The whole of Yokohama thought we were together

The power grid standing on the mountainside is like a gray-blue beast, quietly dormant in the dark, and will suddenly attack when the prey appears, winning with one blow.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Atsushi Nakajima stood outside the zoo, looking at the almost towering power grid.

"It's very easy to cut a door with the next Rashomon." Akutagawa Ryunosuke said.

"No." Nakajima Atsushi immediately denied this idea, "After the gap in the power grid, it is impossible to guarantee that the animals inside will not escape. If the animals escape into the city, on the one hand, it will cause riots, on the other hand... I have no way to fight Mr. Dazai explained."

"I don't think he would care about such things." Akutagawa Ryunosuke said bluntly.

Atsushi Nakajima frowned, he didn't want to argue about this matter, and quickly brought the topic back, "...Besides, who knows whether your ability will conduct electricity after hardening your clothes."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke thought about it for a while, and felt that his rhetoric made sense, so he no longer insisted.

"I can only pass from above, with Tiger's jumping power..." Atsushi Nakajima looked up at the top of the power grid, thinking about the possibility of not being shocked when he jumped over, but Ryunosuke Akutagawa suddenly had a action.

"Then, I know what to do."

The gray hem of the clothes stretched into long strips, bound Atsushi Nakajima's ankles, and then when the other party didn't react at all, he threw it diagonally upwards.

Atsushi Nakajima: "?!"

Watching the power grid approach and go away under him, Rashomon's binding force disappeared, Nakajima Atsushi grabbed the dead branch beside him the moment he hit the tree, stabilized his figure and jumped off the tree.

At the same time when his feet landed, Rashomon changed into two front legs like a spider, went over the grid upwards, and then plunged straight into the ground, contracted, and quickly sent Ryunosuke Akutagawa over.

Atsushi Nakajima was a little helpless: "Could you tell me in advance before you act next time."

"If it was in the past, you would have noticed it in an instant." Akutagawa Ryunosuke glanced at him, then retracted his gaze, and walked forward, "Tora, it's because your vigilance has become low, not my problem."

Atsushi Nakajima looked complicated.

[How can there be such a person who suddenly launches a sneak attack on someone who is thinking about countermeasures when they are walking together, and asks the other party to be on alert at all times—people exist? ]

Since it is a wild animal park, the environment inside must be very complicated. Atsushi Nakajima had already prepared himself for this matter when he chose to climb up from the bottom of the cliff.

However, the series of events that occurred after that were far beyond his expectations.

In order not to disturb the beasts in the forest, Nakajima Atsushi and Akutagawa Ryunosuke basically sneaked behind the trees. The environment is unknown at night, and every time the dead branches and fallen leaves are stepped on, the sound of "creaking" can be heard. .

After walking for about half an hour, Ryunosuke Akutagawa suddenly stopped in front of him.

"What's wrong?" Atsushi Nakajima carefully observed his surroundings.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke turned his head, and said expressionlessly, "Where is the director's residence?"

Atsushi Nakajima: "?"

To be honest, since being picked up by Osamu Dazai, Atsushi Nakajima has been trying his best to make himself talk less and do more, but a series of things that have happened recently have all stimulated his desire to complain, and Atsushi Nakajima feels his patience The limit has been reached.

"So you don't know the way?"

"I never said that I know the way." Ryunosuke Akutagawa responded very confidently.

Atsushi Nakajima: "But you've always been ahead!"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "This road is very broad, and you have always wanted to walk behind."

Atsushi Nakajima: "I thought you knew the way!"

"If it wasn't for Renhu, you would have to wait until the children in the orphanage fell asleep before setting off, which delayed the investigation time. Maybe I do know the way now." Akutagawa Ryunosuke frowned.

"I know the way."

Atsushi Nakajima: "If you know the way, you should have said it earlier!"

Atsushi Nakajima: "..."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "..."

The air was quiet for a moment, and the two suddenly realized that the voice that said that sentence just now didn't seem to belong to either of them.

The moment he realized this, Nakajima Atsushi retreated, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke's blade quickly cut above where the sound came from, and the two looked up at the same time——

The blade of the clothes meets the edge of the blade, and there is a "clang" sound, sparking faintly bright sparks in the night!

After seeing the opponent's figure clearly, Atsushi Nakajima was taken aback: "Xiao Jinghua?!"

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"There doesn't seem to be anything useful."

After reuniting with Sakunosuke Oda, Osamu Dazai and him searched on the second floor. Unfortunately, there was nothing to gain except a handful of ashes.

This two-story building looks very large from the outside, but when you enter the inside, you find that this is a standard layout of one bedroom and one living room. The room is on the second floor and the living room is on the first floor. The study room is not big as a whole, and the area that can be explored is also very limited.

"Going downstairs?" Seeing that there was nothing to gain, Oda Sakunosuke asked.

