Chapter 45 Yang Yan: What? Aren’t you here for Wonder’s fan exhibition?

Chapter 45 Yang Yan: What? Aren’t you here for Wonder’s fan exhibition?

"White Fox Station..."

Bai Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a tissue while looking pale as he found out the location of the station.

"The platforms and lines for the Sun Metropolitan Police Department's daily trains and daily electric trains to Night Island are all here."

Perhaps because he was usually the first to forward the relevant news of the Squid Detective Agency to the fan site when doing fan fiction, Bai Ye quickly searched for the platform routes throughout the year on the complex information network. Mizuise and Linglan were basically responsible for information collection in the previous case investigations due to Youyu's overly casual personality. The night network was complicated and trivial, but the three of them worked together and quickly pieced together a map of the tram track routes and stations for passenger transportation in Yedao in different periods.

The tram line station map of Yedao is very special. It revolves around Tanghong Mountain, the most famous landmark of Yedao, and presents two overlapping rings similar to discs. In the almost blank Tanghong Mountain, only the Tanghong Mountain Mountain God Shrine deep in the mountains has been developed into a famous tourist attraction, so a new tram track leading to the mountains was built a year ago.

Its name is, Gozen Inari Station.

In the Yoshima mythology, the messenger of the Inari god who is in charge of medical care and production is a kind fox, also called Gozen Inari, and the mountain god of Karakoyama is called the Inari god of Karakoyama.

"This is the only station in the entire Night Island named after a fox."

Linglan tapped the fork in her hand on the station map projected in the air, with a complicated expression: "Although I don't know what the relationship is between this station and the Yellow Spring Town we are looking for, this post seems to be the only clue we can follow now."

"No, don't worry, they are related."

Bai Ye propped himself up. His face was still very pale, but he looked in good spirits. He didn't show any sign of suffering from illness, or maybe... he had long been accustomed to enduring this.

"Don't forget, the security gate we left through is also a torii gate of a shrine, and around it, there are several very conspicuous fox statues."

Bai Ye's cobalt blue eyes were illuminated by the projected light. In the chaos of escape, only he calmly remembered that there were many fox elements in the shrine deep in the red leaves in the mountains.

In the season of reunion, the overlap of such elements cannot be a coincidence. The demon apostles and demons are hiding in the dark, and no one knows what they are planning.

"That girl has updated again!"

You Yu clicked on the computer in front of him, and several people came over to take a look, only to see that the high school girl’s experience was becoming more and more bizarre.

[Original poster: I feel like something is wrong... There is no one in this station, and it is so old... It doesn't look like a station that has been renovated in recent years at all. Even the signposts at the station exit are made of wood. It seems to lead to... a river called Sanzu River? 】

[Anonymous user: Oh my god, sister, you are not going to the underworld, are you? Isn’t the Sanzu River the river that flows through the underworld in mythology? 】

[Anonymous user: Maybe it is just a similar name. Many places on Yedao have old names similar to mythological place names because humans used to regard the influence of incomprehensible demons as myths. My grandmother said that there are nearly a hundred such places in Huangquan Kingdom and Yedao alone. 】

[Original poster: I'm trying to find the staff of the tram station, but there is no life here except me and some fireflies... I'm going to see outside the station now to see if I can find some traces of humans...]

[Anonymous user: OP, I would like to ask, what color is the firefly you see? 】

【OP: It’s blue, what’s wrong? 】

[Anonymous user: Is it possible... that what you saw was not a firefly, but a will-o'-the-wisp? 】

[Anonymous user: Please don’t scare me on purpose. I’m already scared to encounter such a weird thing alone in the middle of the night. It might just be a simple train derailment. I would say I should just stay at the station and wait for the next train or for the staff to arrive. Since there is a train derailment, it means there are still trains running on this track…]

[OP: I actually wanted to stay in the station, but that station gave me a very wrong feeling. Maybe it was my illusion. I always felt that there were people playing music with Japanese drums and Kagura bells there. Moreover, I sat there for a long time and I was the only one in the station... To be honest, my Akita dog was waiting for me to go back for a walk, so I had to find a way as soon as possible. 】

[Anonymous user: I suggest that the OP call the police now. I feel like your current situation is not suitable for ordinary usage. It’s a bit like... accidentally entering the devil’s other world. 】

Comments immediately agreed that professional matters should be left to professionals, and this weird situation can only be solved by a demon hunter (ninja) who has awakened the soul tag.

[OP: I’ve already called, but the call isn’t going through. I’ll try calling again later… Outside the station is a very desolate wasteland. I’m a little disoriented, but there’s a tunnel that runs along the track. I’ll try to see if I can get out of this place. 】

The poster quickly typed a lot of words, but her last reply was a minute ago, and many comments had already pushed her reply to the top. Not only Youyu, but others also had a bad feeling.

"This poster has obviously been dragged into the superimposed world... After all, apart from the superimposed world and the inner world, there is no other place so weird."

Thinking that she might encounter such an inexplicable disaster when she took the train home at night, Linglan crossed her arms and trembled: "It's just like a ghost story novel."

