I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 127 Lingze, Taoxiang

Boom boom boom!
Higashino Yu, who was using his magic power to nourish his sword, woke up when he heard a knock on the door. He opened the door and found it was Asumi Sanae. He was a little surprised, then quickly opened the door and invited her in.

"Please come in, my dear prince. Why didn't you let me know when you arrived to greet me?"

Asumi saw Sanae looking at Higashino Yu expressionlessly and said in a cold voice.

"I heard that you were going to get off the train and rush back, so I thought it might take some time, so I came here to wait. Unexpectedly, it was quite fast, and you rushed back from outside Tokyo in half an hour."

She was wearing the same outfit today as when she last investigated Nekomata.

The top is a white lace blouse with a light blue waistcoat, a Krabat scarf and a jeweled fleur-de-lis brooch.

The outer garment is a dark blue windbreaker, the lower body is dark blue breeches, and matched with a pair of black leather women's flat knight boots that are convenient for running.

She wore an elegant Borsalino tweed hat on her head, with a French blue ribbon wrapped around the hat and a delicate bow tied on the right side.

The atmosphere seemed a little off, and why did you knock on the door when you knew no one was home?

Dong Ye Yu instantly discovered something was wrong, and looked at the Moon Witch's expression and look for a moment, thinking about something in his mind.

Could it be that I was caught lying?
Generally speaking, there are two choices at this time: to insist on being stubborn or to confess on the spot.

But now that Miss Moon Witch has discovered the clues, there is no point in being stubborn.

"I have done something wrong, Your Highness, and I owe you my apology."

Higashino Yu very resolutely decided to confess, lowered his eyebrows, and looked like he was waiting for trial, but he did not explain what the matter was.

"I accept your confession, and I hope you will always be honest with me in the future, knight."

Mingri saw Sanae take off her top hat, nodded slightly, and then walked into the room carrying the kraft paper packaging bag in her hand. At this time, the sound of a bird flapping its wings was heard outside the window.

She turned her eyes and saw nothing but a few feathers in a box.

Does he have birds at home?
Mingri saw that Sanae was a little confused, but it was just a bird, so he didn't ask too much and handed the packaging bag in his hand to Higashino Yu.

"Here, take this, the knight's armor I promised you last time."

After a pause, he added: "The legal knife-carrying certificate I mentioned yesterday will take some time."

"Is that so? Although I feel a little regretful, I am extremely grateful that you have kept it in mind."

Given the efficiency of the island government, Higashino Yu had not thought that he could get a knife license in just one night. He said nice words and took the packaging bag handed to him by Asumi Sanae.

Inside was a very textured set of clothes, a men's suit that matched the retro style of Miss Moon Witch's outfit: a white shirt, a black vest and breeches, a dark gray windbreaker, a brown scarf, and a pure black woolen hat.

Although I don't know what the fabric is, it smells like money at first glance.

Wearing such slightly retro outfits may seem a bit ostentatious in modern society, but having new clothes is always better than having none.

What's more, there are a lot of demon hunters running around wearing Wu costumes and wearing famous swords on their waists. Aren't they afraid of falling because of stepping on their hakama when chasing monsters?
In comparison, Miss Moon Witch not only has a better aesthetic, but her clothing design is also much more convenient.

Dong Yeyu still liked this dress very much and praised it very sincerely.

"Your generosity is known from the mirror moon to the darkest place, my dear prince."

Seeing that Sanae didn't seem to be planning to leave after delivering the clothes, Asuri lowered her eyebrows, her butterfly-like eyelashes trembling slightly, and asked softly.

"Why don't you try it on? If it doesn't fit, I'll take it back and ask the court tailor to adjust it."

"May I?"

"Please."

Higashino Yu nodded slightly, asked Asumi Sanae to sit at his desk and dining table and wait for a while, then went to the bathroom and stripped himself naked.

I have rarely worn new clothes in my life. All the clothes I wear were donated by others.

He took some time to change his clothes, put on his top hat, looked at himself in front of the small mirror, and nodded with great satisfaction.

This outfit feels like it was tailor-made for me, the size is just right, and the design is unobtrusive but very stylish.

After putting it on, the cool-toned formal attire added a lot of maturity to Higashino Yu, who looked youthful and sunny, yet a bit childish, and made him look much more stable.

