JOJO hiding in the hunter world

Hasegawa Taiichi crossed his legs and sipped his tea. He was the captain of the Third Action Team of the Fifth Investigation Division.

The Fifth Investigation Division was a unit established specifically to deal with malicious youkai harming people, and it belonged to the police system.

The difficulty of entering the Fifth Investigation Division was the highest among all the military forces in Sakura Country, with almost the same entry standards as the Air Force. The benefits and subsidies were unmatched by any other team in Sakura Country.

There were also rumors that the Fifth Investigation Division's credentials could directly grant access to almost all places in Sakura Country, including those important military sites, and all units and departments had to prioritize them.

Outsiders portrayed the Fifth Investigation Division as almost mythical, but Hasegawa Taiichi responsibly said that those rumors were basically true.

Even many superintendent-level cadres didn't know what the Fifth Investigation Division actually did, and the people below didn't even know that this department existed.

Applicants would have their family history up to eighteen generations thoroughly investigated to confirm that there were no problems. Then, their parents and relatives would be checked for criminal records, and people around the applicant would be asked for their opinions and evaluations.

Only then would they be considered qualified to join, and they would still have to go through rigorous assessments, eliminating all those who failed in physical fitness and knowledge.

Finally, they would have to sign a confidentiality agreement and a waiver of liability. They had heard about the very high mortality rate of this team long before joining.

Sakura Country hadn't fought a war with a foreign country for decades, and now, in a peaceful era, a mortality rate of nearly sixty percent was simply unimaginable.

When he first joined, he had speculated that it was some kind of undercover spy team going abroad, or participating in some scientific mission...

In the end, only a few dozen people were left, all of whom were the best of the best among the soldiers of Sakura Country.

Although he knew that a very, very small portion of the funds donated by Yamada Eiichiro to the National Welfare Foundation would become his salary and enter his account.

His salary was already comparable to that of the president of some small trading companies, and that didn't include his year-end bonus and commissions. He had basically saved up enough wealth to spend for the rest of his life.

As long as he didn't gamble, it would be enough to spend. The most amazing thing was that even after retirement, the country would still allocate work to you, and the subsidies would be higher than those of other veterans.

If the body was not disabled, you could even apply to be transferred to another department.

The year-end bonus would be issued in two months. After the year-end bonus was issued, he would submit his resignation report to headquarters.

Then, he would find a leisurely position in the local police station.

"Captain, there's a new situation. Thirteen people went missing in Zone 6 of Zongbin yesterday. According to the surveillance footage analysis, it should be a youkai. During today's investigation, no corpses were found, only some bloodstains.

This youkai shouldn't have run far. We are responsible for this incident today." A sturdy young man walked over holding a few documents.

Hasegawa Taiichi flipped through the information, which was all a list of victims.

"This youkai is initially judged to be an uncommunicative evil youkai, which can be directly exorcised. Also, this youkai is very terrifying, and the youkai aversion talisman is basically useless against it."

Nonsense, if it weren't immune to the youkai aversion talisman, could this youkai have killed so many people? After eating so many people, who couldn't tell that this youkai wasn't a good thing.

Hasegawa Taiichi frowned and carefully flipped through it, "What? You still don't know what kind of youkai this is?"

"Well, there are no eyewitnesses, only the dead."

"Didn't the surveillance cameras capture anything? Can this youkai also become invisible?"

An invisible youkai would be troublesome. Last time, the Fourth Team encountered an invisible youkai and was almost wiped out.

Only three people survived, and it took a year to fill the personnel gap.

"I don't know if it's an invisible youkai or not."

"Are those advisors eating shit? How can they not know anything? Do they want us to go to our deaths?"

"Zone 6 of Zongbin is not our Kyoto after all. That's a district of Zongbin, and it's a relatively poor district. Although surveillance cameras have been popularized by the government,

there is only one camera on each street, and that one happened to be broken last month. So we don't know what happened that day."

Dogshit formalism. If he didn't understand what was going on, he could get lost.

From the moment youkai began to appear in people's eyes on a small scale, the country took relevant measures, requiring local governments to install surveillance cameras on every street.

However, many people were just engaged in formalism, really only installing one camera, and not bothering to report it for repair when it broke. They wouldn't even care about the surveillance.

Those people were just ordinary workers, and their level was not enough to know the role and purpose of these surveillance cameras, so they slackened off.

This was also something that couldn't be helped. The public's understanding of youkai still remained at the level of urban legends.

In fact, there were many cases of youkai harming people every year, but because those terrifying youkai rarely left survivors, it was easier to cover up.

Once, dozens of people died, so they directly used rocket launchers to wipe out the youkai, and claimed to the outside world that dozens of people died in a gas cylinder explosion, and then randomly pulled a death row inmate from the prison and killed him. Dead people couldn't defend themselves.

This trick never failed, and the public was more likely to believe these things.

In the report submitted by the country to the Hunter Association, more than two hundred people died in eight years, but in reality, due to the evil youkai eating people incidents, Sakura Country had to kill two to three hundred people every year.

The number of people who died in one year was more than the total number reported in eight years.

As for why they were underreporting, it was stated in the initial confidentiality certificate.

Once the public discovered the harm and destructiveness of youkai, it would lead to public panic, social unrest, and economic recession.

Therefore, the government concealed it from the public and did not dare to tell the Hunter Association. Once they told the Hunter Association, those capable capitalists would definitely get the information.

Many foreign capitals would definitely pack up and run away, and local conglomerates would definitely get the information.

If Sakura Country's seven major conglomerates ran away, Sakura Country's economy would be completely finished. The departure of any one of them could cause Sakura Country's economy to be severely damaged and economically regressed.

Wasn't it just a few people? It was less than the number of people who died in a month in some countries that didn't ban guns. Sakura Country had a total population of one hundred million.

Those in power regarded civilians as grass and didn't announce the news. But if they announced it, it would instantly burst the bubble of Sakura Country's economy, and countless people would lose their jobs and their families would be destroyed.

There was no choice, so Hasegawa was indifferent to these things.

"Zone 6 of Zongbin, I understand. Take stock of the equipment and set off in an hour."

Hasegawa straightened his back, and at this moment the phone rang.

"I'm Kihara, there's something..."

Hasegawa Taiichi hung up the phone half a minute later.

"Captain, what's wrong?" The young man hadn't left yet, but there was indeed something to announce.

"It's a call from Police Superintendent Kihara. The Hunter Association has discovered our movements and may come to see us exorcise youkai later. Everything will be the same.

Remember not to reveal any casualties to them. If they ask you, you can just not say anything."

"I understand. Then should we bring Kitahara?"

"Bring him, why not? Police Superintendent Kihara said to show Kitahara to them, and it's okay to tell them about Kitahara. What they found was information related to Kitahara."

Hasegawa Taiichi drank his tea in one gulp and waved his hand to let the young junior go out first.

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