"The carp essence you bought in the supermarket for 500 yen?"
At this moment, Kosagawa Maho looked at the fish swimming leisurely on the table in astonishment.
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, with an unacceptable expression on his face.
"Wait a minute, are you kidding me? How could such a ridiculous thing happen..."
"Of course I'm not joking, I really want to repay my benefactor."
Jin Wenyan on the table stuck his head out of the basin and said seriously.
"If you don't believe it, you can come to our Fish Palace City with your benefactor, and our family will entertain you well."
Fish Palace City?
Kosagawa Maho looked at Yagami Sora in confusion.
"This is the holy land of Jinsang and his family. According to him, there are many treasures in it for us to choose from."
Ye Shenkong explained.
When he heard the word "treasure", Kosagawa Maho's eyes suddenly fluctuated a little, as if he thought of something.
Her expression suddenly became serious, she couldn't help but grabbed Yashenkong's arm and said forcefully.
"Yakami, come here with me."
When the two came outside the office, Kosagawa Maho turned around, blocked Yagami Sora against the wall, and asked aggressively.
"Ye Shen, tell me honestly, are you tempted by the treasures in Fish Palace City?"
Seeing this, Ye Shenkong sighed softly, nodded and admitted.
"Sure enough, I can't hide it from Sagawa's inspection. Yes, I am indeed tempted."
After all, it is a legendary treasure place, and it is likely to contain astonishing wealth.
Even if you don't get a powerful singularity point, it is still a good choice to get some gold and silver treasures from it.
For example, if you can get a ton of gold from it, it will be almost enough to repay your debt...
But looking at the strong Kosagawa Maho in front of him, he immediately added.
"But I'm not completely tempted, just a little bit."
"No, not even a little bit, please get rid of this dangerous idea!"
Kosagawa Maho glared, pinched his slender waist and emphasized.
"Yakami, haven't you noticed that the strength of that fish is actually very, very terrifying!"
"Even I may not be its opponent!"
"So, the Fish Palace City it talks about must also be a more dangerous place!"
"If you go rashly, you may not only not get the treasure, but you may even be in danger!"
"I have also considered what Inspector Ozagawa said, so I am still hesitant at the moment." Yagami said.
"But please don't worry, Inspector. Although the opportunity is rare, I don't intend to take the risk if safety cannot be guaranteed."
"Well, that's right."
After hearing Yagami Sora's reply, Kosagawa Maho felt a little more at ease.
She originally wanted to say something more, but Ye Shenkong stepped in and reminded her kindly.
"Compared with these, Xiao Sagawa's inspection is best to go to that supermarket as soon as possible to check if there are other creatures like this carp spirit."
"If ordinary people encountered this kind of creature, they wouldn't be able to resist at all, right?"
"Oh, right."
Kosagawa Maho reacted suddenly and quickly put on his hat.
"Then I'll go now."
"Before I come back, you must not act rashly, let alone anger the fish, otherwise it may be difficult to end..."
"Don't worry about the inspection."
Looking at the figure hurriedly going downstairs, Yashenkong couldn't help but smile.
Next, is the key to the success of this trip to Yugong Castle.
...
A corner of the street.
Kosagawa Maho chose a remote alley and slipped in quietly.
He took out the standard headphones and put them on his ears, calling anxiously.
"Captain, captain?"
After a brief period of noise, a calm voice sounded in the communication band, as calm as a mirror.
"Xiao Sagawa, I should have told you not to contact me unless necessary."
"Oh, it's necessary now!" Under excitement, Kosagawa Maho's voice couldn't help but raise a few degrees, and said urgently.
"Captain, listen to me, those strange fish you have been looking for were found by Ye Shen and the others!"
"What did you say?" There was a hint of surprise in the other person's voice.
"Xiao Sagawa, are you sure?"
"Of course, I just saw it with my own eyes!" Kosagawa Maho vowed.
"The fish himself said that he would take Yagami and the others to Fish Palace City and share the treasure with them."
"I think that Fish Palace City should be the culprit of all this. Those singularities that appear in the hands of ordinary people must come from there!"
"Yugong City..." the other party muttered softly, seeming to be full of interest in this strange place name.
She seemed to realize something immediately and asked alertly.
"Xiao Sagawa, where are you now and why can you contact me at this time?"
"Oh, it was Ye Shen who reminded me to go to the supermarket. I took this opportunity to contact the captain..."
Kosagawa Maho was stunned and then explained.
"What's wrong Captain, is there something wrong with this?"
A slight sigh suddenly sounded in the earphones.
"Xiao Sagawa, give him the headphones."
"Eh? To whom?"
Kosagawa Maho was stunned.
Behind her, a familiar voice suddenly came.
"Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Sagawa for inspection."
The moment he heard this voice, Kosagawa Maho's eyes suddenly widened involuntarily.
She turned around and looked at Ya Shenkong who had appeared behind her at some point. She slowly opened her mouth and said in great shock.
"Ye, Yagami?"
"You...why are you here?"
"Compared to this, obeying orders should be more important, right?"
Yagami Sora reached out and took off the earphones from the right auricle of the stunned Kosagawa Maho, put it on his own ears, and said.
"Hey, can you hear me?"
