In the dark, the stray animal shelter in the city that belongs to the leaves.

The middle-aged uncle security guard who was bowing his head and eating noodles in the security room was suddenly alarmed by the barking of countless animals in the entire shelter, as if in an instant, the animals in the entire animal shelter began to roar wildly. It's so noisy that this closed room is extremely noisy.

Letting go of his beloved instant noodles, the security guard walked over to a computer monitor on one wall of the security room, which had been divided into more than a dozen pieces, showing more than a dozen different locations in the animal shelter.

Security, "What's going on?"

Although he always thought that there was really nothing worth stealing from others in this shelter, the security guard uncle still carefully inspected the pictures transmitted by the dozens of surveillance cameras one by one. A surveillance camera closes in, revealing dozens of animal cages in two rows on either side of the room. There wasn't anything in the hallway in the room. But dozens of dogs on both sides of the aisle all barked at a certain spot in the middle.

Uncle Security frowned, "Did something happen?"

The security guard's eyes kept getting closer to the picture, and he didn't find anything. Another surveillance screen opens, revealing the same room full of dog cages, empty aisles, and barking dogs on both sides.

The security guard wondered, "What is the situation? Is it a precursor to an earthquake? Forget it, let's go out and have a look." ”

Wearing a short-brimmed round hat that belongs to the security guard, the security guard is equipped with his own half-meter-long, high-strength security flashlight with electric rod function, and walks out of this security surveillance room with the phone.

As soon as he turned on the corridor lights, the security guard suddenly heard a loud door closing behind him.

Rumble......!

When the security uncle looked back, he found that the door of the security house he had just come out had closed by himself.

Uncle Security breathes a sigh of relief!

Uncle security, "It's really scared to death! It's the sound of the door closing......"

The security uncle suddenly froze at the same time as his voice, and a trembling voice appeared in his mouth, "The monitoring room has no windows, so it must not be the wind blowing the door shut......"

The security guard was suddenly lightning fast, and suddenly rushed to the door of the closed room, and tried to tighten the lock on the door, trying to open the door of the room that once belonged to him. The door lock didn't move, and the door couldn't be opened.

The security guard's voice trembled, "Yes, yes, yes, I have the key...... I have the key......"

The key was taken out, gently inserted into the lock hole of the door, and the door was opened.

The security guard's voice slowly calmed down, "This is really accidental...... It's ...... by chance."

The door slammed, and the security guard suddenly stiffened on the spot. When he suddenly tried to close the door, it was open again and did not move, as if it was being clung to by some great force.

The security guard exclaimed, "Don't ......"

A black mist suddenly burst out of the room, sucking the security guard into the door, and then the door closed again.

Suddenly, the countless screaming animals throughout the shelter suddenly stopped in unison.

The entire shelter fell silent again.

A clearing in the forest. This is a very rare place, and after Du Ping cleaned up the vines and small trees here, the remains of an old wooden house were finally revealed. It's not a nice, classic, comfortable building, it's actually just a simple wooden house of less than 12 square meters that can accommodate a place to stay and rest. The roof that made up the wooden house had collapsed, and the walls of the wooden house had decayed and tattered. But Du Ping still kept his happy smile.

This is the house where Kurahara Yuzen lived 150 years ago, when he had been searching for the forest alone, for 5 years. According to the book, he lived here for 5 years. Not only houses were built here, but farmland was also cultivated. Although after 5 years, he finally returned to his hometown and returned to his relatives. But Du Pingping still believes that he was very close to victory at that time.

The clearing was cleared, and Du Ping found some wild sweet potatoes. This made Du Pingping more sure of his judgment. Du Pingping decided to make this the first base he was looking for in the forest, so he began to build the first wooden house in his life. Next to the original wooden house, Du Pingping laid four 2-meter-long wooden posts, and used four beams as the beams of his wooden house, and then put a huge waterproof oilcloth in his backpack on the beams. The huge tarpaulin provided Du Ping with a roof and two walls. Du Ping made the other two walls out of just two rows of newly cut arm-sized tree poles. Du Pingping even had time to make a simple wooden bed half a meter above the ground in the wooden house for himself.

It turned out that a few pieces of wood from the wooden house were taken down by Du Pingping, and with the help of the mountain knife, Du Pingping made them into firewood one foot long and the thickness of his thumb, and successfully lit a fire in his wooden house. The hundred-year-old earthenware water tank was also found in the original wooden house, and in a creek less than 10 years away, he cleaned it and used it to start heating hot water on a burning fire.

More than a dozen wild sweet potatoes were dug up by Du Ping, and while boiling water was heated, they were placed on the edge of the fire. If there is no accident, after ten minutes, Du Ping will be able to drink this more hearty food for the first time after almost 10 days of foresting.

