Outside the window, bright sunlight shines in, illuminating the small ward.

Ryusuke Higashino woke up from his deep sleep. His body was as heavy as a lead weight. He couldn't help but let out a big yawn. When he opened his eyes, the surroundings were white.

He was wearing hospital clothes, lying on a hospital bed, with an IV drip on the back of his hand, looking at the white reflective ceiling, and lost consciousness for a while.

Really traveled through time!

He also experienced such a thrilling night, his body was still aching, and his mind was filled with an unreal feeling.

Who could imagine that he has spent tens of millions of years in such an experience, and in his own opinion, it was only two nights? How ridiculous!

My brain is still a little confused, and the memories from last night are flooding back and being slowly sorted out.

Ryusuke stared blankly at the ceiling for a while before uttering three words.

"Tamar's!"

"Oh? Are you awake?" A voice came from the door, but it was in Chinese.

Ryusuke turned his head and saw a young man in a white coat walking in, holding a medical record in his hand and looking at him with interest.

"I haven't heard these three words for a long time! I didn't expect you to be Chinese too. Hello, my name is Wang Shen." The young man stretched out his hand to him excitedly and said.

Not many Chinese people come to Tokyo in this era, but I didn’t expect to meet one here!

Although we are not in the same world, it is still a joy to meet people who grew up in the same cultural background in this time and space.

Ryusuke also sat up, shook hands and replied: "Hello, my name is Higashino Ryusuke."

"Dongye, is this a Japanese surname? No, is it an ancient surname inherited from the Zhou Dynasty? It's really rare!" Wang Shen became more and more excited.

Seeing his mouth opening and closing constantly, Ryusuke quickly interrupted: "By the way, Brother Wang, what kind of place is this?"

Wang Shen replied, "Kwantung Medical University Hospital, I am doing an internship here!"

"This is Tokyo?" Ryusuke was shocked, pulled out the needle on the back of his hand, stood up and jumped out of bed: "Brother Wang, how long have I been unconscious, and what time is it now?"

"10:35, you slept for about 7 hours. What's wrong? Did something happen?" Wang Shen felt a little baffled by such a big reaction.

Ryusuke put on the jacket of the expedition team member and searched around, but did not find the box containing the belt. He suddenly panicked, "Where is my box?"

"Box? Oh, you mean that. When you were brought here last night, you were clutching a box tightly in your hand. We couldn't take it off. But you only had some skin injuries, so we just let you hold on to it.

. Later, you probably entered a deep sleep state, and the box fell out, and I temporarily placed it in the duty room."

Hearing that the box was still there, Ryusuke calmed down.

Just as he was about to set off, he suddenly remembered that this was Japan and he didn't know the road at all. He looked at Wang Shen.

Wang Shen felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, "Hey... I said, what happened? Don't look at me like that."

Ryusuke Higashino said seriously: "Old Wang, this matter of human life is at stake, I need your help. I must arrive at the Nagano City Police Station before 3 p.m., otherwise something big will happen!"

This is indeed crucial. In my memory, Godai was forced to wear the belt under the threat of the spider monster, but if he couldn't even send the belt over, Godai might be in danger of his life.

If the hero of this world died like this, then things would really be irreversible!

"But I'm still on duty..." Wang Shen said with a headache.

However, probably feeling that the matter was indeed urgent, Wang Shen agreed to let Ryusuke leave after repeated requests. He also found an excuse to take a short leave and accompanied him to the station to buy a ticket to Nagano.

While approaching the station, Ryusuke Higashino asked about Professor Natsume's situation.

"Are you talking about the middle-aged man who was sent here yesterday? His condition is quite serious. His brain was severely hit. I heard that he is out of danger now, but he is still in a coma."

Ryusuke breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you. He is Natsume Shinkichi, a professor at the Department of Archeology at Shinano University. I have to ask you to contact his family."

Later, Ryusuke said goodbye to Wang Shen, got into the car with the box, and rushed to Nagano.

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2:05 p.m., Nagano Prefectural Police Headquarters.

At the entrance of the police station, Godai Yusuke leaned on his motorcycle and waited boredly.

In the morning, he was detained by a policeman named Kaoru Ichijo for trying to trespass on the ruins of Mt. Kurō, on the charge of obstructing official duties.

But when he thought about being saved by Officer Ichijo's King's Pull, he couldn't help but sigh, Mr. Ichijo is indeed a very powerful policeman!

Nearby, when Ryusuke Higashino finally saw the door of the police station with a map, he felt relieved.

Fortunately, the station was not far from the police station, otherwise he might not have been able to find it even with a map.

It's only the year 2000, and smartphones are not even popular yet, let alone the use of GPS artificial intelligence navigation.

He immediately saw Yusuke Godai waiting at the door. Although he did not look exactly like the real-life actor Odagiri Joe, he was highly similar. His skin was darker, and his body was thinner but taller, in line with his identity as an adventurer.

