Tokyo, a separate office building of the Special Investigation Countermeasures Office.

High heels and leather shoes clattered on the grindstone floor, and everyone here seemed to be in a hurry.

"I feel like the clerks in the countermeasures room have been very busy these days. I don't know what I'm busy with, or is it that the workload of a clerk is already so large? ”

Masao Nagatomo walked down the hallway with a large guitar case on his back.

Of course, the guitar case contained not a guitar, but a stone hammer from the long hand.

Nagatomo is here today to do daily combat training in the countermeasure room.

After becoming the official guarantor of Koheto, Yuuki Shinkenyu arranged a lot of learning content for him.

To become a qualified official soul slayer, he still has a lot to learn as a rookie.

Walking to the corner in front of him, a figure hurriedly rushed out and collided directly with Changyou.

"Hey, young!"

The man across from him sat down, a stack of papers scattered to the ground.

"Sorry! Ah, Mr. Yamashiro? ”

Masao Nagatomo knows the person who collided with him.

Tatsuya Yamashiro, a young man in his early 20s who looks slightly reckless.

Like Nagatomo, Yamashiro is a living person who has returned to reality from the "Ruzuki Station Incident".

I don't know exactly what happened to him in that world, but anyway, he was one of the people who was selected by the strategy room to be an internal clerk, and he is currently on the job.

"No, no, I bumped into you."

Yamashiro said this as he hurriedly picked up the papers on the ground.

The little flat head also bent over to help.

As he picked it up, he caught a glimpse of a document with the words "related to the red stingray incident" written on the letterhead.

"Mr. Yamashiro, you seem to have been busy lately?" After packing up the papers on the ground, Changyou asked casually.

"Yes, as soon as I took up my post, I had a big deal." Yamashiro grimaced.

"Big deal?"

"It's the Thor-sama who brought us all out of Rutsuki Station before......"

Before Shancheng's words were finished, a loud shout came from behind the two: "Shancheng! Do you still have kung fu to chat! ”

It is a middle-aged bald man with glasses, who seems to be the small leader at the top of the mountain city.

"Ahh Yes! Sorry, sorry, right away! ”

Yamashiro held the document and hurried over.

Only Nagatomo was left standing alone in the hallway.

He scratched his head and muttered in his heart: "Lord Thor? Is it because Kamiya-kun's master has been busy like this lately? ”

"Changyou! Say less, do more! Today's combat training, hurry! ”

The voice of the senior sounded in Nagatomo's ears, and the severity was no less than that of Mr. Yamashiro's leadership.

"I'm sorry!"

Masao Nagatomo carried the guitar case and accelerated towards the training grounds.

And this time.

In Tatsuya Yamashiro's office, several clerks, including Yamashiro, were anxiously flipping through the information at hand, and all the records related to the "Red Ray" were selected and delivered to the bald leader.

But the bright-headed leader was obviously not very satisfied with everyone's work, and waved a few thin pieces of information in his hand: "So little, only so little!" It's been three days, and we've been looking for such a point? ”

"But Mr. Nakano, in the past 50 years, there are only so many paper records related to red rays in the Kansai region."

"Then give me the last 80 years, 100 years! At the same time, the office next door to organize the Kanto data found much more content than us, and it was much faster! ”

"But...... In the office next door, they are responsible for checking the electronic file......"

"Less nonsense, do it!"

"Yes! Be! ”

Poor mountain city Tatsuya, these two days are still busy.

……

in the world.

Aokihara also seems to have had a snowfall recently.

There is a feeling that the seasonal scene has been updated.

Kamiyagawa stands high in the mountains and forests.

Beside him is the devouring dog god who sits with his head held high, and the sparks around him are burning; and a ghostly little old man.

He looked down.

The vast sea of trees, covered in silver, covered with snow, covered with snow, and the cold wind mixed with snow chips blew in his face, pulling his black veined feathers and weaving sound.

In the vast map of Jukai, Kamiyagawa and his two men are just a black dot in the white.

Heaven and earth are vast.

"It's pretty good when you look at it that way. It's a big picture, but it's almost there. ”

Kamiyagawa's exploration of the large map of [Aokigahara] finally came to an end today.

As for the harvest.

