I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

Eight o'clock in the evening, Toshima Ward, Ikebukuro.

"Record: Since I witnessed the strange lights in the target apartment at 4:35 last night, no other situation has been found for the time being."

In the apartment room, Mochizuki Ayano picked up the tape recorder and recorded the information on time.

With big dark circles hanging on her face, she can go out without makeup. COS has collected 320,000 candidate names for the popular panda "Cai Bang".

Because her left eye could see some things that the [Spiritual Detective Glasses] couldn't, she took the initiative to request to perform surveillance tasks in person.

"Ding dong."

Along with the sound of footsteps, someone outside the door rang the doorbell.

"Hello, Ms. Mochizuki, the goods you ordered in the front hall have been delivered."

Outside the door, the delivery man said respectfully.

"Okay, please put your things at the door, I'll take them later."

Mochizuki Ayano focused her attention on the apartment opposite, but replied coldly.

When monitoring weirdness, it is common sense to minimize contact with the outside world.

So these days, she is relying on the website of the front office to deliver goods to her home.

What's more, she was wearing only a pair of **** and a T-shirt in the room, in a vacuum state.

Naturally, she won't go to the door to pick up the meal.

"I want to protect the smiles of the people I love and the people I love."

Across the door, there was a faint sound of such an unknown voice.

After five minutes, Mochizuki Ayano carefully brought in the goods that had been placed at the door.

It was a large package of food and daily necessities.

Just when she went back to the window and picked up the telescope to look out, the phone rang.

"Kamikawa Kaori, a resident of Room 405, died suddenly and without warning in the isolation protection room. The time of death was 8:35. The cause of death was heart obstruction. Section chief, I'm sorry, we were negligent..."

On the other end of the phone, a frustrated voice came from an agent.

Just after they found out that the light was staying in room 405 yesterday, they immediately took isolation protection measures for the woman living alone in that apartment, and they also checked her by the way, and found nothing abnormal.

Unexpectedly, there was still a problem under my own eyes.

"Exactly 16 hours, damn... Did she have anything unusual or said before she died?"

"There was no warning. She was watching the latest episode of "Tokyo Hotel" before she got sick. However, when she was dying, she said... She shouldn't take the elevator."

Mochizuki Ayano immediately took out her notebook and recorded the word "elevator".

Is it a grievance or a strange murder?

There is no particularly clear line between weirdness and resentment.

After all, weirdness often appears in the form of grievances.

The only difference is that, compared to the resentful spirits who act entirely by obsession, the weird has rigid and irresistible rules of conduct, as well as the characteristics that are difficult to completely eliminate.

This is also a very distressing point for Lesson 9 in dealing with supernatural cases.

Without temptation, it is difficult to know the truth.

But temptation means sacrifice that may appear at any time.

The description of the "Hell Apartment" on the 2CH forum is extremely vague, only mentioning that the lucky ones selected by this apartment will receive a special pass to hell.

Paranormal cases are often hidden in a large number of suicide and accident cases that are difficult to identify and cannot be traced back.

In Japan, where suicide has become a culture, people commit suicide anytime and anywhere.

Although the number of traffic fatalities in Japan is less than 4,000 every year, the number of accidental deaths due to various other reasons is quite terrifying and difficult to count.

After the Search Support Analysis Center regularly compared the cases with big data, it was discovered that in the dozens of seemingly unrelated suicide and accident cases in the past two years, the deceased were all residents of this apartment.

And there is a fixed time interval between each case.

The reason why I didn't find out until now is because... these cases all happened outside the apartment.

It can be said that this apartment's "killing method" is extremely concealed, and it is completely unexpected to be able to enter the ninth lesson's field of vision.

And the reason why this apartment is so important is because this is the first weirdness that reflects the "anti-investigation awareness".

"Is the 'rule' of that apartment really just as simple and unsolvable as 'in the room selected by the light, one person will die'?"

Staring at the word "elevator" on the notebook, Mochizuki Ayano fell into deep thought.

Her gaze shifted to the information about the apartment at the table.

Ikebukuro Royal Cobo Apartment, built ten years ago, has not had any strange rumors and no strange cases since its completion.

According to the floor plan of the apartment, this long and narrow six-storey old-fashioned apartment consists of 24 units.

And if you want to say something strange, there is only one elevator in this apartment.

Of course, because there are stairs in the apartment, the floors are not high, and there are not many residents, so it is enough.

Could it be... that all this has something to do with that elevator?

With that in mind, Mochizuki Ayano started getting dressed.

"Hi, Siri, call Takeshi Iwata."

"Okay, I'm calling Takeshi Iwata."

"Senior, I'm in Haruna Mountain..."

On the other end of the phone ~www.NovelMTL.com~ came Takeshi Iwata's deep voice.

At this moment, he is leading the team to squat in another place that seems to be strange.

"I'm going to personally go to the elevator on the first floor of the apartment to confirm it. Now I will hand over the on-site command over here to you, and the monitoring work will be continued by the team downstairs."

She decided to take a look at the elevator for herself.

"But...Senior, this doesn't meet the 'Strange Contact Action Guidelines'."

"Strange Contact Action Guidelines" is a series of specific action rules formulated by the research institute. Before thoroughly clarifying the rules of weirdness, try to avoid contact with weirdness as much as possible, and mainly observe a series of specific action rules.

"Don't worry, I'm just going to the elevator to take a look. It's better than waiting here. I can't do anything. Let's let the apartment go on like this. The rooftop above can't stand anymore. It's become hell... Besides, I'm not among the people limited by the institute's guidelines."

Having said that, Mochizuki Ayano smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"But... I got it, I asked the people on the 10th floor to continue monitoring."

Takeshi Iwata seemed to want to say something, but finally chose to remain silent.

It was half an hour after Mochizuki Ayano got dressed, put on light makeup, put all kinds of equipment in her backpack, and stood in front of the gate of Ikebukuro Royal Kobe Apartment.

"A group of apartments has obtained the monitoring permission of the target apartment."

A message came from an agent on the tenth floor of the same building.

"receive."

After saying this into the earphone, Mochizuki Ayano took a step towards the elevator.

"Lisha-chan, I'm going downstairs, what's your house number?"

At this moment, a cute girl standing in the elevator room and talking on the phone caught her attention.

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