Congratulations You Are Under Arrest!

As we all know, floor noise is always a big problem that is unavoidable in modern society.

However, when there is no one living upstairs or downstairs, and it is quiet in the middle of the night, you suddenly hear a "dong dong dong" floor noise.

Then the problem is bigger

At this moment, Higashinohara lost all sleep.

At this time, under the dim moonlight outside the window, only the blurred black outlines of the decayed and rotten furniture around him were left in his eyes, like something indescribable hidden in the darkness. The sound of dong dong" seemed to be awakened at any time.

Higashinohara shook his head, knowing that these were all his own delusions.

He took a deep breath and turned on the switch of the tactical light without thinking. The suddenly bright white light was a bit dazzling in the dark, but it also dispelled the surrounding darkness.

The moment he turned on the light, the movement on the ceiling above his head suddenly became smaller and lighter, but it did not disappear, like a strange visitor wandering outside the door wondering if someone at home knocked tentatively twice from time to time.

Although Higashinohara has a big heart, the more dangerous he is, the calmer he is.

But dangerous and scary are two completely different things.

No matter how big his heart is, in this case, it is impossible to say that he will continue to sleep with his head covered with a quilt.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara picked up the lamp at hand without thinking, got up and walked out of the house.

That's right, Higashinohara plans to go up and see what's going on.

Perhaps for the rest of the investigation team, this dead steel forest is an indescribable "city of hell", and everyone has been shrouded in fear that no one is willing to take the initiative to say since they came to this world.

But not for Higashinohara.

He knows this place better than anyone in the investigation team, and clearly knows that this is not some kind of "hell" city, but a prosperous river and sea city in the country where he lived in his previous life.

I just don't know why, this city, this world has become like this, but the more it is, the more urgently he wants to know what happened here than anyone else.

Opportunity seems to be right now.

Higashinohara didn't know if this was a unique opportunity in his life, but he knew that if he seized this opportunity well, he might be able to glimpse the truth behind this "city of hell".

Even if it's just the tip of the iceberg of truth.

Squeak-!

Dong Yeyuan pushed open the door.

quiet!

Absolutely quiet!

People who are accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the city with murmurs all day and night, find it difficult to adapt to this kind of quietness, as if they are in the extremely dark deep sea several kilometers down, and an emotion called fear will uncontrollably grow in their hearts. .

But at this moment, Higashinohara was just standing in the quiet corridor, watching the empty corridor.

Behind his ears, he could still hear the sound of "dong dong dong" hitting the ceiling from time to time in his room, but his brows could not help but frown slightly.

This is a little different from what he thought.

Obviously, the sound insulation of this old-fashioned residential building can't be very good, so the sound from the ceiling above his room just now was so loud, if it was as he imagined, it would be possible to smash the bones of the face.

There were more than a dozen people living in a row on the second floor of such a loud noise, and it made no sense that he was the only one who could hear the sound—unless the other party could confine the sound waves to a certain area like water waves.

Higashinohara pondered these things in his heart.

Suddenly, he heard the "squeak" sound of opening the door.

In the dark tunnel-like corridor on the second floor ahead, the door of a room was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

Dong Ye Yuan subconsciously raised the light in his hand and turned on it, but from his angle, he could only see five slender white fingers beside the door slowly pushing the door open.

"who is it?"

Facing this scene full of strange and terrifying atmosphere, Higashinohara's heart suddenly tightened slightly, and he couldn't help but ask.

He vaguely remembered that the room was occupied tonight.

The next moment, a figure of a man appeared behind the door, wearing earphones like him, with one sleeve hanging empty by his side, opened the door and closed it.

It was him.

Seeing this, Higashinohara breathed a sigh of relief. Although he took the initiative to speak just now, he was still a little panicked when he encountered this scene in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, he also knew the man in front of him. He was the capable sniper who cooperated with him to kill the seventh adjudicator Gaius Rhine under the sky tree at the end of last month, but this time he joined the investigation team of the adjudication division for some reason.

It is said to be called "Qihai Jian", and it sounds like he doesn't know his real name or a pseudonym, but no one cares about that.

"It turned out to be Qihai-sang, is it your turn to change shifts now?" Higashinohara greeted with a smile, he remembered that it was Qihaijian and a black-robed execution team who were in charge of taking turns on duty in the middle of the night.

At night, the other party did not continue to wear that pair of sunglasses, and Higashinohara realized that the man's eyes were lifeless, like the eyes of dead fish, and the lights seemed to be glowing with a strange shimmer.