And because he is quite tall and sturdy, he holds up the suit, while the vest and shirt help to slim his figure.

If you look at it a few more times, it's actually not that strange. Maybe it's because of the complete Westernization, people in the island country are more likely to wear top hats and formal clothes than in China.

Higashino Yu walked out of the narrow toilet wearing this outfit. Asumi Sanae, who was kneeling on the floor with her face in a daze, heard the noise and turned her eyes. Her glass-like eyes were filled with the figure of the young man and her expression was slightly stunned.

"How is it?" Dong Ye Yu turned around to show it.

Asuhi saw Sanae looking away, her delicate earlobes stained with a light pink.

"It's OK. At least it won't embarrass Mirror Moon. That's good enough."

She mumbled to herself, stood up and prepared to leave, so Dong Yeyu walked her all the way downstairs.

Asu saw Sanae standing next to the car, turned around to look at Higashino Yu who was not far away, pursed her cherry-colored lips a few times, sighed softly, and just said.

"I wish you a triumphant return, knight. If you lose your way, please look up to the sky. The bright moonlight behind the curtain will guide you."

"Your blessing will bring me invincible strength, Your Highness, please wait for good news."

Dong Yeyu answered softly with a calm and confident smile.

After seeing off Miss Moon Witch, Higashino Yu did not change his clothes back, but just put the old clothes into his backpack and changed them when necessary.

It is estimated that on this trip, you will come into contact with some wealthy or noble demon hunters. As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. Dressing better may leave a good impression on people, making it easier for you to infiltrate their inner circle.

Wearing a mask and a top hat, and carrying the backpack that has been with her since junior high school - Higashino Yu tried carrying a backpack, but it was catastrophically incompatible with the effect of the outfit she was wearing.

This type of windbreaker vest and shirt outfit is more suitable for carrying a suitcase.

The sword bag is surprisingly suitable. I can carry the sword bag and travel light.

When I received the message from Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami this morning, I subconsciously thought that the train was troublesome, but when I really got out, I found that I couldn't even take the train.

Since I need to bring a real sword and I haven't got a knife permit yet, I will definitely not be able to pass the train security check. If I am caught with a knife illegally, I will probably have to get into trouble with Miss Moon Witch again.

Although Higashino Yu hopes to owe more favors, he has to go to Yinxi City to exorcise monsters right now. Time is not particularly abundant. If he delays making money, he will regret it very much.

In fact, Higashino Yu was a little confused about the security checks on trams and subways.

In my previous life, as a combination of a otaku and a modern person, I once learned from an anime series that there was no security check at the stations in the island country, and I even laughed at the makeshift team at the time.

After reincarnation and entering human society, I not only discovered that there were security checks on trams and subways, but also that many things were different from my inherent perceptions of my previous life.

After thinking about it, I attributed these changes to changes in the world line.

After all, there are monsters and gods, and history is different. It is unrealistic for some details to be exactly the same as in the previous life.

Therefore, at present, there are three ways for Higashino Yutaka to go to Inzai City.

Vomiting three liters of blood, spending a huge amount of money to hire a taxi, taking an intercity bus, or walking there.

But he did not know the armored horsemanship of the God of Speed, nor could he ride on the clouds - at least only Yangshen Zhenren could ride on the clouds.

Obviously, only intercity buses are more realistic.

There are also intercity buses on the island country, and even super luxurious long-distance overnight buses - but some of them are overrated, the tickets are more expensive than planes, and the experience is not very good.

Dong Yeyu was going to take a regular intercity bus, and the ticket was very cheap.

I searched for the bus station to Inzai City on my mobile navigation, and it’s not far from Ayase Town.

Dong Ye Yu then walked all the way there, and after arriving at his destination, he bought a ticket at the ticket hall.

I took a look at the timetable and found that the train would arrive in about ten minutes, but some passengers were already queuing at the waiting point.

Dong Yeyu yawned while sitting in a seat in the ticket hall. Not even half of the bus tickets had been sold. He wondered what the passengers were so panicked about.

Ten minutes later, the bus pulled into the station. Dong Yeyu walked over and followed the passengers who had been waiting for a long time to get on the bus. He found a seat by the window in the back row and sat down. No one came to check his luggage. The bus started quickly. Dong Yeyu put on his headphones and started playing Ocean and Sky. The buildings and pedestrians began to move backwards quickly.