It's been more than 20 days since I killed Fallen Mountain, and the biggest gain is to open a mine, and the rest is to accumulate and take about 11,000 soul crystals from the monsters.

One in case sounds like a lot, but it's actually a lot.

But ah, that's the total production for twenty days.

I think that when Kamiyagawa first arrived in Aokigahara, in one night, he earned 4,000 soul crystals just by cutting down the human face tree.

Comparing the two pairs, you can imagine how badly this map has been harmed by him.

Now that this Ten Thousand Soul Crystals are finished, Aokihara, the fat map with the most abundant products so far and "running soul crystals everywhere", basically has no oil and water to fish.

Monster sightings are rare.

[Area Mission: Explore Aokigahara 80%, completed!] （81/100）]

[Quest rewards are distributed, and blank gods are obtained!] ]

[Blank Shrine (Special Material No Rating): An unpositioned Shrine. After being used in the table world, in the world location corresponding to the location of the use, a Divine Tree stand card can be used to generate a logged-in Divine Tree. ]

The exploration mission has been completed, and the task reward Kamiyagawa has also been received.

It's a special shrine.

After studying the functions of the [Blank Divine Tree], Kamiyagawa realized that this was a good thing.

In the past, when opening a new map, it was always "Strange Tales of Things" that said it would be opened.

But with this new item, Kamiya can open a map in a region of his choice.

It is equivalent to "Strange Tales Story" to give the main line, but he has the option to go to other regions to spend the line independently.

"This thing has to be put to good use, and if you go to a valuable place to spend it, you might be able to get something special."

Kamiyagawa put away the [Blank Divine Coffin] with satisfaction, returned to Takamagahara and hung up and returned to the real world.

[The quest in the Aokigahara area has been completed, and the god in an unknown place has been sensed and needs to be activated!] ]

It's time to see where the new mainline map opens.

……

Consciousness returns, and Kamiya wakes up in the big bed at home.

The first thing I did after waking up was to reopen "Strange Tales of Things".

Inside the game's interface, Kamiyagawa once again sees a panoramic map in 3D, as well as a new marker.

This time, the marker did not drive particularly far, in Chiba Prefecture, on the edge of Tokyo.

Kamiyagawa zoomed in on the 3D map, and when it was enlarged to the highest multiple, he saw the names of the places on the new map as usual-

Grand Romantic Hotel.

"Is it a hotel this time?"

Kamiyagawa directly searched for the name of this hotel on the Internet, and after some searching, he quickly got a lot of relevant information.

Grand Romantic Hotel, also known as Live Fish Hotel.

Since the construction of this hotel, there have been frequent incidents, such as the assassination of husband and wife, the suicide of cremation of corpses, and the murder of female high school students.

At one point, a guest staying at the hotel reported that he had been hit by a ghost incident.

For example, someone said that they had heard unprovoked footsteps or slapping on the wall in the room; Some people said that they were in a corridor that was obviously straight and got lost for 1 hour; What's more, he swore that he had seen the ghost of the deceased wandering in the hotel.

A series of horrific and supernatural events make the Grand Romantic Hotel a ghost hotel that everyone fears.

Not long afterward, the hotel closed down and remains in ruins.

"The Live Fish Hotel is also a supernatural location." Kamiyagawa put down his phone and pressed his temple.

He's used to it.

Anyway, the map chosen for "Strange Tales of Things" has always been these underworld locations.

But then again, Chiba Prefecture is a metropolitan area anyway.

The number of official soul killers in Japan as a whole should be put into the whole country. That's certainly not enough, most remote places are difficult to take care of, and there is no long-term removal. But in several important metropolitan areas, the official organization can still control it.

Therefore, the danger level of this Grand Romantic Hotel is not high in reality.

The previous maps in the metropolitan area are almost the same.

However, it's hard to say what the inner world of these regions corresponds to.

……

Although the new main line has been opened, Kamiyagawa has decided to slow down the opening of the map for the time being.

He's been busy with another thing the other day, and this morning, it's a little bit of a clue.

Kamiya was going to deal with this important matter according to the original plan.

As for what matters so much, of course it is-

About Mary.

It is related to Mary's construction of the Joy Society.

Previously, the craftsman's sister had opened a list of basic building materials for the Xishe, which contained more than ten kinds of materials.

