I’M Really Helpless In Tokyo

"It would be easy if the place is in Tokyo... If it's not here..."

Unfolding the "Traffic Map of the Kanto Region", standing on her chest extremely naturally, Mai Hanyu narrowed her eyes and looked at the contents in distress, as if she was embarrassed by the overly primitive instructions of this scroll.

"Let's not mention whether this thing refers to a place or something, and how long the display of this symbol can last... If it is in places far away from the island of Japan, such as the North and South Pole, Europe, I am afraid that it will only be found in the year of the monkey."

Hou Hailu Dou, who had his back turned to the crowd typing on the keyboard, completed her unfinished words.

Because of a task arranged by a wayward president, he can only continue to work overtime in the conference room here.

"No wonder the Mochizuki clan and the royal family spent so much time, and they couldn't get this stuff done..."

"Hey, don't look at the map in such a way that disturbs others' attention and maliciously show off your bust!" 』

After finally struggling away from Mai Hanyu’s broad mind, which easily propped up the map, Sosuke Araki picked up the thick picture scroll, looked carefully at the arrow symbol formed by the white light, and sighed helplessly. .

Although not good at analyzing these things, he also understood the meaning of the two people's words.

"Asshole, a broken picture scroll..."

Then, he fiercely slammed the scroll to the tabletop: "Quickly, where is the secret treasure, or I will break you!"

After finally getting enough of the soul dust, the clues obtained are so slim, it is indeed a bit discouraging.

"Pattern."

Under his heavy blow, the knots on the outside of the scroll spread out sadly, rolling along the long conference table, and slowly spreading out in front of everyone.

"Really, even though it is a hard-to-destroy grudge, you can't throw it away, Araki-kun, you smashed flowers and plants..."

Atuhailudou put down the laptop and handed a bottle of DR.PEPPER to Sousuke Araki.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't you remember that there was this painting before?"

After taking a sip of the drink in his hand, Hou Hailudou's gaze suddenly fell to the end of the unfolding scroll.

After this picture scroll was brought back by Mai Hanyu, he made a comprehensive record, and at the same time made various material identifications on the handwriting and pigments of the paintings. It can be said that he remembers every picture in his heart.

At this moment, at the end of the scroll, there is a painting that I have never seen before.

The picture outlined in black and white lines is a four-lane tunnel in Shuangqiaodong that can be seen everywhere in Japan.

The brushstrokes and realistic painting techniques of this ink and wash are quite different from the painting style in front of this scroll.

It is not so much a painting as a drawing or even a photograph.

"Whee……"

At the same time, Mai Hanyu had her eyes glowing, and with a dreamy chuckle, she got close to the picture scroll.

This kind of modern tunnel, which appeared in the picture scrolls thousands of years ago, is no longer an ordinary thing.

If it had existed before, it would be impossible for them to fail to notice, so it can only be a recent change.

"Sure enough..."

She took out the tape measure she had gotten from somewhere, and drew it directly from the end of the conference table along the picture scroll...

"This picture scroll has become longer...just the length of a painting longer than before!"

"So, this new ‘growth’ painting is also one of the clues given?"

Looking curiously at the black tunnel in that simple picture, Sosuke Araki didn't think it would be of much help.

"It's easy to say if you have a picture, but this kind of tunnel is everywhere in Japan..."

"Kacha...Kacha..."

Mai Hanyu on the side had already taken out the SLR pretending to be the "Eye of Reality" and started shooting frantically.

"Although tunnels are everywhere, as long as you use crawlers on the Internet to compare the appearance and proportion of the tunnel with big data, as long as it is not very remote, I believe there will be results soon."

At the same time, being awakened by the excitement of the crowd, the little bird Yu Mayumi, who looked at the picture scroll with a drooling mouth, suddenly stretched his finger to a corner of the picture.

"Yawn... Mr. Araki, this symbol seems to be something painted."

In the lower right corner of the painting, there is a circular symbol outlined in a simple pen.

"This thing, is it a bowl? A basin? A pot? I always feel a little familiar..."

After her reminder, everyone noticed the sticky pen symbol below.

"Let me see……"

I took the picture with my mobile phone and transferred it to the computer. Thick, fat fingers tapped on the keyboard flexibly.

"Oh, there is... the container with the highest similarity to this shape is the ‘bowl’."

In less than a minute, Hou Hailu Dou used the image search engine to compare the results.

"Bowl? The one used by the monk for food? No wonder it's so familiar."

After his reminder, Araki Sosuke suddenly realized.

Bowl, generally refers to the food utensils used by monks, depending on the material, there are tile bowls, iron bowls, wooden bowls, etc.

According to the Buddhist system, the monk must lead a simple life. In terms of personal belongings, only three robes and one bowl are allowed, and the consumption of each meal shall not exceed one bowl.

During the "retreat practice" at the Kawasaki Daishi Temple, Sosuke Araki also received a bowl for daily meals, but he never brought it back.

"So, what this picture and the arrow-like symbol want to indicate should be this thing?"

To sum it up, Mai Hanyu suddenly glanced at the Hou Hailu Dou who was aside with a bad intention.

"Cough cough cough cough... Damn it, let me check it again? The information about the resentful spirit just now, the crawler program hasn't been written yet..."

Feeling the old sister's intimidating gaze, Hou Hailu Dou, who was sitting next to the computer, shuddered suddenly.

"Who made you the first (only) seat (1) hacker under me? I would like to ask the ninth class and the research institute to help, but Uncle Shiben..."

Mai Hanyu glanced at one of the hackers under her while hesitating to say something.

"Moreover, I obviously saw you have plenty of money, and I just took the time to look at the tentacle notebook..."

"Ahem, watching comics is to relieve stress and work more efficiently... In the high-tech age, the small matter of capturing original information can be set and handed over to the crawler. Why don't you need a professional like me to do it yourself!"

Being exposed to the facts of X addiction and laziness in public, Hou Hailudou pretended to calmly and quickly tapped the keyboard: "I will set up an additional crawler program to automatically grab the tunnel of similar proportions and the pictures of the bowl. Tomorrow, etc. Let's see the result..."

Thanks to the generous financial assistance of the "Taitung District Reconstruction Foundation", he has obtained access to several cloud servers with powerful computing capabilities.

Thanks to the powerful computing power, the speed of collecting data is not the same as when I was in the "small workshop" in Akihabara.

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