Each of Tokyo's 23 districts has an A-level or above watchman as its garrison.
Among them, the priest is the watchman in charge of the entire port area.
But today, when he just wanted to perform his duties as the priest of the Amakusa Church normally and comfort the little boy nearby, he discovered such a terrible thing.
I feel sorry for the rich lady in front of me who is crying so hard, and the priest can understand it. After all, the 17,000 tons of food that his family looked after have disappeared. If nothing happens, their family may never be able to turn around. .
What is the concept of 17,000 tons?
A Tiger tank weighs 56 tons, and 17,000 tons is equal to the weight of more than 300 Tiger tanks. If these tanks were to attack Paris, they might cause the most beautiful city in the world to surrender within 42 hours.
So he also knew that this matter was serious, but it didn't seem to have much to do with him. However, after hearing his wife keep repeating that it was the work of strange demons like she was crazy, he decided to find an old brother to come over and investigate together.
So he found Qiao Shuya, who always had a signature like "Chasing Strange Demons" in the group.
However, Qiao Shuya seemed to arrive much later than expected. Just when the rich lady was about to die in the church to show him, the jeep rushed to the door of the church in a dusty atmosphere.
Amakusa Church is different from what Qiao Shuya imagined.
The church in his impression should be a model of European architecture, cold, grand and solemn. The sunlight shining through it will shine on the dots of murals. The statue of the cross and the Son gradually becomes this solemn image along with the setting sun and the ringing of bells. A member of the solemn landscape.
However, the reality is that this Amakusa church is like a combination of a local shrine and a European church. It is neither foreign nor earthy, and even has a little bit of Buddhist elements. Good guy Qiao Shuya doesn't even know what he is here for. Who do you want to worship?
Is the person he wants to worship God the old man, the local three noble gods, or the foreign Sakyamuni?
It's really weird.
The priest was very happy to see Qiao Shuya, and hurried down to greet him, and then briefly explained the matter.
"17,000 tons of grain?" Qiao Shuya's face was filled with questions.
He said that it was no wonder that the price of food in Tokyo had increased these days. Rice had always been priced at 2 people's dollars per kilogram before, but recently it had risen to 4 people's dollars per kilogram.
Qiao Shuya's family has a big business, so this little price increase doesn't matter to him. However, a few days ago, he happened to meet an urban beauty who called her home in tears to complain about the increase in food prices and that she couldn't survive.
Good guy, it turns out the source is here.
"Let's go in and discuss it in detail." Qiao Shuya said.
Although his role as a watchman has nothing to do with food, since the priest invited him over, at least he had a reason.
The priest took Qiao Shuya to the rich lady.
The rich lady's surname was Kanemaru, who took her husband's surname. She was still confused when she saw the priest politely bringing in Qiao Shuya with a childish look on his face.
When the priest comforted Mrs. Kanemaru before, he said that he would hire an expert in the treatment of strange demons, but does the 17-year-old child in front of him look like an expert in the treatment of strange demons?
Mrs. Kanemaru turned to look at the priest, with anger and confusion in her eyes.
"Father, I trust you, but why are you trying to trick me like this? This child will be an expert in exterminating strange demons?" Mrs. Kanemaru looked at the priest with some resentment.
"I..." The priest had goosebumps all over his body. He also understood Mrs. Kanemaru's eyes and hurriedly explained, "This is the youngest guest in the Watcher Association. He is a powerful watcher and a The strange demon scholar and his disciples have all just become A-level watchers."
"Is that so?" Mrs. Kanemaru looked at Qiao Shuya's eyes from distrust to shock for a moment. Qiao Shuya just calmly took out his ID.
I've seen this kind of thing happen a lot, but it's actually okay now. Two years ago, when people saw him, who was only 15 years old, coming out to catch the strange demon and beat him up, they would call the police.
After all, my body is too young now, and my face still has a lingering sense of immaturity. However, District 11 is a place that pays special attention to age and seniority, even more so than District 2.
Qiao Shuya looked at Mrs. Fu and said, "I understand the general situation, please tell me the details."
After seeing Qiao Shuya's ID card, Mrs. Kanemaru temporarily suppressed her shock at Qiao Shuya's age and began to explain in detail the cause and effect of the whole incident.
