Gensokyo Detective, but surrounded by Shura Field

Besides the pipe anomaly, there was also the "inexplicably appearing 13th step" incident.

She found the stairs leading to the second floor and tried to count them.

Exactly twelve, no more, no less, matching the normal number mentioned in the information.

"M-Miss Alice, are you sure there are twelve steps?"

Youmu said tremulously:

"You're not mistaken, are you?"

"I wouldn't make such a basic mistake."

Alice was quite confident in her math skills.

Seeing that Youmu didn't believe her but was too afraid to count herself,

she simply pulled Chu Bai, who was next to her, over:

"Xiao Bai, you come and count the number of steps here too, after all, this place seems to be related to paranormal events?"

"No problem."

Since it was a preliminary investigation, naturally they had to witness all the paranormal events firsthand.

Only by triggering them personally could they attempt to find the truth behind them.

So Chu Bai stretched out his finger and counted them one by one:

"Nine… ten… eleven… twelve…"

"That's right, there are twelve steps, it seems the paranormal phenomenon here hasn't been triggered."

Hearing Chu Bai's conclusion, Youmu visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

She walked out from behind Alice, hesitated for a moment, and then mustered her courage to count again herself.

This was both to ensure the accuracy of the investigation results and to give herself a chance to build up her courage.

So she also stretched out her finger and began to count:

"One… two… three… four…"

And Chu Bai, on the other hand, had made a new discovery.

On the nearby dining table, there was a crumpled piece of paper.

On the paper, several words seemed to be scrawled crookedly in red ink.

Seeing Youmu counting the steps, Chu Bai didn't disturb her, but looked at Alice:

"Little Ai, do you remember if the information mentioned anything about a paper-related paranormal phenomenon?"

Alice shook her head:

"No, I don't think it mentioned anything about a paper."

"That's strange, this house hasn't been inhabited for a long time, who would put a seemingly new piece of paper here?"

Chu Bai wondered, looking at the writing on the paper.

The handwriting was messy, and he needed to carefully distinguish it to translate it.

Just as he was carefully discerning the meaning of these words,

Youmu's voice suddenly became terrified.

"Nine… ten… eleven… twelve…"

"…Thirteen!"

"The number of steps isn't twelve at all, but thirteen!!"

At the same time.

Chu Bai finally discerned the writing on the paper.

The content above, translated, is…

[I AM BEHIND YOU]

"!!!!!"

Pupils constricted.

Scalp tingling.

Chu Bai suddenly turned his head.

A corpse-like pale face, now emitting a strange smile, was tightly pressed against his face…

Chapter 119: Paranormal Events in a Haunted House (Investigation Arc)

"Damn it!"

Chu Bai was so frightened that his whole body shivered.

Completely a subconscious action, he raised his hand and threw a punch.

A punch condensed with magic power directly pierced through the strange smiling face in front of him!

Boom————

After a loud noise.

The wall was pierced.

The drizzling rain outside seeped in from the broken wall.

But the pale white smiling face that appeared out of nowhere had disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

"…Where did it go?"

Chu Bai's expression was grave as he vigilantly probed his surroundings.

But he still couldn't sense any unusual aura.

Inside the entire house, the only auras that could be felt were those of the three of them.

"Xiao Bai, this house is too weird."

Alice said urgently:

"Youmu counted a 'thirteenth' step."

"That is, when the thirteenth step appeared, I felt that the atmosphere in the house became wrong, as if some cold thing was staring at me…"

Chu Bai didn't reply, he had a similar feeling as well.

Standing on the stone floor tiles, his body was covered in goosebumps, as if something was wandering on his body.

Moreover, this subtle feeling was more concentrated in the lower half of his body.

It was as if something extremely terrifying was hidden beneath the house…

"Go, let's leave here first."

Feeling that this cold and tingling aura was becoming more and more intense, even the hairs on his legs began to stand up slightly.

Chu Bai didn't hesitate any longer, gave Little Ai a look, and then decisively made a decision.

This haunted house really had something strange, and it was a mysterious existence that none of the three of them could sense!

He directly grabbed Youmu and Little Ai, quickly left the room, and flew into the distance.

The rain was pouring.

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.

Flying in the stormy sky, the rain-soaked mansion that gradually moved away behind them seemed to become more and more eerie and strange…

……

……

"…So why did you run to my house."

Hakurei Shrine.

Reimu opened the door, looking at the disheveled trio with considerable helplessness:

"And what on earth did you go to do? To make the three of you so embarrassed at the same time… Did you go to fight the Dragon God?"

"Cough, that's a long story."

Chu Bai entered the shrine quite casually, as if he had returned to his own home.

Seeing Reimu standing next to him, he even took the initiative to wave his hand:

"Sit down, don't be polite, make yourself at home…"

"This is my home to begin with!"

Reimu twitched the corner of her mouth, but still thoughtfully brewed hot tea.

One cup for each person, the warm stream of heat poured into their bodies, immediately dispelling the previous cold aura.

After slightly easing up, Youmu immediately showed a relieved expression:

"Sure enough, Hakurei Shrine can bring a sense of security."

"…Isn't your position a bit wrong? As a half-phantom, aren't you afraid of being exorcised by me?"

Reimu squinted her eyes and complained faintly.

Chu Bai also recovered at this time.

Seeing that Reimu was still at a loss, he simply let Youmu be responsible for telling Reimu about their experience just now.

And he himself took out his laptop:

"So, now is the time to decipher the mystery."

"Eh?"

Youmu was slightly stunned:

"Didn't we run away in embarrassment? How are we going to decipher the mystery?"

"Hmph, this is not running away in embarrassment, this is a strategic retreat."

Chu Bai beckoned to Alice:

"Bring the things over, Little Ai."

"Okay."

Alice quite reliably shook her wrist and retracted the threads in her hand.

At the end of the thread, what was connected was not a doll, but several phantom drones.

These were Lunar Capital technology products that Chu Bai had once used to monitor the self-propelled girls during the incident.

And everything they had just experienced…

had already been clearly and accurately recorded by the drones from different angles.

……

……

That's right, this was Chu Bai's backup plan.

Although he was very confident in his strength, things like haunted houses were indeed not something that could be swept away by strength alone.

So he had already made a plan and deployed drones around him in advance.

Some were controlled by Little Ai's threads, some were controlled by the remote control device in his pocket, and some were still left in the haunted house, conducting real-time monitoring and recording.

This would ensure that even if one side had a problem, the drones would not be completely wiped out, and at least one recording could be retained.

With a recording, at least some clues could be analyzed remotely, greatly reducing the time for on-site investigation, thereby reducing the risk.