Tokyo, independent office building of the Special Investigation and Countermeasures Office.
High heels and leather shoes clicked on the grindstone floor, and everyone here seemed to be walking in a hurry.
"It feels like the clerks in the Countermeasures Room have been very busy in the past few days. I don't know what they are busy with, or is the workload of clerks always so heavy?"
Nagatomo Masao was walking in the corridor carrying a large guitar case.
Of course, what's in the guitar case isn't the guitar, it's the stone hammer from Hands Long and Foot Long.
Nagatomo came to the countermeasures room today for daily combat training.
After Yuuki Makensuke became Xiaopingtou's official guarantor, he arranged a lot of learning content for him.
To become a qualified and official spiritual exterminator, he, a rookie, still has a lot to learn.
When I walked to the corner ahead, a figure hurried out and bumped into Changyou.
"Ouch!"
The man opposite sat down and the pile of documents in his hand scattered on the floor.
"Sorry! Ah, Mr. Yamashiro?"
Nagatomo Masao knew the man he bumped into.
Yamashiro Tatsuya is a young man in his early 20s who looks a little reckless.
Like Nagatomo, Yamashiro is a stranger who has returned to reality from the "Kisaragi Station Incident".
I don’t know exactly what happened to him in that world, but he was one of the people selected by the Countermeasures Room to become an internal clerk, and he has already taken up his post.
"No, no, I bumped into you."
As Yamashiro said this, he hurriedly picked up the documents on the ground.
The little boy also bent down to help.
While picking it up, he caught a glimpse of a document with words like "Related to the Red Stingray Incident" written on the header.
"Mr. Yamashiro, you seem to be very busy lately?" Nagatomo asked casually after clearing away the documents on the floor.
"Yeah, big trouble happened as soon as I took up the job." Yamashiro grimaced.
"event?"
"It's the Lord Thunder God who brought us all out from Kisaragi Station before..."
Before Yamashiro finished speaking, a loud shout came from behind the two of them: "Yamashiro! Do you still have time to chat!"
He is a middle-aged bald man wearing glasses, who seems to be the top leader of the mountain city.
"Ah! Ah! Sorry, sorry, come right away!"
Yamashiro held the documents and hurried over.
Nagatomo was left standing alone in the corridor.
He scratched his head and muttered in his mind: "Lord Thunder God? Is it because of Kamiya-kun's master that the countermeasures room has been so busy recently?"
"Nagatomo! Talk less, do more! Today's combat training, hurry up!"
The senior's voice sounded in Nagatomo's ears, and it was no less severe than Mr. Yamashiro's leadership.
"Feel sorry!"
Masao Nagatomo carried his guitar case and trotted towards the training ground at a high speed.
And this time.
In the office where Tatsuya Yamashiro is located, several clerks, including Yamashiro, are busy looking through the information at hand. All the files and records related to the "red stingray" have been selected and delivered to the bald leader.
But the leader with a bright forehead was obviously not very satisfied with everyone's work. He waved a few measly pieces of information in his hand and said: "This little, only this little! In three days, we have found just this much."
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"But Mr. Nakano, there are only so many paper records related to red rays in the Kansai region in the past 50 years."
"Then let me find the ones that are nearly 80 or 100 years old! At the same time, the office next door that sorted out the Kanto data found much more content than we did, and it was much faster!"
"But... in the office next door, they are responsible for checking electronic files..."
"Stop talking nonsense and do it quickly!"
"Yes Yes!"
Poor Tatsuya Yamashiro, he's still very busy these two days.
…
In the world.
It seems like it snowed in Aokigahara recently.
It feels like the seasonal scene has been updated.
The Kamiya River stands high in the forest.
Next to him is the evil-eating dog god sitting with his head held high, sparks blazing around him; and a little old man surrounded by a ghostly aura.
He looked down.
The vast sea of trees is covered with snow, and the green cover is covered by white snow. The cold wind mixed with snow flakes blows in his face, pulling his black-striped feathers and making a rustling sound.
In the vast map of the sea of trees, Kamiyagawa and his two men were just a black dot in the white.
The world is vast.
"It looks pretty good when you look at it this way. This picture is really too big, but I can finally get enough of it."
Kamiyagawa's exploration of the large map [Aokigahara] finally came to an end today.