Even if he knew that the other party was his own, he felt a little strange in his heart.

Nanami Kenjiro glanced at Higashinohara who appeared in the corridor in the middle of the night. Higashinohara was observing him just now, and he was keenly aware of his footsteps. He was also observing Higashinohara.

Hearing Higashinohara's words at this time, Nanami Kenjiro was silent for a moment, and replied lightly, "There is no shift, I am on duty tonight."

Higashinohara was slightly taken aback when he heard this, and wanted to ask where your "partner" was, but he felt that the question was a bit redundant, so he could only say with a little sympathy:

"Those guys are a bit too much. They didn't do the tasks assigned by their bosses. It's hard work."

"I don't care."

Kenjiro Nanami still didn't have much expression in the lifeless eyes of the dead fish. He turned to frown slightly, looked at Higashinohara and asked, "What are you doing out at night?"

Not to mention that each room in their row has its own bathroom, and Higashinohara's whole-hearted look doesn't look like he wakes up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet.

"Qihai-san, did you hear a strange sound just now?"

"Strange sound? What sound?"

Higashinohara saw that Kenjiro Nanami's expression was not a fake. After thinking about it, he decided to confess. There is nothing to hide about this kind of thing. One more person brings more strength.

He bluntly raised his finger and pointed to the top of his head, "When I was sleeping just now, something seemed to be hitting the floor upstairs. I wanted to go up and have a look."

Is something hitting the floor upstairs?

Kenjiro Nanami couldn't help but startled slightly when he heard the words, and finally there was a slight fluctuation in the eyes of the dead fish who didn't have the slightest bit of anger.

At this time, he also seemed to realize that except for the second floor where they lived, all the other floors of this residential building were empty and there was no trace of anyone.

Then why is there a sound in the middle of the night?

He stared at Dong Ye Yuan carefully, and seemed to be sure that Dong Ye Yuan was not joking. He couldn't help frowning slightly and said, "You must go up?"

Higashinohara knew that according to the rules of the investigation team leader Gray Maine, after crossing the border gate and arriving in "Hell", any situation must be reported immediately.

But Higashinohara took the risk to join the investigation team of the Judgment Division, not to "abide by the rules".

And he knew very well that the man with the lifeless dead fish eyes he met in front of him couldn't possibly be a stickler.

"That's right." He simply nodded.

Not surprisingly, Nanami Kenjiro didn't mean to block or report, just nodded and said, "Be careful, I'll wait for you at the entrance of the corridor."

Higashinohara glanced at the other party in surprise, Nanami Kenjiro's words not only meant to let Higashinohara go out, but also seemed to have the meaning of helping him to be sentry.

Why would the other party help him so much?

Higashinohara doesn't think he has a life full of charm, and a look can make people convince. Could it be that he is also curious about these?

But no matter what the other party's goals are, as long as the goals of the two do not conflict, the way of life between people is to seek common ground while reserving differences, and there is no need to make everything clear.

"thanks."

Tonohara nodded.

At this moment, just as he was walking down the corridor on the second floor, the faint knocking sound from the ceiling of his room had gradually ceased.

Almost inaudible.

If it wasn't for Higashinohara's conviction that he heard it right, if it were someone else, he might start to wonder if he was too nervous to have auditory hallucinations.

He opened the way with tactical lights in hand, and saw a faint black spot on the stairs ahead.

Higashinohara knew that it was a big broken hole, so when he approached it, he deliberately went around it.

The stairs of this low-rise and old residential building are not too long. In just a few steps, Higashinohara climbed to the corner of the corridor, and you can see the entrance of the corridor on the third floor.

When he took another step, the corner of his eye glanced behind him, and found that Kenjiro Nanami was waiting behind him as he said, and those lifeless dead fish eyes looked at him quietly like that.

Hmm, kind of scary.

Higashinohara spit in his heart.

He took a deep breath, stepped forward, and quickly walked towards the third floor.

But then, the moment he stepped up to the third floor, looking at the empty corridor on the right, Higashinohara's eyes narrowed slightly.

When surveying the building in the evening, he clearly remembered that there was a black sanitation trash can at the corner of the third floor along the stairs.

But when he returned to the third floor in the middle of the night, the tactical lights flashed left and right, but the entire corridor was empty.

Where's the sanitation trash can?

Was it dragged away?

