In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

"From what you mean..."

Hearing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but let the chopsticks in her hand hang in the air, and a frightened expression appeared on her face. It was obvious that she had missed the point: "There really is a snow woman nearby?!"

"Yes, I heard that recently many climbers and villagers who died in the mountains were saved by the Snow Girl. And after saving them, the Snow Girl would..."

The boss lady's expression suddenly darkened, and it was obvious that she was trying to scare the little girl again. Xiaolan also cooperated very well and swallowed her saliva: "Take away all the cash they have on them as the price!"

"Huh?" This was Ran Mouri's voice.

"..."

This is Xia Yan's: "This is really a horror story."

Uncle Maori, who had opened a can of beer on his left, nodded in agreement. "I totally agree!"

Let’s not talk about the feelings of two men who have to start earning money to support their families.

Not scary at all~

"Haha~, speaking of this, it seems that you haven't discovered the cuteness of this snow girl yet. This has to be combined with a strange thing that happened recently in our hotel."

As Conan narrowed his eyes into half-moons and secretly complained, the proprietress gradually began to laugh happily, "Recently, some of the meals prepared in our hotel have occasionally disappeared out of thin air. Then, when we were searching the kitchen, we found some small coins that were well-pressed."

"Could it be?" Xiaolan didn't seem to be afraid anymore after hearing this, but instead became a little interested.

"Yes, we even sent these coins to the police station for inspection, and they did find fingerprints of the victims on them."

The proprietress nodded cheerfully. "So, that lovely Snow Woman rescues victims in the mountains, takes their cash as a reward, and only then does she come to our hotel occasionally in exchange for some delicious food."

"..."

I don't know what others think, but after Xia Yan heard what the boss lady said, the first picture that came to his mind was:

A snow-woman dressed in a beautiful pure white kimono, or sitting by the kitchen window, holding a bowl of food emitting an alluring aroma and steam, picking up a mouthful of food with a happy expression and putting it into her mouth, happily swaying her slender legs and body in white socks in the middle of the meal, hmm...

Xia Yan looked at Xue No on the right. The snow girl's face he imagined in his mind was hers.

At this moment, Xue Noi also looked over. Without thinking carefully, she knew what this guy was thinking, so she reached out and pinched the soft flesh on Xia Yan's waist...

Then within two seconds, she silently retracted the nails on her left hand that were pinched so hard that it hurt.

After the proprietress finished telling the story of the Snow Girl, she bowed politely and left.

Xia Yan and the others were watching the drama while finishing their hot pot, and then scattered around the room.

"Hearing what Mrs. Kitamura said, it seems that the Snow Girl has nothing to fear after all."

Xiaolan was also by the window at this time, lowering her head and smiling as she chatted with Conan, "It does sound a bit cute."

"Sister Xiaolan, how could there be a snow girl in this world?"

Conan, holding the back of his head with his hands, said with a firm belief in science, "I think it's probably the owner of this hotel who made up this story about a snow woman just to attract customers."

"Otherwise, why would he say that the Snow Girl loves to eat at his hotel?"

"Huh? That's..."

However, Xiaolan had no intention of paying attention to Conan at this moment. She was just pulling open a corner of the curtains in the room, pointing at the snow outside with a look of curiosity and more fear: "Snow Girl?"

Chapter 109 The Starring of Snow Girl's Love

"Is that the Snow Girl?"

"Where!"

When Xia Yan heard Xiaolan's voice, his body shuddered, and then he rushed to her side and looked in the direction her finger pointed.

As a result, all you can see is a vast expanse of snow-covered earth and coniferous forests in the snow.

"Uh, I just saw a figure in white climbing up the snow mountain." Xiaolan then pointed to the area where she saw the suspected traces of the Snow Girl.

After hearing this, Xia Yan pondered for a while, then turned and left the room.

Xiaolan was stunned at first, then seemed to understand what Xia Yan was planning to do. Her expression changed, "Are you planning to go find the Snow Girl?"

"But it's late at night and it's snowing outside. It's very dangerous! Is this necessary?"