As for the harvest.
It has been more than twenty days since I killed Duo Shanyan. The biggest gain was opening a mine, and the rest was that I gained about 11,000 soul crystals from slaying mobs.
If it sounds like a lot, it is actually a lot.
But, this is the total output for twenty days.
I remember when Kamiyagawa first arrived in Aokigahara, he made four thousand soul crystals just by chopping down the human face tree in one night.
Comparing the two, one can imagine how seriously this map was harmed by him.
Now that the Ten Thousand Soul Crystals have been collected, Aokigahara, the fat map with the richest products so far and "soul crystals running all over the place", has basically no profit left to harvest.
Monster sightings are rare.
[Regional mission: 80% exploration of Aokigahara, completed! (81/100)]
[Task rewards are distributed and you will get a blank divine coffin!]
[Blank divine coffin (special material without rating): Unlocated divine coffin. After being used in the outside world, a sacred coffin stand that can be logged in will be generated in the location corresponding to the location of use in the inner world.]
The exploration mission has been completed, and Kamiyagawa has also received the mission reward.
It is a special piece of sacred material.
After studying the function of the [Blank Divine Cannon], Kamiyagawa realized that it was a good thing.
In the past, when opening new maps, "Kaitan Monogatari" always told me to open them wherever they wanted.
But with this new prop, Kamiya can choose an area to open a map.
It's equivalent to "Kaitan Monogatari" giving him the main plot, but he has the option to branch out in other areas independently.
"You have to make good use of this thing. If you spend the line in valuable places, you might be able to get something special."
Kamiyagawa put away the [Blank Divine Barrier] with satisfaction, returned to Takamagahara, hung up and returned to the real world.
[All tasks in the Aokigahara area have been completed, and the divine cannon in an unknown place has been sensed and needs to be activated!]
It’s time to check out where the new main line map is.
…
Returning to consciousness, Kamiya woke up on the big bed at home.
The first thing after waking up is naturally to reopen "Kaitan Monogatari".
In the game interface, Kamiyagawa once again saw the 3D panoramic map and a brand new marker point.
The marking point this time did not go very far, it was in Chiba Prefecture on the edge of Tokyo.
Kamiyagawa enlarged the 3D map. When it was expanded to the highest magnification, he saw the name of the new map location as usual——
Grande Couple Hotel.
"Is it a hotel this time?"
Kamiyagawa directly searched the name of the hotel on the Internet, and soon got a lot of relevant information.
Grand Love Hotel, also known as Live Fish Hotel.
Since the establishment of this hotel, incidents have occurred frequently, including assassinations of couples, suicides by burning corpses, murders of female high school students, and other vicious cases.
A guest who stayed at the hotel once said that he had encountered a ghost incident here.
For example, some people say that they have heard unprovoked footsteps or tapping on the wall in the room; some people say that they have been lost in a straight corridor for an hour; and some even swear that they have seen it in the hotel. The ghosts of the dead wander.
A series of horrific cases and supernatural events have made the Grand Love Hotel a ghost hotel that everyone fears.
Not long after that, the hotel closed down and remains in ruins to this day.
"The Live Fish Hotel is another supernatural place." Kamiyakawa put down his phone and pressed his temple.
He has become accustomed to this.
Anyway, the maps chosen for "Kaitan Monogatari" have always been these places in the underworld.
But then again, Chiba Prefecture is a metropolitan area after all.
If the number of official spiritual exorcism talents in Japan were spread across the country, it would definitely be far from enough. Most remote places would be difficult to take care of, and there is no long-term exorcism force. However, in several important urban areas, official organizations It's still under control.
Therefore, I think the risk of visiting this Grand Love Hotel is not very high in reality.
Several maps that were opened in urban areas before were almost the same.
However, it’s hard to say what these areas correspond to in the other world.
…
Although the new main line has been opened, Kamiyagawa decided to slow down the map opening for the time being.
He had been busy with another thing a few days ago, and this morning he had a little idea of the matter.
Kamiya planned to handle this important matter according to the original plan.
As for what is so important, of course it is——
About Mary.
It is related to Mary’s construction of Xishe.
Previously, the craftsman sister issued a list of basic building materials for Xishe, which included more than ten kinds of materials.