"First meeting, Yagami Sora." The other party's tone was still calm.
The sound sounds a bit low, maybe it has been specially processed...
Ye Shenkong said calmly.
"I think this is not the first time we have met. We should have met once when we were at Platinum Hill Academy."
"Of course, if the captain was just waving his sword and didn't notice a small character like me, then this time can indeed be regarded as the first meeting."
"It sounds like you are very hostile to me." The other party said.
"It sounds like the captain doesn't care about my hostility." Ye Shenkong said.
"Because this kind of hostility is unnecessary." The other party said calmly.
"You should be able to understand that I did not have any malicious intention in ordering Xiao Sagawa to lurk next to you. On the contrary, it was a way for me to express my goodwill."
"Yes, I know this very well." Ye Shenkong admitted frankly.
"If you want to send someone to monitor me, you must have a better choice. The reason why you choose Xiao Sagawa to patrol is so that she can inadvertently reveal things about you to me bit by bit.
Dispel my vigilance."
"This is the real mission of Sagawa's inspection."
He paused and glanced at Kosagawa Maho, who was still in a petrified state.
"Of course, maybe she doesn't even know it herself."
"Now that you understand this, you should have understood our position."
"It's okay to understand, but it doesn't mean you have to agree." Ye Shenkong said briefly.
"But I'm curious, how did I attract your attention?"
"Because I suspected before that you might have a curse seal on your hand."
"Curse seal? What is that?" Ye Shenkong asked doubtfully.
"It is something that can only be produced by a very small number of singular points. The more advanced the singular point, the easier it is to produce a curse seal, and the more powerful it is," the other party explained.
"I once suspected that a third-level singularity cursed seal fell into your hands, but after Xiao Sagawa's reports these days, you can basically be eliminated from the suspect list."
The curse seal of the third level singularity...
Ye Shenkong's eyes moved slightly.
If we want to classify it into levels, Miss Himejima can only be regarded as a Level 2 Singularity Point.
The curse seal in the other party's mouth was obviously not the one belonging to Miss Himejima, but something else.
Was it the ghost that was exorcised from Chiba-classmate’s house?
Then the other party really thought too much. The supernatural creature didn't really lose a single hair at the time...
"Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, we can talk about cooperation."
Ye Shen Kongdao.
"The captain should already know about Yugong City, right?"
"Um."
"To be honest, we have mastered the method to get to that fish palace city."
"But I just heard from Inspector Kosagawa that, Captain, you seem to have been looking for the whereabouts of this Fish Palace Castle. So you must have a lot of relevant information on your hands, right?"
"Since we already have a cooperative relationship, shouldn't we share each other's intelligence?"
The other party's voice disappeared for a while, as if he was thinking about something.
After a while, the sound came from the headphones again.
"As for the Fish Palace City you are talking about, we have previously given a grade evaluation and divided it into four levels of singularity."
Level 4 singularity?
Hearing this level, Ye Shenkong couldn't help but be a little surprised.
At the fourth level of singularity, the threat scope can cover one or even multiple counties.
In other words, the entire Tokyo is within the destruction range of this singularity.
It’s no wonder that the other party has been trying to find this singularity. With such a bomb around him that will explode at any time, it’s really hard to sleep well...
"And the most striking feature of this singularity is the fish schools that appear on time." The other party continued.
"These fish schools appear twice a year, each time in April and September."
"Every time it appears, it will bring a large number of special items with magical functions."
"We have tried recycling these items, but the effect is not very satisfactory. Many special items still flow into the hands of ordinary people."
"For example, the detective you contacted recently, he is one of them."
Detective, I am referring to Kogoro Aoyama... Yagami Sora said silently.
"As for why these fish do this and what the benefits are, it is still an unsolved mystery so far."
"I have also tried to track these fish, but all failed."
"I think that only by going to the fish palace city in person can we understand why these fish move."
"This is the information I currently have. You can tell your request now."
The other party's voice suddenly stopped, and the communication channel returned to calm.
Ye Shenkong muttered.
"My request is very simple. I hope you can provide us with the deep-diving equipment we need to go to Fish Palace City."
"Of course, we will release some quotas to allow your people to participate."
"However, Sagawa's inspection must be included."
They say it so grandly, but they actually want us to provide equipment and also want our people to be bodyguards.
The other party said calmly.
"Can."
"Secondly, I hope this cooperation can provide certain cash incentives."
Ya Shenkong continued.
"Since Captain, you can cut down a building with just one knife, you must not be short of money, right?"
"It should be a piece of cake for the captain to just spend a few hundred million yen to motivate everyone."
"Of course, I'm not interested in money, I just want to see the captain's sincerity for this cooperation."
Hearing this, the other party seemed to frown and was silent for a while before responding.
"......Can."
Hearing that something was wrong with the other party's tone, Yashenkong also gave up.
"Then, happy cooperation."
"Oh, right."
He remembered something again and suddenly said.
"If you sincerely want to cooperate, you should state your name first, right?"
"My name is Kiritani Kazuto. May I ask your surname, captain?"
This time, the other side was silent for half a minute.
The entire communication channel fell into deathly silence.
Then, the calm voice sounded again in the earphones.