Soon after moving into the apartment, Kenta Oishi's daughter Norika Oishi died of illness, and his wife, Saori Oishi, committed suicide due to depression. After that, Kenta Oishi, who received a large amount of insurance payouts, hardly left the apartment except for purchasing daily necessities that could not be delivered to his door...... Before the file of this apartment was shelved, the investigators also came to communicate with him to understand the situation, but because his mental state was too unstable and he refused to communicate, he did not obtain useful information. ”

The Toyota sedan quietly drove into the open-air parking lot below the Kuramae apartment.

Standing at the bottom of the apartment building, Ichiro Tokimoto held a gossip compass in his hand and spun around the apartment building.

Above the white façade of the apartment, not a single window was lit, and it was as silent as ever.

In the view of Mochizuki Ayano's left eye, it was just an ordinary apartment, and there was nothing special.

"This place is really full of weirdness. This is obviously a feng shui pattern of a single high house and Qiao Shengsha, and there have been murders, and it stands to reason that the grievances within a radius of ten miles will slowly gather here. But at present, from the outside, I don't feel a trace of resentment. ”

When Ichiro was young, he worshiped the dragon country as a teacher, and he was very good at feng shui and runes, and he immediately saw the clues.

"Teacher Shimoto, is there a way to crack it?"

The reason why Mochizuki Ayano proposed to visit Kuramae's apartment at night before the official action was also in the hope that the experienced Ichiro Tokimoto could see some possible connections between this place and the Rift Girl.

Is it a coincidence or is there an inevitable reason that causes the rift girl to focus on this place?

"The art of feng shui is broad and profound, and the old man can only say that he understands it slightly. The feng shui pattern here is not human, and it is unknown how much it has to do with strange activities...... If I had to change it, I would have to tear down all the surrounding houses. ”

Hearing Ichiro Tokimoto's words, Mochizuki Ayano and Takeshi Iwata looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

At the current land price in Tokyo, it is an astronomical amount to buy and tear it all down, and I am afraid that there is no valid reason......

"Go in and see ......"

Five minutes later, Ichiro Tokimoto seemed to have finished his survey, and with a cautious face, he took the lead and walked through the door of the apartment.

As soon as they entered the door, the three of them felt that the temperature dropped suddenly.

Mochizuki Ayano was wearing a black coat, and she felt a little cold.

Walking to the elevator hall, Ichiro Tokimoto stopped looking at the dark corridor that was reflected green by the emergency lights.

"Mr. Tokimoto, what's wrong?"

Mochizuki Ayano and Iwata Takego were on either side of him, and when they saw him stop, they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at him.

Ichiro Tokimoto looked down at the gossip compass in his hand, and his forehead was covered with fine sweat at some point.

The pointer in the center of the compass was like an electric fan, turning wildly at the moment, and it was obviously invalid.

"It's actually the trend of 'Yang House Five Voids'...... The design of this Tibetan apartment matches the surrounding feng shui topography, and the resentment that gathers will gather in this apartment. This place can't be called a yang house at all, it's simply a tomb for the deceased, even if an ordinary 'spirit' stays here for a long time, it will quickly become a resentful spirit. ”

Hearing Ichiro Tokimoto's words, Mochizuki Ayano's heart also sank.

Although she didn't understand the mysterious dragon country feng shui technique, the ominous degree represented by the latter sentence could naturally be heard.

"But...... Inside this apartment, there is not a trace of resentment observed at present, could it be swallowed up by some kind of existence in the apartment? ”

Putting away the useless compass, Ichiro Tokimoto vigilantly pinched out two runes between his fingers and continued to walk down the corridor.

And Iwata Takeshi, who was wearing spirit detection goggles, also took out two silver pistols from his tactical belt full of various equipment and guarded them in the rear.

"It's ......"

Stepping into the corridor, Mochizuki Ayano's face suddenly turned pale.

"What do you see?"

Ichiro Tokimoto immediately asked out loud.

