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

At 11:15, in the forest, north of the resort.

The night is like ink, with shadows of branches.

"There's a storage room here."

The three people with flashlights stepped on the rustling leaves and approached the wooden house in front of them. Gentai took a step forward, peeped in through the gap in the wooden house, and after carefully looking at the things inside, he frowned and said.

"There were some chainsaws or something in it that looked like it hadn't been used for a long time."

"A chainsaw? Is it the kind of hand-held chainsaw?" Hino Shiwenyan looked very excited, his eyes widened and he gestured, "The kind that is so long and wide that it makes a buzzing sound when you use it? I I’ve seen it in horror movies, it’s a classic horror movie element.”

"Unfortunately not."

After looking carefully at it for a few times, Minamoto looked away, feeling a little helpless about his own excitement, turned his head and sighed silently, and explained with words.

"It's a short saw with the length of an arm. From the appearance, it is used to build small shrubs. There are also some things like weeders inside. This should be used to store gardening tools."

"Gardening tools can also be used to harm people." However, the boy still insisted, "This kind of place where no one usually goes is the most suitable place for hiding corpses, maybe there will be relevant clues."

"Then why don't you go and see for yourself?" Yuan Taiyi rolled his eyes at him angrily, and passed the flashlight in his hand, "There is nothing in it except those gardening tools and hay. It's just such a big room, why? It might be able to hide something the size of a corpse."

"There are two rows of footprints on the ground."

At this moment, Izumi Saori next to her spoke. While the two boys were observing the wooden house, she was also observing the surroundings. At this moment, she knelt down and looked at the footprints on the ground, stretched out her hands and rubbed the soil and said.

"The footprints are still very fresh, not more than 10 hours old. Judging from the size, the two people who left the footprints are one tall and one short, which also fits the characteristics of the duo of the search bureau. This should be what they left during the day. It seems that They have been to this place too. If there is such a thing as a corpse, I think this place should be fully cordoned off by now."

She looked up at Minoru Hino, then said,

"My client also said that there have not been such unusual deaths and disappearances in the resort over the years."

"I'm just talking."

Minoru Hino, who was refuted by the two at the same time, laughed. In fact, he didn't mean it seriously, but just raised some possibilities casually. Investigations in such a dark environment can easily make people overly nervous. When it is safe, the atmosphere needs to be properly activated.

"But there is a hut where gardening tools are piled up here, which is a very strange thing in itself? It seems that this kind of house must exist because someone needs to trim the garden. This is in the wild, and it seems that there is no such place set up. necessary."

"Perhaps the deeper places need this kind of thing." Yuan Taiyi heard the words and opened his mouth. He turned his head and scanned the dense forest ahead with his flashlight, talking about his speculation,

"The kind of mansion that is placed in a remote area will bulldoze the surrounding woods to create a garden. Sometimes for the sake of beauty, they will put this kind of place where gardening tools are stacked outside the garden. Moreover, I have heard family members say that There have been some rumors..."

The blond boy paused at this point, obviously not very sure about what he was going to say next, so he made up his mind before he spoke.

"But they just mentioned it casually at the time, and I'm not sure if I remember correctly. It's just a rumor, for reference only."

"Is it the rumor about the artificial forest?" Saori Izumi listened to the conversation between the two, and seemed to remember something, watching the hesitant Yuan Taiyi speak up, and his words supported some of Yuan Taiyi's thoughts.

"If so, then I've heard of it too."

"Yes, that's it." Genta was taken aback, and nodded to the girl next to him. "Have you heard of it too? Then maybe this rumor does have some credibility."

"Wait, wait, what artificial forest? Hey, don't be a fool." Hino Mito was a little anxious by the two people's chorus like playing charades, and couldn't help urging,

"Say things, talk things!"

"There are rumors that this forest does not exist naturally." Yuan Taiyi explained, "Some people deliberately cultivated and transplanted it for some purpose many years ago."

"Many years ago? Before Eternal Night?" Hino Mino was taken aback.

"No, earlier than before Eternal Night," Gentaichi shook his head, "maybe it dates back to before the golden age."

"If you want to say that, it is indeed a bit credible. Maybe you didn't notice, but we have seen five different forest lands along the way. They are clearly separated from each other, and there are indeed traces of artificial planting." Mitsuru Hino Frowning and thinking, he also shared his knowledge with his two companions.

"But, if you need forests, why don't you just move them to the mountains? Why do you have to spend so much effort on artificial cultivation?"

"I don't know, as I said, it's just a rumor, and I don't know the details." Yuan Taiyi frowned. He originally only proposed some rumors tentatively, but he didn't expect to get evidence from them.

"However, if a large area of ​​forest is artificially cultivated, the possibilities are nothing more than those. It is inaccessible, and it is not a place like Central Park, let alone any greening factors. Unless someone needs a specific The environment is artificially created when nature cannot satisfy it..."

"For research?" Hino Minoru blurted out, "Is this actually a testing ground?"

A gust of night wind blew by, bringing a bit of chill, and the three of them, who had figured out some joints, suddenly felt an aversion to the upper body, as if they were suddenly shrouded in shadows around them.

Experiment means man-made, strange talk means evil. Simple weirdness may not be so scary, and humans can also find ways to break through if they have mastered the trick. But when the weird and the artificial are added together, it's a multiplied threat.

"You don't need to be so nervous." Just when the few people were silent, Izumi Saori scanned the wooden house next to him with a flashlight, pointed to the dust accumulated on it and said, "Not to mention that it's just speculation, it's obvious that this place has been abandoned for a long time , even if it is a test site, it is an abandoned test site.”

"But if you continue to go down, maybe you will know something you shouldn't know. I believe your speculation now. This time it really feels like someone is behind the push." ​​She looked at the dim light in front of her. Woods, looked back at the two people beside him. Asked in a flat tone:

"Are you going to quit?"

"It's too late to quit now." Hino Mino also put away that excited expression, but the people around him could clearly feel that it wasn't that the excitement was extinguished, but was suppressed by powerful reason.

"It's almost half past eleven." He looked ahead with burning eyes.

"Do you want to move on?" Yuan Taiyi took a few steps forward and looked at the surrounding environment. "The road ahead is broken."

"If the road is broken, it means there was a road before." Hino Minoru made a decision, "Now that the road is broken, just cross it."

"Let's go, let's see what the secret ahead is."