But the captain of the investigation team, Gray Maine, seemed to be quite vigilant, or maybe he was hiding something. This evening, he repeatedly emphasized that when he was surveying the floor, he should report anything he found first, and it was forbidden to move anything without authorization!

This means that no one should move the trash can on the third floor, so where did the trash can go?

Higashinohara couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart.

However, he still remembered the purpose of going upstairs, and with the light on, he took a step forward again, and walked towards the room directly above him on the left.

The room where Higashino lived was the 207th household on the left side of the stairs, so the room he was going to was naturally the corresponding 307th household.

The tactical lighting in his hand was not enough to completely dispel the ink-stained darkness around him. In the dimly lit corridor, when Higashinohara walked past the doors of other dark rooms.

I don't know if it was an illusion or not, but he suddenly felt that the inside didn't seem to be as empty as in the evening. It seemed that there really was a family of three or a couple of migrant workers living in it happily and harmoniously.

There was some inexplicable feeling of doubt in his mind, but at this time, Higashinohara's heart couldn't help but tremble suddenly, and the familiar "dong dong dong" sound of impact was heard again in his ears.

His current position is in front of the 306th door. As long as he walks through this one, the front is the 307th-the one directly above the one where Higashi Yehara lives tonight.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara pulled out the slashing sword that came standard with the Judgment Division without hesitation.

Now that he has mastered the eighth-order semi-god-level sword type [No Self, One Dao Row], he naturally doesn't need to carry the two small daggers bought in the second-hand market at any time. .

So when he took that step and stood in front of the 307th door, the faint sound of "dong dong dong" that had been in his ears suddenly stopped.

call-!

Higashinohara put his hand on the doorknob, took a deep breath, and immediately pushed the door open, aiming the tactical light in his hand at the house.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the sound that had stopped suddenly sounded again without warning.

This time, the crash sound came from a bedroom in front of the door. The sound that came from was stronger and louder than the previous countless times. It was just a loud "bang" sound, but there was a sound in the ear. The sound of countless abandoned reinforced concrete shattering.

There seems to be something,

It suddenly fell from the sunken ground.

Higashinohara's heart suddenly "squeaked", and he rushed over and slashed open the door with a sword. Inside the door was a master bedroom. The light illuminated the ground under the bed, as if someone had smashed a black hole with a hammer!

Higashinohara was a little dumbfounded.

He had no idea that he would take the risk and nervously climb upstairs all the way upstairs, and the "thing" across the ceiling upstairs would smash the ceiling open after countless knocks.

He's on it now

what is this?

Polarity reversal?

However, the loud noise at this moment finally awakened the rest of the investigation team, and Higashinohara even vaguely heard someone downstairs shouting and assembling quickly.

He didn't want to stop any longer, and he didn't jump out of the big hole that opened in front of him.

He is brave but not stupid.

Jumping down so recklessly, who knows what the other party is?

However, just as he turned around to leave, he swept the tactical light in his hand, and inadvertently saw a diary with a yellow and black cover on the ground not far in front of him.

In the blink of an eye, Higashinohara bent over to pick it up without hesitation, grabbed the sword and the lamp in his hand, and ran towards the entrance of the corridor when he came.

But when Higashinohara was about to reach the entrance of the corridor and was running, out of the corner of his eyes, he somehow felt the house where the sanitation trash can was placed before the evening.

Behind the two dust-stained pitch-black glass, a pair of eyes looked at him quietly, and then quickly withdrew his gaze like a shy and introverted girl next door.

what the hell? !

Before Higashinohara could think too much about it, the movement on the second floor was getting louder and louder. His body quickly crossed the house and rushed down the corridor.

However, when he turned the corner in one breath, the scene in front of him made Higashinohara stunned for a moment.

In the noisy and chaotic corridor on the second floor, the leader of the investigation team behind the crowd, Gray Mein, was holding a transparent detection device similar to a "metal detector" in his hand with a gloomy expression on his face. Aim at a certain direction on the west side of the second floor corridor.

In the blink of an eye, the unexplained detection instrument suddenly emitted an incomparably green light.

The next moment, Higashinohara only heard a system-synthesized female voice without the slightest emotion.

"Alert! Dangerous Green Demon Level 2 detected! Alert! Dangerous Green Demon Level 2 detected!"

I originally wanted to post the two chapters together, but I was a little out of place in the early morning.

Get some sleep first, there's a second chapter later.

Ask for a ticket!