In the past few months as an intern of a detective agency, Atsushi Nakajima has seen many strange incidents.

If there is one thing that deeply penetrates his heart, it is that no matter how bizarre things in this world can happen.

The police who came to entrust the investigation of the murder case were actually the murderer, or paying a lot of money to investigate the husband's affair only to find a chain of organ trading and so on are already clichéd development directions.

Counter-intuitive, anti-climax/tide incidents also occur from time to time. Once a certain secret department asked a detective agency to help with internal investigations, and then stopped it urgently in less than a week. It is said that they accidentally found out the plans of another department It almost made people fall short.

But this time Mr. Rilke's commission was really anticlimactic.They were invited all the way mysteriously, but they only encountered negligible difficulties in arriving at the destination town, and the owner of a hotel who asked casually knew Tsvetaeva's recent situation.

——Even though Atsushi Nakajima knew that there was someone else manipulating the commission, the riddles on the surface were too careless!

Dun didn't notice the subtlety of how the rest of the group reacted to the boss's description of Tsvetaeva.

"She's still staying there..."

Rilke murmured in a daze outside the cream-colored two-story building.

He stared at the second floor of the small building for a while, as if he could see the scene inside through the wall.

It took him a long time to stop raising his head, but shifted his gaze to the small lamp emitting inconspicuous white light above the gate.

"I won't go in." Rilke suddenly turned around and said to the people who came with him, "Please say hello to Mu Xia for me."

Rilke, who turned around and walked down, seemed to have been drained of all energy, the glimmer in his eyes had completely disappeared, and he staggered a bit as he walked towards Yosano Akiko.

He stood still in front of the female doctor, fumbled in his pocket with his right hand for a while, took out something, and then stuffed it into Yosano Akiko's leather-gloved palm.

Rilke seemed to want to say something at first, but his strength was exhausted, so he just let go of his hand and moved in the direction of leaving, his figure inevitably swayed——

No matter what he saw during the moment of staring at the small building, he was greatly shocked.

"He's gone away," Osamu Dazai said.

Nothing that happened just now seemed to be able to move this man, his gaze was on Yu Xie Ye.

The female doctor frowned and opened her hand, inside was like a key shining with silver light.

She sighed, and said, "I'll go and open the door." After all, Rilke's commission is not the point, what matters is the investigation of the entire town.

As for why Rilke would give her the key—

"Squeak-"

Xie Ye froze in place.The key was still in her hand, and the door was opened from the inside.

"Please come in." A woman in a black dress emerged from the darkness behind the door.

This is an invitation to all of us to come in.The detectives understood this in an instant.

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Tsvetaeva took her seat at the place farthest from Osamu Dazai and closest to Akiko Yosano.

Perhaps it was because Rilke gave the key to the female doctor, and Yosano could feel that the other party was looking at her without malice.

"We are the detectives hired by Mr. Rilke to find you. He was very nervous because he didn't receive your reply, but he didn't know why he didn't come in downstairs just now. He asked us to say hello to you for him." Xie Ye simply said Speaking directly and clearly, she put the key on the table by the way and pushed it a little in the direction of Tsvetaeva.

The woman in the black dress didn't respond to the words.She just picked up the key and looked at it, then put it back.

"He gave it to you." Tsvetaeva said to Yosano, "You may have misunderstood something. This is not the key to this house."

This sentence interrupted Yosano's train of thought.Fortunately, her teammates finally remembered the detective's duties.

"Miss Tsvetaeva, may I ask why you stopped replying to Mr. Rilke's letters? Was it because you died at that time?" Osamu Dazai asked.

To be honest, his tone was very rude, but for some reason it matched his expression so naturally.

As a result, Tsvetaeva didn't even look at him, but went on talking to Yosano Akiko.

"If you want to continue the investigation, you can live here." She said to Xie Ye in a gentle and friendly manner, "Don't worry about Lai Nei. He just didn't want to understand. Before he figured it out, you still have enough time."

The female ghost sincerely invited the detectives to live in her home, and revealed a lot of incredible information in her words.

Almost as soon as she said "you still have enough time", the guests felt a terrible chill run down their spines.

It seems that this is indeed a superficial puzzle and a trap that is not distracting, but no one knows what will happen before "time is not enough".

