yourself.

"Everyone was making noise all night and didn't come back until early morning to rest. But it was very foggy outside at that time and we couldn't see anything, so everyone lay down on the river bank and fell asleep. Then we didn't know how long we slept, and we woke up , we found water droplets hitting our heads, and then we looked up..."

Speaking of this, the mermaid also turned pale.

That is, anyone who wakes up and looks up to see a torn corpse above him will be frightened, and the electronic demon is no exception.

“So you didn’t hear anything? A fight? Or the flapping of wings? The sound of car tires?”

"No."

The mermaids shook their heads. Electronic demons are not human beings. If there is really a sound, they will definitely hear it. Although mermaids are not a race with particularly keen hearing, they are much better than humans.

“So you didn’t find anything unusual when you came back last night?”

“No, it’s very foggy, but it’s always been like this here, and we’re used to it.”

"Um………"

Duanmu Ai glanced around. Even now, there is still a faint mist here. Has it always been like this here? She didn't know, after all, redevelopment areas were basically abandoned, undeveloped areas. Usually only electronic demons live here. Occasionally, if someone gets lost here, the electronic demons will send them back.

 Of course, this is for those who abide by the rules, and those who do not abide by the rules will have been killed long ago.

 After all, this is no longer the chaotic era.

Duanmu Ai shook her head helplessly, and then stood up. At this time, she also saw Dot leading a lion towards her - it was an electronic demon that looked like a living stone lion, and it was quite friendly to humans. On the one hand, it is comparable to the electronic demon version of a police dog.

 “What did you get there?”

“The lion said it found nothing, no footprints, no car tire marks, nothing. It didn’t even have any clues about the victim.”

“So, she was brought here by a flying electronic demon?”

“I asked Pixi and Hua Po who live nearby, and they didn’t see any electronic demon flying people over here.”

As he spoke, Dot pointed to the side not far away. Duanmu Ai then saw a group of elves about the size of a palm, with transparent insect-like wings, poking their heads out curiously to look over.

By the way, even though this thing is so small and exquisite, you can crush it to death with one hand. If lightning strikes down, it will burn you to a crisp.

 Proving once again that no electronic devil is easy to mess with.

 “A really troublesome case.”

"yes………"

Duanmu Ai also sighed with emotion.

 “So you came to me...”

"You are from a school. You can investigate in the school to see if there are any clues or rumors about Xiaoxi's early years. Since you are a student there, it should be more convenient for us to investigate such things than the police."

"Of course you can investigate, but don't forget to pay the commission fee. I'm not a charity."

"I know."

Dot replied casually, and then he looked at Duanmu Ai.

“By the way, what happened to the Phantom Thieves case?”

　　　“There’s a bit of a clue, and the rest depends on when the person can get it and both the loot and the loot can be obtained.”

"That's good."

 Dot nodded, with a sad look on his face.

“Hey, there have been so many troubles recently... I have a bad feeling, maybe this is just the beginning.”

 “You’d better hope it’s not like this, or you’ll be in big trouble.”

Hearing Dote's emotion, Duanmu Ai complained directly, this is like setting a flag for himself, why is he afraid that his death will not be miserable enough?

 (End of this chapter)