Eastern Boundary City, Qinghe District, beside the entrance to an ordinary old street.
Little Red Riding Hood emerged from the shadow of a nearby building and saw Yu Sheng waiting at the intersection.
"Just you today?" The girl looked around and, finding Yu Sheng standing alone at the intersection, asked in surprise.
"They stayed home to look after the place—for today, we're only here to check out the situation in this 'Dark Alley,' so I'm enough on my own," Yu Sheng said casually. "Besides, if we really run into an emergency, I can always open a door and call everyone over."
He paused, then looked at Little Red Riding Hood. "How's your investigation going? Have you gotten in touch with the person who made the original post?"
"I've found out that the person involved was an Independent Investigator named Sun Chen. He doesn't belong to any Spirit Realm Detective organization, and he lives in North Stone Gate District, but I haven't been able to contact him yet," Little Red Riding Hood said. "We should have results soon, though—and it won't affect what we're doing today anyway."
Yu Sheng nodded.
Little Red Riding Hood had recently been investigating the person who had posted on Border Communication three years ago, claiming to have witnessed the Weird Tower. Things had been going fairly smoothly, but even so, Yu Sheng had been unwilling to sit around at home and wait. He had therefore decided to come to Qinghe District in the eastern city today and investigate the "Dark Alley" mentioned in the post. For that purpose, he had also called in the experienced Little Red Riding Hood. After all, exploring the Otherworld was different from fighting Dark Angels. The latter could usually be handled by charging straight in (dragging a corpse along counted as