I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Sure enough, it was at that place just now..."

When Hou Hailudou switched several cameras in a row and found Su Shengliang again...

There were only two blood holes left in his eyes.

"So, based on the current known information, it can be inferred that the victim should have been chasing by some kind of existence, so he fled outside in a panic in the middle of the night..."

Like a detective, Hanyu mused blankly.

"Like all illogical horror movie endings, he was caught up by that unknown existence, his eyes exploded, and he lost too much blood and died in the end? But, why not just kill him..."

"The clues given by the Metropolitan Police Department are basically nothing."

The clues at hand were temporarily interrupted, and Hou Hailudou showed an irritable look: "This kind of supernatural thing is not something that technical nerds like us can infer based on common sense. Why don't we ask the association to find a professional divination..."

"Instead of inviting a fortune teller, how about... Araki-kun, what do you think is going on?"

Slightly frowning and looking at her thin eyebrows, she turned her head to look at Sousuke Araki who was silent, holding a pencil and burying his head in writing on the paper.

"The name...I feel that all of this is related to the name Su Shengliang mentioned before his death."

Araki Sousuke focused on writing, and replied without raising his head.

"Of course it's related. Didn't you see that the author deliberately blocked the name [beep...] in order to protect readers? 』

"But the name [beep...] is too rare. There is not even a person with this name in the household registration information database of the Metropolitan Police Department, let alone someone with the same name. It seems that there is no way to follow up the clues at this end. ..."

Hou Hailudou scratched his hair, logged into the household registration information database of the Metropolitan Police Department, and searched.

"Although this name is rare, it still conforms to the complete structure of traditional Japanese names. It is not uncommon for people to use the same surname and first name alone..."

Mai Hanyu interrupted Atsukai Luto, and tapped her fingers on the table in a hurry.

Most of the common people in Japan did not have or were not even allowed to have a surname, only a first name.

In 1870 and 1875, Emperor Meiji successively promulgated the "Order of Permission for Commoner Miao Characters" and "Order of Mandatory Pronunciation of Commoner Miao Characters" in order to meet the needs of conscription, taxation, and household registration, allowing and requiring all Japanese to use surnames.

The low-educated civilians at that time were forced to adopt familiar things, from the sun, the moon, the stars, to flowers, birds, fish and insects, from occupations, residences to natural phenomena, as surnames, which led to the current situation of Japanese people with various and chaotic names.

For example, Suzuki is pronounced the same as Suzuki, the second largest surname in Japan, and there are eight other pronunciations such as Shoushouki and Suzuki; and the same Chinese character "Suzuki" has 14 different pronunciations.

"'Be careful...the person who knows the name...', that's what Su Shengliang told you at the last moment."

She winked, looked at Sousuke Araki, and asked seriously: "People who know the name, what should you be careful about? Be careful that you will end up with him?"

"'You knew already'……"

Recalling the scene where the man was covered in blood, lying in his arms blankly with a pair of bloody holes open, Araki Sousuke gritted his teeth and nodded.

"After Su Shengliang told me my name, that's what the woman's voice said...you guys, didn't you hear that?"

After several people said that the scene was too noisy to pay attention, he showed the paper in his hand to everyone: "...This is the woman I saw across the street."

On the A4 paper, the crooked lines, with a very simple and rough style of painting, outline a white-clothed man with half an exaggeratedly large black eye, long hair covering his face, and a string with a bell hanging between his hands. female.

"..."

Seeing the vivid image on the paper, everyone was silent for a while.

"Are you sure she did it? Could it be that she just happened to pass by across the street and watched with other people."

Due to the unbearable experience with the "White Clothed Female Wraith", Hou Hailudou didn't even want to take a second look at the graffiti, and moved his eyes back to the screen.

"Well, my intuition tells me that Su Shengliang's death must be related to the name he mentioned and this woman!"

Looking at the image on the paper, the scene of facing that strange woman across the street came to Araki Sousuke's mind more and more clearly.

"Suppose she was the wraith who hunted down Su Shengliang all the way and caused his death, and the reason was related to that name... The information at hand is too scarce, and there are many contradictory hypotheses, it is impossible to make a conclusion..."

After clapping his hands, Wu Yu arranged a series of tasks for his "Chief Hacker" without mercy: "Lu Dou, immediately apply to Section 9 to inquire about similar case files. At the same time, let your reptiles inquire on the Internet. Are there any related urban legends and materials..."

"This is a lot of work..."

Hearing her words, Hou Hailudou's face collapsed immediately, he took out his mobile phone, clicked on the Qianguan APP, and began to order a midnight snack muttering.

"That can't be helped... After all, like everyone in the room, you also witnessed Li Shengliang's death and heard the name. Maybe you have already been taken by the lady in white?"

"I know, I know, I'm going to start now... key!!!"

Listening to Mai Hanyu's faint words, I thought of the crude and terrifying image in Araki Sousuke's paintings. The thick, chubby hands that had always cast a huge shadow on female resentful spirits immediately turned into afterimages, typing rapidly on the keyboard stand up.

"I'll leave it to Hou Hai for the time being, let's get back to the topic..."

Speaking of this, Mai Hanyu began to take out all kinds of strange instruments, and began to measure the "Taketori Picture Scroll" with bright eyes, and recorded various data at the same time.

Since the shimmering symbol on the surface of the picture scroll cannot be seen with the naked eye, she can only carry out these processes with a SLR camera installed with a "real eye".

"Ha... so sleepy."

Araki Sousuke, who put his feet on the conference table, stretched vigorously and yawned.

The little bird You Mayumi beside him was also too sleepy, so he fell asleep pitifully on the sofa beside him with a quilt and pillows in his arms.

In order to report the situation to the association as soon as possible, and worried that the "symbol" on the scroll would not last long, the two endured sleepiness and asked Erqian Ryoma to send them directly to the research institute.

Now as soon as I relax, I will immediately feel drowsy, irresistible.

"After working hard all night, this broken arrow symbol is the so-called 'clue'? Isn't it cheating..."

Rubbing away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and rubbing the rough "arrowheads" on the scroll, Araki Sosuke couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"You should be satisfied if you can get it done in one night, otherwise the ancestors of the Mochizuki clan who took a hundred years will probably be ashamed to climb out of hell and cut seppuku once."

Mai Hanyu printed out a map of the Kanto region and put it on the table, and marked the "Capital Expressway" surrounding the entire Tokyo with a red pen.

"As long as you run around on the Metropolitan Expressway with this thing, you can roughly know whether the place indicated by the arrow is in Tokyo or not."