For those materials that were easy to find inside, Kamiyagawa handed them over to the cat shopkeeper of the "Lingmiao Everything House" and adopted the method of "directed entrustment collection" to find them.
It costs 500 soul crystals to find the same material.
Even if you find them all, you only need more than 5,000 soul crystals.
After Kamiyagawa defeated the boss in Aokigahara, and then squeezed out the remaining value of this map, he still had a lot of savings.
After deducting the money spent on buying candles from the candle-making monk and upgrading the statue from the craftsman sister, I still have almost 14,000 soul crystals on hand.
Help Mary build a shrine, spend some krypton gold, and that's it.
However, among the materials given by Jue, there is also a "core" building material that cannot be bought with money.
That is--
[Red stingray bone]
According to the introduction of the craftsman sister, this thing must be a big monster related to the red stingray to have a chance of being produced.
A bone is hard to find.
And I think there will be supplements in the follow-up, so don’t force this material.
Although using [Red Stingray Bones] to build a shrine can make Mary's shrine nearly perfect, which will help her subsequently build superior godhead traits.
If you really can't find it, I'll offer a lower substitute [empty grain stalk] instead.
However, since it is said that there is perfect material, how could Kamiyagawa not fight for it so that Mary can develop better, faster and with higher quality in the future?
No matter what, I will give her the best shrine in the entire world!
She deserves it!
Therefore, Kamiyagawa has been trying to find information related to [Red Ray Bones] after finishing the Aokigahara boss battle.
Not to mention that he actually found it.
"Red Stingray Bones" is something that transcends common sense. There is definitely no relevant information found on the Internet.
The source of Kamiyagawa’s information is the Special Investigation Countermeasures Room.
That's right.
Kamiya is the culprit that has caused some clerks in the Countermeasures Room to work crazy overtime in recent days.
Really a great villain.
He contacted Uncle Yuki by sending a message on behalf of his master, "Thunder God".
He said that his master is currently looking for monsters related to red stingrays.
I hope official organizations can provide some useful information.
The right is supposed to be a compensation for assistance requested by "Thunder God" from the human side after the "Incident of rescuing strangers at Kisaragi Station".
The mysterious ghosts and gods have rescued a large number of living people trapped in the other world, and have shown goodwill to you humans. They only ask for a little information from you. Isn't this too much?
Although Kamiyagawa himself had received 2 million yen from the official after the "Kisaragi Station Incident".
But...well, the apprentice is the apprentice, and the master is the master.
One thing comes to another.
After Uncle Yuki held a routine meeting with the top management of the organization to discuss this issue, he agreed to the "deal" requested by Lord Raijin.
Although this transaction has the meaning of forced buying and selling.
But there is no official harm in maintaining friendly contact with a mysterious and powerful ghost.
They have no reason to refuse.
The deal between ghosts and humans is concluded.
Since a transaction is a transaction, it means that no one owes anything to each other after it is reached, which is great.
Kamiyagawa did not want to owe favors to the authorities by using the name of "Thunder God".
"Thor"'s current ranking and status among the officials are inflated. He really owes a favor, and it may not be easy to repay it in the future.
During the recent period, the Special Investigation and Countermeasures Office mobilized internal manpower and worked overtime to search existing paper and electronic files, and finally compiled and compiled a piece of useful information.
This information was personally delivered to Kamiya River by Master Kanazawa Xingluo this morning.
After sending the information, Master Kanazawa also implicitly hinted that the inside of the countermeasures room was looking forward to the next transaction with "Thor".
Of course Kamiyagawa immediately said: My master and he must be looking forward to it too!
The copied materials sent by Master Kanazawa are not too thick.
But all the internal records in the countermeasures room, all the content related to the "red stingray" in the past hundred years, are all here.
So it’s not without reason that “red stingray bones” are hard to find.
Kamiyagawa carefully searched these materials, eliminated some useless ones, and then screened out a few records of minor ghost stories related to the "Red Stingray".
There are only three copies of the information left.
The three files are from Aomori Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, and Wakayama.
The locations are different, but the content is similar. They all mention a strange story called "Lord Red Stingray".
Among them, the one from Aomori Prefecture has the most content. It also comes with an official ghost exorcist report from a long time ago and some research notes from folklorists.
In the report and research notes, the so-called Red Ray Master in Aomori Prefecture is defined as——