Chapter 56 Dog Killing
Late at night, in the alley near Shiraishi High School.
The lights in the community were dim, and only the street lights on both sides of the road were still flashing a dim light.
"Wang!"
"Wang Wang!"
The sound of dogs barking came from deep in the alley, sounding like anger and fear, followed by the sound of trash cans being knocked over, and finally turning into a few miserable whimpers.
Outside the alley, next to the street lamp, a man who returned drunk late at night, held the smooth lamppost with one hand, and with the other hand, unzipped his trousers and pulled out his second brother, an expression of comfort and joy instantly appeared on his face.
I could hear the faint sound of a dog barking coming from deep in the alley in front of me on the right.
"Hey, you bastard, what are you doing so crazy in the middle of the night? Are you missing a bitch?"
"Hahaha……"
The drunk man laughed loudly, shook his second brother's hand, put it back, and zipped up his pants.
Holding the lamppost with his hand, carrying a black suit jacket hanging on his shoulders, he hummed a little tune and walked forward leisurely.
When passing by the alley, he deliberately looked into the dark alley.
The barking of dogs continued, and even tended to get louder.
"damn thing!"
The drunk man stood there and watched for a while, then squatted down, fumbled on the ground for a while, and picked up two stones of appropriate weight.
He weighed it slightly in the palm of his hand, then threw it with all his strength towards the depths of the alley.
Clang.
I could vaguely hear a stone hitting the trash can that had already fallen to the ground, but the other stone made no sound.
"Tch, it's boring."
The drunk man stared at the alley for a while, and seeing that there was no movement, he turned around and prepared to leave.
When he was passing by the alley with his back to the road, he had just taken a few steps when he suddenly felt something biting his right leg and dragging it backwards violently. He staggered and fell forward.
The moment he fell, the drunken man's head was instantly cleared of all the alcohol, and he looked back with horror in his eyes.
A black dog as big as a calf, with shiny black fur and dim eyes, was biting his right leg with its sharp and terrifying teeth.
The drunk man fell to the ground and subconsciously kicked the big black dog frantically with his intact left leg.
Click.
It was the sound of the right leg bone being bitten off!
"what!"
The drunk man let out a miserable cry. The severe pain made him lose all his strength to resist in an instant.
He could only watch as the big black dog loosened his right leg, stepped on his leg, and moved closer to him step by step.
Then, bite your own neck.
Soon, a red bloodstain spread along the street into the depths of the alley.
……
The next day, when students from Shiraishi High School passed by here, the alley and a nearby area were cordoned off by police officers to prohibit passage.
Pinggong Qianye, who always came to school late, stopped to observe for a moment when passing by here, and then entered the school gate on time.
In the classroom, when the get out of class was over, many students ran out of the classroom and gathered around the windows facing outside of the next class.
From there, you can get a vague glimpse of what's going on over there in the alley.
Perhaps taking this into consideration, the police officers hung a black cloth over the crime scene to cover up the most critical situation at the scene.
Pinggong Qianye did not join in the fun, but sat in his seat and listened to the classmates who came back from watching the fun talking about this matter.
Students have no resistance to such new things.
Pinggong Qianye just listened slowly and almost understood what happened in the alley.
A classmate who lives near the alley revealed that the first person to discover the body this morning was his uncle.
According to his uncle, the body was lying next to a trash can, with the body of a stray dog next to it.
Bones were exposed in many places on the two corpses, with only one or two strips of flesh clinging to the bones. Their internal organs had been basically eaten clean, their faces had been distorted beyond recognition, and their skulls had been opened.
It doesn't look like something a human murderer would do, but more like the marks left by some kind of animal biting it madly.
The entire crime scene was a horrific sight. "You think this is revenge from a dog spirit?"
One classmate made this guess: "Hasn't there been a sudden decrease in the number of stray dogs in our school recently?"
"It is very likely that he was poached or beaten to death by a dog thief. This should have been the case last night. The deceased is most likely the dog thief!"
"When he committed another crime last night, the resentful souls of the dead stray dogs gathered into dog spirits and began their own revenge!"
The classmate described this conjecture vividly, causing many people to exclaim in surprise at the same time.
Pinggong Qianye was also a little surprised. When he heard about the case in the alley just now, he also guessed that it was a dog spirit who committed the crime.
As for the identity of the deceased, his guess was different from that of that classmate.
It is not easy to give birth to a dog spirit, especially a dog spirit that is cruel enough to kill people.
Normal death would not leave such a strong resentment, and it would not be able to gather into a vengeful dog spirit.
Only those who were brutally murdered and tortured during their lifetime would have such a strong resentment.
In order to carry out this, the murderer must have drugged the stray dogs and taken them back to where he lives, or to some other secluded place, to carry out the cruel killing.
The alley is obviously not a good place to kill people because it is not hidden.
Plus there is a trash can in that place, and there are regular sanitation workers who go there to clean up the garbage every day.
Hiramiya Chiya satisfied her detective reasoning addiction a little and didn't think too much about it.
It's too far away and I've never been there, so any speculation I make is just groundless imagination.
After school, Pinggong Qianye came to the meeting room of the Supernatural Society. This time he was the one who arrived later.
Many members were discussing the murder that occurred in the alley near the school today.
Compared with the conservative guesses of other students, their thinking was more divergent. Not only dog spirits, but all kinds of demons and monsters came out.
Soon, after discussing for a while, they came to ask Pinggong Qianye what he thought about this matter.
"It should be a dog spirit."
Pinggong Qianye gave his own guess. When he passed by that place this morning, there was still a faint scent of dog spirit in the air.
Combined with what happened some time ago, the murderer can basically be identified as a dog spirit.
"What a dog spirit!"
"Haha, I guessed right!"
"That's right. There must be a reason why so many stray dogs disappeared a while ago."
The members of the Supernatural Club began to discuss heatedly again, and when they paused for a moment, Horii Suzune tapped the table gently, signaling them to pause.
"Hiramiya-san, is there anything I should be aware of regarding this case?"
"Try to stay away from that place, especially at night, don't get close to it."
Pinggong Qianye said seriously: "The dog spirit has not been caught yet, and no one can guarantee that there will not be another victim."
After finishing the supernatural society meeting, Pinggong Qianye walked out of the school gate and subconsciously walked towards the alley where the crime scene occurred.
He was not very interested in solving the case, but he was very interested in catching and rescuing the dog spirit.
Such an evil spirit that has already begun to hurt people must not be left alone, otherwise the next victim will soon appear.
When Hiramiya Chiya came here, she caught a glimpse of Horii Suzune.
She stood in a cool place a little further away from the cordon and waved at him, and Pinggong Qianye walked over.
"Hiramiya-san, I knew you would show up here." Horii Suzune looked a little proud.
"Occupational habits."
"It's a pity that you are late today."
"What do you mean?"
"There are already other monks helping the police with the case." Pinggong Qianye suddenly became interested, "Where are these monks?"
"Kichijoji."
Horii Suzune added, "It's not the Kichijoji business district, but the monks from the real Kichijoji temple."
(End of this chapter)
