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 at night, you suddenly hear a "dong-dong-dong" noise from the floor.
Then the problem is even bigger
At this moment, Higashinohara suddenly lost all sleep.
At this time, under the dim moonlight outside the window, in his eyes, only the vague black outlines of the dilapidated and decaying furniture around him were left, like some indescribable things hiding in the darkness.
The collision sound of "dong dong" seemed to be awakened at any time.
Higashinohara shook his head, knowing that these were all his illusions.
He took a deep breath and turned on the tactical light switch without thinking. The sudden white light was a bit dazzling in the darkness, 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 did not disappear. It was like a strange visitor wandering outside the door who didn't know if anyone was at home and knocked experimentally from time to time.
Although Higashinohara has a big heart, the more dangerous he is, the calmer he becomes.
But dangerous and scary are completely different things.
No matter how arrogant he was, he would not be able to cover his head with a quilt and continue to sleep under such circumstances.
Thinking of this, Higashinohara picked up the lighting at hand without thinking, got up and walked outside the house.
That's right, Higashinohara planned to go up and see what was going on.
Perhaps to other members of the investigation team, this dead steel forest is an indescribable "city of hell". From the moment they arrive in this world, everyone's heart is shrouded in a layer of fear that no one is willing to take the initiative to speak out about.
But that's not the case for Higashinohara.
He knows this place better than anyone in the investigation team and knows clearly that this is not a "hell" city, but a prosperous river and sea city in the country where he lived in his previous life.
He just didn't know why, but this city and this world had turned into what he saw before him. But the more this happened, the more urgent he wanted to know what was happening here than anyone else.
Now the opportunity seems to be right in front of you.
Higashinohara didn't know if this was a unique opportunity in his life, but he knew that if he seized this opportunity, he might be able to get a glimpse of the truth behind this "city of hell".
Even if it's just the tip of the iceberg of the truth.
Squeak—!
Higashinohara opened the door. The moon was high in the sky outside, and the dim moonlight cast a layer of dark silver brilliance on his body. There was no sound in the dim corridor outside the door.
quiet!
Extremely quiet!
People who are accustomed to the noisy city and having their ears filled with noise all day and all night find it difficult to adapt to this kind of quietness. As if they are in an extremely dark deep sea thousands of meters below, an emotion called fear will arise uncontrollably in their hearts.
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But at this moment, Higashinohara was standing in the quiet corridor, staring at the empty corridor.
Behind his ears, he could still vaguely hear the "dong-dong-dong" sound of hitting the ceiling from time to time in his room, but he couldn't help but frown slightly.
This is a little different from what he thought.
The soundproofing effect of this old-fashioned residential building is obviously not very good, so the sound from the ceiling above his room was so loud just now. If it was like what he imagined, his face bones would probably be smashed.
There was such a loud noise. There were more than a dozen residents living in a row on the second floor. There was no reason that only he could hear the sound - unless the other party could limit the sound waves to a certain area like water waves.
Higashinohara pondered these in his mind.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of "squeaking" the door opening in his ears.
In the dark second-story corridor ahead, which was as dark as a bottomless tunnel, suddenly the door of a room was pushed open from the inside.
Higashinohara subconsciously raised the light in his hand and turned on it, but from his angle, he could only see five slender white fingers on the side of the door slowly pushing the door open.
"who is it?"
Facing this scene that was full of weirdness and horror, 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 man's figure appeared behind the door. He was wearing earphones like him, with one sleeve hanging empty by his side. He opened the door and closed it behind him.
It turned out to be him.
Higashinohara breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. Although he took the initiative to speak just now, it was still a little scary to encounter this scene unexpectedly in the middle of the night.
Fortunately, he also knew the man in front of him. He was the esper 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 department for some reason.
It is said to be called "Nanami-ken". It sounds like I don't know whether it is a real name or a pseudonym, but no one cares about that.
"It turns out to be Nanami-san, is it your turn to change shifts now?" Higashinohara greeted with a smile. He remembered that tonight Nanami Ken and a member of the black-robed execution team were responsible for taking turns on duty in the middle of the night.
At night, when the man no longer wore the pair of sunglasses, Higashinohara discovered that the man's eyes were lifeless, like dead fish eyes, and seemed to glow with a strange glimmer when the light shone on them.
