In the end, Fang Zheng agreed to cooperate with Detective Date on the investigation. Mainly because he was very interested in this so-called "Chang'e City." After all, cities with a name like that were quite rare. Just because it was called that, Fang Zheng wanted to go take a look.
Of course, Sayu came along as well.
On the way to Chang'e City, Date gave them a brief description of the situation.
What Fang Zheng did not know was that, after confirming the existence of the monsters and the danger of their lurking within human society, Japan's government had stepped up its efforts to purge them. Of course, they still had no way to clearly distinguish humans from monsters disguised as humans, but that did not mean they were helpless. So far, wherever these monsters appeared, there would be brutal deaths or large numbers of missing persons. Following that line of thought, the government had sorted through all missing-person reports and cases from the past several decades and organized them by region.
And Chang'e City had thus fallen within the scope of the investigation.
It was a Satellite City, originally just an ordinary small town. In recent years, it had expanded because of modern development nearby, and it was from that point onward that the situation began to undergo subtle changes.
According to the records, disappearances seemed to occur there from time to time. Of course, local records and submitted reports indicated that those people had not gone missing, but had moved away. Yet moving away should have involved a new address and detailed records, but none of that existed. Instead, those people who had supposedly "moved" seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth. No matter how they investigated, they could not find out where those people