Maybe it's because both sides are straight to the point, without dragging their feet.

At about five o'clock in the evening, with the cooperation of Masao Tsukiyama, Rosetta and Reiko Arakawa quickly completed their work and finally left the gloomy and oppressive prison.

Look up at the dim sun set in the gray sky.

In front of the car, Rosetta stared at the car for a moment, and then he opened the car door, got into Reiko Arakawa's car, and followed him out of the prison on the outskirts of the city.

It was as if a drop of water had re-entered the river, and their existence seemed to melt into the traffic on the street, and they were swallowed up again by the huge machine monster of Antgawa City.

In the cloudy sky, the rain still doesn't stop.

Even if the windshield wipers of the car are constantly wiping, in this weather, the vision ahead is still not so clear, and everything is hidden in the hazy rain.

In this silent confined space, a sudden silence appeared.

He leaned back in the back seat, rubbing his temples, recalling the passage of the day.

Faintly, Rosetta felt a sense of 'danger' and followed, whether it was Ishizaki, who he met on the way to the interview room, or the great writer who invited him to complete the work together, they all gave him an indescribable 'weirdness'.

Ever since he decided to embark on this bizarre path, he has thought about what he has to face and what he has to lose.

Maybe it's bad luck, maybe it's danger, maybe it's death.

Rosetta was well aware of all this and calmly prepared to accept it.

Knowing that bad signs are in front of you, but still insisting on moving forward, this is not a normal person's thinking, but this is what Rosetta chooses to do.

It's still raining in Antgawa City.

He rolled down the window a bit to let in the cold air.

Feeling the 'danger' that seemed to be getting closer and closer behind them since they left that prison.

In the quiet space of the car, Rosetta closed the gift that Masao Tsubakiyama gave him before leaving, an anthology of Arthur Rimbaud's poems, and suddenly said calmly: "Miss Arakawa, do you know, in fact, I didn't exactly joke when I answered you last time. ”

"What did you answer last time?"

As soon as she finished talking while driving the car, Reiko Arakawa seemed to remember, and said with an "oh" voice: "Mr. Luo, you said that I asked you why you seemed to know in advance that I was coming, so you opened the door first?" ”

"yes, do you remember what I said?"

Rosetta bowed, "At that time, I said that one theory was that I had simply forgotten to close the door, and the other was that I had a subtle premonition that made me feel like someone was going to come tonight. ”

"You said at the time that these two answers were true and false."

As a reporter, Reiko Arakawa has a good memory and remembers Rosetta's answer at the time.

"Yes, it's true and false, it all depends on which one you want to believe." Rosetta nodded, put the book in his hand on the seat next to him, and said calmly, "Then are you willing to believe the latter once now?" ”

This request made Reiko Arakawa stunned for a moment, and then she followed Rosetta's previous words and smiled; "Suddenly, Mr. Luo, did your hunch make you suddenly foresee something?"

"Well, maybe."

Rolling down the window a little more, Rosetta nodded slightly, and in the short time she was talking to Reiko Arakawa, the ominous premonition that had gradually accumulated since she met Ishiizaki deepened a little.

He glanced in the mirror, and sure enough, the source of the ominous premonition seemed to be hidden in the traffic behind them.

But......

I don't know why, in the face of this feeling of imminent danger, Rosetta seems to have a different emotion in her hollow heart.

Because if the peaceful life in the past is regarded as reasonable, then this near-dangerous situation is not the 'abnormality' that he has been chasing?

Rosetta knew she wasn't normal.

But he didn't want to involve others because of this.

Staring at the traffic behind me through the mirror, I felt the danger getting closer.

It wasn't until Reiko Arakawa's car reached a deserted and uninhabited section of the road that Rosetta used the reason that the rain was a little lighter and she wanted to go down and walk, so that Reiko Arakawa put herself down and walked alone.

I never gave up the idea of finding the source of the danger premonition.

Just as the speed of the vehicle slowly slowed down until it stopped, Rosetta noticed that at the same time, one of the cars in the traffic behind him was also slowly slowing down.

Smack.

Raindrops slide from the surface of the umbrella to the ground.

Holding up the black umbrella she borrowed from Reiko Arakawa, Rosetta pulled the door open, and while paying attention to the movement of vehicles on the road, she quickly walked out.

Seeing the reporter's car go away, he quickly observed his surroundings.

Then, feeling the cold wind whistling across his face, Rosetta looked up and saw a large truck full of building materials, with blinding lights, moving past him at a slow descent.

And this.

It was the source of the 'danger' he felt.

At that moment, under the calm look, Rosetta's nerves immediately tensed.

He heard what seemed to be a mix of the constant ticking of rain in the background, and the sound of saliva dripping at some point.

And in the position of the cab of the truck that slowly stopped.

Feeling the breath of the prey, the unknown beast grinding its teeth quietly reached out and opened the car door, and then, poking its head out, locked on to the target with its scarlet-glowing cruel beast pupils!

Look at it.

Almost just for a moment.

The illusion of being targeted by a large beast swept in.

In the cold rain, Rosetta held a black umbrella, and her eyes fell on the other party without wandering.

At first, his imagination of the image of the stalker was probably that of a non-human monster who did not say a word, could not communicate, and was dressed in human skin.

But when I actually saw it, it was dressed in a dusty blue overalls that looked like a truck driver.

- If you ignore the other person's unusually narrow face, which is covered with black animal hair and has a large mouth that is cracked down to his cheeks, like a canine.

Man-wolf? Bestiosis? Or is it a more local Yingzhou monster?

In the scream, Rosetta couldn't think so much, he instinctively sent an alarm, and the black umbrella in his hand immediately crossed in front of him, and then then made a creaking and bending sound, blocking the monster's attack for him!

Raising his eyes, the terrifying face of the attacker was close at hand.

The smell of foul blood, mixed with the gasps of hunger, rushed to the face.

There was no fear, no panic, no wavering, Rosetta just stared at the monster in front of him expressionlessly, and then, in the wrestling with the umbrella, he pushed forward with both hands, and suddenly kicked the other party in the abdomen, and calmly squeezed out a voice from his throat: "Fuck you!" ”