Chapter 51 Abyss
Tokyo, which had just experienced the attack of the Hippolytes and had not yet recovered, became hot again. Starting from one street, a fishy stench that penetrated deeply into the soul enveloped the entire Tokyo.
Pedestrians looked haggard and ran on the street with their mouths and noses covered, but they couldn't get rid of the stench.
One after another, the alarm calls rang at the TAC team headquarters. Captain Ryugoro understood that Tokyo had encountered the greatest threat in history, more terrifying than the super beasts that had ever appeared.
The plague-like stench is not fatal, but it can affect people's spirits. Many traffic accidents have occurred because of it.
Toshi Furuya, Hokuto Seiji and Yamanaka Ichiro who rushed to the sighting site had already given up their car because the road was blocked by long traffic.
Along the way, the three of them saw many people vomiting because of the stench, and many people who couldn't stand the stench and were frothing at the mouth and fainting.
Fortunately, the smell will not be spread by them, otherwise the impact will be wider.
"It's right here." Furuya Toshi pointed at a street sign. He was the homeless man he met on this road. "The homeless man was walking in the opposite direction to me."
Yamanaka Ichiro nodded slightly, and the direction Furutani pointed was consistent with the direction judged by the TAC team.
It seems that this person really saw the source of the odor.
Vice-captain Yamanaka, who has always been fully suspicious of abnormal events, thought to himself.
"Our current task is to find and control the homeless as soon as possible to put an end to this weird incident." Yamanaka Ichiro said.
The TAC team headquarters has not yet sorted out the location closest to the source, so they can only use clumsy methods to find the homeless man along the "stinky road".
"What if we are also infected?" Hokuto Seiji asked: "According to what Furuya Satoshi said and the preliminary speculation of the headquarters, you can smell the odor as long as you are around the homeless man. It is currently impossible to prove whether the stench is harmful to people.
There are other harms.”
"asshole!"
Vice Captain Yamanaka's eyes widened and he yelled at Big Dipper: "We are the TAC team. If even we are afraid of getting hurt, what will the Earth do? No matter what happens, you and I should bear the brunt."
"I understand." The relatively immature Big Dipper straightened his back.
Furuya Toshi nodded secretly. Although Yamanaka Ichiro has a bad temper, his serious attitude is admirable.
The three of them began to jog along the road. As they ran, Furuya Toshi discovered an extremely important situation. There were fewer and fewer people feeling sick on the road due to the smell.
Did they go the wrong way?
Many distressed people said that they did not go anywhere else and that the three of them did not go the wrong way.
Gradually, Furuya Toshi stopped, and he also called off Hokuto Seiji and Yamanaka Ichiro.
"Have you noticed that fewer and fewer people are affected?"
Beidou Xingsi was stunned for a moment, and carefully recalled what he saw along the way, and said: "It seems that the number has really decreased. It used to be that all the people on the street were suffering, but now there is only one person among five or six people."
Yamanaka Ichiro didn't speak. He stared at Furuya Satoshi suspiciously, preparing to hear what this man wanted to say.
"Is there a possibility?" Furuya Toshi looked at the pedestrians, pondered for a while, and said: "The smell of the homeless man is dissipating, and he will become a normal person and blend into the crowd."
"Huh? What's the basis for your guess?" Yamanaka Ichiro asked: "The problem is not necessarily a person, but also an object. How do you know that the homeless man wants to blend in with the normal people?"
"This..." Furuya Min smiled awkwardly. He really had no evidence, everything was just speculation.
Ever since he knew that this was Ultraman Ace's time on Earth, he would always suspect that those abnormal people were some kind of ghosts or beings from the universe.
Beidou Xingsi interrupted: "Vice Captain, this is just a possibility. We have met a lot of terrible people over the years, witches, witches and so on. Maybe this tramp is also such a person."
Yamanaka Ichiro glanced at Beidou Seiji lightly. Where did this guy's usual vigilance go? Don't you know I'm testing Furuya Satoshi? He is very suspicious!
He clearly smelled the stench, but he communicated and investigated with them like normal people along the way, as if the stench that penetrated deep into his soul had been eliminated by him.
Yamanaka Ichiro concluded that Furuya Satoshi was definitely not a normal person, but it was a pity that he had no evidence.
"Member of the mountain." The communicator sounded the voice of captain Ryugoro.
"I'm here, please say."
"The first batch of people who entered the hospital have returned to normal, and the smell has disappeared. How is your and Beidou's investigation going?"
Looking up at Furuya Toshi, Yamanaka Ichiro whispered: "We found that fewer and fewer people smelled the stench, and it has been difficult to trace the tramps. Oh, Captain, how did the first batch of people be cured?
?”
Ryugoro paused and sighed: "The doctor has no way to treat it. The smell will dissipate on its own."
After careful consideration, he hoped that doctors would cure those people. The stench in their souls made him afraid of this terrible method.
"I see."
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After understanding the basic situation with Ryugoro, Yamanaka Ichiro turned off the communicator.
It shouldn't be, why would the smell dissipate on its own?
Is there really nothing wrong with Satoshi Furuya? Is he thinking too much and being too complicated?
After tidying up his clothes, Yamanaka Ichiro said to Beidou: "Beidou, it's time for us to go back. The police will be responsible for the situation here."
Beidou Xingsi said in surprise: "Is it just stopping here? That tramp."
"It is difficult for us to trace the homeless man's traces alone. We need to wait for the results of the information analysis by the technical personnel." Yamanaka Ichiro said.
The two members of the TAC team trotted away. Furuya Toshi frowned. He felt that the spread of the stench would not end so easily.
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seaside.
Dark clouds gathered in the sky, a dark wind howled between the sky and the earth, and the water droplets blown up by the wind turned into snowflakes in the air. The homeless man Furuya and his three men were looking for were jumping on the beach.
"Hey, hey..." A person on the shore saw the homeless man moving towards the sea and ran towards him.
Snowflakes fell on his forehead. He paused for a moment, looked at the snow gradually melting on his body, and asked strangely: "Is it snowing? It snows on a hot day?"
Before he had time to think about it, half of the tramp's body was already submerged in the sea. He waved and shouted: "Stop, stop, don't go there."
Hearing the sound, the tramp paused. The moment he turned around, the wind sounded like a ghost crying and a wolf howling, and the human face turned into the shape of a hungry wolf with sharp mouth and fangs.
"Ah!" The man was so frightened by this horrifying scene that he collapsed on the ground.
Chapter completed!