An unlucky pheasant caught by Taro was plucked out of the feathers by Du Ping, cut open the chest cavity, removed the internal organs, and set it up on a wooden frame similar to the character of Toyo, standing next to the fire and roasting it slowly. The dug up internal organs were also thrown to Taro, who is now finally no longer picky eaters, and used it as a supplement.

Nearly 10 days of solitary forest life can make a lot of changes! At least Du Pingping feels stronger and more determined.

After a busy day, the dark sky of the forest finally arrived early again.

Du Ping looked at the watch on his wrist, and it was not even 6 o'clock in the evening. At this time, it should be the most lively time in the city, and you can only relax and prepare.

Sitting by the fire and waiting, Du Ping put his right hand on the top of the old Inutaro's head. The eyes slowly glowed with metallic color, and the unique sense of hearing, smell, and sight, which belonged to the Taro canine family, was slowly transmitted to Du Ping's brain. This is a systematic skill that Du Ping has been mastering in depth in the past 10 days. In the forest, with the help of Taro's canine perception, Du Ping can discover and perceive many things that he can't discover. It is this technique that has been mastered so that Du Ping has been able to avoid danger and find food and water for some time.

In the depths of the sea, Du Ping suddenly smiled. Unbeknownst to others, he had discovered 5 days earlier that at least 2 stalkers had been following him constantly. That's great news! The more people you follow, the closer you are to the truth.

Unlike the stalker, who only sees Du Fair constantly hurrying every day. A few days earlier, Du Ping had already handed over his body control to an autonomous character template for control, and the main consciousness had been in the sea of knowledge, with the help of the other 4 autonomous character templates, constantly learning and analyzing the many materials obtained from the leaves. There is a lot of information in the leaves, not only some people who are constantly looking for some records and maps of the Aogaoka Kazama family, but also the history of the Aogaoka Kazama family.

Legend has it that the Qingqiu Kazama family actually originated from the court concubines of the defeated side of the ancient palace strife. Due to the defeat, he was chased by the victors all the way, and he had to constantly face attacks from robbers and bandits in the middle. Having lost their master, they had no choice but to flee and disappear. Decades later, of course, when they reappeared in the world's eye, they became a race of women with eccentric and extraordinary powers.

Du Pingping had seen this history in middle school history class, but there was no description of the story of the women. Maybe it's because in history, they're just a bunch of tiny people. But if they believe that this history is true, those who compare their ancestors as weak women such as court concubines with the environment here. Du Pingping does not think that they have the strength and ability to go far into this forest. And many of the search records describe that many people have found some clues here. Although none of these clues can really work later, Du Pingping does not believe that there are so many coincidences in the world. Therefore, Du Pingping decided to use this place as a base to search for the next step, just like this predecessor Kurahara Yuzen more than 150 years ago.

At this moment, Du Ping was calm and terrible. The two ninja-like guys who had been following him were now left to their own devices as a measuring stick for the progress of their work, never bothered.

Slowly, one figure vanished, and then another. In Du Ping's perception, the ninjutsu of the figure after him has always been much higher than that of the person before. Because the person before has never found the person after him, and the person after him will always lurk and follow the person before he really leaves. If the one who came after became a ninja of the Kazama family, then the one before must be their enemy.

Du Ping's mind remembered a human figure, it was a green woman of an ancient court maid, a guy with a faceless face.

Du Fair smiled. The aroma of sweet potatoes in front of him had already come out, and Du Pingping hurriedly took the wooden sticks and pulled out the sweet potatoes with a black surface from the fire. Ignoring the heat, he took a bite greedily. The black part of the sweet potato, which was taken from the periphery of the sweet potato, was thrown to Taro, who was very greedy next to him, and Taro was already happily biting into it.

A room entirely in period costumes, with a screen painted with a huge and terrifying eight basilisks.

Ye Zi knelt meticulously on the cushion in the middle, and a man dressed in black was kneeling in front of her, reporting his work.

Ye Zi's face seemed to be the same autumn water for ten thousand years, "You said, Du Pingping finally set up camp in the place where he once belonged to Zangyuan Weishan?"

Men in Black, "Yes, Leaf!"

Leaf, "Nothing else?"

The Man in Black, "Yes, no. ”

As if he had already been mentally prepared for this, Ye Zi didn't say much or blame anything, but just picked up the tea bowl on his table. This is a sign that the subordinate can go down. The man in black kneeling below immediately kowtowed and retreated.

Ye Zi is preparing to sort out his thoughts and think about the affairs of Du Ping and Qinggaoka Kazama's family. Here a plea was heard outside the door.

"Leaf! Something's going on at the animal shelter!"

Yezi, "What's wrong?"

"Yes! This morning, word came from there that the security guard who was on duty there last night found dead in the security room!"

Leaf, "How did you die?"

"I don't know! It is said that the person in charge over there, Miss Hirota, has called the police. ”

Ye Zi immediately frowned and smiled.