He knew that Mochizuki Ayano's left eye was special, and he could see more than ordinary soul slayers and spirit detection equipment.

"Footprints...... Fingerprint...... The floors and walls that covered the corridors were impossible to count, but at least more than a thousand...... Sure enough, there used to be a lot of resentful spirit activity here. ”

In Mochizuki Ayano's sight, dense blood-red footprints and handprints were everywhere in the corridor, and the deeper you went into the corridor, the denser it became.

These footprints and handprints represent traces of the spirit's past activity, marks that only she can see.

The traces that could be seen in her left eye, according to the preservation of the site, date back to five years ago.

Therefore, it is also possible that the traces of these spirits have accumulated before.

The three of them continued to move slowly down the hallway.

A faint sound came from the depths of the hallway.

"Whew...... Call...... Uh-a-ah......"

The unknown voice, as if there was some kind of being, gasping heavily, mixed with a low, sharp and painful roar.

It was as if there were countless evil spirits gathered together to wail.

"Be careful, there may be resentful spirits."

Takeshi Iwata immediately opened the safety of the double guns in his hand, and Shimoto Ichiro also secretly pinched the triangular rune paper between his fingers.

As the three of them approached the end of the corridor, the blood-colored hands and feet became denser, and the strange sound became clearer.

A large number of footprints and handprints have stopped at the door of Room 102, where it seems that a large number of spirits have gathered.

The strange sound also came from inside Room 102.

"This is a one-bedroom apartment rented by a resident named Sosuke Araki."

"This guy, if there's really a problem, has he been possessed by a resentful spirit a long time ago? But why can't I see it at all? ”

Hearing Takeshi Iwata say this, Mochizuki Ayano showed an expression of "sure enough".

Iwata Takeshi listened to the door for a while, and his face was a little embarrassed: "That guy is sleeping, this voice ...... It's his snoring and the action movie that's playing...... I guess I watched it fall asleep. ”

Mochizuki Ayano listened carefully, this voice was indeed a snoring mixed with some inappropriate sounds for children, but in this gloomy environment, it was particularly infiltrating.

This hateful, lewd, lustful fellow, if you see the footprints of your hands and feet in front of the door, see if you can sleep so soundly.

What she didn't know was that after returning from Kamakura, for some reason, Sosuke Araki was particularly sleepy.

He lived on the bag of snake meat, ate and studied, slept, woke up and ate, and he hadn't gone out for two days.

The three of them finished exploring the first floor, which was consistent with the detection records of the previous members of the ninth lesson, except for the hand and foot prints that Mochizuki Ayano could only see, and did not find any anomalies.

Turning back to the elevator hall at the gate, Takeshi Iwata carefully pressed the elevator button.

"Ding", the elevator door opened in response.

Glancing at the inside of the elevator, Mochizuki Ayano said with a pale face, "Take the stairs." ”

In her eyes, the inside of the elevator has been dyed red by dense hand and foot prints.

The trio walked up the fire staircase on the outside of the apartment to the second floor.

The uninhabited second floor, the corridor where even the moonlight cannot be reflected, and the sound of a needle falling to the ground can be heard quietly.

Tokimoto Ichiro glanced at Mochizuki Ayano.

The other side nodded to him.

This means that there are also a lot of traces of spirit activity on the second floor.

After walking around the corridor on the second floor, the three of them still didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Then, on the third floor, the fourth floor, and the fifth floor, the same is true.

The three of them stopped at the iron gate leading to the rooftop on the fifth floor.

Takeshi Iwata pushed the iron door hard, but did not move.

"It seems that in order to prevent the residents from going to the rooftop, the whole steel plate is welded to death, and there are no interlocking holes...... Do you want to call the demolition team? ”

"No...... You can't startle the snake...... I've always felt that there seems to be a purpose behind the strange things that have been active lately, whether it's the apartment in front of the Kuramae, and there's no need to act rashly until you figure it out. ”

Mochizuki Ayano shook her head.

"Let the drone take the spirit detective head and take a look from above."