“…I want to go to the scene and take a look.”

You Yu touched his chin, stared at the comments that kept refreshing on the computer for a while, and threw out this sentence very seriously.

Whether it is the overlapping fox elements that make people pay attention, or the ordinary high school students who seem to have accidentally entered the superimposed world, they all give him reasons to go.

"It's not you, it's us."

Linglan smiled and put away the projection, turned around gracefully, and stood at the door with her hands on her hips.

"When has the Squid Detective Agency ever split up? Isn't this the rule you set, President?"

Bai Ye coughed twice. Shuise and Linglan looked at him worriedly, but the black-haired boy looked firm and resolute: "And me."

You Yu was stunned. He and Bai Ye looked at each other for a few seconds, but he could only see an unshakable determination in the other's eyes. That was... the belief that he had only seen in the law enforcers of the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau Headquarters in Night City, who were like the scorching sun shining in the darkness.

That belief, passed down from the King a hundred years ago, has supported mankind in fighting against demons until the new era in which the DM system exists today, and it will never be extinguished.

What kind of belief?

Justice that cannot stand idly by when faced with injustice and those in need.

Why would such a person do something like the Rye Town Incident? What kind of inside story is hidden here...

You Yu suppressed the doubts in his heart and nodded: "Then let's go together, Bai Ye."

The brown-haired boy turned around and walked towards the entrance of the B&B against the backlight. The other three stood behind him, as if they were protecting a young leader.

"We'll do it together."

Night Island, Tang Hongshan Town.

"That girl's social media account once posted some of her daily life. We can see that her location is Tang Hongshan High School. She is probably a student there. The station in front of that school only has one line. The last tram to Yedao leaves at 11:30. If we get there in time, we can still catch the last tram before she gets to the station."

On the tram to Tang Hongshan High School, Bai Ye told several detectives the information he had just collected with very clear thinking. He held out his mobile phone, on which was a daily photo posted by the forum owner on the social software.

The girl in the photo is wearing the sailor uniform and pleated long skirt of Tanghong High School. She is obviously a junior high school student. Her short silver hair that is longer than her ears sways as she walks.

The girl's temperament was extremely delicate, like a camellia flower blooming in spring, but she was wearing a haori jacket half draped over her school uniform, which was painted in the style of Ukiyo-e, depicting a giant male god slaying a giant snake. The people's rich knowledge of demonology closely related to mythology enabled them to recognize that it was a famous Yoshima Ukiyo-e - "Susanoo Slaying the Yamata-no-Orochi".

In the Yoshima myth, there is a story about how Susanoo, one of the three sons of God born from the tears of the ancestor god, personally killed the evil demon Yamata-no-Orochi that was endangering all directions.

When Bai Ye looked up, he met You Yu's sparkling eyes and the relieved expressions of Shuise and Linglan.

"Great!" Linglan quietly leaned over to Shuise and said, "Finally, we don't have to force ourselves to do those complicated information searches and material compilations!"

Shuise nodded: "God knows how desperate I am every time I do information search work. It feels like a slug popping out of my coffee."

Lily of the Valley: Uh, does it have to be so disgusting? I don't understand you artists.

"Wow, Bai Ye, you are so meticulous! You noticed so many details!"

You Yu, who rushed out with great enthusiasm, was just confused about where he was going. As a result, the reliable new commander he found the decisive clue right away. Even You Yu felt the illusion of a divine soldier descending from the sky.

Bai Ye hissed twice: "What you said...I am beginning to doubt who among us is the detective."

"By the way, I just called Xuedie. It would be more convenient to have someone from Yedao official present for this kind of thing."

Bai Ye coughed twice to hide the blush on his ears. His expression became confused. "When did you add Xuedie to your contact information? How come I didn't know anything about it?"

Linglan came over with a smile: "Because it's not him at all, I'm the one who added the contact information to Xuedie!"

You Yu: "...Sister Linglan."

Shuise: "…Why are pink bubbles appearing out of nowhere? Can I still have this lily of the valley?"

The location of the B&B, like Tanghong High School, is Tanghongshan Town at the foot of Tanghong Mountain. The train arrived at the station very quickly, so fast that the people in the detective agency felt a little unreal and dazed. The moment the train door opened, they simultaneously saw strange red and blue lines flashing on the outlines of all objects in the air.

"What's going on? This could be a precursor to a superposition event. Be careful!"

Before Lily of the Valley had finished her reminder, the next second, as the pleasant bell rang to indicate the arrival of the tram, the tram door opened and what was revealed was not the crowd of people on the last train as everyone had imagined, nor was it the hideous demon monster in the superimposed world, but a familiar face.

The red-haired boy with a baseball bat on his shoulder turned his head and waved enthusiastically to his very familiar classmates: "Hi, hello!"

Bai Ye was a little confused: "Why are you here?"

Yangyan gave a thumbs up, as if she was waiting for someone to ask this question: "Because there is a fan exhibition of Kaito Wonder here!"

Bai Ye:...uh...I don’t think it’s that surprising.

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