Tsvetaeva did not restrict their personal freedom. In fact, after the female ghost finished speaking, she went up to the second floor in front of several people, and when Atsushi Nakajima decided to go up and say goodbye to the owner, They realized that the other party had disappeared at some point.

What's even more outrageous is that Rilke couldn't be contacted either.

These two people seem to be guide NPCs that will not appear again after entering the free action link. After the pre-animation is played, only a bunch of mysteries and an operating base/safe house are left.

"Mr. Dazai, what should we do?" Nakajima Atsushi accepted the case returning to the normal situation of the detective agency in a sense, and directly began to ask what to do next.

The answer is also very simple.Search first, of course.Always collect enough intelligence before reasoning to solve a problem.

"Atsu-kun and Tanizaki are in a group. How about staying here with Dr. Yosano?" Dazai would not disclose his whereabouts as usual.

Let Yosano stay at Tsvetayeva's house, of course, is not to let her do nothing, but to let her observe whether there are any clues about Tsvetayeva in this house——

The two young people may not understand, but Dazai and Yosano are very clear that Tsvetaeva must have a deep connection with the whole "ghost" incident.

Tsvetaeva looked so out of character.Moreover, the information from the inn shows that the 'ghost' must have a summoner.

Tsvetaeva, on the other hand, lived alone, and the only Rilke who sounded like a summoner was out of town.

Although the female ghost did not answer Osamu Dazai's question, the truth is mostly in line with his speculation - the reason why he did not reply a month ago was because Tsvetaeva died, and the two copies were returned directly after that because the postal system here was blocked by FSB up.

And... Dazai recalled Tsvetaeva's behavior after seeing them, and made a guess.

He fished one of his cell phones out of his pocket and sent a text message.

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"Boss, that's all I know."

Zhong Yuanzhong also did not forget to report his investigation progress on this "ghost town" to Mori Ouwai.

Before, he 'bragged' to Malkovich that he would try his best to prevent the port mafia from sending other people to investigate, but when he called Mori Ogai, he was still somewhat guilty.

In the end, I didn't expect Sen to agree directly after listening to his description, without even the beating he imagined.

"'Ghost' or 'resurrection of the dead'? It's really a big deal, so let's investigate it from Chuya." Mori said without even agreeing on a deadline.

It didn't take long for Zhong Yuan to 'walk' around the whole town with his ghosts, and he also told all his experiences in detail in the report communication.

This time Sen pondered for a while on the other end of the phone.Analyzing intelligence takes time, after all.

"Chuya, do you have any thoughts about staying in this small town?" Mori asked calmly.

Hearing this, Zhong Yuan almost exploded his phone.

"Boss, please believe me, I never—" He hurriedly explained but was interrupted.

"I'm not doubting the loyalty of my cadres." Sen's characteristic tone makes one can almost imagine his expression on the other end of the phone, "My question is, do you feel that this town has a feeling for you? Influence."

"No." Zhongyuan replied, he suddenly understood what his boss was asking, "I didn't feel the influence of spiritual powers." But he has a special physique after all, so can he use it as a reference?

Sen paused again.

"So the ghost you met on the first day, have you ever met it again?" He moved on to the next question.

The answer to this question is no.Nakahara Chuya has been avoiding the small cream-colored building for the past few days.

But when he answered, he hesitated subconsciously and didn't say that.

"I didn't see her again, but I vaguely felt that there was a special sight these days."

A voice that seemed to be relieved came from the other end of the phone, but when Sen spoke again, he couldn't hear any difference.

"This investigation is very important." The suggestive words sounded, "You don't need to come back in a hurry. By the way, you may see Dazai-kun there in a few days. If he asks you for help, then take his order as your priority." allow."

On the other end of the phone, Zhong Yuan's expression became serious.Just talking about "very important" and Mori asking him to be ready to cooperate with Dazai is completely different. In his heart, the latter is about the same level as Yokohama is going to be destroyed.

Sticking to Markovich's commitment in this situation was a far lower priority than the real big deal.

Zhong Yuan couldn't help lowering his voice and said to Sen: "Boss, do you need to send someone here to investigate again?" After all, he is not good at this kind of thing, and he doesn't want to use the five people who have come back to do such a thing.

"Well, you don't have to worry about it." Sen's tone was very understated, "I have a suitable candidate in my mind, if it really reaches that level."

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