Is it you? Is it you? Did you finally decide to wake up? What a look forward to!

Leaf, "Got it!"

"Yes, leaves!"

Outside the door there was the sound of someone leaving. Ye Zi understood that it was the person's deliberate move to indicate that he was leaving, and according to the training level of his subordinates, they could come and go silently. But having time to come and go is more of a need for politeness and courtesy, and they do a great job!

The leaves are in a good mood.

On one side is a display screen that still shows surveillance cameras from all over the shelter, and on the table in the middle is a half-eaten bowl of instant noodles. Next to the table was the corpse of a middle-aged man dressed in security uniforms. The corpse was hideous, twisted, and stiff as if it had gone through great fear and struggle before death.

Kohinata Fumitsu, the head of the first search section of the Tibetan Horse Police Headquarters, came to the door with several subordinate criminal policemen, looked at the situation in the security monitoring room, and turned his head to look at the person in charge here, the tall and beautiful director of the shelter, Aiko Hirota, "What's going on?"

Aiko Hirota looked at a young man in his twenties standing next to him, "We went to work in the morning and didn't see the security guard who was on duty yesterday, so we opened the security room by ourselves. That's how the current situation was discovered. ”

The young man immediately spoke, "I opened the door, and when we saw the situation in the room, we didn't dare to proceed. ”

Little Hinata Fumiyo, "No one is going?"

Aiko Hirota nodded, "No one is going." ”

Xiao Ri waved to Wen Shi and motioned for his subordinates to cordon off the scene, "In this case, let's wait for the results of the forensic examination first!"

Aiko Hirota, "Yes, officer!"

Kohinata Fumiyo suddenly said, "Director Hirota, do you know that every five years in this shelter there is a suicide of a staff member. It's been 5 years since the last incident, right?"

Aiko Hirota said coldly, "I just think it's a coincidence, because it's a nationwide phenomenon caused by too much work pressure on employees." In our industry, the suicide rate is even higher than in other industries. So now your words make me nervous, and my staff nervous. Please do not spread unfounded alarmists without any basis. Believe me, if I think you have interfered with our normal work, I will file a complaint with the police headquarters. ”

Fumiyo Hinata, "Haha...... Ha ha...... Maybe it's really a coincidence. But I have a feeling, and my feeling is sometimes accurate. ”

Aiko Hirota said coldly, "I think the modern police should be a modern organization that believes in science, not a superstitious organization that used to use divination in the past. Am I wrong?"

Fumiyo Hinata, "That's right! I need to wait for the medical examiner to come now!"

Kohi said goodbye to Aiko Hirota to Fumiyo and led people to the outside of the shelter. Aiko Hirota watched him leave before turning her head to look at the young colleague who had been standing beside her.

Aiko Hirota, "Don't take his word for it! There are no demons or monsters in the world!"

The young colleague was firm, "Yes, Director! It's just that our predecessors couldn't accept the silent accusations of the miserable luck of those poor animals! And now the shelter, because of the outsourcing of incident handling and staff psychological counseling, people already feel a strong fighting spirit and upward spirit." So what the officer said was groundless remarks!"

Aiko Hirota finally smiled knowingly, "Yes! We must be strong, not surrender and despair." Not just for ourselves, but for those lovely, poor animals!"

The young colleague was firm, "Yes, Director!"

The early morning sun shines through the dense canopy above the forest, falling like flowers on the front and back of the huts in the clearing in the middle of the forest.

A large black dog slouched out of the house, crawled into the sunlight with the largest chunk, and got into the sun. A few hours had passed, the sun was already noon, and no one had come out of the house. There was no one to add firewood to the fire that had been extinguished.

A figure suddenly appeared from the periphery of the clearing, and slowly walked towards the small cabin that had extinguished the fire. The big dog just looked up at him lazily, and then fell to the ground again, enjoying the warmth of the sun. After seeing the big dog's miraculous response, the guy who was shrouded in black cloth and looked like a legendary ninja quickened his pace and came to the outside of the wooden house. After careful temptation, he came inside. Then, he ran out of it at a faster speed. Standing in the open space in front of the wooden house, watching left and right for a long time, it seems to have made up my mind. Towards the outer side of the forest, run quickly.

A few minutes later, another figure appeared on the edge of the clearing in the middle of the forest. This time, the big dog didn't seem to have the idea of looking at this side, so he just ignored it. The black shadow seemed to be exactly the same as the previous one, and its whole body was shrouded in black cloth, leaving only a pair of bright eyes exposed. After a slight hesitation, he quickly came to the outside of the wooden house belonging to Du Pingping, then entered, then exited, and then stood in the open space outside the wooden house in a daze. Then, as if he had made up his mind, he quickly walked to a place in the forest.

He did not notice that at his heights, an ordinary bird of the forest was following him closely, constantly moving cautiously and covertly.