The Kanemaru family where Mrs. Kanemaru belongs is a veteran family among the local parties in District 11. It is mainly responsible for various shipping and terminal management in the entire District 11. It can also be regarded as a wealthy family among the local families.
A month ago, several imported cargo ships from Districts 1 and 2 transported grain to the Imagawa family's warehouse at the dock, totaling 17,000 tons. This will be an important strategic material for the entire District 11 in the future.
The Kanemaru family has also made perfect preparations at the dock. The grains are carefully stored in each warehouse. Each bag is registered and billed, and the warehouse is completely sealed after it is filled.
However, ten days ago, when Tokyo needed food mobilization and was preparing to use this batch of food, the Kanemaru family opened the warehouse. The result shocked everyone to the extreme. There was not a grain left in the entire granary, and even a mouse could be put in it. To the point of starving to death.
The Kanemaru family has been under a lot of pressure recently to find this batch of food, and Mrs. Kanemaru came to the priest behind her husband's back. She saw that her husband was almost committing suicide under the recent pressure to apologize, so she decided to solve her husband's problems.
She believed that this situation could only be caused by strange demons. With 17,000 tons, the large granary at the dock would require several warehouses to hold it. Even if heavy trucks were used to transport each truck, it would require nearly 10,000 trucks. Transport away.
How could so much food be stolen without any movement?
Even if the Kanemaru family is corrupt to a certain extent, it's impossible to be 100% corrupt, right? That's not corruption, that's courting death.
Qiao Shuya fell into deep thought after listening in full. He could understand why the priest called him here. If this matter involves strange demons, it would be too big. No one can bear the burden of 17,000 tons of grain. .
And if it wasn't caused by a strange demon, it might be involved in the game between the local forces in District 11. In short, it would be a super troublesome incident.
However, Qiao Shuya just likes this kind of thing. It doesn't matter to him whether it's done by a foreign demon or a local force in District 11. If it's a foreign demon, he can be passive. If it's done by a local family, he can directly report it to the various associations. They do whatever they want.
"Xiao Ai, what do you think? Does it look like something a strange demon did?" Qiao Shuya asked Yuan Zhi Ai.
Yuan Zhi'ai also frowned in thought. She thought for a long time before speaking: "From the perspective of ability, it seems that only the strange demon can do this, such as directly opening the subspace to transport the food, or the Devouring Demon. This strange demon eats all the food..."
Yuan Zhiai said, but then immediately continued: "But it doesn't make sense. What does the strange demon want rice and flour? Doesn't it mean that the Dread Demon King doesn't have any leftover food at home, so he sneaks over to steal food? That doesn't make sense, if the strange demon If you change your combat strategy and start attacking human logistics, you don’t need to be secretive. Wouldn’t it be better to just blow it up or burn it down?”
Big question marks popped up in her little head.
Qiao Shuya also feels the same way. This is indeed something that only the strange demon can do, but Qiao Shuya can't figure out why the strange demon would do this. It doesn't seem to have any substantial impact on the strange demon. benefit.
If Qiao Shuya was a demon king, even if he attacked human logistics, he wouldn't steal food secretly. Wouldn't it be better to burn it or blow it up?
You can even use that flour to create a super dust cloud, a dust explosion of the entire Patrick Star level. The power is estimated to be enough to blow up the entire dock. Isn't that good?
The priest saw the discussion between Qiao Shuya and Yuan Zhiai, and finally intervened: "Can we take up this matter? If not, I will write a report and let the association know. It will have nothing to do with us in the future... …”
The priest didn't want to take it, but it was just that this matter happened in his jurisdiction, so he tried to make a last effort.
"Go on, I will explain the situation here to Uncle Li in advance. I want to see which strange demons are so concerned about human food." Qiao Shuya said.
Normally, strange demons do not engage in production, but they do not have much interest in human food.
In addition to being an organ that transports blood, the heart of the alien demon also has an alternative organ called the source core. This organ is connected to the heart and is responsible for supplying energy to the whole body. It also has the function of storing energy.
At present, it is not known where the energy of the source core comes from.
