Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk

"When did you have the illusion that the hotel is 'safe'?"

Under the warm yellow light, the girl's cold voice came from the front, without any emotion when speaking, just evaluating the place very calmly.

"What...? But!"

Minoru Hino and Genta were taken aback for a moment, and the moment the words hit their ears, the first reaction was unacceptable. As the place where they lived during this period, they have subconsciously regarded the hotel as a "safe zone" in their hearts, and even the prepared retreat route was to withdraw to the hotel. Now that Izumi Saori pointed this out, she couldn't help but want to refute.

"..."

However, what Hino really wanted to say was stuck in the moment of exit. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is really nothing trustworthy in this hotel. To put it bluntly, the duo of the search bureau next door also stayed in this hotel, which made them subconsciously believe in the judgment of professionals. Or - because the stories of the past few days all started from here, they subconsciously believed in the starting point of the story.

But the hotel is also a part of the resort, if the whole resort is problematic, then there is no reason for the hotel to be spared.

"You should have heard it, too? The mistake that happened during the counting last night."

Izumi Saori said, the girl's voice was clear and sweet, but the content of the words sent chills down the spine.

"When counting, there will always be one more person, but I can't find where the extra person is."

"...something got in here?"

Hino shivered when she heard the words. When he heard about that incident last night, he didn't understand the weirdness of this resort, and he only thought it was someone's prank. Now that he mentioned it, he immediately understood what happened last night. Thinking of the sweet dream and comfortable sleep last night, he shivered subconsciously.

"Just last night?"

"Yes, although I don't know where it went in the end." Izumi Saori nodded, "It disappeared soon after entering, and the entire accommodation area was gone, and it quickly disappeared."

"...Did the two people from the search bureau also make mistakes?" Hino Mino was silent for a while, and he had already admitted it in his heart, but he was still puzzled.

"They? I don't know. I haven't contacted them. I know they are here or I heard from you." Quan Saori shrugged, "But... I remember that they didn't even spend the night in the hotel last night, right? "

"this……"

This statement made Hino really choked up. It is true that the other party may not have regarded that place as a "stronghold" at all. The other party's stay here is just a speculation after they met by chance. In fact, they have not spoken to each other so far. I don't know what the other person thinks.

"Why do you know these things so clearly?" The boy who had been disrupted was a little annoyed for a moment, and asked a little strangely. Izumi Saori's grasp of the situation was a bit too precise, but according to the other party, she only accepted the commission today, so she shouldn't know more than them.

"Everyone in our business has their own means." Quan Shazhi's mouth curled slightly, "Do you think those two people in the search bureau are ordinary people?"

"……I see,"

Hino paused for a moment, thought for a while and nodded, not going further on this issue.

"Is there anything else I want to ask? Since I have decided to cooperate on this issue, I can try my best to answer your questions." Quan Shazhi tilted her head, looking a little playful.

"Of course, equal cooperation. If you want information, you need to exchange it for information."

"Didn't we already give you the information?" The boy looked at the phone in the girl's hand and muttered, "Where can I find more information?"

"Is this document? After reading it, it is indeed good information. I made money by exchanging the spare flashlight for this information." Izumi Saori also followed his gaze and looked at her mobile phone, "I am sorry for that The Chief Inspector doesn't know much about it, but it was clearly what happened last night, and the document leaked out this morning, and there are still two versions in detail. It seems that he is deliberately behind it. The abbreviated version in my hand may be He released it on purpose, and the detailed version in your hand should be for his own use. In this way, it is indeed a good skill for you to get this kind of document."

"Ahem, there is no need to talk about these things." Seeing that the topic started to slip in a certain direction, Yuan Taiyi quickly stood up and coughed twice, stopping the conversation between the two, "If you want to leave, go quickly Well, it's getting late."

"We don't have a specific direction yet." The blond boy said this, and looked back at the deep shade in the woods behind him, "What we can think of, they must be able to think of it. People from the search bureau are probably going to investigate during the day This forest has gone. Now we don’t have their data today, and I’m afraid it’s too late to go.”

Going forward is a dark forest path. Even if there is no influence of ghost stories, it is dangerous to go to this kind of place at night. For a while, Yuan Taiyi regretted not coming here to investigate during the day, but after all, they are students on a school trip, and there are activities and tasks arranged by the school during the day. Izumi Saori next to them obviously dragged it off until night for this reason before meeting them here.

They were classmates at the same school and apparently struggled with the same problem.

"Not necessarily." Izumi Saori held an objection, "For Yinli, the environment with fog is completely different from the environment without fog. If you come here in such a clear day during the day, you may not be able to find anything. And the reason why they returned without success last night was because the other party showed resistance. But we still don't know whether this resistance is aimed at the two of them, or at all those who are trying to explore the secret. "

"To be honest, this kind of situation is rare." Quan Shazhi tilted her head, also a little strange, "I usually expect someone to enter by mistake. After all, there are also sayings that the power of ghost stories comes from people's hearts. Those who enter Human beings should be a rare delicacy for the monsters in Yinli. However, this time they gave up on their own initiative, and even actively avoided it. It is not in line with Yinli's normal situation."

"Perhaps because you think that chief investigator has a great reputation?" Hino Minori said half-seriously and half-jokingly, "The chief investigator has solved a lot of weird stories, right?"

"The reputation in the market is meaningless for ghost stories." Izumi Shaori shook her head, "My employer is worried that the other party is saving something to avoid the search bureau personnel. If this guess is true, then the other party may have It's a big conspiracy. And just like you said, there is always some power behind this strange talk. It always feels like there is some power waiting for us to discover it."

"..."

"But those are just guesses." The girl holding the book shook her head at this point, "Blind guessing is meaningless without more investigation."

"Well, let's do some actual investigation!" Finally, when it came to the investigation, Hino Mino's eyes lit up, looking at the deep forest path in front of him, his eyes sparkled.

It's as if what's hidden there isn't a crisis, but a hidden treasure.

"I will go ahead, and you will follow me."

Although he has never supported Hino's involvement in this matter too deeply, but when this time comes, Gentaichi still simply takes the lead. The forest path at night was narrow, and the ground was full of stumbling dead branches. He walked in front of the three of them with his sword in his white clothes, and began to walk slowly into the depths with the two behind him. Izumi Saori, who has always maintained a fairly independent attitude, did not show anything at this time, and followed behind the two obediently.

As time passed, the night grew darker and the stars faded. After the three of them left that place, the intersection where the conversation was lost became calm again. Time passed quietly, and as the hands of the clock crossed a certain mysterious scale, there seemed to be a sudden change in the scene.

The street lights seem to be brighter? No, it was actually the darkness in the background of the alley that was getting worse. The warm yellow light shrank as if being squeezed by those tiny existences in the air. The light that originally scattered in all directions gradually shrank into falling beams of light in the swirling air. With this shrinking, the houses of the residents on both sides of the street gradually fade into the shadows. Silence began to cover everything, and all movement seemed to disappear, leaving only countless tiny particles dancing in the beam of light.

It was the mist in the air, silently descending on the entire resort.