Soon, the noisy and prosperous scene of modern metropolises was gradually replaced by slightly desolate small cities, and then by fields and peaceful and tranquil villages.

Along the way, Dong Ye Yu found that many of the scenery seemed familiar.

After thinking about it carefully, I found that the road I took when I returned to my body that night seemed to be the one I took.

As the bus traveled further and further, Higashino Yu discovered more memorable places, such as the billboards in the service area, the Komachi town on the side of the road, and so on.

It was not until they approached the Inzai city area that Higashino Yu finally determined the scope of Hishizawa.

I arrived in this suburb of Inzai City not long after leaving Hishizawa.

Judging from the distance, Hishizawa should be around Inzai City.

So he took out his cell phone and searched for the customs and culture of Inzai City. After looking carefully, Higashino Yu was somewhat surprised to find that there seemed to be no large swamps or lakes around Inzai City.

There is a big river - Tone River.

But it is clear that Tonegawa is not Hishizawa.

I searched the geography of the surrounding cities and towns, but still couldn't find a large lake that met my requirements.

The realm of the Water God of Hishizawa is at least Jindan, and he may even be Yangshen. In an island country like this, the area ruled by the Water God cannot be just a small lake or pond.

After searching in vain, Dong Yeyu put away his phone in disappointment, planning to wait until he reached his destination to look again. If that didn't work, he would leave his body and look for it at night.

The drive from Tokyo to Inzai City is about an hour. The bus is slower and arrives at Inzai City Station at nearly twelve o'clock.

Higashino Yu came to an izakaya in the city and ordered a bowl of pork bone ramen for lunch. After eating, he planned to go to the hot spring hotel that Jinguji Kagami had booked for him.

"Please enjoy."

The boss placed the pork bone ramen with rich soup and large portion in front of Higashino Yu, and his eyes fell on the black canvas sword bag that was a little too long and placed beside him, with some curiosity.

However, he did not ask any rude questions and just sat behind the bar smoking.

"I'm gonna start now."

Dong Yeyu took out disposable chopsticks, said something habitually, then picked up the noodles and blew on them while searching for the location of Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel on his mobile phone.

According to the navigation, it is on the edge of a large forest nature reserve near the Tone River in the northern part of Inzai City, near a primeval forest tourist area called Taoxiang.

I had nothing to do, so I searched the website of this hot spring hotel online to check out the ratings and local customs. I finally left Tokyo for work, so if I could take some time out to have some fun,
As a result, a lot of news was unexpectedly found on the Internet.

A tourist in Taoxiang went missing and the scenic area was closed, temporarily banning tourists from going to Taoxiang.

It looks serious.

Could it be related to this demon-elimination?

Thinking this, Higashino Yu sipped his delicious ramen and did some quick research on Taoxiang.

I found that this place used to be a famous tourist attraction. There is an undeveloped primeval forest and a maze-like peach forest outside the forest. The scenery is very beautiful in spring.

Therefore, the local government began to develop tourism around the peach grove and primeval forest. It was very popular at the beginning and soon became famous all over the world, attracting many tourists every year.

However, in recent years, Taoxiang's tourism industry has suffered a devastating blow and has never recovered.

The reason is very simple - quite a number of tourists have disappeared in the peach forest.

Dong Yeyu looked at the relevant news and forums and found that the situation in Taoxiang was indeed very strange.

More than a thousand people have disappeared in this scenic area in the past ten years.

In the end, only dozens of people were found, and the rest of the missing persons were basically nowhere to be found alive or dead.

At the beginning, the local government actively strengthened security, sent rescue personnel, increased the level of forest development and signage, etc. It was very careful and it can be said that all aspects were taken into consideration.

But the more developed the area became, the more serious the situation became, and later on, there were even cases where dozens of people went missing in a single day.

When the families of the missing persons saw that the local town government had been slow to come up with an explanation, they went to protest in front of the Inzai City government building, which was a higher level building, and a host of media outlets came to the scene.

After the incident became a big deal, the governor of Inzai City was forced to kneel down and apologize under pressure. While convincing people to pay compensation, he decided to close the scenic area.

In the end, he was really suppressed.

Dong Ye Yu was stunned for a second after reading it.

Kids, it turns out that an apology can really solve a lot of problems!

