"The death of the old man gave the other villagers a great stimulus."

"One-third of them will become old people within ten years."

"The villagers decided not to wait any longer. But simple deception could not trick many people into entering the village. The villagers decided to attack a nearby village and killed all the old people, leaving only the young people."

"A nearby village was targeted by them, and they rushed into the village in the middle of the night. Because they were not afraid of getting hurt, most of the villagers in the village were killed by them, and some of the remaining young people stayed behind to let the elderly

People began to change their bodies collectively."

"After this replacement, they can live stably for decades."

"Decades later, not many people will remember this village anymore. They can come again then."

"The plan was wonderful, but when dozens of villagers changed their bodies at the same time, things took a huge turn."

"The body replacement is not 100% successful. After they let the captured villagers eat their flesh and blood, not all of them were successfully replaced with new bodies!"

"At least half of the villagers, when they were about to succeed, suddenly lost consciousness and experienced drastic changes in their bodies!"

"Their bodies began to grow wildly and wildly, turning into ugly monsters like mountains of flesh in the blink of an eye!"

"What's more important is that these monsters will attack them crazily and eat them into their stomachs!"

"That night, the villagers in the fishing village suffered heavy casualties. Most of the villagers died in the monster attack."

"Not only that, the monsters started to chase them crazily. No matter where they escaped, the monsters would follow them based on their scent."

"During this process, the villagers in the fishing village also tried to find ways to kill these Roshan monsters. Although it is difficult, the Roshan monsters can be killed."

"However, during this process, villagers continued to be devoured and died by monsters. Slowly, their numbers were no longer able to kill any of the Roshan monsters."

"The villagers died one by one, and the last person in the fishing village was forced to the edge of a seaside cliff."

"This last person is none other than the original sacrifice."

"The priest knew a long time ago that she would not be able to survive. She deliberately brought the meat mountain monsters to the edge of the cliff to die together with these meat mountain monsters."

"It all started with her greed. Because of her greed, the fishing village no longer exists."

"The curse that started in the sea should end in the sea."

"More than a dozen meat mountain monsters were approaching. The priest jumped into the sea, and those meat mountain monsters also jumped in."

"Since then, the sea area has returned to calm, and no one has appeared again."

"This is the legend of the mermaid."

The story of the Mermaid Legend is not long, and it didn’t take Granny Fukuda long to finish it.

"The villagers in those fishing villages are so disgusting. They killed the mermaid lady and killed so many innocent people!"

This was not the first time Uoyue heard this. After listening, he still clenched his fists and said angrily.

The mermaid lady, who was so beautiful, was actually killed and eaten by those villagers!

It's so abominable!

"So those villagers suffered retribution."

Yayoi Asakusa said.

When she heard this story when she was a child, she had the same reaction as Uoyue.

But now that I have grown up, I just listen to it as a fable.

"Grandma Fukuda, is this a legend that only locals in Nemuro City know?"

Higashino Hirosawa thought for a while and asked.

Nemuro City, in his memory, was a very remote seaside city in the northeast of Hokkaido.

"Not many people know about Nemuro City. Basically, only people in the seaside fishing village around me have heard of it. After all, this is not a good story. If it spreads, it will not be a good thing for us living in the seaside fishing village.

, so after we heard it, we were all told not to mention it to outsiders."

Granny Futian shook her head.

When she was a child, her fishing village was very poor, and they basically had to make a living by selling fish. If such stories spread, it would affect other people's perception of their fishing village, and others might not buy their fish.

Now that the entire fishing village has long since moved into the city and the fishing village no longer exists, she can speak out without any scruples.

Now that decades have passed, it is estimated that not many people of Grandma Futian still remember this story.

A few people played with Chiwa-chan at Futian's mother-in-law's house for a while, and the Asakusa sisters took Chiwa-chan to take a bath.

Higashino Hirosawa returned to the room alone, lowering his head and thinking about the story of the mermaid legend told by Granny Fukuda.

After careful comparison, the mermaid legend is very consistent with the currently known clues.

If the story is true, Saten Tsuruya is most likely the female priest.

According to the story in the mermaid legend, every time you change your body, there should be a chance of failure and turning into an ugly meat mountain monster.

Even if the ordinary villagers of the fishing village were lucky enough to escape from the pursuit of the Roshan monster, they would not be able to survive from hundreds of years ago to the present.

Only Saten Tsuruya, a priest, did not die for some reason after jumping into the sea, and found a way to change his body with a high probability, so he has been alive to this day.

But this is only a possibility, Saten Tsuruya may not be related to the mermaid legend.

Higashino Hirosawa turned on his computer and searched for more news online.

First, he searched for Saten Tsuruya's name. As expected, no results were found.

Saten Tsuruya is most likely her real name. After changing her body, she will naturally not be able to use this name again. Instead, she will use the name of the owner of the body.

Then he searched for the license plate number, but also found no results.

He found a few legends about changing bodies.

However, except for the stories that are obviously made up by some people on the Internet, the other few are almost all stories about evil spirits possessing ghosts.

The mermaid legend told by Granny Fukuda cannot be found online. It seems that very few people know about it.

After thinking about it, Higashino Hirosawa began to search for news about whether a large number of outstanding young men and women were missing or had sudden changes in personality. In particular, athletes with excellent physical fitness became the focus of Higashino Hirosawa's attention.

If it is not only Saten Tsuruya himself who can change his body, but also high-level figures, then there are not a few such outstanding young men and women who have disappeared or suddenly changed.

This search took Higashino Hirosawa more than half an hour.

Very few young men and women who meet the requirements have gone missing, but most of them have suffered accidents, and their bodies have been found in the end.

Very few people have major personality changes, and after major personality changes, they often end up sinking into ordinary people and do not become better in other fields.

However, these two search results can only be used as a reference and cannot explain much.

Take the outstanding young people who have disappeared as an example. If you have the ability to change your body, it is not difficult to create a fake corpse by any means, especially in the past when technology was not yet developed.

What Higashino Hirosawa really wants to investigate are those Japanese congressmen now and in the past.

Although Japanese parliamentarians are elected, they are not hereditary.

But in fact, it is almost the same as hereditary inheritance.

Those who can become members of parliament are almost all from large families that are tied to local forces. These large families represent the interests of local forces. If the father retires, his son will be elected.

It is almost impossible for an ordinary person who starts from scratch to become a parliamentarian.

Higashino Hirosawa wants to check these self-made congressmen to see if there are too many of them, and if their experiences are not suspicious.

After all, it is impossible for people who have the ability to change their bodies to be willing to be ordinary people.

After careful investigation, Higashino Hirosawa found that except for the ordinary members who had made their fortunes in the past decade or so, in the past, when information transmission was still relatively backward, almost all the members came from major family forces.

These self-made people are all in the affluent Tokyo or Kyoto areas.

Obviously, if it were not for the increasingly networked propaganda methods in recent years, ordinary people would not be able to compete with those big families.

"It seems that the person who can change his body may indeed be Saten Tsuruya."

After a comprehensive analysis of the search results, Higashino Hirosawa felt that this might be a big deal.

Then he only needs to keep an eye on Saten Tsuruya, and the pressure will be greatly reduced.

"Speaking of which, wouldn't Asakusa Yayoi be the perfect candidate for Saten Tsuruya?"

Higashino Hirosawa thought of this when searching for news about missing young people.

He didn't know Saten Tsuruya's specific selection criteria.

But simply judging from the information revealed in the commission, what Saten Tsuruya needs is a healthy female body full of vitality.
Chapter completed!