The Dimensional Journey of the Bad Knight

Thinking so, Lin Lin shook the bottle with his hand in his pocket.He adjusted his collar and pushed open the door of the coffee shop.

As soon as he entered the door, a stronger smell than he smelled outside the store filled Lin Lin's nostrils.The coffee tastes stronger than the unpleasant monster taste.There is no doubt that this is a somewhat old storefront, and the staff here have superb skills.

The decoration style here tends to be Western-style. The bar, cabinets and wooden tables in the store all have signs of being worn out, but it fits the store name of "antique" and looks very stylish.

Lin Lin didn't drink much coffee during his lifetime.His living habits are relatively healthy, he basically only drinks tap water, drinks only occasionally, and does not drink alcohol or tobacco at all.

But now it's different. Without coffee or energy drinks, he has to shake the bottle to have enough energy to face the continuous all-night work.Thanks to this, he has gradually become accustomed to coffee as a drink. Although he will not deliberately drink it during non-working hours, if he has the opportunity to taste it, he will not refuse it.

"welcome!"

Hearing the sound of the wind chimes hanging on the door, a waitress in the store who was wiping the table quickly turned her head and welcomed the new customers with a smile.

The waiter looked very young, about 15 or 6 years old, and may have been a high school student nearby to work.She has short, smooth blue hair, with half-length bangs in front of her forehead, covering her right eye.This unique hairstyle would definitely not work in China, but this is Japan after all.Her smile was not an ordinary business smile, but a little sincere and cheerful smile, as if something good had happened not long ago, which made her feel happier.

Regrettably, Lin Lin was in an unhappy mood.Because, this girl with good looks and youthful vigor has an unpleasant smell on her body.

He showed the standard business smile used by big people, nodded and smiled: "A cup of coffee, a dessert recommended today, thank you."

After he finished speaking, he walked directly to the bar and sat down, taking a look around.

"I'll be fine soon, please wait a moment."

The old man with gray hair standing behind the bar who signaled Lin Lin to wait a moment should be the store manager, and the other store clerks treated him respectfully.And his body, as well as the other clerks, all had a smell.It seems that this is a shop run by ghouls.

At this time, it was lunch time, and there were not many customers in the store, about two-thirds of the seats were seated.Among the guests, more than half are ghouls.

But it's amazing, the ghouls that I haven't encountered in a day today have seen enough here.

Although he saw so many ghouls, Lin Lin didn't plan to do anything.This is not only because he can't keep those human guests by himself, but also because today's unusual "day trip" has given him a hypothesis about the reason for the stability of the 20th District.

He knows the working ability of CCG. The number of manpower invested in the 20 districts has never been large. The average number over the years is only one-third of those in the hardest-hit districts, and there has been no significant increase in staff in the past ten years.In other words, with this number of people, it is impossible to scare the ghouls in a district from wanting prey.

Then, there must be another inhibitory force here - an individual or organization like Amazon who killed the massacre in District Nine three years ago.

And does this inhibitory force have something to do with it?

Even if it doesn't matter, the ghouls here must know a little bit.

Chapter 006 Favorable social environment for ghouls

After drinking the coffee, Lin Lin left the coffee shop.

The clerks watched him walk away and looked at each other with puzzled expressions on their faces.When the time was later and the guests were almost gone, they got together and talked about the strange "human".

"The human sitting here at the bar... always feels a little strange. He should be human, but, what should I say? The taste is too bland?"

The blue-haired working girl, Kirishima Toka frowned, looking puzzled.Although she is not interested in unfamiliar humans, this kind of guy who doesn't know if it is human is very noteworthy.Unknown factors like this are most likely to disrupt their daily life. If you want to continue living a stable life, you can't pay attention.

The old man behind the bar who was wiping the glass squinted his eyes, as if recalling:

"Indeed. He doesn't smell of 'us', but as a human, it's a little strange."

"Actually, it's too light, right? Dong Xiang is right," the brown-haired clerk with a slightly funny big nose added to the topic while wiping the table, "As a ghoul, I have absolutely nothing against him. Appetite, it's like he doesn't taste good."