But this Taoxiang does have something special. It’s even more awesome than the Bermuda Triangle.

If this were put into the TV series Approaching Science, it might be able to be made into ten episodes. Coupled with the weird music and meaningless camera movements, it can basically sit firmly on the throne of the childhood trauma of a generation.

Dong Ye Yu pondered for a few seconds and felt that this demon-eliminating operation must be related to Taoxiang.

After all, how could a normal scenic spot have more than a thousand people missing in ten years, with no one seen alive or dead?
In my previous life, although more than a thousand people disappeared in the Grand Canyon Park where Lao Mei lived in the past five years, most of them were found and nothing happened.

There are only about a hundred people who are truly dead and cannot be found.

Dong Yeyu became concerned and looked into the incident in Taoxiang carefully, and found that the disappearance of tourists was not a phenomenon that had only occurred in the past ten years.

In fact, cases of missing tourists began to appear more than ten years ago, but there were not many at that time, only about ten cases a year.

Moreover, most of the missing people at that time were hikers who went on an adventure in the primeval forest, and there were basically no cases of missing tourists playing around the peach forest.

Of course, whether this is really the case is questionable, and it may have been suppressed by the local government.

After all, there aren't many industries in rural towns like this island country, and the agriculture has the vampire that is the Agricultural Federation, so the economy basically depends on the tourism industry.

It is normal to cover your eyes and mouth when you see that your cash cow is about to have problems.

Higashino Yu had a preliminary understanding of Taoxiang. After eating ramen, he paid the bill and went out to the hot spring hotel he had booked.

Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel is located inside the scenic area. If you want to reach the scenic area directly from the city of Inzai, you have to take the scenic area bus.

However, the scenic area bus stopped operating not long ago, so you can only take a bus to Momogo Town and then walk to the scenic area.

Higashino Yu got off the bus at the bus terminal, Momogo-cho, along with the residents of the town, who seemed to be observing him.

The countryside on this side of the island country is actually quite xenophobic. The villagers are very familiar with each other, and outsiders will be discovered as soon as they enter the town. Therefore, Higashino Yu did not care about the observations of these villagers.

Momogo Town is far outside the Inzai city area and is surrounded by cultivated farmland, so it can be considered a rural area.

The plain is wide and flat, and a lot of land has been reclaimed. The wheat seedlings in the fields are green and their leaves are firm. A breeze blows and ripples create green waves, and the fresh fragrance of the wheat seedlings spreads.

The rural areas on this island country have a high degree of mechanization. There are drones for tasks like spraying pesticides, and there are hardly any farmers in the fields.

Looking to the northeast, you can see a hilly landscape with dense vegetation that seems to have no end. It can be called a sea of ​​forests, which should be the primeval forest.

Because of the large-scale tourism development more than ten years ago, Momogo Town does not have the strong pastoral atmosphere of ordinary rural areas.

Various facilities are quite complete, and road signs, tourist notices and the like can be seen everywhere, and they are all very new.

The asphalt road was very wide. Dong Yeyu walked along the road according to the signs and came to a fork in the road.

Standing at the intersection and looking to the other side, I found that along the slope there were railway tracks and platform stations that were probably repaired in recent years.

Dong Yeyu looked at the time and saw that it was still early before the deadline of 5pm, so he walked to the station.

There were not many people in the station. A female conductor in her twenties was sitting at the ticket window, staring blankly with her cheek in her hand.

Dong Yeyu walked to the platform by himself and found a few small yellow flowers growing on the wall at the bottom of the platform. Under the late spring afternoon sun and fluttered in the breeze, they looked quite bright against the gray and white of cement, gravel, and rails, as well as the metal background, and had a touching vitality.

The railroad tracks extend to the end of the field of vision, as if leading to another world.

Some readers say it's water, which really makes me feel bad. Yesterday I wrote 2,000 words, and today I wrote 1,000 words, which adds up to 3,000 free words. They also say the free words are water. (Qidian's rule is that once a chapter is published, the price of the chapter is fixed. If you write more words later, they are free words. We will not charge you more money, nor will we ask you to order more.)
Brother Meng, please give me some monthly tickets QAQ. I have almost 4,000 words for free, which is the daily update volume. Do you think if I save this number of words, I can have fun for a whole day? I am going crazy.

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