The materials that are easy to find in it, Kamiyagawa handed them over to the cat shopkeeper of the "Lingmeow Wanshi House", and took the method of "directional entrustment collection" to find them.

It costs 500 soul crystals to find an ingredient.

Even if you find them all, you only need more than 5,000 soul crystals.

Kamiyagawa finished fighting Aokihara's boss, and then squeezed out the residual value of this map, and there is still a lot of deposit.

After deducting the money from the previous candle-making monk to buy candles and find the craftsman's sister to upgrade the god statue, there are almost 14,000 soul crystals left in hand.

Help Mary build a shrine, throw money and kryptonite and you're done.

However, among the materials given by Jue, there is also a "core" building material, which cannot be bought with money.

And that's—

[Red stingray]

According to the introduction of the craftsman's sister, this thing must be a big monster related to red rays to have a chance to produce.

It's hard to find.

And Jue has follow-up additions, don't force this material.

Although the use of [Red Stingray Bone] to build a shrine can make Mary's shrine almost perfect, it is conducive to her subsequent construction of superior godhead qualities.

If you really can't find it, Jue also prescribes a lower substitute [empty grain ear stalk] instead.

However, since it is said that there is a perfect material, how can Kamiyagawa not fight for it in order for Mary to develop better, faster and better in the future?

Say whatever you want to give her the best shrine in the whole place!

She deserves it!

Therefore, after Kamiyagawa fought the Aokihara boss battle, he has been trying to find information related to [Red Stingray Bone].

Not to mention, he really found it.

"Red stingray bone", such a thing as a transcendent understanding, must not be found on the Internet.

The source of information about Kamiyagawa is the Special Investigation Countermeasures Room.

That's right.

Kamiya is the culprit who has caused some clerks in the strategy room to work crazy overtime in recent days.

It's really a great villain.

He used the method of communicating for his master "Lord Thor" to contact Uncle Yuuki.

Said that his master has been looking for monsters related to red rays recently.

It is hoped that the official organization will be able to provide some useful information and intelligence.

The right should be a compensation for the assistance that "Lord Thor" demanded from the human side after the "Ruyue Station Rescue Incident".

The mysterious ghost god has rescued a large number of living people trapped in the inner world, and released kindness to you humans, asking for only a little information from you, isn't that too much?

Although, Kamiyagawa himself has received 2 million yen from the official after the "Ruzuki Station Incident".

But...... Ahem, an apprentice is an apprentice, and a master is a master.

One thing is one thing.

After a routine meeting with the organization's top brass to discuss the issue, Uncle Yuuki agreed to the "deal" requested by Lord Thor.

Although this transaction has a bit of a strong buy and sell meaning.

But it doesn't hurt to be able to keep in touch with a mysterious and powerful ghost.

There's no reason for them to refuse.

A deal between ghosts and humans is made.

And since a deal is a deal, it means that everyone owes nothing after it is done, which is great.

Kamiyagawa doesn't want to use the name of "Thor" to owe favors to the authorities.

"Thor" is now inflated in rank and personality on the official side, and he really owes favors, and it may not be easy to repay it in the future.

In the recent past, the Special Investigation and Countermeasures Office has mobilized internal manpower to work overtime to search the existing paper and electronic files, and finally collated and gathered a useful document.

This morning, the document was delivered to Kamiyagawa by Master Kanazawa Xingluo himself.

After sending the materials, Master Kanazawa also implicitly hinted that the inside of the strategy room was looking forward to the next transaction with "Thor".

Kamiyagawa naturally immediately said: My master and his old man must be looking forward to it too!

The photocopies sent by Gen Kanazawa were not too thick.

However, all the contents related to the "red ray" in the past 100 years have been recorded in the countermeasure room, but they are all here.

So it's not for nothing that "red stingrays" are hard to find.

Kamiyagawa carefully searched for these materials, removed some useless ones, and then screened out a few strange stories related to "red stingrays".

There are only three copies left.

The three files are from Aomori Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, and Wakayama.

The locations are different, but the content is similar, and they all mention a strange story called "Lord Red Ray".

Among them, the one from Aomori Prefecture is the most informative, and it also comes with an official report of a spirit-slayer from a long time ago, and a little research notes from folklorists.

In the report and research notes, the so-called red stingray in Aomori Prefecture is defined as-

Aragami.