From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

This old office building has only six floors, each floor is about 300 square meters, belonging to several different companies, and the first floor is a Western restaurant.

The room where he had been causing trouble was located at the end of the right corridor on the second floor, because Takahata could only throw the amulet that high.

But now, of course, the choices are wider.

Following the ceiling and electrical wiring corridors, he could almost command Taro to run to any corner of the office building.

From the perspective of consolidating the results, continuing to cause trouble on the second floor to expand the impact is one option, but incorporating the entire building into this supernatural story also seems to be a good choice.

However, in order to make Akasaka's investigation more difficult, some plausible clues must be given, so as to lead them astray and spend more time in this place. So when Taro recovered, he drove it to wander around the building again, searching for useful information.

A computer on the wall was empty, but connected to the Internet, logged into the company's internal group, and then -

"Have you heard? Something supernatural happened in the office on the second floor last night. It was scary!"

"No way?"

"It's true. I heard that a security guard has already resigned!" Xia Chuan continued to imitate the owner's tone without any scruples.

"I've heard about it too. Could it be true?" Finally, a curious person joined in.

More discussions immediately followed. As expected, such things are one of the most interesting topics for people, whether in a company or school, as long as there are people gathering.

As the discussion heated up, Xia Chuan began to guide the topic: "Why did this happen? Isn't there something wrong with the company on the second floor?"

"That company? Who knows?"

"Yumi, didn't you have dinner with their receptionist? Do you have any inside information?"

"I have her line number. Let me ask her."

The news spread quickly, and as the cross-company inquiry began, more people joined the discussion and new news continued to be passed on.

The second floor is a trading company that mainly deals in women's products. The vast majority of the employees are women, so it is inevitable that there will be things like exclusion, but there should not be any workplace bullying, and of course no one has ever lost their lives.

On the contrary, two years ago, an employee of the advertising company on the fifth floor died of overwork at his workstation after working overtime until late at night. He was discovered in the middle of the night by the building security guard who was on a routine patrol. However, the company has been operating normally since then, and no supernatural incidents have occurred.

Not long after, someone even sent over the link to the post on the forum that Xia Chuan had clicked on before. After several people read it, they began to denounce the people who were obviously spreading rumors.

"Could it be something that happened earlier? Otherwise, could there be an accident when the house was built?" Xia Chuan started to bring up the topic again.

Of course, he didn't expect these people to know about the past, but as long as someone started discussing this, someone would inadvertently say it when Akasaka came to investigate in the future. In that case... this building looked at least 20 to 30 years old. If Akasaka's people wanted to thoroughly investigate the people and events in this process, it would take several all-nighters to finish the work, right?

As expected, people started discussing this possibility again. At this time, the owner of the computer finally came in from outside. Xia Chuan wanted to delete the previous records, but then he thought that even if he deleted them here, the server would still have the records, so he just walked away.

Seeing the lively conversation in the dialog box, the computer owner was a little curious. He put down his things and immediately joined in: "Everyone, what are you talking about? What happened?"

"Keiko, what do you mean by that? Aren't you always talking?"

"I just went to deliver documents to an affiliated company. I wasn't in the office at all?"

The group suddenly became quiet.

A moment later, a girl from the next office came over and said, "Keiko, stop joking like that!"

"What a joke?" The girl felt confused when she was blamed for no reason.

"It's just...you said you were teasing us by sending us information or something, right?"

"No, I went out early in the morning and just came back. The director can testify for me!"

"What happened?" The old man who had been reading the newspaper looked at them in surprise. "Keiko did just come back."

"What about this computer?" The girl who ran over turned pale.

"What's wrong with this computer?" The director simply put down the newspaper and walked over. "No one has touched it before?"

"Ah~~~~~!" the girl finally screamed.

It's so interesting.

Xia Chuan, who witnessed this scene, rolled in the air.

This is probably the mentality of those who take so-called bizarre recordings and the staff of haunted houses when they go about their daily work?

Although I feel a little sorry for the person involved, but... sorry sorry... If you want to blame someone, just blame an organization called Akasaka. If they hadn't forced me to do this, I wouldn't have been forced to do this.

