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

“Say it.”

Seeing Shenxiu walk into the control room, he sat down opposite the pale young man with an indifferent expression.

“My subordinate said that you have something to ask me, what do you want to tell me?”

“What are you going to do with me?”

However, the pale young man named Nia didn’t answer his question immediately, but asked back, looking at him nervously.

“It depends on how much value your next words have.”

Seeing Shenxiu speaking calmly, he didn’t look directly at the boy when he spoke, but looked at the supervision room casually, with a casual look in his words.

This is a very simple control room, with three black walls and an iron fence, a set of cold metal tables and chairs in the middle, connected with silver-white handcuffs, and the boy named Niah was handcuffed in it.

“In my search bureau.”

The inspector sat opposite the boy across the table. In the dark control room, a solitary lamp was coldly lit on the table, illuminating the faces of the two of them.

“Prisoners are treated as much as they are worth, which is fair.”

“I am innocent!”

However, when he heard the word “prisoner”, the pale boy’s emotions suddenly became agitated, his hands and feet vibrated and the handcuffs on his hands rattled, and he said loudly to the person opposite:

“I am also a victim! I was brought there by force!”

“You say innocent?”

Jian Shenxiu’s mouth curved slightly upon hearing this.

“Do you want to show you the evidence? Or do you want to see the clothes with your fingerprints on them? The evidence for your attack on me consists of seven pieces of evidence and eight documents, totaling 1,346 characters. Shall I show you all of them?”

“I was kidnapped!” Nia became even more impatient in an instant. “You know it! You know it! I was injected with that thing! I was forced! I am also a victim!”

“Well… so you mean, you attacked me because of your mental condition? According to Xue Jianze’s law, there are indeed relevant immunity clauses.”

Seeing Shenxiu leaning back slightly, leaning on the chair, he tilted his head at the young man.

“But we can’t let a risk factor like this be active on the street. If that’s what you want, you’re going to be in a mental hospital for the rest of your life.”

The search chief seemed a little casual, and there was no threat in his tone, and he even seemed a little lazy. He just leaned on the chair and stated those contents calmly, as if those were already the undoubted future.

“At that time, you will have a special ward. There are only two hours of ventilation time every day, and there will be medical staff to check you on time. We will not support you in vain. They will arrange labor for you. At the same time, you also need to cooperate with NAVI. Research. Every month, someone will investigate your mental state and judge your threat level. If you can stay safe all the time, and if you don’t die in the research. Maybe you can fight for yourself when you are old and frail There is a chance to leave. But at that time you are already very old, and Yukimizawa at that time… it may be difficult for you to find a way to live.”

“I…” Nia was speechless for a moment.

“Of course, follow the normal process. You can also choose the road of bail.” Jian Shenxiu crossed his arms and added.

“However, assaulting the chief inspector is a felony. You probably can’t afford the corresponding bail, and you can’t find someone with enough weight to guarantee you.”

“…”

Nia was speechless. Of course he couldn’t do it. If he had such financial resources and status, how could he be reduced to wandering the streets.

“so……”

Jian Shenxiu looked at the pale young man opposite.

“If you choose this way, then I can help you say hello and help you fight for a bed for a good generation.”

“…Then what should I do?”

Nia finally calmed down, sat back on her chair a little decadently, and said dejectedly.

“I told you when I walked in.” Jian Shenxiu looked at him with indifferent eyes.

“In the search bureau, prisoners are treated as much as they are worth. Cooperating with us, this is your only option.”

“I’m not a criminal…”

Nia lowered her head and muttered in a low voice, her voice was a little hoarse – exhausted and dry.

“It doesn’t matter what you say about this kind of thing.” Jian Shenxiu just said calmly.

“It’s what I say.”

“…”

Hearing this, Nia’s expression turned bitter, and the fist that was handcuffed on the table curled up subconsciously, but after a while, it let go helplessly. The monitoring room fell into silence, and no one spoke for a while, only Jian Shenxiu was left silently looking at the boy who bowed his head.

The inspector general didn’t seem in a hurry either. Seeing that Shenxiu just sat there without saying a word, neither threatened nor oppressed, as if he didn’t need it and didn’t bother. This attitude of indifference put a lot of pressure on Nyamo. The young man felt aggrieved to see Shenxiu and didn’t care about his affairs, but he couldn’t resist.