Following Xia Yan out of the room and all the way to the entrance, Yukinoshita Yukino, who watched him put on his coat and change into outdoor shoes, didn't bother much. She just asked calmly, "Do you want to go?"

"Well, I'll go check out the situation first. You wait here for me—be careful."

The two of them chatted as if no one was around. Then Xue Noi thought for a moment and took off her dark blue scarf. Then she stood on tiptoe and put the scarf around Xia Yan's neck. Like a newlywed wife instructing her husband before his departure, she said with a hint of concern in her tone, "You too, be careful."

The appearance of those two people made Xiaolan and Conan, who were chasing after them worriedly, feel that the atmosphere was a little bit off.

Shouldn't they be trying to stop their foolish companions from going out to commit suicide in the snow late at night? Why did it suddenly turn into a romance drama? And why do they inexplicably feel like they have eaten too much? Why do they suddenly feel so full?

"Xiao Lan! Xiao Lan, don't worry about that kid. It's okay for young people to suddenly impulsively chase after something! He knows to come back at his age, so don't worry about that kid and bring me another can of beer!"

In the end, it was the drunk uncle Maori who rescued him, while Xiaolan was complaining and shouting "Oh Do-san".

Xia Yan wrapped her scarf to cover her face, pushed open the door of the hotel, and walked into the snow-capped mountains in the wind and snow in the middle of the night.

……

……

The next day, early in the morning.

"It's really not that simple."

Xia Yan sat cross-legged in front of the kotatsu in his room, tapping a notebook on the table with a ballpoint pen. Written on the notebook were nothing but the stories about the snow girl that the hotel owner had told him yesterday.

He went out to look for the Snow Girl late last night and came back around midnight.

Let me first tell you the conclusion: he didn't find anything worthwhile.

Because of the snow, when Xia Yan arrived near the area pointed out by Xiaolan, the accumulated snow had already covered the local footprints again.

He wandered around a few more times but couldn't find any clues, so he had to come back.

And then, to be honest, Xia Yan couldn't think of any better direction for investigation for a while. He could only go to the nearby area to explore the legend of the Snow Girl, or look for the TV series "Snow Girl's Love" filmed locally, and find out the details of the filming.

Xia Yan was thinking this as he and Xue Noi went to the hotel front desk, and soon he encountered an unexpected surprise.

In the aisle, Uncle Maori was very enthusiastic and was talking to two mature women who were already wearing ski suits.

Xia Yan glanced at the two women and felt that one of them looked familiar. "Who are these two?"

"Oh, come to think of it, this is the first time you two have met."

Hearing Xia Yan's question, Uncle Maori waved at him enthusiastically. When Xia Yan approached, he introduced Xia Yan to the two women opposite.

Then, as enthusiastic as a monkey in heat, Uncle Maori extended his hands to a woman wearing a blue ski suit. Her demeanor revealed a sense of elegance, and she looked a little familiar to Xia Yan. "This is Ms. Kinoshita Akiko, the protagonist of the TV series 'Snow Woman's Love' that we watched yesterday."

Xia Yan's eyes narrowed, and he even forgot the voice of another woman named "Asanuma Yoko" who was wearing a "little pink" ski suit and had short hair that fell over her shoulders, whom Uncle Maori introduced next.

I actually happened to meet the lead actor of that TV series?!

This should be effortless.

Xia Yan subconsciously glanced at Xue No beside him, and then saw her nod slightly. It seemed that they were thinking the same thing.

"We are going skiing next. Do you guys want to join us?" Sure enough, he soon received an invitation from Uncle Maori.

"Well, I'm going to ask the villagers about the strange stories and legends about the Snow Woman, but..."

Xia Yan also pretended to care about the girl he liked in the same club. He looked at Xue No beside him and said the dog-licking lines he had prepared, "Xue No, just go skiing and have fun. You don't have to come to accompany me to the club activities."

Xue Noi subconsciously showed a look of disdain when she heard this, and then wanted to show off her acting skills like him, but she soon found that she really couldn't do it, so she could only nod coldly: "Yeah."

After that, Xia Yan and the other person acted separately very smoothly.

