I, Hikigu, are contained by the evil god

Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! "

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Chapter 40 Bold Analysis and Careful Verification (5k)

Hikigu raised his head, his face was serious and thoughtful, and his voice was low:

"Please speak carefully."

"it is good."

Kasumigaoka nodded, his confident and strategic appearance was charming.

Only at this time can she get rid of the feeling of powerlessness of "watching these agents in Biqigu go to the front line all day long and can only pray powerlessly in the rear", and then she feels that she is really playing a role and serving for the future. Let's all contribute by living together and protecting the daily life of the world.

"The god and demon in the first mural is this."

Kasumigaoka picked up the leftmost one of the three A4 papers on the table, and handed it to Hikigu. The top one was the photo in the cave.

Hikigu looked at the written material marked on the bottom of Kasumi Hill, but the narration of Kasumi Hill was more refined than the written material, which made Hikigu raise his head and listen attentively to Kasumi Hill's words:

"The lower body is a fly, and the upper body is a tauren. The overall painting style is evil and chaotic. This appearance immediately reminds me of Beelzebub. He is the most suspicious."

"In the writings of Solomon, Beelzebub is depicted as a huge calf or a ram with a long tail. In addition, his most famous form is a huge fly, so he is also known as the Lord of the Flies... The combination of the tauren and the fly God and demon, who else could he be?"

"Your analysis is right, continue." Hikigu nodded thoughtfully.

In fact, when he saw that fly, he thought of Beelzebub, the famous Lord of the Flies, but the image of the tauren on his upper body made him very uncertain about that guess... Now that he heard what Kasumi Hill said, he knew that Beelzebub was still alive. There has been an image of the incarnation of a cow.

"Look here." Kasumigaoka picked up the other two A4 papers on the table and handed them to Hikigu, which recorded Kasumigaoka's analysis of the other two gods and demons.

"The image of the second god and demon is like a hungry ghost, with a shaved head, holding human hands, feet and head. What makes people puzzled is that its painting style is obviously solemn and solemn, excluding the painter's hair. Insane this possibility, I turned my skeptical eyes to Buddhism."

"By the way, do you still remember the string of text on the cave under the second mural?"

"Ah, that." Biqigu was deeply impressed by that, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be in Sanskrit, right?"

"That's right, it's Sanskrit... Sanskrit and the vicious and solemn style, these two clues have clearly pointed to Buddhism; in fact, I found a similar image in the eight ghosts of Buddhism. "

"This is it."

Kasumigaoka took out a piece of paper from the pile of documents and handed it to Hikigaya,

"Compare it, isn't it very similar?"

Hikigu took the paper with the picture and compared it with the photo of the cave murals on the Chapter 2A4 paper, and found that although they were different in appearance and details, they all had bald heads and looked evil. Ghosts all hold human limbs and heads.

"This god and demon is called Visacha, which is called Pi'sāca in Sanskrit. It is one of the eight ghosts. It is a famous energy-eating ghost. Or a head...it's highly consistent with what you see in the mural.” ”

"According to the "Veda" records, the status of Visaga is below Rakshasa. It is an evil ghost that harms people. Nava is also under the command of the Heavenly King of the Eastern Kingdom."

"In the Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda, He is mentioned a lot, often together with several other non-god monsters, such as Asura, Rakshasa, Yaksha, etc."

""According to the volume 21 of "Xuanying Yinyi", the second volume of "Huiyuan Yinyi", and the eighteenth volume of "Huilin Yinyi", He is a ghost who eats human energy or eats flesh and blood.In layman's terms, they eat human flesh and blood, and eat dead bodies exclusively. "

"Sometimes they also change shape and enter human body. They wander around the streets and near human houses at dusk. It is said that anyone who accidentally encounters them will die within 9 months. Generally speaking, people think they are dead people. Ghosts are illusory; but the Vishnu Purana says they are the sons of Kassapa, or born of the wrath of Brahma."

Xia Zhiqiu confidently quotes all kinds of classics and classics at his fingertips. It is not only like the best subordinates reporting their brilliant performance for a year like a boss, but also like a well-known great speaker doing profound and powerful speeches on stage. speech.

Bi Qigu smacked his mouth, I don't know if it was an illusion, it is clear that Xia Zhiqiu's complexion is unprecedentedly bad today, why does he think her charm is unprecedentedly high...

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"The thing that makes me most sure of his identity is that the mantra of Vaisaca's Dharma protector is exactly the same as the one on the cave."

