Arakawa Ward in the northern part of Tokyo city.
Walking north along the Chuo District, after passing the famous Akihabara and Sensoji Temple, you basically enter the Arakawa District.
This area is named after the river Arakawa. Although it seems not far from Tokyo's most prosperous Chuo and Minato districts, as long as you walk here, you can feel a completely different feeling from Tokyo's sleepless city full of neon lights.
To paraphrase what the aristocratic family in District 11 here likes to say, the air in the entire Arakawa District is full of the smell of common people and country.
After Qiao Shuya came here, most of what he saw were industrial parks, which had a sense of the times.
"Teacher, don't you like to visit forums? There are two urban legends that are very popular in the forum recently. One is the Arakawa Kamigaku incident that we are going to investigate this time, and the other is the urban legend of 'Puppet Man'." Source Zhongai said while driving the car.
"Has it become so popular that it has become an urban legend?" Qiao Shuya really felt that he couldn't keep up with the times after not surfing the Internet for a few days. The main reason was that the forum in District 11 was torturingly simple. In comparison, he would rather go Watch tokusatsu dramas on YouTube.
Looking at the young apprentice driving, Qiao Shuya had always been curious about how Yuan Zhiai's short legs could reach the brakes and accelerator of the jeep.
It’s impossible to stand on tiptoe, right?
"That's right, it's the second most popular ghost story in the forum, second only to the number one fake person." Yuan Zhi loved chatting, like a JK who likes gossip, "It is said to be a woman who unfortunately fell into a car accident. She cursed everyone on the same bus, and then all the people on the bus with her disappeared."
In District 11, the so-called Shenyin actually means missing, because the police here are very incompetent, literally incompetent. The Tokyo police are so bad at solving crimes that the world makes fun of them, so the detective story in District 11 is particularly special. The popularity.
The literal meaning of Shenyin is to be taken away by gods. Usually when the police here cannot solve the case, they say that the victim was hidden by gods.
And from this point of view, it is indeed very suspicious. It just so happens that everyone on the bus has disappeared.
However, Qiao Shuya doesn't believe in ghost stories and ghosts. If you look closely at all the ghosts and ghosts, you will find that 90% of them are caused by humans, and the remaining 9% are caused by strange demons.
"We are almost here, Master. According to the intelligence from the association, most of the incidents happened near the apartment of the leader." Yuan Zhiai parked the car at the door of an old-fashioned apartment and looked at the apartment and the nearby apartment. of Arakawa.
Qiao Shuya also got off the bus. This was considered a relatively prosperous area of Arakawa, with all the facilities and buildings that should be available nearby. However, compared with downtown Tokyo, it looked like a rural town.
Are there any A-level watchers stationed here?
Qiao Shuya had such doubts. After all, according to Uncle Li's tone before setting off, the watchman here should be a very strong guy.
"Do we need to contact the watchers here directly?" Yuan Zhiai asked.
"No need, the watchers here are not necessarily our teammates." Qiao Shuya looked at this apartment. After all, there are so many people hiding here. The investigation report of the watchers stationed here still says that there is no question.
Either he's a super lazy guy who clocks in at work and sleeps around to mix up his wages, or he's a mole.
Qiao Shuya is more willing to believe the latter. After all, there are so many guys with a strong sense of justice among the Watchers, and a few moths need to come occasionally to make it look like a big organization. Otherwise, he feels that it would be too conspicuous for him, a scum, to sneak in.
"Let's start the investigation directly." Qiao Shuya took out his ID and prepared to knock on the door and ask directly.
However, just as the jeep drove into the apartment, I saw an electrician wearing an electrician's hat and carrying a tool bag saying goodbye to an older lady.
"Mrs. Imagawa, I will come again tomorrow. You don't want to have electricity leakage in your home, right?" The electrician smiled at his wife, but the lady just rolled her eyes at him.
Is this electrician serious?
Qiao Shuya looked at the electrician curiously and carefully. He was very young, as if he had just graduated from college, but the way he looked at the backpack and wore the electrician hat made him look like an old man.
He was also an electrician in his previous life, the kind who worked in the power grid.
"Master, what do you do?" Qiao Shuya asked the electrician.
At this time, the electrician turned his head and looked at Qiao Shuya. He suddenly forgot about it with a dead horse expression, and even the electrician hat on his head was tilted.
The wind blew and the ribbon on his tool bag was still swaying.
Yuan Zhiai poked Qiao Shuya's waist and whispered: "You can tell he's an electrician just by looking at it..."
"Isn't this a greeting?" Qiao Shuya also smiled, "Master, I would like to ask if there is a particularly popular urban ghost story here recently?"
"Why do you ask this?" The electrician suddenly became unhappy and seemed a little wary.
This made Qiao Shuya feel something.
So he took out his ID and showed it: "The Watchmen Association is investigating, and I hope Master you can cooperate."
"What a coincidence, fellow traveler?" The electrician couldn't stand it anymore, and he didn't know what he was taking out of his pocket, and then he also took out a wrinkled ID, "I am Kiryu Ryoma, a super A-level operator of the Watcher Association. Mr. Keqing, please come this way..."
Qiao Shuya: "???"
Although he knew that almost everyone in the Watch had some side job, he didn't expect to see a part-time electrician today...
He's still a crooked electrician who wants to go to someone's wife's house to check for leaks, while her husband is away...
Several people came to a nearby milk tea shop called "Jidao Milk Tea". The pearls and coconuts shaken by a group of men in suits and sunglasses were indeed very festive.
"Did the association really send someone to investigate that shit? Fortunately, it was Mr. Keqing. If it were other colleagues, I would have turned against them. This clearly shows that they don't trust me." Kiryu Ryoma put the electrician's bag aside and drank. milk tea.
"This thing seems to be a big problem, so many people are missing?" Qiao Shuya also asked, and they never expected that they would ask the watchman stationed here by just asking someone.
And they didn't expect the watchers here to be so... down-to-earth...
The problem is that this guy is still a Transcendent A Grade.
"Hey, I didn't write all the reports that day. In fact, they were just cases of accidental death. Some people died in the Arakawa River and flowed into Tokyo Bay. Where could the bodies be found? So weird legends appeared." Kiryu Ryoma Said.
"Isn't that right? Is there no possibility of strange demons causing trouble?" Qiao Shuya asked.
However, when Qiao Shuya said these words, Kiryu Ryoma was unhappy for a moment. He took a sip of milk tea and said: "Mr. Keqing, I have to say something unpleasant. As long as I, Kiryu Ryoma, are here, the entire Arakawa District The strange demons have immigrated a long time ago, do they dare to stay here because they want to live longer?"
He was very confident and high-spirited when he said this. It seemed that at this time he was not the crooked electrician who went to sleep with someone else's wife, but like a real Transcendent A Grade Watcher.
(End of chapter)