After speaking, he scratched his head, and then added hesitantly:

"Also, I always feel like that guy is very dangerous. Maybe it's my intuition, who was once called the 'Magic Ape', that warns me."

"...Well, I actually felt that way too, especially when he just sat down here at the bar."

The boss put down the wiped cup and sighed softly.

"In addition, I got some information that cannot be ignored this morning. The incident of 'Big 喰' that appeared in the 20th district before seems to have spread to other districts. In the near future, there may be dangerous people in order to bring her back to the 11th district. Take action. And, at times like these, CCG headquarters seems to have dispatched a scientist to Area 20. Maybe they thought Area 20 was safer, but that peace is about to be broken.”

"If the predation rate in District 20 increases, CCG will definitely send more investigators here. If the existence of that scientist is identified, those good guys will never mind trying to find a way to kill him. Dong Xiang, who went out during this time. Be careful. In the worst case, we may have to evacuate to other areas to take shelter.”

Hearing this, Dong Xiang nodded seriously: "Well, I see."

……

After returning to CCG, Lin Lin immediately used CCG's internal network to investigate the famous ghouls in the 20th district.

District 20 became as stable as it is now, roughly starting sometime a decade ago, and before that, it was about as chaotic as the rest, or even one of the more chaotic.

The two ghoul organizations, "Magic Ape" and "Black Doberman," fought like no one else at that time around the hegemony of turning the entire 20th District into a hunting ground. Even the intervention of the CCG failed to suppress their arrogance. They also killed many investigators.The leaders of the two major organizations, "Magic Ape" and "Black Dog", were both rated as SS-level ghouls, and were on the list of key ghouls in the 20th district.However, they hadn't been seen for ten years, and there was some opinion in the division that they might be dead.

Lin Lin didn't think that these two ghoul organizations would perish because of the fight between them. After all, the branch here basically failed to achieve any decent results when facing them, and no matter what happened between the ghouls In internal friction, it is rare that one party completely kills the other party, or both parties die together.Generally speaking, it is reasonable to assume that they have organized an annexation.In this way, the new organization that was born has naturally become the ruler of the 20th area, and it is not difficult to make the predation rate of the 20th area decrease and maintain stability.

'Then...without killing people for food, their food is only those who died of other causes. '

If you don't want to cause trouble because of murder, the ghouls can only go to the dead.

If you think about it like this, there are several locations that can be marked.

Thinking so, Lin Lin used the computer to call up the map of Area 20.The first is the "suicide holy place" on a section of the Huanshan Highway, where people often fall over the railings to commit suicide in the middle of the night.Then, there are the hospitals and cemeteries in the 20th district.Not to mention the mortuary of the hospital. Although most of the cemeteries only provide places for the worship of urns, there are also a small number of burial sites.

These are the easiest places to get corpses, and if you take the time to monitor, you'll be able to catch the ghoul's tail sooner or later.

Strangely, the branch investigator's dispatch records do not mention these aspects at all.Even a guy like Lin Lin who is completely layman in the field of search can think of things, will the investigator not think of it?

Or, because they are not like Lin Lin because they saw the ghouls in the antique coffee shop, so they are not sure whether the ghouls have moved or hidden, so they did not "uselessly" consume human and material resources?

Investigators also belong to the civil service system in Japan. Although the investigators will definitely not refuse the task of catching the tail of the ghoul, but considering the messy capital issues such as national taxes, it is impossible to approve the operation without a certain degree of certainty. , is also a helpless thing.

In addition, because Japan attaches great importance to personal privacy, and customs tend to be conservative, it is quite difficult to count the flow of people.Even the installation of a public camera will be met with strong protests and boycotts by lawmakers and citizens, and it is almost impossible to implement a census-like activity.Therefore, the ghouls even only need to prepare a mask and a coat, and after openly confronting the investigator, they can walk on the street casually to mix with the crowd without being identified.

In such an environment, it's no wonder that the ghouls in some districts are so maddened.