Then, she recited the long and obscure Dharma Protector Mantra in Sanskrit, with an inexplicably solemn and sacred tone:

"Nama samanta buddhānām, pici pici, svāhā! Nama samanta buddhānām, pici pici, svāhā!

Bi Qigu pursed his lips tightly, sure enough, the two are exactly the same.

With a pause, Xia Zhiqiu continued:

"After confirming the identity of the second person, I'm going to study the third one."

"Before I say that name, let me recite a very famous sentence for you. I think, even if you haven't heard it, you should at least have heard of it."

"You piqued my interest."

Hikigu was very interested, and stretched out his hand as a "please" gesture.

Xia Zhiqiu lowered his head slightly, his voice carried a solemn meaning, and recited a classic that praised endless regions and stretched for thousands of years:

"I saw that when the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals, he heard one of the four living creatures say with a thunderous voice, Come.

And I looked, and there was a white horse, and the rider on it was holding a bow.and a crown was given to him.Then he came out, winning and winning again.

When the second seal was opened, I heard the second living creature say, Come here.

Then another horse came out, and it was red.The rider was given authority to take peace from the earth and cause men to kill each other.And another great sword was given to him.

When the third seal was opened, I heard the third living creature say, Come here.

I looked and saw a black horse.The rider on the horse holds a scale in his hand.I heard a voice among the four living creatures say, One liter of wheat for a denarius, and three liters of barley for a denarius.Do not waste oil and wine.

When the fourth seal was opened, I heard the fourth living creature say, come.

I watched and saw a miserable green horse.The one who rides on the horse is called "Death".Hades also followed him.

Power was given to them to kill a quarter of the earth with the sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts

......"

What a long story, but it does contain a lot of information that cannot be ignored.

Bi Qigu raised his eyebrows,

"I didn't know you could memorize the Bible so proficiently... Obviously, this can't be common sense."

For such a long passage, if you don't put in a little effort, you won't be able to recite it word for word.

"Well, as far as this passage of the "Bible" is concerned, it is probably not common sense." Kasumi Hills shrugged, "But as a civil servant, you must read a lot of books to serve the association better. This is common sense. "

"And I did it better than others," Kasumi Zhiqiu gestured, leaving a little gap between the thumb and index fingertips, "It's a little bit better."

"Well, but it's not important." Xia Zhiqiu waved his hand,

"The important thing is, after listening to this, do you have any thoughts?"

Bi Qigu's answer was without hesitation and there was no room for linking questions: "Yes, open the third seal, the knight of the dark horse." '

"Yes, the black horse knight!" Xia Zhiqiu clapped his hands, "Famine!"

"A knight riding a tall black horse, holding a balance in his hand, after combining the analysis of the second painting style and the phenomenon that the identity is more holy and solemn than the first painting, and the third painting style is more holy..."

"I locked his identity to the knight of the apocalypse in the Bible, famine."

"It makes sense." Of course, Hikigu is not ignorant of the Apocalypse Knights. There are too many legends and film and television works about them. It is rumored that they will appear with the end of the day and bring about the end of mankind.

Bi Qigu nodded in praise, and sighed again.

"What you said is reasonable and well-founded. It seems that the murals completely coincide with the three gods and demons you analyzed... However, this is still not quite right."

Hikigu felt that Kasumi Hill's analysis was correct, but he still noticed the problem. His cautious and dialectical mind allowed him to discover the loopholes in Kasumi Hill's analysis.

Even if there are enough clues in front of Kasumigaoka's guess, the detectives must ask themselves whether this is really perfect, and whether those clues are deliberately misleading by the mural maker;

The association needs someone to make bold guesses and make reasonable analysis; but there must also be someone to question harshly and verify carefully. This does not conflict, and it can be matched well.

Now, Kasumi Hill is the former, and Hiki Valley is the latter.

"Beelzebub is the devil of hell in the biblical system, Vaisaca is the protector of evil spirits in Buddhism, and famine is the messenger of God in the biblical system... These three people are not the same at all, and their status is not equal. People are enshrined on the same mural? Whose family believers are doing such a thing?"

Hikigu considered his words, and spoke slowly,

"Besides, how can an evil ghost protector in the Vaisha area be qualified to worship alongside the other two high-status gods?"

"Also, this mural has a strong aboriginal style as a whole, and does not have a Christian or Buddhist style... This is very strange."

Hikigu looked at Kasumi Hill, with a search in his eyes: "I know you will not have thought of these questions."

"Hey, how do you know?"

