I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Excuse me for a word of persuasion..."

The police officer sitting in front of the outdoor diesel heater looked helplessly at the "special agent" from the Tokyo Metropolitan Metropolitan Police Department, and hesitated to speak: "Even if you invited an Ainu as a guide, but The search range of the three of them is limited after all, we should wait until the snow stops..."

The "Tokyo Reinforcement Force", which was originally expected, only had two people plus an Ainu guide, which is really disappointing.

When electronic equipment failed for no reason and everything returned to the primitive society, the few of them "sit in" the base camp, and they could only warm up and play the role of anti-theft. They couldn't even coordinate manpower and material resources and keep information unobstructed.

Three more people would just come back and cook instant noodles together.

"Shhhhh..."

Not far from the camp, a wooden sled was parked there quietly.

A few half-meter-tall white long-haired Ainu dogs tied in front of the sled were fawningly rubbing their bodies against the black heavy locomotive parked aside.

The Ainu Dog, also known as the Hokkaido Dog, is a breed bred by the Ainu people and is the oldest of all Japanese dogs.

It looks like an Akita dog, but because of its more docile, loyal, vigilant personality, excellent cold resistance, excellent physical strength and muscles, it is one of the best dog breeds for snow operations.

"No... the snow... covers up the smell..."

A huge "brown bear" is lying on the ground like a hound, sniffing around along the original position of the national road...

"Not to mention the best Ainu dogs, even I can't smell anything."

Impressively, it was Ichisuke, a tall Ainu hunter with three-dimensional features, wearing a bearskin coat and a ferocious bear hat.

As the animal with the best sense of smell in the world, bears have a sense of smell 2100 times better than humans.

Brown bears can detect animal carcasses about 20 miles away, while polar bears can detect the scent of a sow in estrus up to 100 miles away.

It is with this keen sense of smell that bears are able to find food, mate, avoid danger, and track wild cubs.

And the city assistant, who inherited the "bear demon bloodline" and whose sense of smell is comparable to that of a brown bear, was naturally sent by the patriarch to assist Sousuke Araki and the two in tracking down the bus.

"It's only snowed for less than three days, so I can only dig it up and try, maybe there will be a sealed smell!"

After saying something to himself, Shisuke took out a small wooden shovel from the backpack behind him, and quickly dug up...

"Oh? Dig up the snow, then I'll help too..."

Wrapped in a coat, sunglasses and scarf, Araki Sousuke, who is like a thief, also took a folding engineer shovel from the motorcycle, and swung it like the wind to shovel up the snow on the ground...

"What are these two guys doing?"

When Fujiwara Takumi, who was sitting by the stove with hot tea, heard the sound, he saw countless white snows flying in the air like waves...

In less than a minute, a snow pit with a diameter of five meters and a depth of about two meters appeared on the snow.

"Crack."

Soon, there was the sound of something breaking in the pit.

"Oh, it seems to have dug into the road!"

When Fujiwara Takumi and Ichisuke walked to the edge of the pit curiously, Sousuke Araki, who almost fell into the snow pit, just pulled out the engineer shovel from the ground...

"You muscular idiot, what do you mean by 'like digging'... You smashed the road surface...Is this destroying public facilities?"

Looking at the asphalt road of National Highway 230 full of cracks and potholes, Fujiwara Takumi felt that it was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out.

"This... 咱咻... I did smell the exhaust from the car... But there are too many vehicles on the national highway, so I can't confirm whether it is the bus you are looking for..."

Lying on the edge of the pit, Shizuo kept twitching his nose, his expression turned cold: "Wait, there's an evil smell mixed in here!"

"Evil? Could it be the smell left by those 'dolls'?"

Thinking of the chilling "Aju Doll", who might be wandering in the nearby forest waiting for an opportunity to retaliate because of the loss of his allies, Fujiwara Takumi shrank his neck subconsciously.

"No, it's not the same... This smell is more like the breath of some kind of beast..."

Looking for the source of the breath, Shisuke pointed to the northeast: "Try digging this way!"

"OK, let's leave it to "Hokkaido's strongest snow removal craftsman" Araki-kun! "

After the city assistant turned out of the snow pit, Sosuke Araki suddenly picked up the engineering shovel in his hand like a windmill...

The snow in front of Takumi Fujiwara instantly turned into a white sea, as if a vicious shark was sprinting below the surface of the water, setting off waves of white waves...

"I said, are you going to dig a trench along National Highway 230?!"

Before Takumi Fujiwara finished speaking, Sousuke Araki, who was drifting away in the "trench", suddenly stopped moving.

"This is……"

Lifting off his sunglasses and blindfold, Sousuke Araki carefully looked at the road exposed under the snow.

"……footprint?!"

On the asphalt road, a footprint with four toes and a round sole can be vaguely seen.

"It looks like... a bear?"

Looking at the huge footprints of an unknown beast, the two looked at each other, their faces not very good-looking.

As an island, Hokkaido has a very single species of large beasts, and only the brown bear, which is a specialty, is worthy of praise.

"Ordinary bears don't have such big feet, and they can't make such footprints on the asphalt, right?"

The two were not surprised by the huge foot strength of the creature that left the footprints to "break through the iron shoes"...

It was because, at the bottom of the footprints, there were still strands of black resentment that had not dissipated.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Turning over and jumping into the ditch, Shisuke carefully identified the strange footprints.

"This shape is indeed the footprint of a bear, I can't admit it wrong... Could it be... a ghost bear?!"

As if remembering something, he suddenly called out trembling.

"Ghost bear?"

"What are you talking about, are you living as a hero and dying as a ghost..."

Looking at Ichisuke who was standing dumbfounded at the bottom of the pit, and Araki Sousuke who was sitting on the edge of the pit and rubbing snowballs boredly, he looked curious.

"Ghost bears, a terrifying evil spirit, haven't appeared in Hokkaido for nearly a hundred years since a certain large-scale hunting activity. I only learned about it from word of mouth in the clan."

As if recalling something, Shisuke's face became more and more difficult to look.

"Ghost bear, because he refused to respond to the call of the kingdom of God, he finally turned into an evil bear..."

It is said that only a bear that has survived for decades can become a "ghost bear".

The ghost bear is more than two meters tall, and with a bare hand slap, even a cow and a horse can be directly shredded.

Not only that, ghost bears have a more cunning mind than humans, and they can walk upright like humans, and disguise themselves as travelers from a distance in the snow to lower people's vigilance.