Xia Yan was mainly responsible for searching for the legend of the Snow Woman nearby, while Xue Nai was skiing with the two actress stars, and asked them speculatively whether they had encountered any strange things when filming "The Love of the Snow Woman" - she was almost asking them directly whether they had seen the Snow Woman at that time.

In this way, time passes by.

When the time comes to afternoon.

"…Finally, the Snow Girl melted into a pile of white snow wrapped in silver clothes in the bamboo basket carried by the man."

"Okay, thank you boss."

Xia Yan silently closed the notebook in his hand and politely thanked the old man in front of him.

As usual, Xia Yan used the excuse of a club activity to record strange stories from various places, and spent the whole morning asking nearby villagers about the legend of the Snow Girl.

Unfortunately, the result was only marginal, because all they talked about were the same legends about the Snow Girls.

For example, the old man in front of him was telling a story he had heard from the hotel owner once before. It was about a snow girl who pretended to be a weak woman to seduce a man, but in the end her cold heart was melted by the man's sincerity.

The situation on Yukino's side was similar to his. Although the two female stars seemed to treat Yukino as their fan and told her a lot of interesting things during the filming, Yukino could not find any clues from them.

The two people's investigation suddenly came to a standstill, and the two-day deadline was approaching.

Just when Xia Yan thought they would get nothing this time, he received another call from Xue No.

"I lost those two, that pinkie... cough."

Xue Noi's tone was a little hurried at first, and then she was misled by the nicknames he used for the two people when he was talking to Xia Yan on the phone.

Fortunately, Yukino quickly corrected herself and said, "There seems to be something wrong with Ms. Asanuma Yoko, the actress who performed the double role in Snow Woman's Love. She deliberately took Ms. Kinoshita Akiko, the other lead actress, away from me."

"That's good. This way, we at least have another direction for investigation. Can you still find any trace of them?"

"I'm afraid not."

"Then let's go back to the hotel first."

After a brief exchange, the two ran towards the hotel at the same time.

As the saying goes, every festive season makes you gain three pounds (not really).

I ran around all day today, drank a lot of wine with my family, lay in bed for a few hours, and sat in front of the computer for more than half an hour. My head was dizzy and I couldn't type a single word.

It's too late to catch up now, so I'll take a day off. Also...

I can't figure out whether this holiday is counted as yesterday or today, so this is also to adjust the update time in the underworld. I will try to start normal updates when I wake up at noon or in the afternoon to see if I can resume my daily routine in the world of the living.

If there are still readers waiting, I can only say that I am very sorry today.

Chapter 110: The farcical Snow Woman Legend murder case...

Genbei Ryokan, entrance.

"Ah~, I didn't expect it to snow so quickly! The weather in the mountains is like a child's temper, changing at a moment's notice."

All I saw was the problematic "little pink" Miss Asanuma Yoko, who took the initiative to get rid of Yukino's pursuit.

At this time, she was wearing the same sun-proof and windproof mask, and even wore goggles on the outside, so that not an inch of her skin could be seen, and naturally her specific appearance could not be seen as she walked back to the hotel in the wind and snow outside.

She was now near the entrance, greeting and chatting with the Maori family who had just returned.

"That's right."

Uncle Maori echoed, glancing around her, and then asked in confusion, "Ms. Yoko, are you back alone? Where's Miss Akiko?"

"Akira said she wanted to go skiing again. I'm a little worried now."

As Asanuma Yoko took off her boots at the entrance, muttering to herself with a worried tone, but seemingly deliberately: "Akira has been feeling a little unwell lately. I wonder if she's just being tough."

"Then Mr. Maori, we'll see you later."

In the hotel living room next door, Xia Yan and Xue Nai, who had returned a little earlier than them, naturally heard the conversation.

The two looked at each other, stood up tacitly, and followed each other to the outside of Yoko Asanuma's room.

Then Xia Yan leaned against the wall next to the door and closed his eyes slightly. Xue Nai, without any special instructions, stood in the corridor and took charge of guarding (releasing) the wind.

Advanced Nen Ability Techniques: Circle