Now it was the turn of Xia Zhiqiu, who had been strategizing, to be surprised.

"I know you, no, we haven't known each other that long so I can't say that... Well, let me put it another way, I know smart people."

So Hikigu knew that Kasumi Hill would definitely not

"There are more questions, such as

"...I expected that you would ask me these questions, because these questions have also confused me for a long time."

"So, after thinking about it for a long time, I realized that I had been caught in a certain misunderstanding."

"The misunderstanding is, "

Kasumigaoka's eyes are bright, like a cat that has found a new toy,

"Worshiping the gods, what does it have to do with the gods?"

Bi Qigu raised his eyebrows, "...that's something new, tell me."

Xia Zhiqiu: "If we want to get rich, we enshrine the God of Wealth and a beckoning cat... I said that someone would do this behavior, is it possible?"

Hikigu: "Maybe."

Xia Zhiqiu: "If I want to do well in a certain exam, I pray for the blessings of gods and Buddhas all over the sky, pray for the blessings of Confucius, and pray for the blessings of Buddha... I will care which god I pray for, whether the small god is qualified or not, and the big god Parallel?"

Hikigu: "I used to hear people say that it is better to worship only one true god if you pray too much to the gods, otherwise you might offend the gods and be punished if you pray too much. I don't know if it is true...but not many people will Care about those things."

Xia Zhiqiu: "Then I want to achieve a certain purpose of mine, so I worship all the true gods who can satisfy my wishes. Is this reasonable?"

Hikigu: "That's reasonable."

Xia Zhiqiu: "So, I, the native, enshrined three gods and demons of the same type that I know to achieve my ulterior secret. Even if the three gods and demons are completely irrelevant, it's no big deal. It is purely an attempt to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, just for the sake of psychological comfort... This is also reasonable."

"And since these paintings are drawn by me as an aborigine, what's wrong with my painting style with strong regional characteristics and personal style?"

Hikigu raised his hand to interrupt Xia Zhiqiu: "Same type, what do you mean?"

"What I found they have in common is: eating."

Xia Zhiqiu's words are firm: "Christianity has a famous saying about the seven deadly sins, and one of the seven deadly sins is the incarnation of gluttony, and there is a version that is Beelzebub the Lord of the Flies; Vesha can eat human flesh and blood, and eats dead bodies; Famine Knight, as the name suggests , bringing famine to the world."

"And their arrangement is also very particular, from left to right, from front to back, more and more holy, more solemn... I suspect that this is a special arrangement requirement for some kind of ceremony or festival."

"...Finally, after studying these three gods and demons, I turned my attention to the monster depicted in the statue."

"At first, I had no idea, until I noticed the door, the triangular shaped door."

Bi Qigu said in a deep voice: "We encountered that strange door twice in a row."

"Yes, this phenomenon has also attracted my attention; I checked the information and found that this door is very similar to the famous Good and Evil Gate in Bali."

Saying that, Kasumigaoka handed Hikigaya a picture with a door on it.

It is composed of two halves of a right-angled triangle, with its acute angle facing the sky and the short side touching the ground. The passage in the middle is so narrow that almost only one person can pass through it.It is carved and decorated with cumbersome patterns, which is very exquisite.

This is exactly the exquisite enlarged version of those two special low doors!

"So, I found a demon named Layak from the Balinese mythology."

"In local lore, it appears as a normal person during the day and transforms into a terrifying demon with a head with sharp fangs and slit eyes at night. It usually haunts graveyards, feeds on corpses, and Will hunt pregnant women and children to suck their blood."

"The appearance characteristics are basically the same, and the characteristics of feeding on corpses and sucking blood are also similar to those of the three gods and demons...it should be it."

Shaking his head, Xia Zhiqiu sighed again:

"An ordinary or even impoverished ancient Balinese native, by offering sacrifices to the three gods to become a monster, made himself an integral part of the local mythology, and had a happy family and gave birth to four children... If this is the case, That was so inspiring."

"It's really inspiring... Is the analysis over?" Hikigu raised his head and asked Kasumi Hill.

Xia Zhiqiu let out a long breath, and his body and mind relaxed a little:

"It's probably over. This is all the information I can analyze from the photos... Is it useful for you to handle the case?"

"It's enough." Hikigu clapped his hands, "Xia Zhiqiu, you have been of great help!"

He narrowed his eyes, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes:

"I think I already know what to do."

Xia Zhiqiu tilted his head: "What are you going to do?"

Hikigu stretched out a hand: