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Chapter 12 12
[Appendix 1 - Tracking Record of the Human Face Dog Incident on Yakushima]
Date of record: January-April 2005
Tracker Codename: Snake
Records on January 1:
Today is the first day of commissioning. My intermediary told me that I must record everything that happened every day in detail. God knows I hate writing essays, but... come on, all this is for the sake of being so rich and weird remuneration.
On the evening of January 1rd, I took a plane from Haneda to Yakushima Eastern Airport.The New Year's Day holiday has just passed, and there are few tourists. Except for me, the rest of the plane is a local returning to the island. The flight attendants and passengers are drowsy, and snoring and talking can be heard occasionally.
On the left of me is a nagging man, he is thin and dark, looks like a malnourished wild monkey, holding a poorly printed fantasy magazine the whole time, his mouth is chattering non-stop, and he speaks the local dialect of Kyushu , I don't quite understand.When the flight attendant was distributing snacks, the man suddenly jumped up from his seat, knocked over the orange juice, and the sticky liquid dripped onto my shoes. The flight attendant apologized and handed over wet wipes.I frowned and stared at the guy. He didn't see it at all, and he didn't mean to apologize at all.The kid focused all his attention on the novel magazine over there, as if he didn't notice that the orange juice had spilled on his crotch. He held up his round card like a boxing lady, and held up his magazine high. Shining with the brilliance of the New World.
The passengers around were all awakened by his strange behavior, and frowned and looked at him in disapproval, but the impolite guy didn't care at all, his rambling voice became louder and louder, and finally he spoke in Japanese with a local accent He began to read aloud with deep affection.
"...the sun will burn their skin, and the moonlight will blind their eyes, so they live in the dark depths of the jungle, only appearing on rainy nights. They are humans cursed by bad luck, and their resentment turns them into four-legged animals From now on, I can only eat rotten meat full of insect eggs, and I can only drink dirty and smelly stagnant water—”
"To shut up!"
The thin monkey man read aloud to the depths of love, and was pushed to the ground by the man sitting behind us.There was an instant chaos on the plane. The flight attendants blocked the narrow passage and began to mediate the dispute with a sad face.My attention has been on the thin monkey man, hoping to hear more useful news from his mouth, but the fall just now seemed to knock him into a daze. Wiping the urine-like stain on his trousers.
I quietly picked up the magazine on the floor, and opened the page he was reading. The creepy title took up almost a quarter of the page, and it read "The Weird Face Dog in the Rainy Night". Story, nothing new.
The rest of the journey was much quieter until the plane landed and I walked out of the terminal. There was a layer of light rain floating in the cloudy sky. The temperature on the island was very low, but fortunately there was no snowfall, otherwise the mountain road tomorrow would be very dangerous.The weather forecast said that the rain would last for a week. As expected, it is said that it rains 35 days a month. I really don’t know if this weather is a good thing or a bad thing for the investigation.
I rented an off-road vehicle with anti-skid wheels near the airport. It was almost early morning when I drove to Oseta, and the road was frosty. I planned to find a place to live here first.
Recorded on January 1th:
Walking around Oseta, it is not the tourist season, the locals are a little wary, and they can't ask anything...
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Recorded on January 1th:
Still no news.
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Recorded on January 1th:
When we arrived at Nanchuan, there was no news.
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Recorded on January 2th:
There is no rumor of a human-faced dog in Miyanoura, so I suspect that this commission is just a joke.
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Recorded on January 2th:
The bank card payment arrived, and I looked at the series of 0s on it. I was full of enthusiasm for work-although nothing was found today.
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Recorded on January 3th:
When I arrived in Nagata, the road was so slippery that I almost overturned the car. The off-road vehicle was scratched by a tree branch with a huge mark, and the wheel was punctured by a stone. I don’t know if the accident compensation can be reimbursed.Nagata's repair shop only has regular tires, new snow wheels take at least a week to arrive, I have to stay here for a long time, hoping to get something.
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Recorded on January 3th:
The wheels finally arrived, and the delivery was delayed for a long time because of the rain. I ran into the forest every day, and my skin developed eczema, and my whole body was going to be moldy.
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Recorded on January 4th:
I was supposed to leave Nagata a few days ago, the heavy rain pushed rocks down the hill, blocking the way out, and the police cordoned off the exit, preventing anyone from entering or exiting.
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Recorded on January 4th:
Fortunately, I didn't leave!I found a lot of dog feces on the side of the road. According to the path, they were in groups, and it seemed that the mudslides forced them down the mountain!
I have to go to the forest!
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Recorded on January 4th:
Nothing was found, the rain washed away all traces, and when I came back I found a girl unconscious at the bus stop, I took her to the hospital in the town.I hope God will give me a hint for this sake.
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Recorded on January 4th:
The girl had a fever and fell into a coma for three days in the hospital. Her grandmother came from the village, looking quite pitiful.She woke up for a while today, talking nonsense, as if she was haunted by something.It's a pity that I'm not a conjurer, so I can't see anything.The investigation has also stalled.