Even though I know the other person is one of my own, I still feel a little weird.
Nanami Kenjiro glanced at Higashinohara who appeared in the corridor in the middle of the night. Higashinohara was observing him just now. He was keenly aware of his footsteps and was actually observing Higashinohara as well.
Hearing Higashinohara's words at this time, Nanami Kenjiro was silent for a moment and replied calmly, "There is no shift change, I will be on duty tonight."
Higashinohara was slightly startled after hearing this. He wanted to ask where your heavenly "partner" had gone, but when he said it, he felt that the question was a bit unnecessary, so he could only say with a slight sympathy:
"Those guys went too far. They didn't do the tasks assigned by their boss, so thank you Nanami-san for your hard work."
"I don't care."
Nanami Kenjiro's lifeless dead fish eyes still didn't have much expression. He turned to frown slightly, looked at Higashinohara and asked, "What are you doing out at night?"
Not to mention that every room in their row has its own bathroom, and Higashinohara's fully alert look did not look like he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
"Nanami-san, did you hear any strange noises just now?"
"Strange sound? What sound?"
Seeing that Nanami Kenjiro's expression was not fake, Higashinohara thought for a while and decided to confess. There was nothing to hide about this kind of thing, and one more person would give him more strength.
He pointed directly at the top of his head, "When I was sleeping, something seemed to hit the floor upstairs. I wanted to go up and have a look."
Something is hitting the floor upstairs?
Nanami Kenjiro couldn't help being slightly startled when he heard this, and his eyes, which were lifeless and dead fish, finally showed some fluctuations.
At this time, he seemed to realize that except for the second floor where they settled, all the other floors were empty, without any trace of people.
Then why is there a sound in the middle of the night?
He stared at Higashinohara carefully for a few times, as if he was sure that Higashinohara was not joking. He couldn't help but frown slightly and said, "You must go up?"
Higashinohara knew that according to the rules of Gray Mine, the captain of the investigation team, after crossing the border gate and arriving at "Hell", any situation must be reported to the superiors as soon as possible.
But Higashinohara did not take the risk to join the investigation team of the Adjudication Division just to "obey the rules."
Grain Helm
And he knew very well that the man he met in front of him with lifeless fish eyes could not be a stickler for rules.
"That's right." He nodded simply.
As expected, Nanami Kenjiro didn't mean to stop or report, he just nodded and said, "Be careful, I'll wait for you at the entrance of the corridor."
After hearing this, Higashinohara looked at the other party in slight surprise. Nanami Kenjiro's words not only meant to let Higashinohara go out, but also seemed to mean that he wanted to serve as a sentry for him.
Why did the other party help him so much?
Higashinohara doesn't think that he has a life full of charm and can make people convinced with just one look. Could it be that he is also very curious about this?
But no matter what the other party's purpose is, as long as the two people's purposes do not conflict, it will be fine. The way to deal with people is to seek common ground while reserving differences. There is no need to clarify everything clearly.
"Thanks."
Higashinohara nodded.
At this moment, as he was walking along the corridor on the second floor, the faint knocking sounds coming from the ceiling of his room behind him had gradually stopped.
Hardly audible.
If Higashinohara hadn't been so sure that he heard it right, someone else might have started to wonder if he was too nervous when he first arrived and had auditory hallucinations.
He held a tactical light to clear the way, and saw a vague black spot on the stairs ahead.
Higashinohara knew that it was a large, damaged hole, so he deliberately went around it when he approached.
The stairs in this kind of low-rise old residential building are not too long. After a few steps, Higashinohara climbed to the corner of the corridor, and he could see the entrance to the corridor on the third floor.
When he took another step, he glanced behind him from the corner of his eye and found that Nanami Kenjiro was waiting behind him as he said, with his lifeless fish eyes looking at him quietly.
Well, it's a bit scary.
Dong Yeyuan vomited in his heart.
He took a deep breath, stepped forward, and quickly walked towards the third floor.
But then, when he stepped onto the third floor, looking at the empty corridor on the right, Higashinohara's eyes couldn't help but condense slightly.
When he was inspecting the building in the evening, he clearly remembered that along the stairs, there was a black sanitation trash can in the corner of the third floor. He couldn't see it clearly at the time and it shocked him.