Whether it’s a threat or a kindness, some emotional feedback is always needed to make him feel valued. It was Jian Shenxiu’s indifferent attitude that made Nia extremely urgent. This man did not show any emotion that he could rely on, as if he was worthless in the other party’s eyes. This kind of isolated and helpless environment where he could do nothing made the veins on Nia’s forehead twitch crazily, and he really wanted to yell at Jian Shenxiu.

I was wronged! Do you understand this matter? He really wanted to yell at Jian Shenxiu like this.

Aren’t you the Search Bureau? ! Aren’t you City Hall? ! Where is your justice? Where is your open-mouthed justice?!

But he dared not. He looked at the silver-white handcuffs on his hands, and the metal handcuffs were permeated with biting coolness under the light. The fist was extremely clenched and then loosened several times, and the fingertips trembled unconsciously under his gaze, as if they were someone else’s limbs.

“…Can I trust you?”

After a long time, he seemed to have finally calmed down, raised his head, and asked Jian Shenxiu in a low voice.

“Can.”

However, seeing Shenxiu’s attitude suddenly changed this time, he nodded seriously and said these two words. No more provocative words like “you only have this choice”. Instead, he sat upright in the chair and nodded solemnly.

This eased Nia’s mood a little, and made him feel very sarcastic. He really wanted to make a mockery, but he didn’t dare to say it. So he could only sneer twice, and finally said:

“I know that you are investigating a case recently. It happened in Kotobuki in the lower city. A person was dismembered and his body was scattered all over the place.”

“Yeah. The victim’s name is Yamada Shoichi.” Jian Shenxiu nodded and said.

“I don’t know the victim’s name.” The boy shook his head. “But I’ve heard about the place where the case happened. That place in Kotobuki…is unusual.”

“Huh?” Jian Shenxiu narrowed his eyes slightly. “Tell me.”

“I’m a waste picker. I usually rely on doing part-time jobs for the underworld…to earn some money to buy bread.”

Nia was silent for a while, and when he mentioned the underworld, he glanced cautiously at Shenxiu, and continued when he saw that he didn’t express anything.

“In the lower urban area and the fringe areas, there are many people like us. Many people have no skills, so they can only earn some bread by beating the underworld. Of course, your grandpa in the upper urban area has never seen such a person Yes.” The young man felt a little bit of resentment as he spoke, and he sneered at Jian Shenxiu.

But Jian Shenxiu didn’t express anything when he heard the words, he just nodded calmly.

“I don’t deny my ignorance in some respects.”

“……Um.”

This attitude made Nia slightly stunned, a little surprised, but he didn’t dare to talk too much, after snorting twice, he continued:

“NAVI has monitoring all over the city, and your cleaning robots are all over the roads. It can be regarded as having a hand and an eye. But those of us in the shadows also have our own intelligence network. Idle people talk about it and know things that others don’t. Something. According to our intelligence, the early morning hours on Kotobuki Street, between about one and four o’clock, are considered a mysterious area.”

“Tell me in detail.” Seeing that Shenxiu didn’t move his expression, he just said.

“It’s probably the first time your search bureau noticed it after this case. So you know very little about that place. But it’s different here. We knew that there were some mysterious powers in that place a long time ago, so we It is definitely not the first time that something happened in that place, at least as far as I know, at least two figures of people have mysteriously disappeared in that place.”

“…” Jian Shenxiu frowned slightly.

“But that place is not an absolute death place. At least not from what I heard.” Nia hesitated. “There are two versions of the rumors on our side—of course, maybe they don’t conflict.”

“The first version is the one I just said. Some people disappeared in that area, but Xue Jianze has been in chaos in recent years, and spiritual events have continued to occur. Plus the [missing] thing… If no one mentions it , then it’s not surprising that it just disappeared.”

There was a moment of silence between Nia’s words. Because scavengers like him, of course, also belong to the kind of people, where [disappearing] equals [disappearing].

This made him a little depressed, revealing a trace of sadness.

“Um.”

Seeing Shenxiu seemed to be aware of this emotion, and sitting across from him, he just hummed lightly, without urging him to speak.

He was extremely patient from beginning to end, and never showed any irritation because of the boy’s pause and hesitation.