There’s no mistake, it must be him!

Higashino Ryusuke carried the box and walked straight towards Godai Yusuke, looking directly at him.

The adventurer's intuition allowed Godai to feel Ryusuke's gaze for the first time. He turned around and saw this stranger he had never seen walking towards him, and couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Ryusuke had already walked straight to Godai.

"Go...dai...Yusuke." Ryusuke said in Japanese. Before leaving in the morning, he asked Wang Shen for some simple Japanese lessons.

"Huh? How do you know my name?" Wu Dai was a little surprised.

Ryusuke didn't waste much time and handed the suitcase to Godai, "Put it on at the critical moment."

After saying that, he quickly turned around and left.

Godai took the box with a confused look on his face, "Sir, who are you? Hey, please wait a moment..."

Who is this person? How come he was given a box inexplicably? Just when he was about to catch up.

"Fudai!"

A familiar clear voice came from behind. Godai turned around to see that it was Sakurako Sawatari whom he had been waiting for for a long time. He had contacted her in the morning and made a special trip from Tokyo Jonan University to Nagano.

Sakurako complained coquettishly as she walked: "Although it's just ramen, my hands feel like they're about to break. I brought a lot of things with me!"

"I'm sorry." Godai said apologetically.

"By the way, who is that person?" Sakurako asked suspiciously when she saw the figure of Higashino Ryusuke walking away. Apparently, she had seen the scene that happened before.

"I don't know, I don't know him, but he seems to know me. He just came over inexplicably, said some strange words, and then gave me this box." Godai answered honestly.

Sakurako teased: "Could he be your admirer or something?"

Next to them, a man patted the helmet hanging on the head of the motorcycle, interrupting the two of them. Godai turned his head and looked, and it turned out to be Kaoru Ichijo, the policeman who had detained him before.

Wearing casual clothes, Ichigo raised his hand to take off his sunglasses and said relaxedly: "What a coincidence, we meet again."

Godai was also a little surprised, "It's you! Mr. Police."

Then he pointed at Sakurako next to him and said: "Ha, let me introduce you. This is the Sawatari Sakurako I call."

When he heard that the woman in front of him was Sawatari Sakurako, Ichijo Kaoru's expression suddenly became serious. During the investigation at Kuroyama last night, they found a mobile phone. When checking the call records, they found that the expedition team had made a call before he was killed.

The call came from Tokyo, and the person who answered the call was Sakurako Sawatari.

He looked at Yingzi seriously and asked, "Is that you? I've been wanting to contact you."

"well?"

When it comes to work, Ichijo never neglects and immediately invites the two of them to the police station to cooperate on something.

Under the leadership of Kaoru Ichijo, Godai and Sakurako came to a room similar to a screening room. Then Kaoru Ichijo found a video tape in a plastic bag and said to the two of them:

"This is the tape of the problem. This is the only thing left at the scene of the tragedy."

Yingzi noticed the message in a message and couldn't help asking in despair: "Has everyone been killed?"

"No, we did not find Professor Natsume Shinji's body at the scene, and so far we cannot confirm his death. And there is another strange thing. Most of the other members of the investigation team should have died instantly, but

Their bodies seemed to have been handled, for example, everyone's eyes were closed, and one member's clothes were missing."

"Teacher, are you still alive?" This news was an unexpected surprise among the bad news of the investigation team.

But when she thought that the other members had been killed, Sakurako couldn't help but feel sad: "But those who have just started their research activities..."

Seeing this, Godai quickly changed the subject: "So, what was found about the tape?"

Ichijo also quickly got to the point: "Please come and take a look at the replica. If you feel uncomfortable, you will stop immediately."

Ichijo Kaoru signaled to the assistant policewoman next to him, the lights in the room dimmed, and the recorded video began to play on the big screen.

On the screen, a mysterious monster with disheveled hair suddenly woke up from the depths of the ruins, roared and threw a belt-like object to the ground, and then began to ruthlessly kill the investigation team.

"That guy..." Godai clenched his fists angrily when he saw a dead figure.

The camera rolled for a while and then stopped moving. Then, a white figure jumped out and fought with the monster for a few moves before being repelled. After a while, both of them were out of the shooting field of view. What followed was a burst of meaningless picture jumps and

noise……

After the playback ended, the lights in the room turned on again. Ichijo Kaoru continued: "Due to the shooting angle and battery problems, there is not much useful information later. We don't know what happened."

"The true identity of that mysterious shadow is unknown, but that guy was trying to break the belt-like object as if he was showing off. That's something I was a little concerned about, but we didn't find the belt at the scene." Kaoru Ichijo explained seriously.

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"Oh, right!" Godai suddenly put the suitcase on the table. He remembered that the stranger told him to put it on... What was in the box? The adventurer's intuition began to play tricks on him.
To be continued...