But when he returned to the third floor in the middle of the night, tactical lighting flashed from left to right, but the entire corridor was empty.
Where are the sanitation trash cans?
Was it dragged away?
But Gray Mine, the captain of the investigation team, seemed to be quite vigilant, or maybe he was hiding something. He repeatedly emphasized this evening that when surveying the floor, he should report anything he found first, and it was forbidden to move anything without permission!
This means that no one should touch the trash can on the third floor, so where did the trash can go?
Dong Yeyuan's heart couldn't help but feel slightly tense.
However, he still remembered the purpose of going upstairs, and took steps again with the light on, heading towards the room directly above him on the left.
The room that Higashino lives in is House 207 on the left hand side of the stairs, so the room he is going to now is naturally the corresponding House 307.
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 through the doorways of other dark rooms.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he suddenly felt that it didn't feel as empty as it did in the evening. It seemed that there really was a family of three or a migrant working couple living happily and harmoniously inside.
There was some doubt and this inexplicable feeling in his mind, but at this moment, Higashinohara couldn't help but feel a sudden shock in his heart, and the familiar "dong dong dong" crashing sound came to his ears again.
His current location is in front of House 306. As long as he passes this house, he will be in front of House 307 - the house directly above where Higashinohara lives tonight.
Thinking of this, Higashinohara drew out the standard slashing sword of the Judgment Division without thinking.
Now that he has mastered the eighth-level demigod-level sword type [Mugo Itto Style], he naturally does not need to carry the two Kodachi swords bought at the second-hand market at all times. After all, the two-sword style Kodachi Wano Kuni is still more conspicuous.
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So when he took that step and stood in front of House 307, the faint "dong dong dong" sound in his ears suddenly stopped.
call-!
Higashinohara put his hand on the door handle, took a deep breath, and then suddenly opened the door and pointed the tactical lighting in his hand at the house.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the sound that suddenly stopped sounded again without warning.
This time the impact came from a bedroom in front of this door. The sound that came from it was more violent and louder than the countless times before. It was just a loud "bang", but in my ears was
The sound of countless abandoned reinforced concrete crumbling.
There seems to be something,
It suddenly fell from the sunken ground.
Higashinohara's heart suddenly "thumped", and he quickly rushed over and opened the door with his sword. Inside the door was a master bedroom. When the light shone through, the ground under the bed actually cracked open and a huge black sky opened up.
Higashinohara was stunned for a moment.
He had no idea that he had taken the risk and nervously climbed up the stairs all the way, and that the "thing" on the ceiling upstairs had actually smashed open the ceiling after countless knocks.
Is he on top now?
what is this?
Polar reversal?
However, the loud noise at this moment finally woke up the other members of the investigation team. Higashinohara even vaguely heard someone downstairs shouting for a gathering.
He didn't want to stop any longer and didn't jump down from the big hole that opened in front of him.
Although he is brave, he is not stupid either.
Jumping down so recklessly, who knows what the other party is?
But just when he turned around and was about to leave, he glanced at the tactical light in his hand and accidentally saw a diary on the ground not far in front of him with a yellowish and black cover.
With his mind racing, Higashi Yehara bent down to pick it up without thinking, took the sword and the light in his hand and ran quickly towards the corridor entrance from where he came.
However, when Higashinohara approached the corridor entrance and ran, out of the corner of his eye, he inexplicably felt that there was a house where sanitation trash cans were placed before evening.
Behind the two dusty black windows, a pair of eyes seemed to glance at me quietly, and then quickly looked away like a shy and introverted girl next door.
What the hell?!
Before Higashinohara could think too much about this, the movement on the second floor became 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 slightly stunned.
In the noisy and chaotic corridor on the second floor, Gray Mine, the captain of the investigation team behind the crowd, was taking out a transparent detection instrument similar to a "metal detector" from nowhere and holding it in his hand with a conical detection head.
Aimed at a certain direction on the west side of the second floor corridor.
In the blink of an eye, the unknown detection instrument suddenly emitted an extremely green light.
The next moment, Higashinohara heard a system-synthesized female voice without any emotion.
"Alert! A second-level green dangerous monster has been detected! Alert! A second-level green dangerous monster has been detected!"