“…The second type is another urban legend. It’s only spread in a small area. Some people say it’s true, but I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.”

Nia was silent for a while before continuing.

“It is said that the place in Kotobuki can change the shape of a person, allowing people to have the body they want.”

“Um?”

Seeing Shenxiu’s eyes suddenly froze, the hand out of the young man’s field of vision was silently clenched. But the expression on the search chief’s face remained calm, and he just said calmly.

“Let’s talk about it.”

“Xuejianze has many urban legends, one of which is to make a wish to the mist at night, and you will get a response.”

Nia narrated.

“And there is a legend in the small area of ​​the lower city that the night of Kotobuki Town has a mysterious power that can change the shape of the body. Go to that block at three o’clock in the morning, and you can get the ideal shape. Make a wish towards the mist in that place, and you can make a wish. Thin people get strong, fat people get thin.”

“It is said that some people have really succeeded, and some people’s body shape has undergone earth-shaking changes overnight. But no one can explain what happened that night. Successful people will lose all relevant memories, even their own body shape. I don’t even realize the changes. I even need to look through previous photos to find out the changes in my body shape, and I need people around me to tell me where they went that night.”

“Among those students, there are not a few who are dissatisfied with their body shape. So in certain circles, this urban legend is very popular.”

“To make people have the desired body shape?” Jian Shenxiu was thoughtful. “You mean, all changes in body shape will change in a good direction?”

“Yeah.” Nia nodded silently. “That’s what the legend says. But like I said before, there are two versions of the legend—and maybe the two versions don’t contradict each other.”

“Successful people will lose their memories, while those who fail… will simply disappear.”

“I see… Is there anything else?” Jian Shenxiu nodded, and then asked: “There should be more than that you want to say, right?”

“Yeah.” The pale boy named Nia nodded.

“If it’s just these things, I wouldn’t even know about this urban legend. My usual range of activities is not in Kotobuki, and I don’t have much interest in things like body. It’s something that rich people worry about. But I also said, I usually do something for the underworld.”

“You mean this place is related to the underworld?” Jian Shenxiu immediately understood what he meant.

“I don’t know exactly what happened… But as far as I know, the monthly reading group once organized people to explore that area, as if to find something. But the final result seems to be very bad. It became There was a bloodshed incident, and it was forcibly covered up by the monthly reading group.” Nia’s expression seemed a little hesitant.

“After that, the monthly reading group forbade any member of the team to go to Kotobuki Town between one and four at night. It was also because of this incident that I heard the story from a gangster showing off to the people next to him.”

“It is said that people died in the end. [Disappearance] This way of disappearing seems too gentle, and many people have benefited there. So that it is not a mysterious and terrifying place in many people’s hearts. But monthly reading The group seems to have discovered something else, the place is far more terrifying than many people imagined.”

Nia added.

“It is said that the loss of the monthly reading group was not small, and those who came out alive and those who left there also lost their memories. They failed to bring out any information, and only mentioned words such as dead people and eyes. So in a very long For a period of time, the monthly reading group seemed very afraid of it.”

“Eyes?” Seeing Shenxiu’s complexion fluctuate for a moment, his voice suddenly rose a little.

“You mean eyes?”

“Probably…maybe it’s the eyes…” Nia seemed startled by Shenxiu’s sudden change of attitude, and then said boldly.

“I just heard that person mention it casually. It’s been too long and I may not remember it wrong. I just vaguely remember that he mentioned these words.”

“No.” Seeing that Shenxiu’s expression changed several times, it seemed that something was continuously connecting in his mind. Then he suddenly raised his hand, called an investigator standing beside him, and brought a recording pen.

“It should be the eyes.”

Then he pressed the switch of the recording pen in his hand. Soon, a hoarse sound unique to electric sounds resounded in this dimly lit control room.

[clack cluck cluck cluck…]

The player of the recording pen vibrated to reproduce the series of convulsive teeth trembling sounds, but the teeth trembling sound revealed the kind of fear that made the spine chill, as if something was quietly approaching in the dark.

[Don’t look in the eyes at 2:30 in the middle of the night…]

Then there was a maddened sigh that lowered the temperature of the entire control room by a few degrees.

[meeting, starting, fog~~~~]