This is also the biggest controversial point in the academic world's debate over whether alien demons are carbon-based creatures.
After briefly informing Uncle Li about what was going on here, a few people began to prepare to go to the dock to check out the situation.
As luck would have it, a press conference was being held across the pier at this time, and a haggard man walked up to the podium. He and several middle-aged men bowed deeply in front of the reporters' cameras.
The camera showed their bowing work. The 90-degree standard bowing ceremony was impeccable, as if they had gone through long training.
Then he stood up and gave a very standard answer: "Red bean paste Smimasai! It was our incompetence that caused the theft of food. This was the work of the strange demons, but we have tried our best. Because the strange demons are too cunning, even the security guards Our personnel are completely powerless when faced with the situation of targeting strange demons..."
Qiao Shuya heard his speech. Although he apologized and bowed, he put all the blame on Yi Mo. He was scolding the association for being incompetent.
Qiao Shuya was also happy. Before the watchers started investigating, they put all the blame on the strange demon.
The strange demon is like a brick, it can be moved wherever it is needed, right?
Seeing Qiao Shuya's unbearable expression, Mrs. Kanemaru explained.
"That is my husband..."
"Oh." Qiao Shuya shrugged.
Completely ignoring this sterile press conference, he only needed to look at the scene and use the hero template to find out if there were any traces of strange demons here. Then there would be only one truth!
Then……
"Megure Police Department...uh...Megure Detective?" When Qiao Shuya came here, he saw the Megure Police Department who was also starting to investigate, but now he has become a detective and has completely quit the Metropolitan Police Department and established a Detective agency kind.
"Um, Brother Qiao...are you the watchman in charge of this incident..." When the Mumu Police Department saw Qiao Shuya, they suddenly looked embarrassed.
"No, this priest is, I am considered a foreign aid." Qiao Shuya pointed to the priest beside him and said.
He didn't expect the Megure Police Department to be here, but when he thought about it, it was normal. It was normal for the Kanemaru family to call the police and find detectives to recover food when facing such a major theft case.
Even if the probability of recovering food is very slim, it is probably equivalent to the probability of getting ten golds in ten consecutive games in the krypton gold mobile game.
Detective Megure had a dead look on his face at this time. This case may have exceeded his ability. Maybe he needs the help of an elementary school student who looks like a child.
"Brother Qiao, this case may not be something we should get involved in. Alas..." Detective Memu sighed, "There are too many problems here. I don't know where to start. There are also many strange demons. I don’t know much about their habits.”
Qiao Shuya nodded: "Then let me take a look first."
Qiao Shuya came to the door of the warehouse and looked inside.
It was as clean as if it had been purchased by an unemployed young man from District 1 for zero yuan. Qiao Shuya was so stunned that he didn't see even a grain of rice or flour in the huge warehouse. There was not even ashes on the ground. It was simply different from Qiao Shuya. The house must be clean.
Qiao Shuya looked at the hero template, but there was no feedback of any trace of the strange demon.
"Let's go and check out the next warehouse."
However, after visiting all the warehouses in a row, there was no sign of any trace of strange demons.
Qiao Shuya also asked Yuan Zhi'ai: "Do you smell even a little bit of the smell of strange demons?"
Yuan Zhiai shook his head.
Qiao Shuya asked Detective Mumu again: "Memu Police Department, let me exchange information."
"Brother Qiao, have you found any traces or smell of strange demons here?" This was the first question asked by the Mumu Police Department.
"No, but it may be that the smell has disappeared after too long, or it may have been deliberately erased." Qiao Shuya returned and asked doubtfully, "Where is the surveillance? Is there no surveillance on the dock?"
"Yes, but it happened to break down a few days in the middle and had to be replaced..." Detective Megure said.
"Oh, what a coincidence."
"Yeah yeah."
While the few people were slowly investigating, suddenly a large group of people gathered around. Qiao Shuya saw reporters with guns and microphones, as well as the men who bowed and apologized and spoke just now.
"What are you doing? There is a major case that needs to be investigated here. Anyone who has nothing to do with it should leave first, especially the children." The leading man yelled loudly, focusing on Qiao Shuya and the priest.
The irrelevant person among them seems to refer to them.
(End of chapter)