The supernatural events involving computers soon became the latest topic of conversation among office workers from various companies in the building. The people involved in such events would certainly not be happy, but the people around them would inevitably feel inexplicably excited.

Xia Chuan changed companies and watched behind the scenes a shameless guy making up stories to scare girls from the same company. So he secretly used his computer to create a document with the word "death" written all over it, clicked on print a hundred copies, and then deleted the document completely.

"...And then, guess what happened?"

The printer suddenly started moving on its own and soon, paper filled with words began to fill the paper slot.

"Who is it..." The man stood up and reached out to take the papers that were about to overflow from the paper bin. Suddenly, he saw the densely packed word "death" on them, and his body froze there.

The female employee next to him leaned over curiously, and then screamed at a very high decibel.

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"What's going on? Companies here get off work so early?" Otsuka Hirotake asked in surprise.

Although the government is now vigorously promoting the "no overtime" campaign, it seems to be only a little after four o'clock now?

"Something is wrong." said Takuya Ozu.

The office workers who were walking out of the building all had uneasy looks on their faces, and many of them were looking back at the building as they walked, as if something inside was driving them away.

The two were hesitating whether to find someone to ask what was going on, when a familiar figure not far ahead asked the question in their minds.

"Excuse me...what happened here?"

Inaba Rika!

Otsuka's doubts disappeared in an instant, and what remained was the anxiety about whether he should go up and ask for an autograph.

"Um... Sorry, I have something else to do."

The person being asked walked away anxiously, but Inaba Rika persevered and asked several people, and finally got the answer.

For some unknown reason, that building seemed to be haunted all of a sudden!

Chapter 41 Zero Breakthrough

"That must be the place they are talking about..." said the middle-aged security guard trembling with fear.

Am I crazy? Why did I agree to let them in and lead the way for them when it would have been fine if they just had to hide in the duty room?

Could it be that I have been single for too long and I can't refuse a young and beautiful woman when she asks me out?

"Um... Miss Inaba..." Otsuka huddled at the back of the crowd and spoke in a low voice. "We should still..."

"Please be quiet!" said Rika Inaba, then carefully extended the detector to the work station in front and slowly walked forward.

The security guard let her in naturally because of her press pass from the "Oddity Investigation Bureau", and she assured the security guard that she was very experienced in such situations.

But she didn't expect that the security guards actually let in these two guys who claimed to be experts in paranormal activities, perhaps because they thought it would be safer with more people.

The experts even added the word "prepare". How little confidence do they have in themselves? Being with them, not only do I not have the sense of security brought by numbers, but I am always worried about whether I will be held back by them. This is really enough.

Papers with the word "death" written all over them were scattered everywhere, and the surroundings were in chaos. This company must have chosen to evacuate all employees shortly after this incident happened, and not even a single person was left to clean up.

Naturally, no one closed the windows. Although it was not yet dark, the wind blew the roller blinds up and down, hitting the window frames and making popping sounds from time to time. The papers scattered on the ground were also moving constantly, making the scene look even more creepy.

The three men stayed at the door and watched Inaba Rika walk in alone, but they didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

After all, she was a professional, and they were just amateurs. The security guard wasn't even an amateur, just an unlucky guy who got caught up in this incident.

In fact, Rika Inaba's palms were sweating, but her desire to know the truth about the supernatural phenomena forced her to ignore her fear.

This might be the only chance for so many people in the Strange Stories Investigation Bureau to truly face supernatural forces in more than 20 years. How could she turn around and run away at this time?

A gust of wind suddenly blew in, blowing an unfixed window hard against the window frame, making a loud noise. Inaba felt nervous, but when she came to her senses and realized it was just the wind, she suddenly found that the three heads that were originally huddled at the door of this office were all gone. She could only vaguely hear scattered footsteps in the corridor.

Inaba Rika couldn't help but let out a long sigh and calm herself down.

However, with this interruption, the fear in her heart was actually calmed down a lot.

She suddenly remembered what a senior said before the first live interview. For people like them who pursue supernatural powers, evil spirits are the least scary thing, at least far behind monsters and aliens. If people really become spirits after death, then what is there to be afraid of? At most, they can just compete to see who is more ferocious.

She walked to the printer but there was no response, so she relaxed completely.

The magazine also uses a similar shared printer, which means that as long as it is a computer in this company, it should be able to use this printer.

Such a thing does seem a bit scary, but it is not inexplicable, because it is very likely that an employee who is dissatisfied with the company is using previous rumors to create chaos, or it may even be a prank by an employee who wants to leave work early because he has a date today.

The incident downstairs was even simpler. The computers in these companies never paid much attention to security issues, and in some cases, a hacker program was implanted in them, or more simply, the password of the communication software was accidentally revealed at some point, allowing someone to impersonate and participate in the chat.

It's just a prank based on a haunted legend.

Both of these events that plunged the entire building into chaos had reasonable explanations. In comparison, what happened the night before seemed more like a real supernatural event.

Of course, the premise is that what the security guard who asked for leave said is true.

After figuring this out, Inaba Rika completely relaxed. She placed the detector on the table, picked up the papers printed with the word "death" one by one, rolled them up and threw them into the trash can.

But the next second, her body suddenly stiffened and even trembled slightly.

Xia Chuan had just arrived.

The whole building fell into chaos, and even everyone left work early to evacuate. He was surprised by the result. Was his prank too scary, or were these people too timid?

However, this was a disguised way of achieving his goal and successfully created enough impact.

The number of employees in the entire building is estimated to be over two hundred and fifty. A supernatural incident spread by so many people should be enough to attract Akasaka's attention, right?

In order to allow Akasaka to spend more time in this place, he was busy creating more "paranormal events" in the room upstairs, such as deliberately carving symbols on the wall whose meanings even he himself did not know.

Just as he was about to evacuate before Akasaka arrived, he suddenly realized that someone else had entered the building, and had come to the room where he had played a prank before. He couldn't help but come down to see who it was.

The result surprised him a little.

The men all hid in the back, leaving a young woman alone, and she didn't look scared at all?

Just as he was about to move closer to see if there were any documents or anything like that in the bag that the woman was carrying, he suddenly noticed that her movements had stopped abruptly, and all the hairs on her body suddenly stood up.

Did she find me?

Xia Chuan was a little surprised, then he followed the woman's gaze and saw an instrument on the table.

It was completely different from what Akasaka used, so no one had paid much attention to it before, but there was no doubt that it had the same function of indicating the strength of spiritual power.

"I'm a reporter from the Neon Oddity Investigation Bureau. My name is Rika Inaba." The woman suddenly spoke.

The voice still sounded a little trembling, but other than that, Xia Chuan actually heard a certain excitement.

"Have you heard of this magazine? We are one of the oldest media outlets in Japan that specializes in studying supernatural phenomena. If you have any grievances or requests, you can convey them to the world through me. If you want to tell your own story, or have any other ideas, we can talk about it slowly. I will do my best to meet your wishes, and everything is up to you. It's okay, you can think about it, and we'll take it slowly."

What happened to this woman?

reporter?

The longest-running media outlet in Japan that studies the paranormal?

But Xia Chuan felt that she seemed to know nothing about the real world.

Then again, would Akasaka, who has been trying to cover up the truth, really tolerate the existence of such an institution for a long time?

He gently pushed a chair out and let it slowly stop in front of the female reporter.

Inaba Rika closed her eyes, took a deep breath, then sat on it without hesitation.

You'll die easily like this.

Xia Chuan couldn't help but say it in his heart, and then he typed a sentence on the computer in front of the female reporter.

"What do you think of Akasaka?"

"Akasaka?"

Chapter 42 Information

The female reporter hesitated and a puzzled expression appeared on her face.

You really don’t know?

"Well..." Inaba Rika thought for a moment and felt that hiding one's knowledge or making random guesses would not help communicate with this spirit. Instead, it might suddenly anger the other party because of saying something wrong, so she said frankly. "I don't know what Akasaka you are talking about, but as long as you give me some information, a hint, I promise to investigate it thoroughly."

"No need." Xia Chuan suddenly had an idea and continued to tap the contacts inside the keyboard, sending electrical signals to the computer. "It's too late."