Osamu Dazai nodded, and the two walked down the stairs.

Two of Sakaguchi Ango's subordinates were carefully exploring the hall with flashlights, while Sakaguchi Ango himself was in the study, eyes closed, holding a stack of paper-like things in his hand.

His supernatural ability [Theory of Depravity] can extract the memory on the item, and he had been told to the two people as early as in the hotel, so they would not be surprised to see the other party in this posture.

The view from the stairs was pretty good, and after taking his gaze away from Ango Sakaguchi, Osamu Dazai took advantage of the opportunity to look at the structure of the study.

The study room as a whole faces the direction of the living room. During the day, when the sun shines in from the window, it should be able to fall completely on the desk.

There are two rows of bookshelves in the study room. One row is slightly shorter to separate the living room from the study room, and the other row is larger. It stands behind the desk and almost covers the entire wall. There are many books in the bookshelves. , but most of them—according to Osamu Dazai's hard work after staring at them for half a day—are books on animal husbandry and management.

When Osamu Dazai was observing the downstairs, Oda Sakunosuke also stood still on the stairs, but he used the flashlight to scan up and down several times, and finally showed a little confused expression: "...strange."

Osamu Dazai turned to look at him, and smiled: "Did you find out too?"

"Here..." Oda Sakunosuke said, "There is no bathroom."

Dazai paused, and his smile deepened.

Although it is different from what I think, the general direction is the same.

Seeing his reaction, Oda Sakunosuke knew that the other party might have noticed this a long time ago, and was about to ask, but Ango Sakaguchi opened his eyes.

The two walked over, Ango Sakaguchi put down the things in his hands, and wanted to rub his temples, but the light from the flashlight shone on his fingers, making him stop in an instant.

"How about it?"

Hearing Dazai Osamu's question, Sakaguchi Ango came back to his senses, and ordered something that he had just put down on the table——

That is the signed document for the purchase and adoption of the animal.

"From the memory I retrieved, this director is a match for the person transferred from the Supernatural Secret Service Division, but," Ango Sakaguchi showed his palm, twirled his fingertips, and motioned them to look at the layer of dust covering it. , "It's obvious that no one has been here for a long time."

Ango Sakaguchi put down his hand, and said again: "I can't find the reason why more than half of the animals disappeared at night in the remaining memory of these documents. What I have seen about the daily life of the director is very normal. The staff discussed the raising of animals, going upstairs to rest, etc., but because it is too normal, it is also impossible to explain why it looks like no one has been here for a long time."

Since the director’s life trajectory is quite ordinary, why is the director’s residence left unattended for a long time when the zoo is operating as usual and the administrators and keepers still perform their duties?

"It's also upstairs." Osamu Dazai pointed to the top of his head, "The quilt is spread flat on the bed, and when the flashlight shines, it's covered with dirt. Other than that, everything is normal."

In this case……

Ango Sakaguchi thought.

I am afraid that after going out, I will ask the administrator what is going on.

"Actually, there is another interesting thing."

Osamu Dazai pointed to the huge bookshelf in front of him while talking, and the eyes of several people subconsciously looked in the direction he pointed. For a moment, all five rays of light hit the bookshelf, and the colorful spines of the books instantly appeared under the white light .

Oda Sakunosuke caught a glimpse of a blue book with his sharp eyes, and his eyes lingered on it for a moment.

"The area of ​​this room from the outside is different from the area inside," Dazai Osamu said at this time, "I calculated, and the difference is behind the bookshelves."

He didn't know when he sat on the desk, closed one eye, gestured with the knife from the upper right to the lower left, then opened his eyes, and asked Ango Sakaguchi excitedly: "Ango, your subordinate lady's sword can Can't you split the wall directly?"

Sakaguchi Ango: "..."

[How powerful. ]Seeing that he didn't speak, Osamu Dazai was a little disappointed: "The back must be empty, it should be easy to split."

Sakaguchi Ango: "..."

[Okay, you can hack. ]

After a long silence, under Dazai Osamu's aggrieved and disappointed eyes, Ango Sakaguchi calmly retorted: "We are not here to demolish the house."

He had just finished speaking when he heard a "Kala" sound from the corner of the bookshelf.

Several people followed the voice, and saw that Sakunosuke Oda was still reaching for a book on the bookshelf, but at this moment the bookshelf in front of him opened a gap one person wide!

Just when Ango Sakaguchi didn't know whether to ask where the slit came from first, or complain about the speed of Oda Sakunosuke's face-slapping first, the other party suddenly fell into the slit as if he was out of control.

Osamu Dazai's expression changed, and he jumped off the table in an instant.

"Odasaku!"

However, before he arrived, the gap closed quickly, and only the books on the bookshelf that had been pulled out halfway by the other party fell out of inertia, and hit the ground with a "snap".