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Recorded on January 4th:
Risa Aono - that girl - she woke up, and she said she saw a dog with a human face!The doctor was about to transfer her to a psychiatric unit, but I knew what she said was true, so I offered to help her grandmother take care of her, hoping to get close and get more information.
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Recorded on January 4th:
Aono Risa told me everything she encountered, and I deduced several places where the human-faced dog appeared, and sure enough, I saw animal excrement nearby.I didn't startle the snake and continue to go deeper. The content of my commission only required me to record the places where they appeared.Risa Aono was discharged from the hospital in the afternoon, and my task was almost completed.I'm so happy to finally leave this island where the air is filled with mold, humidity and fishy smells!
Attached: Coordinate Map of Human Face Dog Gathering Site.jpg
[Appendix 2 - Recording of Risa Aono's statement]
Recording date: April 4
Location: Nagata First Hospital, Ward A109
Narrator: Risa Aono
Recorder code name: Snake
Snake: Take it easy, Risa, just tell what you know.
Aono: Uh...uh, ok...
Aono: It was like ten o'clock in the evening, I remember it very clearly, because I was waiting for the bus, and the bus was very regular, usually arriving at [-]:[-], but it happened to be late that day, because of this I was talking to my friends The text message complained, and I checked the time specially.
Snake: Did you hear any strange noises while waiting for the bus? ...Like a dog barking?
Aono: No, no, it was raining heavily, and I couldn’t hear anything around. I was a little scared at the time, because the sound of the rain almost covered the insects in the mountains, and it was very loud.My phone ran out of battery very quickly, the wind was very cold at night, and the rain was pouring into the shed. In order to avoid the rain, I could only cling to the stop sign - my umbrella was lost during the day.I waited for a while and the bus still didn't come, I... that's when I saw that thing. (Aono Risa's voice trembled a little)
Snake: Drink some water, don't worry, you're fine now, Risa.
Aono: (After being silent for a while, his voice was very hoarse when he spoke again) I thought, I thought it was a civet cat or a puppy. It squatted under the street lamp and shivered, its fur was wet, and it looked very pitiful.Then I ran over and used my coat to keep out the rain.I just wanted to touch it at first, I put my hand on its head... I got a texture like smooth leather fabric, it was greasy, it was disgusting.I was startled and fell to the ground, and the next thing I saw was the face of the thing—
Aono: (with a sob) That's a human face!It was a man, I could see it clearly.It raises its head, it is obviously a dog's body, but it has a human face, you can't imagine it, it's scarier than any horror movie!
Snake: Then you fainted from fright?
Aono: ...No, I heard it talking.It said "Help me" and repeated it many times before I lost consciousness.
Snake: Besides, didn't it hurt you?I mean bodily harm.
Aono: No, I don't think so.That's all I can recall.
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Rei Kamo was about to die of poverty. He used up all his savings to buy a plane ticket. When he arrived at Yakushima Airport, he only had 300 yuan left for his whole body.
The rain in Yakushima seems to have never stopped. The thin raindrops blur the distance into a blue-gray mass, and you can see the continuous mountains as soon as you come out of the airport.
Carrying a backpack and holding an umbrella, Kamo Rei gnawed on the free bread brought from the plane, and bought a map of Yakushima for another 100 yuan.The peak tourist season is almost over in May, and today is another working day. The streets are deserted and there are no people there.
The tracker code-named Snake found traces of the human-faced dog in Yongtian, and drew the approximate location, but unfortunately, Yongtian suffered another large-scale mudslide at the end of April, and the mark made by the snake was wiped out by this natural disaster. After being buried, the nearby landforms have also changed a lot, so they chose to send magicians to explore.
The approximate location where the human-faced dog haunts has been delineated, and Kamo Rei has the blessing of Peacock Hitomi. The original commission should be completed soon.But Yakushima's only airport is in the east of the island, and Nagata is just in the northwest of the island. To get there, Kamo Rei has to cross the entire island.
At this time, the problem became very clear. With the money in Rei Kamo's pocket, he couldn't even take the cheapest long-distance bus, unless he walked there without eating, drinking or sleeping.
The introducer of Zenyuan Shier was obviously unqualified. When Kamo asked him how to apply for mission funding, the guy took a long time to reply him: It’s so troublesome, I don’t know.Then there was no sound at all.
Thinking of this, the blond boy cursed a rare word.
This scumbag!
"Ah."
Someone sneezed not far from him.
The timing was so coincidental that Rei Kamo looked over subconsciously. On the rest chair not far from him, the man was only wearing a thin short-sleeved T-shirt, with his shoulders slack on the back of the chair, occupying the entire space with extremely low quality. bench.
He waved a discarded piece of cardboard perfunctorily, with "Kamotaro" scrawled in black ink on it.
"Hey, little peacock." Zenyuan Shier raised the corner of his mouth, and the scar became more obvious, "It's really slow."